1) The domain name sucks. Who wants to be john@30gigs.com
2) The interface sucks. Hard. It's about as plain as it can get (it looks like they're just using Squirrelmail with their own stylesheet).
3) Their privacy policy is vague on what kind of information they share
4) There doesn't seem to be any reputable parent company behind it meaning it's chances of survival are questionable.
Overall rating: THUMBS DOWN.
Besides, size isn't everything!
- Do anyone know how much spam you get with this service? - How does it handle attachements and their sizes? - How fast does mail travel through their servers? - How high uptime do their servers have? - Customizable mail filters to manage mail? - Multiple labels per mail, set by filters? - POP3 forwarding/servers? - Address books? - Antivirus checks? - Do they backup?
I mean, if you have 1 GB+, why in the world would you want more? My over-a-year-old Gmail account use 16 MB now. 0.016 GB. It can fit about 150x more mail. Now, how many years is that?
To me, it's just not a valid selling argument anymore.
I feel sorry for her - first she was duped by the RIAA, now by this lawyer.
As someone with a technical background I can tell you that almost every paragraph in the lawsuit is full of errors. Even if she has a real case, it's going to be drowned out of existance by this.
She is worried that RIAA hacked into her computer - well guess what: if they had hacked they would have seen no downloads, and left her alone. Since they think there actually were downloads it's proof that they never hacked her machine!
Either way she looses.
This lawuit should worry about extortion, and lies and stuff, but not about hacking (which I can tell you right now: never happened).
If someone is tracked by a file sharing program, it's not via hacking. By defenition file sharing programs announce this kind of stuff.
This could be a case of mistaken identity and extortion to get money - but that's not what the focus is here.
There was another case last year in which an individual fought back against the RIAA. That case quietly went away, and there was no mention of a settlement. Please MAKE SOME NOISE about this case! Let the public see the tangled web of lies the recording industry has cast, and make sure that records of this case remain open for reference by all of the future victims they will undoubtably harrass and intimidate in their efforts to regain lost revenue from their failing business practices.
In an age when the common people are routinely intimidated and threatened by corporations whom they cannot possibly afford to face in a court of law, one can't help but believe that justice is dead.
It's worthy to note that once you downgrade to 1.5 using this tool, you CANNOT upgrade to 2.0 again. Its a bug that has been acknowledged by the PSP news sites.
I'd like to add that ghosting is usually due to bad or damaged cabling, and that all high-frequency analog signals (including those used by LCD monitors with VGA inputs) are susceptible to it.
It's easy to demonstrate, too: Just take a length of VGA cable, and bend it in half, hard, as if you were a secretary busily rearranging "all those ugly wires". After that, bundle it up with a bread tie, and place the corner of your desk on it.
Or just pretend you're a gamer, strung out from seventeen consecutive hours of cheap beer, bad coffee, and Counterstrike. You're loading the PC into the car, and slam the trunklid on the monitor cable, crimping it something nasty.
Ghosting? You betcha. We expect these cables to run up to about 350MHz. If you thought Ethernet over Cat5 was finicky, you haven't pissed off a VGA cable lately.
[/me patiently awaits the return of monitors with replacable, BNC-equipped cables...]
Why doesn't a blanket "Ratings may change according to game experience" cover this game? I see those on boxes of online games all the time. If someone posts a porn picture in an in-game chat for an MMO, it doesn't mean the game should be rated AO... This is the same thing.
Your idea is even worse than their current solution. Mac address spoofing is painfully easy these days. It only takes a little snooping on the network to catch a few packets and determine the mac address they're coming from. Once that's determined, you can set your own Mac address to be the same and take over the connection, kicking the other person off.
In fact, the Stanford dorm that I manage used to do Mac address filtering before I joined. It was the first thing I changed.
Karma whores are individuals, or messages themselves, that attempt to receive feedback in the form of karma points. Often these will be needless information (such as a link to a wikipedia article relevant to the subject being discussed), or a message of a political nature that is in alignment with the groupthink so that it will be moderated upwards by people who agree with the stance expressed in the message.
OK, the first thing you should know is that FPS gamers like me have a whole different take on the mouse thing. We want insanely high resolution, massless, frictionless mice with lots of buttons we can map to ordinance.
You know, the thing about mice is that the technology advances in spurts. Optical was a big spurt, at least when the resolution started to improve. However, wireless was a big BACKWARDS spurt since the mice are now heavy as hell and gobble batteries at a ridiculous rate. I retired my wireless and went back to the wiry MX500 which is great.
However it still requires an exotic mousepad (currently a large dinnermat from Habitat which my friend Rick discovered was the slickest and most trackable mousing surface ever invented). Continuing the culinary theme, my desk is an acid-etched glass dining table from Ikea (awsome desk, by the way -- and I use their kitchen cabinets as office storage) which would be a ROCKING mousepad if an optical mouse which actually track on it. But it won't.
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Well, just check the evil bit on that data.
I tried out this thing yesterday for a bit.
Here's the problems:
1) The domain name sucks. Who wants to be john@30gigs.com
2) The interface sucks. Hard. It's about as plain as it can get (it looks like they're just using Squirrelmail with their own stylesheet).
3) Their privacy policy is vague on what kind of information they share
4) There doesn't seem to be any reputable parent company behind it meaning it's chances of survival are questionable.
Overall rating: THUMBS DOWN.
Besides, size isn't everything!
- Do anyone know how much spam you get with this service?
- How does it handle attachements and their sizes?
- How fast does mail travel through their servers?
- How high uptime do their servers have?
- Customizable mail filters to manage mail?
- Multiple labels per mail, set by filters?
- POP3 forwarding/servers?
- Address books?
- Antivirus checks?
- Do they backup?
I mean, if you have 1 GB+, why in the world would you want more?
My over-a-year-old Gmail account use 16 MB now. 0.016 GB. It can fit about 150x more mail. Now, how many years is that?
To me, it's just not a valid selling argument anymore.
This service doesn't let you grab your email using POP or IMAP. Anyone know of any service that does allow that?
She is going to loose. She has a horrible lawyer!
I feel sorry for her - first she was duped by the RIAA, now by this lawyer.
As someone with a technical background I can tell you that almost every paragraph in the lawsuit is full of errors. Even if she has a real case, it's going to be drowned out of existance by this.
She is worried that RIAA hacked into her computer - well guess what: if they had hacked they would have seen no downloads, and left her alone. Since they think there actually were downloads it's proof that they never hacked her machine!
Either way she looses.
This lawuit should worry about extortion, and lies and stuff, but not about hacking (which I can tell you right now: never happened).
If someone is tracked by a file sharing program, it's not via hacking. By defenition file sharing programs announce this kind of stuff.
This could be a case of mistaken identity and extortion to get money - but that's not what the focus is here.
There was another case last year in which an individual fought back against the RIAA. That case quietly went away, and there was no mention of a settlement. Please MAKE SOME NOISE about this case! Let the public see the tangled web of lies the recording industry has cast, and make sure that records of this case remain open for reference by all of the future victims they will undoubtably harrass and intimidate in their efforts to regain lost revenue from their failing business practices.
In an age when the common people are routinely intimidated and threatened by corporations whom they cannot possibly afford to face in a court of law, one can't help but believe that justice is dead.
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No registration required.
It's worthy to note that once you downgrade to 1.5 using this tool, you CANNOT upgrade to 2.0 again. Its a bug that has been acknowledged by the PSP news sites.
w are-20-to-150.html#comments
http://pspupdates.qj.net/2005/09/working-psp-firm
It works fine on 1.5. I used the EBOOT converter on his 1.0 eboot and successfully got it to run on 1.5.
Good points.
I'd like to add that ghosting is usually due to bad or damaged cabling, and that all high-frequency analog signals (including those used by LCD monitors with VGA inputs) are susceptible to it.
It's easy to demonstrate, too: Just take a length of VGA cable, and bend it in half, hard, as if you were a secretary busily rearranging "all those ugly wires". After that, bundle it up with a bread tie, and place the corner of your desk on it.
Or just pretend you're a gamer, strung out from seventeen consecutive hours of cheap beer, bad coffee, and Counterstrike. You're loading the PC into the car, and slam the trunklid on the monitor cable, crimping it something nasty.
Ghosting? You betcha. We expect these cables to run up to about 350MHz. If you thought Ethernet over Cat5 was finicky, you haven't pissed off a VGA cable lately.
[/me patiently awaits the return of monitors with replacable, BNC-equipped cables...]
The question is not "Are LCD displays ready for movies?", it's "Are you ready to for movies on an LCD display?"
I guess God decided to beam him up :( RIP.
Why doesn't a blanket "Ratings may change according to game experience" cover this game? I see those on boxes of online games all the time. If someone posts a porn picture in an in-game chat for an MMO, it doesn't mean the game should be rated AO... This is the same thing.
Your idea is even worse than their current solution. Mac address spoofing is painfully easy these days. It only takes a little snooping on the network to catch a few packets and determine the mac address they're coming from. Once that's determined, you can set your own Mac address to be the same and take over the connection, kicking the other person off.
In fact, the Stanford dorm that I manage used to do Mac address filtering before I joined. It was the first thing I changed.
Its kinda fun to watch my bittorrent upload rate jump up from 2KB/s to 170 to 300 within seconds of the article making slashdot.
yay i finally got the first po--This transmission has been CENSORED.
Karma whores are individuals, or messages themselves, that attempt to receive feedback in the form of karma points. Often these will be needless information (such as a link to a wikipedia article relevant to the subject being discussed), or a message of a political nature that is in alignment with the groupthink so that it will be moderated upwards by people who agree with the stance expressed in the message.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_whore
One day's pay is a lot less than no more days' pay.
Speak for yourself. I earn more in one day than I do in no days.
Loads of podcasting clients have torrent support. http://www.dopplerradio.net/ is one example.
This already exists: fuckedcompany.com
sage for not being able to see old results.
If you can't beat it, litigate!
Take a look at the date and the bottom of the article. That was an April Fools joke.
fpfpf
OK, the first thing you should know is that FPS gamers like me have a whole different take on the mouse thing. We want insanely high resolution, massless, frictionless mice with lots of buttons we can map to ordinance.
You know, the thing about mice is that the technology advances in spurts. Optical was a big spurt, at least when the resolution started to improve. However, wireless was a big BACKWARDS spurt since the mice are now heavy as hell and gobble batteries at a ridiculous rate. I retired my wireless and went back to the wiry MX500 which is great.
However it still requires an exotic mousepad (currently a large dinnermat from Habitat which my friend Rick discovered was the slickest and most trackable mousing surface ever invented). Continuing the culinary theme, my desk is an acid-etched glass dining table from Ikea (awsome desk, by the way -- and I use their kitchen cabinets as office storage) which would be a ROCKING mousepad if an optical mouse which actually track on it. But it won't.
That kiddy porn link seems to have been slashdotted... can I get a mirror, please?