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on Wednesday July 22 2015, @04:23AM
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The Wolfram Alpha guys announced they are finally compliant with Zawinski's law of software envelopment[*] and read email, thus the risk of Wolfram language becoming obsolete dropped.
[*] "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."
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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 22 2015, @10:01AM
From the article, emphasis by me:
So if I understand correctly, you have to forward all your emails to Wolfram in order to use this feature.
Do. Not. Want.
(Score: 2) by Geotti on Wednesday July 22 2015, @12:58PM
From your quote it follows that a method/function can have an email that processes mail send to this address.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday July 22 2015, @03:57PM
> From your quote it follows that a method/function can have an email that processes mail send to this address.
This reads like a patent troll honeypot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 22 2015, @01:04PM
oh for the love of Azathoth... there are so many different people/bots/middleboxes in the five eyes (and probably funky private actors as well) reading that email you sent with that function, how is it relevant if a few more thousands people have POTENTIAL access to it?!
also, of all the people who are actually gonna read that email, Wolfram strikes me as by far least evil... ya, they take money for they software, but still.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 22 2015, @01:35PM
Your argument is "it's already bad, why are you whining about making it even more bad"
Now go sit in that corner and think about what you've said
(Score: 2) by VortexCortex on Wednesday July 22 2015, @11:02PM
So if I understand correctly, you have to forward all your emails to Wolfram in order to use this feature.
Not sure about you, but I've had the ability to selectively forward incoming mail based on many factors including recipient, sender, subject and message content for well over twenty years. Thus, if one is smart enough to use the feature one would hope they know how to selectively forward mail, or create a mailbox explicitly for the use of that function.
Protip: Get a domain / mx record which you then direct into whatever mail hosting server you like, even selectively enable / disable something like accounts@example.com only when you need account registration and password recovery. This way you won't be tied to any one platform or address. I'm not even being an "email snob" about it. I've known bums who could afford $5 per year to keep their domain active. I've met poor people in 3rd world nations who managed to manage their mail servers via cheap feature phone. I wonder why it is that apathy and alarmism go hand in hand?