The users never had a direct choice in the matter. To be effective, the RBL can only be used at the SMTP server, which means the ISP, not the individual user, makes the decision of whether or not to employ the RBL. Most people don't have a problem with that ("Less junk in my mailbox? Great!").
To get on the RBL, Macromedia must have been lazy in setting up their mail servers. It's actually fairly difficult to get on the RBL, and really easy to get off it. This is exactly what the industry needs. We need publicity like this, that says spamming on the internet is an implied no-no; it's simply not an option.
If this happens a few more times, the internet could be spam-free within a couple of years. Wouldn't that be marvellous! ------
That would be perfect! How many spam-friendly ISPs do you think there would be if being on the RBL brought their business to a screeching halt.
With most internet-related issues, I strongly advocate a laissez-faire attitude, but I have absolutely no tolerance for network abuse (DoS, spam, etc). I say, if an entity is spamming, or its mailing-list subscriptions don't require a double-opt-in, then that entity should be kicked off the internet and forced to take netiquette classes.
I just really don't like network abuse, because it hurts everyone. I like to see spammers (including those whose laziness encourages spam) get nailed hard. ------
Depends what mod you're playing, and how many players/spawnpoints there are. I'd say in most situations, it's fun, especially when everyone on the server teams up and targets "that damn camper!"
Camping is only really evil on single-player maps, where there are few resources and only a few spawnpoints. ------
Netrek can still be cracked. I hear it's already been done. It's the same argument as copy protection. If you give the users the key, in any form, the users can find it and use it for their own purposes. ------
AOL Time Warner is in the process of
switching all employees to America
Online as their primary corporate e-mail
program, and not everyone is happy
about the change.
.
.
.
In the case of AOL Time Warner, even
employees who acknowledge that their
previous e-mail system "isn't very good" are not convinced that America
Online is the best choice for a corporate e-mail program. "AOL got
popular because it's really simple and easy to use," said a writer at a Time
Inc. magazine. "But when you're in a workplace, it's just not very full
featured."
. . .
AOL is not the only technology company that expects a certain
esprit de corps from its employees. A spokeswoman for Sun
Microsystems, Elizabeth McNichols, confirmed that the company did not
use any products made by its competitor, Microsoft, including
Microsoft's popular Office suite. Instead, workers at Sun use the
company's StarOffice system, which Ms. McNichols said was capable of
translating documents created with the more common Microsoft
programs.
In other words, AOL/TW is not being a bunch of `email nazis' or anything of that sort. They simply changed their internal mail system. Heck, it doesn't even say they banned other systems.
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Your point about what the parent poster said makes sense. I won't argue it further.
Sorry, I've got to chuckle over that. Many of the finest minds in history have tried to come up with a better ideology and capitalism is the best they could find.
I disagree. In the time of feudalism, feudalism was also "the best they could find". New people have new ideas. Just as modes of transportation have improved over the years, ideologies can also be improved upon. (gr?)
Good luck and remember whatever ideology you come up with has to take into account real people, and real people are stubborn, stupid, stubborn, greedy, stubborn, lazy, and stubborn.
You can say that again. Real life can be so uncooperative. People should learn to conform to theory, dammit, not practice!;) ------
Capitalism is NOT the only way. Try to put that in your heads !
Correct, capitalism isn't the only way.
It is merely the best way.
Yeah, and you better be a Catholic, or you're going straight to hell. There can only be one "best" religion.
If you're too weak to accept that many things still need to be changed, then get out of the way of those who are stronger than you.
Capitalism is a good system to deal with scarcity. However, capitalism fails miserably when dealing with unlimited resources of certain types (i.e. information). Under capitalism, information becomes somebody's property, and is artifically made scarce so that it fits into today's capitalist economy. Although we may achieve a few short-term benefits this way, this practice could have some very ugly long-term consequences, such as the loss of massive amounts of information in the future as owners go bankrupt, originals are destroyed, etc.
In fact, we're already experiencing this information loss today. Many older games have copy-protection schemes that make them terribly difficult to archive. Their makers are out of business, and the media that they are on is deteriorating. Soon, they will disappear forever.
We should not allow this to happen. If we're to enter the "information age", we're going to need a better social system than that which we currently have. I'm not suggesting going back to communism/feudalism/etc, but I think we need to put on our thinking caps and come up with a new ideology that better suits our needs today. Something that doesn't restrict information, but that encourages the creation of information.
If we put our heads together, there are enough people on Slashdot to come up with a workable solution. ------
Windows is more secure out-of-the-box than Linux, since way too many distros run stuff like portmap by default. Once you shut these off, though, their statement is no longer true. ------
I wonder if they could pay people running the client, just like Processtree plans to. I'm against some company getting a free ride with my bandwidth, but if they're going to pay me for it (even a relatively small amount), then I'm all for it.
Yeah, you're probably right, but the fact is that the commercial was telling the truth. I used an Amiga for several years, and it's harder to get even Linux to do what I want. ------
I think the Amiga will survive. Why? Because something that has been beaten and whipped as many times as the Amiga without dying by now will probably continue to live on until it goes mainstream.
The Amiga is a computer that's not a PITA to use. One of the rare Amiga commercials said, "What does it do? Well, what you want it to do," and this is so blatently true it's hard for an outsider to imagine. No other mainstream computer has ever had this property, so people will continue to admire the Amiga until this happens.
The Amiga is not dead because there are too many Amiga users who are too dumb to know that their computer is dead.;-P ------
I'm getting tired of these "Amiga is Dead" posts. A product dies when it has no support from both users and manufacturers. Since neither of those is the case, Amiga is not dead. ------
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Bullets kill people.
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To get on the RBL, Macromedia must have been lazy in setting up their mail servers. It's actually fairly difficult to get on the RBL, and really easy to get off it. This is exactly what the industry needs. We need publicity like this, that says spamming on the internet is an implied no-no; it's simply not an option.
If this happens a few more times, the internet could be spam-free within a couple of years. Wouldn't that be marvellous!
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With most internet-related issues, I strongly advocate a laissez-faire attitude, but I have absolutely no tolerance for network abuse (DoS, spam, etc). I say, if an entity is spamming, or its mailing-list subscriptions don't require a double-opt-in, then that entity should be kicked off the internet and forced to take netiquette classes.
I just really don't like network abuse, because it hurts everyone. I like to see spammers (including those whose laziness encourages spam) get nailed hard.
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Where's the link to the actual story?
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Linux has its (many) uses, but it's still not the be-all-and-end-all of operating systems.
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It's what you do to your car to protect the paint. *ducks*
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Trusted clients are technically impossible.
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Camping is only really evil on single-player maps, where there are few resources and only a few spawnpoints.
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You'd take a pretty big performance hit, doing something in software that can be done by the accelerator board.
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Netrek can still be cracked. I hear it's already been done. It's the same argument as copy protection. If you give the users the key, in any form, the users can find it and use it for their own purposes.
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Guns don't kill people. Bullets kill people.
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In other words, AOL/TW is not being a bunch of `email nazis' or anything of that sort. They simply changed their internal mail system. Heck, it doesn't even say they banned other systems.
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No kidding. I find it odd that a large portion of the crowd didn't see that immediately.
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Though not impossible, it is improbable that a fully-functioning light sabre will appear in front of me.
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I dunno. I think ethnicity is kinda cool. I like learning about other people's cultures. I'd hate for those cultures to suddenly melt into one.
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What's Imperialism the opposite of?
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Sorry, I've got to chuckle over that. Many of the finest minds in history have tried to come up with a better ideology and capitalism is the best they could find.
I disagree. In the time of feudalism, feudalism was also "the best they could find". New people have new ideas. Just as modes of transportation have improved over the years, ideologies can also be improved upon. (gr?)
Good luck and remember whatever ideology you come up with has to take into account real people, and real people are stubborn, stupid, stubborn, greedy, stubborn, lazy, and stubborn.
You can say that again. Real life can be so uncooperative. People should learn to conform to theory, dammit, not practice! ;)
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Correct, capitalism isn't the only way. It is merely the best way.
Yeah, and you better be a Catholic, or you're going straight to hell. There can only be one "best" religion.
If you're too weak to accept that many things still need to be changed, then get out of the way of those who are stronger than you.
Capitalism is a good system to deal with scarcity. However, capitalism fails miserably when dealing with unlimited resources of certain types (i.e. information). Under capitalism, information becomes somebody's property, and is artifically made scarce so that it fits into today's capitalist economy. Although we may achieve a few short-term benefits this way, this practice could have some very ugly long-term consequences, such as the loss of massive amounts of information in the future as owners go bankrupt, originals are destroyed, etc.
In fact, we're already experiencing this information loss today. Many older games have copy-protection schemes that make them terribly difficult to archive. Their makers are out of business, and the media that they are on is deteriorating. Soon, they will disappear forever.
We should not allow this to happen. If we're to enter the "information age", we're going to need a better social system than that which we currently have. I'm not suggesting going back to communism/feudalism/etc, but I think we need to put on our thinking caps and come up with a new ideology that better suits our needs today. Something that doesn't restrict information, but that encourages the creation of information.
If we put our heads together, there are enough people on Slashdot to come up with a workable solution.
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Windows is more secure out-of-the-box than Linux, since way too many distros run stuff like portmap by default. Once you shut these off, though, their statement is no longer true.
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What do you guys think?
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Yeah, you're probably right, but the fact is that the commercial was telling the truth. I used an Amiga for several years, and it's harder to get even Linux to do what I want.
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The Amiga is a computer that's not a PITA to use. One of the rare Amiga commercials said, "What does it do? Well, what you want it to do," and this is so blatently true it's hard for an outsider to imagine. No other mainstream computer has ever had this property, so people will continue to admire the Amiga until this happens.
The Amiga is not dead because there are too many Amiga users who are too dumb to know that their computer is dead. ;-P
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Since when are you the authority on what everybody thinks?
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I'm getting tired of these "Amiga is Dead" posts. A product dies when it has no support from both users and manufacturers. Since neither of those is the case, Amiga is not dead.
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