Responding to my own reply, this looks like it only applies to ATT Yahoo internet (Dialup, DSL) and video, and has nothing to do with ATT wireless (ok, Cingular), voice (including POTS), etc. Somebody posted a link to the actual privacy policy in question here.
I've looked at AT+T's site (ok, att.sbc.com) to see the Privacy Policy, going to this link for the full text of the policy, and unless they changed something because of the article, I can't find any of the language that is quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle report. Specifically, I can't find this quote: "to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process." I can't find the word "legitimate" in the policy at all. Am I looking at the wrong policy?
We had a gigantic Chevy Caprice Classic station wagon when I was a kid that had this same feature. When I was old enough to drive, my brother and I would sit at a stop sign, and press "Set" on the cruise control. You could watch the gas pedal drop to the floor and the wagon would just take off, well, as much as a 2 ton station wagon can take off. It wouldn't stop accelerating until you tapped the brakes. Combine that car with too much of Knight Rider's "Turbo Boost", and you have quite a fun afternoon.
Looking at some of the pictures, it looks like there is some soft of shell that can be slid around the vehicle and protect it somewhat from the elements. Alot like the great big swivly thing the shuttles have, except not so swivly.
or do the much simpler (emphasis mine) "temporal/spatial displacement" approach: A) Tear paper in pieces B) Throw one piece away C) Take another piece to the supermarket with me, and throw it away there. D) Wait a little while. E) Throw final piece away at the gas station.
Make sure you throw away the same third at home each time, or after a couple months bills, they'll have your whole account number!
I like how it "can pick up many of the 10,000 or so stations broadcasting on the Net", but they only give you six (6) presets (in the reference design). How about a simplified favorites list or something? 6 seems a little small - I get 30-50 (whatever) stations on my FM car radio, and I have 12 presets, just under 25% of the available stations. With this thing, I get 0.12% of the available stations. Just my $0.0199.
Trillian (I think by default) is setup to save a log of all chats. Better make sure the person I am chatting with is not from New Hampshire: AYINH? (Are you in new hampshire?)
My domain registrar (registerfly.com, not affiliated, bla bla bla) and others provide a service where they put some mangled address/telephone that they control so that any of my personal info is hidden. If anything comes to them for me, they would forward it to me. That seems like a way to get anonymity while still being able to follow DNS rules. tink tink (2 cents)
That is exactly what I do. For a long while, no spam messages, but then things started coming to contact@mydomain.com, webmaster@mydomain.com, etc. So, I started sending any email to those addresses to/dev/null. Recently, however, I have started getting mail to kurt@mydomain.com, 1321239@mydomain.com, etc, which I can't just filter out, because it keeps changing. Crikey! What to do? Enjoy the silence...while it lasts....
Or, mashing the "Windows" key and the Pause/Break button will bring up the System properties box. Click the Hardware Tab, and click Device Manager. At least, that is the way it is in Win2K....
While I agree that bandwidth is wasted, it is often more useful to actually read the email determine that an email is spam. (Sure, you don't want to go reading all of your spam just tell the filter that it is spam, that kinda kills the usefulness, but you have to train it...) If the host filtered, how would you tell the filter that it is an email from a friend, or from a spammer? Also, an approach like this on the client would be invaluable for things like your kids' email. I have friends (my kid is only a few months old, no email yet) whose kid gets some pretty explicit pr0n email, and a Bayesian filter would hide that pretty effectively. I would be heap big interested in something like this, and I am glad to see those intrepid young chaps at Mozilla working on it.
I, for one, am thrilled to hear that more of these over looked, under appreciated mammals are finally breaking the Technological Divide. Imagine all that these creatures have to offer the net....
Oh, wait, that was "purposeful". I thought it said "porpoiseful". Oh well, nevermind.
I think the quote from the article was: "When the antenna is structurally embedded in a car, it becomes "a very effective radiator" of electromagnetic waves...". So, unless you are storing a car in your pants, or attaching it to your head, you probably are ok. Actually, if you are storing a car in your pants, or attaching it to your head, you are a lot worse off.
I haven't tried anything like this, or heard of anyone trying anything like this, but what about taking an old stereo-component CD player, yanking the insides, throwing in a motherboard/ps/etc, adding a cd-rom where the cd drive used to live, and cutting some holes for i/o ports? ventilation might be a problem, being stacked on/under other components, but it might be worth a try....
I don't know that it is so dreamy. Think about it like this: If you were going to be working on this thing a lot, like this person says he will, and using strictly text based (or low-end gui) then you want a nice big screen (so you can see a lot) and nice clear text (so you can read what you see). He doesn't need it to be particularly fast, support color, or have all sorts of expandability options. My dream laptop would be all that, plus light and armed with a big screen.
But, I certainly agree about the battery. That might be a pipe dream until some fuel cell technology becomes useful in laptops. For now, he'll have to lug that charger to Japan, or bring several batteries.
I agree with your comment. Old laptops seem very well suited for a Linux machine, but...
>>And you don't want PCMCIA (PC-CARD), well bang goes most of your hardware customisation options right there!
I think you might have missed the point of the comment. He wants good built in networking, not some funny PCMCIA card with one of those flimsy cables that everyone looses. He doesn't mention ditching PCMCIA altogether (like legos with out the little bumps), just doesn't want to use it for networking.
This is really the only thing anyone needs. Its called the Sinterstation 2500plus, and it will basically build anything you can design as a CAD model in plastic, metal, ceramic, or elastomer materials. They don't say much about pricing. Space in my apartment is limited but, Santa, I could put it in the spare bedroom, cover it with a few sheets and pillows, and call it the guest bed. Thanks.
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Responding to my own reply, this looks like it only applies to ATT Yahoo internet (Dialup, DSL) and video, and has nothing to do with ATT wireless (ok, Cingular), voice (including POTS), etc. Somebody posted a link to the actual privacy policy in question here.
I've looked at AT+T's site (ok, att.sbc.com) to see the Privacy Policy, going to this link for the full text of the policy, and unless they changed something because of the article, I can't find any of the language that is quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle report. Specifically, I can't find this quote:
"to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process."
I can't find the word "legitimate" in the policy at all. Am I looking at the wrong policy?
Please, be gentle. Thanks.
We had a gigantic Chevy Caprice Classic station wagon when I was a kid that had this same feature. When I was old enough to drive, my brother and I would sit at a stop sign, and press "Set" on the cruise control. You could watch the gas pedal drop to the floor and the wagon would just take off, well, as much as a 2 ton station wagon can take off. It wouldn't stop accelerating until you tapped the brakes. Combine that car with too much of Knight Rider's "Turbo Boost", and you have quite a fun afternoon.
Yeah sorry, that should be "some SORT of shell".... Here's a picture of it.
Looking at some of the pictures, it looks like there is some soft of shell that can be slid around the vehicle and protect it somewhat from the elements. Alot like the great big swivly thing the shuttles have, except not so swivly.
Seems funny. Either I can:
A) Put in shredder
or do the much simpler (emphasis mine) "temporal/spatial displacement" approach:
A) Tear paper in pieces
B) Throw one piece away
C) Take another piece to the supermarket with me, and throw it away there.
D) Wait a little while.
E) Throw final piece away at the gas station.
Make sure you throw away the same third at home each time, or after a couple months bills, they'll have your whole account number!
hehe...
I like how it "can pick up many of the 10,000 or so stations broadcasting on the Net", but they only give you six (6) presets (in the reference design). How about a simplified favorites list or something? 6 seems a little small - I get 30-50 (whatever) stations on my FM car radio, and I have 12 presets, just under 25% of the available stations. With this thing, I get 0.12% of the available stations.
Just my $0.0199.
Trillian (I think by default) is setup to save a log of all chats. Better make sure the person I am chatting with is not from New Hampshire: AYINH? (Are you in new hampshire?)
My domain registrar (registerfly.com, not affiliated, bla bla bla) and others provide a service where they put some mangled address/telephone that they control so that any of my personal info is hidden. If anything comes to them for me, they would forward it to me. That seems like a way to get anonymity while still being able to follow DNS rules.
tink tink (2 cents)
That is exactly what I do. For a long while, no spam messages, but then things started coming to contact@mydomain.com, webmaster@mydomain.com, etc. So, I started sending any email to those addresses to /dev/null. Recently, however, I have started getting mail to kurt@mydomain.com, 1321239@mydomain.com, etc, which I can't just filter out, because it keeps changing. Crikey! What to do? Enjoy the silence...while it lasts....
Or, mashing the "Windows" key and the Pause/Break button will bring up the System properties box. Click the Hardware Tab, and click Device Manager. At least, that is the way it is in Win2K....
While I agree that bandwidth is wasted, it is often more useful to actually read the email determine that an email is spam. (Sure, you don't want to go reading all of your spam just tell the filter that it is spam, that kinda kills the usefulness, but you have to train it...) If the host filtered, how would you tell the filter that it is an email from a friend, or from a spammer? Also, an approach like this on the client would be invaluable for things like your kids' email. I have friends (my kid is only a few months old, no email yet) whose kid gets some pretty explicit pr0n email, and a Bayesian filter would hide that pretty effectively. I would be heap big interested in something like this, and I am glad to see those intrepid young chaps at Mozilla working on it.
>>It's called the OFF switch.
Hey, newbie question: what does O.F.F. stand for?
no, really...
I, for one, am thrilled to hear that more of these over looked, under appreciated mammals are finally breaking the Technological Divide. Imagine all that these creatures have to offer the net....
Oh, wait, that was "purposeful". I thought it said "porpoiseful". Oh well, nevermind.
I think the quote from the article was: "When the antenna is structurally embedded in a car, it becomes "a very effective radiator" of electromagnetic waves...". So, unless you are storing a car in your pants, or attaching it to your head, you probably are ok. Actually, if you are storing a car in your pants, or attaching it to your head, you are a lot worse off.
I haven't tried anything like this, or heard of anyone trying anything like this, but what about taking an old stereo-component CD player, yanking the insides, throwing in a motherboard/ps/etc, adding a cd-rom where the cd drive used to live, and cutting some holes for i/o ports? ventilation might be a problem, being stacked on/under other components, but it might be worth a try....
I don't know that it is so dreamy. Think about it like this: If you were going to be working on this thing a lot, like this person says he will, and using strictly text based (or low-end gui) then you want a nice big screen (so you can see a lot) and nice clear text (so you can read what you see). He doesn't need it to be particularly fast, support color, or have all sorts of expandability options. My dream laptop would be all that, plus light and armed with a big screen.
But, I certainly agree about the battery. That might be a pipe dream until some fuel cell technology becomes useful in laptops. For now, he'll have to lug that charger to Japan, or bring several batteries.
spamacon
I agree with your comment. Old laptops seem very well suited for a Linux machine, but...
>>And you don't want PCMCIA (PC-CARD), well bang goes most of your hardware customisation options right there!
I think you might have missed the point of the comment. He wants good built in networking, not some funny PCMCIA card with one of those flimsy cables that everyone looses. He doesn't mention ditching PCMCIA altogether (like legos with out the little bumps), just doesn't want to use it for networking.
spamacon
I can't read this article because a can no longer afford to pay attention.
This is really the only thing anyone needs. Its called the Sinterstation 2500plus , and it will basically build anything you can design as a CAD model in plastic, metal, ceramic, or elastomer materials. They don't say much about pricing. Space in my apartment is limited but, Santa, I could put it in the spare bedroom, cover it with a few sheets and pillows, and call it the guest bed. Thanks.