One thing that is going away in North America** is responsability for ones own actions.
Apart from misspelling responsibility *grin*, I completely agree with you. My feeling is that the single biggest flaw in today's "modern" culture is a focus on ones personal rights coupled with a complete disregard for social responsibility. The two are equally important and go hand in hand, but we're busy focusing on one and ignoring the other.
The alarming thing is that history is filled with cultures that pretty much imploded due to exactly the same thing. A warning to us all. Not that we're likely to heed it, of course - we're all too wrapped up in ourselves to notice.
You had the choice to buy a more expensive printer with cheaper/generic capable cartridges. But you didn't.
Choice, huh? Yeah right.
Almost every new PC these days comes with a bundled printer, and it's almost always made by one of three or four companies. You want to buy a printer seperately? Again, three or four options (assuming you want half-decent output... but why would you buy a printer if you weren't interested in the output).
In short, the cartel operated by the printer manufacturers is almost (but not quite) as tight as those in the operating system or semiconductor businesses. It's definitely time to stop.
Why should a few politicians outvoice the masses who have chosen to buy cheap printers with expensive cartridges?
Obvious answer: Because the masses are stupid and need guidance. That's the whole point of politicians. (what? yours don't do this too??)
Longer answer: The politicians are actually doing this for environmental reasons more than to change the printer industry. A lot of people don't realise just how dire the situation has got in regard to trash - the culture of disposable goods really does need to end, because some places (eg southern England) have literally less than five years before there is no more land-fill space left. And we've already started building on top of old waste dumps too. The situation is untenable, even in the short term, and the politicians know it.
Just because it's a standard doesn't mean that anyone will actually use it. I can hope something like this becomes a standard, but more to the point, I should rather be hoping that companies actually impliment it.
I'm amazed this comes as a suprise to anyone. A lot of spam is written to look like it's a gift of some sort or another - that's part of their hook, and a lot of spam (and viruses) use spoofed addresses that can easily look like they're from someone you know. Any spam filtering software worth it's salt should at least take note of those gift certificates. Okay, so just this once it's genuine, but how is the software supposed to know that?
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the patent was granted in Sept 200
Sept 200, eh? Wow. That definitely rules out any prior art that I know of!;-)
In the UK and in the EU... the box requires a smart card to be inserted for use.
Yes, and look at how many hacked cards there are over here.
In fact there was even a story a while ago that one pay-TV provider was deliberately hacking the smart cards of another. (I can't find the reference, but I'm sure it was right here on/.)
Are there better solutions than turning into an attack dog, ala the RIAA and the MPAA?
Here's my solution: publish the articles online with deliberate errors. Make sure that people who download them legitimately know what those errors are, so they can account for them, but people doing big bulk downloads as described in the question won't know (and probably won't care). Then they can publish it as much as they like, but they'll soon realise they've got themselves a dud.
Just an idea. Whether it's practical in your situation is another question - I don't know enough about what you're doing to answer that one.
This story highlights one thing I've always said: When it comes to a 'mission-critical' system, you should always always always have a fallback plan in case the current system lets you down. That goes as much for home accounting as it does for the space shuttle's life support. There is a difference between using a computer system and relying on one. As soon as you rely on it, you open yourself up to disaster if it stops being reliable. In most cases, you don't have to actually buy the alternative solution straight up; the important thing is being prepared for a situation where you might need it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but 'fair use' does include the right to quote parts of a work for the purposes of reporting on it, etc.
Now I interpret this site as reporting on the spam, so therefore if you were to use parts of each message rather than the whole thing, you ought to be off the hook.
Of course, I realise that this kinda defeats the point of the site, but it's an something to think about (even if it's just a last resort).
Silly git. You're ignoring the cost of taking the DVD back to the shop. If you have to drive even a mile, it's better for the environment to landfill the DVD.
Hopefully never - when people use GNU/Linux they will realise that Free software is better for a whole host of reasons.
I'm sure you enjoy the odd game, right? Did you ever buy one of Loki's games? Did you pirate them?
Loki failed because although they released good software, and the Linux community loved them, no-one actually bought anything from them. We all love free software, but please don't forget that companies can't produce software for free.
Proprietary and non-free software have their places in the computer industry just as much as free software does. I can't comment on the specific software the question is about, because I don't know it, but if a company wants to sell software they've written, there should not be (barring licence considerations) any reason why they shouldn't be able to, nor why they shouldn't be taken seriously for trying.
I remember a few years ago, I sent a large (7mb... which at the time was about 6.5mb larger than the next biggest I'd ever sent). It crashed our mail server.
What had happened was that the mail server only had 1.5mb of disk space left. Normally that wouldn't have been a problem, because it was only temporary storage for the messages as they left the building, but the size of my message meant that it got permenantly stuck, it caused all other emails behind it in the queue to back up for five hours, before the server finally died.
Lessons learned: 1. Limits are sometimes a good thing. 2. Server admins should keep adequate disk space free. 3. Mail servers are not immortal.
The article doesn't say that this planet itself is in any way relevant to the odds of alien life. And given it was found because of it's signature in a dust cloud (which means that firstly it's very young, and secondly it's likely to be getting a constant bombardment of metors), I don't thing there is likely to be any there right now. Life may develop there (or at least, in that system) in the future, of course, but not yet, and certainly not intelligence.
This reminds me of those old adventure games where they made the game world seem bigger by putting you into a loop, so you could keep going in the same direction, and just go round the same locations over and over again...
Good idea, except as I look at the clock, and notice that it's ten to three on a Thursday morning, I can't help but wonder when these suckers are supposed to sleep
Not all web site owners are based in the US... it's early afternoon here.
But it is still a good point - it's always the middle of the night somewhere.
Also, web site owners with smaller sites (the ones that are more likely to crash under the slashdot effect) are also more likely to be individuals rather than corporations. I know that as an individual, I only check my email a few times a day (at the very most), so the odds are quite heavily stacked against a 30-minute warning being received in time to do anything about it.
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One thing that is going away in North America** is responsability for ones own actions.
Apart from misspelling responsibility *grin*, I completely agree with you. My feeling is that the single biggest flaw in today's "modern" culture is a focus on ones personal rights coupled with a complete disregard for social responsibility. The two are equally important and go hand in hand, but we're busy focusing on one and ignoring the other.
The alarming thing is that history is filled with cultures that pretty much imploded due to exactly the same thing. A warning to us all. Not that we're likely to heed it, of course - we're all too wrapped up in ourselves to notice.
Even the hot water tap on your kitchen sink doesn't heat water that much!
No, of course it doesn't. But then again I wouldn't drink coffee made from tap water. Eugh!
Let me guess... you were one of the few people who bought Microsoft Bob?
You had the choice to buy a more expensive printer with cheaper/generic capable cartridges. But you didn't.
Choice, huh? Yeah right.
Almost every new PC these days comes with a bundled printer, and it's almost always made by one of three or four companies. You want to buy a printer seperately? Again, three or four options (assuming you want half-decent output... but why would you buy a printer if you weren't interested in the output).
In short, the cartel operated by the printer manufacturers is almost (but not quite) as tight as those in the operating system or semiconductor businesses. It's definitely time to stop.
Why should a few politicians outvoice the masses who have chosen to buy cheap printers with expensive cartridges?
Obvious answer: Because the masses are stupid and need guidance. That's the whole point of politicians. (what? yours don't do this too??)
Longer answer: The politicians are actually doing this for environmental reasons more than to change the printer industry. A lot of people don't realise just how dire the situation has got in regard to trash - the culture of disposable goods really does need to end, because some places (eg southern England) have literally less than five years before there is no more land-fill space left. And we've already started building on top of old waste dumps too. The situation is untenable, even in the short term, and the politicians know it.
Just because it's a standard doesn't mean that anyone will actually use it.
I can hope something like this becomes a standard, but more to the point, I should rather be hoping that companies actually impliment it.
I think that makes my point quite well.
I'm amazed this comes as a suprise to anyone. A lot of spam is written to look like it's a gift of some sort or another - that's part of their hook, and a lot of spam (and viruses) use spoofed addresses that can easily look like they're from someone you know.
Any spam filtering software worth it's salt should at least take note of those gift certificates. Okay, so just this once it's genuine, but how is the software supposed to know that?
the patent was granted in Sept 200
;-)
Sept 200, eh? Wow. That definitely rules out any prior art that I know of!
In the UK and in the EU ... the box requires a smart card to be inserted for use.
/.)
Yes, and look at how many hacked cards there are over here.
In fact there was even a story a while ago that one pay-TV provider was deliberately hacking the smart cards of another. (I can't find the reference, but I'm sure it was right here on
Countries that have an established sericulture industry could convert their production facilities to produce medically useful proteins.
So does this mean that silk ties will suddenly get much more expensive?
I wanted a .la domain but couldn't afford it
:-)
You mean were actually prepared to pay for the privilige of being able to pretend you live in Latvia?
Weird.
Are there better solutions than turning into an attack dog, ala the RIAA and the MPAA?
Here's my solution: publish the articles online with deliberate errors. Make sure that people who download them legitimately know what those errors are, so they can account for them, but people doing big bulk downloads as described in the question won't know (and probably won't care). Then they can publish it as much as they like, but they'll soon realise they've got themselves a dud.
Just an idea. Whether it's practical in your situation is another question - I don't know enough about what you're doing to answer that one.
Doesn't describe what software they're using, though.
:-)
It's "Elite II - Frontier".
CSS along with your XML content to render the formatted content in the browser
Um, I thought that was what XSLT is supposed to do?
This story highlights one thing I've always said: When it comes to a 'mission-critical' system, you should always always always have a fallback plan in case the current system lets you down.
That goes as much for home accounting as it does for the space shuttle's life support.
There is a difference between using a computer system and relying on one. As soon as you rely on it, you open yourself up to disaster if it stops being reliable.
In most cases, you don't have to actually buy the alternative solution straight up; the important thing is being prepared for a situation where you might need it.
He has promised me that he takes out my friends emails from his list. :)
Please sir, can I be your friend?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but 'fair use' does include the right to quote parts of a work for the purposes of reporting on it, etc.
Now I interpret this site as reporting on the spam, so therefore if you were to use parts of each message rather than the whole thing, you ought to be off the hook.
Of course, I realise that this kinda defeats the point of the site, but it's an something to think about (even if it's just a last resort).
If they want to go to extremes with this, maybe I can go another step further and claim copyright on my email address.
Now - if they try sending me messages using that address, I'll just have to send them a threatening letter.
Hmmm... but how would I get the letter to them without potentially committing the same thing?
Silly git. You're ignoring the cost of taking the DVD back to the shop. If you have to drive even a mile, it's better for the environment to landfill the DVD.
Some of us walk to the shop.
If you get half as much spam as me, you're bound to have had a few offering to sell you a degree.
(nb: I'm kidding - please don't take this seriously!)
Hopefully never - when people use GNU/Linux they will realise that Free software is better for a whole host of reasons.
I'm sure you enjoy the odd game, right? Did you ever buy one of Loki's games? Did you pirate them?
Loki failed because although they released good software, and the Linux community loved them, no-one actually bought anything from them. We all love free software, but please don't forget that companies can't produce software for free.
Proprietary and non-free software have their places in the computer industry just as much as free software does. I can't comment on the specific software the question is about, because I don't know it, but if a company wants to sell software they've written, there should not be (barring licence considerations) any reason why they shouldn't be able to, nor why they shouldn't be taken seriously for trying.
I remember a few years ago, I sent a large (7mb... which at the time was about 6.5mb larger than the next biggest I'd ever sent). It crashed our mail server.
What had happened was that the mail server only had 1.5mb of disk space left. Normally that wouldn't have been a problem, because it was only temporary storage for the messages as they left the building, but the size of my message meant that it got permenantly stuck, it caused all other emails behind it in the queue to back up for five hours, before the server finally died.
Lessons learned:
1. Limits are sometimes a good thing.
2. Server admins should keep adequate disk space free.
3. Mail servers are not immortal.
The article doesn't say that this planet itself is in any way relevant to the odds of alien life. And given it was found because of it's signature in a dust cloud (which means that firstly it's very young, and secondly it's likely to be getting a constant bombardment of metors), I don't thing there is likely to be any there right now. Life may develop there (or at least, in that system) in the future, of course, but not yet, and certainly not intelligence.
This reminds me of those old adventure games where they made the game world seem bigger by putting you into a loop, so you could keep going in the same direction, and just go round the same locations over and over again...
Good idea, except as I look at the clock, and notice that it's ten to three on a Thursday morning, I can't help but wonder when these suckers are supposed to sleep
Not all web site owners are based in the US... it's early afternoon here.
But it is still a good point - it's always the middle of the night somewhere.
Also, web site owners with smaller sites (the ones that are more likely to crash under the slashdot effect) are also more likely to be individuals rather than corporations. I know that as an individual, I only check my email a few times a day (at the very most), so the odds are quite heavily stacked against a 30-minute warning being received in time to do anything about it.