This guy's crime was just sending a billion e-mails? Why, that's hardly illegal at all. There must be something else going on here, like he kicked a senator's dog or something, because nothing's happened to any of the otherspammers for whom there is plenty of evidence to put them away - at least, if the government had any real interest in doing so.
Just think of the legions of typists that companies used to employ, just to send bills to customers. Each one had to be typed by hand, and more importantly, if you made a mistake, you started over from the beginning.
Just think of the legions of accountants and bookkeepers that companies used to need, but have replaced with spreadsheets. And nevermind the billing...
Just think of all the people that used to be hired as clerks to file and retrieve paperwork, but have been replaced by databases and search functions.
Just think of all the outstandingly mundane tasks that you would have to do if it weren't for a computer doing the job for you. Those jobs used to be filled by people. Those people have since moved on to other vocations. Perhaps this makes companies more efficient, but it also makes jobs harder to find.
I'm having a bit of trouble with this one, especially since I just bought a high definition television. My understanding is that the 1080i standard is about the second best on the market right now, and the best that's not ludicrously expensive. This provides a maximum resolution of 1920x1080. It's a slightly older standard (by about a year I think?), and high-definition TVs are only recently coming into the mainstream.
"Early adopters" would be defined as the people who spent stupendous amounts of money on earlier versions of HDTVs say, 3 years ago, would it not?
Their point of view is like my boss's when it comes to paying employees. "If I lay off three people (out of 8), then I make that much profit from their salaries" he thinks. He doesn't think "if I have three extra people around at a time when it gets super busy and we make lots of sales, then the company will grow, and not totally drop the ball. So I should generate more sales".
The MPAA is thinking "if we bootfuck our customers and force them to buy multiple copies, then that will stop piracy and increase our sales", not "the more restrictive we make our product, the more people will need to steal our stuff, and the more we drive them to our competition". It's just a reason that people won't move from DVD to new technology X. Namely, because it doesn't work.
Unless of course, you're a manager for a programming shop, in which case it doesn't matter who you put on a project, how long they've been doing it, or what experience they have, just so long as they're willing to work 80-120 hours a week. With a preference for young people who have lots of energy and no family to wonder when they're coming home.
So, hell yes, let's put publicly accessable GPS devices in police cars
That is an astoundingly bad idea. Then everyone will be able to violate the law as much as they like, since they know whether or not there is a police officer around.
"Red light? Who cares, the cops aren't watching." "Woot! We can pack two more Plasma TVs into the truck before anyone shows up to answer the alarm!" "Hmm. There's a cop just around the corner, so I'll have to wait a few minutes to steal this car."
That's nothing. When I'm debugging, I swear like a wounded pirate. And not just a flesh wound either, but more of an "Arrr! I needs me another peg leg and a new parrot!" sort of wound.
I think that being articulate in obscenity is just as important as being articulate in English overall. There's nothing like expressing anger in a blue streak two minutes long.
The two lines have already crossed in the case of wind power, but that change in a big way you were talking about, isn't happening yet.
Something else that the Good ol' USA is good at, is denial and resistance to change. Otherwise there wouldn't be government subsidies propping up aging steel mills that can no longer compete on the world market.
Maybe a big filter between Florida and the rest of the World would work, and while we're at it a 100 ft high wall.
I don't know about you, but personally I would also vote for inward-pointing machine guns that will be going night and day until the spam problem stops. Or is that outward-pointing machine guns on the inside, with the spammers lined up against the wall?
We tend to apply a broad label to spam. Often "Any email I don't want.", which may not be fair in all cases.
Yes it is fair, because of how amazing computers are at automating information tasks (like sending e-mail), it's not "any e-mail I don't want", it's "millions of the same copy of the e-mail noone wants, delivered to noone in particular". I really dislike it when some asshat decides that our domain is their personal poster board and jams our mail server shut with their crap. Our customers hate it even more when as a result, their e-mail can't be delivered in less than three hours. There is no excuse. That shit just ain't cool, man.
Why should I care? I can already send and receive email with my cell phone as part of my text messaging package. In fact, I use this feature to enable Big Brother to page me about system downtime without having to carry an extra pager, or to have a phone line hooked up to a modem on the BB server. And with LG's T9En text completion, I can even be coherent in my messages.
perhaps that bactiria prefers the chemical balance in a bleeding stomach.
Sure, except that when you kill the bacteria, the ulcers go away. If I recall correctly, doctors found that it's a bacteria by prescribing antibiotics to patients with ulcers.
Hell, I've seen computers that would push that average *way* up all on their own.
You have: 10,489 viruses on your computer
No, I did not make that up. There are actually people out there (many, in fact) that think that the computer is running really slow because it's getting old, and not because there's three billion pieces of crap bogging it down. It just never occurs to them.
is this drug patented, or will this be cheaply available for everyone who needs it
Are you mad, man? Of *course* it will be patented! The company that makes it will sell it at an even higher premium than the current cocktail that just keeps the patients alive longer. And then they'll all be *billionaires!* Rich beyond their wildest dreams! Fame and fortune!
Oh, and the Africans? There's just too many of them to fix the problem really...
Um, no. The computer does not need to be on when you're sleeping. Nor does the computer need to be on when you're at work. That's 16+ hours a day you're not using your computer, and you'd have to be pretty delusional to think that you're not spending scads of cash on keeping it running all the time. Since me and my wife stopped running our computers 24/7, our electric bill went down at least 20%. If you have more computers, your savings will be more.
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practicality of maintenance for people who are new to the OS given that I am not there regularly enough to be a full time sys admin.
Oh, but you will be, if your plan goes through. Questions like "Compiling? What's that?" come to mind immediately.
This guy's crime was just sending a billion e-mails? Why, that's hardly illegal at all. There must be something else going on here, like he kicked a senator's dog or something, because nothing's happened to any of the other spammers for whom there is plenty of evidence to put them away - at least, if the government had any real interest in doing so.
That manager could find himself not with five employees, but with just himself to talk to in the office.
Yeah, and then he'd be making the profit from *8* employees' salary!
My boss really does think that way.
And he's the owner of the company. Which would explain why there's only 8 people there.
Just think of the legions of typists that companies used to employ, just to send bills to customers. Each one had to be typed by hand, and more importantly, if you made a mistake, you started over from the beginning.
Just think of the legions of accountants and bookkeepers that companies used to need, but have replaced with spreadsheets. And nevermind the billing...
Just think of all the people that used to be hired as clerks to file and retrieve paperwork, but have been replaced by databases and search functions.
Just think of all the outstandingly mundane tasks that you would have to do if it weren't for a computer doing the job for you. Those jobs used to be filled by people. Those people have since moved on to other vocations. Perhaps this makes companies more efficient, but it also makes jobs harder to find.
I'm having a bit of trouble with this one, especially since I just bought a high definition television. My understanding is that the 1080i standard is about the second best on the market right now, and the best that's not ludicrously expensive. This provides a maximum resolution of 1920x1080. It's a slightly older standard (by about a year I think?), and high-definition TVs are only recently coming into the mainstream.
"Early adopters" would be defined as the people who spent stupendous amounts of money on earlier versions of HDTVs say, 3 years ago, would it not?
That sounds like a great way to kill sales.
You don't get their point of view.
Their point of view is like my boss's when it comes to paying employees. "If I lay off three people (out of 8), then I make that much profit from their salaries" he thinks. He doesn't think "if I have three extra people around at a time when it gets super busy and we make lots of sales, then the company will grow, and not totally drop the ball. So I should generate more sales".
The MPAA is thinking "if we bootfuck our customers and force them to buy multiple copies, then that will stop piracy and increase our sales", not "the more restrictive we make our product, the more people will need to steal our stuff, and the more we drive them to our competition". It's just a reason that people won't move from DVD to new technology X. Namely, because it doesn't work.
The very idea that time > skill is alien.
Unless of course, you're a manager for a programming shop, in which case it doesn't matter who you put on a project, how long they've been doing it, or what experience they have, just so long as they're willing to work 80-120 hours a week. With a preference for young people who have lots of energy and no family to wonder when they're coming home.
So, hell yes, let's put publicly accessable GPS devices in police cars
That is an astoundingly bad idea. Then everyone will be able to violate the law as much as they like, since they know whether or not there is a police officer around.
"Red light? Who cares, the cops aren't watching."
"Woot! We can pack two more Plasma TVs into the truck before anyone shows up to answer the alarm!"
"Hmm. There's a cop just around the corner, so I'll have to wait a few minutes to steal this car."
Et cetera.
That's nothing. When I'm debugging, I swear like a wounded pirate. And not just a flesh wound either, but more of an "Arrr! I needs me another peg leg and a new parrot!" sort of wound.
I think that being articulate in obscenity is just as important as being articulate in English overall. There's nothing like expressing anger in a blue streak two minutes long.
Obscenity is the crutch of inarticulate motherfuckers.
The two lines have already crossed in the case of wind power, but that change in a big way you were talking about, isn't happening yet.
Something else that the Good ol' USA is good at, is denial and resistance to change. Otherwise there wouldn't be government subsidies propping up aging steel mills that can no longer compete on the world market.
Maybe a big filter between Florida and the rest of the World would work, and while we're at it a 100 ft high wall.
I don't know about you, but personally I would also vote for inward-pointing machine guns that will be going night and day until the spam problem stops. Or is that outward-pointing machine guns on the inside, with the spammers lined up against the wall?
Whatever.
We tend to apply a broad label to spam. Often "Any email I don't want.", which may not be fair in all cases.
Yes it is fair, because of how amazing computers are at automating information tasks (like sending e-mail), it's not "any e-mail I don't want", it's "millions of the same copy of the e-mail noone wants, delivered to noone in particular". I really dislike it when some asshat decides that our domain is their personal poster board and jams our mail server shut with their crap. Our customers hate it even more when as a result, their e-mail can't be delivered in less than three hours. There is no excuse. That shit just ain't cool, man.
Why should I care? I can already send and receive email with my cell phone as part of my text messaging package. In fact, I use this feature to enable Big Brother to page me about system downtime without having to carry an extra pager, or to have a phone line hooked up to a modem on the BB server. And with LG's T9En text completion, I can even be coherent in my messages.
Mmmmmm. Sciencey.
Yeah, but most people who play counterstrike *are* 12 years old. Other games, with more restrictive rules are much more civilized.
perhaps that bactiria prefers the chemical balance in a bleeding stomach.
Sure, except that when you kill the bacteria, the ulcers go away. If I recall correctly, doctors found that it's a bacteria by prescribing antibiotics to patients with ulcers.
And yet, it still scores a +5: funny.
Here's a hint: these people are typically still running windows 98 or earlier. And they've never reinstalled the operating system.
So yeah. 10,000? A piece of cake. And then there's what ad-aware finds...
You must be a programmer.
As spammers and spyware authors have been demonstrating for years now.
Hell, I've seen computers that would push that average *way* up all on their own.
You have: 10,489 viruses on your computer
No, I did not make that up. There are actually people out there (many, in fact) that think that the computer is running really slow because it's getting old, and not because there's three billion pieces of crap bogging it down. It just never occurs to them.
is this drug patented, or will this be cheaply available for everyone who needs it
Are you mad, man? Of *course* it will be patented! The company that makes it will sell it at an even higher premium than the current cocktail that just keeps the patients alive longer. And then they'll all be *billionaires!* Rich beyond their wildest dreams! Fame and fortune!
Oh, and the Africans? There's just too many of them to fix the problem really...
Do your computers always need to be on?
You must be new here.
Um, no. The computer does not need to be on when you're sleeping. Nor does the computer need to be on when you're at work. That's 16+ hours a day you're not using your computer, and you'd have to be pretty delusional to think that you're not spending scads of cash on keeping it running all the time. Since me and my wife stopped running our computers 24/7, our electric bill went down at least 20%. If you have more computers, your savings will be more.
It just goes to show the maturity of Slashdot as a whole, since this is modded +5 Funny.