| By Tony (Sol) on Unrecorded Date: |
This is your basic "None of the Above Topic. Possible lines of discussion can be philisophical discussions related to computers, the role of computers, and computer-related technology. Enjoy!
| By Technomage (Houdini) on Wednesday, February 13, 2002 - 09:58 am: |
FTC goes after spamers.
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20020212_1203.html
| By The One Known Only as (Greyfox) on Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 09:30 am: |
Well, here's yet another glimpse of sci-fi technology brought to reality through the minds of great engineers... The Datapad.
Whoah. Only $1000 dollars for a 1gHz processor with 256 MB RAM and a 10GB HD, AND it can be networked, plugged into other PC components (monitor, keyboard, etc.) Looks really kewl...
| By Ms. Vice (Nat) on Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 06:31 pm: |
I want! I want! I want! I want!!!!!
It makes my visor look like a cheap quartz watch.
| By The One Known Only as (Greyfox) on Friday, April 19, 2002 - 09:05 am: |
that's because it IS a cheap quartz watch.
| By Ms. Vice (Nat) on Friday, April 19, 2002 - 12:08 pm: |
*shoots fred a nasty look*
Yeah, sure.. Rub it in... Make me feel bad for getting a neat toy that was doomed to become obsolete within a month...
| By The One Known Only as (Greyfox) on Friday, April 19, 2002 - 01:13 pm: |
I never ENCOURAGED you to get it in the first place, remember? that was ALL YOU...
| By Yo' Daddy (Sol) on Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 10:25 am: |
IMPORTANT:
Got this message in email, it is TRUE. If you have hotmail, better check this out.
> A - For those of you who don't follow my every media move (and why the
heck
> don't you?), Lisa is talking about either the radio show I do (Sound
Bytes,
> Saturdays at 12:20 PM on WHAM 1180 here in Rochester) (so far), or
756-TALK
> on Time Warner cable's R News every Friday at 7 PM, also here in
Rochester.
>
> We talked about Microsoft pulling a Yahoo! A few months ago, Yahoo!
changed
> their privacy policy. Anyone who had a Yahoo! Instant Messenger account
> received (or at least should have received) notice that they were going to
> start releasing names, addresses, email addresses, etc. to whomever asked
> for them. This last week, Microsoft changed their privacy policy regarding
> Hotmail accounts. They, too, decided that they would release all your
> private information to whomever asked for it. They did this, as did Yahoo!
> (doesn't anyone at Microsoft ever have an original thought?), by simply
> adding a few check boxes to your profile:
>
> Share my e-mail address.
> Share my first and last names.
> Share my other registration information.
>
> Of course, just as Yahoo! did, Microsoft thoughtfully pre-checked them for
> you (to save you the trouble of having to give them permission to blab
your
> personal information to everybody on earth).
>
> If you would rather keep your private information... well... private, you
> need to log on to your Hotmail account, click on Options, then click on
> "Personal Profile." From here, you can set your own privacy options.
>
> Although I am often accused (usually by Microsoft) of having an
> anti-Microsoft bias, I haven't really said a bad thing about them in a
very
> long time. But I cannot resist taking just a moment here to point out that
> this arbitrary, unilateral decision to share your private information with
> the entire world has been perpetrated by the same company that is
currently
> spending millions of dollars to convince you that they are the most
> trustworthy company on earth; that security is Job One; and that you
should
> trust them with your most private and personal data.
>
> Heh.
>
> And let me also point out that I, at least, did not get any sort of notice
> from Microsoft for any of my Hotmail accounts. Not a one. Did any of you?
| By The One Known Only as (Greyfox) on Monday, June 21, 2004 - 01:57 pm: |
This is why I use Excite.com