Are they like the UK where tesltra control the last mile and as such other ISP have to use it or are just there no other broadband ISP's? However in the UK the telco (BT) is moderated by Oftel which sort of keeps them in check.
There once was a extreme case of blocking where a US company recived on piece of spam from a.uk. As such they blocked the entire country. It was only when they realised they also owned a.co.uk domain they decided to unblock it as staff couldn't email each other
While I applaud AOL for trying to stop spam, cuting off a large ISP is just a bit overkill. I mean there are better ways such as tagging email though of as spam and letting the end user deleting them if wanted and only dumping them only if you are sure its spam.
Some IP blocks are nothing but spam so they are fine to block but you shouldn't use a sledgehammer to crack a nut
The problem arises in that how do you get off someone's personal list? If they were pulling from a centeral repository then yes this would be fine. However most spammers use their own lists (or ones they bought). The best way to get off the list is to not be on it in the first place.
I guess if Amazon do get the next big thing then they will just patent it to lock it into themselves. You've got to love the American Patent System, not sure if they are any better ones though
Half the fun of award ceromonies is that atmosphere. Its not fun just having to watch a webpage or streaming video. Where will be the outrages acceptance speeches and they obvious learning over the female's?
Not on this planet I fear. The human condition seems to be one of destroying ourselves. Prehaps the film Equilibrium got it right and prehaps we should all just stop feeling with drugs. Then again once people found feeling they wanted it.
Prehaps we are all doomed or we might just all grow up
As mentioned other threads this has been covered in a number of other Sci-Fi series. GELFS in Red Dwarf etc.. Of course we can't forget Khan, prehaps the best Star Trek villian. Taking how hard it was to beat him down and at a high cost prehaps it might be best that we do outlaw this.
There are some of us who can't get more than 128K ISDN and pay per minute. I would just love to get DSL or Cable or anything faster which is always on. I really only want something to automatically collect email etc rather than having to dialup each time. Remember that most of the world is on 56K
The way I'm looking at the article it seems they might be copying CD's and reselling them. The only difference between this and downloading is that they is some tangable physical media rather than it just being stored as 0/1's on your hard disk
Short answer is that if you download music or just copy a CD is stealing. Its just how you feel afterwards that makes the difference
So the article suggest that they company should ask for peoples ages. Now this I can see as a deterrant but if a child find that putting in under 13 redirects them to disney.com what is to stop then just signing up again and changing their age?
What I'm basically trying to say that the parents should be monitoring what their kids are doing. Treat the internet as the same the street. Don't talk to strangers or give out personal information
Prehaps they should treat it like most trade shows and get the Name + Addresses on the door. The someone could "accidently" leak the mailing list and then we could have anoth Alan Rasky slashdot effect:)
Looking at this is very sad that this has all happened but I'm sure that compared to driving a car, or prehaps even flying in a plane space travel seems to be very safe. Heres hoping that space travel carries on for many more years with no more casulties
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Are they like the UK where tesltra control the last mile and as such other ISP have to use it or are just there no other broadband ISP's? However in the UK the telco (BT) is moderated by Oftel which sort of keeps them in check.
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They just need to relax and unwind
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There once was a extreme case of blocking where a US company recived on piece of spam from a .uk. As such they blocked the entire country. It was only when they realised they also owned a .co.uk domain they decided to unblock it as staff couldn't email each other
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While I applaud AOL for trying to stop spam, cuting off a large ISP is just a bit overkill. I mean there are better ways such as tagging email though of as spam and letting the end user deleting them if wanted and only dumping them only if you are sure its spam.
Some IP blocks are nothing but spam so they are fine to block but you shouldn't use a sledgehammer to crack a nut
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The problem arises in that how do you get off someone's personal list? If they were pulling from a centeral repository then yes this would be fine. However most spammers use their own lists (or ones they bought). The best way to get off the list is to not be on it in the first place.
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I'm sure they also had them against the wall, on the photocopier. Well that what I saw in the office christmas party photos last year :P
Sex - The basis of all humour
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Well the Windows version would have to grow with each release. Also you would have to patch the book to fix security holes.
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What about something that just scanned for duplicate URLs for the last 48 hours. Not 100% effective but wouldn't be to hard to implement
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I guess if Amazon do get the next big thing then they will just patent it to lock it into themselves. You've got to love the American Patent System, not sure if they are any better ones though
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Well thats the only reason I can think of for the dupe :)
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Half the fun of award ceromonies is that atmosphere. Its not fun just having to watch a webpage or streaming video. Where will be the outrages acceptance speeches and they obvious learning over the female's?
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Soaked in vitamins it can provider a number of days of nutrition, apparently
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OK excuse me for being dumb but whats they point? You can send stuff into space and get it back. Great an expensive SAE :)
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Just sitting there doing nothing? I mean what have they ever done for us :)
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Of course there is intelligance on Earth. Its the Mice. Didn't you ever read HGTTG? :)
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Not on this planet I fear. The human condition seems to be one of destroying ourselves. Prehaps the film Equilibrium got it right and prehaps we should all just stop feeling with drugs. Then again once people found feeling they wanted it.
Prehaps we are all doomed or we might just all grow up
Rus
As mentioned other threads this has been covered in a number of other Sci-Fi series. GELFS in Red Dwarf etc.. Of course we can't forget Khan, prehaps the best Star Trek villian. Taking how hard it was to beat him down and at a high cost prehaps it might be best that we do outlaw this.
:) *)
(* Must remeber Star Trek isn't real life
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There are some of us who can't get more than 128K ISDN and pay per minute. I would just love to get DSL or Cable or anything faster which is always on. I really only want something to automatically collect email etc rather than having to dialup each time. Remember that most of the world is on 56K
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Anyone got it on bitorrent yet?
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The way I'm looking at the article it seems they might be copying CD's and reselling them. The only difference between this and downloading is that they is some tangable physical media rather than it just being stored as 0/1's on your hard disk
Short answer is that if you download music or just copy a CD is stealing. Its just how you feel afterwards that makes the difference
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It comes out on whilst I'm on honeymoon :)
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So the article suggest that they company should ask for peoples ages. Now this I can see as a deterrant but if a child find that putting in under 13 redirects them to disney.com what is to stop then just signing up again and changing their age?
What I'm basically trying to say that the parents should be monitoring what their kids are doing. Treat the internet as the same the street. Don't talk to strangers or give out personal information
Rus
Prehaps they should treat it like most trade shows and get the Name + Addresses on the door. The someone could "accidently" leak the mailing list and then we could have anoth Alan Rasky slashdot effect :)
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Looking at this is very sad that this has all happened but I'm sure that compared to driving a car, or prehaps even flying in a plane space travel seems to be very safe. Heres hoping that space travel carries on for many more years with no more casulties
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Now this is why you should always use protection? Don't know what you will catch
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