Looking into my new crystal ball monitor I see this being a flop. Sure it seems really cool but you just KNOW it's going to out of the price range of nearly everyone, plus it's so small. Don't get me wrong, if I had the money I'd buy one the first day it comes out but alas, I don't so I won't.
This is the one that's always gotten me. It's obviously one of the worst possible things in spam. But how do you then track down who happens to be sending it and punish them for it?
I don't know how you track them down personally but when you find out let me know and I can take care of the punishment part.
Typically the service offered from Tesltra is Australia is terrible, but due to lack of competition in Australia they have been able to get away with shoddy service and gerneral non-compliance for years.
So you're basically saying that Telstra BigPond is the Australian version of AOL then? Maybe thats why AOL is blocking them, their customer service is worse the AOLs and AOL prides itself at being the worst at customer service.
I can't see why they hate leap second. I'll be damned if I am going to eat lunch at what is called 8:00 in the morning because they don't want to keep leap second. Grow up, we have leap years and human time keeping is not an exact science as the Earth tends to spin the way IT wants not the way we want.
The hassle doesn't bother me, it's the ads in the sunday papers that list a price and put the smallest asterik next to it which at the bottom of the page tells you that the price is with rebates. I know I have been taken by those more then once because they try to hide the asterik and make you think that is the listed price. It's total bullshit in my opinion.
I like the idea, or chat on IRC while waiting in line at DMV like I have been doing for the past hour. LOL or play Doom 3 (when it comes out) while I sit on the toilet
I see your point but this will most likely be the sole domain of first world countries. Will the population bump up? Very minimally if at all. First world countries are on the verge of ZPG (zero population growth) as it is right now. Saving one child out of 100 or 1000 is not going to make any kind of population spike. The over population is happening in third world or low end second world countries where this technology will propbably not make it to and if it does make it there the cost is going to be out of range of the people there. This is all very sad but the truth is sad. I really don't see overpopulation being the major problem with the technology.
Will genetic engineering kill us? No. Will it signal an end of homo sapiens? Yes. Being "human" I think will take on a much different experience. I hope our leaders make wise decisions and don't let genetic engineering get out of hand. I can see increasing all of our ( I mean our decedants) immune systems. I don't see an X-Men type of future. I can see eliminating all birth defects. I don't see entire armies of clones overwhelming the world. The main questions I'm not sure of are the follow: Will a race of people just smart enough to work but not smart enough to question it be engineered? Will we increase our brain usage or how well we use the current amount or both/either? What will happen when a full generation of genetic engineered children grow up, will they feel superior to the ones in control? Will this spawn revolts or revolutions?
Did they ever patent velcro out of curiousity? If they did that must have got them something, if they didn't then "Doh!"
Re:May as well be the first to say it
on
AOL Sues Spammers
·
· Score: 1
Last time I checked, all of those CDs came postage paid. Let us know when you get a bunch of AOL CDs that come with postage due. That will be a more accurate analogy to spam.
My trash bill takes a hit from AOL physical spam about as much as our ISP bills take a hit from e-mail spam. Niether is good in my opinion. I'm not going to go broke over it but it is an annoyance.
Online spam can't be opted out of, nor is there a cost to the spammer for sending it.
I think the greater weirdness is how/.ers hate spam, but when AOL fights spam (by blocking netblocks and sueing spammers), most/.ers who are moderated up are against it.
So which is it? Do we support the largest ISP's action against spam, or do we suck up the spam?
My message says "(which is good)" which means them fighting it is good. It'd be better if they stopped spamming my postal box also.
Re:May as well be the first to say it
on
AOL Sues Spammers
·
· Score: 1
Why? With physical spam, the costs are the sender's burden, not the recievers.
Like I said in the reply above, I'm charged with trash pick up so it does become my burden.
Re:May as well be the first to say it
on
AOL Sues Spammers
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
This has been discussed before. You aren't charged for the cost of AOL cd delivery, so it's not the same as spam.
I'm charged for trash pick-up which is where it goes.
I agree all research should be done even if it may be dangerous. Only by researching it do you find ways to handle and/or contain it. I mean if we never researched dangerous diseases the world would be ravaged by them. We need a different kind of classification for some of these things in my opinion. Too much information is leaked that is very very dangerous.
Slashdot Mirror
I wondered something similar, like since when are blue LED's a violation of the DMCA?
This Looks Like A Cool Product...for me to poop on!
Looking into my new crystal ball monitor I see this being a flop. Sure it seems really cool but you just KNOW it's going to out of the price range of nearly everyone, plus it's so small. Don't get me wrong, if I had the money I'd buy one the first day it comes out but alas, I don't so I won't.
I think we all learned LONNNNGGGG ago that the hypocracy of the RIAA knows no bounds. This just serves as example #8,747,472 and has been noted.
I don't know how you track them down personally but when you find out let me know and I can take care of the punishment part.
Typically the service offered from Tesltra is Australia is terrible, but due to lack of competition in Australia they have been able to get away with shoddy service and gerneral non-compliance for years.
So you're basically saying that Telstra BigPond is the Australian version of AOL then? Maybe thats why AOL is blocking them, their customer service is worse the AOLs and AOL prides itself at being the worst at customer service.
I can't see why they hate leap second. I'll be damned if I am going to eat lunch at what is called 8:00 in the morning because they don't want to keep leap second. Grow up, we have leap years and human time keeping is not an exact science as the Earth tends to spin the way IT wants not the way we want.
Bad ass yes, sexy no. I never was "into" pixels myself.
The hassle doesn't bother me, it's the ads in the sunday papers that list a price and put the smallest asterik next to it which at the bottom of the page tells you that the price is with rebates. I know I have been taken by those more then once because they try to hide the asterik and make you think that is the listed price. It's total bullshit in my opinion.
I like the idea, or chat on IRC while waiting in line at DMV like I have been doing for the past hour. LOL or play Doom 3 (when it comes out) while I sit on the toilet
Start you say? They've actually started? LOL
Yeah lots of better resumes out there but those people may not have donated to the Republican party.
I see your point but this will most likely be the sole domain of first world countries. Will the population bump up? Very minimally if at all. First world countries are on the verge of ZPG (zero population growth) as it is right now. Saving one child out of 100 or 1000 is not going to make any kind of population spike. The over population is happening in third world or low end second world countries where this technology will propbably not make it to and if it does make it there the cost is going to be out of range of the people there. This is all very sad but the truth is sad. I really don't see overpopulation being the major problem with the technology.
What I mean is two classes, a worker class and an overlord class.
Will genetic engineering kill us? No. Will it signal an end of homo sapiens? Yes. Being "human" I think will take on a much different experience. I hope our leaders make wise decisions and don't let genetic engineering get out of hand. I can see increasing all of our ( I mean our decedants) immune systems. I don't see an X-Men type of future. I can see eliminating all birth defects. I don't see entire armies of clones overwhelming the world. The main questions I'm not sure of are the follow: Will a race of people just smart enough to work but not smart enough to question it be engineered? Will we increase our brain usage or how well we use the current amount or both/either? What will happen when a full generation of genetic engineered children grow up, will they feel superior to the ones in control? Will this spawn revolts or revolutions?
Did they ever patent velcro out of curiousity? If they did that must have got them something, if they didn't then "Doh!"
My trash bill takes a hit from AOL physical spam about as much as our ISP bills take a hit from e-mail spam. Niether is good in my opinion. I'm not going to go broke over it but it is an annoyance.
My message says "(which is good)" which means them fighting it is good. It'd be better if they stopped spamming my postal box also.
Like I said in the reply above, I'm charged with trash pick up so it does become my burden.
I'm charged for trash pick-up which is where it goes.
What were we talking about again?
So they sue spammers (that's good) but spam my postal mail box with CD's and they think it's ok? I'm a little bit confused.
I agree all research should be done even if it may be dangerous. Only by researching it do you find ways to handle and/or contain it. I mean if we never researched dangerous diseases the world would be ravaged by them. We need a different kind of classification for some of these things in my opinion. Too much information is leaked that is very very dangerous.
I was sooo going to reply to you but I forgot what I was going to say.
/. of course