Has anyone considered the effects that blocking all UCE will have on eCommerce in the EU. I would imagine that if on-line merchants are prohibited from advertising, their business would drop signifigantly.
Also, how are they defining SPAM? Used properly, e-mail can be a legitimate and effective means of marketing. I'd hate to see legitimate marketers such as myself be prohibited from advertising in Europe. I run a multi-level business that uses targeted e-mail messages as it's means of communication with potential customers. I'd like to think that upstanding businessmen such as myself would not be penalised for our perfectly legal business tactics.
"Wrong branch taken: the correct instruction is fed into the pipeline a tiny fraction of a second later and you're set."
*Bzzzzt!* Wrong. Accurate branch prediction is expecially important when you're dealing with the P4's whopping 20 stage pipeline. Each incorrect prediction costs quite a few clock cycles and slows down overall processing signifigantly. See this ArsTechnica article for details.
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If Compaq hadn't sucessfully reverse-engineered IBM's PC BIOS, the PC clones most of us are using right now wouldn't even exist.
The mere suggestion that reverse-engineering should be illegal is utterly absurd.
Has anyone considered the effects that blocking all UCE will have on eCommerce in the EU. I would imagine that if on-line merchants are prohibited from advertising, their business would drop signifigantly.
Also, how are they defining SPAM? Used properly, e-mail can be a legitimate and effective means of marketing. I'd hate to see legitimate marketers such as myself be prohibited from advertising in Europe. I run a multi-level business that uses targeted e-mail messages as it's means of communication with potential customers. I'd like to think that upstanding businessmen such as myself would not be penalised for our perfectly legal business tactics.
I just refreshed and got a page full of stories from 1999!
*Bzzzzt!* Wrong. Accurate branch prediction is expecially important when you're dealing with the P4's whopping 20 stage pipeline. Each incorrect prediction costs quite a few clock cycles and slows down overall processing signifigantly. See this ArsTechnica article for details.
You're thinking about another IAT. I'm only IAT on Slashdot. IAT from Adequacy.org is someone completely different. You know me...
Do you enjoy talking to yourself, moron?