The person who posted that is an idiot. Blocking external images is a Good Thing(tm). I hope I don't need to explain why. Thunderbird does it too.
I'd also like a practical example of why you'd want to set the security for the Internet zone in IE to 'low', other than 'it makes you feel more l33t'.
The folks at Downhill Battle also seem to miss that the official AOL Instant Messanger client already has much of the functionality they so carefully describe, and if memory serves, it has had it for quite a while. (I remember the feature [not that I ever used it] being there back when I used to USE the official client, which was a while ago... Gaim 4evah. But I digress.)
Windows version: My AIM menu > Options > Preferences > File Sharing section
Looks fairly functional. You can allow users from your entire buddy list to browse your files, or limit it to a certain group; and optionally have it prompt you before each browse request. The one major thing missing is the ability to search everyone on your buddy list at once, but I suspect this is because AOL doesn't want to become a ??AA target.
Finally the point of my post: Gaim's eventual goal is to have complete compatability with all of the IM networks, yes? Perhaps they should strive to be compatable with official AIM's already-existing feature before reinventing it.
What makes you think that? Seems we've reached the peak of hype for Tiger. It was all leading up to this point, the release date and climax; now it will settle down as people look forward to The Next Thing(tm).
Wow, that's going to suck. I buy an HD-DVD player, then months later the manufacturer pisses off the HD-DVD committee or whatever it is, and the license is rescinded (if I understand this correctly). Then my HD-DVD player won't work with any new HD-DVDs that come out after that point in time? And I did what to deserve this?
Is there a place I could get the Netscape theme separately, and install it on Firefox? I know, I know, I've seen a lot of negative comments about how it looks, but I'd still like to see how it looks firsthand... without actually installing AOL's evilness on my machine.
Go to your Firefox application data, then the extentions subfolder. Your themes and extensions are there as JAR files. Open the JAR files in Winzip, and you'll see that they're made up of XUL, JS and CSS files, which are easily openable in a text editor to reveal their source code.
A quick look at the Yahoo Toolbar shows that it is no different. Obviously it's not under the GPL, but you can easily have a look and verify that it doesn't do anything malicious. But let me guess... you can't be bothered, as you couldn't even be bothered to find out how Firefox extensions work before, well... sounding like a troll.
Every modern phone I've seen has a little Pulse/Tone switch on it somewhere, usually in the back. (Even portable phones.. not, obviously, cell phones, since they use neither method to send the number.) I always thought this was a curious artifact of an era long gone, but if you really wanted to stick the phone company for $1.50 a month, I suppose you could switch all your phones to 'pulse' and cancel the touch-tone service.
Anyone who lives in Rochester will tell you Kodak has NOT adapted with the change. When I was in elementary school, it seemed like half the kids' dads worked at Kodak (mine included). Now it's hard to find anyone that does anymore... the 'Kodak' areas of downtown looks like a ghost town...
Doesn't this seem just a little suspicious to ANYONE? They were already collecting donations BEFORE they were 'sued', just in CASE they were to get sued. And then, a few days after they put up the PayPal bar, like magic, it suddenly happens. (Yes, I've seen the 'legal paper', gee, it's not like that could be easily forged or anything.)
Consider this scenario: Donations reach a certain point, less than $30k, where it doesn't look like they'll increase anymore, then the admin runs off with a nice chunk of pocket money, whining 'my users didn't support us enough! It's all their fault!'
I'm not saying I'm certain it's a fraud, but I'm sceptical. I'll believe it when it's reported on by a major news agency, complete with quotes from the MPAA.
Sorry to reply to myself, but I remembered where I saw it right after posting. Here's the text of the law.
I saw it during the CueCat fiasco. Quick recap: the company was pissed that people were reverse-engineering the things, so they tried to claim that the ones they sent unsolicited in the mail were still their property, and hence, the recipients did not have rights to do as they pleased with the devices.
Further thoughts: my original idea might have been wrong, since the company could have an argument that you requested the item. But who knows.
The reply-to-self isn't for extra karma, so please don't mod this post up at all. Look, I even checked the 'no karma bonus' box.
I seem to recall some law in the US, that if you receive an item in the mail you become the legal owner, permanently, and no-one has any right to ask for it back.
I believe this was done to counter scams where companies would send various unrequested items to people, including fine print that says you have to return it within X days if you don't want to pay, then later they'd send a bill.
Might not apply to UPS, FedEx, etc though. Wish I could remember where I read this.
7:45PM: Battery died And I was right in the middle of a huge score in the Industrial skin on Lumines! It's okay, though, because the PSP goes into sleep mode when the battery dies, allowing you to continue play exactly where you left off, once you've gotten more power to your system.
1) Lycos Europe put up a message saying 'stay tuned', i.e. 'we'll be back shortly' 2) Lycos Europe did not respond to requests for comment. 3) A bunch of people unrelated to Lycos Europe disagree with that thing Lycos Europe did.
And this is confirmation that it's being shut down? Am I missing something here?
Even the quotes from the article were grossly misinformed.
"As an end result, depending on how the Lycos client works, the screen savers downloaded from MakeLoveNotSpam.com might be attacking the download site itself," F-Secure said in a notice.
Um, no. The idiot spammers used a META tag. The Lycos screen saver was not a browser, it did not evaluate any HTML on the pages, it just made mindless requests; hence their attempt at redirection was ignored.
Although the Lycos site is no longer offering the screensaver, MADJiC Consulting's Goldberg says it's likely the DDoS attacks against the spammers will continue for some time.
"The software is out there. People have downloaded it and shared it with their friends and family. It's being used and will continue to be used," he said.
Except that Lycos disabled the screen saver when they disabled the website. It says 'stay tuned' as well. Way to fact-check, both eWeek and Slashdot.
Not that I care whether the site comes back... seems ethically questionable at best. But geez, this is not news, it's speculation.
Not only does the GameCube motor not spin opposite from the way most optical drives spin, 'Headcase' is referencing a similar urban legend that water will always spin in a certain direction in the northern hemisphere of the Earth (as in a sink drain or toilet), but in the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere.
This was mentioned in a Simpsons episode, where they visited Australia IIRC (it was a big issue for Homer when the toilet spun 'the wrong way').
This is also not true. The direction the water spins when circling a drain can be attributed to nothing more than the construction of the sink and Chaos Theory. If you don't believe me, ask Snopes!
Exactly. Forgive me for elaborating on your point, but this seems to be very misunderstood these days. Nobody is ever forcing you to accept the GPL. When you get a GPL-licensed work, you have two choices:
1. Accept the GPL. If you do this you get to copy it as much as you want, within the restrictions of the license. 2. Don't accept the GPL. If you do this, you don't get to copy it at all. It's copyrighted; if you have no permission to copy it (i.e. a license), copying it is illegal.
There's no clicking 'agree' or signatures necessary. Accept it and work within its terms, or don't accept it and don't get any rights. The default choice is to not accept, and if so, you get no rights. Very simple.
It makes me sad when I see programmers wrapping their installers in GPL, saying 'YOU MUST ACCEPT THIS TO INSTALL!!!' as if it's some sort of spyware application. Totally unnecessary.
That was always a cheap trick, trying to make someone look like they're trying to get karma when they're not. I have enough already, not that it actually has any bearing on my life whatsoever. And I wasn't defending anyone, but rather objecting to the OP (who is likely the person I'm responding to now). I guess IHBT enough for today.
That always was a cheap trick, to try to avoid negative moderation by using reverse psychology. Drives me nuts when people do that, even more so when they succeed. You think SAYING 'I know I'll get -1 Offtopic or -1 Flamebait' somehow gives you a license to say whatever you want and be immune from moderation? You got what you deserve.
'You must accept the following license in order to play this DVD movie. If you choose not to accept, the disk will eject from your drive. You hereby grant the MPAA the right to blah blah blah...'
Of course, this whole scenario is paranoid and unrealistic.
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If you wanna see funny, search the text of the EULA for the string 'Yahoo!'. Looks like someone needs a better find & replace function... :)
The person who posted that is an idiot. Blocking external images is a Good Thing(tm). I hope I don't need to explain why. Thunderbird does it too.
I'd also like a practical example of why you'd want to set the security for the Internet zone in IE to 'low', other than 'it makes you feel more l33t'.
Hmm.. what are the IMAP settings? I can't seem to find them on the site, and the help system's search function isn't working...
The folks at Downhill Battle also seem to miss that the official AOL Instant Messanger client already has much of the functionality they so carefully describe, and if memory serves, it has had it for quite a while. (I remember the feature [not that I ever used it] being there back when I used to USE the official client, which was a while ago... Gaim 4evah. But I digress.)
Windows version:
My AIM menu > Options > Preferences > File Sharing section
Looks fairly functional. You can allow users from your entire buddy list to browse your files, or limit it to a certain group; and optionally have it prompt you before each browse request. The one major thing missing is the ability to search everyone on your buddy list at once, but I suspect this is because AOL doesn't want to become a ??AA target.
Finally the point of my post: Gaim's eventual goal is to have complete compatability with all of the IM networks, yes? Perhaps they should strive to be compatable with official AIM's already-existing feature before reinventing it.
What makes you think that? Seems we've reached the peak of hype for Tiger. It was all leading up to this point, the release date and climax; now it will settle down as people look forward to The Next Thing(tm).
Wow, that's going to suck. I buy an HD-DVD player, then months later the manufacturer pisses off the HD-DVD committee or whatever it is, and the license is rescinded (if I understand this correctly). Then my HD-DVD player won't work with any new HD-DVDs that come out after that point in time? And I did what to deserve this?
Ugh..
You don't believe Nintendo's ever coming out with another console?
Wow... that's, uh... interesting.
Is there a place I could get the Netscape theme separately, and install it on Firefox? I know, I know, I've seen a lot of negative comments about how it looks, but I'd still like to see how it looks firsthand... without actually installing AOL's evilness on my machine.
Go to your Firefox application data, then the extentions subfolder. Your themes and extensions are there as JAR files. Open the JAR files in Winzip, and you'll see that they're made up of XUL, JS and CSS files, which are easily openable in a text editor to reveal their source code.
A quick look at the Yahoo Toolbar shows that it is no different. Obviously it's not under the GPL, but you can easily have a look and verify that it doesn't do anything malicious. But let me guess... you can't be bothered, as you couldn't even be bothered to find out how Firefox extensions work before, well... sounding like a troll.
iTunes Music Store on Windows uses WebCore/KHTML, doesn't it?
Every modern phone I've seen has a little Pulse/Tone switch on it somewhere, usually in the back. (Even portable phones.. not, obviously, cell phones, since they use neither method to send the number.) I always thought this was a curious artifact of an era long gone, but if you really wanted to stick the phone company for $1.50 a month, I suppose you could switch all your phones to 'pulse' and cancel the touch-tone service.
Wow, just like a Pentium II!
Anyone who lives in Rochester will tell you Kodak has NOT adapted with the change. When I was in elementary school, it seemed like half the kids' dads worked at Kodak (mine included). Now it's hard to find anyone that does anymore... the 'Kodak' areas of downtown looks like a ghost town...
Doesn't this seem just a little suspicious to ANYONE? They were already collecting donations BEFORE they were 'sued', just in CASE they were to get sued. And then, a few days after they put up the PayPal bar, like magic, it suddenly happens. (Yes, I've seen the 'legal paper', gee, it's not like that could be easily forged or anything.)
Consider this scenario: Donations reach a certain point, less than $30k, where it doesn't look like they'll increase anymore, then the admin runs off with a nice chunk of pocket money, whining 'my users didn't support us enough! It's all their fault!'
I'm not saying I'm certain it's a fraud, but I'm sceptical. I'll believe it when it's reported on by a major news agency, complete with quotes from the MPAA.
Sorry to reply to myself, but I remembered where I saw it right after posting. Here's the text of the law.
I saw it during the CueCat fiasco. Quick recap: the company was pissed that people were reverse-engineering the things, so they tried to claim that the ones they sent unsolicited in the mail were still their property, and hence, the recipients did not have rights to do as they pleased with the devices.
Further thoughts: my original idea might have been wrong, since the company could have an argument that you requested the item. But who knows.
The reply-to-self isn't for extra karma, so please don't mod this post up at all. Look, I even checked the 'no karma bonus' box.
OKAY I'M DONE NOW.
I seem to recall some law in the US, that if you receive an item in the mail you become the legal owner, permanently, and no-one has any right to ask for it back.
I believe this was done to counter scams where companies would send various unrequested items to people, including fine print that says you have to return it within X days if you don't want to pay, then later they'd send a bill.
Might not apply to UPS, FedEx, etc though. Wish I could remember where I read this.
Yes. I believe an RTFA is in order.
7:45PM: Battery died
And I was right in the middle of a huge score in the Industrial skin on Lumines! It's okay, though, because the PSP goes into sleep mode when the battery dies, allowing you to continue play exactly where you left off, once you've gotten more power to your system.
1) Lycos Europe put up a message saying 'stay tuned', i.e. 'we'll be back shortly'
2) Lycos Europe did not respond to requests for comment.
3) A bunch of people unrelated to Lycos Europe disagree with that thing Lycos Europe did.
And this is confirmation that it's being shut down? Am I missing something here?
Even the quotes from the article were grossly misinformed.
"As an end result, depending on how the Lycos client works, the screen savers downloaded from MakeLoveNotSpam.com might be attacking the download site itself," F-Secure said in a notice.
Um, no. The idiot spammers used a META tag. The Lycos screen saver was not a browser, it did not evaluate any HTML on the pages, it just made mindless requests; hence their attempt at redirection was ignored.
Although the Lycos site is no longer offering the screensaver, MADJiC Consulting's Goldberg says it's likely the DDoS attacks against the spammers will continue for some time.
"The software is out there. People have downloaded it and shared it with their friends and family. It's being used and will continue to be used," he said.
Except that Lycos disabled the screen saver when they disabled the website. It says 'stay tuned' as well. Way to fact-check, both eWeek and Slashdot.
Not that I care whether the site comes back... seems ethically questionable at best. But geez, this is not news, it's speculation.
This is why I only buy Gadgetron.
Not only does the GameCube motor not spin opposite from the way most optical drives spin, 'Headcase' is referencing a similar urban legend that water will always spin in a certain direction in the northern hemisphere of the Earth (as in a sink drain or toilet), but in the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere.
This was mentioned in a Simpsons episode, where they visited Australia IIRC (it was a big issue for Homer when the toilet spun 'the wrong way').
This is also not true. The direction the water spins when circling a drain can be attributed to nothing more than the construction of the sink and Chaos Theory. If you don't believe me, ask Snopes!
Exactly. Forgive me for elaborating on your point, but this seems to be very misunderstood these days. Nobody is ever forcing you to accept the GPL. When you get a GPL-licensed work, you have two choices:
1. Accept the GPL. If you do this you get to copy it as much as you want, within the restrictions of the license.
2. Don't accept the GPL. If you do this, you don't get to copy it at all. It's copyrighted; if you have no permission to copy it (i.e. a license), copying it is illegal.
There's no clicking 'agree' or signatures necessary. Accept it and work within its terms, or don't accept it and don't get any rights. The default choice is to not accept, and if so, you get no rights. Very simple.
It makes me sad when I see programmers wrapping their installers in GPL, saying 'YOU MUST ACCEPT THIS TO INSTALL!!!' as if it's some sort of spyware application. Totally unnecessary.
IANAL, etc.
That was always a cheap trick, trying to make someone look like they're trying to get karma when they're not. I have enough already, not that it actually has any bearing on my life whatsoever. And I wasn't defending anyone, but rather objecting to the OP (who is likely the person I'm responding to now). I guess IHBT enough for today.
It was worth it.
That always was a cheap trick, to try to avoid negative moderation by using reverse psychology. Drives me nuts when people do that, even more so when they succeed. You think SAYING 'I know I'll get -1 Offtopic or -1 Flamebait' somehow gives you a license to say whatever you want and be immune from moderation? You got what you deserve.
Sure he does.
'You must accept the following license in order to play this DVD movie. If you choose not to accept, the disk will eject from your drive. You hereby grant the MPAA the right to blah blah blah...'
Of course, this whole scenario is paranoid and unrealistic.