Obama has a very clear plan. It goes like this:
1.Stimulate economy with massive government spending in 09-10.
2.Slash government budget in 2011. (this includes NASA funding)
3.Cross fingers that step 1 works.
4. Increased tax revenues caused by step 1 and spending cuts from step 2 yield budget surplus at then end of 2011.
5. Say, "See, I balanced the budget!" in 2012.
6. Get reelected in 2012.
Diesel generators of that size (you would want to buy 2 of them) would probably run between 1-2 million dollars. But keep in mind that they would consume about 300 gallons of #2 diesel (non-taxed) per hour. What would that cost you?
Wouldn't it be cheaper to hand out emergency radios that wait in a low power standby mode until a certain signal is received?
Not to mention more effective. The people who were affected by the Boxing Day Tsunami didn't know what it meant when the ocean suddenly receded. How will they know what a blinking light from space means?
With a radio, you greatly reduce the chances of the message being misinterpreted. I fear this satellite may become worshiped by some isolated people as the great God of the sea.
Old people can't use computers. Even if it involves lightly pressing on the accelerator.
I've found old engineers to be an exception to that rule. I've known a few consultants in their 70's that are always showing off their cool new gadgets.
I understand that sending resumes online is not the best method to landing an interview...
These days it's the only way. If you send in a paper resume, it will get thrown in the trash. HR departments were scaled back during the major layoffs, and they receive a lot of resumes. This means your resume will only be chosen by computer! Time to show off your skills and figure out how to game the system.
I just landed a job after 9 months of unemployment this way. Load your resume up will lots of key words. When the computer ranks two resumes equally, it posts the most recent one first. Therefore, you need to repost your resume often.
Your post advocates a
( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based (X) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
(X) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(X) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
(X) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
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Obama has a very clear plan. It goes like this:
1.Stimulate economy with massive government spending in 09-10.
2.Slash government budget in 2011. (this includes NASA funding)
3.Cross fingers that step 1 works.
4. Increased tax revenues caused by step 1 and spending cuts from step 2 yield budget surplus at then end of 2011.
5. Say, "See, I balanced the budget!" in 2012.
6. Get reelected in 2012.
Are they getting the power to charge the battery for free?
No, but it's usually much cheaper than buying diesel.
Plus the cost of fuel...
I wonder what a diesel generator would cost them?
Diesel generators of that size (you would want to buy 2 of them) would probably run between 1-2 million dollars. But keep in mind that they would consume about 300 gallons of #2 diesel (non-taxed) per hour. What would that cost you?
Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, triple word score. Suck it.
Only a quijibo would use a Simpsons reference in a game of Scrabble.
Please, enough of the iPad.
I'm more interested in the Joo Joo review.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to hand out emergency radios that wait in a low power standby mode until a certain signal is received?
Not to mention more effective. The people who were affected by the Boxing Day Tsunami didn't know what it meant when the ocean suddenly receded. How will they know what a blinking light from space means?
With a radio, you greatly reduce the chances of the message being misinterpreted. I fear this satellite may become worshiped by some isolated people as the great God of the sea.
Old people can't use computers. Even if it involves lightly pressing on the accelerator.
I've found old engineers to be an exception to that rule. I've known a few consultants in their 70's that are always showing off their cool new gadgets.
Are all against alliteration? AAAARG!!!!!
No, those of us below the age of 5 find it hilarious.
Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers.
That headline is a mouthful.
These days it's the only way. If you send in a paper resume, it will get thrown in the trash. HR departments were scaled back during the major layoffs, and they receive a lot of resumes. This means your resume will only be chosen by computer! Time to show off your skills and figure out how to game the system.
I just landed a job after 9 months of unemployment this way. Load your resume up will lots of key words. When the computer ranks two resumes equally, it posts the most recent one first. Therefore, you need to repost your resume often.
Not to mention the guy that did this way back in 1989!
This bus is on the information superhighway!
I'm shocked that the ChromeOS shown in the animation has such rich multitasking. They're really aiming high with this one.
If you haven't seen the West Wing, this is what it says about missile defense.
Good Grief!
These days we play war.
iPad sounds like digital Kotex...
NPR actually has a story about this.
WRECKER
Wayward
Robot
Extractor for
Caught
Kickass
Encumbered
Rovers
Glad I could help.
Oh, there's a final solution alright.
Your post advocates a
( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based (X) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
(X) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(X) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
(X) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
Oh, there's a final solution alright.
Hitler, is that you?
I'm all for stopping Spam, but genocide crosses the line.
I'm guessing this has something to do with the Wassenaar Arrangement.
I know, but a lot of people think that scene was faked.
It's a UNIX system! I know this!
That system used in Jurassic Park actually exists. It's called fsn and it has an open source alternative called tdfsb.
We had a thread on Ubuntuforums dedicated to this topic. I think we concluded that tdfsb is awesome.