Though we've discussed Myhrvold and his company in the past, the New Yorker focuses more on how incredible it is to have a group of very intelligent people sitting around a table developing ideas. Developing ideas? No, they are not developing ideas. To develop an idea one must nurture it into a product or service that helps humanity. What these people are doing is enslaving ideas. They are taking what could possibly benefit you and I, and encumbering them in chains.
I figured out why being paid to lie is such big news on Slashdot - because to liberals it's basically an announcement that they can be paid to breathe. I'm certain that there are those who would pay the liberals _not_ to breathe.
Insightful? For all and any country in the world, Tibet is part of China. Check with your government. That is a really good point. People who cry 'free Tibet' should petition their own governments to recognize Tibetian independence. Though, I can see how that might be a bit ridiculous with the 'government' in exile...
They're probably not even clones - they're probably from the actual iPhone production line that just "accidentaly" got siphoned off late one night. They are clones. They have additional stereo speakers, and slight interface changes. It's real subtle, but obviously a clone once you look at the details with a magnfying glass. Note that I've never seen one (I don't live in China) but you can google them easily enough.
It's not the same thing. One is private enterprise trying to make money and the other is an evil totalitarian state trying to reach technical parity with the US military so it can invade tiny, democratic Taiwan and deter the US from intervening. From a political standpoint it's not the same thing. From an engineering standpoint it's not so far off. I should have known better than to assume that/. is frequented by more engineers than armchair politicians.
They studied Galileo. And now, they are moving to copy major aspects of it. Like I said, this was a great deal for them. I only hope that EU decides to make major changes, but I doubt it. Have you seen the Chinese iPhone clones? This is the Chinese, doing what they do best.
I thought the complaint was that KDE looked like Windows? When people are complaining about KDE, it looks like Windows. When people are complementing KDE, it looks like OS-X.
Just this week was the first time I sat down to a Mac. They are rediculously expensive in Israel, and very uncommon. I opened the control center to configure Sticky Keys, and I could have sworn that I had opened Kcontrol, the KDE control center. Worse yet, Kcontrol has two interfaces, one that I like and one that I hate. This was the one that I hate.
I'm sorry [whips out pimp gloves and slaps you] these people had no issues with violating the law before, what makes you think that this makes any difference at all? Accountability. Telemarketers are easier to track down and punish, so the law does. Now, when private individuals go after spammers (because the government is too pussy to do it) there will be more tangible precedent for punishment.
"any guy caught urinating in public should not be allowed to use his penis ever again." "any guy caught urinating in public should not be allowed to use his penis in public ever again."
The site obviously has an agenda (which I wholeheartedly support) and that is to encourage people to stop using Internet Exploder. I use Opera and it didn't complain, then switched my user-agent string to Mozilla (menu option) and it still didn't complain. The I switched it to IE6 and it complained. Then I switched it to IE7 and it complained. Every site should do this (a quick google turned up only 3 sites). Maybe this could start a movement! I sniff the UA with a bit of PHP:
if ( substr_count($_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"], "MSIE") ) { / / IE code here } Note, this is the first time that I've been grateful for the forced preview. The comment did not show with the slashes next to each other, and backslashing the comment did not help either. Interesting parser has/., that strips comments in comments.
Depends. I can start keeping count if you want, but anywhere from 800-5000 backscatters would not surprise me in any given week. That, plus 1200-7000 spam messages a week.
I now have four filter mechanisms at work: 1) All my contacts get a unique email address. Something along the lines of your-name@my-server.com 2) Spamassasin on the server. 3) Thunderbird's standard junk mail filter on the client. 4) Whitelist addresses of known contacts to my "whitelist" folder.
I see maybe 10-20 spam messages a day in my inbox, and the only time I get spam in my whitelist box is when a contact of mine is irresponsible with my address. I then change the address, scold the contact, and give him a new address until next time. I could not do this without the terrific Virtual Identities Thunderbird extension, which remembers which addresses I use to email each contact: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/594
The Inbox gets about 10-20 spams a day, the Tbird junk mail gets around 200 I think, and about once a week or three I grep the spamassasin folder on the server for anything interesting.
Spam costs me money, bandwidth, and time away from my studies, work, and family. Spam is the modern Chinese water tourture: one drop does nothing, but drop after drop my life is being eroded. Not just online life, mind you, but real life as the internet is no less important to everyday life than the telephone is today. http://what-is-what.com/what_is/spam.html
Where's the news here? I've been getting these for years. It's so bad that I filter bounce messages to a separate account on the server to download and review at the end of the week. I get almost as much backscatter as spam, both over 1000 messages a week.
If you are OK with torrents, mvgroup.org is a highly recommended place to look for educational documentaries. Granted I'm not familiar with mvgroup (and just visiting their homepage I got "You do not have permission to view this board"), but why would anyone not be OK with torrents? Assuming that the content is legal, what is wrong with the technology used to acquire it? And even if the content is not legal, what does the fact that he's using a torrent have to do with it?
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That's fine. You know that Windows should not be marketed by people who throw chairs.
I think that Apple should get into the fruit market. They've got a catchy, relevant domain name.
http://what-is-what.com/what_is/apple.html
This search should help you find someone with a working amstrad:
http://www.google.com/search?aq=-1&oq=&num=20&hl=en&safe=off&q=%22how+do+I%22+amstrad&btnG=Search
I lie in bed all the time:
"Yes, I love you"
"Yes, it was good"
"No, I was not thinking about _her_"
On my Dell laptop, drive access is green like power. Battery can be either green or orange, depending on state.
http://what-is-what.com/what_is/kde.html
Just this week was the first time I sat down to a Mac. They are rediculously expensive in Israel, and very uncommon. I opened the control center to configure Sticky Keys, and I could have sworn that I had opened Kcontrol, the KDE control center. Worse yet, Kcontrol has two interfaces, one that I like and one that I hate. This was the one that I hate.
Not ported per se, but half of KDE looks like it was lifted from the Mac. Quicksilver has spawned a dozen clones.
There, fixed that for you.
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It passes now. Thanks.
I hope that this set precedent for spammers.
http://what-is-what.com/what_is/spam.html
Depends. I can start keeping count if you want, but anywhere from 800-5000 backscatters would not surprise me in any given week. That, plus 1200-7000 spam messages a week.
I now have four filter mechanisms at work:
1) All my contacts get a unique email address. Something along the lines of your-name@my-server.com
2) Spamassasin on the server.
3) Thunderbird's standard junk mail filter on the client.
4) Whitelist addresses of known contacts to my "whitelist" folder.
I see maybe 10-20 spam messages a day in my inbox, and the only time I get spam in my whitelist box is when a contact of mine is irresponsible with my address. I then change the address, scold the contact, and give him a new address until next time. I could not do this without the terrific Virtual Identities Thunderbird extension, which remembers which addresses I use to email each contact:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/594
The Inbox gets about 10-20 spams a day, the Tbird junk mail gets around 200 I think, and about once a week or three I grep the spamassasin folder on the server for anything interesting.
Spam costs me money, bandwidth, and time away from my studies, work, and family. Spam is the modern Chinese water tourture: one drop does nothing, but drop after drop my life is being eroded. Not just online life, mind you, but real life as the internet is no less important to everyday life than the telephone is today.
http://what-is-what.com/what_is/spam.html
Nice, thanks! Mods!
Where's the news here? I've been getting these for years. It's so bad that I filter bounce messages to a separate account on the server to download and review at the end of the week. I get almost as much backscatter as spam, both over 1000 messages a week.