I've had problems with MyRealBox.net's uptime. Since they are a test server they will regularly take them down without notification and don't really bother to get everything back up and running fast. If mail is lost, oh well. I'd avoid them if you like getting your email on a regular basis.
I'd be interested in seeing a real global world map with the locations of servers pinpointed on the map to show the density of computer equipment around the global. Actually, it wouldn't even need the real map to exist, if all the points of light to represent a computer server were placed in their proper geographic locations, I bet you'd get a very good mapping of the world. In fact, it would probably look similar to the famous map of the world at night where the lights from industrialized countries creates a spectacular image of the developed world.
Does such a map exist? Is somebody working on one?
Uhm, how exactly would he speak? He still doesn't have a mouth... throwing a pair of headphones on him wouldn't have helped any... why would this device do any good?
So I use Outlook XP for email (go ahead and laugh now). One of Spamcop's most useful features is the ability for the user to simply forward spam directly to a predefined email address (one for each end user) and have Spamcop handle the rest. I have one or two addresses within a domain that I own which receive nothing but spam. I usually just filter them all to the trash, but I decided to start forwarding them along to Spamcop and let them do their thing. When it works, Spamcop is great.
So I tried this with Outlook. Spamcop simply responds that it cannot find the spam within the forwarded message. Apparently it doesn't parse Outlook mail properly. This seems weird considering Outlook is the most widely used commercial email program... you think they would write their filters with Outlook in mind. But ok... I go back to my server. I set up aliases for the two offending usernames and send the spam directly to spamcop, never having it touch my Outlook. I figured this would solve the problem.
Nope, Spamcop couldn't read that spam either. And Spamcop won't tell you what the problem is, exactly. I've never been able to get the email forwarding thing to work properly, and it's frustrating because it would be a great service.
Has anyone had a good experience with email forwarding? Can anyone suggest a simply solution to this problem?
Yeah, I'm going through this right now... but oddly enough I don't seem to be getting all that many bounced spams. Maybe their lists are fairly accurate? I don't know, I'm only getting about 25 or 30 per day and they're filtered out fairly easily. I do wish the sender wasn't using random usernames for each address, that would make it easier to deal with. Oh well.
I'm glad to see that Goatsex is in the running for possible inclusion in their FAQ. I've often asked questions that can really only be answered by that damned picture. So many questions.
Anyway, I'd suggest you all register and vote for it. We'll see how long any community based organization will last when it's members choose to elevate horrible horrible smut... will the autonomy of the users be inviolate? Or will it be reduced?
I played around with one in a CompUSA for a few minutes. Yeah, it was kind of fun to draw a picture of guy sitting on a toilet, and then a super fast race car zooming by, but I couldn't think of any situation where I'd actually want to use one for any particular purpose. I'd rather use a laptop for almost any situation I can imagine. Or, if not a laptop, then just paper and a pen. These are like PDA's that you can't carry around with you, it's got nothing.
Can anybody think of a general use for one of these (nothing too specialized, something that might actually be useful for a lot of people?)
It's been a long time, but I seem to recall that although declaring bankruptcy can shield you from normal creditors, it cannot shield you from legal judgements against you. Meaning that the kids who won the 4 million dollar lawsuit should still be getting their 4 million dollars.
Uhm, what? I'm unclear as to why I'm an idiot. I didn't convert anything to any format. I've converted every document I've downloaded into.txt and kept it that way. I'm glad you're trying to preserve antiquated books, but your bitterness towards me for being unsure why anyone would put in the effort is a little bit unfounded. Good work. If I were scanning everything would be going into good old text files... but you can keep your bitterness yourself... I won't be downloading that anytime soon.
I'm confused. Why don't you just return the thing and buy it again in another week? You've only had it for two weeks, you probably get a month on the return policy.
I doubt they'll feel screwed. They did get to own and use a PS2 for a year (or more?) before the price dropped so low. It's not like those people are just receiving delivery on their PS2s today.
So, I think I'm one of the few people who actually read a good number of books in digital format and quite enjoyed the process. They may have come from Bearshare or Kazaa, I admit, but the ability to carry five or six books around with me all the time on my old Visor Edge (thinest PDA I've ever seen) was wonderful. Sure, you had to scroll a lot, but you get used to that very quickly. And sometimes the text of the book is a little bit garbled due to some monkey OCRing it poorly, or formatting it differently than you would have preffered.
But all in all, you really can't beat the convenience. Ever since my Visor broke a few weeks ago I've been going through withdrawal. I was reading one or two books a week, and now I've dropped back down to one a month. Paper books just aren't convenient to carry around all the time. I can't read for ten minutes waiting for the bus, or in between meetings. I miss it.
Also, I'm not really sure who's behind all the effort, but the number and variety of books avaiable on the P2P networks was pretty strong. Strong enough that I wasn't going to run out of books that I was interested in reading for a long time. Sure, they're clearly Sci-Fi/Fantasy heavy, but if you are at all interested in either of those genres, you'll be able to keep yourself satisfied for a long time. And even new books get up there fairly quickly. I got the most recent Harry Potter within two days of its release. Someone out there was working overtime.
Of course it will cost companies customers. Not only in general, but there's going to be a hellish period where, I'm going to guess, millions of people suddenly switch companies in late November. I know a lot of people who are unhappy with their current companies and are simply waiting until November to move companies.
I recently switched companies (and consequently phone numbers) and it was a little bit of a hassle, but it was neccessary. If I hadn't been forced to switch due to a truly horrible national plan option with AT&T I would have held out for November as well. It's going to be fun watching all the companies scramble to keep their customers.
So yeah, it's a valid concern for them. I'd expect more lawsuits shortly.
Zone Alarm had some internal problems and stopped functioning on my computer. I thought, "Gee, I'm glad it told me that it's not working, when I get around to it I'll uninstall, then reinstall."
But oh, no, you see, when Zone Alarm stops working it decides that NOTHING should work. Apparently it set up some sort of Proxy where all webpages were non-functional and only gave me a message about how Zone Alarm wasn't working so I shouldn't do ANYTHING online until I got it fixed. I tried disabling it, I tried shutting down the program. In the end I had to uninstall it, and I'm not going to reinstall it because I don't want to have to go through that hassle again.
If a program stops working it's nice of it to tell you so, it's not nice for it to decide that you're no longer allowed to access the Internet.
I haven't said anything until today, but I've gotten annoyed with this whole 50 millions people being on the list thing. There's a lot of bad assumptions around this estimate which could amek the actual number higher or lower.
First of all, you're assuming that each person registered one phone number. Let's assume that each person registered their cell phone, their home phone, their beeper, their fax machine, their dsl line and their office line. That's six lines for a single person. Let's say corporate IBM registered every one of it's office lines, even though the individual's using the lines didn't have any particular problem with telemarketer phone calls. The actual number of people who support this could be much lower than 50 million.
On the other hand, let's say one person registered their house's phone on behalf of an entire family. Now that one phone number should really count for all ten people who live under the roof and use the same line, the actual number of people who support this legislation by that logic could be much higher than 50 million.
And what about people who went stir crazy the day the list was unveiled and started registering every phone number they could get their hands on. Their friends, their coworkers, their family members... they probably thought they were doing everyone a public service. OR, how about if someone set up a script to register a LOT of phone numbers, just to try to put the telemarketers out of business. How hard would it be to automatically register EVERY US phone number? Not very, is the answer.
So, everyone should be saying that 50 million phone numbers were registered, not that 50 million people support the registry. There's really no way to know how popular the registry is without doing (wait for it)... phone surveys.
The one thing I noticed about this guy, from his receipts, is that he pays for very inexpensive items with credit cards. I didn't even know they would accept a credit card at Subway... for one sandwich? Or using the credit card for one mango smoothy for less than five dollars? Don't the cashiers give him dirty looks?
The one piece of advice I would give is to carry around a little bit of cash with you. The rest of us don't want to stand in line behind a guy buying a quart of milk with his AMEX Gold card.
I installed one at my home yesterday, and today my hard drive isn't working and my monitor's got all sorts of funny colors on it. I'm posting this from work... I think I'll install one here to trouble shoot.
The idea of a mandatory tax as a handout to the recording industry is attrocious. You're only supporting it here because it happens to help your case against the RIAA, whom you hate. But in general, if the RIAA wasn't part of the picture, and you were being taxed to support the film or software industry when you purchased Blank CDs simply because you MIGHT pirate software or films, you'd be mighty upset and indignant. And rightfully so.
The people the taxes are going to have done nothing to prove that any individual buying a CD is going to use it in an illegal (or money costing) manner. They've found a way to charge everybody a fee for the potential right to burn copyrighted CDs without your permission or consent.
If everyond suddenly got a bill from the RIAA in January for $50 to cover all your music downloads over the previous year, and you haven't downloaded a thing, you wouldn't be so happy about this situation.
It's exactly the same.
I'm glad you Canadians are happy with your legal file sharing. I question where or not it's a good policy (if music, why not software? if software swapping becomes legal, there's going to be a lot fewer tech jobs around in the future). But keep in mind it's nothing but organized extortion and you really should be arguing to repeal the tax, even if you don't want to repeal file sharing.
She most likely signed up for KazaaPlus. I haven't scoured their website too much, but as far as I can tell it says nothing about being able to legally download music. They're providing an ad-free version of Kazaa for those too technically inept to discover Kazaa Lite on their own.
The fact that they assumed this meant they had free reign to download whatever copyrighted songs they saw fit does not and should not remove them from being legally or financially liable for their actions. They didn't understand what they were doing, but it still falls into the category of copyright infringement.
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I've had problems with MyRealBox.net's uptime. Since they are a test server they will regularly take them down without notification and don't really bother to get everything back up and running fast. If mail is lost, oh well. I'd avoid them if you like getting your email on a regular basis.
On the upside, they are free.
I'd be interested in seeing a real global world map with the locations of servers pinpointed on the map to show the density of computer equipment around the global. Actually, it wouldn't even need the real map to exist, if all the points of light to represent a computer server were placed in their proper geographic locations, I bet you'd get a very good mapping of the world. In fact, it would probably look similar to the famous map of the world at night where the lights from industrialized countries creates a spectacular image of the developed world.
Does such a map exist? Is somebody working on one?
Uhm, how exactly would he speak? He still doesn't have a mouth... throwing a pair of headphones on him wouldn't have helped any... why would this device do any good?
So I use Outlook XP for email (go ahead and laugh now). One of Spamcop's most useful features is the ability for the user to simply forward spam directly to a predefined email address (one for each end user) and have Spamcop handle the rest. I have one or two addresses within a domain that I own which receive nothing but spam. I usually just filter them all to the trash, but I decided to start forwarding them along to Spamcop and let them do their thing. When it works, Spamcop is great.
So I tried this with Outlook. Spamcop simply responds that it cannot find the spam within the forwarded message. Apparently it doesn't parse Outlook mail properly. This seems weird considering Outlook is the most widely used commercial email program... you think they would write their filters with Outlook in mind. But ok... I go back to my server. I set up aliases for the two offending usernames and send the spam directly to spamcop, never having it touch my Outlook. I figured this would solve the problem.
Nope, Spamcop couldn't read that spam either. And Spamcop won't tell you what the problem is, exactly. I've never been able to get the email forwarding thing to work properly, and it's frustrating because it would be a great service.
Has anyone had a good experience with email forwarding? Can anyone suggest a simply solution to this problem?
Yeah, I'm going through this right now... but oddly enough I don't seem to be getting all that many bounced spams. Maybe their lists are fairly accurate? I don't know, I'm only getting about 25 or 30 per day and they're filtered out fairly easily. I do wish the sender wasn't using random usernames for each address, that would make it easier to deal with. Oh well.
I'm glad to see that Goatsex is in the running for possible inclusion in their FAQ. I've often asked questions that can really only be answered by that damned picture. So many questions.
Anyway, I'd suggest you all register and vote for it. We'll see how long any community based organization will last when it's members choose to elevate horrible horrible smut... will the autonomy of the users be inviolate? Or will it be reduced?
Margaret Cho is not prominent.
I played around with one in a CompUSA for a few minutes. Yeah, it was kind of fun to draw a picture of guy sitting on a toilet, and then a super fast race car zooming by, but I couldn't think of any situation where I'd actually want to use one for any particular purpose. I'd rather use a laptop for almost any situation I can imagine. Or, if not a laptop, then just paper and a pen. These are like PDA's that you can't carry around with you, it's got nothing.
Can anybody think of a general use for one of these (nothing too specialized, something that might actually be useful for a lot of people?)
It's been a long time, but I seem to recall that although declaring bankruptcy can shield you from normal creditors, it cannot shield you from legal judgements against you. Meaning that the kids who won the 4 million dollar lawsuit should still be getting their 4 million dollars.
And good.
Uhm, what? I'm unclear as to why I'm an idiot. I didn't convert anything to any format. I've converted every document I've downloaded into .txt and kept it that way. I'm glad you're trying to preserve antiquated books, but your bitterness towards me for being unsure why anyone would put in the effort is a little bit unfounded. Good work. If I were scanning everything would be going into good old text files... but you can keep your bitterness yourself... I won't be downloading that anytime soon.
I'm confused. Why don't you just return the thing and buy it again in another week? You've only had it for two weeks, you probably get a month on the return policy.
I doubt they'll feel screwed. They did get to own and use a PS2 for a year (or more?) before the price dropped so low. It's not like those people are just receiving delivery on their PS2s today.
So, I think I'm one of the few people who actually read a good number of books in digital format and quite enjoyed the process. They may have come from Bearshare or Kazaa, I admit, but the ability to carry five or six books around with me all the time on my old Visor Edge (thinest PDA I've ever seen) was wonderful. Sure, you had to scroll a lot, but you get used to that very quickly. And sometimes the text of the book is a little bit garbled due to some monkey OCRing it poorly, or formatting it differently than you would have preffered.
But all in all, you really can't beat the convenience. Ever since my Visor broke a few weeks ago I've been going through withdrawal. I was reading one or two books a week, and now I've dropped back down to one a month. Paper books just aren't convenient to carry around all the time. I can't read for ten minutes waiting for the bus, or in between meetings. I miss it.
Also, I'm not really sure who's behind all the effort, but the number and variety of books avaiable on the P2P networks was pretty strong. Strong enough that I wasn't going to run out of books that I was interested in reading for a long time. Sure, they're clearly Sci-Fi/Fantasy heavy, but if you are at all interested in either of those genres, you'll be able to keep yourself satisfied for a long time. And even new books get up there fairly quickly. I got the most recent Harry Potter within two days of its release. Someone out there was working overtime.
Of course it will cost companies customers. Not only in general, but there's going to be a hellish period where, I'm going to guess, millions of people suddenly switch companies in late November. I know a lot of people who are unhappy with their current companies and are simply waiting until November to move companies.
I recently switched companies (and consequently phone numbers) and it was a little bit of a hassle, but it was neccessary. If I hadn't been forced to switch due to a truly horrible national plan option with AT&T I would have held out for November as well. It's going to be fun watching all the companies scramble to keep their customers.
So yeah, it's a valid concern for them. I'd expect more lawsuits shortly.
Brian
Zone Alarm had some internal problems and stopped functioning on my computer. I thought, "Gee, I'm glad it told me that it's not working, when I get around to it I'll uninstall, then reinstall."
But oh, no, you see, when Zone Alarm stops working it decides that NOTHING should work. Apparently it set up some sort of Proxy where all webpages were non-functional and only gave me a message about how Zone Alarm wasn't working so I shouldn't do ANYTHING online until I got it fixed. I tried disabling it, I tried shutting down the program. In the end I had to uninstall it, and I'm not going to reinstall it because I don't want to have to go through that hassle again.
If a program stops working it's nice of it to tell you so, it's not nice for it to decide that you're no longer allowed to access the Internet.
Also, I don't know if a acronym as ridiculous as IANAL will really stand up as a defense in court.
I haven't said anything until today, but I've gotten annoyed with this whole 50 millions people being on the list thing. There's a lot of bad assumptions around this estimate which could amek the actual number higher or lower.
First of all, you're assuming that each person registered one phone number. Let's assume that each person registered their cell phone, their home phone, their beeper, their fax machine, their dsl line and their office line. That's six lines for a single person. Let's say corporate IBM registered every one of it's office lines, even though the individual's using the lines didn't have any particular problem with telemarketer phone calls. The actual number of people who support this could be much lower than 50 million.
On the other hand, let's say one person registered their house's phone on behalf of an entire family. Now that one phone number should really count for all ten people who live under the roof and use the same line, the actual number of people who support this legislation by that logic could be much higher than 50 million.
And what about people who went stir crazy the day the list was unveiled and started registering every phone number they could get their hands on. Their friends, their coworkers, their family members... they probably thought they were doing everyone a public service. OR, how about if someone set up a script to register a LOT of phone numbers, just to try to put the telemarketers out of business. How hard would it be to automatically register EVERY US phone number? Not very, is the answer.
So, everyone should be saying that 50 million phone numbers were registered, not that 50 million people support the registry. There's really no way to know how popular the registry is without doing (wait for it)... phone surveys.
Sigh.
How could any service provider actually monitor EVERY anonymous chat room? It's not possible.
The one thing I noticed about this guy, from his receipts, is that he pays for very inexpensive items with credit cards. I didn't even know they would accept a credit card at Subway... for one sandwich? Or using the credit card for one mango smoothy for less than five dollars? Don't the cashiers give him dirty looks?
The one piece of advice I would give is to carry around a little bit of cash with you. The rest of us don't want to stand in line behind a guy buying a quart of milk with his AMEX Gold card.
I installed one at my home yesterday, and today my hard drive isn't working and my monitor's got all sorts of funny colors on it. I'm posting this from work... I think I'll install one here to trouble shoot.
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The idea of a mandatory tax as a handout to the recording industry is attrocious. You're only supporting it here because it happens to help your case against the RIAA, whom you hate. But in general, if the RIAA wasn't part of the picture, and you were being taxed to support the film or software industry when you purchased Blank CDs simply because you MIGHT pirate software or films, you'd be mighty upset and indignant. And rightfully so.
The people the taxes are going to have done nothing to prove that any individual buying a CD is going to use it in an illegal (or money costing) manner. They've found a way to charge everybody a fee for the potential right to burn copyrighted CDs without your permission or consent.
If everyond suddenly got a bill from the RIAA in January for $50 to cover all your music downloads over the previous year, and you haven't downloaded a thing, you wouldn't be so happy about this situation.
It's exactly the same.
I'm glad you Canadians are happy with your legal file sharing. I question where or not it's a good policy (if music, why not software? if software swapping becomes legal, there's going to be a lot fewer tech jobs around in the future). But keep in mind it's nothing but organized extortion and you really should be arguing to repeal the tax, even if you don't want to repeal file sharing.
Troll.
Sadly, I don't drive. Sorry. Haven't seen the need for it yet.
She most likely signed up for KazaaPlus. I haven't scoured their website too much, but as far as I can tell it says nothing about being able to legally download music. They're providing an ad-free version of Kazaa for those too technically inept to discover Kazaa Lite on their own.
The fact that they assumed this meant they had free reign to download whatever copyrighted songs they saw fit does not and should not remove them from being legally or financially liable for their actions. They didn't understand what they were doing, but it still falls into the category of copyright infringement.
Sorry.
How is anything that costs less than $7 a luxury?