As a holocaust survivor, he's unlikely to be very objective when it comes to the Middle East. Human rights for everybody, unless they happen to cause problems for his people's little colonial experiment.
Recently bought a router, the seller shipped a hard drive to me by mistake. After emailing back and forth I sent the hd back, but no router. Seller stops responding to emails. So what happens when I fill out the Paypal form to try and get a refund?
They have an item asking if you received ANYTHING in the mail. So I checked that off. Bad mistake! They classified the report as "misrepresented item"!!!! Then a few days later closed the complaint saying they didn't do anything in those cases!
Paypal = SCAM CITY
Lesson: accept Paypal payments for expensive items and mail a jellybean to the buyer. Paypal will support you all the way.
...or is it because an overseas American is much more likely than the average Joe in Oklahoma to realize the extent to which Bush's policies have alienated even traditional allies.
My guess is that they're just trying to eliminate a firm anti-Bush bloc.
Somewhat akin to that project at MIT (Government Information Awareness) detailing public figures, there should be one for public companies noting when, where, what.
The extra key could be used by anybody who wants to, and ignored by the rest. And their implementation is open-source, so it doesn't look like a way of making an end-run past other ISPs. And since many spam messages come from fake Yahoo email id's, this would be a great way to immediately filter out those ones: if it says Yahoo but doesn't carry a key-->SPAM bin
I like the idea of a major player getting on with it and DOING something.
Would we rather have MS dictating an anti-spam standard? You can be sure such a beast would be a lot less benign than Yahoo's proposal
why SCO is doing all this? Obviously, they don't have a legal leg to stand on. What can they hope to achieve?
Boost of stock price? Can't be, what with quartely earnings depressed because of lawyer fees
Name recognition? This is like naming your baby George Bush because it has name recognition
Why then? The only reason I can think of is because they're headed for the gutter anyway, so the executives enrich themselves with a pump and dump. I wonder what SCO shareholders think of this mess
This is ridiculous. The whole intellectual property/copyright thing has swung wayyy too far to one side. We need more people like these guys around doing this
Heh. Just the kind of thing that keeps Mickey Mouse up late at night with nightmares...
Customized Hobbit anyone? Under the founders' ideas, the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy would be public domain by now
And, of course it has intelligent popup blocking options. A simple option like "Open requested popup windows only" is really a major user win. I agree it's probably an effect of having a very small core of people designing
Sign up your local rep to a bunch of spam lists. If it's enough of a personal pain to them they'll do something useful. Otherwise why would they care--it's not like it's a Big Business concern which will net them money at re-election campaign time. Would anybody run an election with anti-spam as a key item on their plank? Of course not!
Has anybody done this? Really, a great way to reclaim the system from corporate buyout is to buy it back. Think about it, if 10 million geeks contribute a buck each that could be some serious cash to sway the average money-chasing pol. With the internet it would be really easy to get the word out: Slashdot, BoingBoing etc the birth of the group vigorously and overnight a powerful group could be born. There are plenty of geeks who could contribute to running a site and then it would be a matter of hiring experienced Washington operators to do the slimy work.
It would be like a Howard Dean phenomena, except aiming to restore sanity to digital and non-digital intellectual property laws. First task: repeal the DMCA. Then, get rid of the hideous Sonny Bono legislation. Public opinion would overwhelmingly be behind the efforts too.
What do Slashdotters think. Time to start a revolution right here, right now?
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As a holocaust survivor, he's unlikely to be very objective when it comes to the Middle East. Human rights for everybody, unless they happen to cause problems for his people's little colonial experiment.
Recently bought a router, the seller shipped a hard drive to me by mistake. After emailing back and forth I sent the hd back, but no router. Seller stops responding to emails. So what happens when I fill out the Paypal form to try and get a refund?
They have an item asking if you received ANYTHING in the mail. So I checked that off. Bad mistake! They classified the report as "misrepresented item"!!!! Then a few days later closed the complaint saying they didn't do anything in those cases!
Paypal = SCAM CITY
Lesson: accept Paypal payments for expensive items and mail a jellybean to the buyer. Paypal will support you all the way.
Once the firewall is up, having IE running isn't that much of a risk any more.
But in any case, after ZoneAlarm it would be: OO, Opera, Eudora
What would the customization options be in 1984? Could I alter something like "War is Peace" or "Ignorance is Strength"?
I'd love to order a ripping version starring Ashcroft and Bush!
It's so surreal, really.
heh heh
My guess is that they're just trying to eliminate a firm anti-Bush bloc.
...to stay on their toes. It's the original un-Microsoft, long before Linux rolled round. And the non-Intel trend keeps them innovating too.
Then it should be easy to boycott and avoid them.
...the SunPCI card will probably burn the main machine on equivalent benchmarks under Linux (once it's running on this machine)
Does your "solution" involve using pigeons for mail...?
The extra key could be used by anybody who wants to, and ignored by the rest. And their implementation is open-source, so it doesn't look like a way of making an end-run past other ISPs. And since many spam messages come from fake Yahoo email id's, this would be a great way to immediately filter out those ones: if it says Yahoo but doesn't carry a key-->SPAM bin
I like the idea of a major player getting on with it and DOING something.
Would we rather have MS dictating an anti-spam standard? You can be sure such a beast would be a lot less benign than Yahoo's proposal
After seeing the clock rate they got, I really wanted to see the benchmark results. Do the numbers scale linearly from 3GHz?
Boost of stock price? Can't be, what with quartely earnings depressed because of lawyer fees
Name recognition? This is like naming your baby George Bush because it has name recognition
Why then? The only reason I can think of is because they're headed for the gutter anyway, so the executives enrich themselves with a pump and dump. I wonder what SCO shareholders think of this mess
...and deploy them to SCO headquarters. There are WMD's (weenies of mass dumbness) in that building and they have to go, NOW!
And time.
...I wonder how many people will die testing their vehicles? Rocket fuel, (over)enthusiastic amateurs, not much official oversight. Sounds dangerous!
It's just hype
This is ridiculous. The whole intellectual property/copyright thing has swung wayyy too far to one side. We need more people like these guys around doing this
Heh. Just the kind of thing that keeps Mickey Mouse up late at night with nightmares...
Customized Hobbit anyone? Under the founders' ideas, the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy would be public domain by now
And, of course it has intelligent popup blocking options. A simple option like "Open requested popup windows only" is really a major user win. I agree it's probably an effect of having a very small core of people designing
Sign up your local rep to a bunch of spam lists. If it's enough of a personal pain to them they'll do something useful. Otherwise why would they care--it's not like it's a Big Business concern which will net them money at re-election campaign time. Would anybody run an election with anti-spam as a key item on their plank? Of course not!
Actually, the reason I'm bitter is because you got modded to 4, and I'm still at 2. :)
Predictions of the future are so passe
Has anybody done this? Really, a great way to reclaim the system from corporate buyout is to buy it back. Think about it, if 10 million geeks contribute a buck each that could be some serious cash to sway the average money-chasing pol. With the internet it would be really easy to get the word out: Slashdot, BoingBoing etc the birth of the group vigorously and overnight a powerful group could be born. There are plenty of geeks who could contribute to running a site and then it would be a matter of hiring experienced Washington operators to do the slimy work.
It would be like a Howard Dean phenomena, except aiming to restore sanity to digital and non-digital intellectual property laws. First task: repeal the DMCA. Then, get rid of the hideous Sonny Bono legislation. Public opinion would overwhelmingly be behind the efforts too.
What do Slashdotters think. Time to start a revolution right here, right now?
Well, *ahem* I guess I'll have a go myself...
Diebold's in bed with Bush
Please kick him on the tush
When election time comes round
Crush the neocons to the ground
Nail their sorry butts to the wall
Take a chain with a ball
And bash them on the head
Till their madness is dead
(Next poster please continue)