What control of web viewing means...
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Clever Girl Bess
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That means that Bess controls the Web choices of more than 12 million students kindergarten through high school
Does this mean that pepsi could pay these guys a bunch of money, and suddenly, no matter how hard you try, nothing Coke related will come up?
Lots of people throw fits when it looks like corporations are screwing them over. Why is no one objecting to allowing a major company to control the content that their kids see?
In my opinion, it would be easier to do the following: First make all students who want to use the internet sign an agreement. Then make sure every student has a network login. If they dont sign the agreement, then their account doesnt get internet access. Then, there are plenty of products that will cache, and scan the incoming content. They can flag potential violations of the agreement, and then a human can look at them to make sure they really are bad. The software should also cache whose account the content went to, and then the student can be held accountable for his own actions.
Most likely,.NET won't have disclaimer on the box that says not to use it around small children, nuclear plants, while operating heavy machinary, etc... Java doesn't have any sort of error (something i dunno) and may be unsafe to use in critical situations. On the other hand,.NET will have a handy little blue screen to let you know when there has been an error and that you should go find some lead to hide under. ----------------------
From what i have seen of computers in schools, is that the school must decide that it will make computers a big part of the school. I have seen schools who have made that their mission, and it has been a success. When computers are given priority, then the school will find ways to make it happen.
On the other hand, in the school that I went to, as with most other schools, computers were behind such activities as sports, and jock straps for the football team. At my old school, there were two computer labs. Each had a combination of old 486's and newer PII/III/Celeron's, most of which were bought with grant money. Ok, so far so good for a school in a less affluent area. However, there is only one full time computer teacher. sometimes there is an ENGLISH class in one of the labs. Other than that, one of the labs is empty most of the day.
Me and my friends at the school had tried to get the school to do more with the computers. We soon found out, that it wasn't a matter of money, because, we offered ways to cut computer costs (Linux servers, Linux, Linux...etc[linux]). However, we were continually shot down by an administration that just didn't like computers.
Now i hear that they have implemented internet filtering. It is one of those awful ones that filters out everything except porn, hate material, and satan worship.
So i guess that the point is that schools have to WANT to support computer usage. If they decide that they need new lockers (to replace the ones that were removed 5 years earlier because people were hiding drugs in them) instead of computers, well, there is nothing that can be done. ----------------------
First of all, let's point out here that what this little story refers to as "hackers" are actually "pirates".
I would be willing to bet that there were only about 10 or so real crackers who would actually reverse engineer the cards, build the smart card writers, and update their programs. The rest of the 100,000 or so "hackers" were probably just script kiddies who were doing what script kiddies do best. You know the kiddie mentality, some kiddie found out about what a few guys were doing and immediately started blabbing it to all his kiddie friends and claiming he was a w00t 31337 h@X0r d00d.
The article says: Some estimate that in one evening, 100,000 smart cards were destroyed, removing 98% of the hacking communities' ability to steal their signal
Most likely, the 2% of the cards that survived were by some of the original crackers who were smart enough to see it coming. (or they just went to bed early and shut down their system.) ----------------------
That, and you'd get some little BOFH in training stuffing the jacks full of gum or sticking their fork into it. Or building an adapter that runs power from their laptop batteries to rj-45 and then sticking it into the jack. (although, i have to admit that that would be rather cool.) ----------------------
To CmdrTaco: stop bashing M$
to all the people bashing CmdrTaco for bashing M$:
shut the hell up.
M$ products aren't perfect, *nix's aren't perfect. However, the thing that nobody seems to accept, is that they both need each other. In alot of the places that M$ is lacking in, Linux is strong. In alot of the places that Linux is lacking in, M$ is strong. If one went away, then the other would not have any incentive to get better and would stagnate.
The truth is, is you can still do more stuff in windows than in linux. In windows i use photoshop, Lightwave, Visual Basic, Frontpage, numerous games, and numerous other programs. I use linux for word processing (StarOffice), as a Primary domain controller/file/print server, Web server, proxy server, messing with perl, and other leet stuff we all know linux does. The only way that I would every move over to pure linux is if/when more programs are ported over to linux. As far as i can tell, that isn't going to happen any time soon. The primary focus is on building free alternatives from scratch. I would much rather see stuff like what IDSoftware did with quake I&II. It would be cool if companies could start building apps that could be used with either a windows binary or a linux binary.
For example If i buy a program for windows, and i wanted to use it for linux, either i could get the linux binary off of the install media, or from the company after i proved my windows license.
I guess what I'm getting at is that both sides of the M$ vs. Linux fight should just knock it off. You are being a bunch of immature punks. It is going to be a long time before one or the other actually truly becomes better than the other. Until then, shut yer pie hole!
All you have to do is
1. Sell your sould to Sat*coughbillgatescough*an
2. sacrifice your firstborn to the almighty BSOD
3. kill a linux programmer and bring his brain to M$ headquarters.
you will then be allowed to see the windows source. However, they will kill you if you laugh at the fact that windows has a whole lot of this(uhh, i don't know C so here it is in a sort of messed up pseudo language form:
while foo > 0
if condition.unknown=true
then goto BSOD
next foo
While it is good practice to try to make the best of the old stuff that we have. This sort of thing would take to long to implement, and would never become mainstream before new stuff came out. Eventually we are going to have to rebuild the infrastructure of the phone system anyway because it is so old and decaying. ----------------------
Configure a firewall that blocks access to all but a single "drive" to which you can get to with some rudimentary h4x0r1ng skillz. fill that directory with a bunch of files, programs, etc. except make every file infected with the most virulent stuff you can find for a variety of OS's. that way, some script kiddy thinks he's hacked your server, and then, BAM! If only you could find a virus that did weird things with the power pathways on the motherboard. Then you could eliminate the kiddie as well as his computer. ----------------------
I don't have any credit cards yet, but one thing that i do with my ATM card and Debit card is to sign the back like your supposed too. I always leave enough room on that writing strip so that i can write "See Drivers License" (yes it can be done. you can fit two lines of writing on that strip) This makes it so that when you are in a store, when they check your signature, they will usually ask for your ID, and you can show them your picture.
While this doesn't help any for online transactions, it does help if your card gets stolen. Anyway most cards have a policy of non liability for fraudulent transactions.
What I would like to know, is how do these sort of ideas even get published,
with all sorts of ways that they can be implemented without any
consideration of the consequences?
This idea was published, and immediately there was a lot of noise about the
problem that this would cause throughout the entire computing industry, and
beyond. Why are people who are motivated only by greed, and not the good of
the industry, even allowed to even open their mouths?
Do they not have any methods for actually thinking before they speak?
I was in Wal-Mart (large variety chain for the non US'ers) last night, and what did i see just inside the entrance? A display with a sign that said "Get 750 free hours" and under it was a container full of about a thousand AOL gold cd's. Needless to say, it was creepy.
Hemos is right, dont click spam links. You should also keep from giving out your real email address. These are all common sense things. there are alot of classes offered about how to use the internet, I think that spam avoidance should be part of them.
What are they going to try to pull next? Hmm.. Let's see, VCR's, Copy machines, video cameras, Pretty much anything that can duplicate something else.
Are they also going to change the current copyright laws that say if you own a music cd, you can make mp3s of it for personal noncommercial use? What about the EULA of most software companies that say you can make a backup of your software.
AAARGHH! It just makes me really angry when companies throw out these insane ideas. But what really makes me mad is when these ideas are actually considered. What is this world coming to when you can throw all common sense, right of fair use, intelligence, and reasonableness right out the door, and still avoid getting thrown in the looney bin?
What i always find interesting, is when people find every reason to say that games are the ultimate evil in computing. They really have no idea about them at all, they are the people who get motion sickness playing mario kart 64. (yes i do know someone like that)
These are the people who claim that by playing computer games, youths lose their grasp on reality and become insane, acting out game scenarios, and racking up frags in the school cafeteria. However, those accusations are completely unfounded. Most gamers are very stable people, and probably have a better grip on reality than most, which is why they play games, to clear their minds of the awful junk they've had to put up with that day.
The only people who go nuts, and act out games in real life are people who had no grip on reality in the first place. They are people to probably spent the first five years of their lives in front of a TV. These are the people who may ultimately ruin gaming for the rest of us.
What i'd like to know is how many people actually use support for hardware that they buy, other than warantee returns? Before, i buy a piece of hardware, i always do lots of research to find out if it will work under linux. AND...what about just getting help from the linux community if you are having problems? I don't think that IBM not supporting linux is bad for consumers, but it is weird considering how much they are into open source. Maybe they've been getting people complaining about hardware not working because theyve not known how to configure linux right.
hmm.. I wonder what Gore was like before this.
Theorum 1: At work
"What!? You call this a paycheck? I demand a recount!.... See! the recount proves that I worked 200 hours this week, so pay up!"
Theorum 2: At school
"What?! a zero??? I demand a recount!.... See, the recount proves that I go 150% on this paper!"
Theorum 3: As a kid
Bush and Gore as kids on Halloween (ignore the age difference)
Bush: "i got more candy that you Al"
Gore: "No you didn't! Lets recount it"
(Gore then promises the little girl next door (Katherine Harris) that he will give her some candy if she distracts George for 10 seconds, and then he steals some of Bush's candy and then spits on some of the rest)
Gore: "EEEEWWWWWW, that doesnt count, its all nasty!"
Bush: "Hey, what happened to all my tootsie rolls? YOINK"
Gore:"MOMMMMMMEEEEEEEEE!"
Mom:"Al, stop stealing other people's candy" [SMACK!]
Gore:"WAAAAAAAAAAAA, you take that back or im gonna hold my breath until i die!"
Who needs a PIV when you can get a PIII 1GHz for for about $460. And with the prices droppingabout $20 a week, hey, its gonna be worth it to get one (or two) by the time the PIV is even officially released.
I realize that Bush probably didn't write it, but thats not the point.
Part of being a good president is not knowing everything. It is about hiring the right people to advise you about everything, and who collectively know everything. The presidency isn't only about knowledge, it's also about administrative skill.
From reading Gore's response to the question about encryption, I got the sense that he had no idea what he had been asked. He was just spouting out praise about the current administration, and how wonderful it is, and that he should be allowed to continue it.
Bush on the other hand, (while he probably doesnt know much about encryption either) appeared to at least have done a little bit of research. He talked about some specific instances in which encryption can help, and offered his support in those areas.
I wonder, if asked, if Gore would take credit for the use of strong encryption in the Government?
Heh, I have had similar troubles with transferring documents from school to home and vice versa. There was one time that my printer ran out of ink on the day that my Senior Project was due. I ended up taking 5 brand new floppy disks and copying as many copies of the file onto each of the disks as possible. I ended up having 20 copies of the file, and at least one of the disks had failed by the time i got to school.
Just a note for arctic chicken: It might be usefull to make sure that along with disks, the students should be able to buy floppy disk cases to protect the disks from physical damage. Sometimes floppy disks can withstand being stepped on, and other times the weight of photonic energy bombarding them can make them fail.
Re:No Security on a Windows Network
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While I would prefer Linux, I work at a Hospital that uses a sophisticated firewall. However, we also run software on the exchange server that scans all incoming emails. It manages to detect regular viruses and macros. It then deletes them and sends the recipient an email notifying them that the action was taken. Someone will only get hit every 2-3 months, and then only because administration is too cheap to upgrade the mail server, and it sometimes lags a few seconds (and yes, that is long enough, for those people who sit at their desks all day hovering in front of outlook, to open up the attachment) This might be a good thing to look into, there are several companies that offer this sort of thing, and it does work.
Because CmdrTaco is root@slashdot and you are not. besides, I happen to agree with him, they look like crap. I can't believe that companies are turning away from cool technology and using appearance as a way to sell products. I dont know whether to be more disgusted at the industry for allowing this to happen, or at the conusmers who would rather have some weird colored piece of junk on their desk than something that actually is worth something.
These three companies are in violation of patent # 4,309,234,398 that is currently held by me.
This patent covers the use of using tabs at the top of the page in order to allow quick navigation to major portions of the site.
See for yourself at amazon, barnes & noble, and Musicians Friend.
I currently hold patent #3,456,232,632, which covers the production of shoddy products in order to shaft greedy and ignorant investors. Unfortunately I can not give you a URL for either of my patents, because my webserver, which is running $H1t-OS, has crashed.
I am hereby formally informing slashdot that they have violated the patent that I currently hold on using pretty widgets to represent the stories on my news website.
Patent: 3245692435798
purpose: the act of using content specific icons to give readers a quick overview of what articles can be found, as well as allowing the readers to use those widgets to find other stories of the same type.
Slashdot Mirror
That means that Bess controls the Web choices of more than 12 million students kindergarten through high school
Does this mean that pepsi could pay these guys a bunch of money, and suddenly, no matter how hard you try, nothing Coke related will come up?
Lots of people throw fits when it looks like corporations are screwing them over. Why is no one objecting to allowing a major company to control the content that their kids see?
In my opinion, it would be easier to do the following: First make all students who want to use the internet sign an agreement. Then make sure every student has a network login. If they dont sign the agreement, then their account doesnt get internet access. Then, there are plenty of products that will cache, and scan the incoming content. They can flag potential violations of the agreement, and then a human can look at them to make sure they really are bad. The software should also cache whose account the content went to, and then the student can be held accountable for his own actions.
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Most likely, .NET won't have disclaimer on the box that says not to use it around small children, nuclear plants, while operating heavy machinary, etc... Java doesn't have any sort of error (something i dunno) and may be unsafe to use in critical situations. On the other hand, .NET will have a handy little blue screen to let you know when there has been an error and that you should go find some lead to hide under.
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From what i have seen of computers in schools, is that the school must decide that it will make computers a big part of the school. I have seen schools who have made that their mission, and it has been a success. When computers are given priority, then the school will find ways to make it happen.
On the other hand, in the school that I went to, as with most other schools, computers were behind such activities as sports, and jock straps for the football team. At my old school, there were two computer labs. Each had a combination of old 486's and newer PII/III/Celeron's, most of which were bought with grant money. Ok, so far so good for a school in a less affluent area. However, there is only one full time computer teacher. sometimes there is an ENGLISH class in one of the labs. Other than that, one of the labs is empty most of the day.
Me and my friends at the school had tried to get the school to do more with the computers. We soon found out, that it wasn't a matter of money, because, we offered ways to cut computer costs (Linux servers, Linux, Linux...etc[linux]). However, we were continually shot down by an administration that just didn't like computers.
Now i hear that they have implemented internet filtering. It is one of those awful ones that filters out everything except porn, hate material, and satan worship.
So i guess that the point is that schools have to WANT to support computer usage. If they decide that they need new lockers (to replace the ones that were removed 5 years earlier because people were hiding drugs in them) instead of computers, well, there is nothing that can be done.
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First of all, let's point out here that what this little story refers to as "hackers" are actually "pirates".
I would be willing to bet that there were only about 10 or so real crackers who would actually reverse engineer the cards, build the smart card writers, and update their programs. The rest of the 100,000 or so "hackers" were probably just script kiddies who were doing what script kiddies do best. You know the kiddie mentality, some kiddie found out about what a few guys were doing and immediately started blabbing it to all his kiddie friends and claiming he was a w00t 31337 h@X0r d00d.
The article says: Some estimate that in one evening, 100,000 smart cards were destroyed, removing 98% of the hacking communities' ability to steal their signal
Most likely, the 2% of the cards that survived were by some of the original crackers who were smart enough to see it coming. (or they just went to bed early and shut down their system.)
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That, and you'd get some little BOFH in training stuffing the jacks full of gum or sticking their fork into it. Or building an adapter that runs power from their laptop batteries to rj-45 and then sticking it into the jack. (although, i have to admit that that would be rather cool.)
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To CmdrTaco: stop bashing M$
to all the people bashing CmdrTaco for bashing M$:
shut the hell up.
M$ products aren't perfect, *nix's aren't perfect. However, the thing that nobody seems to accept, is that they both need each other. In alot of the places that M$ is lacking in, Linux is strong. In alot of the places that Linux is lacking in, M$ is strong. If one went away, then the other would not have any incentive to get better and would stagnate.
The truth is, is you can still do more stuff in windows than in linux. In windows i use photoshop, Lightwave, Visual Basic, Frontpage, numerous games, and numerous other programs. I use linux for word processing (StarOffice), as a Primary domain controller/file/print server, Web server, proxy server, messing with perl, and other leet stuff we all know linux does. The only way that I would every move over to pure linux is if/when more programs are ported over to linux. As far as i can tell, that isn't going to happen any time soon. The primary focus is on building free alternatives from scratch. I would much rather see stuff like what IDSoftware did with quake I&II. It would be cool if companies could start building apps that could be used with either a windows binary or a linux binary.
For example If i buy a program for windows, and i wanted to use it for linux, either i could get the linux binary off of the install media, or from the company after i proved my windows license.
I guess what I'm getting at is that both sides of the M$ vs. Linux fight should just knock it off. You are being a bunch of immature punks. It is going to be a long time before one or the other actually truly becomes better than the other. Until then, shut yer pie hole!
end sub
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All you have to do is
1. Sell your sould to Sat*coughbillgatescough*an
2. sacrifice your firstborn to the almighty BSOD
3. kill a linux programmer and bring his brain to M$ headquarters.
you will then be allowed to see the windows source. However, they will kill you if you laugh at the fact that windows has a whole lot of this(uhh, i don't know C so here it is in a sort of messed up pseudo language form:
while foo > 0
if condition.unknown=true
then goto BSOD
next foo
or something like that
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While it is good practice to try to make the best of the old stuff that we have. This sort of thing would take to long to implement, and would never become mainstream before new stuff came out. Eventually we are going to have to rebuild the infrastructure of the phone system anyway because it is so old and decaying.
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Configure a firewall that blocks access to all but a single "drive" to which you can get to with some rudimentary h4x0r1ng skillz. fill that directory with a bunch of files, programs, etc. except make every file infected with the most virulent stuff you can find for a variety of OS's. that way, some script kiddy thinks he's hacked your server, and then, BAM! If only you could find a virus that did weird things with the power pathways on the motherboard. Then you could eliminate the kiddie as well as his computer.
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I don't have any credit cards yet, but one thing that i do with my ATM card and Debit card is to sign the back like your supposed too. I always leave enough room on that writing strip so that i can write "See Drivers License" (yes it can be done. you can fit two lines of writing on that strip) This makes it so that when you are in a store, when they check your signature, they will usually ask for your ID, and you can show them your picture.
While this doesn't help any for online transactions, it does help if your card gets stolen. Anyway most cards have a policy of non liability for fraudulent transactions.
What I would like to know, is how do these sort of ideas even get published,
with all sorts of ways that they can be implemented without any
consideration of the consequences?
This idea was published, and immediately there was a lot of noise about the
problem that this would cause throughout the entire computing industry, and
beyond. Why are people who are motivated only by greed, and not the good of
the industry, even allowed to even open their mouths?
Do they not have any methods for actually thinking before they speak?
I was in Wal-Mart (large variety chain for the non US'ers) last night, and what did i see just inside the entrance? A display with a sign that said "Get 750 free hours" and under it was a container full of about a thousand AOL gold cd's. Needless to say, it was creepy.
Hemos is right, dont click spam links. You should also keep from giving out your real email address. These are all common sense things. there are alot of classes offered about how to use the internet, I think that spam avoidance should be part of them.
What are they going to try to pull next? Hmm.. Let's see, VCR's, Copy machines, video cameras, Pretty much anything that can duplicate something else.
Are they also going to change the current copyright laws that say if you own a music cd, you can make mp3s of it for personal noncommercial use? What about the EULA of most software companies that say you can make a backup of your software.
AAARGHH! It just makes me really angry when companies throw out these insane ideas. But what really makes me mad is when these ideas are actually considered. What is this world coming to when you can throw all common sense, right of fair use, intelligence, and reasonableness right out the door, and still avoid getting thrown in the looney bin?
What i always find interesting, is when people find every reason to say that games are the ultimate evil in computing. They really have no idea about them at all, they are the people who get motion sickness playing mario kart 64. (yes i do know someone like that)
These are the people who claim that by playing computer games, youths lose their grasp on reality and become insane, acting out game scenarios, and racking up frags in the school cafeteria. However, those accusations are completely unfounded. Most gamers are very stable people, and probably have a better grip on reality than most, which is why they play games, to clear their minds of the awful junk they've had to put up with that day.
The only people who go nuts, and act out games in real life are people who had no grip on reality in the first place. They are people to probably spent the first five years of their lives in front of a TV. These are the people who may ultimately ruin gaming for the rest of us.
What i'd like to know is how many people actually use support for hardware that they buy, other than warantee returns? Before, i buy a piece of hardware, i always do lots of research to find out if it will work under linux. AND...what about just getting help from the linux community if you are having problems? I don't think that IBM not supporting linux is bad for consumers, but it is weird considering how much they are into open source. Maybe they've been getting people complaining about hardware not working because theyve not known how to configure linux right.
hmm.. I wonder what Gore was like before this.
Theorum 1: At work
"What!? You call this a paycheck? I demand a recount!.... See! the recount proves that I worked 200 hours this week, so pay up!"
Theorum 2: At school
"What?! a zero??? I demand a recount!.... See, the recount proves that I go 150% on this paper!"
Theorum 3: As a kid
Bush and Gore as kids on Halloween (ignore the age difference)
Bush: "i got more candy that you Al"
Gore: "No you didn't! Lets recount it"
(Gore then promises the little girl next door (Katherine Harris) that he will give her some candy if she distracts George for 10 seconds, and then he steals some of Bush's candy and then spits on some of the rest)
Gore: "EEEEWWWWWW, that doesnt count, its all nasty!"
Bush: "Hey, what happened to all my tootsie rolls? YOINK"
Gore:"MOMMMMMMEEEEEEEEE!"
Mom:"Al, stop stealing other people's candy" [SMACK!]
Gore:"WAAAAAAAAAAAA, you take that back or im gonna hold my breath until i die!"
And the rest is, as they say, history.
Who needs a PIV when you can get a PIII 1GHz for for about $460. And with the prices dropping about $20 a week, hey, its gonna be worth it to get one (or two) by the time the PIV is even officially released.
I realize that Bush probably didn't write it, but thats not the point.
Part of being a good president is not knowing everything. It is about hiring the right people to advise you about everything, and who collectively know everything. The presidency isn't only about knowledge, it's also about administrative skill.
From reading Gore's response to the question about encryption, I got the sense that he had no idea what he had been asked. He was just spouting out praise about the current administration, and how wonderful it is, and that he should be allowed to continue it.
Bush on the other hand, (while he probably doesnt know much about encryption either) appeared to at least have done a little bit of research. He talked about some specific instances in which encryption can help, and offered his support in those areas.
I wonder, if asked, if Gore would take credit for the use of strong encryption in the Government?
Heh, I have had similar troubles with transferring documents from school to home and vice versa. There was one time that my printer ran out of ink on the day that my Senior Project was due. I ended up taking 5 brand new floppy disks and copying as many copies of the file onto each of the disks as possible. I ended up having 20 copies of the file, and at least one of the disks had failed by the time i got to school.
Just a note for arctic chicken: It might be usefull to make sure that along with disks, the students should be able to buy floppy disk cases to protect the disks from physical damage. Sometimes floppy disks can withstand being stepped on, and other times the weight of photonic energy bombarding them can make them fail.
While I would prefer Linux, I work at a Hospital that uses a sophisticated firewall. However, we also run software on the exchange server that scans all incoming emails. It manages to detect regular viruses and macros. It then deletes them and sends the recipient an email notifying them that the action was taken. Someone will only get hit every 2-3 months, and then only because administration is too cheap to upgrade the mail server, and it sometimes lags a few seconds (and yes, that is long enough, for those people who sit at their desks all day hovering in front of outlook, to open up the attachment) This might be a good thing to look into, there are several companies that offer this sort of thing, and it does work.
Because CmdrTaco is root@slashdot and you are not. besides, I happen to agree with him, they look like crap. I can't believe that companies are turning away from cool technology and using appearance as a way to sell products. I dont know whether to be more disgusted at the industry for allowing this to happen, or at the conusmers who would rather have some weird colored piece of junk on their desk than something that actually is worth something.
These three companies are in violation of patent # 4,309,234,398 that is currently held by me.
This patent covers the use of using tabs at the top of the page in order to allow quick navigation to major portions of the site.
See for yourself at amazon, barnes & noble, and Musicians Friend.
Micro$oft is also violating one of my patents.
I currently hold patent #3,456,232,632, which covers the production of shoddy products in order to shaft greedy and ignorant investors. Unfortunately I can not give you a URL for either of my patents, because my webserver, which is running $H1t-OS, has crashed.
I am hereby formally informing slashdot that they have violated the patent that I currently hold on using pretty widgets to represent the stories on my news website.
Patent: 3245692435798
purpose: the act of using content specific icons to give readers a quick overview of what articles can be found, as well as allowing the readers to use those widgets to find other stories of the same type.