Spamhaus' definition of spam: (the rest of the definition is [here.
The word "Spam" as applied to Email means Unsolicited Bulk Email ("UBE").
Unsolicited means that the Recipient has not granted verifiable permission for the message to be sent. Bulk means that the message is sent as part of a larger collection of messages, all having substantively identical content. A message is Spam only if it is both Unsolicited and Bulk.
- Unsolicited Email is normal email (examples: first contact enquiries, job enquiries, sales enquiries)
- Bulk Email is normal email (examples: subscriber newsletters, customer communications, discussion lists)
Technical Definition of Spam
An electronic message is "spam" IF:
(1) the recipient's personal identity and context are irrelevant because the message is equally applicable to many other potential recipients;
AND
(2) the recipient has not verifiably granted deliberate, explicit, and still-revocable permission for it to be sent.
...but I now know all about the threads settings since we moved Novell GroupWise WebAccess to Apache 1.x and the transition wasn't, uhh, smooth, shall we say. ("Can anyone say 'abends'?) A real bitch to troubleshoot. I was actually thinking longingly of the days of the Netscape Enterprise server for Netware.
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With RAID, you still have a single point of failure. Instead of it being your hard drive, it is now your RAID controller. So what is the advantage?
You get a new one under warranty or buy one...and your data is still there. If your drive dies and you get a new one your data's toast unless you have megabucks for Drive$aver$.
Oi, I think that might be a little too restrictive there! Personally I rather think it'd be good for the hospital to call me if someone was in an accident, and them not having to worry about being sued because I'm on a DNC list to stop telemarketers.
There's a happy medium. Your example is one thing which is fine. Them calling you to let you know that they're having a closeout sale on appendectomies is something else entirely....
You know that the telemarketing industry is trying very hard to "fix" this "loophole". With out being able to contact people on cellphones, how can they do proper political opinion (and push) polls? How can legitimate companies keep in contact with their customers? This is all very damaging to the US economy. You can't trample on the people's rights to political and economic speech like that, just because you have chosen to only have a cell phone.
No, it'll be "Only terrorists would want to hide like that...."
...they're right, there should be a uniform standard: NO ONE should be allowed to call anyone on the Do Not Call list at all.
Re the automated dialing, back when I was a kid and you called a phone # and hung up it was called crank/prank calling and it was a crime. How is their machine dialling different (aside from the fact that kids don't contribute to politicians)?
The result is that people drive even when they don't "need" to, resulting in more traffic for those who really DO need to use the roads at those times.
ACL? Wazzat? Anyway, for groupware, Novell has GroupWise running on Linux servers with a Linux client for it (and for OS X, which M$ doesn't deign to do) and Win32?
...is explaining why the java-based Linux (and OS X) GroupWise client has reached near parity with the Win32 version in GW 7 (and in terms of caching mode blows it out of the water for its updating speed). I can see where Joe or Jane User would have complained LOUDLY with the 6.5x version.
...is that this is supposed to be for Longhorn. Longhorn is (roughly) a year a way. Significant market penetration of Longhorn is YEARS away (look at how many people are still using Win2k today 3 years later). You think there's going to be such a thing as a TC-only network in any immediate future? No way; I'd guess 2010 at the earliest.
Why exactly are they doing this? If the book slips out a few hours early it's not like it will be ripped and reprinted in illegal copies before the real version officially goes on sale. I just don't see the point of this much security.
Are parents really going to line up at midnight to buy a kids book? Why bother? the kid should be in bed at that time anyways.
You're kidding, right? For the last few books' midnight release dates, the lines have looked like the childrens' version of all of the l00sers lining up for Windows 95 oh-so-many years ago.
Any parent whose kid is THAT eager to read a book--any book--should be encouraged, even if it's staying up late on a summer night. Beats the hell out of them staying home playing GTA or something else equally mind-numbing.
The anti-deal group, the person said, fears the move could bring an outcry as critics portray Microsoft as a corporate Big Brother, trying to track every mouse click on the Web and profit from it.
There's that perception with or without Claria's purchase.
Part of the basis of the infringement is that people who would eventually work for Apple, but didn't at the time, attended a trade show where this dude was exhibiting.
The implication is that they saw his app and were so entralled at his genious to organize music by Genere, then artist, and finally album, that they quit their jobs, convinced Apple to hire them, and then applied such unique cataloging skills to iTunes.
What I'd like to see is Apple's barracud...err, lawyers say is "How do you know those people saw your exhibit? Prove it." I know the shows I've been to I haven't looked at everything.
It's just a CPU. Intel's CPUs offer more bang for the buck than IBM's PowerPC CPUs. It's not surprising given how many more Intel sells and how much more they have for R&D as a result. If the story is true, then Apple recognizes this and realizes that they can make more money with Intel CPUs while giving their customer base better performance.
With all things being equal, of course. But taking Altivec out of the picture (which gives the MacOS and selectively written apps such a boost) probably takes away a big chunk of the performance differential. MMX's successors (written like that cuz I can't remember the acronym) aren't in the same league.
(Not that this matters, cuz I don't believe this story.)
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Republicans have perfected the strategy that if you don't like the message, seek to discredit the messenger.
If it's good enough for Karl Rove, it should be good enough for you, too.
Microsoft DOES innovate! No one thought of patenting smilies before them!
Spamhaus' definition of spam: (the rest of the definition is [here.
The word "Spam" as applied to Email means Unsolicited Bulk Email ("UBE").
Unsolicited means that the Recipient has not granted verifiable permission for the message to be sent. Bulk means that the message is sent as part of a larger collection of messages, all having substantively identical content.
A message is Spam only if it is both Unsolicited and Bulk.
- Unsolicited Email is normal email
(examples: first contact enquiries, job enquiries, sales enquiries)
- Bulk Email is normal email
(examples: subscriber newsletters, customer communications, discussion lists)
Technical Definition of Spam
An electronic message is "spam" IF:
(1) the recipient's personal identity and context are irrelevant because the message is equally applicable to many other potential recipients;
AND
(2) the recipient has not verifiably granted deliberate, explicit, and still-revocable permission for it to be sent.
(The rest of the definition is here.
...but I now know all about the threads settings since we moved Novell GroupWise WebAccess to Apache 1.x and the transition wasn't, uhh, smooth, shall we say. ("Can anyone say 'abends'?) A real bitch to troubleshoot.
I was actually thinking longingly of the days of the Netscape Enterprise server for Netware.
With RAID, you still have a single point of failure. Instead of it being your hard drive, it is now your RAID controller. So what is the advantage?
You get a new one under warranty or buy one...and your data is still there. If your drive dies and you get a new one your data's toast unless you have megabucks for Drive$aver$.
Oi, I think that might be a little too restrictive there! Personally I rather think it'd be good for the hospital to call me if someone was in an accident, and them not having to worry about being sued because I'm on a DNC list to stop telemarketers.
There's a happy medium. Your example is one thing which is fine. Them calling you to let you know that they're having a closeout sale on appendectomies is something else entirely....
back when I was a kid and you called a phone # and hung up it was called crank/prank calling and it was a crime.
I think you had to do it over and over again though, not just the one time.
And telemarketers don't???
You know that the telemarketing industry is trying very hard to "fix" this "loophole". With out being able to contact people on cellphones, how can they do proper political opinion (and push) polls? How can legitimate companies keep in contact with their customers? This is all very damaging to the US economy. You can't trample on the people's rights to political and economic speech like that, just because you have chosen to only have a cell phone.
No, it'll be "Only terrorists would want to hide like that...."
...they're right, there should be a uniform standard: NO ONE should be allowed to call anyone on the Do Not Call list at all.
Re the automated dialing, back when I was a kid and you called a phone # and hung up it was called crank/prank calling and it was a crime. How is their machine dialling different (aside from the fact that kids don't contribute to politicians)?
The result is that people drive even when they don't "need" to, resulting in more traffic for those who really DO need to use the roads at those times.
And how do you qualify or quantify "need" there?
While I'd hate to defend M$, I'm fairly sure that Entourage on OS X will work with Exchange.
In a very half-assed manner.
ACL? Wazzat? Anyway, for groupware, Novell has GroupWise running on Linux servers with a Linux client for it (and for OS X, which M$ doesn't deign to do) and Win32?
;-)
When can they expect your check?
...is explaining why the java-based Linux (and OS X) GroupWise client has reached near parity with the Win32 version in GW 7 (and in terms of caching mode blows it out of the water for its updating speed). I can see where Joe or Jane User would have complained LOUDLY with the 6.5x version.
You make a good point, stronger than you think...
"(look at how many people are still using Win2k today 3 years later)"
It's 2005. Win2k came out IIRC in 1999.
Hint---2000==more than 3 years old is my guess;-)
_XP_ is around 3 years old, give ot take a few months.
That's what I meant: 3 years after its replacement was out, not 3 years after it was released.
...is that this is supposed to be for Longhorn. Longhorn is (roughly) a year a way. Significant market penetration of Longhorn is YEARS away (look at how many people are still using Win2k today 3 years later).
You think there's going to be such a thing as a TC-only network in any immediate future? No way; I'd guess 2010 at the earliest.
It's all about $$$.
...and in other news, kitten naps.....
What's weird is ... I've become so jaded to Slashdot that I can't tell if this is a troll or not -- quoth the anonymous parent:
I don't think it's a troll; it just says an awful lot about the poster. That makes the post in dire need of a -1 "Sad" mod option....
Why exactly are they doing this? If the book slips out a few hours early it's not like it will be ripped and reprinted in illegal copies before the real version officially goes on sale. I just don't see the point of this much security.
Are parents really going to line up at midnight to buy a kids book? Why bother? the kid should be in bed at that time anyways.
You're kidding, right? For the last few books' midnight release dates, the lines have looked like the childrens' version of all of the l00sers lining up for Windows 95 oh-so-many years ago.
Any parent whose kid is THAT eager to read a book--any book--should be encouraged, even if it's staying up late on a summer night. Beats the hell out of them staying home playing GTA or something else equally mind-numbing.
The anti-deal group, the person said, fears the move could bring an outcry as critics portray Microsoft as a corporate Big Brother, trying to track every mouse click on the Web and profit from it.
There's that perception with or without Claria's purchase.
So, you wish every slashdot writer took 7 months to reply? ;)
:-)
Many could use the aging!
Like him or dislike him...but I wish every slashdot writer was so thoughtful and lucid. (And knew what karma whoring is!)
Good answers. A good read.
For more info, see hypocricy.
I can't...that's not in the dictionary.
Part of the basis of the infringement is that people who would eventually work for Apple, but didn't at the time, attended a trade show where this dude was exhibiting.
The implication is that they saw his app and were so entralled at his genious to organize music by Genere, then artist, and finally album, that they quit their jobs, convinced Apple to hire them, and then applied such unique cataloging skills to iTunes.
What I'd like to see is Apple's barracud...err, lawyers say is "How do you know those people saw your exhibit? Prove it." I know the shows I've been to I haven't looked at everything.
Contois is seeking a trial by jury.
It's just a CPU. Intel's CPUs offer more bang for the buck than IBM's PowerPC CPUs. It's not surprising given how many more Intel sells and how much more they have for R&D as a result. If the story is true, then Apple recognizes this and realizes that they can make more money with Intel CPUs while giving their customer base better performance.
With all things being equal, of course. But taking Altivec out of the picture (which gives the MacOS and selectively written apps such a boost) probably takes away a big chunk of the performance differential. MMX's successors (written like that cuz I can't remember the acronym) aren't in the same league.
(Not that this matters, cuz I don't believe this story.)