WTC death toll: ~5200
US weekly deaths attributable to smoking: ~9000
US weekly deaths attributable to traffic accidents: ~3400
US weekly deaths attributable to drinking: ~2300
US weekly deaths of innocent people attributable to smoking: ~0
US weekly deaths of innocent people attributable to drinking: ~0
The outrage was the number of innocent people killed not just the number of deceased individuals. You put a cigarette in your mouth or a get behind a steering wheel after drinking and your death is your own fault.
p.s. Yes, I realize there are innocent people killed by drunks, too, but I'll assume they're listed under your extremely vague statistics for car accidents.
I'm not sure I'm ready to tell those kids whose parents didn't come home last week that they and others down the road just have to suck it up because people may be unwilling -- even temporarily -- to lose any measure of privacy.
It just sucks it had to be somthing like this to wake people like JonKatz up. I was surprised (though, not offended) at the level of security in customs when my family would fly back and forth to Europe during my father's assignment in Italy. Since then, I was always amazed at the lack of true security at most US airports. When's the last time you saw a team of dogs searching every suitcase?
Let someone have their suitcase sniff-free and remain zippered to agents, but please don't put him on my plane.
I once overheated a K6-233 because a drive cable was resting on the CPU fan. Worked for weeks until I was compiling a kernel...
Unfortunately, PCs these days are made as cheaply as possible, with cheap fans, flimsy cases, etc.
If you knew that the drive cable was blocking the fan for weeks before it caused a problem... why not move the cable?!! Otherwise, blaming cheap parts sounds really weak.
I have a list of friends that I send mail to on occassion, some more than others. I know which ones are likely to respond in 5 minutes and which ones I may wait a couple days for.
When you answer your email immediately and don't filter or take your time, your correspondents will pick up on it. If they get the feeling that you only check only once every day or so, they won't expect an immediate response. If you don't want the stress, don't introduce it in the first place.
(This strategy also worked well in school. High test scores lead to high expectations. Mediocre scores lead to a normal life.:)
Someone potentially violates a Terms-of-service agreement.
Someone complains to the ISP.
The ISP shuts down the account.
So, the client takes the ISP to court. You'll notice the ISP couldn't provide good proof to shut them down (I assume, probably incorrectly, that all of you read the PDF transcript of the hearing, too) and the judge sided with the "alleged" spammers.
I'm sure the ISP had a terms of service agreement. The first reaction of the ISP when it becomes aware of something illegal it should be to dump the connection immediately. Try arguing that a child pornographer's site should not be shut down until a court decides that it is, in fact, illegal. You and I both know that could be days, weeks, or months.
People make honest mistakes (even people from large corporations) and when they realize they made a mistake, they fix it.
While we're at it, let's go after the car companies. After all, there's no way they can deny that every drunk driver needs to have a car to drive while intoxicated. I think it's a reasonable assumption that Ford knows the drunks need vehicles.
Most of the debts we are restructuring through the Chapter 11 are well over a year old.
We've... become cash positive.
It doesn't work that way. You may have income, but you're not positive if you can't pay your debts. Part of a successful reorganization is recognizing the situation you're in so you can fix it.
I wish them the best of luck, but they have some more thinking to do.
I'm quite aware of what JavaScript, JScript, and VBScript are, having coded in all three. I can guarantee that, despite some shared ideas, they are significantly different. In an attempt to steer the crowd in their direction, Microsoft created their own spec with the name being made similar only to confuse people (which has apparently worked:).
This should shed some light on the differences between JScript and JavaScript:
I like it because I don't have to worry about several different OS's and garbage collection. It's easy to code in and I can get a string output of *any* data type, which makes it easy to debug.
If I buy a book I can highlight (or doodle, or rip out, pages for that matter). It becomes my book.
I can also hire a person to buy some books, make random drawings, and rip out pages before I read it. If I decide that I don't like the alterations, I better be sure that I know how to fire him.
As for the copyright crap, the authors content isn't being altered. The html on the server is exactly the same. The next guy won't be influenced by another reader's alterations. If I don't want a copy of the book I wrote and sold (note I did not say "my book", because I sold the copy) altered or perverted by some guy with a highlighter, I should choose not to sell copies. If I don't want the html downloaded and viewed by some guy altered or perverted, I shouldn't put it up.
This is no different than changing the font size in my browser. Most people who change it don't see anything wrong with that. An artistic web designer might shit a brick when he sees that someone has thrown off the balance of his page by changing the font. If you don't know how to change the font back, don't mess with it.
My modem was purchased when the cable company had, in fact, specified a particular brand and model of modem. This was before DOCSIS was used by everyone (nice because they were unable to throttle bandwidth). I did my research and saw that, within a year, purchasing the same modem would have been cheaper than renting. However, when standards were created, the cable company switched over and swapped any rented modems to DOCSIS-compatible. My modem was rendered useless to me.
I sold it on eBay for a loss slightly less than what I would have paid in rental charges, so I wasn't livid. I only feel burned because I ended up "renting" when I did my research and made a conscious decision not to.
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That's great if you have support for it. Our cable company requires a DOCSIS modem now. I despise renting something which would pay for itself in rent, so I bought... and got screwed.
Now there's a standard and I feel I can buy my non-DOCSIS modem without the worry of being burned again. Of course, you might be the guy who bought my old modem on eBay, so maybe you'll be the next to get burned.;)
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He's having transmission problems that were very similar to the ones seen with the Cherokee it replaced... to the point he's nearing protection by the "Lemon Law".
I love our Wrangler and it happened rarely with the Cherokee, but it's still preventing me from parking a Grand Cherokee in my driveway.
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I make it a rule, despite my huge craving for anything new and shiny, to hold off on buying the first versions of anything.
Anyone get screwed by buying...
Beta? (no quality arguements, just show me the Walmart aisle)
Laserdisc?
Minidisc?
Non-DOCSIS cable modem? (me... very recently)
First year car model? (friend's Jeep Liberty)
Let the standards be decided and buy then. It's absolutely killing me that I don't have my widescreen HDTV, but I'm waiting until I see that it's becoming more commonplace and less likely that I'll get burned. Seeing an article like this only reminds me I made the right decision.
Why is it so hard to understand that this is a useful feature and helpful to establishing this OS as a useable alternative?
Of course Linux users don't like the idea of ActiveX sites. We realize that ActiveX limits us to a Microsoft OS and certain hardware. But, these developers realize that a Windows user who feels restricted by using a Linux OS isn't going to switch to it. How many Linux users run a dual-boot or second Windows machine for games? I run Windows on my main machine because I don't have an alternative for some applications I consider important. I use Linux for everything else that I possibly can.
As long as we have developers creating alternatives, we attract more users and increase the number of Linux machines. The developers here should be commended.
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Granted, I only did this on rare occassions when the amount of spam from a particular company irritated me.
The last time was when I was investigating an application for our company. I visited their website and downloaded the trial version. When I filled the online form I used a "spam" address that I use specifically for occassions like this. However, when I contacted one of their sales people for an extension on the trial period, the guy added my name to a newsletter. Incensed, I wrote the guy and told him to remove me ASAP. When it became apparent that he was either unable or unwilling to remove me, I reversed the situation. I began forwarding all of my spam to him... all of it... from 3 accounts, including my "spam" account, averaging 200-300 emails a day.
Knowing he was a salesperson and maintaining an unchanging email address was vital, I wasn't surprised to be contacted within 2 days by their administrator. At which point, I informed him that until I received a formal, snail-mail (I loved that part) apology from the salesperson, that it would continue.
Then I added the administrator.
Knowing my mail was probably getting blocked, I used several accounts on several machines, rotating the names daily, and religiously adding a header explaining the situation. All in all, I was contacted by 5-6 people on my "important" email address and each time I added that name to my forwarding list (checking the company overview page and adding some execs probably didn't hurt, either). It took under a week and I received a fedex letter from that salesperson. I promptly stopped my forwarding and have yet to receive a single email from the company.
I know this isn't the ideal way to stop spam, as most spammers are near impossible to reach, but it worked for me. Getting a taste of their own medicine never hurts.
Fact is, this is a technical and financial problem, not a freedom-of-speech problem.
The technical problem is that there are open relays, but the freedom-of-speech issue is that this service allows administrators to determine -- blindly -- which email will reach a person, based on the possibility that it came from one of those relays.
Spam annoys people and cuts bandwidth.
You are absolutely correct. However, so does the constant barrage of corny jokes from friends of mine. I'll take the responsibility, though, of determining which of it is annoying.
Hmmm... with this technology I could power devices while moving.
By attaching this small device to my shoe in the morning, running the cable up my leg into my backpack, plugging the cable into my laptop as I leave, and walking to work rather than driving...
I could pretty much eliminate the need to plug my laptop into my car cigarette lighter or a wall outlet at night. How convenient!
Maybe the reason that typical online media is failing is the net users value a forum over a lecture. Not available with a typical magazine (except for a select few in Letters to the Editor), sites like Slashdot allow content to be posted and discussed by both the editors and the readers. Maybe, despite their bits and bytes, these online magazines tried too hard to be like their paper counterparts.
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WTC death toll: ~5200
US weekly deaths attributable to smoking: ~9000
US weekly deaths attributable to traffic accidents: ~3400
US weekly deaths attributable to drinking: ~2300
US weekly deaths of innocent people attributable to smoking: ~0
US weekly deaths of innocent people attributable to drinking: ~0
The outrage was the number of innocent people killed not just the number of deceased individuals. You put a cigarette in your mouth or a get behind a steering wheel after drinking and your death is your own fault.
p.s. Yes, I realize there are innocent people killed by drunks, too, but I'll assume they're listed under your extremely vague statistics for car accidents.
I'm not sure I'm ready to tell those kids whose parents didn't come home last week that they and others down the road just have to suck it up because people may be unwilling -- even temporarily -- to lose any measure of privacy.
It just sucks it had to be somthing like this to wake people like JonKatz up. I was surprised (though, not offended) at the level of security in customs when my family would fly back and forth to Europe during my father's assignment in Italy. Since then, I was always amazed at the lack of true security at most US airports. When's the last time you saw a team of dogs searching every suitcase?
Let someone have their suitcase sniff-free and remain zippered to agents, but please don't put him on my plane.
I once overheated a K6-233 because a drive cable was resting on the CPU fan. Worked for weeks until I was compiling a kernel...
Unfortunately, PCs these days are made as cheaply as possible, with cheap fans, flimsy cases, etc.
If you knew that the drive cable was blocking the fan for weeks before it caused a problem... why not move the cable?!! Otherwise, blaming cheap parts sounds really weak.
just don't answer the email.
:)
I have a list of friends that I send mail to on occassion, some more than others. I know which ones are likely to respond in 5 minutes and which ones I may wait a couple days for.
When you answer your email immediately and don't filter or take your time, your correspondents will pick up on it. If they get the feeling that you only check only once every day or so, they won't expect an immediate response. If you don't want the stress, don't introduce it in the first place.
(This strategy also worked well in school. High test scores lead to high expectations. Mediocre scores lead to a normal life.
Someone potentially violates a Terms-of-service agreement.
Someone complains to the ISP.
The ISP shuts down the account.
So, the client takes the ISP to court. You'll notice the ISP couldn't provide good proof to shut them down (I assume, probably incorrectly, that all of you read the PDF transcript of the hearing, too) and the judge sided with the "alleged" spammers.
So, being a just and fair audience, we in the Slashdot forums changed our opinion on such a matter...
cause this time we don't like the client.
I'm sure the ISP had a terms of service agreement. The first reaction of the ISP when it becomes aware of something illegal it should be to dump the connection immediately. Try arguing that a child pornographer's site should not be shut down until a court decides that it is, in fact, illegal. You and I both know that could be days, weeks, or months.
People make honest mistakes (even people from large corporations) and when they realize they made a mistake, they fix it.
While we're at it, let's go after the car companies. After all, there's no way they can deny that every drunk driver needs to have a car to drive while intoxicated. I think it's a reasonable assumption that Ford knows the drunks need vehicles.
Most of the debts we are restructuring through the Chapter 11 are well over a year old.
We've... become cash positive.
It doesn't work that way. You may have income, but you're not positive if you can't pay your debts. Part of a successful reorganization is recognizing the situation you're in so you can fix it.
I wish them the best of luck, but they have some more thinking to do.
I'm quite aware of what JavaScript, JScript, and VBScript are, having coded in all three. I can guarantee that, despite some shared ideas, they are significantly different. In an attempt to steer the crowd in their direction, Microsoft created their own spec with the name being made similar only to confuse people (which has apparently worked :).
This should shed some light on the differences between JScript and JavaScript:
JavaScript vs. JScript
I like it because I don't have to worry about several different OS's and garbage collection. It's easy to code in and I can get a string output of *any* data type, which makes it easy to debug.
It's that easy.
Microsoft has been trying for years to get rid of Java. Just like Microsoft itself, it's easier to get rid of a standard before it becomes mainstream.
They tried the same maneuver with JavaScript, but it's still alive and well and I don't see much JScript around.
Though... if you want to get technical about it, maybe "faster, higher, stronger" could be used in an arguement for drugs in competition.
Sorry, chess doesn't fit.
Not every activity/hobby should become an Olympic sport.
The wonderful high-tech mesh fabric acts like sandpaper and wears holes in my pants.
The reason that your company is going under isn't the expensive chairs. The world just isn't ready for www.WoodPants.com right now.
If I buy a book I can highlight (or doodle, or rip out, pages for that matter). It becomes my book.
I can also hire a person to buy some books, make random drawings, and rip out pages before I read it. If I decide that I don't like the alterations, I better be sure that I know how to fire him.
As for the copyright crap, the authors content isn't being altered. The html on the server is exactly the same. The next guy won't be influenced by another reader's alterations. If I don't want a copy of the book I wrote and sold (note I did not say "my book", because I sold the copy) altered or perverted by some guy with a highlighter, I should choose not to sell copies. If I don't want the html downloaded and viewed by some guy altered or perverted, I shouldn't put it up.
This is no different than changing the font size in my browser. Most people who change it don't see anything wrong with that. An artistic web designer might shit a brick when he sees that someone has thrown off the balance of his page by changing the font. If you don't know how to change the font back, don't mess with it.
who trips and goes headfirst into the television.
My modem was purchased when the cable company had, in fact, specified a particular brand and model of modem. This was before DOCSIS was used by everyone (nice because they were unable to throttle bandwidth). I did my research and saw that, within a year, purchasing the same modem would have been cheaper than renting. However, when standards were created, the cable company switched over and swapped any rented modems to DOCSIS-compatible. My modem was rendered useless to me.
I sold it on eBay for a loss slightly less than what I would have paid in rental charges, so I wasn't livid. I only feel burned because I ended up "renting" when I did my research and made a conscious decision not to.
That's great if you have support for it. Our cable company requires a DOCSIS modem now. I despise renting something which would pay for itself in rent, so I bought... and got screwed.
;)
Now there's a standard and I feel I can buy my non-DOCSIS modem without the worry of being burned again. Of course, you might be the guy who bought my old modem on eBay, so maybe you'll be the next to get burned.
He's having transmission problems that were very similar to the ones seen with the Cherokee it replaced... to the point he's nearing protection by the "Lemon Law".
I love our Wrangler and it happened rarely with the Cherokee, but it's still preventing me from parking a Grand Cherokee in my driveway.
I make it a rule, despite my huge craving for anything new and shiny, to hold off on buying the first versions of anything.
Anyone get screwed by buying...
Beta? (no quality arguements, just show me the Walmart aisle)
Laserdisc?
Minidisc?
Non-DOCSIS cable modem? (me... very recently)
First year car model? (friend's Jeep Liberty)
Let the standards be decided and buy then. It's absolutely killing me that I don't have my widescreen HDTV, but I'm waiting until I see that it's becoming more commonplace and less likely that I'll get burned. Seeing an article like this only reminds me I made the right decision.
Why is it so hard to understand that this is a useful feature and helpful to establishing this OS as a useable alternative?
Of course Linux users don't like the idea of ActiveX sites. We realize that ActiveX limits us to a Microsoft OS and certain hardware. But, these developers realize that a Windows user who feels restricted by using a Linux OS isn't going to switch to it. How many Linux users run a dual-boot or second Windows machine for games? I run Windows on my main machine because I don't have an alternative for some applications I consider important. I use Linux for everything else that I possibly can.
As long as we have developers creating alternatives, we attract more users and increase the number of Linux machines. The developers here should be commended.
Granted, I only did this on rare occassions when the amount of spam from a particular company irritated me.
The last time was when I was investigating an application for our company. I visited their website and downloaded the trial version. When I filled the online form I used a "spam" address that I use specifically for occassions like this. However, when I contacted one of their sales people for an extension on the trial period, the guy added my name to a newsletter. Incensed, I wrote the guy and told him to remove me ASAP. When it became apparent that he was either unable or unwilling to remove me, I reversed the situation. I began forwarding all of my spam to him... all of it... from 3 accounts, including my "spam" account, averaging 200-300 emails a day.
Knowing he was a salesperson and maintaining an unchanging email address was vital, I wasn't surprised to be contacted within 2 days by their administrator. At which point, I informed him that until I received a formal, snail-mail (I loved that part) apology from the salesperson, that it would continue.
Then I added the administrator.
Knowing my mail was probably getting blocked, I used several accounts on several machines, rotating the names daily, and religiously adding a header explaining the situation. All in all, I was contacted by 5-6 people on my "important" email address and each time I added that name to my forwarding list (checking the company overview page and adding some execs probably didn't hurt, either). It took under a week and I received a fedex letter from that salesperson. I promptly stopped my forwarding and have yet to receive a single email from the company.
I know this isn't the ideal way to stop spam, as most spammers are near impossible to reach, but it worked for me. Getting a taste of their own medicine never hurts.
Fact is, this is a technical and financial problem, not a freedom-of-speech problem.
The technical problem is that there are open relays, but the freedom-of-speech issue is that this service allows administrators to determine -- blindly -- which email will reach a person, based on the possibility that it came from one of those relays. Spam annoys people and cuts bandwidth.
You are absolutely correct. However, so does the constant barrage of corny jokes from friends of mine. I'll take the responsibility, though, of determining which of it is annoying.
Hmmm... with this technology I could power devices while moving.
By attaching this small device to my shoe in the morning, running the cable up my leg into my backpack, plugging the cable into my laptop as I leave, and walking to work rather than driving...
I could pretty much eliminate the need to plug my laptop into my car cigarette lighter or a wall outlet at night. How convenient!
Maybe the reason that typical online media is failing is the net users value a forum over a lecture. Not available with a typical magazine (except for a select few in Letters to the Editor), sites like Slashdot allow content to be posted and discussed by both the editors and the readers. Maybe, despite their bits and bytes, these online magazines tried too hard to be like their paper counterparts.