The marketing industry vehemently opposes the law, saying that it will only restrict actions by legitimate marketers and not the rouges who send the most offensive spam.
I don't actually expect/. posters to spell "rogue" correctly. I do, however, expect anyone referring to themselves as the "Paper of Record" to distinguish scoundrels from cosmetics. Unless it actually is blush that sends "the most offensive spam" in which case I apologize to the Times.
Hello, troll. Or perhaps you are not a troll, but simply didn't notice that these are 2 different CIOs being discussed. The "Fortune 100 CIO who has that recurring nightmare" appears at the beginning of the article and at the end.
I'm posting this in response to egg troll because this assumption is showing up throughout the discussion. A few decades ago, thousands of secretaries in the US spent their days using SGML. Even more were using WordPerfect "reveal codes" with no particular difficulty. Every secretary or admin I've ever worked with was easily intelligent enough to handle any number of complex computing issues. If you want a "dumb user" to use in examples, one who is unwilling to make any sort of effort to comprehend a difficult operating system (and I agree that OSS desktops are still difficult) may I suggest Charles "I don't have time to learn things, I'm busy coming up with strategic synergies" CEO?
Microsoft New England Offices: Waltham, MA [Microsoft Waltham Facility] Address: Microsoft Corporation, 201 Jones Road, Waltham, MA 02451 Directions
Send in state troopers and seize the site. If I were on probation and broke the conditions, I'd go to jail. Criminal corporations won't pay attention until you start treating them like criminals.
Hear hear! I'm using linux only, but I'm strongly considering buying a computer that I can make dual boot solely for the purpose of playing Civilization II. If the Freeciv group (and for that matter Civ3) hadn't decided to toss the start-time customization options, I would be playing it constantly. It's that simple. And if you think that editing the text files is an appropriate substitute, please have Dogbert hit you over the head for me.
Gee, I'm sorry you've met too many "liberal arts" majors who don't understand how computers work. My office and my house are full of liberal arts majors (including me) with detailed understandings of technology. Most of them are employed in technical fields. As to your belief that engineers are today's liberal arts majors, I'd be more inclined to include engineers if more of them got an education that dealt with more than technology. For example, my friends who went to Harvey Mudd are quite well-rounded, but I see a lot of engineers here on Slashdot whose understanding of "politics, humanities, governance, management and other fields of importance" seems to stop at "Microsoft bad, literature boring, gadgets fun."
...freely giving away information very often does not lead to profit.
As for other subjects besides science/math, I don't know or care what this will do for them. They're pretty much a waste of time anyway.
Hmm, good thing you didn't get any education in those non-technical subjects. We'd hate to have people who've studied history making arguments based on it.
It is entirely true that the constitutional right to privacy is not explicitly stated, and may stand on some dubious jurisdiction by the Supreme Court. But the fact that a right is not explicitly enumerated in the Constitution does not mean that people don't have it. That's pretty much exactly what the 9th amendment states.
I would be interested (assuming you are actually the founder of ActiveBuddy and not a troll) to read your opinions on the differences between your patent and the multiple examples of prior art. I will happily grant that slashdot tends to have knee-jerk reactions to IP issues, but there are a significant number of factual challenges to your patent in this discussion, which deserve an answer. Thank you.
There's a short article in the latest National Geographic about the use of GIS and other cartographic data in the rescue effort after 9/11. Cartographers provided rescuers with information such as building support structures and fire locations.
I would play feeciv if they hadn't designed the game to make it impossible to name your own civilization (not to mention civ2's wonderful titles editor screen) without editing text files. Just a little thing, but makes the game significantly less fun for a specific subset of players.
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Not particularly. I mostly just thought the six-eyed version looked less spiderish. Ideal would certainly be eight.
That would actually (imho) make it look less like a spider, since they usually have 8 eyes.
Spider eyes
No problem.
The marketing industry vehemently opposes the law, saying that it will only restrict actions by legitimate marketers and not the rouges who send the most offensive spam.
/. posters to spell "rogue" correctly. I do, however, expect anyone referring to themselves as the "Paper of Record" to distinguish scoundrels from cosmetics. Unless it actually is blush that sends "the most offensive spam" in which case I apologize to the Times.
I don't actually expect
That's "cui bono." I know, I'm a pedant.
Hello, troll.
Or perhaps you are not a troll, but simply didn't notice that these are 2 different CIOs being discussed. The "Fortune 100 CIO who has that recurring nightmare" appears at the beginning of the article and at the end.
Actually, gluten allergies are fairly common.
By capitalizing ORG, you've removed redundancy in the data to foil decryption.
Why wouldn't you want the little guy to know that buying more would help them? Doesn't that mean more profit for you?
I'm posting this in response to egg troll because this assumption is showing up throughout the discussion.
A few decades ago, thousands of secretaries in the US spent their days using SGML. Even more were using WordPerfect "reveal codes" with no particular difficulty. Every secretary or admin I've ever worked with was easily intelligent enough to handle any number of complex computing issues.
If you want a "dumb user" to use in examples, one who is unwilling to make any sort of effort to comprehend a difficult operating system (and I agree that OSS desktops are still difficult) may I suggest Charles "I don't have time to learn things, I'm busy coming up with strategic synergies" CEO?
Were squid to take up boxing, one would see far fewer prematurely terminated careers due to detached retinae.
You just made my day. Thank you.
Microsoft New England Offices: Waltham, MA
[Microsoft Waltham Facility]
Address: Microsoft Corporation, 201 Jones Road, Waltham, MA 02451
Directions
Send in state troopers and seize the site. If I were on probation and broke the conditions, I'd go to jail. Criminal corporations won't pay attention until you start treating them like criminals.
It would have made perfect sense, except for being the opposite of what is implied by context. Not to imply you didn't RTFP.
That's destruction of another's property. Vandalism. You don't actually get prosecuted for it until both participants are out of high school.
So does this mean that if you're blind, you don't get to send mail to C/R users? Another hurdle for blind users is just what the net needs.
It gets better.
Hear hear! I'm using linux only, but I'm strongly considering buying a computer that I can make dual boot solely for the purpose of playing Civilization II. If the Freeciv group (and for that matter Civ3) hadn't decided to toss the start-time customization options, I would be playing it constantly. It's that simple. And if you think that editing the text files is an appropriate substitute, please have Dogbert hit you over the head for me.
Gee, I'm sorry you've met too many "liberal arts" majors who don't understand how computers work. My office and my house are full of liberal arts majors (including me) with detailed understandings of technology. Most of them are employed in technical fields. As to your belief that engineers are today's liberal arts majors, I'd be more inclined to include engineers if more of them got an education that dealt with more than technology. For example, my friends who went to Harvey Mudd are quite well-rounded, but I see a lot of engineers here on Slashdot whose understanding of "politics, humanities, governance, management and other fields of importance" seems to stop at "Microsoft bad, literature boring, gadgets fun."
Hmm, good thing you didn't get any education in those non-technical subjects. We'd hate to have people who've studied history making arguments based on it.
And yes, I know you're probably trolling.
Nobody would ever accidentally type those 4 keys
So nobody would ever bang at their keyboard in frustration? Nobody would ever bring their kid to work?
It is entirely true that the constitutional right to privacy is not explicitly stated, and may stand on some dubious jurisdiction by the Supreme Court. But the fact that a right is not explicitly enumerated in the Constitution does not mean that people don't have it. That's pretty much exactly what the 9th amendment states.
I would be interested (assuming you are actually the founder of ActiveBuddy and not a troll) to read your opinions on the differences between your patent and the multiple examples of prior art. I will happily grant that slashdot tends to have knee-jerk reactions to IP issues, but there are a significant number of factual challenges to your patent in this discussion, which deserve an answer. Thank you.
There's a short article in the latest National Geographic about the use of GIS and other cartographic data in the rescue effort after 9/11. Cartographers provided rescuers with information such as building support structures and fire locations.
I would play feeciv if they hadn't designed the game to make it impossible to name your own civilization (not to mention civ2's wonderful titles editor screen) without editing text files. Just a little thing, but makes the game significantly less fun for a specific subset of players.
Hmm. Not as amusing, but I get:s (one word?)
detractresses
devertebrated
sweaterdresse
phyllophyllin