Failure to supply South Africans without being registered means potential jail time
OK, I fully expect to fail to supply South Africans with any kind of crypto technology. I also don't expect to be registered. And you're saying I'll go to jail for this? That's crazy!
On Jan 6, 1998, CmdrTaco wrote: Perhaps the solution to Netscape's problem is more obvious then they may realize. If they GPLd their code and gave it out to the world, we would have a slew of powerful browsers developed by the same programmers that have brought us all those other great GPL apps. That would jump start the free browser universe and maybe people would focus on a single browser instead of dividing their time amongst so many other free browser projects. And since it is free, people may choose it instead of MS. Just a thought...
Just a thought, indeed... though I'm glad there's a diversity of free browser projects. Too bad Netscape waited so long; from here it's a long, uphill battle to regain ground.
Re:Three years and counting....
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SIDE NOTE -- because of/., I've managed to use a lot of what I read to my advantage. frequently, my coworkers will come to me for problems instead of bothering with our slowwwwww IT dept!
And how is this to your advantage?!
Jeez, I'd prefer to let my non-techie co-workers think I am clueless so they don't bug me all the time with stupid problems!
Just for your "side note" I'd mod you up +1 Funny if I could.
You listen to the kind of mass-market shit they sell at CostCo? I mean a few CDs here and there are OK, but I can't imagine considering CostCo my local record store.
If that's the only kind of music you buy, the RIAA should give you a membership card.
-- They use different words for things in America. For instance they say elevator and we say lift. They say drapes and we say curtains. They say president and we say brain damaged git. -- Alexie Sayle
If you think that you can walk in off the street to interview for T-W's CTO position, I want some of what you're smoking. If they haven't heard of you before, they won't give you the time of day.
Malakias! If what you say was true they wouldh't be posting an ad on HotJobs, they'd be contacting all those famous CTOs they'd "heard of before."
-- Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything. - Josef Stalin
Re:This has been available in the US for years...
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For YEARS? Well from the example you gave, PPG, it would seem to be a new product only recently brought to market:
"This allows SunClean glass to be one of the exciting new options available to consumers in the spring 2002 construction season."
I was surprised by the first poster's mention of using a gesture to open a link in the background, because that seems like a PITA to me.
In Opera, I do exactly what you are speaking of in Mozilla--middle-click a link and it opens either:
A) in another window in the background
B) in another window in the foreground
(user-definable preference)
And I also use Galeon, which does a wonderful job of saving windows when I exit the program or when it crashes. Galeon also can usually display the few web pages that don't work with Opera (usually because of cruddy HTML).
Neither one has figured out how to support Java properly in linux, but that's only a minor bother (more bothersome are web devvies who use Java applets in the first place).
Do you care about security for your NY Times registration/"user account"? NO? Then register once, as "mnemonic" or "lazy" or whatever, and make your password "password" or "nothing" or something (heh, use a mnemonic). That is to say, PICK SOMETHING YOU WON'T FORGET, not something full of random letters and numbers and mixed case.
Hell, why not use the same username/password at every other site that requires registration yet where you don't feel any need to care about security?
It's been a long time since I registered and read NYT's EULA but I'm sure they specifically prohibit sharing usernames and passwords, and if posters took up your suggestion and then thousands of people started logging in (at the same time! from different IP addresses!) to read an article, their lawyers might get itchy trigger fingers, with their sights set on the person belonging to the IP address used with the registration.
Even if they couldn't track the user down, they could certainly get really pissy about it. Right now, the free registration is an annoyance. They could make it a lot harder or more expensive.
And NO, you can't use my easy-to-remember account =) Unless you can guess it, that is... (good luck!)
Well, at least Sharp's web devs aren't too thorough in their browser bigotry, er... detection; Opera spoofing as IE works just fine (but identify as Mozilla 3.0, 4.76 or 5.0 and you're out of luck).
Well, I was going to submit it, but nothing happened.
So I started up Bloatzilla 0.9.2 and just opening the kpmg home page crashed the browser!
I installed 0.9.6 which brought up the site OK, but it's is just as ugly as with Opera. And no, I still can't submit the comment. Unless it's doing it with no confirmation or feedback, in which case I've submitted it about 15 times.
Galeon 1.0 wouldn't work either which isn't too surprising since it's based on Gecko, but...
Netscape 6.1 (gecko again of course) results in an "incompatible browser" web page from kpmg, and recommends downloading the latest version of Netscape or IE.
Does anyone have IE? Can you try submitting a comment?
Is this an IE-only web site?!
Do I really care any more?
No, I guess not. I'm outta here.
I don't expect to get moderated up but _I_ found this amusing, anyway. I often find myself amusing, though, so what can I say?
Of course, I made sure to point out that I came from an unauthorized link.
I'm sorry, but MERGIN?! Really!
OK, here goes:
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I'm not sure what your web site is supposed to look like, but it doesn't seem to render very well in Opera, the up-and-coming, super-fast and friendly standards-compliant web browser. You might want to have a look at Opera to ensure that all your clients and prospective clients can enjoy a successful web browsing experience.
Some of the problems may be caused by the numerous HTML syntax errors and misspellings (i.e. "mergin" instead of "margin") on your site (I only checked the front page).
To check your web site for HTML standards compliance, I suggest you visit this site:
http://validator.w3.org/
You may have to upload your source HTML file manually, as your web server appears to be blocking the validator from downloading your site directly for validation.
Or, alternatively, you could use the Opera web browser. Open the page, then right-click on the screen, and select Frame->Validate source.
Hope this helps.
Sincerely,
(my real name)
Web Developer
P.S. I found out about your site from this Wired Magazine article:
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0%2C1367%2C48 87 4%2C00.html
And of course you can find Opera at http://www.opera.com
As at least one other poster mentioned, there are real ways to reduce the number of those credit card applications you get, but I don't get quite as many myself, so I haven't taken any such drastic measures.
I just spend about 10 seconds per solicitation writing "No thanks, please take me off your mailing list" next to the checkbox for the only choice they give you ("YES!"), sticking it in the postpaid envelope and mailing it in to them at their cost.
It's certainly less effective than telling the credit reporting agencies you don't want to receive such solicitations, but my feeble mind derives enough small pleasure from it to remain entertained. I do the same thing with most postal spam I get. I know the postage they have to pay to receive my rebuffal is nothing to them, but if thousands and thousands of us did it...
Well, Mr. Hippocrite you're obviously using "MafiaSoft" products if you're using Opera 5.12. That is a Windows-only version.
Practice what you preach. I agree that Opera rocks; it is the only browser I use--and GNU/linux is my only O/S. You should try it if you're so damned anti-Microsoft.
Use Opera and sing your way around the web
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Gee, I was excited about Mozilla for months until I found something so much better.
Hey, I love OpenSource stuff, but I don't hate commercial software unless it's from a company that's trying to rule our world.
And I love any software that works well (unless it's from a company that's trying to rule my world)
So that's why I use Opera. So small, so fast, and so absolutely kick-ass compared to Lesszilla or (ugh) Netscrape. Did I mention it's small, and fast?
I've registered it under Linux and Windoze and as far as I'm concerned it's some of the best money I've spent in a while.
Go ahead with your flames about various foibles that Opera has... but of course it has problems. So does the software you wite. Opera rocks despite the bugs, which they are very responsive about fixing.
I find it particularly annoying that the/. community seems to pretend Opera doesn't exist. Slashdot reports on commercial products all the time, why not Opera?
Was there any mention when the "final" Linux version was released? NO. At least we could have argued about the fact that it wasn't ready to be called a "final" release... but oh well.
I'm still smiling.
Slashdot Mirror
Your next assignment: at least read the slashdot blurb before posting, and then study a world atlas.
* What's this about South America?
* You really think a one-time $200 reg. fee (per product, $900 for changes/updates) will hurt the MPAA or RIAA?
Failure to supply South Africans without being registered means potential jail time
OK, I fully expect to fail to supply South Africans with any kind of crypto technology. I also don't expect to be registered. And you're saying I'll go to jail for this? That's crazy!
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Will I be Boered?
On Jan 6, 1998, CmdrTaco wrote:
Perhaps the solution to Netscape's problem is more obvious then they may realize. If they GPLd their code and gave it out to the world, we would have a slew of powerful browsers developed by the same programmers that have brought us all those other great GPL apps. That would jump start the free browser universe and maybe people would focus on a single browser instead of dividing their time amongst so many other free browser projects. And since it is free, people may choose it instead of MS. Just a thought...
Just a thought, indeed... though I'm glad there's a diversity of free browser projects. Too bad Netscape waited so long; from here it's a long, uphill battle to regain ground.
SIDE NOTE -- because of /., I've managed to use a lot of what I read to my advantage. frequently, my coworkers will come to me for problems instead of bothering with our slowwwwww IT dept!
And how is this to your advantage?!
Jeez, I'd prefer to let my non-techie co-workers think I am clueless so they don't bug me all the time with stupid problems!
Just for your "side note" I'd mod you up +1 Funny if I could.
I've spent 5 years on slashdot and all i got was this lousy sig!
Awww, and you lost your 2-digit user ID, too!
You really DO deserve a refund!
You listen to the kind of mass-market shit they sell at CostCo? I mean a few CDs here and there are OK, but I can't imagine considering CostCo my local record store.
If that's the only kind of music you buy, the RIAA should give you a membership card.
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They use different words for things in America.
For instance they say elevator and we say lift. They say drapes and we say curtains. They say president and we say brain damaged git.
-- Alexie Sayle
So you've updated the story once already, but maybe you should also add an "http://" before the URL for the "Sidney (sic) Morning Herald" link?
bork bork bork
Great points all, except the one about IBM embarassing the likes of Unix, Linux, and Java.
You should be embraced!
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He is a heavy eater of beef. Me thinks it doth harm to his wit. --William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)
If you think that you can walk in off the street to interview for T-W's CTO position, I want some of what you're smoking. If they haven't heard of you before, they won't give you the time of day.
Malakias! If what you say was true they wouldh't be posting an ad on HotJobs, they'd be contacting all those famous CTOs they'd "heard of before."
--
Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything. - Josef Stalin
For YEARS? Well from the example you gave, PPG, it would seem to be a new product only recently brought to market:
"This allows SunClean glass to be one of the exciting new options available to consumers in the spring 2002 construction season."
I was surprised by the first poster's mention of using a gesture to open a link in the background, because that seems like a PITA to me.
In Opera, I do exactly what you are speaking of in Mozilla--middle-click a link and it opens either:
A) in another window in the background
B) in another window in the foreground
(user-definable preference)
And I also use Galeon, which does a wonderful job of saving windows when I exit the program or when it crashes. Galeon also can usually display the few web pages that don't work with Opera (usually because of cruddy HTML).
Neither one has figured out how to support Java properly in linux, but that's only a minor bother (more bothersome are web devvies who use Java applets in the first place).
What is that in Pesos?
Well... the URL ends with "24PESO"
Forget Microsoft, Senor Fox... I'll happily donate 24 Pesos to the e-Mexico initiative myself.
Hell, I'll double their offer! 48 Pesos and all the free software you can download!
Just give me a call.
Wow, that reviewer guy likes exclamation points.
I stopped reading after the second page, when I'd run out of fingers and toes to count them on.
Do you care about security for your NY Times registration/"user account"? NO? Then register once, as "mnemonic" or "lazy" or whatever, and make your password "password" or "nothing" or something (heh, use a mnemonic). That is to say, PICK SOMETHING YOU WON'T FORGET, not something full of random letters and numbers and mixed case.
Hell, why not use the same username/password at every other site that requires registration yet where you don't feel any need to care about security?
It's been a long time since I registered and read NYT's EULA but I'm sure they specifically prohibit sharing usernames and passwords, and if posters took up your suggestion and then thousands of people started logging in (at the same time! from different IP addresses!) to read an article, their lawyers might get itchy trigger fingers, with their sights set on the person belonging to the IP address used with the registration.
Even if they couldn't track the user down, they could certainly get really pissy about it. Right now, the free registration is an annoyance. They could make it a lot harder or more expensive.
And NO, you can't use my easy-to-remember account =) Unless you can guess it, that is... (good luck!)
Read my post more carefully: I was talking about Opera
=)
Well, at least Sharp's web devs aren't too thorough in their browser bigotry, er... detection; Opera spoofing as IE works just fine (but identify as Mozilla 3.0, 4.76 or 5.0 and you're out of luck).
Nice. They use Opera on the Zaurus, but try Opera to access their web site and see that their web developers aren't so open-minded:
"To fully experience the Sharp USA site, you need to have Version 4 or above of Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator Version 4.x."
To "partially" experience the Sharp USA site, keep reloading this error page. It's all the experience they're offering.
...and of course they only have to link to download the Beastly Exploder.
Well, I was going to submit it, but nothing happened.
So I started up Bloatzilla 0.9.2 and just opening the kpmg home page crashed the browser!
I installed 0.9.6 which brought up the site OK, but it's is just as ugly as with Opera. And no, I still can't submit the comment. Unless it's doing it with no confirmation or feedback, in which case I've submitted it about 15 times.
Galeon 1.0 wouldn't work either which isn't too surprising since it's based on Gecko, but...
Netscape 6.1 (gecko again of course) results in an "incompatible browser" web page from kpmg, and recommends downloading the latest version of Netscape or IE.
Does anyone have IE? Can you try submitting a comment?
Is this an IE-only web site?!
Do I really care any more?
No, I guess not. I'm outta here.
I don't expect to get moderated up but _I_ found this amusing, anyway. I often find myself amusing, though, so what can I say?
8 87 4%2C00.html
Of course, I made sure to point out that I came from an unauthorized link.
I'm sorry, but MERGIN?! Really!
OK, here goes:
--
I'm not sure what your web site is supposed to look like, but it doesn't seem to render very well in Opera, the up-and-coming, super-fast and friendly standards-compliant web browser. You might want to have a look at Opera to ensure that all your clients and prospective clients can enjoy a successful web browsing experience.
Some of the problems may be caused by the numerous HTML syntax errors and misspellings (i.e. "mergin" instead of "margin") on your site (I only checked the front page).
To check your web site for HTML standards compliance, I suggest you visit this site:
http://validator.w3.org/
You may have to upload your source HTML file manually, as your web server appears to be blocking the validator from downloading your site directly for validation.
Or, alternatively, you could use the Opera web browser. Open the page, then right-click on the screen, and select Frame->Validate source.
Hope this helps.
Sincerely,
(my real name)
Web Developer
P.S. I found out about your site from this Wired Magazine article:
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0%2C1367%2C4
And of course you can find Opera at http://www.opera.com
Good luck!
As at least one other poster mentioned, there are real ways to reduce the number of those credit card applications you get, but I don't get quite as many myself, so I haven't taken any such drastic measures.
I just spend about 10 seconds per solicitation writing "No thanks, please take me off your mailing list" next to the checkbox for the only choice they give you ("YES!"), sticking it in the postpaid envelope and mailing it in to them at their cost.
It's certainly less effective than telling the credit reporting agencies you don't want to receive such solicitations, but my feeble mind derives enough small pleasure from it to remain entertained. I do the same thing with most postal spam I get. I know the postage they have to pay to receive my rebuffal is nothing to them, but if thousands and thousands of us did it...
Well, Mr. Hippocrite you're obviously using "MafiaSoft" products if you're using Opera 5.12. That is a Windows-only version.
Practice what you preach. I agree that Opera rocks; it is the only browser I use--and GNU/linux is my only O/S. You should try it if you're so damned anti-Microsoft.
Gee, I was excited about Mozilla for months until I found something so much better. Hey, I love OpenSource stuff, but I don't hate commercial software unless it's from a company that's trying to rule our world. And I love any software that works well (unless it's from a company that's trying to rule my world) So that's why I use Opera. So small, so fast, and so absolutely kick-ass compared to Lesszilla or (ugh) Netscrape. Did I mention it's small, and fast? I've registered it under Linux and Windoze and as far as I'm concerned it's some of the best money I've spent in a while. Go ahead with your flames about various foibles that Opera has... but of course it has problems. So does the software you wite. Opera rocks despite the bugs, which they are very responsive about fixing. I find it particularly annoying that the /. community seems to pretend Opera doesn't exist. Slashdot reports on commercial products all the time, why not Opera?
Was there any mention when the "final" Linux version was released? NO. At least we could have argued about the fact that it wasn't ready to be called a "final" release... but oh well.
I'm still smiling.