Good comment. One thing stands out in your post - "If working towards freedom, prepare for war". This is the very reason why I support George Bush. Freedom for the Iraqis from tyrannical dictators ( need I mention his worthless sons and what their exploits were ) is so valuable. This very statement is the lifeblood of the Iraq war. Its not only freedom for the iraqis, but freedom from fear itself ( of terrorists and other fanatics )
Similar to....
landing a person on moon when its overhyped, unproven, expensive and has a dearth of atmosphere ?
Dude, there is a pull among humans to own the best the first and fastest. Hence, why people queue up in long lines during sale days at your local malls.
You're paying about 95% of that cost. It is a bad deal. IMHO, releasing different versions of the console is plain silly. Might as well buy a PC in that case. The whole reason for a console so its a std. architecture and everyone has the same specs.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it (x) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(x) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches ( ) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email (x) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down! (x) Wow, this might work!
Totally agree. WTF is wrong with Slashdot ? Why does it need to twist the story line to engross you ? For cheap clicks so it gets more ad revenue ?
Slashdot sucks. This is one of the many sloppy reports by Slashdot in recent months. Its old glory is totally gone and replaced by this nonsensical postings.
This is a flamebait and nonsensical post. And this is funny how ? Posts ( and attitudes revealed of the poster ) like these lead to some of the social problems of today.
Slashdot sucks big time. Duplicate postings, mis-representation of posts ( eg. Xbox modder gets into trouble recent post etc. ). Slashdot is Slashgarbage. At least, OSNews is fresh.
You will no doubt mod this post, ignorant fool and stooge.
Part of what you say pertains to a savvy tech user ( who're probably the ones using the torrents anyways). However, a video file can exist within a.exe ( zipped Self Extracting exe's ). I'm sure you perhaps aware of that. ( Microsoft distributes their WMV HD samples like that. in.exe's )
Looks like you've bitten your own tail. Hook, line and sinker style
Instead of bitching about it here, why don't you post this to Apple so those smart guys can fix it in the time it takes you to bitch and you'll have to bitch no more.
Whoever moderated this as as Score5: Interesting needs to be slapped silly and fired. This has nothing to do with the article and is scored 5 ( Interesting ) Many of my posts are better and always get scores of 0 or 1. Slashdot is tragic and stale Head to osnews. At least the news is fresh and reviews are better. Slashdot has lost its shine
The 5min ads before the movie doesn't bother me. It in fact gives me time to settle down. Buy a coke or popcorn if I want to, without missing any of the movie. Also, if I'm late or other people are late, I don't mind if they block my view for the ads or trailers.
I *do* enjoy movie trailers as it keeps me interested in whats to come.
If there were no ads or trailers, I'll be missing the start of the movie in almost every movie.
However, I do agree that the time given to these should be cut down. There should be no more than 5 mins of ads and trailers combined. ( 2 mins for ads and 3 mins for trailers max. ) A theater violating this should be fined for wasting time. Also, theaters should post the actual start time of the movie.
messages( mail: 36000, sms: 12000) to Danish costumers of rival company 'Telmore'. According to different
Oh ! But they were "costumers".
Costumers always get spammed....or costumes.
For one, you need to use your thumbs to move the mouse. The ordinary mouse -- you use your palm, not any digit on the hand. This means you now have 2 less buttons you can access on the keyboard as its busy on the mouse. Sorry. will not work for video games.
Also from the screenies it looks painful.
Maybe this will cause the stress injury than remove it !!!
A firewall shouldn't be a solution to poor design/implementation problems and code bugs. That is simply not working. What if someone gets through the firewall?... that would mean the firewall has poor design/implementation problems and code bugs. That is simply not working .....
Firewalls are needed to be the catch-all. The second (or first depending on how you look at it ) layer of defense. This is the reason why forts had moats built around it.
Really, I feel any OS can do the things I'm looking out for it to do in its scope. C'mon, you can't expect Windows to do this -- "zcat file.gz | grep miss | awk '{print $3}' | sort -n | uniq -c" like some guy pointed out earlier.
Of course, you won't approach Windows that way to do it. And how many times have you really required to do that command on a Windows desktop ?
Same way, you'll not approach linux to play fancy new games.
I use many OSes ( MacOSX, Linux, Windows, BeOS, PalmOS, QNX, Solaris, IRIX ) and they're all good in their own respects. Of course, Windows is at the bottom but its still useful for certain productivity tasks.
It like the cars. you won't take a beat up chevy station wagon to the Indy 500. You go get what's best for the job. Depending on what you want to do.
Also, for the author -- a lot of her Windows quirks can be solved if she paid more attention to her setup or by visiting Windows Annoyances.
Now what am I to do with the truckloads of flag-free tuner cards I bought? Since social security is going down the tubes, I guess it is back to plan B for my retirement plans: leech off my kids
Something for you to consider -- so its ok for your parents to leech off of you, right ? are you giving any support to your parents today or just complaining about them ?
--- you always turn into your parents in about 20years
It may be 2005 but my P3-450Mhz still packs a punch for my wife. She's blissfully unaware that she's now using the 450Mhz instead of the super duper AMD 3500+.
From browsing the internet, to playing Solitaire, to reading email, even this 450Mhz from 1999 works like a charm.
Forget the processor, today the bus speeds are like 3 times faster.
This makes us wonder why do you really need a 10GHz PC ? Perhaps you can lower your heating bill using this as a heater:)
guys, you're forgetting the cost of the HardDrive !! Sure, $200 will buy you a decent PVR card, but where does it store this data ? You need like a 100GB Hard Disk ( add another $100 ) So, net cost of home solution is : $300 ( or more for better cards ) PVR of cable co. still $8/month.
It'll take 3 years or more to match $300 at $8/month. The Cable Co. PVR wins hands down. Not to mention its remote control ( add $25-$40 ) and its subscription guide ( maybe free or $5 ) and its ease of use and replacability is free.
There are some things money can buy, for everything else theres the PVR.
Slashdot Mirror
This gets modded 4: Funny ?
All he did was copy and paste a statement from the original article.
Slashdot is garbage. No wonder people are all on digg.
I just by chance decided to check slashdot and lo! its still crap.
Over to digg.com now.
Slashdot is history
Good comment. One thing stands out in your post - "If working towards freedom, prepare for war".
This is the very reason why I support George Bush. Freedom for the Iraqis from tyrannical dictators ( need I mention his worthless sons and what their exploits were ) is so valuable. This very statement is the lifeblood of the Iraq war.
Its not only freedom for the iraqis, but freedom from fear itself ( of terrorists and other fanatics )
Similar to ....
landing a person on moon when its overhyped, unproven, expensive and has a dearth of atmosphere ?
Dude, there is a pull among humans to own the best the first and fastest.
Hence, why people queue up in long lines during sale days at your local malls.
Not really.
20GB HDD = ~ $30
wireless controller = ~ $35
wireless headset = ~ $15
Ethernet cable = ~ $5
Remote control = ~ $20
Total = ~ $105
You're paying about 95% of that cost. It is a bad deal.
IMHO, releasing different versions of the console is plain silly. Might as well buy a PC in that case.
The whole reason for a console so its a std. architecture and everyone has the same specs.
.... or Google stopped publishing certain results which are unlikely
Consider this search --
Terms: centerable's heterolecithal
Google totals:
Duplicates Omitted Estimate: 3
Duplicates Omitted Total: 3
Duplicates Included Estimate: 3
Duplicates Included Total: 3
Yahoo totals:
Duplicates Omitted Estimate: 0
Duplicates Omitted Total: 0
Duplicates Included Estimate: 0
Duplicates Included Total: 0
I typed the term "centerable's heterolecithal" into both Google and Yahoo and they both return 0 results. The author claims 3 from Google ????
Hope he hasn't doctored any results to show in favor of Google.
Anyways this whole survey was a pointless waste of time and to add to it my time too.
Please mail me $50 for my time wasted.
Your post advocates a
( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based (x) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
(x) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(x) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
(x) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
(x) Wow, this might work!
I've decided. You're evil too. Coincidence ?
gizm0it = 666.
You decide now.
Totally agree. WTF is wrong with Slashdot ? Why does it need to twist the story line to engross you ? For cheap clicks so it gets more ad revenue ?
Slashdot sucks. This is one of the many sloppy reports by Slashdot in recent months.
Its old glory is totally gone and replaced by this nonsensical postings.
And this gets modded Score: 2 ?
WTF. Slashgarbage moderators stink real bad. Slashdot suck. Stupid slashdot
Now this post gets marked Score 5: Funny ?
This is a flamebait and nonsensical post. And this is funny how ? Posts ( and attitudes revealed of the poster ) like these lead to some of the social problems of today.
Slashdot sucks big time. Duplicate postings, mis-representation of posts ( eg. Xbox modder gets into trouble recent post etc. ). Slashdot is Slashgarbage.
At least, OSNews is fresh.
You will no doubt mod this post, ignorant fool and stooge.
You post this and get moderated 4: Funny.
Slashdot sucks big time.
i call bullshit to your post.
.exe ( zipped Self Extracting exe's ). I'm sure you perhaps aware of that. ( Microsoft distributes their WMV HD samples like that. in .exe's )
Part of what you say pertains to a savvy tech user ( who're probably the ones using the torrents anyways). However, a video file can exist within a
Looks like you've bitten your own tail. Hook, line and sinker style
Instead of bitching about it here, why don't you post this to Apple so those smart guys can fix it in the time it takes you to bitch and you'll have to bitch no more.
doesn't twin already mean identical ?
Whoever moderated this as as Score5: Interesting needs to be slapped silly and fired.
This has nothing to do with the article and is scored 5 ( Interesting )
Many of my posts are better and always get scores of 0 or 1.
Slashdot is tragic and stale
Head to osnews. At least the news is fresh and reviews are better.
Slashdot has lost its shine
It just works .... like before.
.... like shit
Bill Gates: ( 1 billion richer ): Hahahaha ! Fooled you.
Consumer: It just works
The 5min ads before the movie doesn't bother me.
It in fact gives me time to settle down. Buy a coke or popcorn if I want to, without missing any of the movie.
Also, if I'm late or other people are late, I don't mind if they block my view for the ads or trailers.
I *do* enjoy movie trailers as it keeps me interested in whats to come.
If there were no ads or trailers, I'll be missing the start of the movie in almost every movie.
However, I do agree that the time given to these should be cut down. There should be no more than 5 mins of ads and trailers combined. ( 2 mins for ads and 3 mins for trailers max. ) A theater violating this should be fined for wasting time. Also, theaters should post the actual start time of the movie.
messages( mail: 36000, sms: 12000) to Danish costumers of rival company 'Telmore'. According to different Oh ! But they were "costumers". Costumers always get spammed....or costumes.
Ok... you cannot play video games with this well.
For one, you need to use your thumbs to move the mouse. The ordinary mouse -- you use your palm, not any digit on the hand. This means you now have 2 less buttons you can access on the keyboard as its busy on the mouse.
Sorry. will not work for video games.
Also from the screenies it looks painful.
Maybe this will cause the stress injury than remove it !!!
A firewall shouldn't be a solution to poor design/implementation problems and code bugs. That is simply not working. What if someone gets through the firewall? ... that would mean the firewall has poor design/implementation problems and code bugs. That is simply not working .....
Firewalls are needed to be the catch-all. The second (or first depending on how you look at it ) layer of defense. This is the reason why forts had moats built around it.
Really, I feel any OS can do the things I'm looking out for it to do in its scope. C'mon, you can't expect Windows to do this -- "zcat file.gz | grep miss | awk '{print $3}' | sort -n | uniq -c" like some guy pointed out earlier. Of course, you won't approach Windows that way to do it. And how many times have you really required to do that command on a Windows desktop ? Same way, you'll not approach linux to play fancy new games. I use many OSes ( MacOSX, Linux, Windows, BeOS, PalmOS, QNX, Solaris, IRIX ) and they're all good in their own respects. Of course, Windows is at the bottom but its still useful for certain productivity tasks. It like the cars. you won't take a beat up chevy station wagon to the Indy 500. You go get what's best for the job. Depending on what you want to do. Also, for the author -- a lot of her Windows quirks can be solved if she paid more attention to her setup or by visiting Windows Annoyances.
Now what am I to do with the truckloads of flag-free tuner cards I bought? Since social security is going down the tubes, I guess it is back to plan B for my retirement plans: leech off my kids
Something for you to consider --
so its ok for your parents to leech off of you, right ?
are you giving any support to your parents today or just complaining about them ?
---
you always turn into your parents in about 20years
It may be 2005 but my P3-450Mhz still packs a punch for my wife.
:)
She's blissfully unaware that she's now using the 450Mhz instead of the super duper AMD 3500+.
From browsing the internet, to playing Solitaire, to reading email, even this 450Mhz from 1999 works like a charm.
Forget the processor, today the bus speeds are like 3 times faster.
This makes us wonder why do you really need a 10GHz PC ? Perhaps you can lower your heating bill using this as a heater
..... One phone uses a 500Mhz processor and other had a 3Gbyte Hard Drive for music.....
Yes, but can it wipe my ass ?
guys, you're forgetting the cost of the HardDrive !!
Sure, $200 will buy you a decent PVR card, but where does it store this data ? You need like a 100GB Hard Disk ( add another $100 )
So, net cost of home solution is : $300 ( or more for better cards )
PVR of cable co. still $8/month.
It'll take 3 years or more to match $300 at $8/month. The Cable Co. PVR wins hands down.
Not to mention its remote control ( add $25-$40 ) and its subscription guide ( maybe free or $5 ) and its ease of use and replacability is free.
There are some things money can buy, for everything else theres the PVR.