When they call me, I tell them that they have reached my business number and to take my number off their list. They are not allowed to legally call business addresses so they take me off their list and never sell my phone number either.
My telemarketing type calls have gone from a few a day when I first moved into my home, to none. Really. Not one in a month. Give it a try. Takes a while to work for all telemarketers but becomes a long term permanent solution.
My DSL interupts their computers but their machines never connect us. They won't connect us until I press a button on my phone. Funny but annoying. I wonder if there might be some hack to exploit this behavior.
I have some more hope today. Most of my life I have felt that I wanted to "change the world" but I'm an engineer, not an activist. There are not alot of items that will make me quit my job and chain myself to something because of my personal beliefs.
I have felt that I just couldn't make a difference but I tried to convince others of my views and attempted to keep motivated in my "rightousness."
However, until now I thought that I really couldn't make a difference in the world and that I was just wasting my precious time on causes that I couldn't effect. However.... "one ant can't do dick but a billion of them could build a cathedral." I can't remember where the quote come from but basically I'm just one person. I struggle in vain.
Or do I
Just as a billion ants can't build ANYTHING without a focusing leader, causes don't become Global without a focus either.
Some of you don't like Jon (perhaps for his extreme writting style) but our feelings about prejudice in our schools AND our feelings about the violence in our schools would never have shown on the main news sources without someone with a larger media presence than you or I.
My wife heard about Slashdot and our anoyance (is that strong enough?) from reading Yahoo News. Wow. Not exactly People magazine but its a start to reach those parents and legislators who are blindly solving the apparent symptom of a national issue and not its root cause. (Root Cause. Yup, an engineer.)
Not sure how much value I'm adding here but perhaps from a Meta level, I'd like to remind us all that although/. is no longer a cozy group of good friends, we are a collection of thinking and acting citizens.
Reminds me of the Greek Democracies. Here you just need to have access to a computer and the Internet. No land required.
Ok, yah... I see lara in the face. But Jolie's gonna need to work out some. I just can't see those scrawny arms catching an edge of a cliff (without ripping them off, that is).
This makes me think that Neal Stephenson might be right about our future. In Cryptonomicon (without getting into the story too much), he foresees a datahaven being "the next big thing."
The main characters convince some king of a Pacific island to create Laws allowing anonymity of electronic data. The whole world (including all the evil guys, hence the plot) want a part of it.
I would HOPE that all of those French users would simply copy their files to some other ISP. I guess the question would be, "would they still be legally bound to their site even if their site is in another country and hosted anonymously?"
Agreed. While your dissenters seem to take an "us vs. them" attitude, they seem to forget that the reason the 'net is popular is NOT because of the "millions" [:)] of/. readers but because businesses were able to take the Internet medium further than the academics and scientists were able to take it. I've been on the Internet since '88 and to a certain degree miss the openess of the medium; however, I love watching the little companies that "get it" eat the big guys' lunch. So if you have a purpose for having apple.biz (or whatever), you keep it. If you just sit there hoping Apple (tm) will pay you millions for their name. Shame on you. It's their's. Not yours.
So what happens if your computer is using a symlink to a system dll and the network fails? Or an application file? Does the client know to keep a backup locally? And once the network revives can the client manage to upload the replicated file? I don't know this sounds pretty dangerous to me. If 2000 is as stable as like to say it is maybe I'd welcome a 80 to 90 % reduction of files on my client. I just don't have the faith in the networks at most companies. I'd be willing to have a local master copy if I owned the original but wouldn't that spoil the symlink idea? Sounds scary to me. Trust the IT dept? No way.
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Asheron's Call is planning a set of group and private weddings in its world. What would your spouse have to say about that, huh? Like you don't ALREADY spend too much time playing games, now you REALLY are married to the game!http://www.zone.com/asheronscall/news/ashenew swedding.asp
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The site claims that some guy typed in the text-only screen shots BY HAND! It's worth the view. God, I hope that those pictures weren't really typed by hand. Programming in binary would be more fun.
Great reply Shane! In summary, for those of you who didn't (and SHOULD) read it. You are made atom by atom into a melocular machine. If nature can do it, why can't we? BTW, as a Senior Associate of Drexler's Foresight Institute I'd be remiss not to point you all to the website at http://foresight.org I would agree with Shane that Engines is a great book but Drexler also wrote an engineering text (which I have also read) named Nanosystems. He steps through the theoretical design and development of nanostructures. It's heavy but good. Give it a shot before you claim that nano isn't possible. John Bryan
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And me without moderation points. Damn. That was actually funny.
My telemarketing type calls have gone from a few a day when I first moved into my home, to none. Really. Not one in a month. Give it a try. Takes a while to work for all telemarketers but becomes a long term permanent solution.
My DSL interupts their computers but their machines never connect us. They won't connect us until I press a button on my phone. Funny but annoying. I wonder if there might be some hack to exploit this behavior.
I have felt that I just couldn't make a difference but I tried to convince others of my views and attempted to keep motivated in my "rightousness."
However, until now I thought that I really couldn't make a difference in the world and that I was just wasting my precious time on causes that I couldn't effect. However.... "one ant can't do dick but a billion of them could build a cathedral." I can't remember where the quote come from but basically I'm just one person. I struggle in vain.
Or do I
Just as a billion ants can't build ANYTHING without a focusing leader, causes don't become Global without a focus either.
Some of you don't like Jon (perhaps for his extreme writting style) but our feelings about prejudice in our schools AND our feelings about the violence in our schools would never have shown on the main news sources without someone with a larger media presence than you or I.
My wife heard about Slashdot and our anoyance (is that strong enough?) from reading Yahoo News. Wow. Not exactly People magazine but its a start to reach those parents and legislators who are blindly solving the apparent symptom of a national issue and not its root cause. (Root Cause. Yup, an engineer.)
Not sure how much value I'm adding here but perhaps from a Meta level, I'd like to remind us all that although /. is no longer a cozy group of good friends, we are a collection of thinking and acting citizens.
Reminds me of the Greek Democracies. Here you just need to have access to a computer and the Internet. No land required.
Ok, yah... I see lara in the face. But Jolie's gonna need to work out some. I just can't see those scrawny arms catching an edge of a cliff (without ripping them off, that is).
This makes me think that Neal Stephenson might be right about our future. In Cryptonomicon (without getting into the story too much), he foresees a datahaven being "the next big thing."
The main characters convince some king of a Pacific island to create Laws allowing anonymity of electronic data. The whole world (including all the evil guys, hence the plot) want a part of it.
I would HOPE that all of those French users would simply copy their files to some other ISP. I guess the question would be, "would they still be legally bound to their site even if their site is in another country and hosted anonymously?"
Agreed. While your dissenters seem to take an "us vs. them" attitude, they seem to forget that the reason the 'net is popular is NOT because of the "millions" [:)] of /. readers but because businesses were able to take the Internet medium further than the academics and scientists were able to take it. I've been on the Internet since '88 and to a certain degree miss the openess of the medium; however, I love watching the little companies that "get it" eat the big guys' lunch.
So if you have a purpose for having apple.biz (or whatever), you keep it. If you just sit there hoping Apple (tm) will pay you millions for their name. Shame on you. It's their's. Not yours.
Perhaps /. needs a new Score catagory of (Score: 5 Ironic)
So what happens if your computer is using a symlink to a system dll and the network fails? Or an application file? Does the client know to keep a backup locally? And once the network revives can the client manage to upload the replicated file? I don't know this sounds pretty dangerous to me. If 2000 is as stable as like to say it is maybe I'd welcome a 80 to 90 % reduction of files on my client. I just don't have the faith in the networks at most companies. I'd be willing to have a local master copy if I owned the original but wouldn't that spoil the symlink idea? Sounds scary to me. Trust the IT dept? No way.
Asheron's Call is planning a set of group and private weddings in its world. What would your spouse have to say about that, huh? Like you don't ALREADY spend too much time playing games, now you REALLY are married to the game!http://www.zone.com/asheronscall/news/ashenew swedding.asp
The site claims that some guy typed in the text-only screen shots BY HAND! It's worth the view. God, I hope that those pictures weren't really typed by hand. Programming in binary would be more fun.
Great reply Shane! In summary, for those of you who didn't (and SHOULD) read it. You are made atom by atom into a melocular machine. If nature can do it, why can't we? BTW, as a Senior Associate of Drexler's Foresight Institute I'd be remiss not to point you all to the website at http://foresight.org I would agree with Shane that Engines is a great book but Drexler also wrote an engineering text (which I have also read) named Nanosystems. He steps through the theoretical design and development of nanostructures. It's heavy but good. Give it a shot before you claim that nano isn't possible. John Bryan