musicians and songwriters deserve to impose a "guilty until proven innocent" handout
Musicians and songwriters won't see a single penny of this tax, just like they don't see any of the revenue from the blank media taxes canada already has. It all goes into the pockets of the RIAA.
well if each spam he send wasted an average of 5 seconds of someone else's life, if he sent more than 20*356*24*60*12 spams (a bit less than 127 million) it's not even a punitive sentence, it's just equal to the damage he di to other people's lives.
I'd go for the death penalty for sending in excess of 100 million spams, with all his assets given as bounty to the people who caught him. That's the best way to deter spammers.
This law is only really enforceable against reasonably legitimate companies with UK addresses. It needs a test case, and I've found a real doozy of a target!
For years now, Yahoo have been sticking html and text adverts on the end of messages on YahooGroups mailing lists, which bugs the hell out of me. So I just mailed Yahoo UK to tell them I'm not consenting to recieving adverts from them.
Technically, I can claim 5,000 for each one I get from now on. It will be interesting to see how this works out - maybe they will unsubscribe me from everything?
Being a British citizen recieving spam to a personal mailbox, I phoned the "Information Commission" to get them to so something about the 50 or so spams I have had since midnight when the act came into force.
Their procedure is for me to print out a 4 page Word document (no rtf, html or any other version!), manually fill in dozens of mostly irrelevant questions, and then snail-mail(!) the form to them.
I pointed out that mailing them 200 pages of handwritten notes every 6 hours was a bit impractical, and they told me they would ONLY investigate cases where I had CONTACTED THE SPAMMER AND ASKED TO UNSUBSCRIBE!
I told the person on the other end that replying to Spam is the best way to get deluged with more, and they agreed with me.
The only bright side is that they will soon put up details of how to bypass the Information Commission and take action on your own.
"professional grade" can mean a lot of different things, from realtime manipulation of uncompressed streams down to anything that can edit DV.
Once you reach a certain budget level, you will be able to do everything you define as 'professional', after that what you are paying for is either speed of operation or storage capacity.
Honestly, with the state ofthe market as it is, saving a thousand dollars on software might buy you 30 minutes a day of increased hardware speed, while not spending that will probably cost you more than 30 minutes a day of software usability losses.
I know this won't be a popular answer on slashdot, but if you are going to be spending a five digit sum on this, you might as well devote a few percent of your raid-array budget to buy some commerical software, either Premiere or Final Cut Pro depending which sode of the mac/pc divide you prefer, and if your budget is much lower, pick up an recent secondhand Mac and get iMovie for free.
a large portion of 'traffic noise' is due to bad road surfaces.
So, rather than annoying drivers by making them go a longer way round (and therefore increasing congestion and pollution) mending the roads would be a better solution.
Here are some statistics from the Hong Kong govt who are already doing this: http://www.epd.gov.hk/epd/english/environme ntinhk/ noise/data/road_surface.html
Actually, I would have thought it's considerably less of an drawback to embedded system manufacturers, since you can't often use the software outside the specific embedded hardware environment it's intended for, and therefore the hardware itself practically acts as a 'dongle' for the software.
The only change for them in going GPL might be to switch from a per-unit sales model to an outright-buy one to prevent their customers from getting their GPL source re-compiled elsewhere after the first box is delivered.
Since Diebold has practically admitted to using the 'we're wrong but we've got more lawyers than you' approach, does what they did qualify as Barratry?
If so, let's hope the victims of Diebold's overzealous legal department strike back, recover their costs and have their moment of glory in public courts where the mass media will pick up on it?
There is actually supposed to be a master/slave relationship with multiple drives, the spin speeds of multiple drives should ideally synchronise to the master in order to minimise vibration and optimise data movements between them.
I'll leave it to someone with less of a scsi/firewire bias than me to say if this feature is actually part of the IDE spec or not, but I'm reliably informed by my father that 1970s IBM mainframes did this (back in the days where drive caches were measured in bytes), and that slave drives with the extra circuitry to sync up to a master were slightly more expensive.
Run by geeky music makers for the benefit of the music community, ampfea.org is free (although donations of cash or bandwidth are solicited). There are spam-free mailing lists for musicians (and a new-music for download annoucement only list for the non-musicians) there as well as a stack of leigitmate freely shared MP3s, and audio samples for making your own music. Baset of all, it's a really nice community, we have real-world meet-ups occasionally.
Hey Nokia, instead of annoying customers who bought other series 60 devices by deliberatley breaking compatibility, why not try to recoup some of your losses on the N-gage debacle by selling the games to them?
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musicians and songwriters deserve to impose a "guilty until proven innocent" handout
Musicians and songwriters won't see a single penny of this tax, just like they don't see any of the revenue from the blank media taxes canada already has. It all goes into the pockets of the RIAA.
"Giving low point scores to all the vowels is clearly racist" said Aiiiaoa Oaoaiuuii for the Hawaiian state prosecutor's office.
World Scrabble champion Hzbrgzny Zgknyskqjz of Poland is rumoured to be a key witness for the defence at the trial.
well if each spam he send wasted an average of 5 seconds of someone else's life, if he sent more than 20*356*24*60*12 spams (a bit less than 127 million) it's not even a punitive sentence, it's just equal to the damage he di to other people's lives.
I'd go for the death penalty for sending in excess of 100 million spams, with all his assets given as bounty to the people who caught him. That's the best way to deter spammers.
This law is only really enforceable against reasonably legitimate companies with UK addresses. It needs a test case, and I've found a real doozy of a target!
For years now, Yahoo have been sticking html and text adverts on the end of messages on YahooGroups mailing lists, which bugs the hell out of me. So I just mailed Yahoo UK to tell them I'm not consenting to recieving adverts from them.
Technically, I can claim 5,000 for each one I get from now on. It will be interesting to see how this works out - maybe they will unsubscribe me from everything?
Being a British citizen recieving spam to a personal mailbox, I phoned the "Information Commission" to get them to so something about the 50 or so spams I have had since midnight when the act came into force.
Their procedure is for me to print out a 4 page Word document (no rtf, html or any other version!), manually fill in dozens of mostly irrelevant questions, and then snail-mail(!) the form to them.
I pointed out that mailing them 200 pages of handwritten notes every 6 hours was a bit impractical, and they told me they would ONLY investigate cases where I had CONTACTED THE SPAMMER AND ASKED TO UNSUBSCRIBE!
I told the person on the other end that replying to Spam is the best way to get deluged with more, and they agreed with me.
The only bright side is that they will soon put up details of how to bypass the Information Commission and take action on your own.
I get the same symptoms on the final Mac OS version of Mozilla, slashdot is the only site with the problem that I have found.
"professional grade" can mean a lot of different things, from realtime manipulation of uncompressed streams down to anything that can edit DV.
Once you reach a certain budget level, you will be able to do everything you define as 'professional', after that what you are paying for is either speed of operation or storage capacity.
Honestly, with the state ofthe market as it is, saving a thousand dollars on software might buy you 30 minutes a day of increased hardware speed, while not spending that will probably cost you more than 30 minutes a day of software usability losses.
I know this won't be a popular answer on slashdot, but if you are going to be spending a five digit sum on this, you might as well devote a few percent of your raid-array budget to buy some commerical software, either Premiere or Final Cut Pro depending which sode of the mac/pc divide you prefer, and if your budget is much lower, pick up an recent secondhand Mac and get iMovie for free.
a large portion of 'traffic noise' is due to bad road surfaces.
e ntinhk/ noise/data/road_surface.html
So, rather than annoying drivers by making them go a longer way round (and therefore increasing congestion and pollution) mending the roads would be a better solution.
Here are some statistics from the Hong Kong govt who are already doing this:
http://www.epd.gov.hk/epd/english/environm
I use LJ-5, which I believe to be sufficently safe.
No-one is going to wade through 5 pages of a Live Journal blog to find my secrets.
surely for a Physics joke it should be hadrons?
The BBC's car review site has some erm, 'interesting' examples of amateur aerodynamic modifications:
e /0 /
http://www.topgear.com/content/fun_stuff/carbag
Until I googled, I had no idea what an 'airfoil' was, the word isn't in my English dictionary here in England.
Turns out he's just asking about Aerofoils but it's one of those words that the Americans spell wrong, like 'color' and 'potatoe'.
I suggest he tries all the places he already looked, but use the spelling the rest of the world uses.
wouldn't catching ddosers and putting them in jail help too?
So, the modern usage should be
j00 h@\/e \/1ru5e5 f001!!!!!!111111233
not
j00 h@\/e \/1r111111 f001!!!!!!!!!11112
?
Actually, I would have thought it's considerably less of an drawback to embedded system manufacturers, since you can't often use the software outside the specific embedded hardware environment it's intended for, and therefore the hardware itself practically acts as a 'dongle' for the software.
The only change for them in going GPL might be to switch from a per-unit sales model to an outright-buy one to prevent their customers from getting their
GPL source re-compiled elsewhere after the first box is delivered.
Volkswagen and Smart (DaimlerChrysler's microcar - not on sale in the US) are both offering ipod options already
I'm waiting for the box set of extended versions of all 3 films plus the inevitable bonus disk.
9 discs for mortal men doomed to die. 1 box to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them, in the land of Mpaa where the shadows lie.
Since Diebold has practically admitted to using the 'we're wrong but we've got more lawyers than you' approach, does what they did qualify as Barratry?
If so, let's hope the victims of Diebold's overzealous legal department strike back, recover their costs and have their moment of glory in public courts where the mass media will pick up on it?
Why on earth are hyphens the only allowable punctuation at the moment?
Is there really any reason to continue to disallow things like:
10%.com
10off.com
#dot.org
and most importantly Andy_R.com
while allowing motorhead.com to have their umlauts?
There is actually supposed to be a master/slave relationship with multiple drives, the spin speeds of multiple drives should ideally synchronise to the master in order to minimise vibration and optimise data movements between them.
I'll leave it to someone with less of a scsi/firewire bias than me to say if this feature is actually part of the IDE spec or not, but I'm reliably informed by my father that 1970s IBM mainframes did this (back in the days where drive caches were measured in bytes), and that slave drives with the extra circuitry to sync up to a master were slightly more expensive.
a computer programmer going to jail because a criminal gang provoked him into pressing some buttons on a keyboard
or
the actual torture, poisoning and death of spammers?
I say give the guy some powertools and a bag of anthrax spores and let him get on with the job that the forces of law and order are failing to do.
Run by geeky music makers for the benefit of the music community, ampfea.org is free (although donations of cash or bandwidth are solicited). There are spam-free mailing lists for musicians (and a new-music for download annoucement only list for the non-musicians) there as well as a stack of leigitmate freely shared MP3s, and audio samples for making your own music. Baset of all, it's a really nice community, we have real-world meet-ups occasionally.
All the "read this story" links (even the msnbc ones) go via redirect adresses in the moreover.com domain rather than directly to the source.
Who are Moreover, and why is Microsoft using them for redirection?
Q: That could be boilerplate applying to any company. What's the special sauce?
A:The secret sauce that HP brings is...
This?
Hey Nokia, instead of annoying customers who bought other series 60 devices by deliberatley breaking compatibility, why not try to recoup some of your losses on the N-gage debacle by selling the games to them?