Yeah, but then again, the media regularly gets stuff like this wrong. News reports read the original article, *think* they understand it (even though they don't, which shows like mad), and then rewrite their own version.
So, yes, you're right. Too bad the media industry doesn't know what's really going on at times like this. They should realize they have to fully understand the article, since otherwise they're confusing the public, and then the public gets the wrong idea too, and then everyone is worse off.
PayPal is a private business. You agree to give them the right to fine you for those actions when you sign up with them. If you don't like the fines, get a MasterCard or something.
But on the other hand, I doubt PayPal is going to catch many people. As long as you don't include "Here's my $500 bet for the game tonight. Gambling Rocks!" I doubt they're going to check every transaction. As long as you aren't dumb about it, I don't really know what they're going to do. I'm not saying keep doing what you're doing, just be careful about it. Don't send money to 'Bets@GamblingOnline.com', or use comments that show it.
But really, if you don't like it, don't do business with PayPal. As long as they get you to agree to it when you sign up, it's fine for them to do it, it's up to read the fine print if you're going to be doing risky stuff like that. And there's a clause in there (like in everything) that says they reserve the right to update the TOS/AUP whenever they want, and that you automaticially agree to it.
Perhaps...or it could just be that many many kids don't bother, and that's not good for the voting system. At my high school, most of the seniors don't care about voting at all. There's only a few who are registered, or plan to.
And, don't be so quick to smash (if you aren't, I'm sorry, but it sort of seems like you have a negative tone). As many people who can vote should vote. Just because liberals groups (I'm not entirely sure if this is true, since I haven't seen any linking between these groups) are pushing this doesn't mean they're relying on people who don't vote. Couldn't the tables be turned by saying conservative parties aren't pushing people to vote because right now they've got enough people to vote for them, but they sure don't want any more new voters that could rock the vote? Just a thought.
I don't think these things should be associated with one side or the other. This website (and other register-to-vote things) aren't pushing their own candidates, so I see no reason they should be affiliated with one group. I'm not trolling, I just think someone should point this out.
Well sure, but that problem will lessen as adoption of SPF/SID progresses. Not to mention, once it gets widely adopted (it will, give it time) people will configure their mail filters to flag mail from domains without a SID/SPF entry.
Just give it time. I agree that this doesn't mean much right now, but we're getting there.
But now, spammers have to invest money in what they're doing. It doesn't matter if it's much or not, but it is something. It's more than what they were paying before, so unless they don't mind cutting into their profit margins, they're going to be affected by this.
Compare what it used to be with how it is now. It used to be that spammers could use any domain they want. Now they can only use domains they own (assuming they're using SPF), and as soon as one domain is RBL'd, they're going to need another domain. More work for the spammers. And more cost too.
What I'm trying to say is that, yes, domains are cheap. But now they're paying for domains that they didn't have to before.
Are you kidding? Maybe the design is semi-alike, but then again, how many ways can you arrange a computer inside a tiny box?
Take a look at that gateway. All the pieces are outside the monitor. It's quite bulky, and not nearly as easy on the eye. Gateway didn't want to work as much, they just attached the LCD to the box. Apple shoved all the parts into a backing of a LCD, and it's only two inches thick (give or take.2 inches). Honestly, are you just trying to find a reason to beat on them?
There are only so many ways to package up a computer, and I'd say Apple's new way is quite different from that Gateway model. Sure, it's closer in resemblance to that gateway when compared to a traditional desktop with external CRT or LCD...but come on. Give Apple credit where credit is due.
I remember that as soon as Microsoft released Windows 98, we went out and bought it. I was so sick of 95's flakyness, I couldn't wait any longer.
I took the disc out, and put it in the drive, and let it go. About half way through the install, it stopped on an error, saying that it couldn't read some sectors on the disc. I got mad, and pressing retry about 10 times didn't do any good. Rebooting was out of the question, since the system was now Windows 98, using 95 DLLs. Whoops. After more anger, I looked at the Windows98 CD, wondering why it was unreadable. THE CD WAS WARPED! We took it back to Best Buy, and they were a little reluctant to give us another box. After finally convincing them the bent disc was no good, I got back home and tried the new disc. It too, was warped, and got half the distance the first one did. After my parents finish freaking out again, we go back to Best Buy, and demand to find a CD that isn't warped. The BestBuy service guy we got this time didn't seem at all surprised at our request for a non-warped CD. We had to go through 6 different boxes before we found a good one. We took it home, and all was well.
Looks like the CD Pressers weren't the only ones rushed to get Windows98 out the door. Strange how I never heard anyone else had that problem...
...they're concerned about having adverse effects on people running mail servers???? I could have sworn we weren't allowed to run any type of server (HTTPd, IRCd, anything) through their connections. My friend runs a HTTP server through his, but I've never run one through mine for more than a day at a time, being the good customer I am.
It always seemed to me that if they didn't want people hosting servers, they'd block the ports from the beginning. Don't get me wrong though, I'm glad to see they're finally cracking down on spam, and I'm glad they're not going to just block port 25. Maybe Comcast isn't as horrible as everyone says they are.
PayPal runs their own service. PayPal isn't a right, it's a privilege. They aren't forced to offer service to anyone. Now, they may have shut down FreeNet's account for the wrong reason, but still, it's their own service, they can do what they want.
I'm not trying to troll, I just think this needs to be pointed out, amidst the "curse PayPal!" and the "omg they froze me too! let's lynch them!!" messages. I think it was wrong for them to freeze Freenet's account, but so what if PayPal doesn't like it? What's different with this, between PayPal and any other company? The only difference was that PayPal was a source of donation income, and they have a direct effect on them.
I'm sure FreeNet will find a way to survive. They've made it this far...
I'm sure all the people who are getting infected as they download SP2 will be thrilled.
I think that the firewall should have loaded first in the start up sequence since the beginning of the XP Firewall's existance. If they're going to make a firewall, at least do it right...but at least this shows they're acknowledging the problem, and working on it.
Great...I love FireWire, and it amazes me how fast it lets me work with my iPod and DV Camcorder, but is there really a need for another wireless standard? We've got 802.11a/b/g, Bluetooth, and now soon wireless FireWire and wireless USB. Is there a reason why the industry can't just pick a wireless technology, and then use it? Or is it just the idea that FireWire products don't want to use USB tech, yada yada yada...
The industry doesn't sound very standardized to me right now...
I have a friend that attends a private military school, where they give laptops to each student there. The front is practically plastered with warnings about how this is not your laptop, and that you shouldn't steal it. One of them is about 3mm off the surface of the lid, and says that it has a tracker in it, and it requires 600+ pounds of pressure to remove. Needless to say, I imagine the plastic would break before you hit the necessary 600 pounds of force.
Now, sure, they could just be saying that you need that much weight to scare you off, but another one of the labels say that there's a chip inside where if you wave a wand over the laptop, the chip sends back some ID number.
So, unless these crooks knew all about what to do, I doubt they'd run straight to the pawn shop, without stopping to clean up the laptops first. Do you think the pawn shop will really take in 5 laptops (or heck, even one laptop) that have 'NO THEFT' stickers plastered all over them. I think even the pawn shop people are smarter than that.
Sure, it may create some privacy issues...if it's storing it at some central HP or public database. If it's just recording it to some internal storage drive, and then you move the footage to your hard drive or somewhere else, then what's the problem?? I'm not trying to troll, but why is this such a big deal?
Is it just me, or is the paranoia level going up these days...
I can't imagine Norton or McAffee is really worried. Norton and McAffee have spent years improving their scanning engines. Microsoft is foolish if they think they can make a product rivaling them the first time. The defragger that is included with Windows *works*, but nowhere near as well as other real defraggers. Unless Microsoft leases out Norton or McAffee's engine for use with Windows, I think the antivirus industry has nothing to worry about it though. And if they don't, do we really want to trust an antivirus solution made completely by them? I hate to bash Microsoft, but they don't have the best track record for building secure software.
Not to mention...bundling in yet another product that eliminates the need to buy outside software...well, doesn't Microsoft already have enough Antitrust problems? Are they trying to get more companies pissed off, and more charges pressed against them??
The main reason is because PDAs can do way more than graphing calculator stuff. Sure, this sounds great in theory, but it's a humongous problem. Sure, you can watch movies, listen to music, but they can also let you read text files (just downloaded all the SAT/ACT answers from the internet? no problem.), wireless capabilities (check answers with someone across the room or in the next room over), or in math's case, so serious mathematical equation manipulation.
It's the reason TI-89/92/V200/PDAs, or anything with a QWERTY keyboard are banned from any standardized test. It's just to easy to cheat. With a TI-83/84 calculator, the test takers know exactly what you can do and not do with it, as opposed to a PDA, which you can just download a program that'll do anything you want.
Test administrators just don't have enough time to be checking everyone's PDA for stuff that shouldn't be there. It's just easier when they can simply check what calculator they have, and know it's ok. So, unless you find a PDA that can natively do graphing calculator stuff (odds are they'd want to purge your entire PDA's HD, except for the OS, to ensure nothing that would let you cheat is on there), I doubt PDAs will ever be allowed in standardized test situations.
Not to mention, PDAs are banned/discouraged in many high schools, yet graphing calculators are not. Calculators can't take pictures, be used as phones, wireless chat, and play music, can they?
It's actually pretty simple why you shouldn't use a PDA with graphing calculator software unless you're never going to be using it in a testing situation, ever.
yeah. He says on the website that you'll have to save it as a file, and open it through something else. MSPaint (please, no flaming) worked fine for me except for the right-most part of the image.
I have trouble believing this. First off, it'll be a new thing for all the web developers to learn. And, because it's Microsoft, it most likely won't be ported to other platforms, and open-source people will go nuts. Also, the article-writer forgets that everyone is used to flash -- developers and end users alike.
Flash has been released to the public for a very long time. It is extremely commonplace. I think I remember reading somewhere that Flash is installed on over 70% of computers accessing the internet. While it may be easy for Microsoft to get it's program on computers, it will not be able to get developers to make the content. They're going to have a very hard time winning over enough demand for it.
Microsoft jumping into this new area is just like it did with the xBox. But, it won't be as easy for them to get people to make content in "Sparkle" as it was for them to get game designers for the xBox.
It's not clear at present that this is being done by anyone other than pranksters, but one can't help wondering, how long before commercial spammers catch on.
...does a laptop hard drive have to accelerate until data loss/corruption occurs? I have a laptop, and I routinely carry it around my house, and the only thing I've noticed when I'm carrying it is the DVD drive if it's spinning at full/normal speed, the drive makes scratchy/unbalanced noises.
Obviously, I'm typing this now on my laptop, and nothing is wrong. I've never broken anything carrying it around. I've also used my laptop while in the car, and my parent's jerky driving doesn't cause any problems.
How much acceleration is necessary for problems to occur??
Yahoo is planning an update that may cut out third-party providers like Trillian or Gaim. If you're a current Trillian user with a valid Yahoo ID, you probably noticed the new welcome message...
I know that. I was simply stating that Trillian has overcome this WAY before this news post was written.
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Yeah, but then again, the media regularly gets stuff like this wrong. News reports read the original article, *think* they understand it (even though they don't, which shows like mad), and then rewrite their own version.
So, yes, you're right. Too bad the media industry doesn't know what's really going on at times like this. They should realize they have to fully understand the article, since otherwise they're confusing the public, and then the public gets the wrong idea too, and then everyone is worse off.
PayPal is a private business. You agree to give them the right to fine you for those actions when you sign up with them. If you don't like the fines, get a MasterCard or something.
But on the other hand, I doubt PayPal is going to catch many people. As long as you don't include "Here's my $500 bet for the game tonight. Gambling Rocks!" I doubt they're going to check every transaction. As long as you aren't dumb about it, I don't really know what they're going to do. I'm not saying keep doing what you're doing, just be careful about it. Don't send money to 'Bets@GamblingOnline.com', or use comments that show it.
But really, if you don't like it, don't do business with PayPal. As long as they get you to agree to it when you sign up, it's fine for them to do it, it's up to read the fine print if you're going to be doing risky stuff like that. And there's a clause in there (like in everything) that says they reserve the right to update the TOS/AUP whenever they want, and that you automaticially agree to it.
Perhaps...or it could just be that many many kids don't bother, and that's not good for the voting system. At my high school, most of the seniors don't care about voting at all. There's only a few who are registered, or plan to.
And, don't be so quick to smash (if you aren't, I'm sorry, but it sort of seems like you have a negative tone). As many people who can vote should vote. Just because liberals groups (I'm not entirely sure if this is true, since I haven't seen any linking between these groups) are pushing this doesn't mean they're relying on people who don't vote. Couldn't the tables be turned by saying conservative parties aren't pushing people to vote because right now they've got enough people to vote for them, but they sure don't want any more new voters that could rock the vote? Just a thought.
I don't think these things should be associated with one side or the other. This website (and other register-to-vote things) aren't pushing their own candidates, so I see no reason they should be affiliated with one group. I'm not trolling, I just think someone should point this out.
Well sure, but that problem will lessen as adoption of SPF/SID progresses. Not to mention, once it gets widely adopted (it will, give it time) people will configure their mail filters to flag mail from domains without a SID/SPF entry.
Just give it time. I agree that this doesn't mean much right now, but we're getting there.
But now, spammers have to invest money in what they're doing. It doesn't matter if it's much or not, but it is something. It's more than what they were paying before, so unless they don't mind cutting into their profit margins, they're going to be affected by this.
Compare what it used to be with how it is now. It used to be that spammers could use any domain they want. Now they can only use domains they own (assuming they're using SPF), and as soon as one domain is RBL'd, they're going to need another domain. More work for the spammers. And more cost too.
What I'm trying to say is that, yes, domains are cheap. But now they're paying for domains that they didn't have to before.
Are you kidding? Maybe the design is semi-alike, but then again, how many ways can you arrange a computer inside a tiny box?
.2 inches). Honestly, are you just trying to find a reason to beat on them?
Take a look at that gateway. All the pieces are outside the monitor. It's quite bulky, and not nearly as easy on the eye. Gateway didn't want to work as much, they just attached the LCD to the box. Apple shoved all the parts into a backing of a LCD, and it's only two inches thick (give or take
There are only so many ways to package up a computer, and I'd say Apple's new way is quite different from that Gateway model. Sure, it's closer in resemblance to that gateway when compared to a traditional desktop with external CRT or LCD...but come on. Give Apple credit where credit is due.
I remember that as soon as Microsoft released Windows 98, we went out and bought it. I was so sick of 95's flakyness, I couldn't wait any longer. I took the disc out, and put it in the drive, and let it go. About half way through the install, it stopped on an error, saying that it couldn't read some sectors on the disc. I got mad, and pressing retry about 10 times didn't do any good. Rebooting was out of the question, since the system was now Windows 98, using 95 DLLs. Whoops. After more anger, I looked at the Windows98 CD, wondering why it was unreadable. THE CD WAS WARPED! We took it back to Best Buy, and they were a little reluctant to give us another box. After finally convincing them the bent disc was no good, I got back home and tried the new disc. It too, was warped, and got half the distance the first one did. After my parents finish freaking out again, we go back to Best Buy, and demand to find a CD that isn't warped. The BestBuy service guy we got this time didn't seem at all surprised at our request for a non-warped CD. We had to go through 6 different boxes before we found a good one. We took it home, and all was well. Looks like the CD Pressers weren't the only ones rushed to get Windows98 out the door. Strange how I never heard anyone else had that problem...
...they're concerned about having adverse effects on people running mail servers???? I could have sworn we weren't allowed to run any type of server (HTTPd, IRCd, anything) through their connections. My friend runs a HTTP server through his, but I've never run one through mine for more than a day at a time, being the good customer I am.
It always seemed to me that if they didn't want people hosting servers, they'd block the ports from the beginning. Don't get me wrong though, I'm glad to see they're finally cracking down on spam, and I'm glad they're not going to just block port 25. Maybe Comcast isn't as horrible as everyone says they are.
PayPal runs their own service. PayPal isn't a right, it's a privilege. They aren't forced to offer service to anyone. Now, they may have shut down FreeNet's account for the wrong reason, but still, it's their own service, they can do what they want.
I'm not trying to troll, I just think this needs to be pointed out, amidst the "curse PayPal!" and the "omg they froze me too! let's lynch them!!" messages. I think it was wrong for them to freeze Freenet's account, but so what if PayPal doesn't like it? What's different with this, between PayPal and any other company? The only difference was that PayPal was a source of donation income, and they have a direct effect on them.
I'm sure FreeNet will find a way to survive. They've made it this far...
I'm sure all the people who are getting infected as they download SP2 will be thrilled.
I think that the firewall should have loaded first in the start up sequence since the beginning of the XP Firewall's existance. If they're going to make a firewall, at least do it right...but at least this shows they're acknowledging the problem, and working on it.
Great...I love FireWire, and it amazes me how fast it lets me work with my iPod and DV Camcorder, but is there really a need for another wireless standard? We've got 802.11a/b/g, Bluetooth, and now soon wireless FireWire and wireless USB. Is there a reason why the industry can't just pick a wireless technology, and then use it? Or is it just the idea that FireWire products don't want to use USB tech, yada yada yada...
The industry doesn't sound very standardized to me right now...
I have a friend that attends a private military school, where they give laptops to each student there. The front is practically plastered with warnings about how this is not your laptop, and that you shouldn't steal it. One of them is about 3mm off the surface of the lid, and says that it has a tracker in it, and it requires 600+ pounds of pressure to remove. Needless to say, I imagine the plastic would break before you hit the necessary 600 pounds of force. Now, sure, they could just be saying that you need that much weight to scare you off, but another one of the labels say that there's a chip inside where if you wave a wand over the laptop, the chip sends back some ID number.
So, unless these crooks knew all about what to do, I doubt they'd run straight to the pawn shop, without stopping to clean up the laptops first. Do you think the pawn shop will really take in 5 laptops (or heck, even one laptop) that have 'NO THEFT' stickers plastered all over them. I think even the pawn shop people are smarter than that.
Sure, it may create some privacy issues...if it's storing it at some central HP or public database. If it's just recording it to some internal storage drive, and then you move the footage to your hard drive or somewhere else, then what's the problem?? I'm not trying to troll, but why is this such a big deal?
Is it just me, or is the paranoia level going up these days...
I can't imagine Norton or McAffee is really worried. Norton and McAffee have spent years improving their scanning engines. Microsoft is foolish if they think they can make a product rivaling them the first time. The defragger that is included with Windows *works*, but nowhere near as well as other real defraggers. Unless Microsoft leases out Norton or McAffee's engine for use with Windows, I think the antivirus industry has nothing to worry about it though. And if they don't, do we really want to trust an antivirus solution made completely by them? I hate to bash Microsoft, but they don't have the best track record for building secure software.
Not to mention...bundling in yet another product that eliminates the need to buy outside software...well, doesn't Microsoft already have enough Antitrust problems? Are they trying to get more companies pissed off, and more charges pressed against them??
The main reason is because PDAs can do way more than graphing calculator stuff. Sure, this sounds great in theory, but it's a humongous problem. Sure, you can watch movies, listen to music, but they can also let you read text files (just downloaded all the SAT/ACT answers from the internet? no problem.), wireless capabilities (check answers with someone across the room or in the next room over), or in math's case, so serious mathematical equation manipulation.
It's the reason TI-89/92/V200/PDAs, or anything with a QWERTY keyboard are banned from any standardized test. It's just to easy to cheat. With a TI-83/84 calculator, the test takers know exactly what you can do and not do with it, as opposed to a PDA, which you can just download a program that'll do anything you want.
Test administrators just don't have enough time to be checking everyone's PDA for stuff that shouldn't be there. It's just easier when they can simply check what calculator they have, and know it's ok. So, unless you find a PDA that can natively do graphing calculator stuff (odds are they'd want to purge your entire PDA's HD, except for the OS, to ensure nothing that would let you cheat is on there), I doubt PDAs will ever be allowed in standardized test situations.
Not to mention, PDAs are banned/discouraged in many high schools, yet graphing calculators are not. Calculators can't take pictures, be used as phones, wireless chat, and play music, can they?
It's actually pretty simple why you shouldn't use a PDA with graphing calculator software unless you're never going to be using it in a testing situation, ever.
yeah. He says on the website that you'll have to save it as a file, and open it through something else. MSPaint (please, no flaming) worked fine for me except for the right-most part of the image.
I have trouble believing this. First off, it'll be a new thing for all the web developers to learn. And, because it's Microsoft, it most likely won't be ported to other platforms, and open-source people will go nuts. Also, the article-writer forgets that everyone is used to flash -- developers and end users alike.
Flash has been released to the public for a very long time. It is extremely commonplace. I think I remember reading somewhere that Flash is installed on over 70% of computers accessing the internet. While it may be easy for Microsoft to get it's program on computers, it will not be able to get developers to make the content. They're going to have a very hard time winning over enough demand for it.
Microsoft jumping into this new area is just like it did with the xBox. But, it won't be as easy for them to get people to make content in "Sparkle" as it was for them to get game designers for the xBox.
I can't wait to see how this works out.
Thanks for giving them the idea Taco!
while it's interesting to know the computer's limits...well, I'd prefer to learn the limits without harming/destroying the computer ;)
...does a laptop hard drive have to accelerate until data loss/corruption occurs? I have a laptop, and I routinely carry it around my house, and the only thing I've noticed when I'm carrying it is the DVD drive if it's spinning at full/normal speed, the drive makes scratchy/unbalanced noises.
Obviously, I'm typing this now on my laptop, and nothing is wrong. I've never broken anything carrying it around. I've also used my laptop while in the car, and my parent's jerky driving doesn't cause any problems.
How much acceleration is necessary for problems to occur??
"Sorry, too late." [ducks]
Trillian Pro 1.0d was just released that fixes the MSN and Yahoo! issues. Trillian Pro 2.0 (final) has no problems.
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Wow, I love it when people don't use the latest versions
try http://www.verisignfuckspeopleintheass.com/.
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