> Help me get excellent karma, I promise to always use it positively.
FYI: this mindset is probably why you don't (yet) have excellent karma.
If I could dig it up to link to it I would, but I have seen a person rip me a new one and when I accused them of simply blathering easy answers to jack up their karma the reply was a plain and simple "I couldn't care less about my karma, I'm saying you're wrong because I think you're wrong. And just to prove I don't care about it I'll just say Linux sux, MicroSoft is God, and here's a goatse link", which he did link.
Well then. If the only issue is that M$ is blocking a modded unit (which is a lost leader to begin with), and the end user could continue getting service normally by using a system they hadn't modded, I'd say the people upset about it are a bunch of whiners.
It's more like if you payed for a room at the Waldorf Astoria [*], they took your money, and then they told you that you couldn't stay there because they didn't like the way you looked (your haircut, or whatever) and didn't give you a refund for the nights you had already paid for.
What you are describing doesn't leave you out money you paid for a service. What is going on here is people paid for access to a service, and are being refused access to it without being given a refund.
[*] I only single the Waldorf because I once was put up there by Money Magainze while working on some software for them and the hotel told me I was not allowed to enter the lobby since I was wearing Birkenstocks. My good shoes were in my room upstairs. Quite the pain in the ass..
I could say the same thing for wind, solar, etc.. but I'd be wrong as well. Personally I think the worst thing we could do is tie ourselves to one single source of energy, the only reason we did that with oil is it's so cheap and so plentiful.
Seriously, it sounds like you need to spend some "don't shake the baby" money on a good babysitter and take a break. Go out to dinner with the wife and do something fun afterwords like you used to.
It's amazing how quickly a poor driver can learn to pay attention if you have them drive a VW bus.. where the vehicle ends about 15 inches in front of your face right where the glass is.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won’t work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses (x) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks (x) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we’ll be stuck with it (x) Users of email will not put up with it (x) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers (x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don’t care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else’s career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it (x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack (x) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email (x) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches (x) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with Microsoft ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with Yahoo (x) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don’t want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don’t think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you’re a fascist for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I’m going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
What made it interesting is that it not only pulled off being a toy dinosaur robot, but it did it without being creepy.
The toy originally promised an SDK, but even without it you could get some limited access to it via USB, basically it had a scripting language which was easy enough to at least play around with it. The company also provided some free downloads to override the normal behaviors which you could load via SD card (like pretend to destroy a city, play hide and seek and such). Those were fun for about 10 minutes.
With a camera, infrared, multiple sensors, something like 26 servos (I forget how many exactly) and a couple of 32 bit processors, it looked to be a lot of fun to the geek crew.
Unfortunately, there were battery problems (mine has never charged fully without overheating and shutting down multiple times), and the SDK never appeared (but some nice folks did implement a scripting tool and there was an OS SDK developed), and then the company went belly up.
As I so often pointed out 13 years ago before I gave up, it would be great if you would stop inventing horrible broken file formats and implementations when the community has already RFC'd, developed, and worked out the kinks to solve a given problem. It's only going to make extra work for us in the long run and we're actually trying to get work done here.
If they cared, they would add it as a file format they recognized. Additionally, as I pointed out in the second half of that sentence you so studiously read, I know we already figured it out. It's one of the tools listed on the first page, which makes it pretty much redundant.
But we don't care about PST format. We really don't. If we did, we'd use it or treat is as something other than a completely separate issue for the user to sort out with a few pointers to shut them up.
Not being able to bridge from the external network to the internal network makes this thing little more than a toy.. can't do things like DR:BD or n-tier makes this just another toy for the art department.
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Why do these sites insist on resizing my browser window for me?
I really hate that..
Yes, I know I could prevent it. I don't see why I should though.
> Help me get excellent karma, I promise to always use it positively.
FYI: this mindset is probably why you don't (yet) have excellent karma.
If I could dig it up to link to it I would, but I have seen a person rip me a new one and when I accused them of simply blathering easy answers to jack up their karma the reply was a plain and simple "I couldn't care less about my karma, I'm saying you're wrong because I think you're wrong. And just to prove I don't care about it I'll just say Linux sux, MicroSoft is God, and here's a goatse link", which he did link.
And it was modded +5 insightful.
Be honest. You just want an excuse to fish around in your pocket.
Well then. If the only issue is that M$ is blocking a modded unit (which is a lost leader to begin with), and the end user could continue getting service normally by using a system they hadn't modded, I'd say the people upset about it are a bunch of whiners.
"5 star restaurant " is not a good analogy.
It's more like if you payed for a room at the Waldorf Astoria [*], they took your money, and then they told you that you couldn't stay there because they didn't like the way you looked (your haircut, or whatever) and didn't give you a refund for the nights you had already paid for.
What you are describing doesn't leave you out money you paid for a service. What is going on here is people paid for access to a service, and are being refused access to it without being given a refund.
[*] I only single the Waldorf because I once was put up there by Money Magainze while working on some software for them and the hotel told me I was not allowed to enter the lobby since I was wearing Birkenstocks. My good shoes were in my room upstairs. Quite the pain in the ass..
Perhaps this would help to clear things up for you.
That hardly seems likely.
I could say the same thing for wind, solar, etc.. but I'd be wrong as well. Personally I think the worst thing we could do is tie ourselves to one single source of energy, the only reason we did that with oil is it's so cheap and so plentiful.
Seriously, it sounds like you need to spend some "don't shake the baby" money on a good babysitter and take a break. Go out to dinner with the wife and do something fun afterwords like you used to.
I mean that in the kindest way possible.
It's amazing how quickly a poor driver can learn to pay attention if you have them drive a VW bus.. where the vehicle ends about 15 inches in front of your face right where the glass is.
You have obviously never been on a large network with people who are not really inclined to patch during an outbreak.
Sheesh, where do these kids come from? Anyone else remember the I Love You virus? Good times..
When I worked at the University, you were hit within 30 seconds of plugging in an unpatched machine.
30 seconds.
What I don't get is why a joker like that - who is obviously intelligent - doesn't just find a legal way to get rich. It can't be that hard.
Isn't it obvious? He's doing it for the lulz
You Personally advocate a
(x) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won’t work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
(x) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
(x) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we’ll be stuck with it
(x) Users of email will not put up with it
(x) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
(x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don’t care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else’s career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
(x) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
(x) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
(x) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with Microsoft
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with Yahoo
(x) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don’t want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don’t think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you’re a fascist for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I’m going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
*sigh*
Now I know why my spam folder has so many bionic turtle subject lines..
Thanks.
Pleo was a toy dinosaur robot.
What made it interesting is that it not only pulled off being a toy dinosaur robot, but it did it without being creepy.
The toy originally promised an SDK, but even without it you could get some limited access to it via USB, basically it had a scripting language which was easy enough to at least play around with it. The company also provided some free downloads to override the normal behaviors which you could load via SD card (like pretend to destroy a city, play hide and seek and such). Those were fun for about 10 minutes.
With a camera, infrared, multiple sensors, something like 26 servos (I forget how many exactly) and a couple of 32 bit processors, it looked to be a lot of fun to the geek crew.
Unfortunately, there were battery problems (mine has never charged fully without overheating and shutting down multiple times), and the SDK never appeared (but some nice folks did implement a scripting tool and there was an OS SDK developed), and then the company went belly up.
Still a neat toy though.
I know you had a lot there to say, but as soon as I saw James Woods, all I could think was "Oh! Piece of candy!", "Oh! Piece of candy!"
Off to circle K for a piece of candy now..
You want constructive? Okay.
Dear Microsoft-
As I so often pointed out 13 years ago before I gave up, it would be great if you would stop inventing horrible broken file formats and implementations when the community has already RFC'd, developed, and worked out the kinks to solve a given problem. It's only going to make extra work for us in the long run and we're actually trying to get work done here.
Thanks!
If they cared, they would add it as a file format they recognized. Additionally, as I pointed out in the second half of that sentence you so studiously read, I know we already figured it out. It's one of the tools listed on the first page, which makes it pretty much redundant.
But we don't care about PST format. We really don't. If we did, we'd use it or treat is as something other than a completely separate issue for the user to sort out with a few pointers to shut them up.
Well.. um.. the first one shows that we don't care, and the second one shows that we would figure it out if we wanted it.
You can just drag those messages off to another machine running IMAP and then have google pop them off from there.
If we had actually wanted it, we would have gone ahead and figured it out for ourselves.
Were you thinking "10-centimeter wide image" was referring to a 1-dimensional image?
Not being able to bridge from the external network to the internal network makes this thing little more than a toy.. can't do things like DR:BD or n-tier makes this just another toy for the art department.
Okay, seriously, we are on totally different wavelengths here.
I'm not a religious person, but please dear god in heaven, give this to the Japanese!!
what?