I've had a hotmail account (and I'll be d*mned if I'm going to post it here) that I've had for over 2 years with never any spam. Perhaps because it's a long one (12 chars)? Only 2 people besides myself know about it though (primarily use it to autoforward stuff from work when I'm out).
OTOH, I got an account with mail.com (smyle@altavista.net - ha! tell everybody you know, it doesn't matter to me), that has become my de facto account for potential spamming, because I got over 50 spam messages the first time I logged in (and before I sent anything there myself). Now, I just use it when somebody needs a registration or something. I clean it all out, wait for the registration info to come through, and then wait until I need to register something else.
I read an article on this recently (dead-tree version, so no URL).
The version I read basically took your car, and moved it along like a horizontal escalator (such as you see in some airports), at speeds of ~200 mph and with only a couple of feet between them. Since you're not relying on your own power (other that to get to the on-ramps and once you get off the off-ramps), maintenance of the vehicle isn't an issue. The article also mentioned valet-type capability for dense populations (such as downtown areas), so it would drop you off at your office door, park your car, and then you could call for it to come pick you up when you get off work (or done shopping/whatever).
And because capatalists put too much emphasis on skill, and undervalue basic services of this nature, the system can't work without intervention at a political level.
BS. It's all a matter of supply and demand. I work at a school where we pay our custodians $2-$3/hr more than we do our certified teachers aides. Why? We're pretty close to a university so there is a lot of "supply" of aides, but nobody wants to be a custodian, so they won't work for cheap. We have plenty of aides, because those that are qualified know that, despite the fact they could get more money in the short term by becoming a custodian, in the long term getting the experience will make them more money.
"The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water." -- John Gardner
Notice how consumers are generally unable to apply pressure to large companies
Ummm... not completely free. Not even completely gratis.
On the page you cite, it says
The license associated with this product allows for free personal use only. Use on multiple PCs in a corporate, educational, military or government installation is prohibited. See the license agreement for details.
Kinda makes it not-worth-it in a business setting, huh?
From the BSA's site, they have GASP for free download (Windows and Macintosh only, of course).
After looking that up, why do I feel like I need to take a shower?
I can't believe nobody has brought up the trademark dilution that "Windows" has.
When you open a new program on a Mac, what do you call it? A "Window". I don't have a manual, but I'd be willing to bet Microsoft even does so for its MSoffice for Mac manuals
Same with X. Heck, I remember using 'twm' on a solaris box - twm = "The Window Manager".
If a "window" is a generic term (as shown above), but "Windows" refers to an OS, it seems to me the only way MS could successfully sue is to show that "LindowsOS" is "confusingly similar" to any particular version of MS Windows, like if this company sold "Lindows NT", "Lindows 2000", or "Lindows XP"
My Cyrix (HEY! Quit laughing! It was the only thing I could afford 4 years ago, just before the K6 came out) "PR166+" (which is actually a 133) is still chugging along quite nicely.
Besides, I get to use the good ones at work, so I get my "fix".
That was the funniest pun on physicists since a message on the SEUL/edu list mentioned "Schrodinger's Hub". In context:
It's 10BaseT Ether, about the size of a mid-tower (not a rack-mount), and it's grotty (I got it out of a junkyard, after all). As far as I know, it works, but as far as I know it's broken as well. (Think of it as Schrodinger's Hub. Until you plug it in, it both works and does not work.)
Well in this case, he got caught. Therefore, at Spring COMDEX, there will be a public display of suicide in the Microsoft booth, as a warning to others.
Methinks you've posted this to the wrong forum. This is Slashdot, where practicality is valued and there reside many VERY SMART folk (along with a good many more sheep, but I digress). This is not a legislators forum.
Such a law (even assuming it is only a US, or even a single state's law) is completely unenforceable.
When I send an e-mail to my cow-orker down the hall, the mail never leaves our server. Am I then required to have some sort of governmental spy-ware on my server to report this?
As someone else mentioned - what about a listserv? Do I get taxed on the (1) message I send out or on the x thousand that get received. Taxing on just the one would do no good against spammers, as they could easily setup a listserv to do the same thing. Taxing on thousands could get very expensive for "legitimate users".
What constitutes e-mail? Any connection to a port 25? What if I open a single connection to aol.com and send a million messages over that connection? How could you how many messages that is? What if I configure sendmail to listen on a different port?
Hmmm... The more I respond, the more I think I've found a troll.
At the moment my other half knows what a floppy disk is (it looks like a floppy disk, and you can put files on it). She knows that the "hard disk" is a "big floppy disk inside the computer", and that she should copy from the later to the former whenever she needs to keep a safe copy.
I think you have that backwards. If I had a nickel for every fried floppy I had to tell people they were SOL with....
I know this is late, and will probably never be read but...
99.9999% of tax programs/CPA audit software/CPA trial balance software is written in Windows
...math hyperbole just drives me nuts.
Since there are at least 2 written for linux (mentioned here earlier), this means there are at least 2 million tax programs written for windows. I don't buy it.
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To be fair, you're comparing apples and oranges
No, you're comparing Apples and PC's.
I've had a hotmail account (and I'll be d*mned if I'm going to post it here) that I've had for over 2 years with never any spam. Perhaps because it's a long one (12 chars)? Only 2 people besides myself know about it though (primarily use it to autoforward stuff from work when I'm out).
OTOH, I got an account with mail.com (smyle@altavista.net - ha! tell everybody you know, it doesn't matter to me), that has become my de facto account for potential spamming, because I got over 50 spam messages the first time I logged in (and before I sent anything there myself). Now, I just use it when somebody needs a registration or something. I clean it all out, wait for the registration info to come through, and then wait until I need to register something else.
When I worked for a university, the e-mail sysadmin told me that students have been offered $20 to $50 to /etc/passwd
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Sorry, but there's plenty of prior art for shit. You'll have to find something else to patent.
I will not provide a link...
I will not provide a link...
They often are the 300$ 'budget' shite your inlaws bought at CompuCentre.
How do you accelerate a Mac?
9.81 m/s^2
The version I read basically took your car, and moved it along like a horizontal escalator (such as you see in some airports), at speeds of ~200 mph and with only a couple of feet between them. Since you're not relying on your own power (other that to get to the on-ramps and once you get off the off-ramps), maintenance of the vehicle isn't an issue. The article also mentioned valet-type capability for dense populations (such as downtown areas), so it would drop you off at your office door, park your car, and then you could call for it to come pick you up when you get off work (or done shopping/whatever).
Ah - I just remembered I happened to bring the magazine to work with me. Francis Reynolds is his name. Use this link for his ideas and this link for debate about them.
*ba-dum ching*
Napoleon Complex?
No. That's what copyright law is for.
Also, I think they would probably suffer the Napster effect.
BS. It's all a matter of supply and demand. I work at a school where we pay our custodians $2-$3/hr more than we do our certified teachers aides. Why? We're pretty close to a university so there is a lot of "supply" of aides, but nobody wants to be a custodian, so they won't work for cheap. We have plenty of aides, because those that are qualified know that, despite the fact they could get more money in the short term by becoming a custodian, in the long term getting the experience will make them more money.
"The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water." -- John Gardner
Notice how consumers are generally unable to apply pressure to large companies
Yeah, that never happens
Hate to follow-up on my own post, but I just looked, and this tool isn't free for all, either. It is limited to 100 systems and 60 days.
On the page you cite, it says
Kinda makes it not-worth-it in a business setting, huh?
From the BSA's site, they have GASP for free download (Windows and Macintosh only, of course).
After looking that up, why do I feel like I need to take a shower?
My Cyrix (HEY! Quit laughing! It was the only thing I could afford 4 years ago, just before the K6 came out) "PR166+" (which is actually a 133) is still chugging along quite nicely.
Besides, I get to use the good ones at work, so I get my "fix".
Hmmm... What I wouldn't have given for a good homeworkd in school. Just fire up my favorite homework client, and let the computer figure out the rest.
(With apologies to Scott Adams.)
Such a law (even assuming it is only a US, or even a single state's law) is completely unenforceable.
Hmmm... The more I respond, the more I think I've found a troll.
We have HP e-Vectra's that do. During bootup you can press a key (F8) and choose whether to boot from CD, HDD, or Network.
Not that this completely invalidates your argument or anything... Just wanted to bring up an exception.
... I'm through.
What? Are you afraid of getting sued by the makers of a certain browser?
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I think you have that backwards. If I had a nickel for every fried floppy I had to tell people they were SOL with....
99.9999% of tax programs/CPA audit software/CPA trial balance software is written in Windows
...math hyperbole just drives me nuts.
Since there are at least 2 written for linux (mentioned here earlier), this means there are at least 2 million tax programs written for windows. I don't buy it.