Would you want an AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, Goecities, Earthlink or other consumer mailbox for business e-mail. They are all targets of Dictionary spam attacks. I prefer something more along the lines of IBM.com GE.com Westinghouse.com Intel.com Catipillar.com etc. I doubt they get the volume of enlarge your (insert body part) now spams of the consumer ISP's.
An unspoken factor is having a AOL account is the same as a Hotmail, Yahoo, Earthlink or other major consumer ISP account. They are all the targets of spammers dictonary attacks. How much junk did they start getting that diluted the content of their mailboxes. At work we have a business E-mail server. It takes no consumer subscriptions. This alone reduces the spam content. The corporate wrath and mail admin make spamming corporations a waste of time and a legal risk with few rewards.
Throw in the issues of employees working with slow computers and slow connections and I can definitely see a full-time spam admin. Where I work, we do have a full time e-mail admin. They are worth their weight in gold. Sometimes is takes 5 minutes to open my mailbox in the morning. It's from all the identical messages sent to more than 5 employees from outside the company being purged off the servers. If you don't want mail delivered to me, just cc it to 5 more employees in the company and an admin will review it for content. It saves us a lot of time.
It doesn't work for me. I always drop the connection before opening mail. I do this for two reasons. 1, Stops mail viruses. If it tries to open a connection it gets deleted. I don't spread viruses.
2, Stops advertiser tracking. If it tries to open a conneciton, it gets deleted. I want a mail advertiser to know most of their mail hit the bit bucket unseen.
Sending anythng with a bug or fetch anything ensures I don't see it.
They may say I received it, and I can say it was auto-deleted if it met any of these spam/virus modes of operation.
I hope they realise how many people (honest) will now see this as making something that was illegal as something legal? Taxing (Levy) regular CDR's instead of just music CDR's removes that nagging conceince that using them for music is a bad thing. With their stamp of approval, I'll feel free to pirate now. Why buy it in the store. I already paid the royalty. I have bought a few CDR audio CD's because of a nagging concience, so I paid the royalty. No nagging concience any more since copying has been levied and endorsed as legal by the tax on data CDR's.
Floating objects float because they displace their mass. The ice shelf extends from land and is in fact floating. When it breaks off and floats away, it neither raises or lowers the water level. As it melts, it becomes more dense taking up less volume than the ice did. (ice is less dense than water which is why it floats instead of sinking) If an iceburg were coated underneath with some kind of container, the entire melted iceburg would fit in the container except a small amount. This is due to the ocean being denser than fresh water and a smaller volume of seawater would is displaced. (A smaller volume of sea water is displaced by an object than the same object floating in fresh water. The floating object displaces it's mass in both cases.)
That may prevent unauthorised use of a program, however it will keep me from registering. I don't buy any software that can't be restored and function after a hard drive failure. I travel and anything that makes me spend hours on hold for consumer support after a crash is lost field production time. Stuff I use must be able to be loaded from it's instalation program and run without any internet connection or phone call after a system crash. That is one of my non-negotiable requirements. That is like a remote dongle that the software must phone home. I don't do dongles real or virtual.
I get software that is above most shareware in quality and features off the 9.95 rack in the office supply store. Why pay more for less? Lables Unlimited II by softkey ($12) is far better than any shareware I checked. Any halfway decent shareware wanted over double the price to support half as many barcodes. None of the overpriced shareware would support photos and clipart. Why is a bargan rack title generaly a much better product at a much lower price? I'm serious, not trolling even if it may look like a troll. It's just my experiance with shareware features verses price (value) compared to off the rack software.
I hope you are shairing only music you have written and produced yourself, or have the direct authorization to do so by the copywright owner. Sharing stuff not released for sharing could be considered theft. With the rant out of the way, I think a pool of freely traded public domain music is a fantastic idea. Unfortunately I like most other downloaders, haven't the talent to release anything worthwhile. My schooling is in a technical field, not a music field. I do enjoy good music even if I am unable to produce anything better than a 5 year olds piano lesson.
I thought removing Macromedia software would make the anoying problem go away.. Wrong. After removing Macromedia software, viewing the news on every about 5th page of Yahoo provides a popup Microsoft security warning.. Do you want to install macromedia 5 and do you want to trust content from this site? Funny they don't include a don't ask me again check box. I doubt it was a simple oversight. It looks like I have another box is scheduled to get Linux! I wonder if Netscape for windows has any improvement in this department? It isn't taking long to convince me I need to replace the software that came with my nice shiny new machine.
Spammers cost money everytime they send an ad that a distracted person clicks on, and gets shipped off to a porn site. That red-flags the corporate internet policy manager or whoever, who has to then go TALK to that employee about their going to a porn site. Sure, they just show the spam and say "Oops". It costs both of those people at least half an hour, though, and at $100 an hour, that's an expensive piece of e-mail.
I know the feeling. Nowdays it's an automatic trip to the power switch if something redirects me. It's easy enough to show HR the bad link. (after a reboot, I forward the mail to HR and request they and legal work on a reply for me) They have been quite effective. I very rarely get ADLT mail at work anymore. They also check the source and purge the mailserver for the entire company. It's also kept me out of HR hot water. I think I've had more bad (goat) links on slashdot than I ever got by e-mail. There were a couple times it took me about 5 minutes to open my inbox due to a purge in progress.
I just removed Macromedia software from my system. Most of the content it runs is ads. Unfortunately they defaulted it to autoplay. Play could not be shut off while it was loading content. Many ads would end in some kind of animated GIF that still ran even with play and loop unchecked. It would only stop after unchecking loop, play and rewinding the annimation. Too bad they tried to satsify the content providers (advertisers) instead of the end users. All it would have needed was a configuration that a user could set up to not run flash automaticaly. A simple play button on a annimation would have been nice. It was the lack of configuration options that convinced me to remove Macromedia completely.
If he has 500K to wear a computer, I would think he would avoid the trouble of commercial flights and go with general aviation instead. In this case, it would have been cheaper. Having flown general avaiation from the Cayman Islands to Chicago and back is an eye opener. Great flight minus all the trouble. It is much better than first class anytime.
Back to reality, a SEM is a tool just like a a hammer. Outlawing a hammer may ruduce the number of houses broken into, but it will also reduce the number of houses built. We use many SEM's and FIB's all the time in R&D in a chip manufacturing plant. Without them, we would still be running PC's close to 4.77 Mhz instead of 2 Ghz. The tools are used to check the critical dimensions of stuff way to small to even see with optical microscopes. You can't see broken traces and their cause without SEM's in the current generation of IC's.
Using Focused Ion Beam technology, it is a simple matter to carve away pieces of the container and leave behind the parts that operate the switches. When that is done, the switches can be disconnected. A FIB mill is able to mill cuts smaller than a micron. I know as I use one at work in R&D in a chip plant. We take apart chips all the time to get critical dimension measurements and diagnose failures under several layers of the chip. One new chip had a design flaw where a VIA was where it was not supposed to be. This shorted the chip so it couldn't be probbed to check the health of the rest of the chip. The engineering data was saved by using a FIB to etch a circle around the VIA disconnecting that one connection. This saved much R&D time as we didn't need to get a new reticle fixing only one problem. The next reticle had the shorted VIA fix as well as many other changes based on the probed data of the chip. Disconnecting the tamper switch circuit that would erease a chip would be a trivial task.
No property tax. If that is the case... I'm being robbed! The bill I get every year is listed as property tax. It's much Much less than the bill I used to get in Oregon however. Maybe you meant no state income tax?
The people who build expensive boats remember 1991 as the start of a war. That's when Congress imposed a 10 percent tax on all boats costing more than $100,000. While it's true that most folks who can pay $1 million for a boat can pay $100,000 more, many potential buyers flat refused. Couple that with a bad economy and high interest rates, and the big-boat industry was knocked flat. Viking went from two plants and 1,500 employees to one plant and 70 employees. Shamelessly cut and pasted from an article found here. http://www.shorecast.com/html/Features/PawlingFeat ures/pawlingYacht.html
Try that tax and you'll probably see Bill Gates and Co. pack up and hire Mayflower Moving Co.
Shielding goes a long way to protecting against EMP. Your typical fire rated safe has a double metal layer case and a door that has metal rods that extend into the case on 2 or 4 sides of the opening. The attenuation of a pulse by the magnetic shunt is quite high providing a high degree of protection from EMP to the contents. Our military has lots of redundant stuff sealed in farady shielding containers to be deployed to replace online stuff damaged from a EMP attack. You can do the same thing at home. Take your spare computer and remove all external cords (cords act as antennas to pipe EMP into a box). Put it into a metal container with a metal lid with full RFI contacts all the way around the edge of the lid. The container shunts the EMP with counter EMF protecting the contents. That computer will be ready to put online after a nearby lightning strike takes out your old one.
If you used to get things in snail mail in a plain brown wrapper, don't consider getting it via e-mail. It gets xeroxed and copies archived before it reaches your in-box. It's not a secret anymore for anyone who wants to know what you got last year.;-)
On the bottom of Page 6 of the PDF lists a lower levy on regular CDR's of 59 cents each! Ouch! Audio CDR's have a higher levy of $1.23. This definetly crosses the line from sanity to insanity.. It reaches too far and taxes all your office backups, e-mail archives, digital camera photos, removable microdrives for your PDA, etc. This needs to be fought tooth and nail. Defend your backup media. The RIAA is not entitled to a tax on my photo backups.
Be sure to point out the fact it only is for blank audio media when buying blank DATA CDR's. The tarrif is only for the blank MUSIC media. (read the PDF.) Print out the PDF and take it to your local retailer who doesn't know the diffrence between a data and audio blank CDR.
Tell them there is a diffrence between a music CDR and a data CDR. See if you can keep the RIAA out of your computer backup media. Music CDR's are already covered for music use.
flourescent high frequency? they still run at 60 Hz Please research the electronic balast on the compact flourrescent bulbs. They are not a big inductor that the old F40CW bulbs used. After AC is rectified into DC, a high frequency oscilator drives the bulb through a balast capacitor. They operate depending on manufacture in the 6-25 KHZ range. Even the PDF file mentions they are a good source of noise because sevral bulbs are not in sync making the noise harder to predict and remove as a repetative waveform.
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Would you want an AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, Goecities, Earthlink or other consumer mailbox for business e-mail. They are all targets of Dictionary spam attacks. I prefer something more along the lines of IBM.com GE.com Westinghouse.com Intel.com Catipillar.com etc. I doubt they get the volume of enlarge your (insert body part) now spams of the consumer ISP's.
An unspoken factor is having a AOL account is the same as a Hotmail, Yahoo, Earthlink or other major consumer ISP account. They are all the targets of spammers dictonary attacks. How much junk did they start getting that diluted the content of their mailboxes. At work we have a business E-mail server. It takes no consumer subscriptions. This alone reduces the spam content. The corporate wrath and mail admin make spamming corporations a waste of time and a legal risk with few rewards.
Throw in the issues of employees working with slow computers and slow connections and I can definitely see a full-time spam admin.
Where I work, we do have a full time e-mail admin. They are worth their weight in gold. Sometimes is takes 5 minutes to open my mailbox in the morning. It's from all the identical messages sent to more than 5 employees from outside the company being purged off the servers. If you don't want mail delivered to me, just cc it to 5 more employees in the company and an admin will review it for content. It saves us a lot of time.
Osama Bin's e-mail address? We have been having a little trouble finding him at home..
It doesn't work for me. I always drop the connection before opening mail. I do this for two reasons.
1, Stops mail viruses. If it tries to open a connection it gets deleted. I don't spread viruses.
2, Stops advertiser tracking. If it tries to open a conneciton, it gets deleted. I want a mail advertiser to know most of their mail hit the bit bucket unseen.
Sending anythng with a bug or fetch anything ensures I don't see it.
They may say I received it, and I can say it was auto-deleted if it met any of these spam/virus modes of operation.
I hope they realise how many people (honest) will now see this as making something that was illegal as something legal? Taxing (Levy) regular CDR's instead of just music CDR's removes that nagging conceince that using them for music is a bad thing. With their stamp of approval, I'll feel free to pirate now. Why buy it in the store. I already paid the royalty. I have bought a few CDR audio CD's because of a nagging concience, so I paid the royalty. No nagging concience any more since copying has been levied and endorsed as legal by the tax on data CDR's.
Don't panic. This is a floating ice shelf. That does little to the total mass or volume of the ocean.
Now if the polar ice caps melt which are not floating, run to the sea, and add to the mass and volume of the ocean...
Floating objects float because they displace their mass. The ice shelf extends from land and is in fact floating. When it breaks off and floats away, it neither raises or lowers the water level. As it melts, it becomes more dense taking up less volume than the ice did. (ice is less dense than water which is why it floats instead of sinking) If an iceburg were coated underneath with some kind of container, the entire melted iceburg would fit in the container except a small amount. This is due to the ocean being denser than fresh water and a smaller volume of seawater would is displaced. (A smaller volume of sea water is displaced by an object than the same object floating in fresh water. The floating object displaces it's mass in both cases.)
That may prevent unauthorised use of a program, however it will keep me from registering. I don't buy any software that can't be restored and function after a hard drive failure. I travel and anything that makes me spend hours on hold for consumer support after a crash is lost field production time. Stuff I use must be able to be loaded from it's instalation program and run without any internet connection or phone call after a system crash. That is one of my non-negotiable requirements. That is like a remote dongle that the software must phone home. I don't do dongles real or virtual.
I get software that is above most shareware in quality and features off the 9.95 rack in the office supply store. Why pay more for less?
Lables Unlimited II by softkey ($12) is far better than any shareware I checked. Any halfway decent shareware wanted over double the price to support half as many barcodes. None of the overpriced shareware would support photos and clipart. Why is a bargan rack title generaly a much better product at a much lower price? I'm serious, not trolling even if it may look like a troll. It's just my experiance with shareware features verses price (value) compared to off the rack software.
I hope someone from Microsoft reads this thread and gets a clue. Non-configurable = alternative software considered.
I hope you are shairing only music you have written and produced yourself, or have the direct authorization to do so by the copywright owner. Sharing stuff not released for sharing could be considered theft. With the rant out of the way, I think a pool of freely traded public domain music is a fantastic idea. Unfortunately I like most other downloaders, haven't the talent to release anything worthwhile. My schooling is in a technical field, not a music field. I do enjoy good music even if I am unable to produce anything better than a 5 year olds piano lesson.
I thought removing Macromedia software would make the anoying problem go away.. Wrong. After removing Macromedia software, viewing the news on every about 5th page of Yahoo provides a popup Microsoft security warning.. Do you want to install macromedia 5 and do you want to trust content from this site? Funny they don't include a don't ask me again check box. I doubt it was a simple oversight. It looks like I have another box is scheduled to get Linux! I wonder if Netscape for windows has any improvement in this department? It isn't taking long to convince me I need to replace the software that came with my nice shiny new machine.
Spammers cost money everytime they send an ad that a distracted person clicks on, and gets shipped off to a porn site. That red-flags the corporate internet policy manager or whoever, who has to then go TALK to that employee about their going to a porn site. Sure, they just show the spam and say "Oops". It costs both of those people at least half an hour, though, and at $100 an hour, that's an expensive piece of e-mail.
I know the feeling. Nowdays it's an automatic trip to the power switch if something redirects me. It's easy enough to show HR the bad link. (after a reboot, I forward the mail to HR and request they and legal work on a reply for me) They have been quite effective. I very rarely get ADLT mail at work anymore. They also check the source and purge the mailserver for the entire company. It's also kept me out of HR hot water. I think I've had more bad (goat) links on slashdot than I ever got by e-mail. There were a couple times it took me about 5 minutes to open my inbox due to a purge in progress.
I just removed Macromedia software from my system. Most of the content it runs is ads. Unfortunately they defaulted it to autoplay. Play could not be shut off while it was loading content. Many ads would end in some kind of animated GIF that still ran even with play and loop unchecked. It would only stop after unchecking loop, play and rewinding the annimation. Too bad they tried to satsify the content providers (advertisers) instead of the end users. All it would have needed was a configuration that a user could set up to not run flash automaticaly. A simple play button on a annimation would have been nice. It was the lack of configuration options that convinced me to remove Macromedia completely.
If he has 500K to wear a computer, I would think he would avoid the trouble of commercial flights and go with general aviation instead. In this case, it would have been cheaper. Having flown general avaiation from the Cayman Islands to Chicago and back is an eye opener. Great flight minus all the trouble. It is much better than first class anytime.
Back to reality, a SEM is a tool just like a a hammer. Outlawing a hammer may ruduce the number of houses broken into, but it will also reduce the number of houses built.
We use many SEM's and FIB's all the time in R&D in a chip manufacturing plant. Without them, we would still be running PC's close to 4.77 Mhz instead of 2 Ghz. The tools are used to check the critical dimensions of stuff way to small to even see with optical microscopes. You can't see broken traces and their cause without SEM's in the current generation of IC's.
Using Focused Ion Beam technology, it is a simple matter to carve away pieces of the container and leave behind the parts that operate the switches. When that is done, the switches can be disconnected. A FIB mill is able to mill cuts smaller than a micron. I know as I use one at work in R&D in a chip plant. We take apart chips all the time to get critical dimension measurements and diagnose failures under several layers of the chip. One new chip had a design flaw where a VIA was where it was not supposed to be. This shorted the chip so it couldn't be probbed to check the health of the rest of the chip. The engineering data was saved by using a FIB to etch a circle around the VIA disconnecting that one connection. This saved much R&D time as we didn't need to get a new reticle fixing only one problem. The next reticle had the shorted VIA fix as well as many other changes based on the probed data of the chip. Disconnecting the tamper switch circuit that would erease a chip would be a trivial task.
No property tax.
If that is the case... I'm being robbed! The bill I get every year is listed as property tax. It's much Much less than the bill I used to get in Oregon however. Maybe you meant no state income tax?
The people who build expensive boats remember 1991 as the start of a war. That's when Congress imposed a 10 percent tax on all boats costing more than $100,000. While it's true that most folks who can pay $1 million for a boat can pay $100,000 more, many potential buyers flat refused. Couple that with a bad economy and high interest rates, and the big-boat industry was knocked flat. Viking went from two plants and 1,500 employees to one plant and 70 employees.t ures/pawlingYacht.html
Shamelessly cut and pasted from an article found here. http://www.shorecast.com/html/Features/PawlingFea
Try that tax and you'll probably see Bill Gates and Co. pack up and hire Mayflower Moving Co.
When will they ever learn?
Shielding goes a long way to protecting against EMP. Your typical fire rated safe has a double metal layer case and a door that has metal rods that extend into the case on 2 or 4 sides of the opening. The attenuation of a pulse by the magnetic shunt is quite high providing a high degree of protection from EMP to the contents. Our military has lots of redundant stuff sealed in farady shielding containers to be deployed to replace online stuff damaged from a EMP attack. You can do the same thing at home. Take your spare computer and remove all external cords (cords act as antennas to pipe EMP into a box). Put it into a metal container with a metal lid with full RFI contacts all the way around the edge of the lid. The container shunts the EMP with counter EMF protecting the contents. That computer will be ready to put online after a nearby lightning strike takes out your old one.
If you used to get things in snail mail in a plain brown wrapper, don't consider getting it via e-mail. It gets xeroxed and copies archived before it reaches your in-box. It's not a secret anymore for anyone who wants to know what you got last year. ;-)
On the bottom of Page 6 of the PDF lists a lower levy on regular CDR's of 59 cents each! Ouch! Audio CDR's have a higher levy of $1.23. This definetly crosses the line from sanity to insanity.. It reaches too far and taxes all your office backups, e-mail archives, digital camera photos, removable microdrives for your PDA, etc. This needs to be fought tooth and nail. Defend your backup media. The RIAA is not entitled to a tax on my photo backups.
Be sure to point out the fact it only is for blank audio media when buying blank DATA CDR's. The tarrif is only for the blank MUSIC media. (read the PDF.) Print out the PDF and take it to your local retailer who doesn't know the diffrence between a data and audio blank CDR.
Tell them there is a diffrence between a music CDR and a data CDR. See if you can keep the RIAA out of your computer backup media. Music CDR's are already covered for music use.
flourescent high frequency? they still run at 60 Hz
Please research the electronic balast on the compact flourrescent bulbs. They are not a big inductor that the old F40CW bulbs used. After AC is rectified into DC, a high frequency oscilator drives the bulb through a balast capacitor. They operate depending on manufacture in the 6-25 KHZ range. Even the PDF file mentions they are a good source of noise because sevral bulbs are not in sync making the noise harder to predict and remove as a repetative waveform.