In my experience, the most efficient way to decrease spam is to educate the users on how to use filtering. Simple mail filtering comes in most popular email clients these days, and after adding a few notorious spam domains as well as some of the most common phrases included in spam, it quickly drops to a point where it's hardly even annoying.
Personally, I've made it a habit to immediately add a specific persons email address, as well as the topic of their mail to my spam filter. At the present, I get 1, perhaps 2 spam mails per month, using only my internal spam filters to get rid of it.
I realize that this will not decrease the amount of bandwidth the spam mails consume, as the filtering is done on my machine, but I find it a relatively small price to pay in exchange for a minimal risk of non-spam mail not reaching me.
considering that Microsofts previous hardware (mice, joysticks, steering wheels, keyboards) have all been very solid and reliable products. I had a MS sidewinder 3D pro for years until I finally bought a Saitek Cyborg, and that was only because it could be specially adjusted fo rme (I'm left-handed). The mouse on my desk is from Microsoft, and the only niggle I have with it is cleaning the ball regularely for cat hairs. A friend of mine is a driving sim fanatic, and swears by his Sidewinder steering wheel and gamepad for arcade games.
So that MS all of a sudden should go release a defective console sounds highly suspicious, unless slightly *cough* biased reporters went and blew the whole thing up to make MS sound bad.
I'm not purchasing an X-box. but not because of bad reviews (and I like the controller. I have bloody huge hands, and the PS2 controller sits uncomfortably in them), but because I swear by my PC. And I foresee Microsofts logo to be on at least some of my controllers for quite a while yet.
(There. Positive mention of Microsoft, without the obligarory replacement of the s with an $. Flame away)
Last time I checked, the people who went physically into space were referred to as "Astronauts", "Kosmonauts" and "Euronauts", depending on wether they were from the US, Russia or Europe. (There may be more terms for other countries, but none that I am aware of).
An astronomer does not faal into any of those categories, nor would any of those guys have been physically into space without an army of what you appear to term as "fat ass nerds" doing all the research and construction work for them.
I am inclined to aggree that the chances of them finding anything are pretty slim, but hey, they're still bigger than if we weren't looking at all.
Personally, I'm not too fond of consoles, but I've heard good things about GTA3.
On the PC, the most obvious thing to mention would be Castle Wolfenstein, which I spotted in the stores the other day. Judging from the popularity of the multiplayer test, it's going to be ripped off the shelves. I've heard some people complain about the AI, but personally, I'd much rather play multiplayer anyway.
For strategy-lovers, there's always Stronghold.A realtively new game from firefly studios, stronghold mixes bits of the fighting from age of Empire with the resource management from the settlers and adds some spicy caste-building extras on top. It may not be everyones cup of tea, but I find it very enjoyable.
By posting comments that are neither funny, nor insightful, informative or interesting?
Please elaborate how this can improve the overall quality of the discussions on slashdot, as an appearently critical part of your logic seems to have escaped me.
Call me cynical, but the use of genetic engineering is inevitable. If we're not going to allow it (and by "we" I refer to the world in general, not a specific country), some wacko in a lab is going to meddle with it on his own eventually. And once he gets some sort of result out of it, everyone else is eventually going to say "Oh look. It's safe!" and use the knowledge gained.
We humans are a bunch of curious little buggers who so far haven't passed up on an oppertunity to find out what the exciting buttons do. With that in mind, wouldn't it be better to say "Fine. go ahead and make your experiments, but follow these rules we set to ensure it is done responsibly" rather than "Thou shalt not meddle with your evil scientific ways" and having someone do so anyway unmonitored with the consequences already mentioned by others as a possible result?
Egads... I'm still having trouble beleiving my eyes every time I see someone assuming we can block basic human nature with religious texts and/or spook stories. Some of us were the kind of kids who looked at the instructions in our chemistry set saying "Under NO circumstance should you mix chemical A and chemical C" and asked "Why not?".
Except the empire were the ones who placed restrictions on peoples liberty. I think a better parralel to draw would be Taliban as the empire and the small partisan groups being the rebels. The result is still innocent blood on everyones hands though.
some would say you haven't been patient, but rather inactive. It is a sad fact, but the Taliban are well-known to have been supported by the US when Soviet forces tried to take afghanistan. Heck, Ronald Regan was even quoted for saying:
"Afghanistan's freedom fighters -- the resistance or mujahidin -- represent an indigenous movement that swept through their mountainous land to challenge a foreign military power threatening their religion and their very way of life. With little in the way of arms or organization, the vast majority of the Afghan people have demonstrated that they will not be dominated and that they are prepared to give their lives for independence and freedom. The price they have so willingly paid is incalculable.
Let all of us who live in lands of freedom, along with those who dream of doing so, take inspiration from the spirit and courage of the Afghan patriots. Let us resolve that their quest for freedom will prevail, and that Afghanistan will become, once again, an independent member of the family of nations."
I wish peace more than anything, and I wish a world free from terror. the sad fact is that terror does happen. Terror happens all over the world. Only, now terror happens in the US, and this has made Bush start a war. Regardless fo what Bush has been said, this is not a black and white argument. This isn't a case of "You're either with us or the terrorists". A large part of the world, me included, would rather just be left out of this whole mess. By attacking Afghanistan, coupled with previous statements of there only being two sides, and that america would make no difference between terrorists, and the countries who harbor them, the world has, effectively, been divided into two camps.
I fear that, with the bombing of Kabul, the "terrorist" camp (I call it so for the lack of a better word, and it seems to be the popular title for everyone who doesn't throw bombs into the fray with the US these days) will finally have found the justification they crave to escalate this... war to include chemical and biological weapons on civilian targets. All they really need to do is tell their people about the evil US carpet bombing innocent civilians in Kabul, and they'll have candidates practically lining up for suicide attacks on nations worldwide.
This is not war. War attacks military structures. The cruel and inhumane attacks on areas populated by civilians is best described as mutual genocide.
"Yes...I assure you we are quite safe from your friends. Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. Your friends out there... are walking into a trap. My Empire is quite safe from your pitiful little band. Oh...I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive."
I'm scared that someone decides now would be a good idea to break out the bio/chem weapons and kill off a bunch of europeans to get a point across:P I'm afraid a horrible death as collateral damage to Bush and Osamas little genocide isn't on my to-do list.
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In my experience, the most efficient way to decrease spam is to educate the users on how to use filtering. Simple mail filtering comes in most popular email clients these days, and after adding a few notorious spam domains as well as some of the most common phrases included in spam, it quickly drops to a point where it's hardly even annoying.
Personally, I've made it a habit to immediately add a specific persons email address, as well as the topic of their mail to my spam filter. At the present, I get 1, perhaps 2 spam mails per month, using only my internal spam filters to get rid of it.
I realize that this will not decrease the amount of bandwidth the spam mails consume, as the filtering is done on my machine, but I find it a relatively small price to pay in exchange for a minimal risk of non-spam mail not reaching me.
considering that Microsofts previous hardware (mice, joysticks, steering wheels, keyboards) have all been very solid and reliable products. I had a MS sidewinder 3D pro for years until I finally bought a Saitek Cyborg, and that was only because it could be specially adjusted fo rme (I'm left-handed). The mouse on my desk is from Microsoft, and the only niggle I have with it is cleaning the ball regularely for cat hairs. A friend of mine is a driving sim fanatic, and swears by his Sidewinder steering wheel and gamepad for arcade games. So that MS all of a sudden should go release a defective console sounds highly suspicious, unless slightly *cough* biased reporters went and blew the whole thing up to make MS sound bad. I'm not purchasing an X-box. but not because of bad reviews (and I like the controller. I have bloody huge hands, and the PS2 controller sits uncomfortably in them), but because I swear by my PC. And I foresee Microsofts logo to be on at least some of my controllers for quite a while yet. (There. Positive mention of Microsoft, without the obligarory replacement of the s with an $. Flame away)
Last time I checked, the people who went physically into space were referred to as "Astronauts", "Kosmonauts" and "Euronauts", depending on wether they were from the US, Russia or Europe. (There may be more terms for other countries, but none that I am aware of). An astronomer does not faal into any of those categories, nor would any of those guys have been physically into space without an army of what you appear to term as "fat ass nerds" doing all the research and construction work for them. I am inclined to aggree that the chances of them finding anything are pretty slim, but hey, they're still bigger than if we weren't looking at all.
Personally, I'm not too fond of consoles, but I've heard good things about GTA3. On the PC, the most obvious thing to mention would be Castle Wolfenstein, which I spotted in the stores the other day. Judging from the popularity of the multiplayer test, it's going to be ripped off the shelves. I've heard some people complain about the AI, but personally, I'd much rather play multiplayer anyway.
For strategy-lovers, there's always Stronghold.A realtively new game from firefly studios, stronghold mixes bits of the fighting from age of Empire with the resource management from the settlers and adds some spicy caste-building extras on top. It may not be everyones cup of tea, but I find it very enjoyable.
By posting comments that are neither funny, nor insightful, informative or interesting? Please elaborate how this can improve the overall quality of the discussions on slashdot, as an appearently critical part of your logic seems to have escaped me.
Call me cynical, but the use of genetic engineering is inevitable. If we're not going to allow it (and by "we" I refer to the world in general, not a specific country), some wacko in a lab is going to meddle with it on his own eventually. And once he gets some sort of result out of it, everyone else is eventually going to say "Oh look. It's safe!" and use the knowledge gained. We humans are a bunch of curious little buggers who so far haven't passed up on an oppertunity to find out what the exciting buttons do. With that in mind, wouldn't it be better to say "Fine. go ahead and make your experiments, but follow these rules we set to ensure it is done responsibly" rather than "Thou shalt not meddle with your evil scientific ways" and having someone do so anyway unmonitored with the consequences already mentioned by others as a possible result? Egads... I'm still having trouble beleiving my eyes every time I see someone assuming we can block basic human nature with religious texts and/or spook stories. Some of us were the kind of kids who looked at the instructions in our chemistry set saying "Under NO circumstance should you mix chemical A and chemical C" and asked "Why not?".
"A lie can get around the world before truth has got it's boots on".
Except the empire were the ones who placed restrictions on peoples liberty. I think a better parralel to draw would be Taliban as the empire and the small partisan groups being the rebels. The result is still innocent blood on everyones hands though.
See what it says below 'slashdot' in the upper left? Yes. 'Stuff that matters'. I would definately say that this is stuff that matters.
So very, very sorry.
some would say you haven't been patient, but rather inactive. It is a sad fact, but the Taliban are well-known to have been supported by the US when Soviet forces tried to take afghanistan. Heck, Ronald Regan was even quoted for saying: "Afghanistan's freedom fighters -- the resistance or mujahidin -- represent an indigenous movement that swept through their mountainous land to challenge a foreign military power threatening their religion and their very way of life. With little in the way of arms or organization, the vast majority of the Afghan people have demonstrated that they will not be dominated and that they are prepared to give their lives for independence and freedom. The price they have so willingly paid is incalculable. Let all of us who live in lands of freedom, along with those who dream of doing so, take inspiration from the spirit and courage of the Afghan patriots. Let us resolve that their quest for freedom will prevail, and that Afghanistan will become, once again, an independent member of the family of nations." I wish peace more than anything, and I wish a world free from terror. the sad fact is that terror does happen. Terror happens all over the world. Only, now terror happens in the US, and this has made Bush start a war. Regardless fo what Bush has been said, this is not a black and white argument. This isn't a case of "You're either with us or the terrorists". A large part of the world, me included, would rather just be left out of this whole mess. By attacking Afghanistan, coupled with previous statements of there only being two sides, and that america would make no difference between terrorists, and the countries who harbor them, the world has, effectively, been divided into two camps. I fear that, with the bombing of Kabul, the "terrorist" camp (I call it so for the lack of a better word, and it seems to be the popular title for everyone who doesn't throw bombs into the fray with the US these days) will finally have found the justification they crave to escalate this... war to include chemical and biological weapons on civilian targets. All they really need to do is tell their people about the evil US carpet bombing innocent civilians in Kabul, and they'll have candidates practically lining up for suicide attacks on nations worldwide. This is not war. War attacks military structures. The cruel and inhumane attacks on areas populated by civilians is best described as mutual genocide.
"Yes...I assure you we are quite safe from your friends. Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. Your friends out there... are walking into a trap. My Empire is quite safe from your pitiful little band. Oh...I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive."
I'm scared that someone decides now would be a good idea to break out the bio/chem weapons and kill off a bunch of europeans to get a point across :P I'm afraid a horrible death as collateral damage to Bush and Osamas little genocide isn't on my to-do list.