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Italics mine.
At least Google is up front about this, unlike your bank, credit card company, tax preparer, and medical records transcriber. This kind of notification is what California should have passed.
[Yes I know this isn't exactly the point the parent was getting at. Sue me.]
Well gosh, if refineries are so hard to build in CA, why does Shell want to shut down a profitable one that produces 2% of CA's gas? And not allow anyone to buy it and run it?
Could it be that, like during CA's energy crisis, companies can make a lot of money by restricting supply when they have a near-monopoly/cartel?
Just to note - US hospitals can't turn away any emergencies - no matter what their capacity to pay might be.
No, but you can end up with a $30,000 bill for an appendectomy. No kidding.
In my community in California the nearest emergency room is on the verge of closing, part of a larger trend. We're about to vote whether we want to pay a property tax to keep it open. It will cost about $104/year for small homeowners.
...because they are more real-world than "create 1000 files in a single directory using touch", etc.
Plus the results are normalized against ext2 for quick comparison. You don't have to interpret fuzzy jpeg graphs. You can grok the results at a glance.
Skip the LinuxGazette article and read the parent link instead.
But Red Hat's disfocus/distraction in enabling true community involvement (beyond testing and packaging) hasn't kept them from cranking out an excellent distro in Fedora.
Slashdotters have to admit: Red Hat hasn't abandoned their non-paying users after all.
Probably you meant that as +1, Funny. For one thing, it's Amazon, evil (commercial conflict of interest) from the start. For another, "Search results enhanced by Google."
It is a huge shame that the linux T2 client isn't available for love or money at this point.
Note that this release is advance hype for T3 (Tribes:Vengeance), which Sierra will not produce even a Linux server for.
But the Winblows T2 client does work fairly well with WineX. (I'm using latest WineX from CVS.)
It's not perfect. Particular maps either load and play fine, or they take so long to load that the server times out.
Also, DefenseTurret (the anti-cheat equivalent of Punkbuster) won't work under WineX. That takes you off the ladder competition servers, and many of the pubs. But there are still enough servers without DT.
Indeed, I dug my gf's old PalmV up from its grave a couple months ago. Have been happily reading e-books and NY Times using Plucker (& JPluckX) since.
I don't prefer it to a book but do like it better than my desktop's 17" LCD for lengthly reading. Having it in hand makes the experience more book-like. (Every try taking a 17" monitor to bed? Don't answer that.)
How are you going to monitor worms that propigate using windows with a linux box?
The perl script I used to monitor incoming Code Red attacks on port 80 runs just as well on linux as windows. A scanner evaluating the idiosyncracies of the TCP/IP stack would not have been fooled, but the real worm certainly was.
If you had read the link AOL IMAP FAQ you'd see that they do offer a secure IMAP server:
The IMAP server supports SSL, which will encrypt your session to prevent casual eavesdropping. Most current email programs have a checkbox or menu option in the account setup that enables SSL. However, you need to change the server name to imap.cs.com (port 993 -- the standard).
2) People who use AOL don't really care how they get their mail as long as the nice man says "You've got mail!" and reminds them of that charming Meg Ryan/Tom Hanks flick
Both #1 and #2 are completely false. I've been a Unix geek since before AOL existed. Used to have Compuserve back when they had those glossy ads in Omni magazine. Remember Compuserve? Remember Omni? Remember 300baud?
My AOL account has paid for itself many times over because clients can still contact me years after I've moved to a new phone #, new ISP, etc.
Up until now, from Linux the only serious option was AOL's webmail client. The new IMAP access is going to make this geek happy.
Now to pray that Evolution deigns to play nice with AOL's IMAP implementation... Om Hare Ximian, Hairy Hairy Monkey....
Yeah they put one of these on the artery to a new subdivision across the Bay from SF (Richmond Marina) about a year ago and it is *extremely* annoying.
Even if you adapt to it by going slow enough not to trigger the thing, some fool will inevitably pass you and set it off. So it punishes everyone. I'm generally in favor of traffic calming, but these things just suck.
I know this story is probably going to get a lot of people riled up. However, it is still my understanding that the NSA goes to great pains to avoid intercepting any communication that comes from a U.S. citizen.
You're trolling right? It's well known that we have the Brits and others spy on our domestic communications for us, so that people can make the claim you made above with a straight face. And we return the courtesy to them. Welcome to reality.
I've been using email since the days 300baud acoustic modems roamed the earth. The email address on my resume is @aol.com, because it's the only address I've had which hasn't changed in over 10 years.
Sure I don't use it for everyday mail, but it has already paid for a lifetime subscription. Previous employers have been able to contact me for new contracts, despite many changes of physical address, phone #, ISP.
These days there are other "permanent" solutions, like pobox.com. But I bet aol outlasts them...
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Italics mine.
At least Google is up front about this, unlike your bank, credit card company, tax preparer, and medical records transcriber. This kind of notification is what California should have passed.
[Yes I know this isn't exactly the point the parent was getting at. Sue me.]
Could it be that, like during CA's energy crisis, companies can make a lot of money by restricting supply when they have a near-monopoly/cartel?
They make biodiesel from used french fry oil and stuff like that. Runs in unmodified (or barely modified) diesel engines.
me:"My cable modem is dead."
@home tier1: "Clear your browser cache."
me:"I can ping the gateway everything else is unreachable."
@home tier1: "Clear your browser cache."
me:"I just downloaded 200MB of pr0n in 30 seconds and I'm calling to say thank you!!"
@home tier1: "Clear your browser cache."
me:"Hmmm.. good idea."
No, but you can end up with a $30,000 bill for an appendectomy. No kidding.
In my community in California the nearest emergency room is on the verge of closing, part of a larger trend. We're about to vote whether we want to pay a property tax to keep it open. It will cost about $104/year for small homeowners.
Plus the results are normalized against ext2 for quick comparison. You don't have to interpret fuzzy jpeg graphs. You can grok the results at a glance.
Skip the LinuxGazette article and read the parent link instead.
But Red Hat's disfocus/distraction in enabling true community involvement (beyond testing and packaging) hasn't kept them from cranking out an excellent distro in Fedora.
Slashdotters have to admit: Red Hat hasn't abandoned their non-paying users after all.
Probably you meant that as +1, Funny. For one thing, it's Amazon, evil (commercial conflict of interest) from the start.
For another, "Search results enhanced by Google."
I used to like hotbot before they got eaten by Lycos. They used Inktomi's engine, which I think MSN licensed for a while.
nlsearch had cool features, but died out. (I think they sell their engine for enterprise use at northernlight.com).
altavista was cool when it was run by DEC (which got ate by Compaq, which was swallowed by HP).
next?
This is a late post, but I'm curious what a former tribes player see in UT2K4. I tried the demo for a week, and I'd stick with T1 or even T2 any day.
Note that this release is advance hype for T3 (Tribes:Vengeance), which Sierra will not produce even a Linux server for.
But the Winblows T2 client does work fairly well with WineX. (I'm using latest WineX from CVS.)
It's not perfect. Particular maps either load and play fine, or they take so long to load that the server times out.
Also, DefenseTurret (the anti-cheat equivalent of Punkbuster) won't work under WineX. That takes you off the ladder competition servers, and many of the pubs. But there are still enough servers without DT.
I don't prefer it to a book but do like it better than my desktop's 17" LCD for lengthly reading. Having it in hand makes the experience more book-like. (Every try taking a 17" monitor to bed? Don't answer that.)
Now there's going to be an even bigger pool of naive OE users who will be easy targets for viruses.
[This isn't anti-AOL or anti-OE flamebait. Every time I read about a new OE vulnerability I'm relieved that Dad uses AOL for his mail.]
My AOL account has paid for itself many times over because clients can still contact me years after I've moved to a new phone #, new ISP, etc.
Up until now, from Linux the only serious option was AOL's webmail client. The new IMAP access is going to make this geek happy.
Now to pray that Evolution deigns to play nice with AOL's IMAP implementation... Om Hare Ximian, Hairy Hairy Monkey....
Could you please re-post that in North Korean?
The Knoppix-STD logo is a black cat. Gee, "black cat" sounds just like "black hat"...
Even if you adapt to it by going slow enough not to trigger the thing, some fool will inevitably pass you and set it off. So it punishes everyone. I'm generally in favor of traffic calming, but these things just suck.
You're trolling right? It's well known that we have the Brits and others spy on our domestic communications for us, so that people can make the claim you made above with a straight face. And we return the courtesy to them. Welcome to reality.
Dude, no need for the "quotes" when you actually are a nerd.
Not really, but it provides a way for news.google.com to pay Slashdot back for the three google-related articles on Slashdot yesterday.
I've been using email since the days 300baud acoustic modems roamed the earth. The email address on my resume is @aol.com, because it's the only address I've had which hasn't changed in over 10 years.
Sure I don't use it for everyday mail, but it has already paid for a lifetime subscription. Previous employers have been able to contact me for new contracts, despite many changes of physical address, phone #, ISP.
These days there are other "permanent" solutions, like pobox.com. But I bet aol outlasts them...
Sure in the days when NuBus was Nu, Apple hardware was technically superior. But nowadays it's not that different from a PC.