This guy accepted e-mail sent directly to his address and decided to post the contents to mock the people who sent the messages. By posting all the details of this "experiment" on-line he clearly has every intention of naming and shaming the people who contacted him.
If this guy were a radio DJ and he played voice mail messages from personals-ad respondents on the air with phone numbers and real names included, he would be just as screwed. Same thing if he took letters sent by unsuspecting "victims" of his ad and published them in a newspaper column.
If this whole episode ends up in court, perhaps it will set a precedent about whether cleartext e-mail sent between two parties can be construed to have any notion of privacy. After all, phone calls and letters can be considered "private" even if there is no encryption on either end of the conversation.
Your link is dead. Guess the guy knew how to opt out of the Wayback Machine (after people had used it against him, of course). Is there an archive of the Wayback Machine anywhere?:)
I don't really care what Joe User's blog has to say about this project. Slashdot offers exactly as much insight as OhGizmo! and all ther other blogs that publish a paragraph with a link.
Just because some blog covered this story before Slashdot did doesn't make that blog the authority on the subject. Have we learned nothing from ordinary news outlets trying to "scoop" one another?
Netscape (while Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox was in pre-1.0 state), Google (for mail and their other beta products), and MythTV have marketshares that are all decidedly in the minority. Slashdot editors may love using unstable pre-release products (just look at the "Windows Vista runs like crap on Boot Camp" article yesterday) but the silent majority doesn't.
"But don't throw away your desktop applications just yet. As a general rule, Ajax sites simply aren't as powerful or as useful as their desktop counterparts. Spreadsheet jockeys, for example, will want to stick with Excel for the foreseeable future."
I also enjoy how many of the "recommended" apps are only available for use on outside servers, so no company-confidential data should ever be placed on them.
After Linux conquered the desktop (all my friends use Linux, so I'm pretty sure Linux has 100% market share) the next logical step was gaming. With more than 75,000 games including Tux Racer, gsolitaire, kpat, and xmines, the Indrema is the unparalleled leader in Linux gaming.
I didn't realize that. Pittsburgh is not one of those cities, apparently. Even Compaq took 3 days (2 of which were spent in transit) to get me a laptop with a replaced HD, but Apple just took much longer. I wouldn't have been upset had Apple not lied to me about it (I got random "we're working on it / it's done / we need to order a part" responses every time I called).
The most humiliating part was getting a follow-up phone call -- not to apologize for the bad service, but to make sure I had purchased AppleCare for future repairs. (The HD incident happened in the first year.)
Used CDs are almost always less expensive than iTunes, especially considering that you can't resell your iTunes music tracks should you grow tired of them. Buy them online (sites like Half and Amazon* will sell them to you with no sweat) and the selection goes far beyond that of iTunes.
* Disclaimer: I work for Amazon, this is not my company's official opinion, etc., etc.
Not really, because they bought cheapo Dells for $300 instead of cheapo iMacs for $900. That's six hundred dollars to spend on other essential supplies like iPods and Everclear.
How much for warranties for all those things? Apple charges only $170 for a 3-year warranty for the iMac, so I can just send my whole computer in, watch Monday Night Football and American Idol, and get a working computer back in as little as 18* days!
* My experience with a bad hard drive. Your times may vary.
The sudden motion sensor is also on ThinkPads. The ThinkPad control panel for it shows a picture of your laptop; as you shake the laptop around the picture of the laptop on screen also shakes. I still haven't seen any interesting uses of the motion sensor besides the intended purpose (shutting down the hard drive in case of a drop) and novelty things (imitating that Labyrinth game I used to play at the dentist's office waiting room).
Google Maps's arrows are never lined up with actual buildings on satellite views. I just looked my house up and the arrow is down the block. Better luck next time, Internet detective.
NSA: Can we have your search data? Google: Sure. NSA: Can we have your search data? Google: Sure. NSA: Can we have your search data? Google: Sure. NSA: Can we have your search data? Google: NO! Slashdot: Hooray!
Ah, never mind. The "Cannot Find Server" dialog comes up when you enter www.(gibberish).com in the address bar. If you type some random words in the address bar, you get brought to a search page.
Of course Firefox does exactly the same thing with a Google "I'm Feeling Lucky" search by default...
Lenovo often bundles a 3-year warranty with its products. The HP model you cited costs an extra $185-$350 with a 3-year warranty, plus you have to deal with what HP/Compaq calls "tech support."
(HP/Compaq may have cleaned up its act since I had that hellish episode, but I'm not ever buying one of their products again.)
I also bought a 12" Powerbook. The thing is made from aluminum, one of the most malleable materials you can get. (Only the forthcoming MacBook Gold is softer among notebooks.) I toted it around in my bag every day until I noticed that the contacts around the power cable got bent. Five minutes with a capped pen brought it back somewhere near normalcy, but it just reinforced my belief that this thing is incredibly delicate.
Reminds me of the first TiBooks. Remember how everyone drank Steve's Kool-Aid when he said he was using NASA-grade titanium -- and then it turned out he made the case about 2 millimeters thick so it was incredibly brittle?
Aside from the body being so flaky the laptop has held up over time. I'm undecided as to a MacBook 13" or a ThinkPad tablet next time around -- maybe Apple will create the very first Mac tablet before my warranty on this p'book runs out.
Gotta fight fire with fire. Here in the US we have Apple commercials featuring a patronising hipster making all sorts of vacuous claims about how Windows computers can't do anything besides produce black and white pie charts, whereas Macs are fun. Oh, and that Macs run Windows too (sold separately) (not supported) (support is currently beta).
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This guy accepted e-mail sent directly to his address and decided to post the contents to mock the people who sent the messages. By posting all the details of this "experiment" on-line he clearly has every intention of naming and shaming the people who contacted him.
If this guy were a radio DJ and he played voice mail messages from personals-ad respondents on the air with phone numbers and real names included, he would be just as screwed. Same thing if he took letters sent by unsuspecting "victims" of his ad and published them in a newspaper column.
If this whole episode ends up in court, perhaps it will set a precedent about whether cleartext e-mail sent between two parties can be construed to have any notion of privacy. After all, phone calls and letters can be considered "private" even if there is no encryption on either end of the conversation.
Your link is dead. Guess the guy knew how to opt out of the Wayback Machine (after people had used it against him, of course). Is there an archive of the Wayback Machine anywhere? :)
I don't really care what Joe User's blog has to say about this project. Slashdot offers exactly as much insight as OhGizmo! and all ther other blogs that publish a paragraph with a link.
Just because some blog covered this story before Slashdot did doesn't make that blog the authority on the subject. Have we learned nothing from ordinary news outlets trying to "scoop" one another?
Netscape (while Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox was in pre-1.0 state), Google (for mail and their other beta products), and MythTV have marketshares that are all decidedly in the minority. Slashdot editors may love using unstable pre-release products (just look at the "Windows Vista runs like crap on Boot Camp" article yesterday) but the silent majority doesn't.
"But don't throw away your desktop applications just yet. As a general rule, Ajax sites simply aren't as powerful or as useful as their desktop counterparts. Spreadsheet jockeys, for example, will want to stick with Excel for the foreseeable future."
I also enjoy how many of the "recommended" apps are only available for use on outside servers, so no company-confidential data should ever be placed on them.
After Linux conquered the desktop (all my friends use Linux, so I'm pretty sure Linux has 100% market share) the next logical step was gaming. With more than 75,000 games including Tux Racer, gsolitaire, kpat, and xmines, the Indrema is the unparalleled leader in Linux gaming.
Yes. The weight of Slashdot comments will crush Sony just like they crushed Microsoft. If you need me I'll be playing Tux Racer on my Indrema.
I bet her parents were thinking, "our daughter's going to work at some company that'll name its key product after her..." :)
I didn't realize that. Pittsburgh is not one of those cities, apparently. Even Compaq took 3 days (2 of which were spent in transit) to get me a laptop with a replaced HD, but Apple just took much longer. I wouldn't have been upset had Apple not lied to me about it (I got random "we're working on it / it's done / we need to order a part" responses every time I called).
The most humiliating part was getting a follow-up phone call -- not to apologize for the bad service, but to make sure I had purchased AppleCare for future repairs. (The HD incident happened in the first year.)
Used CDs are almost always less expensive than iTunes, especially considering that you can't resell your iTunes music tracks should you grow tired of them. Buy them online (sites like Half and Amazon* will sell them to you with no sweat) and the selection goes far beyond that of iTunes.
* Disclaimer: I work for Amazon, this is not my company's official opinion, etc., etc.
Not really, because they bought cheapo Dells for $300 instead of cheapo iMacs for $900. That's six hundred dollars to spend on other essential supplies like iPods and Everclear.
How much for warranties for all those things? Apple charges only $170 for a 3-year warranty for the iMac, so I can just send my whole computer in, watch Monday Night Football and American Idol, and get a working computer back in as little as 18* days!
* My experience with a bad hard drive. Your times may vary.
Old Mac mini: $500, Bluetooth and Airport for $100 more
New Mac mini: $600, Bluetooth and Airport included!
Brilliant!
(Yes, yes, I know... the new Mac mini also includes other new features too)
Actual site: http://hyperscope.org/
Blog blog blog blog blog, blog blogpost blog blog...
The sudden motion sensor is also on ThinkPads. The ThinkPad control panel for it shows a picture of your laptop; as you shake the laptop around the picture of the laptop on screen also shakes. I still haven't seen any interesting uses of the motion sensor besides the intended purpose (shutting down the hard drive in case of a drop) and novelty things (imitating that Labyrinth game I used to play at the dentist's office waiting room).
Google Maps's arrows are never lined up with actual buildings on satellite views. I just looked my house up and the arrow is down the block. Better luck next time, Internet detective.
"New York, NY" refers to Manhattan. "Manhattan, NY" is not used in mailing addresses.
Here's the address mapped in Brooklyn, NY.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aVdytd-TGM&mode=re lated&search=
or
http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/ and click "Touche" in the list of ads.
Next time you make a joke at my expense, you could at least make it funny.
NSA: Can we have your search data?
Google: Sure.
NSA: Can we have your search data?
Google: Sure.
NSA: Can we have your search data?
Google: Sure.
NSA: Can we have your search data?
Google: NO!
Slashdot: Hooray!
Games?
Ah, never mind. The "Cannot Find Server" dialog comes up when you enter www.(gibberish).com in the address bar. If you type some random words in the address bar, you get brought to a search page.
Of course Firefox does exactly the same thing with a Google "I'm Feeling Lucky" search by default...
Lenovo often bundles a 3-year warranty with its products. The HP model you cited costs an extra $185-$350 with a 3-year warranty, plus you have to deal with what HP/Compaq calls "tech support."
(HP/Compaq may have cleaned up its act since I had that hellish episode, but I'm not ever buying one of their products again.)
I also bought a 12" Powerbook. The thing is made from aluminum, one of the most malleable materials you can get. (Only the forthcoming MacBook Gold is softer among notebooks.) I toted it around in my bag every day until I noticed that the contacts around the power cable got bent. Five minutes with a capped pen brought it back somewhere near normalcy, but it just reinforced my belief that this thing is incredibly delicate.
Reminds me of the first TiBooks. Remember how everyone drank Steve's Kool-Aid when he said he was using NASA-grade titanium -- and then it turned out he made the case about 2 millimeters thick so it was incredibly brittle?
Aside from the body being so flaky the laptop has held up over time. I'm undecided as to a MacBook 13" or a ThinkPad tablet next time around -- maybe Apple will create the very first Mac tablet before my warranty on this p'book runs out.
Gotta fight fire with fire. Here in the US we have Apple commercials featuring a patronising hipster making all sorts of vacuous claims about how Windows computers can't do anything besides produce black and white pie charts, whereas Macs are fun. Oh, and that Macs run Windows too (sold separately) (not supported) (support is currently beta).