Legislation does not replace the constitution. If you feel that this legislation is unconstitutional, the court system still decides. If in fact our courts do not uphold the constitution, then we have a real problem. We need to stop putting judges on the courts who do not feel that a literal inerperetation of the constitution is necessary.
The constitution needs to be memorized word for word by every judge before they take their seat and any deviation from it should not result in being overturned, but instead should result in relief from duty.
Around the austin area and I have to say that if a coffee shop doesn't have wireless, it will not get my business. (Sometimes they will, if I can smoke inside on a cold night.)
Alot of the college students around austin have g cards and appreciate the speedier connection when its available, but its not really important unless there are alot of people connected to the router as b is faster than your internet connection. (probably)
As far as worrying about people using it and not paying, I wouldn't be worried. While I might occasionally drop in to check my email without buying anything, I think that I and all of my friends make an effort to patronize the shops everytime we go, or we feel guilty. The hassle of a changing WEP key would be a real pain, especially since I often sit down to get online and don't go to buy for a few minutes if the line is long. Before wireless connections I would leave a busy coffee shop and go somewhere else because I didn't want to wait in line. Now I just sit down and browse for a few minutes to pass the time before I can drink coffee.
Hey, the snack cart idea is pretty good. But as long as they are right next to each other, I don't think they will split the business. If I only have to walk an extra 10' then I'll go for the one with better pickle relish.:)
The fact is that one of the carts will be preferred and it will stay in the middle and the other one will have to move slightly out of the best spot so that it will have a proximity advantage to at least some of the market.
"Microsoft is still setting the pace from a usability and productivity perspective, but the Java vendors are continuing to support two competing platforms/communities for plug-in development," O'Grady said. "That just seems counterproductive, if the real goal is to threaten Microsoft."
I really don't see that the goal should be to threaten Microsoft. I develop applications with eclipse and I dont give a flying f#*% whether someone else is using Microsoft. My stuff works. I know there are other applications which benefit from platform market share, but who cares if we have two choices and they have one. I like both of ours better than theirs.
I think we agree. The trial is there to tell them apart not to give the criminal a chance to get away. However, no matter how many buildings get knocked down, I'd rather a few criminals get away than fear being arrested and imprisoned, or eliminated, without a trial.
I just wanted to say that the misperception out there that fair trials are a right we give to criminals is dangerous. The right to trial belongs to all of us so that we can be protected from false accusations.
This is a dangerous distortion of the right to trial. The right to trial is not to give perverts a day in court, it is to tell the difference between the perverts and the falsely accused.
Too many people think that the right to fair trial is a right to protect criminals. It is not. It is a right to protect innocent people. If we forget that, then people will not have any respect for it anymore.
Everyone accused of a crime should be given a fair trial, with the exception of those threatening imminent danger. Obviously if a person is caught robbing a bank and is pointing a gun, lethal force is a reasonable response. Shooting microwaves at a car believed to belong to a terrorist who is committing a crime because there is not time to intervene with less than deadly force, may be necessary. But using a microwave weapon from space against a suspect who could otherwise be arrested and held would be wrong, just as would shooting him down in the street.
Price does not determine market entirely. The motherboard you chose was not probobly not developed for the general personal computing market. Secondly, you bought peices, not a personal computer. If toyota claims that it has the most horsepower of any sedan in its class it does not have to stand up to your ability to build an engine and chassis which have a higher peak horsepower.
Exactly how would the international control improve the internet? What control is currently placed on it by the US?
Besides assignment of IP's and domain names, what US control is affecting you? Most of the internet is privately owned. Its controlled by whoever owns the routers.
And Diebold has certain software that some people seem to be pretty upset about what they do with it. I think that Slashdot is the perfect forum to criticize a company for doing something that we object to.
Besides the fact that it is used in public libraries and other places where the bill of rights would apply, I beleive that as a community we have a responsibility to criticize a company which takes actions to which we object, even if they are constitutionaly protected. There are many things which a private or even public company can do which are legal but objectionable.
There are not many laws which regulate the bias of print media, but we certainly are not expected to ignore it as a community and avoid discussing it.
If you think that the actions of Symantic are reasonable then defend them on their merits. But please do not attempt to stifle the communities reaction.
Right.. the real question is how does it spread. They say it is not contagious, which means they must spread it around with syringes. We've had more effective ways of killing mice for a long time.
Does anyone remember the issue with the Extension Manager. If I remember right, that was a third party tool before OS 7 point something when they made it part of the OS, and I believe they actually paid licensing to to that.
However I do think that the originality of function being integrated was much more defendable.
I'm not a fan of the bill, or Senator McCain, but I wouldn't be a fan of tax credits for filters, government education or government research. I think these are projects that private companies should have enough resources to pursue freely without using my tax dollars. If I think that a filter is good, I may buy it. If someone produces crap, I don't want them getting any of my money, before or after taxes.
And if people need help learning how to use an email filter, they should take a computer class. It may cost them 20 bucks, but it shouldn't cost me 20 bucks. I already know how to block my spam.
And if you are in a situation where your email must be available to the public and you get that many spams a day, then you may want to invest in some technology to help you with it. But don't tell the government to spend my money on it. I'd rather my taxes go into highways and killing our enemies. Those are just about the only thing I think our federal government does really well.
I agree with you. If the bill will have no effect then why waste important senate time with it.
Next he can pass a bill that will ban breast cancer. The odds of defeating breast cancer by legislation is extremely low, but that does not mean we should stand idly by and do nothing about it.
I think the statement would make sense if he were choosing to not promote the bill and instead try to do something else. Just because legislation won't stop the problem doesn't mean we have to sit idly by. Even a senator has other resources available than legislation to help with a problem.
Sure, at first the approval system would suffer from DOS like problems. But once 99.999% of spam never reaches the end user, there is less incentive to send it.
The problem will be if a large group of people still accept and read spam. The only way to stop spam will be if A) people do not buy the shit they sell or buy into the scams they offer, or B) spam is controlled by methods outside of the end users hand.
I still think this will not be a legislative solution. I really think that a large majority of mail hosts should implement white listing, at least for messages that are sent to multiple recipients. If multiple similar messages are received by a mail host from the same or similar mail host(s) then they should be blocked. If a user wishes to be part of a legitimate mail list then there should be a way to authorize that host to send messages. Sure, it will be a pain for some mail lists but utilities will pop up to make it easier for them to do the authorization dance.
If the top 5 mail hosts would participate, spammers would be obsolete.
Some people would argue that blocking unauthorized messages would prevent some people from receiving mail that they would like to receive. But companies that send mail to so many people obviously are being harmful to more people than they are providing a service to. (If you call con-ing people into buying useless crap a service, even to people who fall for it.)
Even still.. it is not hard to keep track of sessions without putting the server node in the domain. If you put in a URL parameter, your router can recognize that the server is down and redirect to another server anyways. Worst case a session gets lost, but that will happen when the node goes down anyway.
I have to agree with the maximize issue. I am a long time mac fan, although I run mostly linux and windows on intel now. Maximizing to full screen is very useful, however I wish there were some more options in windows to change window layout on the fly to accomodate drag and drop and other multiwindow functions. Most of the time I operate with two screens and usually I have several maximized windows that I can switch between on one or both of them. In fact, except for drag and drop purposes, I hardly ever use multiple windows in more than one application very often.
I don't understand the rationale which seems prevalent in mac and linux fanaticism which seems to indicate that one way is the best and anyone who prefers something else is an inferior user. For the most part the Mac interface is my preference and would be perfect with a maximize option more like windows. Windows has plenty more of its own flaws though.
-Jacob
To do a proper study you should ignore those things, not control them. Making sure that your selection process is not tainted by it is difficult. I am more concerned that this is misinterpereted. There are plenty of legitimate reasons why taller people may make more money, since it is a legitimate advantage in certain fields, just as being smarter, stronger or athletic may be. Thats not to say that being short can't have advantages to, in the right setting. But I think that being tall is more often an advantage.
I am about average at 6', so I consider myself neither tall nor short. Air force pilots are paid pretty well, but must be somewhat short for most cockpits. However if you end up with even one basketball player in your study, everything will get skewed. There is a long list of jobs for which height is a natural advantage, in addition to the very likely case that tall people are perceived to be superior prejudiciously. That is not to say that a well motivated and hard working person can succeed at most of them with persistence.
In addition, I would bet money that taller people are more confident on average than short people, due to pressures outside of the workplace as well as inside. More confident people are often more successful.
I hardly think that a content filter for proxy servers is a Doctoral Project. I'm a highschool dropout who could write fairly sophisticated one in perl in a couple of hours.
Unencrypted http is easy to handle and it wouldn't take long to put together a simple vocabulary of single words to substitute. A little bit more time and I could give phrase substitution and even catch contextual obscenities. Doing the same thing for emails is just as simple with a decent mail server.
I don't think it takes much to remove obscenities and make it still sound correct. A majority of the obscenities we use are randomly inserted or substituted phrases anyways and hardly ever have any connection to the content of a statement unless it is a statement about obscenities.
I would bet that an employer is just censoring certain words and or phrases to be protected from lawsuits in case an employee opens an email with foul language or inappropriate defamatory remarks and then sues for harassment or some other frivolous cause. I bet that most of the time readers never notice the substitutions, while on rarer occurances the meaning of the modified text is completely mangled or lost.
-CelloJake
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Legislation does not replace the constitution. If you feel that this legislation is unconstitutional, the court system still decides. If in fact our courts do not uphold the constitution, then we have a real problem. We need to stop putting judges on the courts who do not feel that a literal inerperetation of the constitution is necessary. The constitution needs to be memorized word for word by every judge before they take their seat and any deviation from it should not result in being overturned, but instead should result in relief from duty.
Around the austin area and I have to say that if a coffee shop doesn't have wireless, it will not get my business. (Sometimes they will, if I can smoke inside on a cold night.)
Alot of the college students around austin have g cards and appreciate the speedier connection when its available, but its not really important unless there are alot of people connected to the router as b is faster than your internet connection. (probably)
As far as worrying about people using it and not paying, I wouldn't be worried. While I might occasionally drop in to check my email without buying anything, I think that I and all of my friends make an effort to patronize the shops everytime we go, or we feel guilty. The hassle of a changing WEP key would be a real pain, especially since I often sit down to get online and don't go to buy for a few minutes if the line is long. Before wireless connections I would leave a busy coffee shop and go somewhere else because I didn't want to wait in line. Now I just sit down and browse for a few minutes to pass the time before I can drink coffee.
Hey, the snack cart idea is pretty good. But as long as they are right next to each other, I don't think they will split the business. If I only have to walk an extra 10' then I'll go for the one with better pickle relish. :)
The fact is that one of the carts will be preferred and it will stay in the middle and the other one will have to move slightly out of the best spot so that it will have a proximity advantage to at least some of the market.
From the Article:
I really don't see that the goal should be to threaten Microsoft. I develop applications with eclipse and I dont give a flying f#*% whether someone else is using Microsoft. My stuff works. I know there are other applications which benefit from platform market share, but who cares if we have two choices and they have one. I like both of ours better than theirs.
I think we agree. The trial is there to tell them apart not to give the criminal a chance to get away. However, no matter how many buildings get knocked down, I'd rather a few criminals get away than fear being arrested and imprisoned, or eliminated, without a trial.
I just wanted to say that the misperception out there that fair trials are a right we give to criminals is dangerous. The right to trial belongs to all of us so that we can be protected from false accusations.
-Jacob
How about business people discussing corporate secrets? Sure you could meet in private... but for just $4K, this could be very convenient.
This is a dangerous distortion of the right to trial. The right to trial is not to give perverts a day in court, it is to tell the difference between the perverts and the falsely accused.
Too many people think that the right to fair trial is a right to protect criminals. It is not. It is a right to protect innocent people. If we forget that, then people will not have any respect for it anymore.
Everyone accused of a crime should be given a fair trial, with the exception of those threatening imminent danger. Obviously if a person is caught robbing a bank and is pointing a gun, lethal force is a reasonable response. Shooting microwaves at a car believed to belong to a terrorist who is committing a crime because there is not time to intervene with less than deadly force, may be necessary. But using a microwave weapon from space against a suspect who could otherwise be arrested and held would be wrong, just as would shooting him down in the street.
-Jacob
Price does not determine market entirely. The motherboard you chose was not probobly not developed for the general personal computing market. Secondly, you bought peices, not a personal computer. If toyota claims that it has the most horsepower of any sedan in its class it does not have to stand up to your ability to build an engine and chassis which have a higher peak horsepower.
-Jacob
Exactly how would the international control improve the internet? What control is currently placed on it by the US? Besides assignment of IP's and domain names, what US control is affecting you? Most of the internet is privately owned. Its controlled by whoever owns the routers.
And Diebold has certain software that some people seem to be pretty upset about what they do with it. I think that Slashdot is the perfect forum to criticize a company for doing something that we object to.
Besides the fact that it is used in public libraries and other places where the bill of rights would apply, I beleive that as a community we have a responsibility to criticize a company which takes actions to which we object, even if they are constitutionaly protected. There are many things which a private or even public company can do which are legal but objectionable.
There are not many laws which regulate the bias of print media, but we certainly are not expected to ignore it as a community and avoid discussing it.
If you think that the actions of Symantic are reasonable then defend them on their merits. But please do not attempt to stifle the communities reaction.
-Jacob
So... How many of Ted Turners prophecies have you believed in the past? I didn't realize he was an expert on the future of mankind.
I really think that the world could end at any time, but I doubt that research on Viral Diseases will hasten it.
-Jacob
Makes you wonder how important education is.
-Jacob
Right.. the real question is how does it spread. They say it is not contagious, which means they must spread it around with syringes. We've had more effective ways of killing mice for a long time.
Like a hammer.
-Jacob
How is this a weapon? There is a huge difference between being lethal and being weaponized. -Jacob
I don't know about you, but my X scale goes to 11!
-Jacob
Does anyone remember the issue with the Extension Manager. If I remember right, that was a third party tool before OS 7 point something when they made it part of the OS, and I believe they actually paid licensing to to that.
However I do think that the originality of function being integrated was much more defendable.
-Jacob
Thats why you might need to force it on them by implementing at a level above the users inbox. -Jacob
I'm not a fan of the bill, or Senator McCain, but I wouldn't be a fan of tax credits for filters, government education or government research. I think these are projects that private companies should have enough resources to pursue freely without using my tax dollars. If I think that a filter is good, I may buy it. If someone produces crap, I don't want them getting any of my money, before or after taxes.
And if people need help learning how to use an email filter, they should take a computer class. It may cost them 20 bucks, but it shouldn't cost me 20 bucks. I already know how to block my spam.
And if you are in a situation where your email must be available to the public and you get that many spams a day, then you may want to invest in some technology to help you with it. But don't tell the government to spend my money on it. I'd rather my taxes go into highways and killing our enemies. Those are just about the only thing I think our federal government does really well.
-Jacob
I agree with you. If the bill will have no effect then why waste important senate time with it.
Next he can pass a bill that will ban breast cancer. The odds of defeating breast cancer by legislation is extremely low, but that does not mean we should stand idly by and do nothing about it.
I think the statement would make sense if he were choosing to not promote the bill and instead try to do something else. Just because legislation won't stop the problem doesn't mean we have to sit idly by. Even a senator has other resources available than legislation to help with a problem.
-Jacob
Sure, at first the approval system would suffer from DOS like problems. But once 99.999% of spam never reaches the end user, there is less incentive to send it.
The problem will be if a large group of people still accept and read spam. The only way to stop spam will be if A) people do not buy the shit they sell or buy into the scams they offer, or B) spam is controlled by methods outside of the end users hand.
I still think this will not be a legislative solution. I really think that a large majority of mail hosts should implement white listing, at least for messages that are sent to multiple recipients. If multiple similar messages are received by a mail host from the same or similar mail host(s) then they should be blocked. If a user wishes to be part of a legitimate mail list then there should be a way to authorize that host to send messages. Sure, it will be a pain for some mail lists but utilities will pop up to make it easier for them to do the authorization dance.
If the top 5 mail hosts would participate, spammers would be obsolete.
Some people would argue that blocking unauthorized messages would prevent some people from receiving mail that they would like to receive. But companies that send mail to so many people obviously are being harmful to more people than they are providing a service to. (If you call con-ing people into buying useless crap a service, even to people who fall for it.)
-Jacob
Even still.. it is not hard to keep track of sessions without putting the server node in the domain. If you put in a URL parameter, your router can recognize that the server is down and redirect to another server anyways. Worst case a session gets lost, but that will happen when the node goes down anyway.
I have to agree with the maximize issue. I am a long time mac fan, although I run mostly linux and windows on intel now. Maximizing to full screen is very useful, however I wish there were some more options in windows to change window layout on the fly to accomodate drag and drop and other multiwindow functions. Most of the time I operate with two screens and usually I have several maximized windows that I can switch between on one or both of them. In fact, except for drag and drop purposes, I hardly ever use multiple windows in more than one application very often. I don't understand the rationale which seems prevalent in mac and linux fanaticism which seems to indicate that one way is the best and anyone who prefers something else is an inferior user. For the most part the Mac interface is my preference and would be perfect with a maximize option more like windows. Windows has plenty more of its own flaws though. -Jacob
To do a proper study you should ignore those things, not control them. Making sure that your selection process is not tainted by it is difficult. I am more concerned that this is misinterpereted. There are plenty of legitimate reasons why taller people may make more money, since it is a legitimate advantage in certain fields, just as being smarter, stronger or athletic may be. Thats not to say that being short can't have advantages to, in the right setting. But I think that being tall is more often an advantage.
I am about average at 6', so I consider myself neither tall nor short. Air force pilots are paid pretty well, but must be somewhat short for most cockpits. However if you end up with even one basketball player in your study, everything will get skewed. There is a long list of jobs for which height is a natural advantage, in addition to the very likely case that tall people are perceived to be superior prejudiciously. That is not to say that a well motivated and hard working person can succeed at most of them with persistence.
In addition, I would bet money that taller people are more confident on average than short people, due to pressures outside of the workplace as well as inside. More confident people are often more successful.
-Jacob
I hardly think that a content filter for proxy servers is a Doctoral Project. I'm a highschool dropout who could write fairly sophisticated one in perl in a couple of hours. Unencrypted http is easy to handle and it wouldn't take long to put together a simple vocabulary of single words to substitute. A little bit more time and I could give phrase substitution and even catch contextual obscenities. Doing the same thing for emails is just as simple with a decent mail server. I don't think it takes much to remove obscenities and make it still sound correct. A majority of the obscenities we use are randomly inserted or substituted phrases anyways and hardly ever have any connection to the content of a statement unless it is a statement about obscenities. I would bet that an employer is just censoring certain words and or phrases to be protected from lawsuits in case an employee opens an email with foul language or inappropriate defamatory remarks and then sues for harassment or some other frivolous cause. I bet that most of the time readers never notice the substitutions, while on rarer occurances the meaning of the modified text is completely mangled or lost. -CelloJake
maybe they ought to do load balancing that doesn't use the url to lock a server.