>>well, slugs are nice and slow and easy pickings for a small 'bot - make something that'll patrol my kitchen and snap up La Cocka Roachas all night and I'll be impressed - that would take some sensor-actuator coordination:))
a) Your Mac Technician needs to learn to configure the MacOS properly. We have no such speed problems.
b) Apple has adopted the open source theory, at least more than most. They started with MKLinux (Linux on the Mach microkernel), and went on to release Darwin (OSXs foundation, also Mach based) as open source.(yeah, I know it's Apple's open source license, but Rome wasn't built in a day, and they've already revised it in response to feedback) This is already starting to seed other projects (http://www.darwinlinux.com).
You folks are talking about being offended as if it were a bad thing. If someone offends you, they are probably in the process of exercising one of their constitutional rights. This is a Good Thing. The amazing thing about these rights is that they are balanced by your right to (in this case) change the ^%T^%#$^&%$ channel. Being offended is the price of living in a free society, but it is usually only momentary, because you can invoke one of your rights to counter it.
The issue has not one thing to do with free speech or "vague government legislation."
The government isn't telling anyone that spam is bad--the people are telling the government that spam is bad, and the government is doing its job. The government is there to do the people's bidding, and the majority of users are getting fed up with a tiny number of weasels causing vast grief in the name of "freedom." Majority rules.
Harassment, vandalism, and theft are all crimes. period. They should be punished up to the point that they stop. If it takes jail time to rid the world of spammers, more power to Virginia. The idea that I should "put up" with someone else's garbage on my computer, or sacrifice my time and energy to some shyster "for the good of free speech" is ridiculous.
Your right to free speech does not extend into the right to cause harm to OTHERS. There is one hell of a big difference between freedom and chaos.
And finally, possessing a common item with the potential to cause harm isn't illegal (with perhaps a few exceptions) unless you use it. (and hurt OTHERS) Someone can generate all of the spam s/he wants w/o sending it, and fill up his/her own damned hard drive for all I care. The issue is when that activity causes grief to others.
The common thread here is OTHERS, a concept spammers should try and comprehend...
Limiting the "rights" of vandals to crash and/or fill up mail servers, or thieves to hijack domain names and mail servers to relay spam is not limiting anyone's freedom of speech. Do you have the right to spray paint your opinion on your neighbor's house? Let's look at this crap for what it is: one person's rights STOP when they stomp another's rights.
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>>well, slugs are nice and slow and easy pickings for a small 'bot - make something that'll patrol my kitchen and snap up La Cocka Roachas all night and I'll be impressed - that would take some sensor-actuator coordination :))
"Here kitty, kitty, kitty..."
I do that all the time.
Quote: "If you didn't have it on the server where it could be BACKED UP, then you didn't really need it anyway--you just think you did..."
A fried OS isn't the only reason to format/replace a hard drive--backup important documents often.
a) Your Mac Technician needs to learn to configure the MacOS properly. We have no such speed problems.
b) Apple has adopted the open source theory, at least more than most. They started with MKLinux (Linux on the Mach microkernel), and went on to release Darwin (OSXs foundation, also Mach based) as open source.(yeah, I know it's Apple's open source license, but Rome wasn't built in a day, and they've already revised it in response to feedback) This is already starting to seed other projects (http://www.darwinlinux.com).
You folks are talking about being offended as if it were a bad thing. If someone offends you, they are probably in the process of exercising one of their constitutional rights. This is a Good Thing. The amazing thing about these rights is that they are balanced by your right to (in this case) change the ^%T^%#$^&%$ channel. Being offended is the price of living in a free society, but it is usually only momentary, because you can invoke one of your rights to counter it.
You are just wrong.
The issue has not one thing to do with free speech or "vague government legislation."
The government isn't telling anyone that spam is bad--the people are telling the government that spam is bad, and the government is doing its job. The government is there to do the people's bidding, and the majority of users are getting fed up with a tiny number of weasels causing vast grief in the name of "freedom." Majority rules.
Harassment, vandalism, and theft are all crimes. period. They should be punished up to the point that they stop. If it takes jail time to rid the world of spammers, more power to Virginia. The idea that I should "put up" with someone else's garbage on my computer, or sacrifice my time and energy to some shyster "for the good of free speech" is ridiculous.
Your right to free speech does not extend into the right to cause harm to OTHERS. There is one hell of a big difference between freedom and chaos.
And finally, possessing a common item with the potential to cause harm isn't illegal (with perhaps a few exceptions) unless you use it. (and hurt OTHERS) Someone can generate all of the spam s/he wants w/o sending it, and fill up his/her own damned hard drive for all I care. The issue is when that activity causes grief to others.
The common thread here is OTHERS, a concept spammers should try and comprehend...
Limiting the "rights" of vandals to crash and/or fill up mail servers, or thieves to hijack domain names and mail servers to relay spam is not limiting anyone's freedom of speech. Do you have the right to spray paint your opinion on your neighbor's house? Let's look at this crap for what it is: one person's rights STOP when they stomp another's rights.
-jrm
Yeah, a Blue Screen of Death kernel...