Only if the negative review is slanderous, libelous or otherwise legally negligent. For example, if the posted criticism were to appear as follows:
The Chevy Avalanche is such a piece of crap that the engineers who designed it are obviously pedophiles (note the humps in the middle of the rear seats), not to mention their apparent murderous intent (note the low safety rating).
Then perhaps Chevy should ask to have it banned. I'm just saying.
It's sad but true. I must confess that in the past, when an AOL user has complained about a problem with one of my web pages or web apps, I respond with a hearty, dogbertian choice of:
a) that's because AOL sucks b) upgrade to 6.0 or 7.0 and see if it goes away
Now, when someone calls and says that they have the newest AOL/Gecko implementation, I'll likely sit erect in my chair and try to think of a way to make my stuff work with AOL.
That's right, call it elitism, slashdotism or what you like. It's embarassing when I put it that way, so I prefer to call it defending the digital free world from Microsoft's Evil, which probably has some merit.
What more can I say, Mozilla appears that it's about to burst into the mainstream, and it will receive from me any support I can offer. I love the improved rendering and stability, and now Mozilla tabbed browsing is here and kicking butt! Now, can we just have a button like Opera to open a fresh tab ? Really, if you've used Opera for a while you know why this is cool.
The Tribune has a poll entitled: "Is Bernard Shifman a 'moron spammer'"?
96.1% voted for: Yes. Hundreds of complaints can't be wrong.
3.9% voted for: No. Give the guy a break. He's looking for a job.
What's surprising is that the./ crowd hasn't cast a few thousand votes - there are only 2,659 total votes at this time.
I can't remember laughing so hard as I have at this comic episode. However, I wonder how much punishment poor Bernie can take. I mean, I don't feel really sorry for him, yet I hope he doesn't take a Roman bath or anything over it.
It may be true that names are currently being dropped at a greater rate than they are being registered. However, has anyone here looked at the names being dropped? I have looked at them in both a) painstaking detail and b) written programs to narrow down tens of thousands of really useless names to a few dozen possibly useful names. For example of the junk being dropped, here is a tiny number of recently deleted names:
Lot's of long names, names with hyphens and numbers in them, and typos. Also, people who previously saved.net and.org names are now ditching them, keeping only the.com version of the name. This tells me that dot-com names are holding value better than the others.
I feel that a good name is still quite valuable, even if not as valuable as a year or two ago. There are few, if any names available today that could be called "jewels". So, if you have a good name, keep it, but if you're sitting on some junky names for speculative purposes, ditch them.
Don't expect people to purposely begin throwing valuable names away.
I have sold a couple of things, and requested payment via Paypal. No problems, but then paypalwarning.com did say that Paypal was seller friendly. Has anyone used the recommended billpoint.com with success?
This morning I went from happily discussing the mundane things of life, such as Monday Night Football, to the stunning shock of today's events. These events are so far reaching, it has got to be the single greatest tragedy on American soil I can remember in my lifetime.
It's a time when people with something in common, anything at all in common, band together to share feelings that we would not ordinarily share. It's a time to not have ugly feelings towards our neighbors of other ethnic, racial or national backgrounds, but rather a time to share in the common grief that comes from such a loss of humanity.
It's neither religious nor non-religious ideals at fault. "Godless" communists who persecute Tibetans differ not from "Christians" who crusaded against godless "pagans".
Rather, it's the implementation of beliefs at fault. for example, the UN has a statue out front of a man beating a sword into a plow, and the plaque on the statue quotes the prophet Isaiah's words. This is a good moral tenet, and if only those who believe in what is good would do good, rather than abuse others as a result of their convictions.
I'm here in Verona PA, which is about 60 miles from Johnstown PA, where UA says the crash was near. I'm just here on business, but the locals tell me that the crash was actually in a field near Shanksville PA, 20 miles outside of Johnstown. Karma seems so worthless today, and information so valuable:-(
I'm on business in Pittsburgh, and CNN just reported another 767 crashing southeast of Pittsburgh in Somerset County. The city is on alert, and of course, all airplanes are grounded. I can't reach my family to let them know all is well with me because "all circuits are busy".
He also believed that life didn't start on Earth, but that we were "seeded" from outer space
Hoyle spent decades studying the universe and life in it, and became convinced that life on earth could not have happened solely through "the blind forces of nature". Lecturing at the California Institute of Technology he once explained:
"The big problem in biology isn't so much the rather crude fact that a protein consists of a chain of amino acids linked together in a certain way, but that the explicit ordering of the amino acids endows the chain with remarkable properties . . . If amino acids were linked at random, there would be a vast number of arrangements that would be useless in serving the purposes of a living cell. When you consider that a typical enzyme has a chain of perhaps 200 links and that there are 20 possibilities for each link, it's easy to see that the number of useless arrangements is enormous, more than the number of atoms in all the galaxies visible in the largest telescopes. This is for one enzyme, and there are upwards of 2000 of them, mainly serving very different purposes. So how did the situation get to where we find it to be?"
Hoyle added: "Rather than accept the fantastically small probability of life having arisen through the blind forces of nature, it seemed better to suppose that the origin of life was a deliberate intellectual act."
Hoyle left us with some fascinating intellectual gems to consider. As our knowledge of biological complexity increases, more and more educated people who understand these complexities are in agreement with his observations.
Bit 31 of H2 specifies, whether the bit-fields represent a notebook computer that supports a docking station. If docking is possible, the activation mechanism will be more tolerant with respect to future hardware modifications.
It has been reported that Microsoft officials took a recent poll of Supreme Court justices, and found that 3 out of 4 justices owned notebooks, and that these court members either already owned or was interested in owning a docking station.
that the development of music and it's style is likened to an evolutionary process. It has been noted by many scholars that the innate ability of humans to enjoy and create music and other arts would seem to have no evolutionary value, yet the attribute exists.
The Nokia Media Terminal will be priced competitively. The first Nokia Media Terminals will be available in Sweden in the middle part of 2001 and later on in the year in Europe and North America.
All Swedes visiting/. keep you eyes and ears open!
Mozilla 0.8 was promising, 0.9 looks even better, but I'm pretty pleased with Opera. Very fast, stable and it doesn't take long to get used to and enjoy the Opera way of doing things. I don't miss NS 4.7 at all.
Do the following in MS Excel '97: 1) in Excel open a blank work sheet 2) press F5 and type X97:L97 in the REFERENCE box, then click OK 3) now hit your tab key once (you should end up in cell M97 ) 4) press CTRL and SHIFT while clicking once on the CHART WIZARD icon (the one at the top with the blue-yellow-red bar chart) (Accelerate with the left mouse button, and decelerate with the right mouse button. Hit Esc to exit. Don't miss the part about the nachos.)
Unfortunately, none of those question have anything to do with the matter at hand.
And worse, I suspect it doesn't really matter who is right or wrong in this one. Microsoft could likely pound andover.net into submission by continuing to harass with legal action. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but on the cash scale, MS has virtually unlimited funds compared to andover if they want to make their point just for the sake of making it.
Newbie-o-meter hits redline! Here on/. we don't call it DDOS, it's called "the slashdot effect".
For newbies: Whereas DDOS is usually caused by an inanimate piece of software, the/. effect is the result of hundreds of thousands of *real* people beating up on this web site:)
The story, as posted on Yahoo's site can be found: here.
It is a little curious that this particular instance of a DoS has been getting so much attention. My conspiracy theory of the moment is that it is a MS sponsored story, based on the fact that Yahoo runs FreeBSD (according to Netcraft).
"The Crusoe processor is not a RISC processor....The Crusoe family (there are two being presented, with more to be announced)is a small processor that does not have any instructions on the chip itself;"
Sounds like the Instruction Set has been greatly Reduced. That qualifies as RISC in my book =)
Slashdot Mirror
Only if the negative review is slanderous, libelous or otherwise legally negligent. For example, if the posted criticism were to appear as follows:
Then perhaps Chevy should ask to have it banned. I'm just saying.
a) that's because AOL sucks
b) upgrade to 6.0 or 7.0 and see if it goes away
Now, when someone calls and says that they have the newest AOL/Gecko implementation, I'll likely sit erect in my chair and try to think of a way to make my stuff work with AOL.
That's right, call it elitism, slashdotism or what you like. It's embarassing when I put it that way, so I prefer to call it defending the digital free world from Microsoft's Evil, which probably has some merit.
What more can I say, Mozilla appears that it's about to burst into the mainstream, and it will receive from me any support I can offer. I love the improved rendering and stability, and now Mozilla tabbed browsing is here and kicking butt! Now, can we just have a button like Opera to open a fresh tab ? Really, if you've used Opera for a while you know why this is cool.
The Tribune has a poll entitled: "Is Bernard Shifman a 'moron spammer'"?
./ crowd hasn't cast a few thousand votes - there are only 2,659 total votes at this time.
96.1% voted for: Yes. Hundreds of complaints can't be wrong.
3.9% voted for: No. Give the guy a break. He's looking for a job.
What's surprising is that the
I can't remember laughing so hard as I have at this comic episode. However, I wonder how much punishment poor Bernie can take. I mean, I don't feel really sorry for him, yet I hope he doesn't take a Roman bath or anything over it.
It may be true that names are currently being dropped at a greater rate than they are being registered. However, has anyone here looked at the names being dropped? I have looked at them in both a) painstaking detail and b) written programs to narrow down tens of thousands of really useless names to a few dozen possibly useful names. For example of the junk being dropped, here is a tiny number of recently deleted names:
.net and .org names are now ditching them, keeping only the .com version of the name. This tells me that dot-com names are holding value better than the others.
0-0-TEEN-SEX.COM
0-CALLSANTA.COM
0-DOMAIN-REGISTRATION.COM
0-POINT.COM
0-SHIPPINGPERFUMEBASKETS.COM
00-FREE-WEB-PAGES.COM
000000000.COM
Lot's of long names, names with hyphens and numbers in them, and typos. Also, people who previously saved
I feel that a good name is still quite valuable, even if not as valuable as a year or two ago. There are few, if any names available today that could be called "jewels". So, if you have a good name, keep it, but if you're sitting on some junky names for speculative purposes, ditch them.
Don't expect people to purposely begin throwing valuable names away.
>rm -f /bin/*
I remember playing Quake CTF online and asked how to bind the grapple to a key. I think you must be the guy who advised me to type: "unbindall".
Don't you? Netcraft are the "what's that server running" people.
I'm just saying.
So, this weekend I'm moving into his garage and pluggin' in!
Just wondering if your experiences with billpoint are better, worse or same as paypal.
I have sold a couple of things, and requested payment via Paypal. No problems, but then paypalwarning.com did say that Paypal was seller friendly. Has anyone used the recommended billpoint.com with success?
> Your one of those people who should really learn
Since we're on the subject of corrections, the "your" you are thinking of is "you're" as in "you are", not as in something belonging to you.
8-)
This morning I went from happily discussing the mundane things of life, such as Monday Night Football, to the stunning shock of today's events. These events are so far reaching, it has got to be the single greatest tragedy on American soil I can remember in my lifetime.
It's a time when people with something in common, anything at all in common, band together to share feelings that we would not ordinarily share. It's a time to not have ugly feelings towards our neighbors of other ethnic, racial or national backgrounds, but rather a time to share in the common grief that comes from such a loss of humanity.
It's neither religious nor non-religious ideals at fault. "Godless" communists who persecute Tibetans differ not from "Christians" who crusaded against godless "pagans".
Rather, it's the implementation of beliefs at fault. for example, the UN has a statue out front of a man beating a sword into a plow, and the plaque on the statue quotes the prophet Isaiah's words. This is a good moral tenet, and if only those who believe in what is good would do good, rather than abuse others as a result of their convictions.
I'm here in Verona PA, which is about 60 miles from Johnstown PA, where UA says the crash was near. I'm just here on business, but the locals tell me that the crash was actually in a field near Shanksville PA, 20 miles outside of Johnstown. :-(
Karma seems so worthless today, and information so valuable
I'm on business in Pittsburgh, and CNN just reported another 767 crashing southeast of Pittsburgh in Somerset County. The city is on alert, and of course, all airplanes are grounded. I can't reach my family to let them know all is well with me because "all circuits are busy".
He also believed that life didn't start on Earth, but that we were "seeded" from outer space
Hoyle spent decades studying the universe and life in it, and became convinced that life on earth could not have happened solely through "the blind forces of nature". Lecturing at the California Institute of Technology he once explained:
"The big problem in biology isn't so much the rather crude fact that a protein consists of a chain of amino acids linked together in a certain way, but that the explicit ordering of the amino acids endows the chain with remarkable properties . . . If amino acids were linked at random, there would be a vast number of arrangements that would be useless in serving the purposes of a living cell. When you consider that a typical enzyme has a chain of perhaps 200 links and that there are 20 possibilities for each link, it's easy to see that the number of useless arrangements is enormous, more than the number of atoms in all the galaxies visible in the largest telescopes. This is for one enzyme, and there are upwards of 2000 of them, mainly serving very different purposes. So how did the situation get to where we find it to be?"
Hoyle added: "Rather than accept the fantastically small probability of life having arisen through the blind forces of nature, it seemed better to suppose that the origin of life was a deliberate intellectual act."
Hoyle left us with some fascinating intellectual gems to consider. As our knowledge of biological complexity increases, more and more educated people who understand these complexities are in agreement with his observations.
Bit 31 of H2 specifies, whether the bit-fields represent a notebook computer that supports a docking station. If docking is possible, the activation mechanism will be more tolerant with respect to future hardware modifications.
It has been reported that Microsoft officials took a recent poll of Supreme Court justices, and found that 3 out of 4 justices owned notebooks, and that these court members either already owned or was interested in owning a docking station.
that the development of music and it's style is likened to an evolutionary process. It has been noted by many scholars that the innate ability of humans to enjoy and create music and other arts would seem to have no evolutionary value, yet the attribute exists.
From the Nokia site:
/. keep you eyes and ears open!
The Nokia Media Terminal will be priced competitively. The first Nokia Media Terminals will be available in Sweden in the middle part of 2001 and later on in the year in Europe and North America.
All Swedes visiting
Mozilla 0.8 was promising, 0.9 looks even better, but I'm pretty pleased with Opera. Very fast, stable and it doesn't take long to get used to and enjoy the Opera way of doing things. I don't miss NS 4.7 at all.
Do the following in MS Excel '97:
1) in Excel open a blank work sheet
2) press F5 and type X97:L97 in the REFERENCE box, then click OK
3) now hit your tab key once (you should end up in cell M97 )
4) press CTRL and SHIFT while clicking once on the CHART WIZARD icon (the one at the top with the blue-yellow-red bar chart)
(Accelerate with the left mouse button, and decelerate with the right mouse button. Hit Esc to exit. Don't miss the part about the nachos.)
think both GNOME and KDE feel "heavy"
:)
try increasing your mouse speed
Unfortunately, none of those question have anything to do with the matter at hand.
And worse, I suspect it doesn't really matter who is right or wrong in this one. Microsoft could likely pound andover.net into submission by continuing to harass with legal action. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but on the cash scale, MS has virtually unlimited funds compared to andover if they want to make their point just for the sake of making it.
Newbie-o-meter hits redline! Here on /. we don't call it DDOS, it's called "the slashdot effect".
/. effect is the result of hundreds of thousands of *real* people beating up on this web site :)
For newbies: Whereas DDOS is usually caused by an inanimate piece of software, the
Since the release of M13, I have been using Mozilla as my only browser on Win98 at home. It has not crashed on me once yet...really.
The story, as posted on Yahoo's site can be found: here.
It is a little curious that this particular instance of a DoS has been getting so much attention. My conspiracy theory of the moment is that it is a MS sponsored story, based on the fact that Yahoo runs FreeBSD (according to Netcraft).
Sounds like the Instruction Set has been greatly Reduced. That qualifies as RISC in my book =)