i realize fully that this is a complete hoax, but if it were planned, is it technically possible?
aside from the "honor system", this seems impossible.
how can the US govt tell which packets are eMail without wiretapping every single section if the inet backbone? they can't
they could, in theory, install software on every single mailserver in the US that maintained a count of every person's eMail activities, but how would they enforce that that software stay running? they couldn't
what about anonymous mailers? if i don't like someone, i can just run up a $100 bill on their eMail tax real quickly..
what would a tax like this do to "free" eMail services? would you have to submit a tax form every time you signed up for one?
i can imagine the list would go on and on.. i just don't see how the internet can be taxed for anything other than e-Commerce and an additional tax on ISP bills.
i was reading this article, and decided to search through the slashdot archives, because it reminded me a lot of an article i had seen before.
i came across an january article that had a link to Colorcase.com which sells colored translucent case, as well as a number of other realy cool looking cases.. no neon lights though.
personally, i've never used scroll lock, and i rarely use the num pad and the home/end keys, but i'm sure someone else uses them. i write web pages, and when i need to show a client how a web page will look in a browser window, i'm very happy to have that print screen button. the pause key is irreplaceable when playing quake, and my numlock key lets me have an 8 directional keypad.. very usefull.
i'm sure that there are even some people who like those damn windoze keys.
i don't think that getting rid of keys will make anyone's life easier. really, how much does that 1/4 of an inch of deskspace mean to you?
When i first set up my cable connection with optimum online, i was told "we only support Windows 3.x and 95, we plan to support MacOS soon, but we will not install it on other os's". i was running 95 at the time, but was planning to install linux when i got the high speed connection. i got the line up on 95, then eMailed the tech support address, asking when linux would be supported. they replied "not soon", but he sent me the addresses of web sites that guided me through setting up the cable on linux, and he only said that they wouldn't give tech support for linux systems.
It was posted twice, because the testing was done twice. the testing that linux performed badly on (high end servers) was the same testing that mindcraft did several weeks ago. the article is showing what we expected, that linux performes much better than NT on low end machines.
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i realize fully that this is a complete hoax, but if it were planned, is it technically possible?
aside from the "honor system", this seems impossible.
how can the US govt tell which packets are eMail without wiretapping every single section if the inet backbone? they can't
they could, in theory, install software on every single mailserver in the US that maintained a count of every person's eMail activities, but how would they enforce that that software stay running? they couldn't
what about anonymous mailers? if i don't like someone, i can just run up a $100 bill on their eMail tax real quickly..
what would a tax like this do to "free" eMail services? would you have to submit a tax form every time you signed up for one?
i can imagine the list would go on and on..
i just don't see how the internet can be taxed for anything other than e-Commerce and an additional tax on ISP bills.
just my 2
-fred
i was reading this article, and decided to search through the slashdot archives, because it reminded me a lot of an article i had seen before.
i came across an january article that had a link to Colorcase.com which sells colored translucent case, as well as a number of other realy cool looking cases.. no neon lights though.
personally, i've never used scroll lock, and i rarely use the num pad and the home/end keys, but i'm sure someone else uses them. i write web pages, and when i need to show a client how a web page will look in a browser window, i'm very happy to have that print screen button. the pause key is irreplaceable when playing quake, and my numlock key lets me have an 8 directional keypad.. very usefull.
i'm sure that there are even some people who like those damn windoze keys.
i don't think that getting rid of keys will make anyone's life easier. really, how much does that 1/4 of an inch of deskspace mean to you?
just my 2
-fred "derF" smith
When i first set up my cable connection with optimum online, i was told "we only support Windows 3.x and 95, we plan to support MacOS soon, but we will not install it on other os's". i was running 95 at the time, but was planning to install linux when i got the high speed connection.
i got the line up on 95, then eMailed the tech support address, asking when linux would be supported. they replied "not soon", but he sent me the addresses of web sites that guided me through setting up the cable on linux, and he only said that they wouldn't give tech support for linux systems.
It was posted twice, because the testing was done twice. the testing that linux performed badly on (high end servers) was the same testing that mindcraft did several weeks ago. the article is showing what we expected, that linux performes much better than NT on low end machines.