Yeah really, to sabotage this business model, have the client download the image, but send it straight to/dev/null... hell, you could even have the browser designed to FOLLOW ad links, and send the whole page straight to the trash. The ad networks would see click throughs, the sites would get paid, the bandwidth would get wasted, and the client wouldn't ever have to display the hideous ads. Everyone's happy!
The first time wired.com published a Java banner I had to write them a letter for the same reasons... Intrusive, screwed up my browser, etc.
What's weird is, I don't know if they listened to me, or if lots of people complained, but they stopped. Then they started doing flash banners, which is great when you have flash turned off;-)
Speaking of which -- I've been playing your turns on kaybee (plugging the server to get more people to dominate), since you don't seem to be around much. Drop the corp some email, let us know what's up?
Anyhow, all my homebrew scripts are in Rexx, since that's what my favorite telnet client for twar supports.
What I'd really like to do is write a scriptable helper in tcl/tk (or maybe perl/tk). If anyone else is out there and wants to try and collaborate on this kind of thing lets all get together and write a for-real-helper that's unix friendly and gpl'd (unlike every other twar helper).
I bought a Olympus D-340r quite a while back when they where fresh. At the time I got a great deal at $250.
I still think this camera rules for sheer value. A small package, taking smartmedia up to 64mb. Because you are using smartmedia you've got lots of options for getting the stuff into your machine (works for me in linux, beos, and windows via serial, and windows with the little pc-card thingy).
Images have great color, imho. It's quick when using jpg compression (HQ), but slow as hell on uncompressed tiffs (SHQ) -- I think the limitation is the flash cards. The macro distance is really short, so you can get right up on subjects. It also will take images at light levels that a (similarly priced) film camera can't touch.
I think the D-340r is the best bang for the buck in the 1280x960 arena -- and they are even less expensive now.
I've got some virgin images on my site that haven't been re-touched or re-sized (add/news onto the url up there).
No - that is not what's happening. Your number one is right. at the end of the aol 5.0 install (or at the first launch if the install required a reboot, (it is windows after all)) it asks:
Do you want aol to be your default program for internet connections, mail, and news?
The default answer with the thick black line, and the dotted line (so that either space or enter works) is "NO".
Twitchy mousers or Idiot people can't read - so by their own mistake, they just made aol the default dial-up and mail/news reader (you know for mailto: and news: urls).
You wanna know how easy it is to fix (in most situiations)? You open your control panel - you click internet oprtions - you click connections - you click on the person you want to be default - you click "set as default" - you click ok.
Ta-Effing-Da.
Aol's installers have never deleting anything, ever. they don't even remove old copies of the aol software.
And you shouldn't fear big corporations running the world... you should fear the extra-national organizations like the WTO. THey're the ones who really rule the world.;-)
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The United States may have been the birthplace of a free and independent press, but its contemporary mass media are, increasingly, disgraceful testaments to mega-marketing: sensationalized promoters of controversy and fragmentation, producers of tepid, homogenized information-peddling.
This is exacly what Katz is doing - on 'our' forum no less.
Aol does not restrict access to information. Aol charges people for access to a highspeed netowrk... and charges companies for access to those people... I can't say what Time Warner does - they seem like a real "Big Media" company to me; like "Big Brother".
I've seen a lot of posts that actually understand the real issue of ownership. MS, att, yahoo, et al have no legal right to access AOL's machines without some kind of agreement. The aim servers are property owned by AOL, and just like i don't like people i don't know portscanning my machine, AOL shouldn't like unauthorized hosts connecting to it's machines either.
But more importantly, all of this is MOOT. There is already a free open protocol for "Instant Messaging" -- it's called IRC. Think about it for a minute, what did we all do before we had "buddy lists" or "contact lists"... we all camped on same network as our friends, and they could/msg or dcc us ANYTIME they wanted.
I've been knocking around the idea of creating a 'clone' of AIM or ICQ, something that works the same on the gui level, but uses an irc network. On the protocol level, when i sign on, i JOIN into a channel (having my own nick) lets say #shro0m. Then I also JOIN the channels for all of the people on my contact list (who have allowed me onto the 'contact lists'). So i join into the channels #ben and #dewb. so when dewb's client sees the JOIN on his personal channel, 'shro0m' pops up in his contact list as "online". Away status is already part of most(all) ircd's. you could even have html code in the PRIVMSG
To get a trojan horse you have to download an attachment. Then you have to execute the attachment; just like getting a virus. This isn't like outlook where attachments automatically download, and macros automatically execute. You have to do this to yourself, despite warnings.
Wired really misrepresents the situation, probably because none of them have every used aol, just HOTMAIL where it really is insecure. Everytime you get a letter with an attachment in aol it pops up a window that fills the screen that says, "WARNING YOU PUNK - DOWNLOADING SHIT CAN FSCK YOUR SYSTEM" - only in kinder red letters. After that, you have to click, "Yes, i still want to download this". Next... after choosing a name and location like in all SaveAs dialog's, you have to then EXECUTE the file!
No versin of aol has the ability or CODE to execute ATTACHMENTS.
This really disturbs me.:-) and yes i posted this on a different thread.
To get a trojan horse you have to download an attachment. Then you have to execute the attachment; just like getting a virus. This isn't like outlook where attachments automatically download, and macros automatically execute. You have to do this to yourself, despite warnings.
Wired really misrepresents the situation, probably because none of them have every used aol, just HOTMAIL where it really is insecure. Everytime you get a letter with an attachment in aol it pops up a window that fills the screen that says, "WARNING YOU PUNK - DOWNLOADING SHIT CAN FSCK YOUR SYSTEM" - only in kinder red letters. After that, you have to click, "Yes, i still want to download this". Next... after choosing a name and location like in all SaveAs dialog's, you have to then EXECUTE the file!
No versin of aol has the ability or CODE to execute ATTACHMENTS.
This problem is caused by hardware acceleration. either get new drivers or:
hold alt - double click "my computer" -> click performance -> click graphics -> move the slider from full to none -> click ok -> click close -> click yes to restart.
I do tech support. This fixes all scrolling problems with all software. Scrolling causes lots of new rectangles to be drawn. We all know that windows accelerators speed up rectangular blits. When the drivers suck - they choke on these blits.
I have been complaing about this very subject for the last year. As I see more and more mother boards with built in components on them.
As an example, remember the ide controller in your isa system? Remember how cheap the serial card was? Back in the day, needed a new 16550, you just got a new serial board. The next generation uart (we'll pretend here) is the usb's async controller... whoops, you can't get that UNLESS you buy a new motherboard. On my new pentium boards, if the floppy controller dies, I have to disable the onboard stuff, and plug in an old isa controller (we all know floppies are passe, so it's not like this is necessary). I am positive that if I cared to look I could not find on the market anywhere an isa/pci ide/floppy controller. This is so ubiquitous a motherboard feature these days the only solution is motherboard replacement.
Before you know it, memory manufactures will be in cahoots with the mobo manufactures to build mobo's with all the ram ON BOARD!
Why would they do that you ask? Well just like the former paragraph, it's so that when a compenent fails, or an upgrade is necessary you are buying a new system! this is the ultimate goal of the wintel hegemony. The commodity pc (the ultimate refinement of lets say, the imac and the eMachine) is a box with Everything On A Chip and a flashy box. Performance is not an issue! Microsoft has shown us that consumers don't by performance, they buy GLITZ. Just like iMacs. Just like flash Packard Bells, and eMachines. Winmodems and integrated A/V on board -- a performance nightmare! (At least the imac's performance doesn't suck... comparatively.) Once all pc's are totally commodity, prices may seem low, but profit margins are high (for the reasons in the article). In house control means cheaper machines with the added bonus of being LOCKED into one manufactures UPGRADE PATH.
Of course this path is one way and one big step at a time... Don't like your old PC? Buy a new one! With new stain removing power! or Flame-broiled taste! whatever the latest market lingo is.
What's funny is - they tried to BAN Grand Theft Auto in the US. This game is from the Uk. This isn't "american crazies" making games about running over krishna's and shooting cops and driving tanks over civilian autos, it's "british crazies". But at the same time, you get busted everytime in gta, you can't hold off the cops forever; so maybe that's the lesson they where going for;)
I agree with you guys, I read their site etc, and to me a 'better' name would be something like GNU-Darwin. I'm not sure if that's appropriate if the core isn't gpl...
And if this whole setup is based on Netbsd does that mean it will share it's platform independance also? Or is this really just a ppc thing?
I agree with this completely - I think that Bush is in fact infringing on my first Amendment right to free speech. He is preventing me from saying to the u.s. citizens on the web that "Bush Sucks (dot org)"
I think this is the real issue anyhow, not whether he dropped 14 grand with NSI just for publicity.
from the enterprise security section: Intrusion Detection
The most secure door in the world won't help you if your windows are unlocked. Network scanners probe your system for security gaps in your firewalls, servers and desktop computers. By identifying the potential dangers, scanners let fix the system before the hackers strike.
I guess this how you cozy up to Enterprise customers. This is how you alienate ISP's who want to buy netwinders, but are run by 'so-called' hackers. Bastards.
This is just part of the same old argument, but i couldn't use the "conact us" section to register my distaste.
The proper term is *Intruder*, *Vandal*, *Criminal*.
Here at AOL it's all about branding... Buying Netscape and ICQ etc, it's all about co-branding schemes, and "We are continually bringing STRONG BRANDS into the America Online family". They say stuff like that. Really.
You obviously stepped on this guys sensibilities -- I can kind or relate to your point of view though. My parents intrusion into my personal life incensed me; Never to physical violence, but deffinitely harsh words. Our relationship really improved when I moved out and started going to college.
I'm also curious - because these seems pretty legit...
I read a couple years ago an article, by Fullerton i believe, about how he had come up with some practicle solutions for cellular service (like miniturized cellular attenae, and the like) and approached the FCC about it and they dissed him. That's why he wrote the paper anyhow. But I don't remember for sure.
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Yeah really, to sabotage this business model, have the client download the image, but send it straight to /dev/null ... hell, you could even have the browser designed to FOLLOW ad links, and send the whole page straight to the trash. The ad networks would see click throughs, the sites would get paid, the bandwidth would get wasted, and the client wouldn't ever have to display the hideous ads. Everyone's happy!
What's weird is, I don't know if they listened to me, or if lots of people complained, but they stopped. Then they started doing flash banners, which is great when you have flash turned off ;-)
Anyhow, all my homebrew scripts are in Rexx, since that's what my favorite telnet client for twar supports.
What I'd really like to do is write a scriptable helper in tcl/tk (or maybe perl/tk). If anyone else is out there and wants to try and collaborate on this kind of thing lets all get together and write a for-real-helper that's unix friendly and gpl'd (unlike every other twar helper).
Darn -- Forgot to log in. The parent is mine, so if you need to mail me, here I am.
I still think this camera rules for sheer value. A small package, taking smartmedia up to 64mb. Because you are using smartmedia you've got lots of options for getting the stuff into your machine (works for me in linux, beos, and windows via serial, and windows with the little pc-card thingy).
Images have great color, imho. It's quick when using jpg compression (HQ), but slow as hell on uncompressed tiffs (SHQ) -- I think the limitation is the flash cards. The macro distance is really short, so you can get right up on subjects. It also will take images at light levels that a (similarly priced) film camera can't touch.
I think the D-340r is the best bang for the buck in the 1280x960 arena -- and they are even less expensive now.
I've got some virgin images on my site that haven't been re-touched or re-sized (add /news onto the url up there).
That's exactly what I was going to say! I'm glad someone else is having my gut reaction.
she probably had win95. and ie4. thus requiring MSIE's new goodies to be installed. Thanks Microsoft.
The aol 5.0 cd install puts on MSIE 5.0 on if they don't have it. Aol 5 does not ship with any msmouse.vxd's in it's installer.
MSIE 5.0 is what "blew up" her computer.
The default answer with the thick black line, and the dotted line (so that either space or enter works) is "NO".
Twitchy mousers or Idiot people can't read - so by their own mistake, they just made aol the default dial-up and mail/news reader (you know for mailto: and news: urls).
You wanna know how easy it is to fix (in most situiations)? You open your control panel - you click internet oprtions - you click connections - you click on the person you want to be default - you click "set as default" - you click ok.
Ta-Effing-Da.
Aol's installers have never deleting anything, ever. they don't even remove old copies of the aol software.
And you shouldn't fear big corporations running the world ... you should fear the extra-national organizations like the WTO. THey're the ones who really rule the world. ;-)
This is exacly what Katz is doing - on 'our' forum no less.
Aol does not restrict access to information. Aol charges people for access to a highspeed netowrk ... and charges companies for access to those people ... I can't say what Time Warner does - they seem like a real "Big Media" company to me; like "Big Brother".
But more importantly, all of this is MOOT. There is already a free open protocol for "Instant Messaging" -- it's called IRC. Think about it for a minute, what did we all do before we had "buddy lists" or "contact lists" ... we all camped on same network as our friends, and they could /msg or dcc us ANYTIME they wanted.
I've been knocking around the idea of creating a 'clone' of AIM or ICQ, something that works the same on the gui level, but uses an irc network. On the protocol level, when i sign on, i JOIN into a channel (having my own nick) lets say #shro0m. Then I also JOIN the channels for all of the people on my contact list (who have allowed me onto the 'contact lists'). So i join into the channels #ben and #dewb. so when dewb's client sees the JOIN on his personal channel, 'shro0m' pops up in his contact list as "online". Away status is already part of most(all) ircd's. you could even have html code in the PRIVMSG
To get a trojan horse you have to download an attachment. Then you have to execute the attachment; just like getting a virus. This isn't like outlook where attachments automatically download, and macros automatically execute. You have to do this to yourself, despite warnings.
Wired really misrepresents the situation, probably because none of them have every used aol, just HOTMAIL where it really is insecure. Everytime you get a letter with an attachment in aol it pops up a window that fills the screen that says, "WARNING YOU PUNK - DOWNLOADING SHIT CAN FSCK YOUR SYSTEM" - only in kinder red letters. After that, you have to click, "Yes, i still want to download this". Next ... after choosing a name and location like in all SaveAs dialog's, you have to then EXECUTE the file!
No versin of aol has the ability or CODE to execute ATTACHMENTS.
This really disturbs me. :-) and yes i posted this on a different thread.
To get a trojan horse you have to download an attachment. Then you have to execute the attachment; just like getting a virus. This isn't like outlook where attachments automatically download, and macros automatically execute. You have to do this to yourself, despite warnings.
Wired really misrepresents the situation, probably because none of them have every used aol, just HOTMAIL where it really is insecure. Everytime you get a letter with an attachment in aol it pops up a window that fills the screen that says, "WARNING YOU PUNK - DOWNLOADING SHIT CAN FSCK YOUR SYSTEM" - only in kinder red letters. After that, you have to click, "Yes, i still want to download this". Next ... after choosing a name and location like in all SaveAs dialog's, you have to then EXECUTE the file!
No versin of aol has the ability or CODE to execute ATTACHMENTS.
This really disturbs me.
I'm talking real proper respect. If you're down, pour a 40 for Stevens. We'll miss you 'til we join you!
hold alt - double click "my computer" -> click performance -> click graphics -> move the slider from full to none -> click ok -> click close -> click yes to restart.
I do tech support. This fixes all scrolling problems with all software. Scrolling causes lots of new rectangles to be drawn. We all know that windows accelerators speed up rectangular blits. When the drivers suck - they choke on these blits.
Of course, ymmv ;-)
Remember - pants are optional!! muahaha
As an example, remember the ide controller in your isa system? Remember how cheap the serial card was? Back in the day, needed a new 16550, you just got a new serial board. The next generation uart (we'll pretend here) is the usb's async controller... whoops, you can't get that UNLESS you buy a new motherboard. On my new pentium boards, if the floppy controller dies, I have to disable the onboard stuff, and plug in an old isa controller (we all know floppies are passe, so it's not like this is necessary). I am positive that if I cared to look I could not find on the market anywhere an isa/pci ide/floppy controller. This is so ubiquitous a motherboard feature these days the only solution is motherboard replacement.
Before you know it, memory manufactures will be in cahoots with the mobo manufactures to build mobo's with all the ram ON BOARD!
Why would they do that you ask? Well just like the former paragraph, it's so that when a compenent fails, or an upgrade is necessary you are buying a new system! this is the ultimate goal of the wintel hegemony. The commodity pc (the ultimate refinement of lets say, the imac and the eMachine) is a box with Everything On A Chip and a flashy box. Performance is not an issue! Microsoft has shown us that consumers don't by performance, they buy GLITZ. Just like iMacs. Just like flash Packard Bells, and eMachines. Winmodems and integrated A/V on board -- a performance nightmare! (At least the imac's performance doesn't suck... comparatively.) Once all pc's are totally commodity, prices may seem low, but profit margins are high (for the reasons in the article). In house control means cheaper machines with the added bonus of being LOCKED into one manufactures UPGRADE PATH.
Of course this path is one way and one big step at a time... Don't like your old PC? Buy a new one! With new stain removing power! or Flame-broiled taste! whatever the latest market lingo is.
Anyhow, enough ranting
Hm ... maybe something like Transmeta's system ... ;) Aren't they looking to separate the single os from the processor under it?
What's funny is - they tried to BAN Grand Theft Auto in the US. This game is from the Uk. This isn't "american crazies" making games about running over krishna's and shooting cops and driving tanks over civilian autos, it's "british crazies". But at the same time, you get busted everytime in gta, you can't hold off the cops forever; so maybe that's the lesson they where going for ;)
And if this whole setup is based on Netbsd does that mean it will share it's platform independance also? Or is this really just a ppc thing?
I think this is the real issue anyhow, not whether he dropped 14 grand with NSI just for publicity.
There's even a button that says "POWERED BY NETWINDER". Bastards! Well, obviously not - unless it's that new "strongarm solaris" right. sheesh.
Intrusion Detection
The most secure door in the world won't help you if your windows are unlocked. Network scanners probe your system for security gaps in your firewalls, servers and desktop computers. By identifying the potential dangers, scanners let fix the system before the hackers strike.
I guess this how you cozy up to Enterprise customers. This is how you alienate ISP's who want to buy netwinders, but are run by 'so-called' hackers. Bastards.
This is just part of the same old argument, but i couldn't use the "conact us" section to register my distaste.
The proper term is *Intruder*, *Vandal*, *Criminal*.
Here at AOL it's all about branding ... Buying Netscape and ICQ etc, it's all about co-branding schemes, and "We are continually bringing STRONG BRANDS into the America Online family". They say stuff like that. Really.
You obviously stepped on this guys sensibilities -- I can kind or relate to your point of view though. My parents intrusion into my personal life incensed me; Never to physical violence, but deffinitely harsh words. Our relationship really improved when I moved out and started going to college.
I read a couple years ago an article, by Fullerton i believe, about how he had come up with some practicle solutions for cellular service (like miniturized cellular attenae, and the like) and approached the FCC about it and they dissed him. That's why he wrote the paper anyhow. But I don't remember for sure.
Seems legit to me - but I don't know for sure.