When they launched this feature I was very curious how the integration would work, so I sent myself test emails from a few accounts. I never got them. I tried maybe a year (?) later? I also never got them. So I would consider that to be somewhat of a patent failure.
I find it interesting that the Yellow Pages aren't mentioned, which may as well have an even lower saturation rate. I really enjoyed this post on GOOD yesterday.
I met this guy at HOPE, and he was actually really interesting. I wish he would up some demos of some of his recipes online. He can make jello shots that you can nail to a wall!! What?!?! The book is actually quite interesting.
I'm really surprised I haven't seen many comments relating to this.
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-261A. ht ml
Two days ago, CERT accounced that there were multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla products. The only unaffected version of Firefox is PR1.0. It is doubtless that this caused a number of downloads of existing installs who would have chosen to not run the Preview Release.
Them hitting their 1mil marker isn't neccesarily a good thing.
duh - cable company bandwidth metering
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Since most broadband providers will soon be metering access, depending on the costs involved in file sharing, maybe P2P will just be dead.
It would be really stupid for Apple to announce plans to start porting Mac OS X to x86 until at least some sort of ruling is out about the Microsoft case. Why not wait a couple months until Microsoft is somewhat crippled before releasing a competitive product? Along similar lines, I'll bet anyone dimes to dollars that when the Microsoft case's are all said and done with - the present case and AOL TimeWarner's recent suit - that we'll start hearing mumblings about AOL buying RedHat again. I think its only bound to happen.
It just doesn't make business sense to not sue the f*ck out of them first to cripple them at their own game before competing with them in any market space.
They compare each Linux distribution individually AND combine them all together? The statistic that WinInformant must be using is comparing Linux (aggragate) aka all Linux distro's combined. And when you combine all of the Linux distro's together _all_ of them have had more security exploits then Microsoft Windows? Well, uh, duh! You don't have Debian NT, Redhat NT, SuSE NT, et all. You have Microsoft NT. Whoever wrote the summary for that survey is a complete moron. But maybe thats what the article moderators want? Submissions by morons? To not carefully analyze what gets posted so that people can get really pissed, so I'll be here posting this message? The title should _not_ say Security Focus says windows more secure then Linux. Maybe WinInformant did, but I haven't been able to look at the original article yet. Morons. All of them.
I can't help but be confused. You repeatedly hear about the high cost of sending stuff into orbit. It seems to me that a little investment in creating some kind of space junkyard of sorts might pay off.
The same thing goes with Mir. We hear about how the ISS is so far over budget, but how come we let Mir crash and burn rather then integrating it into the existing ISS plan? Even if we ripped out all of its guts and let the vacuum of space kill the fungus that was growing in it, thats still a whole hell of a lot of metal that could possibly be pressurized and turned into a living/labrotory space.
Personally I am a skeptic at heart, so I really don't believe in much. I need to personally verify information. I make no claims that my initial post is valid, and I will not say that I believe what you say is correct. I do, however, believe in spreading alternate points of view. That is what happened in this case.
The thing that really disturbs me is that you posted anonymously.
United States Refuses to Abide by Geneva Convention http://www.civil-rights.net/
WHY ARE WE CALLING FOR PROTESTS AND BOYCOTTS AGAINST "BLACK HAWK DOWN"??
This movie is a blatantly racist attempt to create support among the U.S. public for a new war against Somalia. According to the Bush Administration, Somalia is at the top of the Pentagon?s list of countries to be the next major target of the so-called ?war against terrorism.?
In his review of ?Black Hawk Down,? New York Times movie reviewer Elvis Mitchell wrote that the movie ?converts the Somalis into a pack of snarling dark-skinned beasts ? it reeks of glumly staged racism.?
What actually happened in Somalia in 1992-93?
On December 12, 1992, the U.S. sent 28,000 soldiers into Somalia under the cover of the United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM) in what they said was a ?humanitarian mission? to bring food to starving people. The invasion came when a several-year drought that had taken tens of thousands of lives was actually abating. At the time, the evening news showed images of thousands of starving Somalis. What people didn?t see was U.S. troops - not delivering food - but instead engaged in daily gun battles and bombing raids in heavily populated neighborhoods. In ten months, more than 10,000 Somalis died as the U.S. engaged in aggressive military action against those who resisted.
Resistance among Somali women, men and even children to the foreign troops became widespread. The Somali people have a long and proud history of resistance. They fought for the freedom of their country from Italian, French and British colonialism - and they resisted the U.S. attempts to recolonize their country.
In the beginning of the military intervention in 1992, Colin Powell, at the time the chairman of the Pentagon?s Join Chiefs of Staff, called the invasion a ?paid political advertisement? for the Pentagon at a time (less than a year after the end of the so-called Cold War) when Congress was under growing pressure to cut the war budget. Powell opposed calls that that money be used instead for jobs, education, health care, housing and other social needs, and instead sought to maintain the $300-billion-plus military budget.
In reporting on the U.S./UN Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM), the human rights organization Africa Rights stated that troops ?have engaged in abuses of human rights, including killing of civilians, physical abuse, theft ? Many UNOSOM soldiers have also displayed unacceptable levels of racism toward Somalis ?? These abuses included opening fire with machine guns against unarmed protesters, firing missiles into residential areas and outright murder civilians, including many youth. The report states ?UNOSOM has become an army of occupation.?
Pro-war propaganda
Since September 11, Bush administration officials have held meetings with Hollywood representatives regarding the content of the movies and other material they produce. In an October 17, 2001, meeting, Hollywood heads ?committed themselves to new initiatives in support of the war on terrorism.?
?Black Hawk Down? is just one of those movies, made hand-in-hand with the Pentagon. Weeks before the release of ?Black Hawk Down,? the Motion Picture Association of America held a private screening for senior White House advisers, and allowed them to make changes. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Oliver North, among others, attended the movie?s Washington DC premiere.
Hollywood spends hundreds of millions of dollars on pro-war, racist films like these - $90 million on ?Black Hawk Down? alone - while millions of people in New York and around the country are facing layoffs, evictions, cuts in health care, attacks on their pensions and more.
A new war in Somalia
?Somalia Possible Target? is now a common sentiment echoed in newspaper headlines and statements of Bush administration officials. In some ways, a new war against Somalia has already begun. In November, the U.S. government shut down the Somali-owned Al-Barakat money transfer company, which provided the only way for Somalis living out of the country to send back much-needed funds, known as remittances, which are often vital for family members? survival. Up to eighty percent of Somalis - which is hundreds of thousands if not milliosn of people - rely on funds sent by relatives livng outside of the country. This exposes the pretext given by the U.S. government for the 1992 intervention - said then to be a mission to help starving people - because now the U.S. is imposing measures that will cause Somali people to starve because they are unable to afford food.
The U.S. also shut down Somalia Internet Company, denying all Internet access to Somalis, and has severely restricted international telephone lines. This is really the beginning of a strangulation of the country.
Since the U.S. government cannot implicate Somalia in the events of September 11, they are attempting to justify a new military assault by implying that the Pentagon has unfinished business, that they have a ?black eye? and must return with a vengeance. This is the goal of ?Black Hawk Down.?
All those who believe in justice for the people of the world must take a stand against U.S. threats against Somalia, Sudan, the Philippines, Iraq, Colombia and everywhere else. We don?t know where the next war will be. The Pentagon has announced that it?s wartime all the time and they will select the targets. But we do know the U.S. public is being prepared to justify another bloody incursion into Somalia.
Protest and boycott ?Black Hawk Down? and organize to build the anti-war movement.
http://www.InternationalANSWER.org.
If you are organizing in your area, please let us know!
This guy is a complete idiot. Its preposterous to think that computers haven't drastically changed our lives. Think of two things. First, the great effect that computers and technology have had on our armed forces. The United States is definitely the bully on the block when it comes to the earth, and we wouldn't be there without "the digital revolution." And in turn, a lot of that technology wouldn't have developed if it weren't for our capitalist economy. We wouldn't be able to support the consumer culture we have become if it wasn't for the computers that keep tabs on all of us. For so many people to be purchasing so much and keeping track of it all, it takes a tremendous ammount of computing and networking power. I wonder how much bandwidth banks use updating accounts for our purchases. Think of all the people in the check out line swiping their cards through readers, and everyone at an ATM. *grin* Beyond that, on a personal and smaller scale, it is a slow change over, but none the less one can see the direction we are going trying to go in. It's making us stay inside more, and get lazier. Fast food sales are on the rise nationwide, as are the ammount we drive, instead of walking around and enjoying our world. Computers just play a part in this. Now to shop for a new couch we don't even have to leave our little cave. Sure, seeing a picture of it isn't the same as going to a store, but before long, I'm sure we'll have our entire house scanned into a 3d model, and we can download a 3d model of the couch and move it around inside, make sure it fits ok, load up our 3d glasses and even see what our house looks like when sitting down on the couch. With the advent of Music over the internet, we don't have to go anywhere to buy a cd or record, or even listen to a live show. We can just sit at home on our ass all day if we want. More and more companies are allowing people to telecommute for more and more types of jobs. If we're feeling lonely and depressed and don't have any friends, even an idiot can get on ICQ or AIM and find someone random to talk to. Pfft... anyway. [; --tom
A while ago, I purchased a webcam which included game software somewhat similiar to this. One of the games allowed to you play Basketball, one was I think ping pong, and there were a few others. These were examples of the same (not so spectacular) technology, just implemented in a simpler manner. I don't feel like this is any kind of breakthrough, and probably the only reason why is got posted was because it had the word "Light Saber" in it. Slashdot can be so stupidly sensational. [;
There are only just a few things you need to attract geeks: #1 Cheap high bandwidth internet access #2 Cute girls/guys to look at #3 Other geeks to hang out with And there you have it. Nothing more, nothing less.
this sounds about what would happen if you slapped some ignorant joe-average AOLish user on the internet for 5 days. this article really annoyed me. there is a merging point, and we aren't there yet but we're getting there slowly. some people check their email all the time. those people participate in culture online. then there are people who only check their email once in a while. those people don't participate in culture online. people who are online have things they like to do online, and have found good or perhaps better ways of doing things online then in real life. a lot of people haven't found those things. you have to look for them. most people don't check their email once or twice a day, like the average slashdotter. its just ignorance. is that what he expected to find? that everyone on the net is just as wired as him? of course not. i don't like how he completely degraded the internet. its bad press. the average person is slowly discovering more and more about the internet, and as that happens, and computer literacy increases, a transgression will take place. all these things this guy was trying to do will become possible. also, i think its stupid that he couldn't/didn't use the phone. voice communications are not going out of style anytime soon. and its such a similiar technology too. yet again ignorance. [; it sounded more like a personal social expirment then a real test of the internet. i wonder though what would have happened if he had discovered http://www.dialpad.com which offers free phone calls to anywhere over the internet. --tom
I wanted to do this when I was 15. It was not possible, as where I live in order to be "dual enrolled" in school, you had to be 16 years of age or older. It has to do with having to be 16 to drop out of high school.
Slashdot Mirror
When they launched this feature I was very curious how the integration would work, so I sent myself test emails from a few accounts. I never got them. I tried maybe a year (?) later? I also never got them. So I would consider that to be somewhat of a patent failure.
I find it interesting that the Yellow Pages aren't mentioned, which may as well have an even lower saturation rate. I really enjoyed this post on GOOD yesterday.
Video: Canadians Return Hundreds of Phone Books to Yellow Pages Office
http://www.good.is/post/video-canadians-return-hundreds-of-phone-books-to-yellow-pages-office/
I met this guy at HOPE, and he was actually really interesting. I wish he would up some demos of some of his recipes online. He can make jello shots that you can nail to a wall!! What?!?! The book is actually quite interesting.
I'm really surprised I haven't seen many comments relating to this.
. ht ml
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-261A
Two days ago, CERT accounced that there were multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla products. The only unaffected version of Firefox is PR1.0. It is doubtless that this caused a number of downloads of existing installs who would have chosen to not run the Preview Release.
Them hitting their 1mil marker isn't neccesarily a good thing.
Since most broadband providers will soon be metering access, depending on the costs involved in file sharing, maybe P2P will just be dead.
--tom
It would be really stupid for Apple to announce plans to start porting Mac OS X to x86 until at least some sort of ruling is out about the Microsoft case. Why not wait a couple months until Microsoft is somewhat crippled before releasing a competitive product? Along similar lines, I'll bet anyone dimes to dollars that when the Microsoft case's are all said and done with - the present case and AOL TimeWarner's recent suit - that we'll start hearing mumblings about AOL buying RedHat again. I think its only bound to happen.
It just doesn't make business sense to not sue the f*ck out of them first to cripple them at their own game before competing with them in any market space.
Just my thoughts.
--tom
I dont understand.
They compare each Linux distribution individually AND combine them all together? The statistic that WinInformant must be using is comparing Linux (aggragate) aka all Linux distro's combined. And when you combine all of the Linux distro's together _all_ of them have had more security exploits then Microsoft Windows? Well, uh, duh! You don't have Debian NT, Redhat NT, SuSE NT, et all. You have Microsoft NT. Whoever wrote the summary for that survey is a complete moron. But maybe thats what the article moderators want? Submissions by morons? To not carefully analyze what gets posted so that people can get really pissed, so I'll be here posting this message? The title should _not_ say Security Focus says windows more secure then Linux. Maybe WinInformant did, but I haven't been able to look at the original article yet. Morons. All of them.
Regards,
Tom
I can't help but be confused. You repeatedly hear about the high cost of sending stuff into orbit. It seems to me that a little investment in creating some kind of space junkyard of sorts might pay off.
The same thing goes with Mir. We hear about how the ISS is so far over budget, but how come we let Mir crash and burn rather then integrating it into the existing ISS plan? Even if we ripped out all of its guts and let the vacuum of space kill the fungus that was growing in it, thats still a whole hell of a lot of metal that could possibly be pressurized and turned into a living/labrotory space.
But whatever.
--tom
Perhaps.
Personally I am a skeptic at heart, so I really don't believe in much. I need to personally verify information. I make no claims that my initial post is valid, and I will not say that I believe what you say is correct. I do, however, believe in spreading alternate points of view. That is what happened in this case.
The thing that really disturbs me is that you posted anonymously.
I don't understand what you are trying to hide.
Regards,
Tom
United States Refuses to Abide by Geneva Convention http://www.civil-rights.net/
WHY ARE WE CALLING FOR PROTESTS AND BOYCOTTS AGAINST "BLACK HAWK DOWN"??
This movie is a blatantly racist attempt to create support among the U.S. public for a new war against Somalia. According to the Bush Administration, Somalia is at the top of the Pentagon?s list of countries to be the next major target of the so-called ?war against terrorism.?
In his review of ?Black Hawk Down,? New York Times movie reviewer Elvis Mitchell wrote that the movie ?converts the Somalis into a pack of snarling dark-skinned beasts ? it reeks of glumly staged racism.?
What actually happened in Somalia in 1992-93?
On December 12, 1992, the U.S. sent 28,000 soldiers into Somalia under the cover of the United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM) in what they said was a ?humanitarian mission? to bring food to starving people. The invasion came when a several-year drought that had taken tens of thousands of lives was actually abating. At the time, the evening news showed images of thousands of starving Somalis. What people didn?t see was U.S. troops - not delivering food - but instead engaged in daily gun battles and bombing raids in heavily populated neighborhoods. In ten months, more than 10,000 Somalis died as the U.S. engaged in aggressive military action against those who resisted.
Resistance among Somali women, men and even children to the foreign troops became widespread. The Somali people have a long and proud history of resistance. They fought for the freedom of their country from Italian, French and British colonialism - and they resisted the U.S. attempts to recolonize their country.
In the beginning of the military intervention in 1992, Colin Powell, at the time the chairman of the Pentagon?s Join Chiefs of Staff, called the invasion a ?paid political advertisement? for the Pentagon at a time (less than a year after the end of the so-called Cold War) when Congress was under growing pressure to cut the war budget. Powell opposed calls that that money be used instead for jobs, education, health care, housing and other social needs, and instead sought to maintain the $300-billion-plus military budget.
In reporting on the U.S./UN Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM), the human rights organization Africa Rights stated that troops ?have engaged in abuses of human rights, including killing of civilians, physical abuse, theft ? Many UNOSOM soldiers have also displayed unacceptable levels of racism toward Somalis ?? These abuses included opening fire with machine guns against unarmed protesters, firing missiles into residential areas and outright murder civilians, including many youth. The report states ?UNOSOM has become an army of occupation.?
Pro-war propaganda
Since September 11, Bush administration officials have held meetings with Hollywood representatives regarding the content of the movies and other material they produce. In an October 17, 2001, meeting, Hollywood heads ?committed themselves to new initiatives in support of the war on terrorism.?
?Black Hawk Down? is just one of those movies, made hand-in-hand with the Pentagon. Weeks before the release of ?Black Hawk Down,? the Motion Picture Association of America held a private screening for senior White House advisers, and allowed them to make changes. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Oliver North, among others, attended the movie?s Washington DC premiere.
Hollywood spends hundreds of millions of dollars on pro-war, racist films like these - $90 million on ?Black Hawk Down? alone - while millions of people in New York and around the country are facing layoffs, evictions, cuts in health care, attacks on their pensions and more.
A new war in Somalia
?Somalia Possible Target? is now a common sentiment echoed in newspaper headlines and statements of Bush administration officials. In some ways, a new war against Somalia has already begun. In November, the U.S. government shut down the Somali-owned Al-Barakat money transfer company, which provided the only way for Somalis living out of the country to send back much-needed funds, known as remittances, which are often vital for family members? survival. Up to eighty percent of Somalis - which is hundreds of thousands if not milliosn of people - rely on funds sent by relatives livng outside of the country. This exposes the pretext given by the U.S. government for the 1992 intervention - said then to be a mission to help starving people - because now the U.S. is imposing measures that will cause Somali people to starve because they are unable to afford food.
The U.S. also shut down Somalia Internet Company, denying all Internet access to Somalis, and has severely restricted international telephone lines. This is really the beginning of a strangulation of the country.
Since the U.S. government cannot implicate Somalia in the events of September 11, they are attempting to justify a new military assault by implying that the Pentagon has unfinished business, that they have a ?black eye? and must return with a vengeance. This is the goal of ?Black Hawk Down.?
All those who believe in justice for the people of the world must take a stand against U.S. threats against Somalia, Sudan, the Philippines, Iraq, Colombia and everywhere else. We don?t know where the next war will be. The Pentagon has announced that it?s wartime all the time and they will select the targets. But we do know the U.S. public is being prepared to justify another bloody incursion into Somalia.
Protest and boycott ?Black Hawk Down? and organize to build the anti-war movement.
http://www.InternationalANSWER.org.
If you are organizing in your area, please let us know!
This guy is a complete idiot. Its preposterous to think that computers haven't drastically changed our lives. Think of two things. First, the great effect that computers and technology have had on our armed forces. The United States is definitely the bully on the block when it comes to the earth, and we wouldn't be there without "the digital revolution." And in turn, a lot of that technology wouldn't have developed if it weren't for our capitalist economy. We wouldn't be able to support the consumer culture we have become if it wasn't for the computers that keep tabs on all of us. For so many people to be purchasing so much and keeping track of it all, it takes a tremendous ammount of computing and networking power. I wonder how much bandwidth banks use updating accounts for our purchases. Think of all the people in the check out line swiping their cards through readers, and everyone at an ATM. *grin* Beyond that, on a personal and smaller scale, it is a slow change over, but none the less one can see the direction we are going trying to go in. It's making us stay inside more, and get lazier. Fast food sales are on the rise nationwide, as are the ammount we drive, instead of walking around and enjoying our world. Computers just play a part in this. Now to shop for a new couch we don't even have to leave our little cave. Sure, seeing a picture of it isn't the same as going to a store, but before long, I'm sure we'll have our entire house scanned into a 3d model, and we can download a 3d model of the couch and move it around inside, make sure it fits ok, load up our 3d glasses and even see what our house looks like when sitting down on the couch. With the advent of Music over the internet, we don't have to go anywhere to buy a cd or record, or even listen to a live show. We can just sit at home on our ass all day if we want. More and more companies are allowing people to telecommute for more and more types of jobs. If we're feeling lonely and depressed and don't have any friends, even an idiot can get on ICQ or AIM and find someone random to talk to. Pfft... anyway. [; --tom
A while ago, I purchased a webcam which included game software somewhat similiar to this. One of the games allowed to you play Basketball, one was I think ping pong, and there were a few others. These were examples of the same (not so spectacular) technology, just implemented in a simpler manner. I don't feel like this is any kind of breakthrough, and probably the only reason why is got posted was because it had the word "Light Saber" in it. Slashdot can be so stupidly sensational. [;
Is there a URL where his unsealed email can be found?
--tom
If you are my friend, moderate this up! [;
I really hope this works out well for them. Down with the Intel monkeys! Down! I think its time for a new chip monopoly in town.
There are only just a few things you need to attract geeks: #1 Cheap high bandwidth internet access #2 Cute girls/guys to look at #3 Other geeks to hang out with And there you have it. Nothing more, nothing less.
this sounds about what would happen if you slapped some ignorant joe-average AOLish user on the internet for 5 days. this article really annoyed me. there is a merging point, and we aren't there yet but we're getting there slowly. some people check their email all the time. those people participate in culture online. then there are people who only check their email once in a while. those people don't participate in culture online. people who are online have things they like to do online, and have found good or perhaps better ways of doing things online then in real life. a lot of people haven't found those things. you have to look for them. most people don't check their email once or twice a day, like the average slashdotter. its just ignorance. is that what he expected to find? that everyone on the net is just as wired as him? of course not. i don't like how he completely degraded the internet. its bad press. the average person is slowly discovering more and more about the internet, and as that happens, and computer literacy increases, a transgression will take place. all these things this guy was trying to do will become possible. also, i think its stupid that he couldn't/didn't use the phone. voice communications are not going out of style anytime soon. and its such a similiar technology too. yet again ignorance. [; it sounded more like a personal social expirment then a real test of the internet. i wonder though what would have happened if he had discovered http://www.dialpad.com which offers free phone calls to anywhere over the internet. --tom
I wanted to do this when I was 15. It was not possible, as where I live in order to be "dual enrolled" in school, you had to be 16 years of age or older. It has to do with having to be 16 to drop out of high school.