This has been posted on 2600 mag man years ago. What they do is, find out a "block" of pager numbers. Use a program to dial hundreds and thousands of pagers with the victims number. The victim will get loads of incoming phonecalls.
This actually works. I saw in a report that one guy wrote this claim on his check when buying stuffs in Circuit City, got spammed, sued, and got paid the settlement 1000 dollars- just as he specified on his check.
What is all that Red Hat ass kissing about? A person like you should be using Microsoft OS and AOL and eat McDonalds (I'm sure you are.) because "Billions of users can't be wrong.
Which part of "customer needs" is Red Hat addressing that Stampede is not? Name it. If you can't, don't bullshit about "customer needs."
And that open insult on OpenBSD is simply childish. In your criteria, OpenBSD addresses some of the most important thing that customers need: Security.
If you think ALL USERS want easy to configure/install distro that do not require technical skills, think again. Most of the users are still technical people and they choose distros for technical reasons.
Lastly, I'll use one of the phrase that Linus used most in earlier Linux development flamewars: "Show you what you did." and stop whinning. geez.
These comments should be marked as Flambait at the first place.
Why is the string is there? It's been found in more than one file. There's gota be a reason it was placed there. Unless if MS hired someone who was going insane.
Yeah but I don't believe that its intention is to hurt MS. Every line of the code should be traced back to whoever wrote it on MS version sonctrol system. Unless if someone hacked into them and created this line from outside and think it would be fun to stir more interesting news. I think that's more likely that case.
Who will possibly risk getting fired to put something like this in?
Error: A structural breakup works because securities law forces each of the so called baby bills to maximize profit individually -- even at the expense of other M$ operations.
It is true that baby bills may do that to each other. However, since they are not direct competitors, it will be to thier benefit to help each other out. and that is the part you "couldn't see why."
For example, the MS office baby bill may still sign a contract to have wordpad included in MS OSes. There is no reason why they would try to beat the OS baby bill.
Judge Jackson and DoJ hired more economist than you know. So while you can comment on technical stuffs, you may not be as good as economics stuffs.
the only way we programmers can proof the outcome of the remedy is to run a huge program to simulate the economy after the breakup. even that method has weaknesses.
Just vote for Gore, damn it. He pretty much showed support for the DoJ. Bush is simply too damn dumb. We already have an actor, a perv to be the president, what else do you want? a moron to be US president?
I think it's probably because last time I saw Al Gore on TV, he was answering questions in front of hundreds of MS employees. He simply refuse to please MS agenda, and said that he thinks the American value should protect the entrepreters.
You know who to vote, right? More importantly, you WILL go to vote, right?
>Churches ask for voluntary contributions. Microsoft levies a tax.
You CHOOSE to buy MS products. Christains used to "sell" tickets to heaven, too.
>Christ heals the lame;
Show me the last time he did that.
>Christ once pulled money out of the mouth of a fish;
Show me the tape.
>Christ was crucified because the political powers of the day couldn't control him;
again, no proof. but we know the story of "God's second son" the guy who Barbequed himself in Waco, TX. I guess that means "He died for all of us," too.
This actually bring up a very insteresting point. Netpliance have only a few months to take advantage for being the first on the market. After this, the market competitors will come in and they won't stand much of a chance against big players.
Unfortunately, Netpliance chose to destroy its own reputation on customer service. Destroy customers trust, and the trust of the open source community. Our entire community is based on merit, we simply will not support a company that lies and schemes us.
The ball is on thier hand. But the window of oppurtunity is closing for Netpliance.
if you have any cheap way to get an audio I/O on it, we'll be happy because a normal car mp3 player cost near $1000.
PS. Forget about costly upgrades like "bigger screen" it's not cost efficient at all.
Netplience will be guaranteed to lose bare bottom if AOL comes up with thier little net apliance device. So better do something to boost the market share right now.
It is clear that people are willing to pay for a mod-able i-opener. I also suggest that the mod kit should be as BARE as possible. Keep the cost down. plus some minimal changes:
1. 100% of us have to spend money to buy the modified IDE cable(~20), PS2 expansion(~10), plus a keyboard with ESC keys($10). That means, if you sell them for $40 more with these three things, we will be happy to pay.
Keep the Sandisk with original sofware on it, so that we can be tingle with them impressed about how easy they are to use and therefore buy them for our moms.
2. Most of us use it with a ethernet card, we will be happy to buy it through Netpliance rather than, say, buy.com. To save some nuisance of ordering and waiting.I personally think it's the quietest Xterminal I have EVER seen. It will make an office completely quiet. (don't worry about the distro, we'll take care of it.)
3. Pricing. Industry Analyst estimated that the cost of the machines is $350 a piece. Netpliance have been selling these babies like crazy, the average fixed cost MUST go down, plus the free publicity shaved the advertising cost. I suggest Netpliance sell the Dev Kits @ about cost. Why? Because the people who mod thier i-openers are the same people whose suggestions are highly respected from non-technical people. Would i pay for it if it is $450? No. There are too many fun things to play with, I-opners is just one of them. I'd rather go for a IBM thinkpad 240 at $1064 without the outragous shipping rate, e.g. $40 dollars from NetPliance.
Conclusion: i think it's very reasonable if you sell the original at ~250 shipped. if you put the moded IDE able, PS2 port, standard keyboard and a HD bracket, we will probably pay $300 for it. Shipped. We will take care of the rest from there.
The free 100 machine idea is apparently not going to work, don't go there.
As an ex-digital designer and now a 100% linux user, this is the big news that we have been waiting for too damn long. Screw Adobe, for not porting their SGI version to Linux.
I swear I'll be one of the first group of people who pays for these softwares. The Microsoft era, the dark age of computer science, is now finally coming to an end.
U.S. has a much better protection for deflamotory speech than any other countries, thanks for 1st amntmt. Maybe they can just publish (on the internet) in the states?
...The idea is that Sega will try to make thier bandwidth dedicated to network games. Somehow I feel that it's quite evil to dedicate the entire ISP service to consume bandwidth on games.
I wonder where they got the idea from?
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Hm.... does it sound like the whole i-opener thing is catching up to us?
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Insightful? Score =3?
No one can write bug free programs. PERIOD.
Slashdot community== end user who never write code.
what is your base for the number 6? Is it your magic number? Well i have a magic number for you.
In the past year, during MS anti-trust lawsuit, the software industry enjoyed amazing growth. Because that smaller companies no longer fear MS pressure, the software industry grew 10 times faster than before the trial. So 10-6 we have gained at least 4 years.
"the collapse of Microsoft and the collapse of the Internet industry due to stockholders demanding profits"--- What did you case this on? Yahoo and Amazon didn't make a profit and did you see stock holder demanding profit?
"Lack of standard" is another complete outsider's bullshit. MS has never been an industry standard and we hope it never will be. In the past, MS has tried hard to lure consumer away from any open standard. In short, if MS promote "open standard", it wouldn't have been sued today. The only "STANDARD" MS has created is USER INTERFACE. and we have already cloned it pretty darn good. Look at gnome, KDE, Staroffice.
The truth is, when there are multiple vendors, open stanard agreement will be reached to protect every vendor's profit. Usually these open stanards are open for discussion before being determined. and THAT IS GOOD.
Lastly, You reap what you sow. Gain some more knowledge will help in your case.
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Wow, I thought that the only diff between Canadians and americans are those floppy heads.
Isn't this wired tapping "illegal search and seisure" and the arrest based on "Prior restraint?" This type of arrest is Barbaric.
This has been posted on 2600 mag man years ago. What they do is, find out a "block" of pager numbers. Use a program to dial hundreds and thousands of pagers with the victims number. The victim will get loads of incoming phonecalls.
This actually works. I saw in a report that one guy wrote this claim on his check when buying stuffs in Circuit City, got spammed, sued, and got paid the settlement 1000 dollars- just as he specified on his check.
Last time I told a email spammer about this, he replied with four letter words and threats.
Well. So I went to a few commercial sites and refered his email address.
I keep a list of (valid) spammer email addresses to spam back.
Why is everything this guy say marked up?
What is all that Red Hat ass kissing about? A person like you should be using Microsoft OS and AOL and eat McDonalds (I'm sure you are.) because "Billions of users can't be wrong.
Which part of "customer needs" is Red Hat addressing that Stampede is not? Name it. If you can't, don't bullshit about "customer needs."
And that open insult on OpenBSD is simply childish. In your criteria, OpenBSD addresses some of the most important thing that customers need: Security.
If you think ALL USERS want easy to configure/install distro that do not require technical skills, think again. Most of the users are still technical people and they choose distros for technical reasons.
Lastly, I'll use one of the phrase that Linus used most in earlier Linux development flamewars: "Show you what you did." and stop whinning. geez.
These comments should be marked as Flambait at the first place.
Why is the string is there? It's been found in more than one file. There's gota be a reason it was placed there. Unless if MS hired someone who was going insane.
Yeah but I don't believe that its intention is to hurt MS. Every line of the code should be traced back to whoever wrote it on MS version sonctrol system. Unless if someone hacked into them and created this line from outside and think it would be fun to stir more interesting news. I think that's more likely that case.
Who will possibly risk getting fired to put something like this in?
Now we can all screw together our i-opener and toss them back to Netpliance and ask for our money back.
It is true that baby bills may do that to each other. However, since they are not direct competitors, it will be to thier benefit to help each other out. and that is the part you "couldn't see why."
For example, the MS office baby bill may still sign a contract to have wordpad included in MS OSes. There is no reason why they would try to beat the OS baby bill.
Judge Jackson and DoJ hired more economist than you know. So while you can comment on technical stuffs, you may not be as good as economics stuffs.
the only way we programmers can proof the outcome of the remedy is to run a huge program to simulate the economy after the breakup. even that method has weaknesses.
People have used 128Megs SODMM on the original i-opener. I fail to see why you would need something more.
But, there's one good point. Mod kit I-opener may come without any RAM so that we can buy what we need.
Just vote for Gore, damn it. He pretty much showed support for the DoJ. Bush is simply too damn dumb. We already have an actor, a perv to be the president, what else do you want? a moron to be US president?
I think it's probably because last time I saw Al Gore on TV, he was answering questions in front of hundreds of MS employees. He simply refuse to please MS agenda, and said that he thinks the American value should protect the entrepreters.
You know who to vote, right? More importantly, you WILL go to vote, right?
>God created the universe.
Says who?
>Churches ask for voluntary contributions. Microsoft levies a tax.
You CHOOSE to buy MS products. Christains used to "sell" tickets to heaven, too.
>Christ heals the lame;
Show me the last time he did that.
>Christ once pulled money out of the mouth of a fish;
Show me the tape.
>Christ was crucified because the political powers of the day couldn't control him;
again, no proof. but we know the story of "God's second son" the guy who Barbequed himself in Waco, TX. I guess that means "He died for all of us," too.
This actually bring up a very insteresting point. Netpliance have only a few months to take advantage for being the first on the market. After this, the market competitors will come in and they won't stand much of a chance against big players.
Unfortunately, Netpliance chose to destroy its own reputation on customer service. Destroy customers trust, and the trust of the open source community. Our entire community is based on merit, we simply will not support a company that lies and schemes us.
The ball is on thier hand. But the window of oppurtunity is closing for Netpliance.
wow. try that in the year 2003. do you know how expensive a touchscreen is? If they can do that for $200 i'll be 3 dozen.
By the way,
if you have any cheap way to get an audio I/O on it, we'll be happy because a normal car mp3 player cost near $1000.
PS. Forget about costly upgrades like "bigger screen" it's not cost efficient at all.
Netplience will be guaranteed to lose bare bottom if AOL comes up with thier little net apliance device. So better do something to boost the market share right now.
It is clear that people are willing to pay for a mod-able i-opener. I also suggest that the mod kit should be as BARE as possible. Keep the cost down. plus some minimal changes:
1. 100% of us have to spend money to buy the modified IDE cable(~20), PS2 expansion(~10), plus a keyboard with ESC keys($10). That means, if you sell them for $40 more with these three things, we will be happy to pay.
Keep the Sandisk with original sofware on it, so that we can be tingle with them impressed about how easy they are to use and therefore buy them for our moms.
2. Most of us use it with a ethernet card, we will be happy to buy it through Netpliance rather than, say, buy.com. To save some nuisance of ordering and waiting.I personally think it's the quietest Xterminal I have EVER seen. It will make an office completely quiet. (don't worry about the distro, we'll take care of it.)
3. Pricing. Industry Analyst estimated that the cost of the machines is $350 a piece. Netpliance have been selling these babies like crazy, the average fixed cost MUST go down, plus the free publicity shaved the advertising cost. I suggest Netpliance sell the Dev Kits @ about cost. Why? Because the people who mod thier i-openers are the same people whose suggestions are highly respected from non-technical people.
Would i pay for it if it is $450? No. There are too many fun things to play with, I-opners is just one of them. I'd rather go for a IBM thinkpad 240 at $1064 without the outragous shipping rate, e.g. $40 dollars from NetPliance.
Conclusion: i think it's very reasonable if you sell the original at ~250 shipped. if you put the moded IDE able, PS2 port, standard keyboard and a HD bracket, we will probably pay $300 for it. Shipped. We will take care of the rest from there.
The free 100 machine idea is apparently not going to work, don't go there.
As an ex-digital designer and now a 100% linux user, this is the big news that we have been waiting for too damn long. Screw Adobe, for not porting their SGI version to Linux.
I swear I'll be one of the first group of people who pays for these softwares. The Microsoft era, the dark age of computer science, is now finally coming to an end.
i'm not really an expert on this, but.
U.S. has a much better protection for deflamotory speech than any other countries, thanks for 1st amntmt. Maybe they can just publish (on the internet) in the states?
...The idea is that Sega will try to make thier bandwidth dedicated to network games. Somehow I feel that it's quite evil to dedicate the entire ISP service to consume bandwidth on games.
Hm.... does it sound like the whole i-opener thing is catching up to us?
No one can write bug free programs. PERIOD.
Slashdot community== end user who never write code.
If you are a true liberal, you wouldn't have used the word "wrong." -- that word is for hypocrats.
If you know economics, you may talk about it. Apparently you don't. You don't even know most of the reasons that caused depression in the 30's.
Who told you to buy thier stocks anyway?
what is your base for the number 6? Is it your magic number? Well i have a magic number for you.
In the past year, during MS anti-trust lawsuit, the software industry enjoyed amazing growth. Because that smaller companies no longer fear MS pressure, the software industry grew 10 times faster than before the trial. So 10-6 we have gained at least 4 years.
"the collapse of Microsoft and the collapse of the Internet industry due to stockholders demanding profits"--- What did you case this on? Yahoo and Amazon didn't make a profit and did you see stock holder demanding profit?
"Lack of standard" is another complete outsider's bullshit. MS has never been an industry standard and we hope it never will be. In the past, MS has tried hard to lure consumer away from any open standard. In short, if MS promote "open standard", it wouldn't have been sued today. The only "STANDARD" MS has created is USER INTERFACE. and we have already cloned it pretty darn good. Look at gnome, KDE, Staroffice.
The truth is, when there are multiple vendors, open stanard agreement will be reached to protect every vendor's profit. Usually these open stanards are open for discussion before being determined. and THAT IS GOOD.
Lastly, You reap what you sow. Gain some more knowledge will help in your case.