If you are using a web hosting company that has no provision for sending mail, they you have made a poor choice of hosting companies. Any decent hosting company will have an SMTP server setup for the companies they host. There are different ways of allowing the mail to be relayed, but probably the most common these days is POP before SMTP, which means you have to check your POP mail before you can send anything via SMTP. Another popular solution is SMTP AUTH. ---
They aren't restricting service to their valid customers. They are blocking SPAM mostly, by not allowing relaying. If you have a vanity domain at another ISP, you should be using that ISP to send your vanity email anyway, so you shouldn't be using Verizon's mail servers.
Look at it this way. You have a domain name hosted by XYZHostingCompany.com, but you connect to the internet from xyzISP.com. You have the domain myDomain.com and the email address me@myDomain.com. XYZHostingCompany.com has a special relaying server setup for its clients at relay.XYZHostingCompany.com, xyzISP.com SHOULD NOT be letting you send mail as me@myDomain.com because they don't have anything to do with that domain, if they let that domain through, they would basically be letting everything through, which means they would be used to send lots and lots of SPAM (which would, of course, degrade the level of service for their valid clients). So, you should really be sending your email through relay.XYZHostingCompany.com. And, in a perfect world, XYZHostingCompany has properly setup their relay box to only relay mail from the domains that it is hosting. ---
So what is the problem? It sounds like to me that they are actually tightening up their mail servers and not allowing relaying. Isn't this the exact thing that we say all ISPs should be doing? This measure doesn't stop you from sending your own email from your own mail server.
Actually, the exemptions you are allowed while working overseas only mean the extremely well paid end up paying taxes in both countries. I almost took a position in Japan recently and was worried about this issue. I contacted my accountant and she told me that I didn't have anything to worry about until I started making the big bucks (like $500k). Below this level I would only have to pay taxes in Japan (and actually, my taxes would have been paid by my employer in this case). ---
*bzzt* Wrong Answer, but thanks for playing. The FCC mandates for Enhanced 911 (E911) will take affect in October of this year (although many operators will likely get a waiver). These mandates require that a certain percentage of EMERGENCY calls can be pinpointed to within a certain distance. The operator has a choice as to the type of technology they deploy. One possibility is A-GPS (Network Assisted GPS), but there are also network based methods that do not require a GPS receiver in the phone. These include Enhanced Cell ID, E-OTD and various other techniques.
I suggest you do a little research before you start talking about areas you really aren't familiar with.
Disclaimer: I work for Ericsson's Mobile Positioning Group.
The information the beureaus put out is so inaccurate that there is little point in bothering.
While I do agree that the bureaus do often make mistakes with your report, I do not agree that it is not worth "bothering" with. Like it or not, credit reports are used to determine if you should get a loan, get a phone, get a specific service, get an appartment, etc. If you don't bother with keeping your credit report clean, nobody else will.
And if you really want to stay on top of things, you should request a copy of your credit report on a (semi)-annual basis and check for errors. If you find them, then you should have them fixed right then. Yes it is a PITA, but it is much easier to do it this way than to have to deal with it when you are sitting in front of the loan officer that tells you "sorry, your credit sucks, we can't give you that loan you want." ---
Sure this will stop them from charging you, but it won't stop them from reporting you to a credit bureau!!! I'm sure the last thing any of you want is to mess up your credit rating. Having a poor credit rating can affect a lot of things down the road, such as your ability to buy a car, a house, etc. And even if you still qualify for these loans, your interest rates will likely be much, much higher as a result of the lower credit rating.
Think twice before just canceling your credit card and not dealing with the actual problem. ---
Although new phones are digital they are still circuit switched. As has already been noted, GPRS is being deployed to add packet switching for data. But circuit switched connections for voice traffic will be around for quite sometime. Standardisation is currently underway to define an All-IP Mobile network using things such as SIP, H.232, etc. But these networks will not be in operation for many years to come.
For more information on what is going on in the standards arena, you may want to check out 3GPP at http://www.3gpp.org. ---
Actually, American Airlines already provides power outlets in both coach and first class (and business class on internation flights). Granted, I have never seen anyone actually use one of these outlets, but they are available on several seats throughout the plane. ---
From the filing:
We were incorporated in California in March 1995. We intend to
reincorporate in Delaware prior to this offering.
Why is it that so many of these IPOs reincorporate in Delaware? Is there something intrinsic to the corporation laws in Delaware that makes this desirable? ---
Slashdot is NOT his site. It is owned by VA Linux. Although he currently has complete editorial powers over the content, he still has a certain responsibility to the owners, which are the shareholders of VA Linux, which happens to include myself. He clearly stated that he was 'abusing Slashdot' and I, as one of its "owners" don't particularly care for such abuses.
I've been around here long enough not to expect unbiased news reporting, but I do expect a certain level of professionalism. CmdrTaco should post a completely seperate article/feature if he wishes to present his political views. He shouldn't mix it in with something that is not relevant. ---
So far, there has been no standardization for content protocols over Bluetooth.
You may want to checkout SyncML, which was specifically created to deal with getting the content from one device to the other. Bluetooth was designed to replace cables and does a pretty good job at that. I would much prefer to see a general solution such as SyncML be used that is not tied to Bluetooth. Seperation of functionality is a Good Thing(TM). ---
Actually, it should read the way it is written with can't because they won't be able to do the wiretap (in the particular setup that is being discussed in this article) without the help of the communication provider. And I don't know of any providers that would even consider providing a wiretap without the proper court orders. There are several reasons they wouldn't do it without them:
It uses up their resources
They could get in trouble later
Most providers aren't happy about having to do it at all, much less without the proper paper work!
Disclaimer: I work for Ericsson, but the views expressed here are my own and not those of my employer. ---
I like how the law authorizes themselves power when they feel the need for it.
Actually, in this case, the authorization for the wiretap does not come from themselves, they have to get a court order from a judge. They can't just randomly wiretap people's communications without a reason. It is similiar to getting a search warrant, you have to get a court order for that. Are you suggesting that we should stop allowing "lawfully-authorized" searches as well? ---
CALEA stands for Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act. You can get more information on the FBI website. You can also get lots of links by doing a simple google search. ---
I was with you until the last paragraph. I'll assume that in your last paragraph you are refering to the frequencies allocated for PCS use (ie digital cell phones). There are not 5 redundant bands, but one band in the 1900 Mhz range that has been defined for use with PCS. This band has then been split up into several different blocks that can be auctioned off individually to different operators. The reason you want to have several blocks available in the same band is to promote competition and to allow the "Mom and Pop" shops a chance to enter the market. This is no different than how things are done for, say, GSM in the rest of the world.
I'm not sure that I understand your comment about costs of cellular infrastrcuture though. Vendors are the ones that build the equipment (usually called manufacturers), you are probably referring to operators here. Assuming you mean operators, why would they want to share the cost of the cellular infrastructure? They each have to build their own network in order to accomodate their own customers? Why would I let a competitor use my base station? Most of the signalling and such that takes place on the ground is done using leased-lines, so the cost for that portion of the network is already shared anyway. As I already mentioned, they are already all using the same band, so that isn't a problem. And when usage increases, they do just as you suggest: add more cells. Adding more cells is possible for all operators using the blocks that they have licensed using frequency reuse patterns.
Disclaimer: I work for Ericsson, however these views are my own and have not been endorsed by my employer. ---
And more specifically, the ITU holds a World Radiocommunication Conference quite frequently. The last such conference just ended on June 2. The web page for WRC 200 can be found here. The decisions made here will be used as a basis for many of the upcoming 3G systems that are being talked about all over the place these days, among other things. ---
As someone who works with the standardization of 3rd generation mobile systems (specifically I am a 3GPP delegate [3GPP website]), I can tell you that those speeds will only be available for indoor type connections, like inside the lobby of a hotel or the waiting area in a train station. The speeds decrease as you move to pedestrian, moving car, train, etc. ---
How is this insightful when the company involved is NOT even MP3.com? If you substitute Amazon.com for MP3.com, then maybe I could see the how it is insightful, but definately not worth a 5. ---
Yes, but you are missing a fundamental difference in these different types of "marketing." In the case of physical junk mail there is no actual cost in receiving the piece of mail. Those costs were paid in advance by the company sending the mail. With electronic junk mail (spam) the receiver may also incurr a charge for receiving the mail.
This cost can come in different forms. For example, in most European countries, you pay for your time on-line by the minute, even if the call is local. For businesses (even in the US) that have leased lines, it is possible that they pay for the actual bandwidth used, so downloading spam from their mail server costs them money!
Just because it is relatively easy to delete spam, doesn't mean that it should simply be ignored. There are other factors to consider. ---
Sorry to burst your bubble, but MySQL is NOT using the GPL. From their website:
NOTE: This license is not the same as any of the GNU Licenses published by the Free Software Foundation. Its terms are substantially different from those of the GNU Licenses. If you are familiar with the GNU Licenses, please read this license with extra care.
Now they did release an older version (3.20.32a) under the GPL, but that is not nearly the same as releasing the latest versions. This has already been discussed extensively in this slashdot article. ---
Do you know who sings that song? I have had it stuck in my head for ages, we used to play it on the campus radio station when I worked there but I can't remember what it was called and who sang it. (Btw, for those of you that are lost, I'm referencing the line "the sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace..". ---
Evidently you are the retarded one for calling other people names. If you would have known anything, you would have known that Linus does speak Swedish and that the sound bytes of him saying it are in Swedish. The Finns have TWO official languages, Swedish and Finnish. So the original poster was correct when he said "Swedish pronunciation."
(For anyone that cares, I am an American, but lived in Sweden for four years.) ---
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If you are using a web hosting company that has no provision for sending mail, they you have made a poor choice of hosting companies. Any decent hosting company will have an SMTP server setup for the companies they host. There are different ways of allowing the mail to be relayed, but probably the most common these days is POP before SMTP, which means you have to check your POP mail before you can send anything via SMTP. Another popular solution is SMTP AUTH.
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They aren't restricting service to their valid customers. They are blocking SPAM mostly, by not allowing relaying. If you have a vanity domain at another ISP, you should be using that ISP to send your vanity email anyway, so you shouldn't be using Verizon's mail servers.
Look at it this way. You have a domain name hosted by XYZHostingCompany.com, but you connect to the internet from xyzISP.com. You have the domain myDomain.com and the email address me@myDomain.com. XYZHostingCompany.com has a special relaying server setup for its clients at relay.XYZHostingCompany.com, xyzISP.com SHOULD NOT be letting you send mail as me@myDomain.com because they don't have anything to do with that domain, if they let that domain through, they would basically be letting everything through, which means they would be used to send lots and lots of SPAM (which would, of course, degrade the level of service for their valid clients). So, you should really be sending your email through relay.XYZHostingCompany.com. And, in a perfect world, XYZHostingCompany has properly setup their relay box to only relay mail from the domains that it is hosting.
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So what is the problem? It sounds like to me that they are actually tightening up their mail servers and not allowing relaying. Isn't this the exact thing that we say all ISPs should be doing? This measure doesn't stop you from sending your own email from your own mail server.
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Actually, the exemptions you are allowed while working overseas only mean the extremely well paid end up paying taxes in both countries. I almost took a position in Japan recently and was worried about this issue. I contacted my accountant and she told me that I didn't have anything to worry about until I started making the big bucks (like $500k). Below this level I would only have to pay taxes in Japan (and actually, my taxes would have been paid by my employer in this case).
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*bzzt* Wrong Answer, but thanks for playing. The FCC mandates for Enhanced 911 (E911) will take affect in October of this year (although many operators will likely get a waiver). These mandates require that a certain percentage of EMERGENCY calls can be pinpointed to within a certain distance. The operator has a choice as to the type of technology they deploy. One possibility is A-GPS (Network Assisted GPS), but there are also network based methods that do not require a GPS receiver in the phone. These include Enhanced Cell ID, E-OTD and various other techniques.
I suggest you do a little research before you start talking about areas you really aren't familiar with.
Disclaimer: I work for Ericsson's Mobile Positioning Group.
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While I do agree that the bureaus do often make mistakes with your report, I do not agree that it is not worth "bothering" with. Like it or not, credit reports are used to determine if you should get a loan, get a phone, get a specific service, get an appartment, etc. If you don't bother with keeping your credit report clean, nobody else will.
And if you really want to stay on top of things, you should request a copy of your credit report on a (semi)-annual basis and check for errors. If you find them, then you should have them fixed right then. Yes it is a PITA, but it is much easier to do it this way than to have to deal with it when you are sitting in front of the loan officer that tells you "sorry, your credit sucks, we can't give you that loan you want."
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Sure this will stop them from charging you, but it won't stop them from reporting you to a credit bureau!!! I'm sure the last thing any of you want is to mess up your credit rating. Having a poor credit rating can affect a lot of things down the road, such as your ability to buy a car, a house, etc. And even if you still qualify for these loans, your interest rates will likely be much, much higher as a result of the lower credit rating.
Think twice before just canceling your credit card and not dealing with the actual problem.
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For more information on what is going on in the standards arena, you may want to check out 3GPP at http://www.3gpp.org.
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Actually, American Airlines already provides power outlets in both coach and first class (and business class on internation flights). Granted, I have never seen anyone actually use one of these outlets, but they are available on several seats throughout the plane.
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We were incorporated in California in March 1995. We intend to reincorporate in Delaware prior to this offering.
Why is it that so many of these IPOs reincorporate in Delaware? Is there something intrinsic to the corporation laws in Delaware that makes this desirable?
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Slashdot is NOT his site. It is owned by VA Linux. Although he currently has complete editorial powers over the content, he still has a certain responsibility to the owners, which are the shareholders of VA Linux, which happens to include myself. He clearly stated that he was 'abusing Slashdot' and I, as one of its "owners" don't particularly care for such abuses.
I've been around here long enough not to expect unbiased news reporting, but I do expect a certain level of professionalism. CmdrTaco should post a completely seperate article/feature if he wishes to present his political views. He shouldn't mix it in with something that is not relevant.
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You may want to checkout SyncML, which was specifically created to deal with getting the content from one device to the other. Bluetooth was designed to replace cables and does a pretty good job at that. I would much prefer to see a general solution such as SyncML be used that is not tied to Bluetooth. Seperation of functionality is a Good Thing(TM).
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Disclaimer: I work for Ericsson, but the views expressed here are my own and not those of my employer.
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Actually, in this case, the authorization for the wiretap does not come from themselves, they have to get a court order from a judge. They can't just randomly wiretap people's communications without a reason. It is similiar to getting a search warrant, you have to get a court order for that. Are you suggesting that we should stop allowing "lawfully-authorized" searches as well?
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CALEA stands for Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act. You can get more information on the FBI website. You can also get lots of links by doing a simple google search.
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I was with you until the last paragraph. I'll assume that in your last paragraph you are refering to the frequencies allocated for PCS use (ie digital cell phones). There are not 5 redundant bands, but one band in the 1900 Mhz range that has been defined for use with PCS. This band has then been split up into several different blocks that can be auctioned off individually to different operators. The reason you want to have several blocks available in the same band is to promote competition and to allow the "Mom and Pop" shops a chance to enter the market. This is no different than how things are done for, say, GSM in the rest of the world.
I'm not sure that I understand your comment about costs of cellular infrastrcuture though. Vendors are the ones that build the equipment (usually called manufacturers), you are probably referring to operators here. Assuming you mean operators, why would they want to share the cost of the cellular infrastructure? They each have to build their own network in order to accomodate their own customers? Why would I let a competitor use my base station? Most of the signalling and such that takes place on the ground is done using leased-lines, so the cost for that portion of the network is already shared anyway. As I already mentioned, they are already all using the same band, so that isn't a problem. And when usage increases, they do just as you suggest: add more cells. Adding more cells is possible for all operators using the blocks that they have licensed using frequency reuse patterns.
Disclaimer: I work for Ericsson, however these views are my own and have not been endorsed by my employer.
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And more specifically, the ITU holds a World Radiocommunication Conference quite frequently. The last such conference just ended on June 2. The web page for WRC 200 can be found here. The decisions made here will be used as a basis for many of the upcoming 3G systems that are being talked about all over the place these days, among other things.
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As someone who works with the standardization of 3rd generation mobile systems (specifically I am a 3GPP delegate [3GPP website]), I can tell you that those speeds will only be available for indoor type connections, like inside the lobby of a hotel or the waiting area in a train station. The speeds decrease as you move to pedestrian, moving car, train, etc.
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Here is the link to the thread http://slashdot.org/comm ents.pl?sid=00/04/18/237234&cid=42. I guess the editors don't read the actual discussions to see what people are talking about ;o)
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How is this insightful when the company involved is NOT even MP3.com? If you substitute Amazon.com for MP3.com, then maybe I could see the how it is insightful, but definately not worth a 5.
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Yes, but you are missing a fundamental difference in these different types of "marketing." In the case of physical junk mail there is no actual cost in receiving the piece of mail. Those costs were paid in advance by the company sending the mail. With electronic junk mail (spam) the receiver may also incurr a charge for receiving the mail.
This cost can come in different forms. For example, in most European countries, you pay for your time on-line by the minute, even if the call is local. For businesses (even in the US) that have leased lines, it is possible that they pay for the actual bandwidth used, so downloading spam from their mail server costs them money!
Just because it is relatively easy to delete spam, doesn't mean that it should simply be ignored. There are other factors to consider.
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Now they did release an older version (3.20.32a) under the GPL, but that is not nearly the same as releasing the latest versions. This has already been discussed extensively in this slashdot article.
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Do you know who sings that song? I have had it stuck in my head for ages, we used to play it on the campus radio station when I worked there but I can't remember what it was called and who sang it. (Btw, for those of you that are lost, I'm referencing the line "the sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace..".
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Evidently you are the retarded one for calling other people names. If you would have known anything, you would have known that Linus does speak Swedish and that the sound bytes of him saying it are in Swedish. The Finns have TWO official languages, Swedish and Finnish. So the original poster was correct when he said "Swedish pronunciation."
(For anyone that cares, I am an American, but lived in Sweden for four years.)
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How does this make it easier? You can already write applications for the Palm using Linux. There is a gcc for writing applications for the Palm.
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