Look, who cares if SPF breaks things. The things it breaks arn't really that important, and the internet email system is so clogged with spam it's worthless anyway.
Wow, you mean people behave in unethical ways all over the world? I'm shocked, I thought crime was a west-only thing.
bleh, I worked at a phone center here in the US once. It sucked, and I'm certan that the people running it would sell out their call lists if they thought they could get away with it.
The most important thing here is that hotmail users have the individual choice of blocking or not blocking spam. If they have friends who don't have sender-ID enabled systems, they can disable junkmail on an individual level.
I think that for most users, the benifits will far outway the problems.
Is that PETA and hippies make up a very small fringe portion of "the left", whereas bible-thumping science haters seem to make up a majority of "the right"
You know what? This is almost exactly what I wanted to say. I'll admit that, when I first saw Episodes I and II, I hated them and thought they were a disgrace. I watched III, and I thought it was a good movie. I then rewatched the first two, and came to the realization: they were actually fairly good
If you watched them, and you hated them, it means they sucked.
Actualy I didn't bother to read the crawler text, nor did I care who owned the ship.
As someone with an embarrassingly-encyclopedic knowledge of the movies*, I'd say Episodes I-III are as good as (and maybe better) than Episodes IV-VI.
Knowledge, maybe. Taste? Certanly not.
Not to malign Nixon, but he was a crook and dictatorial. Anyone who manages to become President SHOULD be able to manage an array of good things. Look at Bush - he's convinced the world that when you piss off America, they get crazy enough to RE-ELECT someone like him.
Not that the world as a whole did anything to piss us off. Bush proved that we're just crazy to begin with.
It's sad to see Stephenson become a doom-and-gloom guy. I mean, his early work was incredible. Most of the people I know who have read Snow Crash have always wanted, someday, to become a Deliverator.
Um, have you read snowcrash? It's about an America who's government and economy have been destroyed. I don't think His outlook has changed much, and his writing today is a lot better (I'm sorry but the Baroque Cycle is far, far better then Snow Crash). It was wrong then and it's wrong now.
The bible claims that plants were on land before fish were in the sea, and before there was a sun and moon. Regardless of the length of period, it's still "scientificaly" wrong.
Indeed. It worked very well for the Soviets. People were extremely interested in things that mattered: starvation, oppression, etc
The Russians had other problems as well, The chinese have similar restrictions on religion, and they seem to be doing very well for themselves, financialy anyway.
Scientists and technologists have the same uneasy status in our society as the Jedi in the Galactic Republic. They are scorned by the cultural left and the cultural right, and young people avoid science and math classes in hordes.
The Cultural right doesn't like science, but I don't think that extends to individual scientists. The "cultural left" as far as I know dosn't care one way or another. The left these days has been positioning themselves as the heroes of science, saving it from the fundies.
Evolution, Global Warming, Stem-cell research: all fields in which The Left has aligned itself with the scientific community, while the right has cooked up their own false scientists while at the same time undermining the very institution of science.
Now, perhaps N.S. is talking about the same caricature of the ideological, academic, PC left that he heavy-handedly complains about in his books, but I've never seen much evidence that this is a very large movement, or has any power at all.
As someone who believes in individual freedom (a "cultural" libertarian) I wish others who believe as I do that the current right (epitomized by the Bush administration), the ones who have power are absolutely corrosive to individual freedom as well as science and knowledge. --- Also, come on. Calling Scientists and "geeks" the equivalent of Jedi is just masturbation. For one thing not all scientists/engineers consider themselves geeks. Being smart doesn't mean you have no taste in literature and art. I can program but I liked Lost in Translation a lot more then Episode Three. I'd rather read Gravity's Rainbow then some knockoff star wars book.
It's not so easy for people to "get a new ISP" on both sides of the blacklist. Blackhole proponents act like there totaly optional when there not. If your ISP decides to use a blackhole, there's really nothing you can do. You miss important email that you would have chosen to recive if you could have. But you can't, because some BOFH with a stick up his ass decided that fighting spam was more important then people talking to eachother.
As long as the individual user makes the choice on the client side, it's great. When it gets to be the admin making choices for the users, it's not.
What they do is allow others to block email between two diffrent people, simply because they run the mail servers that sit between them. If it was only individual users who were using these blocklists, it would be a diffrent issue. But it's not.
As long as a company stays small and dosn't expect 90% of the population to go for internet-delivered everything this type of thing can be a success. After pets.com people said no one could make money selling petfood online, but actualy lots of people do. They just don't have multi-million dollar ad-campains.
There will always be a few people rich and lazy enough (or in my case, rich and holding a suspended drivers license) to make something like this work.
Why should microsoft let people get rich off their back for free? If you're a cheapskate, use Linux.
As far as "poor people" are consourned, I don't think they're really going after individuals. Having a program for people would be nice, though.
She's not even american. Why on earth would microsoft care?
What happened to her is no less tragic then what happens to anyone else caught smuggling weed into that country. But since she's hot, well, lets get all upset about it!!!!!11
The new macs will use bytecode translation to run older stuff. Should be about as fast as before, since x86 is so much quicker then PPC these days:P
What's going to kill it is, no one is goin to pay $500 more for a computer with the same CPU and ram as another one.
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Sorry, I thought they meant "SPF" rather then Sender -ID. Obviously microsoft shouldn't be using their idioticaly patented propritery method.
Look, who cares if SPF breaks things. The things it breaks arn't really that important, and the internet email system is so clogged with spam it's worthless anyway.
Wow, you mean people behave in unethical ways all over the world? I'm shocked, I thought crime was a west-only thing.
bleh, I worked at a phone center here in the US once. It sucked, and I'm certan that the people running it would sell out their call lists if they thought they could get away with it.
The most important thing here is that hotmail users have the individual choice of blocking or not blocking spam. If they have friends who don't have sender-ID enabled systems, they can disable junkmail on an individual level.
I think that for most users, the benifits will far outway the problems.
Fanatical and shrill, maybe. Mac OS is only going to run on Apple PCs, whereas Linspire and others sell their OSs cheaply for low-cost computers.
Is that PETA and hippies make up a very small fringe portion of "the left", whereas bible-thumping science haters seem to make up a majority of "the right"
I love freedom of speech, human rights, and democracy
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You know what? This is almost exactly what I wanted to say. I'll admit that, when I first saw Episodes I and II, I hated them and thought they were a disgrace. I watched III, and I thought it was a good movie. I then rewatched the first two, and came to the realization: they were actually fairly good
If you watched them, and you hated them, it means they sucked.
Actualy I didn't bother to read the crawler text, nor did I care who owned the ship. As someone with an embarrassingly-encyclopedic knowledge of the movies*, I'd say Episodes I-III are as good as (and maybe better) than Episodes IV-VI. Knowledge, maybe. Taste? Certanly not.
It's not his fault you're illiterate. I did enjoy the big-U, however.
Not to malign Nixon, but he was a crook and dictatorial. Anyone who manages to become President SHOULD be able to manage an array of good things. Look at Bush - he's convinced the world that when you piss off America, they get crazy enough to RE-ELECT someone like him. Not that the world as a whole did anything to piss us off. Bush proved that we're just crazy to begin with.
It's sad to see Stephenson become a doom-and-gloom guy. I mean, his early work was incredible. Most of the people I know who have read Snow Crash have always wanted, someday, to become a Deliverator. Um, have you read snowcrash? It's about an America who's government and economy have been destroyed. I don't think His outlook has changed much, and his writing today is a lot better (I'm sorry but the Baroque Cycle is far, far better then Snow Crash). It was wrong then and it's wrong now.
The bible claims that plants were on land before fish were in the sea, and before there was a sun and moon. Regardless of the length of period, it's still "scientificaly" wrong.
Indeed. It worked very well for the Soviets. People were extremely interested in things that mattered: starvation, oppression, etc The Russians had other problems as well, The chinese have similar restrictions on religion, and they seem to be doing very well for themselves, financialy anyway.
Scientists and technologists have the same uneasy status in our society as the Jedi in the Galactic Republic. They are scorned by the cultural left and the cultural right, and young people avoid science and math classes in hordes.
The Cultural right doesn't like science, but I don't think that extends to individual scientists. The "cultural left" as far as I know dosn't care one way or another. The left these days has been positioning themselves as the heroes of science, saving it from the fundies.
Evolution, Global Warming, Stem-cell research: all fields in which The Left has aligned itself with the scientific community, while the right has cooked up their own false scientists while at the same time undermining the very institution of science.
Now, perhaps N.S. is talking about the same caricature of the ideological, academic, PC left that he heavy-handedly complains about in his books, but I've never seen much evidence that this is a very large movement, or has any power at all.
As someone who believes in individual freedom (a "cultural" libertarian) I wish others who believe as I do that the current right (epitomized by the Bush administration), the ones who have power are absolutely corrosive to individual freedom as well as science and knowledge.
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Also, come on. Calling Scientists and "geeks" the equivalent of Jedi is just masturbation. For one thing not all scientists/engineers consider themselves geeks. Being smart doesn't mean you have no taste in literature and art. I can program but I liked Lost in Translation a lot more then Episode Three. I'd rather read Gravity's Rainbow then some knockoff star wars book.
Or does this chemical only attack cancer cells, and the dendromere helps it into all cells?
How can you tell wether someone knowingly viewed the pictures or not, just from looking at their cache? It could have been a popup or something...
It's not so easy for people to "get a new ISP" on both sides of the blacklist. Blackhole proponents act like there totaly optional when there not. If your ISP decides to use a blackhole, there's really nothing you can do. You miss important email that you would have chosen to recive if you could have. But you can't, because some BOFH with a stick up his ass decided that fighting spam was more important then people talking to eachother.
As long as the individual user makes the choice on the client side, it's great. When it gets to be the admin making choices for the users, it's not.
What they do is allow others to block email between two diffrent people, simply because they run the mail servers that sit between them. If it was only individual users who were using these blocklists, it would be a diffrent issue. But it's not.
As long as a company stays small and dosn't expect 90% of the population to go for internet-delivered everything this type of thing can be a success. After pets.com people said no one could make money selling petfood online, but actualy lots of people do. They just don't have multi-million dollar ad-campains.
There will always be a few people rich and lazy enough (or in my case, rich and holding a suspended drivers license) to make something like this work.
Why should microsoft let people get rich off their back for free? If you're a cheapskate, use Linux. As far as "poor people" are consourned, I don't think they're really going after individuals. Having a program for people would be nice, though.
She's not even american. Why on earth would microsoft care? What happened to her is no less tragic then what happens to anyone else caught smuggling weed into that country. But since she's hot, well, lets get all upset about it!!!!!11
More "Jews are smarter" 'research'.
What a bunch of crap. Watch me dismiss it. "whosh". dismissed. That was easy.
According to some of the other posters, this device dosn't get back as much energy as it puts out. We've been able to do that for decades.
The new macs will use bytecode translation to run older stuff. Should be about as fast as before, since x86 is so much quicker then PPC these days :P
What's going to kill it is, no one is goin to pay $500 more for a computer with the same CPU and ram as another one.