Jun 22 2009

Hyves en censuur door site-gebruikers

Category: Dutch, RantsEmiel Kollof @ 14:11

hyvesHyves is fundamenteel stuk. Deze claim maak ik niet voor niets. Ze hebben een mechanisme waar mensen zelf kunnen bepalen of ze een hyve niet-ok vinden. Natuurlijk als je een hyve hebt waar en groepje mensen het niet mee eens is, ligt die zo plat, want horden mensen klikken op dat ding en dan gaat ie automatisch weg. Handig, zou je denken, maar er is een probleem hiermee.

Dat niet-ok knopje op een hyve mag van mij blijven, maar wat er gebeurt als er een man of 100 op klikt is absoluut fout. In plaats van meteen die hyve plat te gooien, zou dat ding ook gewoon up kunnen blijven tot er een admin naar kijkt. Als een admin dus inderdaad constateert dat er wat mis is met de inhoud van een hyve, zou hij of zij deze kunnen dichtgooien. Dit is net zoveel werk, alleen geeft het een hoop minder frustratie onder de mensen die die hyve graag frequenteren.

Waarom ik mezelf hierover zo opwind? Omdat mensen het misbruiken en ik er last van heb.

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Jun 17 2009

Irritating and useless

Category: General things, RantsEmiel Kollof @ 13:03

disclaimerEver seen signatures like these at the end of a mail message from a sales or recruiting guy? An example:

Notice: This transmittal and/or attachments may be privileged or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this transmittal in error; any review, dissemination, or copying is strictly prohibited. If you received this transmittal in error, please notify us immediately by reply and immediately delete this message and all its attachments. Thank you.”

Trust me, this one is quite tame. But I have seen a lot worse. The irritating thing is that those things are utterly useless. They just take up space, and they have no legal grounding. Take a look at the word “copying” in that little blurb. Any act on the damn internet is an automatic copy. And the rest is just plain unenforceable.

These kind of signatures tell me a couple of things:

  • You are clueless
  • You just want to come over as important (and by using that signature, you probably aren’t)
  • You have no idea or concept on how the Internet works.
  • You are probably not a lawyer, so I won’t take your legal advice if you don’t mind.
  • You are probably in sales, recruiting, accounting or some other position that requires you to wear a tie
  • Did I say you were clueless?

That said, don’t use those those disclaimers at the end of your mail. It makes you look like a retard.

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May 04 2009

Apparently I am being saved… *shrug*

Category: General things, Satanism, religionEmiel Kollof @ 10:38

It appears I’m a blip on the religious-nut radar.

Oh goodie.

So I get spammed with fire and brimstone, and apparently I’m going to hell. And there are those losers that claim they have been to hell or heaven and came back. And there are those dickwads spamming me with stories of Satanic abuse and whatnot.

Nice.

Of course there are some people actually hoping I will burn in hell and that I will die quickly so I will get there quicker, and other assorted religious threats.

Nice way to show the so-called love of your so-called saviour, people.

And of course there are hordes of losers clasping their hands in prayer for me to change my ways.

Fantastic.

So, is it working? Not really.

First of all, no amount of prayer can change my mind (objective reasoning is probably a better bet, but I doubt religion can overcome simple common sense and logic), and it goes against their own rules (free will anyone?). And don’t get me started on the quality of the writings I have been blessed to receive. Apparently, being religious means you don’t need a spellchecker, nor any knowledge about the use of punctuation, nor having any clue what the caps-lock key does (and how to turn it off).

At least while they are bothering me, they are not bothering someone else. So yeah, thank me for that I guess.

(Addendum: if you are asking yourself why you don’t see religious nuts commenting; they seem to trigger my spam-filter on this blog a lot. Go figure)

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Feb 12 2009

Telecommunications, and why they screw you.

Category: RantsEmiel Kollof @ 13:42

I have a bone to pick with Telfort. They were warning me for violating their “Fair Use Policy”, which is not at all fair. They pulled me out because I use data on my phone a lot. Since I am a system administrator by profession, I generate a lot of traffic, either from home to work and vice versa, or when I’m somewhere else and I need to fix something remotely. That’s why I like to be able to tether my laptop to my phone via BlueTooth. Because I don’t want to pay exorbitant amounts of cash for my data-use, I went for the flat-rate “unlimited” data option with my Telfort subscription. Guess what, it’s not that unlimited after all! My wife had a chat with them and managed to find out a few things about them that they do not make clear in their contract that I have with them, namely:

  • They recalculate an average use from all customers every month, and that average is reported nowhere.
  • Everyone that goes above that average is warned.

There’s quite a few things wrong with this. I’ll take my usage that they complained about so you can see how ridiculously small they are and that it can hardly be called unlimited. They were complaining about my use of 350-something megabytes that month while their average was on 48 megabytes. What the fuck! Am I the only one that actually *uses* the Internet-capabilities of his cellphone? I have HSDPA, so that’s a minimum of 1.3 megabits per second. I can get a gigabyte of data in a few hours!

I’m sure as hell going to officially complain about it. Unlimited is fucking unlimited. Fair use is NOT looking at above-average consumption of data. It’s using fucking common sense. Start looking at excesses (namely people that do several gigabytes and up in a month constantly). Use your damn brain.

Screw your average. Get a fucking clue. Fuck you, Telfort. Fuck you.

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