Unlike spammers, each telemarketer can only hit one 'victim' at a time,
I guess you've never heard of the predictive dialer? Using this device, a single telemarketer can annoy many people simultanously, because it places many calls at once. The first person to pick up will get to speak to the telemarketer, and the rest will be wondering why their line is dead. A complete waste of their time.
they are not anonymous (they can't withhold their number)
I have yet to receive a telemarketing call that shows a valid number on the caller id. If that's not what you mean by withholding their number, I'd love to know how to get their contact information.
and will more often than not leave you alone if you say "I'm sorry, but you are wasting your time. Please remove me from your list."
I played that game for a time, the calls stopped for awhile but after a few months they started picking up again. Nowadays, even if I pick up the phone to tell them, I just get a dead line because of their damn predictive dialers. This is the last straw. They telemarketers have proven time and again that they cannot be trusted to self regulate. It's high time for a national do-not call list.
Here in Chicago, I probably get at least 5 - 8 telemarketing calls on any particular day. I don't bother picking up the phone anymore unless a valid number appears on the caller id. Ah, to return to the blissful days of answering the phone without trepidation. I really hope this thing passes.
I suppose some pro-spammer will jump in here and say, "just ignore it!". Have you ever had your dinner interrupted by a telemarketing call? Even if you don't answer it, it's still an interruption.
I think you misunderstood. I just stated how the law currently is, at least in the USA. People have the right to privacy. As stated in the recent NYT article, "Tangled Up in Spam" by James Gleick:
"Many people who hate spam believe, honorably enough, that it's protected as free speech. It is not. The Supreme Court has made clear that individuals may preserve a threshold of privacy. ''Nothing in the Constitution compels us to listen to or view any unwanted communication, whatever its merit,'' wrote Chief Justice Warren Burger in a 1970 decision. ''We therefore categorically reject the argument that a vendor has a right under the Constitution or otherwise to send unwanted material into the home of another.''"
if spam should be illegal, so should any form of unsolicited communication
This is not insightful. In the US, you have the right to freedom of speech. You do not have the right to force anyone to listen. Spammers try to force people to listen to them by faking headers, ect.
To use your pub analogy, you have the right to strike up conversation with anyone you choose. However, persisting when the conversation is clearly not desired by the other party, and going as far as masquerading as someone else to get their attention would be harassment, and possibly stalking.
Thanks for the reply. I am aware that this encryption targeted the.net intermediate language, but did not realize that decompiling msil would give you the source code's original variable and function names! In that light, I can understand wanting more security if you're sending your code to a client.
Though this seems like a weakness in.net to me, wouldn't it be better to use a true compiler to begin with? The compiled code will be faster as well as more secure.
By the way, I've cracked my share of copy protected disk games from the 80's for kicks. Gotta love those assembly language obfuscation tricks like self-modifying programs, xor encrypted code, ect.:)
I'm slightly shocked and saddened to see an institution of higher learning working on a "Code Obfuscation" project for MS. But what I really wonder, is what companies are interested in buying "obfuscated" binaries?
I guess the target audience is the same people who buy closed source software now. MS has basically hired Oxford so their hands can remain clean of accusations of making.NET code non-portable, after all that was one of their main features of.NET..
If you ever put your resume on a job-seeker board, prepare for an onslaught of spam. It's a catch-22: You want your email address to be seen by a potential employer, unfortunately the spammers can easily scrape the sites for their email addresses. These bastards are truly the lowest forms of life.
Here's a tip for including CSS without having to worry about NS4 and (I think) IE4 screwing it up: Use the CSS2 @import rule to import your style sheet.
The version 4 browsers will ignore this tag, therefore you don't have to worry about crashing NS4 with your perfectly valid CSS. Example:
I've heard that the New Coke fiasco was engineered to allow Coca-Cola to switch to cheaper ingredients. All they had to do was push New Coke on the market for a year or so, then they could change their formula for "Coke Classic" without anyone much noticing. Brilliant.
Also, I find it interesting to see the recent Coke commercials which features Coke in bottles, even though bottled soda has not been available for years (in the USA). Apparently they still bottle Coke in other countries, as my local Mexican restraunt carries bottled Coke, imported of course.
No, Nintendo is the Microsoft of the gaming industry.
They pioneered vendor lock in for game consoles with their exclusive developer contracts, and have recently been found guilty of price-fixing by the EU. Not to mention the fact that the NES led to way to the now-common anticompetition pratices among game consoles, thanks to it's lockout chip.
In the Linux house, upgrading your doorknob would necessitate upgrading the door, as well as the DTK (decorative tool kit) development package. Unfortunately, the wallpaper is incompatible with the new version of DTK, so that must be upgraded as well. Then scap all your appliances that were built with the old DTK, and build new ones. On the upshot, the plans are Free!
Actually, I was expressing my educated opinion on RAM interfaces, seeing how I happen to posess a degree in electronics engineering. I don't like the RDRAM design because serialization of RAM is a tradeoff on bandwidth; adding the necessary communications protocols will further restrict the flow of data. To offset the serial bottleneck, the clock speed must be greatly increased. This leads to greater heat dissipation, fewer units that pass QA, and ultimately, a less scalable solution overall.
Yes, I do have a silly/. handle. That's what I get for using a ramdom name generator program.:/
What if you sat in on a RAM standards body for several years, secretly filed patent applications for some of their experimental ideas, then abruptly broke ranks and started suing the members of the standards body for royalties on their own ideas?
As I understand it, this is basically what Rambus did. IMNSHO, protocol-based RAM is a stupid idea, anyhow..
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Unlike spammers, each telemarketer can only hit one 'victim' at a time,
I guess you've never heard of the predictive dialer? Using this device, a single telemarketer can annoy many people simultanously, because it places many calls at once. The first person to pick up will get to speak to the telemarketer, and the rest will be wondering why their line is dead. A complete waste of their time.
they are not anonymous (they can't withhold their number)
I have yet to receive a telemarketing call that shows a valid number on the caller id. If that's not what you mean by withholding their number, I'd love to know how to get their contact information.
and will more often than not leave you alone if you say "I'm sorry, but you are wasting your time. Please remove me from your list."
I played that game for a time, the calls stopped for awhile but after a few months they started picking up again. Nowadays, even if I pick up the phone to tell them, I just get a dead line because of their damn predictive dialers. This is the last straw. They telemarketers have proven time and again that they cannot be trusted to self regulate. It's high time for a national do-not call list.
Here in Chicago, I probably get at least 5 - 8 telemarketing calls on any particular day. I don't bother picking up the phone anymore unless a valid number appears on the caller id. Ah, to return to the blissful days of answering the phone without trepidation. I really hope this thing passes.
I suppose some pro-spammer will jump in here and say, "just ignore it!". Have you ever had your dinner interrupted by a telemarketing call? Even if you don't answer it, it's still an interruption.
So me telling him he is wrong isn't free speech?
It's not, if you have to break into his house to tell him..
I think you misunderstood. I just stated how the law currently is, at least in the USA. People have the right to privacy. As stated in the recent NYT article, "Tangled Up in Spam" by James Gleick:
"Many people who hate spam believe, honorably enough, that it's protected as free speech. It is not. The Supreme Court has made clear that individuals may preserve a threshold of privacy. ''Nothing in the Constitution compels us to listen to or view any unwanted communication, whatever its merit,'' wrote Chief Justice Warren Burger in a 1970 decision. ''We therefore categorically reject the argument that a vendor has a right under the Constitution or otherwise to send unwanted material into the home of another.''"
if spam should be illegal, so should any form of unsolicited communication
This is not insightful. In the US, you have the right to freedom of speech. You do not have the right to force anyone to listen. Spammers try to force people to listen to them by faking headers, ect.
To use your pub analogy, you have the right to strike up conversation with anyone you choose. However, persisting when the conversation is clearly not desired by the other party, and going as far as masquerading as someone else to get their attention would be harassment, and possibly stalking.
So I guess you could say spam lowered your productivity? :rimshot:
Nevermind that you HAVE to send out .DOC format resume's to find a job anymore.
But why pirate MS Office, when OpenOffice.org can export into .DOC format?
Thanks for the reply. I am aware that this encryption targeted the .net intermediate language, but did not realize that decompiling msil would give you the source code's original variable and function names! In that light, I can understand wanting more security if you're sending your code to a client.
Though this seems like a weakness in .net to me, wouldn't it be better to use a true compiler to begin with? The compiled code will be faster as well as more secure.
By the way, I've cracked my share of copy protected disk games from the 80's for kicks. Gotta love those assembly language obfuscation tricks like self-modifying programs, xor encrypted code, ect. :)
How many times must we see this posted? Enough already!
I'm slightly shocked and saddened to see an institution of higher learning working on a "Code Obfuscation" project for MS. But what I really wonder, is what companies are interested in buying "obfuscated" binaries?
I guess the target audience is the same people who buy closed source software now. MS has basically hired Oxford so their hands can remain clean of accusations of making .NET code non-portable, after all that was one of their main features of .NET..
Alright, we'll put spammers right before the father-rapers, muggers, and carjackers. Happy?
If you ever put your resume on a job-seeker board, prepare for an onslaught of spam. It's a catch-22: You want your email address to be seen by a potential employer, unfortunately the spammers can easily scrape the sites for their email addresses. These bastards are truly the lowest forms of life.
Don't forget the Bachelor's degree in CS or IS and Microshit certification for that HelpDesk Position!
What's this world coming to?
Here's a tip for including CSS without having to worry about NS4 and (I think) IE4 screwing it up:
Use the CSS2 @import rule to import your style sheet.
The version 4 browsers will ignore this tag, therefore you don't have to worry about crashing NS4 with your perfectly valid CSS.
Example:
I've heard that the New Coke fiasco was engineered to allow Coca-Cola to switch to cheaper ingredients. All they had to do was push New Coke on the market for a year or so, then they could change their formula for "Coke Classic" without anyone much noticing. Brilliant.
Also, I find it interesting to see the recent Coke commercials which features Coke in bottles, even though bottled soda has not been available for years (in the USA). Apparently they still bottle Coke in other countries, as my local Mexican restraunt carries bottled Coke, imported of course.
No, Nintendo is the Microsoft of the gaming industry.
They pioneered vendor lock in for game consoles with their exclusive developer contracts, and have recently been found guilty of price-fixing by the EU. Not to mention the fact that the NES led to way to the now-common anticompetition pratices among game consoles, thanks to it's lockout chip.
I've wondered sometimes, what happens to a Micros~1 box after you assign A-Z for drive letters? Does the next mapped drive become AA, AB, ect?
The complete desktop solution that existed even before X.
Too bad it doesn't have a decent text editor.
In the Linux house, upgrading your doorknob would necessitate upgrading the door, as well as the DTK (decorative tool kit) development package. Unfortunately, the wallpaper is incompatible with the new version of DTK, so that must be upgraded as well. Then scap all your appliances that were built with the old DTK, and build new ones. On the upshot, the plans are Free!
Actually, I was expressing my educated opinion on RAM interfaces, seeing how I happen to posess a degree in electronics engineering. I don't like the RDRAM design because serialization of RAM is a tradeoff on bandwidth; adding the necessary communications protocols will further restrict the flow of data. To offset the serial bottleneck, the clock speed must be greatly increased. This leads to greater heat dissipation, fewer units that pass QA, and ultimately, a less scalable solution overall.
Yes, I do have a silly /. handle. That's what I get for using a ramdom name generator program. :/
What if you sat in on a RAM standards body for several years, secretly filed patent applications for some of their experimental ideas, then abruptly broke ranks and started suing the members of the standards body for royalties on their own ideas?
As I understand it, this is basically what Rambus did. IMNSHO, protocol-based RAM is a stupid idea, anyhow..
You're kidding, right? On the whole, Xine's interface is not "terrible", but it's file-selector widgets blow goats.
That doesn't match my experience - the Linux versions of the new patches were out within days of the Windows patches.
T2 is a newer game than Quake 3, has unbounded maps and much deeper gameplay.. yet does not even warrant a mention? Come on!
Thanks for the explanation.