It's kinda like that. Also kinda like an architect I pay to design a house for me using the same layout for a later client. Whether that's ok or not depends on what I agreed to, and how similar they are.
This could solve my fundamental beef with speech as an interface - privacy! Dictating email and documents would be great, if I didn't have to broadcast to everyone around me. Not to mention the annoyance of hearing the guy in the next cube complain to his girlfriend over IM...
Mouthing words silently takes some getting used to, but it has advantages. No more trying to type on a tiny PDA keyboard - etc. Obviously this is a ways off, but it seems doable.
Any Apple ][ people out there with fond memories of Cytron Masters? It mas also two player simulatanous play (using the paddles) in which you had limited control over a robot army. It was simpler than M.U.L.E., but definitely fun. The first real-time strategy game I ever played...
This means the kiddies would only be able to look at sites that didn't look bad from over your shoulder. Someone could write a porn site that looks like amazon, except all the book cover pics are porn pics. Little porn pics, of course. Or, full size pics of midgets.
Now that I think about it, the same could be done to camoflauge embarrasing but legit sites -- people reading up on veneral disease or mental illness could go to "makemelooklikeamazon.com", type in their url, and have it disguised.
Remember how annoyed you were the last time you played a buggy game. Now imagine how annoyed you would be if you had to play MUCH more buggy games all the damn time? And you had to play the same broken level over and over and over...
I work as a game developer, and testers come and go pretty quick. The good ones mostly get promoted to be level designers, or they go work at a higher paying regular QA gig. The rest tend to go away once they realize what a pain in the ass the job really is. -
By the way, the response rate that snail mail requires is astonishingly low. My sister works in the marketing department of a major catalog company - they consider a 2% response rate excellent.
So if you live with someone who complains about all the catalogs but still buys from time to time, tell them this: every time they buy from a catalog they are voting to have 50 more sent to them.
Another interesting tidbit - list exchange. You know that buying from Lemurs Unlimited gets you on the mailing list of Ferrets Forever, Gerbils by Mail, and HamsterConnection. The way this works is that catalogs "rent" lists to each other. So Catalog B rents 10,000 names from Catalog A with the restriction that they can only mail to them for a certain period of time. If a rented name responds to Catalog B, B is allowed to keep mailing them. If they don't, they must stop mailing after the designated period. This is done not for spam prevention but to keep competition for good customers $ under control.
What's amusing is the way this in enforced. When Catalog A rents the list of names, they seed it with a few address of their own employees, or PO boxes, etc. They know that these customers won't respond, since they're fake. If Catalog B keeps mailing after the rental period, they start a fuss and sometimes sue.
And, yes, my sister does feel a little guilty about her job. In fact, she's quitting soon and going to grad school...
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It's kinda like that. Also kinda like an architect I pay to design a house for me using the same layout for a later client. Whether that's ok or not depends on what I agreed to, and how similar they are.
This could solve my fundamental beef with speech as an interface - privacy! Dictating email and documents would be great, if I didn't have to broadcast to everyone around me. Not to mention the annoyance of hearing the guy in the next cube complain to his girlfriend over IM...
Mouthing words silently takes some getting used to, but it has advantages. No more trying to type on a tiny PDA keyboard - etc. Obviously this is a ways off, but it seems doable.
Handy for a monitor, maybe, but you really don't want that with a projector. They get hot, and like to run the fan before powering down.
From the "Mitigating Factors" section of Microsoft's bulletin:
- For an attack to be successful, the user would need to visit a website under the attacker's control or receive an HTML e-mail from the attacker.
They forgot some other mitigating factors, like:
- the user's machine would have to be connected to a source of AC power
etc.
Any Apple ][ people out there with fond memories of Cytron Masters? It mas also two player simulatanous play (using the paddles) in which you had limited control over a robot army. It was simpler than M.U.L.E., but definitely fun. The first real-time strategy game I ever played...
This means the kiddies would only be able to look at sites that didn't look bad from over your shoulder. Someone could write a porn site that looks like amazon, except all the book cover pics are porn pics. Little porn pics, of course. Or, full size pics of midgets.
Now that I think about it, the same could be done to camoflauge embarrasing but legit sites -- people reading up on veneral disease or mental illness could go to "makemelooklikeamazon.com", type in their url, and have it disguised.
Remember how annoyed you were the last time you played a buggy game. Now imagine how annoyed you would be if you had to play MUCH more buggy games all the damn time? And you had to play the same broken level over and over and over...
I work as a game developer, and testers come and go pretty quick. The good ones mostly get promoted to be level designers, or they go work at a higher paying regular QA gig. The rest tend to go away once they realize what a pain in the ass the job really is.
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The AARP has done a nice little summary of state do-not-call lists.
Good point about the $5.
By the way, the response rate that snail mail requires is astonishingly low. My sister works in the marketing department of a major catalog company - they consider a 2% response rate excellent.
So if you live with someone who complains about all the catalogs but still buys from time to time, tell them this: every time they buy from a catalog they are voting to have 50 more sent to them.
Another interesting tidbit - list exchange. You know that buying from Lemurs Unlimited gets you on the mailing list of Ferrets Forever, Gerbils by Mail, and HamsterConnection. The way this works is that catalogs "rent" lists to each other. So Catalog B rents 10,000 names from Catalog A with the restriction that they can only mail to them for a certain period of time. If a rented name responds to Catalog B, B is allowed to keep mailing them. If they don't, they must stop mailing after the designated period. This is done not for spam prevention but to keep competition for good customers $ under control.
What's amusing is the way this in enforced. When Catalog A rents the list of names, they seed it with a few address of their own employees, or PO boxes, etc. They know that these customers won't respond, since they're fake. If Catalog B keeps mailing after the rental period, they start a fuss and sometimes sue.
And, yes, my sister does feel a little guilty about her job. In fact, she's quitting soon and going to grad school...
And they charge you $5 for the privilege - the bastards!
Amusing that this do-not-mail list is maintained by the very group that is going to sue to stop the new do-not-call list.
Seems to have been slashdotted into submission. They should have gone with a ][e.