Get yourself some kind of protection from dictionary spammers, or you'll find your catch all one morning with 200,000 messages and counting by the second.
Also, while it's nice to be able to hand out any email address you want to sites, to see where spam comes from, the moment you get lazy... you end up with spam and you can't recall where you first handed out the address.
Make sure you have a blacklist feature on hand to quickly add addresses that end up spamming.
You may be surprised. Though in many areas, it is indeed "Mallcore"... in several dense urban areas, the hip-hop culture goes way up to 30-year-old-kids....and that's a large market.
Five years is eternity in the video game world. IF you make it this year, and it sells well this year, tha'ts that, if it's unpopular in 5 years, nobody cares.
Games with the shelf life of Quake are rare, always will be.
You might play Doom1 still, but as a revenue generating product, it's basically dead, as is everything else that is more than 24 months old, with a few exceptions.
Yeah.. but if we catch them breaking federal laws that are already tested in court.. that's a lot better than catching them on some vague provisions of one state law that was just enacted.
No.. your electric guitar REQUIRES AN AMP for any kind of performance. I'm not talking about a mic'd accoustic here.... THe amp is by definition part of the instrument.
WIth a perfect, flat response, $1,000,000 amplifier in a perfect accoustic room, your Fender would sound like shit. With a good tube amp, which DOES have harmonics, DOES color the sound, etc.. it will sound nice.
Your concept of "True tone" is incorrect.
As I said.. tube amps are great for PERFORMERS, because they are part of the performance, part of hte instruments.
For *reproduction*, they are not always great, though many like them. Example: what I have recorded on CD here *already* went through a tube amp before recording.... now I just wnat precision.
about professionalism when slashdot is upgrading, and instead of a nice, slashdot-style page coming up saying "The system is down for maintenance".. we get a big, ugly HTTP error.
With musicians, let's say an electric guitar... the amp is part of the insturment.
There is a world of difference between sound reproduction, and performance.
You like hwo your tube amp sounds with your guitar. It has *nothing* to do with accuracy, or accuracy at high volume, or anything like that; it just makes a better sounding tone.
Back in the days of yore, we had pole.org... so around christmas, we would get emails for santa@north.pole.org
We didn't advertise this.. it was just funny.
Another friend had shit.com
there was a ton of mail for eat@shit.com
As to whether or not this is open to "abuse"... hey. If you are going to put in a fake email address, it's absurd to blame someone else if that address exists, even if they registered nowhere.com just to intercept mail like this.
Kevin's probation is over, his debt to society, as it were, is paid in full.
Drug delears who are released EARLY and given probation are released under these conditions.. once probation is over, they are just as free, in theory, as you and I to do anything they want.
Did you look at the article at all? This is for a retirement community where poeple are still quite ACTIVE.. many acres of grounds, pool, etc.
This isn't about a nursing home where you don't even get out of bed, and need constant human attention.. it's about being elderly but active, and wanting your PRIVACY, but being able to get help when you need it.
Would you feel your privacy was less violated if they posted a guard at every door to make sure you don't wander off?
It's not just slightly higher.. it's way, way higher. If Grandma falls down on the kitchen floor because she slipped on a grape, she can do serious damage to herself. A fall that would leave you or I with just a bruise can easily leave Grandma with a dislocated hip or broken arm. Also, at her age, Grandma doesn't heal as fast form an injury, so an injury has more serious side effects. Throw in complications from other problems that happpen in old age, failing sight, hearing, strength, and even critical thinking, and you can see that it's much more risky.
When you move into a nursing home, it's ideally because you NEED that care.. you do not have the capability to live by yourself anymore. You can be injured easily doing daily household chores... you do not have the endurance or strength to do what is needed.
Of all the patented "things" out there... how many are really necessary?
I can agree on limited drug patents.
I can agree that some truly unique devices should be patented rather than kept secret.
but now we have things patented that CANT be kept secret, even if you wanted to, because they are so simple. Amazon's service would be JUST as good if they didn't have a patent on '1-click'. We have patented business models, virtually.... we have stupid obvious patents on stupid obvious things.. they do not serve the public good.
Because I can think of a number of applications in my organization where it would be GREAT for me to be able to definitively pinpoint where the bottlenecks are, instead of spending weeks going back and forth between vendors.
The thing is.. they don't need to do that, because they already have everything that goes across usenet, more or less. They don't need to try to usurp usenet.. it wouldn't give them more access to anything.. it would just make more work.
Just consider: if all patents vanished, how would we, the consumer and general public, be hurt? What products would we cease to have? Which companies or individuals would go bankrupt? Would innovation stop?
But the article isn't talking about a thin client system.
The article is referring to something rather different, where you use local computing resources to run your applications.. but your entire environment can move around with you from machine to machine... sort of like packing around a VMWARE image of your setup with you to run wherever you go.
You are stuck out in the country. Starving. You will die if you don't eat. You see an apple tree, in the middle of an apple orchard of thousands of trees.
You do not own said trees.
You decide to take down an apple.
Which is ethically correct.. for you to eat an apple,and live, or for you to starve?
I agree with you completely. However, niether of those things are mentioned in the parent article. Only that "The company used to pay for these things, now they don't, and they say we should want to be better employees and so pay for this stuff ourselves."
And unless the items are REQUIRED by the employer, the employer is correct... if the items are not required, then they are just things you may choose to use on your own in order to get your job done better.
Picture yourself as an employer of a sysadmin... you don't require the guy to be on call 24/7, but if you have two sysadmins, and one makes himself more generally available than the other, which one is giving you better value for your dollar?
It sounds in this case like the company doesn't require people to use these things, and that if they have them, it's out of their own self interest in doing their job better.
In other words: If I'm your employer and employee #1 is almost always available via either telephone or cellular, and often fixes little bugs on his own at night, and employee #2 walks out the door at 5pm and basically vanishes off the face of the earth.... which employee do you think is going to move up in the world faster? It's not that #2 is doing anything WRONG.. but that #1 is simply a better employee.
If you are REQUIRED to have broadband (or anything else) the company should pay for it.
OTOH, if these are things that make doing your job easier, but your employer does not require you to have, then the employer should not have to pay for it.
As long as the boss isn't going to bitch at you for not having braodband/blackberry/alpha pager/etc, then refusing to pay for them is fine.
IF you were lied to about the capability, they cannot charge a restocking fee, they MUST give you a complete refund. That is the law pretty much everywhere.
If they misrepresented the device, that is a fraudulent sale.
The "re-stocking" fee for returns is when you want to return something simply because you changed your mind.
All you doomsayers who are saying who bad this is, how credit card companies use CID for activating cards, etc....
Please realize that CID was *never* a secure protocol and has *always* been easily spoofable.
This is not something new, it's just eaiser to do now. It was never illegal or shady.
How your CC Company decides to verify your new card is NOT something you should be really worried about! WHY? BEcause in the end, if your signature isn't there, YOU ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR A PENNY.
Second: This lets you spoof callerID, not ANI. How do you know your credit card company is relying on caller-id, and not ANI?
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Get yourself some kind of protection from dictionary spammers, or you'll find your catch all one morning with 200,000 messages and counting by the second.
Also, while it's nice to be able to hand out any email address you want to sites, to see where spam comes from, the moment you get lazy... you end up with spam and you can't recall where you first handed out the address.
Make sure you have a blacklist feature on hand to quickly add addresses that end up spamming.
You may be surprised. Though in many areas, it is indeed "Mallcore"... in several dense urban areas, the hip-hop culture goes way up to 30-year-old-kids....and that's a large market.
Five years is eternity in the video game world. IF you make it this year, and it sells well this year, tha'ts that, if it's unpopular in 5 years, nobody cares.
Games with the shelf life of Quake are rare, always will be.
You might play Doom1 still, but as a revenue generating product, it's basically dead, as is everything else that is more than 24 months old, with a few exceptions.
Yeah.. but if we catch them breaking federal laws that are already tested in court.. that's a lot better than catching them on some vague provisions of one state law that was just enacted.
If they picked up the phone and called manually, then it wasn't an automatic telephone dialing system or artificial prerecorded voice.
No.. your electric guitar REQUIRES AN AMP for any kind of performance. I'm not talking about a mic'd accoustic here.... THe amp is by definition part of the instrument.
WIth a perfect, flat response, $1,000,000 amplifier in a perfect accoustic room, your Fender would sound like shit. With a good tube amp, which DOES have harmonics, DOES color the sound, etc.. it will sound nice.
Your concept of "True tone" is incorrect.
As I said.. tube amps are great for PERFORMERS, because they are part of the performance, part of hte instruments.
For *reproduction*, they are not always great, though many like them. Example: what I have recorded on CD here *already* went through a tube amp before recording.... now I just wnat precision.
about professionalism when slashdot is upgrading, and instead of a nice, slashdot-style page coming up saying "The system is down for maintenance".. we get a big, ugly HTTP error.
not all such savants are mathematically inclined... sometimes it's music, sometimes it's memory, sometimes it's bizarre abstract math, etc.
With musicians, let's say an electric guitar... the amp is part of the insturment.
There is a world of difference between sound reproduction, and performance.
You like hwo your tube amp sounds with your guitar. It has *nothing* to do with accuracy, or accuracy at high volume, or anything like that; it just makes a better sounding tone.
Back in the days of yore, we had pole.org... so around christmas, we would get emails for santa@north.pole.org
We didn't advertise this.. it was just funny.
Another friend had shit.com
there was a ton of mail for eat@shit.com
As to whether or not this is open to "abuse"... hey. If you are going to put in a fake email address, it's absurd to blame someone else if that address exists, even if they registered nowhere.com just to intercept mail like this.
I seem to recall that in the US, telemarketing to cellular phones was illegal, as the receiver often pays for it directly.
Wouldn't sms spam fall into the same category?
Kevin's probation is over, his debt to society, as it were, is paid in full.
Drug delears who are released EARLY and given probation are released under these conditions.. once probation is over, they are just as free, in theory, as you and I to do anything they want.
Did you look at the article at all? This is for a retirement community where poeple are still quite ACTIVE.. many acres of grounds, pool, etc.
This isn't about a nursing home where you don't even get out of bed, and need constant human attention.. it's about being elderly but active, and wanting your PRIVACY, but being able to get help when you need it.
Would you feel your privacy was less violated if they posted a guard at every door to make sure you don't wander off?
It's not just slightly higher.. it's way, way higher. If Grandma falls down on the kitchen floor because she slipped on a grape, she can do serious damage to herself. A fall that would leave you or I with just a bruise can easily leave Grandma with a dislocated hip or broken arm. Also, at her age, Grandma doesn't heal as fast form an injury, so an injury has more serious side effects. Throw in complications from other problems that happpen in old age, failing sight, hearing, strength, and even critical thinking, and you can see that it's much more risky.
When you move into a nursing home, it's ideally because you NEED that care.. you do not have the capability to live by yourself anymore. You can be injured easily doing daily household chores... you do not have the endurance or strength to do what is needed.
Okay.. so now meet me half way.
Of all the patented "things" out there... how many are really necessary?
I can agree on limited drug patents.
I can agree that some truly unique devices should be patented rather than kept secret.
but now we have things patented that CANT be kept secret, even if you wanted to, because they are so simple. Amazon's service would be JUST as good if they didn't have a patent on '1-click'. We have patented business models, virtually.... we have stupid obvious patents on stupid obvious things.. they do not serve the public good.
Really.
Because I can think of a number of applications in my organization where it would be GREAT for me to be able to definitively pinpoint where the bottlenecks are, instead of spending weeks going back and forth between vendors.
The thing is.. they don't need to do that, because they already have everything that goes across usenet, more or less. They don't need to try to usurp usenet.. it wouldn't give them more access to anything.. it would just make more work.
True. THe real problme is too many patents.
Just consider: if all patents vanished, how would we, the consumer and general public, be hurt? What products would we cease to have? Which companies or individuals would go bankrupt? Would innovation stop?
But the article isn't talking about a thin client system.
The article is referring to something rather different, where you use local computing resources to run your applications.. but your entire environment can move around with you from machine to machine... sort of like packing around a VMWARE image of your setup with you to run wherever you go.
Is it?
You are stuck out in the country. Starving. You will die if you don't eat. You see an apple tree, in the middle of an apple orchard of thousands of trees.
You do not own said trees.
You decide to take down an apple.
Which is ethically correct.. for you to eat an apple,and live, or for you to starve?
I agree with you completely.
However, niether of those things are mentioned in the parent article. Only that "The company used to pay for these things, now they don't, and they say we should want to be better employees and so pay for this stuff ourselves."
And unless the items are REQUIRED by the employer, the employer is correct... if the items are not required, then they are just things you may choose to use on your own in order to get your job done better.
Picture yourself as an employer of a sysadmin... you don't require the guy to be on call 24/7, but if you have two sysadmins, and one makes himself more generally available than the other, which one is giving you better value for your dollar?
There are different kinds of expectation.
It sounds in this case like the company doesn't require people to use these things, and that if they have them, it's out of their own self interest in doing their job better.
In other words: If I'm your employer
and employee #1 is almost always available via either telephone or cellular, and often fixes little bugs on his own at night, and employee #2 walks out the door at 5pm and basically vanishes off the face of the earth.... which employee do you think is going to move up in the world faster?
It's not that #2 is doing anything WRONG.. but that #1 is simply a better employee.
It could be the boss feels that these devices are not strictly necessary, and he doesn't really care if you have them.
If you want to get them yourself, to enable you to do your job better, that's up to you. That is a fair statement.
What would be WRONG would be if the company REQUIRED you to have these devices and services. In that case, they should pay for them, definately.
then these things are not a requirement.
If you are REQUIRED to have broadband (or anything else) the company should pay for it.
OTOH, if these are things that make doing your job easier, but your employer does not require you to have, then the employer should not have to pay for it.
As long as the boss isn't going to bitch at you for not having braodband/blackberry/alpha pager/etc, then refusing to pay for them is fine.
IF you were lied to about the capability, they cannot charge a restocking fee, they MUST give you a complete refund. That is the law pretty much everywhere.
If they misrepresented the device, that is a fraudulent sale.
The "re-stocking" fee for returns is when you want to return something simply because you changed your mind.
All you doomsayers who are saying who bad this is, how credit card companies use CID for activating cards, etc....
Please realize that CID was *never* a secure protocol and has *always* been easily spoofable.
This is not something new, it's just eaiser to do now. It was never illegal or shady.
How your CC Company decides to verify your new card is NOT something you should be really worried about! WHY? BEcause in the end, if your signature isn't there, YOU ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR A PENNY.
Second: This lets you spoof callerID, not ANI. How do you know your credit card company is relying on caller-id, and not ANI?