This story is presented as an example of the bad things that can happen from opening spam in Outlook ("If you're still using Outlook and Internet Explorer, this is a good time to find alternatives"). But the story doesn't point to any actual isssue with Outlook, only exploits in Explorer that allow downloaded code to be executed remotely. The Outlook bashing seems out of place.
I was having a discussion with a friend the other day about Outlook email virii, and I quite frankly wasn't sure anymore. If a windows box is completely updated, is it possible for an email to be able to unload/execute a virus without a user openning an attachment or clicking on an off-email link? Any examples?
Because people on cell phones invariably talk much louder than people having a face to face conversation (where you can accurately gauge an appropriate volume level for conversation based on your partners volume level). That's why.
Switch to T-Mobile. When other companies started charging fees (Breakdown by company), T-Mobile refrained. Not only did they not raise my rate, they actually gave a good number of their longer-term clients bonus minutes to help encourage them to stay with the company. Yeah T-Mobile.
I'm guessing that your standard printer doesn't have the 60 chemicals required to print out the tag. Hmmmm... let's see. Black, Red, Argon, Blue, Halfnium... I've only got five. Oh well.
The tale of Ray Diosack and Mike Rocenter
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I had a friend who used to give the name Ray Diosack (pronounce it) to Radioshack when they asked for his name. He would then procede to give the cashier the street address for the store he was in. Nobody ever commented on this fact. Anyway, he would laugh to himself about the bulk mailers that must show up at the store every month from Radio Shack to Ray Diosack.
He then went to a local computer shop called MicroCenter. As he was waiting in line he realized that this would work great for his little name game: Mike Rocenter... it even sounds like a real name. So anyway, he gets to the cashier full of excitement and gives the name Mike Rocenter. The cashier enters the name into the computer and says, with a straight face, "727 Memorial Drive"? This was, of course, the location of the store. Somebody else had given them the same fake name and address. Oh well, my friend sheepishly said yes and paid for his purchase.
Regardless of how we would like to be treated, it's when we stop acting like criminals that we'll stop being treated like criminals. RIAA and MPAA wouldn't be looking at copy protection if movies and music weren't regularly pirated and resold without their knowledge and consent.
Gosh, that's going to be one unhappy baby. All it wants is something plush that maybe it can wrap its tiny fingers around while lying in the bassinet, and instead it's going to get a pile of hard, sharp angled blocks that it cannot possibly understand how to assemble. The odds of a zero-year-old choking on Legos, I would estimate at fifty-fifty.
Uh, 10GB isn't anywhere near unlimited. If anything, I'd say you're guilty of false advertising and should be sued if you actually tried to cut someone off.
Don't advertise unlimited bandwidth if you don't mean it.
Well, because it's not really the movie theater's individually who are angry... it's the film executives. They don't own the movie theaters, they own the movie producing companies. Now, if only they had a monopoly on venues as well as production, we'd be in a much better situation.
Uhm, I could replace "Television" with radio everywhere in your post, and the logic would be just as sound. All the arguments are the same about television. We have program directors, the money is made by telling the public what it wants to watch, you can choose your own programming by going to blockbuster... and yet we still have Tivo. Why?
Also, there are a lot of products on radio, again like anything involving "talk", which you cannot buy or download legally at any price. Why wouldn't RadioTivo be great for a diehard Howard Stern fan who has to work through the entire morning and could only have a chance to listen to his hero's antics in the evening?
I'm not saying that RadioTivo wouldn't definately be a super success... I just think your counter argument is flawed.
I was talking about this the other day. Satellite Radio is not something that most people need, unless you're in a part of the country without much solid radio coverage. What most people need, and would find far more useful, is RadioTivo. A product which could record your favorite shows when they're on and let you play them back at your discretion.
A friend was recently telling me about a show on NPR which plays bad cover songs... now that sounds great! However, I'm really not in the car often enough to chance onto finding it, so I'll probably never hear it. But with RadioTivo, I could tell it to seek and record those programs which interest me and skip the trash. Just imagine being able to listen to your favorite morning disk jockey at any time during the day, and with no commercials! You could have RadioTivo record a few days of your favorite station (not a problem because the amount of space required to record broadcast radio on your RadioTivo is minimal) and skip not only commercials, but those songs you don't like. In fact, we could have our high tech researches program RadioTivo to understand when one song ends and the next begins and add a Skip to the next song button. RadioTivo is the answer.
Am I the only person who's thought of this? I've never heard anyone mention it before. Too bad I don't have the patience or the capital to make this happen. Oh well, I'll send Tivo an email and the sue them when they come up with the idea on their own.
I hearby copyright the concept of RadioTivo (although clearly not the name, someone else holds the copyright to that.)
They become your because they were sent into your house without your permission and without your consent. If someone mails you a shiny new computer in the mail and then demands you pay two thousand dollars to keep the computer, you are under no legal obligation to do so. They sent it to you without contract and it's now yours.
If someone sends a signal down a wire into your house, I contend that it's yours to do with as you see fit... this includes unscrambling it and watching it. The same holds true for sattelite broadcasts and radio signals. Can you imagine being sued for listening to radio broadcasts? Explain what's different.
Are you sure it's illegal for telemarketers to call you on your cell phone? That doesn't sound right to me. What's more likely is that your cell phone isn't in the phone book, so they simply don't call it. Also, it's not cost effective because most people would just not answer blocked Caller ID numbers if telemarkers on cell phones became commonplace.
This is what I read the title as, and was very confused when this story wasn't the least bit about how a dusty diskman could somehow be the cause of parallel dimensions. Let me tell, I was excited about this research, and now am quite disappointed.
Is that fish story true? That sounds like a liberal college teacher's example of why exploration and advancement are inherantly negative. Do you have a link for the story?
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This story is presented as an example of the bad things that can happen from opening spam in Outlook ("If you're still using Outlook and Internet Explorer, this is a good time to find alternatives"). But the story doesn't point to any actual isssue with Outlook, only exploits in Explorer that allow downloaded code to be executed remotely. The Outlook bashing seems out of place.
I was having a discussion with a friend the other day about Outlook email virii, and I quite frankly wasn't sure anymore. If a windows box is completely updated, is it possible for an email to be able to unload/execute a virus without a user openning an attachment or clicking on an off-email link? Any examples?
Prove they don't. Or STFU.
Because people on cell phones invariably talk much louder than people having a face to face conversation (where you can accurately gauge an appropriate volume level for conversation based on your partners volume level). That's why.
Congrats on the troll. Really, it was very good. You don't see many good trolls nowadays.
Switch to T-Mobile. When other companies started charging fees (Breakdown by company), T-Mobile refrained. Not only did they not raise my rate, they actually gave a good number of their longer-term clients bonus minutes to help encourage them to stay with the company. Yeah T-Mobile.
I'm guessing that your standard printer doesn't have the 60 chemicals required to print out the tag. Hmmmm... let's see. Black, Red, Argon, Blue, Halfnium... I've only got five. Oh well.
I had a friend who used to give the name Ray Diosack (pronounce it) to Radioshack when they asked for his name. He would then procede to give the cashier the street address for the store he was in. Nobody ever commented on this fact. Anyway, he would laugh to himself about the bulk mailers that must show up at the store every month from Radio Shack to Ray Diosack.
He then went to a local computer shop called MicroCenter. As he was waiting in line he realized that this would work great for his little name game: Mike Rocenter... it even sounds like a real name. So anyway, he gets to the cashier full of excitement and gives the name Mike Rocenter. The cashier enters the name into the computer and says, with a straight face, "727 Memorial Drive"? This was, of course, the location of the store. Somebody else had given them the same fake name and address. Oh well, my friend sheepishly said yes and paid for his purchase.
Regardless of how we would like to be treated, it's when we stop acting like criminals that we'll stop being treated like criminals. RIAA and MPAA wouldn't be looking at copy protection if movies and music weren't regularly pirated and resold without their knowledge and consent.
Congratulations. You're the first person who's made me laugh out loud while reading Slashdot in a long time. Quite an accomplishment.
Just like Footfall! What a great book. I don't think anybody's read it though.
Gosh, that's going to be one unhappy baby. All it wants is something plush that maybe it can wrap its tiny fingers around while lying in the bassinet, and instead it's going to get a pile of hard, sharp angled blocks that it cannot possibly understand how to assemble. The odds of a zero-year-old choking on Legos, I would estimate at fifty-fifty.
What a horrible idea.
Everyone's always ABOUT to do it. Have some courage and just do it. Don't talk about it, don't whine about, just do it.
Uh, 10GB isn't anywhere near unlimited. If anything, I'd say you're guilty of false advertising and should be sued if you actually tried to cut someone off.
Don't advertise unlimited bandwidth if you don't mean it.
Well, because it's not really the movie theater's individually who are angry... it's the film executives. They don't own the movie theaters, they own the movie producing companies. Now, if only they had a monopoly on venues as well as production, we'd be in a much better situation.
Uh, they'll have DVDs that won't work on other people's computers. It's not really that big a deal. This is a weird story.
Uhm, I could replace "Television" with radio everywhere in your post, and the logic would be just as sound. All the arguments are the same about television. We have program directors, the money is made by telling the public what it wants to watch, you can choose your own programming by going to blockbuster... and yet we still have Tivo. Why?
Also, there are a lot of products on radio, again like anything involving "talk", which you cannot buy or download legally at any price. Why wouldn't RadioTivo be great for a diehard Howard Stern fan who has to work through the entire morning and could only have a chance to listen to his hero's antics in the evening?
I'm not saying that RadioTivo wouldn't definately be a super success... I just think your counter argument is flawed.
I was talking about this the other day. Satellite Radio is not something that most people need, unless you're in a part of the country without much solid radio coverage. What most people need, and would find far more useful, is RadioTivo. A product which could record your favorite shows when they're on and let you play them back at your discretion.
A friend was recently telling me about a show on NPR which plays bad cover songs... now that sounds great! However, I'm really not in the car often enough to chance onto finding it, so I'll probably never hear it. But with RadioTivo, I could tell it to seek and record those programs which interest me and skip the trash. Just imagine being able to listen to your favorite morning disk jockey at any time during the day, and with no commercials! You could have RadioTivo record a few days of your favorite station (not a problem because the amount of space required to record broadcast radio on your RadioTivo is minimal) and skip not only commercials, but those songs you don't like. In fact, we could have our high tech researches program RadioTivo to understand when one song ends and the next begins and add a Skip to the next song button. RadioTivo is the answer.
Am I the only person who's thought of this? I've never heard anyone mention it before. Too bad I don't have the patience or the capital to make this happen. Oh well, I'll send Tivo an email and the sue them when they come up with the idea on their own.
I hearby copyright the concept of RadioTivo (although clearly not the name, someone else holds the copyright to that.)
So parents buying the cheaper iPod for their kids makes the teens spoiled? What, exactly, would buying them the original iPod have been?
To say that parents might consider a cheaper version of the iPod is not a good argument in favor of their kids being spoiled.
They become your because they were sent into your house without your permission and without your consent. If someone mails you a shiny new computer in the mail and then demands you pay two thousand dollars to keep the computer, you are under no legal obligation to do so. They sent it to you without contract and it's now yours.
If someone sends a signal down a wire into your house, I contend that it's yours to do with as you see fit... this includes unscrambling it and watching it. The same holds true for sattelite broadcasts and radio signals. Can you imagine being sued for listening to radio broadcasts? Explain what's different.
Are you sure it's illegal for telemarketers to call you on your cell phone? That doesn't sound right to me. What's more likely is that your cell phone isn't in the phone book, so they simply don't call it. Also, it's not cost effective because most people would just not answer blocked Caller ID numbers if telemarkers on cell phones became commonplace.
Just a guess. Can you point to the law?
You're both. It's silly to assume otherwise.
This is what I read the title as, and was very confused when this story wasn't the least bit about how a dusty diskman could somehow be the cause of parallel dimensions. Let me tell, I was excited about this research, and now am quite disappointed.
Wait, huh? How was your second point linked to your first point?
Is that fish story true? That sounds like a liberal college teacher's example of why exploration and advancement are inherantly negative. Do you have a link for the story?