First, I guess you wont have to worry about paying up 3 years from purchase, because in 3 years I'm betting your software will not only be stale (and eveyone else is using opensource) but you'll be out of business.
Where is windows going? Down the damn drain if even the desktop users are opting out. Not to mention the security.
I got OpenSource Magazine, and what I read in there (although just seeing a SAN would be a treat) the enterprise (not the ship) market is saying fuck you Microsoft.
You think maybe since AOL and Netscape (seprate at a time) sued the Seattle Giant - they will go towards opensource? Where is AOL for Linux?
They'd have a niche market - install a rpm (.deb etc) and have the whole net simplified.
Where is Linux on Brand New PC's?
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I just read this on AltaVista, and one quote pointed to a reaction needed by the legislators. So should we send someone to the 'Hill in our defense?
So Microsoft is going to make a push for laws against Open Source software? Giving things away is like dot com's who failed? What about Internet Explorer - it's far from Open Source, but it's free software.
Basically it comes down to this, MS sees free software as a threat, not because of its customer base or licenses; but because it doesn't let them have power. New file types they want to push (asf, secure mp3s what ever) can't be pushed if they loose ground on the user end.
I got rid of windows (as a whole system of thinking) because the open source model is built not for the developer like everyone thinks, but it's built the end user. Joe Schmoe like me who would like to just fuck around! I like being able to do things I should be able to do for free.
Windows isn't a OS it's a business model. For every thing I would like to do, I need to spend anywhere from $20 to $50 to be able to do it. On a Windows system, you need to spend money just to change the look of it! CD burning in windows could cost a fortune - but the software is the same on *nix and free!
MS wants to own your whole computer! I'm still mad about backing up.wma files on CD, and when the computer crashed I couldn't use them again. The next time the computer crashed, to get the software preinstalled on my system back, I needed to buy some of it! And when I reinstalled Virus Scan - off a pre-made cd from HP - I couldn't update it to the version I had because the subscription expired.
Windows is one big rip off - you want better defrag? Buy it! Want a better ? Buy it? It makes me sick.
Since the posts thus far are mostly redundant - I should say that dailyradar.com which was; at one time PCXL was a decent site. Really the best thing about the site were the downloads sometimes. They gave previews that lauded a game, but then when it came out said "It's just like Tomb Raider, but different maps" to name a Prince of Persia DC review which no one else had reviewed the game.
New PCXL; that was awsome. Every month I used to get this rocking magazine that talked about games and if I got really bored - you could beat off to it - there was enough T&A. But then someone sold me PC Gamer - that mag just blows. Every other page is either MS is cool as shit or Buy Babbages!
PCXL Rocked! I loved when parents wrote in about how much smut there was. Too bad they didn't continue the style on DailyRadar.com. Naked women and some witty writing about games that sucked would have kept it alive.
This seems to limit my free speech if I can't get a domain like productnamesucks.com .
Instead of being able to let everyone know about how I hate said product name - which I think is still protected under the first amendment - it has to be under a url like: w3.ispprovider.com/~username/speech/ihatehomedepot.html
It's BS -- who said I would be using the product name to market something? They've already decided what I intended to do with the name before I used it. I know its not illegal to refer to the product name of what I'm bashing.
I have no clue how this protocol works, but I have an idea. What if the clients on the network all needed either; a disk, bootable or otherwise used to program a key in the end users station; a smart card, if you want to get real fancy and want extra security - keep it in a safe if need be; memory stick, use sony's tech to keep a digital key which must be inserted into the wireless lan card in order for it to connect to the network.
We could still use the physical to control the radio waves from being stolen. Public/Private keys make sense here - but the trick is how to use it. Encrypt the connections - but without a key, no one connects to the server. A company who used this technology would stand to make money on hardware (upgrades) and selling the specs to competing hardware companies.
Forget 128-Bit Encryption. With the last idea, of a memory stick, could be used to secure the network with a 'key' that holds a larger key - not to much different from a pgp key. Any cards without a key would simply be ignored by a dhcp server or other protocol.
A base station could program the key to the stick, and only when a password/phrase is supplied. This station would of course not be connected to the network. Hell - the base station could use a magnetic card for id.
And the best thing, you go to a desk and just sign out a stick - keeping employees from taking them.
Not a bad idea huh? Wouldn't be cheap - but as I offer this set of ideas to anyone to use, you could get as technical as you want. If you really want to be secure you need to also be paranoid. If I could sit in a parking lot and download anything I want while being under the cover of your net - I could host kiddie porn or start an ILOVEYOU and you'd take the fall. This wireless net reminds me of people who use old cordless phones - you neighbors could call Jamaica if they knew a few things about the phone and have the hardware.
I knew all the god hating slashdotters would attack my post. But it wasn't posted for you to attack, it was for the higher minded people to actually look at the facts and compare them to the bible story.
Sure it's easy to say that God doesn't exist because there is no evidence of him/her. But there are particles that people postulate about all day long when there is no evidence to back them up. (except 'stories' of math and what not-which is twisted usually to support the 'facts' they want.). Science isn't always right either. Look into the history of quantum physics, as I have and you'll know the perceptions of what is right changes all the time.
Also poeple here posted that the bible can be twisted and turned to make it fit the facts, but there has been SCIENTIFIC reasearch into the timeline of events described in Genesis, and the reasearch supports it.
Gen1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. (Big Bang)
1:2 The earth was a vast waste, darkness covered the deep, and the spirit of God hovered over the surface of water (In the early days of the earth - it was in fact covered in darkness. It's scientific fact)
1:3 God said: 'Let there be light' and there was light.
1:4 And God saw the light was good, and he separated light from darkness.(In primeval times there was a great seperation of light and dark as skies began to clear)
1:5 He called the light day, and the darkness night. So evening came, and morning came; it was the first day. (This would explain the 6 days theory of creation - billions of 'earth years' have taken place, but only now could an observer on earth distinguish between day and night)
[[[Foot notes in the Oxford Study Bible say the Order evolves!! from chaos from divine command and creation became from materials not at hand. Which would 100% fit with the big bang because there were no materials. This is the standard belief about the creation.]]]
Basically, it goes on to say: God seperates the vaults between the earth and space, reinforcing the known fact of seperation between the atmosphere and space. Which by the way didn't always exist.Then the earth cleared, in spots of the water - see above. Plants, then all the rest.
If anyone actually read a real bible (not one translated for their own purposes) they would see this chain of events and then go read a book, like "Shadows of forgotten ancestors" and see the connection.
Sure a lot of the piracy here in America is kids and people with out a lot of money to buy windows compatable 3d modeling software and etc. But those are just private users/artists who fiddle around.
The big pirates in the US are companies who don't buy all those licenses (pieces of paper) to run windows and office and all that crap.
In fact I've read a lot of articles that say IT's sometimes go out and buy a copy of office and just install it on all the machines. They may pay more for that one copy (as opposed to getting it direct) but save thousands (tens of thousands really-have you seen how much Office costs?)
So Argentina is not alone in business piracy. Hell in China i've heard they don't respect one single music copyright there is.
So Microsoft is going to lose some money... who really cares? I don't, it's not going to kill them or the economy. If I'm poor and copy office, they still aren't getting my money.
First it's more like 5700 years (more or less depends on which rabbi you ask).
Second; I saw a Rabbi on TV once talking about a book he wrote. The book was about creation and 6 days vs billions of years. The rabbi has also formed a theorem about how we (as people) aren't looking at time the right way.
Most people agree that the story of creation in the Bible is right in effect of timeline. But I'm sure every slashdotter says 6 days is wrong, Big Bang blah blah...
Lets say the universe is still expanding. Every time the universe doubles in size (which takes twice as long each time) it's one day. So what God would have seen is the universe doubled in size and he called it a day. And in these millions of years or what ever we see was just one day to him.
And actually if you looked at the figures it would make sense because the timelines lined up. On one day (millions to years to us) all these things really did happen.
I wish I knew the figures or could point you to the book cause it was quite intra-sting. The coolest thing is that he says the 7th day (the sabbath) is still yet to come.
I would love to own the book so if anyone has a freakin' clue what I'm talking about send me an e-mail.
I must say that the images that Hubble has given us are priceless. I don't think that NASA ever spent money on anything else that was worth what Hubble has given us.
Regardless of what the Bible says (see above post) the images show us what is really out there. When I first saw pictures from millions of years ago and how spectacular they were I couldn't believe it.
With my crappy Philips USB camera (which worked, well was actually just noticed in Mandrake 7.1, not 8.0) which cost about $50 makes a decent little security camera.
The software I used for capturing motion was HomeWatcher for windoze. Actually the above URL points to the page where the latest images are hosted. As you can see the quality of the pictures is crap, but it's just the camera.
With HomeWatcher you can set it to compare images and when there is motion it'll upload the new pics to the page. It's actually quite painfree - and pretty sophisticated for windows shareware/freeware.
It (HW) can save images as well as avi files which adds to the end and actually if you have motion for a few minutes one day and then none till the next you'll see both days on the avi.
Its pretty cool, check it out or the above url. Although it hasn't been updated because I don't go into windows anymore.
OH.. i almost forgot - the most important thing. Not only does it save the images locally, but you can upload to any FTP site. Which even if your vandals steal the pc and the camera the evidence is on the ftp site which no one knows the password and well you get it.
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As always that was an off topic reply.
Who said anything about war or anything? I'm talking civil problems. No one blew the god damn damn up, it was a natural disaster.
Yes we all know of all the problems we've had in the past how x blew up y and q at the same time blah blah....
I've seen a lot of police show and everyone knows that they portray a image of cops that they can kill and what not when ever they want; and get away with it.
Beings that here in Cincinnati, Ohio we've had some violence because of an unfounded police shooting - I think we should sue NYPD Blue and the like for making our streets unsafe.
Really it's all up to AOL if they would like to keep their service (server + client) a closed system.
If I came up with some sweet file sharing service which made all legal factions happy and looked to make a lot of money on it I would probaly make it a closed system. And I would work hard to block clients written by some hackers. IM is adverted in AOL commercials! It's supposed to be a stapple service. They don't want other closed source developers to gain that edge they have in the messaging market (they own ICQ right).
Although AOL doesn't seem to be like MS; which goes to far efforts to block file types which can be used between platforms - AOL seems [seems again] to be friendly to it's open source friends.
They just don't want to loose their service to MS or that other company which I truly never heard of. IM is sweet in my view, wish the Linux clients were as robust as the windows one and I hope MS doesn't tackle it.
Final Thought: AOL bought Netscape, Winamp, and ICQ... oh and some tv, radio, cable stations [not to mention all the means of delievering these services], newspapers and magazines: BUT THEY WERE LITIGANTS AGAINST MS?!?!
I know AOL sucks, and I support open source - but how does someone protect their idea (a money making one) but help the open source community.
Ask MS to let us view the code a few times for WINE... yeah right
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There was a huge damn that exploded in china, the 70's i think maybe earlier.
They told no one and didn't do much to help out.
Hope this is different.
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Well----i can't do it like i wanted, Lameness filter.
If you do it AND it works your alive
If you do it AND it don't work your dead
If you don't AND it works your dead
If you don't AND it don't work your alive
There are many chances for animals to become "homosexual".
Look into the mice studies where they put too many in a cage (on purpose... who'd clean that up) and the mice showed signs of homosexuality, domestic violence, and other problems which you see in inner city America.
I think the study was cited in "The Lucifer Principle".
What about a laser system that heats the house to project whats on tv. Maybe I could hook up my Dreamcast.
Where I live in Cincinnati people would just go insane because you could go from across the street and it could be raining. It sucks here.
People would pass out because they can't figure out if they are trippin' or not.
People's brains would just explode from the weird web of colors everywhere.
Did you know that there was a chance to buy AP in the '90s by a group which was backed by the same forces which want to take America down.
Bin Ladin's people also own UPI if I'm not mistaken.
If you would love to learn why USA is coming down read "The Lucifer Principle" by Bloom[check ebay]. It explains why the media is one small step in changing the meme that controls the society.
Think of it as "Connections" [you know the show,] but about why socities fail and thrive. Just read the book and you'll see that when we merge a company into one larger company it sets us up for an outsider to topple it or frankly buy it.
If the guy wants to take things into his own hands that is all good, but the guy sounds like a pest.
He's kinda like copyright.net's system of asking sysops to block access to users and what not. These sites, MSN and Yahoo (excite and so on..._ are the ones to blame, but I doubt they are going to start watching their e-mail servers closer.
These services, MSN (or hotmail) for example is horrible for keeping people from abusing it's system. One reason I suspect is that MSN makes money from every visit a spammer may make to send their messages; that is of course if the user is visiting the site to do it and not just using open ports in pop servers. Why would they start working to block visiters?
Plus these free sites have so many 'customers' that I doubt they even have time to block this stuff. I doubt people even use the same username twice. Chances are they don't care about the abuse because once the message is passed on, they aren't affected. (unless you get a lot of responses or bounced e-mails - disk space could fill up)
If users are abusing the systems by using open ports or what not - what chance do I have that a spammer would use my computer to spam out a message? I've noticed after installing Suse, Caldera and Mandrake (maybe Redhat too, it only stayed on for about an hour) that a pop3 server was started with the default system setup.
I, being a good linux user, noticed that I didn't know about the security of it and turned it off until I learned more.
Should I worry?
---if these sysops knew anything would they work for msn?---
I really don't think a rebate is a decent pay-off. I know someone above pointed out that the lawyers got cash, we all know that. But; this is a lame deal.
I shelled out $200 for a drive, got a rebate later on for $50 dollars. Bought a pack of five disks (maybe 6) which are the same price now; and all I get is a $40 rebate.
I want a new parallel drive. F''k the fancy 250 MB Drive - why would I ask for more than what I've lost.
And I'm sure there is a section of a license thingy (by opening the box no doubt) somewhere I agreed to and that will keep me from crying about the data I've lost.
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First, I guess you wont have to worry about paying up 3 years from purchase, because in 3 years I'm betting your software will not only be stale (and eveyone else is using opensource) but you'll be out of business.
Where is windows going? Down the damn drain if even the desktop users are opting out. Not to mention the security.
I got OpenSource Magazine, and what I read in there (although just seeing a SAN would be a treat) the enterprise (not the ship) market is saying fuck you Microsoft.
You think maybe since AOL and Netscape (seprate at a time) sued the Seattle Giant - they will go towards opensource? Where is AOL for Linux?
They'd have a niche market - install a rpm (.deb etc) and have the whole net simplified.
Where is Linux on Brand New PC's?
I just read this on AltaVista, and one quote pointed to a reaction needed by the legislators. So should we send someone to the 'Hill in our defense?
.wma files on CD, and when the computer crashed I couldn't use them again. The next time the computer crashed, to get the software preinstalled on my system back, I needed to buy some of it! And when I reinstalled Virus Scan - off a pre-made cd from HP - I couldn't update it to the version I had because the subscription expired.
So Microsoft is going to make a push for laws against Open Source software? Giving things away is like dot com's who failed? What about Internet Explorer - it's far from Open Source, but it's free software.
Basically it comes down to this, MS sees free software as a threat, not because of its customer base or licenses; but because it doesn't let them have power. New file types they want to push (asf, secure mp3s what ever) can't be pushed if they loose ground on the user end.
I got rid of windows (as a whole system of thinking) because the open source model is built not for the developer like everyone thinks, but it's built the end user. Joe Schmoe like me who would like to just fuck around! I like being able to do things I should be able to do for free.
Windows isn't a OS it's a business model. For every thing I would like to do, I need to spend anywhere from $20 to $50 to be able to do it. On a Windows system, you need to spend money just to change the look of it! CD burning in windows could cost a fortune - but the software is the same on *nix and free!
MS wants to own your whole computer! I'm still mad about backing up
Windows is one big rip off - you want better defrag? Buy it! Want a better ? Buy it? It makes me sick.
Noisey mouse coward.
Why is this a troll? Everyone would agree with me that I should be able to have scientology_is_for_gays.com
This is Slashdot huh?
Since the posts thus far are mostly redundant - I should say that dailyradar.com which was; at one time PCXL was a decent site. Really the best thing about the site were the downloads sometimes. They gave previews that lauded a game, but then when it came out said "It's just like Tomb Raider, but different maps" to name a Prince of Persia DC review which no one else had reviewed the game. New PCXL; that was awsome. Every month I used to get this rocking magazine that talked about games and if I got really bored - you could beat off to it - there was enough T&A. But then someone sold me PC Gamer - that mag just blows. Every other page is either MS is cool as shit or Buy Babbages! PCXL Rocked! I loved when parents wrote in about how much smut there was. Too bad they didn't continue the style on DailyRadar.com. Naked women and some witty writing about games that sucked would have kept it alive.
This seems to limit my free speech if I can't get a domain like productnamesucks.com .
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Instead of being able to let everyone know about how I hate said product name - which I think is still protected under the first amendment - it has to be under a url like: w3.ispprovider.com/~username/speech/ihatehomedepo
It's BS -- who said I would be using the product name to market something? They've already decided what I intended to do with the name before I used it. I know its not illegal to refer to the product name of what I'm bashing.
I have no clue how this protocol works, but I have an idea. What if the clients on the network all needed either; a disk, bootable or otherwise used to program a key in the end users station; a smart card, if you want to get real fancy and want extra security - keep it in a safe if need be; memory stick, use sony's tech to keep a digital key which must be inserted into the wireless lan card in order for it to connect to the network.
/dev/stylus
We could still use the physical to control the radio waves from being stolen. Public/Private keys make sense here - but the trick is how to use it. Encrypt the connections - but without a key, no one connects to the server. A company who used this technology would stand to make money on hardware (upgrades) and selling the specs to competing hardware companies.
Forget 128-Bit Encryption. With the last idea, of a memory stick, could be used to secure the network with a 'key' that holds a larger key - not to much different from a pgp key. Any cards without a key would simply be ignored by a dhcp server or other protocol.
A base station could program the key to the stick, and only when a password/phrase is supplied. This station would of course not be connected to the network. Hell - the base station could use a magnetic card for id.
And the best thing, you go to a desk and just sign out a stick - keeping employees from taking them.
Not a bad idea huh? Wouldn't be cheap - but as I offer this set of ideas to anyone to use, you could get as technical as you want. If you really want to be secure you need to also be paranoid. If I could sit in a parking lot and download anything I want while being under the cover of your net - I could host kiddie porn or start an ILOVEYOU and you'd take the fall. This wireless net reminds me of people who use old cordless phones - you neighbors could call Jamaica if they knew a few things about the phone and have the hardware.
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I knew all the god hating slashdotters would attack my post. But it wasn't posted for you to attack, it was for the higher minded people to actually look at the facts and compare them to the bible story.
Sure it's easy to say that God doesn't exist because there is no evidence of him/her. But there are particles that people postulate about all day long when there is no evidence to back them up. (except 'stories' of math and what not-which is twisted usually to support the 'facts' they want.). Science isn't always right either. Look into the history of quantum physics, as I have and you'll know the perceptions of what is right changes all the time.
Also poeple here posted that the bible can be twisted and turned to make it fit the facts, but there has been SCIENTIFIC reasearch into the timeline of events described in Genesis, and the reasearch supports it.
Gen1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. (Big Bang)
1:2 The earth was a vast waste, darkness covered the deep, and the spirit of God hovered over the surface of water (In the early days of the earth - it was in fact covered in darkness. It's scientific fact)
1:3 God said: 'Let there be light' and there was light.
1:4 And God saw the light was good, and he separated light from darkness.(In primeval times there was a great seperation of light and dark as skies began to clear)
1:5 He called the light day, and the darkness night. So evening came, and morning came; it was the first day. (This would explain the 6 days theory of creation - billions of 'earth years' have taken place, but only now could an observer on earth distinguish between day and night)
[[[Foot notes in the Oxford Study Bible say the Order evolves!! from chaos from divine command and creation became from materials not at hand. Which would 100% fit with the big bang because there were no materials. This is the standard belief about the creation.]]]
Basically, it goes on to say: God seperates the vaults between the earth and space, reinforcing the known fact of seperation between the atmosphere and space. Which by the way didn't always exist.Then the earth cleared, in spots of the water - see above. Plants, then all the rest.
If anyone actually read a real bible (not one translated for their own purposes) they would see this chain of events and then go read a book, like "Shadows of forgotten ancestors" and see the connection.
Who said we wern't interested in space?
I love hubble if you find my other post you'll see I posted that too.
Sure a lot of the piracy here in America is kids and people with out a lot of money to buy windows compatable 3d modeling software and etc. But those are just private users/artists who fiddle around.
The big pirates in the US are companies who don't buy all those licenses (pieces of paper) to run windows and office and all that crap.
In fact I've read a lot of articles that say IT's sometimes go out and buy a copy of office and just install it on all the machines. They may pay more for that one copy (as opposed to getting it direct) but save thousands (tens of thousands really-have you seen how much Office costs?)
So Argentina is not alone in business piracy. Hell in China i've heard they don't respect one single music copyright there is.
So Microsoft is going to lose some money... who really cares? I don't, it's not going to kill them or the economy. If I'm poor and copy office, they still aren't getting my money.
First it's more like 5700 years (more or less depends on which rabbi you ask).
Second; I saw a Rabbi on TV once talking about a book he wrote. The book was about creation and 6 days vs billions of years. The rabbi has also formed a theorem about how we (as people) aren't looking at time the right way.
Most people agree that the story of creation in the Bible is right in effect of timeline. But I'm sure every slashdotter says 6 days is wrong, Big Bang blah blah...
Lets say the universe is still expanding. Every time the universe doubles in size (which takes twice as long each time) it's one day. So what God would have seen is the universe doubled in size and he called it a day. And in these millions of years or what ever we see was just one day to him.
And actually if you looked at the figures it would make sense because the timelines lined up. On one day (millions to years to us) all these things really did happen.
I wish I knew the figures or could point you to the book cause it was quite intra-sting. The coolest thing is that he says the 7th day (the sabbath) is still yet to come.
I would love to own the book so if anyone has a freakin' clue what I'm talking about send me an e-mail.
And remember time is relative to the observer.
I must say that the images that Hubble has given us are priceless. I don't think that NASA ever spent money on anything else that was worth what Hubble has given us.
Regardless of what the Bible says (see above post) the images show us what is really out there. When I first saw pictures from millions of years ago and how spectacular they were I couldn't believe it.
I'd give up the space station for Hubble any day.
With my crappy Philips USB camera (which worked, well was actually just noticed in Mandrake 7.1, not 8.0) which cost about $50 makes a decent little security camera.
The software I used for capturing motion was HomeWatcher for windoze. Actually the above URL points to the page where the latest images are hosted. As you can see the quality of the pictures is crap, but it's just the camera.
With HomeWatcher you can set it to compare images and when there is motion it'll upload the new pics to the page. It's actually quite painfree - and pretty sophisticated for windows shareware/freeware.
It (HW) can save images as well as avi files which adds to the end and actually if you have motion for a few minutes one day and then none till the next you'll see both days on the avi.
Its pretty cool, check it out or the above url. Although it hasn't been updated because I don't go into windows anymore.
OH.. i almost forgot - the most important thing. Not only does it save the images locally, but you can upload to any FTP site. Which even if your vandals steal the pc and the camera the evidence is on the ftp site which no one knows the password and well you get it.
As always that was an off topic reply.
Who said anything about war or anything? I'm talking civil problems. No one blew the god damn damn up, it was a natural disaster.
Yes we all know of all the problems we've had in the past how x blew up y and q at the same time blah blah....
could someone send me a copy of OTO VIII?
I've seen a lot of police show and everyone knows that they portray a image of cops that they can kill and what not when ever they want; and get away with it.
Beings that here in Cincinnati, Ohio we've had some violence because of an unfounded police shooting - I think we should sue NYPD Blue and the like for making our streets unsafe.
Really it's all up to AOL if they would like to keep their service (server + client) a closed system.
If I came up with some sweet file sharing service which made all legal factions happy and looked to make a lot of money on it I would probaly make it a closed system. And I would work hard to block clients written by some hackers. IM is adverted in AOL commercials! It's supposed to be a stapple service. They don't want other closed source developers to gain that edge they have in the messaging market (they own ICQ right).
Although AOL doesn't seem to be like MS; which goes to far efforts to block file types which can be used between platforms - AOL seems [seems again] to be friendly to it's open source friends.
They just don't want to loose their service to MS or that other company which I truly never heard of. IM is sweet in my view, wish the Linux clients were as robust as the windows one and I hope MS doesn't tackle it.
Final Thought: AOL bought Netscape, Winamp, and ICQ... oh and some tv, radio, cable stations [not to mention all the means of delievering these services], newspapers and magazines: BUT THEY WERE LITIGANTS AGAINST MS?!?!
I know AOL sucks, and I support open source - but how does someone protect their idea (a money making one) but help the open source community.
Ask MS to let us view the code a few times for WINE... yeah right
There was a huge damn that exploded in china, the 70's i think maybe earlier.
They told no one and didn't do much to help out.
Hope this is different.
Can we grow pot on the root there?
look at it this way..
Well----i can't do it like i wanted, Lameness filter.
If you do it AND it works your alive
If you do it AND it don't work your dead
If you don't AND it works your dead
If you don't AND it don't work your alive
Now put that in a table.
There are many chances for animals to become "homosexual".
Look into the mice studies where they put too many in a cage (on purpose... who'd clean that up) and the mice showed signs of homosexuality, domestic violence, and other problems which you see in inner city America.
I think the study was cited in "The Lucifer Principle".
Why not a slashdot for anthropology nerds?
What about a laser system that heats the house to project whats on tv. Maybe I could hook up my Dreamcast.
Where I live in Cincinnati people would just go insane because you could go from across the street and it could be raining. It sucks here.
People would pass out because they can't figure out if they are trippin' or not.
People's brains would just explode from the weird web of colors everywhere.
Always one guy on /. who points out a flaw in my post.
Yes we've seen connections - i know it doesn't follow one point.
Damn why do i respond to anonymous cowards?
I was saying AOL users who spam, not spammer who email AOL users.
Did you know that there was a chance to buy AP in the '90s by a group which was backed by the same forces which want to take America down.
Bin Ladin's people also own UPI if I'm not mistaken.
If you would love to learn why USA is coming down read "The Lucifer Principle" by Bloom[check ebay]. It explains why the media is one small step in changing the meme that controls the society.
Think of it as "Connections" [you know the show,] but about why socities fail and thrive. Just read the book and you'll see that when we merge a company into one larger company it sets us up for an outsider to topple it or frankly buy it.
If the guy wants to take things into his own hands that is all good, but the guy sounds like a pest.
He's kinda like copyright.net's system of asking sysops to block access to users and what not. These sites, MSN and Yahoo (excite and so on..._ are the ones to blame, but I doubt they are going to start watching their e-mail servers closer.
These services, MSN (or hotmail) for example is horrible for keeping people from abusing it's system. One reason I suspect is that MSN makes money from every visit a spammer may make to send their messages; that is of course if the user is visiting the site to do it and not just using open ports in pop servers. Why would they start working to block visiters?
Plus these free sites have so many 'customers' that I doubt they even have time to block this stuff. I doubt people even use the same username twice. Chances are they don't care about the abuse because once the message is passed on, they aren't affected. (unless you get a lot of responses or bounced e-mails - disk space could fill up)
If users are abusing the systems by using open ports or what not - what chance do I have that a spammer would use my computer to spam out a message? I've noticed after installing Suse, Caldera and Mandrake (maybe Redhat too, it only stayed on for about an hour) that a pop3 server was started with the default system setup.
I, being a good linux user, noticed that I didn't know about the security of it and turned it off until I learned more.
Should I worry?
---if these sysops knew anything would they work for msn?---
This is a great example of what the drive does.
I really don't think a rebate is a decent pay-off. I know someone above pointed out that the lawyers got cash, we all know that. But; this is a lame deal.
I shelled out $200 for a drive, got a rebate later on for $50 dollars. Bought a pack of five disks (maybe 6) which are the same price now; and all I get is a $40 rebate.
I want a new parallel drive. F''k the fancy 250 MB Drive - why would I ask for more than what I've lost.
And I'm sure there is a section of a license thingy (by opening the box no doubt) somewhere I agreed to and that will keep me from crying about the data I've lost.