Please don't get me wrong, I fully agree that this is a good thing. I only look at it in a different light. If AOL wins, that will be a fantastic development in the fight against spam.
Before I started working where I work now, I worked for a few different regional (smaller) ISP's helping them get off the ground technically and know full well how spam effects their bottom line. My viewpoint is that the ISP (AOL in this case) has built their systems to componsate for the current level of spam. If this level would be cut in half, then their costs for handling spam would feasably be halved. I'm hoping for the same solution as you presented being that the price differene will (should) be reflected in service fees being lowered. That would be an ideal, but I quite honestly don't see that happening.
I guess that I'm a tiny bit skeptical about the whole thing. The only outcome that I see is that if AOL wins, their bottom line will be rosier and their stock holders will be happier. I can see this as setting percedence in the future and hope that it in fact does. At the very least, it's a step in the right direction...
...who actually receives the money? Will AOL pocket it and report it as profit to their share-holders or will they actually do the right thing and somehow pass this to their customer base who are actually the ones who are inconvienced by the spam? Don't get me wrong, I think AOL has the power to do something about spam, but the only thing that I see happeneing from all this (if they do in fact win) is boosting their bottom line as spammers will just go off-shore and charge more for their services.
Amen! I also live in "Upstate" NY (between Syracuse & Rochester - Central NY actually) about 30 miles south of Lake Onterio where not only do we get the wonderful storms that come up the east coast, if the wind changes, we get serious lake effect snows. The snow drifts are so high on some of the roads around here that the snow plows have had to double-cut the banks on the side of the road and clear the road signs because the banks are higher then them.
Yea, I like snow, love the different seasons, but I don't want to see it before Thanksgiving and am tired of shoveling, plowing, snow blowing, looking at and driving in it by mid-January.
Where I work (a 250 bed hospital), every employee who has a desk has a computer which is wired to the network. We also have monitoring software which can and does monitor the outbound traffic. Being one of two network admins (it's a large network) part of my responsability is to make sure that no one ABUSES the priviledge of being able to surf the web. Don't get me wrong, company policy states the usuall "no personal business at work", but it's very loosly enforced. Recently I have been having to more closely monitor the traffic becuse there were a few individuals that were spending most of their time visiting porn sites - some of them nurses. The thing is, everyone jumps to accuse corporate policy about monitoring, but the problem really lies in the few employees that abuse the privilage.
I don't understand how anyone can say that forcing online retailers to charge taxes wouldn't hurt sales. The #1 reason that I buy stuff on online is because there are no taxes! Now, it makes NO sense to buy something online when I'm going to be charged both the tax and shipping when I can get in my car and drive 20 - 30 minutes and not be charged the shipping. Once again I fear that since the government got their greedy paws into the mix, they will distroy a good thing.
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My friends and I used to launch tennis balls using the same method back in the early / mid 80's. We found out AquaNet works the best;-)
Now, I use the same concept when I play Paintball - but without the hairspray. I took a few pieces of smooth PVC pipe, use 1 as the barrel, a larger one as a "tank" and connect them togeather with a 12v outdoor sprinkler actuator. Fill the tank with air using a bicycle pump, wrap a dozen or so paintballs in tissue and put them in the barrel. When I trip the actuator, a dozen paintballs go flying. Accuracy isn't great, but I get at least 100 feet most of the time. It's used mostly as intimidation and a last-resort against a bunch of people or a bunker. The down side is that it takes a few minutes to load and get the air pressure up.
Dude, you never sell anything like that unless you're getting a differnet on! I do plan on selling my Chevelle though, but ONLY when I locate a '69 GTO Judge - and it has to be orange. If anyone reading this asks why, you don't know cars... It's taken me nearly 15 years of building and selling cars to get to a point to buy my dream car (The Judge) and started off by building a '76 Volare 318 back when I was 19. With those cars you need SKILL, not a computer interface. Yes ladies and gentlemen, some things are better without a computer interface!
Nothing, I repeat NOTHING mass produced now will sound or look as good as detroit steel - especially from that era (mid/late 60's through early 70's - before the oil crisis). I just wish they would get serious about bringing back the classic look and I don't mean those damned PT Cruisers either.
I agree. Those damn coffee can sized mufflers have GOT to go. They produce the most horrific "big" noise I've ever heard. Funny thing is that my relatively stock '72 Chevelle SS knocks out all of these Rice Burners I've ever come into contact with.
Discnlamer: I say "relatively" stock because I pulled a shot 350ci and dropped in a 427ci and spend about $500 getting it up to around 475hp. THAT'S a friggin car kiddies! This summer I'm getting it up over 500hp. Yes, it's completely street legal & I do NOT run NOS. That'll kill an engine faster than a drunken slut on Spring Break.
No, I don't think MORE government regulation is needed, especially on yet another aspect of my life. Instead, how about employer accountability of their employees? The employer is the one who suposidly check their employees references to make sure they knew what the hell they were doing. Insofar as a self-employeed person goes, I think the BEST "credential" there is would be references from either past employment or clients. Put 'em up in a frame if it makes you feel good.
However, I think just the opposite of what you're asking. I really believe that it's the END USER that needs some sort of "license" or whatever to use a computer. At least some sort of intro to computers class where they get a fancy certificate to brag about to other AOL users. If that happened, it would eliminate the unbelievably stupid questions and problems that seem to popup all the time.
Perfect example... Many moons ago (about 10 years) I worked at a small mom & pop computer store selling computers. One day we had a HUGE storm that caused power havoc all around the region (and other problems) leaving people without power for weeks and causing major surges in other places. I got a call a few days after the storm at work from a customer complaining that his new computer system didn't turn on. I figured that there was a thrown breaker or something on the power strip and asked him to check it while I was on the phone. He said he had to find a flashlight because it was dark in the room and I got a little suspicious and asked if he just had a desk light he could use. He told me he did, but it didn't work because the power was out all over where he lived. True story.
I already have major problems with people using cell phones while driving, now they will be watching Springer at highway speeds. Now there will be whole new excuses for irratic driving and subsequent accidents.
Cop: "What happened here?" Driver: "I'm sorry officer, I was watching Jerry Springer when a fight broke out and got emotional"
Isn't this something like I remember seeing on a Hewlett Packard commercial a year or two ago where the kid "prints" a football and someone else "prints" a trombone? I know they're talking about component level electronics and in theory it can work, but in theory so does a cold fusion reactor and I don't see any of them replacing the current fision reactors. I can't see this happening within the next 30 - 40 years, well at least in the commercial market.
Yea, you can do nearly anything with these things. I have some running on servers at work (LCD's, not VFD's) and they monitor CPU usage, traffic and a host of other things that escape me now. I've seen plugins for SetiAtHome progress, NOAA weather information and a lot of other things too. Never tried them, but they are there, just gotta look for them. They are fully supported within Linux (given the right driver software), but last I knew the HD44780's had problems with Windows 2k not allowing direct LPT port access. It may be cleared up with XP, but have never tried it. If you want one and use Windows, the easiest way to do it would be with a serial interface.
If you want an LCD, you can get them for much less than $100. A friend of mine got a 2x20 or 16 serial with mounting hardware and cables for $60 and I got HD44780 4x40's for 20 bucks - both backlit. Go to http://www.eio.com for inexpensive HD44780's...
Well, I installed 2x20 LCD's on a the severs at work to monitor traffic, temperature and CPU usage. There's no real reason to go with a VFD unless it's going to be used in an extreme enviornments. For example, LCD's will freeze in the winter (well, here in New York State) and become useless while VFD's are more immune. Besides that, you can get LPT LCD's for around 10% of what a comparable VFD will cost.
Very true. In fact, just pick up a reverse-backlit LCD display and it'll look very much like a VFD at 10% of the cost. If you need RS232, you can get serial LCD's for 1/2 the cost of VFD's.
Thing is, I really don't care if I get modded down for being OT or a Troll. Throw me into negative numbers if people need to, my life won't change.
I just see all these postings about the newest sci/fi movie and the next post is how or why we should boycott Hollywood. I just don't understand. In addition, there's not one but TWO articles this time.
This is just my opinion, but I don't see promotion of a new movie as NEWS. I don't care what the FAQ's say, to *ME* it's not news. To me this is akin to someone posting how awesome the new software offering from Microsoft is. If people feel the need to slam me because of my opion, then by all means, fire away. It won't be the first time.
I've been on the New York Do Not Call list for about 2 years now and it's fan-damn-tastic! I used to get at least 2 marketing calls PER DAY and that's dropped to *maybe* 1 a month from a charity. Where do I sign up?
Did people take the time to read the friggin article before blindly posting? The only thing they are talking about in the entire article is the selling of pirate copies with no mention of used cd's.
Amen to that. I dropped cable about 2 1/2 years ago in favor of sattelite. I agree 100% that the picture and sound is far superior to what is offered by even digital cable! Although I don't have a PVR at this time, I do plan on purchasing one sometime soon because as you said, there's NO additional cost involved.
You neglected to mention something VERY important... I see on a post below that you're using DishNet, well I am too. The important thing is that not only is the quality better, the service is superior to cable (Time Warner in my case) and it's CHEAPER. I'm running 2 receivers with nearly 200 stations and am still paying $20 a month less than I was on cable.
Seriously, how can a group called "Initiative for Software Choice" that's backed by major players against open source (see Microsoft) be open and objective in this?
Wouldn't this be a form of extorsion? I mean, how the hell can they prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the "screenshot" they have are of...
- illegal copies - files intentionally put up to share outside the contrtaints of acceptable use - actually the movie / mp3 / warez and not a zip file containing data files
Beyond this, how hard can it be to make a Photoshop special containing a different ip!? Gimme a break.
Each case that I can think of should be able to be argued in court. Maybe someone heard of this fancy new software (Kazza, whatever), loaded it to see what the fuss was about and never uninstalled it while all the time it's in the Windows startup and showing fully legal software / programs or mp3's. Many people I know install software unaware of what it's actually doing and never uninstall it.
In my eyes this would be similar to someone looking in my parked car window and casually wondering if they could get away with stealing it, but not attempting to. Oh, and no, I don't use any P2P software.
This just sounds like some company crying wolf, getting sympathy from the courts and digging their failing business out from Chapter 11 by padding their wallets with law suits.
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Please don't get me wrong, I fully agree that this is a good thing. I only look at it in a different light. If AOL wins, that will be a fantastic development in the fight against spam.
Before I started working where I work now, I worked for a few different regional (smaller) ISP's helping them get off the ground technically and know full well how spam effects their bottom line. My viewpoint is that the ISP (AOL in this case) has built their systems to componsate for the current level of spam. If this level would be cut in half, then their costs for handling spam would feasably be halved. I'm hoping for the same solution as you presented being that the price differene will (should) be reflected in service fees being lowered. That would be an ideal, but I quite honestly don't see that happening.
I guess that I'm a tiny bit skeptical about the whole thing. The only outcome that I see is that if AOL wins, their bottom line will be rosier and their stock holders will be happier. I can see this as setting percedence in the future and hope that it in fact does. At the very least, it's a step in the right direction...
...who actually receives the money? Will AOL pocket it and report it as profit to their share-holders or will they actually do the right thing and somehow pass this to their customer base who are actually the ones who are inconvienced by the spam? Don't get me wrong, I think AOL has the power to do something about spam, but the only thing that I see happeneing from all this (if they do in fact win) is boosting their bottom line as spammers will just go off-shore and charge more for their services.
...Geekenstein since I work at a relatively big company and do nearly everything computer related. What about that? ;-)
Amen! I also live in "Upstate" NY (between Syracuse & Rochester - Central NY actually) about 30 miles south of Lake Onterio where not only do we get the wonderful storms that come up the east coast, if the wind changes, we get serious lake effect snows. The snow drifts are so high on some of the roads around here that the snow plows have had to double-cut the banks on the side of the road and clear the road signs because the banks are higher then them.
Yea, I like snow, love the different seasons, but I don't want to see it before Thanksgiving and am tired of shoveling, plowing, snow blowing, looking at and driving in it by mid-January.
When you turn 20 and a hot red-head starts to flirt, run away! Run far-far away and NEVER EVER look back.
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MTV will really suck in a few years, get used to it. (Since I was 12 in 1980)
Where I work (a 250 bed hospital), every employee who has a desk has a computer which is wired to the network. We also have monitoring software which can and does monitor the outbound traffic. Being one of two network admins (it's a large network) part of my responsability is to make sure that no one ABUSES the priviledge of being able to surf the web. Don't get me wrong, company policy states the usuall "no personal business at work", but it's very loosly enforced. Recently I have been having to more closely monitor the traffic becuse there were a few individuals that were spending most of their time visiting porn sites - some of them nurses. The thing is, everyone jumps to accuse corporate policy about monitoring, but the problem really lies in the few employees that abuse the privilage.
I don't understand how anyone can say that forcing online retailers to charge taxes wouldn't hurt sales. The #1 reason that I buy stuff on online is because there are no taxes! Now, it makes NO sense to buy something online when I'm going to be charged both the tax and shipping when I can get in my car and drive 20 - 30 minutes and not be charged the shipping. Once again I fear that since the government got their greedy paws into the mix, they will distroy a good thing.
Yea yea yea... So I missed the "t".... ;-)
My friends and I used to launch tennis balls using the same method back in the early / mid 80's. We found out AquaNet works the best ;-)
Now, I use the same concept when I play Paintball - but without the hairspray. I took a few pieces of smooth PVC pipe, use 1 as the barrel, a larger one as a "tank" and connect them togeather with a 12v outdoor sprinkler actuator. Fill the tank with air using a bicycle pump, wrap a dozen or so paintballs in tissue and put them in the barrel. When I trip the actuator, a dozen paintballs go flying. Accuracy isn't great, but I get at least 100 feet most of the time. It's used mostly as intimidation and a last-resort against a bunch of people or a bunker. The down side is that it takes a few minutes to load and get the air pressure up.
Dude, you never sell anything like that unless you're getting a differnet on! I do plan on selling my Chevelle though, but ONLY when I locate a '69 GTO Judge - and it has to be orange. If anyone reading this asks why, you don't know cars... It's taken me nearly 15 years of building and selling cars to get to a point to buy my dream car (The Judge) and started off by building a '76 Volare 318 back when I was 19. With those cars you need SKILL, not a computer interface. Yes ladies and gentlemen, some things are better without a computer interface!
Nothing, I repeat NOTHING mass produced now will sound or look as good as detroit steel - especially from that era (mid/late 60's through early 70's - before the oil crisis). I just wish they would get serious about bringing back the classic look and I don't mean those damned PT Cruisers either.
I agree. Those damn coffee can sized mufflers have GOT to go. They produce the most horrific "big" noise I've ever heard. Funny thing is that my relatively stock '72 Chevelle SS knocks out all of these Rice Burners I've ever come into contact with.
Discnlamer: I say "relatively" stock because I pulled a shot 350ci and dropped in a 427ci and spend about $500 getting it up to around 475hp. THAT'S a friggin car kiddies! This summer I'm getting it up over 500hp. Yes, it's completely street legal & I do NOT run NOS. That'll kill an engine faster than a drunken slut on Spring Break.
No, I don't think MORE government regulation is needed, especially on yet another aspect of my life. Instead, how about employer accountability of their employees? The employer is the one who suposidly check their employees references to make sure they knew what the hell they were doing. Insofar as a self-employeed person goes, I think the BEST "credential" there is would be references from either past employment or clients. Put 'em up in a frame if it makes you feel good.
However, I think just the opposite of what you're asking. I really believe that it's the END USER that needs some sort of "license" or whatever to use a computer. At least some sort of intro to computers class where they get a fancy certificate to brag about to other AOL users. If that happened, it would eliminate the unbelievably stupid questions and problems that seem to popup all the time.
Perfect example... Many moons ago (about 10 years) I worked at a small mom & pop computer store selling computers. One day we had a HUGE storm that caused power havoc all around the region (and other problems) leaving people without power for weeks and causing major surges in other places. I got a call a few days after the storm at work from a customer complaining that his new computer system didn't turn on. I figured that there was a thrown breaker or something on the power strip and asked him to check it while I was on the phone. He said he had to find a flashlight because it was dark in the room and I got a little suspicious and asked if he just had a desk light he could use. He told me he did, but it didn't work because the power was out all over where he lived. True story.
I already have major problems with people using cell phones while driving, now they will be watching Springer at highway speeds. Now there will be whole new excuses for irratic driving and subsequent accidents.
Cop: "What happened here?"
Driver: "I'm sorry officer, I was watching Jerry Springer when a fight broke out and got emotional"
Just a plain ole STUPID idea.
Isn't this something like I remember seeing on a Hewlett Packard commercial a year or two ago where the kid "prints" a football and someone else "prints" a trombone? I know they're talking about component level electronics and in theory it can work, but in theory so does a cold fusion reactor and I don't see any of them replacing the current fision reactors. I can't see this happening within the next 30 - 40 years, well at least in the commercial market.
Whoa!! I guess Hangtime really nailed that one on the head without even knowing about it!!!
Yea, you can do nearly anything with these things. I have some running on servers at work (LCD's, not VFD's) and they monitor CPU usage, traffic and a host of other things that escape me now. I've seen plugins for SetiAtHome progress, NOAA weather information and a lot of other things too. Never tried them, but they are there, just gotta look for them. They are fully supported within Linux (given the right driver software), but last I knew the HD44780's had problems with Windows 2k not allowing direct LPT port access. It may be cleared up with XP, but have never tried it. If you want one and use Windows, the easiest way to do it would be with a serial interface.
If you want an LCD, you can get them for much less than $100. A friend of mine got a 2x20 or 16 serial with mounting hardware and cables for $60 and I got HD44780 4x40's for 20 bucks - both backlit. Go to http://www.eio.com for inexpensive HD44780's...
Well, I installed 2x20 LCD's on a the severs at work to monitor traffic, temperature and CPU usage. There's no real reason to go with a VFD unless it's going to be used in an extreme enviornments. For example, LCD's will freeze in the winter (well, here in New York State) and become useless while VFD's are more immune. Besides that, you can get LPT LCD's for around 10% of what a comparable VFD will cost.
Very true. In fact, just pick up a reverse-backlit LCD display and it'll look very much like a VFD at 10% of the cost. If you need RS232, you can get serial LCD's for 1/2 the cost of VFD's.
Thing is, I really don't care if I get modded down for being OT or a Troll. Throw me into negative numbers if people need to, my life won't change.
I just see all these postings about the newest sci/fi movie and the next post is how or why we should boycott Hollywood. I just don't understand. In addition, there's not one but TWO articles this time.
This is just my opinion, but I don't see promotion of a new movie as NEWS. I don't care what the FAQ's say, to *ME* it's not news. To me this is akin to someone posting how awesome the new software offering from Microsoft is. If people feel the need to slam me because of my opion, then by all means, fire away. It won't be the first time.
Has Slashdot become an outlet for Hollywood? I thought we were against these people...
I've been on the New York Do Not Call list for about 2 years now and it's fan-damn-tastic! I used to get at least 2 marketing calls PER DAY and that's dropped to *maybe* 1 a month from a charity. Where do I sign up?
Did people take the time to read the friggin article before blindly posting? The only thing they are talking about in the entire article is the selling of pirate copies with no mention of used cd's.
Read it again and please tell me if I'm wrong...
Amen to that. I dropped cable about 2 1/2 years ago in favor of sattelite. I agree 100% that the picture and sound is far superior to what is offered by even digital cable! Although I don't have a PVR at this time, I do plan on purchasing one sometime soon because as you said, there's NO additional cost involved.
You neglected to mention something VERY important... I see on a post below that you're using DishNet, well I am too. The important thing is that not only is the quality better, the service is superior to cable (Time Warner in my case) and it's CHEAPER. I'm running 2 receivers with nearly 200 stations and am still paying $20 a month less than I was on cable.
Seriously, how can a group called "Initiative for Software Choice" that's backed by major players against open source (see Microsoft) be open and objective in this?
Wouldn't this be a form of extorsion? I mean, how the hell can they prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the "screenshot" they have are of...
- illegal copies
- files intentionally put up to share outside the contrtaints of acceptable use
- actually the movie / mp3 / warez and not a zip file containing data files
Beyond this, how hard can it be to make a Photoshop special containing a different ip!? Gimme a break.
Each case that I can think of should be able to be argued in court. Maybe someone heard of this fancy new software (Kazza, whatever), loaded it to see what the fuss was about and never uninstalled it while all the time it's in the Windows startup and showing fully legal software / programs or mp3's. Many people I know install software unaware of what it's actually doing and never uninstall it.
In my eyes this would be similar to someone looking in my parked car window and casually wondering if they could get away with stealing it, but not attempting to. Oh, and no, I don't use any P2P software.
This just sounds like some company crying wolf, getting sympathy from the courts and digging their failing business out from Chapter 11 by padding their wallets with law suits.