It's only a matter of time until MS applies their special brand of bullshit to LI... just like they did to Skype(which is now missing features and it far less useful than it used to be...) and countless others...
Are you telling me that those losers are actually still around? Talk about some epic strugglers... Yahoo has been trying to claw their way out of a grave(which they dug themselves) for nearly as long as they've been around.
I wish they would stop fighting it and just die already... it's embarrassing seeing this once proud company fighting death like this... struggling for every last breath... kind of like AOL... poor bastards.
Please, for the love of all that is good in this world, don't do it!
I'm so fucking tired of being connected to India when I call for support... between the language barrier and them just not giving a shit about your problem I'd like to kick their teeth in.
Last I checked(it's been 15+ years) voice calls are 56kbps over a 64k channel(the extra was for signalling I believe) and data is 64kbps. Modem calls count as voice.
Back in the day when telcos starting doing more voip internally on their networks and I was still working for an ISP we noticed that our users were getting unusually slow connections and a lot of dropped calls.
After a few calls to our rep at PacBell she got to the bottom of it... according to her and a manager she brought on the live they were "upgrading" they network to carry more voice traffic by using voip and compressing the audio to save $$$... sometimes their equipment didn't recognize the call being made as coming from a modem and so would compress the audio and screw with the connections.
Turns out that there was an easy way around it. The compression was only happening on local calls when dialing 7 digits, so we had our users dial 10 digits and their connections were fine again.
I have no idea if that little trick still works or not, though I imagine if they *are* still compressing the calls trying to save bandwidth that their detection of modem/fax signals has been fixed... or at least I would hope.
Anywho... seems I'm rambling a bit... guess I'll stop now.;-)
EVERY call made in the US today is processed by "computers", long gone are the days when you had old style analog switches and rotary phones.
Since every call made is already processed in one way or another by a computer this has set a precedent over the past several decades that gives the FCC the legal power they need to enforce these rules.
Adblock is fine once you change the default settings, and the element hiding helper is nice too...
uBlock on the otherhand, while effective, blows chunks when trying to block things when you have to write your own filters in it. I hate having to use something like firebug to try and figure out the name/path of the object to block especially on large complex pages.
Adblock lets you click and filter... I'll switch back to uBlock if they ever get a proper point and click helper for putting together the filters.
We have always used VMs/jumpboxes that are segregated from the rest of the network to allow for accessing potentially dangerous or unapproved external sites.
Downloads are enabled, but to get the files from system requires submitting a ticket to have the files downloaded, scanned, and burned to a DVD or placed on an file server.
While nothing is 100% safe, this sure beats the hell out of compromising your firewall rules and allowing semi-retarded users to fuck shit up.
I wonder if this could one day lead to a form of genetic memory containing all the basic knowledge that a person would normally receive in school through the first few years of college... if given to an entire population we could rid ourselves of the need to study for many years to become proficient at basic concepts... perhaps allowing the human race to evolve into something greater.
Sounds like they're a little butt hurt because their product... well, I've never heard of it.
A confidentiality agreement is NOT a non-compete agreement which I doubt they could really enforce anyway since a lot of states refuse to recognize them.
As long as he didn't steal anything from them or give out their internal secrets nothing will come of this and he may even get them to cover his legal expenses in the end. I'd bet $5 that this lawsuit is more about getting their name heard than anything else.
Reminds me of the data center shit that happened up in Quincy Washington, Sure, they created a few jobs, but it also made the land and homes so expensive that the locals couldn't afford to buy and live there any longer... Of course Washington got smart and killed a lot of the tax breaks MS, Yahoo, and others were enjoying at the time...
The only thing that people who are already infected have to look forward to are better and easier treatments, bi-weekly or monthly dosing may soon be possible instead of the daily dosing now required. Maybe somebody they'll come up with a implant that provides constant meds for 5 years... but a cure? Not likely...
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It's only a matter of time until MS applies their special brand of bullshit to LI... just like they did to Skype(which is now missing features and it far less useful than it used to be...) and countless others...
Guess it's time to move on.
Are you telling me that those losers are actually still around? Talk about some epic strugglers... Yahoo has been trying to claw their way out of a grave(which they dug themselves) for nearly as long as they've been around.
I wish they would stop fighting it and just die already... it's embarrassing seeing this once proud company fighting death like this... struggling for every last breath... kind of like AOL... poor bastards.
Charging more and giving customers less while making up excuses... that's the sign of a desperate and dying company folks.
Time to cancel your subscriptions and move on to bigger and better things.
And they have been for a long time...
"My HS Chem teacher said it's considered the worst smelling substance known"
Yeah.... not even close. Look up thioacetone. :-)
That's what you get for not GROWING THE FUCK UP!
Please, for the love of all that is good in this world, don't do it!
I'm so fucking tired of being connected to India when I call for support... between the language barrier and them just not giving a shit about your problem I'd like to kick their teeth in.
Last I checked(it's been 15+ years) voice calls are 56kbps over a 64k channel(the extra was for signalling I believe) and data is 64kbps. Modem calls count as voice.
Back in the day when telcos starting doing more voip internally on their networks and I was still working for an ISP we noticed that our users were getting unusually slow connections and a lot of dropped calls.
After a few calls to our rep at PacBell she got to the bottom of it... according to her and a manager she brought on the live they were "upgrading" they network to carry more voice traffic by using voip and compressing the audio to save $$$... sometimes their equipment didn't recognize the call being made as coming from a modem and so would compress the audio and screw with the connections.
Turns out that there was an easy way around it. The compression was only happening on local calls when dialing 7 digits, so we had our users dial 10 digits and their connections were fine again.
I have no idea if that little trick still works or not, though I imagine if they *are* still compressing the calls trying to save bandwidth that their detection of modem/fax signals has been fixed... or at least I would hope.
Anywho... seems I'm rambling a bit... guess I'll stop now. ;-)
EVERY call made in the US today is processed by "computers", long gone are the days when you had old style analog switches and rotary phones.
Since every call made is already processed in one way or another by a computer this has set a precedent over the past several decades that gives the FCC the legal power they need to enforce these rules.
Adblock is fine once you change the default settings, and the element hiding helper is nice too...
uBlock on the otherhand, while effective, blows chunks when trying to block things when you have to write your own filters in it. I hate having to use something like firebug to try and figure out the name/path of the object to block especially on large complex pages.
Adblock lets you click and filter... I'll switch back to uBlock if they ever get a proper point and click helper for putting together the filters.
We have always used VMs/jumpboxes that are segregated from the rest of the network to allow for accessing potentially dangerous or unapproved external sites.
Downloads are enabled, but to get the files from system requires submitting a ticket to have the files downloaded, scanned, and burned to a DVD or placed on an file server.
While nothing is 100% safe, this sure beats the hell out of compromising your firewall rules and allowing semi-retarded users to fuck shit up.
I'm sure whatever they come up with will suck just as much as a password.
I wonder if this could one day lead to a form of genetic memory containing all the basic knowledge that a person would normally receive in school through the first few years of college... if given to an entire population we could rid ourselves of the need to study for many years to become proficient at basic concepts... perhaps allowing the human race to evolve into something greater.
Sounds like they're a little butt hurt because their product... well, I've never heard of it.
A confidentiality agreement is NOT a non-compete agreement which I doubt they could really enforce anyway since a lot of states refuse to recognize them.
As long as he didn't steal anything from them or give out their internal secrets nothing will come of this and he may even get them to cover his legal expenses in the end. I'd bet $5 that this lawsuit is more about getting their name heard than anything else.
Just restore from backups... Oh? You don't have any recent backups? I know who has a pink slip on the way... ;-)
I'm still not gonna watch until they start using Street Fighter sound effects along with those new graphics... ;-)
Courtesy of your friendly freedom loving NSA...
Reminds me of the data center shit that happened up in Quincy Washington, Sure, they created a few jobs, but it also made the land and homes so expensive that the locals couldn't afford to buy and live there any longer... Of course Washington got smart and killed a lot of the tax breaks MS, Yahoo, and others were enjoying at the time...
Give me dirt cheap fast as fuck google fiber and I'll never look to comcast for anything ever again. Period.
No more slapping the wrists of criminals caught engaging in this behavior, execute them and the problem will quickly go away.
Glad they aren't trying to spit polish that same old turd yet again.
Now let's keep that up until they surrender or somebody nukes them.
Blind folks like bacon too ya jerks!
Dear US Gov't,
You've done gone and lost your fucking minds!
Sincerely,
A concerned citizen
There is no cure, and likely never will be.
The only thing that people who are already infected have to look forward to are better and easier treatments, bi-weekly or monthly dosing may soon be possible instead of the daily dosing now required. Maybe somebody they'll come up with a implant that provides constant meds for 5 years... but a cure? Not likely...