The Dubthis party didn't have the beer and women of the Ninjaburger party. And well, if you'd seen how much alcohol was flowing at the midnight MT panel....
TG will have new stuff and remix version of the old stuff that was on Cafepress. And you'll be able to get shirts in colors other than white and grey. =)
Not really true. A large portion of anime has the audio recorded while the animation is not yet complete. More often than not, voice actors are following cue scripts or incomplete, unpainted animation while doing the audio. This is the main reason that in a lot of anime, lip sync isn't even attempted. After the animation is complete, the audio director may call back some of the actors to do some retakes in important scenes where it's thought that the sunc might be important, but this is an expensive and uncommon thing to see happen.
In the US, dubbing occurs after the animation is complete (in the case of anime, at least) so the actors have the opportunity to sync more closely to the animation. American consumers seem more concerned with the sync quality than Japanese consumers, as well.
Actually, there's a pretty simple way for employees to address mail that prevents it from dropping into the mailbox of someone who isn't an employee... I won't go into the details of how it works, but it's simple enough that a lot of AOL employees did it by default
The mail never touches the external net. It all would transit inside AOL's system, except in the case where an employee would be accessing AOL via TCP over someone else's system... like their home dialup.
AOL execs tend to do a lot of their own, as that's the way the culture has always been. No one there's really special enough to not have to deal with the bulk of their own email, except for the high-high-up people like Steve Case and Bob Pittman.
Actually, aol.net addresses are just aliases to either an employee's own workstation or to another host to read/spool their mail, or in many cases *gasp* to someone's aol.com address.
In any case, AOL has IMAP and SMTP gateways available for employee use. (I should know... I used to run the SMTP ones...) so really, they could use any IMAP software out there.
Actually, AOL has IMAP support for employees mail, as well as SMTP service for it. There's also a way to access AOL mail via Netscape 6's mailer with a different authentication path to make it easy for people.
It's not particularly hard to read your AOL mail with pine if you like. I used to do it all the time while I was there, especially since I ran the SMTP servers in question and liked to know that they were working well.
As someone who used to work for AOL ('til the TW merger finalized, at least) here's the scoop.
No... AOL doesn't scan or log IM content either on the service or via AIM or ICQ. There's just too many of them to even consider doing it. The last number I heard about volume was upwards of 750 million IM's a day, and that was at least a year ago.
The IM's that they're talking about in the article are ones reported to the CAT teams via what used to be the TOSIM screenname/notify AOL tools. Those were notoriously easy to try and fake by posting in whatever you wanted. They changed it to use only the 'Notify AOL' button in AOL 5.0 and later as the only acceptable way of reporting. The button adds a verifiable token value to a hidden field in the report to ensure that it's not faked content.
I always have to laugh when people complain about ADV using overlays. The reason they switched to overlays in the first place was because the same people who whine and cry about them now, whined and cried about 'too many subtitles on the screen'.
Well... a couple references to sake slipped through in Tenchi Universe. One that comes to mind is when Ryoko takes off with the cash to buy groceries and gets plastered. It's not edited out a couple times here and there, and since I was so used to hearing 'tea' it was even funnier.
Course, my roommate's kid was watching it with me, and asked me, "What kind of tea comes in bottles like that?", after earlier asking me, "Why are they wearing towels in the pool?"
I saw at least 15 slightly different variants of the last one, and they're just trickling off. And this one's a lot nastier than the last. If anyone gets a copy of the script, I'd love to see it... need to know if what I have in place to stop it will keep working with this one. (first post?)
We simply don't have time to respond to spam complaints... way way WAY too many of them. We can't tell you any specific details of any action we take against a member's account, because AOL's privacy policy guidelines prohibit this. (though I've been known to drop the occasional hint when it's something that needs a response)
I (up 'til yesterday) was the person that dealt with IRC abuse, and I know that it gets dealt with, albeit slowly because it takes awhile to track down the actual user.
As for MU(X|SH|CK|D)s, I'm a mux/mush coder myself, and I'm pretty damn sympathetic to those kind of abuses, and if I see 'em, they get dealt with harshly (no, that doesn't mean mail me directly... reports from people I don't know get ignored cause otherwise I'd go insane)
AIM is (supposed to be) self-policing... that's what the warning ability is there for. Sure, it gets abused, but well, you can't give something away with assholes getting in the mix.
Scott Crain AOL Mail Ops (and up way too late. Where's dat update you mentioned, Hemos? =)
AOL doesn't use any external 'blocking lists' in total. We maintain our own lists of problem providers and dialup IP ranges, supplemented by careful and judicious use of what's publicly available.
There's a simple reason that we don't bounce messages during the transaction, and that's because we don't verify user information during the transaction, in order to prevent spammers from dictionary-attacking us to get lists of AOL's usernames (Not that they don't try... they do... constantly).
Even though we have controls in place to try and prevent the amount of bounced mail we send to a delivering site, we still crush a number of them from time to time, because they're a: getting spammed through, or b: getting spam forged in their name.
Ask Netcom (well, you could if they were still around in other than name), MCI, Yahoo, hotmail, and more, but they're the ones that everyone knows. Hell, Vint Cerf's called personally to get us to take it easy on 'em. (I did).
AOL has some new machines in place to redirect part of what would normally be the dialup (*.ipt.aol.com) mail traffic through machines where we can monitor the volume to control spam. We're just testing it at the moment, and these redirection proxy machines are the ones listed in ORBS, with my support and permission. AOL's dialups have been listed in ORBS and the MAPS DUL for a long time, because well, lots of mail shouldn't come directly from dialups to someone else's mailserver.
Now what're y'all gonna say, when ya find out that AOL added those machines to ORBS for your own good.
Well... not a public pre-announcement at least. They've had us bungie fans knotted up for awhile knowing something cool was coming, but not telling us anything about it but some cryptic clues (which of course, is normal Bungie procedure)
Just another dat in the life of the best game company out there.
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You forgot that it can also be use for 'it has'.
- It's been a long time since I had to take an English class.
Hey... as long as the RIAA can't see the chinese site... it's all good, right? Just filter it from them. =)
Maybe no one submitted their release... =)
The Dubthis party didn't have the beer and women of the Ninjaburger party. And well, if you'd seen how much alcohol was flowing at the midnight MT panel....
TG will have new stuff and remix version of the old stuff that was on Cafepress. And you'll be able to get shirts in colors other than white and grey. =)
Well... Love Hina's actually been over for months... but you're right, it still ran in Shounen. =)
Not really true. A large portion of anime has the audio recorded while the animation is not yet complete. More often than not, voice actors are following cue scripts or incomplete, unpainted animation while doing the audio. This is the main reason that in a lot of anime, lip sync isn't even attempted. After the animation is complete, the audio director may call back some of the actors to do some retakes in important scenes where it's thought that the sunc might be important, but this is an expensive and uncommon thing to see happen.
In the US, dubbing occurs after the animation is complete (in the case of anime, at least) so the actors have the opportunity to sync more closely to the animation. American consumers seem more concerned with the sync quality than Japanese consumers, as well.
Actually, AOL employees have access to calendaring and scheduling software on the intranet that interfaces with the mail system.
Sure, it's not in one big bloated MS client, but it works, and it works pretty well.
scott
Actually, there's a pretty simple way for employees to address mail that prevents it from dropping into the mailbox of someone who isn't an employee... I won't go into the details of how it works, but it's simple enough that a lot of AOL employees did it by default
The mail never touches the external net. It all would transit inside AOL's system, except in the case where an employee would be accessing AOL via TCP over someone else's system... like their home dialup.
AOL execs tend to do a lot of their own, as that's the way the culture has always been. No one there's really special enough to not have to deal with the bulk of their own email, except for the high-high-up people like Steve Case and Bob Pittman.
Actually, aol.net addresses are just aliases to either an employee's own workstation or to another host to read/spool their mail, or in many cases *gasp* to someone's aol.com address.
In any case, AOL has IMAP and SMTP gateways available for employee use. (I should know... I used to run the SMTP ones...) so really, they could use any IMAP software out there.
Actually, AOL has IMAP support for employees mail, as well as SMTP service for it. There's also a way to access AOL mail via Netscape 6's mailer with a different authentication path to make it easy for people.
It's not particularly hard to read your AOL mail with pine if you like. I used to do it all the time while I was there, especially since I ran the SMTP servers in question and liked to know that they were working well.
scott
As someone who used to work for AOL ('til the TW merger finalized, at least) here's the scoop.
No... AOL doesn't scan or log IM content either on the service or via AIM or ICQ. There's just too many of them to even consider doing it. The last number I heard about volume was upwards of 750 million IM's a day, and that was at least a year ago.
The IM's that they're talking about in the article are ones reported to the CAT teams via what used to be the TOSIM screenname/notify AOL tools. Those were notoriously easy to try and fake by posting in whatever you wanted. They changed it to use only the 'Notify AOL' button in AOL 5.0 and later as the only acceptable way of reporting. The button adds a verifiable token value to a hidden field in the report to ensure that it's not faked content.
scott
I always have to laugh when people complain about ADV using overlays. The reason they switched to overlays in the first place was because the same people who whine and cry about them now, whined and cried about 'too many subtitles on the screen'.
They just can't win for losing.
Yeah, but imagine the look on their face when you hold out your hand to them and say, "No! Here... listen!"
Then who's crazy? =)
At least we can hope. =)
Well... a couple references to sake slipped through in Tenchi Universe. One that comes to mind is when Ryoko takes off with the cash to buy groceries and gets plastered. It's not edited out a couple times here and there, and since I was so used to hearing 'tea' it was even funnier.
Course, my roommate's kid was watching it with me, and asked me, "What kind of tea comes in bottles like that?", after earlier asking me, "Why are they wearing towels in the pool?"
Wheee. =)
I've already got more than enough copies of the old one. =)
I saw at least 15 slightly different variants of the last one, and they're just trickling off. And this one's a lot nastier than the last. If anyone gets a copy of the script, I'd love to see it... need to know if what I have in place to stop it will keep working with this one. (first post?)
We simply don't have time to respond to spam complaints... way way WAY too many of them. We can't tell you any specific details of any action we take against a member's account, because AOL's privacy policy guidelines prohibit this. (though I've been known to drop the occasional hint when it's something that needs a response)
I (up 'til yesterday) was the person that dealt with IRC abuse, and I know that it gets dealt with, albeit slowly because it takes awhile to track down the actual user.
As for MU(X|SH|CK|D)s, I'm a mux/mush coder myself, and I'm pretty damn sympathetic to those kind of abuses, and if I see 'em, they get dealt with harshly (no, that doesn't mean mail me directly... reports from people I don't know get ignored cause otherwise I'd go insane)
AIM is (supposed to be) self-policing... that's what the warning ability is there for. Sure, it gets abused, but well, you can't give something away with assholes getting in the mix.
Scott Crain
AOL Mail Ops (and up way too late. Where's dat update you mentioned, Hemos? =)
AOL doesn't use any external 'blocking lists' in total. We maintain our own lists of problem providers and dialup IP ranges, supplemented by careful and judicious use of what's publicly available.
There's a simple reason that we don't bounce messages during the transaction, and that's because we don't verify user information during the transaction, in order to prevent spammers from dictionary-attacking us to get lists of AOL's usernames (Not that they don't try... they do... constantly).
Even though we have controls in place to try and prevent the amount of bounced mail we send to a delivering site, we still crush a number of them from time to time, because they're a: getting spammed through, or b: getting spam forged in their name.
Ask Netcom (well, you could if they were still around in other than name), MCI, Yahoo, hotmail, and more, but they're the ones that everyone knows. Hell, Vint Cerf's called personally to get us to take it easy on 'em. (I did).
AOL has some new machines in place to redirect part of what would normally be the dialup (*.ipt.aol.com) mail traffic through machines where we can monitor the volume to control spam. We're just testing it at the moment, and these redirection proxy machines are the ones listed in ORBS, with my support and permission. AOL's dialups have been listed in ORBS and the MAPS DUL for a long time, because well, lots of mail shouldn't come directly from dialups to someone else's mailserver.
Now what're y'all gonna say, when ya find out that AOL added those machines to ORBS for your own good.
Scott Crain
AOL Mail Operations
Since the article's talking about MacOS X, which runs atop unix, if you want to set the mtu, you just pop a console and type
ifconfig eth0 mtu 1440
scott
Well... not a public pre-announcement at least. They've had us bungie fans knotted up for awhile knowing something cool was coming, but not telling us anything about it but some cryptic clues (which of course, is normal Bungie procedure)
Just another dat in the life of the best game company out there.