About the only recourse left in this society is to write your government officials. Ask them to help pass a law like this in your state. It's been mentioned that this will only stop spammers from those states - ok, well the more states that pass this law, the better for us. Vote-Smart.Org will help you to look up the Postal and Email addresses of everyone you need to write to.
I use a unique name for everything I need to hand an email address to.. ie.. microsoft@mydomain.com would be the email address i give to microsoft.. that way.. not only will i kill the address if it starts getting spammed, I know who sold me up the river.
This is so far off topic but anyway..
you say Sure, it's far worse to spill hot coffee on yourself than it is to be enslaved. You've got your priorities straight
You should have said
Sure, it's far worse to spill hot coffee on yourself than it is for your great great great grandfather to be enslaved.
Nothing happened to you. You were never a slave. I'm sure you wouldnt expect any money if your grandfather spilled coffee on himself.
I've asked Comcast numerous times and they always respond that there is no such thing as this higher priced, higher speed connection. I think it is fair to pay more to get more and would like to take advantage of this. Do you have any documentation of the existance of this?
I don't even know why spammers bother. Does anyone really fall for 'Have a bigger penis in 3 days' or 'Lose 50 pounds in 23.2 seconds' or any of the other common spams? I mean come on. I would not mind, actually I would WELCOME email advertising if it was only for things that I could use. I like working on cars, computers etc.. so if I were to recieve advertising based on those things,that actually came from a trackable source, with a reliable way of removing oneself from the list, I actually might be HAPPY about it, since I could find out about new products and places with good prices on them. Mass-email marketing COULD work, if anyone could actually trust the vendors, but of course we all know that we can't. I'd like to see legitimate vendors joining us in the anti-spam war, it could only be a positive for them. As it stands now, if I even WANT a product, I won't buy it if it comes as spam. Take the x-10 camera for example. I'd love one of those. I could think of 1000 things to do with it, and that doesnt even include the sneaky, spying on the 18yr old girl next door type ones. But guess what? I'll never, ever do business with them because of their aggressive, intrusive advertising methods.
And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until the end of days.
from The Book of Mozilla, 12:10
I think if you replace BRILLIANT with BALLSY this would be more true. I'm sure many marketing types have thought of doing this, yet did not have any potential ground to stand on if something went wrong. Microsoft is constantly doing things that take alot of balls to do, because they think they can get away with anything they want. Hopefully they will learn their lesson.
I'm happy to see that things might actually be getting better on the electronic front. Articles like this, and the recent one about software installation, the whole MS anti trust case... but there is much more to tackle.. DMCA etc. Hopefully things will at least take a turn in the right direction.
Hey, as long as he had it in a.pst on a client machine and not on a server.. good for him. It's when that 6gb is sucking up server space when that starts to suck.
It's definately a step in the right direction. Remember all those suckers that use AOL may not mean anything to us, but that number of people not using MSIE is sure to change the way the web looks to those of us who also hate MSIE. Web pages that work in the browser that we use by default.. Won't be long before other ISP's that ship their 'own' browser switch over to a Gecko based browser - And without any real stats, i'd guess that 80% of internet users think that they have to use the browser that comes on their ISP's CD or else it won't work. So how long till MSIE uses Gecko, and claims it as their own? MSIE 8.0?
I hope this doesn't come as a surprise to anyone. Sell something to AOL and say goodbye to privacy. I just hope it does not effect any Mozilla releases.
How did you set that? I'd like to do the same Maybe I'm missing something obvious - but wouldnt you have to make a filter for EACH asian character to accomplish this?
Batteries have come a long way - at least lets say, more devices use rechageable battery packs now then before. Remember when everything, and i mean, everything that did not plug directly into the wall, used an alkaline? At least now many things just go back on their base and charge back up.
Lets make guns so they cant shoot people Lets make cars that can only go 65mph Lets make spray paint that will recognize when you are writing graffiti and shut themselves off Lets make car stereos that only play at volume level 2 - even though they are capable of much more Lets make computers that cant copy.... oh wait, that is what we are doing.
While myself I do not have any way to verify this, It has been made clear many times and is generaly accepted that this gas tax money is used just for roads. Of course, I am not an accountant,politician,lawyer,rich man, etc
Actually, the roads ARE paid by those who use them, at least here in Connecticut - we pay an exorbitent gas tax that was enacted about 20 years ago to replace the toll booths - Many other states have gas taxes that do the same, as well as there is a federal gas tax.
I thought this might be an interesting study to read about until I read it, and got to the part that says, 'Viron's team found that earthlings can expect the length of an average day to increase by 11 millionths of a second per decade' I bet these scientists could think of something a little more relavent to life as it affects us in our lifetime to research.
Step 1 - Return your HP (dell,gateway,compaq) to the store you bought it from, barring that, sell it for more than you paid for it on ebay.
Step 2 - Buy a motherboard,CPU,hard drive, case and power supply, floppy, etc. (substitue any spare parts you have laying around)
Step 3 - Purchase,Obtain legally for free, or Pirate the OS(es) of your choice. (i'm not the software police, i dont care what you do)
Step 4 - Put it all together. Enjoy. When it breaks, you have nobody to blame but yourself. Replace broken parts with ones of higher quality.
Step 5 - Notice all the extra money in your bank account, since you didnt pay for HP's advertising campaigns.
The point is, vote with your wallet. It sucks that HP does not include the CD of the OS you legally paid for. But guess what? Screw em. Every slashdot reader should have the technical skill to put a simple desktop system together on their own, and for the people who don't, if they are friends or people you care about, help them. Otherwise, screw them as well. Let the uninformed pay for what they don't know. We'll use our knowledge to better ourselves.
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About the only recourse left in this society is to write your government officials. Ask them to help pass a law like this in your state. It's been mentioned that this will only stop spammers from those states - ok, well the more states that pass this law, the better for us.
Vote-Smart.Org
will help you to look up the Postal and Email addresses of everyone you need to write to.
The appropriate questions would be...
So, who ISN'T selling you up the river?
-Jim
I make the account for each one manually. My mailserver is not set to accept all incoming email.
I use a unique name for everything I need to hand an email address to.. ie.. microsoft@mydomain.com would be the email address i give to microsoft.. that way.. not only will i kill the address if it starts getting spammed, I know who sold me up the river.
Yep...
I was waiting for that response....
This is so far off topic but anyway..
you say
Sure, it's far worse to spill hot coffee on yourself than it is to be enslaved. You've got your priorities straight
You should have said
Sure, it's far worse to spill hot coffee on yourself than it is for your great great great grandfather to be enslaved.
Nothing happened to you. You were never a slave. I'm sure you wouldnt expect any money if your grandfather spilled coffee on himself.
I've asked Comcast numerous times and they always respond that there is no such thing as this higher priced, higher speed connection. I think it is fair to pay more to get more and would like to take advantage of this. Do you have any documentation of the existance of this?
I don't even know why spammers bother. Does anyone really fall for 'Have a bigger penis in 3 days' or 'Lose 50 pounds in 23.2 seconds' or any of the other common spams? I mean come on. I would not mind, actually I would WELCOME email advertising if it was only for things that I could use. I like working on cars, computers etc.. so if I were to recieve advertising based on those things,that actually came from a trackable source, with a reliable way of removing oneself from the list, I actually might be HAPPY about it, since I could find out about new products and places with good prices on them. Mass-email marketing COULD work, if anyone could actually trust the vendors, but of course we all know that we can't. I'd like to see legitimate vendors joining us in the anti-spam war, it could only be a positive for them. As it stands now, if I even WANT a product, I won't buy it if it comes as spam. Take the x-10 camera for example. I'd love one of those. I could think of 1000 things to do with it, and that doesnt even include the sneaky, spying on the 18yr old girl next door type ones. But guess what? I'll never, ever do business with them because of their aggressive, intrusive advertising methods.
I love this part
;-)
What to bring:
# Plenty of cash - exhibitors might not accept credit cards on site
So a bunch of skinny, weak computer geeks running around with plenty of cash in their pockets... Anyone want to go pickpocketing?
And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until the end of days.
from The Book of Mozilla, 12:10
And then there will be the professional porn sites, the professional gambling sites.. the professional pop-up ad sites.....
I'll believe it when I see it.
I think if you replace BRILLIANT with BALLSY this would be more true. I'm sure many marketing types have thought of doing this, yet did not have any potential ground to stand on if something went wrong. Microsoft is constantly doing things that take alot of balls to do, because they think they can get away with anything they want. Hopefully they will learn their lesson.
I'm happy to see that things might actually be getting better on the electronic front. Articles like this, and the recent one about software installation, the whole MS anti trust case... but there is much more to tackle.. DMCA etc. Hopefully things will at least take a turn in the right direction.
Hey, as long as he had it in a .pst on a client machine and not on a server.. good for him. It's when that 6gb is sucking up server space when that starts to suck.
It's definately a step in the right direction. Remember all those suckers that use AOL may not mean anything to us, but that number of people not using MSIE is sure to change the way the web looks to those of us who also hate MSIE. Web pages that work in the browser that we use by default.. Won't be long before other ISP's that ship their 'own' browser switch over to a Gecko based browser - And without any real stats, i'd guess that 80% of internet users think that they have to use the browser that comes on their ISP's CD or else it won't work. So how long till MSIE uses Gecko, and claims it as their own? MSIE 8.0?
I hope this doesn't come as a surprise to anyone. Sell something to AOL and say goodbye to privacy. I just hope it does not effect any Mozilla releases.
How did you set that? I'd like to do the same Maybe I'm missing something obvious - but wouldnt you have to make a filter for EACH asian character to accomplish this?
Batteries have come a long way - at least lets say, more devices use rechageable battery packs now then before. Remember when everything, and i mean, everything that did not plug directly into the wall, used an alkaline? At least now many things just go back on their base and charge back up.
While we are doing this i have a few other ideas
Lets make guns so they cant shoot people
Lets make cars that can only go 65mph
Lets make spray paint that will recognize when you are writing graffiti and shut themselves off
Lets make car stereos that only play at volume level 2 - even though they are capable of much more
Lets make computers that cant copy.... oh wait, that is what we are doing.
How long until this site itself gets it's own Cease and Desist for whatever unfounded reason?
Lost his faith in democracy,
While myself I do not have any way to verify this, It has been made clear many times and is generaly accepted that this gas tax money is used just for roads. Of course, I am not an accountant,politician,lawyer,rich man, etc
Actually, the roads ARE paid by those who use them, at least here in Connecticut - we pay an exorbitent gas tax that was enacted about 20 years ago to replace the toll booths - Many other states have gas taxes that do the same, as well as there is a federal gas tax.
I thought this might be an interesting study to read about until I read it, and got to the part that says, 'Viron's team found that earthlings can expect the length of an average day to increase by 11 millionths of a second per decade' I bet these scientists could think of something a little more relavent to life as it affects us in our lifetime to research.
Step 1 - Return your HP (dell,gateway,compaq) to the store you bought it from, barring that, sell it for more than you paid for it on ebay.
Step 2 - Buy a motherboard,CPU,hard drive, case and power supply, floppy, etc. (substitue any spare parts you have laying around)
Step 3 - Purchase,Obtain legally for free, or Pirate the OS(es) of your choice. (i'm not the software police, i dont care what you do)
Step 4 - Put it all together. Enjoy. When it breaks, you have nobody to blame but yourself. Replace broken parts with ones of higher quality.
Step 5 - Notice all the extra money in your bank account, since you didnt pay for HP's advertising campaigns.
The point is, vote with your wallet. It sucks that HP does not include the CD of the OS you legally paid for. But guess what? Screw em. Every slashdot reader should have the technical skill to put a simple desktop system together on their own, and for the people who don't, if they are friends or people you care about, help them. Otherwise, screw them as well. Let the uninformed pay for what they don't know. We'll use our knowledge to better ourselves.