even just the rumor of this might be enough to spur the current American cell providers to offer internet service somebody might actually find useful...
If no steps were taken by the network's "owner" to make the network less than completely public, it seems to me that the guy using the connection had could reasonably assume that he, as a member of the public, was authorized.
They still could have done something with a wiki, just not a wiki of a single editorial.
I wonder if wiki might actually be usable on editorials. For it to work, it could go something like this:
LATimes posts editorial
LATimes encourages reader participation:
readers more-or-less agreeing with wiki-editorial encourage to refine the editorial (cleaner phrases, better arguments, better examples, whatever), BUT
readers NOT in agreement with initial wiki-editorial encouraged to create (linked to the original) new counter-editorials, which in turn could be worked on by more-or-less like-minded individuals
There are of course any number of issues that would still need to be worked out: while trying to strengthen their own arguments, might some "editors" also go in and weaken arguments in the other wiki-editorials, etc.
(related to vandalism issue:) One of the nice things about e.g.wikipedia and wikitravel is they let the reader view each document's history. The LATimes experiment wouldn't let you see the editorial's history until you started the process of going to edit it -- removing what should have been a valuable factor in the decision of whether or not to edit in the first place (like to undo vandalism by another "editor"). In essense they hobbled at least one of wiki's self-correcting mechanisms.
As of this writing, any filter relying on the SBL is now marking email with the url "paulgraham.com" as spam. Why? Because the guys at the SBL want to pressure Yahoo, where paulgraham.com is hosted, to delete the site of a company they believe is spamming.
E-mail w/ the 'url "paulgraham.com"'? The SBL doesn't check URLs, it'd doesn't even check domain names, it checks IP numbers. paulgraham.com resolves to [66.163.161.45], which is listed in the SBL (details for SBL27945), but since this isn't a mail server, I don't see how e-mail from paulgraham.com gets marked as spam by users of the SBL. I note that the MX record for paulgraham.com is milter1.store.vip.sc5.yahoo.com [216.136.232.238], which is not in the SBL. He never mentions what he uses as his smtp server, but I'm supsecting it either not the SBL -- or it's in for a different reason than he thinks.
Also, for what it's worth, I've found the SBL incredibly reliable (except recently, when I've found it's been increasingly unreachable at peak times), but I check it as one of many spamassassin rules -- I don't mark e-mail as spam just because it's in the SBL, though the way I have spamassassin score things, it doesn't take much more...
Except Yahoo probably has more money than her ex-whatever.
However, since her ex-whatever abused yahoo and presumably violated all kinds of tems of services agreements, etc., it would seem to make sense for yahoo to turn around and sue him.
It makes sense if the interests behind the "copyright collectives" are losing significant revenue to competition from sales on iTunes, e.g. of tracks by more independent artists not represented by the "copyright collectives." Sometimes shutting down the competition is easier than actually competing.
Universal and Sony BMG are less keen to put prices up
I can't imagine it will happen, but it would be interesting if Apple were to let TimeWarner and EMI (if they're the ones that want it) titles go up in price but keep Universal, Sony BMG, and independent titles at the current 99 cents retail. Watch TimeWarner and EMI online sales dry up -- to the benefit of the labels keeping retail prices at 99 cents!
The music industry is apparently unhappy with Apple's increasing share of the market
What? Thanks largely to Apple, the "music industry" now actuall has a market. Without iPods and iTunes, and the Apple Music Store, this money -- 65 cents/song wholesale times some HUGE number -- wouldn't be going to the "music industry" at all.
Then politely explain the same story you submitted to Slashdot, and ask them to call WoW tech support and create a character for you.
What about calling WoW tech support first and asking them to unlock the "already used" key? If they object, try explaining what you've explained on slashdot, until it's excalated up to somebody who can actually do it (and thereby bring Blizzard into compliance with their EULA).
lost worker productivity among end users is just one important factor in the total cost of spam.
there are a number of other important factors, including:
more time spent administering e-mail servers: keeping MTA current (e.g. sendmail or postfix upgrades) and keeping anti-spam software up-to-date (e.g. spamassassin upgrades, some occasional score tweaking, etc)
occasionally upgrading server hardware to keep pace with increasing spam bombardment
time spent investigating major spam incidents and/or abuse complaints (e.g. resulting from spam sent with headers forged to look like they come from your domain)
The release states that the two proposed bills (one for violence, one for sex) will ban "the distribution, sale, rental and availability of violent video games to children younger than 18" [emphasis mine]. Are they going to charge parents who don't keep their "M"-rated games in locked gun-cabinet-style safes with making these games available to minors?
Total Registration 729,575
Total Turnout 547,340 75.02%
Election Day Turnout 404,666
and, votes for president/vice president of the US:
Total 544,378 100.00%
So: number of votes for president/vice president is STILL less than total turnout. Remember that Florida had early voting. According to these numbers, there were not "88,000 more votes than there were voters."
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But if the the UPU wants national post office domains to be identified w/.post , why wouldn't.post.ch -- and post.us, post.ru, post.cn, etc. be just as good? If.post were the TLD, presumably there'd have to be differentiation at a lower level like:.ch.post, us.post, etc; which seems *more* complicated that simply adding a.post below current country TLDs.
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even just the rumor of this might be enough to spur the current American cell providers to offer internet service somebody might actually find useful...
If no steps were taken by the network's "owner" to make the network less than completely public, it seems to me that the guy using the connection had could reasonably assume that he, as a member of the public, was authorized.
They still could have done something with a wiki, just not a wiki of a single editorial.
I wonder if wiki might actually be usable on editorials. For it to work, it could go something like this:
There are of course any number of issues that would still need to be worked out: while trying to strengthen their own arguments, might some "editors" also go in and weaken arguments in the other wiki-editorials, etc.
(related to vandalism issue:) One of the nice things about e.g. wikipedia and wikitravel is they let the reader view each document's history. The LATimes experiment wouldn't let you see the editorial's history until you started the process of going to edit it -- removing what should have been a valuable factor in the decision of whether or not to edit in the first place (like to undo vandalism by another "editor"). In essense they hobbled at least one of wiki's self-correcting mechanisms.
they make you jump through a lot of hoops before you can even get close to seeing the document's history, let alone make changes...
Also, for what it's worth, I've found the SBL incredibly reliable (except recently, when I've found it's been increasingly unreachable at peak times), but I check it as one of many spamassassin rules -- I don't mark e-mail as spam just because it's in the SBL, though the way I have spamassassin score things, it doesn't take much more...
Except Yahoo probably has more money than her ex-whatever.
However, since her ex-whatever abused yahoo and presumably violated all kinds of tems of services agreements, etc., it would seem to make sense for yahoo to turn around and sue him.
It makes sense if the interests behind the "copyright collectives" are losing significant revenue to competition from sales on iTunes, e.g. of tracks by more independent artists not represented by the "copyright collectives." Sometimes shutting down the competition is easier than actually competing.
"Until the courts decide that student web browsing is permitted, we will continue to block this activity on our network"
article here
the article:
What? Thanks largely to Apple, the "music industry" now actuall has a market. Without iPods and iTunes, and the Apple Music Store, this money -- 65 cents/song wholesale times some HUGE number -- wouldn't be going to the "music industry" at all.Why not just make all roads tollways? If they have tollbooths with workers, that could even mean more jobs.
Via news and events info at website of the Center for Excellence in Service at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business
lost worker productivity among end users is just one important factor in the total cost of spam.
there are a number of other important factors, including:
audio hijack is a fantastic program.
Jerry Springer wears Rolex. Nelly wears Rolex. David Beckham wears Rolex. Tupac wears Rolex. (still?) AND: Usher wears Rolex Bling Bling.
This according to my big box o' spam. Each one many many times.
It's some perverse spam mantra/hypnotism aimed at breaking the recipient down so s/he'll too wear Rolex -- or Rolex Bling Bling.
The release states that the two proposed bills (one for violence, one for sex) will ban "the distribution, sale, rental and availability of violent video games to children younger than 18" [emphasis mine]. Are they going to charge parents who don't keep their "M"-rated games in locked gun-cabinet-style safes with making these games available to minors?
There's already a game ratings system....
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But if the the UPU wants national post office domains to be identified w/ .post , why wouldn't .post.ch -- and post.us, post.ru, post.cn, etc. be just as good? If .post were the TLD, presumably there'd have to be differentiation at a lower level like: .ch.post, us.post, etc; which seems *more* complicated that simply adding a .post below current country TLDs.