If you had bothered to read the article (which was interesting, if a bit long), you would have noticed this bit here:
"I think that if, in the future, the technology of human enhancement is forbidden by bio-Luddites through government legislation, or if they terrorize people into having no access to those technologies, that becomes a fundamental civil rights struggle. Then there might come a time for the legitimate use of violence in self-defense..."
In high school I worked at a movie theatre and completely automated concessions were being talked about then. This was in the late 80s. I wonder why it never happened? It would be exceedingly simple to replace the concessions counter with a bank of vending machines: soda and popcorn dispensers, candy machines, etc.
That being said, I doubt that people will get replaced any time soon. People are dirt cheap. Where are you going to find a robotic system that is as cheap to run as a team of minimum wage workers?
Keep in mind that those robot employees won't mind working around the clock and don't take sick days. As was mentioned in the article, one robot can easily replace 3 - 4 people in most fields. Even at minimum wage, a $10k robot would pay for itself in a few months.
As you know, blocking mail at the MTA is not a bounce.
"Blocking" suggests dropping it on the floor. If it's returned to the sender, it's a bounce.
Or alleged sender, I should say. As you know, forging the envelope sender is just as trivial as forging the From: address. If you return mail with a "550 whatever", you have no way of knowing if it's going back to the actual sender or not.
If a spammer decides to use myrealname@mydomain.com to spam 100,000 people, and someone decides to bounce that "spam" back to the "sender" (which in this case would end up going back to me, not the sender of the spam), you can bet I'll be immediately reporting them to their ISP/provider for UCE, and their access will be cut, based on the AUP of their provider.
Please explain how bouncing mail can be considered spamming. Any ISP with half a clue wouldn't look twice at someone bouncing HTML mail. Do you even know what spam is? (hint: unsolicited commercial and/or bulk e-mail)
Most providers do not tolerate spammers inside their networks, and it's strictly against their AUP.
Except in this case the spammer is not inside their network, the recipient of the spam is.
Do not EVER bounce messages back. Ever.
Funny. A couple posts up in this very thread you posted a couple of lines of sendmail config to do exactly this, bounce HTML mail. So which is it?
I'm not even sure what you're attempting to say in that last paragraph. What does your web server have to do with mail, UCE or otherwise?
WTF is up with them using their TLD in their program name? OpenOffice is fine, if a bit unimaginative, but OpenOffice.org just sounds stupid.
Actually never mind, I just found the answer on their web site. Of course that doesn't change the fact that it's a dumb name. If Open Office is trademarked by someone else, show a little creativity and come up with a new name, for god's sake!
Does the GPL allow me to sell copies of the program for money?
Yes, the GPL allows everyone to do this. The right to sell copies is part of the definition of free software. Except in one special situation, there is no limit on what price you can charge. (The one exception is the required written offer to provide source code that must accompany binary-only release.)
I think you should reconsider using Samba. A couple years ago I started using it at home to make shares on my Debian file server available to my Windows 2000 desktop and laptops and my GF's OS X Powerbook. I've since retired the desktop, shelved the Win2k laptop (it's for sale!) and bought an iBook.
I briefly considered changing protocols to reflect the absence of Windows on the network but then thought, why bother? Samba does the job well, so why change it? OS X has Samba support built-in so it's extremely easy to mount shares on the Macs, and because we use the same account names on our laptops as we do on the file server, authentication is automatic, making the whole thing almost seamless (I say almost because OS X is still lacking good network browsing capabilities, but we should have that in 10.3).
My GF and I frequently (ie, a couple times a week) move.mp3s back and forth between our file server and our two laptops. I've found it's definitely worth walking into the other room and plugging in a 100Mb/s cable rather than wait for it to be done over wireless at 11Mb/s.
I paid by the tape, not a subscription fee. Call me crazy, but I don't see that as a fundamental difference.
That is a fundamental difference when you consider the scope of the patent:
They apparently now have a patent on their model of subscribing to rentals- where instead of being charged per disc, you are charged a monthly fee...
Of course I didn't read the patent itself, so the/. story summary may be mistaken. If it isn't, the service you used could not be considered prior art.
That's rather the point, isn't it? Before the patent, Walmart may have seen Netflix as something to be crushed by their own service. Result: Netflix goes out of business, money lost. But now that they've got this patent, Walmart may be interested in buying them to get to the IP. Result: Netflix execs retire wealthy.
Note that the original poster didn't say this was a good thing for anyone other than Netflix.
You probably shouldn't put too much faith in Bowling for Columbine, especially where Heston and the NRA is concerned. I recommend doing some reading on the subject first.
Yep, it's the border patrol. Don't ask me what they're doing so far from the border.
I was coming back to LA from San Diego one night around 2:00 - 3:00am after going to a club and we were stopped there. They asked to search the car for no apparent reason and my idiot friend gave them permission (it was her car and she was driving). 45 minutes we ended up standing at the side of the road in the freezing cold while those bastards tore the car apart, dumped out bags of clothes in the trunk, etc. Then they let us leave. No apologies, nothing. Fucking assholes.
For the record, all three of us were obviously not border jumpers. I guess they were just bored.
More than anything, this just illustrates (no pun intended) that developers of open source software need to use a little more imagination when choosing names.
Fines may vary depending on the county. I think my fines were the standard maximum fine for traffic infractions. It sounds like you got lucky:)
Speeding is speeding, as far as your driving record is concerned, so actual speed and MPH over the speed limit don't show up on your record. If you're charged with reckless driving or speed contest (ie, racing), that is what will be listed, not speeding, and you'll also be hit for two points on your record and bigger fines.
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I would hate to have to reboot my body (at least) once a day for the rest of eternity.
I already do, usually between the hours of midnight and 7:00am, give or take an hour or two.
Eternal life would get boring 33% faster if you didn't have to sleep anymore.
HTH.
Awesome.
What's next "do not knock" lists for Jehova witnesses and Girl Scouts.
Yes, in the form of a 'No Solicitors' sign under my doorbell.
In high school I worked at a movie theatre and completely automated concessions were being talked about then. This was in the late 80s. I wonder why it never happened? It would be exceedingly simple to replace the concessions counter with a bank of vending machines: soda and popcorn dispensers, candy machines, etc.
That being said, I doubt that people will get replaced any time soon. People are dirt cheap. Where are you going to find a robotic system that is as cheap to run as a team of minimum wage workers?
Keep in mind that those robot employees won't mind working around the clock and don't take sick days. As was mentioned in the article, one robot can easily replace 3 - 4 people in most fields. Even at minimum wage, a $10k robot would pay for itself in a few months.
As you know, blocking mail at the MTA is not a bounce.
"Blocking" suggests dropping it on the floor. If it's returned to the sender, it's a bounce.
Or alleged sender, I should say. As you know, forging the envelope sender is just as trivial as forging the From: address. If you return mail with a "550 whatever", you have no way of knowing if it's going back to the actual sender or not.
If a spammer decides to use myrealname@mydomain.com to spam 100,000 people, and someone decides to bounce that "spam" back to the "sender" (which in this case would end up going back to me, not the sender of the spam), you can bet I'll be immediately reporting them to their ISP/provider for UCE, and their access will be cut, based on the AUP of their provider.
Please explain how bouncing mail can be considered spamming. Any ISP with half a clue wouldn't look twice at someone bouncing HTML mail. Do you even know what spam is? (hint: unsolicited commercial and/or bulk e-mail)
Most providers do not tolerate spammers inside their networks, and it's strictly against their AUP.
Except in this case the spammer is not inside their network, the recipient of the spam is.
Do not EVER bounce messages back. Ever.
Funny. A couple posts up in this very thread you posted a couple of lines of sendmail config to do exactly this, bounce HTML mail. So which is it?
I'm not even sure what you're attempting to say in that last paragraph. What does your web server have to do with mail, UCE or otherwise?
My condolences.
Slashdot should give a t-shirt out to their vict^H^H^H^Hlinked web site admins reading "I got Slashdotted and all I got was this lousy t-shirt".
WTF is up with them using their TLD in their program name? OpenOffice is fine, if a bit unimaginative, but OpenOffice.org just sounds stupid.
Actually never mind, I just found the answer on their web site. Of course that doesn't change the fact that it's a dumb name. If Open Office is trademarked by someone else, show a little creativity and come up with a new name, for god's sake!
Yeah yeah, I know, -1 Offtopic.
Please re-read the GPL, or even just the FAQ:
I think you should reconsider using Samba. A couple years ago I started using it at home to make shares on my Debian file server available to my Windows 2000 desktop and laptops and my GF's OS X Powerbook. I've since retired the desktop, shelved the Win2k laptop (it's for sale!) and bought an iBook.
I briefly considered changing protocols to reflect the absence of Windows on the network but then thought, why bother? Samba does the job well, so why change it? OS X has Samba support built-in so it's extremely easy to mount shares on the Macs, and because we use the same account names on our laptops as we do on the file server, authentication is automatic, making the whole thing almost seamless (I say almost because OS X is still lacking good network browsing capabilities, but we should have that in 10.3).
On some file types, such as .txt files, there's no place to insert a "noarchive" and Google goes ahead and caches it anyway.
That's why god created robots exclusion standard (eg. robots.txt).
You haven't read the book then. Soylent green is not really made of people.
What POP3 daemons support SSL _NATIVELY_?
I've got SSL support in Courier POP3 and IMAP daemons.
My GF and I frequently (ie, a couple times a week) move .mp3s back and forth between our file server and our two laptops. I've found it's definitely worth walking into the other room and plugging in a 100Mb/s cable rather than wait for it to be done over wireless at 11Mb/s.
Mmm, I can't wait to get gigabit ethernet.
I can ask all my users to attach a large virus to every one of their emails
No need to ask them, they'll be doing it on their own soon enough.
Well I, for one, have never seen mail from a *.info address that wasn't spam, so I say throw them all in the bit bucket.
That is a fundamental difference when you consider the scope of the patent:
Of course I didn't read the patent itself, so the
That's rather the point, isn't it? Before the patent, Walmart may have seen Netflix as something to be crushed by their own service. Result: Netflix goes out of business, money lost. But now that they've got this patent, Walmart may be interested in buying them to get to the IP. Result: Netflix execs retire wealthy.
Note that the original poster didn't say this was a good thing for anyone other than Netflix.
You probably shouldn't put too much faith in Bowling for Columbine, especially where Heston and the NRA is concerned. I recommend doing some reading on the subject first.
What is that checkpoint for anyway? Immigration?
Yep, it's the border patrol. Don't ask me what they're doing so far from the border.
I was coming back to LA from San Diego one night around 2:00 - 3:00am after going to a club and we were stopped there. They asked to search the car for no apparent reason and my idiot friend gave them permission (it was her car and she was driving). 45 minutes we ended up standing at the side of the road in the freezing cold while those bastards tore the car apart, dumped out bags of clothes in the trunk, etc. Then they let us leave. No apologies, nothing. Fucking assholes.
For the record, all three of us were obviously not border jumpers. I guess they were just bored.
More than anything, this just illustrates (no pun intended) that developers of open source software need to use a little more imagination when choosing names.
Fines may vary depending on the county. I think my fines were the standard maximum fine for traffic infractions. It sounds like you got lucky :)
Speeding is speeding, as far as your driving record is concerned, so actual speed and MPH over the speed limit don't show up on your record. If you're charged with reckless driving or speed contest (ie, racing), that is what will be listed, not speeding, and you'll also be hit for two points on your record and bigger fines.