I don't worry about organizations like this being able to find out my home address, since i figured out early on that most sites will accept addresses like:
Cray Drygu 27 Sample St. Mighton (my-town, get it?) ME, 01435.
Obviously totally made up, but they take it anyway. Places offering free services online do not need my home address, so when they require it, I just feed them something like that.
It helps, too, that I have a proxy set up to deny everything from *.doubleclick.net and every other ad-banner URL I could find. Sometimes I take it off when surfing/., but other than that, I almost never see banner ads, just these mysterious banner-ad sized blank spots...
Why don't you get someone on your editorial board who is anything different than you? Got any women? How about married men? Any gay people? Heck, how about any colored people?
Two things before I type up the rest of this, just so you know where I'm coming from. One: I'm gay. Two: I don't claim to speak for all gay geeks.
Having said that, I can see where you're coming from... but you need to lay off. Would you like to know why they don't get any black/married/gay/man-hating-Lesbian-Avenger-asian -goth-perl-coders? Because they don't apply for the position.
Seriously. I've heard of companies who will hire the underqualified black man over the white man who's perfect for the job, just so they can be politically correct. You don't hear about it often, but it does happen. I found a quote once that nicely sums up how I feel about this. "Sometimes it's important to offend people."
Before you go around spouting the p-word (propaganda), think seriously about the issue at hand. Think about target audiences. You may as well ask why doesn't Playboy have articles geared towards lesbians, or why doesn't PC Gamer have articles on the latest console systems. Sure they may be of interest to some of the readers -- but it's not the target audience.
Okay... I'm intrigued... how do you do this? I know about the RDF file used, but how do you parse it? I suppose writing my own utility to do so would be an interesting project, but I'd rather not do something so involved if I don't have to, as I'm not exactly a master programmer =)
Do you ever actually read the articles you comment on, JDube? From what I know of you both here and IRL, I'd guess not.
If you did, you'd realize that this project has little to nothing to do with specifically running Micros~1 products on your box. It's about running Win32 apps on linux. Now, if I cared to, I could come up with a long list of Windows programs that have nothing to do with MS.
I don't know what's worse -- when MS tries to make themselves look pretty by spreading their usual lies, or when linux users spout anti-MS statements that are just as unfounded.
"Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they?" -- Scarecrow, from the Wizard of Oz
If you'll remember Q2, the demo was incompatible in a multiplayer with the full version, or at least I never could get it to run.
Actually, a friend of mine found a way around this. If you apply one of the official Id Software patches intended for the full version to the demo, you could play multiplayer games jut fine, but it wrecked the single player.
He did eventually buy the game, by the way, before you start flaming him for that =)
First off, anyone care to explain to me how that was flamebait? I imagine it's because someone thought they'd moderate down anyone who's remotely on AOL's side, but then, I'm just paranoid.
Anywho, I should clear something up. You're right -- with scripting and HTML features in mail readers, you can get a virus or at least some troublesome annoyances just from reading email.
With the AOL mail reader, however, you can't. They barely even support HTML, in fact. The only possible way an AOL user could get a virus through their AOL email account is if they downloaded and ran an attachment.
As an AOL user (not for much longer, though, for varying reasons), I panicked when i read that line. Then logic took over.
You cannot get a virus simply by reading email. It's a saying that's been repeated to newbies since who-knows-when, and I'm surprised that/. missed it.
It even says in the article, and I quote:
If the user opens the attached file -- an action AOL claims to repeatedly warn users against -- it launches a small program that obtains the user's password off the hard disk and sends it back to the hacker's OperaMail address.
AOL does repeatedly warn it's users about opening attachments from people you don't know... doesn't mean that people always heed these warnings.
Okay, I know others have posted this too, but I just had to add my $2.0*10^-2
I found out about this layout from a friend, and about how great it was supposed to be. Did a little research, found that I could change a simple setting and rearrange my keycaps, and I'd be using Dvorak.
It was horrible at first. I had to relearn how to type, and since I spend a lot of time in chats, it was really frustrating. Didn't help that I had to use QWERTY in school, too.
I struggled through it, though, and after a month or two, I swear I was typing faster with Dvorak than I ever did with QWERTY, and it was a lot nicer on my hands as well. As an unpleasant side-effect, my QWERTY skills were nearly reduced to hunt-and-peck, but since I did/do most of my typing at home, it wasn't much of an issue.
A little while ago, though, I bought a new computer, and new keyboard to go with it. (The old keyboard's plug wouldn't fit in the new comp's jack, and it didn't have a Windoze key).
I've relearned how to type in QWERTY, at least as well as I ever did, a sort of cross between the standard method and hunt-and-peck. I'd switch back, but other family members use the computer, too, now that it's not a piece of junk, and I don't want to screw them up.
AOL is currently beta testing some "AOL Plus" software, which is basically the AOL clent optimized for high-speeg (as in cablemodem and adsl) connections.
The @home deal is probably so that, once AOL Plus is released to the public, AOL can offer cablemodem service to their customers.
Keep in mind that, if I missed some obvious detail that proves me wrong, it's because I didn't read the article... this is just the first explanation that popped into my head.
So, what you want children to be taught is how to sit still for 10-40 minutes at a time while the rest of the class works through what took our subject 30 seconds?
Ah, I remember that. I spent a lot of time sitting there, the paper in front of me completed, as the rest of the class struggled through the first problem.
Heck, it happened to me yesterday. And the day before. And I'm a high school senior, for cryin' out loud! (For those non-US people, that's the last year of school before college/university).
I'm sure I'm not the only poster on this forum who spent more time in school dealing with boredom than on any other subject.
I've actually failed a few classes due to exactly that.
While there may be some people who use AOL and also happen to use Linux, you can't have your cake and eat it too. Of course, if your cake is AOL, I know most people would prefer not to eat it...
Anywho, AOL doesn't use a standard dial-up account, you need their client software, and there is no Linux version. In fact, the latest version (just released a week ago) won't even run correctly on Win2K.
CrayDrygu reads the news story, makes completely uninformed post to slashdot.
Okay, allow me to revise my post now that I have been enlightened.
Lady goes to McDonald's drive-through and orders a cup of coffee. She knows how hot it is (how could she not? You can feel it through the cup!) and sets it in her lap anyway. She drives away, and any third-grader could tell you what would happen next.
Not only do I still have no sympathy whatsoever, but I also still think this was one of the most idiotic lawsuits ever.
As tuxmask said, "if it hurts my hand, why would i put it on my genitals?"
Anybody else remember the lady who sued McDonald's over their coffee? Condensed version: lady orders coffee in the drive-thru, puts it in her lap, opens the lid, and drives away... and sues McD's because it burned her.
So of course, she wins, because it's so obviously McDonald's fault, right?
This is practically the same thing... "forced" to spend thousands of dollars, my arse. The sad thing here is that, while even an idiot can see that these people have no case, there are lawyers out there who will make them a case. They'll search through all the arcane and obscure loopholes they can find, and make sure that the idiots win again.
And if these people do win, I will finally lose all faith in our justice system. Or, perhaps, our lack thereof.
If so, could I browse the internet on my calc? You would just need a ppp implementation and a 9600 baud modem....
I can't seem to find it now, but I once ran across a page telling how to connect your TI calculator to the internet. You need the calculator, a modem, a cable to connect the two that you have to make yourself, and an ISP that gives you a shell account. It was pretty neat.
Canada isn't the only place with virtual High Schools.
I'm in Massachusetts, USA, and happen to be taking a history course online. This is only the second year the program's been in place (at least here), but it's already gaining popularity. The courses aren't necessarily easier, but they run at a more relaxed pace, and as an added bonus, you have full access to it from home as well as school.
Of course, while the Canadian program seems to be more of a home-schooling thing, this program is meant to supplement regular HS courses. If you want to check it out and see what the courses look like, go to http://vhs.concord.org
> there is free speech, your just not allowed to say hateful sh_t
The problem here comes from the question of who defines hateful sh_t. Someone once pointed out that even Fred Phelps (www.godhatesfags.com) thinks he's speaking out of love.
I would rather have to put up with a bunch of "psychos and racists" than worry about the government what I can say.
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I don't worry about organizations like this being able to find out my home address, since i figured out early on that most sites will accept addresses like:
Cray Drygu
27 Sample St.
Mighton (my-town, get it?) ME, 01435.
Obviously totally made up, but they take it anyway. Places offering free services online do not need my home address, so when they require it, I just feed them something like that.
It helps, too, that I have a proxy set up to deny everything from *.doubleclick.net and every other ad-banner URL I could find. Sometimes I take it off when surfing /., but other than that, I almost never see banner ads, just these mysterious banner-ad sized blank spots...
Two things before I type up the rest of this, just so you know where I'm coming from. One: I'm gay. Two: I don't claim to speak for all gay geeks.
Having said that, I can see where you're coming from... but you need to lay off. Would you like to know why they don't get any black/married/gay/man-hating-Lesbian-Avenger-asian -goth-perl-coders? Because they don't apply for the position.
Seriously. I've heard of companies who will hire the underqualified black man over the white man who's perfect for the job, just so they can be politically correct. You don't hear about it often, but it does happen. I found a quote once that nicely sums up how I feel about this. "Sometimes it's important to offend people."
Before you go around spouting the p-word (propaganda), think seriously about the issue at hand. Think about target audiences. You may as well ask why doesn't Playboy have articles geared towards lesbians, or why doesn't PC Gamer have articles on the latest console systems. Sure they may be of interest to some of the readers -- but it's not the target audience.
Okay... I'm intrigued... how do you do this? I know about the RDF file used, but how do you parse it? I suppose writing my own utility to do so would be an interesting project, but I'd rather not do something so involved if I don't have to, as I'm not exactly a master programmer =)
Do you ever actually read the articles you comment on, JDube? From what I know of you both here and IRL, I'd guess not.
If you did, you'd realize that this project has little to nothing to do with specifically running Micros~1 products on your box. It's about running Win32 apps on linux. Now, if I cared to, I could come up with a long list of Windows programs that have nothing to do with MS.
I don't know what's worse -- when MS tries to make themselves look pretty by spreading their usual lies, or when linux users spout anti-MS statements that are just as unfounded.
"Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they?" -- Scarecrow, from the Wizard of Oz
Actually, a friend of mine found a way around this. If you apply one of the official Id Software patches intended for the full version to the demo, you could play multiplayer games jut fine, but it wrecked the single player.
He did eventually buy the game, by the way, before you start flaming him for that =)
First off, anyone care to explain to me how that was flamebait? I imagine it's because someone thought they'd moderate down anyone who's remotely on AOL's side, but then, I'm just paranoid.
Anywho, I should clear something up. You're right -- with scripting and HTML features in mail readers, you can get a virus or at least some troublesome annoyances just from reading email.
With the AOL mail reader, however, you can't. They barely even support HTML, in fact. The only possible way an AOL user could get a virus through their AOL email account is if they downloaded and ran an attachment.
As an AOL user (not for much longer, though, for varying reasons), I panicked when i read that line. Then logic took over.
You cannot get a virus simply by reading email. It's a saying that's been repeated to newbies since who-knows-when, and I'm surprised that /. missed it.
It even says in the article, and I quote:
AOL does repeatedly warn it's users about opening attachments from people you don't know... doesn't mean that people always heed these warnings.
Just by opening the email, eh Hemos?
1) Anybody else find the name "Mitnick" a little ironic for an anti-hacking character? Of course, that was probably intentional.
2) Why a gerbil? Am I missing something here? Is the gerbil a sign of security and integrity, and I just never knew it? Seems rather random to me...
I found out about this layout from a friend, and about how great it was supposed to be. Did a little research, found that I could change a simple setting and rearrange my keycaps, and I'd be using Dvorak.
It was horrible at first. I had to relearn how to type, and since I spend a lot of time in chats, it was really frustrating. Didn't help that I had to use QWERTY in school, too.
I struggled through it, though, and after a month or two, I swear I was typing faster with Dvorak than I ever did with QWERTY, and it was a lot nicer on my hands as well. As an unpleasant side-effect, my QWERTY skills were nearly reduced to hunt-and-peck, but since I did/do most of my typing at home, it wasn't much of an issue.
A little while ago, though, I bought a new computer, and new keyboard to go with it. (The old keyboard's plug wouldn't fit in the new comp's jack, and it didn't have a Windoze key).
I've relearned how to type in QWERTY, at least as well as I ever did, a sort of cross between the standard method and hunt-and-peck. I'd switch back, but other family members use the computer, too, now that it's not a piece of junk, and I don't want to screw them up.
The @home deal is probably so that, once AOL Plus is released to the public, AOL can offer cablemodem service to their customers.
Keep in mind that, if I missed some obvious detail that proves me wrong, it's because I didn't read the article... this is just the first explanation that popped into my head.
Heck, it happened to me yesterday. And the day before. And I'm a high school senior, for cryin' out loud! (For those non-US people, that's the last year of school before college/university).
I've actually failed a few classes due to exactly that.While there may be some people who use AOL and also happen to use Linux, you can't have your cake and eat it too. Of course, if your cake is AOL, I know most people would prefer not to eat it...
Anywho, AOL doesn't use a standard dial-up account, you need their client software, and there is no Linux version. In fact, the latest version (just released a week ago) won't even run correctly on Win2K.
Okay, allow me to revise my post now that I have been enlightened.
Lady goes to McDonald's drive-through and orders a cup of coffee. She knows how hot it is (how could she not? You can feel it through the cup!) and sets it in her lap anyway. She drives away, and any third-grader could tell you what would happen next.
Not only do I still have no sympathy whatsoever, but I also still think this was one of the most idiotic lawsuits ever.
As tuxmask said, "if it hurts my hand, why would i put it on my genitals?"
Thank you for your time.
Anybody else remember the lady who sued McDonald's over their coffee? Condensed version: lady orders coffee in the drive-thru, puts it in her lap, opens the lid, and drives away... and sues McD's because it burned her.
So of course, she wins, because it's so obviously McDonald's fault, right?
This is practically the same thing... "forced" to spend thousands of dollars, my arse. The sad thing here is that, while even an idiot can see that these people have no case, there are lawyers out there who will make them a case. They'll search through all the arcane and obscure loopholes they can find, and make sure that the idiots win again.
And if these people do win, I will finally lose all faith in our justice system. Or, perhaps, our lack thereof.
If so, could I browse the internet on my calc? You would just need a ppp implementation and a 9600 baud modem....
I can't seem to find it now, but I once ran across a page telling how to connect your TI calculator to the internet. You need the calculator, a modem, a cable to connect the two that you have to make yourself, and an ISP that gives you a shell account. It was pretty neat.
Canada isn't the only place with virtual High Schools.
I'm in Massachusetts, USA, and happen to be taking a history course online. This is only the second year the program's been in place (at least here), but it's already gaining popularity. The courses aren't necessarily easier, but they run at a more relaxed pace, and as an added bonus, you have full access to it from home as well as school.
Of course, while the Canadian program seems to be more of a home-schooling thing, this program is meant to supplement regular HS courses. If you want to check it out and see what the courses look like, go to http://vhs.concord.org
> there is free speech, your just not allowed to say hateful sh_t
The problem here comes from the question of who defines hateful sh_t. Someone once pointed out that even Fred Phelps (www.godhatesfags.com) thinks he's speaking out of love.
I would rather have to put up with a bunch of "psychos and racists" than worry about the government what I can say.