I wonder how this will truly hold up, as opposed to just stating X = X, lets face it, how many sites do you know of actually follow their policies when they create them?
Example, Hotmail, Yahoo, and others have policies against spammers sending from their respective domains, yet spam gets out and little is done to the users who send it.
Is the company creating these laws which are likely to be laughed at by the majority of the users via way of no one actually reading the implementations of those laws? Think about it, how many people actually sit there and read those rules?
Another odd question is, what does Microsoft expect do to should someone outside the US break those rules? Extradite a European to America for breaking Washington State laws? Get real.
I'm far from understanding the laws of their products, but one thing I could say is little will be done, by them or any other company building these assinine policies, so their ratio to capture someone who actually breaks their policy is going to be low, and should it be the other way around, they're gonna end up hurting themselves in the pockets when they try to prosecute millions of people and dish out legal fees out the ass. Either way I see it as a stupid move.
Didn't military use cell phone techology back in those years, even prior to that?
The FCC has been a bit moronic on its regulation practices, past present and future. I wonder if their regulations have hindered technology from advancing tech to something better than it could have been.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service appears to be giving a break to foreign tech employees with H-1B visas who have been laid off.
This is coming as a pleasant surprise to just about everybody it affects.
Acknowledging the "turbulent time in the tech industry," an INS official said her agency will not force H-1B visa holders to leave the country if they haven't found new employment within 10 days of being terminated.
"We are going to let things slide," agency spokeswoman Eyleen Schmidt said.
In fact, that 10-day deadline may not even exist at all. Nowhere in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 -- and its amendments, which contain H-1B provisions -- is there any language that stipulates a timeframe in which a terminated employee must leave the country before the visa expires.
Its a nice approach for Intel to go this route. The market is hurting, and many companies paid top dollar to get some top people from the field into their company, which hurts them in the long run to let them go, have business return to normal, then have to go back out and look for top talent.
By Intel doing this, they save face in the eyes of employees, and who's to say that when the market rebounds, Intel may need some of those people back. So ask yourself, if a company just chooped you, but wanted to rehire you, you'd likely be reluctant to return, but if a company that let you go, with an option like this stating "Look the market is bad, we appreciate you, but cannot afford you at this point, here is X amount of dollars." you'd definitely think about it.
This was one of the big problems with dot.dom's I saw when I went to sillycone valley last year, too many top people having to jump around from site to site, for whatever reason, I'd bank on Intel rehiring some in the future should the market get better for them, and I bank on some people returning as well.
I wonder if they'll attempt to market this, and have something like an IMAX theatre for watching video games...
What someone needs to do is create something like a Starbucks based cafe globally with PC's set up in all of them for daily tournaments of your fav games, Quake, Halflife, etc., that shit'd own!
Think about it, it'd be a nice decked out shoppe with techno playing in the background, redundant OC3 connectivity, strippers serving you coffee... Can't beat that now can you?
I get about 2mill + a month, and never bothered putting up banners since their so full of shit its not even funny. Maybe you should try target marketing, contact local businesses around your area and tell them the scoop... X Amount of visitors with X amount of hits for X price a month.
Nice little chunk of money saved by using Linux virtual servers over Arrowpoint, however I would like to know how a high content site would hold up with a lot of those perl scripts running to cache, one of the possible problems you won't find with Arrowpoint, Alteon Ad Directors, Netapps, not to say they're better, but the article did mention "Big Budget", aside from that some information on traffic handling would have been nice to show, e.g. amount of data passed into the network would give insight as to why they may have chosen to go via certain routes (not routers, or routing protocols.. choices) versus others.
I remember some of the guys where I'm at did some overhauling, and when we were doing the firewalls, instead of ordering 4-5 Nokia's or looking into other fw's, we ended up getting one Nokia 650, and since we were running FreeBSD we threw on ipf on all the boxes and created rules to eliminate the load of ACL's, and the FW load which was actually cheaper than buying x amount of new firewalls, and since we jumpstarted most of the machines, we had a slew of tightened security scripts for Sun, and BSD's to have an auto locked down network no matter how much shit was upgraded.
One of the things I wonder about though is the "dual processor" factors, which has many people going gah-gah over. Dual 700mhz's may sound nice, but to only serve up web content I wonder how is that better than just 1 700mhz chip or a 1ghz Athlon for that matter (anyone care to comment?)
As for switching from Oracle to SQL7, sounds like a good move, however again there's no mention of how much data goes into their database, so while it may suit them, what about mega sites like Yahoo, I wonder how they would stand up to SQL over BSd's, Linux versus a nice Sun E10k running Oracle?
Well they certainly have a pretty cool network, I wish they would have included actual network information as well such as router info, traffic stats, etc., now they would have blew my mind had they said, they're running strictly Zebra on a Nix box versus a Cisco or Juniper;) but then again this was a semi "Big Budget" article, not a Poor Man's Network which in my case would be my Cisco 1xxx series running Zebra and GBGP (what you know about that.. Ghettotized BGP werd), 400mhz i386 running OpenBSD for the website, my spanking U1 for db stuff, ghettotized rj45's I found, with stolen bandwidth running out "Moving Day to Day Networks" run from my garage, and a C64 for DNS (fear)
Its rather ironically sad it has to be sold, and you have to wonder if Russia is that desperate for money.
Sounds all nice and dandy for now, but I can see the legalities coming into play should someone in the United States purchase it. All those Custom's forms, paranoid spooks wondering why your buying a rocket, etc.
Aside from that where the hell would you keep it? I can see a company purchasing it to throw in their building's lobby, I can even see NASA buying the rocket to get an insight into Russian based tech in some fashion, but the typical art collector?
Either way though I wonder if the sale is to raise money for their already poor economy, which makes me wonder, who will be the first to raise that sub that recently sunk.
Traveled more than 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion km)
Made more than 400,000 exposures
Observed 15,000 astronomical targets
Downloaded more than 6 terabytes of data
6 terabytes worth of info is certainly a lot of shit to store. I wonder whats NASA using for storage, certainly isn't a Netapp. Clariion? S'more than my whole company.
Happy Birthday telescope thingy.
"Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican." George W. Bush declining to answer reporters' questions at the Summit of the Americas, Quebec City, Canada, April 21, 2001
Again see here are people bashing him without having the slightest clue in the world, and to respond to comp contributions I think its great he donates pc's and software to underfunded libraries and schools, can Linus say that or any other OS developer? Cut the man some slack, I'm far from promoting him, but this is typical/.'er bullshit.
Worldwide Documentaries
A Closer Walk Bloomfield, NY
$1,000,000 (over 12 months)
For the production and marketing of A Closer Walk, a film about the global AIDS crisis. This will
be the first film intended for a mass audience to provide a definitive portrayal of mankind's confrontation with AIDS.
University of Notre Dame
Eliminating Lymphatic Filariasis in Haiti
Notre Dame, Indiana
$5,211,800 (over 5 years)
A five-year grant to work in the Leogane area of Haiti, where one third of the population is infected with lymphatic filariasis. The program will develop a model for filarial elimination programs throughout the world.
International Tuberculosis Foundation, Inc.
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease - Promoting Lung Health in Children Chicago, IL
$1,930,000 (over 5 years)
A five-year project to establish a sustainable and reproducible system for the surveillance, diagnosis, and management of the respiratory diseases that afflict children, including acute respiratory infection and pneumonia, tuberculosis, and asthma, in communities throughout Malawi.
SUSTAIN
Innovations in Fortification Technologies to Combat Iron Deficiency Anemia Washington, DC
$1,793,000 (over 12 months)
A grant to help alleviate iron deficiency anemia in Latin America through the fortification of corn
masa flour. Funds will also help to further the technical and commercial development of iron-enhancing compounds, which could be applied worldwide.
University of California, Davis
Development of Iron and Zinc-(Doubly-) Fortified Wheat Products Davis, CA
$1,021,304 (over 3 years)
For the testing and development of iron and zinc-fortified wheat products to improve the
health, nutrition, and intellectual performance of Peruvian children.
US Committee for UNICEF
Campaign to Eliminate Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus New York, NY
$26,000,000 (over 4 years)
A grant to support the global initiative to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT). The
strategy of the initiative will be to target women in the high-risk geographic areas where MNT
occurs -- deprived areas where women do not have access to routine immunization, antenatal
care or skilled birth attendants. To implement the high-risk approach and sustain achievements,
national plans will be developed at the country level with the Ministry of Health and input from
in-country partners such as UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO, and non governmental organizations that are conducting health programs in that particular country.
Sure his company ran wild bought out companies x, y, z, etc., its business. AOL did the same as have many more, its business as usual instead of focusing so much on him, ask yourself what positive actions have you done this week? This doesn't even include mention of those who work for his foundation who do it all for the hefty salary of $0,000,000,000.00 (U.S.) per year
Bill Gates donated billions to charity, has done neat things for technology to an extent, and he gets bashed, you don't hear anyone post how much he has done for anything all you hear is bitching.
So why should this incident be any different from some other tech person having spotlight?
In short, Philip and ArsDigita have done a lot more than just try to make a lot of money. Unlike Yahoo who just uses free software, Philip and aD actually create it and then go a step further -- They train you on how to use it and make a slew of resources about it and related technologies available on their dime and no cost to you. That's a lot more than most companies can say.
You better recheck your facts, you may think they don't make money but there is a trade off somewhere down the line or else they'd have been out of business a long time ago.
If he was so concerned about the community he should have thought about that before he sold out, then coming back to rant about it. Give me a break.
ARSDigita is just another company so whats the big hooplah about. So they have ties with software, web resources, etc.
Yahoo is the same shit, yet when they were shitted on, no one posted about the possible demise of Yahoo. Whats the big difference its just another corporation, and they haven't done anything to improve the Internet as a whole anyFsckingway, so who gives a damn?
Not to troll about this but think about it a quick second. So a company gets bought out, taken out, ends up on FuckedCompany.com, ask yourself, how valuable they are in everyday life? Give me a break.
Heres news, AntiOffline just updated!!! OMG.. See how worthless news it is? But is it worthless? Means something to me to update it, so whats the diff. Big shit ARSDigita is in the news. OMG Maybe I should go jerk off to this.
Bryan Grimshaw made a Linux machine inside of a toaster oven.
Shit with the demise of Slackware, Stormix, Easel, Corel Linux... The similarity is astonishing. Linux is toast.. or to be politically correct its only worth running on toasters take your pick.
Remote View Phone is a tool that is designed to let you See there, be there, from anywhere its a remote digital surveillance camera with built -in technology that sends digital images to your pc. Call the phone number where the camera is located and within seconds you can monitor the area. It can even be set up to call you, sending images at connection. No computer is required in the area being monitored and installation is as easy as plug and play. $749.00 (U.S) @ Spy World
Need some accoustical jammers, cell phone interceptors, envelope xray'ers, heat scanners, thermal scopes, white light generators, we got all that shit too...
The majority of IT geeks love their toys, however I've seen many companies who've went under for financial reasons, and one can wonder how many of those companies went under from the overspending on 'toys`.
Hell yea we want our toys, whether its a Clariion storage device, SunBlade, etc., but in reality little thought is given by the typical geeks when ordering equipment, so blame both the geeks for not settling for your average based equipment to get the job done, then blame management for not watching the geek, and while your at it, blame those idiots in purchasing who couldn't get a better deal buying things.
Head hunters from the porn industry? I wonder if they sound as sleazy as media portrays them. Personally I know porn sites make extreme amounts of money, the problem I think of regarding that market is, there are way too many porn sites out there to even think that "this particular" company is going to make it in the long run.
I wouldn't jump ship unless my options included Alley Bagget on Monday, Jenna Jameson on Tuesday, Racquel Darian on Wednesday, Anna Nicole Smith on Thursday, and Jenna again on Friday.
They'd claim it inspires people to follow the actions of drug dealers, it sends out the wrong messages to kids, etc.
Aside from that Dopewars is somewhat a base for this game, and it was recently on the news out here in NY.
Well its not like the gov is really doing much via their "War on drugs" think about that for a second. War on drugs? We can send people to the moon, rockets across mega distances, the feds can track down the people who bombed the USS Cole, but they can't win this so called "war"?
What about a pesticide to flat out kill coca leaves for the cocaine problem? Or is it because this so called war is a paper game used around election time, where most drug busts are made?
War on Drugs is a slap in the face for those who can see the underlying bs attached to it.
Just what parents who don't raise their kids right do. Point the fingers elsewhere to cast blame, yet they'll deny that they are likely to be the cause of the problem.
Maybe I should sue record companies for making me think violent thoughts. Shit I could just go out shoot a few people, then my family could have a class action lawsuit against record companies, television companies, movie companies, newspapers, gun companies, bullet companies, clothing companies for creating the camoflauge I used.
I think i'll register www.lets-capitalize-on-a-tragedy-and-sue-for-mega- profits.com
I understand it entirely... Maybe I conveyed it wrongly but its pretty much the same thing I'm trying to state. Oh well I need sleep (up since 2am SATURDAY!!);)
I agree with your point entirely, which is why I stated that I felt Gaim people were trolling... If AOL doesn't wanna open up shop, fuck em, move on and do your own thing, they have the capabilities so there should be no "issues" for them to bitch about. (yet they do... riding the AOL bandwagon at this point.)
If I started a phone company, other companies would be required to allow me to connect to their systems and would not be suprised by my desire to do so. This makes the phone system more useful than having a bunch of separate systems.
Utility companies are regulated, and since now your comparing apples with oranges anyway so I'll skip the whole rambling.
My point about whether you would choose a phone company that "closed its doors" was simply to illustate that such a company would not be viable in the long term.
Again your missing the meat and potatoes of this all. AOL's IM was created for their own personal use, there is no one in this world that can force them to allow others to intermix with their own private property (their servers, their databases, their bandwidth)
Secondly unless you _still_ haven't gotten the issues straight. Now since you continued with an assinine telco example here goes... IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT I WOULD CHOOSE (I wouldn't choose a phone company that solely used themselves and no one else) REGARDING THIS ISSUE. AOL HAS MADE THEIR POLICY AND IT IS STICKING TO IT, REGARDLESS IF IT SUITS ANYONE.
Which part of that did you not register?
Aside from that:
According to the FCC conditions, AOL only needs to open AIM to at least one would-be competitor if they add "advanced, IM-based high speed services", specifically, video conferencing. Until they add
video conferencing, they are allowed to keep it as closed as they want.
They don't have to open anything, and to close this up one last time. As you state "using x or y company for yadda yadda", well the solution is to simply find another "telco" now isn't it? Which means if AOL is so rotten, incompatible, you know what? No one is forcing anyone to use, let Jabber, Gaim, Faim, whatever make their own servers and stop bitching
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I wonder how this will truly hold up, as opposed to just stating X = X, lets face it, how many sites do you know of actually follow their policies when they create them?
Example, Hotmail, Yahoo, and others have policies against spammers sending from their respective domains, yet spam gets out and little is done to the users who send it.
Is the company creating these laws which are likely to be laughed at by the majority of the users via way of no one actually reading the implementations of those laws? Think about it, how many people actually sit there and read those rules?
Another odd question is, what does Microsoft expect do to should someone outside the US break those rules? Extradite a European to America for breaking Washington State laws? Get real.
I'm far from understanding the laws of their products, but one thing I could say is little will be done, by them or any other company building these assinine policies, so their ratio to capture someone who actually breaks their policy is going to be low, and should it be the other way around, they're gonna end up hurting themselves in the pockets when they try to prosecute millions of people and dish out legal fees out the ass. Either way I see it as a stupid move.
Blackbox pimps
Didn't military use cell phone techology back in those years, even prior to that?
The FCC has been a bit moronic on its regulation practices, past present and future. I wonder if their regulations have hindered technology from advancing tech to something better than it could have been.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service appears to be giving a break to foreign tech employees with H-1B visas who have been laid off.
This is coming as a pleasant surprise to just about everybody it affects.
Acknowledging the "turbulent time in the tech industry," an INS official said her agency will not force H-1B visa holders to leave the country if they haven't found new employment within 10 days of being terminated.
"We are going to let things slide," agency spokeswoman Eyleen Schmidt said.
In fact, that 10-day deadline may not even exist at all. Nowhere in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 -- and its amendments, which contain H-1B provisions -- is there any language that stipulates a timeframe in which a terminated employee must leave the country before the visa expires.
read on
pimped BlackBox themes
Its a nice approach for Intel to go this route. The market is hurting, and many companies paid top dollar to get some top people from the field into their company, which hurts them in the long run to let them go, have business return to normal, then have to go back out and look for top talent.
By Intel doing this, they save face in the eyes of employees, and who's to say that when the market rebounds, Intel may need some of those people back. So ask yourself, if a company just chooped you, but wanted to rehire you, you'd likely be reluctant to return, but if a company that let you go, with an option like this stating "Look the market is bad, we appreciate you, but cannot afford you at this point, here is X amount of dollars." you'd definitely think about it.
This was one of the big problems with dot.dom's I saw when I went to sillycone valley last year, too many top people having to jump around from site to site, for whatever reason, I'd bank on Intel rehiring some in the future should the market get better for them, and I bank on some people returning as well.
What fun is a game if you can't play it... Damn I need some sleep
What fun is a game if you can't watch it?
I wonder if they'll attempt to market this, and have something like an IMAX theatre for watching video games...
What someone needs to do is create something like a Starbucks based cafe globally with PC's set up in all of them for daily tournaments of your fav games, Quake, Halflife, etc., that shit'd own!
Think about it, it'd be a nice decked out shoppe with techno playing in the background, redundant OC3 connectivity, strippers serving you coffee... Can't beat that now can you?
pimped Blackbox Themes
I get about 2mill + a month, and never bothered putting up banners since their so full of shit its not even funny. Maybe you should try target marketing, contact local businesses around your area and tell them the scoop... X Amount of visitors with X amount of hits for X price a month.
Nice little chunk of money saved by using Linux virtual servers over Arrowpoint, however I would like to know how a high content site would hold up with a lot of those perl scripts running to cache, one of the possible problems you won't find with Arrowpoint, Alteon Ad Directors, Netapps, not to say they're better, but the article did mention "Big Budget", aside from that some information on traffic handling would have been nice to show, e.g. amount of data passed into the network would give insight as to why they may have chosen to go via certain routes (not routers, or routing protocols.. choices) versus others.
;) but then again this was a semi "Big Budget" article, not a Poor Man's Network which in my case would be my Cisco 1xxx series running Zebra and GBGP (what you know about that.. Ghettotized BGP werd), 400mhz i386 running OpenBSD for the website, my spanking U1 for db stuff, ghettotized rj45's I found, with stolen bandwidth running out "Moving Day to Day Networks" run from my garage, and a C64 for DNS (fear)
I remember some of the guys where I'm at did some overhauling, and when we were doing the firewalls, instead of ordering 4-5 Nokia's or looking into other fw's, we ended up getting one Nokia 650, and since we were running FreeBSD we threw on ipf on all the boxes and created rules to eliminate the load of ACL's, and the FW load which was actually cheaper than buying x amount of new firewalls, and since we jumpstarted most of the machines, we had a slew of tightened security scripts for Sun, and BSD's to have an auto locked down network no matter how much shit was upgraded.
One of the things I wonder about though is the "dual processor" factors, which has many people going gah-gah over. Dual 700mhz's may sound nice, but to only serve up web content I wonder how is that better than just 1 700mhz chip or a 1ghz Athlon for that matter (anyone care to comment?)
As for switching from Oracle to SQL7, sounds like a good move, however again there's no mention of how much data goes into their database, so while it may suit them, what about mega sites like Yahoo, I wonder how they would stand up to SQL over BSd's, Linux versus a nice Sun E10k running Oracle?
Well they certainly have a pretty cool network, I wish they would have included actual network information as well such as router info, traffic stats, etc., now they would have blew my mind had they said, they're running strictly Zebra on a Nix box versus a Cisco or Juniper
Blackbox Themes
Its rather ironically sad it has to be sold, and you have to wonder if Russia is that desperate for money.
Sounds all nice and dandy for now, but I can see the legalities coming into play should someone in the United States purchase it. All those Custom's forms, paranoid spooks wondering why your buying a rocket, etc.
Aside from that where the hell would you keep it? I can see a company purchasing it to throw in their building's lobby, I can even see NASA buying the rocket to get an insight into Russian based tech in some fashion, but the typical art collector?
Either way though I wonder if the sale is to raise money for their already poor economy, which makes me wonder, who will be the first to raise that sub that recently sunk.
Antioffline introduces pimped X Themes
har har
Orbited Earth 60,000 times
Traveled more than 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion km)
Made more than 400,000 exposures
Observed 15,000 astronomical targets
Downloaded more than 6 terabytes of data
6 terabytes worth of info is certainly a lot of shit to store. I wonder whats NASA using for storage, certainly isn't a Netapp. Clariion? S'more than my whole company.
Happy Birthday telescope thingy.
"Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican." George W. Bush declining to answer reporters' questions at the Summit of the Americas, Quebec City, Canada, April 21, 2001
Lone Gunman
Lone Gunman
Bill Gates donated billions to charity, has done neat things for technology to an extent, and he gets bashed, you don't hear anyone post how much he has done for anything all you hear is bitching.
So why should this incident be any different from some other tech person having spotlight?
You better recheck your facts, you may think they don't make money but there is a trade off somewhere down the line or else they'd have been out of business a long time ago.
If he was so concerned about the community he should have thought about that before he sold out, then coming back to rant about it. Give me a break.
ARSDigita is just another company so whats the big hooplah about. So they have ties with software, web resources, etc.
Yahoo is the same shit, yet when they were shitted on, no one posted about the possible demise of Yahoo. Whats the big difference its just another corporation, and they haven't done anything to improve the Internet as a whole anyFsckingway, so who gives a damn?
Not to troll about this but think about it a quick second. So a company gets bought out, taken out, ends up on FuckedCompany.com, ask yourself, how valuable they are in everyday life? Give me a break.
Heres news, AntiOffline just updated!!! OMG
Curiosity killed the cat
Bryan Grimshaw made a Linux machine inside of a toaster oven.
Shit with the demise of Slackware, Stormix, Easel, Corel Linux... The similarity is astonishing. Linux is toast.. or to be politically correct its only worth running on toasters take your pick.
wanna root me? (powered by OpenBSD!)
Remote View Phone is a tool that is designed to let you See there, be there, from anywhere its a remote digital surveillance camera with built -in technology that sends digital images to your pc. Call the phone number where the camera is located and within seconds you can monitor the area. It can even be set up to call you, sending images at connection. No computer is required in the area being monitored and installation is as easy as plug and play. $749.00 (U.S) @ Spy World
Need some accoustical jammers, cell phone interceptors, envelope xray'ers, heat scanners, thermal scopes, white light generators, we got all that shit too...
Got root?
The majority of IT geeks love their toys, however I've seen many companies who've went under for financial reasons, and one can wonder how many of those companies went under from the overspending on 'toys`.
Hell yea we want our toys, whether its a Clariion storage device, SunBlade, etc., but in reality little thought is given by the typical geeks when ordering equipment, so blame both the geeks for not settling for your average based equipment to get the job done, then blame management for not watching the geek, and while your at it, blame those idiots in purchasing who couldn't get a better deal buying things.
Want root? (unf Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider!@)
Chicks or Unix
Chicks or Unix
Chicks or Unix
Head hunters from the porn industry? I wonder if they sound as sleazy as media portrays them. Personally I know porn sites make extreme amounts of money, the problem I think of regarding that market is, there are way too many porn sites out there to even think that "this particular" company is going to make it in the long run.
I wouldn't jump ship unless my options included Alley Bagget on Monday, Jenna Jameson on Tuesday, Racquel Darian on Wednesday, Anna Nicole Smith on Thursday, and Jenna again on Friday.
Not that I watch porn or anything...
Encryption saves the day
You've missed the basis of this post, if drugs were such an issue they could eradicate drugs.
They'd claim it inspires people to follow the actions of drug dealers, it sends out the wrong messages to kids, etc.
Aside from that Dopewars is somewhat a base for this game, and it was recently on the news out here in NY.
Well its not like the gov is really doing much via their "War on drugs" think about that for a second. War on drugs? We can send people to the moon, rockets across mega distances, the feds can track down the people who bombed the USS Cole, but they can't win this so called "war"?
What about a pesticide to flat out kill coca leaves for the cocaine problem? Or is it because this so called war is a paper game used around election time, where most drug busts are made?
War on Drugs is a slap in the face for those who can see the underlying bs attached to it.
Privacy Links
I would hate to get DoS'd from a network of those.
No shit sherlock its still the same thesis... Same rules apply
Just what parents who don't raise their kids right do. Point the fingers elsewhere to cast blame, yet they'll deny that they are likely to be the cause of the problem.
- profits.com
Maybe I should sue record companies for making me think violent thoughts. Shit I could just go out shoot a few people, then my family could have a class action lawsuit against record companies, television companies, movie companies, newspapers, gun companies, bullet companies, clothing companies for creating the camoflauge I used.
I think i'll register www.lets-capitalize-on-a-tragedy-and-sue-for-mega
Encryption Saves the Day
I understand it entirely... Maybe I conveyed it wrongly but its pretty much the same thing I'm trying to state. Oh well I need sleep (up since 2am SATURDAY!!) ;)
I agree with your point entirely, which is why I stated that I felt Gaim people were trolling... If AOL doesn't wanna open up shop, fuck em, move on and do your own thing, they have the capabilities so there should be no "issues" for them to bitch about. (yet they do... riding the AOL bandwagon at this point.)
Utility companies are regulated, and since now your comparing apples with oranges anyway so I'll skip the whole rambling.
My point about whether you would choose a phone company that "closed its doors" was simply to illustate that such a company would not be viable in the long term.
Again your missing the meat and potatoes of this all. AOL's IM was created for their own personal use, there is no one in this world that can force them to allow others to intermix with their own private property (their servers, their databases, their bandwidth)
Secondly unless you _still_ haven't gotten the issues straight. Now since you continued with an assinine telco example here goes... IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT I WOULD CHOOSE (I wouldn't choose a phone company that solely used themselves and no one else) REGARDING THIS ISSUE. AOL HAS MADE THEIR POLICY AND IT IS STICKING TO IT, REGARDLESS IF IT SUITS ANYONE.
Which part of that did you not register?
Aside from that: They don't have to open anything, and to close this up one last time. As you state "using x or y company for yadda yadda", well the solution is to simply find another "telco" now isn't it? Which means if AOL is so rotten, incompatible, you know what? No one is forcing anyone to use, let Jabber, Gaim, Faim, whatever make their own servers and stop bitching