Thank you for nicely responding to the parent post. I wanted to say some things to this guy, but it wouldn't have been as "clean".
I will, however, say that the hypocritical dude is a major douche for referring to a few stereotypical loudmouths as the entity "Slashdot". I like most of the people here, but that doesn't mean I have the same thoughts and opinions that they do.
There is a BIG initiative to improve people's health before they have to see a doctor. Most insurance companies are exploring ways of informing their members to get regular checkups and keep healthy.
However, they're having a hard time keeping the overweight family of 4 who you run into at Wal-Mart from eating all those Ho-Ho's and Ding-Dongs between feedings.
As someone who works for a highly electronic clinical group, I know that our doctors have seperate internal and external email addresses. This helps to ensure hippa requirements as well as keeps important work related email seperate from the rest of the crap.
However, I know that the organization I work for is not the current norm. This could potentially be a serious problem at other places which implement this.
Another instance of a someone who likes to hear himslef talk. Shooting one's mouth off may make you look smart to your parents, teachers, and buddies, but it doesn't quite fool everyone.
What about uWisc - Eau Claire? By the looks of things we're going to get some of the slack off of this little incident. Our service comes right up the line from Madison, and usually their problems kick our ass.
We had enough problems last year with Kazza updates that used random ports and packet signatures that were hard to throttle down. At times I wasn't even able to connect to servers down the hill from upper campus. Then I just hooked up my modem and dialed into some servers, so I could at least check my email and do my school work. The people at Computing and Network Services weren't much of any help. But I did get some tips on getting past our dl quotas.
It was a rough year for cs majors. I just hope that this year will be much better. And I also hope we don't end up having to take in this traffic, cuz we also happen to pay for it through our tuition (which has gone up enough already).
Re:Privacy implications are nill
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Twist on DNA Privacy
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I have an identical twin brother, so what do you think the chances are of us having exactly the same DNA? I'm not sure of this, but I think since we started from the same egg then we have the same DNA, right? I just hope he doesn't go out and get me into trouble or something...
Kind of reminds me of the green color Acer used to make some of their computers. Maybe if he used a satin finish paint instead of the really glossy paint. Another thing I would change... Why would you put the audigy panel centered above the monitor? Maybe this guy bought a soundcard that he won't use nearly a quarter of the features on, but still if you want to plug in your head phones the cord will dangle down unless you secure it. Just my two cents...
Pooling spam to teach isn't such a good idea. The problem you might run into is that some people, like say a plastic surgeon, might get many emails that have words like penis, vagina, sex, larger, etc. So their filter info might allow some spam to get through. This is also the reason that mozilla's mail client wouldn't be "pretrained" for you. Instead the email probably had some key qualities to it that were dead givaways to being spam. One of those is the really long strings of characters used by spam mailers to track live email addresses. There are lots of possibilities there.
Re:Do not pass go, do not collect $200
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good one.. mix up the links for gatt and wto... almost had me fooled...
no one can even define what natural intelligence is
Well we can still point at you and say that you definately don't quallify. Who says that geeks treat Moores Law like it's scientifically proven? I'd like to see evidence of this. Also, as someone who is "non-religious" I'm trying remember if I signed up to be a marxist or not. If so, then I haven't paid my dues in an awefully long time.
Jumping to conclusions about groups of people never get you anywhere. Maybe instead of writing people off you should try to discuss ideas. I could go off and just assume that you're a bible-thumping buddy christ wannabe that is out to cleanse the world of us evil doers, but that would be wrong of me. I'll just sit hear and play with my k'nex set instead. I'm working on trying to build myself a new arm.
I know many people that live in Isreal, and have had lengthy conversations with them about what it's like to live there. I'm not saying that you aren't scared, but do you think that Palestinians feel safe? You are concentrating on playing down what Isreal does to the Palestinians, while quickly pointing out that you are afraid. Those kind of politics don't negate the fact that everyone has reason to be scared. All I'm saying is that if there is ever going to be any kind of peace, you need to stop and take a look at the other side, and how they feel.
BTW: I actually think Arafat is a behind the scenes sponser of terrorism, and would not feel bad if a new leader arrised from the group to take control.
The book you suggested happens to be an oppinion of one man who has man "friends"... this is exactly the problem with trying to take a realistic approach. When you bring in a ton of preconcieved ideas you have your mind made up before hearing anything to contradict you. Tell me how Arab governments "canntot be trusted" and then try checking out this site.
As for reading material, maybe reading more than just the book you were assigned to in your global politics class or where ever you picked this up at, you'd be able to understand more than just one side. Here'ssomethingtoget you started.
I realize that this is somewhat offtopic, but probably should be addressed. Personally, I don't condone the actions of the few Palestinians that go around blowing up innocent people. However, there are two sides to a story, and living in the United States, we typicaly see only the sides of our allies (i.e. Isreal). Isreal protects its "settlements" using what we would call terrorism if it was commited by a muslim state.
Remember that bully that picked on you in school? Did you ever think about slashing his tires or something along those lines to get back at him? You of course realized that if you did no one would care what that jerk did to you. There are definatly better ways to resolve issues like this, maybe it'd be easier to find those with a little less name calling.
I fully expect to be modded down for replying to this, but the truth of the matter is that I don't really care. People can either go on pretending that the situation is black and white, so no one can ever come up with any kind of reasonably thought out peace. It's so much easier to say that we are right and they are wrong.
Having a monopoly that you have got by illegal business-practices and having a monopoly that you have got by doing good products are not the same thing.
Yeah, but that doesn't get around the fact that "having a monopoly" is still illegal.
I think this would be better compared to a rental type agreement. Just because that jackhammer you got from your local do-it-yourself-center is in your house, doesn't mean you own it. All they are trying to do is give themselves a method for "returning" the movie. Of course, no one wants to upload a movie it took them hours to download, so they'd be better off making it just not work right.
Re:What will you do?
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ECCp-109 Solved
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The funny thing is, I just sent an email to my Senator, Russ Fiengold, about this very subject earlier.
Dear Senator,
As a computer science major, I have major concerns with laws affecting the computer world. My main reason for sending this message has to deal with SPAM. Consider the following note at the bottom of an email that I just opened:
"This email was sent to you by the coalition for degeneracy. IMPORTANT: You may remove yourself from this mailing by utilizing our automated removal system at here. This message is in full compliance with U.S. Federal requirements for commercial e-mail under bill s.1618 Title 111, Section 301, Paragraph (a) (2) (c) passed by the 105th U.S. Congress and cannot be considered SPAM since it includes a remove mechanism."
In this email, I am being told that I have to spend time "opting out" to prevent me from receiving more emails. There are many problems with this that should be considered.
1) It takes time to "opt out" for every email like this I get, and the number of emails is increasing with each day.
2) I seriously doubt the reliability of these companies. If I were to spend my time opting out, would they add my name to their list to not send emails, or would they just use that function to determine that my email address is valid? Now my next point will explain the reliability.
3) When I get some kind of marketing email, many times it will be for the same product as a similar email the day before. Sometimes the emails may be identical. Now if I opt out one day, the next day I usually end up getting the same email. The only difference is that the name of the sender is always different. In fact, the name is almost always some bogus account. So the email name makes it look like a different company, when I'm sure it's not. Couldn't this be false advertising, as well as a breach of current anti-SPAM laws?
4) Often the marketing emails I receive are not even something that I'm interested in. Being a 20-year-old male, I know I don't need items such as breast enhancement gel, human growth hormone, or low interest home equity loans to help me get out of dept. They don't even care if I'm their target market or not. It would be similar to using a hammer to open a jar of pickles. Sure, you can get one or two to eat, but the rest is just going to be wasted. (I apologize for the poor analogy; it's kind of late.)
This whole issue boils down to what is the definition of SPAM. These emails are sent in mass amounts to millions of people that don't want them. That equals what I would estimate as being millions of dollars lost in productivity each year. Not only that, but I don't feel that adequate checks have been put into place to regulate these companies.
My challenge to you, as my senator, is to find a way to address this issue. I trust you will do your best in resolving this in the best interest of your constituents.
My regards,
(insert my name here)
What (cool thing) could you do w/multiple devices
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Tackling AGP 8X
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Okay, it might be cool to have more than one AGP slot, but what I want to really know is what kind of aplications would make this useful? I'm kind of curious; could someone please come up with some creative ideas here?
I know of vadalia onions...which are really sweet and taste great. I think they might not release as much acid like you were saying. One thing that isn't mentioned in this thread is cutting and onion under water. I know it may be a bit messy, but it works.
"...will have to suffer their entire lives as unattractive and anti-social."
Austism has no connection with how you look. In some cases there may be other complications from the autistic person, such as downs, but that's a whole differnt disorder.
"It's nothing more than just an enhanced perception of life"
I can't really blame you for thinking of Rainman or other similar cases when thinking of autism, but to think that the average person is made better by this disorder is kind of ignorant. In most cases, it's not only a person's social development that is slowed/stopped/messed up. In fact, their cognative levels are supressed throughout their life.
Slashdot Mirror
Thank you for nicely responding to the parent post. I wanted to say some things to this guy, but it wouldn't have been as "clean".
I will, however, say that the hypocritical dude is a major douche for referring to a few stereotypical loudmouths as the entity "Slashdot". I like most of the people here, but that doesn't mean I have the same thoughts and opinions that they do.
There is a BIG initiative to improve people's health before they have to see a doctor. Most insurance companies are exploring ways of informing their members to get regular checkups and keep healthy.
However, they're having a hard time keeping the overweight family of 4 who you run into at Wal-Mart from eating all those Ho-Ho's and Ding-Dongs between feedings.
As someone who works for a highly electronic clinical group, I know that our doctors have seperate internal and external email addresses. This helps to ensure hippa requirements as well as keeps important work related email seperate from the rest of the crap.
However, I know that the organization I work for is not the current norm. This could potentially be a serious problem at other places which implement this.
Another instance of a someone who likes to hear himslef talk. Shooting one's mouth off may make you look smart to your parents, teachers, and buddies, but it doesn't quite fool everyone.
You wouldn't be saying that if you had seen MS source code
What about uWisc - Eau Claire? By the looks of things we're going to get some of the slack off of this little incident. Our service comes right up the line from Madison, and usually their problems kick our ass. We had enough problems last year with Kazza updates that used random ports and packet signatures that were hard to throttle down. At times I wasn't even able to connect to servers down the hill from upper campus. Then I just hooked up my modem and dialed into some servers, so I could at least check my email and do my school work. The people at Computing and Network Services weren't much of any help. But I did get some tips on getting past our dl quotas. It was a rough year for cs majors. I just hope that this year will be much better. And I also hope we don't end up having to take in this traffic, cuz we also happen to pay for it through our tuition (which has gone up enough already).
I have an identical twin brother, so what do you think the chances are of us having exactly the same DNA? I'm not sure of this, but I think since we started from the same egg then we have the same DNA, right? I just hope he doesn't go out and get me into trouble or something...
Kind of reminds me of the green color Acer used to make some of their computers. Maybe if he used a satin finish paint instead of the really glossy paint. Another thing I would change... Why would you put the audigy panel centered above the monitor? Maybe this guy bought a soundcard that he won't use nearly a quarter of the features on, but still if you want to plug in your head phones the cord will dangle down unless you secure it. Just my two cents...
Pooling spam to teach isn't such a good idea. The problem you might run into is that some people, like say a plastic surgeon, might get many emails that have words like penis, vagina, sex, larger, etc. So their filter info might allow some spam to get through. This is also the reason that mozilla's mail client wouldn't be "pretrained" for you. Instead the email probably had some key qualities to it that were dead givaways to being spam. One of those is the really long strings of characters used by spam mailers to track live email addresses. There are lots of possibilities there.
good one.. mix up the links for gatt and wto... almost had me fooled...
umm, where's the new content?
no one can even define what natural intelligence is
Well we can still point at you and say that you definately don't quallify. Who says that geeks treat Moores Law like it's scientifically proven? I'd like to see evidence of this. Also, as someone who is "non-religious" I'm trying remember if I signed up to be a marxist or not. If so, then I haven't paid my dues in an awefully long time.
Jumping to conclusions about groups of people never get you anywhere. Maybe instead of writing people off you should try to discuss ideas. I could go off and just assume that you're a bible-thumping buddy christ wannabe that is out to cleanse the world of us evil doers, but that would be wrong of me. I'll just sit hear and play with my k'nex set instead. I'm working on trying to build myself a new arm.
I know many people that live in Isreal, and have had lengthy conversations with them about what it's like to live there. I'm not saying that you aren't scared, but do you think that Palestinians feel safe? You are concentrating on playing down what Isreal does to the Palestinians, while quickly pointing out that you are afraid. Those kind of politics don't negate the fact that everyone has reason to be scared. All I'm saying is that if there is ever going to be any kind of peace, you need to stop and take a look at the other side, and how they feel.
BTW: I actually think Arafat is a behind the scenes sponser of terrorism, and would not feel bad if a new leader arrised from the group to take control.
The book you suggested happens to be an oppinion of one man who has man "friends"... this is exactly the problem with trying to take a realistic approach. When you bring in a ton of preconcieved ideas you have your mind made up before hearing anything to contradict you. Tell me how Arab governments "canntot be trusted" and then try checking out this site.
As for reading material, maybe reading more than just the book you were assigned to in your global politics class or where ever you picked this up at, you'd be able to understand more than just one side. Here's something to get you started.
Why limit yourself to just post-9/11? Does that date specify what is relevant and what is not?
That's why there's a problem in the Mideast.
I realize that this is somewhat offtopic, but probably should be addressed. Personally, I don't condone the actions of the few Palestinians that go around blowing up innocent people. However, there are two sides to a story, and living in the United States, we typicaly see only the sides of our allies (i.e. Isreal). Isreal protects its "settlements" using what we would call terrorism if it was commited by a muslim state.
Remember that bully that picked on you in school? Did you ever think about slashing his tires or something along those lines to get back at him? You of course realized that if you did no one would care what that jerk did to you. There are definatly better ways to resolve issues like this, maybe it'd be easier to find those with a little less name calling.
I fully expect to be modded down for replying to this, but the truth of the matter is that I don't really care. People can either go on pretending that the situation is black and white, so no one can ever come up with any kind of reasonably thought out peace. It's so much easier to say that we are right and they are wrong.
Having a monopoly that you have got by illegal business-practices and having a monopoly that you have got by doing good products are not the same thing.
Yeah, but that doesn't get around the fact that "having a monopoly" is still illegal.
Maybe the person misheard the name... How about Joe Peace?
I think this would be better compared to a rental type agreement. Just because that jackhammer you got from your local do-it-yourself-center is in your house, doesn't mean you own it. All they are trying to do is give themselves a method for "returning" the movie. Of course, no one wants to upload a movie it took them hours to download, so they'd be better off making it just not work right.
What about curing cancer? Try this.
The funny thing is, I just sent an email to my Senator, Russ Fiengold, about this very subject earlier.
Dear Senator,
As a computer science major, I have major concerns with laws affecting the computer world. My main reason for sending this message has to deal with SPAM. Consider the following note at the bottom of an email that I just opened:
"This email was sent to you by the coalition for degeneracy. IMPORTANT: You may remove yourself from this mailing by utilizing our automated removal system at here. This message is in full compliance with U.S. Federal requirements for commercial e-mail under bill s.1618 Title 111, Section 301, Paragraph (a) (2) (c) passed by the 105th U.S. Congress and cannot be considered SPAM since it includes a remove mechanism."
In this email, I am being told that I have to spend time "opting out" to prevent me from receiving more emails. There are many problems with this that should be considered.
1) It takes time to "opt out" for every email like this I get, and the number of emails is increasing with each day.
2) I seriously doubt the reliability of these companies. If I were to spend my time opting out, would they add my name to their list to not send emails, or would they just use that function to determine that my email address is valid? Now my next point will explain the reliability.
3) When I get some kind of marketing email, many times it will be for the same product as a similar email the day before. Sometimes the emails may be identical. Now if I opt out one day, the next day I usually end up getting the same email. The only difference is that the name of the sender is always different. In fact, the name is almost always some bogus account. So the email name makes it look like a different company, when I'm sure it's not. Couldn't this be false advertising, as well as a breach of current anti-SPAM laws?
4) Often the marketing emails I receive are not even something that I'm interested in. Being a 20-year-old male, I know I don't need items such as breast enhancement gel, human growth hormone, or low interest home equity loans to help me get out of dept. They don't even care if I'm their target market or not. It would be similar to using a hammer to open a jar of pickles. Sure, you can get one or two to eat, but the rest is just going to be wasted. (I apologize for the poor analogy; it's kind of late.)
This whole issue boils down to what is the definition of SPAM. These emails are sent in mass amounts to millions of people that don't want them. That equals what I would estimate as being millions of dollars lost in productivity each year. Not only that, but I don't feel that adequate checks have been put into place to regulate these companies.
My challenge to you, as my senator, is to find a way to address this issue. I trust you will do your best in resolving this in the best interest of your constituents.
My regards,
(insert my name here)
Okay, it might be cool to have more than one AGP slot, but what I want to really know is what kind of aplications would make this useful? I'm kind of curious; could someone please come up with some creative ideas here?
I know of vadalia onions...which are really sweet and taste great. I think they might not release as much acid like you were saying. One thing that isn't mentioned in this thread is cutting and onion under water. I know it may be a bit messy, but it works.
...and look how I get modded
"...will have to suffer their entire lives as unattractive and anti-social."
Austism has no connection with how you look. In some cases there may be other complications from the autistic person, such as downs, but that's a whole differnt disorder.
"It's nothing more than just an enhanced perception of life"
I can't really blame you for thinking of Rainman or other similar cases when thinking of autism, but to think that the average person is made better by this disorder is kind of ignorant. In most cases, it's not only a person's social development that is slowed/stopped/messed up. In fact, their cognative levels are supressed throughout their life.