I hold your company directly responsible for this breach of privacy. I do not care that you place the blame with a 3rd party company.
I encourage everyone who receives these apology emails to do the same. Perhaps companies will care about privacy. (Ok, I don't really believe that. But it is a good test to see if anyone actually reads replies to these emails.)
Aircraft won't be the same: he was one of the few people I knew of who seemed to understand both aerodynamics and structure.
I remember being in high-school, a friend's grandfather was a retired metal shop worker who built long ezs in his spare time. It was truly inspiring to see such an advanced craft, only to find out the design was over 15 years old. The thing is one of the most graceful light aircraft I have ever seen.
Thankfully Tesla doesn't have much to loose on the matter, since there is almost no overlap between Top Gear viewers and potential Tesla customers. For that matter, there is also almost no overlap between slashdot readers and potential Tesla customers, either.
Considering they have 0 market share, nor do they seem interested in producing cars... I would say that statistically speaking there is no overlap between potential Tesla customers and the human race.
My idea of an "improved tablet" is one on which web sites cannot distinguish the fact that I'm accessing it on a tablet so that I won't get any more "We're sorry, but we don't have the content rights to display this on mobile devices" messages.
It isn't your choice , it is theirs and humans are a very selfish group by design.
Why worry about the future, when your not going to be around for it?
And this line of thinking got us to where we are today. Companies breed executives to be intentionally short-sighed, not even looking past the next quarter, much less the next decade or generation.
In Switzerland, the best graduates of their technological institutes proposed to the best students workplaces there.
Very fortunately, Albert Einstein and many other individualists went to other places.
Our science and industry need all the kinds of people, from anarchists to yes-men.
I am pretty sure nobody "needs" yes-men. Except executives that plan on running their company into the ground and getting out with their bonus before the shit hits the fan, or using their golden parachute.
The real question is what, aside from inventing the velarium, have the Romans ever done for us?
They sparked the imaginations of filmmakers to produce highly romanticized depictions of Roman life while glossing over their incredible feats of engineering.
"Known settlement date"? What the hell does that even mean? Perhaps "date of first known settlement", but come on. Even if the story is filled with grammatical problems, at LEAST check the headlines before you hit submit.
Some site in Texas sued all of North America, and North America is settling. However, the settlement date is being pushed back from the known value.
All of these cooling problems could have been solved by some sort of waterproof backup power, even if it had to be stored 50 miles away and delivered via an underground cable that comes up under the reactors.
Because there is certainly no way that could have failed.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( x ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected ( x ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( x ) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers ( x ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( x ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems ( x ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches ( x ) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( x ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( x ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( x ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( x ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( x ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( x ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
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Just like the TI calculators. Yep, those never go down in value, always the same price since the 90s.
Not if you factor in inflation, which means the price is gradually going up. However the capabilities are also going up.
If the capabilities are going up faster than inflation, then yes, the value is going up.
Seven words is for the verbose! More than two words and you've fucked up! I'm so hardcore!!!!!
Both parent and GP had more than
Well the email to Best Buy bounced. So yeah, they really don't give a shit to the point where they don't even pretend to accept replies.
To every one of these I send this reply:
I encourage everyone who receives these apology emails to do the same. Perhaps companies will care about privacy. (Ok, I don't really believe that. But it is a good test to see if anyone actually reads replies to these emails.)
at least the corporations will pay tax.
What if GE got into the drug trade?
Mod parent insightful, seriously. If giant businesses started selling our drugs, they wouldn't be paying taxes, just like they don't pay taxes now.
Aircraft won't be the same: he was one of the few people I knew of who seemed to understand both aerodynamics and structure.
I remember being in high-school, a friend's grandfather was a retired metal shop worker who built long ezs in his spare time. It was truly inspiring to see such an advanced craft, only to find out the design was over 15 years old. The thing is one of the most graceful light aircraft I have ever seen.
But it was a hell of a computer at the time. I wouldn't be here without it.
Hmm... I suppose it was heavy enough that you could have used it as a weapon to save your life from an attacker.
I propose an official back-up song. 'cause my daddy taught me good.
Well at least she has backup singers.
We can just restore the world from the backup.
Thankfully Tesla doesn't have much to loose on the matter, since there is almost no overlap between Top Gear viewers and potential Tesla customers. For that matter, there is also almost no overlap between slashdot readers and potential Tesla customers, either.
Considering they have 0 market share, nor do they seem interested in producing cars... I would say that statistically speaking there is no overlap between potential Tesla customers and the human race.
My idea of an "improved tablet" is one on which web sites cannot distinguish the fact that I'm accessing it on a tablet so that I won't get any more "We're sorry, but we don't have the content rights to display this on mobile devices" messages.
What websites do this?
Mod parent down, then mod this funny.
This is kind of like saying "I hope Darth Vader doesn't force-choke me"
And AT&T is the deathstar. So I think the changes are likely.
It isn't your choice , it is theirs and humans are a very selfish group by design.
Why worry about the future, when your not going to be around for it?
And this line of thinking got us to where we are today. Companies breed executives to be intentionally short-sighed, not even looking past the next quarter, much less the next decade or generation.
In Switzerland, the best graduates of their technological institutes
proposed to the best students workplaces there.
Very fortunately, Albert Einstein and many other individualists
went to other places.
Our science and industry need all the kinds of people,
from anarchists to yes-men.
I am pretty sure nobody "needs" yes-men. Except executives that plan on running their company into the ground and getting out with their bonus before the shit hits the fan, or using their golden parachute.
They sparked the imaginations of filmmakers to produce highly romanticized depictions of Roman life while glossing over their incredible feats of engineering.
highly romanticized depictions of Roman life
romanticized Roman
The four domains of life are as follows: eukaryotes, bacteria, archaea, Chuck Norris.
There - fixed that for ya.
No, there used to be 24 forms of life. Chuck Norris solved that.
Well hopefully not tomorrow, I have a dentist's appointment.
When is your dentist's appointment?
2:30
"Known settlement date"? What the hell does that even mean? Perhaps "date of first known settlement", but come on. Even if the story is filled with grammatical problems, at LEAST check the headlines before you hit submit.
Some site in Texas sued all of North America, and North America is settling. However, the settlement date is being pushed back from the known value.
Change your rant. Replace 'anyone who believes in a creator God' with 'any creationist' and your rant is 100% true.
Except the babble after because...
So the true part is:
"Yes, because"
You know, car analogies are supposed to make your point EASIER to understand.
Not on Slashdot.
All of these cooling problems could have been solved by some sort of waterproof backup power, even if it had to be stored 50 miles away and delivered via an underground cable that comes up under the reactors.
Because there is certainly no way that could have failed.
It will allow the government to track you.
In other news, I believe that waking up to an alarm clock is hazardous to my health.
At any rate, its hazardous to the alarm clock.
Your post advocates a
( ) technical ( x ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( x ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( x ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( x ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( x ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( x ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( x ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( x ) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( x ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( x ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( x ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( x ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( x ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( x ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!