My first thought was that the question was initially asked in 1997, and Slashdot is only just now getting through it's backlog of questions....Lazy bastards.
Please call Richard Pryor's character from Superman III, and tell him he's welcome to your fractional pennies. Storing and forwarding packets requires memory and processing. Different data-link layers have different maximum bandwidths (sometimes defined by clock-speed, sometimes defined by physics), that once reached, can only be relieved through the creation of multiple data links. Yes, the transmission of a handful of bytes works out to be an immeasurably small amount, but the worldwide transmission of spam is easily measured in terabytes per second by now. Those immeasurable amounts do add up.
Looking at your sig (though too lazy to actually click it),
Wait, so the MPAA can't claim that prirates steal potential sales by filesharing, but anti-spammers can claim that Spammers steal your precious bandwidth? Zombies aside, spammers paid for their upload bandwidth. It is the fault of you and your ISP for requesting that everything addressed to you be stored on the mail server, and eventually sent to your terminal. If you don't like it, use some other mechanism that isn't a 30 year old protocol designed with no thought whatsoever towards Authentication, Authorization or Accountability.
...Hopefully this is just a woosh, but, uh, "@gmail.com" ?It's a fairly safe guess these days. To up your odds, just add a few more of the major email providers. It also has the bonus of requiring no intelligence to attempt. That's why my usernames are always unique true-random strings, no less than 10 characters long.
This is an old conundrum. I remember Cliff Stoll Waxing philosophic on issue at the end of The Site, back in the days when MSNBC was tech focused.
A discussion session is very different from "Ask Slashdot". When you ask the professor a question, the question is directed at a single person. It only takes a moment. When you post to "Ask Slashdot" or some such other forum of volunteers, millions of collective moments are burnt reading an obvious question with an obvious answer. Whereas if the inquirer, followed JFGI, his moment, and the enquirer's moment alone would have been burnt.
I'm all for using social methods for learning and insight. The problem is, message boards aren't social methods. It's ducking into a room filled with enthusiasts of a common theme, and shouting "HEY EVERYONE, IT IS WORTH YOUR TIME TO LOOK AT THIS: I lather and rinse, but how do I know whether or not I'm supposed to repeat???" Even without my hyperbole, why is this considered to be acceptable by some on the Internet, but an obvious faux pas in real life?
Arguably, it's even worse when the person answering the question didn't at first know (or care about) the answer, and found it out, by way of a rudimentary employment of JFGI, and then linked or copy-pasted the results. I do love the 'domyjobforme' tag.
Finally, If you attend lectures at some of the more competitive universities, who still have the Paper Chase type professors, just try and ask a "dumb" question. You still get a wonderfully condescending, "Well, if you had just studied the reading assignment for this week, you'd already know the answer to that question, and wouldn't be wasting the whole lecture hall's time right now."
Yes! This one time, in like, 1996, I went to this one site, and it had a VRML virtual Jack-o-Lantern. It allowed me to...Oh wait, "useful"...Nevermind.
If no one cares, what is the bloody point of NASA? We get very few palpable benefits from the billions of dollars budgeted to NASA. We get crossover innovations ("Space-age" innovations, like Tang); we get nationalistic bragging rights for any time we achieve a space first, like the first moon landing; and we get public satisfaction. This last bit is where we, as a nation, democratically feel that is worth taxpayer money to explore space, because it will just sorta make us happier. If the public gives evidence that it will make them happier to name it "Colbert" or (perhaps more arguably,) to name it "Serenity", it is NASA's responsibility, as an organization funded by a (representative) democracy, to listen to the people, and name it as the people desire. Unless they can give reason otherwise.
Perhaps when commercial space ventures become feasible they will better appreciate consumer demand, and one of them will name one of their modules "Colbert" or "Serenity".
(Yeah, yeah, this whole comment is at least somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Take from it whatever you like.)
Greetings troll. The RIAA couldn't give a rat's ass about the decline in CD sales, so long as they get a taste of every digital copy of a song or album. They took too long to figure out a decent profit model for the online market, so they freaked out. AP took too long to figure a decent profit model for the online market, so now they're freaking out.
If print newspapers die, AP looses revenue unless it is able to enforce creative property rights on online formats.
Most local tv news stations and newspapers in this day and age are owned by parent companies (Hurst, News Corporation, etc.) and they can use those larger companies to get stories outside of the AP. I have no proof, but 99% sounds a bit off.
They got their wiimote to communicate via Bluetooth? That's marvelous! What will they think of next? I am so very tired of my wiimote communicating via Morse code! They should tell the good folks at Nintendo about this innovation!
That's up there with the argument of "why are you pulling me over for speeding? shouldn't you be out catching murderers and rapists?" We fight any battles that can be fought. no one makes the claim, "oh we would've noticed it was bad to give money to lousy banks, but we were too busy re-evaluating Ted Stevens' trial."
"Well, let's say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area. Based on this morning's reading, it would be a Twinkie thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds."
Slashdot Mirror
My first thought was that the question was initially asked in 1997, and Slashdot is only just now getting through it's backlog of questions....Lazy bastards.
Please call Richard Pryor's character from Superman III, and tell him he's welcome to your fractional pennies. Storing and forwarding packets requires memory and processing. Different data-link layers have different maximum bandwidths (sometimes defined by clock-speed, sometimes defined by physics), that once reached, can only be relieved through the creation of multiple data links. Yes, the transmission of a handful of bytes works out to be an immeasurably small amount, but the worldwide transmission of spam is easily measured in terabytes per second by now. Those immeasurable amounts do add up.
Looking at your sig (though too lazy to actually click it), Wait, so the MPAA can't claim that prirates steal potential sales by filesharing, but anti-spammers can claim that Spammers steal your precious bandwidth? Zombies aside, spammers paid for their upload bandwidth. It is the fault of you and your ISP for requesting that everything addressed to you be stored on the mail server, and eventually sent to your terminal. If you don't like it, use some other mechanism that isn't a 30 year old protocol designed with no thought whatsoever towards Authentication, Authorization or Accountability.
Hypothetical Homer: Mmmmmmm, Coke ovens. hluaahgahlaughagahglhughagluu....
(cursed HTML parser, stepping on my BNF format...lets try pseudocode:)
probableEmailAddress = uniqueLookingUsernameOfAggravatingPlayer + "@gmail.com"
...Hopefully this is just a woosh, but, uh, "@gmail.com" ?It's a fairly safe guess these days. To up your odds, just add a few more of the major email providers. It also has the bonus of requiring no intelligence to attempt. That's why my usernames are always unique true-random strings, no less than 10 characters long.
This is an old conundrum. I remember Cliff Stoll Waxing philosophic on issue at the end of The Site, back in the days when MSNBC was tech focused.
A discussion session is very different from "Ask Slashdot". When you ask the professor a question, the question is directed at a single person. It only takes a moment. When you post to "Ask Slashdot" or some such other forum of volunteers, millions of collective moments are burnt reading an obvious question with an obvious answer. Whereas if the inquirer, followed JFGI, his moment, and the enquirer's moment alone would have been burnt.
I'm all for using social methods for learning and insight. The problem is, message boards aren't social methods. It's ducking into a room filled with enthusiasts of a common theme, and shouting "HEY EVERYONE, IT IS WORTH YOUR TIME TO LOOK AT THIS: I lather and rinse, but how do I know whether or not I'm supposed to repeat???" Even without my hyperbole, why is this considered to be acceptable by some on the Internet, but an obvious faux pas in real life?
Arguably, it's even worse when the person answering the question didn't at first know (or care about) the answer, and found it out, by way of a rudimentary employment of JFGI, and then linked or copy-pasted the results. I do love the 'domyjobforme' tag.
Finally, If you attend lectures at some of the more competitive universities, who still have the Paper Chase type professors, just try and ask a "dumb" question. You still get a wonderfully condescending, "Well, if you had just studied the reading assignment for this week, you'd already know the answer to that question, and wouldn't be wasting the whole lecture hall's time right now."
And it isn't VRML, which is what the commenter was asking about.
Yes! This one time, in like, 1996, I went to this one site, and it had a VRML virtual Jack-o-Lantern. It allowed me to...Oh wait, "useful"...Nevermind.
BOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
Nope, sorry, we can't do that because of [[WP:OR]]. -~~~~
"I have created an alligator with four asses...hoooo-weee! I gair-awn-tee!"
s/is my milk/is my blood/
Demmit, misquoting Green Jellà lyrics For Teh Lose.
Eat my burger, for it is my flesh,
And drink my milk, for it is my milk.
Obey the Cow God!
"The Bayous of Dr. Boudreaux", my God that's funny. Give whoever first coined that phrase a cookie!
If no one cares, what is the bloody point of NASA? We get very few palpable benefits from the billions of dollars budgeted to NASA. We get crossover innovations ("Space-age" innovations, like Tang); we get nationalistic bragging rights for any time we achieve a space first, like the first moon landing; and we get public satisfaction. This last bit is where we, as a nation, democratically feel that is worth taxpayer money to explore space, because it will just sorta make us happier. If the public gives evidence that it will make them happier to name it "Colbert" or (perhaps more arguably,) to name it "Serenity", it is NASA's responsibility, as an organization funded by a (representative) democracy, to listen to the people, and name it as the people desire. Unless they can give reason otherwise.
Perhaps when commercial space ventures become feasible they will better appreciate consumer demand, and one of them will name one of their modules "Colbert" or "Serenity".
(Yeah, yeah, this whole comment is at least somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Take from it whatever you like.)
Glad I'm not the first. Curved lasers: one step closer to our collective dream of owning a functioning lightsaber.
please oh please mod parent up.
Greetings troll. The RIAA couldn't give a rat's ass about the decline in CD sales, so long as they get a taste of every digital copy of a song or album. They took too long to figure out a decent profit model for the online market, so they freaked out. AP took too long to figure a decent profit model for the online market, so now they're freaking out.
If print newspapers die, AP looses revenue unless it is able to enforce creative property rights on online formats.
Most local tv news stations and newspapers in this day and age are owned by parent companies (Hurst, News Corporation, etc.) and they can use those larger companies to get stories outside of the AP. I have no proof, but 99% sounds a bit off.
They got their wiimote to communicate via Bluetooth? That's marvelous! What will they think of next? I am so very tired of my wiimote communicating via Morse code! They should tell the good folks at Nintendo about this innovation!
It's Andy Kaufman funny. It's funny precisely because it annoys people like you.
Sue a nuke? Ah yes, you mean a snuke? I once had one up my snizz.
That's up there with the argument of "why are you pulling me over for speeding? shouldn't you be out catching murderers and rapists?" We fight any battles that can be fought. no one makes the claim, "oh we would've noticed it was bad to give money to lousy banks, but we were too busy re-evaluating Ted Stevens' trial."
No, it's ok to kill babies, just so long as you are careful to use every part of the baby.
"Well, let's say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area. Based on this morning's reading, it would be a Twinkie thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds."
"That's a big Twinkie."