The story says 180 announced the move after pressure from public interest groups who threatened to file a formal complaint with regulators at the Federal Trade Commission."
Why bother threatening anything? Why not just file the complaint?
I block all Flash ads via Firefox's Flashblock plugin, which only plays flash animations you click on, because Flash ads are extremely annoying, going so far as to include annoying video and sound, or dumb interactive 'games' in the ads.
I block anything from doubleclick.net because of their history of violating the privacy of internet users and trying to tie anonymous web usage back to actual human beings.
I also block a lot of stuff just because I can as a way to assert my right to view and not view whatever I want on my computer. The media companies would have you believe that you must view ads to view their content. The Internet is the first medium in which the ads a user sees can actually be recorded, and frankly advertisers aren't liking what they're finding, which is that most people just don't pay attention to most ads unless they're extremely targeted. Fortunately new technologies are making it easier to generate really targeted ads without violating anyone's privacy.
I also block many ads because they're simply ugly.
This doesn't sound like cybersquatting, in which one party registers a domain of a well-known brand or some other well-known term. If someone in Kansas registers "smartypants.com" because he likes the name, and you happen to "run a company" named SmartyPants, that doesn't make the person a cybersquatter. I see no reason why the person should be forced or even coerced into handing over the domain name in question. Why don't you just change the name of your company rather than try to make someone else's life miserable because they have something that you want and don't want to give it to you?
The right to privacy is afforded by the 10th Amendment:
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
I don't recall anything in the Constitution specifically giving the Federal government the right to spy on its citizens, and considering that the Constitution was written by people with a Hobbesian view of man's state of nature, who revolted against a tyrannical government, and were basically distrustful of government in general, I think it's reasonable to assume that they wouldn't have wanted the government to intrude in the daily lives of its citizens to the extent that it currently does. In fact, if they were around today we'd probably already have had another Revolution. The status quo is quite depressing and nauseating.
I agree. The reason for creating a high level language is so that you don't have to worry about the low level problems you encounter in assembler, and can focus more on solving a problem than fighting with the tool you're using.
"The e-mails will also include reminders about when a vehicle is due for oil changes or other scheduled service, when customers actually have to pay a visit their local dealership" - I personally could do with a little more proactive reminding from my car as I always forget...
Doesn't that sound like a service better offerred by Jiffy Lube, or whatever place you take your car to for oil changes, rather than the car manufacturer?
It's worked pretty well, I should probably tighten the restrictions and add some more sites to the whitelist, but I've been lazy. But this won't help email viruses. I used to have a sendmail plugin that just stripped all.exe.bat.com (etc.) attachments from incoming mail - that's probably among the easiest things you can do to stop viruses. Nobody needs to be emailing you exes.
Thanks for not making this into a Slashvertisement. When I first read about "Das Keyboard," I figured a review of it could be summed up using "The Emperor's New Clothes" as a metaphor. They tout it as being pretty advanced, when in reality it's probably just a truckload of Dell keyboards that mistakenly didn't get the key labels, but some marketing whiz decided to give it a geek chic name and call it "elite."
Logitech International, one of the world's largest makers of mice and keyboards, has added to its already large range of peripherals with a new mouse that can receive and process wireless communications from a PC.
Does this sound like standard press release crap to anybody else? Thanks, Slashvertisement!
You send me an email, I send you an email, net on both sides is zero. If what you have to say isn't worth 5 cents of my time then I don't really need to read it, do I?
The most innovative use that comes to mind would be as a spam-prevention method built into email servers. If you could set your mail server to require payment -- say, $0.05 -- before accepting mail, spam would plummet pretty quickly. Right now, sending 1,000,000 spams costs the spammer basically nothing, assuming he'd have his internet connection anyway. But if mail servers were set to charge even a penny to accept an email, the spammer would be out $10,000 to send those messages. For the casual emailer, the costs would probably cancel themselves out to some extent as they send and receive emails. There are some other hurdles to overcome, but in general I think there are just new and interesting things that can be done with micropayments. And frankly an MP3 shouldn't cost more than $0.25.
As with anything else, a few assholes ruin it for everyone else. Many or maybe even most teachers could probably handle the budget better than some bureaucrat, but there's always that one in a thousand that will just buy himself gas or pay off his cell phone or take a trip to Hawaii or something and give the district the tab. So you get a CPA or whatever to manage all the money. You see this kind of spoiling all over the place, in all aspects of life. You have something nice and a few morons ruin it for everybody else.
As someone who's been using PgSQL in production environments for years at several companies, I can sum up the biggest drawback with Postgres in a single word:
Actually, I wasn't ever going to get a raise because the owner had a bad nose for business and refused to spend any money on marketing, and the company is floundering to this day.
I used to have a job where I was severely underpaid. I was making under $40k to be the sysadmin and only programmer for a small e-commerce company. Rather than dicking around, I just took a later train in the morning so I ended up working 7.5 hours rather than 8, because I couldn't justify working for such a pittance at the time, but there was nothing else available. After a while I had a lot of built up a resentment because it became clear I wasn't ever going to get a raise. For many people, feeling undervalued is a great demotivator.
This should be self-evident. As more and more people join us here on earth, they have to fill in the less favorable areas, since the favorable ones have already been taken. Of course, what humanity considers "favorable" is sort of dubious, as we see with the people in California living on top of the San Andreas fault, and with the people in New Orleans living next to the sea, below sea level. But weather doesn't need to change for the planet to become "more dangerous," we just need more people living in dangerous areas. And as we run out of less dangerous areas, the dangerous areas are all that will be left, so of course the global per capita danger level will increase.
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Why bother threatening anything? Why not just file the complaint?
I block all Flash ads via Firefox's Flashblock plugin, which only plays flash animations you click on, because Flash ads are extremely annoying, going so far as to include annoying video and sound, or dumb interactive 'games' in the ads.
I block anything from doubleclick.net because of their history of violating the privacy of internet users and trying to tie anonymous web usage back to actual human beings.
I also block a lot of stuff just because I can as a way to assert my right to view and not view whatever I want on my computer. The media companies would have you believe that you must view ads to view their content. The Internet is the first medium in which the ads a user sees can actually be recorded, and frankly advertisers aren't liking what they're finding, which is that most people just don't pay attention to most ads unless they're extremely targeted. Fortunately new technologies are making it easier to generate really targeted ads without violating anyone's privacy.
I also block many ads because they're simply ugly.
And here I thought that I was the only one who remembered that!
This doesn't sound like cybersquatting, in which one party registers a domain of a well-known brand or some other well-known term. If someone in Kansas registers "smartypants.com" because he likes the name, and you happen to "run a company" named SmartyPants, that doesn't make the person a cybersquatter. I see no reason why the person should be forced or even coerced into handing over the domain name in question. Why don't you just change the name of your company rather than try to make someone else's life miserable because they have something that you want and don't want to give it to you?
I don't recall anything in the Constitution specifically giving the Federal government the right to spy on its citizens, and considering that the Constitution was written by people with a Hobbesian view of man's state of nature, who revolted against a tyrannical government, and were basically distrustful of government in general, I think it's reasonable to assume that they wouldn't have wanted the government to intrude in the daily lives of its citizens to the extent that it currently does. In fact, if they were around today we'd probably already have had another Revolution. The status quo is quite depressing and nauseating.
Maybe CmdrTaco, like me, has Zonk's stories blocked. This story's new to me!
I agree. The reason for creating a high level language is so that you don't have to worry about the low level problems you encounter in assembler, and can focus more on solving a problem than fighting with the tool you're using.
Hey, but that one probably wasn't submitted by the guy who runs that site as a simple gimmick to boost traffic! I wonder if Slashdot gets kickbacks...
Here's a "living, breathing" example of the impossibility of Red Hat "becoming the next Microsoft":
http://centos.org/
Am I the only one who thought this was going to be about some guy who wanted to own his own IP address?
My crystal ball says... "try again later!" :-(
"The e-mails will also include reminders about when a vehicle is due for oil changes or other scheduled service, when customers actually have to pay a visit their local dealership" - I personally could do with a little more proactive reminding from my car as I always forget...
Doesn't that sound like a service better offerred by Jiffy Lube, or whatever place you take your car to for oil changes, rather than the car manufacturer?
But if the "pundits" acknowledge that, they'll have nothing to write about this week!
I setup a proxy for my nieces, forbidding the download of the following things:
.microsoft.com .mozilla.org .ibm.com .ebay.com .yahoo.com
.exe .bat .com (etc.) attachments from incoming mail - that's probably among the easiest things you can do to stop viruses. Nobody needs to be emailing you exes.
acl downloads rep_mime_type -i ^application/unknown$
acl downloads rep_mime_type -i ^application/octet-stream$
acl downloads rep_mime_type -i ^application/zip$
#acl downloads rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
acl downloads rep_mime_type ^$
#acl downloads rep_mime_type -i ^image/gif$
acl downloads-url urlpath_regex -i \.exe$
acl downloads-url urlpath_regex -i \.zip$
acl downloads-url urlpath_regex -i \.dll$
acl downloads-url urlpath_regex -i \.dat$
acl downloads-url urlpath_regex -i \.bin$
acl downloads-url urlpath_regex -i \.class$
And whitelisting these:
acl allowed-domain dstdomain
acl allowed-domain dstdomain
acl allowed-domain dstdomain
acl allowed-domain dstdomain
acl allowed-domain dstdomain
It's worked pretty well, I should probably tighten the restrictions and add some more sites to the whitelist, but I've been lazy. But this won't help email viruses. I used to have a sendmail plugin that just stripped all
What's wrong with Norton Antivirus Corporate?
Thanks for not making this into a Slashvertisement. When I first read about "Das Keyboard," I figured a review of it could be summed up using "The Emperor's New Clothes" as a metaphor. They tout it as being pretty advanced, when in reality it's probably just a truckload of Dell keyboards that mistakenly didn't get the key labels, but some marketing whiz decided to give it a geek chic name and call it "elite."
Logitech International, one of the world's largest makers of mice and keyboards, has added to its already large range of peripherals with a new mouse that can receive and process wireless communications from a PC.
Does this sound like standard press release crap to anybody else? Thanks, Slashvertisement!
http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/
Lots of gaming habit info.
You send me an email, I send you an email, net on both sides is zero. If what you have to say isn't worth 5 cents of my time then I don't really need to read it, do I?
The most innovative use that comes to mind would be as a spam-prevention method built into email servers. If you could set your mail server to require payment -- say, $0.05 -- before accepting mail, spam would plummet pretty quickly. Right now, sending 1,000,000 spams costs the spammer basically nothing, assuming he'd have his internet connection anyway. But if mail servers were set to charge even a penny to accept an email, the spammer would be out $10,000 to send those messages. For the casual emailer, the costs would probably cancel themselves out to some extent as they send and receive emails. There are some other hurdles to overcome, but in general I think there are just new and interesting things that can be done with micropayments. And frankly an MP3 shouldn't cost more than $0.25.
As with anything else, a few assholes ruin it for everyone else. Many or maybe even most teachers could probably handle the budget better than some bureaucrat, but there's always that one in a thousand that will just buy himself gas or pay off his cell phone or take a trip to Hawaii or something and give the district the tab. So you get a CPA or whatever to manage all the money. You see this kind of spoiling all over the place, in all aspects of life. You have something nice and a few morons ruin it for everybody else.
As someone who's been using PgSQL in production environments for years at several companies, I can sum up the biggest drawback with Postgres in a single word:
VACUUM
Actually, I wasn't ever going to get a raise because the owner had a bad nose for business and refused to spend any money on marketing, and the company is floundering to this day.
I used to have a job where I was severely underpaid. I was making under $40k to be the sysadmin and only programmer for a small e-commerce company. Rather than dicking around, I just took a later train in the morning so I ended up working 7.5 hours rather than 8, because I couldn't justify working for such a pittance at the time, but there was nothing else available. After a while I had a lot of built up a resentment because it became clear I wasn't ever going to get a raise. For many people, feeling undervalued is a great demotivator.
This should be self-evident. As more and more people join us here on earth, they have to fill in the less favorable areas, since the favorable ones have already been taken. Of course, what humanity considers "favorable" is sort of dubious, as we see with the people in California living on top of the San Andreas fault, and with the people in New Orleans living next to the sea, below sea level. But weather doesn't need to change for the planet to become "more dangerous," we just need more people living in dangerous areas. And as we run out of less dangerous areas, the dangerous areas are all that will be left, so of course the global per capita danger level will increase.