I'm a fairly moderate mainstream person who is for more involved this election cycle that ever before due to new ways of connecting voters, candidates, causes and dollars. I surf and read blogs, which often link to a site doing something (EFF, ACLU, etc.) about which I have always cared, but have, up 'til now, not bothered to contribute to. But with easy paypal/cc links I have contributed modest but well targeted support to candidates and causes i support.
In this sense the new technology allows _less_ radical/fringe citizens to put their money where their cocktail party conversation points are. Dean's broad base (huge majority of donors in $200 category), shows that the average joe can be a lot more involved in politics and causes with a little skillful surfing.
And yes, money does equal involvement in this case. But it ain't speech.
"Some people are against capital punishment, because they say that it turns the state into a murderer. I'm against imprisonment, because it turns the state into a gay dungeon-master"
... where the more available examples of actual spam and actual non-spam the better the accuracy of the result, and where you basically let the computer work out the probability, rather than feeding it hard and fast rules up front.
Can anyone say if the two procedures are technically related?
Or make even more people happy - somebody please port Firebird/Phoenix to Mac OS9. There are a ton of us who have not made the jump to OS X, and I for one have gotten to really like Phoenix on my work pc. The last Mozilla port to the old mac is 1.2.1 from last December. I feel abandoned.
-Jetset
-I can't hear the forest now for all the falling trees
This is Vigilante Justice
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I think the word that best describes this war is a vigilante action. Just because you think Saddam is an evil menace, it does not give you the right to don tights and a cape and throw him off a tall tower. (I'm picturing Blair in a Robin suit right about now).
Bush may be right about Iraqi WMD's (not that I've seen any convincing evidence), but there are appropriate and legal means of weighing that evidence and Bush just couldn't make the case - at the UN or NATO.
Vigilantes are also law-breakers and it will be interesting to see what attempts may be made to bring the US to justice when this whole thing is over.
Now I see why this administration was so loathe to sign on to the international court. Unfortunately in this instance it is not Batman who is at any risk, but poor Alfred, in the person of our troops who will bear the brunt.
What if for one day - 24 hours - everyone who is running a spam filter at any level simply took the filters down. Show the users what the real flood of junk looks like. I bet the hue and cry would provoke real efforts - legal or technical - to solve the problem once and for all.
I find myself thinking; what's all the fuss about, I only actually see a half dozen spam messages a day in my Hotmail and POP accounts. But I know that for every piece I see there are untold dozens being blocked by filters. Filters merely hide the scope of the problem from the end users, but ISP's still have to deal with the bandwidth.
Take down the filters for a day and let everyone see the real scope of the horror that is spam
-Jetset
- I can't hear the forest for all the falling trees-
Government money may be better spent on Live near your work programs, like the one here in Maryland. Baltimore City employees get up to $3000 towards buying a city home near their jobs.
Helps reduce commuter traffic and promote homeownership in our shrinking downtown tax-base.
My Bellatlantic email still works 2 yrs later
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I cancelled my Bell Atlantic ISP service over two years ago. Billing stopped immediately, but I can still use the email address through webmail. It is, of course, plagued by spam, but comes in handy if I need an address to use to sign up for various web services (travelocity, etc.).
My only fear is that I will someday get a bill for years of service even though I haven't used it as a dial-up account.
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I'm a fairly moderate mainstream person who is for more involved this election cycle that ever before due to new ways of connecting voters, candidates, causes and dollars. I surf and read blogs, which often link to a site doing something (EFF, ACLU, etc.) about which I have always cared, but have, up 'til now, not bothered to contribute to. But with easy paypal/cc links I have contributed modest but well targeted support to candidates and causes i support.
In this sense the new technology allows _less_ radical/fringe citizens to put their money where their cocktail party conversation points are. Dean's broad base (huge majority of donors in $200 category), shows that the average joe can be a lot more involved in politics and causes with a little skillful surfing.
And yes, money does equal involvement in this case. But it ain't speech.
Emo says:
"Some people are against capital punishment, because they say that it turns the state into a murderer. I'm against imprisonment, because it turns the state into a gay dungeon-master"
... where the more available examples of actual spam and actual non-spam the better the accuracy of the result, and where you basically let the computer work out the probability, rather than feeding it hard and fast rules up front.
Can anyone say if the two procedures are technically related?
Or make even more people happy - somebody please port Firebird/Phoenix to Mac OS9. There are a ton of us who have not made the jump to OS X, and I for one have gotten to really like Phoenix on my work pc. The last Mozilla port to the old mac is 1.2.1 from last December. I feel abandoned.
-Jetset
-I can't hear the forest now for all the falling trees
I think the word that best describes this war is a vigilante action. Just because you think Saddam is an evil menace, it does not give you the right to don tights and a cape and throw him off a tall tower. (I'm picturing Blair in a Robin suit right about now).
Bush may be right about Iraqi WMD's (not that I've seen any convincing evidence), but there are appropriate and legal means of weighing that evidence and Bush just couldn't make the case - at the UN or NATO.
Vigilantes are also law-breakers and it will be interesting to see what attempts may be made to bring the US to justice when this whole thing is over.
Now I see why this administration was so loathe to sign on to the international court. Unfortunately in this instance it is not Batman who is at any risk, but poor Alfred, in the person of our troops who will bear the brunt.
Peace,
-John I
"Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!"
Is 40% what the user sees or what hits the ISP?
What if for one day - 24 hours - everyone who is running a spam filter at any level simply took the filters down. Show the users what the real flood of junk looks like. I bet the hue and cry would provoke real efforts - legal or technical - to solve the problem once and for all.
I find myself thinking; what's all the fuss about, I only actually see a half dozen spam messages a day in my Hotmail and POP accounts. But I know that for every piece I see there are untold dozens being blocked by filters. Filters merely hide the scope of the problem from the end users, but ISP's still have to deal with the bandwidth.
Take down the filters for a day and let everyone see the real scope of the horror that is spam
-Jetset
- I can't hear the forest for all the falling trees-
Government money may be better spent on Live near your work programs, like the one here in Maryland. Baltimore City employees get up to $3000 towards buying a city home near their jobs.
Helps reduce commuter traffic and promote homeownership in our shrinking downtown tax-base.
I cancelled my Bell Atlantic ISP service over two years ago. Billing stopped immediately, but I can still use the email address through webmail. It is, of course, plagued by spam, but comes in handy if I need an address to use to sign up for various web services (travelocity, etc.).
My only fear is that I will someday get a bill for years of service even though I haven't used it as a dial-up account.
With California as EMI, and Oracle as the Sex Pisols (or Mariah Carey). Filthy Lucre!