In many jurisdictions it's not illegal to send unsolicited bulk email WRONG, it's a violation of federal law, specificaly a violation of the federal anti-junk fax law, computers are capable of sending and recieving faxes, violators are subject to a $500.00 fine per message.
47 U.S.C. Section 227. Restrictions on Use of Telephone Equipment (a) Definitions. As used in this section - (2) The term ''telephone facsimile machine'' means equipment which has the capacity (A) to transcribe text or images, or both, from paper into an electronic signal and to transmit that signal over a regular telephone line, or (B) to transcribe text or images (or both) from an electronic signal received over a regular telephone line onto paper.... (4) The term ''unsolicited advertisement'' means any material advertising the commercial availability or quality of any property, goods, or services which is transmitted to any person without that person's prior express invitation or permission.... (3) Private Right of Action. A person or entity may, if otherwise permitted by the laws or rules of court of a State, bring in an appropriate court of that State - (A) an action based on a violation of this subsection or the regulations prescribed under this subsection to enjoin such violation, (B) an action to recover for actual monetary loss from such a violation, or to receive $500 in damages for each such violation, whichever is greater, or (C) both such actions. If the court finds that the defendant willfully or knowingly violated this subsection or the regulations prescribed under this subsection, the court may, in its discretion, increase the amount of the award to an amount equal to not more than 3 times the amount available under subparagraph (B) of this paragraph.
I think that's a big part of it, I believe that most spammers fall into a personality type similar to sociopaths, they are completely motivated by two things, 1. getting money ( keeping it is a side issue) 2. with as little work as possible. invariably they will lie and exaggerate about how much they are really getting (even to themselves) and about the effort involved. Instant gratifaction and pain/effort avoidance, that's what motivates them; very similar to drug addicts.
if ($User_Agent != "IE") {
print "<html><head></head><body>your bowser isn't supported</body></html>";
exit(); } else {
$title = "Welcome to clueless.gov!"; }
Then later when they pull their heads out of their asses under court order; you can charge them a thousand bucks to upgrade the site for non-IE browsers by yanking 4 lines of code out of a php or asp file and spending a month testing what you all ready know will work!
As an older citizen I like many others have found that my just don't focus well on close objects, like computer displays; Also I've found that the ability of non-IE browsers to change displayed font sizes to be very helpfull. Additionly I've found the the X-windows systems ability to change screen resolutions to be helpful as well. Anything that's "designed or best viewed with IE" also tends to include a bunch of things that make accessability challenging. IE just dosn't display fonts sizes the same, lacks CSS compatability making it more difficult for persons to customize the browser to display pages that are easier to view in short if the page doesn't display well in lynx or w3m things go downhill quickly.
Of course they are not designing a IE only site, but rather a tested in IE first site, so this could easily turn out to be a tempest in a teapot rather than a real issue; yet it is disturbing. I imagine that issues like the American's with disabilities act, and equal protection clauses are easily applicable.
1. is an unfertilized egg a person? 2. is one of my skin cells a person? 3. at what point does placing a skin cell nucleus in an unfertilized egg quit being a tissue culture and start being a person?
Removing the code doesn't do it, we just normaly consider it to be satisfactory, because we're more conserned with playing nice with others, than we are with taking all of the marbles. However a company like SCO who seems to go out of their way to insult anybody remotely concerned with linux and GNU developement and alienate all of their potential customers might find that they have squandered the goodwill of the community and that community might not now value playing nice with them as much as they once did.
So what happens when dirty rotten evil spammer gets locked in the big-slam and starts teaching "spam, 409 scams and internet riches for everybody, 101" to distract tyrone from putting his size 13 round peg in spammer's size 4 square hole?
I once got a spam from the illinios bureau of tourism, so I complained to the Illinios Attorney General, who sent me a nice informative packet about the Illinios anti-spam law, how to file complaints ect. So by now I starting to get pissed ( an "Oh gee we're sorry, we'll look into it" would have worked), and I call then, theatening to sue the state under federal law, They assured me that the marketing company they used is reputable, and I must have opted in at some time because the marketing company wouldn't defraud the State of Illinois!
These guys that send spam are con artists, and just about ever con works by getting the mark to think they are going to out-smart the con-artists or are some how special, they're getting sometime too good to be true because they are special.
H2/O2 has to be ignited, as in verb or potential point of failure, HMP hydrazine mono-propellant just lights all by itself, just open the valve and it's lit. In Fact the hard part is keeping it un-ignited, it's nasty stuff that reacts violently with just about everything, even itself. No sane person would use it if there was any alternative.
My niece is going to try-out for the Pittsburg Passion NWFA team you insensitive clod. Hold the wide-reciever jokes too, that's where she wants to play.
I suspect that if you painted the chips with resist, exposed the resist and washed the unexposed resist away, then coated them with something the little guys liked to eat, they'd poop out the nanowires where you wanted them. I'm not sure if this would be paractical for anything, but everybody is gogga over anything with nano as a prefix anymore, so it would get you some research grants.
I actually crunched the numbers just now and in reality it's a bit disapointing, a lot less than I was lead to believe; the yeild is about 14.4 GJ and unless I've botched the math that's about 1,700 pounds of TNT or about blockbuster sized. I've detonated a few 1 pound blocks of C4 and TNT, and the truth is those high explosives have a rather sharp impulse, much different than the softer impulse from black power, cordite, acetylene/air mixtures or even the ANFO stuff they use in movies, not something you'd want going off in your house, and probably your going to lose all the windows for a 100m. I suspect just the sonic boom from a rock like that is going to take out most windows for a couple city blocks. It occured to me that the Ionization trail behind rock that big hitting the Earth, is going to cause some very impressive lightening strikes too.
Laserbeams, smaserbeams, Don't worry about laserbeams, they just will not do the job. Get your biggest fancy-smancy laserbeam, and shoot my house, from space, your luckey to melt a little bit of tar on my roof you putz. The thing to worry about is big rocks, Holey-moley, somebody drops a 250 Kg iron-nickel rock on the house from orbit now we gotta problem. Hits the ground pretty hard, looks like a 15Kt nuke. Put it in a high-elipticle orbit, give it a little nudge at the right time and down it comes, almost striaght down on top of you at over 17,000 MPH, can't see, can't stop, house gone, city gone. Thing leave no radiation, no finger-prints and looks just like any other 250Kg asteroid in a NEO!
One of our water-front bars has a sign with US Customs and Immigration's telephone number on it so Canadian boaters can just call in they've entered the US, most don't even bother.
Why would the US launch critical military infrastructure (the GPS) without protecting it? Maybe it's just that we figure the cost of knocking them out is much greater than the cost of replacing them; or even the value of having them is less than the cost of knocking them down.
Modern military systems generaly have quite a bit of fail-over and there are probably back-up systems in space waiting to be turned on, or even inside other satelites. There are a lot of occasions where knowing where enemy fire is coming from is more valuable than the asset being fired up.
Now I amazed, I guess my default start for any research is going to have to be wikipedia, I've yet to find or be shown a subject that didn't at least have a stub, and most seem quite authoritative with lots of links to more traditional references.
The problem as I see it, is that it is fundamentaly easier to study business, marketing, law and economics than to study science. I would say a lot of that is because business and marketing is quite a bit easier than science. Law is challenging and post-grad Econ pretty much approaches most sciences. I'd say the truth is we are very good at teaching at the university level, but we suck at teaching in the K-12 level; and our biggest problem is that the parents and kids think that teachers are responsible for teaching rather than the kids should be responsible for learning.
The impact that they will get from 20 movies that glorify science... will be greater than dispersing that same money amongst existing scientists.
Actually they really could apply a lot of leverage through the studio's by demanding better attention to scientific and tactical principals when they come begging for technical consultants and hardware to show on the screen. Let's face it used nuclear aircraft carriers, M1 tanks and F16's aren't exactly cheap.
I couldn't figure out why I couldn't get as high as the people in the anti-drug-flicks they showed in health class; yeah that's right i was one of the people who was trying not to giggle out load during the screening of "reefer madness". I did notice my GT score went from 115 being a druggy to 154 six months after I quit smoking the shit and power drinking.
I think you should read Asimov's "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline" First Published In: Astounding Science Fiction, March 1948, pp. 120-125 a very good read and it accurately teaches a lot about the scientific process. The thing I found most amusing about it is it chronological context, it was published the week before Asimov gave his oral defense of his PhD thesis and he was terrified that one of the examiners would take a dim view of a "real" scientist writing SciFi. What happened was after they were done grilling him on his thesis work, they made him defend his fiction, so he not only got his PhD, but became confident that writing fiction didn't taint his as a scientist.
We used to call them shoe-string fries, back when regular fries were regular sized like what your getting now, probably has something to do with McD's over engineering every aspect of food to cut cost and increase production. Great now I'm craving fish & chip, hafta make a trip to Canada I suppose.
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WRONG, it's a violation of federal law, specificaly a violation of the federal anti-junk fax law, computers are capable of sending and recieving faxes, violators are subject to a $500.00 fine per message.
see Junk Fax Law for complete verbage.
I think that's a big part of it, I believe that most spammers fall into a personality type similar to sociopaths, they are completely motivated by two things, 1. getting money ( keeping it is a side issue) 2. with as little work as possible. invariably they will lie and exaggerate about how much they are really getting (even to themselves) and about the effort involved.
Instant gratifaction and pain/effort avoidance, that's what motivates them; very similar to drug addicts.
Here's how;
1. make a presentation in Powerpoint,
2. save as html,
3. post as a webpage,
4. browse with anything other than IE and see almost nothing!
As an older citizen I like many others have found that my just don't focus well on close objects, like computer displays; Also I've found that the ability of non-IE browsers to change displayed font sizes to be very helpfull. Additionly I've found the the X-windows systems ability to change screen resolutions to be helpful as well.
Anything that's "designed or best viewed with IE" also tends to include a bunch of things that make accessability challenging. IE just dosn't display fonts sizes the same, lacks CSS compatability making it more difficult for persons to customize the browser to display pages that are easier to view in short if the page doesn't display well in lynx or w3m things go downhill quickly.
Of course they are not designing a IE only site, but rather a tested in IE first site, so this could easily turn out to be a tempest in a teapot rather than a real issue; yet it is disturbing. I imagine that issues like the American's with disabilities act, and equal protection clauses are easily applicable.
1. is an unfertilized egg a person?
2. is one of my skin cells a person?
3. at what point does placing a skin cell nucleus in an unfertilized egg quit being a tissue culture and start being a person?
Removing the code doesn't do it, we just normaly consider it to be satisfactory, because we're more conserned with playing nice with others, than we are with taking all of the marbles. However a company like SCO who seems to go out of their way to insult anybody remotely concerned with linux and GNU developement and alienate all of their potential customers might find that they have squandered the goodwill of the community and that community might not now value playing nice with them as much as they once did.
Because you only get a research grant if you can work the keywords, terrorist, global-warming or nano into the grant proposal.
You'd be amazed
I'll admit it doesn't happen often, but it does happen.
So what happens when dirty rotten evil spammer gets locked in the big-slam and starts teaching "spam, 409 scams and internet riches for everybody, 101" to distract tyrone from putting his size 13 round peg in spammer's size 4 square hole?
I once got a spam from the illinios bureau of tourism, so I complained to the Illinios Attorney General, who sent me a nice informative packet about the Illinios anti-spam law, how to file complaints ect. So by now I starting to get pissed ( an "Oh gee we're sorry, we'll look into it" would have worked), and I call then, theatening to sue the state under federal law, They assured me that the marketing company they used is reputable, and I must have opted in at some time because the marketing company wouldn't defraud the State of Illinois!
These guys that send spam are con artists, and just about ever con works by getting the mark to think they are going to out-smart the con-artists or are some how special, they're getting sometime too good to be true because they are special.
H2/O2 has to be ignited, as in verb or potential point of failure, HMP hydrazine mono-propellant just lights all by itself, just open the valve and it's lit. In Fact the hard part is keeping it un-ignited, it's nasty stuff that reacts violently with just about everything, even itself. No sane person would use it if there was any alternative.
My niece is going to try-out for the Pittsburg Passion NWFA team you insensitive clod. Hold the wide-reciever jokes too, that's where she wants to play.
I suspect that if you painted the chips with resist, exposed the resist and washed the unexposed resist away, then coated them with something the little guys liked to eat, they'd poop out the nanowires where you wanted them. I'm not sure if this would be paractical for anything, but everybody is gogga over anything with nano as a prefix anymore, so it would get you some research grants.
I actually crunched the numbers just now and in reality it's a bit disapointing, a lot less than I was lead to believe; the yeild is about 14.4 GJ and unless I've botched the math that's about 1,700 pounds of TNT or about blockbuster sized. I've detonated a few 1 pound blocks of C4 and TNT, and the truth is those high explosives have a rather sharp impulse, much different than the softer impulse from black power, cordite, acetylene/air mixtures or even the ANFO stuff they use in movies, not something you'd want going off in your house, and probably your going to lose all the windows for a 100m. I suspect just the sonic boom from a rock like that is going to take out most windows for a couple city blocks. It occured to me that the Ionization trail behind rock that big hitting the Earth, is going to cause some very impressive lightening strikes too.
Laserbeams, smaserbeams, Don't worry about laserbeams, they just will not do the job. Get your biggest fancy-smancy laserbeam, and shoot my house, from space, your luckey to melt a little bit of tar on my roof you putz. The thing to worry about is big rocks, Holey-moley, somebody drops a 250 Kg iron-nickel rock on the house from orbit now we gotta problem. Hits the ground pretty hard, looks like a 15Kt nuke. Put it in a high-elipticle orbit, give it a little nudge at the right time and down it comes, almost striaght down on top of you at over 17,000 MPH, can't see, can't stop, house gone, city gone. Thing leave no radiation, no finger-prints and looks just like any other 250Kg asteroid in a NEO!
One of our water-front bars has a sign with US Customs and Immigration's telephone number on it so Canadian boaters can just call in they've entered the US, most don't even bother.
Why would the US launch critical military infrastructure (the GPS) without protecting it?
Maybe it's just that we figure the cost of knocking them out is much greater than the cost of replacing them; or even the value of having them is less than the cost of knocking them down.
Modern military systems generaly have quite a bit of fail-over and there are probably back-up systems in space waiting to be turned on, or even inside other satelites. There are a lot of occasions where knowing where enemy fire is coming from is more valuable than the asset being fired up.
Now I amazed, I guess my default start for any research is going to have to be wikipedia, I've yet to find or be shown a subject that didn't at least have a stub, and most seem quite authoritative with lots of links to more traditional references.
The problem as I see it, is that it is fundamentaly easier to study business, marketing, law and economics than to study science.
I would say a lot of that is because business and marketing is quite a bit easier than science. Law is challenging and post-grad Econ pretty much approaches most sciences.
I'd say the truth is we are very good at teaching at the university level, but we suck at teaching in the K-12 level; and our biggest problem is that the parents and kids think that teachers are responsible for teaching rather than the kids should be responsible for learning.
The impact that they will get from 20 movies that glorify science ... will be greater than dispersing that same money amongst existing scientists.
Actually they really could apply a lot of leverage through the studio's by demanding better attention to scientific and tactical principals when they come begging for technical consultants and hardware to show on the screen. Let's face it used nuclear aircraft carriers, M1 tanks and F16's aren't exactly cheap.
I remember somebody getting all twitterpated over them showing a screen shot of them using nmap 1.13, so I told them I use the current version, 1.15.
I couldn't figure out why I couldn't get as high as the people in the anti-drug-flicks they showed in health class; yeah that's right i was one of the people who was trying not to giggle out load during the screening of "reefer madness".
I did notice my GT score went from 115 being a druggy to 154 six months after I quit smoking the shit and power drinking.
I think you should read Asimov's "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline"
First Published In: Astounding Science Fiction, March 1948, pp. 120-125 a very good read and it accurately teaches a lot about the scientific process. The thing I found most amusing about it is it chronological context, it was published the week before Asimov gave his oral defense of his PhD thesis and he was terrified that one of the examiners would take a dim view of a "real" scientist writing SciFi. What happened was after they were done grilling him on his thesis work, they made him defend his fiction, so he not only got his PhD, but became confident that writing fiction didn't taint his as a scientist.
We used to call them shoe-string fries, back when regular fries were regular sized like what your getting now, probably has something to do with McD's over engineering every aspect of food to cut cost and increase production. Great now I'm craving fish & chip, hafta make a trip to Canada I suppose.