I've slowly switched all my email accounts (business and personal) over to Gmail, and I almost never have to deal with spam anymore.
I still get a fair number of advertising emails from companies I've placed orders from, but they all provide the ability to unsubscribe.
The only people I know still drowning in spam are the ones who are clinging to some ancient ISP-provided address, or who have a poorly managed company mail server.
If those people would simply find a decent email provider, the spammers' market would dry up and spam might become a "thing of the past" once and for all. But for now there's no reason you can't switch to a decent email provider and forget about spam today.
The key here is this: delivering the punchline with a heavy air of incredulity that the audience would take the prospect of conversing chimneys remotely seriously, even in the context of a joke. Add to that a hint of disdain at their gullibility, and it really is funny.
That depends on the cloud. Warm, low-altitude clouds are almost transparent to infrared. Cold, high-altitude clouds—the kind you'd find between a plane and satellite—are extremely opaque to infrared. Even clouds that are nearly transparent to visible light can block infrared light.
On the other hand, I'm not convinced a laser system would even be necessary; militaries already rely on a great deal of battlefield radio communication; if it was easy to jam those signals, people would be doing it already. Jamming a spread-spectrum transmission from one directional antenna to another is very hard.
Aircraft are still more efficient per passenger-mile than other popular means of transportation. A loaded 747 gets roughly 100 passenger-miles per gallon. Most American cars, even when loaded with passengers and luggage, can't manage that. Ships are even worse; cruise ships are lucky to get 10 passenger-miles per gallon.
So until electric cars or high-speed rail services take off, don't complain about aircraft.
Also, biofuel sources like jatropha and algae don't displace food crops, unless you define anything that occupies space on the planet's surface as "displacing food crops". They grow in deserts, swamps, shorelines, and lots of other places that are unsuited for food cultivation.
Yes, but the biofuels are carbon-neutral, as producing them removes an equal amount of carbon from the biosphere. It's a closed loop.
Fossil fuels, on the other hand, extract carbon that has been sequestered for many thousands or millions of years and releases it into the biosphere. It's an open loop, at least in human timescales.
You drove your car off a cliff. Moments before your car hit the ground, I plugged you right between the eyes with a sniper rifle. Your car hits the ground and creates a dramatic fireball. How did you die?
Yep, that's my recommendation. Avoid the "death zone".
Oh, sure, wise guy.
Here, YOU take the map and YOU find another route to the ancient temple which contains the mysterious artifact that will destroy the source of the evil overlord's dark power.
I'm fairly confident that there won't be a photovoltaic Chernobyl, though.
Nuclear power plants need tremendous oversight in planning, construction, and operation, to make sure public safety doesn't lose out to corporate cost-cutting. Holding a nuclear reactor design "to the same paperwork standards" as a wind turbine would be a disaster.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, but...
Nobody getting spam in inbox => nobody replying to spam => no ROI for email marketing company => no paycheck for spammer => no more spam.
More like a job for...
DUNNH DUNNH DUNNNN
Adding a secondary email to your Google account!
But turning SSL on isn't a bad idea.
I've slowly switched all my email accounts (business and personal) over to Gmail, and I almost never have to deal with spam anymore.
I still get a fair number of advertising emails from companies I've placed orders from, but they all provide the ability to unsubscribe.
The only people I know still drowning in spam are the ones who are clinging to some ancient ISP-provided address, or who have a poorly managed company mail server.
If those people would simply find a decent email provider, the spammers' market would dry up and spam might become a "thing of the past" once and for all. But for now there's no reason you can't switch to a decent email provider and forget about spam today.
the ink carries an N-Type negative charge. Previously, semiconductor inks have only been able to carry a positive charge.
Do you have any idea what this means?! The possibilities are mind-boggling! You'll be able to put the batteries in backwards!
Thinking like this (maximizing profit, despite having enough already) is what killed our economy.
Yes, but it also birthed it.
That belongs in a museum!
The key here is this: delivering the punchline with a heavy air of incredulity that the audience would take the prospect of conversing chimneys remotely seriously, even in the context of a joke. Add to that a hint of disdain at their gullibility, and it really is funny.
Nah, that could never work.
That depends on the cloud. Warm, low-altitude clouds are almost transparent to infrared. Cold, high-altitude clouds—the kind you'd find between a plane and satellite—are extremely opaque to infrared. Even clouds that are nearly transparent to visible light can block infrared light.
On the other hand, I'm not convinced a laser system would even be necessary; militaries already rely on a great deal of battlefield radio communication; if it was easy to jam those signals, people would be doing it already. Jamming a spread-spectrum transmission from one directional antenna to another is very hard.
One hell of a jamming technology to block the laser to satellite communication of a high-altitude plane.
Yes, the level of technology required would be ridiculous.
Robots the size of molecules would fascinate me.
Aircraft are still more efficient per passenger-mile than other popular means of transportation. A loaded 747 gets roughly 100 passenger-miles per gallon. Most American cars, even when loaded with passengers and luggage, can't manage that. Ships are even worse; cruise ships are lucky to get 10 passenger-miles per gallon.
So until electric cars or high-speed rail services take off, don't complain about aircraft.
Also, biofuel sources like jatropha and algae don't displace food crops, unless you define anything that occupies space on the planet's surface as "displacing food crops". They grow in deserts, swamps, shorelines, and lots of other places that are unsuited for food cultivation.
Yes, but the biofuels are carbon-neutral, as producing them removes an equal amount of carbon from the biosphere. It's a closed loop.
Fossil fuels, on the other hand, extract carbon that has been sequestered for many thousands or millions of years and releases it into the biosphere. It's an open loop, at least in human timescales.
It's Reverse Swedish Notation.
You drove your car off a cliff. Moments before your car hit the ground, I plugged you right between the eyes with a sniper rifle. Your car hits the ground and creates a dramatic fireball. How did you die?
Awesomely.
I've heard of the game, and I've been meaning to try it, though I'm not sure it's quite as big a hit on this side of the pond.
IBM Won.
Considering how they seem to be able to define the units whatever way they like
Actually, drive makers follow the standard SI prefixes.
But by extension, I guess you could say that the CGPM seems to be able to define the units whatever way they like.
...but that might not be such a good idea.
One got the screen cracked when a helpful stewardess shoved someone's luggage into mine in the overhead storage bin.
Ah, yes, she gets around.
Your entire proof that Buffet has any interest in this venture is a story on Slashdot. That makes you the idiot.
Curiously, I do not share your sentiment about the other poster.
I am, however, fairly confident that you are an imbecile.
Yep, that's my recommendation. Avoid the "death zone".
Oh, sure, wise guy.
Here, YOU take the map and YOU find another route to the ancient temple which contains the mysterious artifact that will destroy the source of the evil overlord's dark power.
You're sure they're not just locked in a fallout shelter for 35 years?
I'm fairly confident that there won't be a photovoltaic Chernobyl, though.
Nuclear power plants need tremendous oversight in planning, construction, and operation, to make sure public safety doesn't lose out to corporate cost-cutting. Holding a nuclear reactor design "to the same paperwork standards" as a wind turbine would be a disaster.
Get Privoxy and don't look back.
They give the book away for free, but neglect to mention the metaphorical bookshelf you need to sit it on?
A clever ruse, and the fools almost got away with it. But they failed to realize that Slashdot has a Sicilian in it's ranks!