Did CmdrTaco, one of the helmsmen of the most popular Free/OS news sites in existence just mimic what Microsoft PR/FUD machine has been saying since Linux showed up on its threat radar?
I agree; on one hand this is like bringing up handgun restrictions at a gun show. On the other hand, we are the people with the biggest investment in technology and where it goes, so we care about the rules that will affect technology's future.
I hope the slashdotters can become a sort of shepherd for the techno-masses, and not just the bandwidth-hogging wolves looking to take advantage of them.
[Now that I think about it, the phone companies *were* having trouble of this kind when flat-rate modem pricing came around. Suddenly they were trying to switch line-hogs to business phone lines... Still I haven't noticed the phone companies advertising any limitations to their local service.]
That's because all the line-hogs went and got broadband access so they could hog more quickly. The issue's simply moved from telephone line overuse to broadband overuse.;)
I heard about the MSN multi-user issue, but it's history. Trillian is now fully multi-user capable, with passwords protecting user profiles. I think one of the best things Trillian has going for it is that it's still small and able to respond quickly. When the AOL lockout happened, there was a fix up the next day.
No it's not open source. It's free as in beer.
Trillian provides encryption
on
AOL vs. Trillian
·
· Score: 3, Informative
One of the best features IMHO is that Trillian provides 128-bit SSL style encryption OVER the AOL IM or ICQ system (to other Trillian clients).
I support the Trillian coders, and encourage others to do the same. I think it's deplorable the way AOL 'shifts' its attitude whenever it suits: When they wanted to expand their user base, and feared the big, scary 'internet', they integrated standard protocols etc into their closed dialup service. When they wanted to gain a foothold in the IM mindshare war, they allowed non-AOL users to use their IM service. Now that they ARE the leading IM service (and bought the #2), it's suddenly THEIR network, THEIR protocol; how dare you use a client that doesn't generate ad revenue for them?
The fact that they cater to the computer neophytes and Luddites only complicates the issue. Joe geek can download and learn any program he wants to so he can IM Grandma, but there's no way you're gonna get Grandma to try out a cool new IM system because AOL is Evil and throwing around its muscle.
When the AOL-Time-Warner-MegaCorp merger happened, I thought the forced opening of their networks might lead to other regulated use of systems in their control. I'm so naive.
remind them that Microsoft has $38BN in cash just sitting in a bank account, doing nothing to help the US economy out of the slump.
Do you really think when you put money in a bank it just sits there in a vault, and they pay you interest based on the fact that they feel all cozy holding your money??
Had his predecessors understood how huge the Internet would turn out to be, Hoskins figures, they would surely have licensed the protocols, sold the rights to a corporation and collected a royalty for the U.C. Regents on Internet usage years into the future.
This kind of logic is coming out of a university? Had they licensed and created royalty hassles attached to TCP/IP, it would have been largely ignored and we'd still be trying to decide if we should subscribe to CompuServ or AOL (which would of course be closed, independent networks).
Sex? Well there was Leia getting licked at by Jabba in a gold bikini.... not exactly the Red Shoe Diaries....
As for the violence, I can't think properly because that damn JUB-JUB ewok song is haunting me. Jub jub. I'm telling you, there were plush toy sales figures dancing in the eyes of whoever designed the ewoks.
If it's beta, it's a pretty slick and stable beta. 0.71 is very nice. I especially like the fact that you can encrypt messages over the AIM or ICQ network seamlessly (to other Trillian users). It's even a fairly capable IRC client.
It's free (beer) donation-ware. Who knows, I may just throw some money their way....
While many people hate Microsoft and make Bill Gates the butt of every joke, very few people who know him ever call his character into question.
Well I suppose this may be true, the same way you'd never call into question the character of a shark. "He just came up and chomped my leg off. I guess he was hungry."
I know it's not a Katz article, but this story cries out for a Katz-Notes style summarization:
Romero rubbed elbows with the technical and creative mastery at iD software. He thought he learned all the tricks.
So he breaks off after 'creative differences' and wrenches the rudder of Ion Storm into a freefall, shitting out Daikatana on the way down.
Oh but he had SOO much fun and got to shtup Stevie Case. Whee.
The New York Times has an article (free registration required) about customer reaction to a recent mailing by Qwest. Although the mailer only describes their privacy policy as it currently exists, apparently it's caught a few people by surprise."
Read the horrors of people misusing your personal information!!! (must provide your personal information to access)
Hmmm 25 abstract images huh. I have a great idea. The first image could be two diagonal lines, touching at the top with a horizontal line halfway down connecting them. Oh the second could be a vertical line with two right-facing humps. The third, a 3/4 circle with the opening on the right.....
This sounds like more psycho-bullshit. Ellen is wearing glasses and has a mole. "Sorry I have no facial recognition." But if she takes the glasses off and puts them in her hand, "OH! I see glasses in your hand. you must be Ellen!" Bullshit. We have way too many 'diseases' used to excuse what boils down to "I'm a dumbass".
Built initially to house currency, the Hostworks data centre in the suburb of Kidman Park, Adelaide is a tribute to the profligacy of Timothy Marcus Clark, former head of the State Bank of South Australia. Nestled in a semi-industrial area, with minimum road signage, it is at once unassuming, virtually impenetrable and to this day an inspirational feet of excess engineering.
Slashdot Mirror
Heh. Heh. He said "rump-session".
After that I didn't understand much....
You get what you pay for after all.
Did CmdrTaco, one of the helmsmen of the most popular Free/OS news sites in existence just mimic what Microsoft PR/FUD machine has been saying since Linux showed up on its threat radar?
Why isn't everyone kicking CmdrTaco's ASS?
Mmmm. There's nothing more satisfying on slashdot than someone slapping down someone else's ill-conceived analogy.
I agree; on one hand this is like bringing up handgun restrictions at a gun show. On the other hand, we are the people with the biggest investment in technology and where it goes, so we care about the rules that will affect technology's future.
I hope the slashdotters can become a sort of shepherd for the techno-masses, and not just the bandwidth-hogging wolves looking to take advantage of them.
There's no fun in Fundamentalism
But there's plenty of mental.
;)
[Now that I think about it, the phone companies *were* having trouble of this kind when flat-rate modem pricing came around. Suddenly they were trying to switch line-hogs to business phone lines... Still I haven't noticed the phone companies advertising any limitations to their local service.]
;)
That's because all the line-hogs went and got broadband access so they could hog more quickly. The issue's simply moved from telephone line overuse to broadband overuse.
I heard about the MSN multi-user issue, but it's history. Trillian is now fully multi-user capable, with passwords protecting user profiles. I think one of the best things Trillian has going for it is that it's still small and able to respond quickly. When the AOL lockout happened, there was a fix up the next day.
No it's not open source. It's free as in beer.
One of the best features IMHO is that Trillian provides 128-bit SSL style encryption OVER the AOL IM or ICQ system (to other Trillian clients).
I support the Trillian coders, and encourage others to do the same. I think it's deplorable the way AOL 'shifts' its attitude whenever it suits: When they wanted to expand their user base, and feared the big, scary 'internet', they integrated standard protocols etc into their closed dialup service. When they wanted to gain a foothold in the IM mindshare war, they allowed non-AOL users to use their IM service. Now that they ARE the leading IM service (and bought the #2), it's suddenly THEIR network, THEIR protocol; how dare you use a client that doesn't generate ad revenue for them?
The fact that they cater to the computer neophytes and Luddites only complicates the issue. Joe geek can download and learn any program he wants to so he can IM Grandma, but there's no way you're gonna get Grandma to try out a cool new IM system because AOL is Evil and throwing around its muscle.
When the AOL-Time-Warner-MegaCorp merger happened, I thought the forced opening of their networks might lead to other regulated use of systems in their control. I'm so naive.
You guys spend WAY too many brain cycles on modding and karma.
Karma points do not actually increase the size of your penis.
ahh, more of the usual vitriolic anti MS FUD.... however this:
The day MS makes something that doesn't suck, it'll be a vacuum cleaner.
is pure gold.
Do you really think when you put money in a bank it just sits there in a vault, and they pay you interest based on the fact that they feel all cozy holding your money??
And you can hire Scumbiker here as your speech writer!
I can't deal with one mouse button.
I'll leave the creativity up to you guys, but here's some places to start from:
ACID test (and any of: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability)
Transaction
Rollback
Commit
Select
Insert (hmm maybe better avoid this one)
Star
Wildcard
VarChar
Yes! Thanks to Samba, all those annoying Windows hard drives are just directories under my /mnt dir.
Free shit that works; who woulda thunk.
F__________ M__________ to
adjective noun
R________
verb
This kind of logic is coming out of a university? Had they licensed and created royalty hassles attached to TCP/IP, it would have been largely ignored and we'd still be trying to decide if we should subscribe to CompuServ or AOL (which would of course be closed, independent networks).
As for the violence, I can't think properly because that damn JUB-JUB ewok song is haunting me. Jub jub. I'm telling you, there were plush toy sales figures dancing in the eyes of whoever designed the ewoks.
Jub-jub.
It's free (beer) donation-ware. Who knows, I may just throw some money their way....
Well I suppose this may be true, the same way you'd never call into question the character of a shark. "He just came up and chomped my leg off. I guess he was hungry."
Romero rubbed elbows with the technical and creative mastery at iD software. He thought he learned all the tricks.
So he breaks off after 'creative differences' and wrenches the rudder of Ion Storm into a freefall, shitting out Daikatana on the way down.
Oh but he had SOO much fun and got to shtup Stevie Case. Whee.
The New York Times has an article (free registration required) about customer reaction to a recent mailing by Qwest. Although the mailer only describes their privacy policy as it currently exists, apparently it's caught a few people by surprise."
Read the horrors of people misusing your personal information!!! (must provide your personal information to access)
Hmmm 25 abstract images huh. I have a great idea. The first image could be two diagonal lines, touching at the top with a horizontal line halfway down connecting them. Oh the second could be a vertical line with two right-facing humps. The third, a 3/4 circle with the opening on the right.....
This sounds like more psycho-bullshit. Ellen is wearing glasses and has a mole. "Sorry I have no facial recognition." But if she takes the glasses off and puts them in her hand, "OH! I see glasses in your hand. you must be Ellen!" Bullshit. We have way too many 'diseases' used to excuse what boils down to "I'm a dumbass".
I think Jon Katz has taken a pseudonym!