If you have a cable modem and you use it to send spam, you're just plain stupid.
No, you're *owned*.
If you were right, there wouldn't be a reason for ISPs to consider blocking 25. But there is. Unrestricted broadband connections are widely used to originate spam. Saying it isn't so doesn't make it true. .
And the Arctic ice pack has receeded 10 percent in the last 50 years, it'll be gone in 50 years at the current rate. With more ocean absorbing light and energy I'm expecting a compound effect to increase the rate of loss, so it might actually be gone in as little as 10-20 years.
Then there are the theories that involve the compound effect of CO2 release from arctic waters. Some of them predict a self-accelerating cycle that leads to a 5+ degree global increase in temperature in a single 5 year period.
Sure the resolution sounds great (2500x2000), but this page lists your projector as being 140 lbs with a Peak Lumens of 1100. I presume that it's a big old CRT projection model?
What's the difference between it and a XG-135, which this guy says he just bought used for $10,000?
In any case, considering my small city-core apartment, I think I'll hold out for the 10-lb 2000 lumen $3000 LCD/DLP stuff that'll do 1600x1200. (me starts praying that replacement bulbs start getting cheaper than $300 per 1000 hour bulb).
If work is the only place you go, such that you don't need your car for anything else, then you live a very boring life.
That's right, driving around between 7-eleven's getting super-big-gulps makes a person's life worth living. And GOD knows you can't do anything else in this world without a car. Dinner with friends, a movie, the seashore, jogging, working out, canoe tripping, hiking through the rockies, skiing all winter - all impossible without a car.
Are you seriously suggesting that there's no place for powered transporation? .... I believe they already have these places. They're called "roads".
Uhhh, so you're suggesting that the average people (not daredevil bike couriers, but average everyday people) who ride bikes and 4 horsepower electric vehicles should share interstates and 4 lane downtown roads with 2 ton 150 horsepower behemoths.
Oh you're just the epitomy of sane forward thinking.
I live in Toronto, near a major intersection. About 1 mile away from work. I walk it, and that's not ever going to change.
However I couldn't bike it if I wanted to. Bikes are not allowed on sidewalks, and the main streets are insanely busy. To use side-streets would take me twice the distance. I've always wished I could get to work in 5 minutes instead of 20 minutes (say on days when I'm late), but currently I have no option other than walking.
But a segway, a segway would be perfect.
(Of course in my specific case, 1 mile is too small a distance to make it worth my while. But imagine if I lived on one side of the Toronto core, while my job was 3 miles away on the other side. Same problem, taking a bike would be too indirect or too dangerous, but a segway on an uncrowded sidewalk would be perfect.
So the segway isn't going to replace cars, bikes, or walking in all circumstances. But there will be circumstances where it would be perfect.
Heh, betcha it would fit nicer in my bachelor apartment than a big long bike as well!
Why is she spending 50 times as long in prison as people who repeatedly drive drunk? Why is she spending 10 times as long in prison as people who drive drunk resulting in deaths of other people? Why is she spending as much time in prison as people who abducted, imprisoned, tortured, raped and murdered multiple young women on non-consecutive occasions? Why is she in prison while the other two people she was with got nothing? Why is she in prison while corporate directors who make "mistakes" that kill dozens to hundreds of people to save money go free and the corporations pay 1% of one years profits in judgements?
Nobody is saying she shouldn't spend a number of years in prison.*
But no rational person can understand why she should spend 20-60 years in prison for the mistake she made.
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(*) In fact I'd say that the laws should be amended so that anyone who commits petty arson of this type gets a couple years in prison in appreciation of the fact that it *will* eventually result in someone dying. My big peeve with the current western justice systems is the fact that people who commit the same acts get sentenced differently depending on how "unlucky" they were - petty arson no deaths VS petty arson and deaths - driving drunk and getting caught in a roadblock VS driving drunk and killing someone - the acts committed by the individuals were the same, but the punishments are vastly different... .
Make the silvering solution the same day your going to use it, Discard it by pouring it down the drain with LOTS of water the same day.
Ummm, can someone comment on this method of disposal?
I ask because the Toronto sewer system goes right into Lake Ontario, which oddly enough is where we get our drinking water. The sludge from the treatment plants is poured onto farmers fields.
Don't give me any shit about "it's only a tiny drop". There's a reason that the photo stores have collection containers in them for your worn out NiCd/etc batteries and cities have "dangerous chemical collection days" at city facilities. .
Furthermore, the proper way to preserve musical recordings like 78 rpm records is to preserve the means of playing those records.
You're not thinking of the long long *long* term.
There will still be people on the planet interested in hearing it 1000 years from now. You're record will long since have worn into dust, and not only that, but since you only have N copies of the record, very few people get to hear it despite the copyright having run out 900 years ago.
Imagine how many of the *old* old works from civilizations millenia past would be with us if making translations had been illegal.
The findings were dramatic. The more people who obtain permits over time, the more violent crime rates decline. After concealed handgun laws have been in effect for five years, murders declined by at least 15 percent, rapes by 9 percent and robberies by 11 percent.
Do you have any idea how statistically insignificant a "change" in crime of 10 percent over 5 years is? Do you know what statistical uncertainty is?
I love how this guy takes a statistic like "When states passed them, the number of multiple-victim public shootings declined by 84 percent." Considering that there are only 21 such shootings nation wide, we would save a whole 30 people a year - in exchange for what?
What kind of self respecting researcher would actually use *this* to argue for conceal and carry: "Some countries have reacted to these events by banning guns, though others, such as Israel, have taken to licensing their citizens to carry concealed handguns." Oh well, the situation in Israeli clearly is applicable to America's streets, isn't it?
I'm sorry, but based on preliminary evidence, John Lott's education as an Economist just doesn't cut the mustard. I have no doubt that he's gotten tunnel vision and is ignoring a huge number of other things not *directly* related to the simple implications of the carry laws he studied (IE compare carry laws vs no-carry and enforced home secure storage laws ala Canada's current situation - we have the greatest per capita gun ratio but no where near the number of accidental deaths), or he is including stuff in his study's positive cases, like heavy handed permit checks and hard core gun registration laws, the type that the NRA would *never* accept. His limited highly specific case study AFAIAK has very little relevance to the US of today.
guns are used (annually) to _prevent_ crimes at somewhere between 2 and 4 million (an admittedly _VERY_ fuzzy number, but undisputably huge),
I'm sorry, you're saying that one out of every hundred Americans draws a gun on a criminal EVERY year and prevents a crime?
I think he's smoking crack. Or including every single incident where American Law enforcement had their guns drawn. Did he determine the same figures for Canada to do a comparison? Canadian police are armed.
What's sad is how much effort is required to educate people about what's going on. In the link you referenced, one of the reply's said this:
You have the right to state your opinion. No government officials, no CIA or FBI operatives, no secret police will come to your house, detain you, and kill you if you register your opinion that the United States is completely off-track. As far as your "jailing people" comments, I surmise that you really have no idea what you're talking about. If you can name me one, just ONE case where a person has been incarcerated since 9/11 without, at the very least, extremely suspicious activities that ARE illegal, I'd be completely shocked.
This person clearly did not read the contents of the hyperlinked page (your page), nor note the fact that the current situation allows abuse to the extent that a person can no longer fly depending on their political views. The person is also clearly ignorant about the hundreds of people who spent up to a MONTH in custody without legal representation, FOR NO GOOD REASON WHAT-SO-EVER.
Best example I've heard - the guy with dual American/Egyptian citizenship who went with his wife to a US Military base because she was being called up, and he was detained, FOR A MONTH.
All the lunk-heads in the West, watching their football and reading sports illustrated, don't hear a damn thing about things like that, and assume everything is fine.
Techies and the informed need a 2 page HANDBOOK that we can photocopy and give to all the jocks and air-heads we know. Jocks and airheads don't read weblogs or newspapers.
. Yeah but now all us pocket Republicans can DDOS him with "GET A JOB YOU BUM!!" and "SOUP KITCHEN 2 BLOCKS WEST, UNEMPLOYMENT OFFICE 1 NORTH OF THAT". .
Because in my neighbourhood there are 50,000 of them and I pass by 10 every second on the sidewalk on the way to work alone.
It's not like a town of 2000 people where when *one* person of any age let alone mine moves into town I'm told her name and story by everyone I know and it's natural and friendly to introduce yourself the first time you cross her path.
Firstly, the Trident people were idiots to give their cpu to a site like "ExtremeTech" whose focus is on x-treme desktop gamers. They should have stuck to "cheap laptop enthusiast" sites;)
None the less:
You're comparing a MSRP of below $100 vs a "super special online lowest price ever street deal" of $100 for a $150 desktop GPU.
I can't find a *Retail* (vs OEM) price for the 9000 128 MB part below $150 USD here in Toronto.
AFAIAK the reviewer clearly pulled a dumbass move by running a grossly unfair comparison (the worst possible - 1600x1200x32bit-fsaa against a 9500 and a 4200 - how stupid is he), and of course is now being highly defensive.
Isn't the XP4 a *mobile* cpu? Does it use active cooling? Or passive? What about the Raedon 9000? So does that make them a good pair to compare?
I'd like to see what the retail storefront price and the bulk-OEM prices are of a MOBILE version of the 9000 vs the XP4 and the performance comparison at 1024x768x16bit once they've released their FCS tile drivers for the XP4.
This is very true. You have to get over the initial disappointment and, (gulp), work at it.
The first two weeks I spent playing Counter-Strike I had a kill ratio of 4-1 and 2-1. Each time I died I forced myself to figure out what it was that I should have done differently, repeated over and over you eventually learn. Satisfaction is working hard for days on end and then finally getting a 2-1 kill ratio one night!
If I were them I'd start worrying about over-zealous lawyers coming after them for damages. The worrying thing is, the lawyer might have a case. I mean if hundreds of US are repeatedly pointing out to slashdot how irresponsible/lazy it is of them to not at least give warning, knowing that a slashdotting is imminent...
I'm serious! The lawyer might have a leg to stand on. And I'm sure slashdot doesn't really want to end up spending what meagre money it has on lawyers of it's own.
Not that I or you think that they'd be justified. Put your stuff up in public, no fault of anyone else if an interested crowd shows up. Bah, I'm just trying to scare them into it.
Giving a warning WOULD be a courteous thing to do.
I'm confused. I think you've got your analogies backwards. (Either that your you just *couldn't* resist the comment, even if it didn't fit perfectly with the situation:)
If Sympatico never gives up the $30 maximum charge, it means that they will allow you to download as much as you can get for only $30 per month extra. Which would cost them money.
There are already people out there who are leaching 20-30 GB per month above the cap and "taking advantage" of the $30 per month cap. Removing the cap sometime in the near future is to Sympatico's benefit, and to the user's detriment.
Anyone who lives in the EU: check your emails - are any sent from EU nations? NO.
I'm from North America, and I'm serious here. I think Europeans really are smarter or more clued in certain respects.
The company I work for sells software to IT groups. Our European customers and partners constantly impress us with their analytical methods and intelligence.
North-American customers are more likely to have decisions made by pointy haired bosses, based upon internal politics, or software-popularity contests ("oooh, that expensive software is made by a $5 billion dollar company, let's buy that instead of the really good, powerful, cost effective stuff from that other small company").
Nope, I'm in the same boat. My home e-mail address has *never* received spam.
I think the secret with spam is to stop spreading your email address around the internet. I object to having to provide my email address to forms to register for every damn website (eg. download.com) - I always give a false address if I can. If I can't, I will very seriously reconsider whether I need access to that site (I usually don't). I have an email account that is used solely for the purpose of registering for websites or what have you.
Precisely!!!
I once posted a similar statement in the discussion for a Slashdot story on spam, only I didn't state it as nicely as you. (Basically I insulted everyone else's intelligence;)... I got modded down. .
Damn-it, I hate companies that don't state up front what their business model is. Is it shareware? Is it trialware? Is it demo? Are they going to ask for money at some point? WTF is the repercussion of me downloading and running their software? I do NOT want to download someone's softare and have to read all the installation crap *while* installing it to figure out what the limitations/deal/catch is with the software.
More and more small win32 software companies are not mentioning *at all* what their software is on their webpages. So I have to spend 10-20 minutes crawling their site trying to figure out what the hell they are doing and who they are. Often I end up having to use Google Groups to find someone commenting on the company's angle. Pain in the ass!
It *sounds like* they let you use SpamNet right now, and use the "spam information" that everyone provides in their enterprise spam filtering solution. But it's buried on one of their other pages.
Charged at $8 per gigabyte over the cap. Reliable estimates by people in the know estimate that Bell's actual costs for bandwidth are in the range of 50 cents to $1 per gigabyte.
And the $30 maximum charge? The Sympatico website CLEARLY states that it is TEMPORARY.
There are a number of DSL competitors who give higher caps and charge between $3 and $1 per gigabyte for bandwidth. And they have to pay Bell for transit over the local loops!
(Thank God the ILEC, Bell, isn't screwing the competitors over wrt provisioning like the US ILEC's did to their competition.)
Unfortunately the Cable companies up here haven't yet been forced to share their infrastructure in the same way.
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If you have a cable modem and you use it to send spam, you're just plain stupid.
No, you're *owned*.
If you were right, there wouldn't be a reason for ISPs to consider blocking 25. But there is. Unrestricted broadband connections are widely used to originate spam. Saying it isn't so doesn't make it true.
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Yup.
And the Arctic ice pack has receeded 10 percent in the last 50 years, it'll be gone in 50 years at the current rate. With more ocean absorbing light and energy I'm expecting a compound effect to increase the rate of loss, so it might actually be gone in as little as 10-20 years.
Then there are the theories that involve the compound effect of CO2 release from arctic waters. Some of them predict a self-accelerating cycle that leads to a 5+ degree global increase in temperature in a single 5 year period.
Now that would be hairy.
Sure the resolution sounds great (2500x2000), but this page lists your projector as being 140 lbs with a Peak Lumens of 1100. I presume that it's a big old CRT projection model?
What's the difference between it and a XG-135, which this guy says he just bought used for $10,000?
In any case, considering my small city-core apartment, I think I'll hold out for the 10-lb 2000 lumen $3000 LCD/DLP stuff that'll do 1600x1200. (me starts praying that replacement bulbs start getting cheaper than $300 per 1000 hour bulb).
That's funny as hell. Of all the cities in the US where walking or biking up and down hills is a real pain in the ass, SF is it.
That's right, driving around between 7-eleven's getting super-big-gulps makes a person's life worth living. And GOD knows you can't do anything else in this world without a car. Dinner with friends, a movie, the seashore, jogging, working out, canoe tripping, hiking through the rockies, skiing all winter - all impossible without a car.
Fsck off troll.
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I believe they already have these places. They're called "roads".
Uhhh, so you're suggesting that the average people (not daredevil bike couriers, but average everyday people) who ride bikes and 4 horsepower electric vehicles should share interstates and 4 lane downtown roads with 2 ton 150 horsepower behemoths.
Oh you're just the epitomy of sane forward thinking.
I live in Toronto, near a major intersection. About 1 mile away from work. I walk it, and that's not ever going to change.
However I couldn't bike it if I wanted to. Bikes are not allowed on sidewalks, and the main streets are insanely busy. To use side-streets would take me twice the distance. I've always wished I could get to work in 5 minutes instead of 20 minutes (say on days when I'm late), but currently I have no option other than walking.
But a segway, a segway would be perfect.
(Of course in my specific case, 1 mile is too small a distance to make it worth my while. But imagine if I lived on one side of the Toronto core, while my job was 3 miles away on the other side. Same problem, taking a bike would be too indirect or too dangerous, but a segway on an uncrowded sidewalk would be perfect.
So the segway isn't going to replace cars, bikes, or walking in all circumstances. But there will be circumstances where it would be perfect.
Heh, betcha it would fit nicer in my bachelor apartment than a big long bike as well!
Why is she spending 50 times as long in prison as people who repeatedly drive drunk? Why is she spending 10 times as long in prison as people who drive drunk resulting in deaths of other people? Why is she spending as much time in prison as people who abducted, imprisoned, tortured, raped and murdered multiple young women on non-consecutive occasions? Why is she in prison while the other two people she was with got nothing? Why is she in prison while corporate directors who make "mistakes" that kill dozens to hundreds of people to save money go free and the corporations pay 1% of one years profits in judgements?
Nobody is saying she shouldn't spend a number of years in prison.*
But no rational person can understand why she should spend 20-60 years in prison for the mistake she made.
.
(*) In fact I'd say that the laws should be amended so that anyone who commits petty arson of this type gets a couple years in prison in appreciation of the fact that it *will* eventually result in someone dying. My big peeve with the current western justice systems is the fact that people who commit the same acts get sentenced differently depending on how "unlucky" they were - petty arson no deaths VS petty arson and deaths - driving drunk and getting caught in a roadblock VS driving drunk and killing someone - the acts committed by the individuals were the same, but the punishments are vastly different...
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Make the silvering solution the same day your going to use it, Discard it by pouring it down the drain with LOTS of water the same day.
Ummm, can someone comment on this method of disposal?
I ask because the Toronto sewer system goes right into Lake Ontario, which oddly enough is where we get our drinking water. The sludge from the treatment plants is poured onto farmers fields.
Don't give me any shit about "it's only a tiny drop". There's a reason that the photo stores have collection containers in them for your worn out NiCd/etc batteries and cities have "dangerous chemical collection days" at city facilities.
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Furthermore, the proper way to preserve musical recordings like 78 rpm records is to preserve the means of playing those records.
You're not thinking of the long long *long* term.
There will still be people on the planet interested in hearing it 1000 years from now. You're record will long since have worn into dust, and not only that, but since you only have N copies of the record, very few people get to hear it despite the copyright having run out 900 years ago.
Imagine how many of the *old* old works from civilizations millenia past would be with us if making translations had been illegal.
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This is the same guy who wrote this article:
http://www.moccw.org/ccwcrime.html
The findings were dramatic. The more people who obtain permits over time, the more violent crime rates decline. After concealed handgun laws have been in effect for five years, murders declined by at least 15 percent, rapes by 9 percent and robberies by 11 percent.
Do you have any idea how statistically insignificant a "change" in crime of 10 percent over 5 years is? Do you know what statistical uncertainty is?
I love how this guy takes a statistic like "When states passed them, the number of multiple-victim public shootings declined by 84 percent." Considering that there are only 21 such shootings nation wide, we would save a whole 30 people a year - in exchange for what?
What kind of self respecting researcher would actually use *this* to argue for conceal and carry: "Some countries have reacted to these events by banning guns, though others, such as Israel, have taken to licensing their citizens to carry concealed handguns." Oh well, the situation in Israeli clearly is applicable to America's streets, isn't it?
I'm sorry, but based on preliminary evidence, John Lott's education as an Economist just doesn't cut the mustard. I have no doubt that he's gotten tunnel vision and is ignoring a huge number of other things not *directly* related to the simple implications of the carry laws he studied (IE compare carry laws vs no-carry and enforced home secure storage laws ala Canada's current situation - we have the greatest per capita gun ratio but no where near the number of accidental deaths), or he is including stuff in his study's positive cases, like heavy handed permit checks and hard core gun registration laws, the type that the NRA would *never* accept. His limited highly specific case study AFAIAK has very little relevance to the US of today.
guns are used (annually) to _prevent_ crimes at somewhere between 2 and 4 million (an admittedly _VERY_ fuzzy number, but undisputably huge),
I'm sorry, you're saying that one out of every hundred Americans draws a gun on a criminal EVERY year and prevents a crime?
I think he's smoking crack. Or including every single incident where American Law enforcement had their guns drawn. Did he determine the same figures for Canada to do a comparison? Canadian police are armed.
What's sad is how much effort is required to educate people about what's going on. In the link you referenced, one of the reply's said this:
You have the right to state your opinion. No government officials, no CIA or FBI operatives, no secret police will come to your house, detain you, and kill you if you register your opinion that the United States is completely off-track. As far as your "jailing people" comments, I surmise that you really have no idea what you're talking about. If you can name me one, just ONE case where a person has been incarcerated since 9/11 without, at the very least, extremely suspicious activities that ARE illegal, I'd be completely shocked.
This person clearly did not read the contents of the hyperlinked page (your page), nor note the fact that the current situation allows abuse to the extent that a person can no longer fly depending on their political views. The person is also clearly ignorant about the hundreds of people who spent up to a MONTH in custody without legal representation, FOR NO GOOD REASON WHAT-SO-EVER.
Best example I've heard - the guy with dual American/Egyptian citizenship who went with his wife to a US Military base because she was being called up, and he was detained, FOR A MONTH.
All the lunk-heads in the West, watching their football and reading sports illustrated, don't hear a damn thing about things like that, and assume everything is fine.
Techies and the informed need a 2 page HANDBOOK that we can photocopy and give to all the jocks and air-heads we know. Jocks and airheads don't read weblogs or newspapers.
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Yeah but now all us pocket Republicans can DDOS him with "GET A JOB YOU BUM!!" and "SOUP KITCHEN 2 BLOCKS WEST, UNEMPLOYMENT OFFICE 1 NORTH OF THAT".
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Because in my neighbourhood there are 50,000 of them and I pass by 10 every second on the sidewalk on the way to work alone.
It's not like a town of 2000 people where when *one* person of any age let alone mine moves into town I'm told her name and story by everyone I know and it's natural and friendly to introduce yourself the first time you cross her path.
Firstly, the Trident people were idiots to give their cpu to a site like "ExtremeTech" whose focus is on x-treme desktop gamers. They should have stuck to "cheap laptop enthusiast" sites ;)
None the less:
You're comparing a MSRP of below $100 vs a "super special online lowest price ever street deal" of $100 for a $150 desktop GPU.
I can't find a *Retail* (vs OEM) price for the 9000 128 MB part below $150 USD here in Toronto.
AFAIAK the reviewer clearly pulled a dumbass move by running a grossly unfair comparison (the worst possible - 1600x1200x32bit-fsaa against a 9500 and a 4200 - how stupid is he), and of course is now being highly defensive.
Isn't the XP4 a *mobile* cpu? Does it use active cooling? Or passive? What about the Raedon 9000? So does that make them a good pair to compare?
I'd like to see what the retail storefront price and the bulk-OEM prices are of a MOBILE version of the 9000 vs the XP4 and the performance comparison at 1024x768x16bit once they've released their FCS tile drivers for the XP4.
This is very true. You have to get over the initial disappointment and, (gulp), work at it.
The first two weeks I spent playing Counter-Strike I had a kill ratio of 4-1 and 2-1. Each time I died I forced myself to figure out what it was that I should have done differently, repeated over and over you eventually learn. Satisfaction is working hard for days on end and then finally getting a 2-1 kill ratio one night!
*They* want to call "fair use" a copyright violation and theft. So no, it's not always an act of monetary damage.
If I were them I'd start worrying about over-zealous lawyers coming after them for damages. The worrying thing is, the lawyer might have a case. I mean if hundreds of US are repeatedly pointing out to slashdot how irresponsible/lazy it is of them to not at least give warning, knowing that a slashdotting is imminent...
I'm serious! The lawyer might have a leg to stand on. And I'm sure slashdot doesn't really want to end up spending what meagre money it has on lawyers of it's own.
Not that I or you think that they'd be justified. Put your stuff up in public, no fault of anyone else if an interested crowd shows up. Bah, I'm just trying to scare them into it.
Giving a warning WOULD be a courteous thing to do.
I'm confused. I think you've got your analogies backwards. (Either that your you just *couldn't* resist the comment, even if it didn't fit perfectly with the situation :)
If Sympatico never gives up the $30 maximum charge, it means that they will allow you to download as much as you can get for only $30 per month extra. Which would cost them money.
There are already people out there who are leaching 20-30 GB per month above the cap and "taking advantage" of the $30 per month cap. Removing the cap sometime in the near future is to Sympatico's benefit, and to the user's detriment.
Anyone who lives in the EU: check your emails - are any sent from EU nations? NO.
I'm from North America, and I'm serious here. I think Europeans really are smarter or more clued in certain respects.
The company I work for sells software to IT groups. Our European customers and partners constantly impress us with their analytical methods and intelligence.
North-American customers are more likely to have decisions made by pointy haired bosses, based upon internal politics, or software-popularity contests ("oooh, that expensive software is made by a $5 billion dollar company, let's buy that instead of the really good, powerful, cost effective stuff from that other small company").
Am I the only person who doesn't receive spam?
;) ... I got modded down.
Nope, I'm in the same boat. My home e-mail address has *never* received spam.
I think the secret with spam is to stop spreading your email address around the internet. I object to having to provide my email address to forms to register for every damn website (eg. download.com) - I always give a false address if I can. If I can't, I will very seriously reconsider whether I need access to that site (I usually don't). I have an email account that is used solely for the purpose of registering for websites or what have you.
Precisely!!!
I once posted a similar statement in the discussion for a Slashdot story on spam, only I didn't state it as nicely as you. (Basically I insulted everyone else's intelligence
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One of those being Spamnet [cloudmark.com]
Damn-it, I hate companies that don't state up front what their business model is. Is it shareware? Is it trialware? Is it demo? Are they going to ask for money at some point? WTF is the repercussion of me downloading and running their software? I do NOT want to download someone's softare and have to read all the installation crap *while* installing it to figure out what the limitations/deal/catch is with the software.
More and more small win32 software companies are not mentioning *at all* what their software is on their webpages. So I have to spend 10-20 minutes crawling their site trying to figure out what the hell they are doing and who they are. Often I end up having to use Google Groups to find someone commenting on the company's angle. Pain in the ass!
It *sounds like* they let you use SpamNet right now, and use the "spam information" that everyone provides in their enterprise spam filtering solution. But it's buried on one of their other pages.
Charged at $8 per gigabyte over the cap. Reliable estimates by people in the know estimate that Bell's actual costs for bandwidth are in the range of 50 cents to $1 per gigabyte.
And the $30 maximum charge? The Sympatico website CLEARLY states that it is TEMPORARY.
There are a number of DSL competitors who give higher caps and charge between $3 and $1 per gigabyte for bandwidth. And they have to pay Bell for transit over the local loops!
(Thank God the ILEC, Bell, isn't screwing the competitors over wrt provisioning like the US ILEC's did to their competition.)
Unfortunately the Cable companies up here haven't yet been forced to share their infrastructure in the same way.
Quit modding him down fools. The primary source has been slashdotted off the face of the earth. We need this copy.