Please provide such clues to the people reading this who want to become no longer dumbintercourses. What backup methods would you recommend for somebody who can't afford a ludicrous-speed Internet connection or a non-sub-low-end second computer?
I'm convinced that's how Open Office etc. should work. Flawless im- and export, and I mean real fucking flawless.
If you're convinced enough to swear, are you convinced enough to put your PayPal where your mouth is and fund development of better MS Office document import filters in OpenOffice.org?
Not exactly. Copyright law refers both to "sound recordings" (what's encoded on records) and "musical works" (what's encoded on sheet music). It's easy to avoid copying a sound recording, but last time I checked, it's nearly impossible for a songwriter to affirmatively avoid copying a musical work that has been played on commercial radio.
GIF (and the IE-compatible subset of PNG that looks like still GIF) is also 8-bit and doesn't compress well. A GIF "compression" tool, rather than a "conversion" tool, will usually try to reduce the raw number of colors in an image, possibly by adding dither patterns.
Unless the software is embodied in a coin-operated machine:
Unless the game contains licensed material, as in common in arcade games such as Dance Dance Revolution:
this subsection shall not apply to any work of authorship embodied in the audiovisual game if the copyright owner of the electronic audiovisual game is not also the copyright owner of the work of authorship. (Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 109(e))
An example of such a form can be found on my web site. It's a lot more likely than a picture of an e-mail address to conform to section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.
However, for people on ad-supported web accounts without a solid form mail script, what solution do you suggest?
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he suggests something quite sensible about graphical email addresses on web sites
How is this "sensible" under section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act? Users behind non-graphical user agents, such as users with vision disabilities, cannot turn a picture of an e-mail address into an e-mail address.
I, on the other hand, open first contact through a web form that spambots looking for @-signs can't pick up but which remains accessible to anybody whose non-graphical web browser supports HTML forms.
"Explain this to me, I'm too lazy to run a few Google searches and educate myself." It's not as if the information on anti-spam techniques are difficult to find.
It appears you tend to respond "Ask Google" to a lot of Ask Slashdot articles. However, Google can't read your mind. Sometimes, the layman does not know the appropriate words to put into Google's query field in order to find relevant results. I myself have run into this problem. I'd ask Jeeves, but Jeeves doesn't seem to have much deep technical knowledge either.
Spam exists because it works
This means that one should approach reducing UCE by understanding how and why UCE works in order to attack those factors. This article seems to contribute to such an understanding.
Because leaving a notebook computer on all the time is a waste of battery power, and coming out of hibernation takes even longer than booting the darn thing much of the time.
Thanks to repeated copyright term extensions, the set of works whose U.S. copyright has expired is now a constant set and can be special-cased. Now on to those "other problems"...
Are PDA CPUs up to 500 MHz yet? I imagine that it would take at least 500 MHz to run Game Boy Advance games at playable speed, given VisualBoyAdvance's performance on my 866 MHz Pentium III PC.
Unless the PDA/phone combo unit has a kick@$$ processor (and the battery drain that goes with it), it's not going to be emulating a GBA anytime soon, which means no familiar titles, no Wario Ware, no Zelda 3, no Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, no nothing.
Most native cellphone games suck. Look at the disappointing review that GMR gave to the N-Gage handheld system.
Please consider these hypotheses when applying for funding:
I want to do a study to find out if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about.
Nope. It's all about "for-tea-two", and the corresponding question is "what is a good attitude toward life?" If the Hokey Pokey were what it's all about, the Macarena (essentially a sped-up PG-13 Hokey Pokey) wouldn't have died as quickly as it became popular.
what happens when you strap a piece of toast on the back of a cat and drop it
Conventional wisdom: Housecats (Felis domesticus) are stronger than buttered toast. For one thing, housecats weigh more.
We are living in a universe where an approximate ultimate question has been discovered: "What is a good attitude toward life?" with answer "for-tea-two," that is, "tea for two."
Whether this hypothesis will affect weather patterns is still up in the air.
Slashdot Mirror
I'd rather mirror my data over the net to a completely different location.
Sneakernet is much cheaper than the Internet if you happen to have been born in a town that does not have quality high-speed Internet access.
Lossy codecs on high settings are designed to remove as much noise as possible without grossly affecting the signal.
Please provide such clues to the people reading this who want to become no longer dumbintercourses. What backup methods would you recommend for somebody who can't afford a ludicrous-speed Internet connection or a non-sub-low-end second computer?
That's easy. Just append a wave file to a standard "hello world" program.
I'm convinced that's how Open Office etc. should work. Flawless im- and export, and I mean real fucking flawless.
If you're convinced enough to swear, are you convinced enough to put your PayPal where your mouth is and fund development of better MS Office document import filters in OpenOffice.org?
SpamCop.net Reporting Service can do much of what you ask.
copyright law does not refer to "music."
Not exactly. Copyright law refers both to "sound recordings" (what's encoded on records) and "musical works" (what's encoded on sheet music). It's easy to avoid copying a sound recording, but last time I checked, it's nearly impossible for a songwriter to affirmatively avoid copying a musical work that has been played on commercial radio.
GIF (and the IE-compatible subset of PNG that looks like still GIF) is also 8-bit and doesn't compress well. A GIF "compression" tool, rather than a "conversion" tool, will usually try to reduce the raw number of colors in an image, possibly by adding dither patterns.
Unless the software is embodied in a coin-operated machine:
Unless the game contains licensed material, as in common in arcade games such as Dance Dance Revolution:
but they have a cheaper cost of goods.
The increased royalty paid per copy to the developer of a newer codec may outweigh the reduced cost of physical replication.
An example of such a form can be found on my web site. It's a lot more likely than a picture of an e-mail address to conform to section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.
However, for people on ad-supported web accounts without a solid form mail script, what solution do you suggest?
The software makers will have to "make sure every single port is secure"
Perhaps they could do it by stealthing all incoming ports unless the owner of the machine has chosen to open them. Comments?
People don't have a viable way to filter telemarketing calls, so I believe government action is appropriate. But again, only as a last resort.
Do people whose Internet access is metered have a viable way to filter UCE?
The following law citations refer to laws in effect in the United States. Your jurisdiction may or may not have laws of similar effect. Nothing you read on Slashdot is legal advice.
he suggests something quite sensible about graphical email addresses on web sites
How is this "sensible" under section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act? Users behind non-graphical user agents, such as users with vision disabilities, cannot turn a picture of an e-mail address into an e-mail address.
I, on the other hand, open first contact through a web form that spambots looking for @-signs can't pick up but which remains accessible to anybody whose non-graphical web browser supports HTML forms.
"Explain this to me, I'm too lazy to run a few Google searches and educate myself." It's not as if the information on anti-spam techniques are difficult to find.
It appears you tend to respond "Ask Google" to a lot of Ask Slashdot articles. However, Google can't read your mind. Sometimes, the layman does not know the appropriate words to put into Google's query field in order to find relevant results. I myself have run into this problem. I'd ask Jeeves, but Jeeves doesn't seem to have much deep technical knowledge either.
Spam exists because it works
This means that one should approach reducing UCE by understanding how and why UCE works in order to attack those factors. This article seems to contribute to such an understanding.
Why are people so hung up on boot speed?
Because leaving a notebook computer on all the time is a waste of battery power, and coming out of hibernation takes even longer than booting the darn thing much of the time.
Unless the copyright has expired
Thanks to repeated copyright term extensions, the set of works whose U.S. copyright has expired is now a constant set and can be special-cased. Now on to those "other problems"...
get a game boy emulator for your PDA.
Are PDA CPUs up to 500 MHz yet? I imagine that it would take at least 500 MHz to run Game Boy Advance games at playable speed, given VisualBoyAdvance's performance on my 866 MHz Pentium III PC.
phone is far to small to be used as a PDA/mp3 player/gaming system.
I could almost see a mobile phone being made in the form factor of the original GBA, with a microphone on the front panel next to the L button.
Find games for it, and away with the Game Boy.
Unless the PDA/phone combo unit has a kick@$$ processor (and the battery drain that goes with it), it's not going to be emulating a GBA anytime soon, which means no familiar titles, no Wario Ware, no Zelda 3, no Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, no nothing.
Most native cellphone games suck. Look at the disappointing review that GMR gave to the N-Gage handheld system.
What White-Americans call a "cookie" Brits call a "biscuit."
can we figure out who the "they" are in "that's what they say"?
"They" are "many people of this culture".
And the amount of wood that your woodchuck can chuck depends on how many spamvertised pills you've swallowed.
Please consider these hypotheses when applying for funding:
I want to do a study to find out if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about.
Nope. It's all about "for-tea-two", and the corresponding question is "what is a good attitude toward life?" If the Hokey Pokey were what it's all about, the Macarena (essentially a sped-up PG-13 Hokey Pokey) wouldn't have died as quickly as it became popular.
what happens when you strap a piece of toast on the back of a cat and drop it
Conventional wisdom: Housecats (Felis domesticus) are stronger than buttered toast. For one thing, housecats weigh more.
We are living in a universe where an approximate ultimate question has been discovered: "What is a good attitude toward life?" with answer "for-tea-two," that is, "tea for two."
Whether this hypothesis will affect weather patterns is still up in the air.
All works are copyrighted from the moment they are fixed in a tangible medium, that is in this case, written to the server's hard disk.