Oh my god... your statements have just made me realize a (supposedly) horrible fact... do you see it now? You can fill in what happens next, but I'll do it for you anyway:
Time Magazine racist by appointing Albert Einstein instead of Martin Luther King, Jr.!
Time Magazine feminist by appointing man of the year but not woman of the year!
Time Magazine pro-fascist by appointing Albert Einstein for man of the year, who was born in Germany!
Time Magazine anti-God and pro-Satan by not appointing religious official as man of the year!
Beware! Time Magazine is stealing your childrens' minds, and making them do the dark lord's work! Do not let them be stolen from right under your nose! Take the time to talk to your children about Time magazine.
YES! FINALLY! All of my thoughts, summed up into three relatively short sentences. Take all the positive moderation points in this poll, and use them here!
This is the same exact thing as the Best of the Millenium poll on Amazon, but that was even more idiotic (Music album of the millenium? C'mon! Backstreet Boys ranking above Pink Floyd?)
Perhaps we need a new category for these things...
HotPop - These give you a free POP3 and SMTP account, in exchange for "solicited mailings" (or basically, targeted and legal spam). The legal spam is infrequent, and the services is good. The only catch is that you must authenticate with POP before you mail out, which is a common anti-spam practice.
Asian City Webmail - These give you a really nice webmail interface, along with a bunch of domains. I chose ramen.org.
Netaddress - Just your average webmail. They also offer a POP3 account for a few bucks, which used to be free but undocumented. I haven't used them in a while, but they were good when I did.
Generally, Hotmail has been pretty good to me, but I only use it as a spam account. For real email, I use a POP3 account on a friend's box.
(Sorry, not my fault. Slashdot messed up and converted & lt; to the less than sign.)
Hotmail really isn't down, it's only that the domain name returns a bad address. If you really need to log in, save the following as an HTML file on your computer and open it with a browser. Should work with any javascript-enabled browser. Tested with Netscape, IE, and Opera. Needless to say, that this is very insecure, and you shouldn't leave this file lying around.
Hotmail really isn't down, it's only that the domain name returns a bad address. If you really need to log in, save the following as an HTML file on your computer and open it with a browser. Should work with any javascript-enabled browser. Tested with Netscape, IE, and Opera. Needless to say, that this is very insecure, and you shouldn't leave this file lying around.
MSIE5 (and 4, IIRC) provides options similar to those of Opera - they are just hidden farther away. Just like Opera, you may select your own style sheet to be inserted into every page. It is under Internet Options -> General tab -> Accessibility -> User style sheet.
AFAICT, Mozilla will also provide a similar (or identical) option. But until it is in a usable stage, I'm using Opera for most of my browsing. It's just faster, more lightweight, and less annoying. Not to mention less evil.:)
Opera, like any program not targeted at newbies, requires you to spend a few minutes of your time to play around with the different options and configure it to be the way you like. While it probably doesn't look "right" right out of the box, it has options for you to do so. Other programs, which come with a default look that looks "right" to most people, usually come with very limited customization options. For example... Netscape 4.x.
Ok, I have read more than my share of the Ask Slashdot how-do-I-do-foo-in-Linux, and every time, one distribution has one detail right, and another has another detail right. For example, in this thread, one Linux distribution has one monitor utility that's great for foo, while another has another monitor utility that's great for bar. Both are GPLed.
What would prevent someone from taking all the distributions, taking all the good stuff from each, gluing them together, and making a really nice Linux distribution? Thinking only about quality and usability, and not bloat (let this thing take up 5 CD-ROMs) or 5-year-uptime stability (allow it to crash occasionally on some computers while improving usability (a major tradeoff, but this can be fixed a little later)) how long would it really take to do something like this?
Disclaimer: This isn't a mocking statement or sarcasm, this is a question. No offense intended.
Yeah, fuck advertising. Fuck Slashdot, Freshmeat, and every other site out there that relies on banners to make money. If they want to make money, they should go work at McDonald's! Greedy bastards!
Although Microsoft is said to have "lost" the IM "war", and AOL is said to have "won" the IM "war", open-source is a definite loser here?
Ever since the "war" started, AOL has pulled all of the open-source clients from its page, including TiK, Laim, and TNT. The gaim developers have also been not-so-politely asked to pull the AIM logo from their client.
The "war" is long over, but the open-source clients are still missing, and AOL has removed every trace of them that was remaining.
On another topic, has anyone noticed that both AOL and Microsoft are terrible hypocrites when it comes to open standards? Microsoft, the closed-source company is whining about open standards when it isn't at an advantage, and AOL, who has recently taken steps to seem pro-OSS is... well, the facts speak for themselves.
I guess this is to be expected from large corporations...
Well, you see, AOL's AIM clients have ads on them. When a user uses someone else's AIM client, the ads are no longer displayed, and AOL loses its investment, while the user is still taking up bandwidth and server space (however little). Furthermore, whoever made the AIM client actually makes a profit from their own ads.
It's AOL's servers, and they may choose to block out whoever they want. You wouldn't blame someone for restricting access to their HTTP or FTP server, right?
An open-source email? (Feel free to cut-and-paste, but change it so that it actually reflects reality.)
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To: feedback@amazon.com From: [email account registered with Amazon]
Subject: A notice related to the recent events involving your company.
Hello,
I will begin by saying that I have ordered plenty of merchandise, including books and toys. I love your web site, as it is very convenient. I have always received my orders quickly, and the service which finds used out-of-print books was a life saver. Currently, my wish list contains items for a total of over $200, and I was planning to purchase some of these items within the next 30 days, in time for the holiday season.
To say that I am satisfied with your site would be a great understatement.
It is with great sadness that I am writing to you to notify you that I will be taking my business elsewhere, as a result of your ignorant 1-Click patent and lawsuit. I also will be urging everyone I know to do the same. I think that enough arguments have been provided about your actions that I need not waste my time with any, as they will most likely be repeats. I am keeping my account active for now, in hope that you will change your mind about this matter.
As was commented on the "Bruce Perens to sue Corel" story, there will always be someone to apologize when someone fucks up. A big corporations's apology isn't worth an AOL CD. They have people hired just to apologize in a situation like this!
If you read their "apology", it is more or less the same thing that any half-smart person would write while trying to save his/her ass in a situation like this.
I haven't had a lot of sleep lately, so my thought2text script isn't working very well. Someone help me out here... link to the comment about the Corel story or something.
Is there a difference between being anonymous and using a fake name? Many services require you to enter your name, but, obviously, cannot confirm that name. Is it illegal to supply these services with a pseudonym? What charges would they use against me if I did?
And the "battle" with Microsoft wasn't entirely "won" by AOL either. If you look on AOL's pages, you'll notice that every single character that mentions open-source clients is gone.
Slashdot Mirror
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- Time Magazine racist by appointing Albert Einstein instead of Martin Luther King, Jr.!
- Time Magazine feminist by appointing man of the year but not woman of the year!
- Time Magazine pro-fascist by appointing Albert Einstein for man of the year, who was born in Germany!
- Time Magazine anti-God and pro-Satan by not appointing religious official as man of the year!
Beware! Time Magazine is stealing your childrens' minds, and making them do the dark lord's work! Do not let them be stolen from right under your nose! Take the time to talk to your children about Time magazine.--
This is the same exact thing as the Best of the Millenium poll on Amazon, but that was even more idiotic (Music album of the millenium? C'mon! Backstreet Boys ranking above Pink Floyd?)
Perhaps we need a new category for these things...
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- HotPop - These give you a free POP3 and SMTP account, in exchange for "solicited mailings" (or basically, targeted and legal spam). The legal spam is infrequent, and the services is good. The only catch is that you must authenticate with POP before you mail out, which is a common anti-spam practice.
- Asian City Webmail - These give you a really nice webmail interface, along with a bunch of domains. I chose ramen.org.
- Netaddress - Just your average webmail. They also offer a POP3 account for a few bucks, which used to be free but undocumented. I haven't used them in a while, but they were good when I did.
Generally, Hotmail has been pretty good to me, but I only use it as a spam account. For real email, I use a POP3 account on a friend's box.--
Hotmail really isn't down, it's only that the domain name returns a bad address. If you really need to log in, save the following as an HTML file on your computer and open it with a browser. Should work with any javascript-enabled browser. Tested with Netscape, IE, and Opera. Needless to say, that this is very insecure, and you shouldn't leave this file lying around.
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<html>
<head>
<noscript>
<meta http-equiv=Refresh content="0; url=http://www.hotmail.com">
</noscript>
</head>
<body onload="document.pform.submit(); ">
<form name="pform" action="http://www.hotmail.com/cgi-bin/dologin" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="login" value="[yourlogin]">
<input type="hidden" name="passwd" value="[yourpass]">
<input type="hidden" name="rru" value="/cgi-bin/folders">
<input type="hidden" name="js" value="yes">
</form>
</body>
</html>
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- Wow! Just imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things!
- Yeah, but will it run Linux?
- Sounds like Microsoft is behind this... it doesn't mention Linux or Open-Source.
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AFAICT, Mozilla will also provide a similar (or identical) option. But until it is in a usable stage, I'm using Opera for most of my browsing. It's just faster, more lightweight, and less annoying. Not to mention less evil. :)
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What would prevent someone from taking all the distributions, taking all the good stuff from each, gluing them together, and making a really nice Linux distribution? Thinking only about quality and usability, and not bloat (let this thing take up 5 CD-ROMs) or 5-year-uptime stability (allow it to crash occasionally on some computers while improving usability (a major tradeoff, but this can be fixed a little later)) how long would it really take to do something like this?
Disclaimer: This isn't a mocking statement or sarcasm, this is a question. No offense intended.
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- S Sarcasm
- B Bitterness
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Although Microsoft is said to have "lost" the IM "war", and AOL is said to have "won" the IM "war", open-source is a definite loser here?
Ever since the "war" started, AOL has pulled all of the open-source clients from its page, including TiK, Laim, and TNT. The gaim developers have also been not-so-politely asked to pull the AIM logo from their client.
The "war" is long over, but the open-source clients are still missing, and AOL has removed every trace of them that was remaining.
On another topic, has anyone noticed that both AOL and Microsoft are terrible hypocrites when it comes to open standards? Microsoft, the closed-source company is whining about open standards when it isn't at an advantage, and AOL, who has recently taken steps to seem pro-OSS is... well, the facts speak for themselves.
I guess this is to be expected from large corporations...
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It's AOL's servers, and they may choose to block out whoever they want. You wouldn't blame someone for restricting access to their HTTP or FTP server, right?
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To: feedback@amazon.com
From: [email account registered with Amazon]
Subject: A notice related to the recent events involving your company.
Hello,
I will begin by saying that I have ordered plenty of merchandise, including books and toys. I love your web site, as it is very convenient. I have always received my orders quickly, and the service which finds used out-of-print books was a life saver. Currently, my wish list contains items for a total of over $200, and I was planning to purchase some of these items within the next 30 days, in time for the holiday season.
To say that I am satisfied with your site would be a great understatement.
It is with great sadness that I am writing to you to notify you that I will be taking my business elsewhere, as a result of your ignorant 1-Click patent and lawsuit. I also will be urging everyone I know to do the same. I think that enough arguments have been provided about your actions that I need not waste my time with any, as they will most likely be repeats. I am keeping my account active for now, in hope that you will change your mind about this matter.
Sincerely,
[My name]
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http://rtmark.com/fundetoy.html
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http://slashdot.org/index.pl?section=boycotts
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If you read their "apology", it is more or less the same thing that any half-smart person would write while trying to save his/her ass in a situation like this.
I haven't had a lot of sleep lately, so my thought2text script isn't working very well. Someone help me out here... link to the comment about the Corel story or something.
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