Translation: Ballmer wants to take advantage of his employees being able to get to work, and being educated through at least high school, but doesn't want to pay his share for that convenience.
Hey, Ballmer: If you don't want to contribute to society, perhaps you should move to someplace that doesn't expect you to, like Somolia.
Roosevelt famously saved the banking system in his first 7 days in office. On the 8th day, when asked what he was going to do next, he said "I think it's time for a beer," and got the ball rolling to repeal the alcohol prohibition. The newly refreshed alcohol industry was like a stick of dynamite to the economic log jam.
How do you put people back to work? Legalize and tax America's number 1 cash crop and start teaching people how to grow.
Strings? That's one hell of a string. Like having a steel cable firmly wrapped around your car's rear axle, and the other end of the cable firmly anchored into the asphault. Sure, your car might be fast, but the string attached makes it your car an expensive but useless object.
Comcast especially should have known better, given that they bought out @Home, and the 5% user/50% bandwidth problem was KNOWN THEN, back in the late 1990s, early 2000s. @Home at least tried to do things the Right Way by redirecting port 80 requests through their own caching web proxy to help lighten the load (since internally, they had more bandwidth than externally). Comcast bought out @Home, and apparently fired everyone there with a clue after I left @Home...
They should have to pay their phone bill. Seriously. AT&T isn't making any money by charging them roaming to cover their time on Bell Mobility. Bell Mobility is fucking expensive. They should have done their homework. Fuck 'em.
But failed to get anything important done, or we would have single payer healthcare for all, and single payer education through grad school instead of just high school. The problem is both the Democrats and Republicans are conservative parties fighting against single payer anything. Charter schools anyone?
I wish they'd do away with partisan election observers. Why only Democrat and Republican anyway? What the hell are they trying to pull in the back room with the elections officials, anyway?
We've been doing exactly that for years. Except we went one step farther and abolished the voting booth. Ever wonder why Oregon takes 3 or 4 days to certify a federal election? It takes a long time to open hundreds of thousands of mailing envelopes before feeding the ballots through...
Most people using computers for telephony don't bother with speakers and a desktop mic and go straight for the headset, thus eliminating the possibility for that problem.
True, but my college prohibits tobacco products inside buildings (not just can't use them: Can't have them!), and I only need to carry a bowl or two. It's less prone to get discovered if I use an AOL tin in my lunch, then just go eat my lunch someplace isolated and inconspicuous...
Actually, I just found out that AOL is going to phase out ICQ and AIM in favor of Jabber. Just tell your AIM buddies to start using AOL's Jabber server and they'll be ahead of the curve.
Now, unless you're some kind of Microsoft bigot, there's no reason NOT to use the standard!
Given that virtually everybody I know has moved to XMPP (typically Google Talk)
Post how you helped convince people to adopt the standard protocol.
I waited until after Google Talk was opened to the public, then gave all contacts not on XMPP already 30 days notice that they either need to adopt the standard or get ahold of me via email after that. Moved 115 people off the Obsolete Four networks and onto XMPP that way.
I'd totally mod that up if I hadn't already replied to this thread. I'm amazed how many people here are complaining about ICQ, yet fail to switch to something better, open and standard.
Why not use Jabber instead? If you don't want to run your own server, there's always GMail, Livejournal Talk, Jabber.org, or if you have a domain name, Google for Domains....
Why in the world would anybody still use ICQ when XMPP (formerly known as Jabber) is free, open, an IETF standard, and far more widely available than ICQ, AIM, MSN, Yahoo, or any other proprietary protocol? There's a very good chance you already have an XMPP account and don't even realize it if you have a Livejournal or Google account...
Siberian, already asked this question on FurryMUCK in the unixgeeks scream. You were told by all involved to use screen, and exactly how to use it. Grow some balls and listen to the advice you were given.
And if you have to remember addresses, in a lot of circumstances it's not a lot different than an IPv4 address, because you can truncate a lot. My home netblock is 2001:4830:####b::/48 (digits on the third set baleeted for obvious purposes)
Obscurity is not security. Never confuse the two like you have.
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Translation: Ballmer wants to take advantage of his employees being able to get to work, and being educated through at least high school, but doesn't want to pay his share for that convenience. Hey, Ballmer: If you don't want to contribute to society, perhaps you should move to someplace that doesn't expect you to, like Somolia.
Roosevelt famously saved the banking system in his first 7 days in office. On the 8th day, when asked what he was going to do next, he said "I think it's time for a beer," and got the ball rolling to repeal the alcohol prohibition. The newly refreshed alcohol industry was like a stick of dynamite to the economic log jam. How do you put people back to work? Legalize and tax America's number 1 cash crop and start teaching people how to grow.
Strings? That's one hell of a string. Like having a steel cable firmly wrapped around your car's rear axle, and the other end of the cable firmly anchored into the asphault. Sure, your car might be fast, but the string attached makes it your car an expensive but useless object.
Comcast especially should have known better, given that they bought out @Home, and the 5% user/50% bandwidth problem was KNOWN THEN, back in the late 1990s, early 2000s. @Home at least tried to do things the Right Way by redirecting port 80 requests through their own caching web proxy to help lighten the load (since internally, they had more bandwidth than externally). Comcast bought out @Home, and apparently fired everyone there with a clue after I left @Home...
They should have to pay their phone bill. Seriously. AT&T isn't making any money by charging them roaming to cover their time on Bell Mobility. Bell Mobility is fucking expensive. They should have done their homework. Fuck 'em.
But failed to get anything important done, or we would have single payer healthcare for all, and single payer education through grad school instead of just high school. The problem is both the Democrats and Republicans are conservative parties fighting against single payer anything. Charter schools anyone?
I wish they'd do away with partisan election observers. Why only Democrat and Republican anyway? What the hell are they trying to pull in the back room with the elections officials, anyway?
We've been doing exactly that for years. Except we went one step farther and abolished the voting booth. Ever wonder why Oregon takes 3 or 4 days to certify a federal election? It takes a long time to open hundreds of thousands of mailing envelopes before feeding the ballots through...
Well, physics is basically an extension of mathematics...
Never mind this is the "just hit delete" method of dealing with telephony spam.
Most people using computers for telephony don't bother with speakers and a desktop mic and go straight for the headset, thus eliminating the possibility for that problem.
They promised Vista was going to be the last Windows ever. Let's hold 'em to that.
True, but my college prohibits tobacco products inside buildings (not just can't use them: Can't have them!), and I only need to carry a bowl or two. It's less prone to get discovered if I use an AOL tin in my lunch, then just go eat my lunch someplace isolated and inconspicuous...
Actually, I just found out that AOL is going to phase out ICQ and AIM in favor of Jabber. Just tell your AIM buddies to start using AOL's Jabber server and they'll be ahead of the curve. Now, unless you're some kind of Microsoft bigot, there's no reason NOT to use the standard!
Post how you helped convince people to adopt the standard protocol. I waited until after Google Talk was opened to the public, then gave all contacts not on XMPP already 30 days notice that they either need to adopt the standard or get ahold of me via email after that. Moved 115 people off the Obsolete Four networks and onto XMPP that way.
Or it's the default IM program in their desktop environment. I use Pidgin, but it's not like I use anything other than XMPP.
I'd totally mod that up if I hadn't already replied to this thread. I'm amazed how many people here are complaining about ICQ, yet fail to switch to something better, open and standard.
I used to collect AOL tins to store my weed in.
Why not use Jabber instead? If you don't want to run your own server, there's always GMail, Livejournal Talk, Jabber.org, or if you have a domain name, Google for Domains....
Not true. I abandoned UIN 57134 when IETF selected Jabber as the official internet IM protocol years ago.
Or obsoleted. Oh, wait, that already happened!
Why in the world would anybody still use ICQ when XMPP (formerly known as Jabber) is free, open, an IETF standard, and far more widely available than ICQ, AIM, MSN, Yahoo, or any other proprietary protocol? There's a very good chance you already have an XMPP account and don't even realize it if you have a Livejournal or Google account...
Siberian, already asked this question on FurryMUCK in the unixgeeks scream. You were told by all involved to use screen, and exactly how to use it. Grow some balls and listen to the advice you were given.
By that time, they will have lost anyway, so kind of a moot point.
Obscurity is not security. Never confuse the two like you have.