Here in the UK, we are expected to pay £60 for a DVI cable (PC World/Dixons,/Comet prices) - yes that is $120 for a piece of wire and two plugs. Even if they are "oxygen free" This is not the way you get early adopters. This is the way you make people feel they are being pissed on from a great hight.
The spam may originate from theird world countries, but the decision makers behind it (master-minds) are almost all US based. The fundamental problem is how to get the US law enforcement to do something that does not involve doughnuts.
If that is how ISPs are run in your country, then its damned obvious that the legal liabilities of ISPs need fixing fast, or your whole country should be removed from the internet NOW. This is obviously a legislative issue: people are not permitted to go round ramming parked cars just because it costs money to take driving lessons. If you need help to fix your computer cos its spamming everyone, then either you learn to fix it, or you pay someone who knows how to fix it, or you are Too stupid to own a computer.
If people are a menace to society, then its the job of the government to constrain them. Thats life. the universe and everything. For the rest of us, we just have to make sure that we conserve those parts of the jungle where people who want to live by the law of the jungle can go and live (if the hat fits, its probably not tin-foil:-}
The overall idea is to remove the incentive to spam.
Nope - The overall idea is to remove parts of the spammer's anatomy. Preferably slowly, and without anaesthetic, but quickly and then selling them on e-bay is acceptable in some cases.
As we all know emails can be awfully hard to trace back to their creator.
No they are not. It may require a small amount of skill and knowledge (MSCE, anyone?), or a subpoena, but its is not actually hard. What is difficult is persuading the US government to actually do something!
In any case, stock scams are particularly easy to trace, since the perp has to have a financial connection with someone already holding the stock or involved in trading it. In any case, if it were any other trillion dollar scam, the US government would act, but because it involves technology, they can plead "we're too stoopid" while sitting on there asses. I bet real money that the number of peros is in single figures, and that at least one of the decision makers is US resident, even if the typist was off-shore.
The main reason that I prefer FreeBSD to Solaris (apart from petty squabbles over directory heriarchy and naming conventions) is that Solaris does not have the equivalent of FreeBSD Ports. It still doesn't.
You also have to pass on their total lack of warranty - hence MS are debarred by law from warranting that Windows is fit for any purpose whatever. Its not logical - its the law!
Which means you can buy it in Alaba market, Lagos for Naira 1,000 or a similar value in Roubles in Moscow, but slightly less in Latvia, Lithuania, and slightly more almost anywhere else.
The UK's IT infrastructure leaks data like a sieve, and the more you put in to a sieve, the faster it leaks out.
Just make the passports are cheaper than British ones and they can fund it by selling passports alone. Solong as they dont put those damned RFID chips in them and I'll buy one! I am sure some countries will recognise them. They could issue driving licences too! There's enough people here in London with no driving licence already (at least to judge by the driving)!
As a Merc driver, I resent that. Why should we all have to use the same desktop? I use FreeBSD, not Linux or Windows, and I use kde, but many of the apps I use depend on bits of gnome.
What is really needed is for people to start realising that 100 years ago, you could have any car so long as it was a black model T Ford. Now we can all choose our desktop, people want the model T Ford back? Have you ever tried driving a model T Ford? In today's traffic? Yeah - its like driving Windows - almost anbyone can do it badly, but noone can do it well. As yourself, when was the last time James Bond drove a model T?
What Linux needs (Of a BSD for that matter) is for James Bond to show how OSes kill villains and get girls. Or mabe a famous Rapper to be caught using Redhat to kill other famous rappers? (Everyone knows Al Quaieda use SuSe to kill US soldiers!;-)
I think FreeBSD is what you want. dont know about Debian/BSD but BSD is Unix as in "what Linux is (not) a clone of".
Yes its true, Linux is Free, but not as Free as BSD! (Not a lot of people know that). Read the BSD license: Its not the GPL - The BSD licence allows you to use it to make babies or kill money or is that kill babies and make money? Anyway "the hippies did it" - only two things to came from Berkeley (UCB) are LSD and BSD (Maybe Timothy Leary said that).
As far as I can tell from their website, Symbian will sign freeware for nothing. I dont think signing is a problem. You CAN run unsigned stuff too on some versions - I have some really rubgish sw on my Nok6630, and I am fairly sure my ssh implementation was not signed.
As the efficeincey of PV cells is generally less than 5%, I think not. Also, the cost per watt of capacity for PV cells is way higher, so your post supports the concept quite strongly, rather than opposing it.
I think that a per-house solution could not be feasible.
Why? Do you have any data?
Or do you support the Victorian concept that the mill owner should own everything? Or maybe the communist idea that the state should own everything? Or the Italian idea that the Mafia should own everything? (Just kidding;-}
While living in Nigeria in the 1970's I proposed a system similar to this, and tried to patent it when I returned ot the UK. However, the company I was using to licence my ideas "Cambridge Intellectual Properties Ltd" (Cambridge, England) appeared to have stolen my idea and sold it to an organisation in Spain, who actually built it as I described it to CIP (as opposed to my actual proposal, which I did not disclose).
The spanish organisation built one, and it worked for at least 7 year to my certain knowledge (hint: Google is your friend).
The way to store the heat/cold is very simple - black bin-bags full of water on the ground under your solar collecting surface.
The limitations of this technology have been extensively discussed in academia. My proposal is considerably more efficient than any of these proposals in TFA, and addresses the known limitations directly, but I am in active negotiations about patenting it with more honest partners, so I will not disclose it here.
And for those who are rabid anti patent people
A) I am not against the GPL, but its not the solution to everything.
B) Yes I do work as an energy consultant as my day job.
C) There are people in Australia working on a huge energy tower, several miles high
It took about 3 days to kill online gambling by prevventing the banks from handling the transactions. A million-dollar business reduced to being sold for one dollar. If they did the same to businesses promoted by spam, etc, the whole mess would stop in 3 days.
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Here in the UK, we are expected to pay £60 for a DVI cable (PC World/Dixons,/Comet prices) - yes that is $120 for a piece of wire and two plugs. Even if they are "oxygen free" This is not the way you get early adopters. This is the way you make people feel they are being pissed on from a great hight.
So has London.
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The spam may originate from theird world countries, but the decision makers behind it (master-minds) are almost all US based. The fundamental problem is how to get the US law enforcement to do something that does not involve doughnuts.
I just block all e-mail containing the word "verdana"!
If people are a menace to society, then its the job of the government to constrain them. Thats life. the universe and everything. For the rest of us, we just have to make sure that we conserve those parts of the jungle where people who want to live by the law of the jungle can go and live (if the hat fits, its probably not tin-foil:-}
Nope - The overall idea is to remove parts of the spammer's anatomy. Preferably slowly, and without anaesthetic, but quickly and then selling them on e-bay is acceptable in some cases.
No they are not. It may require a small amount of skill and knowledge (MSCE, anyone?), or a subpoena, but its is not actually hard. What is difficult is persuading the US government to actually do something!
In any case, stock scams are particularly easy to trace, since the perp has to have a financial connection with someone already holding the stock or involved in trading it. In any case, if it were any other trillion dollar scam, the US government would act, but because it involves technology, they can plead "we're too stoopid" while sitting on there asses. I bet real money that the number of peros is in single figures, and that at least one of the decision makers is US resident, even if the typist was off-shore.
I understand more than 4% of Americans believe they have already recieved an anal probe!
The main reason that I prefer FreeBSD to Solaris (apart from petty squabbles over directory heriarchy and naming conventions) is that Solaris does not have the equivalent of FreeBSD Ports. It still doesn't.
IANAL etc
IANAL ;-}
Orwell failed to mention the bit about off-shoring the data to the cheapest call centre in Bangalore.
Which means you can buy it in Alaba market, Lagos for Naira 1,000 or a similar value in Roubles in Moscow, but slightly less in Latvia, Lithuania, and slightly more almost anywhere else.
The UK's IT infrastructure leaks data like a sieve, and the more you put in to a sieve, the faster it leaks out.
Seriously, if its HTML its sure to be spam anyway. We don't need it. We don't want it. Send it strait to hell.
Just make the passports are cheaper than British ones and they can fund it by selling passports alone. Solong as they dont put those damned RFID chips in them and I'll buy one! I am sure some countries will recognise them. They could issue driving licences too! There's enough people here in London with no driving licence already (at least to judge by the driving)!
You should try "cashflow from hell!" Beats GTE when it comes to realism. Why be a pimp when you can be an Enron exec?
As a Merc driver, I resent that. Why should we all have to use the same desktop? I use FreeBSD, not Linux or Windows, and I use kde, but many of the apps I use depend on bits of gnome.
What is really needed is for people to start realising that 100 years ago, you could have any car so long as it was a black model T Ford. Now we can all choose our desktop, people want the model T Ford back? Have you ever tried driving a model T Ford? In today's traffic? Yeah - its like driving Windows - almost anbyone can do it badly, but noone can do it well. As yourself, when was the last time James Bond drove a model T?
What Linux needs (Of a BSD for that matter) is for James Bond to show how OSes kill villains and get girls. Or mabe a famous Rapper to be caught using Redhat to kill other famous rappers? (Everyone knows Al Quaieda use SuSe to kill US soldiers!;-)
Yes its true, Linux is Free, but not as Free as BSD! (Not a lot of people know that). Read the BSD license: Its not the GPL - The BSD licence allows you to use it to make babies or kill money or is that kill babies and make money? Anyway "the hippies did it" - only two things to came from Berkeley (UCB) are LSD and BSD (Maybe Timothy Leary said that).
As far as I can tell from their website, Symbian will sign freeware for nothing. I dont think signing is a problem. You CAN run unsigned stuff too on some versions - I have some really rubgish sw on my Nok6630, and I am fairly sure my ssh implementation was not signed.
As the efficeincey of PV cells is generally less than 5%, I think not. Also, the cost per watt of capacity for PV cells is way higher, so your post supports the concept quite strongly, rather than opposing it.
Why? Do you have any data?
Or do you support the Victorian concept that the mill owner should own everything? Or maybe the communist idea that the state should own everything? Or the Italian idea that the Mafia should own everything? (Just kidding ;-}
The spanish organisation built one, and it worked for at least 7 year to my certain knowledge (hint: Google is your friend).
The way to store the heat/cold is very simple - black bin-bags full of water on the ground under your solar collecting surface.
The limitations of this technology have been extensively discussed in academia. My proposal is considerably more efficient than any of these proposals in TFA, and addresses the known limitations directly, but I am in active negotiations about patenting it with more honest partners, so I will not disclose it here.
And for those who are rabid anti patent people
A) I am not against the GPL, but its not the solution to everything.
B) Yes I do work as an energy consultant as my day job.
C) There are people in Australia working on a huge energy tower, several miles high
I proest on behalf of London Cab drivers. Even illegal Pomeranian minicab drivers know more than this guy.
It took about 3 days to kill online gambling by prevventing the banks from handling the transactions. A million-dollar business reduced to being sold for one dollar. If they did the same to businesses promoted by spam, etc, the whole mess would stop in 3 days.
Perhaps more would if Sun supported FreeBSD better.