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A few months ago when my mom switched from netzero (she was paying fot the 'platinum' service) to a real ISP, we found out that you can do anything your account you want to from the netzero website, except canceling your account, so she called, and was forced to answer some survey questions before they would cancel her account. Nowhere near as bad as this though.
Unfortunately, this is one of the worst parts about doing business online, there is no way of millions of people to prove that they didnt check the box in the first place. Microsoft could just say that they all checked it on their own accord. Surely their is some law making it illegal to modify a contract after it has been agreed to without telling the other party. And surely just because we accept a contractual agreement Online, doesnt mean we give the other party full rights to do whatever the hell they want to what we agree to.
You would think this is illegal, this is like a contract saying:
Check here if you would like to give my personal info to whoever gives yout he most money _
And then, you mail it, and the people in the mail room check the box for you without your permission. Sounds stupid doesnt it? I dont see how this is any different. Sue the bastards
While still not a perfect model, it cant get much worse than what we have now with the RIAA controlling everything, and wanting to control more than they already have.
Try Handspring Blazer, its supposed to be a very good web browser, not requiring an external machine. I live in a very rural area, and access isnt available for pda's anyway, so connectivity wasnt too big of a deal when i got my Handspring Prism, im going to College next year though, and im considering purchasing a Sharp Zaurus as a replacement.
Ah, but pad's of paper dont support 802.11b, mainly due to the fact that since the paper pad devices are so low power, they dont have the excess juice to power an addon to provide connectivity, but due to their low cost, and ease of use, they can be a viable alternative to those seeking a portable device, but dont have connectivity in mind.
Get an Ipaq, they have support for 802.11 through a PCMCIA card if im not mistaken, then you can strip out the crap os that comes with it, and put Linux on it.
No, but you degrade everyone elses service as well, even if you are paying for your chunk. Not only that, it may end up making services more expensive as wireless companies have to boost up their infastructure to support more bandwidth from horny bandwidth hogs.
Censorship is a very bad thing, but some perv downloading huge ammounts of porn eating bandwidth from other customers is almost as bad as well. Difficult situation
Im ready for Quantum Entanglement Networking, heh zero ping time, and nearly unlimited bandwidth, and unlimited range, till then im gonna be stuck with dial up, seeing as how i live on the outskirts of nowhere
Its sad, all the once decent free web services on the web are becomming drenched in spam and advertisments, its all becomming crap, as the number of users of the internet has steadily increased, the quality of the actual content has decreased even quicker
False information of course, but then again most people do that for yahoo as well, if im not mistaken, there is even a javascript page floating around that automatically generates a randon nytimes login with completely random information.
If your ignorant enough to give your real identity out to a company that has no business having it in the first place, you almost deserve the lack of privacy.
Isnt it funny how their are articles on the New York Times website that are advocating privacy, and saying how yahoo doesnt care about peoples privacy. But that they require you to fill out EVERYTHING about yourself just to read the freaking article
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A few months ago when my mom switched from netzero (she was paying fot the 'platinum' service) to a real ISP, we found out that you can do anything your account you want to from the netzero website, except canceling your account, so she called, and was forced to answer some survey questions before they would cancel her account. Nowhere near as bad as this though.
Sounds like a plan, lets spam hotmail and tell them to make it easier for us to make it harder for them to spam us.
Unfortunately, this is one of the worst parts about doing business online, there is no way of millions of people to prove that they didnt check the box in the first place. Microsoft could just say that they all checked it on their own accord. Surely their is some law making it illegal to modify a contract after it has been agreed to without telling the other party. And surely just because we accept a contractual agreement Online, doesnt mean we give the other party full rights to do whatever the hell they want to what we agree to.
Check here if you would like to give my personal info to whoever gives yout he most money _
And then, you mail it, and the people in the mail room check the box for you without your permission. Sounds stupid doesnt it? I dont see how this is any different. Sue the bastards
btw, does anyone know if their is a user-agent spoofing feature in galeon? or when they plan to add one.
People smart enough to use mozilla should be smart enough to not trust their personal info to microsoft either.
It could be worse than what it is now, at least microsoft doesnt make phones yet.
id much rather just pay the artists directly
While still not a perfect model, it cant get much worse than what we have now with the RIAA controlling everything, and wanting to control more than they already have.
Try Handspring Blazer, its supposed to be a very good web browser, not requiring an external machine. I live in a very rural area, and access isnt available for pda's anyway, so connectivity wasnt too big of a deal when i got my Handspring Prism, im going to College next year though, and im considering purchasing a Sharp Zaurus as a replacement.
Ah, but pad's of paper dont support 802.11b, mainly due to the fact that since the paper pad devices are so low power, they dont have the excess juice to power an addon to provide connectivity, but due to their low cost, and ease of use, they can be a viable alternative to those seeking a portable device, but dont have connectivity in mind.
Get an Ipaq, they have support for 802.11 through a PCMCIA card if im not mistaken, then you can strip out the crap os that comes with it, and put Linux on it.
Unfortunately, most ISP's provide for a maxiumum bandwidth in their contract, and nowhere is there a guarantee of minimum bandwidth.
Thats a very good question, but don't they provide access to PDAs?
Trust me, the wireless service here sucks so bad, any little bit counts
No, but you degrade everyone elses service as well, even if you are paying for your chunk. Not only that, it may end up making services more expensive as wireless companies have to boost up their infastructure to support more bandwidth from horny bandwidth hogs.
Censorship is a very bad thing, but some perv downloading huge ammounts of porn eating bandwidth from other customers is almost as bad as well. Difficult situation
Will us nerds who do tech support begin to be called spin-doctors by the press now?
Im ready for Quantum Entanglement Networking, heh zero ping time, and nearly unlimited bandwidth, and unlimited range, till then im gonna be stuck with dial up, seeing as how i live on the outskirts of nowhere
ISP's should have no concern as to wether law enforcement is present in court ordered searches, unless they are doing something non-legit.
Microsoft is beginning to cripple itself, by constantly showing that it cant create a quality product, they dont need our help.
Is opening your computer to huge microsoft security holes.
Its sad, all the once decent free web services on the web are becomming drenched in spam and advertisments, its all becomming crap, as the number of users of the internet has steadily increased, the quality of the actual content has decreased even quicker
If your ignorant enough to give your real identity out to a company that has no business having it in the first place, you almost deserve the lack of privacy.
Rather hypocritical if you ask me.