The ISS is a dump heap for those members of the studio audience who would have the $$$ and the hubris for such an ostentatious trip.
The ISS is cramped, already smells like astro-sweat, and has very loud air conditioners (I mean so loud you can barely hear yourself talk)
If I had 20 million dollars I would invest it in myself so I could get the skills and training needed to go into space and do something USEFUL, like piloting the craft or conducting scientific experiments. I would not sit up there bearing the sneers of the crew who is so top notch they get PAID to be up there (hazard pay).
There have been plenty of discussions on this thread about personal freedom and such. The fact is, that this political system was designed by and for corporations.
You have this lovely constitution image in the corner of the screen, but the constitution itself was designed for wealthy landowners to benefit. To paraphrase Alexander Hamilton, "them that owns the country should run it" is the name of the game.
I am personally a socialist but libertarians and other points of view also have some good critiques of the corporate control of American politics. In other countries this may be more or less the case. But as the most powerful country on earth the US needs to adopt a more stringent separation of cash and state than it has to date. Corporate control over politics has led us to 2 leading parties whose studied, too-similar stances during election season leave people stoned by boredom, yet unable to make the connections when "compassionate conservative" Bush nominates a largely hard-right cabinet.
The open source movement is about self-literacy in computer programming. to a greater or lesser extent the open source user should be a programmer, a self-diagnoser of problems and someone who knows where the best sources of information are should s/he need, or want, to share knowledge. Huge corporations have scarred the constitutional system, which for all its faults was designed to be an open source political system, in which any belief and any method of propagating that belief could compete for adherents. No more! The humorous, creative and powerful alternatives to the Republicrats need freedom to breathe and grow.
Please, please use your skills, hardware, and bandwith to support the radical political alternative of your choice. Check out this site for a structural model of how you can self-publish distinctly political content in a way that PEOPLE WILL READ IT, not your little rant sheet on your website. There is also a conservative/libertarian model . Also, read news sources you disagree with for healthy political thinking.
Ask the kid a fucking tech question and it gets modded to 0. Ask the kid some bad sociological embarrasing question or some question about alienation tailed to some long rant that he cant begin to answer except from your own perspctive?
It gets modded UP.
Obviously, the moderators are smoking the $3 crack. The kid is obviously understood by Roblimo to be smart enough to deal with this rabble, and you alienate the kid from "Geek-dom" permanently with this puerile crap.
I would look at these questions and picture the same jocks that picked on me and called me a dyke when I was in school. Fuck you.
This refers to a nation-state, or to a state in a federal system, such as the United States.
The U.S. Constitution says so. This is part of the semi-sovereign status of American states.
The states have to advertise and enforce all the taxes they choose to levy. The Internet was designed in a way that exploits its tax-free status, e.g. this one and most companies have not found it profitable to levy taxes for all the states. The states are a few years behind as usual and missed a revenue stream because they assumed the Internet market would always stay tiny.
If the government wants Internet businesses to pay for its tardiness, it should develop the software itself, or pay for the adaptation of something like Vertex.
And, it should stop fighting Internet taxation on the international scale, cause that is simply hypocritical.
You kno what, Headline News said earlier this week that most people are still unwilling to shop on line. There were three reasons given, below in order.
1) The consumer prefers to see the gift before purchase
2) The consumer prefers not to give out his or her credit card on line
3) The consumer finds many Web sites difficult to navigate
All of these are problems of consumer confidence and arise from the need of the customer for accountability. Individual protections against unauthorized purchases are inapplicable in the case of a DB crack due to reasons of scale mentioned in above posts.
So what is the solution?
Buy locally.
If an individual merchant decides to cheat you, YOU can go down there with YOUR baseball bat or YOUR neighborhood constable and confront the jerk.
If the merchant defrauds many people, a MOB of folks with baseball bats,or preferably their team of lawyers, can do the same thing.
The average e biz, for reasons of security, will be wanting to move to data havens pretty soon. For the same sovereignty based reasons a data haven is appealing to such firms, they will have no way of tracking and enforcing national laws against crackers.
We need international standards systems w/r/t privacy, personal information, fraud, security and intellectual property. For once, let's create safe and sensible structures BEFORE the net's growth beats us to the curve.
You know, the Ukraine's claims that it could have closed this thing down ten years ago if we had given them aid are a load of dog droppings.
They said they needed the plant to produce energy, and hence ran one of the reactors even after the blowup. They could have used coal, natural gas, windmills or any one of a number of other technologies to replace this one.
Why should the West have helped these people? By now we should have learned that all aid to Eastern Europe goes to the Russian Mafia anyway..
"MOGLEN: Well, I don't think their answer is there's nothing we're going to be able to do about it. But the answer is we are no longer attempting to delay the adoption of strong encryption technology by United States export controls. You'll notice that last night they took the error out the GPS.
WORTHINGTON: So Iraq is now going to be able to target its cruise precisely on top of the Washington Monument and not 50 meters away.
MOGLEN: Yes. The military says they will continue to provide wrong information in just those places that are absolutely important, but I don't think that means the White House or the Washington Monument. I think that means missile silos in Montana."
How are you market-predictors supposed to tell when something has peaked, anyway?
Just because I don't use the Internet to do consumer things does not mean it is not transforming society.
The internet is doing plenty of cultural advancement- into "b2b" where the last innovation was the shipping bill.
Way behind the scenes, the Internet is bringing just-in-time business practices to lots of firms (some of which they were NEVER meant to go to), for instance.
I wonder how much money and time was wasted by developing a chip, then cutting it back because it was wrong for the market/existing products/etc.
From the article:
"Intel engineers were forced to rethink their lofty intentions when it became clear that chip size had gotten too unwieldy as they tried packing in more hardware units to maximize performance. Power consumption, architecture complexity and testing also posed serious problems, said Darrell Boggs, Intel's principal engineer for the desktop platform group (Hillsboro, Ore.), addressing a room full of researchers and engineers at the Micro-33 conference here.
"The general trend has been to make [the CPU] larger in physical area," he said. "But anytime you have a large die size, that means you have to have many fabs. You can become capacity-constrained unless you build a new fab."
Problems in testing read: $
Problems in architecture complexity read: $
It pisses me off to see good ideas like the added caching capacity thrown away. So what if you have to design new chip-making machinery, etcetera?
Basic research, especially government-funded basic research, does not shy away from fabricating entirely new support systems to support a new technology.
In fat, I hope that governments and universities, when they finish laughing at the P4 'compromise' get together and build a new chip, giving the designers full sway.
the first "e mail message" was sent by telegraph and was a Bible verse, "What hath God wrought?"
This was of course electric mail, rather than electronic mail..
Unlike telephony, a telegraph message was put in hard copy form like a letter, and was often picked up at the post office, also like a letter. It was also electric, in that it used electric wires to convey messages.
Of course, the modern definition is quite different. Just something to think about..
Remember all that early-90's sociology about how Europeans were more likely to embrace the Internet than Americans? This sort of thing is why.
Quietly, France has adapted to one of the hardest cultural jumps that "virtual society" requires- the everyday practice of doing trustworthy business online.
That said, Minitel is somewhat less "global" than today's Internet. One could compare Minitel commerce with the practice of catalog ordering, or any mail-order company- largely restricted to one nation-state, most business on Minitel is subject to French law, not unstable "arbitration" in international trade bodies.
Localness, here, helped Minitel. Perhaps, consumer confidence is higher in a "localized" network of goods and services. Can we create "local Nets" today, without the problem of Minitel, which is the big cut taken by the French government..?
From the article:
An estimated 25 million people - nearly half the French population - currently use the 9 million Minitel terminals to buy train tickets, check stock quotes, access news, send e-mail messages or enter chat rooms. All those activities generated more than $1.8 billion in revenues last year.
"The victim who originally contacted MSNBC, Michael Sayres, called the company this week to complain and was surprised that it had no
intention of contacting customers.
"It was explained to me that I would need to contact my credit card company and cancel my card," Sayres said. "It appears they have no responsibility with this problem."
Sayres received the e-mail from the hacker on Monday afternoon and spent Tuesday on the phone with CreditCard.com and American Express, complaining about the way the situation has been handled. "What's amazing is I didn't hear about it from CreditCard.com. I heard about it from the hacker," he said.
The hacker was trying to extort and notify at the same time? Maybe s/he called the customers in order to prove to Creditcard.com that they were serious. Or is there more than 1 person at work?
On another note, paypal.com insures your deposits to 100K just like FDIC (tho it is a money market account, not FDIC). Is there some plan for an anti-hacker "insurance" scheme for b2b and consumer credit card users online?
The astronomers stress that
this not an Earth-like object
and is unlikely to host any
sort of life - but if the planet
has any rocky moons then
they could have conditions
that are more favourable.
Our moon hasn't any water on it. We should begin to develop methods of getting planetary water from a base on a dry moon.
Try it with Earth. Then try it from Europa or Io with Jupiter. (Is there any free water on Jupiter? I don't know.. but this can be tested with any substance)
What does the lengthening of the human genome mean? I know about one gene called telomeres, in which a basepair gets shaved off during every replication as a cell divides and ages..
Also, do the human-fugu match up genes play similar roles in each species?
is the name of the process being used to create the chips. From a May 2000 C/Net article on the process:
"Reducing circuit size is the cornerstone of Moore's Law, which states that the number of transistors capable of being put on a processor should double every 18 months. Shrinking circuits allows manufacturers to put more transistors onto a wafer, which in turn increases power. Unfortunately, the current technique, called DUV lithography, will likely hit its limit around 2003.
Controlling small wavelength light, however, is not easy. Current lithography machines depend on lenses to focus light. Because EUV light would be absorbed by glass, the new system will use a series of four specially coated convex mirrors to capture the mask
image and reduce it. The mirrors each contain 80 separate metallic layers just 12 atoms thick.
The technology stems from work at Stanford University. The laser-light technique, meanwhile, derived from work on missile defense systems, said Dave Attwood, a professor at the University of California and a researcher on the project.
EUV machines will be able to process about 80 wafers an hour, approximately the same as current lithography machines, making the process economically feasible."
I wonder what will it cost for chipmakers to transition over to the EUV technology? Intel is huge and would obviously be more able to make a capital investment like this than competitors.
is step INTO your software and SEIZE the hardware interrupt controller, so if the software fscks up and would like to shut stuff down or freeze things, Realtime Linux takes over and executes Mr. Software's tasks in realtime.
If there is a bug in the code of Mr. Software, the flipside is that the realtime capability will crash your system immediately.
from the paper:
"A goal for the near-term future is to be able to run real-time tasks in userland with all of the memory protections provided by unix, on all real-time Linux variants. Emanuele Bianchi has already done this on RTAI! Real-time Linux (as far as I know) is the first real-time OS to offer this capability."
How do they intend to do this? (I am clue-free. I admit it.;)
"PSINet confirmed the existence of the contract, which allows Cajunnet to send unsolicited e-mail messages directly from PSINet's networks, saying in a letter posted on its Web site that the contract was handled by a junior lawyer in PSINet's commercial contracts group and pledging to better educate its sales force.
"This would all seem to indicate that there are more pink contracts out there than the consumer is aware of," said Maurene Caplan Grey, a senior research analyst at high-tech market research firm Gartner. She said that while PSINet may have looked at such a contract to improve its flagging finances, the temptation for ISPs to secretly circumvent no-spam policies doesn't pay off. "My gut feeling is, assuming they get caught, it's not worth it. It's poor business form. You won't get partners. You will be blacklisted."
Yeh right. earlier in the article it mentioned that spammers don't give a shite about whether or not they are on the account for a few hours. it's all the same to them.
Furthermore, as we have the tech-world stock-drop known as Dot Bomb, more and more desperate folks will be turning to any moneymaking source possible. The number of USERS isn't gonna drop. the number of SPAMMERS isn't gonna drop. the number of successful ISPs is, and to stay successful a few will cater to the spammers' market, and many ISPs may let 'em sneak in while promising the bulk of users they are anti-spam with stern TOS's.
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The ISS is a dump heap for those members of the studio audience who would have the $$$ and the hubris for such an ostentatious trip.
The ISS is cramped, already smells like astro-sweat, and has very loud air conditioners (I mean so loud you can barely hear yourself talk)
If I had 20 million dollars I would invest it in myself so I could get the skills and training needed to go into space and do something USEFUL, like piloting the craft or conducting scientific experiments. I would not sit up there bearing the sneers of the crew who is so top notch they get PAID to be up there (hazard pay).
There have been plenty of discussions on this thread about personal freedom and such. The fact is, that this political system was designed by and for corporations.
You have this lovely constitution image in the corner of the screen, but the constitution itself was designed for wealthy landowners to benefit. To paraphrase Alexander Hamilton, "them that owns the country should run it" is the name of the game.
I am personally a socialist but libertarians and other points of view also have some good critiques of the corporate control of American politics. In other countries this may be more or less the case. But as the most powerful country on earth the US needs to adopt a more stringent separation of cash and state than it has to date. Corporate control over politics has led us to 2 leading parties whose studied, too-similar stances during election season leave people stoned by boredom, yet unable to make the connections when "compassionate conservative" Bush nominates a largely hard-right cabinet.
The open source movement is about self-literacy in computer programming. to a greater or lesser extent the open source user should be a programmer, a self-diagnoser of problems and someone who knows where the best sources of information are should s/he need, or want, to share knowledge. Huge corporations have scarred the constitutional system, which for all its faults was designed to be an open source political system, in which any belief and any method of propagating that belief could compete for adherents. No more! The humorous, creative and powerful alternatives to the Republicrats need freedom to breathe and grow.
Please, please use your skills, hardware, and bandwith to support the radical political alternative of your choice. Check out this site for a structural model of how you can self-publish distinctly political content in a way that PEOPLE WILL READ IT, not your little rant sheet on your website. There is also a conservative/libertarian model . Also, read news sources you disagree with for healthy political thinking.
Space Channel 5.
Shenmu.
Jet SET Radio.
They have bars, guns,beer,coffee,cuss words and love stories.
Please stop this before Nintendo censors and sanitizes the innovative games Sega has been putting out for years.
You know what?
Ask the kid a fucking tech question and it gets modded to 0. Ask the kid some bad sociological embarrasing question or some question about alienation tailed to some long rant that he cant begin to answer except from your own perspctive?
It gets modded UP.
Obviously, the moderators are smoking the $3 crack. The kid is obviously understood by Roblimo to be smart enough to deal with this rabble, and you alienate the kid from "Geek-dom" permanently with this puerile crap.
I would look at these questions and picture the same jocks that picked on me and called me a dyke when I was in school. Fuck you.
for collecting taxes.
This refers to a nation-state, or to a state in a federal system, such as the United States.
The U.S. Constitution says so. This is part of the semi-sovereign status of American states.
The states have to advertise and enforce all the taxes they choose to levy. The Internet was designed in a way that exploits its tax-free status, e.g. this one and most companies have not found it profitable to levy taxes for all the states. The states are a few years behind as usual and missed a revenue stream because they assumed the Internet market would always stay tiny.
If the government wants Internet businesses to pay for its tardiness, it should develop the software itself, or pay for the adaptation of something like Vertex.
And, it should stop fighting Internet taxation on the international scale, cause that is simply hypocritical.
You kno what, Headline News said earlier this week that most people are still unwilling to shop on line. There were three reasons given, below in order.
1) The consumer prefers to see the gift before purchase
2) The consumer prefers not to give out his or her credit card on line
3) The consumer finds many Web sites difficult to navigate
All of these are problems of consumer confidence and arise from the need of the customer for accountability. Individual protections against unauthorized purchases are inapplicable in the case of a DB crack due to reasons of scale mentioned in above posts.
So what is the solution?
Buy locally.
If an individual merchant decides to cheat you, YOU can go down there with YOUR baseball bat or YOUR neighborhood constable and confront the jerk.
If the merchant defrauds many people, a MOB of folks with baseball bats,or preferably their team of lawyers, can do the same thing.
The average e biz, for reasons of security, will be wanting to move to data havens pretty soon. For the same sovereignty based reasons a data haven is appealing to such firms, they will have no way of tracking and enforcing national laws against crackers.
We need international standards systems w/r/t privacy, personal information, fraud, security and intellectual property. For once, let's create safe and sensible structures BEFORE the net's growth beats us to the curve.
You know, the Ukraine's claims that it could have closed this thing down ten years ago if we had given them aid are a load of dog droppings.
They said they needed the plant to produce energy, and hence ran one of the reactors even after the blowup. They could have used coal, natural gas, windmills or any one of a number of other technologies to replace this one.
Why should the West have helped these people? By now we should have learned that all aid to Eastern Europe goes to the Russian Mafia anyway..
From the article:
"MOGLEN: Well, I don't think their answer is there's nothing we're going to be able to do about it. But the answer is we are no longer attempting to delay the adoption of strong encryption technology by United States export controls. You'll notice that last night they took the error out the GPS.
WORTHINGTON: So Iraq is now going to be able to target its cruise precisely on top of the Washington Monument and not 50 meters away.
MOGLEN: Yes. The military says they will continue to provide wrong information in just those places that are absolutely important, but I don't think that means the White House or the Washington Monument. I think that means missile silos in Montana."
Thats fine...
but means naught in a day and age when you can rent your own satellite!
sorry about that.
music,, discourse, and protest.
not.
How are you market-predictors supposed to tell when something has peaked, anyway?
Just because I don't use the Internet to do consumer things does not mean it is not transforming society.
The internet is doing plenty of cultural advancement- into "b2b" where the last innovation was the shipping bill.
Way behind the scenes, the Internet is bringing just-in-time business practices to lots of firms (some of which they were NEVER meant to go to), for instance.
Also, the Internet continues to create new forums for music,, discourse, and protest.
I wonder how much money and time was wasted by developing a chip, then cutting it back because it was wrong for the market/existing products/etc.
From the article:
"Intel engineers were forced to rethink their lofty intentions when it became clear that chip size had gotten too unwieldy as they tried packing in more hardware units to maximize performance. Power consumption, architecture complexity and testing also posed serious problems, said Darrell Boggs, Intel's principal engineer for the desktop platform group (Hillsboro, Ore.), addressing a room full of researchers and engineers at the Micro-33 conference here.
"The general trend has been to make [the CPU] larger in physical area," he said. "But anytime you have a large die size, that means you have to have many fabs. You can become capacity-constrained unless you build a new fab."
Problems in testing read: $
Problems in architecture complexity read: $
It pisses me off to see good ideas like the added caching capacity thrown away. So what if you have to design new chip-making machinery, etcetera?
Basic research, especially government-funded basic research, does not shy away from fabricating entirely new support systems to support a new technology.
In fat, I hope that governments and universities, when they finish laughing at the P4 'compromise' get together and build a new chip, giving the designers full sway.
Mein troll,
You are obviously a troll, because you are COMPLETELY off topic.
People do indeed come closer through email communication. I for example have gotten 2 internships and 80% of my freelance work through email.
I have kept friends, and made friends across the ocean.
Spam has accounted for less than 5% of my total email time. I get over 50 email messages a day, all of them useful. I signed up for them!
I know a lot of folks who sign up for newsgroups and then delete the things after awhile without reading them. what a waste of time and effort!
Just because someone becomes lazy and considers the increased amount of information they ASKED for doesn't mean this information is suddenly spam.
Posting as myself to refute rumors of my nonexistence (or existence as a schizoid subset),
I remain your cordial friend
-perdida
the first "e mail message" was sent by telegraph and was a Bible verse, "What hath God wrought?"
This was of course electric mail, rather than electronic mail..
Unlike telephony, a telegraph message was put in hard copy form like a letter, and was often picked up at the post office, also like a letter. It was also electric, in that it used electric wires to convey messages.
Of course, the modern definition is quite different. Just something to think about..
Will the real dot-communists...
please stand up?
Seriously, folks. What happens when they get really mad and quit the chanting?
a quiet geek is a dangerous geek...
;)
Remember all that early-90's sociology about how Europeans were more likely to embrace the Internet than Americans? This sort of thing is why.
Quietly, France has adapted to one of the hardest cultural jumps that "virtual society" requires- the everyday practice of doing trustworthy business online.
That said, Minitel is somewhat less "global" than today's Internet. One could compare Minitel commerce with the practice of catalog ordering, or any mail-order company- largely restricted to one nation-state, most business on Minitel is subject to French law, not unstable "arbitration" in international trade bodies.
Localness, here, helped Minitel. Perhaps, consumer confidence is higher in a "localized" network of goods and services. Can we create "local Nets" today, without the problem of Minitel, which is the big cut taken by the French government..?
From the article:
An estimated 25 million people - nearly half the French population - currently use the 9 million Minitel terminals to buy train tickets, check stock quotes, access news, send e-mail messages or enter chat rooms. All those activities generated more than $1.8 billion in revenues last year.
From the article:
"The victim who originally contacted MSNBC, Michael Sayres, called the company this week to complain and was surprised that it had no
intention of contacting customers.
"It was explained to me that I would need to contact my credit card company and cancel my card," Sayres said. "It appears they have no responsibility with this problem."
Sayres received the e-mail from the hacker on Monday afternoon and spent Tuesday on the phone with CreditCard.com and American Express, complaining about the way the situation has been handled. "What's amazing is I didn't hear about it from CreditCard.com. I heard about it from the hacker," he said.
The hacker was trying to extort and notify at the same time? Maybe s/he called the customers in order to prove to Creditcard.com that they were serious. Or is there more than 1 person at work?
On another note, paypal.com insures your deposits to 100K just like FDIC (tho it is a money market account, not FDIC). Is there some plan for an anti-hacker "insurance" scheme for b2b and consumer credit card users online?
The astronomers stress that
this not an Earth-like object
and is unlikely to host any
sort of life - but if the planet
has any rocky moons then
they could have conditions
that are more favourable.
Our moon hasn't any water on it. We should begin to develop methods of getting planetary water from a base on a dry moon.
Try it with Earth. Then try it from Europa or Io with Jupiter. (Is there any free water on Jupiter? I don't know.. but this can be tested with any substance)
1) Know what your identity is first
2) Can you make a deal without compromising that? If so, make one.
3) No lawyer can ever control a piece of software when pitted against they who made the software.
p.s. dare to stamp out doggerel
What does the lengthening of the human genome mean? I know about one gene called telomeres, in which a basepair gets shaved off during every replication as a cell divides and ages..
Also, do the human-fugu match up genes play similar roles in each species?
is the name of the process being used to create the chips. From a May 2000 C/Net article on the process:
"Reducing circuit size is the cornerstone of Moore's Law, which states that the number of transistors capable of being put on a processor should double every 18 months. Shrinking circuits allows manufacturers to put more transistors onto a wafer, which in turn increases power. Unfortunately, the current technique, called DUV lithography, will likely hit its limit around 2003.
Controlling small wavelength light, however, is not easy. Current lithography machines depend on lenses to focus light. Because EUV light would be absorbed by glass, the new system will use a series of four specially coated convex mirrors to capture the mask
image and reduce it. The mirrors each contain 80 separate metallic layers just 12 atoms thick.
The technology stems from work at Stanford University. The laser-light technique, meanwhile, derived from work on missile defense systems, said Dave Attwood, a professor at the University of California and a researcher on the project.
EUV machines will be able to process about 80 wafers an hour, approximately the same as current lithography machines, making the process economically feasible."
I wonder what will it cost for chipmakers to transition over to the EUV technology? Intel is huge and would obviously be more able to make a capital investment like this than competitors.
is step INTO your software and SEIZE the hardware interrupt controller, so if the software fscks up and would like to shut stuff down or freeze things, Realtime Linux takes over and executes Mr. Software's tasks in realtime.
;)
If there is a bug in the code of Mr. Software, the flipside is that the realtime capability will crash your system immediately.
from the paper:
"A goal for the near-term future is to be able to run real-time tasks in userland with all of the memory protections provided by unix, on all real-time Linux variants. Emanuele Bianchi has already done this on RTAI! Real-time Linux (as far as I know) is the first real-time OS to offer this capability."
How do they intend to do this? (I am clue-free. I admit it.
The foreign company and government could also use the WTO to give the bitchslap to an ISP who blocked everything from the foreign spammers.
-perdida
(i'm LATE, i'm LATE..)
Well, like a reply post said the only way to do thi governmentally is through a LAWSUIT.
The principle applies though, are you trying to use the sovereignty of the government against the buying power of big corporations?
Get a strong enough anti-spam law and it will be seen as a barrier to interstate commerce.
And then the spammers go global.
Get a strong enough anti-spam law to block them?
Then you'll be accused of violating the rules of the World Trade Organization.
the stars my destination,
READ Alfred Bester PEOPLE,
GOOD SCIENCE FICTION RULES!!!
p.s. does anyone know about this supposed movie being made of The Demolished Man?
Stupid numeral-alphabet switches aside..
"PSINet confirmed the existence of the contract, which allows Cajunnet to send unsolicited e-mail messages directly from PSINet's networks, saying in a letter posted on its Web site that the contract was handled by a junior lawyer in PSINet's commercial contracts group and pledging to better educate its sales force.
"This would all seem to indicate that there are more pink contracts out there than the consumer is aware of," said Maurene Caplan Grey, a senior research analyst at high-tech market research firm Gartner. She said that while PSINet may have looked at such a contract to improve its flagging finances, the temptation for ISPs to secretly circumvent no-spam policies doesn't pay off. "My gut feeling is, assuming they get caught, it's not worth it. It's poor business form. You won't get partners. You will be blacklisted."
Yeh right. earlier in the article it mentioned that spammers don't give a shite about whether or not they are on the account for a few hours. it's all the same to them.
Furthermore, as we have the tech-world stock-drop known as Dot Bomb, more and more desperate folks will be turning to any moneymaking source possible. The number of USERS isn't gonna drop. the number of SPAMMERS isn't gonna drop. the number of successful ISPs is, and to stay successful a few will cater to the spammers' market, and many ISPs may let 'em sneak in while promising the bulk of users they are anti-spam with stern TOS's.