Passport to your Privacy

alternateorg on March 20, 2001

This is an absolute must read. It’s an explanation of how MS plans to take your information and sell it:


The golden rule of cookies that protects your privacy is that they are only sent back to the same web domain as they came from. Microsoft Passport eliminates this protection allowing any Passport site to share information about you.

Isn't it the 24th down there by now?

alternateorg on March 20, 2001

An Australian man has seen MacOS X. And he’s even posted a review of it on his website. But don’t bother clicking now, because it’s all enccrypted with PGP. He is (and should be) afraid of Apple retaliating. And they would. So he’s going to make the key available once X is finally released. The more I think about it, the less interesting this story gets.

What a Fucking Joke….

alternateorg on March 19, 2001

So, the guys at MS dropped some screenshots of X-Box on the net… The funny thing is that the images are so fucking fake that it’s completely obvious. They used a Photoshop flare in its default location and size to add a refelection. They even clipped out the character from a higher res image and pasted it into the screenshot from some snowboarding game. The reason the images are enhanced is so you think the X-Box itself is going to be that sharp and have live reflections and flares…. Yeah RIGHT!!!!


To see the forgery yourself, click here.


*Note: We have received some emails from readers who think that we are way too Mac oriented in our postings. I say to all of you, stories like this one are the reason why we love our Macintosh and the company that makes it. I mean, at least Apple had the vision to trash the Pippin (a game console Apple developed) instantly upon its luke warm entry into the console market. Let’s hope X-Box doesn’t survive for 5 years and lose billions in hardware sales just to make up revenues from game developer companies who are locked into software contracts. I am willing to bet that MS is planning to do no less than that.

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alternateorg on March 18, 2001

from WiredNews:

“At the request of Napster, Aimster has removed the Pig Encoder Software from public distribution through its website,” said Aimster Chief Executive Officer Johnny Deep, adding that the encoder was removed as of Tuesday morning.

Does anyone else see how retarded that is? Telling a peer-to-peer filesharing service to remove files it’s distributing from its website? If it’s a filesharing service, the Pig Latin Encoder is most certainly available FROM ANYONE WHO HAS IT using Aimster. Duh. You’d think of anyone on the planet, Napster would get that. Not to mention the CEO of Aimster is one letter away from being Johnny Depp.

Napster Blues???

alternateorg on March 16, 2001

Almost Perfect?

alternateorg on March 16, 2001

If you havent seen Almost Famous, go rent it now. Its an extremely well made movie about a young kid (15) that winds up writing a front page story for Rolling Stone and going on tour with a rock band. The plot sounds almost cheesy now that I am writing it out, but trust me, it was one of the best movies i’ve ever seen.