Email is and should be recoginized and used for what it is, "Electronic Mail". Not "URGENT NEEDS A REPLY INSTANTLY"... NO! I do not check my email every five minutes, once or twice per day.
If you need an instant reply, how about use something like "Instant Messaging", VOIP, a phone call, or come over in person?
I really hate people who expect email to be almost the same thing as instant messaging. Email is a lower priority messaging system, it should not be used for something that you need an instant reply to.
I've followed the criteria and following the recommendations I came up with this: http://www.slashdot.org/ - I think it is exactly what CmdrTaco is looking for.
But nah, really, the arbitrary restrictions make it more challenging, I think I'm in.
Most people are misguided, they think "law" decides the difference between right and wrong... Law never decides right and wrong, it's all about twisting it and finding loopholes to get what you want out of it, it's just a big game.
So, just file a vague patent, copy and paste 12000+ words of unrelated text from a fiction book, and then insert something randomly, like say, "computer software used to transfer data via a tcp/ip connection" and start collecting royalties?
If only they could see the extension, you could tell them "only open png, jpg, or gif files; exes are bad, pifs are bad, js files are bad..." but there's very little chance of explaining something so simple to a non-technical user... I mean, how are they supposed to know the file types?
This makes me think of the "Light Grenade" from "Mom and Dad Save the World". The most diabolical doomsday device ever invented; it has "pick me up" printed on the side!
If I used Macs more often, I'd complain even louder about this "feature" on them; I mean, one-button mouse (AGH!), but it's not as big a problem as hiding essential information about files from your users (If someone says something about not needing extensions on *nix/BSD systems, well, that's fine, but give me popup mime-type or something if you really hate file-extensions). I thought Apple had a little more common sense than MS.
I use Ubuntu and Debian myself, but have to work on Windows machines daily, if you're wondering.
How about, and here's a tough one: Microsoft unhide the @%$@#$%@ file extensions on everything by default. WTF is up with hiding them?
How many trojans are named "something.jpg.exe" or just have a picture icon, or html icon when it's truly an exe? What motard at MS thought hiding "the oh so complex" file extension was a good thing?
Seriously, this one has bugged me for years. Dumbing down computer interfaces beyond a certain point is just asking for trouble.
So someone in power in WI finally got hit with a "clue-stick"? I mean, wow, this kindof thing should be so obvious; I'm amazed they actually allowed a real vote in some states last election with zero audit-trail. Luckily I was able to vote in NV last election (all the electronic vote machines here had to have a paper audit trail last election).
I once read somewhere that people who really get upset over the possible abuses of things such as these games (for child porn, etc) are really "closet" about it themselves?
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It always has been.
Email is and should be recoginized and used for what it is, "Electronic Mail". Not "URGENT NEEDS A REPLY INSTANTLY"... NO! I do not check my email every five minutes, once or twice per day.
If you need an instant reply, how about use something like "Instant Messaging", VOIP, a phone call, or come over in person?
I really hate people who expect email to be almost the same thing as instant messaging. Email is a lower priority messaging system, it should not be used for something that you need an instant reply to.
I've followed the criteria and following the recommendations I came up with this: http://www.slashdot.org/ - I think it is exactly what CmdrTaco is looking for.
But nah, really, the arbitrary restrictions make it more challenging, I think I'm in.
It grows exponentially! At 10 we're everywhere in the universe at the same time! Or maybe I'm confusing something here...
How many roaches does it take to make a transister?
Sounded pretty cool, then saw the title of the page that the first link goes to... "Oh Snap!"... No digg.
Before you change ISPs, you could download a copy of all your stuff... will your 'DVR Service Provider' allow such a thing?
Just sudo -s when you need to use a shell for an extended period.
Most people are misguided, they think "law" decides the difference between right and wrong... Law never decides right and wrong, it's all about twisting it and finding loopholes to get what you want out of it, it's just a big game.
It's against the EULA of MS Windows to report any comparisons without Microsoft's approval.
So, just file a vague patent, copy and paste 12000+ words of unrelated text from a fiction book, and then insert something randomly, like say, "computer software used to transfer data via a tcp/ip connection" and start collecting royalties?
If only they could see the extension, you could tell them "only open png, jpg, or gif files; exes are bad, pifs are bad, js files are bad..." but there's very little chance of explaining something so simple to a non-technical user... I mean, how are they supposed to know the file types?
This makes me think of the "Light Grenade" from "Mom and Dad Save the World". The most diabolical doomsday device ever invented; it has "pick me up" printed on the side!
If I used Macs more often, I'd complain even louder about this "feature" on them; I mean, one-button mouse (AGH!), but it's not as big a problem as hiding essential information about files from your users (If someone says something about not needing extensions on *nix/BSD systems, well, that's fine, but give me popup mime-type or something if you really hate file-extensions). I thought Apple had a little more common sense than MS.
I use Ubuntu and Debian myself, but have to work on Windows machines daily, if you're wondering.
"Jan 5, 1984 - Richard Stallman starts developing GNU."
It all makes sense now... Actually, no it doesn't.
How about, and here's a tough one: Microsoft unhide the @%$@#$%@ file extensions on everything by default. WTF is up with hiding them?
How many trojans are named "something.jpg.exe" or just have a picture icon, or html icon when it's truly an exe? What motard at MS thought hiding "the oh so complex" file extension was a good thing?
Seriously, this one has bugged me for years. Dumbing down computer interfaces beyond a certain point is just asking for trouble.
No, but it's not as bad as that number seems either. Look at some of the bugs; most are duplicates or are feature requests (not really bugs at all).
I really thought the summary said something about a "hammer in the face". It got my attention at least.
So someone in power in WI finally got hit with a "clue-stick"? I mean, wow, this kindof thing should be so obvious; I'm amazed they actually allowed a real vote in some states last election with zero audit-trail. Luckily I was able to vote in NV last election (all the electronic vote machines here had to have a paper audit trail last election).
It would make sense to drop the balloons during the hurricane and redeploy them within hours afterwards.
*cue the ASCII porn guys
I do live near an airport, but I swear, my computer is louder than some of the jets that fly over; I don't know about sleeping any closer to it :)
Or to stop some script kiddie from writing a simple loop to broadcast "I 4M 31337!!!1!!" starting at 50MHz and moving up 1MHz a step?
:D
Script kiddies don't write anything themselves, that's what
I once read somewhere that people who really get upset over the possible abuses of things such as these games (for child porn, etc) are really "closet" about it themselves?
Hasn't anyone learned: You get in bed with Microsoft, you end up being killed no less than three years down the road. That's one hell of a STD.