It's not like @HOME is going to e-mail all their customers and tell them this.
Hell, it can't even be found under today's news releases on the Excite@Home corporate site!
Excite@Home VP O'Leary said it all - "We are creating a new business that leverages two unique assets: our core network and our large base of broadband users."
In true corporate website fashion, there are no email addresses to contact officers, so I cannot express my opinion directly to him.
Excite@Home wants to be the next AOL. As a subscriber I am an asset to be leveraged, rather than a customer to be serviced. I view this as a Bad Omen{tm}.
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
The whole reason they used Outlook in the first place was so they could send each other pretty HTMLified mail with, like, colours ! and fonts ! and stuff...
And that, folks, is the sum total of Windows contribution to 'productivity'. Plain text business documents would suffice in damn near any situation, but PHB's have gotten hooked on those 'pretty' Word and Excel docs and everyone down the line wants to please them. I have repeatedly observed that much more time is spent over formatting than conveying content, even down to the lowliest aide typing a memo. Powerpoint is an excellent example of this. Its ludicrous.
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
...pathetic that there has been no news here about the problems you've been suffering. There have been tons of people reporting SQL problems today, we all know the site has been shut down repeatedly over the last couple of days...
Amen. Slash has been reeling around thismorning as though bashed in the head with a ball bat...
Enquiring Minds Want To Know
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
One would think a Slashdot reader, of all people, would realize how dated this concept is.
Perhaps my profession (real estate appraiser) has warped my viewpoint. I doubt I am your typical Slashdot reader! And I've NO doubt there are plenty of smarter people here than I...:-) Thanks for a thought-provoking response.
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
...land ownership is about as relevant to the modern world as cattle ownership.
You must have been staring at your monitor too long. Land is the ultimate resource, every human endeavor requires it. The demand for it grows exponentially, and there is a limited supply. Figure it out.
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Energy from Giant Spliffs
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An Irish scheme to burn cannabis as a fuel foundered last year because of it was considered too expensive compared with wind-power projects.
WTO stepped in and shut it down. So many of my Irish brethren sought and obtained licenses to produce electricity, WTO feared there would be a worldwide glut leading to the weakening of the utility monopolies.
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
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Okay, so here's the real deal. Since the beginning of the Info-Era, the anonymonity of the web promised us a place to let our inner most secrets out without accountability..."
Excuse me? The anonymity of the web is a myth. Since before the beginning of the info age, networking's most basic requirement has been the ability to distinguish between connected devices. Its quite obvious. Since before http protocol (the web) was invented, every device on a TCP/IP network has had an IP number. Tell me again about this anonymity on the web and how was it supposed to have worked?
In the days where most IP's were consumed by universities and computer science institutions where an IP may lead to a 'public' workstation, there may have been some accidental anonymity. But the very concept anonymity is no part of the protocol specs and was never a design consideration. I wish people would stop spewing this web anonymity fairy tale.
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Geez Phil - I have tried all of your advice but so far nothing. I had an almost naked picture of me on my website, as well as a cool David Siegel Killer Site Entrance Tunnel, and a domain named after me and still experience and incredible dearth of non-300 lb., non-unbaked-apple-pie-faced Pi-to-the-quadrillionth-decimal reciters have called or written. Perhaps these things only work with AOLServer? And say, if you still have that original Mach 3 razor from Eve's test drive, I wonder if you'd want to sell it?
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
But now large media giants such as BBC, CNN and others that people implicitly trust (it is "official" information, after all...) are beginning to hint that the net is an incredibly dangerous place and should be handled with tougher legislation than normal media, the future does not look good. With backing from media and hyped up public it will be easy for politicians to start drafting draconian legistlation to combat the "evils of net" even on multinational/continental scale.
From thier perspective, the net IS an incredibly dangerous medium. The problem with the net is that the target audience can talk back! This will never do! Why, what if every Tom, Dick, and Harry were allowed to run a TV station? You'd have anarchy! Anyone could broadcast anything! Even such pernicious things as questioning the veracity of "news" reports, or revealing the lies of our client advertisers! There MUST be government control, either control of access (unless the "free market" handles this on its own by forcing everyone to buy access from a few large providers) or control of content, so that the target audience of the internet cannot marginalize "official" content with thier own.
The internet is under attack, the point is to limit your access or control your output, and the worst is yet to come.
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
I respectfully submit that what you saw was not a telemarketer, but Lionel Hutz!
Well, the moderators seem to have missed this, but take heart, at least *I'm* ROFL!
Offtopic -1 A guy in the post office is stuffing cards into pink envelopes, sticking little heart stamps on them, and spraying each envelope with perfume. When a curious onlooker asks what he is up to, he replies "I'm mailing 1,000 unsigned valentines!" "But why...?" asks the onlooker. "I'm a divorce lawyer!" the man answers with a grin.
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Slashdot Mirror
It's not like @HOME is going to e-mail all their customers and tell them this.
Hell, it can't even be found under today's news releases on the Excite@Home corporate site!
Excite@Home VP O'Leary said it all - "We are creating a new business that leverages two unique assets: our core network and our large base of broadband users."
In true corporate website fashion, there are no email addresses to contact officers, so I cannot express my opinion directly to him.
Excite@Home wants to be the next AOL. As a subscriber I am an asset to be leveraged, rather than a customer to be serviced. I view this as a Bad Omen{tm}.
======
"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
The whole reason they used Outlook in the first place was so they could send each other pretty HTMLified mail with, like, colours ! and fonts ! and stuff...
And that, folks, is the sum total of Windows contribution to 'productivity'. Plain text business documents would suffice in damn near any situation, but PHB's have gotten hooked on those 'pretty' Word and Excel docs and everyone down the line wants to please them. I have repeatedly observed that much more time is spent over formatting than conveying content, even down to the lowliest aide typing a memo. Powerpoint is an excellent example of this. Its ludicrous.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Think about it, thousands of "security experts" milked billions from all industry a whole by pushing Y2K paranoia.
bilk millions to milk billions. Poetic injustice, you know...
|ducking and grinning|
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Hmm... off to Africa I go!
Yes! There is some very 'out of the box' thinking going on in Africa these days!
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
complete a proper system security class
taught by who? MSCE's? Fat lotta good that'll do....
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
I found it amusing that Devil's Avocado was first to respond to Devine Intervention!
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
This webpage served live from the colon...
And where do slashdotted colonic webservers go to recover?
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
then don't come here wining about the fact.
He sounds pefectly sober to me. Or was that a Seagrams pun?
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
As if everyone who sends unsolicited email is 'dumb as a post.'
You're right. Some of them are actually dumb as a rock.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
2. People on the prowl to boost thier damaged self-image through unconstructive criticism are unspeakably needy. Please kiss my ass now.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
if(($jive==$racist) && ($web==$onegiantcopyrightviolation)){
- $lawyers==$ABOMINATIONBEFOREGOD;
}activate_plagues();
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Anyone know who came up with that?
Montgomery Burns?
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Amen. Slash has been reeling around thismorning as though bashed in the head with a ball bat...
Enquiring Minds Want To Know
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Moira? I'm not familiar with this word. Could you please tell me what it means?
Hypertext Webster Gateway: Moira
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Moira NL., fr. Gr. ?. (Greek Myth.) The deity who assigns to every man his lot.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
<pants>Hot Grits</pants>
The sublimely concise expression of the hot grits post! Now can you do an open source/stone/portman?
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
ROFLMAOASTSOOTC!
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
One would think a Slashdot reader, of all people, would realize how dated this concept is.
Perhaps my profession (real estate appraiser) has warped my viewpoint. I doubt I am your typical Slashdot reader! And I've NO doubt there are plenty of smarter people here than I... :-) Thanks for a thought-provoking response.
======
"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
You must have been staring at your monitor too long. Land is the ultimate resource, every human endeavor requires it. The demand for it grows exponentially, and there is a limited supply. Figure it out.
======
"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
An Irish scheme to burn cannabis as a fuel foundered last year because of it was considered too expensive compared with wind-power projects.
WTO stepped in and shut it down. So many of my Irish brethren sought and obtained licenses to produce electricity, WTO feared there would be a worldwide glut leading to the weakening of the utility monopolies.
======
"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Okay, so here's the real deal. Since the beginning of the Info-Era, the anonymonity of the web promised us a place to let our inner most secrets out without accountability..."
Excuse me? The anonymity of the web is a myth. Since before the beginning of the info age, networking's most basic requirement has been the ability to distinguish between connected devices. Its quite obvious. Since before http protocol (the web) was invented, every device on a TCP/IP network has had an IP number. Tell me again about this anonymity on the web and how was it supposed to have worked?
In the days where most IP's were consumed by universities and computer science institutions where an IP may lead to a 'public' workstation, there may have been some accidental anonymity. But the very concept anonymity is no part of the protocol specs and was never a design consideration. I wish people would stop spewing this web anonymity fairy tale.
======
"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Does anyone what they call a hot bowl of grits in France?
cuvette chaude de granulations?
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Countries outside of the US have access to the internet? When did this happen?
Does Al Gore know about this? I'm telling!
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Geez Phil - I have tried all of your advice but so far nothing. I had an almost naked picture of me on my website, as well as a cool David Siegel Killer Site Entrance Tunnel, and a domain named after me and still experience and incredible dearth of non-300 lb., non-unbaked-apple-pie-faced Pi-to-the-quadrillionth-decimal reciters have called or written. Perhaps these things only work with AOLServer? And say, if you still have that original Mach 3 razor from Eve's test drive, I wonder if you'd want to sell it?
======
"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
But now large media giants such as BBC, CNN and others that people implicitly trust (it is "official" information, after all...) are beginning to hint that the net is an incredibly dangerous place and should be handled with tougher legislation than normal media, the future does not look good. With backing from media and hyped up public it will be easy for politicians to start drafting draconian legistlation to combat the "evils of net" even on multinational/continental scale.
From thier perspective, the net IS an incredibly dangerous medium. The problem with the net is that the target audience can talk back! This will never do! Why, what if every Tom, Dick, and Harry were allowed to run a TV station? You'd have anarchy! Anyone could broadcast anything! Even such pernicious things as questioning the veracity of "news" reports, or revealing the lies of our client advertisers! There MUST be government control, either control of access (unless the "free market" handles this on its own by forcing everyone to buy access from a few large providers) or control of content, so that the target audience of the internet cannot marginalize "official" content with thier own.
The internet is under attack, the point is to limit your access or control your output, and the worst is yet to come.
======
"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
I respectfully submit that what you saw was not a telemarketer, but Lionel Hutz!
Well, the moderators seem to have missed this, but take heart, at least *I'm* ROFL!
Offtopic -1
A guy in the post office is stuffing cards into pink envelopes, sticking little heart stamps on them, and spraying each envelope with perfume. When a curious onlooker asks what he is up to, he replies "I'm mailing 1,000 unsigned valentines!"
"But why...?" asks the onlooker.
"I'm a divorce lawyer!" the man answers with a grin.
======
"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16