Uhm, no. Any sober and sane person would get fazed if you hit them with a bat. Regardless of head gear or not. You seem to be just another person talking about victimless crimes cause you've never been assaulted by someone on drugs.
Depends on the adrenaline factor, IMO, but it doesn't really matter. The crime is the assault, not the drugs. In most cases, drug use is a victimless crime. In those cases where it's not a victimless crime, there's always another law that has been broken...such as in your example. (Besides, alcohol is known to release aggressive tendencies in predisposed people/moods, so does that mean it should be illegal as well?)
-a decent sized screen (1024X768 in 17") that doesn't take up much space (so prolly LCD)
- a built-in USB hub, with jacks for keyboard, trackball, and joystick, plus one more for local devices (camera, scanner, printer, or whatever)
- a built-in CDRW drive
- built-in speakers, with audio in and out jacks
- ONE, count 'em, ONE power cord
- ONE, count 'em, ONE wire that routes to the main server
- CHEAP - like about $300 for the whole shebang.
Ummm...just build me a CDRW and a 17" LCD for $300. I'll beat a path to your door.
Bullshit. Nobody needs this. The reason you have a desktop rather than a thin client is that you need the ability to improvise in the course of your day. We have finance folks that use SQL scripts to generate usage reports, developers who use MS Word and Excel quite a bit, and management folks who use a wide array of tools, each in their own distinct manner. Corporate IT was shocked to discover that people had not only installed software on their machines that they (IT) hadn't anticipated them needing, but that they had done so flawlessly and used the software in the course of their day -- software like multiple browsers, spam silencers, adbusters and scripts.
First off, this isn't a thin client. It's simply a smallish PC that sits 200 yards away. Nothing, except for the lack of a floppy or CD-ROM drive, and group polices, will prevent you from installing your software.
Secondly, "multiple browsers, spam silencers, adbusters, and scripts" don't exactly seem that prodctive to me. Unless you're a web developer, I don't see why you'd need multiple browsers. You shouldn't be getting that much spam on your corporate email address, and Outlook has filtering rules to help with the ones you do get. If you're really making good use of an adbuster, then you're spending too much time on the Internet. Get to work. Scripts? Well, that depends what kind of scripts we're talking about here, but, in general, scripts are a potential security threat.
Not to mention the headaches involved with spyware in a corporate environment, possible viruses and trojans, licensing issues, incompatibilities, etc. And, then, to top it off, you people expect IT to support this crap!?! I don't think so...if you really want to load that stuff on your computer, then support it yourself. If somethign goes wrong, the first thing I'm doing is removing all that crap from your computer. And RealPlayer is not a productivity tool...don't try to argue with me.
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What? I think you should be sitting at the monitor and keyboard, the PC goes in a rack in another room. The monitor and keyboard are connected by cabling. All files and such are saved on a network server. If you're computer has a problem, the tech in the computer room unplugs your PC and plugs in a new one. All set to go.
Actually, here in the UK where E has been a major part of life for over 10 years now, there have been cases of death due to consumption. Not many mind, my guess would be less than 50. Not bad considering that it's estimated something like 500,000 people take it in the UK each weekend. Although most deaths are due to dehydration as you mention, there seem to be a minority of people who are made up in such a way that one tab can kill them within minutes.
I'm no longer up on popular drug culture, mind you, but AFAIK there are actually 2 drugs marketed as Ecstacy. One being MDMA, one being MDEA. Basically, the folk wisdom goes, MDMA is the good one (I may have that mixed up...I don't actually take it, so I don't care all that much) and is the actual Ecstacy. MDEA is also marketed as Ecstacy, however, because it's similar, and is cheaper/easier to produce, but it can cause deaths, and doesn't give the same high associated with MDMA.
I think games like Doom, Quake and all are harmless if they're played by the right people, but they definitely can get people on the wrong track. If you grow up thinking that shooting people is fun, you're much more likely to try it in the real world.
I think you hit the nail on the head there, and it's really pretty obvious. These kids had a serious mental problem. They did not fit into society's mold (of thinking that violence to tohers is not a good thing, and that suicide is most definitely a bad thing). Did the games exacerbate this condition? Perhaps...but I doubt it. No wehre in any of the games that I played do you end up blowing yourself away.
These kids were just as sick and twisted as adult serial killers are. They lost it. It's easy to point the blame AFTER the fact, but it's not true. The bottom line is that the kids were mentally off, and even if they didn't shoot up their classmates, they would've ended in self-destruction sooner or later.
Of course, then it's not really something we know how to deal with. Mental illnesses of this type aren't easy to classify or identify, and everyone is interested in stopping this behaivor. But, by removing the symptoms, you'll only create a larger problem, as the cause goes unchecked. I don't know if it's some kind of genetic issue, or perhaps that these kids' societies were totally different than mine and yours, but the problem isn't games or guns, it's the people behind them. Now what the hell is their problem...well, that's the million dollar question.
This doesn't even dignify a reply. Your responses are so blatantly biased and naive, that I can think of nothing to say that will change your mind. Regardless, I shall check Slashdot in a year to see the big headline about the War on Drugs coming to an end....
So its the parents responsibility to monitor children, but not someones own responsibility to not not drop hot liquid in their lap?
As was previously noted, there are some little known facts to that case. Most people simply proclaim that she was stupid and didn't deserve anything. But, just to enrich Salshdot's general populace, let me clarify things for you.
1. The coffee was at 180 degrees (that's in Fahrenheit, I have no idea what it wa sin Celsius or Kelvin, nor do I care). Most other restauraunts served their coffee at 160 degrees. McDonald's increased their temp to make the coffee hotter for the customer when they got to wherever they were going to.
2. She was not driving, and the driver parked the car before she removed the lid.
3. The coffee caused very painful 3rd degree burns to her legs and...uhhh...lap area.
4. The McDonald's lawyers stated that she excaberated the injuries by not jumping out of her bucket seat when the coffee spilt. Of course, the lady was 80+ years old, so the jury saw this as being offensive, inconsiderate, and plain ol' stupid.
5. McDonald's had received numerous complaints about the temp of their coffee before this incident.
6. The jury awarded the verdict, which translated into 1 (or 2, I can't recall exactly) days of McDonald's coffee sales. They did this in order to send a message to McDonald's.
There. Now that you have all the facts, you're free to distort them at will.
What on Earth have you been smoking Roblimo? What makes you think that the War on Drugs is nothing more than a silly game? For the millions of people whose families have been torn apart through the destructive nature of drugs, trivializing their plight is hardly sensitive is it?
How were these families "torn apart"? Is it because their loved one went to jail (a pretty common occurrence, considering half of the US's prisoners are in for drug-related charges)? Is it because they were killed in a drug-related crime (once again, all too common. Everything from robbing a store to get money for drugs, innocent bystander shootings, or gang rivalries could fall into here)?
Or is it because they overdosed (surprisingly, not all that common relatively speaking. Especially on the softer drugs such as marijuana, which make up a large percentage of drug use, or Ecstacy, which the only "overdoses" reported so far are from heat exhaustion/dehydration from dancing too long or from other chemicals that purported to be Ecstacy. The harder drugs also cause less deaths than alcohol or tobacco, both of which are legal and noone complains about tearing families apart.)?
Drugs, in most cases, do not kill. Our nation's policies on drugs, however, do kill and cause side effects that leads to killings.
The truth is, the Bush Administration is conservative -- meaning that they support individual rights and freedoms...it's quite obvious that they'll put an end to the "Drug War".
Do you honestly believe that? Would you care to wager on that? No politician or political party in their right mind would put an end to the War on Drugs. If they tried, they would be asassinated. The drug wars make a lot of people extremely happy and extremely rich. This is our substitute for large military conflicts.
Not to mention the whole family-values plan, and not wanting to appear soft on crime, etc, etc.
I did not start smoking pot b/c I watched someone else do it, or b/c I was pressured by my peers. I did it b/c I wanted to try it and see what it was like.
Let me step in and play Devil's Advocate here for a moment...
Exactly how do you become curious about pot? How did you find out about it? Where did you get it? Did you smoke it alone?
Obviously, while perhaps not experiencing "peer-pressure", either cultural influences (Tv, movies, games, media) or your social group(s) were responsible for introducing pot to you. Not in a literal, "here's a joint" sense, but in the sense of letting you know what pot is and where it is available, etc. You also probably got it from a friend or acquaintance, and perhaps even smoked it with them.
Don't be so quick to judge the influencing factors on your decisions. There is (almost) always external forces at work.
Don't legalize drugs, decriminalize drugs. Don't tax drugs, because anything taxed eventually finds its way to the black market.
Not to say that taxed products aren't on the black market somewhere, but tell me which is easier? Finding a black market dealer to buy your carton of cigarettes/bottle of Jack Daniel's/tank of gasoline or just buy it at your local Qwik-E-Mart? Obviously the latter, which is why it's an effective solution. Tax the products heavily (since drugs don't cost that much to actually produce), but not so heavily as to make it unreasonable to purchase. Once there's a smaller profit margin in it, the drug dealers will be put out of business the old fashioned capitalist way. Then use the tax money for rehab and education programs.
Thanks for the warning! Now I know you have the IQ of a tapeworm and can be ignored.
People who smoke have the same appeal, and deserve the same respect, as people who pick their noses and eat it.
People who post inflammatory comments AC have the same appeal, and deserve the same respect, as people who pick their asses and eat it.
a lot of people in this world don't even have a computer or a tv, let alone a new nokia to fuck around with.
Ummm, just so you're on the same page as the rest of the class, I just thought I should inform you that we're talking about developed nations here. Mostly the US and Western Europe, which, I'm quite sure, has quite a large penetration of TV's and computers...and cell phones.
Plus all the friggin pay phones in the area are COCOT's and wont recognize the new area code they created in the area for cell phones so if I try and call my friends cell phone it says it has to be a long distance call.. If I try it with a 1 then the area code it says it doesnt require an area code.. DOH! BTW.. the operator and the phone company is no help and they don't care..
Offtopic, but whatever, I'll remove my +1. When visiting my parent's home, I use NetZero for dial up Internet access. Well, this one particular Netzero number was a serious pain in the ass. Half the time you called it, it would give an error "this number does not exist", the other half it would answer just fine. Then it went out for about a week and a half. Emails to NetZero returned with "we don't know what the problem is, have you checked your dial up settings?". So I called the phone company, who swore up and down that the number did not exist! Not only that didn't exist, but that the exchange that it was on did not exist, in that area code, or anywhere in the entire state of Florida! I told them that was impossible, as I had called the number many times before and connected fine. The phone company repeated that there was no such exchange or number, and then proceeded to think that I was a crazy person. Escalations later, I was talking to one of the phone company's engineers, who repeated the same information to me. Fed up, I said thank you and hung up. The next day, the number worked fine yet again, but the phone company still swears to me it does not exist. Odd, no?
By the way, it's kind of taking advantage of the system, but if you just want one for running out of gas in the desert, do what I do. Buy a deactivated phone at a garage sale for $5 and put it under the seat. 911 always works even on deactivated phones.
Is running out of gas really a 911-type of emergency?
This is fine. Just do not use any bills $20 or larger, the bills have magnetic identification/tracking strips in them.
No they don't. Not tracking, at any rate. Besides, in case you hadn't noticed, the $5's and $10's have that little strip as well.
Except for the street-corner video camera that watches you enter at 8:37, leave at 9:20, and the evidence from the mail you sent arrived at 8:53 with a header indicating it passed through the internet cafe's servers.
So stay later, send the mail at 9:30, and have a coffee and leave at 11:00.
Or, write a script to send it 5 minutes after you leave.
Or, send it from a hotmail account created earlier from an internet cafe.
What do you guys think (not legal advice, ethical advice, the cost of $50 judgements is kinda insignificant regardless) is appropriate in a technical announcement.
Well, the only thing I could see as being an actual technical notice would be something along the lines of all user accounts were deleted, files were deleted, we've been hacked-check your credit cards, we're going to be down for 2 weeks (would be better to just say it on your home page, however, but it might not be possible), etc. Those are real administrative announcements that may cause a minor (or major, depending on your site's focus) inconvenience and/or worry to your users.
As far as slippling in a sales pitch, strictly speaking, I would say there is no excuse for ANY. After all, the administrative notice is a sort of sales pitch in itself, as it reminds the user of who you are and that they are a member. If you must, however, I would simply make it a short sentence or two at the bottom of the email, sort of like a signature. ie.,
Sincerely,
Shyster, CEO of shyster.com
Shyster.com: Home to the web's best and most complete mailing lists here! Check out our new header forgeries gallery at http://shyster.com/gallery!
Something along those lines, IMHO, would fall under acceptable.
What people should be doing is to sue the actually ISP that allowed this to continue. Then, you don't make some tiny company go out of business, the ISP takes a big hit, and they will ensure it doesn't happen again.... After all, we wouldn't have spam if ISPs enforced their own TOS.
DON'T DO THIS! Don't try to make ISP's in charge of regulating traffic. If ISP's are sued for spam charges, then they will feel a need to register all sorts of traffic.
This is a very slippery slope, and while I agree it could be effective against spam, it's not a road we want to go down. Not unless you want even more draconian TOS's than we have now...and for them to be rigidly enforced. I'm sure a lot of/.ers have rather large p0rn and MP3 collections and host servers n residential connections. These are forbidden in most TOS's, and if ISP's become responsible for their traffic, you can bet there will be a crackdown. Not to mention the possibility of segmenting off other networks because of "questionable" content. This would not be a good thing...think about it.
It's not an ISP's fault if a company sends Spam. The ISP (should be) simply providing a link to the Internet. What is done with that link is the company's/individual's business.
Sometimes you need to send out announcements. It wasn't like Kozmo was sending you a weekly newsletter, they needed to send an e-mail. I agree with the posts that this wasn't real scummy spamming
First off, they did not need to send this email. Do we really think that the Kozmo customers who opted-out in the beginning wanted to change thier mind? Is that a valid reason to break the opt-out? Of course not. If it was, Kozmo could simply send the same "reminder" every 10 minutes, with a note at the end that states if you opt-in, you'll actually receive less email from us!
Even if you looked at this email as an administrative alert, which is stretching it pretty thin, they totally blow it starting at the 2nd paragraph:
You also may not have heard about a new service at kozmo.com that
revolutionizes gift giving. When you first joined kozmo.com, you
could have products delivered to your door in under an hour. Now you
can use our new gifting feature to have any item on the site delivered
as a gift to anyone in our service areas in 11 cities across the
country.* Every item we carry -- from DVDs to MP3 players, diapers to
baby blankets, gourmet chocolates to martini glasses -- can be sent as
a gift. We can deliver your gift in our new signature orange box with
a personal greeting. We'll even deliver gifts on Christmas Day!
That, my friend, is Spam.
As for what you did, I think we can all agree that that is not spam, but simply an alert to service. As long as you didn't try to sneak an ad in at the bottom.
Oh, and for the record, Kozmo's email contained 91 words of a questionable administrative alert, and 131 words of an unsolicited advertisement.
It's obvious that Kozmo, due to having financial problems, felt that if more people opted-in to their newsletter, they could make more money. To avoid actually sending spam to unregistered accounts, they created this "problem" so they could send out an "alert". Tack an ad at the end, and you're all set. Well, excpet for those pesky CA laws, that is....
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Considering that the consumers pay for the ads in the first place, I don't think this qualifies as stealing. Think about it. Every ad you see was paid for by consumer dollars. These ads then, are what pay for the broadcast shows. It's you're right, as a consumer then, to bypass those ads.
It's nothing more than another wealth redistribution to get the money from millions into the hands of hundreds.
Ahhh...but then you have to reinstall Win2K as it installs a different Hardware Abstraction Layer (hal.dll) depending upon whether ACPI support in your BIOS is on or off. All this fsck-ing effort, just because Win2K won't leave my IRQs alone and let me tell it what they are:-P If I didn't want to play the occasional game, I'd wipe my Winblows partition and just boot Debian all the time.
Just change the driver for the HAL via Device Mgr. If that doesn't work, run SysPrep to remove settings and then change your BIOS--it'll rerun PnP setup. BTW, though, ACPI is a much better solution than those damn IRQs anyway.
I agree with what you say, but I have one counter-example: speed. I know people who can read braille much faster than I can read text (and I'm a pretty fast reader). It makes it that much more efficient for the blind. I could also rant about text-to-speech synthesis and processor utilization, but that's irrelevant.
Well, I stand corrected, then. I didn't even know that it was possible to "read" Braille faster than reading text. In that case, this may be a beneficient for text-heavy uses, such as e-books and research papers, RFCs, etc. But I still odn't think it would very useful for the average website.
Because one is using DNS as the map to the NAT'd server, the server must actually receive the DNS address as part of the request. HTTP is the only common "over the internet" internet protocol that has this functionality.
I'm not sure I understand what you're referring to here. If the client makes a DNS request (can happen with HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP, etc.) for a NATed server, then the DNS server will give the client the IP address for a waypoint.
At the same time that the client is receiving the info on the IP address, the waypoint is receiving info from the DNS server that it should expect a packet from the client's IP address 1.2.3.4 and forward it to 5.6.7.8:901 (the address for the NAT box and a predetermined port number based on the service requested). At some point, the waypoint or the DNS server must also notify the NATed server of the originating IP address 1.2.3.4 so it can serve the request without having to travel back thru the waypoint. I don't know if this is a seperate packet, or if the TCP header is unmodified, or what. I didn't see any details on that.
The NAT box receives the forwarded packet, and since it recognizes the waypoint (?or does it simply let all packets thru? it's not clear form the write-up AFAICT), it lets the packet thru and forwards it to the NATed server.
The NATed server processes the request and replies to the client's original IP address. A tunnel thru the NAT box has now been opened.
A way to bypass the waypoint for the rest of the "conversation" might be to set an extremely low TTL on the DNS records. The DNS records (Dynamic DNS) would be automatically updated from a request by the NAT box (or waypoint) once the initial request is served, along with a higher TTL. The tunnel should now be opened on the NAT box, and it can set a DNS record with it's IP address. The client IP 1.2.3.4 would clear it's DNS cache of the original record and retransmit a DNS request, which would give it the IP of the NAT box.
Errr...wait...that wouldn't work for at least one reason. If a DNS request came from another source during that conversation, it would receive the NAT box's address, but the NAT would drop it, as no connection was established. The only way I can think of right now to implement it, would be to have the DNS server keep track of the requests served, and after serving a client the waypoint IP, serves that client (and only that client) with the NAT IP.
This is a very nonscalable, kludgy, and high overhead proposition. On the one hand, you can route all the client to server traffic thru a waypoint. That's a lot of bandwidth if people actually use this. OTOH, you can try to hack together what I mentioned with DDNS. That's a lot of overhead, and may require the client to install software to modify lookup times and such. Oh well...nice research project at least. At least he got featured on Slashdot (every CS/CE student's dream, isn't it?)
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Depends on the adrenaline factor, IMO, but it doesn't really matter. The crime is the assault, not the drugs. In most cases, drug use is a victimless crime. In those cases where it's not a victimless crime, there's always another law that has been broken...such as in your example. (Besides, alcohol is known to release aggressive tendencies in predisposed people/moods, so does that mean it should be illegal as well?)
Ummm...just build me a CDRW and a 17" LCD for $300. I'll beat a path to your door.
First off, this isn't a thin client. It's simply a smallish PC that sits 200 yards away. Nothing, except for the lack of a floppy or CD-ROM drive, and group polices, will prevent you from installing your software.
Secondly, "multiple browsers, spam silencers, adbusters, and scripts" don't exactly seem that prodctive to me. Unless you're a web developer, I don't see why you'd need multiple browsers. You shouldn't be getting that much spam on your corporate email address, and Outlook has filtering rules to help with the ones you do get. If you're really making good use of an adbuster, then you're spending too much time on the Internet. Get to work. Scripts? Well, that depends what kind of scripts we're talking about here, but, in general, scripts are a potential security threat.
Not to mention the headaches involved with spyware in a corporate environment, possible viruses and trojans, licensing issues, incompatibilities, etc. And, then, to top it off, you people expect IT to support this crap!?! I don't think so...if you really want to load that stuff on your computer, then support it yourself. If somethign goes wrong, the first thing I'm doing is removing all that crap from your computer. And RealPlayer is not a productivity tool...don't try to argue with me.
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What? I think you should be sitting at the monitor and keyboard, the PC goes in a rack in another room. The monitor and keyboard are connected by cabling. All files and such are saved on a network server. If you're computer has a problem, the tech in the computer room unplugs your PC and plugs in a new one. All set to go.
I'm no longer up on popular drug culture, mind you, but AFAIK there are actually 2 drugs marketed as Ecstacy. One being MDMA, one being MDEA. Basically, the folk wisdom goes, MDMA is the good one (I may have that mixed up...I don't actually take it, so I don't care all that much) and is the actual Ecstacy. MDEA is also marketed as Ecstacy, however, because it's similar, and is cheaper/easier to produce, but it can cause deaths, and doesn't give the same high associated with MDMA.
I think you hit the nail on the head there, and it's really pretty obvious. These kids had a serious mental problem. They did not fit into society's mold (of thinking that violence to tohers is not a good thing, and that suicide is most definitely a bad thing). Did the games exacerbate this condition? Perhaps...but I doubt it. No wehre in any of the games that I played do you end up blowing yourself away.
These kids were just as sick and twisted as adult serial killers are. They lost it. It's easy to point the blame AFTER the fact, but it's not true. The bottom line is that the kids were mentally off, and even if they didn't shoot up their classmates, they would've ended in self-destruction sooner or later.
Of course, then it's not really something we know how to deal with. Mental illnesses of this type aren't easy to classify or identify, and everyone is interested in stopping this behaivor. But, by removing the symptoms, you'll only create a larger problem, as the cause goes unchecked. I don't know if it's some kind of genetic issue, or perhaps that these kids' societies were totally different than mine and yours, but the problem isn't games or guns, it's the people behind them. Now what the hell is their problem...well, that's the million dollar question.
This doesn't even dignify a reply. Your responses are so blatantly biased and naive, that I can think of nothing to say that will change your mind. Regardless, I shall check Slashdot in a year to see the big headline about the War on Drugs coming to an end....
As was previously noted, there are some little known facts to that case. Most people simply proclaim that she was stupid and didn't deserve anything. But, just to enrich Salshdot's general populace, let me clarify things for you.
1. The coffee was at 180 degrees (that's in Fahrenheit, I have no idea what it wa sin Celsius or Kelvin, nor do I care). Most other restauraunts served their coffee at 160 degrees. McDonald's increased their temp to make the coffee hotter for the customer when they got to wherever they were going to.
2. She was not driving, and the driver parked the car before she removed the lid.
3. The coffee caused very painful 3rd degree burns to her legs and...uhhh...lap area.
4. The McDonald's lawyers stated that she excaberated the injuries by not jumping out of her bucket seat when the coffee spilt. Of course, the lady was 80+ years old, so the jury saw this as being offensive, inconsiderate, and plain ol' stupid.
5. McDonald's had received numerous complaints about the temp of their coffee before this incident.
6. The jury awarded the verdict, which translated into 1 (or 2, I can't recall exactly) days of McDonald's coffee sales. They did this in order to send a message to McDonald's.
There. Now that you have all the facts, you're free to distort them at will.
How were these families "torn apart"? Is it because their loved one went to jail (a pretty common occurrence, considering half of the US's prisoners are in for drug-related charges)?
Is it because they were killed in a drug-related crime (once again, all too common. Everything from robbing a store to get money for drugs, innocent bystander shootings, or gang rivalries could fall into here)?
Or is it because they overdosed (surprisingly, not all that common relatively speaking. Especially on the softer drugs such as marijuana, which make up a large percentage of drug use, or Ecstacy, which the only "overdoses" reported so far are from heat exhaustion/dehydration from dancing too long or from other chemicals that purported to be Ecstacy. The harder drugs also cause less deaths than alcohol or tobacco, both of which are legal and noone complains about tearing families apart.)?
Drugs, in most cases, do not kill. Our nation's policies on drugs, however, do kill and cause side effects that leads to killings.
Do you honestly believe that? Would you care to wager on that? No politician or political party in their right mind would put an end to the War on Drugs. If they tried, they would be asassinated. The drug wars make a lot of people extremely happy and extremely rich. This is our substitute for large military conflicts.
Not to mention the whole family-values plan, and not wanting to appear soft on crime, etc, etc.
Let me step in and play Devil's Advocate here for a moment...
Exactly how do you become curious about pot? How did you find out about it? Where did you get it? Did you smoke it alone?
Obviously, while perhaps not experiencing "peer-pressure", either cultural influences (Tv, movies, games, media) or your social group(s) were responsible for introducing pot to you. Not in a literal, "here's a joint" sense, but in the sense of letting you know what pot is and where it is available, etc. You also probably got it from a friend or acquaintance, and perhaps even smoked it with them.
Don't be so quick to judge the influencing factors on your decisions. There is (almost) always external forces at work.
Not to say that taxed products aren't on the black market somewhere, but tell me which is easier? Finding a black market dealer to buy your carton of cigarettes/bottle of Jack Daniel's/tank of gasoline or just buy it at your local Qwik-E-Mart? Obviously the latter, which is why it's an effective solution. Tax the products heavily (since drugs don't cost that much to actually produce), but not so heavily as to make it unreasonable to purchase. Once there's a smaller profit margin in it, the drug dealers will be put out of business the old fashioned capitalist way. Then use the tax money for rehab and education programs.
People who post inflammatory comments AC have the same appeal, and deserve the same respect, as people who pick their asses and eat it.
Ummm, just so you're on the same page as the rest of the class, I just thought I should inform you that we're talking about developed nations here. Mostly the US and Western Europe, which, I'm quite sure, has quite a large penetration of TV's and computers...and cell phones.
Offtopic, but whatever, I'll remove my +1. When visiting my parent's home, I use NetZero for dial up Internet access. Well, this one particular Netzero number was a serious pain in the ass. Half the time you called it, it would give an error "this number does not exist", the other half it would answer just fine. Then it went out for about a week and a half. Emails to NetZero returned with "we don't know what the problem is, have you checked your dial up settings?". So I called the phone company, who swore up and down that the number did not exist! Not only that didn't exist, but that the exchange that it was on did not exist, in that area code, or anywhere in the entire state of Florida! I told them that was impossible, as I had called the number many times before and connected fine. The phone company repeated that there was no such exchange or number, and then proceeded to think that I was a crazy person. Escalations later, I was talking to one of the phone company's engineers, who repeated the same information to me. Fed up, I said thank you and hung up. The next day, the number worked fine yet again, but the phone company still swears to me it does not exist. Odd, no?
By the way, it's kind of taking advantage of the system, but if you just want one for running out of gas in the desert, do what I do. Buy a deactivated phone at a garage sale for $5 and put it under the seat. 911 always works even on deactivated phones. Is running out of gas really a 911-type of emergency?
This is fine. Just do not use any bills $20 or larger, the bills have magnetic identification/tracking strips in them. No they don't. Not tracking, at any rate. Besides, in case you hadn't noticed, the $5's and $10's have that little strip as well.
Or, write a script to send it 5 minutes after you leave.
Or, send it from a hotmail account created earlier from an internet cafe.
But what the hell was in this email anyways?!?
Well, the only thing I could see as being an actual technical notice would be something along the lines of all user accounts were deleted, files were deleted, we've been hacked-check your credit cards, we're going to be down for 2 weeks (would be better to just say it on your home page, however, but it might not be possible), etc. Those are real administrative announcements that may cause a minor (or major, depending on your site's focus) inconvenience and/or worry to your users.
As far as slippling in a sales pitch, strictly speaking, I would say there is no excuse for ANY. After all, the administrative notice is a sort of sales pitch in itself, as it reminds the user of who you are and that they are a member. If you must, however, I would simply make it a short sentence or two at the bottom of the email, sort of like a signature. ie.,
Sincerely,
Shyster, CEO of shyster.com
Shyster.com: Home to the web's best and most complete mailing lists here! Check out our new header forgeries gallery at http://shyster.com/gallery!
Something along those lines, IMHO, would fall under acceptable.
DON'T DO THIS! Don't try to make ISP's in charge of regulating traffic. If ISP's are sued for spam charges, then they will feel a need to register all sorts of traffic.
This is a very slippery slope, and while I agree it could be effective against spam, it's not a road we want to go down. Not unless you want even more draconian TOS's than we have now...and for them to be rigidly enforced. I'm sure a lot of /.ers have rather large p0rn and MP3 collections and host servers n residential connections. These are forbidden in most TOS's, and if ISP's become responsible for their traffic, you can bet there will be a crackdown. Not to mention the possibility of segmenting off other networks because of "questionable" content. This would not be a good thing...think about it.
It's not an ISP's fault if a company sends Spam. The ISP (should be) simply providing a link to the Internet. What is done with that link is the company's/individual's business.
First off, they did not need to send this email. Do we really think that the Kozmo customers who opted-out in the beginning wanted to change thier mind? Is that a valid reason to break the opt-out? Of course not. If it was, Kozmo could simply send the same "reminder" every 10 minutes, with a note at the end that states if you opt-in, you'll actually receive less email from us!
Even if you looked at this email as an administrative alert, which is stretching it pretty thin, they totally blow it starting at the 2nd paragraph:
That, my friend, is Spam.
As for what you did, I think we can all agree that that is not spam, but simply an alert to service. As long as you didn't try to sneak an ad in at the bottom. Oh, and for the record, Kozmo's email contained 91 words of a questionable administrative alert, and 131 words of an unsolicited advertisement.
It's obvious that Kozmo, due to having financial problems, felt that if more people opted-in to their newsletter, they could make more money. To avoid actually sending spam to unregistered accounts, they created this "problem" so they could send out an "alert". Tack an ad at the end, and you're all set. Well, excpet for those pesky CA laws, that is....
It's nothing more than another wealth redistribution to get the money from millions into the hands of hundreds.
Just change the driver for the HAL via Device Mgr. If that doesn't work, run SysPrep to remove settings and then change your BIOS--it'll rerun PnP setup. BTW, though, ACPI is a much better solution than those damn IRQs anyway.
Well, I stand corrected, then. I didn't even know that it was possible to "read" Braille faster than reading text. In that case, this may be a beneficient for text-heavy uses, such as e-books and research papers, RFCs, etc. But I still odn't think it would very useful for the average website.
I'm not sure I understand what you're referring to here. If the client makes a DNS request (can happen with HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP, etc.) for a NATed server, then the DNS server will give the client the IP address for a waypoint.
At the same time that the client is receiving the info on the IP address, the waypoint is receiving info from the DNS server that it should expect a packet from the client's IP address 1.2.3.4 and forward it to 5.6.7.8:901 (the address for the NAT box and a predetermined port number based on the service requested). At some point, the waypoint or the DNS server must also notify the NATed server of the originating IP address 1.2.3.4 so it can serve the request without having to travel back thru the waypoint. I don't know if this is a seperate packet, or if the TCP header is unmodified, or what. I didn't see any details on that.
The NAT box receives the forwarded packet, and since it recognizes the waypoint (?or does it simply let all packets thru? it's not clear form the write-up AFAICT), it lets the packet thru and forwards it to the NATed server.
The NATed server processes the request and replies to the client's original IP address. A tunnel thru the NAT box has now been opened.
A way to bypass the waypoint for the rest of the "conversation" might be to set an extremely low TTL on the DNS records. The DNS records (Dynamic DNS) would be automatically updated from a request by the NAT box (or waypoint) once the initial request is served, along with a higher TTL. The tunnel should now be opened on the NAT box, and it can set a DNS record with it's IP address. The client IP 1.2.3.4 would clear it's DNS cache of the original record and retransmit a DNS request, which would give it the IP of the NAT box.
Errr...wait...that wouldn't work for at least one reason. If a DNS request came from another source during that conversation, it would receive the NAT box's address, but the NAT would drop it, as no connection was established. The only way I can think of right now to implement it, would be to have the DNS server keep track of the requests served, and after serving a client the waypoint IP, serves that client (and only that client) with the NAT IP.
This is a very nonscalable, kludgy, and high overhead proposition. On the one hand, you can route all the client to server traffic thru a waypoint. That's a lot of bandwidth if people actually use this. OTOH, you can try to hack together what I mentioned with DDNS. That's a lot of overhead, and may require the client to install software to modify lookup times and such. Oh well...nice research project at least. At least he got featured on Slashdot (every CS/CE student's dream, isn't it?)