. until people start spamming using their competition's address to facilitate them getting thrown off their host?
Their competitor selling Viagra? I think an ISP will not pull an established client selling a normal product because of a forged spam. If it's a company that opened the site two days before with a postbox number address, they will probably pull the plug. The company impersonated might make an issue of it and pursue the spammer for fraud or worse, which is all to the greater good.
How do you afford the emergency room copays from injuries sustained trying to bathe a cat once a week?
Trim the claws first. Use a nail clipper. It can still bite though. But with care they accept it, some even enjoy a bath. from all the loose hair that you'll find in the drain you can see that you've cut down the allergens.
Copyright law says, at root, that if I own create/own a work, then nobody else can use it without my permission.
No it doesn't. If I buy a book/CD/DVD etc, from you, the copyright holder, I have the right to use it. I also have the right to sell or give it to someone else, transferring the "use" rights I had along with the physical media, without reference to you. I don't, in general, have the right to make copies of it and distribute them.
this driver will make it so even games that are not protected by it cannot no longer be mounted virtually.
Is this true? Or does it only run when the game it came with is running? If all the time, that would be evil. In any case it'll just be a speed bump for the crackers.
Where MS does have an arguement is small business. Many small business owners cannot afford to hire a competent IT staff. And so small businesses are constantly wiped out by viruses, overwhelmed by spam, have their machines turned into zombies...
If a small business wnts to reduce admin costs, they could go Apple. The initial cost is returned in a month or two against lower support costs (or recovery costs of the above). I've worked in an ofce basically run on Macs, (the company was originally a publishing). The office staff didn't care what their machine was. They had Word and email. Typing is typing.
There is nothing stopping other vendors (open or closed source) from writing their own tools to make migrating away from MS easier - just that they don't seem to do it. Seems to me that it would be a relatively wise strategy.
Other than it's a huge amount of work, requiring reverse-engineering of file formats at least. If you read about back in the early 90s when MS introduced Winword, they were up against WordPerfect's huge installed base. One advantage they had was WP was still basically DOS, their Win version was kludgy. However MS only started converting WP users when they made enormous efforts to be compatible with WP, both in import and export. (To this day when converting Word files for DTP layoutr I use WP 5.1 as an intermediate format, because it preserves the important features and is well understtod by my (old) apps.) Word 97 still has a "Wordperfect help" button prominently at he bottom of the screen, (and probably in later versions somewhere).
I've been wondering where does the "shm"-thing come from. The first time I heard it was on Mallrats. I quote:
I'm pretty sure it's Yiddish, I've heard variations on this in music hall routines. So it's at least 100 years old (some time previous to "Mallrats"); maybe the Marx Bros. Possibly a reference to words like: schlemiel, shmuck, schmendrick.
Partially, as long as they can provide some mechanism for ensuring that Jane Doe got on the plane and rode in her seat, instead of Jane Doe buying a ticket in her name, giving it to John Smith, and he gets on the plane...
In whihc case it'd get sorted out pretty quickly when Jane ODe is declared dead.
Reslly, this is a silly post-facto justification. The real motive is so the government can track everyone's movements all the time. If you're comfortable with that, fine. I personally think it's a long step down the slippery slope.
people often think that we will reach practical limits in things like:...size of the universe (was much smaller until hubble)
Actually, I thought the age of the universe (simply related to the size) used to be estimated as about 17 billion years; last I heard was 13.5. (Of course, the actual most distant observed object is further away/older with Hubble, unless you count the 3 degree background radiation from the Big Bang, observed in 1965.)
Hmm, maybe I was too quick there. If by "President as a title is capitalized" you mean only when used as "President XXX", retract my "no", we're in agreement.
Who's "we"? Americans who think there is only one president in the world? Actually, there's well over 100 nations with presidents. And secondly, what's with capitalising "The"?
Neuromancer by William Gibson (written in 1983/4) is supposed to be set sometime in 2020 (I think), but there are no cell phones, despite the fact that cells are ubiquous devices and will certainly be around in the *real* 2020. He didn't see that one coming. this is the problem that the article is talking about.
No it's not. Getting the details of gadgets right is beside the point. It's a bit amusing to read in Henlein's stories of calculating orbits using slide rules and logarithmic tables, but that does nothing to detract from the story. If Gibson could be bothered he could revise Neuromancer to include cell phones and only have to change a few paragraphs.
This is about fundamental things, like the discovery of language in the past, and the anticipated "Singularity", an explosion of intelligence, when machines becme our equals or betters; when human minds can be enhanced with technology. We literally can't imagine the consequences of that, because we can't understand how "people" will think then.
In other words, this won't reduce piracy; it's just a way for Microsoft to say "see, we care about the Asian market's needs! really!"
It's a way to sell a Windows license at a low price, without creating a product that can be sold through grey markets in the West. (This was made to compete with the Linux-installed PCs as part of the Thai govt's cheap PC plan.) Now Thais can buy a Windows PC, take it home, install Win XP full version. They've paid the "Microsoft tax" even though they're using pirated software.
Your link only talks about CO2. Aside from global warming, which I don't feel as cavalier about as you, cars contribute much more immediate poisons to the air, sulphates, CO, particulate matter, lead. Not to mention that electric trains can be powered by nuclear plants; or wind turbines, or solar as the article.
As for "fully loaded cars", well that's not very common. Most commuters are driving themselves alone, and cars are getting worse for efficiency on average with the preference for bigger cars (as the subject), especially of course in the US.
If you are talking about Polution per passanger mile, a typical british car at full loading causes less polution per passanger mile then a typical british train at full loading.
Sounds unlikley. But if true, the pollution from an electric train is from the power station, and dumped inot the high atmosphere, from a car spread throuhg the cities and breathed in at high concentration.
In the UK it's the other way around. Gas tax and other car taxes raise about $70bn for the exchequer each year, and only about $15bn is spent on roads and public transport combined (about 50:50).
I think that can't include the value of land that's used for roads and parking (Crown land mostly, I suppose), or deaths and illnesses caused by automobiles.
What we need is incentives for companies to develop more efficient vehicles, from the haulers all the way down to passenger vehicles.
Like trains and bicycles.
The problem with public transport in general is that it's to efficient, while at the same time all its expenses are exposed. The cost of a car is seen as purchase, and gas and insurance to run. The cost to the community in giving up about half the urban area to them in roads and parking isn't a factor. (What did Boston spend to bury some of its roads -- $14.6 bn, almost the Apollo program.) The support costs for rail are all out there, so they're a fat target. Meanwhile bikes cost a couple of hundred dollars to buy and nothing to run. Thus there is no bicycle lobby to counter the auto lobby.
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Unfortunately, nobody takes the idea of capital punishment for spammers seriously. But given this information, it should be possible to track these guys down and execute them like the scum they are.
Unfortunately Slashcode won't let me put them in a list ("lines have too few characters").
The above has links with addresses for many of these. Was it Rumsfeld who said "one spammer, one bullet"? A dozen magazines should do this lot then.
Alan Ralsky, Albert Ahdoot and Alyx Sachs, Amadeo Belmonte, America Find Inc., Andrew Amend, Angelo Tirico, Anthony ''Tony'' M. Banks, Bill Stanley, Bill Waggoner, Bonnie Dukarossa - Bullet9 Communications, Brendan Battles, Brian David Westby, Brian Farrow, Brian Haberstroh, Brian Kramer, Briceco, Inc., Bubba Catts, Calvin Ho, Charles F. Childs, Chris Brown, Chris Smith, CPU Guys, Creaghan A. Harry, Current Mail, Cyrunner, Damon DeCrescenzo - Docdrugs, Dan and Rosalee Young, Dan Padgham, Dana Jones - The Ballman, Daniel Ivans, Daniel Khoshnood, Daniel Lin, Dave Patton, David Lambert, Davis Wolfgang Hawke, DM GROUP, Drew Auman, ebusinessroad.com, Eddie Davidson, Eddy Marin, Eduardo de Souza, Elegance Network, Elmed, Email Experts, Erb Avore, Eric Reinertsen, EvoClix, Franpro, FutureVision Communication, G-Force Marketing, Gaven Stubberfield, George Kokinos, George Rand, Giantweb, Glen and Stacey McCausland, Glen Hannifin, Gordon Lantz & Gretchen Aitken, Greg Nowakowski + Chris Tibaldo, hispeedmedia.com, Howard Minsky, IMG Direct, Ion Entertainment, Jace Groves, Jack Ford, James Borzilleri, Jason Vale, Jeffrey Peters, Jody Smith, John Cota, John Grandinetti, John Hites - ''Steve Sorenson'', John Molino, Jon Thau, Jonathan Beyer, Jonathan Cosie, Joshua Baer, Kazz Asher, Kelly Joe Ellis, Laura A. Betterly, Lloyd Lapidus, lmihosting.com, Magnum Enterprises, MailTrain, Max Sutter, Melle Brothers, Michael Krause, Michael Lindsay, Michael Tiezzi, Million Marketing, Minh Nuyen, Monsterhut, Mort Schneider, Neil Goodson aka 'Robert Zimmerman', Neomill, NetFree, Inc., netleads.ws, NetSetGo, omegalead.com, Patrick Brady, Patrick English, Paul Boes, Paul Mentes, Penn Media, Peter Decaro, Phil Doroff, Philip Adelberg, Phillip Von Haak, Quang Dangtran - Whoa Medical, radisp.net, ResponseBase, Richard Burke, Richard Colbert - y2kisp.com, Richard Shockley, Robert Soloway, Robert Todino, Ron Millette, Ronnie Scelson, Rossman & Cole, Rusty Campbell, Rusty Ferguson, Ryan Champion, Ryan Pitylak, Sajemarketing.com, Sam & Adam Meltzer, Sam Al - Bulk ISP Corp, Sam Roland, Samson Distributing Inc. (SDI) Daniel Amato, Scott Hirsch, Scott Richter, Scott Richter, Shay Tyler, Simon Chan, Stargate2000, Target Internet Services, Thomas Cowles - Empire Towers, Thomas Gallman - telysis.net, Tom Tsilionis, trafficfiend.com, Tristram Snyder, Vincent Kwiatkowski, VP-RX, William Fuller AKA "Mr Bill", World Reach.
"The Other 90%" by Robert K. Cooper, Three Rivers Press 2001
From his website he looks like one of those inspirational speakers -- "he's an ordinary man working as hard as he can to discover the unseen possibilities of leadership and life". As a class, snake-oil vendors. I'd need a primary source (i.e. at least saying who did the research, etc) before giving it any credibility.
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Their competitor selling Viagra? I think an ISP will not pull an established client selling a normal product because of a forged spam. If it's a company that opened the site two days before with a postbox number address, they will probably pull the plug. The company impersonated might make an issue of it and pursue the spammer for fraud or worse, which is all to the greater good.
Trim the claws first. Use a nail clipper. It can still bite though. But with care they accept it, some even enjoy a bath. from all the loose hair that you'll find in the drain you can see that you've cut down the allergens.
No it doesn't. If I buy a book/CD/DVD etc, from you, the copyright holder, I have the right to use it. I also have the right to sell or give it to someone else, transferring the "use" rights I had along with the physical media, without reference to you. I don't, in general, have the right to make copies of it and distribute them.
Give the cat a bath once a week. Our cat is a long-hair and sheds all the time, even more in summer of course.
Is this true? Or does it only run when the game it came with is running? If all the time, that would be evil. In any case it'll just be a speed bump for the crackers.
If a small business wnts to reduce admin costs, they could go Apple. The initial cost is returned in a month or two against lower support costs (or recovery costs of the above). I've worked in an ofce basically run on Macs, (the company was originally a publishing). The office staff didn't care what their machine was. They had Word and email. Typing is typing.
Other than it's a huge amount of work, requiring reverse-engineering of file formats at least. If you read about back in the early 90s when MS introduced Winword, they were up against WordPerfect's huge installed base. One advantage they had was WP was still basically DOS, their Win version was kludgy. However MS only started converting WP users when they made enormous efforts to be compatible with WP, both in import and export. (To this day when converting Word files for DTP layoutr I use WP 5.1 as an intermediate format, because it preserves the important features and is well understtod by my (old) apps.) Word 97 still has a "Wordperfect help" button prominently at he bottom of the screen, (and probably in later versions somewhere).
I read it on the Register on Monday. But I have to say, I first heard about the Reg from all the stories /. recycles from them.
I'm pretty sure it's Yiddish, I've heard variations on this in music hall routines. So it's at least 100 years old (some time previous to "Mallrats"); maybe the Marx Bros. Possibly a reference to words like: schlemiel, shmuck, schmendrick.
In whihc case it'd get sorted out pretty quickly when Jane ODe is declared dead.
Reslly, this is a silly post-facto justification. The real motive is so the government can track everyone's movements all the time. If you're comfortable with that, fine. I personally think it's a long step down the slippery slope.
Actually, I thought the age of the universe (simply related to the size) used to be estimated as about 17 billion years; last I heard was 13.5. (Of course, the actual most distant observed object is further away/older with Hubble, unless you count the 3 degree background radiation from the Big Bang, observed in 1965.)
Here's a long New Yorker piece on MM:
Michael Moore can make you cry.
Read my post of 8 minutes ago.
Obviously, "wired" magazine. There never was any reason to capitalise it....
Hmm, maybe I was too quick there. If by "President as a title is capitalized" you mean only when used as "President XXX", retract my "no", we're in agreement.
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Guardian Unlimited | Style guide:
president lc except in title: President Bush, but George Bush, the US president.
Who's "we"? Americans who think there is only one president in the world? Actually, there's well over 100 nations with presidents. And secondly, what's with capitalising "The"?
No it's not. Getting the details of gadgets right is beside the point. It's a bit amusing to read in Henlein's stories of calculating orbits using slide rules and logarithmic tables, but that does nothing to detract from the story. If Gibson could be bothered he could revise Neuromancer to include cell phones and only have to change a few paragraphs.
This is about fundamental things, like the discovery of language in the past, and the anticipated "Singularity", an explosion of intelligence, when machines becme our equals or betters; when human minds can be enhanced with technology. We literally can't imagine the consequences of that, because we can't understand how "people" will think then.
It's a way to sell a Windows license at a low price, without creating a product that can be sold through grey markets in the West. (This was made to compete with the Linux-installed PCs as part of the Thai govt's cheap PC plan.) Now Thais can buy a Windows PC, take it home, install Win XP full version. They've paid the "Microsoft tax" even though they're using pirated software.
Your link only talks about CO2. Aside from global warming, which I don't feel as cavalier about as you, cars contribute much more immediate poisons to the air, sulphates, CO, particulate matter, lead. Not to mention that electric trains can be powered by nuclear plants; or wind turbines, or solar as the article.
As for "fully loaded cars", well that's not very common. Most commuters are driving themselves alone, and cars are getting worse for efficiency on average with the preference for bigger cars (as the subject), especially of course in the US.
Sounds unlikley. But if true, the pollution from an electric train is from the power station, and dumped inot the high atmosphere, from a car spread throuhg the cities and breathed in at high concentration.
I think that can't include the value of land that's used for roads and parking (Crown land mostly, I suppose), or deaths and illnesses caused by automobiles.
Like trains and bicycles.
The problem with public transport in general is that it's to efficient, while at the same time all its expenses are exposed. The cost of a car is seen as purchase, and gas and insurance to run. The cost to the community in giving up about half the urban area to them in roads and parking isn't a factor. (What did Boston spend to bury some of its roads -- $14.6 bn, almost the Apollo program.) The support costs for rail are all out there, so they're a fat target. Meanwhile bikes cost a couple of hundred dollars to buy and nothing to run. Thus there is no bicycle lobby to counter the auto lobby.
It's been done.
Here's the Americans on The ROKSO list.
Unfortunately Slashcode won't let me put them in a list ("lines have too few characters").
The above has links with addresses for many of these. Was it Rumsfeld who said "one spammer, one bullet"? A dozen magazines should do this lot then.
Alan Ralsky, Albert Ahdoot and Alyx Sachs, Amadeo Belmonte, America Find Inc., Andrew Amend, Angelo Tirico, Anthony ''Tony'' M. Banks, Bill Stanley, Bill Waggoner, Bonnie Dukarossa - Bullet9 Communications, Brendan Battles, Brian David Westby, Brian Farrow, Brian Haberstroh, Brian Kramer, Briceco, Inc., Bubba Catts, Calvin Ho, Charles F. Childs, Chris Brown, Chris Smith, CPU Guys, Creaghan A. Harry, Current Mail, Cyrunner, Damon DeCrescenzo - Docdrugs, Dan and Rosalee Young, Dan Padgham, Dana Jones - The Ballman, Daniel Ivans, Daniel Khoshnood, Daniel Lin, Dave Patton, David Lambert, Davis Wolfgang Hawke, DM GROUP, Drew Auman, ebusinessroad.com, Eddie Davidson, Eddy Marin, Eduardo de Souza, Elegance Network, Elmed, Email Experts, Erb Avore, Eric Reinertsen, EvoClix, Franpro, FutureVision Communication, G-Force Marketing, Gaven Stubberfield, George Kokinos, George Rand, Giantweb, Glen and Stacey McCausland, Glen Hannifin, Gordon Lantz & Gretchen Aitken, Greg Nowakowski + Chris Tibaldo, hispeedmedia.com, Howard Minsky, IMG Direct, Ion Entertainment, Jace Groves, Jack Ford, James Borzilleri, Jason Vale, Jeffrey Peters, Jody Smith, John Cota, John Grandinetti, John Hites - ''Steve Sorenson'', John Molino, Jon Thau, Jonathan Beyer, Jonathan Cosie, Joshua Baer, Kazz Asher, Kelly Joe Ellis, Laura A. Betterly, Lloyd Lapidus, lmihosting.com, Magnum Enterprises, MailTrain, Max Sutter, Melle Brothers, Michael Krause, Michael Lindsay, Michael Tiezzi, Million Marketing, Minh Nuyen, Monsterhut, Mort Schneider, Neil Goodson aka 'Robert Zimmerman', Neomill, NetFree, Inc., netleads.ws, NetSetGo, omegalead.com, Patrick Brady, Patrick English, Paul Boes, Paul Mentes, Penn Media, Peter Decaro, Phil Doroff, Philip Adelberg, Phillip Von Haak, Quang Dangtran - Whoa Medical, radisp.net, ResponseBase, Richard Burke, Richard Colbert - y2kisp.com, Richard Shockley, Robert Soloway, Robert Todino, Ron Millette, Ronnie Scelson, Rossman & Cole, Rusty Campbell, Rusty Ferguson, Ryan Champion, Ryan Pitylak, Sajemarketing.com, Sam & Adam Meltzer, Sam Al - Bulk ISP Corp, Sam Roland, Samson Distributing Inc. (SDI) Daniel Amato, Scott Hirsch, Scott Richter, Scott Richter, Shay Tyler, Simon Chan, Stargate2000, Target Internet Services, Thomas Cowles - Empire Towers, Thomas Gallman - telysis.net, Tom Tsilionis, trafficfiend.com, Tristram Snyder, Vincent Kwiatkowski, VP-RX, William Fuller AKA "Mr Bill", World Reach.
From his website he looks like one of those inspirational speakers -- "he's an ordinary man working as hard as he can to discover the unseen possibilities of leadership and life". As a class, snake-oil vendors. I'd need a primary source (i.e. at least saying who did the research, etc) before giving it any credibility.