After reading the whole thing I wonder who the bigger dumbass(es) are/is. Shifman for being he dumbass who sent the spam, or the others for taunting the village idiot.
The whole thing proves a point that I keep trying to make, but nobody listens is that there is a core of anti-spammers that are just as bad as the worst of the spammers and pro-spammers. Instead of just reporting the guy to his ISP they must also tell the guy he's being reported. Then they feel they must respond to his response instead of just ignoring it like civilzed people. It all comes down to a matter of the lack of two things on the parts of rabid pro-spammers and rabid anti-spammers, and those two thing are 'class' and 'style'.
It's as assinine as in IRC when someone tells someone else that they are putting them on ignore. If someone has class and style they would JUST DO IT, and dispense with all the stupid threats. It's largely cartoony from both sides.
The spammer on the other hand should have applied class and style and ignored them. The whole thing is nothing more than a juvenile shouting match where the forum is the internet instead of the school playground.
It all can be summarized this way...
'fuck you, I'm telling your mom!'
'no, fuck you fucker, my dad will kick your fucking ass'
'fuck you you fucking fucker'
Lawyers like to try to pass of things like 'von' in their titles. Just as here in the United States they like to put 'Esq.' or 'Esquire' on their cards even though it doesn't mean shit.
Hell, I work with the damn things (computers) all day. Even I would like one I can just turn on and it works. Eventually ya just get tired of screwing with em.
"India and Pakistan are on the brink of bringing the world into a nuclear holocost. Our supplies of oil are depleting while our energy usage goes up. Ebola has broken out in another african village, and Aids rates worldwide are up to 1 in 100 with some areas reaching 1 in 3. Until such a time as there is something realistic we can do about near earth asteroids, that money is better focused on more pressing forms of armageddon."
Asteroid watching aside... These are all good reasons for MORE space sciences funding, not less. As it is we spend more and more every year on 'social spending', and cut more and more every year for space sciences. Eventually, the weight of social spending will reach the point where it will bankrupt the very society that its suppose to help which will cause it and that societies complete and utter economic downfall. With space sciences we (ideally) can create jobs, new medical treatments, harvest extra-terrestrial resources so we don't have to strip mine the whole planet, and expand human territory.
IMHO, instead of pumping funding into asteroid tracking for the time being, we should be pumping funding into how to deal with these asteroids by putting money into space sciences. Untill we can deal with them, there's no point in tracking them.
Exactly, but you forget one small point that you'll never read in any of 'the sky *might* fall' articles. The astronomers doing the current searching want more funding so they can get a new beamer since they don't have any real skills they must try to make their current 'skill' seem that much more important. There's nothing that fuels science welfare more than a good scare story can.
Give me a break. I grew up in an area where gun ownership was high. In that area parents got upset (to put it mildly) if we so much as pointing a gun (even cap guns) at someone. It was ok to shoot 'things' if it was in the scope of either practice or hunting. We were taught responsible gun use which is more than I can say for (most) kids today.
I think that's the trick. File a patent with a bunch of obscure phraseology like "method and apparatus utilizing bond identifiers executed upon accessing of an endo-dynamic information node", wait for a technology that remotely could be stuffed into the obscure phraseology, then claim a patent on it. Easy.
Actually, Americans will do nothing. There will always be the small vocal minority, but their easily ignored, and don't carry large enough voting block. Even if they carried a large enough block there are only two officially accepted political parties in America (despite the protestations otherwise by the Libertarians), but both are hell-bent on the total subjugation of the population to their own (and not all that different) political ideals. Americans will continue to buy their music on CD's, and are happy as long as they can get their Britney Spears and N'Sync crap. The only time you'll ever see a large protest is if some obscure, unimportant, but cute animal is threatened. They'd all much rather save a fish you can hardly see than save their own worthless asses.
Easy solution. Use the CD-RW that's in the machine of someone you hate.
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It's pretty clear that Monsanto is the 'evil company' that people fear. It makes Microsofts misdeeds look like a form of community service in comparison.
There's nothing more damning than corporate memo's. May Monsanto and the thugs that ran/run it burn in hell.
Apple already bombed with the Newton. I don't think this'll go over any better. Besides, Apple's business plan seems to be 1) release item X, 2) sell item X for a year or so, then 3) drop item X and all support while stating the mantra "We want to concentrate on our more profitable Mac line".
It's not a matter of tolerating those that are politically inept. It's a matter of tolerating and dealing with those that are. The politically inept are no threat.
His reaction is understandable when you take a look at the majority of the techs, and most of the wannabe techs here on Slashdot. They are all expected to be latte-drinking, limp-wristed, liberal, Will and Grace watching, twig-boys that are too effimate to risk busting a knuckle on anything harder than a case thumbscrew.
Only in a perfect world. The reality is that you MUST play the game in order to survive. I learned this in what is probably the harshest of (pseudo)corporate environments imaginable where workplace applications of AOW are concerned (the USAF). The only real difference between the military pseudo-corporate political structure and the civilian corporate political structure is that in the civilian structure you don't have a legal recourse against people that work outside of what considered to be, ideally, ethical and moral constraints that are expected of civil persons so manuvering politically is the best defense in that arena if mere survival is the goal. Advancement always takes a good offense, and the AOW can be very applicable.
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After reading the whole thing I wonder who the bigger dumbass(es) are/is. Shifman for being he dumbass who sent the spam, or the others for taunting the village idiot.
The whole thing proves a point that I keep trying to make, but nobody listens is that there is a core of anti-spammers that are just as bad as the worst of the spammers and pro-spammers. Instead of just reporting the guy to his ISP they must also tell the guy he's being reported. Then they feel they must respond to his response instead of just ignoring it like civilzed people. It all comes down to a matter of the lack of two things on the parts of rabid pro-spammers and rabid anti-spammers, and those two thing are 'class' and 'style'.
It's as assinine as in IRC when someone tells someone else that they are putting them on ignore. If someone has class and style they would JUST DO IT, and dispense with all the stupid threats. It's largely cartoony from both sides.
The spammer on the other hand should have applied class and style and ignored them. The whole thing is nothing more than a juvenile shouting match where the forum is the internet instead of the school playground.
It all can be summarized this way...
'fuck you, I'm telling your mom!'
'no, fuck you fucker, my dad will kick your fucking ass'
'fuck you you fucking fucker'
Lawyers like to try to pass of things like 'von' in their titles. Just as here in the United States they like to put 'Esq.' or 'Esquire' on their cards even though it doesn't mean shit.
Too bad the whole thing is in Germany and not in Texas where "he needed killin" is a valid defense.
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I'll be selling penants(sp) and bumper stickers right up to the very end!
muahahaha
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Hell, I work with the damn things (computers) all day. Even I would like one I can just turn on and it works. Eventually ya just get tired of screwing with em.
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"India and Pakistan are on the brink of bringing the world into a nuclear holocost. Our supplies of oil are depleting while our energy usage goes up. Ebola has broken out in another african village, and Aids rates worldwide are up to 1 in 100 with some areas reaching 1 in 3. Until such a time as there is something realistic we can do about near earth asteroids, that money is better focused on more pressing forms of armageddon."
Asteroid watching aside... These are all good reasons for MORE space sciences funding, not less. As it is we spend more and more every year on 'social spending', and cut more and more every year for space sciences. Eventually, the weight of social spending will reach the point where it will bankrupt the very society that its suppose to help which will cause it and that societies complete and utter economic downfall. With space sciences we (ideally) can create jobs, new medical treatments, harvest extra-terrestrial resources so we don't have to strip mine the whole planet, and expand human territory.
IMHO, instead of pumping funding into asteroid tracking for the time being, we should be pumping funding into how to deal with these asteroids by putting money into space sciences. Untill we can deal with them, there's no point in tracking them.
Exactly, but you forget one small point that you'll never read in any of 'the sky *might* fall' articles. The astronomers doing the current searching want more funding so they can get a new beamer since they don't have any real skills they must try to make their current 'skill' seem that much more important. There's nothing that fuels science welfare more than a good scare story can.
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I suspect #4 above for much the same reason, and additionally I think the wording is couched(sp) that way to confuse the patent office.
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Give me a break. I grew up in an area where gun ownership was high. In that area parents got upset (to put it mildly) if we so much as pointing a gun (even cap guns) at someone. It was ok to shoot 'things' if it was in the scope of either practice or hunting. We were taught responsible gun use which is more than I can say for (most) kids today.
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Well, sounds like a good idea, but given the way the US patent office works... I'm sure that's patented.
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I think that's the trick. File a patent with a bunch of obscure phraseology like "method and apparatus utilizing bond identifiers executed upon accessing of an endo-dynamic information node", wait for a technology that remotely could be stuffed into the obscure phraseology, then claim a patent on it. Easy.
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Actually, Americans will do nothing. There will always be the small vocal minority, but their easily ignored, and don't carry large enough voting block. Even if they carried a large enough block there are only two officially accepted political parties in America (despite the protestations otherwise by the Libertarians), but both are hell-bent on the total subjugation of the population to their own (and not all that different) political ideals. Americans will continue to buy their music on CD's, and are happy as long as they can get their Britney Spears and N'Sync crap. The only time you'll ever see a large protest is if some obscure, unimportant, but cute animal is threatened. They'd all much rather save a fish you can hardly see than save their own worthless asses.
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But it DOES suck!
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Easy solution. Use the CD-RW that's in the machine of someone you hate.
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It's pretty clear that Monsanto is the 'evil company' that people fear. It makes Microsofts misdeeds look like a form of community service in comparison.
There's nothing more damning than corporate memo's. May Monsanto and the thugs that ran/run it burn in hell.
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Apple already bombed with the Newton. I don't think this'll go over any better. Besides, Apple's business plan seems to be 1) release item X, 2) sell item X for a year or so, then 3) drop item X and all support while stating the mantra "We want to concentrate on our more profitable Mac line".
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Their like corrupt Ferengi, but the difference is that even Ferengi have rules they play by.
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Actually, I screwed up that post, should read...
". It's a matter of tolerating and dealing with those that are not." (those that are not politically inept)
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It's not a matter of tolerating those that are politically inept. It's a matter of tolerating and dealing with those that are. The politically inept are no threat.
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He musta been Microsoft trained. Sounds like he removed every tire one-by-one untill he found the faulty one.
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His reaction is understandable when you take a look at the majority of the techs, and most of the wannabe techs here on Slashdot. They are all expected to be latte-drinking, limp-wristed, liberal, Will and Grace watching, twig-boys that are too effimate to risk busting a knuckle on anything harder than a case thumbscrew.
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It doesn't address the issue of HOW memories are stored, WHAT consists of a whole memory, and HOW memories exist in the same physical space.
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Only in a perfect world. The reality is that you MUST play the game in order to survive. I learned this in what is probably the harshest of (pseudo)corporate environments imaginable where workplace applications of AOW are concerned (the USAF). The only real difference between the military pseudo-corporate political structure and the civilian corporate political structure is that in the civilian structure you don't have a legal recourse against people that work outside of what considered to be, ideally, ethical and moral constraints that are expected of civil persons so manuvering politically is the best defense in that arena if mere survival is the goal. Advancement always takes a good offense, and the AOW can be very applicable.
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If you work for a large company, the office IS a warzone. The AOW is more applicable than "The Barney Singalong Book".
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