You must not have been looking very hard. You can get all 10 Amber books in one large volume, The Great Book of Amber. I've seen this in Barnes and Noble as well, and a relative bought a copy for me for Christmas.
I also have a Yahoo ID, and I also did not recieve any notification of a change in policy. But I went to my account info page (login to yours here) and, lo and behold, what the Cow said was true. All my marketing preferences had been set to Yes, even though I remember explicitly setting them to No when I signed up for the account.
Before you start whining and moaning about accountability, maybe you should take the five seconds necessary to do some research yourself. The entire point of the article was that Yahoo is slamming its users' preferences without notice, which is why you didn't recieve a notice, genius.
Actually "NT" has a double meaning. Its primary meaning was "N-Ten", because Windows NT was being developed initially only for the Intel i860 chipset, which was code-named "N10". Later, when it was decided NT would run on other platforms, the term "New Technology" was used. At least, this is what I've read.
Except that I was referring only to the article and not to the spec, which I clearly stated in my comment. Which I'm sure you read from start to finish.
The good news in all of this is that morpheus will be giving up the proprietary FastTrack network for a Gnutella based filsharing system.
How exactly is this good news? Have you used the Gnutella network recently? The larger it gets, the more it sucks. It does not scale well at all. Gnutella often sucks down more of my bandwidth just dealing with other peoples' searches than it does downloading the files I want. And finding the files I want is another matter altogether -- even if I do find a file named "Funk Soul Brother.mp3", I have absolutely no way of knowing whether it's really Fatboy Slim or just some renamed Enya track.
I love the FastTrack network, proprietary or not. It's got all the good bits of Gnutella without most of the bad bits. My bandwidth isn't sucked up by searches, and I can almost always find exactly what I want with one search. Furthermore, the amount of information it gives me on each file enables me to be pretty certain that I'm getting what I want before I start downloading it.
I think this is sad. I liked Morpheus. Now I'll be switching to Kazaa. Oh well.
I run wonko.com and variousotherwebsites off my 384/384 ADSL line. On average I tend to serve around 300MB of data per day (which translates to about 100,000 hits per day), and I play online games and download crap all the time with no noticeable slowdown.
Unless you've got a site like Slashdot, I strongly recommend hosting off your own DSL line. It's extremely cheap (even free if you were already paying for the line anyway), and it's so much less troublesome than dealing with a hosting company.
Here's the deal. You guys send over Sale and Pelletier, we'll send in Brian Boitano, and together they'll all kick some major ass and get this thing sorted out. Sound good?
This should not come as a surprise to anyone. There has never been an HDTV standard. Anyone who bought an HDTV-ready television with the HDTV tuner built in or without connectivity options for at least both of the major HDTV standard contenders is a sucker who didn't do their research.
I live on the US side of the pond, but this thought intrigued me. The way I see it, if I'm paying for the use of a road, then I'm going to use that road as I see fit. Which means, if traffic is relatively clear, I'm punching it up to 140mph. How much right would the police have to force me to pay a fine for speeding on a road I paid to use?
(this obviously would just make a judge laugh if I took it to court, and yes, I know, it's not very realistic, but still...)
I agree, motorists should be held to the same standard, however I rarely see motorists driving against traffic in the wrong lane...
I rode my bike to school for about a year, before I had a driver's license. This involved riding in heavy rush-hour traffic on some of the busiest roads in my area (Beaverton, Oregon if you're curious). I developed a great respect for cars after I hit a patch of ice at an intersection, my bike slipped out from under me, and I ended up sprawled on my stomach in the middle of the busy intersection, with cars swerving and honking and trying not to run me over.
Now, to their credit, while I tend to have the same animosity towards other drivers as I have towards cyclists, when I was riding my bike to school I don't ever recall an incident where my life was put in danger by something unlawful that a driver did. The only times I was ever in any danger were the times I made a stupid mistake or ignored a traffic law.
Thus, it really pisses me off when cyclists ignore the laws that are there for their own protection. A lot of cyclists don't seem to understand just how difficult it is even to see them, much less avoid hitting them when they pop out of nowhere. I'm all for bicyclists, but I would really rather not run one over just because they're being stupid.
Great, so now, not only do I have to dodge stupid bikers riding the wrong way down the right side of the road, begging to be hit by a car. Now I get to dodge retarded bikers riding the wrong way down the right side of the road while using their bicycle PDA. Brilliant.
I think it's absolutely amazing that I've never hit a bicyclist while driving. No matter how careful I am, there are always morons on bikes doing stupid things, breaking laws, and coming out of nowhere as if trying to make me hit them. I guess the really amazing thing is that they don't get hit more often by people less careful than me.
AOL has not exactly been the best neighbor in the internet community. They've been responsible for putting a lot of people on the internet that were better off never discovering it. This could be good or bad depending on how you look at it.
I tend to view this as a mixture of bad and good, like you said. On the one hand, the AOL users I know tend to be incompetent morons, but on the other hand, the Internet would not have developed as quickly as it did without newbie-centered online services like AOL, which brought the 'net to the masses.
Microsoft is much the same way -- without Microsoft, PCs would probably still be black boxes just like Macs, and if this was the case, the GNU tools and Linux would never have been developed.
At least Alan isn't a hypocrite. It would be stupid for him to say : "I use Open Source but I work for a closed source company.
I use open source, but I work for a closed source company. Does that make me a hypocrite? No. There is a place for both. Your argument doesn't make any sense.
Besides, AOL will want the RedHat OS to become more convenient, easier to use and they'll sure as hell would want to keep some of their source code close. This will make the RedHat distribution less secure.
What do you base this claim on? AOL has done a very good job with Mozilla and even with their AOLServer web server (which is also open-source). Furthermore, since when is closed source inherently less secure than open source? Security has nothing to do with whether ot not the code is open or closed. Security depends on how well the code was written.
It always bugs me when merchants refuse to allow you to pay for something with certain bills. US currency is supposedly "Legal tender for all debts, public and private," yet merchants can somehow get away with refusing to accept them.
It's understandable that 7-11 may not always have change for my $1.99 purchase that I pay for with a $100 bill, but as long as I'm willing to let them keep the change, it seems there is no legal way for them to refuse to accept my bill.
13 years later I'm watching Peter Jackman's adaptation of "The Fellowship of the Ring" (FOTR)
Funny, I just saw Peter Jackson's adaptation. I didn't know there was also one out by this Jackman fellow.
Cough, cough.
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I was mostly joking. Just letting off steam after having tried to compile it with Cygwin and having it fail miserably, and I don't own Visual C++ so I can't compile it that way (which is the recommended method).;)
The article is named 'Linux FTP security flaw...' but goes on to the real point, that the flaw is in WU-FTPD. Who's FUDing now?
Yes, and where in my comment did I use the word "Linux"? Are you holding me personally responsible for the contents of an off-site article that I didn't write? Do not deny it! Answer me now! I DEMAND JUSTICE!
Gee, michael, could you try and work in just a little more FUD? The exploit does require user intervention in order to execute malicious code. It pops up a dialog box asking if you want to open a file. The only security issue here is the fact that the name of the file can be changed by the malicious server. But regardless of what the fake name is, if the user clicks Cancel or Save To Disk, the exploit is thwarted.
I strongly urge everyone to avoid buying anything from TigerDirect. First off, you'll likely save yourself some hassle because their service absolutely stinks. But most importantly, TigerDirect's order invoice system has one of the most retarded, wide-open security holes I've ever seen.
What's worse is that I've sent them several emails regarding this security issue, and they've ignored me. The hole still exists to this day. So unless you want the world to know a whole lot more about you than they probably need to, I'd suggest finding another online retailer to buy from.
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You must not have been looking very hard. You can get all 10 Amber books in one large volume, The Great Book of Amber. I've seen this in Barnes and Noble as well, and a relative bought a copy for me for Christmas.
Before you start whining and moaning about accountability, maybe you should take the five seconds necessary to do some research yourself. The entire point of the article was that Yahoo is slamming its users' preferences without notice, which is why you didn't recieve a notice, genius.
Actually "NT" has a double meaning. Its primary meaning was "N-Ten", because Windows NT was being developed initially only for the Intel i860 chipset, which was code-named "N10". Later, when it was decided NT would run on other platforms, the term "New Technology" was used. At least, this is what I've read.
Except that I was referring only to the article and not to the spec, which I clearly stated in my comment. Which I'm sure you read from start to finish.
Except that SOAPAction seems to have been deprecated. At least, according to the article. Which I'm sure you read from start to finish.
How exactly is this good news? Have you used the Gnutella network recently? The larger it gets, the more it sucks. It does not scale well at all. Gnutella often sucks down more of my bandwidth just dealing with other peoples' searches than it does downloading the files I want. And finding the files I want is another matter altogether -- even if I do find a file named "Funk Soul Brother.mp3", I have absolutely no way of knowing whether it's really Fatboy Slim or just some renamed Enya track.
I love the FastTrack network, proprietary or not. It's got all the good bits of Gnutella without most of the bad bits. My bandwidth isn't sucked up by searches, and I can almost always find exactly what I want with one search. Furthermore, the amount of information it gives me on each file enables me to be pretty certain that I'm getting what I want before I start downloading it.
I think this is sad. I liked Morpheus. Now I'll be switching to Kazaa. Oh well.
Bah! I was that railgun-wielding kid in Quake 2!
Unless you've got a site like Slashdot, I strongly recommend hosting off your own DSL line. It's extremely cheap (even free if you were already paying for the line anyway), and it's so much less troublesome than dealing with a hosting company.
Here's the deal. You guys send over Sale and Pelletier, we'll send in Brian Boitano, and together they'll all kick some major ass and get this thing sorted out. Sound good?
This should not come as a surprise to anyone. There has never been an HDTV standard. Anyone who bought an HDTV-ready television with the HDTV tuner built in or without connectivity options for at least both of the major HDTV standard contenders is a sucker who didn't do their research.
(this obviously would just make a judge laugh if I took it to court, and yes, I know, it's not very realistic, but still...)
I rode my bike to school for about a year, before I had a driver's license. This involved riding in heavy rush-hour traffic on some of the busiest roads in my area (Beaverton, Oregon if you're curious). I developed a great respect for cars after I hit a patch of ice at an intersection, my bike slipped out from under me, and I ended up sprawled on my stomach in the middle of the busy intersection, with cars swerving and honking and trying not to run me over.
Now, to their credit, while I tend to have the same animosity towards other drivers as I have towards cyclists, when I was riding my bike to school I don't ever recall an incident where my life was put in danger by something unlawful that a driver did. The only times I was ever in any danger were the times I made a stupid mistake or ignored a traffic law.
Thus, it really pisses me off when cyclists ignore the laws that are there for their own protection. A lot of cyclists don't seem to understand just how difficult it is even to see them, much less avoid hitting them when they pop out of nowhere. I'm all for bicyclists, but I would really rather not run one over just because they're being stupid.
I think it's absolutely amazing that I've never hit a bicyclist while driving. No matter how careful I am, there are always morons on bikes doing stupid things, breaking laws, and coming out of nowhere as if trying to make me hit them. I guess the really amazing thing is that they don't get hit more often by people less careful than me.
I tend to view this as a mixture of bad and good, like you said. On the one hand, the AOL users I know tend to be incompetent morons, but on the other hand, the Internet would not have developed as quickly as it did without newbie-centered online services like AOL, which brought the 'net to the masses.
Microsoft is much the same way -- without Microsoft, PCs would probably still be black boxes just like Macs, and if this was the case, the GNU tools and Linux would never have been developed.
I use open source, but I work for a closed source company. Does that make me a hypocrite? No. There is a place for both. Your argument doesn't make any sense.
Besides, AOL will want the RedHat OS to become more convenient, easier to use and they'll sure as hell would want to keep some of their source code close. This will make the RedHat distribution less secure.
What do you base this claim on? AOL has done a very good job with Mozilla and even with their AOLServer web server (which is also open-source). Furthermore, since when is closed source inherently less secure than open source? Security has nothing to do with whether ot not the code is open or closed. Security depends on how well the code was written.
Wow, Jon. What a wonderfully botched sentence. Were you also a brainless Orange County surfing dude, by any chance?
What a horrible headline. Ouch.
It's understandable that 7-11 may not always have change for my $1.99 purchase that I pay for with a $100 bill, but as long as I'm willing to let them keep the change, it seems there is no legal way for them to refuse to accept my bill.
Or have I missed something?
What a horrible, horrible summary.
Funny, I just saw Peter Jackson's adaptation. I didn't know there was also one out by this Jackman fellow.
Cough, cough.
I was mostly joking. Just letting off steam after having tried to compile it with Cygwin and having it fail miserably, and I don't own Visual C++ so I can't compile it that way (which is the recommended method). ;)
Yes, and where in my comment did I use the word "Linux"? Are you holding me personally responsible for the contents of an off-site article that I didn't write? Do not deny it! Answer me now! I DEMAND JUSTICE!
Cough, cough.
Besides, it's not like Microsoft are the only folks who take forever to release patches.
All these wonderful Windows enhancements, and where are the Windows binaries? Woe is me! What's this "source" stuff?
What's worse is that I've sent them several emails regarding this security issue, and they've ignored me. The hole still exists to this day. So unless you want the world to know a whole lot more about you than they probably need to, I'd suggest finding another online retailer to buy from.