No business pays people to read email all day. There are dozens of good free and commercial spam filters. Even when you set the software to be very sensitive to false positives, you have still filtered away almost all of the spam. The only things that get through here are strangely worded Nigerian email scams, which confuse the Bayesian filter.
Unless your customers are constantly complaining that:
their cocks aren't getting bigger
their horse-loving-farm-girls aren't really "barely eighteen"
they are still not multi-millionaires after 20 hours working at home
then you are talking out of your ass about sifting through thousands of emails a day.
Forget trying to exercise at the office. If you want to lose weight by exercise, you have to do it for at least 20 minutes at a time, strenuous enough to break a little sweat and maintain a elevated heartbeat. Fat chance doing this at the office.
The good news is that you only need to do this 20+ minutes of exercise a few times a week. Even just twice a week will do it.
At the office, just drink lots of water, and bring a healthy lunch from home. You will definitely lose weight, gain muscle, stay in shape, and it shouldn't be too difficult to maintain.
I don't know why people keep bringing up the possibility of the GPL being illegitimate.
If the license is illegitimate, then the only thing that would remain is the legal rights of the copyright holders (the individual authors, or the companies they work for, or the EFF if the author transferred the copyright, etc.) In most countries, the copyright is automatic.
Since SCO distributed copyrighted code, they would have to explain under what license they were authorized to do so, or admit they violated the copyright. They cannot claim the GPL if it is invalid (obviously), so then they would have to secure the rights from all those people, companies, organizations individually, under the laws of dozens of countries. Since almost all the copyright holders would be hostile to licensing to SCO, they would demand outrageous fees for SCO's past and current distribution.
Besides, any legal means of breaking the GPL could be used against the software licenses of Microsoft, Adobe, Symantec, etc. That is why those companies are so scared of the GPL, it cannot be attacked directly, without destroying their ability to distribute code under the control of a license.
For most individuals and small scale startups, patents are virtually
certain to result in a net loss of time, energy, money, and sanity.
One reason for this is the outrageously wrong urban lore involving
patents and patenting.
A second involves the outright scams which
inevitably surround "inventions" and "inventing".
A third is that the economic breakeven needed to recover patent costs
is something between $12,000,000.00 and $40,000,000 in gross sales.
It is ludicrously absurd to try and patent a million dollar idea.
Don Lancaster is a old-school hardware/AppleII hacker. On his website he lists a lot of alternatives to patenting that are actually helpful to the individual inventor.
I am getting sick of reading this inane and insane quote:
"I saw what appeared to be a word-for-word copy of about every third line of code in the central module of the Linux kernel," said Enderle of Giga Information Group
How the hell do you copy every third line, without copying the other two? It would be like making a knock-off of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix where I copied every third line, and I got the other two lines from the public domain Moby Dick.
Don't even get me started on the meaningless phrase "central module of the Linux kernel".
It would be much more believable if he just said the whole damn thing was copied. I guess he thinks it sounds more "technical" than saying 33% was copied, because he can show off that he knows "code" is made up of "lines".
Why doesn't he just say every third byte was copied from the Evil Master Control Program, and then scoot off on his little Tron light-cycle?
I am getting sick of hearing that quote from that jackhole of the universe.
If you schemed to pump up the stock so insiders could sell, the greatest risk would be from shareholder lawsuits (the people who bought at $10+ and held).
But I think SCO's management would argue that they acted only under desperation and gross stupidity. And they would have a pretty strong case;-)
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I second the drugs and therapy approach.
A lot of psychoactive drugs have a 'poop-out' effect, where even if they are quite effective in the beginning, their effectiveness drops radically to where they basically don't work. (as the brain works to get the chemical balance back to 'normal', even if that 'normal' state is outside of the healthy range)
You can use the drugs to create a 'window of opportunity' for you to begin the hard work of cognitive therapy, or whatever therapy you think will serve you for the rest of your life.
Because _if_ the drugs stop working, you better have a working solution outside of drugs.
The main thing that might stop SCO's top management from selling out a millisecond before IBM lowers the boom is that they would be risking shareholder lawsuits from all the people who bought when the stock was high.
Supposedly, they have an obligation to protect shareholder interest.
The basic string copy functions in C and C++ don't keep a value for the maximum length of a string.
(Actually, they don't even keep a value for the current length of a string, it is calculated by scanning the string and looking for the terminating null.)
The buffer safe string libraries are not designed to be a drop-in replacement for the basic string library, because they demand more information about maximum lengths from the code using them.
Imagine if you typed "freedom of expression" in Google, and instead of articles about protecting speech that governments want to suppress, the first 50 hits were articles about AT&T's wireless service, back when they were using the slogan 'Freedom of Expression'.
The point is an important idea got replaced with a completely banal phrase. And it only took a few bloggers to decide that they liked the banal phrase better than the important idea.
The danger is that the phrase loses all meaning. So you might march under the banner 'Freedom of Expression', and all the passersby will think you are complaining about your cell phone reception.
On a SMTP server I administrate, why the hell should spam mail go through just as fast as ham mail?
If I think it is spam, why the hell not throttle it? I am not preventing it from going through. Personally I don't put much value on machine cycles of spammers and those who enable spammers, so they can wait.
If it is my machine, I want pumping spam through it to be as expensive as possible.
it is reasonable to enlarge a 3.25mp image to 20"x30". That works out to be about 73 pixels per inch, and if each pixel can show the full range of color, it will look pretty good. There are several professional printing processes where a digital enlargement can show the full range of color at each pixel. Close up, it will look about as good as 800x600 on a 15" monitor (71 pixels per inch).
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How did this obvious troll get modded up to 5?
No business pays people to read email all day. There are dozens of good free and commercial spam filters. Even when you set the software to be very sensitive to false positives, you have still filtered away almost all of the spam. The only things that get through here are strangely worded Nigerian email scams, which confuse the Bayesian filter.
Unless your customers are constantly complaining that:
- their cocks aren't getting bigger
- their horse-loving-farm-girls aren't really "barely eighteen"
- they are still not multi-millionaires after 20 hours working at home
then you are talking out of your ass about sifting through thousands of emails a day.Forget trying to exercise at the office. If you want to lose weight by exercise, you have to do it for at least 20 minutes at a time, strenuous enough to break a little sweat and maintain a elevated heartbeat. Fat chance doing this at the office.
The good news is that you only need to do this 20+ minutes of exercise a few times a week. Even just twice a week will do it.
At the office, just drink lots of water, and bring a healthy lunch from home. You will definitely lose weight, gain muscle, stay in shape, and it shouldn't be too difficult to maintain.
I don't know why people keep bringing up the possibility of the GPL being illegitimate.
If the license is illegitimate, then the only thing that would remain is the legal rights of the copyright holders (the individual authors, or the companies they work for, or the EFF if the author transferred the copyright, etc.) In most countries, the copyright is automatic.
Since SCO distributed copyrighted code, they would have to explain under what license they were authorized to do so, or admit they violated the copyright. They cannot claim the GPL if it is invalid (obviously), so then they would have to secure the rights from all those people, companies, organizations individually, under the laws of dozens of countries. Since almost all the copyright holders would be hostile to licensing to SCO, they would demand outrageous fees for SCO's past and current distribution.
Besides, any legal means of breaking the GPL could be used against the software licenses of Microsoft, Adobe, Symantec, etc. That is why those companies are so scared of the GPL, it cannot be attacked directly, without destroying their ability to distribute code under the control of a license.
The idea that patents help the individual inventor is a myth.
The best resource I know is Don Lancaster's "The Case Against Patents": Don Lancaster is a old-school hardware/AppleII hacker. On his website he lists a lot of alternatives to patenting that are actually helpful to the individual inventor.
I am getting sick of reading this inane and insane quote: How the hell do you copy every third line, without copying the other two? It would be like making a knock-off of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix where I copied every third line, and I got the other two lines from the public domain Moby Dick.
Don't even get me started on the meaningless phrase "central module of the Linux kernel".
It would be much more believable if he just said the whole damn thing was copied. I guess he thinks it sounds more "technical" than saying 33% was copied, because he can show off that he knows "code" is made up of "lines".
Why doesn't he just say every third byte was copied from the Evil Master Control Program, and then scoot off on his little Tron light-cycle?
I am getting sick of hearing that quote from that jackhole of the universe.
If you schemed to pump up the stock so insiders could sell, the greatest risk would be from shareholder lawsuits (the people who bought at $10+ and held).
But I think SCO's management would argue that they acted only under desperation and gross stupidity. And they would have a pretty strong case
I second the drugs and therapy approach.
A lot of psychoactive drugs have a 'poop-out' effect, where even if they are quite effective in the beginning, their effectiveness drops radically to where they basically don't work. (as the brain works to get the chemical balance back to 'normal', even if that 'normal' state is outside of the healthy range)
You can use the drugs to create a 'window of opportunity' for you to begin the hard work of cognitive therapy, or whatever therapy you think will serve you for the rest of your life.
Because _if_ the drugs stop working, you better have a working solution outside of drugs.
The main thing that might stop SCO's top management from selling out a millisecond before IBM lowers the boom is that they would be risking shareholder lawsuits from all the people who bought when the stock was high.
Supposedly, they have an obligation to protect shareholder interest.
The basic string copy functions in C and C++ don't keep a value for the maximum length of a string.
(Actually, they don't even keep a value for the current length of a string, it is calculated by scanning the string and looking for the terminating null.)
The buffer safe string libraries are not designed to be a drop-in replacement for the basic string library, because they demand more information about maximum lengths from the code using them.
This is the link to a summary of the issues involved, written at a slightly less technical level.
(don't have to pay, don't have to register, etc.)
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/c-time/metrologia-
Imagine if you typed "freedom of expression" in Google, and instead of articles about protecting speech that governments want to suppress, the first 50 hits were articles about AT&T's wireless service, back when they were using the slogan 'Freedom of Expression'.
The point is an important idea got replaced with a completely banal phrase. And it only took a few bloggers to decide that they liked the banal phrase better than the important idea.
The danger is that the phrase loses all meaning. So you might march under the banner 'Freedom of Expression', and all the passersby will think you are complaining about your cell phone reception.
I compressed all of Slashdot's front page articles, and got 50% compression just from the duplicates alone!
On a SMTP server I administrate, why the hell should spam mail go through just as fast as ham mail?
If I think it is spam, why the hell not throttle it? I am not preventing it from going through. Personally I don't put much value on machine cycles of spammers and those who enable spammers, so they can wait.
If it is my machine, I want pumping spam through it to be as expensive as possible.
it is reasonable to enlarge a 3.25mp image to 20"x30". That works out to be about 73 pixels per inch, and if each pixel can show the full range of color, it will look pretty good. There are several professional printing processes where a digital enlargement can show the full range of color at each pixel. Close up, it will look about as good as 800x600 on a 15" monitor (71 pixels per inch).