It could even be built into the Windows Firewall, though you'd have to break it into a separate "enable" option per application to avoid trojans that the user expects to allow access to the internet but is actually sending spam.
Rather than "OK" or "Cancel" the buttons should be labeled "I Am Sending an E-Mail" and "I Did Not Send an E-Mail".
i'm gonna keep giving them money? No, they'll start losing money
You and what army? Even if the million (mostly inactive) users here all canceled their internet connections in protest, I doubt the ISPs will be crying too hard.
And you can make the same comparison to cars, which is a lot more appropriate.
The proper car analogy would be having your engine stall out every few minutes, and when you take it in for service you're told that everything is fine and you must be doing something wrong. Then, a year later someone at a bar mentions how their car stalls all the time, discovers that the bartender drives the same model that stalls out too, and then goes around and realizes that all of the company's cars stall every few minutes. This absolutely remarkable coincidence continues to be denied by the car manufacturer until a few smart guys get together and prove that the company had intentionally set the motor to stall, at which point the car company finally caves in and fixes the cars.
Great news for everyone but those who got suckered into buying a lousy car based on incomplete information and/or the car company's lies.
It's not easy for anybody to come along and make a successful business.
It'll be interesting to see if Google manages to get their fiber ISP off the ground. I suspect they've got their choice of neighborhoods willing to pay the fiber installation costs, but the real question is how they're going to get packets from the neighborhood to the internet.
Unless this new fuel is better than E85, I can't see how getting it down to a comparable price at the pump is doing us any favors. Now if it is somehow better than E85, then that would be some good news. Alas, the story is mute on this topic.
It's ethanol, and will have all the same properties as everyone else's ethanol. Perhaps they'll be able to get the price low enough to make up for the difference in energy density once they start using plants with a better yield than corn?
Sadly, the real world does not work the way you expect it to.
Sadly? More like fortunately, since the botnets' internal SMTP engines typically suck and are often foiled by techniques like greylisting and blocking mail sent directly from dynamic IPs.
If they bothered to read the user's Outlook config and use that to send mail we'd be in a whole heap of trouble.
Red Flayer is saying that my mistake was in leaving off the "to my family and I" when I said "he feels gamers are more dangerous".
Given the AG's decision to campaign against creating a ratings category that would "unban" some games, I'd say that he considers the games that can't be rated to be dangerous to society, if not the gamers that play them.
this guy thinks that gamers are generally more dangerous than bikers in order to discredit him.
Quote:
"I feel that my family and I are more at risk from gamers than we are from the outlaw motorcycle gangs who also hate me and are running a candidate against me"
He didn't say "from a gamer" he said "from gamers", as in the whole group. As opposed to the outlaw motorcycle gangs, as in their whole group. He feels that gamers are more dangerous than bikers. If he's never received a death threat from anyone but a gamer, then perhaps he's justified in feeling that way, but I'm seriously surprised that this is the first death threat an AG would get.
I do have to say that the motorcycle gangs have a better long term plan than the gamers do at this point. Someone should start a gamer party and run for election on the grounds that you actually know something about what you're trying to regulate.
Bah, if schools took their babysitting responsibilities seriously, they'd run from 9 to 5 with activities before and after so that the working parents could drop their kids off at the daycare on the way to work and pick them up on the way back.
But when you take people like Kid Rock for example, and listen to him outright take someone else's music -- with hardly a single change -- and then add lyrics of his own, that is not Fair Use, that is plagiarism
Damn, too bad there's a $5 filing fee. I'd have taken the time to register everyone in the phone book individually into the Society for the Subversion of Subversive Society Registration Laws.
Still does it as of last week or so. Anonymous Cowards are tracked by IP. Mods are apparently tracked by IP and Account. Posting with your account gets you a warning that your mods will be undone. Posting AC from the same IP just deletes the mods without warning.
If only there was an institution where the states could have a voice on Federal legislation.....
If only there was an institution where laws could be declared unconstitutional without having to wait for the government to violate your rights.
If only we were allowed to petition the government for redress of our grievances without having "grievance" defined away by the legal system.
The funny thing is that there was a story on/. on this back a few years ago. A woman who made internet porn attempted to get an injunction against the government trying her in some community other than her own, based on exactly the idea here. She argued a chilling effect due to her inability to know every last community's moral standards. Her case was dismissed because she didn't have standing (she had not been arrested) and the case was "not ripe" (the judge demanded that she show examples where this had happened).
Now, a man sits in a jail across the country from where he lived and operated, and it's possibly due to the fact that her grievance was unheard.
(btw, the Senate stopped representing the states when the states stopped appointing them. Now they represent the Democrats and Republicans who elected them.)
Well, ideally what would happen is that when someone who has sworn to uphold the Constitution has been found to violate that Constitution, they'd be removed from their position. Sadly, there's no punishment for violating the so-called "supreme law" of the land.
If you really wanted to know what "contemporary community standards" in a given time and place were, that would basically be a market research question
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If anybody can use some option (be it morally good or bad!!!) the playing field _is_ level.
If everyone installs the same aimbot, why bother to play anymore?
"Who needs steroids and hard work when you've got a tire iron?" - Tonya Harding
I think I will decline to describe what step two -- in the administrator's office
TWO MEN ENTER ONE MAN LEAVES
Posting anonymously so I don't undo the moderation I've already done in this forum.
Sorry, slashdot undoes the mods without warning you.
They're very easy to do
Which is why they're a good choice for teaching people how to use Blender, no?
It could even be built into the Windows Firewall, though you'd have to break it into a separate "enable" option per application to avoid trojans that the user expects to allow access to the internet but is actually sending spam.
Rather than "OK" or "Cancel" the buttons should be labeled "I Am Sending an E-Mail" and "I Did Not Send an E-Mail".
Dial up is pretty much only good for granny checking her email once a week, and then only if nobody sends her pictures of the grandkids.
i'm gonna keep giving them money? No, they'll start losing money
You and what army? Even if the million (mostly inactive) users here all canceled their internet connections in protest, I doubt the ISPs will be crying too hard.
And you can make the same comparison to cars, which is a lot more appropriate.
The proper car analogy would be having your engine stall out every few minutes, and when you take it in for service you're told that everything is fine and you must be doing something wrong. Then, a year later someone at a bar mentions how their car stalls all the time, discovers that the bartender drives the same model that stalls out too, and then goes around and realizes that all of the company's cars stall every few minutes. This absolutely remarkable coincidence continues to be denied by the car manufacturer until a few smart guys get together and prove that the company had intentionally set the motor to stall, at which point the car company finally caves in and fixes the cars.
Great news for everyone but those who got suckered into buying a lousy car based on incomplete information and/or the car company's lies.
It's not easy for anybody to come along and make a successful business.
It'll be interesting to see if Google manages to get their fiber ISP off the ground. I suspect they've got their choice of neighborhoods willing to pay the fiber installation costs, but the real question is how they're going to get packets from the neighborhood to the internet.
Unless this new fuel is better than E85, I can't see how getting it down to a comparable price at the pump is doing us any favors. Now if it is somehow better than E85, then that would be some good news. Alas, the story is mute on this topic.
It's ethanol, and will have all the same properties as everyone else's ethanol. Perhaps they'll be able to get the price low enough to make up for the difference in energy density once they start using plants with a better yield than corn?
Did you happen to miss how in the early 80's or so several popular products switched to using corn syrup as a sweetener?
That's because of our sugar tariffs keeping cheap foreign sugar out, not because Brazil burning sugar made it that much more expensive.
http://www.accidentalhedonist.com/index.php/2006/01/24/tariffs_and_subsidies_the_literal_cost_o
Sadly, the real world does not work the way you expect it to.
Sadly? More like fortunately, since the botnets' internal SMTP engines typically suck and are often foiled by techniques like greylisting and blocking mail sent directly from dynamic IPs.
If they bothered to read the user's Outlook config and use that to send mail we'd be in a whole heap of trouble.
It's not a generalization.
Red Flayer is saying that my mistake was in leaving off the "to my family and I" when I said "he feels gamers are more dangerous".
Given the AG's decision to campaign against creating a ratings category that would "unban" some games, I'd say that he considers the games that can't be rated to be dangerous to society, if not the gamers that play them.
this guy thinks that gamers are generally more dangerous than bikers in order to discredit him.
Quote:
He didn't say "from a gamer" he said "from gamers", as in the whole group. As opposed to the outlaw motorcycle gangs, as in their whole group. He feels that gamers are more dangerous than bikers. If he's never received a death threat from anyone but a gamer, then perhaps he's justified in feeling that way, but I'm seriously surprised that this is the first death threat an AG would get.
I do have to say that the motorcycle gangs have a better long term plan than the gamers do at this point. Someone should start a gamer party and run for election on the grounds that you actually know something about what you're trying to regulate.
What's the point of being subversive if it's not forbidden?
Bah, if schools took their babysitting responsibilities seriously, they'd run from 9 to 5 with activities before and after so that the working parents could drop their kids off at the daycare on the way to work and pick them up on the way back.
we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way when suddenly a lone zombie staggered into the road before us.
But when you take people like Kid Rock for example, and listen to him outright take someone else's music -- with hardly a single change -- and then add lyrics of his own, that is not Fair Use, that is plagiarism
Weird Al does it better.
o/~ Here we are! Born to be kings, we're the princes of the uuuuuuniverse o/~
Damn, too bad there's a $5 filing fee. I'd have taken the time to register everyone in the phone book individually into the Society for the Subversion of Subversive Society Registration Laws.
Still does it as of last week or so. Anonymous Cowards are tracked by IP. Mods are apparently tracked by IP and Account. Posting with your account gets you a warning that your mods will be undone. Posting AC from the same IP just deletes the mods without warning.
If only there was an institution where the states could have a voice on Federal legislation.....
If only there was an institution where laws could be declared unconstitutional without having to wait for the government to violate your rights.
If only we were allowed to petition the government for redress of our grievances without having "grievance" defined away by the legal system.
The funny thing is that there was a story on /. on this back a few years ago. A woman who made internet porn attempted to get an injunction against the government trying her in some community other than her own, based on exactly the idea here. She argued a chilling effect due to her inability to know every last community's moral standards. Her case was dismissed because she didn't have standing (she had not been arrested) and the case was "not ripe" (the judge demanded that she show examples where this had happened).
Now, a man sits in a jail across the country from where he lived and operated, and it's possibly due to the fact that her grievance was unheard.
(btw, the Senate stopped representing the states when the states stopped appointing them. Now they represent the Democrats and Republicans who elected them.)
Who gets to decide which judges are stupid?
Well, ideally what would happen is that when someone who has sworn to uphold the Constitution has been found to violate that Constitution, they'd be removed from their position. Sadly, there's no punishment for violating the so-called "supreme law" of the land.
"If it is too obscene for 4chan, it is too obscene"
So, no more sex between a married couple with the lights off in the missionary position for the purpose of procreation?
If you really wanted to know what "contemporary community standards" in a given time and place were, that would basically be a market research question
It's been done. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/23/technology/23PORN.html?pagewanted=all