When the local cable TV co mailed flyers informing us that broadband was now avaliable, we signed up immediatley (DSL wasn't avaliable at the time). The CableCo got another customer and I got the service I want.
Banning commercial speech will result in recession and crippling of the economy - how the hell can any business survive if they're not allowed to tell anyone that they exist?
While I oppose telemarketing and spam, I do not at all mind being informed of commercial offers that interest me. Don't impose your rules on everyone - you can opt out of telemarketing, snail mail ads, change the channel on TV, and avert your eyes when you see a billboard.
So, are you saying that I wont be allowed to advertise in the classifides? What about eBay?
If you ban commercial speech, then how am I going to be able to look up essential services I need? How am I going to be able to find a plumber when my pipes break?
but when you are blind, you have to live with you disability..
While I am for making reasonable accomodations (That is what the Americans with Disabilies Act calls for) for disabled, spam is an incredible problem and I dont think we should give up our best efforts at fighting it just because a few blind people are unable to gain access. The greater good of society is served by removing spam than letting it all flow in to make the blind minority happy.
Find a way around it.. get a friend who can see to fill out the form for you.. or call up the company that runs the webform and I bet they'd be eager to do it for you too
well.. my neighbor across the street has DSL, I have cable. Its REALLY handy when Crime Warner breaks.. except that I have to assemble my 24db dish to get a signal and point it at his house.
The sad thing is my high school computer science textbook thinks that void main() is great. My teacher didn't understand why I turned in my assignments with int main().
Oh give me a break. THe DMCA was passed under Clinton and so was the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, so dont act as if Bush should get all the blame.
Yawn.. throwing money at education doesn't help. It requires good people running the show, first. My school district showers themselves with new laptops, PDA'a, and other gadgets, but gives the students the pits (incomptent teachers, low quality textbooks,etc).
If public schooling had bigger competeition (read: vouchers), they would have reason to raise their quality to compete with other schools.
My school distrist, Fort Bend ISD in Houston, TX, had an IIS webserver that was infected with W32.SadMind. I notified the admin by email who replied with "Uhh.. the server is too slow to run Norton.. so we cant do anything". I laughed and forgot about it for a year.
Then comes a story on slashdot about infected IIS servers, I post a quip about my dealings with FBISD and a couple of Slashdot posters decided to email the district and the local TV station. THAT got it fixed within a day, however the school district was a bit upset at me.
After than, some less than ethical FBISD employee decided to attempt to reset my dyndns.org account password. A while later, I get hits from them to my linux box trying to login to my FTP and protected HTTP pages from them. This is the thanks I get for telling them that they're vulnerable.
As a student, I couldn't really do anything other than publicize what they did on my website and send a few nastygrams back.
Obviously they can't expel the student, but you would expect SOME level of anger that is equivalent to what they would do to the student in the same situation.
If the students want to squander their time, then thats their problem! In college, its no longer the responsibility of the school to force the student to learn.
Anyone remember the Digital Multia aka "Universal Desktop Box" powered by Alpha CPU's?
They weren't all that powerful (had a lower cost version of the Alpha CPU - the 21164PC with watered down FPU and such) or popular, but they were out there long before Apple had any 64-bit dreams.
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What if my friends and family don't know about it? What if I need a service thats not really used often and known about much?
I'm really glad people like you aren't in power. You would be dangerous to our economy.
Not all advertising is bad.
When the local cable TV co mailed flyers informing us that broadband was now avaliable, we signed up immediatley (DSL wasn't avaliable at the time). The CableCo got another customer and I got the service I want.
Banning commercial speech will result in recession and crippling of the economy - how the hell can any business survive if they're not allowed to tell anyone that they exist?
While I oppose telemarketing and spam, I do not at all mind being informed of commercial offers that interest me. Don't impose your rules on everyone - you can opt out of telemarketing, snail mail ads, change the channel on TV, and avert your eyes when you see a billboard.
So, are you saying that I wont be allowed to advertise in the classifides? What about eBay?
If you ban commercial speech, then how am I going to be able to look up essential services I need? How am I going to be able to find a plumber when my pipes break?
hell with that.. I'm calling up Dell and ordering me a nice Xeon system... I'll have my Beowulf cluster in no time!
it could be modified to look for keywords.. by just reconizing "legs" and "cat", it could know how to answer that question
If Slashdot ran the post office, you'd receive four copies of the same letter or package, often on the same day.
Not only that, Michael would open your mail, insert spelling mistakes, and write [ed. note - no it isn't] by stuff in your letters
Graphics can be read by computer (OCR) and so can audio (seen the latest speech to text stuff?)
but when you are blind, you have to live with you disability..
While I am for making reasonable accomodations (That is what the Americans with Disabilies Act calls for) for disabled, spam is an incredible problem and I dont think we should give up our best efforts at fighting it just because a few blind people are unable to gain access. The greater good of society is served by removing spam than letting it all flow in to make the blind minority happy.
Find a way around it.. get a friend who can see to fill out the form for you.. or call up the company that runs the webform and I bet they'd be eager to do it for you too
and you wouldn't be able to distinguish by taste between spam spam and human spam
DMCA == copyrights, not patents
well.. my neighbor across the street has DSL, I have cable. Its REALLY handy when Crime Warner breaks.. except that I have to assemble my 24db dish to get a signal and point it at his house.
GCC spits out errors when I use void main, and AFAIK, ANSI/ISO standards always want you to return int from main
The sad thing is my high school computer science textbook thinks that void main() is great. My teacher didn't understand why I turned in my assignments with int main().
so andy.grove@intel.com is propeitary information?
Will Intel now sue me because I posted their confidential information on slashdot?
Uhh..
How does one look for closed souce code if the code, by its nature, is secret?
The ATI still won! What are you talking about?
Oh give me a break. THe DMCA was passed under Clinton and so was the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, so dont act as if Bush should get all the blame.
Was that particular judge appointed by Bush?
Yawn.. throwing money at education doesn't help. It requires good people running the show, first. My school district showers themselves with new laptops, PDA'a, and other gadgets, but gives the students the pits (incomptent teachers, low quality textbooks,etc).
If public schooling had bigger competeition (read: vouchers), they would have reason to raise their quality to compete with other schools.
Rumor has it a divide by zero error on NT caused one such craft to shut down completely
What, your Macs could magically divide by zero?
My school distrist, Fort Bend ISD in Houston, TX, had an IIS webserver that was infected with W32.SadMind. I notified the admin by email who replied with "Uhh.. the server is too slow to run Norton.. so we cant do anything". I laughed and forgot about it for a year.
Then comes a story on slashdot about infected IIS servers, I post a quip about my dealings with FBISD and a couple of Slashdot posters decided to email the district and the local TV station. THAT got it fixed within a day, however the school district was a bit upset at me.
After than, some less than ethical FBISD employee decided to attempt to reset my dyndns.org account password. A while later, I get hits from them to my linux box trying to login to my FTP and protected HTTP pages from them. This is the thanks I get for telling them that they're vulnerable.
As a student, I couldn't really do anything other than publicize what they did on my website and send a few nastygrams back.
Obviously they can't expel the student, but you would expect SOME level of anger that is equivalent to what they would do to the student in the same situation.
If the students want to squander their time, then thats their problem! In college, its no longer the responsibility of the school to force the student to learn.
Some people know how to multitask, dont ruin it.
The fact of the matter is that Apple is putting out disinformation. Just because it wasnt popular doesnt mean it didn't happen.
Spot on!
Anyone remember the Digital Multia aka "Universal Desktop Box" powered by Alpha CPU's?
They weren't all that powerful (had a lower cost version of the Alpha CPU - the 21164PC with watered down FPU and such) or popular, but they were out there long before Apple had any 64-bit dreams.
Actually.. this mirror is still active:
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http://vectec.net/Pheonix5000/panther/panther.htm