This is absolutely the best idea, but I'm not sure I'd choose europe when the climate and scenery is so nice down in the caribean. My ideal job/scenerio would be to live in the Yuccatan (cancun) with a good internet connection and to remote development. The people who are able to do remote development probably devote more than 40 hrs to the job though. One of the advantages of living in Mexico is that you don't pay income taxes on money earned abroad (they're probably just glad you're spending it there) and you don't pay US taxes on the first 40-50k (i forget the exact amount). I'll save for my own retirement with that setup...
if they rock now, chances are they'll rock for another year or so. let the new tech fizzle. people will still be interested in buying your dualies in two years. (anyone not interested in a dual-pIII, or dual-duron these days?).
the thing is about computers and technical type hardware in general, they're rapidly depreciating assets. with prices these days, it's fairly chump change anyway. you can spend you need the good stuff, you'll plop down the extra $$ for the quarte^H^H^H^hardware.
this isn't going to make your desktop much snappier, or make you FPS much better. or watch the pr0n dvd's any crisper.
this allows for addressing more memory and HDD space and all that stuff. you're dvd ripping might notice a slight increase in speed.
to make a system better with today's software and give the user what they expect (a computer to respond to their requests, not to sit there and think about it for a while) you need to increase the number of processors. you get your self a dual Athlon MP system with 512MB Ram or more and you'll be saying "Ho-ly Shit!, freaking schweeet".
those 64 bit processors will let your EJB applications sweat a little less
having that plan be effective during an actual disaster recovery... priceless
everyone has a plan. tests it and everything. but when the email server crashes, and the backup tapes cannot be recovered and the VP stores all their email on the server (it's backed up right?), the fan starts blowing little brown chunks all around.
it's clearly fair use, and a great business for these dvd manufactures and the consumers.
first, they're not copying anything they're editing it. the same thing as someone taking a pair of sizors and cutting out offensive words/chapters from a book. the sizor manufacture surely isn't createing a derivitive work, and neither is the comapny who specifies exactly which pages/lines and such should be cut (to save you the time from having to pre-read that offensive crap).
sure, one could argue that sizors (sp?) sole intent isn't on slashing books, and the information provider on where to cut the books isn't actually doing anything except for providing a review. it's all about sole intent these days (napster/kazza, etc). all the manufacture has to do is let the machine play regular dvd's (didn't read article, imagine that) and they're in the free. it's only one feature for their multi use machine.
i'd never buy one of these dvd players b/c i like to watch whole movies and don't mind the carpet monsters watching the movie too, though some are reserved for after their fast asleep, but i do hope they are aloud to sell their product. else it will be a big BIG BIG loss for fair use.
i've done that too, but unfortunately, i forgot to go back to the phone to check it (was on speaker phone so i could go laugh in the garage hearing them say "hello, are you there".... "hello, are you there" for about 5 fricking minutes).
i was expecting a call from some friends that were coming by, but didn't get their call because i had forgotten about the phone off the hook.
same story. i tried it out and got into it at first, but haven't done it in years. i tried the free windows java application (can't recall the name), and it worked nicely, but then they started charging for domestic calls.
i also tried yahoo's and MSN's peer-to-peer talk over the messenger type thing to other users logged in. it was the same thing choppy sound, and barely audible.
i don't have long distance on my home line (long distance phone company slamming) so we use a calling card. for.lt..05$ per minute it can't be beat. that 10 minute internet call could be done in 5 on a real line, and would cost.25$. you really do get what you pay for.
more a troll than insightfull. though a little of both i guess.
If Intel releases docs for their platform, that's their business. Intel and Sun differ on the one place they've always differed. Big boxes. The E10k machines and such.
what patents does SUN own on the Java language and arcitecture itself? we've seen IBM come out with a non-standard GUI library, and SUN only replies with: "it's not the standard java". as far as i know, anyone is freely able to use and extend the java arcitecture as it suites their needs.
microsoft does have patents on the.NET arcitecture and have not at all publicly stated that they won't use those patents to stop those who implement their technology on other platforms. when asked about mono, they say "that's an interesting project and it shows the power of.NET". they fail to add that "yeah, and we're going to basically own their source when it's all and done with it. tht GPL is going to get ripped to shreds."
as others have mentioned FORTRAN isn't quite dead, but like BSD, it's dying. as late as 2 years ago i was coding business applications in FORTRAN on both VMS and Solaris platforms.
yep, just try to install mandrake rpms on a RH system. see how well that one goes. some might work on the surface but sooner or later you'll end up in RPM hell.
IIRC, redhat doesn't have an active kde maintainer, but it should be in the next distro release. i'm sure it's quite different making rpms on a 8.1 system than it is on a 8.0 system. dependancies and all that jazz. (you need libxml-2.1.0.3.rpm not libxml-2.1.0.2.rpm:) )
it seems that redhat doesn't have an active maintainer of the RPM's for kde releases. I'm sure it'll be included in 8.0 or 8.1 which ever their next release is.
if you're interested in making RPM's for more current releases, i'm sure you could find someone to give you some config files or whatever RPM uses to get you started. you might want to contact bero to see if he's got any scripts or whatever still laying 'round.
i personally didn't find the splash screen appealing. the icons seemed to be out of sacle, kinda enlongated (sp?). perhaps it was just my system.
superb desktop, always top notch from the KDE team
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what an awesome (and of course slightly:) behind schedule) release.
tabbed browsing is an excellent that i love to use in moz. i notice it in konqueror, but the hot keys are different. perhaps there's a way to change them, but after months and months of using ctrl+t to get a new tab, i konq uses something different. i'm curious why not use the "standards" the moz dev team included. yeah, there's probably not an rfc for hot keys on opening a new browser tab, but something i use daily is standard.
another thing. i test drove konqueror in rc6, and pop-up windows were enabled by default. i guess this just makes the user find out how to turn them off? most people might not even know that they can turn them off. i think pop-up s/b off by default.
all in all - a very well polished desktop. the kde team delivers quality code as usual!
first, the governement is taxing too many different things all over the place. most likely so the population doesn't realize the exact amount they're actually paying. don't charge the poor income tax, charge them sales tax. middle income families, they get double wacked. upper income, well, they get a slight hit in the income tax, but they're able to save a lot and can find ways around some taxes. pick one thing uncle sam and tax it all across the board!. i've got 3 different governments wanting sales tax on my income, plus some old-age governement-created-quasi-retirement system that needs to be completely eliminated or at the very least optional.
now, back on the topic of the poster. a company will definately see taxing internet purchases as an opportunity to act as an offshore clearing house for internet sales. the sale will actually occur offshore and no taxes will be incured. or some such. however it's implemented, there's a technical problem that people will be paying internet taxes (the state gov't are in too big a pinch these days and are all looking for revenue from places mostly from overspending during the.bomb era). there will be a technical solution that will be implemented probably first by some h4ck0r, then by a reputable company.
during the late 90's most people didn't mind paying their taxes. but now that the gov't can do what most normal people do and live within their means, they're raping people for more and more when people have less and less to give. my governor (OH-Bob Taft) just proposed raising taxes again on cigaretts and alcohol to cover part of their lack of income. i'm sure the legislature will approve what he wants.
maybe. i'm sure there's quite a few folks around who we'd all be better off if they were heavily sedated. hell, maybe they'd actually get a job so they could go to the heroine store and buy their heroine laced cigaretts. let's outlaw carbohydrates. those adkin's wackos all say carbs are bad for the body. we need a movement in this country from the health care industry to outlaw all carbohydrates. they're not needed at all for human survival after all.
interesting. what are the current MPG restrictions for cars/SUV's? i was aware of many environmental restrictions for the vehicles (emissions) but not MPG restrictions.
i'm tired of doing research today and probably should get some work done. i would be interested to see how commercial speach is not protected as free speach under the constitution. also, what are some limits of advertising? where can certain (not the heavily regulated industries such as tobacco, alcohol, medicine?) people not advertise?
fourth. spammers consumer their resources sending a message. they send it in such a way that your systems take that message and process it. DON'T TAKE THE MESSAGE! DON'T LISTEN TO IT!. what? your systems can't do that? you're making yourself velnreable by subscribing to the system.
i agree... but I think that it's not the governemts job to punish the spammers. i don't know how the isp's should charge for their bandwidth, but if it is such a huge issue where these spammers are doubling your ISP bill ( i know you didn't say double, i just threw out a number ), then the market should correct itself.
people who drive from one state into another to drive on a foreign state's roadway system also aren't paying their fair share, but that's kinda minute in the grand 'ol scheme of things.
that REAL cost that spammers impose on the "real" consumers bandwidth bill I think i neglegeble compared to other unnecessarry costs the company has to endure (employee unemployment benefits, VP expense accounts, etc).
ok. so these things are what typically goes into a cost accounting type of report (what does it cost us to produce 1 widget assuming we're producing 1M per month.
i'd like the article to sum it up in dollars and cents or even yen would be nice.
yep, and the lakes didn't use to be cluttered with those damn jet-ski's either. back in the day you could take a nice quiet ride on your boat and not be bothered by those pesky jet-ski's. we need a law to keep them off our (big boat owners) lake!
anyway. you don't have to run linux to use the oper instant messaging. it's called jabber (jabber.org) and there's clients for lots of platforms.
secondly, yes, instant messaging can be used async. with email, you send a message and wait for a respose. same with im, but you can tell if your person is there ready to respond. so you've got 5 pages to tell good old mom. type it up and send it via IM.
you don't have to jump through hoops to tell mom the baby is talking. if you want a convenient way that gives you that warm fuzzy inside then you've got to seek it out. the government doesn't need to protect your or my warm fuzzy world. the gov't needs to protect the borders and the constitutional rights.
the spammers do jump through lots of hoops in orde to send messages as anonymously as they can.
dave, they stole the feeling of being communicated by a family or friend from you? they might have changed your logic structure around it all, but the feeling?...
if (new_messages) && (from == someone_i_know)
then (you've got that lovin' feeling, oooh ooh that...)
if your isp charges you a fixed rate for bandwidth, then i suggest getting a new isp. one that is more flexable i imagine. i still contend that the market and technological measures can and should fix the problem (created by technological deficiencies). i also contend that it's not the business of the gov't to play playground supervisor.
email doesnt' belong to anybody. it is an idea (RFC?) that was implemented by various entities. it was sold as a service to many many people to use.
there's other communication mechanisms out there for you to utilize. there's an open IRC being developed (don't recall the name off the top of my head) with GPL implementations. this means that you can freely run your own chat server and restrict who connects and such. you want exclusive control over the communication, set it up. then when mom wants to tell you what's planned for dinner on the next holiday you'll get that warm fuzzy seeing the message.
if you're in a public forum, you have only the service provider to complain to. mr. isp, please let me give a do not accept from list. or please let me give you an accept only from list. that's only a general idea, i'm certain a thourough system could be implemented.
yep, i'm going to run the spell/grammer checker on my writing before i click the submit. i'll even go through a few revision phases... please. grammer nazis should not be posting to internet web boards. if i were writing an article to be published i would worry about my writing. if i'm writing on a web board, which is the same as having a public conversation, i would relax my writing as well as i would relax my speach in a public spoken forum.
but back to the topic at hand:). laws are created to protect rights of the citizens. laws for other reasons are the legislatures imposing their morals onto a society. your constitutional rights are not infringed by spam. yes it's annoying, yes it's not welcome but i do not believe that your rights are infringed upon.
does anti-marijuana laws stop some marijuana smoking? sure. does that make it right? that's more of a moral debate than a constitutional one. what if we had an anti-suv law, or rather a law that required all vehicles to get at least 45MPG? after all it would be in the best interest of "society".
first off, i don't like getting uninvited emails, phone calls or USPS messages any more than the next guy (UPS packages are most welcome). I'm not a spammer nor a telemarketer nor a mass emailer. i'm a java developer.
first off, i can't quite see how the "antisocial" person had committed thievery? they haven't taken anything concrete. only given something that wasn't asked for. it's up to you to accept or reject the offer, correct? you pick up the phone or you don't. it could be a student loan consolidator who just wants to talk to you for a minute, or it could be mom calling to talk about nothing (either way it might be better not to answer:) ). in order to steal something to be a thief, you need to take something of value. the only thing taken is the recipeients time to decide weather or not to accept or delete the message. there's also your internet bill, but you elected to sign up for your email service from whatever provider plan you like. if you're provider is charging you per message and it's not working out for you, find a new provider.
secondly, yes, i do believe that the system should be designed as robust as possible and as flexable as possible. trust should also be inherant in any system. pagers for instance have a level of trust. the pager company doesn't generally publish your number so it's a pretty trusted environment for communication. you give people a pager number and they can page you. you know when you get a page that it's needed to be returned.
it's not the gov'ts job to play playground moderator telling people how to play nice together. their job is to protect the borders and uphold the constitution. your constitutional rights are not being infringed on by email spam or phone spam. your right to "privacy" is not infringed since you elected service from that particular company, and probably in the small small print was disclosed how the system works and weather they'll give your number/address to others, or weather it's just a guessing game. in a true monopolistic market there needs to be governement rules (they created the monoply after all) otherwise the rules will be created by the market and consumers. if someone doesn't give the consumers what they want, someone else will come along and do it.
it's quite too bad that we can't have engineers design and develop a communication method that doesn't allow this type of "abuse". these people are merely taking advantage of a flawed system and we want prosecution?
our freaking law makers are busy trying to figure out how we'll implement the "no child left behind act" from mr. gwb to spend their time making and implementing spam laws.
here's a wacky idea. educate the population. educate them A LOT. let them design a system which is secure, easy to use and easy to maintain. let them learn from our mistakes with telephone, email , cable tv and all the other failed communication mechanisms.
radio and over the air tv are about the only decent delivery mechanisms i can see. their major flaw is that they are only one sided in that you send a message and hope someone tunes it in. they're also highly regulated in that not everyone can get their messages out via those channels.
the original question asked about 4 pvr's per machine and 4 machines. thus a total of 16. 14 channel high quality writes would be a strech i'm sure the original asker considered. 4 channels (either IDE or SCSI is probably doable.
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This is absolutely the best idea, but I'm not sure I'd choose europe when the climate and scenery is so nice down in the caribean. My ideal job/scenerio would be to live in the Yuccatan (cancun) with a good internet connection and to remote development. The people who are able to do remote development probably devote more than 40 hrs to the job though. One of the advantages of living in Mexico is that you don't pay income taxes on money earned abroad (they're probably just glad you're spending it there) and you don't pay US taxes on the first 40-50k (i forget the exact amount). I'll save for my own retirement with that setup...
if they rock now, chances are they'll rock for another year or so. let the new tech fizzle. people will still be interested in buying your dualies in two years. (anyone not interested in a dual-pIII, or dual-duron these days?).
the thing is about computers and technical type hardware in general, they're rapidly depreciating assets. with prices these days, it's fairly chump change anyway. you can spend you need the good stuff, you'll plop down the extra $$ for the quarte^H^H^H^hardware.
in Soviet Russia hardware depreciates you!
this isn't going to make your desktop much snappier, or make you FPS much better. or watch the pr0n dvd's any crisper.
this allows for addressing more memory and HDD space and all that stuff. you're dvd ripping might notice a slight increase in speed.
to make a system better with today's software and give the user what they expect (a computer to respond to their requests, not to sit there and think about it for a while) you need to increase the number of processors. you get your self a dual Athlon MP system with 512MB Ram or more and you'll be saying "Ho-ly Shit!, freaking schweeet".
those 64 bit processors will let your EJB applications sweat a little less
writing a disaster recover plan ... $1000
... $10,000
... priceless
implementing procedures corporate wide
having that plan be effective during an actual disaster recovery
everyone has a plan. tests it and everything. but when the email server crashes, and the backup tapes cannot be recovered and the VP stores all their email on the server (it's backed up right?), the fan starts blowing little brown chunks all around.
it's clearly fair use, and a great business for these dvd manufactures and the consumers.
first, they're not copying anything they're editing it. the same thing as someone taking a pair of sizors and cutting out offensive words/chapters from a book. the sizor manufacture surely isn't createing a derivitive work, and neither is the comapny who specifies exactly which pages/lines and such should be cut (to save you the time from having to pre-read that offensive crap).
sure, one could argue that sizors (sp?) sole intent isn't on slashing books, and the information provider on where to cut the books isn't actually doing anything except for providing a review. it's all about sole intent these days (napster/kazza, etc). all the manufacture has to do is let the machine play regular dvd's (didn't read article, imagine that) and they're in the free. it's only one feature for their multi use machine.
i'd never buy one of these dvd players b/c i like to watch whole movies and don't mind the carpet monsters watching the movie too, though some are reserved for after their fast asleep, but i do hope they are aloud to sell their product. else it will be a big BIG BIG loss for fair use.
i've done that too, but unfortunately, i forgot to go back to the phone to check it (was on speaker phone so i could go laugh in the garage hearing them say "hello, are you there".... "hello, are you there" for about 5 fricking minutes).
i was expecting a call from some friends that were coming by, but didn't get their call because i had forgotten about the phone off the hook.
same story. i tried it out and got into it at first, but haven't done it in years. i tried the free windows java application (can't recall the name), and it worked nicely, but then they started charging for domestic calls.
.lt. .05$ per minute it can't be beat. that 10 minute internet call could be done in 5 on a real line, and would cost .25$. you really do get what you pay for.
i also tried yahoo's and MSN's peer-to-peer talk over the messenger type thing to other users logged in. it was the same thing choppy sound, and barely audible.
i don't have long distance on my home line (long distance phone company slamming) so we use a calling card. for
myhost> xeyes -display yourhost
www.jabber.org - great opensource pcUser-to-pcUser communication tool.
oh wait. you wanted your audio input from your microphone to be output in another user's speakers. how about -
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more a troll than insightfull. though a little of both i guess.
If Intel releases docs for their platform, that's their business. Intel and Sun differ on the one place they've always differed. Big boxes. The E10k machines and such.
what patents does SUN own on the Java language and arcitecture itself? we've seen IBM come out with a non-standard GUI library, and SUN only replies with: "it's not the standard java". as far as i know, anyone is freely able to use and extend the java arcitecture as it suites their needs.
.NET arcitecture and have not at all publicly stated that they won't use those patents to stop those who implement their technology on other platforms. when asked about mono, they say "that's an interesting project and it shows the power of .NET". they fail to add that "yeah, and we're going to basically own their source when it's all and done with it. tht GPL is going to get ripped to shreds."
microsoft does have patents on the
as others have mentioned FORTRAN isn't quite dead, but like BSD, it's dying. as late as 2 years ago i was coding business applications in FORTRAN on both VMS and Solaris platforms.
yep, just try to install mandrake rpms on a RH system. see how well that one goes. some might work on the surface but sooner or later you'll end up in RPM hell.
:) )
IIRC, redhat doesn't have an active kde maintainer, but it should be in the next distro release. i'm sure it's quite different making rpms on a 8.1 system than it is on a 8.0 system. dependancies and all that jazz. (you need libxml-2.1.0.3.rpm not libxml-2.1.0.2.rpm
it seems that redhat doesn't have an active maintainer of the RPM's for kde releases. I'm sure it'll be included in 8.0 or 8.1 which ever their next release is.
if you're interested in making RPM's for more current releases, i'm sure you could find someone to give you some config files or whatever RPM uses to get you started. you might want to contact bero to see if he's got any scripts or whatever still laying 'round.
that or i hear suse is a nice desktop too.
i personally didn't find the splash screen appealing. the icons seemed to be out of sacle, kinda enlongated (sp?). perhaps it was just my system.
what an awesome (and of course slightly :) behind schedule) release.
tabbed browsing is an excellent that i love to use in moz. i notice it in konqueror, but the hot keys are different. perhaps there's a way to change them, but after months and months of using ctrl+t to get a new tab, i konq uses something different. i'm curious why not use the "standards" the moz dev team included. yeah, there's probably not an rfc for hot keys on opening a new browser tab, but something i use daily is standard.
another thing. i test drove konqueror in rc6, and pop-up windows were enabled by default. i guess this just makes the user find out how to turn them off? most people might not even know that they can turn them off. i think pop-up s/b off by default.
all in all - a very well polished desktop. the kde team delivers quality code as usual!
I'm still confused as to why they're at LWCE
unlike other software companies, they've got $$ to spend on resources to fill a booth (people, gizmo's booth rental, etc).
it's always better to have the booths filled up with something than to have them sitting empty *cough*KDE*cough*
extremely interesting idea indeed!
.bomb era). there will be a technical solution that will be implemented probably first by some h4ck0r, then by a reputable company.
first, the governement is taxing too many different things all over the place. most likely so the population doesn't realize the exact amount they're actually paying. don't charge the poor income tax, charge them sales tax. middle income families, they get double wacked. upper income, well, they get a slight hit in the income tax, but they're able to save a lot and can find ways around some taxes. pick one thing uncle sam and tax it all across the board!. i've got 3 different governments wanting sales tax on my income, plus some old-age governement-created-quasi-retirement system that needs to be completely eliminated or at the very least optional.
now, back on the topic of the poster. a company will definately see taxing internet purchases as an opportunity to act as an offshore clearing house for internet sales. the sale will actually occur offshore and no taxes will be incured. or some such. however it's implemented, there's a technical problem that people will be paying internet taxes (the state gov't are in too big a pinch these days and are all looking for revenue from places mostly from overspending during the
during the late 90's most people didn't mind paying their taxes. but now that the gov't can do what most normal people do and live within their means, they're raping people for more and more when people have less and less to give. my governor (OH-Bob Taft) just proposed raising taxes again on cigaretts and alcohol to cover part of their lack of income. i'm sure the legislature will approve what he wants.
Should Heroin be legal?
maybe. i'm sure there's quite a few folks around who we'd all be better off if they were heavily sedated. hell, maybe they'd actually get a job so they could go to the heroine store and buy their heroine laced cigaretts. let's outlaw carbohydrates. those adkin's wackos all say carbs are bad for the body. we need a movement in this country from the health care industry to outlaw all carbohydrates. they're not needed at all for human survival after all.
interesting. what are the current MPG restrictions for cars/SUV's? i was aware of many environmental restrictions for the vehicles (emissions) but not MPG restrictions.
i'm tired of doing research today and probably should get some work done. i would be interested to see how commercial speach is not protected as free speach under the constitution. also, what are some limits of advertising? where can certain (not the heavily regulated industries such as tobacco, alcohol, medicine?) people not advertise?
fourth. spammers consumer their resources sending a message. they send it in such a way that your systems take that message and process it. DON'T TAKE THE MESSAGE! DON'T LISTEN TO IT!. what? your systems can't do that? you're making yourself velnreable by subscribing to the system.
i agree... but I think that it's not the governemts job to punish the spammers. i don't know how the isp's should charge for their bandwidth, but if it is such a huge issue where these spammers are doubling your ISP bill ( i know you didn't say double, i just threw out a number ), then the market should correct itself.
people who drive from one state into another to drive on a foreign state's roadway system also aren't paying their fair share, but that's kinda minute in the grand 'ol scheme of things.
that REAL cost that spammers impose on the "real" consumers bandwidth bill I think i neglegeble compared to other unnecessarry costs the company has to endure (employee unemployment benefits, VP expense accounts, etc).
ok. so these things are what typically goes into a cost accounting type of report (what does it cost us to produce 1 widget assuming we're producing 1M per month.
:)
i'd like the article to sum it up in dollars and cents or even yen would be nice.
is that UNU's Not a University?
yep, and the lakes didn't use to be cluttered with those damn jet-ski's either. back in the day you could take a nice quiet ride on your boat and not be bothered by those pesky jet-ski's. we need a law to keep them off our (big boat owners) lake!
anyway. you don't have to run linux to use the oper instant messaging. it's called jabber (jabber.org) and there's clients for lots of platforms.
secondly, yes, instant messaging can be used async. with email, you send a message and wait for a respose. same with im, but you can tell if your person is there ready to respond. so you've got 5 pages to tell good old mom. type it up and send it via IM.
you don't have to jump through hoops to tell mom the baby is talking. if you want a convenient way that gives you that warm fuzzy inside then you've got to seek it out. the government doesn't need to protect your or my warm fuzzy world. the gov't needs to protect the borders and the constitutional rights.
the spammers do jump through lots of hoops in orde to send messages as anonymously as they can.
dave, they stole the feeling of being communicated by a family or friend from you? they might have changed your logic structure around it all, but the feeling?...
if (new_messages) && (from == someone_i_know)
then (you've got that lovin' feeling, oooh ooh that...)
if your isp charges you a fixed rate for bandwidth, then i suggest getting a new isp. one that is more flexable i imagine. i still contend that the market and technological measures can and should fix the problem (created by technological deficiencies). i also contend that it's not the business of the gov't to play playground supervisor.
email doesnt' belong to anybody. it is an idea (RFC?) that was implemented by various entities. it was sold as a service to many many people to use.
there's other communication mechanisms out there for you to utilize. there's an open IRC being developed (don't recall the name off the top of my head) with GPL implementations. this means that you can freely run your own chat server and restrict who connects and such. you want exclusive control over the communication, set it up. then when mom wants to tell you what's planned for dinner on the next holiday you'll get that warm fuzzy seeing the message.
if you're in a public forum, you have only the service provider to complain to. mr. isp, please let me give a do not accept from list. or please let me give you an accept only from list. that's only a general idea, i'm certain a thourough system could be implemented.
yep, i'm going to run the spell/grammer checker on my writing before i click the submit. i'll even go through a few revision phases... please. grammer nazis should not be posting to internet web boards. if i were writing an article to be published i would worry about my writing. if i'm writing on a web board, which is the same as having a public conversation, i would relax my writing as well as i would relax my speach in a public spoken forum.
:). laws are created to protect rights of the citizens. laws for other reasons are the legislatures imposing their morals onto a society. your constitutional rights are not infringed by spam. yes it's annoying, yes it's not welcome but i do not believe that your rights are infringed upon.
but back to the topic at hand
does anti-marijuana laws stop some marijuana smoking? sure. does that make it right? that's more of a moral debate than a constitutional one. what if we had an anti-suv law, or rather a law that required all vehicles to get at least 45MPG? after all it would be in the best interest of "society".
first off, i don't like getting uninvited emails, phone calls or USPS messages any more than the next guy (UPS packages are most welcome). I'm not a spammer nor a telemarketer nor a mass emailer. i'm a java developer.
:) ). in order to steal something to be a thief, you need to take something of value. the only thing taken is the recipeients time to decide weather or not to accept or delete the message. there's also your internet bill, but you elected to sign up for your email service from whatever provider plan you like. if you're provider is charging you per message and it's not working out for you, find a new provider.
first off, i can't quite see how the "antisocial" person had committed thievery? they haven't taken anything concrete. only given something that wasn't asked for. it's up to you to accept or reject the offer, correct? you pick up the phone or you don't. it could be a student loan consolidator who just wants to talk to you for a minute, or it could be mom calling to talk about nothing (either way it might be better not to answer
secondly, yes, i do believe that the system should be designed as robust as possible and as flexable as possible. trust should also be inherant in any system. pagers for instance have a level of trust. the pager company doesn't generally publish your number so it's a pretty trusted environment for communication. you give people a pager number and they can page you. you know when you get a page that it's needed to be returned.
it's not the gov'ts job to play playground moderator telling people how to play nice together. their job is to protect the borders and uphold the constitution. your constitutional rights are not being infringed on by email spam or phone spam. your right to "privacy" is not infringed since you elected service from that particular company, and probably in the small small print was disclosed how the system works and weather they'll give your number/address to others, or weather it's just a guessing game. in a true monopolistic market there needs to be governement rules (they created the monoply after all) otherwise the rules will be created by the market and consumers. if someone doesn't give the consumers what they want, someone else will come along and do it.
Oh my.
it's quite too bad that we can't have engineers design and develop a communication method that doesn't allow this type of "abuse". these people are merely taking advantage of a flawed system and we want prosecution?
our freaking law makers are busy trying to figure out how we'll implement the "no child left behind act" from mr. gwb to spend their time making and implementing spam laws.
here's a wacky idea. educate the population. educate them A LOT. let them design a system which is secure, easy to use and easy to maintain. let them learn from our mistakes with telephone, email , cable tv and all the other failed communication mechanisms.
radio and over the air tv are about the only decent delivery mechanisms i can see. their major flaw is that they are only one sided in that you send a message and hope someone tunes it in. they're also highly regulated in that not everyone can get their messages out via those channels.
the original question asked about 4 pvr's per machine and 4 machines. thus a total of 16. 14 channel high quality writes would be a strech i'm sure the original asker considered. 4 channels (either IDE or SCSI is probably doable.