iVillage said they would no longer us pop-up ads, instead they would use pop-under ads. AOL is likely to do the same. AOL already disables the function to supress pop up windows in Netscape. They need those ads for revenue. So I really don't see them being serious about eliminating pop-up ads or some form of "invasive ads". I'll continue to use Opera and Mozilla, where I the user am given a choice on what is forced down my throat and what isn't.
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Till this day, I have users who call and are handing over their username and password without me saying anything more than "Hello!".
There are users I call who hand over the same information without any thought. Most of the time, I am there busy telling users to please not give me that information. The comparison of the username/password being like an ATM card and pin just doesn't work.
Our abuse department (yes we have one) has a two strikes and you're out policy. That is to say, if anything happens from your account the first time, you are given a warning and forced to read the entire IT policy. The second time, you account is deactivated in effect terminating your employment/affiliation with the university. You pretty much need your account for everything.
This issue has been spoken about for years and things rarely improve, but I still believe educating users is the best way to eventually solve the problems here.
Ah the Canadian ballet. Private Eyes, Seductions, Sundowners just to name a few. Buffalo's old slogan used to be "A drinking town with a football problem". Now it's simply "The gateway to your version of heaven". Haha, ok seriously it is "The city of friendly neighbours".
Back at the begining of the 20th Century, Buffalo was one of the 10 largest cities in the US. Bad political/economical decisions killed the city. It's the only city that has 12 major hubs in a 500mile radius. The irony is buffalo has really not grown in size in the last 102 years (we're excluding surrounding towns/suburbs).
The weird thing is that Buffalo has tonnes of inventions attributed to it. Visiting Buffalo, you tend to wonder what inspired those inventions. Ok, the humid heat of summer in Buffalo could have inspred the air conditioner. Why didn't someone invent the lake freezer? It would freeze the lake's so that Buffalo wouldn't be buried in 7' of lake effect snow in a matter of 5 days:-)
(Ok, I am applying for a patent on that, don't any of you dare try to steal my invention)
If you check your stats, you'll probably find that Elma, Orchard Park, Clarence and even Williamsville are where the rich people live. Amherst is where most retired middleclass people live. Sorry, take Williamsville and add it to Amherst. Buffalo is not where the poor people live. It's blighted on the east side and the downtown area has been gradually renovated in the last few years. If you consider people living on the west side poor, you certainly must be a millionaire. Quick predicition, you are a UB/Buff State student living in Amherst and going home every weekend, right?
Are you sure you live in Amherst? It's been in the high 80's and yes very humid. It's 6:30am right now and already 70 degrees.
I have a ton of machines to beat the living daylight out of. I also have my Office Space Soundtrack to play along to them. Damn it feels good to be a gangsta....
This is old news. Pioneer and Kenwood have similar products and they've been out for months. I'm only surprised/. would decide to post this story now.
The ripping purpose is so that the music is ripped and stored tot he Hard Drive, thereby allowing you to leave the CD at home from that point onwards. Now if they would add something like the 801.1(a|b) specs, so that as you drive up to your place, music is downloaded or uploaded to a server at your place of work or residency, I would be happy and impressed.
Damn straight! Personally after Pele, he comes 2nd in my overall ranking of footballers. This is based on football skill only, character and personality are put aside.
Yuo answered your own question. Yes, we all remember Maradona. He got caught out by a drug test administered by FIFA. He was also banned from travelling to this world cup by Japan for failing his drug tests in the past.
You misunderstand. They pay for a TV license and this is per TV you own. On top of that you pay for cable or satellite if you decide you want that programming. Trust me, they pay way more than we do over here.
Wait a minute, so the court has ordered them to collect information on customers user habits. This information is handed over to the studios, who in turn use the data to prove that ReplayTV, a product of Sonic Blue, is infringing on the copyright of the studios.
So, wouldn't this have the potential of allowing the studios to sue Sonic Blue in the end? As far as I know, you tell the police to investigate a crime, not the family of the victim.
If you ever read any of the scams, it usually indicates that the person has stolen money from Nigeria in some form or another and needs your help to transfer it out of the country. Now, you are invited to help steal and you go with it. Doesn't that make you a thief if you agree to the offer? If your money is now stolen in the process, wouldn't you call it an irnoic form of justice? You were stupid enough to want to be a thief and when you get robbed, you suddenly call yourself a victim. Wouldn't it be better for the police to arrest you not only for being stupid, but also for being a self proclaimed thief?
Re:this reminds me of a trick for telemarketers
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He Writes Back
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No, you've got to use the Seinfeld approach:
You: You kinda got me at a bad time. How about you give me your phone number and I'll call you back.
Telemarketer: Um, we can't do that sir/madam.
You: Why not?
Telemarketer: We don't like receiving phone calls at home.
Yea, but thing about it. Single Point of Failure. Anyone and anything that wants to attack you at home would be in tears as to the ease of access this product provides them with.
It looks and sounds great, but security is still my main concern and this toy sounds way too good to be true.
We'll see some other medium come in and people will move to that. What has happened here is the the Internet has truly been commercialized and industrialized. The 60 companies will go down to the Mighty 10 or Big 5 and will fall under a banner name much like the RIAA or MPAA. Capitalism works that way.
What makes the Internet interesting is that it Spans the globe and is mostly universal. This universality is what will make it follow different rules. Note that it is expected that in about 5 years or less, Chinese sites are thought to be the most prevalent sites (and the language too) on the internet. This is a market that the current 60 companies are not necessarily fighting for and without that and with the multiple cultures out there, who knows what will happen. Companies will take longer to buy eachother out and different trade systems in different cultures will add a little bit of spice to the dish. Who knows, the Internet might infact split up or another better medium might show up making all this pointless. Such is life...
Come onto a college campus sometime. Take a look at gamers in the dorms. Peeling them away from their systems just to get some sleep is near impossible.
The urine pack and the toilet/recliner cross over where not created for Astronauts and Football fans, they were created by gamers to make gaming less.....disruptive:)
Though I comment the feat, there are times where I just get tired of seeing the same things over and over again. When did open source become about copying what MS ( an do not I am saying MS not any other organizations) creates. I agree that a lot of technologies out there are things that MS re-packaged and called innovations, but over the last few years, we are increasingly seeing products by MS that are being copied by open source advocates. Examples are.NET (dotGNU) and MS Passport (SUN has a new initiative with AOL and various other companies to counter it). These are just to name a few. I have no issue with this tactic of repackaging MS's work, but I would love to go back to the days and stories of "Hey here is a cool new software/technology that could change things as we know it". Open source should return to leading and not following. It's one of the things that makes Open source great.
It's so true, during the holidays we tend to do server backups, software/OS upgrades and you name it. Things are too hectic to go on vacation (note, I didn't say holiday). In addition to that, places I need to go are often too costly to get to (trust me > $1,400 roundtrip). If I go at what are considered lesser/non-holidays (e.g. Easter, Chinese New Year, Ramadan), things are way cheaper then and work is routine, such that there is someone else or lesser trained to do the task.
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They probably filed messages from the FCC into the trash can as the probably believe the FCC to be a hoax spam company.
iVillage said they would no longer us pop-up ads, instead they would use pop-under ads. AOL is likely to do the same. AOL already disables the function to supress pop up windows in Netscape. They need those ads for revenue. So I really don't see them being serious about eliminating pop-up ads or some form of "invasive ads". I'll continue to use Opera and Mozilla, where I the user am given a choice on what is forced down my throat and what isn't.
Till this day, I have users who call and are handing over their username and password without me saying anything more than "Hello!".
There are users I call who hand over the same information without any thought. Most of the time, I am there busy telling users to please not give me that information. The comparison of the username/password being like an ATM card and pin just doesn't work.
Our abuse department (yes we have one) has a two strikes and you're out policy. That is to say, if anything happens from your account the first time, you are given a warning and forced to read the entire IT policy. The second time, you account is deactivated in effect terminating your employment/affiliation with the university. You pretty much need your account for everything.
This issue has been spoken about for years and things rarely improve, but I still believe educating users is the best way to eventually solve the problems here.
Xmas 2003 is too optimistic. I'd add on another 6 - 12 months on that. Especially if all they are doing is sicussing things.
Ah the Canadian ballet. Private Eyes, Seductions, Sundowners just to name a few. Buffalo's old slogan used to be "A drinking town with a football problem". Now it's simply "The gateway to your version of heaven". Haha, ok seriously it is "The city of friendly neighbours".
Back at the begining of the 20th Century, Buffalo was one of the 10 largest cities in the US. Bad political/economical decisions killed the city. It's the only city that has 12 major hubs in a 500mile radius. The irony is buffalo has really not grown in size in the last 102 years (we're excluding surrounding towns/suburbs).
:-)
The weird thing is that Buffalo has tonnes of inventions attributed to it. Visiting Buffalo, you tend to wonder what inspired those inventions. Ok, the humid heat of summer in Buffalo could have inspred the air conditioner. Why didn't someone invent the lake freezer? It would freeze the lake's so that Buffalo wouldn't be buried in 7' of lake effect snow in a matter of 5 days
(Ok, I am applying for a patent on that, don't any of you dare try to steal my invention)
If you check your stats, you'll probably find that Elma, Orchard Park, Clarence and even Williamsville are where the rich people live. Amherst is where most retired middleclass people live. Sorry, take Williamsville and add it to Amherst. Buffalo is not where the poor people live. It's blighted on the east side and the downtown area has been gradually renovated in the last few years. If you consider people living on the west side poor, you certainly must be a millionaire. Quick predicition, you are a UB/Buff State student living in Amherst and going home every weekend, right?
Are you sure you live in Amherst? It's been in the high 80's and yes very humid. It's 6:30am right now and already 70 degrees.
I have a ton of machines to beat the living daylight out of. I also have my Office Space Soundtrack to play along to them. Damn it feels good to be a gangsta....
This was all caused the Apple. They created the IMAC. Now everyone thinks everything should be user friendly ;-D
This is old news. Pioneer and Kenwood have similar products and they've been out for months. I'm only surprised /. would decide to post this story now.
The ripping purpose is so that the music is ripped and stored tot he Hard Drive, thereby allowing you to leave the CD at home from that point onwards. Now if they would add something like the 801.1(a|b) specs, so that as you drive up to your place, music is downloaded or uploaded to a server at your place of work or residency, I would be happy and impressed.
Damn straight! Personally after Pele, he comes 2nd in my overall ranking of footballers. This is based on football skill only, character and personality are put aside.
Yuo answered your own question. Yes, we all remember Maradona. He got caught out by a drug test administered by FIFA. He was also banned from travelling to this world cup by Japan for failing his drug tests in the past.
Don't we usually call a program with the ability to disable another program or function on a PC "Spyware"?
Nobody listens to techno anymore. Moby's recent album may in fact no be as good as he believes it to be.
You misunderstand. They pay for a TV license and this is per TV you own. On top of that you pay for cable or satellite if you decide you want that programming. Trust me, they pay way more than we do over here.
Wait a minute, so the court has ordered them to collect information on customers user habits. This information is handed over to the studios, who in turn use the data to prove that ReplayTV, a product of Sonic Blue, is infringing on the copyright of the studios.
So, wouldn't this have the potential of allowing the studios to sue Sonic Blue in the end? As far as I know, you tell the police to investigate a crime, not the family of the victim.
Keyboard + Mouse = Pen (with cool clicking sound)
Which one are you refering to? Nigeria and Niger are two seperate countries.
If you ever read any of the scams, it usually indicates that the person has stolen money from Nigeria in some form or another and needs your help to transfer it out of the country. Now, you are invited to help steal and you go with it. Doesn't that make you a thief if you agree to the offer? If your money is now stolen in the process, wouldn't you call it an irnoic form of justice? You were stupid enough to want to be a thief and when you get robbed, you suddenly call yourself a victim. Wouldn't it be better for the police to arrest you not only for being stupid, but also for being a self proclaimed thief?
No, you've got to use the Seinfeld approach:
You: You kinda got me at a bad time. How about you give me your phone number and I'll call you back.
Telemarketer: Um, we can't do that sir/madam.
You: Why not?
Telemarketer: We don't like receiving phone calls at home.
You: Now you know how I feel....<click>
Yea, but thing about it. Single Point of Failure. Anyone and anything that wants to attack you at home would be in tears as to the ease of access this product provides them with.
It looks and sounds great, but security is still my main concern and this toy sounds way too good to be true.
We'll see some other medium come in and people will move to that. What has happened here is the the Internet has truly been commercialized and industrialized. The 60 companies will go down to the Mighty 10 or Big 5 and will fall under a banner name much like the RIAA or MPAA. Capitalism works that way.
What makes the Internet interesting is that it Spans the globe and is mostly universal. This universality is what will make it follow different rules. Note that it is expected that in about 5 years or less, Chinese sites are thought to be the most prevalent sites (and the language too) on the internet. This is a market that the current 60 companies are not necessarily fighting for and without that and with the multiple cultures out there, who knows what will happen. Companies will take longer to buy eachother out and different trade systems in different cultures will add a little bit of spice to the dish. Who knows, the Internet might infact split up or another better medium might show up making all this pointless. Such is life...
- Snowbeam
Come onto a college campus sometime. Take a look at gamers in the dorms. Peeling them away from their systems just to get some sleep is near impossible.
:)
The urine pack and the toilet/recliner cross over where not created for Astronauts and Football fans, they were created by gamers to make gaming less.....disruptive
- Snowbeam
Though I comment the feat, there are times where I just get tired of seeing the same things over and over again. When did open source become about copying what MS ( an do not I am saying MS not any other organizations) creates. I agree that a lot of technologies out there are things that MS re-packaged and called innovations, but over the last few years, we are increasingly seeing products by MS that are being copied by open source advocates. Examples are .NET (dotGNU) and MS Passport (SUN has a new initiative with AOL and various other companies to counter it). These are just to name a few. I have no issue with this tactic of repackaging MS's work, but I would love to go back to the days and stories of "Hey here is a cool new software/technology that could change things as we know it". Open source should return to leading and not following. It's one of the things that makes Open source great.
- Snowbeam
It's so true, during the holidays we tend to do server backups, software/OS upgrades and you name it. Things are too hectic to go on vacation (note, I didn't say holiday). In addition to that, places I need to go are often too costly to get to (trust me > $1,400 roundtrip). If I go at what are considered lesser/non-holidays (e.g. Easter, Chinese New Year, Ramadan), things are way cheaper then and work is routine, such that there is someone else or lesser trained to do the task.