This is great news considering OpenMail was the only serious Unix-based competitor to Microsoft Exchange.
there are lots of Unix-based competitors to Microsoft Exchange. What about sendmail? There are not a lot of Exchange clones with code licensed from Microsoft in them that will behave exactly the same for Outlook clients. Even then there is now Evolution from Ximian. Volution from Caldera, Insight from Bynari, and various web based solutions.
How about an alphabet soup of open standards that does the job better, easier, more efficiently: POP, IMAP, SMTP, HTTP, SSL, CGI, FTP, LDAP, ABCDEFG, ETC?
Its not called competition if you're selling the same product.
every time you drive drunk in a stolen car with your license suspended. The invasion of privacy doesn't even come into affect. You shouldn't be driving in the first place.
Unlike your federal elected representatives, the Department of Justice is required by law to respond to your comments, and the judge has to take that response into account.
Actually, they are not required to respond to or even listen to citizens comments, merely provice a forum (electronic) for them to be voiced. They don't even have to recycle the envelopes.
Congressmen don't care about their salaries (though they have no trouble raising them) -- it is a pittance compared to the bribery received from lobbyists of all sorts. Roman senatorial hopeful used to mortgage their entire estates and sell franchise rights to wealthy investors to finance their elections, and it wasn't because they (or their backers) had strong moral opinions they wanted voiced.
I think it would come out even. Except ordinary users probably outnumber serious merchants more than 1000/1 and more bigger ticket purchases are probably done between indiviuals.
I've had a problem with credit card fraud from a company called IOPAY.COM through my credit card with CHASE VISA and I've spent 4 months trying to resolve fraudulent recurring charges on my card. The first occurence was on September 28th and was blocked by CHASE VISA security division (probably incorrect cardholder information -- ie. not my name, address, etc.)
Another charge was attempted by IOPAY.COM soon after and declined again for security reasons. On October 1, I received notice of the fraudulent charges and telephoned CHASE VISA and stated that IOPAY.COM did not have my authorization and please do not accept any other attempts by IOPAY.COM to use my card. I cancelled my card and had a new card number issued.
Since then, there have been (I think) 4 attempted charges by IOPAY.COM, none of which is legitimate. I've never used my CHASE VISA card for online purchases. I've signed 3 statements to the fact that I did not authorize and do not authorize any charges by IOPAY.COM at any time, as well. I believe all charges have been made to the previously cancelled account and forwarded to the new one.
All additional attempted charges have been honored by CHASE VISA against my explicit direction and the earlier assessment by their own internal fraud department. I have had to deal with each charge specifically and have been threatened in writing and over the phone by CHASE VISA employees that I can be held liable for the charges if their own internal decision is that the charges are valid. As I said, I have signed three statements that the charges are not valid and am awaiting the fourth in the mail.
I finally cancelled my CHASE VISA card completely and hope this will resolve the issue.
So, you see, it isn't only PayPal that has poor customer service.
I believe that at least some credit card companies are in collusion with and silently accept knowingly fraudulent charges. They certainly stand to profit by it. Credit card companies make 2% or more per transaction, not to mention any interest accumulated on such charges.
I believe CHASE VISA is a willing, if not active, participant in such fraud, allowing pornography or other online sites to make charges that are not valid; and by having lax security and inadequate authorization measures, they are stealing from their customers in the hope that at least a percentage of fraudulent charges (which they stand to profit by) will go uncontested, or will be unsuccessfully contested (according to their dispute resolution rules) by their customers.
In my opinion, you're screwed either way. Our banking system needs stronger protection for customers.
that would effectively ban open source products. You could be sued for giving something away. Or say you make an exception for free or open source. You could then be sued for providing a low cost alternative, making entry of new products difficult, especially making funding hard to get.
For accountability, you need to get rid of 2 things.
1) Ridiculous and obviously illegal click through/shrink wrap/by reading this sentence you owe me a million bucks/whatever EULAs. Clicking a button to install a product you already bought is *NOT* a binding contract. No matter what you say.
By giving your credit card number to Dell, you are supposedly granting Microsoft (and anyone they see fit) to collect, distribute and modify your personal information. Also to delete any and all information on the computer you bought.
And by the way, Microsoft is explicitly absolved of any harm they do, intentional or otherwise.
2) break up trusts that attempt to use their leverage to force you into such agreements and use their clout to enforce them, legal or not
It can't buy lobbyists or congressmen. It can't even talk.
It can't consume resources.
It can't screw.
It's time to rethink what corporations are: they are people exploiting other people and hiding behind a bunch of paperwork and convincing you that the paperwork is responsible, not them.
40 hours a week is not work. Granted, its mostly a waste of time, but I'd much rather be working long hours than pulling my 32,000 as a volunteer slave 1/3 of the day.
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I live in downtown Bellevue. There is no downtown. It is a mall, an on ramp, and a safeway. Which, by the way, is 5 miles from downtown Seattle, and you think a 45 minute commute is easy?!!!
You'd get there on a Segway. Or walking across I90
Of course Apple won the bid to provide iBooks and Airport wireless connection points. Its not like Dell or HP can compete with the manufacturer, even if the committee thought that Apple's "level of expertise" in supporting their own products did not exceed those of independent vendors regardless of price.
What I'm saying is, this wasn't an open bid -- for the best hardware or price. A backroom deal was awarded based on a political decision.
You can bet if you see something on every TV show, without fail, it'll be in taught in school before long.
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the $3000 price tag is a "target price" for 5 years from now, if production is able to meet their projected demand (40,000 per month.)
They hope to sell them at $8000, but make no production promises -- and won't even offer it to the public for a couple years.
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Have you ever tried to balance on a scooter? This thing is revolutionary, I tell you.
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Sigh. take a walk and get a wristwatch. You'll stroll at better than three miles an hour, and top five carrying 50 pounds of luggage trying to catch your flight while not trying to look like a terrorist or a Buffalo Bills fan.
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Seattle is the worst commuter hell in America. They've managed to turn a small collection of suburbs into a traffic snarl. It takes half an hour to go 10 miles on a good day -- and it doesn't have any downtown and no one is outside except for the couple days a year it doesn't rain. There are people that ride bikes and even some who will do it in the rain -- but not for commute, for fun.
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that is because Slashdot only covers lame or irrelevant stories, and linux. Read the heading.
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alright, you do offer a better comparison.
there are lots of Unix-based competitors to Microsoft Exchange. What about sendmail? There are not a lot of Exchange clones with code licensed from Microsoft in them that will behave exactly the same for Outlook clients. Even then there is now Evolution from Ximian. Volution from Caldera, Insight from Bynari, and various web based solutions.
How about an alphabet soup of open standards that does the job better, easier, more efficiently: POP, IMAP, SMTP, HTTP, SSL, CGI, FTP, LDAP, ABCDEFG, ETC?
Its not called competition if you're selling the same product.
no, what makes microsoft so dangerous is that the SEs at microsoft accept whatever they are told.
Hitler wasn't dangerous, it was those that followed him.
Microsoft hasn't offered a new version of windows since 1995 -- Unless you count the partial theme + spyware available in Thailand for $2.70 a new OS.
every time you drive drunk in a stolen car with your license suspended. The invasion of privacy doesn't even come into affect. You shouldn't be driving in the first place.
Actually, they are not required to respond to or even listen to citizens comments, merely provice a forum (electronic) for them to be voiced. They don't even have to recycle the envelopes.
He wants the perks that go with it.
Congressmen don't care about their salaries (though they have no trouble raising them) -- it is a pittance compared to the bribery received from lobbyists of all sorts. Roman senatorial hopeful used to mortgage their entire estates and sell franchise rights to wealthy investors to finance their elections, and it wasn't because they (or their backers) had strong moral opinions they wanted voiced.
He's following the money, and quick to deny it.
typo alert:
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... life plus 90 years
4 registers would be overkill for a pacemaker, what kind of gui would it's os need?
humorless, socially awkward ...
1,000,000 losers @ ($50 x 0.192% = $0.096) = $96,000
1000 merchants @ ($500 x 2.2% + $0.30) = $11.30 =
$113,000
I think it would come out even. Except ordinary users probably outnumber serious merchants more than 1000/1 and more bigger ticket purchases are probably done between indiviuals.
I've had a problem with credit card fraud from a company called IOPAY.COM through my credit card with CHASE VISA and I've spent 4 months trying to resolve fraudulent recurring charges on my card. The first occurence was on September 28th and was blocked by CHASE VISA security division (probably incorrect cardholder information -- ie. not my name, address, etc.)
Another charge was attempted by IOPAY.COM soon after and declined again for security reasons. On October 1, I received notice of the fraudulent charges and telephoned CHASE VISA and stated that IOPAY.COM did not have my authorization and please do not accept any other attempts by IOPAY.COM to use my card. I cancelled my card and had a new card number issued.
Since then, there have been (I think) 4 attempted charges by IOPAY.COM, none of which is legitimate. I've never used my CHASE VISA card for online purchases. I've signed 3 statements to the fact that I did not authorize and do not authorize any charges by IOPAY.COM at any time, as well. I believe all charges have been made to the previously cancelled account and forwarded to the new one.
All additional attempted charges have been honored by CHASE VISA against my explicit direction and the earlier assessment by their own internal fraud department. I have had to deal with each charge specifically and have been threatened in writing and over the phone by CHASE VISA employees that I can be held liable for the charges if their own internal decision is that the charges are valid. As I said, I have signed three statements that the charges are not valid and am awaiting the fourth in the mail.
I finally cancelled my CHASE VISA card completely and hope this will resolve the issue.
So, you see, it isn't only PayPal that has poor customer service.
I believe that at least some credit card companies are in collusion with and silently accept knowingly fraudulent charges. They certainly stand to profit by it. Credit card companies make 2% or more per transaction, not to mention any interest accumulated on such charges.
I believe CHASE VISA is a willing, if not active, participant in such fraud, allowing pornography or other online sites to make charges that are not valid; and by having lax security and inadequate authorization measures, they are stealing from their customers in the hope that at least a percentage of fraudulent charges (which they stand to profit by) will go uncontested, or will be unsuccessfully contested (according to their dispute resolution rules) by their customers.
In my opinion, you're screwed either way. Our banking system needs stronger protection for customers.
that would effectively ban open source products. You could be sued for giving something away. Or say you make an exception for free or open source. You could then be sued for providing a low cost alternative, making entry of new products difficult, especially making funding hard to get.
For accountability, you need to get rid of 2 things.
1) Ridiculous and obviously illegal click through/shrink wrap/by reading this sentence you owe me a million bucks/whatever EULAs. Clicking a button to install a product you already bought is *NOT* a binding contract. No matter what you say.
By giving your credit card number to Dell, you are supposedly granting Microsoft (and anyone they see fit) to collect, distribute and modify your personal information. Also to delete any and all information on the computer you bought.
And by the way, Microsoft is explicitly absolved of any harm they do, intentional or otherwise.
2) break up trusts that attempt to use their leverage to force you into such agreements and use their clout to enforce them, legal or not
It can't buy lobbyists or congressmen. It can't even talk.
It can't consume resources.
It can't screw.
It's time to rethink what corporations are: they are people exploiting other people and hiding behind a bunch of paperwork and convincing you that the paperwork is responsible, not them.
40 hours a week is not work. Granted, its mostly a waste of time, but I'd much rather be working long hours than pulling my 32,000 as a volunteer slave 1/3 of the day.
I live in downtown Bellevue. There is no downtown. It is a mall, an on ramp, and a safeway. Which, by the way, is 5 miles from downtown Seattle, and you think a 45 minute commute is easy?!!!
You'd get there on a Segway. Or walking across I90
Of course Apple won the bid to provide iBooks and Airport wireless connection points. Its not like Dell or HP can compete with the manufacturer, even if the committee thought that Apple's "level of expertise" in supporting their own products did not exceed those of independent vendors regardless of price.
What I'm saying is, this wasn't an open bid -- for the best hardware or price. A backroom deal was awarded based on a political decision.
You can bet if you see something on every TV show, without fail, it'll be in taught in school before long.
the $3000 price tag is a "target price" for 5 years from now, if production is able to meet their projected demand (40,000 per month.)
They hope to sell them at $8000, but make no production promises -- and won't even offer it to the public for a couple years.
Have you ever tried to balance on a scooter? This thing is revolutionary, I tell you.
Sigh. take a walk and get a wristwatch. You'll stroll at better than three miles an hour, and top five carrying 50 pounds of luggage trying to catch your flight while not trying to look like a terrorist or a Buffalo Bills fan.
Seattle is the worst commuter hell in America. They've managed to turn a small collection of suburbs into a traffic snarl. It takes half an hour to go 10 miles on a good day -- and it doesn't have any downtown and no one is outside except for the couple days a year it doesn't rain. There are people that ride bikes and even some who will do it in the rain -- but not for commute, for fun.
that is because Slashdot only covers lame or irrelevant stories, and linux. Read the heading.
ay, and Gomorrah
they think electicity grows on trees
bush didn't own enron, Cheney worked for them (Exec) before they were very big.
99% of australia doesn't even have analog cellular service, genius