Exactly the point... rolling over in one's grave is usually a sign of something the person wouldn't approve of. Hence, the zombies (since Romero is alive and well) roll over in their graves, then go on to do something from the goofy comedy 'sequel' instead of Romero's more serious horror sequels.
Looks like they aren't going to go out of business after all. Maybe I'll send them an application, I always wanted a RIM job. I just hope they aren't anal about the dress code.
The ends don't justify the means. The DRM folks are abusing the legal system and a corrupt government to get their laws pushed through - fight them by getting out the word, getting people to vote, and challenging them in court. Using strong-arm tactics when you're the weak one is both ineffective and foolish. It makes you look no better than the people you're fighting.
No, Yahoo can send emails to those who are able to get them, and the limited few who would be affected by AOL's policy are free to check the news via the website. If they don't like it, they can leave AOL. It's a much better solution than mailing list administrators crying that they will take their ball and go home.
He hit the nail on the head (can I think of any more cliches?) with that one. The point of opening the source should be to cooperate, not force people to do it your way. Version 2 of the GPL only forces people to not abuse your kindness. If we try to use our licenses to force our beliefs on others, where exactly does it end? With all the backlash in this country towards the religious right trying to legislate their own morality onto everyone else, you'd think the extremely liberal like Stallman would learn a lesson from that and NOT try to force his own sense of right and wrong onto everyone.
I'll be modded to hell for this one, but I've got karma to burn. The basic process is you sign up for some trial of a service - some trials are free and some cost money. For the mac mini offer, I did a month trial of blockbuster online (which costs 15 bucks a month). I ended up keeping the service because I liked it, but you can cancel your trial after you get credit for it. Of course, some companies are a pain in the ass to cancel, keeping you waiting on hold and all that annoying crap. Then you refer people to sign up, and if they sign up for a trial too, you get credit. Get enough referrals and you get the item in question. I have gotten two so far - an ipod shuffle (3 referrals) and an ipod video (5 referrals). The mac mini requires TEN referrals (ick). The shuffle took around a month of leaving the link in my/. and email sigs to collect the referrals, the ipod video took significantly longer. But I didn't really DO anything to promote the links, just left them attached to messages. I've had friends very agressively pimp their links and get all their referrals in a week or three. You can figure on another couple of weeks to a month after you complete the process before they get around to sending you the ipod, though.
To me, I didn't really do anything, ended up with a netflix alternative that I really like, and have a video ipod. That's worth it in my book.
The librarians are making some good points about further flaws in DRM. I'm glad to see the media finally starting to pick up on this and report stories about the dark side of DRM. Now if we could only get more mentions of it on THIS side of the pond, maybe people other than the technically adept will start to get pissed about DRM and force some change.
There are yahoo groups which not only require a login, but approval by a moderator before one can join. Just one example of many already existing implementation which could work for you. Maybe yahoo is too close to those crap blogs that you're too leet for, so you could try a restricted acccess google group. Or, since you're crying so much, build it yourself and stop relying on an outdated and impractical delivery method.
No, you'd rather keep YOUR convenience and YOUR way of doing things, and fuck anyone who is trying to do something to curtail the endless wave of spam we're all getting. Your meaningless little private mailing list should have no impact on what measures an ISP takes to give its customers a better experience online.
Man, it's too bad there's not a really easy method to publish information in such a way that a bunch of people can easily get automatically notified when a new item is added. That would be sweet. I think I'm going to invent such a system. I'll call it Really Sweet System.
Another thing - these emails will simply be put in the junk folder. If your mailing list is THAT important to you, I bet adding the address to your contacts will automagically whitelist it for you and keep it out of the junk folder.
Sure there is. Some people like knowing what sales are going on at their favorite stores. Some people (gasp) even buy newspapers specifically for all the sale circulars inside. Just because YOU think spam is the root of all evil doesn't mean all people do. There are an awful lot of opt-in commercial mailing lists that people are interested in. One of the requirements to be accepted by AOL's new system is an EASY OPT-OUT.
Yeah, because free high volume mailing lists are such a huge part of internet usage, especially to the average AOL subscriber. It IS a mountain out of a molehill, because the headline makes it sound like every email sent to any AOL user will cost money, and in fact it's going to affect only a TINY percentage of the members.
Maybe you, as a mailing list administrator, should think about implementing a better solution for delivering content to lots of people?
Nope, it doesn't. There are lots of technologies that allow you to deliver content to users automatically. You need look no further than yahoo groups as an example - users can send an email to the group and it will be posted to the group website. Those who so choose can set the group to email them, and others can check it through the website.
There are other technologies that can allow people to automatically get updates without using email - like rss. Spam is a ridicuously high volume of email, and I have no problem whatsoever forcing people to switch to better suited technologies to help cut down on junk mail. It's not exactly like the non-profit mailing list is a very major part of modern internet usage.
The headline makes it sound like AOL will be charging all senders a fee to deliver mail to AOL customers. TFA seems to say that the charge is only to be certified to send high volume email, like mailing lists or legit bulk mail (ie spam from somewhat reputable companies). Another/. headline making a mountain out of a molehill. You'd think with the way people used to bitch about MS FUD around here all the time, this stuff would be a bit less common.
No it's definitely set far enough off the road (no sidewalk in the country) to be on my property. They had all the documentation from the county telling us we were SOL and getting a pole whether we liked it or not.
Verizon's network, built on special government position to use peoples' land rent-free. I don't recall the power or phone companies asking me for permission before putting a 40 foot pole in front of my house - they NOTIFIED me that they were going to be doing so. The government has EVERY right to step in because there would BE no verizon without the direct interference of the 'gubment in the first place.
The IEEE Spectrum proposes a new type of patent that wouldn't require formal examination
Judging by the quality of the examination for the current types of patents, this part wouldn't be much of a change. They might as well do away with examination of patents all together, considering some of the crap that gets approved.
How is this blogging, exactly? It's bad enough we have eight zillion blog derivative buzzwords, but when they are completely mis-applied it's even more annoying. Next step: record dogs' farts and call it podcasting. Then again, it might be more interesting than a lot of podcasts already out there...
The summary seems to be implying that leaked windows source is the issue which brought on the audit, when in fact it's a technicality about the law regarding reverse engineering. In a nutshell, in the US you gotta have one person reverse engineer and write documentation, and another write the code. In other countries the same person can do both jobs. The summary makes it sound a lot worse than this.
You know our society is in a sad state of affairs when someone demanding a warrant is newsworthy. This type of behavior should be the norm, not the exception. That said, kudos to the librarian for reminding folks that we are SUPPOSED to live in a country where people have rights and the government can't trample all over them at will.
I'd love to see some more detail on exactly WHY they would need a different computer. It's not exactly like 47 billion is a hard number to handle. If it's even true (questionable) I'd say it's probably because their SOFTWARE has some sort of limitation, using low precision numbers or the like, so they had to set up one machine where the software was modified to have higher precision
Even a good, strong Belgian tends to top out at 12-15%. All beer is mostly water, silly.
15% alchohol, maybe, but there's a lot of other stuff in there too. I've had belgians that feel like there's a good half inch of grit on the bottom from the bottle fermentation. And some of them pour more like cough syrup than beer, so surely there can't be THAT much water in there.
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Exactly the point... rolling over in one's grave is usually a sign of something the person wouldn't approve of. Hence, the zombies (since Romero is alive and well) roll over in their graves, then go on to do something from the goofy comedy 'sequel' instead of Romero's more serious horror sequels.
Somewhere there's a Romero zombie rolling over in its grave. Then crawling out. And eating someone's brains.
Looks like they aren't going to go out of business after all. Maybe I'll send them an application, I always wanted a RIM job. I just hope they aren't anal about the dress code.
The ends don't justify the means. The DRM folks are abusing the legal system and a corrupt government to get their laws pushed through - fight them by getting out the word, getting people to vote, and challenging them in court. Using strong-arm tactics when you're the weak one is both ineffective and foolish. It makes you look no better than the people you're fighting.
No, Yahoo can send emails to those who are able to get them, and the limited few who would be affected by AOL's policy are free to check the news via the website. If they don't like it, they can leave AOL. It's a much better solution than mailing list administrators crying that they will take their ball and go home.
He hit the nail on the head (can I think of any more cliches?) with that one. The point of opening the source should be to cooperate, not force people to do it your way. Version 2 of the GPL only forces people to not abuse your kindness. If we try to use our licenses to force our beliefs on others, where exactly does it end? With all the backlash in this country towards the religious right trying to legislate their own morality onto everyone else, you'd think the extremely liberal like Stallman would learn a lesson from that and NOT try to force his own sense of right and wrong onto everyone.
I'll be modded to hell for this one, but I've got karma to burn. The basic process is you sign up for some trial of a service - some trials are free and some cost money. For the mac mini offer, I did a month trial of blockbuster online (which costs 15 bucks a month). I ended up keeping the service because I liked it, but you can cancel your trial after you get credit for it. Of course, some companies are a pain in the ass to cancel, keeping you waiting on hold and all that annoying crap. Then you refer people to sign up, and if they sign up for a trial too, you get credit. Get enough referrals and you get the item in question. I have gotten two so far - an ipod shuffle (3 referrals) and an ipod video (5 referrals). The mac mini requires TEN referrals (ick). The shuffle took around a month of leaving the link in my /. and email sigs to collect the referrals, the ipod video took significantly longer. But I didn't really DO anything to promote the links, just left them attached to messages. I've had friends very agressively pimp their links and get all their referrals in a week or three. You can figure on another couple of weeks to a month after you complete the process before they get around to sending you the ipod, though.
To me, I didn't really do anything, ended up with a netflix alternative that I really like, and have a video ipod. That's worth it in my book.
The librarians are making some good points about further flaws in DRM. I'm glad to see the media finally starting to pick up on this and report stories about the dark side of DRM. Now if we could only get more mentions of it on THIS side of the pond, maybe people other than the technically adept will start to get pissed about DRM and force some change.
OK, not likely, but a guy can dream, can't he?
There are yahoo groups which not only require a login, but approval by a moderator before one can join. Just one example of many already existing implementation which could work for you. Maybe yahoo is too close to those crap blogs that you're too leet for, so you could try a restricted acccess google group. Or, since you're crying so much, build it yourself and stop relying on an outdated and impractical delivery method.
No, you'd rather keep YOUR convenience and YOUR way of doing things, and fuck anyone who is trying to do something to curtail the endless wave of spam we're all getting. Your meaningless little private mailing list should have no impact on what measures an ISP takes to give its customers a better experience online.
Man, it's too bad there's not a really easy method to publish information in such a way that a bunch of people can easily get automatically notified when a new item is added. That would be sweet. I think I'm going to invent such a system. I'll call it Really Sweet System.
Another thing - these emails will simply be put in the junk folder. If your mailing list is THAT important to you, I bet adding the address to your contacts will automagically whitelist it for you and keep it out of the junk folder.
There's no legit spam
Sure there is. Some people like knowing what sales are going on at their favorite stores. Some people (gasp) even buy newspapers specifically for all the sale circulars inside. Just because YOU think spam is the root of all evil doesn't mean all people do. There are an awful lot of opt-in commercial mailing lists that people are interested in. One of the requirements to be accepted by AOL's new system is an EASY OPT-OUT.
Yeah, because free high volume mailing lists are such a huge part of internet usage, especially to the average AOL subscriber. It IS a mountain out of a molehill, because the headline makes it sound like every email sent to any AOL user will cost money, and in fact it's going to affect only a TINY percentage of the members.
Maybe you, as a mailing list administrator, should think about implementing a better solution for delivering content to lots of people?
That doesn't strike you as a bad thing?
Nope, it doesn't. There are lots of technologies that allow you to deliver content to users automatically. You need look no further than yahoo groups as an example - users can send an email to the group and it will be posted to the group website. Those who so choose can set the group to email them, and others can check it through the website.
There are other technologies that can allow people to automatically get updates without using email - like rss. Spam is a ridicuously high volume of email, and I have no problem whatsoever forcing people to switch to better suited technologies to help cut down on junk mail. It's not exactly like the non-profit mailing list is a very major part of modern internet usage.
The headline makes it sound like AOL will be charging all senders a fee to deliver mail to AOL customers. TFA seems to say that the charge is only to be certified to send high volume email, like mailing lists or legit bulk mail (ie spam from somewhat reputable companies). Another /. headline making a mountain out of a molehill. You'd think with the way people used to bitch about MS FUD around here all the time, this stuff would be a bit less common.
No it's definitely set far enough off the road (no sidewalk in the country) to be on my property. They had all the documentation from the county telling us we were SOL and getting a pole whether we liked it or not.
Verizon's network, built on special government position to use peoples' land rent-free. I don't recall the power or phone companies asking me for permission before putting a 40 foot pole in front of my house - they NOTIFIED me that they were going to be doing so. The government has EVERY right to step in because there would BE no verizon without the direct interference of the 'gubment in the first place.
The IEEE Spectrum proposes a new type of patent that wouldn't require formal examination
Judging by the quality of the examination for the current types of patents, this part wouldn't be much of a change. They might as well do away with examination of patents all together, considering some of the crap that gets approved.
It's a suppository!
How is this blogging, exactly? It's bad enough we have eight zillion blog derivative buzzwords, but when they are completely mis-applied it's even more annoying. Next step: record dogs' farts and call it podcasting. Then again, it might be more interesting than a lot of podcasts already out there...
The summary seems to be implying that leaked windows source is the issue which brought on the audit, when in fact it's a technicality about the law regarding reverse engineering. In a nutshell, in the US you gotta have one person reverse engineer and write documentation, and another write the code. In other countries the same person can do both jobs. The summary makes it sound a lot worse than this.
You know our society is in a sad state of affairs when someone demanding a warrant is newsworthy. This type of behavior should be the norm, not the exception. That said, kudos to the librarian for reminding folks that we are SUPPOSED to live in a country where people have rights and the government can't trample all over them at will.
I'd love to see some more detail on exactly WHY they would need a different computer. It's not exactly like 47 billion is a hard number to handle. If it's even true (questionable) I'd say it's probably because their SOFTWARE has some sort of limitation, using low precision numbers or the like, so they had to set up one machine where the software was modified to have higher precision
How many slashdotters can honestly sustain prolonged poking?
I think most would be finished right about the time the first article of clothing hit the floor.
Even a good, strong Belgian tends to top out at 12-15%. All beer is mostly water, silly.
15% alchohol, maybe, but there's a lot of other stuff in there too. I've had belgians that feel like there's a good half inch of grit on the bottom from the bottle fermentation. And some of them pour more like cough syrup than beer, so surely there can't be THAT much water in there.