It still boggles me that they went with USB, thus requiring drivers and OS support and all.
Why didn't they just do an ethernet version, thus making this completely OS independent, easier to use with older machines that might have ethernet but certainly not USB (and the same could be said aboud OS versions)..
Look up the price _first_, before they know who you are. If they don't allow this, then create a couple of false logins that you never buy anything with to use for price checking.
If you find that the price goes up after you log in, the lodge a complaint. You may want to save printouts, etc, of the different price listings.
Personally I will NEVER buy anything online until/unless there is a means of payment that:
1. Doesn't reveal identifying information I would rather keep private. All of the methods of payment I am aware of violate this.
2. Doesn't give control of the transaction to the payee. Credit/Debit cards and 'electronic check' all do this. I want a POSITIVE means of controlling both the transaction and the amount, without relying on any trust of the payee. I want to tell MY financial institution (which only has access to funds I deposit in person or at an ATM - and NOT any cash I hold on my person), to make payment, of a specific amount, to a specific recipient, when *I* specify. I do not want to give a payee any opportunity to charge me a different amount, or continue charging me after I cancel a service, or take my money at a different time.. etc..
3. Doesn't require me to be using 'credit' to pay, but instead permits me to pay with funds I already have. Debit card and 'electronic check' fulfill this, but many places permit ONLY credit cards. I will *NEVER* have or use a credit card becuase not only does that give control of a transaction to a merchant, provides too muchprivate information, and also permits them to not only take all the money I have, but money I DONT have- basically taking out a loan in my name on their say-so.
I've recently suggested to PayPal/X.COM that they start producing and distributing pre-paid cards (much like pre-paid calling cards or gas cards), that one could purchase at stores. I havent received anything beyond their form-letter response, but I am somewhat hopeful. This would really be the ultimate in giving control back to the consumer - anonymous (eg - PRIVATE) electronic payment. A clerk at McDonalds doesnt know who you are when you hand them a fiver - why should online stores have any right to (under some excuse of 'security')
1. HTTPS is a placebo designed to make people 'think' that anything is secure.
2. Regardless of #1, I think ARIN will understand if you use IP-Virtual for HTTPS sites..
3. If you are providing entire (virtual or real) servers to customers, as opposed to just simple webhosting, this doesn't apply either.
All this effects is sites providing plain virtual webhosting service, that still havent migrated to name virtual hosting - listing that use of IP addresses will no longer carry as much weight as if you had assigned those IP's to dynamic dialup ports, or assigned small blocks of them to many customers.
As far as IPv6, its a neat idea, but there are lots of things to stumble over before it can be implemented.. It also seems that IPv6 is suffering from 'death by committee' - too many people have added too many overcomplications..
If the message is a blantant advertisement, or a get-rich-quick scheme or other such crap, then there is a very very small chance that following the remove instructions will actually remove you from anything. There is a pretty good chance that the email address shown is false or made-up, and there is also a good chance that any mail sent to it will just get you more spam, now that they have confirmed that your address is good, and that you actually read their junk.
You might want to consider the possibility that all of your friends that received the virus that also have you in their addressbook, were also all smart enough not to click on the attachment?
We don't really need the source to Windows itself.. We don't need to know how Windows does it, but we should have a good definition of what "IT" is.. Wether thats the.DOC format, or the authentication that NT uses in NetBEUI, or what, it should be mandatory that what an OS *DOES* be documented in detail. We don't need multiple variant versions of Windows, but Microsoft should be prevented from keeping how two systems (or programs, etc) communicate to prevent someone from making something which is interoperable.
Here's a possible solution: report the card lost, and have your bank issue a new card with (presumably) a new number. They offending service will certainly not automatically get the new number, and they wont be able to charge squat to the cancelled one.
The only downside is that you might have to live without your card for a few days until they get you a new one - if it is also your ATM card, you might want to take out enough cash from a machine with it to tide you over _before_ you have them turn it off...
An idea that has recently occured to me that somsone might make some $$ from: offer pre-paid CC's with a specific balance, that would be throw-away after they were used up. This would be handy for ordering stuff off the net or TV or anywhere else that will only accept CC's, but that you aren't comfortable with them being able to charge whatever they want to your card. The only problem might be with companies that will only ship to 'the cardholder' - somehow this would have to be resolved with a one-time use card...
Not to mention that perhaps the player for version 1.0 will be available for linux, but v2.0 will not. Of course, under windows, the 1.0 client will automatically upgrade you to v2.0.
This will permit them to set a closed 'standard' and get it accepted, and then take it back - bingo, one more reason for them to tout about how 'incompatible' linux is...
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A better correction:
From the Start Menu, choose "Shutdown", and then "Shutdown System"..
When you see the "safe to turn off" screen, insert (RedHat/Slackware/Debian/BSD/etc) CDROM in drive. Reboot machine. follow prompts.
I think its more of a disclaimer - if a lawyer provides advices that turns out to be wrong, they might be held accountable or liable. Lawyers are also usually right about what they law says.
I think 'IANAL' is saying "I am not a lawyer, so I'm not 100% sure the advice I am offering is correct, legally - you should check with a lawyer (or read the code of law yourself, if you think you can decipher it) if this applies to you."
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Hrm.. You think they would have come out with the "Internet Calendar" as well - might solve that pesky Y2038 problem before it ever happens;)
(Of course, we need to get our favorite OSOS's (Open Source Operating Systems) to include "IST" (Internet Standard Time?) as a timezone in their configuration.
On a BAH! note, The "Internet Time Converter" is only available for MacOS or Win. Maybe when I'm more awake I'll write a version in bash if someone already hasnt..
Just a note: licensing schemes that lock software to a particular host are a royal nuisance.
I was going to download your software and try it out, but have decided not to as I refuse to be forced to identify my hosts in order to evaluate software.
Uhm.. Dates (including 9/9/99) are represented by many different systems in many different formats. Some systems might store it in a fashion subject to misintrepetation if the representation which indicates that date also is some sort of 'escape' sequence.
So how many people are fixing the Y10K bug while they fix the Y2K bug.. Oh, you wanna have to do ALL that work AGAIN??
Sure.. "None of these systems will be in use". Gee, where did I hear that before.
Obviously everyone reading this post will be dead long before then anyway..;)
The problem is, Microsoft does extensions to things, and DOESNT release an RFC. They keep the details of how the extenstions work a secret, so no one else can make something that implements the same extensions. Then they release toolkits that (transparently to the end user) produce code/documents/etc that rely on those extensions, and then force them to use only Microsoft products becuase only MS stuff is 'compatible'
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It still boggles me that they went with USB, thus requiring drivers and OS support and all.
Why didn't they just do an ethernet version, thus making this completely OS independent, easier to use with older machines that might have ethernet but certainly not USB (and the same could be said aboud OS versions)..
(I don't even consider the 'buy a PC at Radio Shack' option worth discussing. Only a moron would buy a machine at Radio Shack)
I'll wait for the Ethernet version, thank you. With a free-unix IPMasq setup it might be worth messing with..
No mention of the price, of course. Why do companies never want to advertise their price?
Look up the price _first_, before they know who you are. If they don't allow this, then create a couple of false logins that you never buy anything with to use for price checking.
If you find that the price goes up after you log in, the lodge a complaint. You may want to save printouts, etc, of the different price listings.
Personally I will NEVER buy anything online until/unless there is a means of payment that:
1. Doesn't reveal identifying information I would rather keep private. All of the methods of payment I am aware of violate this.
2. Doesn't give control of the transaction to the payee. Credit/Debit cards and 'electronic check' all do this. I want a POSITIVE means of controlling both the transaction and the amount, without relying on any trust of the payee. I want to tell MY financial institution (which only has access to funds I deposit in person or at an ATM - and NOT any cash I hold on my person), to make payment, of a specific amount, to a specific recipient, when *I* specify. I do not want to give a payee any opportunity to charge me a different amount, or continue charging me after I cancel a service, or take my money at a different time.. etc..
3. Doesn't require me to be using 'credit' to pay, but instead permits me to pay with funds I already have. Debit card and 'electronic check' fulfill this, but many places permit ONLY credit cards. I will *NEVER* have or use a credit card becuase not only does that give control of a transaction to a merchant, provides too muchprivate information, and also permits them to not only take all the money I have, but money I DONT have- basically taking out a loan in my name on their say-so.
I've recently suggested to PayPal/X.COM that they start producing and distributing pre-paid cards (much like pre-paid calling cards or gas cards), that one could purchase at stores. I havent received anything beyond their form-letter response, but I am somewhat hopeful. This would really be the ultimate in giving control back to the consumer - anonymous (eg - PRIVATE) electronic payment. A clerk at McDonalds doesnt know who you are when you hand them a fiver - why should online stores have any right to (under some excuse of 'security')
1. HTTPS is a placebo designed to make people 'think' that anything is secure.
2. Regardless of #1, I think ARIN will understand if you use IP-Virtual for HTTPS sites..
3. If you are providing entire (virtual or real) servers to customers, as opposed to just simple webhosting, this doesn't apply either.
All this effects is sites providing plain virtual webhosting service, that still havent migrated to name virtual hosting - listing that use of IP addresses will no longer carry as much weight as if you had assigned those IP's to dynamic dialup ports, or assigned small blocks of them to many customers.
As far as IPv6, its a neat idea, but there are lots of things to stumble over before it can be implemented.. It also seems that IPv6 is suffering from 'death by committee' - too many people have added too many overcomplications..
If the message is a blantant advertisement, or a get-rich-quick scheme or other such crap,
then there is a very very small chance that following the remove instructions will actually remove you from anything. There is a pretty good chance that the email address shown is false or made-up, and there is also a good chance that any mail sent to it will just get you more spam, now that they have confirmed that your address is good, and that you actually read their junk.
You might want to consider the possibility that all of your friends that received the virus that also have you in their addressbook, were also all smart enough not to click on the attachment?
We don't really need the source to Windows itself.. We don't need to know how Windows does it, but we should have a good definition of what "IT" is.. Wether thats the .DOC format, or the authentication that NT uses in NetBEUI, or what, it should be mandatory that what an OS *DOES* be documented in detail. We don't need multiple variant versions of Windows, but Microsoft should be prevented from keeping how two systems (or programs, etc) communicate to prevent someone from making something which is interoperable.
Here's a possible solution: report the card lost, and have your bank issue a new card with (presumably) a new number. They offending service will certainly not automatically get the new number, and they wont be able to charge squat to the cancelled one.
The only downside is that you might have to live without your card for a few days until they get you a new one - if it is also your ATM card, you might want to take out enough cash from a machine with it to tide you over _before_ you have them turn it off...
An idea that has recently occured to me that somsone might make some $$ from: offer pre-paid CC's with a specific balance, that would be throw-away after they were used up. This would be handy for ordering stuff off the net or TV or anywhere else that will only accept CC's, but that you aren't comfortable with them being able to charge whatever they want to your card.
The only problem might be with companies that will only ship to 'the cardholder' - somehow this would have to be resolved with a one-time use card...
Not to mention that perhaps the player for version 1.0 will be available for linux, but v2.0 will not. Of course, under windows, the 1.0 client will automatically upgrade you to v2.0.
This will permit them to set a closed 'standard' and get it accepted, and then take it back - bingo, one more reason for them to tout about how 'incompatible' linux is...
A better correction:
From the Start Menu, choose "Shutdown", and then
"Shutdown System"..
When you see the "safe to turn off" screen,
insert (RedHat/Slackware/Debian/BSD/etc) CDROM
in drive. Reboot machine. follow prompts.
No more non-standard ASCII. Have a nice day
I think its more of a disclaimer - if a lawyer provides advices that turns out to be wrong, they might be held accountable or liable. Lawyers are also usually right about what they law says.
I think 'IANAL' is saying "I am not a lawyer, so I'm not 100% sure the advice I am offering is correct, legally - you should check with a lawyer (or read the code of law yourself, if you think you can decipher it) if this applies to you."
Hrm.. You think they would have come out with the "Internet Calendar" as well - might solve that pesky Y2038 problem before it ever happens ;)
(Of course, we need to get our favorite OSOS's (Open Source Operating Systems) to include "IST" (Internet Standard Time?) as a timezone in their configuration.
On a BAH! note, The "Internet Time Converter" is only available for MacOS or Win. Maybe when I'm more awake I'll write a version in bash if someone already hasnt..
How come you never thrown any parties in your hometown, where I live like 25 minutes away..
;)
BAH!
Just a note: licensing schemes that lock software
to a particular host are a royal nuisance.
I was going to download your software and try it out, but have decided not to as I refuse to be forced to identify my hosts in order to evaluate
software.
Uhm.. Dates (including 9/9/99) are represented by many different systems in many different formats.
;)
Some systems might store it in a fashion subject to misintrepetation if the representation which indicates that date also is some sort of 'escape' sequence.
So how many people are fixing the Y10K bug while they fix the Y2K bug.. Oh, you wanna have to do ALL that work AGAIN??
Sure.. "None of these systems will be in use". Gee, where did I hear that before.
Obviously everyone reading this post will be dead long before then anyway..
I think that might not be the right URL..
From www.e-spec.com:
"e-spec is a proprietary Application Framework developed specifically for building Windows* based
Product Selection Software programs"
It doesnt say a thing about wireless comm..
I also tried www.e-spec.net (doesnt exist)
and www.espec.com (something about environmental
testing labs)
The problem is, Microsoft does extensions to things, and DOESNT release an RFC. They keep the details of how the extenstions work a secret, so no one else can make something that implements the same extensions. Then they release toolkits that (transparently to the end user) produce code/documents/etc that rely on those extensions, and then force them to use only Microsoft products becuase only MS stuff is 'compatible'
Uhm.. No.. more likely the number of hits it is generating(and serving) is killing the network/hosting provider they are using.
I'm sure CmdrTaco or Hemos can confirm or deny, so I shall let them.
So which member of the Microsoft "anti-linux" team are you?