The local high school has multiple deaths per year due to unsafe driving -- all of their parents blisfully unaware their kids drove like that until they killed themselves and the six other kids stuffed into the back. The car is probably a mustang that the parents gave the kid because they thought he could drive responsibly.
This'll save a lot of lives.
As a society, we've already decided that a kid's right to privacy ends when it conflicts with a parent's need to keep tabs on them for their own safety and the safety of others. It's the right choice.
No, frankly, I don't. Good hardware, maybe, but terrible driver. I spent hours working around their bugs in my applications. What year are you thinking of here?
I just want to echo your GRRM and OSC recommendations. OSC writes a lot of other stuff, too, and I've read most of it. His least interesting work so far is the Ender's series, which is what he's most famous for, and that was still pretty darned good.
I've read that the current builds of Palm OS (not available on any hardware yet) have tweaked Grafitti a bit so that the first stroke of multistroke characters doesn't show up right away. For instance, when you try to draw a k, you get an l after the first stroke and a k after the second. In the new Palm OS, you don't get the l first... it waits for the second stroke, or for the delay to time out before it draws a l.
That's almost 80% of my problem with Graffiti 2. The other one is the letter B.:)
Frankly, I don't expect much out of this either -- PalmSource has already dropped their perfectly good Mac sync. However, it's worth noting that which third party software gets bundled with any particular Palm-compatible handheld is not up to PalmSource, it's up to the handheld vendor.
...is that its integration with the OS is ridiculously bad. And I mean ridiculously. It runs into problems if you change the input area or try to enable full screen from the status bar, FFS.
If they can't put in the effort to make it work right, I don't see that it's worth the money.
Eventually, I broke down and learnt Graffiti 2. It sucks, but it's better than Tealscript.
(The hack of installing Graffiti 1 doesn't work very well on the T3 and doesn't work at all on the T5.)
If you squatted one of Microsoft's trademarks and used it to phish, I'd want them to sue your ass off.
There are a lot of things and people in this world than Microsoft. Spammer weasels with phishing scams who squat thousands of domain names in the hopes of getting lucky are definitely on the list.
I did. It's extraordinarily easy to prove that Apple's iWhatever scheme has existed since 1998, and has been applied to software since at least 1999 (I didn't bother searching earlier). It's also incredibly easy to show that the first mention of iTunes was related to Apple's product, and that itunes.co.uk wasn't mentioned anywhere before December 2003 (I didn't bother checking later, that's late enough). It's also easy to prove the site was never archived, and it wasn't submitted to any major search engines. For that matter, it's easy to show that Apple's iTunes product was at least in the planning stages by June 2000.
Care to post a counter link from one of your "associated caches" that shows the spammer using that domain name for anything other than (re/mis)-direction, shill?
Not years... the deal seems to have been made around June 2000 (when they contacted Panic about "the future of Audion"). But yeah, I agree. Assuming they had a product name at that point, they should have grabbed the domain name.
Maybe they were concerned about letting the cat out of the bag? Either way it was stupid, and I'd wager Apple's policy for that sort of thing changed immediately. A pretty safe bet, if you look at some of the domain names Apple's registered since.
I read the article. I also looked at the site yesterday, before he changed it -- it was an email harvesting site that offered a "free ipod" in exchange for a variety of personal information. There was no legitimate content on it, just that pathetic phishing attempt.
Please explain how this is a legitimate use of iTunes that does not infringe on Apple's trademarks.
Frankly, I'm surprised Apple's first call wasn't to police. Doesn't the UK have laws against online credit card fraud?
If he doesn't back down, Apple will end up with his undersized spammer testicles in a jar. But I'm sure he'll back down as soon as the initial round of publicity has passed.
Meanwhile, a lot of people who should know better are eating it up.
I checked this out while it was still news, before Slashdot ran the story. Then, the site featured a giant picture of the iPod front and center with "GET AN IPOD FREE!" Yup, another stupid scam page.
No, this guy is not innocent. Best case is that this guy is a lying weasel of a spammer who latched on to the domain name out of thousands. Worst case is he heard a rumor. Either way, once iTunes was publicly announced he clearly violated trademark law in deliberately causing confusion amongst consumers about what the website represented.
This guy is abusing Apple's trademark to harvest email addresses. Whether or not he got there before Apple registered the site is irrelevant because it *is* registered and he does not have a legitimate use for the name.
Also, Apple had been working on iTunes for some time before the registration date. Do you think a new product magically appears in a month? (Even thought it was based on SoundJam, it still represented many changes.)
What has happened is that the guy has realized he will lose, so he went crying to the media and changed the site a little so it isn't so clear a violation. Morons like you ate it up. In a few days, after he think he's milked the free publicity as much as he can risk, he'll sell out to Apple.
I hope he doesn't -- Apple would end up with his testicles in a jar. But he will. And he'll probably use the opportunity to cry more tears to the media.
Let's be honest -- you are ALWAYS learning when you're doing something. The question becomes what you're learning and whether it's worth learning.
There are a lot of things you can learn on a computer that are not worth learning, but there are also a lot of things you can learn that are worth learning. However, even then, some of them serve only as a distraction to academic pursuits -- academic performance is tied to learning, but it is only a narrow field of learning. It's just one that as a society we've decided is most important to teach kids.
A more accurate headline would very likely be "Lots of distraction can lead to poor academic performance." Does this come as a shock to anyone? Skipping school to hang out at the mall also causes poor academic performance.
I can second this. My Ericcson(sic, probably) T68i sounded like absolute shit on the network that sold it to me. Eventually, I had enough of their billing mistakes and bad reception and moved to another network. Everyone I talked to said "Hey, you got a new phone? It sounds great!"
WTF is with Slashdot's anti-Palm spin lately?
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Just looking through that list, some of those questions strike me as quite clever (#2/4) whereas others strike me as pure syntatical trickery (#1) or truly bad coding practices (#3/13, for instance).
I don't know how I'd judge the results of #3/13. They're clever, but they've done something that I never want to see in code. (Okay, okay... there are some exceptions, but in general it's true.)
It can be a security flaw and a feature at the same time. Custom status titles are a good idea, definitely. However, when they spoof URLs, it becomes a security flaw. I haven't yet examined the fix, but hopefully Apple has eliminated the flaw in a clever way instead of eliminating the feature entirely.
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The local high school has multiple deaths per year due to unsafe driving -- all of their parents blisfully unaware their kids drove like that until they killed themselves and the six other kids stuffed into the back. The car is probably a mustang that the parents gave the kid because they thought he could drive responsibly.
This'll save a lot of lives.
As a society, we've already decided that a kid's right to privacy ends when it conflicts with a parent's need to keep tabs on them for their own safety and the safety of others. It's the right choice.
My money is on a variant of #1: They won't even notice.
Yup.
No, frankly, I don't. Good hardware, maybe, but terrible driver. I spent hours working around their bugs in my applications. What year are you thinking of here?
I just want to echo your GRRM and OSC recommendations. OSC writes a lot of other stuff, too, and I've read most of it. His least interesting work so far is the Ender's series, which is what he's most famous for, and that was still pretty darned good.
I've read that the current builds of Palm OS (not available on any hardware yet) have tweaked Grafitti a bit so that the first stroke of multistroke characters doesn't show up right away. For instance, when you try to draw a k, you get an l after the first stroke and a k after the second. In the new Palm OS, you don't get the l first... it waits for the second stroke, or for the delay to time out before it draws a l.
That's almost 80% of my problem with Graffiti 2. The other one is the letter B. :)
Oh, I know their mode is separate. And you need to go into TealScript to turn it on and off. That's why I said the integration sucks!
Frankly, I don't expect much out of this either -- PalmSource has already dropped their perfectly good Mac sync. However, it's worth noting that which third party software gets bundled with any particular Palm-compatible handheld is not up to PalmSource, it's up to the handheld vendor.
...is that its integration with the OS is ridiculously bad. And I mean ridiculously. It runs into problems if you change the input area or try to enable full screen from the status bar, FFS.
If they can't put in the effort to make it work right, I don't see that it's worth the money.
Eventually, I broke down and learnt Graffiti 2. It sucks, but it's better than Tealscript.
(The hack of installing Graffiti 1 doesn't work very well on the T3 and doesn't work at all on the T5.)
I think it affects everyone who has javascript on and follows the instructions *exactly.* It's a very fragile one.
Odd, then, that it is in bugzilla.mozilla.org as defect 273699.
Seems to be in bugzilla.mozilla.org as defect 273699. (Direct link wouldn't work anyway.)
I did it on Firefox for Windows first, so I'm pretty sure I did it right.
Looks like Safari is not vulnerable.
But I guess in the defense of the authors, it isn't exactly a major part of the browser market.
If you squatted one of Microsoft's trademarks and used it to phish, I'd want them to sue your ass off.
There are a lot of things and people in this world than Microsoft. Spammer weasels with phishing scams who squat thousands of domain names in the hopes of getting lucky are definitely on the list.
Certainly she has a promising career at a help desk ahead of her. How much does it cost to mail a cat offshore?
Thanks for explaining. I agree with you now. I thought you were nuts before. :)
My two cats were supposed to help me bring in a higher family income.
I did. It's extraordinarily easy to prove that Apple's iWhatever scheme has existed since 1998, and has been applied to software since at least 1999 (I didn't bother searching earlier). It's also incredibly easy to show that the first mention of iTunes was related to Apple's product, and that itunes.co.uk wasn't mentioned anywhere before December 2003 (I didn't bother checking later, that's late enough). It's also easy to prove the site was never archived, and it wasn't submitted to any major search engines. For that matter, it's easy to show that Apple's iTunes product was at least in the planning stages by June 2000.
Care to post a counter link from one of your "associated caches" that shows the spammer using that domain name for anything other than (re/mis)-direction, shill?
Not years... the deal seems to have been made around June 2000 (when they contacted Panic about "the future of Audion"). But yeah, I agree. Assuming they had a product name at that point, they should have grabbed the domain name.
Maybe they were concerned about letting the cat out of the bag? Either way it was stupid, and I'd wager Apple's policy for that sort of thing changed immediately. A pretty safe bet, if you look at some of the domain names Apple's registered since.
I read the article. I also looked at the site yesterday, before he changed it -- it was an email harvesting site that offered a "free ipod" in exchange for a variety of personal information. There was no legitimate content on it, just that pathetic phishing attempt.
Please explain how this is a legitimate use of iTunes that does not infringe on Apple's trademarks.
Frankly, I'm surprised Apple's first call wasn't to police. Doesn't the UK have laws against online credit card fraud?
If he doesn't back down, Apple will end up with his undersized spammer testicles in a jar. But I'm sure he'll back down as soon as the initial round of publicity has passed.
Meanwhile, a lot of people who should know better are eating it up.
The first rule of spam is "Spammers lie."
I checked this out while it was still news, before Slashdot ran the story. Then, the site featured a giant picture of the iPod front and center with "GET AN IPOD FREE!" Yup, another stupid scam page.
No, this guy is not innocent. Best case is that this guy is a lying weasel of a spammer who latched on to the domain name out of thousands. Worst case is he heard a rumor. Either way, once iTunes was publicly announced he clearly violated trademark law in deliberately causing confusion amongst consumers about what the website represented.
This guy is abusing Apple's trademark to harvest email addresses. Whether or not he got there before Apple registered the site is irrelevant because it *is* registered and he does not have a legitimate use for the name.
Also, Apple had been working on iTunes for some time before the registration date. Do you think a new product magically appears in a month? (Even thought it was based on SoundJam, it still represented many changes.)
What has happened is that the guy has realized he will lose, so he went crying to the media and changed the site a little so it isn't so clear a violation. Morons like you ate it up. In a few days, after he think he's milked the free publicity as much as he can risk, he'll sell out to Apple.
I hope he doesn't -- Apple would end up with his testicles in a jar. But he will. And he'll probably use the opportunity to cry more tears to the media.
Let's be honest -- you are ALWAYS learning when you're doing something. The question becomes what you're learning and whether it's worth learning.
There are a lot of things you can learn on a computer that are not worth learning, but there are also a lot of things you can learn that are worth learning. However, even then, some of them serve only as a distraction to academic pursuits -- academic performance is tied to learning, but it is only a narrow field of learning. It's just one that as a society we've decided is most important to teach kids.
A more accurate headline would very likely be "Lots of distraction can lead to poor academic performance." Does this come as a shock to anyone? Skipping school to hang out at the mall also causes poor academic performance.
I can second this. My Ericcson(sic, probably) T68i sounded like absolute shit on the network that sold it to me. Eventually, I had enough of their billing mistakes and bad reception and moved to another network. Everyone I talked to said "Hey, you got a new phone? It sounds great!"
WTF is with Slashdot's anti-Palm spin lately?
Just looking through that list, some of those questions strike me as quite clever (#2/4) whereas others strike me as pure syntatical trickery (#1) or truly bad coding practices (#3/13, for instance).
I don't know how I'd judge the results of #3/13. They're clever, but they've done something that I never want to see in code. (Okay, okay... there are some exceptions, but in general it's true.)
It can be a security flaw and a feature at the same time. Custom status titles are a good idea, definitely. However, when they spoof URLs, it becomes a security flaw. I haven't yet examined the fix, but hopefully Apple has eliminated the flaw in a clever way instead of eliminating the feature entirely.