I have had a Yahoo account so long I that I had a 6MB account before the upgrade today. Yahoo has the best spam filtering of any of the free web based accounts I tried and they do NOT count messages in your "Bulk" folder toward your space quota. One click deletes them in a painless yet satisfying action.
I occasionally get spam in my "Inbox" but really, it's a fairly rare occurrence. Altogether I have been happy with their handling of spam and I use that account a lot.
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Yes, thank you for mentioning it, I think it is. I enjoy being able to read unsolicited writing letting me into the minds of both a middle class person from Ohio and a 20 year old musician from Finland. (Just for example.)
I particularly enjoy reading the personal opinions of people in other countries regarding the US, since I realize what we see on our news reports is (gasp) edited.
When my partner died, it was a nightmare to get all the dialup services cancelled, etc. etc. Anybody who has a credit card which is automatically billed, that billing goes on regardless - not that dead people have to worry about credit ratings, but it can cost your estate (read, your friends and family) a lot of time and money.
Also, it is most offensive to have to send death certificates to total strangers, in order to document that the person you say is dead, really is dead, thereby enabling the company to cancel your whatever-it-is. Believe me, I went through this with dialups and credit card companies. It took months to finally get every branch of every company involved to accept that they were not getting any more money. I have never seen a dead person rack up so many late charges on a credit card. After the company was notified of the death. Go figure!
It is so much better to be over-prepared than under-prepared. Somebody has to clean up the wreckage after you die, and it is much easier to gove that person the tools they need to do the job.
This is just my extrapolation, but maybe there is a productivity and teamwork benefit to having a lot of people looking together at one thing, like the use of a projector in a meeting room, rather than the individuals all having access to the same information by themselves. Might be a mental thing rather than a resolution thing.
The rush to develop alternatiives to gas was also pretty big after the gas crunch in the 70s. All that stuff kind of faded away after gas prices came down.
There are so many better alternatives now than there were then. This is one of the best I have seen, so maybe it will actually catch on and have enough longevity as an idea to create a cultural change.
I feel your joy. I use both also, because FireFox is my favorite browser ever, but it knocked out Acrobat Reader on my one user profile (Yes, I am a dorky XP user). However, Mozilla gets along fine with Reader, and that is great, becasue I need Reader for my job and I like food.
Just curious, I realize a lot of slashdotters have jobs where you have to help with implementing some of these things, how do you feel when asked to assist?
When I was in elementary school in the 70s, we were taught the Metric system and were also taught that within ten years the US would be using Metric exclusively.
Obviously, this, like many other predictions of the future, did not come to pass.
I remember when I first accidentally stumbled upon one of "those" sites - I had totally innocently been looking for something else (no, it wasn't the white house, either).
I was far too naive at that point to even realize what was happening! I can really see how it would be possible for somebody who was not tech savvy to just turn off their computer to make it "go away".
Fortunately thanks to other eye opening experiences and years of devoted/. reading I am no longer shocked and amazed by these things, but I bet there are plenty of end users out there who are still experiencing the same kind of shock and amazement I did that day.
Hey, it's possible that this guy really didn't get it. Also, a Soviet immigrant might be less likely to go ask a neighbor for help with his computer, if he was worried that somebody might find the contents of his hard drive objectionable. He might have even been fearing deportation.
Apparently, he got incarceration instead, in an ironic twist.. hm.
I think one of the great responsibilites that comes with having the freedom to earn as much money as you possibly can is that then you have the ability to contribute to society in ways average wage earners can't.
In my area, there is a very ritzy area of town that is entirely built of old, restored, historic houses that were moved there and saved by people who were making a lot of money.
When used properly, capitalism is a great tool for creating positive changes.
Free textbooks online? The ability to continually update and correct errors and misinformation? Sign me up.
Also, one of the big issues in textbook publication is that the information included sometimes can be determined by what state publishes the text - this is especially true in history and biology, both of which are full of political dynamite.
Maybe eventually this will lead to a freer exchange of information.
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I have had a Yahoo account so long I that I had a 6MB account before the upgrade today. Yahoo has the best spam filtering of any of the free web based accounts I tried and they do NOT count messages in your "Bulk" folder toward your space quota. One click deletes them in a painless yet satisfying action. I occasionally get spam in my "Inbox" but really, it's a fairly rare occurrence. Altogether I have been happy with their handling of spam and I use that account a lot.
I particularly enjoy reading the personal opinions of people in other countries regarding the US, since I realize what we see on our news reports is (gasp) edited.
Also, it is most offensive to have to send death certificates to total strangers, in order to document that the person you say is dead, really is dead, thereby enabling the company to cancel your whatever-it-is. Believe me, I went through this with dialups and credit card companies. It took months to finally get every branch of every company involved to accept that they were not getting any more money. I have never seen a dead person rack up so many late charges on a credit card. After the company was notified of the death. Go figure!
It is so much better to be over-prepared than under-prepared. Somebody has to clean up the wreckage after you die, and it is much easier to gove that person the tools they need to do the job.
This is just my extrapolation, but maybe there is a productivity and teamwork benefit to having a lot of people looking together at one thing, like the use of a projector in a meeting room, rather than the individuals all having access to the same information by themselves. Might be a mental thing rather than a resolution thing.
There are so many better alternatives now than there were then. This is one of the best I have seen, so maybe it will actually catch on and have enough longevity as an idea to create a cultural change.
I feel your joy. I use both also, because FireFox is my favorite browser ever, but it knocked out Acrobat Reader on my one user profile (Yes, I am a dorky XP user). However, Mozilla gets along fine with Reader, and that is great, becasue I need Reader for my job and I like food.
Just wanted to ask the question - and "all for it" is a cool response :) Thanks for answering.
Just curious, I realize a lot of slashdotters have jobs where you have to help with implementing some of these things, how do you feel when asked to assist?
Obviously, this, like many other predictions of the future, did not come to pass.
I was far too naive at that point to even realize what was happening! I can really see how it would be possible for somebody who was not tech savvy to just turn off their computer to make it "go away".
Fortunately thanks to other eye opening experiences and years of devoted /. reading I am no longer shocked and amazed by these things, but I bet there are plenty of end users out there who are still experiencing the same kind of shock and amazement I did that day.
Hey, it's possible that this guy really didn't get it. Also, a Soviet immigrant might be less likely to go ask a neighbor for help with his computer, if he was worried that somebody might find the contents of his hard drive objectionable. He might have even been fearing deportation.
Apparently, he got incarceration instead, in an ironic twist.. hm.
In my area, there is a very ritzy area of town that is entirely built of old, restored, historic houses that were moved there and saved by people who were making a lot of money.
When used properly, capitalism is a great tool for creating positive changes.
Also, one of the big issues in textbook publication is that the information included sometimes can be determined by what state publishes the text - this is especially true in history and biology, both of which are full of political dynamite.
Maybe eventually this will lead to a freer exchange of information.