It's radio, dumb-ass. He doesn't have to look nice; he could show up at the studio (when he's commuting) in jeans and a T-shirt and no one would give a shit. He could have been broadcasting in the nude from his house and no one would give a shit.
And this proposal does not kill your ability to mail anonymously. What it does is allow server admins to decide to not accept mail that is anonymously mailed.
You have no intrinsic right to expect that your mail recipient will ever read your email, anonymously sent or not.
Didn't the trailer for Vice City also have 80s synthpop? That, combined with the name was a dead giveaway.
I'd like to see GTA: Boston myself. Between the Irish and Italian mobs, the bizarre street layout (and the construction!), and a few hills and all that, it would make a good game.
[Remember records... they were vinyl (in earlier days, wax) discs approximately 2 to 2.5 times the diameter of CDs or DVDs in which data was stored as a physical groove on the edge of a track spiraling towards the center.]
Slashdot posts story whining about offshoring
I post the following:
Offshoring is a good thing. The "lost jobs" in IT are creating a pool of capital (in the form of labor) that will allow the next great step forward to be taken.
Industrialization could only occur on the scale it did if, thanks to increased efficiency in agriculture, millions of family farms went under, sending their labor capital to the cities to work in the factories.
The "information industries" (IT, law, medicine, finance, media, etc.) could only occur on the scale they have over the past 50 years if industrial employment declined (largely because of greater mechanization and also because of offshoring of production). The evidence can be seen by looking at Europe, where those nations that vigorously tried to protect their existing industrial wage bases (through guaranteed employment laws, massive subsidies, etc.) found themselves years behind the US in terms of the state of the "information industries".
Much like the slashdotters complaining about offshoring, the RIAA and MPAA complain about technological changes that, quite frankly, doom their current models, if not their existence themselves. And much like the RIAA/MPAA, these slashdotters are calling for the government to come in and preserve their business models that have brought them prosperity.
Yet these slashdotters, in general, decry the RIAA and MPAA, while failing to realize that they are doing exactly the same thing for exactly the same reasons.
As far as I can tell, this indicates that these slashdotters are either:
idiots, for not realizing the fact of their kinship with the *AA.
hypocrites, for realizing this and continuing in their ways.
egotists, for somehow thinking that their suffering from outsourcing outweighs the suffering of the *AA from technological advances.
What'll it be.
P.S.
I get modded down for this... oh well, I've got excellent karma and can take whatever you dish out.
You could try to estimate it by number of nodes you've routed messages to or for. If you had enough nodes logging this information and consolidating it, you could, probabilistically, be arbitrarily close to the actual number of nodes.
The silent movies would have dialogue by pausing for a card to be put on the screen. Music was done by distributing sheet music with the film to be played in the theatre; that was even a later development, because for many years, the theatre was responsible for performing its own music for the film.
But is there a pager available for Sawfish which is as useful as FVWM's? Mine has the active window highlighted in a different color, and all of the windows have abbreviated (icon?) titles in a tiny but legible font. Far more useful than pictures.
I use sawfish.wm.ext.pager, which, while not updated in over a year (much like Sawfish, regrettably), it could probably match FVWM's (as it's written in the same LISP dialect as Sawfish, so it's thus fairly easy to hack).
Sawfish allows everything you just listed. Plus, since it's written (except for the lowest level stuff) in a LISPy language, you can modify every aspect of its behavior on the fly.
DirecTV has an issue with penetration in urban areas: owing to difficulties with getting a clear view of the southern sky, many/most potential customers cannot use the service. Once you get into the suburbs and (especially) rural areas, you start seeing DirecTV dishes regularly.
Thus, I suspect that Verizon (and other telcos) would, rather than roll their own digital television service (with the management headaches that entails), partner with DirecTV to run DTV through their fiber with DTV handling programming and Verizon handling billing and delivery. This at least allows DTV to compete with cable companies across the board on the video segment and allows the phone company to offer a video service.
But part of the reason that the open source movement has worked is the freedom to fork. We're talking about a centralized whitelist, which means that there's not going to be forking (or that such forking would be completely inconsequential).
Think of the *BSDs. Theo got into a bit of a fight with his fellow maintainers of one of them (NetBSD?) and rather than having the fight take NetBSD down, Theo goes and starts OpenBSD.
Or look at the XEmacs vs. Emacs situation, or Mandrake vs. Red Hat, and so forth.
The problem is that it's so fraught with questions over who runs the whitelist and who gets decide what constitutes "unethical". If you thought the ICANN governance debate was big, wait until you see the SMTP whitelist governance debate.
Blame the EFF, also. This mentality that "the rules" don't apply on the Internet has been around for a long time (and isn't even a product of the commercialization of the Internet).
Another case of the excellent being the enemy of the good.
This sort of thing is why progress will never be made against spam. The anti-spam camps are far too disjointed to do a thing and far too busy shooting down each others' proposals.
He's also done prison time for what amounts to securities fraud.
He's the classical example of the Midwesterner from a lower middle-class suburban background who, owing to the general lack of civilization outside New England (and to a lesser extent, outside of Canada and certain coastal US areas)) in North America, turns to questionable activities out of an inferiority complex. Like millions upon millions of Midwesterners, he lacks any sense of morality or ethics.
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We're not arguing legalities here. Thanks for playing!
SPEWS: the choice of sociopaths who want to fight other sociopaths!
You're speaking at a Klan rally.
You say, "look at those niggers over there. They must be fine upstanding people."
The mob runs over and beats the shit out of said "niggers".
You didn't tell them to do anything, did you?
It's radio, dumb-ass. He doesn't have to look nice; he could show up at the studio (when he's commuting) in jeans and a T-shirt and no one would give a shit. He could have been broadcasting in the nude from his house and no one would give a shit.
And this proposal does not kill your ability to mail anonymously. What it does is allow server admins to decide to not accept mail that is anonymously mailed.
You have no intrinsic right to expect that your mail recipient will ever read your email, anonymously sent or not.
It was on the AP wire a while back.
Use a better DNS provider. DynDNS lets you set TXT records.
Next version of SpamAssassin (2.70) will support SPF.
Any DNS provider that allows you to set a TXT record will support this.
Didn't the trailer for Vice City also have 80s synthpop? That, combined with the name was a dead giveaway.
I'd like to see GTA: Boston myself. Between the Irish and Italian mobs, the bizarre street layout (and the construction!), and a few hills and all that, it would make a good game.
[Remember records... they were vinyl (in earlier days, wax) discs approximately 2 to 2.5 times the diameter of CDs or DVDs in which data was stored as a physical groove on the edge of a track spiraling towards the center.]
Offshoring is a good thing. The "lost jobs" in IT are creating a pool of capital (in the form of labor) that will allow the next great step forward to be taken.
Industrialization could only occur on the scale it did if, thanks to increased efficiency in agriculture, millions of family farms went under, sending their labor capital to the cities to work in the factories.
The "information industries" (IT, law, medicine, finance, media, etc.) could only occur on the scale they have over the past 50 years if industrial employment declined (largely because of greater mechanization and also because of offshoring of production). The evidence can be seen by looking at Europe, where those nations that vigorously tried to protect their existing industrial wage bases (through guaranteed employment laws, massive subsidies, etc.) found themselves years behind the US in terms of the state of the "information industries".
Much like the slashdotters complaining about offshoring, the RIAA and MPAA complain about technological changes that, quite frankly, doom their current models, if not their existence themselves. And much like the RIAA/MPAA, these slashdotters are calling for the government to come in and preserve their business models that have brought them prosperity.
Yet these slashdotters, in general, decry the RIAA and MPAA, while failing to realize that they are doing exactly the same thing for exactly the same reasons.
As far as I can tell, this indicates that these slashdotters are either:
What'll it be.
P.S.
You could try to estimate it by number of nodes you've routed messages to or for. If you had enough nodes logging this information and consolidating it, you could, probabilistically, be arbitrarily close to the actual number of nodes.
Or at least it seems that way to me.
The silent movies would have dialogue by pausing for a card to be put on the screen. Music was done by distributing sheet music with the film to be played in the theatre; that was even a later development, because for many years, the theatre was responsible for performing its own music for the film.
As far as I know, Google is still the exclusive search partner for a little company called AOL.
I use sawfish.wm.ext.pager, which, while not updated in over a year (much like Sawfish, regrettably), it could probably match FVWM's (as it's written in the same LISP dialect as Sawfish, so it's thus fairly easy to hack).
ROFL DOFL WOFL.
Sawfish allows everything you just listed. Plus, since it's written (except for the lowest level stuff) in a LISPy language, you can modify every aspect of its behavior on the fly.
DirecTV has an issue with penetration in urban areas: owing to difficulties with getting a clear view of the southern sky, many/most potential customers cannot use the service. Once you get into the suburbs and (especially) rural areas, you start seeing DirecTV dishes regularly.
Thus, I suspect that Verizon (and other telcos) would, rather than roll their own digital television service (with the management headaches that entails), partner with DirecTV to run DTV through their fiber with DTV handling programming and Verizon handling billing and delivery. This at least allows DTV to compete with cable companies across the board on the video segment and allows the phone company to offer a video service.
Alternatively, just map a key in your MUA to "train as ham" and another to "train as spam".
But part of the reason that the open source movement has worked is the freedom to fork. We're talking about a centralized whitelist, which means that there's not going to be forking (or that such forking would be completely inconsequential).
Think of the *BSDs. Theo got into a bit of a fight with his fellow maintainers of one of them (NetBSD?) and rather than having the fight take NetBSD down, Theo goes and starts OpenBSD.
Or look at the XEmacs vs. Emacs situation, or Mandrake vs. Red Hat, and so forth.
Indeed. I replied after skimming your comment. ;o)
The problem is that it's so fraught with questions over who runs the whitelist and who gets decide what constitutes "unethical". If you thought the ICANN governance debate was big, wait until you see the SMTP whitelist governance debate.
Blame the EFF, also. This mentality that "the rules" don't apply on the Internet has been around for a long time (and isn't even a product of the commercialization of the Internet).
Another case of the excellent being the enemy of the good.
This sort of thing is why progress will never be made against spam. The anti-spam camps are far too disjointed to do a thing and far too busy shooting down each others' proposals.
He's also done prison time for what amounts to securities fraud.
He's the classical example of the Midwesterner from a lower middle-class suburban background who, owing to the general lack of civilization outside New England (and to a lesser extent, outside of Canada and certain coastal US areas)) in North America, turns to questionable activities out of an inferiority complex. Like millions upon millions of Midwesterners, he lacks any sense of morality or ethics.
Hello Immanuel Kant!