It just wouldn't be slashdot without a kneejerk liberal taking everything seriously and issuing a sober, politically correct refutal to someone's offhand comment.
This isn't spammers, it's organized crime. And they won't be caught, either, until law enforcement infiltrates someone in, or someone gets caught for something else and agrees to turn the rest of them in for leniency.
Yeah...and fat people are really the ones with lots of willpower to "implement life plans". Not everyone is a bike-riding metrosexual businessman who enjoys reading specialty health magaizines.
BZZZT, wrong. A cure for cancer requires animal testing. And animal testing labs face a future of being blown up by terrorists. So, I hope nobody in YOUR family gets cancer. If they do, I hope you show more courage than Paul McCartney did, and allow your relatives to die rather than use drugs that have been tested on animals.
Let's see...the victim is 'conservative'. The perpetrator is leftist. Therefore, Luskin is a total nutcase, and Atrios is a levelheaded First Amendment hero.
A great knee-jerk lefty response. Sorry about the cure for cancer, though...it requires animal research, which is strictly verboten. Unless,of course, you're Paul McCartney's wife, then it's OK to take animal-tested drugs as long as it's saving YOUR life.
You do know, of course, that the plain old smallpox virus is quite virulent enough on its own? That the present-day American population is as vulnerable to smallpox as the Indians were when Columbus arrived? Nah, sorry for injecting facts into an emotional discussion.
Er, your CPU could execute a HLT instruction and stop using electricity altogether, instead of making you 'feel good'.
The less electricity your computer uses, the less coal the local plant has to burn, and the less pollutants in our atmosphere. That's a better 'use' than analyzing crap data from some quack psuedoscience, yes?
Yeah, it's really convenient the sound made was within the range of 20-20,000 Hz.
This whole thing just smacks of 'pretty picture' science like that commonly practiced in astronomy. The idea being that science needs to produce meaningless crap that people can download to their computers, so they can think they're getting their money's worth (c.f. SETI@Home).
I don't have an account, nor an ISP. My company ASSIGNED me an email account. I don't give a crap where my company gets its internet service from. In addition it looks ghetto to have business cards printed with @city.rr.com or whatever.
Nimrod, it's because there are a hell of a lot of people out there who don't pay for their own gadgets. You bottom-feeders who save your paychecks to buy all your own stuff can get whatever you want. The cognoscenti with expense accounts can do better than that. Get a job in marketing(for a real company, not your dad's firm) and we'll see who can predict product lifetimes.
Jeez, there's ways around that, you know. Man, if you actually work for the government, you should know what I'm talking about. Good, honest graft...there's nothing like it.
Bzzt wrong, a man of power cannot have sex with a woman underneath him in the power structure. It's automatically abuse...there's no such thing as consent. Go brush up on your women's studies and come back when you've reeducated yourself.
It should also be pointed out that the reason they lost and got fined was because they took the money they made spamming and ran. They didn't show up to defend themselves and lost the case by default.
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It just wouldn't be slashdot without a kneejerk liberal taking everything seriously and issuing a sober, politically correct refutal to someone's offhand comment.
This isn't spammers, it's organized crime. And they won't be caught, either, until law enforcement infiltrates someone in, or someone gets caught for something else and agrees to turn the rest of them in for leniency.
Yeah...and fat people are really the ones with lots of willpower to "implement life plans". Not everyone is a bike-riding metrosexual businessman who enjoys reading specialty health magaizines.
But it's natural and therefore faultless in every way!
Have you considered suicide?
Er...no. A HLT instruction brings the CPU to a halt. It does not use any power. The gas is not being burned, the engine is off.
BZZZT, wrong. A cure for cancer requires animal testing. And animal testing labs face a future of being blown up by terrorists. So, I hope nobody in YOUR family gets cancer. If they do, I hope you show more courage than Paul McCartney did, and allow your relatives to die rather than use drugs that have been tested on animals.
Let's see...the victim is 'conservative'. The perpetrator is leftist. Therefore, Luskin is a total nutcase, and Atrios is a levelheaded First Amendment hero.
The days of an idle CPU simply running endless NOP instructions went out with Windows 3.1 and the 80486.
You do know, of course, that the plain old smallpox virus is quite virulent enough on its own? That the present-day American population is as vulnerable to smallpox as the Indians were when Columbus arrived? Nah, sorry for injecting facts into an emotional discussion.
Newsflash! France possesses WMD. They don't even bother to try to hide it from the world.
The less electricity your computer uses, the less coal the local plant has to burn, and the less pollutants in our atmosphere. That's a better 'use' than analyzing crap data from some quack psuedoscience, yes?
This whole thing just smacks of 'pretty picture' science like that commonly practiced in astronomy. The idea being that science needs to produce meaningless crap that people can download to their computers, so they can think they're getting their money's worth (c.f. SETI@Home).
I don't have an account, nor an ISP. My company ASSIGNED me an email account. I don't give a crap where my company gets its internet service from. In addition it looks ghetto to have business cards printed with @city.rr.com or whatever.
Nimrod, it's because there are a hell of a lot of people out there who don't pay for their own gadgets. You bottom-feeders who save your paychecks to buy all your own stuff can get whatever you want. The cognoscenti with expense accounts can do better than that. Get a job in marketing(for a real company, not your dad's firm) and we'll see who can predict product lifetimes.
You live in San Francisco, right?
Er, I dunno. Sounds like Sidekick to me.
That would be, what, all of them?
Jeez, there's ways around that, you know. Man, if you actually work for the government, you should know what I'm talking about. Good, honest graft...there's nothing like it.
Bzzt wrong, a man of power cannot have sex with a woman underneath him in the power structure. It's automatically abuse...there's no such thing as consent. Go brush up on your women's studies and come back when you've reeducated yourself.
Nah, that kind of thing never happens. It's tinfoil-hat thinking. It's as unlikely as the President sexually abusing one of his interns.
This assumes you get your mail from the same server. I don't. This would be a total pain in the ass for me.
It should also be pointed out that the reason they lost and got fined was because they took the money they made spamming and ran. They didn't show up to defend themselves and lost the case by default.
--Windows XP Professional license agreement
Not to mention the problems involved with obtaining access to said petroleum resources in the first place...