So, has/. stooped to (vile,disgusting) rumormongering? Or are these things actually going to happen?
People please submit URLs when you submit such juicy morsels.
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And also applicable:
It's illegal to send someone Unsolicited Commercial FAXes
The reason being, (supposedly) because it consumes valuable resources at essentially no cost to the sender. So why do the politicians and lawmakers think that "it's different" on the internet. After all, they're consuming my bandwidth, (which cost me money). And with these fancy new java/flash/plugin-of-the-day based ads, often a lot of bandwidth.
If you think past the individual end-recipient and consider how much bandwidth on the internet today is being needlessly consumed by the spammers of the world collectively you'd see it's a huge waste, all of which ends up on my monthly bills from my ISP. Not to mention added latency and clogged routers the world over.
One of the bigger questions of life.
Between Heisenbergs Principle, and Schrodingers Experiments on a cat, we have never been able to know.
Until now, that is.
Big Business comes out with yet another (doomed to failure) technology to send me targeted advertising.
Why do I say it's Doomed To Failure?
Simple, because I (and many others) use Yet Another Interesting Technology.
Ad Blockers.
And why do I use this interesting, cheap, customisable and efficient technology (eg AdsOff from http://www.intercantech.com/)?
Because I pay for every single Bit Per Second of bandwidth I have, personally, out of my own hard-earned cash, and because I'm not a Gazillionaire, I cannot afford enough bandwidth to thoroughly enjoy my internet connection AND have all the Ads THEY want to send me.
So, as far as I'm concerned, they can LOOK all they want, cause I'm not even thinking about downloading their ads.
Why is it illegal to send someone unsolicited commercial FAX messages? Because of the COST to the end user.
Well, here's an interesting fact: When you send me ADS or SPAM emails, you consume MY bandwidth, which I paid for (local connection , as well as adding to general internet bandwidth consumption, which ends up increasing end-user costs - ie I end up paying for it), therefore you have COST me - both directly and indirectly.
So WHY is what you're doing NOT illegal? When will the Government learn?
The scaffold was implanted where the thumb tip had been, with skin from the patient's stomach providing the finishing touch.
I do remember some truly basic details of physiology.
There's no "skin" on/in your stomach, your skin is an organ which covers the outside of your body. So now I'm wondering exactly what these "doctors" did.
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mmm, goldschlager.
I wonder, if I drank enough of this would I shit gold bricks?
True to life Kiwis.
A single bottle of beer is enough to get "a whole group of friends" drunk.
Yeah Well - what he didn't mention was that he'd actually logged in as 'Luv_of_Munny' and then su'd to root.
(sigh)*People* Think about it for a moment.
Embrace and Extend is exactly what a python , anaconda or other large non-venomous (ie constrictor) snake uses.
Embrace the victim until it dies, and then Extend jaws until it can be swallowed.
So, has /. stooped to (vile ,disgusting) rumormongering? Or are these things actually going to happen?
People please submit URLs when you submit such juicy morsels.
And also applicable:
It's illegal to send someone Unsolicited Commercial FAXes
The reason being, (supposedly) because it consumes valuable resources at essentially no cost to the sender. So why do the politicians and lawmakers think that "it's different" on the internet. After all, they're consuming my bandwidth, (which cost me money). And with these fancy new java/flash/plugin-of-the-day based ads, often a lot of bandwidth.
If you think past the individual end-recipient and consider how much bandwidth on the internet today is being needlessly consumed by the spammers of the world collectively you'd see it's a huge waste, all of which ends up on my monthly bills from my ISP. Not to mention added latency and clogged routers the world over.
One of the bigger questions of life.
Between Heisenbergs Principle, and Schrodingers Experiments on a cat, we have never been able to know.
Until now, that is.
When you close the door, is the light on or off?
Thanks IBM.
Size Does Matter>
And as the growing bloat^H^H^H^H^Hsoftware industry has proven
It won't do nayone any good if you don't know what to do with it.
Will we call them UOL?
FP
From the Been There Done That Department:
Gregory Benford
Deep Time
How Humanity communicates Across Millennia
ISBN 0-380-79346-6
Costs about $11 from Amazon
Big Business comes out with yet another (doomed to failure) technology to send me targeted advertising.
Why do I say it's Doomed To Failure?
Simple, because I (and many others) use Yet Another Interesting Technology.
Ad Blockers.
And why do I use this interesting, cheap, customisable and efficient technology (eg AdsOff from http://www.intercantech.com/)?
Because I pay for every single Bit Per Second of bandwidth I have, personally, out of my own hard-earned cash, and because I'm not a Gazillionaire, I cannot afford enough bandwidth to thoroughly enjoy my internet connection AND have all the Ads THEY want to send me.
So, as far as I'm concerned, they can LOOK all they want, cause I'm not even thinking about downloading their ads.
Why is it illegal to send someone unsolicited commercial FAX messages? Because of the COST to the end user.
Well, here's an interesting fact: When you send me ADS or SPAM emails, you consume MY bandwidth, which I paid for (local connection , as well as adding to general internet bandwidth consumption, which ends up increasing end-user costs - ie I end up paying for it), therefore you have COST me - both directly and indirectly.
So WHY is what you're doing NOT illegal?
When will the Government learn?
So, I've actually been running my own OS for MANY years now (it feels like it's been forever, actually).
Though I do say so myself, it seems to work quite well, once you get used to it.
In fact, I'd say that just about everybody must have had exposure to it in one form or another, at some stage in their lives.
I'd even suspect that most people have (in their own way) tried to take advantage of it, at least once, and maybe even several times.
I guess you'd all like to know what I've called it?
For reasons that seemed relevant at the time....
It's called
K OS
FYI: Tuscany is a region in Italy.
The scaffold was implanted where the thumb tip had been, with skin from the patient's stomach providing the finishing touch.
I do remember some truly basic details of physiology.
There's no "skin" on/in your stomach, your skin is an organ which covers the outside of your body.
So now I'm wondering exactly what these "doctors" did.