TiVo recorders, EasyPass electronic toll
collectors, Digital cable, free web mail,
supermarket discount cards, credit cards,
etc. all have something in common:
Trading privacy for convenience or money.
Very often, it's a bad trade for the
individual citizen. Very often, the citizen
is completely oblivious to this.
What I don't understand is this: I was
taught in school that America, the land of
the free, is defined by a populace that
wanted freedom and privacy. Yet, with the
general willingness of the people to toss
their privacy without a thought and subject
themselves to the tyranny of utterly random
drug and sex laws, it would appear that our
country has quite a distorted self image.
Of course this is the same Earthlink that
advertise that their service is the/true/
Internet and not keeping users in a "sanbox"
like AOL.... THen they come out with their
own privacy raping product and even name
it 'sanbox'? Classic. Fuck ELNK. THey're
gonna get bought by MSFT soon anyway.
First he steered his MAPS project from something
great to something totally awful, and how he's
out to ruin BIND. Oh well. Time for a new
BIND, free of megalomaniacs.
Eazel's Nautilus looks like a lame, second-hand rip-off of an already bad Windows Explorer.
You all know what the number one problem with Linux is? X-Windows and its lame-ass inability to anti-alias fonts. No matter what you build in X, it will look like crap. And it will be slower than it should be.
As much as Microsoft sucks, their fonts look nice. And Apple's new display system for OS X looks just plain awesome. Linux will only get further and further behind until the burden of X is lifted.
Yeah, I know, ditching X means re-writing all of your programs. Too bad. It needs to be done.
And *some* kind of application UI standardization must emerge or the masses will never be able to make sense of things. Limited UI options actually make Windows and MacOS easier to use!
All is not lost. Even though we open-source folk are much better at copying than innovating, maybe we'll copy Apple's OS X display system.
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The site was SOOOOOOO LAME.
It required Java and opened a mini-window, was impossible to browse, and offered only miniscule glimpses of product.
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Why? Maybe because Solaris is superior to Loonix
in every conceivable way?
"What I Say Here Doesn't Matter"
That's right, you dumb f@$#.
TiVo recorders, EasyPass electronic toll
collectors, Digital cable, free web mail,
supermarket discount cards, credit cards,
etc. all have something in common:
Trading privacy for convenience or money.
Very often, it's a bad trade for the
individual citizen. Very often, the citizen
is completely oblivious to this.
What I don't understand is this: I was
taught in school that America, the land of
the free, is defined by a populace that
wanted freedom and privacy. Yet, with the
general willingness of the people to toss
their privacy without a thought and subject
themselves to the tyranny of utterly random
drug and sex laws, it would appear that our
country has quite a distorted self image.
No one in their right mind trusts MSFT anyway.
We need a federal law. One of the following:
* * *
EITHER
A.
You don't want us working for a "competing"
company for a year? OK. FINE. BUT then
you must PAY US our old salary for that year.
or
B.
No such silly non-compete clauses are valid.
* * *
Now TRY getting this passed in our corrupt
cabal of a government (corporament?)....
Sure. THey have "Page Options". And you
must have
get to them.
This site
Of course this is the same Earthlink that /true/
advertise that their service is the
Internet and not keeping users in a "sanbox"
like AOL.... THen they come out with their
own privacy raping product and even name
it 'sanbox'? Classic. Fuck ELNK. THey're
gonna get bought by MSFT soon anyway.
There's no benefit to any of these new lousy
gimmicks you build into your browsers.
My browser shows text and pictures. It allows
forms. It can do encryption. NO ONE FUCKING
NEEDS ANYTHING ELSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who wants a pair of their ridiculous looking
products anyway? UGLY!
First he steered his MAPS project from something
great to something totally awful, and how he's
out to ruin BIND. Oh well. Time for a new
BIND, free of megalomaniacs.
I have only a mobile phone anymore, so I no
longer get to do this, but, back in the day,
when I'd get a telemarketer calling, I'd
SIMPLY INITIATE PHONE SEX!!!
Ask the telemarketer what they're wearing.
Ask them to take it off very slowly...
etc...
Funny as hell!
Eazel's Nautilus looks like a lame, second-hand
rip-off of an already bad Windows Explorer.
You all know what the number one problem with
Linux is? X-Windows and its lame-ass inability
to anti-alias fonts. No matter what you build
in X, it will look like crap. And it will be
slower than it should be.
As much as Microsoft sucks, their fonts look
nice. And Apple's new display system for OS X
looks just plain awesome. Linux will only get
further and further behind until the burden of
X is lifted.
Yeah, I know, ditching X means re-writing all
of your programs. Too bad. It needs to be done.
And *some* kind of application UI standardization
must emerge or the masses will never be able
to make sense of things. Limited UI options
actually make Windows and MacOS easier to use!
All is not lost. Even though we open-source
folk are much better at copying than innovating,
maybe we'll copy Apple's OS X display system.
The site was SOOOOOOO LAME.
It required Java and opened a mini-window,
was impossible to browse, and offered only
miniscule glimpses of product.
DUH!
A little louder: DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH!!