I actually laughed my A$$ off at the paragraph stating all of the m$ stuff that he and his family uses.
Don't laugh, there are actually those kinds of people out there. The news media here is Seattle was running all over downtown getting sound bytes from Stepford MS users.
sic is Latin for "so" or "thus". It is used by an editor to show that the previous word was mispelled [sic] intentionally, like when quoting someone else's written words.
Most likely cheaper ingredients. Then there's the cost of advertising. Coke and Pepsi spend big bucks to all of the grocery stores so that the store will put Coke/Pepsi higher up on the shelf, or at the ends of the aisles (that is premium grocery real-estate). Most stores don't put the shitty cola in the coolers, either, Coke and Pepsi pay for that.
I've dealt with this guy and his "company". We started to find unauthorized charges to our credit card and this guy swore up and down that *we* were wrong. Only after we threatened to sue him and report him to the state attorney general did he credit back the unauthorized charges. No excuse or apology was offered.
What about liability, how can you enter into a legally binding contract with a 17 year old? Would you trust the security of your web site to a kid? 17 year old kids should be working at McDonald's learning customer service, not running internet companies.
If you're looking for a web hosting service, stay away from MatrixCubed, I would have, had I known the guy was 17.
I finally got in tonight after trying throughout the day. But to search the encylopedia, the portal site just sends you to http://www.eb.com where you have to sign up for a 30 day trial to search for information or try their limited search option. This is the same fscked up thing that Deja news did, wrapping a great site with useless fluffy BS. The advanced search option doesn't search the encylopedia, it just searches the net. Pffffft!
Actually, according to the LA Times, the site will offer content from partners such as the Washington Post and the Guardian of London on Friday. The site is supposed to be up today (Tuesday).
And what if the guy purposefully used easily identifiable addresses to throw the authorities off his trail? The sysadmins think they have caught the hacker while his second program steathily filled out the form with random but apparently valid data and racked up even higher votes? You know, the old "watch my left hand while I reach into my pocket with my right hand:" trick.
It's not just the color of the case that Apple is suing over. It's the design of the keyboard and other things.
As for the floppy drive, when Future Power showed this thing off at the New York PC show last week they stated their design was different enough from Apple's because it included a floppy drive.
BellSouth was denying hookups to all Macintosh users except those with the new iMacs because only the iMacs had the MAC address printed on a sticker next to the ethernet port. There is more than one freewaare utility available to get the MAC address out of the system, not difficult at all.
That article was about Bell Atlantic, not Bell South, but the same principals apply. These phone companies don't have time or money to train all their employees in every OS. I do wish they would allow users to configure their own equipment if they are knowledgeable enough, I mean, we're not talking about Grandma getting Redhat to send email to her friends in Florida.
Last year when Netscape announced Mozilla, the question was asked to Microsoft as to when they would release the source code to Windows. The reply was that Windows was already "open", that anyone can write to the API's, yeah right!
It's great that KYC is going down in flames, but most people are not aware of an even more insidious piece of legislation that the banks are trying to push through.
Banks are allowed to form partnerships with other financial institutions, like insurance companies, or brokerages. They want to be able to share your personal information (like how much money is in your account) with these affiliates.
So you deposit that inheritance from Aunt Ruth in your bank and the following week you get a call from a brokerage asking if you'd like to invest.
Jay Inslee (rep from WA state) attempted to add an ammendment to House Resolution 10 (a banking bill) that would require the banks to have customers opt-in (specifically ask to be included) in this plan. Naturally, the bank's lobbyists put pressure to shoot it down.
Funny, the banks screamed about KYC as an invasion of their customer's privacy, but banks have no qualms about sharing your private information with their business partners.
Slashdot Mirror
I actually laughed my A$$ off at the paragraph stating all of the m$ stuff that he and his family uses.
Don't laugh, there are actually those kinds of people out there. The news media here is Seattle was running all over downtown getting sound bytes from Stepford MS users.
Umm, you've got a little bit of brown stuff there, no there, at the end of your nose.
sic is Latin for "so" or "thus". It is used by an editor to show that the previous word was mispelled [sic] intentionally, like when quoting someone else's written words.
Most likely cheaper ingredients. Then there's the cost of advertising. Coke and Pepsi spend big bucks to all of the grocery stores so that the store will put Coke/Pepsi higher up on the shelf, or at the ends of the aisles (that is premium grocery real-estate). Most stores don't put the shitty cola in the coolers, either, Coke and Pepsi pay for that.
We need a law against frivolous patent applications.
I've dealt with this guy and his "company". We started to find unauthorized charges to our credit card and this guy swore up and down that *we* were wrong. Only after we threatened to sue him and report him to the state attorney general did he credit back the unauthorized charges. No excuse or apology was offered.
What about liability, how can you enter into a legally binding contract with a 17 year old? Would you trust the security of your web site to a kid? 17 year old kids should be working at McDonald's learning customer service, not running internet companies.
If you're looking for a web hosting service, stay away from MatrixCubed, I would have, had I known the guy was 17.
I finally got in tonight after trying throughout the day. But to search the encylopedia, the portal site just sends you to http://www.eb.com where you have to sign up for a 30 day trial to search for information or try their limited search option. This is the same fscked up thing that Deja news did, wrapping a great site with useless fluffy BS. The advanced search option doesn't search the encylopedia, it just searches the net. Pffffft!
Actually, according to the LA Times, the site will offer content from partners such as the Washington Post and the Guardian of London on Friday. The site is supposed to be up today (Tuesday).
I wouldn't be surprised if NSI themselves subscribe to RBL to prevent being from spammed. You think?
And what if the guy purposefully used easily identifiable addresses to throw the authorities off his trail? The sysadmins think they have caught the hacker while his second program steathily filled out the form with random but apparently valid data and racked up even higher votes? You know, the old "watch my left hand while I reach into my pocket with my right hand:" trick.
Apple is not suing just because Future Power is coming out with colored computers. It's more than that.
It's not just the color of the case that Apple is suing over. It's the design of the keyboard and other things.
As for the floppy drive, when Future Power showed this thing off at the New York PC show last week they stated their design was different enough from Apple's because it included a floppy drive.
And DISH carries ZDTV, 24 hours of computer news and information.
BellSouth was denying hookups to all Macintosh users except those with the new iMacs because only the iMacs had the MAC address printed on a sticker next to the ethernet port. There is more than one freewaare utility available to get the MAC address out of the system, not difficult at all.
That article was about Bell Atlantic, not Bell South, but the same principals apply. These phone companies don't have time or money to train all their employees in every OS. I do wish they would allow users to configure their own equipment if they are knowledgeable enough, I mean, we're not talking about Grandma getting Redhat to send email to her friends in Florida.
Try Freeway from Softpress. This program is the PageMaker of web authoring tools (currently Mac only).
Last year when Netscape announced Mozilla, the question was asked to Microsoft as to when they would release the source code to Windows. The reply was that Windows was already "open", that anyone can write to the API's, yeah right!
DVD's are great, but I can't figure out how to rewind the damn thing and my video store charges me $1 each time I return one, ;-)
If you read the MSNBC article, there is another story (surpisingly written by MSNBC) entitled "Is Microsoft to Blame?"
http://www.msnbc.com/news/254451.asp
Don
Last Friday, Microsoft shares split 2 for 1. That means there are over 2^32 shares of Microsoft and caused a 32 bit overflow on the NASDAQ display:
http://206.204.24.3/snimages/nasdaqerr or.gif
Don
It's great that KYC is going down in flames, but most people are not aware of an even more insidious piece of legislation that the banks are trying to push through.
Banks are allowed to form partnerships with other financial institutions, like insurance companies, or brokerages. They want to be able to share your personal information (like how much money is in your account) with these affiliates.
So you deposit that inheritance from Aunt Ruth in your bank and the following week you get a call from a brokerage asking if you'd like to invest.
Jay Inslee (rep from WA state) attempted to add an ammendment to House Resolution 10 (a banking bill) that would require the banks to have customers opt-in (specifically ask to be included) in this plan. Naturally, the bank's lobbyists put pressure to shoot it down.
Funny, the banks screamed about KYC as an invasion of their customer's privacy, but banks have no qualms about sharing your private information with their business partners.