1. Not getting the promotion you felt you deserved. 2. Being stuck using older technologies. 3. Having so little work to do that you become a slashdot "obsessive-compulsive reloader";-)
I always loved going to the cinema. Then they ripped out all the old straight-backed chairs and replaced them with modern moulded ones. As I am 6ft 4in this means I get a headrest in my shoulderblades.
I cannot sit throught a film now unless I want to emerge with a slipped disc and have to take the next six weeks off work
It uses DNS to publish friend relaions between identities in mailbox format ('user@domain'). The is even a hosting service for those without good DNS servers.
I see this all the time with quiz machines in pubs. It annoys the hell out of me that people get the impression that Windows runs everything just because it is the only OS that they ever see rebooting.
So they get free advertising _because_ of the faults in their products whilst the guys that have done a good job don't.
Bandwidth, disk space etc are *not* the primary cost here - these costs are falling anyway.
What is not falling is the value of my time - the right to put a message in front of me. As people find themselves buried under 'information overload' the value of eyeballs is increasing.
This cost, the cost of my time, is the the most important externality that traditional email is underselling to spammers.
So I now have two types of email address: 1) A private address that I only tell my friends - it blocks mail from non-whitelisted addresses. 2) A public address that is pay-to-send using the sudonames.com system. This is the address on this comment, for example.
Mail to either address ends up in the same inbox, so it is really convenient. No mail is ever lost, and I never get *any* spam at all.
Slashdot Mirror
It should be called moonbase alpha.
Just what I was thinking!
There are a lot of single mothers who use the net to socialise. That would tip the balance.
Three things that scream GET OUT to me are:
;-)
1. Not getting the promotion you felt you deserved.
2. Being stuck using older technologies.
3. Having so little work to do that you become a slashdot "obsessive-compulsive reloader"
The actual vortex of a hurricane is actually very unstable. You could probably collapse the stack using a MOAB.
I always loved going to the cinema. Then they ripped out all the old straight-backed chairs and replaced them with modern moulded ones. As I am 6ft 4in this means I get a headrest in my shoulderblades.
I cannot sit throught a film now unless I want to emerge with a slipped disc and have to take the next six weeks off work
Can you edit the CMS server page so that it just has a regular textarea instead of anything fancy?
My old Atari ST would emit different background hiss via the TV modulator output depending on the CPU load.
It uses DNS to publish friend relaions between identities in mailbox format ('user@domain'). The is even a hosting service for those without good DNS servers.
Just join the mailing list and start impementing!
All these social networks would be much more powerful if they could share data using a system like the Mailbox Reputation Network
How else is my browser-based instant messenger supposed to work?
Here in the UK the Inland Revenue give out free SSL certs that can be used for client authentication.
If you've got shelter, why would you need clothing?
OTOH, Water would be a bonus.
I see this all the time with quiz machines in pubs. It annoys the hell out of me that people get the impression that Windows runs everything just because it is the only OS that they ever see rebooting.
So they get free advertising _because_ of the faults in their products whilst the guys that have done a good job don't.
Perhaps contact information should be in the DNS
Well, don't use Orkut then!
Surely ESR, not RMS?
Well, the law for one thing.
All the schemes you have outlined would be unlawful if applied to statutory legal tender.
Oh well, maybe things a different in the US...
It is not 'defensive' when it includes an offensive advertising clause that is incompatible with the GPL.
Unfortunately these popup killers also kill a lot of legitimate applications, for example web-based chat systems or anything created with the tinyurl popup creation utility
Well, what did you expect?
Bandwidth, disk space etc are *not* the primary cost here - these costs are falling anyway.
What is not falling is the value of my time - the right to put a message in front of me. As people find themselves buried under 'information overload' the value of eyeballs is increasing.
This cost, the cost of my time, is the the most important externality that traditional email is underselling to spammers.
So I now have two types of email address:
1) A private address that I only tell my friends - it blocks mail from non-whitelisted addresses.
2) A public address that is pay-to-send using the sudonames.com system. This is the address on this comment, for example.
Mail to either address ends up in the same inbox, so it is really convenient. No mail is ever lost, and I never get *any* spam at all.
Problem solved!
Pay-to-send does not neccessarily kill anonymity, it depends on what rules the carrier applies, what their privacy arrangements are etc.
I friend of mine who once worked for IBM described their standard strategy as: back every horse in the race, and if that fails, buy the racecourse.
IBM sees OSS as a horse in the race, and so naturally wants a piece of the action. I don't think it is any more sinister than that really.
The large corporations are in no way *responsible* for people's quality of life.
I wish they were - then I would know who to sue when things go downhill...