If you think of spam as a pathogen, no - No more than any other disease can be wiped out. But the system will be allowed to function without parasites overwhelming it.
The best benefit are geeks hitting the weight room, NRA gun ranges and loading up on pepperspray and beanbag guns. We finally get to use those skills honed with years of nerf weapons training.
Geeks getting paid to hunt down spammers? Too sweet.
Let the school librarians pick through this garbage the RIAA crapped upon them. Whatever is left is boxed up, then placed on the chest of the president of the RIAA.
If you think that is harsh, then how about forcing the RIAA executives to peddle this 'largess' on the street corners? They have to sell 3/4 of the CD's to individual customers, and until they do the RIAA is shutdown, and the offices padlocked.
What are you talking about? American companies are around for one reason, and one reason only: to make money. They hire GOOD programmers in India CHEAPLY. They save money. Simple as that. There is no 'conspiracy' for a group of companies to not compete over quality: as soon as this happens, a new player will come in not following these rules and take over the market. It's how free trade works.
Yeah, yeah. Its ok to send a job overseas to take advantage of lower prices, its bound to happen, bla, bla bla. Its their job to do with as they will. Fair enough.
Funny though how its a genuine pain in the ass to open a foreign bank account, or a foreign trading account, or get insurance from a company overseas. Then, its like running into a brick wall. Its ok when its your job, but when its the "little people's" money, look out. Then it becomes a problem.
Now that you bring politicians into it, it could be argued that dishonest politicans 'hack' society and political structures that humanity needs to exist. After all, far more people have been killed by bad governments than bad technology.
We should also take into consideration that since people emulate the behavior of their leaders, corrupt, selfish behavior quickly spreads through a society like a virus, rotting it away from the inside until it collapses. Like the chinese say, a fish rots from the head down.
So maybe a law getting tough on 'system sabateurs' is needed. But for some reason, I don't think politicians would approve of my liberties with the definition of 'hacker'...
That's very nice, but the fact remains that 90% of all spam originates from countries that are out of the FBI's jurisdiction. What are they going to do about it?
Check out Veblen's Theory of Business Enterprise. It argues that the entrepreneur is the antithesis of the engineer who wants to make cool stuff. In the desire to make as much money as possible, they end up interfering with progress rather than accelerating it.
Veblen's businessperson makes profits not by providing an outlet for the forces of industrialization and social evolution but by distorting them: by engaging in monetary manipulations, by restricting output to keep prices artificially high, and by interfering with the engineers who actually produce goods and services.
Divorce: Kitt from Knight Rider divorces life partner Michael for alimony and a monthly oil change. But who gets the fuzzy dice and the beaded seat cover?
Product Liability: Customer sues when a vegetable becomes mixed into his Soylent Green.
IP: RIAA sues ancient space faring race for IP infringement (Their eons-old anthem bears a striking resembelance to theme of 'Growing Pains'). Aliens carpet bomb Earth.
Technowhiz: Geek invents a lawbot the size of a hearing aid that translates between legalese and english. The firm goes bankrupt -the lawyers into the wilderness for the spin-off "Lawyers in the deadzone"
Murder: Peta activists genetically engineers sentient dog. Dog tells PETA to F-off and insists on his right to eat meat. Activists then kill animal under the defence of 'its just an animal'
Libel: Snake Pliskin hires firm to sue the guy that publicizes his death.
It has a custom paint job "31173" the hood, hydraulic pads so I can raise or lower it depending on the desk height, and I kitted the fan to make it extra noisy - just so you know I am in the room.
Knew someone who worked at the Washington Post. They often commented on how articles were 'sexed' up to sell papers. A common way was to emphasise a conflict between two parties. Linux vs SCO sells to the PHB business crowd.
The growing amount of evidence that this virus was written by a hacker and funded by spammers is where the real story may lie. Does it really surprise anyone that the sociopathic spammer industry would be above this tactic?
SCO might be a bubble, but with the attention it draws, it also has a very solid chance of not being a bubble.
Peter: We're not gonna buy you're lousy timeshare. Now where's my boat?
Salesman: Hold on - you have a choice. You can have the boat or what's inside the mystery box!!
Lois: What are you crazy? We'll take the boat.
Peter: Hold on the boat is a boat but the mystery box could be anything! It could even be a boat!! you know how much we've wanted one of those!!! We'll take the box!
Maybe it is a cycle, but the question is, how long will the cycle take to correct itself? Five years, fifteen, fifty? I'm sure their are those in England still waiting for their jobs to return after being shipped to the US fifty years ago. You don't really think the Indians are going to be as stupid as the US Congress by offering corporations incentives to move offshore do you?
But don't worry. The experts have assured us that only the low quality jobs leave our shores. So whether you are saying "Biggie Size", "Welcome to Walmart" or "May I see your ID?" keep your head up - you are driving the economy!
Many of their major customers (including ultraconservative telecoms) have already been doing development in Linux for sometime. Like any good businessman, they are going where the customers are. But is that where the money is? They are trying to sell a product in a market where services are the cash cow.
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Its already generated several hundred ideas using Adam Sandler alone.
If you had to load lynx into your KIM-1 via papertape, you'd have a six digit id too, sonny.
Now quit buggin me. I gotta hunt down the grandkids and show'em how Halo is just a gussied up "Hunt the Wumpus".
In the beginning there were a bank of switches.
AND WE LIKED IT LIKE THAT.
If you couldn't be bothered to translate the error codes from hex and look them up in the manual, who needed ya?
Now scram. It's grandpa's naptime.
On the plus side, the hues of the characters would have been as imagined by the author in the books.
On the negative side, the characters would be dancing and singing their way through the story.
...without one of them shooting the other for following too closely.
Robocop. Probably one of the better cyberpunk movies ever made. Dark comedy, but lighter than Brazil.
It's probably not considered real sci-fi because it
1. Does not mention space
2. Focuses on the effects of Corporations on Humanity.
We check out the new book shelf at the library.
IN SOVIET AMERICA
The library checks YOU out!
Best buy warrents their own additions:
Rule #400 - Extended warrenties are extended latinum.
Rule #401 - Make the customer work for his bargin.
If you think of spam as a pathogen, no - No more than any other disease can be wiped out. But the system will be allowed to function without parasites overwhelming it. The best benefit are geeks hitting the weight room, NRA gun ranges and loading up on pepperspray and beanbag guns. We finally get to use those skills honed with years of nerf weapons training. Geeks getting paid to hunt down spammers? Too sweet.
I have a better idea.
Let the school librarians pick through this garbage the RIAA crapped upon them. Whatever is left is boxed up, then placed on the chest of the president of the RIAA.
If you think that is harsh, then how about forcing the RIAA executives to peddle this 'largess' on the street corners? They have to sell 3/4 of the CD's to individual customers, and until they do the RIAA is shutdown, and the offices padlocked.
Yeah, yeah. Its ok to send a job overseas to take advantage of lower prices, its bound to happen, bla, bla bla. Its their job to do with as they will. Fair enough.
Funny though how its a genuine pain in the ass to open a foreign bank account, or a foreign trading account, or get insurance from a company overseas. Then, its like running into a brick wall. Its ok when its your job, but when its the "little people's" money, look out. Then it becomes a problem.
We should also take into consideration that since people emulate the behavior of their leaders, corrupt, selfish behavior quickly spreads through a society like a virus, rotting it away from the inside until it collapses. Like the chinese say, a fish rots from the head down.
So maybe a law getting tough on 'system sabateurs' is needed. But for some reason, I don't think politicians would approve of my liberties with the definition of 'hacker'...
An UAV armed with missles, God willing.
Thus begins the stampede of technological innovation to environments where freedom is celebrated, rather than crushed.
My town's roads have so many potholes, the square wheels might just be the solution I have been searching for...
Microsoft is a classic example of this. One would be pressed to think of a single innovation from Redmond.
The equivalent for joe is joe->joseph->Sepp
job -> ???
Well, I went with 'schtossa'.
Joe Job -> Sepp Schtossa?
Divorce: Kitt from Knight Rider divorces life partner Michael for alimony and a monthly oil change. But who gets the fuzzy dice and the beaded seat cover?
Product Liability: Customer sues when a vegetable becomes mixed into his Soylent Green.
IP: RIAA sues ancient space faring race for IP infringement (Their eons-old anthem bears a striking resembelance to theme of 'Growing Pains'). Aliens carpet bomb Earth.
Technowhiz: Geek invents a lawbot the size of a hearing aid that translates between legalese and english. The firm goes bankrupt -the lawyers into the wilderness for the spin-off "Lawyers in the deadzone"
Murder: Peta activists genetically engineers sentient dog. Dog tells PETA to F-off and insists on his right to eat meat. Activists then kill animal under the defence of 'its just an animal'
Libel: Snake Pliskin hires firm to sue the guy that publicizes his death.
It has a custom paint job "31173" the hood,
hydraulic pads so I can raise or lower it depending on the desk height,
and I kitted the fan to make it extra noisy - just so you know I am in the room.
Worship me.
The growing amount of evidence that this virus was written by a hacker and funded by spammers is where the real story may lie. Does it really surprise anyone that the sociopathic spammer industry would be above this tactic?
When reliable, open source centrino support exists.
Maybe it is a cycle, but the question is, how long will the cycle take to correct itself? Five years, fifteen, fifty? I'm sure their are those in England still waiting for their jobs to return after being shipped to the US fifty years ago. You don't really think the Indians are going to be as stupid as the US Congress by offering corporations incentives to move offshore do you? But don't worry. The experts have assured us that only the low quality jobs leave our shores. So whether you are saying "Biggie Size", "Welcome to Walmart" or "May I see your ID?" keep your head up - you are driving the economy!
The latter, driving the former.
Many of their major customers (including ultraconservative telecoms) have already been doing development in Linux for sometime. Like any good businessman, they are going where the customers are. But is that where the money is? They are trying to sell a product in a market where services are the cash cow.