Publishing same information with encouragement to kill the people on the list: Not Okay
Understanding the Pro-Life movement's basic argument and agreeing with it are totally understandable. Understanding the steps to get from "life begins at conception" and "life should be protected" to "kill abortionists" requires understanding huge leaps in logic.
Then they go and spend several millions on "Perpetual computing" or some such crap. It looks like they've figured out a way to keep the politicians bent over with their asses hanging out and their wallets precariously perched.
For months they have been trying to get people to sign up with their Premium Email package which expands the mailbox to 10Mb and lasts forever (or something like that). People have not been signing up. It's simply too easy to create a brand new address when one fills up, so Microsoft then has to deal with 2 accounts (and so on and so on and so on) for each customer who has used up their allotted space.
Enter spam. If Microsoft can make it intolerable for ordinary users (non-Premier club members) to use Hotmail because the speed in which the account fills with spam is simply too fast, then they will push away those users who are not interested in paying for the service. Or they will attract the payers by making it intolerable to use the service otherwise.
Bottom line: They reduce the total traffic on their site by sloughing off the leeches (including yours truly), and increase revenue at the same time.
Considering the level of discussion on/., I have created this account to point out obvious things, hence the name. In a week of existence, I have learned that saying things that are blatantly obvious is a catalyst to getting modded up, in fact I am already at the karma cap (though falling fast of late).
I am on a broadband connection, so I doubt that I am also 56ker.
Space weapons have been debated intensely in the past. The latest instance of prominent debate is over their use for ballistic missile defense. But this is not the only possible role for space weapons, and that fact raises a further concern: What if an adversary were to develop such weapons? Could one? Why would it?
- Rand
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It's an attempt to squeeze money out of stupid moviegoers who think that contemplating their existence as merely a figment of someone else's contemplation is deep.
It's also a vehicle to hawk toys and other movie-related paraphernalia to these 14-35 year old men.
Dolphins are known to be very promiscuous and not inhibited by such concepts as homosexuality. If modern liberalism has taught us anything, it is that the freedom of thought expressed through random acts of mating is the highest form of intelligence.
Windows was at that level 8 years ago! Even VC++ is up to 7.0 now. Sheesh! Faster development with fewer bugs, my ass.
Seriously, though. Hopefully this takes care of all those niggling bugs that made 3.0 unusable. Maybe this will encourage everyone to jump from the 2.x tree finally.
Talking about Napster is like talking about Netscape. They are both dead companies that thought the light at the end of the tunnel was daylight when it was an approaching train.
As far as the actual content of the story, it just goes to show what incompetent boobs were running the show. Too much VC money was flowing through them to allow them to give up, I presume.
What's to learn?
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It's all infrastructure. Turn on your computer and it's there. Or not.
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Well, wrap me in salt and call me a mummy! I think I've figured out my eternal future!
As long as I'm not slug food. I hate slugs.
Publishing public information: Okay
Publishing same information with encouragement to kill the people on the list: Not Okay
Understanding the Pro-Life movement's basic argument and agreeing with it are totally understandable. Understanding the steps to get from "life begins at conception" and "life should be protected" to "kill abortionists" requires understanding huge leaps in logic.
We have no money! Give us money!
Then they go and spend several millions on "Perpetual computing" or some such crap. It looks like they've figured out a way to keep the politicians bent over with their asses hanging out and their wallets precariously perched.
It's amazing how bad the Hotmail filter is. I assume that they are purposefully allowing half the spam to get through to clog the inbox.
And what's the deal with sdilabs (aka sdi-labs, sdilabs-1, sdi-labs-1, sdi-labs1, etc...)? How much Deca do they think I need?
Seeing as how all the r* apps have just been done away with, SSH is certainly a welcome upgrade from RSH.
;-)
(Does it compile under gcc 3.1?
You fail to see the genius of this plan.
For months they have been trying to get people to sign up with their Premium Email package which expands the mailbox to 10Mb and lasts forever (or something like that). People have not been signing up. It's simply too easy to create a brand new address when one fills up, so Microsoft then has to deal with 2 accounts (and so on and so on and so on) for each customer who has used up their allotted space.
Enter spam. If Microsoft can make it intolerable for ordinary users (non-Premier club members) to use Hotmail because the speed in which the account fills with spam is simply too fast, then they will push away those users who are not interested in paying for the service. Or they will attract the payers by making it intolerable to use the service otherwise.
Bottom line: They reduce the total traffic on their site by sloughing off the leeches (including yours truly), and increase revenue at the same time.
The idea is brilliant.
Considering the amount of spam I get at my Hotmail accounts, I'm surprised that they haven't been doing this all along.
He must have wrote it down. Didn't he leave it in the Castle of ... Arrgghh
The Americans have already developed that weapon.
Considering the level of discussion on /., I have created this account to point out obvious things, hence the name. In a week of existence, I have learned that saying things that are blatantly obvious is a catalyst to getting modded up, in fact I am already at the karma cap (though falling fast of late).
I am on a broadband connection, so I doubt that I am also 56ker.
The 'I cut and paste the summary' course, obviously.
It is designed to allow users to discuss topics of interest.
Space weapons have been debated intensely in the past. The latest instance of prominent debate is over their use for ballistic missile defense. But this is not the only possible role for space weapons, and that fact raises a further concern: What if an adversary were to develop such weapons? Could one? Why would it?
- Rand
Well, yes. Accounting for that.
If the idea is good enough to be profitable, you should be able to repay the charges within a few months.
It's an attempt to squeeze money out of stupid moviegoers who think that contemplating their existence as merely a figment of someone else's contemplation is deep.
It's also a vehicle to hawk toys and other movie-related paraphernalia to these 14-35 year old men.
Dolphins are known to be very promiscuous and not inhibited by such concepts as homosexuality. If modern liberalism has taught us anything, it is that the freedom of thought expressed through random acts of mating is the highest form of intelligence.
News at 11.
Could this mean that burning through all that fossil fuel is actually helping to cool the earth?
I suggest we fly more airplanes to counteract the damage to the atmosphere that we are causing with our SUVs.
Windows was at that level 8 years ago! Even VC++ is up to 7.0 now. Sheesh! Faster development with fewer bugs, my ass.
Seriously, though. Hopefully this takes care of all those niggling bugs that made 3.0 unusable. Maybe this will encourage everyone to jump from the 2.x tree finally.
When I was your age
We had software called Napster
Before the Dark Times.
Talking about Napster is like talking about Netscape. They are both dead companies that thought the light at the end of the tunnel was daylight when it was an approaching train.
As far as the actual content of the story, it just goes to show what incompetent boobs were running the show. Too much VC money was flowing through them to allow them to give up, I presume.
It's all infrastructure. Turn on your computer and it's there. Or not.
I really liked Stun Runner. The starter's voice was sexy.
I'm not sure how it works.