Personaly I think if we execuited a few hundred spammers, put their heads on stakes, and took their families out of the gene pool too, it would send a pretty clear message to the rest of them and the problem would go away.
... go for AVG Anti-Virus [grisoft.com]....what I install on people's machines when they are low on cash
I use it too, and not only because I'm cheap. I hate the in your face way the name brand virus software grabs hold of your system, screws everything up, and will not let go. I got a free-after-rebate copy of one of them with my notebook purchase this year and made the store take it back, it wasn't worth the sales tax and postage stamp to me, knowing I would never install it on my system anyway. AVG does want to set up a presistant "console", but that can be disabled easily. You can have it on your system without always running and causeing you more problems than it prevents, and still use it to scan a new file when downloaded of scan all or part of your hard drive when you want on your terms.
checks? what kind of geek are you, that writes enough checks to need a pen, get a checkcard!
Actually, I absolutely never use checks or a check card at a retail location. Credit card or cash only. I still need to write a few checks a month however to pay bills (I'm not going to pay an extra fee to pay on-line). The ones that let me pay on-line securely without imposing a fee or let me pay by phone without a fee get their money fastest. But no automatic direct withdrawl (too hard to get billing problems corrected when they already grabbed your money), so a few bills every month still end up getting checks written. That's about it.
Unfortunately, I find the choice of pen depends highly on exactly what you are writing on. While The Sanford Uniball fine tip is my main choice for a pen when using good paper, I find that it's useless when writing on cheap paper such as many of the rebate forms. The ink flows too well and you can't write in the required small size on such paper. In these cases I turn to a basic Bic or Papermate blue ink ballpoint.
Since I don't really have a lot of occasions where I actually handwrite on paper any more, I hardly get to use my Uniball except for writing checks.
1 WAN port (and 2 LAN ports). What the hell is a WAN port? Is it ethernet or not? Is it just slow 10 mbps ethernet rather than something faster? And why the hell require an extra Wi-Fi device? And if it has to be USB (I'm guessing because there are no slots, or no slots available), then why put USB 1.1 on a new product when the rest of the world is dealing with USB 2? Particularly when current Wi-Fi (802.11g) is a lot faster than the ill-conceived USB 1.1?
Speaking of the RIAA, as far as one crime that is known to have been comitted, where the hell are our settlement checks from their price fixing? These things were supposedly to come out this summer, but it's fall already and I sure have not received mine, even though I bought the last albums I'll ever buy in the proper time period and filed the claim in time.
Exactly! To measure this in watts without a time reference is meaningless. Do they mean a Watt/hour? If so the device would be damn expensive over a 20 year life to provide just a watt (and your notebook may need 75 watts or so of power). A device that could deliver 75 watts based on 20 cents per watt/hour over 20 years with 50% use would cost $1,314,000! I think they are getting something wrong. In contrast, power from the wall might cost 8 to 10 cents per kilowatt/hour (1000 Watts / hour). But the important thing isn't the apparent 2000 times difference in the price, it's that the ogiginal statement "Over a typical 20-year life span of a solar cell, a single produced watt should cost as little as $0.20, compared with the current $4." is meaningless the way it is presented.
Just maybe they are measuring this in Watt/lifetime, meaning that it's 20 cents per watt no matter how long the lifetime is. That would be nice, and would make a 75 Watt solar pannel a more reasonable $15. But then the Over a typical 20-year life statement makes no sense at all.
want to make it more complex? suppose the web hosting is in a 3rd state. and maybe you want to have it shipped to a 4th state (as a present). Where is 'the sale' actually occuring?
Which brings me back to my original point, the sale happens where the seller is. The Supreme Court of the U.S. actually has already ruled pretty much that, in a case dealing with mail order years ago, when they ruled that a mail order seller could not be required to collect sales tax for a state in which they did not have have a physical presence (such as a store). Yes, it does get more complex when the company has a store in your state but you still mail-order from a location outside the state, but the basic concept is sound.
if you go with where the server is that takes the order, hosting in states with no sales tax (Oregon, Alaska, Montana, ect) will have a boom on hosting
OF course it will, which makes perfect sense to me. Those states that don't pass regressive laws that harm business (as well as citizens) will see better business growth than those who do. How could anyone not think this was reasonable?
When I (in North Carolina) buy something on the Internet from, say, Oregon, where does the sale actually take place? I would certainly say Oregon. Add to that the concept that any extra tax on it by North Carolina certainly is an unconstitutional infringement on Interstate trade. The state provided no benefits to such a sale (one can argue, although lamely, that they provide things like police and fire protection to "real" stores), their only claim on taxing the sale is greed.
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and they are going to be travelling with them
I know a lot of people who do a lot of travel in their business (I have been one myself a lot more than I care for). None of those people have a personal assistant that travel with them, they have a secretary that stays back at the office that tracks things, opens mail, and keeps them informed. I've never had someone traveling on business visiting me bring such an assistant either. Sure, there might be some uber-rich diva that travels with a personal assistant or even a staff, but they too have people back "home" who deal with exactly this.
Most mail that needs a physical response will give you a month or so to do this...and how will you even know if your bill took one week longer to arrive at your door?
So is what you are saying that no one really needs their mail opened and scanned? That a much less expensive forwarding service would be a better choice?
And for the record, unless you work for the
mail system ALL your mail is handled by an outside company.
Handled, sure. But unless you live in the U.S.A. I don't think you should expect that all of your mail is opened and examined by an outside company. That's what envelopes are for.
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Try doing a search for 'mail drop' or 'mail
forwarding', and you'll see some companies that have been around a little longer than 6 months.
Try thinking about the differences, both costs and privacy, between a company that provides a mail address and holds mail for you or forwards it on, and one that charges you for opening and scanning it all and e-mailing it to you. You've made my point: the much less expensive forwarding services will do what is really needed at lower cost and with greater privacy than this "service" can offer.
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Oh come on, time difference is not _that_ high...;)
Yes it is. While you might see them as somewhere around 12 hours apart from us (depending greatly on what time zone you ar in), I'm in a country that has just passed the equinox and is heading into fall. The crazy aussies, on the other hand, have just passed the equinox and are heading into spring. October 1 +/- 6 months = April 1. Looks like perfect timing for this story to me.
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it also looks like a good way to....
Yea, like this is really going to work. And how much is it going to cost me to have them forward each rebate check I get, not to mention what it cost for them to scan it in the first place? Think spam was expensive before? Wait until you pay for scanning all the junk mail that you get in snail mail, or all the crap packed in with your bills. Say goodbye to ever getting a magazine subscription. No free samples in the mail any more, and no cookies from Mom at Christmas time. And I'm paying for this why? Because I fear identity theft? So that then they can e-mail my private mail to me as clear text? So that an unknown number of people at that company I know nothing about all see all of my mail?
Face it, the always-on-the-go world traveler who just might (but I think it unlikely) get anything out of this has other means to deal with it: a personal assistant, express shipments that can catch up to the next hotel he will be at, faxes for some documents, he doesn't need an outside company poking through his business. The average smuck (like most of us) wants that mail, and knows that some of it needs to be dealt with on a timely basis (If someone sends me tickets, for example, I want them before the event, not a week after), and that some of it will get "lost" if an outside company is opening it and going through it.
Bad idea. Oh, also, the company will be out of business in six months.
Does the shuttle problem really limit the ISS?
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A Soyuz craft is always docked at the ISS as an emergency escape system if needed. And since the Soyuz can only carry three astronauts, the ISS can only be staffed by a maximum three-person crew until another escape option is available.
Given how long it takes to ready a shuttle for flight and that there was certainly not always one standing by ready to go up, this 3 man limit was just as true before the last shuttle disaster as it is now. Why were there more than 3 people in the ISS crew before but there can only be 3 now?
You didn't measure the speed of light, you measure a wavelength. Unless you can show that you had some way to confirm the frequency of the light source that is not dependent on knowing the speed of light, then when you looked up the frequency of the light source you were effectively looking up the speed of light and using it to determine the speed of light. No wonder your answer came out close!
this DR. Who fan wishs it would not come back
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by the same guy who created the series 'Queer As Folk'
It has been written that Tom Baker (my choice for the best doctor) left the show because the BBC management queers (seems to be the currently acceptable term that shouldn't attract flamebait ratings) kept making passes at him. It always struck me that they hated the show after that (they made several public statements against the show even while it was still in production, couldn't can it because it was so popular). It struck me that their last choice of Doctors in the 80's was perfectly designed by their point of view to kill the serise by introducing a Doctor that struck most viewers as overtly queer. The public pressure that kept the show on the air lessened and they were able to do what they stated they wanted, kill it.
I doubt if they really want to do Dr. Who any more now then they wanted to then. They certainly have even more freedom to express their queer philosphy in current shows, and it seems that when the doctor does come back the "gay" influence will be stronger than ever.
The 2.4GHz radio frequency (RF) chipset enables up to five players to play each other wirelessly
Great, this is exactly what we need, another device on 2.4 gig. There were not enough reports of 2.4 gig cordless phones disconnecting 802.11b links, we needed this.
and the scientists hope that it will one day be able to automatically tune to your favorite television programs
Gee, maybe in just thirty or fourty years these scientists will figure out some way to interface their fantastic wonderful invention into an ordinary TV remote control! Even without the clue of using a biometric like weight to try to distinguish people, did anyone else get the feeling these sientists might not be the cream of the crop?
Norton Ghost is Free? Please advise me where I can get a legal free copy.
old version was fine, the new not at all
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The old version would run fine. Sure, starting something bloated like Open Office could take a long time, and if you were running the GUI then other things could take time to load as well. But a lot would run very well if running command line only, and even with the GUI a lot of stuff was fine after it started slowly.
I too think it's a mistake to have decided it will not run at all on a P1. At the very least they could have compiled a normal P1 flavor kernel and set up a boot option to let the user boot into that, which would have given them the best of both worlds. This option certainly wouldn't have taken a lot of space, and I would gladly give up one of the excessive number of spreadsheets or word processors that Knoppix has to get it if it required that.
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none of them boot from cdrom anyways do they
Actually, yes, my Super-Micro Pentium that started as a P90 and is now a P166 will boot from CD in the BIOS, and the mb will not even support the dual voltage mmx pentiums. Knopix was actually acceptable on it too for Linux itself, but the GUI was a pig. Still, it would work and once you got something started (like a browser) it worked pretty well.
Not that I use the system much, but it still serves as a test bed when I want to check out new software or for running simple applications when I don't want to tie up my main system, such as an FTP server. I have even used it with Knoppix and Ethereal to do packet sniffing when I needed to watch my main system.
Actually, even if the BIOS doesn't support it, you can boot a PC from CD with "Smart Boot Manager". I use the version included with XOSL , which is great. Lets you boot multiple OS, boot from multiple hard drives (not just the first one), boot from A or B floppy, and even boot from any CDR on the system (again, not just the first one).
I applaud the sentiment, but I doubt that they would miss you too much... If you were one of the capped downloaders, they probably weren't making money on you...
That's dead wrong. Most of the people who have high usage are either using p2p systems or downloading from the ISP's own news servers. The p2p users are already likely covered by other "no servers" clauses in their Terms Of Service. The ones who are downloading usenet from the ISP's news servers are using bandwidth, but they are only using local bandwidth - bandwidth within the ISP's own system. They are already bringing in the news feeds across the backbone, and that does cost. But within their own system, that capacity is already paid for and mostly sits idle when the user isn't availing himself of it.
I too doubt they will miss me much. If enough people react to this they will notice, however.
The day my ISP does this I sware I'll cancel the service. If no other ISP wants to sell me an unlimited broadband service I'll use cheap dial up or just say screw it all together and get a life. I'm not paying premium prices for unlimited services and then be told it's only unlimited for those who do not use much of it.
If you don't like something, even something that you are paying for, just shut-up and leave is one approach. I'm sure that many businesses would prefer that a few people do this and most people continue putting up with what they get than to have to address issues. But when issues are raised and changes made, the system is generally improved for the customer and usually even for the business. Protests can be frivilous, but they are often valid and usefull.
This got me thinking. It would be nice if there were some meta tag like the
meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"
tag to keep just Microsoft from indexing your site, maybe like
meta name="borg" content="noindex,nofollow".
Then I realized there already is one. To keep Microsoft from indexing your website but still let Google and other search engines index the site, use this meta tag:
Slashdot Mirror
"Your honor, I don't think I can do 471 years"
"That's O.K. son, just do what you can."
Personaly I think if we execuited a few hundred spammers, put their heads on stakes, and took their families out of the gene pool too, it would send a pretty clear message to the rest of them and the problem would go away.
I use it too, and not only because I'm cheap. I hate the in your face way the name brand virus software grabs hold of your system, screws everything up, and will not let go. I got a free-after-rebate copy of one of them with my notebook purchase this year and made the store take it back, it wasn't worth the sales tax and postage stamp to me, knowing I would never install it on my system anyway. AVG does want to set up a presistant "console", but that can be disabled easily. You can have it on your system without always running and causeing you more problems than it prevents, and still use it to scan a new file when downloaded of scan all or part of your hard drive when you want on your terms.
Actually, I absolutely never use checks or a check card at a retail location. Credit card or cash only. I still need to write a few checks a month however to pay bills (I'm not going to pay an extra fee to pay on-line). The ones that let me pay on-line securely without imposing a fee or let me pay by phone without a fee get their money fastest. But no automatic direct withdrawl (too hard to get billing problems corrected when they already grabbed your money), so a few bills every month still end up getting checks written. That's about it.
Since I don't really have a lot of occasions where I actually handwrite on paper any more, I hardly get to use my Uniball except for writing checks.
1 WAN port (and 2 LAN ports). What the hell is a WAN port? Is it ethernet or not? Is it just slow 10 mbps ethernet rather than something faster? And why the hell require an extra Wi-Fi device? And if it has to be USB (I'm guessing because there are no slots, or no slots available), then why put USB 1.1 on a new product when the rest of the world is dealing with USB 2? Particularly when current Wi-Fi (802.11g) is a lot faster than the ill-conceived USB 1.1?
Speaking of the RIAA, as far as one crime that is known to have been comitted, where the hell are our settlement checks from their price fixing? These things were supposedly to come out this summer, but it's fall already and I sure have not received mine, even though I bought the last albums I'll ever buy in the proper time period and filed the claim in time.
Just maybe they are measuring this in Watt/lifetime, meaning that it's 20 cents per watt no matter how long the lifetime is. That would be nice, and would make a 75 Watt solar pannel a more reasonable $15. But then the Over a typical 20-year life statement makes no sense at all.
Which brings me back to my original point, the sale happens where the seller is. The Supreme Court of the U.S. actually has already ruled pretty much that, in a case dealing with mail order years ago, when they ruled that a mail order seller could not be required to collect sales tax for a state in which they did not have have a physical presence (such as a store). Yes, it does get more complex when the company has a store in your state but you still mail-order from a location outside the state, but the basic concept is sound.
if you go with where the server is that takes the order, hosting in states with no sales tax (Oregon, Alaska, Montana, ect) will have a boom on hosting
OF course it will, which makes perfect sense to me. Those states that don't pass regressive laws that harm business (as well as citizens) will see better business growth than those who do. How could anyone not think this was reasonable?
When I (in North Carolina) buy something on the Internet from, say, Oregon, where does the sale actually take place? I would certainly say Oregon. Add to that the concept that any extra tax on it by North Carolina certainly is an unconstitutional infringement on Interstate trade. The state provided no benefits to such a sale (one can argue, although lamely, that they provide things like police and fire protection to "real" stores), their only claim on taxing the sale is greed.
I know a lot of people who do a lot of travel in their business (I have been one myself a lot more than I care for). None of those people have a personal assistant that travel with them, they have a secretary that stays back at the office that tracks things, opens mail, and keeps them informed. I've never had someone traveling on business visiting me bring such an assistant either. Sure, there might be some uber-rich diva that travels with a personal assistant or even a staff, but they too have people back "home" who deal with exactly this.
Most mail that needs a physical response will give you a month or so to do this...and how will you even know if your bill took one week longer to arrive at your door?
So is what you are saying that no one really needs their mail opened and scanned? That a much less expensive forwarding service would be a better choice?
And for the record, unless you work for the mail system ALL your mail is handled by an outside company.
Handled, sure. But unless you live in the U.S.A. I don't think you should expect that all of your mail is opened and examined by an outside company. That's what envelopes are for.
Try thinking about the differences, both costs and privacy, between a company that provides a mail address and holds mail for you or forwards it on, and one that charges you for opening and scanning it all and e-mailing it to you. You've made my point: the much less expensive forwarding services will do what is really needed at lower cost and with greater privacy than this "service" can offer.
Yes it is. While you might see them as somewhere around 12 hours apart from us (depending greatly on what time zone you ar in), I'm in a country that has just passed the equinox and is heading into fall. The crazy aussies, on the other hand, have just passed the equinox and are heading into spring. October 1 +/- 6 months = April 1. Looks like perfect timing for this story to me.
Yea, like this is really going to work. And how much is it going to cost me to have them forward each rebate check I get, not to mention what it cost for them to scan it in the first place? Think spam was expensive before? Wait until you pay for scanning all the junk mail that you get in snail mail, or all the crap packed in with your bills. Say goodbye to ever getting a magazine subscription. No free samples in the mail any more, and no cookies from Mom at Christmas time. And I'm paying for this why? Because I fear identity theft? So that then they can e-mail my private mail to me as clear text? So that an unknown number of people at that company I know nothing about all see all of my mail?
Face it, the always-on-the-go world traveler who just might (but I think it unlikely) get anything out of this has other means to deal with it: a personal assistant, express shipments that can catch up to the next hotel he will be at, faxes for some documents, he doesn't need an outside company poking through his business. The average smuck (like most of us) wants that mail, and knows that some of it needs to be dealt with on a timely basis (If someone sends me tickets, for example, I want them before the event, not a week after), and that some of it will get "lost" if an outside company is opening it and going through it.
Bad idea. Oh, also, the company will be out of business in six months.
Given how long it takes to ready a shuttle for flight and that there was certainly not always one standing by ready to go up, this 3 man limit was just as true before the last shuttle disaster as it is now. Why were there more than 3 people in the ISS crew before but there can only be 3 now?
You didn't measure the speed of light, you measure a wavelength. Unless you can show that you had some way to confirm the frequency of the light source that is not dependent on knowing the speed of light, then when you looked up the frequency of the light source you were effectively looking up the speed of light and using it to determine the speed of light. No wonder your answer came out close!
It has been written that Tom Baker (my choice for the best doctor) left the show because the BBC management queers (seems to be the currently acceptable term that shouldn't attract flamebait ratings) kept making passes at him. It always struck me that they hated the show after that (they made several public statements against the show even while it was still in production, couldn't can it because it was so popular). It struck me that their last choice of Doctors in the 80's was perfectly designed by their point of view to kill the serise by introducing a Doctor that struck most viewers as overtly queer. The public pressure that kept the show on the air lessened and they were able to do what they stated they wanted, kill it.
I doubt if they really want to do Dr. Who any more now then they wanted to then. They certainly have even more freedom to express their queer philosphy in current shows, and it seems that when the doctor does come back the "gay" influence will be stronger than ever.
Great, this is exactly what we need, another device on 2.4 gig. There were not enough reports of 2.4 gig cordless phones disconnecting 802.11b links, we needed this.
Gee, maybe in just thirty or fourty years these scientists will figure out some way to interface their fantastic wonderful invention into an ordinary TV remote control! Even without the clue of using a biometric like weight to try to distinguish people, did anyone else get the feeling these sientists might not be the cream of the crop?
Norton Ghost is Free? Please advise me where I can get a legal free copy.
I too think it's a mistake to have decided it will not run at all on a P1. At the very least they could have compiled a normal P1 flavor kernel and set up a boot option to let the user boot into that, which would have given them the best of both worlds. This option certainly wouldn't have taken a lot of space, and I would gladly give up one of the excessive number of spreadsheets or word processors that Knoppix has to get it if it required that.
Actually, yes, my Super-Micro Pentium that started as a P90 and is now a P166 will boot from CD in the BIOS, and the mb will not even support the dual voltage mmx pentiums. Knopix was actually acceptable on it too for Linux itself, but the GUI was a pig. Still, it would work and once you got something started (like a browser) it worked pretty well.
Not that I use the system much, but it still serves as a test bed when I want to check out new software or for running simple applications when I don't want to tie up my main system, such as an FTP server. I have even used it with Knoppix and Ethereal to do packet sniffing when I needed to watch my main system.
Actually, even if the BIOS doesn't support it, you can boot a PC from CD with "Smart Boot Manager". I use the version included with XOSL , which is great. Lets you boot multiple OS, boot from multiple hard drives (not just the first one), boot from A or B floppy, and even boot from any CDR on the system (again, not just the first one).
That's dead wrong. Most of the people who have high usage are either using p2p systems or downloading from the ISP's own news servers. The p2p users are already likely covered by other "no servers" clauses in their Terms Of Service. The ones who are downloading usenet from the ISP's news servers are using bandwidth, but they are only using local bandwidth - bandwidth within the ISP's own system. They are already bringing in the news feeds across the backbone, and that does cost. But within their own system, that capacity is already paid for and mostly sits idle when the user isn't availing himself of it.
I too doubt they will miss me much. If enough people react to this they will notice, however.
The day my ISP does this I sware I'll cancel the service. If no other ISP wants to sell me an unlimited broadband service I'll use cheap dial up or just say screw it all together and get a life. I'm not paying premium prices for unlimited services and then be told it's only unlimited for those who do not use much of it.
If you don't like something, even something that you are paying for, just shut-up and leave is one approach. I'm sure that many businesses would prefer that a few people do this and most people continue putting up with what they get than to have to address issues. But when issues are raised and changes made, the system is generally improved for the customer and usually even for the business. Protests can be frivilous, but they are often valid and usefull.
meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"
tag to keep just Microsoft from indexing your site, maybe like
meta name="borg" content="noindex,nofollow".
Then I realized there already is one. To keep Microsoft from indexing your website but still let Google and other search engines index the site, use this meta tag:
meta name="Keywords" content="Linux"