We have one guy making spamming more trouble than it's worth. If we could get a significant number of people to begin counter-harrasment tactics and filing suit it could be the death of spam. Same with telemarketing. First never buy from ppl who call you at dinner time and explain to them why you refuse to do so, second tell them to put you on their do not call list (you have the legal right to under FCC regs). Lastly take up as much time of any marketer as you can and then do not buy. The only way to end an annoying marketing tactic is to make it unprofitable.
This whole thing seems to paralell the industrial revolution. We have a relatively new medium (the internet)that has not has it's full potential tapped just like at the birth of industrialism. The government did not completely understand either of them and cannot successfully regulate them. Regulation is either absent or isn't effective, thus we end up with abuses like the sweatshop back then and the DMCA now. It's good that we finally see a backlash against the complete subjucation of the information superhighway before it became too late. We need to grab the bull by the horn before the consumer completely becomes microsoft's bitch instead of the other way around.
This story sounds an awful like an old story by Anton Checkov called the bet, where a man is challenged to spend several years of his life in seclusion for a considerable chunck of money. When it comes time to pay the initiator of the bet is bankrupt, and even contemplates killing the man, but the betee abdicates shortly before the end date. Anyway I suggest reading it. This summary doesn't do it justice.
The fact of the matter is that the American Public has no reason to support the space program in it's current state, a shadow of it's former self. All that we ever hear is the news is that this probe was lost because they couldn't convert to metric or that tellescope is messed up again. First off they need a hella amount of funds that they could not possibly get on their own. What we need, in effect is another John F. Kennedy to challenge the American People's imagination to accomplish another great feat like the trip to the moon by the end of the 60's. Next step: Mars in the next 20 years. Boom! All of a sudden you have public opinion. There is suddenly a great surge in public support for space exploration. Having another rival similar to the USSR might help but isn't overall necessary. Once we have the momentum from a Mars trip it is important that we don't repeat the same mistake nasa made in the 70's, they kept doing the same costly moon missions over and over again. Yes, we needed more research than one mission could provide but the public nor the politicians will not support that. After Mars I we need to 1) Keep doing new stuff on Mars to justify the need to keep going, and plan even bigger cooler projects to keep the people supportive. These steps are imperitive to assure humanity's ultimate survival and future among the stars.
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We have one guy making spamming more trouble than it's worth. If we could get a significant number of people to begin counter-harrasment tactics and filing suit it could be the death of spam. Same with telemarketing. First never buy from ppl who call you at dinner time and explain to them why you refuse to do so, second tell them to put you on their do not call list (you have the legal right to under FCC regs). Lastly take up as much time of any marketer as you can and then do not buy. The only way to end an annoying marketing tactic is to make it unprofitable.
This whole thing seems to paralell the industrial revolution. We have a relatively new medium (the internet)that has not has it's full potential tapped just like at the birth of industrialism. The government did not completely understand either of them and cannot successfully regulate them. Regulation is either absent or isn't effective, thus we end up with abuses like the sweatshop back then and the DMCA now. It's good that we finally see a backlash against the complete subjucation of the information superhighway before it became too late. We need to grab the bull by the horn before the consumer completely becomes microsoft's bitch instead of the other way around.
This story sounds an awful like an old story by Anton Checkov called the bet, where a man is challenged to spend several years of his life in seclusion for a considerable chunck of money. When it comes time to pay the initiator of the bet is bankrupt, and even contemplates killing the man, but the betee abdicates shortly before the end date. Anyway I suggest reading it. This summary doesn't do it justice.
The fact of the matter is that the American Public has no reason to support the space program in it's current state, a shadow of it's former self. All that we ever hear is the news is that this probe was lost because they couldn't convert to metric or that tellescope is messed up again. First off they need a hella amount of funds that they could not possibly get on their own. What we need, in effect is another John F. Kennedy to challenge the American People's imagination to accomplish another great feat like the trip to the moon by the end of the 60's. Next step: Mars in the next 20 years. Boom! All of a sudden you have public opinion. There is suddenly a great surge in public support for space exploration. Having another rival similar to the USSR might help but isn't overall necessary. Once we have the momentum from a Mars trip it is important that we don't repeat the same mistake nasa made in the 70's, they kept doing the same costly moon missions over and over again. Yes, we needed more research than one mission could provide but the public nor the politicians will not support that. After Mars I we need to 1) Keep doing new stuff on Mars to justify the need to keep going, and plan even bigger cooler projects to keep the people supportive. These steps are imperitive to assure humanity's ultimate survival and future among the stars.