That's like telling people to hang up on telemarketers, or just delete the spam from their mailbox. It's only a mild work-around and doesn't solve the problem. Earplugs are neither practical nor comfortable to wear 24 hours / day.
And then your car dealer refuses to fix your now-broken gas tank, telling you that you have to remove your own gas tank and clean it out yourself. They are deathly afraid of fixing the increasingly-common problem of sugar in the tank on anyone's vehicle because they might get sued by the person who is pouring it in everyone's car.
For all I know someone else may have created the account. I have no pertinent info except my own email address, but Yahoo does not consider an email address by itself to be enough info for them to bother sending me the "forgotten" password.
Yahoo requires you to sign in to your Yahoo account in order to delete that account. Since I don't know what username or password or birthdate they have on file for me, it is impossible for me to sign in and impossible to cancel the spam or delete the account. It is also impossible to contact a live human at Yahoo regarding this problem.
The design is thoroughly irresponsible, yet they've had it this way for years.
It's not just the missing address bar of popups that's a security concern. Web browsers could improve security greatly by telling users exactly what sites they are actually looking at, regardless of what the URL field says. But they don't.
Because:
You can't preview at the record store, or if you can, a couple of CDs at most.
When you buy a full CD you're paying for some tracks you won't ever listen to.
And you're wrong because:
The sound quality is not significantly worse.
You can write the track(s) to a CD.
Why do you need "art" to listen to music?
The only reason I have for not buying from online music stores is that they only sell the most popular music. I would use them if they sold everything, but the only way to obtain what I want is still through Kazaa and other odd sources.
"...maybe [Halderman] can learn a little bit more about our technology so as not to call it brain dead."
The researcher didn't "call it brain dead", he wrote a well-documented factual-as-possible paper.
But wait a minute, is this CEO actually encouraging the researcher to learn more about their technology? Isn't that one of the reasons the CEO threatened to sue in the first place?
Public relations ploy. They only say they'll comply because that's what they have to say. Saying otherwise -- "nyeah nyeah judge says we don't have to respect your preferences so we're not gonna" -- would get their industry-collective face punched in.
But can you expect the deeds of one of the country's sleaziest industries to match their words? Not as long as they can stay anonymous over the phone.
its context, defines the meaning, not just its prefix, so to say that mega always means 1,000,000 or kilo 1,000 is silly and clearly not the case.
By that logic, to say mega always means 1,048,576 or kilo 1,024 is also silly and clearly not the case. So why do you then claim the lawsuit has merit?
Only total geeks measure 1K as 1024. So this guy's suing because he wants the geekified definitions used? How incredibly fucking stupid can you get.
I'm already sick and tired of Windows Explorer measuring my file sizes in multiples of 1024. Now this guy wants EVERYTHING measured that way. What an asshole. HD manufacturers do it correctly, it is you who is wrong.
It is not any caller's right to assume what a random phone number is used for or can be used for, and your case is a strong demonstration of why that makes mass unsolicited calls thoroughly unacceptable.
Dial-up modems already compress text files on the fly. A 100KB HTML file downloads a lot faster than a 100KB JPEG file. How is compressing it again going to speed this up?
So the waiter serves 10 tables an hour, each table leaves a $5 tip, that waiter just earned $50 an hour. Why the hell do I have to contribute to that kind of salary for a low-skill job?
Why do some people insist on writing the word "spam" and all its derivatives in all capital letters? Those people need a clue; they don't need to shove the fucking word in my face every time I read it. KNOCK IT OFF!
So you're of the mindset that one should not try to improve something you like. What a retarded mindset.
If it's not important to you, why do you bother posting about it. Just to make fun of others? Yeah.
The "Viagra" advertised in spam does NOT work. You either get nothing for your money, or you get a fake immitation. You also land on sucker lists, both snail and electronic. When will people learn that spam = scam.
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That's like telling people to hang up on telemarketers, or just delete the spam from their mailbox. It's only a mild work-around and doesn't solve the problem. Earplugs are neither practical nor comfortable to wear 24 hours / day.
And then your car dealer refuses to fix your now-broken gas tank, telling you that you have to remove your own gas tank and clean it out yourself. They are deathly afraid of fixing the increasingly-common problem of sugar in the tank on anyone's vehicle because they might get sued by the person who is pouring it in everyone's car.
For all I know someone else may have created the account. I have no pertinent info except my own email address, but Yahoo does not consider an email address by itself to be enough info for them to bother sending me the "forgotten" password.
I get Yahoo's spam at a MindSpring email account.
Yahoo requires you to sign in to your Yahoo account in order to delete that account. Since I don't know what username or password or birthdate they have on file for me, it is impossible for me to sign in and impossible to cancel the spam or delete the account. It is also impossible to contact a live human at Yahoo regarding this problem.
The design is thoroughly irresponsible, yet they've had it this way for years.
It's not just the missing address bar of popups that's a security concern. Web browsers could improve security greatly by telling users exactly what sites they are actually looking at, regardless of what the URL field says. But they don't.
NO special rights for the rich, ESPECIALLY no special security rights for the rich.
You mean like:
VIP check-in line.
First Class seating.
First to board the plane.
First to leave the plane.
Because: You can't preview at the record store, or if you can, a couple of CDs at most. When you buy a full CD you're paying for some tracks you won't ever listen to. And you're wrong because: The sound quality is not significantly worse. You can write the track(s) to a CD. Why do you need "art" to listen to music? The only reason I have for not buying from online music stores is that they only sell the most popular music. I would use them if they sold everything, but the only way to obtain what I want is still through Kazaa and other odd sources.
"...maybe [Halderman] can learn a little bit more about our technology so as not to call it brain dead."
The researcher didn't "call it brain dead", he wrote a well-documented factual-as-possible paper.
But wait a minute, is this CEO actually encouraging the researcher to learn more about their technology? Isn't that one of the reasons the CEO threatened to sue in the first place?
Having sys-admins who do their jobs instead of whining about patching will fix *many* windows related problems.
I'd sure like to know how you intend to implement your proposed "solution".
Public relations ploy. They only say they'll comply because that's what they have to say. Saying otherwise -- "nyeah nyeah judge says we don't have to respect your preferences so we're not gonna" -- would get their industry-collective face punched in. But can you expect the deeds of one of the country's sleaziest industries to match their words? Not as long as they can stay anonymous over the phone.
So why aren't the articles proofread? I've often wondered.
its context, defines the meaning, not just its prefix, so to say that mega always means 1,000,000 or kilo 1,000 is silly and clearly not the case.
By that logic, to say mega always means 1,048,576 or kilo 1,024 is also silly and clearly not the case. So why do you then claim the lawsuit has merit?
Wow heh. Although according to the lawsuit you should grats post #7,340,032 instead.
Only total geeks measure 1K as 1024. So this guy's suing because he wants the geekified definitions used? How incredibly fucking stupid can you get. I'm already sick and tired of Windows Explorer measuring my file sizes in multiples of 1024. Now this guy wants EVERYTHING measured that way. What an asshole. HD manufacturers do it correctly, it is you who is wrong.
It is not any caller's right to assume what a random phone number is used for or can be used for, and your case is a strong demonstration of why that makes mass unsolicited calls thoroughly unacceptable.
Dial-up modems already compress text files on the fly. A 100KB HTML file downloads a lot faster than a 100KB JPEG file. How is compressing it again going to speed this up?
You fail to understand the concept of scale. Petty annoyance x 1000000 = not petty at all.
So the waiter serves 10 tables an hour, each table leaves a $5 tip, that waiter just earned $50 an hour. Why the hell do I have to contribute to that kind of salary for a low-skill job?
Please learn the difference between "expression" and communication.
Why do some people insist on writing the word "spam" and all its derivatives in all capital letters? Those people need a clue; they don't need to shove the fucking word in my face every time I read it. KNOCK IT OFF!
Worse than lying, they forged an unaffiliated existing third-party domain name, "nowhere.com". They have no right to abuse that domain name.
So you're of the mindset that one should not try to improve something you like. What a retarded mindset. If it's not important to you, why do you bother posting about it. Just to make fun of others? Yeah.
What is it about 1.000 teraflops that makes such a number a "barrier"?
Are you saying then that drug use and piracy are ok if you're poor?
The "Viagra" advertised in spam does NOT work. You either get nothing for your money, or you get a fake immitation. You also land on sucker lists, both snail and electronic. When will people learn that spam = scam.