Why wouldn't it be under your home directory? If you have it anywhere else, then other people can access it... Ohhhh! You naught boy! What's your IP address?
Here's the DOJ's take. When you read it, ask yourself who defines a terrorist, and would you be willing to believe them?
Finally, the USA PATRIOT Act (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism) Hell, with a cool ass acronym like that for a name, how could you possibly be against it;) (read: How could you possibly not be against it. Tortuously clever acronyms are often a sign of bad policy)
This line of reasoning leads me to question whether legislation would help. I think it might. If advertisers were restricted to technologies such as RSS, email could again become the highly useful and efficient communication protocol it was meant to be.
Actually RSS stands for "Rich Site Syndication" and is a Netscape technology.
The Push/Pull issue does matter because that is what determines who initiates the process. In email, it is the content provider who initiates the message transfer, and that is what has enabled the current spam problem. In RSS, the content consumer initiates the message transfer, effectively removing significant control from the content provider and thereby elimitating the technical ability of spammers to use the technology to "push" their unwanted advertisements.
RSS is just a web page with a fancy name and a somewhat more narrowly defined purpose. But it's still just a web page, and as such, can scale just as well as any other type.
As for efficiency, only those people that actually want to see the RSS feed at any given time will do so. Email gets sent to the recipient regardless of the recipient's desire to see it. I think it is clear which is the more efficient, at least in technical terms.
OK, I'll admit up front that I'm a NASA supporter. NASA does serve an immediate and worthy purpose, and is therefore worthy of continued support. NASA invests in technologies for which there are currently no markets. Business is not often willing to do that. As a government agency, NASA has the ability to create those markets by doing very expensive research required to develop products for those markets.
Take, for example, the sattelite industry. This one area where NASA has shined. NASA provided funds to various companies to develop the technologies necessary to lift satelites into orbit. At the time this research was going on, there was no market for satelites, just an overwhelming desire to put a man on the moon. Now you can argue that actually going to the moon has not served any purpose in a quantitative way, and you would be partially right. But the technologies that were developed in pursuit of that goal led directly to the ability of aerospace companies to create rockets capable of launching satellites into orbit without having to sink hundreds of millions of their own dollars into R&D.
As a result, we get cheap communication faster. And that is only one application of a single technology. When you look at the results of work performed at NASA, the list of major contributions to society really starts to add up. Industry, by itself, could never have hoped to match the pace of those innovations.
I think the work done on gnome, kde and X are more likey important to a typical user. If you want that to improve put your money there, not on the guys making a distribution.
Distribution vendors need money too you know. All those great administration tools that Mandrake developed cost them money. As did all of the integration work.
Of course, if you insist that distribution vendors don't deserve support as much as the application developers, you are welcome to invest in only applications. But let's see you roll your own distribution from kernel up. I'll bet you change your views then.
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dood, ah yoosed ta spel gewd to, butt awl dem dam koledge calsses dun fuct wit ma haed. Ore wuzit da durgs? Ah jes fergit ennymo.
Am I the only one who believes there has got to be more to this claim? I know that all their actions seem to be designed and timed to boost their stock price every time it seems to be flagging a little from its already inflated position but surely BPF and similar code is not all they have?
Kinda makes you wonder how much longer it'll take ol' Darl to sell the last of his stock. Anyone wanna guess how long the suit lasts after that?
Err.. no. These types of vigilante actions would have little to no affect on the majority of spammers. I base my position on the fact that all the draconian drug laws, and all the hundreds of thousands of cops in the U.S. have utterly failed to stem the tide of drug trafficing. In fact, the illegal drug trade is doing as well as it ever has, monetarily speaking, and the hard-line position of the federal government (and local governments) has only served increase the level of violence across the board.
A corrolary also exists in the use of the death penalty. The death penalty does not discourage murderers. The fact is, people do not weigh the consequences of their actions evenly - some do not factor them in at all. Those that do, do not need such violent and permanent examples to modify their behavior - lesser consequences have the desired effect on those people. So, your angry mob can only increase the level of violence. It can never have any other effect because some people simply are not reasonable and will not pay any attention until they get strung up. Some other people will never learn any lesson from the example of the first, so the cycle continues.
... but it will allow many better methods of centralizing the dirty combustion which means we get one superfund site rather than a bunch of nasty cities with smog.
Superfund does not seem to be so super at the present time. Now, I think you are absolutely correct in your analysis, but today's environmental policy outlook is not so stunning in the predominant political arenas.
Who said anything about wanting everything for free?
Trillian offers a free product. I happen to like it well enough, so I downloaded it and I use it. For free, just as it was offered.
I'm appropriately thankful for the software, and I don't feel the slightest bit guilty. I'm glad that you saw fit to float them a bit of your (hopefully) hard earned money, but that doesn't mean that I should.
I still don't understand why some people think that everyone else should donate to whatever project they happen to think is cool.
Hmm.. You are correct. Imagine, for a moment, a powerful Mexico that wants to invade the U.S. It would be much harder to do so if nearly every citizen has access to a weapon.
Heck, currently Trillian profits off of it w/o sending MS a dime.
How so? I never sent Trillian's creators any money. No Trillian user that I know has ever sent them any money. Trillian doesn't even get ad revenue. I'm guessing that Trillian just doesn't profit it's creators in any direct way.
MSN, AIM, and Yahoo Messenger are all very popular. Jabber hasn't really taken off in the public arena because there is no central server. It works more like email. (It even uses email style addresses.) It requires that you have a server, or access to one. This makes it a good solution for organizations that are concerned about the privacy of their internal communications.
I worked as a contractor on an Air Force base in San Antonio for about 3 years. There are many levels of parallel networks on any military base, ranging from completely public to I'll-kill-you-for-looking-at-it secret. The fact is, military personnel have to communicate with contractors and other military personnel who are not on a military base. That is why bases have an internet presence apart from marketing purposes. Also, service members like being able to exchange emails with love ones (civilians) at home. That is a powerful morale tool.
Having said that, no level of network is supposed to have any interaction with any other level of network. Consequently, one should only access the internet from computers attached to the lowest level network, the level that almost anyone can have access to anyway. Sensitive networks are supposed to be entirely separate from the internet as a whole.
Unfortunately, that policy is not *always* enforced.
This whole thing is one revenge action after another. It no longer matters who threw the first rock, if it ever did.
It seems to me that it is a matter of religion. On one side, you have the Israelis (the Jews), on another you have the Palestinians (the Muslims), and on the third side you have the Westerners (the Christians).
The Jews think that God gave them the right to come in and simply take the land of Isreal for their own, regardless of the views of it's then current residents. Notice that the Israelis do not even claim it as an ancestral home, but one given to them by God after they left their original lands. Of course the current residents, the Muslims, think that the SAME God gave THEM the right to occupy the same land. After all, their ancestors were the same Jews. Now we get to the Christians. They believe that the world will descend into Armageddon - starting in Isreal - which will be followed by Heaven descending to Earth, ushering in eternal peace throughout the universe. Since that is the plan revealed by God in the Book of Revelations, it follows that Armegeddon must happen before any peace can be had on Earth.
All of that amounts to one hell of a fight, one which the Earth may never recover from. People must realize that western religion is nothing but a destructive tool used by ancient politicians to control a blind and gullible population against their will. Hell, it's still being used that way.
You must be talking about those bleading heart delusional idiots that want to make sure we can't defend ourselves when Big Brother comes to take away our rights to free speach and peacable assembly, our rights and against unreasonable search and seizure. People who believe guns should be illegal seem to be operating from the attitude that they are dangerous to everyone around them.
These people are correct in one aspect, guns are dangerous. That is the nature of a deadly weapon. It is also completely immaterial to the argument.
The second ammendment is not about personal defense. It's not about hunting. It's most certainly not about any right to shoot at paper targets. First and foremost, the second ammendment is about ordinary Americans having the means to protect the rest of their rights. Against whom, you might ask? The goverment, that's who. This nation's founders recognized that governments do not always act in the best interest of their populace, that they can be corrupted and led to do awful things. In such a circumstance, the number of dead babies would far outweigh the current number.
I do not currently own a gun, but if I feel that right is seriously threatened, you can bet your ass that I will get one just as quickly as I can. Probably several.
Its the first time I see a car alarm that actually does something good!
A friend of mine once related a story about his car, it's frequent habit of getting broken into, and how he resolved the situation. It seems that he doesn't believe in car alarms, saying that they are ubiquitously annoying and that nobody pays them any attention.
That's almost true, except that thieves certainly pay attention. You see, his neighborhood was a high crime area, and every car on his street had a car alarm, except his. After the third burglary, a police officer pointed this out to him. Needless to say, his car has not been broken into since he got that blinking light. No alarm, just a blinking light. Heh, I guess the burglars in his neighborhood just aren't all that smart.
Dude, your air conditioner isn't going to affect the grid in any meaningful way. I suggest you turn it all the way down until the power does go out. Then refuse to let anyone go in or out of the house for fear of the cold air escaping.
Hell, I live in Houston. When we get 1" of snow, everything closes down like cell doors in a prison riot. Mostly so we can all go out build one foot high snow men before it melts.
Slashdot Mirror
In other news, posters ask slashdot posters to stop posting dupe posts posting dupes.
Why wouldn't it be under your home directory? If you have it anywhere else, then other people can access it... Ohhhh! You naught boy! What's your IP address?
These folks make the case far better than I can:
;)
EFF's position paper
The American Library Association
Joe Barr mentioned a couple good points in his article at Creative Loafing.
Here's the DOJ's take. When you read it, ask yourself who defines a terrorist, and would you be willing to believe them?
Finally, the USA PATRIOT Act
(Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism) Hell, with a cool ass acronym like that for a name, how could you possibly be against it
(read: How could you possibly not be against it. Tortuously clever acronyms are often a sign of bad policy)
Article remarked that a lot of people were also searching for pr0n.
Actually, it quoted a COO saying that. I couldn't help but think that he was seeing dollar signs when he said that.
I also wonder if Big Champagne is marketing to the pr0n purveyors. It seems like an obvious move in the face of that data.
Heh, replying to my own post...
This line of reasoning leads me to question whether legislation would help. I think it might. If advertisers were restricted to technologies such as RSS, email could again become the highly useful and efficient communication protocol it was meant to be.
Actually RSS stands for "Rich Site Syndication" and is a Netscape technology.
The Push/Pull issue does matter because that is what determines who initiates the process. In email, it is the content provider who initiates the message transfer, and that is what has enabled the current spam problem. In RSS, the content consumer initiates the message transfer, effectively removing significant control from the content provider and thereby elimitating the technical ability of spammers to use the technology to "push" their unwanted advertisements.
RSS is just a web page with a fancy name and a somewhat more narrowly defined purpose. But it's still just a web page, and as such, can scale just as well as any other type.
As for efficiency, only those people that actually want to see the RSS feed at any given time will do so. Email gets sent to the recipient regardless of the recipient's desire to see it. I think it is clear which is the more efficient, at least in technical terms.
OK, I'll admit up front that I'm a NASA supporter. NASA does serve an immediate and worthy purpose, and is therefore worthy of continued support. NASA invests in technologies for which there are currently no markets. Business is not often willing to do that. As a government agency, NASA has the ability to create those markets by doing very expensive research required to develop products for those markets.
Take, for example, the sattelite industry. This one area where NASA has shined. NASA provided funds to various companies to develop the technologies necessary to lift satelites into orbit. At the time this research was going on, there was no market for satelites, just an overwhelming desire to put a man on the moon. Now you can argue that actually going to the moon has not served any purpose in a quantitative way, and you would be partially right. But the technologies that were developed in pursuit of that goal led directly to the ability of aerospace companies to create rockets capable of launching satellites into orbit without having to sink hundreds of millions of their own dollars into R&D.
As a result, we get cheap communication faster. And that is only one application of a single technology. When you look at the results of work performed at NASA, the list of major contributions to society really starts to add up. Industry, by itself, could never have hoped to match the pace of those innovations.
I think the work done on gnome, kde and X are more likey important to a typical user.
If you want that to improve put your money there, not on the guys making a distribution.
Distribution vendors need money too you know. All those great administration tools that Mandrake developed cost them money. As did all of the integration work.
Of course, if you insist that distribution vendors don't deserve support as much as the application developers, you are welcome to invest in only applications. But let's see you roll your own distribution from kernel up. I'll bet you change your views then.
dood, ah yoosed ta spel gewd to, butt awl dem dam koledge calsses dun fuct wit ma haed. Ore wuzit da durgs? Ah jes fergit ennymo.
Am I the only one who believes there has got to be more to this claim? I know that all their actions seem to be designed and timed to boost their stock price every time it seems to be flagging a little from its already inflated position but surely BPF and similar code is not all they have?
Kinda makes you wonder how much longer it'll take ol' Darl to sell the last of his stock. Anyone wanna guess how long the suit lasts after that?
Err.. no. These types of vigilante actions would have little to no affect on the majority of spammers. I base my position on the fact that all the draconian drug laws, and all the hundreds of thousands of cops in the U.S. have utterly failed to stem the tide of drug trafficing. In fact, the illegal drug trade is doing as well as it ever has, monetarily speaking, and the hard-line position of the federal government (and local governments) has only served increase the level of violence across the board.
A corrolary also exists in the use of the death penalty. The death penalty does not discourage murderers. The fact is, people do not weigh the consequences of their actions evenly - some do not factor them in at all. Those that do, do not need such violent and permanent examples to modify their behavior - lesser consequences have the desired effect on those people. So, your angry mob can only increase the level of violence. It can never have any other effect because some people simply are not reasonable and will not pay any attention until they get strung up. Some other people will never learn any lesson from the example of the first, so the cycle continues.
... but it will allow many better methods of centralizing the dirty combustion which means we get one superfund site rather than a bunch of nasty cities with smog.
Superfund does not seem to be so super at the present time. Now, I think you are absolutely correct in your analysis, but today's environmental policy outlook is not so stunning in the predominant political arenas.
Who said anything about wanting everything for free?
Trillian offers a free product. I happen to like it well enough, so I downloaded it and I use it. For free, just as it was offered.
I'm appropriately thankful for the software, and I don't feel the slightest bit guilty. I'm glad that you saw fit to float them a bit of your (hopefully) hard earned money, but that doesn't mean that I should.
I still don't understand why some people think that everyone else should donate to whatever project they happen to think is cool.
Hmm.. You are correct. Imagine, for a moment, a powerful Mexico that wants to invade the U.S. It would be much harder to do so if nearly every citizen has access to a weapon.
Heck, currently Trillian profits off of it w/o sending MS a dime.
How so? I never sent Trillian's creators any money. No Trillian user that I know has ever sent them any money. Trillian doesn't even get ad revenue. I'm guessing that Trillian just doesn't profit it's creators in any direct way.
MSN, AIM, and Yahoo Messenger are all very popular. Jabber hasn't really taken off in the public arena because there is no central server. It works more like email. (It even uses email style addresses.) It requires that you have a server, or access to one. This makes it a good solution for organizations that are concerned about the privacy of their internal communications.
I worked as a contractor on an Air Force base in San Antonio for about 3 years. There are many levels of parallel networks on any military base, ranging from completely public to I'll-kill-you-for-looking-at-it secret. The fact is, military personnel have to communicate with contractors and other military personnel who are not on a military base. That is why bases have an internet presence apart from marketing purposes. Also, service members like being able to exchange emails with love ones (civilians) at home. That is a powerful morale tool.
Having said that, no level of network is supposed to have any interaction with any other level of network. Consequently, one should only access the internet from computers attached to the lowest level network, the level that almost anyone can have access to anyway. Sensitive networks are supposed to be entirely separate from the internet as a whole.
Unfortunately, that policy is not *always* enforced.
This whole thing is one revenge action after another. It no longer matters who threw the first rock, if it ever did.
It seems to me that it is a matter of religion. On one side, you have the Israelis (the Jews), on another you have the Palestinians (the Muslims), and on the third side you have the Westerners (the Christians).
The Jews think that God gave them the right to come in and simply take the land of Isreal for their own, regardless of the views of it's then current residents. Notice that the Israelis do not even claim it as an ancestral home, but one given to them by God after they left their original lands. Of course the current residents, the Muslims, think that the SAME God gave THEM the right to occupy the same land. After all, their ancestors were the same Jews. Now we get to the Christians. They believe that the world will descend into Armageddon - starting in Isreal - which will be followed by Heaven descending to Earth, ushering in eternal peace throughout the universe. Since that is the plan revealed by God in the Book of Revelations, it follows that Armegeddon must happen before any peace can be had on Earth.
All of that amounts to one hell of a fight, one which the Earth may never recover from. People must realize that western religion is nothing but a destructive tool used by ancient politicians to control a blind and gullible population against their will. Hell, it's still being used that way.
You must be talking about those bleading heart delusional idiots that want to make sure we can't defend ourselves when Big Brother comes to take away our rights to free speach and peacable assembly, our rights and against unreasonable search and seizure. People who believe guns should be illegal seem to be operating from the attitude that they are dangerous to everyone around them.
These people are correct in one aspect, guns are dangerous. That is the nature of a deadly weapon. It is also completely immaterial to the argument.
The second ammendment is not about personal defense. It's not about hunting. It's most certainly not about any right to shoot at paper targets. First and foremost, the second ammendment is about ordinary Americans having the means to protect the rest of their rights. Against whom, you might ask? The goverment, that's who. This nation's founders recognized that governments do not always act in the best interest of their populace, that they can be corrupted and led to do awful things. In such a circumstance, the number of dead babies would far outweigh the current number.
I do not currently own a gun, but if I feel that right is seriously threatened, you can bet your ass that I will get one just as quickly as I can. Probably several.
Its the first time I see a car alarm that actually does something good!
A friend of mine once related a story about his car, it's frequent habit of getting broken into, and how he resolved the situation. It seems that he doesn't believe in car alarms, saying that they are ubiquitously annoying and that nobody pays them any attention.
That's almost true, except that thieves certainly pay attention. You see, his neighborhood was a high crime area, and every car on his street had a car alarm, except his. After the third burglary, a police officer pointed this out to him. Needless to say, his car has not been broken into since he got that blinking light. No alarm, just a blinking light. Heh, I guess the burglars in his neighborhood just aren't all that smart.
if there is place to put the blame, CNN hasn't found it yet
Oh, but they will... they will. Even if they get it wrong the first time, they can always contradict themselves later.
I believe this marks the first time in history that a server has been slashdotted *after* it quit working.
Dude, your air conditioner isn't going to affect the grid in any meaningful way. I suggest you turn it all the way down until the power does go out. Then refuse to let anyone go in or out of the house for fear of the cold air escaping.
Hell, I live in Houston. When we get 1" of snow, everything closes down like cell doors in a prison riot. Mostly so we can all go out build one foot high snow men before it melts.