or somebody else will "take care" of them. Seriously. I'd be afraid to pull the kind of shit SCO and their allies are pulling. Eliminate the average man's ability to get back at you through the courts, and sooner or later he's going to say "screw the courts" and take matters into his own hands.
I wouldn't be doing what THESE morons are doing, that's for sure.
I love my family. I'm not sure about these creeps.
I am perfectly within my rights to tell individuals or organizations that they may NOT contact me via phone, cell or otherwise. If they persist after being notified, it qualifies as harassment.
How I decide to pay for MY service does not have anything whatsoever to do with my right to control access to MY equipment.
The only reasonable expectation that someone might call me is if I give the number to someone with the intent of having them call me. When I had a cellphone, I could count the number of people who had my number on both hands and have fingers to spare.
Yet another reason I'm glad I dumped my cell phone service a couple years ago...
On the contrary. I think that ANY single failure is relevant. Manufacturers should be held to account for faulty product, no matter how few customers are affected.
I've not yet been bit by a Maxtor drive. I have been bit by the Deathstar line. If people who DO get bit complain in a public forum like Slashdot, it places more pressure on the manufacturer to correct whatever problem created the failure. If people do as you suggest and remain silent, it does nothing.
I know if I lost a drive with important data on it due to an apparent manufacturer defect, I'd make as much noise as necessary to at least cancel out whatever benefit that the manufacturer got from my inital purchase.
The Flash plugin has been an ad client since I walked past less savy co-workers' desks and watched the spaces where I only see a blue puzzle piece on the same page Writhing and Shouting and doing everythign possible to distract the reader from what they came to the page for.
Having a fire destroy the interior set and leaving them without a method of having "in transit" sequences with the lovely console and time rotor didnt' help much, either...
To be clear, if MacroMedia hadn't co-opted their technology by developing highly intrusive, advertisement oriented extensions to it, I'd still bother to install their plugin. As it stands, I keep a VMware machine installed in case I want to watch ENTERTAINING SWF content, as opposed to advertisements.
Advertisers: stick to banners. Use the Internet equivalent of doubling the sound volume so that you can reach me in the bathroom, and I'll block you.
If they use SWF for the meat of their site, they're limiting their audience. More and more people are recognizing that Shoskles and other intrusive ads won't bother them if they simply refuse to install Flash.
I've never heard of Newgrounds. From the sound of it, they don't have content I'm interested in viewing.
For simple, cell animation like most of what I've seen in Flash, pretty much any format that doesnt require the installation of the "take over your screen and generally piss you off" ad client is superior. How tough is it to compress cell animation? not very.
I thought "Oh cool, a robot that will make beer for me, using bluetooth"
Sadly, the project page is Flash only, so I'll never know what the hell this is all about.
Hint: It's the WEB, moron. Use normal HTML like the rest of us. Flash is mainly used for annoying, intrusive, ads, which I do not allow on my machine. It's not a good basis for an entire website, no matter what the MacroMedia salesweasel, or MacroMedia-fed half-assed web designer tells you.
It's a crutch for the inept and useless. There are better tools for animation, and there are FAR better tools for websites.
I have to agree. As a matter of fact, I'm torn between Davidson and Colin Baker as my favorite. The mess that was "Trial of a Timelord" and the abrupt end to Colin's tenure as The Doctor always bothered me. There was so much more to the character to be explored, from the botched regeneration that caused his "quirks" to what the hell actually happened as a result of the Trial.
Didn't dislike McCoy necessarily, but the local PBS station didn't air the last series, so I haven't seen them yet. I did buy them on VHS several years ago, but two of the 4 tapes (these were legal BBC produced tapes, mind you) had serious problems and noise that I didn't discover until far too late (in those days I was in habit of buying pretty much everything that it looked like I might like to watch... had quite a queue.)
There ARE people who I would accept calls from, even during dinner (family emergencies happen). Telemarketer scum are not among them. My telephone is for the uses _I_ designate it for. If you're a telemarketer and I tell you not to call, god help you if you do. First step is harassment charges, and if that doesn't work, well... the Snickers commercial doesn't even begin to cover the kind of retaliation telemarketing firms have coming...
But please MR joe why dont you post your number up here on slashdot if you think people have the right to call you up?
Yes. Put up or Shut up. I think that's the proper phrase. If you don't mind telemarketing calls, and you're so all-fired keen to protect telemarketers, publish your number right here.
Oh you don't want to be bothered? now you know how the rest of us feel./seinfeld
I think all he's implying is that it would be useful to the telemarketers' council to experience the sorts of frustration that the people on the DNC list are fed up with. Might help them understand the matter better.
He's excercising free speech by mentioning this. If the Record companies HIRED goons to harass the EFF's lawyers, they (the record execs AND the goons) would be culpable under the RICO act, and that would be the end of it.
If you did it within the law, sure. Apparently the RIAA circumvented the law. I don't think that having large corporations circumvent the law and "resolve" things to their own liking in disregard to the law is OK at all.
Interesting that you think that a problem. I'd think that having drivers slow down because they see that the road is monitored would be a positive thing. The goal IS to slow down speeders, not merely to penalize them, right?
"The operation of your car is done on PUBLIC roads. So the public has the RIGHT to know what you do with your private property while travelling over public property."
BZZT Law enforcement has no right to use my private property to collect information regarding my activities.
The Amendment preventing unwarrented search and seizure was created to prevent a police body that suspected a subject of a particular crime from searching, and continuing to search until they found him guilty of some crime or other, whether it be the one he was accused of originally.
If they can collect evidence of my actions WITHOUT searching my PRIVATE property, then fine.
Read the Constitution. Read the Bill of Rights.
My public actions are a matter of record if there is a WITNESS that is willing to testify to them.
My property is not a valid witness, without a WARRANT.
That's the law, according to the Constitution. Property does not specifically mean "House" it means anything that I own.
Getting a warrant does not restrict legitimate law enforcement.
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or somebody else will "take care" of them. Seriously. I'd be afraid to pull the kind of shit SCO and their allies are pulling. Eliminate the average man's ability to get back at you through the courts, and sooner or later he's going to say "screw the courts" and take matters into his own hands.
I wouldn't be doing what THESE morons are doing, that's for sure.
I love my family. I'm not sure about these creeps.
Wrong, and spoken like a true telemarketer.
I am perfectly within my rights to tell individuals or organizations that they may NOT contact me via phone, cell or otherwise. If they persist after being notified, it qualifies as harassment.
How I decide to pay for MY service does not have anything whatsoever to do with my right to control access to MY equipment.
The only reasonable expectation that someone might call me is if I give the number to someone with the intent of having them call me. When I had a cellphone, I could count the number of people who had my number on both hands and have fingers to spare.
Yet another reason I'm glad I dumped my cell phone service a couple years ago...
On the contrary. I think that ANY single failure is relevant. Manufacturers should be held to account for faulty product, no matter how few customers are affected.
I've not yet been bit by a Maxtor drive. I have been bit by the Deathstar line. If people who DO get bit complain in a public forum like Slashdot, it places more pressure on the manufacturer to correct whatever problem created the failure. If people do as you suggest and remain silent, it does nothing.
I know if I lost a drive with important data on it due to an apparent manufacturer defect, I'd make as much noise as necessary to at least cancel out whatever benefit that the manufacturer got from my inital purchase.
Defective product is not EVER acceptable.
David Diamond drills Linus
Honestly, that's a visual I could have done without...
Explain "Shoskles" then.
The Flash plugin has been an ad client since I walked past less savy co-workers' desks and watched the spaces where I only see a blue puzzle piece on the same page Writhing and Shouting and doing everythign possible to distract the reader from what they came to the page for.
No Flash=no annoying, screaming ads.
Therefore, Flash==Advertising engine.
Having a fire destroy the interior set and leaving them without a method of having "in transit" sequences with the lovely console and time rotor didnt' help much, either...
To be clear, if MacroMedia hadn't co-opted their technology by developing highly intrusive, advertisement oriented extensions to it, I'd still bother to install their plugin. As it stands, I keep a VMware machine installed in case I want to watch ENTERTAINING SWF content, as opposed to advertisements.
Advertisers: stick to banners. Use the Internet equivalent of doubling the sound volume so that you can reach me in the bathroom, and I'll block you.
If they use SWF for the meat of their site, they're limiting their audience. More and more people are recognizing that Shoskles and other intrusive ads won't bother them if they simply refuse to install Flash.
I've never heard of Newgrounds. From the sound of it, they don't have content I'm interested in viewing.
For simple, cell animation like most of what I've seen in Flash, pretty much any format that doesnt require the installation of the "take over your screen and generally piss you off" ad client is superior. How tough is it to compress cell animation? not very.
I thought "Oh cool, a robot that will make beer for me, using bluetooth"
Sadly, the project page is Flash only, so I'll never know what the hell this is all about.
Hint: It's the WEB, moron. Use normal HTML like the rest of us. Flash is mainly used for annoying, intrusive, ads, which I do not allow on my machine. It's not a good basis for an entire website, no matter what the MacroMedia salesweasel, or MacroMedia-fed half-assed web designer tells you.
It's a crutch for the inept and useless. There are better tools for animation, and there are FAR better tools for websites.
Well considering Tom Baker also played Holmes a few times, it makes sense :)
I thought The Valeyard was The Doctor's penultimate regeneration? Or was it the 13th? It's been quite a while...
I have to agree. As a matter of fact, I'm torn between Davidson and Colin Baker as my favorite. The mess that was "Trial of a Timelord" and the abrupt end to Colin's tenure as The Doctor always bothered me. There was so much more to the character to be explored, from the botched regeneration that caused his "quirks" to what the hell actually happened as a result of the Trial.
Didn't dislike McCoy necessarily, but the local PBS station didn't air the last series, so I haven't seen them yet. I did buy them on VHS several years ago, but two of the 4 tapes (these were legal BBC produced tapes, mind you) had serious problems and noise that I didn't discover until far too late (in those days I was in habit of buying pretty much everything that it looked like I might like to watch... had quite a queue.)
Romanadvoratrelundar, I believe was the full spelling.
No, but I sure as fuck don't want to endure the sales weasels while I wait for the others to get banned the same way.
There ARE people who I would accept calls from, even during dinner (family emergencies happen). Telemarketer scum are not among them. My telephone is for the uses _I_ designate it for. If you're a telemarketer and I tell you not to call, god help you if you do. First step is harassment charges, and if that doesn't work, well... the Snickers commercial doesn't even begin to cover the kind of retaliation telemarketing firms have coming...
But please MR joe why dont you post your number up here on slashdot if you think people have the right to call you up? Yes. Put up or Shut up. I think that's the proper phrase. If you don't mind telemarketing calls, and you're so all-fired keen to protect telemarketers, publish your number right here. Oh you don't want to be bothered? now you know how the rest of us feel. /seinfeld
I think adding his name to as many telemarketing lists as possible might help him determine "what's best" a bit more accurately.
I think all he's implying is that it would be useful to the telemarketers' council to experience the sorts of frustration that the people on the DNC list are fed up with. Might help them understand the matter better.
He's excercising free speech by mentioning this. If the Record companies HIRED goons to harass the EFF's lawyers, they (the record execs AND the goons) would be culpable under the RICO act, and that would be the end of it.
Agreed. Moreover, sooner or later Telemarketers are going to learn the meaining of "Your free speech ends where my fist begins"
As a consumer who signed up for this list, I don't give a flying fuck if it still allows political and charitible calls.
It will still eliminate commercial calls, none of which I want.
I'll simply be more graphic when I tell the remaining unsolicited callers to fuck off.
Put Telemarketers out of business? sounds good to me.
That's it, you've convinced me. I'm having my car's brakes removed tomorrow. "For the Children"
If you did it within the law, sure. Apparently the RIAA circumvented the law. I don't think that having large corporations circumvent the law and "resolve" things to their own liking in disregard to the law is OK at all.
My telephone is NOT public property, and If I tell you that you cannot contact me, you cannot. Period.
Even without the DNC list, there are still harassment laws.
The telemarketers should NOT be protected.
Interesting that you think that a problem. I'd think that having drivers slow down because they see that the road is monitored would be a positive thing. The goal IS to slow down speeders, not merely to penalize them, right?
"The operation of your car is done on PUBLIC roads. So the public has the RIGHT to know what you do with your private property while travelling over public property."
BZZT Law enforcement has no right to use my private property to collect information regarding my activities.
The Amendment preventing unwarrented search and seizure was created to prevent a police body that suspected a subject of a particular crime from searching, and continuing to search until they found him guilty of some crime or other, whether it be the one he was accused of originally.
If they can collect evidence of my actions WITHOUT searching my PRIVATE property, then fine.
Read the Constitution. Read the Bill of Rights.
My public actions are a matter of record if there is a WITNESS that is willing to testify to them.
My property is not a valid witness, without a WARRANT.
That's the law, according to the Constitution. Property does not specifically mean "House" it means anything that I own.
Getting a warrant does not restrict legitimate law enforcement.