My first clue would be that the domain was created in 2001..
Possibilities:
* They bought the domain from another company and haven't updated the registration. * Someone at Amazon owned the domain before for other purposes * They're paying for use of a domain someone else owns * Something I haven't thought of because I'm too lazy to keep making bullets.
It's also quite different considering that the tsunami was a natural disaster and the september 11th attacks were not.
Death is death and it's unfortunate no matter how you look at it, but it's even more shocking when it's done with the clear intent to end life.
Natural disasters happen, this isn't the first and it most certainly will not be the last, it's a terrible loss of life, but int he same instant, it is a necessary part of nature.
Agent Smith said it best... "You are the disease and we are the cure". Nature has a way of dealing with the human "infection" when it starts to grow out of control, wouldn't you say?
Again, I don't like the fact that all of those people died, it was tragic. But there are billions of us that remain, not knowing if tomorrow will be our last.. I plan to keep looking forward and not dwelling for too long in the unchangeable past.
You make it sound like they mean that you're moving your mouth as if you're actually speaking just not vocalizing.. which isn't the case.
When you're thinking, or even reading in my case, your speaking to yourself as you think, your tongue, your throat.. all get these signals as you "say" the words to yourself.. pay attention as you read my response, you can even feel it if you pay attention
That is what this is picking up, those nerve impulses going to your throat and tongue.. it's not suggesting you will have to move your mouth and have software intepret the words..
It's not telepathy but it's the closest thing I think we can achieve (for now).
Not uncommon, the AOL lawyers notified me via e-mail when they did this to me a couple of years ago.
They attempted the SAME thing, they tried to pay me for my domain name and I'm sure it was in hopes that I would ask for more money to try to profit.
Instead I simply told them I was a fan site and that I had no intention of letting go of the domain because it was my hobby and something I enjoyed doing. I in no way indicated a desire to make money on any level.. they left me alone for months.
One fatefull day, the chat applet I used on my site decided to start throwing in banner ads and the AOL lawyers took a screen capture of a competing ISP's ad next to their name and threatened to take it to court, they said this showed that I was advertising their competitors next to their mark... that was when I just decided to drop the ball and give up.
This was icqbot.net for anyone who remembers..
The original letter: http://riven.donet.com/icqbot/letter.htm
My response: http://riven.donet.com/icqbot/reply.htm
Letter 2: http://riven.donet.com/icqbot/letter2.htm
Letter 3: A few months later http://riven.donet.com/icqbot/letter3.htm Response 3: http://riven.donet.com/icqbot/reply3.htm
In hind sight I would have handled it a bit differently then I did, but it was educational. You have to be very careful when dealing with lawyers, I could have ridden this out if I had made sure I kept my site straight.
Then you're a lucky one.. 5-10 is a low number compared to the barrage I get each day!.. I was off sick last week and my phone rang on average about twice an hour beginning at around 10am and ending around 5pm, I'm normally at work during those hours.
These telemarketers USED to hang up on the answering machine, now they actually play recorded advertisements on it!! spamming my answering machine, my answering machine actually fills up entirely every 2 days now and there is only about 1 or 2 actual messages that I care about on there.
Look at it this way, I do not want to buy a single thing from a telemarketer, so they are wasting money calling me.. when this list goes through, they save time and money, this list STREAMLINES their operations and they can actually become more profitable while at the same time pissing off FEWER people... it's win win
Because we're required to run IM here, thanks to me offering it as a suggestion a few years back as an easy way to communicate since we're always tied to the phone.:)
I wouldn't get in much trouble anyway, I'm one of the department supervisors, but it still looks bad no matter which way you spin it.
As for Miranda, I did try that a while back but I never did much diving into the plugins, when I used it it didn't feel too much like the familiar ICQ I was used to so I didn't stay long.
Just as an additional comment, I guess my main point is that ATLEAST ICQ makes these things options, you can say you like how AIM does it all day long, but the fact is some of us don't, and AIM doesn't offer an option to fix it. We would have to resort to a third party solution, and that blows.
The pop up messages must die! that is the worst thing in all creation in my opinion. I can go for hours here at work and not get a message, but the very moment I go to type in a password, a message pops up, grabs the password and before you know it I've already pressed enter.
Or if I'm talking to someone and I happen to say something that could be out of context, it never fails that only that portion of the message will be sent to someone else because they wrote me at the wrong time.
I swear that has got to be poorest design in the world! yahoo messenger atleast gets that right, you can still have that AIM style interface, but if you're doing something, yahoo doesn't steal focus.
ICQ's method is even nicer, you can OPTIONALLY have the aim style interface and pop ups, or you can go into the preferences and switch messaging modes so that you only get the nice SMALL blinking icon in your tray when you have a message. It's still instant, the message is there as soon as you want it, but some of us just prefer not to have the message shoved down our throats the moment it comes in, like those of us who use IM at work:) (in my case, im is required)
I agree with the original guy on the pop up stuff, it's one of my main reasons for still preferring ICQ over the rest! I use ICQ 2000b, and I've stuck with that one because it's still mostly compatible with the network. I ran software to strip the ads, and I'm all set.
The great thing about ICQ is it's messaging interface in my opinion, if any of the other messengers offered a similar interface I'd dump ICQ. I like that I can set it to only blink a small little icon next to my clock when I have a message, it doesn't pop up a message from a friend who's telling me I have to check out this pr0n clip he downloaded while the company president is looking over my shoulder as I demo some code or something;)
As for the automatic logging, it's optional in ICQ, you can disable archiving if you're paranoid. I love it because I've been an ICQ user for over 4 years, we use it at work and we pass technical info back and forth, I can easilly refer back to it, or if I want to just look back on conversations with old friends from 2 years ago, I can! it's just nice to have the option rather than not have it at all.
To me the second best messenger is yahoo messenger, you can enable message archiving if you want, you can talk to people while in invisible mode, or "away" mode, you can disable the idle feature, and while the windows DO pop up on you, they seem to be smart enough to not pop up over everything else and steal the words you're typing in an e-mail or something.
*shudder*.. nothing like accidently sending passwords over AIM because someone wrote you at the exact moment you were typing and pressing enter. AIM is the sorriest excuse for a messenger I've seen:)
The invasion of privacy he's speaking of isn't the fact you're getting spam..
it's the fact that he's sending it to you when your computer is idle in the form of a pop up in what he said gets by firewalls.. anti spam software and "anything"..
While I know that to be bogus since he's abusing the messenger service, he seems to believe it and that shows intent to me..
A co-worker got hit with the spam using messenger service, I have to admit it was kind of funny to see this NT admin's face.. long live linux!
I can see it now.. in 10 years on FOX we'll see a "Where are they now" featuring Bill Gates.. you'll have to explain to your children who this bad man was.
Maybe he'll be working for sun in the mail room..?
Who's a friend of mine, confirmed that they would be doing another series a couple of weeks ago.. but he said that sci-fi wasn't really that anxious to do it, they would rather just drop it.
I don't see there being a season after this one unless they have a change of heart, he never went into why.. but he said that it was the same thing with sci-fi and what happened with farscape.. which, I have never seen.. (don't attack me)
Anyway, it's good to see that SG1 will be around for another season!
If the act of publishing the information was not illegal (and I believe it was not).. then apple was NOT within their rights to ask that the article be removed. If apple wanted to persue them for modifying the package, then so be it.. but they shouldn't be able to request that the article be removed.
If someone can find a mirror to that article.. I'll post it myself to my own websites.. I didn't modify any package, and I bought the 10.1 upgrade for my legit copy of OSX..:) so they would have NO recourse.
Slashdot Mirror
My first clue would be that the domain was created in 2001 ..
Possibilities:
* They bought the domain from another company and haven't updated the registration.
* Someone at Amazon owned the domain before for other purposes
* They're paying for use of a domain someone else owns
* Something I haven't thought of because I'm too lazy to keep making bullets.
Thank you for adding your brilliant, clever and very relevant insight into the conversation.
;)
It's strikingly clear how much thought and preparation went into creating that response. I bet you didn't even have to use spell check.
Quite frankly I'm in total awe at your creativity, you're a credit to your junior high.
It's also quite different considering that the tsunami was a natural disaster and the september 11th attacks were not.
Death is death and it's unfortunate no matter how you look at it, but it's even more shocking when it's done with the clear intent to end life.
Natural disasters happen, this isn't the first and it most certainly will not be the last, it's a terrible loss of life, but int he same instant, it is a necessary part of nature.
Agent Smith said it best... "You are the disease and we are the cure". Nature has a way of dealing with the human "infection" when it starts to grow out of control, wouldn't you say?
Again, I don't like the fact that all of those people died, it was tragic. But there are billions of us that remain, not knowing if tomorrow will be our last.. I plan to keep looking forward and not dwelling for too long in the unchangeable past.
Experience, Grieve and then move along...
You make it sound like they mean that you're moving your mouth as if you're actually speaking just not vocalizing .. which isn't the case.
.. all get these signals as you "say" the words to yourself.. pay attention as you read my response, you can even feel it if you pay attention
.. it's not suggesting you will have to move your mouth and have software intepret the words..
When you're thinking, or even reading in my case, your speaking to yourself as you think, your tongue, your throat
That is what this is picking up, those nerve impulses going to your throat and tongue
It's not telepathy but it's the closest thing I think we can achieve (for now).
Not uncommon, the AOL lawyers notified me via e-mail when they did this to me a couple of years ago.
They attempted the SAME thing, they tried to pay me for my domain name and I'm sure it was in hopes that I would ask for more money to try to profit.
Instead I simply told them I was a fan site and that I had no intention of letting go of the domain because it was my hobby and something I enjoyed doing. I in no way indicated a desire to make money on any level.. they left me alone for months.
One fatefull day, the chat applet I used on my site decided to start throwing in banner ads and the AOL lawyers took a screen capture of a competing ISP's ad next to their name and threatened to take it to court, they said this showed that I was advertising their competitors next to their mark... that was when I just decided to drop the ball and give up.
This was icqbot.net for anyone who remembers..
The original letter:
http://riven.donet.com/icqbot/letter.htm
My response:
http://riven.donet.com/icqbot/reply.ht
Letter 2:
http://riven.donet.com/icqbot/letter2.htm
Response 2:
http://riven.donet.com/icqbot/reply2.htm
Letter 3: A few months later
http://riven.donet.com/icqbot/letter3.htm
Response 3:
http://riven.donet.com/icqbot/reply3.htm
In hind sight I would have handled it a bit differently then I did, but it was educational. You have to be very careful when dealing with lawyers, I could have ridden this out if I had made sure I kept my site straight.
I have photoshop 8 and I just opened several different scans of $20's
I did old $20s and new $20s
A friend of mine works for Image Engine and he's one of the visual effects leads for this film!
I just *assumed* that this was something people knew was in production for a long time now.
I have high hopes for this movie because my friend is a perfectionist when it comes to his work.
I've seen some photos of the set, there are some really interesting things in this movie!
Then you're a lucky one .. 5-10 is a low number compared to the barrage I get each day! .. I was off sick last week and my phone rang on average about twice an hour beginning at around 10am and ending around 5pm, I'm normally at work during those hours.
.. when this list goes through, they save time and money, this list STREAMLINES their operations and they can actually become more profitable while at the same time pissing off FEWER people... it's win win
These telemarketers USED to hang up on the answering machine, now they actually play recorded advertisements on it!! spamming my answering machine, my answering machine actually fills up entirely every 2 days now and there is only about 1 or 2 actual messages that I care about on there.
Look at it this way, I do not want to buy a single thing from a telemarketer, so they are wasting money calling me
Because we're required to run IM here, thanks to me offering it as a suggestion a few years back as an easy way to communicate since we're always tied to the phone.
I wouldn't get in much trouble anyway, I'm one of the department supervisors, but it still looks bad no matter which way you spin it.
As for Miranda, I did try that a while back but I never did much diving into the plugins, when I used it it didn't feel too much like the familiar ICQ I was used to so I didn't stay long.
Just as an additional comment, I guess my main point is that ATLEAST ICQ makes these things options, you can say you like how AIM does it all day long, but the fact is some of us don't, and AIM doesn't offer an option to fix it. We would have to resort to a third party solution, and that blows.
The pop up messages must die! that is the worst thing in all creation in my opinion. I can go for hours here at work and not get a message, but the very moment I go to type in a password, a message pops up, grabs the password and before you know it I've already pressed enter.
:) (in my case, im is required)
Or if I'm talking to someone and I happen to say something that could be out of context, it never fails that only that portion of the message will be sent to someone else because they wrote me at the wrong time.
I swear that has got to be poorest design in the world! yahoo messenger atleast gets that right, you can still have that AIM style interface, but if you're doing something, yahoo doesn't steal focus.
ICQ's method is even nicer, you can OPTIONALLY have the aim style interface and pop ups, or you can go into the preferences and switch messaging modes so that you only get the nice SMALL blinking icon in your tray when you have a message. It's still instant, the message is there as soon as you want it, but some of us just prefer not to have the message shoved down our throats the moment it comes in, like those of us who use IM at work
I agree with the original guy on the pop up stuff, it's one of my main reasons for still preferring ICQ over the rest! I use ICQ 2000b, and I've stuck with that one because it's still mostly compatible with the network. I ran software to strip the ads, and I'm all set.
;)
.. nothing like accidently sending passwords over AIM because someone wrote you at the exact moment you were typing and pressing enter. AIM is the sorriest excuse for a messenger I've seen :)
The great thing about ICQ is it's messaging interface in my opinion, if any of the other messengers offered a similar interface I'd dump ICQ. I like that I can set it to only blink a small little icon next to my clock when I have a message, it doesn't pop up a message from a friend who's telling me I have to check out this pr0n clip he downloaded while the company president is looking over my shoulder as I demo some code or something
As for the automatic logging, it's optional in ICQ, you can disable archiving if you're paranoid. I love it because I've been an ICQ user for over 4 years, we use it at work and we pass technical info back and forth, I can easilly refer back to it, or if I want to just look back on conversations with old friends from 2 years ago, I can! it's just nice to have the option rather than not have it at all.
To me the second best messenger is yahoo messenger, you can enable message archiving if you want, you can talk to people while in invisible mode, or "away" mode, you can disable the idle feature, and while the windows DO pop up on you, they seem to be smart enough to not pop up over everything else and steal the words you're typing in an e-mail or something.
*shudder*
So break out your RCA cables and make your back up :)
..
Then try convincing the judge that it's not good enough
The invasion of privacy he's speaking of isn't the fact you're getting spam ..
..
.. long live linux!
it's the fact that he's sending it to you when your computer is idle in the form of a pop up in what he said gets by firewalls.. anti spam software and "anything"
While I know that to be bogus since he's abusing the messenger service, he seems to believe it and that shows intent to me..
A co-worker got hit with the spam using messenger service, I have to admit it was kind of funny to see this NT admin's face
Haiku!!
Microsoft:
"we cure your disease!"
"then infect you with windows!"
"now you write our code!"
India:
"Thanks for the money"
"we will now run free linux"
"kegger at my house!"
Oops..
..
.. [insert name of horrible disease here]"
Slashdot cut out part of the post thinking it was an html tag
it should have read "a contribution to
I can see it now.. in 10 years on FOX we'll see a "Where are they now" featuring Bill Gates.. you'll have to explain to your children who this bad man was.
Maybe he'll be working for sun in the mail room..?
I can dream can't I?
Gates: We'll see your refusal to switch and raise you a contribution to
EOM
Who's a friend of mine, confirmed that they would be doing another series a couple of weeks ago.. but he said that sci-fi wasn't really that anxious to do it, they would rather just drop it.
I don't see there being a season after this one unless they have a change of heart, he never went into why.. but he said that it was the same thing with sci-fi and what happened with farscape.. which, I have never seen.. (don't attack me)
Anyway, it's good to see that SG1 will be around for another season!
I would like to announce WarezPro! it uses the pop3 and smtp protocols in order to send warez as *wink* e-mail attachments *wink* ..
.. these programs already exist .. outlook express and internet explorer! QUICK BLOCK 80, 25 and 110!
Just open up ports 25 and 110 in your firewall and you're all set!
** Coming Soon! **
WarezBrowser - Browse literally hundreds of warez "sites" using HTTP on port 80!
Oh wait
Yeah! this sucks! let's end competition! all hail microsoft! all hail microsoft!
.. until microsoft comes in and crushes them.
.. Emperor Gates and Darth Jobs ..
C'mon.. this is great
Someone else has probably said this, but haven't you noticed a similarity between MS and the empire from starwars?
hmm
*does the fish slapping dance and then smacks BrightBlade with a wet trout made of many lego*
I get 30 or 40 a day that slip through the filtering gauntlet I have set up .. unfortunately tracing each one would eat up my entire day ..
If the act of publishing the information was not illegal (and I believe it was not) .. then apple was NOT within their rights to ask that the article be removed. If apple wanted to persue them for modifying the package, then so be it.. but they shouldn't be able to request that the article be removed.
.. I didn't modify any package, and I bought the 10.1 upgrade for my legit copy of OSX .. :) so they would have NO recourse.
If someone can find a mirror to that article.. I'll post it myself to my own websites