I just got the letter today, and my interpretation is if you get any MSN or Yahoo value added services or use a Verizon email address, you now access these services through a Fairpoint URL and Fairpoint email servers. You are no longer a Verizon DSL customer, you are now a Fairpoint DSL customer.
In other words, nothing has changed, you just type in a new URL from now on to access webmail and MSN/Yahoo Verizon^WFairpoint services, and you change the POP/SMTP settings in your email client.
At no point is Fairpoint blocking the real MSN and Yahoo websites nor blocking you from using MSN and Yahoo directly for your non-bundled-service services.
Slashdot jumped the gun.
This is considered a severe security violation and they are willfully undermining the integrety of the service they provide.
Any image that does not have a profile is not color managed. I mean, it is completely ignored: in my case, I profiled my Powerbook's LCD, [..] the desktop background image "Purple Frond" that comes with OSX is actually displayed bluish in color because Apple did not embed profiling data in their background images.
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