That's not the case. If you were right, I wouldn't get any SMS spam. I get them more or less regulary despite that sending them costs bulk sender about $0.02 from most european operators.
Besides - your pricing is too low for some spammers, and too much for the majority of people in poorly developed countries. I don't see you spending 1/10th of your wage (unless you're a weirdo) for internet access anyway, and most people using net in transition economies have to.
In poorly-developed countries in Africa this would have even greater impact.
EU has possibility to do something effective. It can force all european companies ( _AND_ their
dependant susidiaries abroad) to behave in particular way; what's more - it can influence
at least other OECD countries to do the same... and getting rid of those american-believing-that-spam-works-although-they-s ay-it-does-not businesses would reduce spam in 70-90%. Without them chineese guys won't have demand and after while would stop this.
Personally I have set on my SMTP server declining all mails from *.cn, *.msn, *aol.com domains, as I have complety no frients there and donnot expect anything besides spam from them.
Let's distribute the DeCSS code through Pioneer-10-alike probes... P10 had some sort
of informations storage onboard after all.
The another advantage of this solution it the fact, that outer space is not under any national jurisdiction. Lawsuits would be really hard for MPAA/companies to win;-)
Well, I predict, that when the haven becomes a hot place (i.e. it gets its big customers) OECD countries would put pressure on HeavenCo ISP to cut them off. Instead of off-shore we would have off-line data haven.
... reminded me of article from Chip around 1986 or 1987 about harmfull effects of computers on ones mental health.
My favourite case: a Swedish IT student programmed himself in C, then executed his programs. Although he wasn't a possible danger to society, he was taken for observation.
Still be cautious... it may be an even more malicious mutation of this virus. It is said to inform your mother or your boss (depending on estimation of your age) about what you have been downloading in recent years....
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There are some rumours that the first division (win3.1) are going to finally open-source it... So we can expect new, even better versions of win 3.1 clones made by independent software developpers.
As this page says (unfortunately for most of you - in Polish) that in fact ISS equipnent would be destined to sustain Mir, by Russian government decision od 20 January. At the same time "Russian scientists assure that at no means this would have any impact on ISS mission delay.". (Reminds me a bit some iron-courtin-times jokes about new findings by Soviet scientists).
Anyway - the Zvezda module is said to be ready, it's just the problem with Proton rockets. On one discussion list someone said that the commercial use would be: space equipment production and repairs (incl. Mir itself;-), pharmaceutical research, tourism and advertising.
Perhaps we can expect some new Intel ads where guys dressed in those dumb suits would bring some life to dying space station...
Germany is also experiencing such shortage. That's why their prime minister and economy minister came up with work visa programme for non-EU telecommunications and computer experts.
This concerns 30,000 posts for people from Eastern Europe and Far East.
Well, the idea isn't original thou. Does anyone remember my favourite book "Microserfs" by David Coupland ? The guys there left their posts in Redmond, and headed to Sillicon Valley. They made a "Virtual Lego" start-up, with possibility to download some packages".
Lovely book anyway, IMHO a must-read for a computer geek:-)
homer_ca wrote: >They may even have a bigger installed base than any single PC vendor (Compaq, Dell, HP), but you > are smoking crack if you think they have a bigger market share in the edu world than all the x86 PC hardware combined.
That is especially true outside the US.... Apple doesn't seem to be particulary popular in Europe or Asia.
Well... for all those folks running dnet & seti@home clients it is REALLY important. How otherwise you would get faster ? By overclocking beloved celeron 300a to 450mhz the rc5 keyrate rises from 890kkeys/s to 1260 kkeys/s. That makes the difference. And price of the celeron 450 was more than twice higher.
That's certinly the great news for euro-bureaucrats here! Come on, reduce the US competitivity! Let's regulate everything! I'm beginning to believe in a conspiracy theory - the conspiracy between folks protesting against WTO summit and the govmnt of North Carolina.;-)
Maybe this way finally Europe would be able to (sooner) catch up with States in e-commerce.
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wasn't that US companies? I think that US legal and patent system is the problem.
Ain't that companies like MS that try to patent open source, patching and every other "free idea" ?
Besides - your pricing is too low for some spammers, and too much for the majority of people in poorly developed countries. I don't see you spending 1/10th of your wage (unless you're a weirdo) for internet access anyway, and most people using net in transition economies have to.
In poorly-developed countries in Africa this would have even greater impact.
EU has possibility to do something effective. It can force all european companies ( _AND_ their
dependant susidiaries abroad) to behave in particular way; what's more - it can influence
at least other OECD countries to do the same
Personally I have set on my SMTP server declining all mails from *.cn, *.msn, *aol.com domains, as I have complety no frients there and donnot expect anything besides spam from them.
That Hurd me!
The another advantage of this solution it the fact, that outer space is not under any national jurisdiction. Lawsuits would be really hard for MPAA/companies to win ;-)
With good sound quality and high reliability at last I could dial my ISP to access the net!
The island bunker
with hundreds of servers
is sick-bay not bay
k.
My favourite case:
a Swedish IT student programmed himself in C, then executed his programs. Although he wasn't a possible danger to society, he was taken for observation.
.. that I may go for gov.tv domain ;-)
just imagine giving someone a business card with email president@gov.tv
;-)
Still be cautious ... it may be an even more malicious mutation of this virus. It is said to inform your mother or your boss (depending on estimation of your age) about what you have been downloading in recent years ....
There are some rumours that the first division (win3.1) are going to finally open-source it ... So we can expect new, even better versions of win 3.1 clones made by independent software developpers.
At the same time "Russian scientists assure that at no means this would have any impact on ISS mission delay.".
(Reminds me a bit some iron-courtin-times jokes about new findings by Soviet scientists).
Anyway - the Zvezda module is said to be ready, it's just the problem with Proton rockets. ;-), pharmaceutical research, tourism and advertising.
...
On one discussion list someone said that the commercial use would be: space equipment production and repairs (incl. Mir itself
Perhaps we can expect some new Intel ads where guys dressed in those dumb suits would bring some life to dying space station
This concerns 30,000 posts for people from Eastern Europe and Far East.
does it stand for Minesweeper Consultant - Solitaire Expert ;-)
;-)
Lovely book anyway, IMHO a must-read for a computer geek :-)
>They may even have a bigger installed base than any single PC vendor (Compaq, Dell, HP), but you
> are smoking crack if you think they have a bigger market share in the edu world than all the x86 PC hardware combined.
That is especially true outside the US .... Apple doesn't seem to be particulary popular in Europe or Asia.
... just couldn't wait till Hustler or Playboy offers something to their empoyees ;-)
k.
Well ... for all those folks running dnet & seti@home clients it is REALLY important. How otherwise you would get faster ? By overclocking beloved celeron 300a to 450mhz the rc5 keyrate rises from 890kkeys/s to 1260 kkeys/s. That makes the difference. And price of the celeron 450 was more than twice higher.
That's certinly the great news for euro-bureaucrats here! ;-)
Come on, reduce the US competitivity! Let's regulate everything!
I'm beginning to believe in a conspiracy theory - the conspiracy
between folks protesting against WTO summit and the govmnt of North
Carolina.
Maybe this way finally Europe would be able to (sooner) catch up
with States in e-commerce.
Kvasio
------- day's sig
- Who is General Failure - and why the hell is he reading my drive?
- He is a brother of Corrosion. She ate my socks.
--------norm sig