Hahahaha, you were the original one that was trying to sound like everyone else is an idiot, because "if they just pay enough attention to know who's offering it (real ISP, college, job)"
Now you are saying that you need to buy a domain?
I guess it would seem silly if you had no permanent friends that you want to correspond with. I personally would become pretty annoyed if I could never send you an email at the same address twice. Of course you should use throw away addresses for websites and shady people, but we are talking about your main email address, the one you could give to your Aunt Mildred.
Everyone has a real e-mail account available to them if they just pay enough attention to know who's offering it (real ISP, college, job) and learn how to set up a real e-mail client. Five minutes.
Real ISPs come and go, you are not in college forever, and you dont keep the same job forever. However, you CAN keep one of these "second-rate" email addresses indefinitely. I have had my yahoo account for years, while friends and colleagues change their "real" email accounts year after year, mine has always been the same. I have lost touch with many people because they changed email addresses and never told anyone.
Much like holding down the address button on your Palm pda to automatically transmit your business card data to another pda?
Yep, and my co-worker hates it when I beam a contact from my old Palm m125 to his new fangled iPaq and it gets a fatal error. He has to restart it. I do it all the time in meetings.
All you have to do is put a lot of notes into a contact and it destroys a PPC.:)
yeah, I'm an idiot. I tried to get that post out quick in case we were calling some poor shmuck that just happens to have the same name. Now I look like a Karma whore. Maybe I'll troll for a while just to off-set the +5 insightfuls I just got.:)
This looks like an urban legend that got on/. The phone number listed above goes to a similarly named company with a different story. Flamingo Travel. They say the offending company is in Florida. Wait to get the full story before you set up your war dialers...
I'm not trolling, but I am sensitive to people overstepping their bounds.
Getting upset about your tech seeing stuff on your hard drive is like getting upset with your accountant over them seeing your finances.
No, it is more like your tech looking at your finances on your hard drive. Would you be OK with that? Then, what if your tech was looking at your passwords on your hard drive, would you be OK with that?
There was a tech working for a company I used to work for that had no reason to be in our SQL servers, and he copied our customer lists onto his hard drive. This was not found out until after he was fired (for other reasons), and they still have no idea what he did with that information.
adzoox: How can you judge what is ethical and what is not?
If you have to ask that, then you obviously have never taken any classes on ethics, or really thought about it. It would really do your business (and your customers) a service. Here is a link to reading up on ethics. Creating a Code of Ethics for Your Organization
Along the same line, why do we need to replace pilots? They are not half as expensive as this tech, and they do a pretty good job currently. I'm all for helping them out in every way, but do you really want to be sitting in an airplane some day with noone up front in case there is an error. Planes do get struck by lightning, and instruments do get screwed up.
I design software for embedded devices and let me tell you, as soon as you add a password mechanism, then someone will lose the password within days. It's happened to me, and I finally had to put a global password in every machine.
For your own sake, why would you take on the culpability of having this in your system? One of you employees gets fired and leaks it to slashdot, and EVERY one of your clients is going to sue the shirt off your back. Do you actually tell your clients that this is available. If you do, do you wonder why youre not selling very much?
The services and their users would be much better if the services and products were opened (as in open standards, published interfaces)
Better for WHO? Sure it would be better for the users, but like I said before, it would destroy the company. Microsoft would not exist if it weren't for their proprietary nature. That would be very BAD for their shareholders. (Not that I'm against MS being knocked down, I'm just making a point that it's not better for EVERYONE)
How? Microsoft makes very little (proportionally) on their support contracts. MS makes a heap on desktop sales. If all of those desktop sales were to go away, of course their support contracts would increase, but not by enough to offset the cost of (almost) every computer being sold with Windows on it.
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Hahahaha, you were the original one that was trying to sound like everyone else is an idiot, because "if they just pay enough attention to know who's offering it (real ISP, college, job)"
Now you are saying that you need to buy a domain?
I guess it would seem silly if you had no permanent friends that you want to correspond with. I personally would become pretty annoyed if I could never send you an email at the same address twice. Of course you should use throw away addresses for websites and shady people, but we are talking about your main email address, the one you could give to your Aunt Mildred.
and they could call it metamoderation? Yeah, they should implement that.
Everyone has a real e-mail account available to them if they just pay enough attention to know who's offering it (real ISP, college, job) and learn how to set up a real e-mail client. Five minutes.
Real ISPs come and go, you are not in college forever, and you dont keep the same job forever. However, you CAN keep one of these "second-rate" email addresses indefinitely. I have had my yahoo account for years, while friends and colleagues change their "real" email accounts year after year, mine has always been the same. I have lost touch with many people because they changed email addresses and never told anyone.
Thanks for the short-sighted answer.
Wow. An obscure Benny Bell song... on Slashdot...
Obscure? Hardly...
Start singing that song on any elevator in North America, and I _guarantee_ you that half the people will sing along.
One hit wonder, definitely. Cult Classic, probably. But obscure, no way.
Great song though, so now you can go die happily.
Much like holding down the address button on your Palm pda to automatically transmit your business card data to another pda? Yep, and my co-worker hates it when I beam a contact from my old Palm m125 to his new fangled iPaq and it gets a fatal error. He has to restart it. I do it all the time in meetings. All you have to do is put a lot of notes into a contact and it destroys a PPC. :)
Nope.
Does that mean they can release it on time now? Oh wait...
Why not have a MySQL topic then?
I find it hard to believe you've never laughed at a joke making fun of someone because of their handicap, religion, or race.
/.
I find it hard to believe that you can't read wit and sarcasm in someone's post to
Imagine if the wheel had been square when it was first invented. Everything would be terrible.
Not if all roads were shaped like inverted catenaries.
yeah, I'm an idiot. I tried to get that post out quick in case we were calling some poor shmuck that just happens to have the same name. Now I look like a Karma whore. Maybe I'll troll for a while just to off-set the +5 insightfuls I just got. :)
Scratch that, after searching a little more the number is right, dial away!!!!
This looks like an urban legend that got on /. The phone number listed above goes to a similarly named company with a different story. Flamingo Travel. They say the offending company is in Florida. Wait to get the full story before you set up your war dialers...
I'm not trolling, but I am sensitive to people overstepping their bounds.
Getting upset about your tech seeing stuff on your hard drive is like getting upset with your accountant over them seeing your finances.
No, it is more like your tech looking at your finances on your hard drive. Would you be OK with that? Then, what if your tech was looking at your passwords on your hard drive, would you be OK with that?
There was a tech working for a company I used to work for that had no reason to be in our SQL servers, and he copied our customer lists onto his hard drive. This was not found out until after he was fired (for other reasons), and they still have no idea what he did with that information.
adzoox: How can you judge what is ethical and what is not?
If you have to ask that, then you obviously have never taken any classes on ethics, or really thought about it. It would really do your business (and your customers) a service. Here is a link to reading up on ethics. Creating a Code of Ethics for Your Organization
There was a long blonde hair inside and one of "these manuals" on the hard drive.
How can you try to take the high road about your customers, when you are reading the contents of their hard drive? Where are YOUR ethics?
Very fitting is 0wnz0red by Cory Doctorow, the Nebula award l0ser from two stories ago.
Along the same line, why do we need to replace pilots? They are not half as expensive as this tech, and they do a pretty good job currently. I'm all for helping them out in every way, but do you really want to be sitting in an airplane some day with noone up front in case there is an error. Planes do get struck by lightning, and instruments do get screwed up.
I design software for embedded devices and let me tell you, as soon as you add a password mechanism, then someone will lose the password within days. It's happened to me, and I finally had to put a global password in every machine.
For your own sake, why would you take on the culpability of having this in your system? One of you employees gets fired and leaks it to slashdot, and EVERY one of your clients is going to sue the shirt off your back. Do you actually tell your clients that this is available. If you do, do you wonder why youre not selling very much?
It's turtles all the way down, man.
Ogg is not an acronym, so don't uppercase it all.
uppercase is not a verb, so don't verb it.
The services and their users would be much better if the services and products were opened (as in open standards, published interfaces)
Better for WHO? Sure it would be better for the users, but like I said before, it would destroy the company. Microsoft would not exist if it weren't for their proprietary nature. That would be very BAD for their shareholders. (Not that I'm against MS being knocked down, I'm just making a point that it's not better for EVERYONE)
Nothing short of breaking up MS and demanding published, open APIs, protocols and file formats will do.
Will do what? Destroy the company?
How? Microsoft makes very little (proportionally) on their support contracts. MS makes a heap on desktop sales. If all of those desktop sales were to go away, of course their support contracts would increase, but not by enough to offset the cost of (almost) every computer being sold with Windows on it.