Set up a business "A". Register with minimum number of appropriate authorities. Open business bank account with minimum amount.
Set up business account for "A" with ISP. Work out 30-45 day net.
Start spewing billions of spamessages from company "A".
Company "A" receives huge tax bill from ISP.
Don't pay it.
After 30 days, receive second bill.
Don't pay it.
When push comes to shove, fold company "A", declare it bankrupt.
Start company "B". Lather, rinse, repeat.
Hey folks, spam is a personal problem. Behind each flood of spam is a single person who decides to send out messages which annoy millions of people, and cause wasted time and excess bad karma. Multiple this by all the hundreds or thousands of spammers (people). This is not a technical, political, economic, or social issue -- it's that one person who clicks the button that launches the spambot. Make the consequences of clicking that button so personally horrific that the person will just not do it.
If all else fails (as it has so far with Enterprise), count on that good 'ol standby : sex. Show the average Trek viewer (who is a white male between 14 and 33) some hot babes in revealing clothes and all will be forgiven. Swoopy spaceships just don't seem to cut it with the 'umans anymore. What did you expect from a bipidal meat-snack?
Spectrum analysis was used to see which format did the best job of maintaining the shape of the original waveform
Well, that's one way to do it. Probably the worst way. Critical listening generally doesn't take place with an o-scope or spectrum analyzer display, but via the human ear. Consumer Reports, plus most of the "hi fi" mags, don't seem to understand that. They think that "good measurements" indicate quality reproduction, so they run their square waves through the amplification channel and say "looks good ta me, Vern". Funny thing, but they never try the same test with transducers (i.e. speakers or headphones), simply because they don't want to show how poorly these reproduce the waveform.
I want to live on a diet of sugar, artifical colors and flavors, and the occasional shot of aspartame. All I need is someplace to do my frys and I'm set.
Avoid "PHP and PostgreSQL - Advanced Web Programming" by Ewald Geschwinde and Hans-Jürgen Schönig [Sams 0-672-32382-6]. This book is infected with enough misprints and errors to render it unusable, but at 770+ pages, at least it's bigger'n yours. More 'spensive too. neener-neener-neener.
We could give a new meaning to "launching a presidential campaign".
But seriously folks, 1800 lbs of thrust just does not seem very manly when compared to the Saturn V F1's 1.5 million lbs of studly thrustosterone. Ugh - more power!
The ACLU claims that "the right of the people" actually means a right of the State. This is, in my opinion, a slippery slope on which to stand. Once "the people" are convinced that their rights are forfeit, then how long will it take the state (or other organizations) to capitalize on that "attitude of forfeiture" and marginalize, restrict, regulate, and outlaw other rights? Answer: It's happening now.
The Bill of Rights is a barrier between the people and a flood of governmental limitations -- one cannot seriously claim to support this barrier while simultaneously poking holes in it.
Another analogy : Think of the restriction of rights (in this case, 2nd amendment rights) as a process, like trying to bake a pie. The ACLU, along with other groups, uses the courts to perfect a recipe for peach pie (elimination of 2nd amendment rights). Once the recipe is perfected, any other group can change "peach" to "apple" (substitute 4th amendment for 2nd) and bake a different pie. The state sees that it can instigate limitations on the rights of the governed, the courts have a previous case which appears to favor those limitations, and the people have been conditioned to accept those limitations.
Wait.... this is supposed to be funny? This could be a typical breakfast cereal commercial. Or maybe this is one of those "You shoulda been there.." situations?
A good test of a one-liner is that it stands alone, and doesn't require the context, eg, does not require the listener to have experienced the original movie, play, TV show, record, or whatever. AFAIK, most of the quotes mentioned require butt-loads of context. Ok so "Klatu Beretta Necktie" is funny, but only because Gort and me are buds.
Try these on for size
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like... victory"
"If any of you f**king pricks move, I'll execute every last motherf**king one of you" (note: the sentence is different in the scene at the end of the movie)
"Once, in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on nothing but food and water for days."
"I've got a whole bag of shhhhh with your name on it."
What does it have to do with the normal Slashdot faire? Nada. There are other forums available for everyone to discuss their own hidden agendas. Let's try to stick to slashdottish topics please.
What's needed is accountability. Give someone internet or smtp access? Make sure you have a way of billing them for any spam they send, and put it in big letters when they sign up
I'd like the see the same rule applied to people posting as Anon.Coward, or even Noel.Coward.
No one understands how the hippocampus encodes information.
and this
The job of the hippocampus
appears to be to "encode" experiences...
Is the uncertainty that of the writer or of the researchers? I'm not comfortable with the idea of them splicing electronics into rat and monkey brains until they have a better grasp on the functions of the component they are bypassing. Perhaps they could experiment on lawyers or politicians instead?
Slices of rat hippocampus were stimulated with electrical signals, millions of times...
Don't be on the other side of whatever the thing was aiming at, and missed. Holy cow!
serious science questions -- Won't all that energy do some very interesing things to the air it passes through? How about dissipation or atmospheric diffraction? What about very fashonable chrome plated missles? What about the "bad guys" with a ground-based version of this thing pointed at the 747?
Anyone remember that World Trade Center thing?
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All it takes is one deluded muslim with an airplane and you've got a huge pile of carbon fibre nanotube trash. This thing would be too tempting a target for anyone who has a grievence against whoever builds it.
The only reason for me to use a crappy, non-ergonomic keyboard and moose is because I can't plug into AC, which means I'm dependent on battery life. 3-4 hours (as claimed) is really not much of an incentive, given the hefty weight and price tag.
Granted, it's kewl, sexy, and has a wide screen, but so does JLo.
...the connection speed could be reduced drastically by bugs
I have a couple Win systems that have (apparently) already implemented this this fabric. Yea! Extra points for me!
It's *NOT* a technical problem
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Spam is not a problem of technology, therefore any solution rooted in technology is a bandaid -- an after-the-crime attempt to cover the wound. Spam is a "people" problem and requires a "people" solution. Spam (not all spam, but in general) is caused by one person, making a conscious decision, and initiating an action which results in the disruption of millions of lives. Perhaps only a minor disruption; it only takes me a minute a day to delete all the spam from my hotmail account, but multiply this by many millions of recipients. Some users may not be affected at all, but I'd be willing to bet that for every recipient that isn't affected, 1000 are.
The only solution which will work is one that involves the spammer at a very real, intimate, and very personal level. This is definitely not a "Politically Correct" solution, would be illegal in many countries, and reprehensible to anyone with a conscious, but it would go a long way toward solving the problem.
Why do so many of the current replies to this topic reference drugs or drug usage, and why are these moderated as "funny"? Am I the only one here who has lost co-workers, friends and relatives to drugs and alcohol? Ok, twenty years ago I might have thought it was funny, but not any more. I've been to too many memorials -- I've had to bury friends who couldn't believe they were dying. And I was almost one of 'em, but that's another story and this isn't the forum.
They say they are using a new source code control system with "acquired technology" , apparently because the previous version (which I'm assuming is SourceSafe) wasn't up to the task. I'd like more details please... we are considering ditching a very old version of PVCS where I work. Bitkeeper won't do it, and CVS + Bugzilla isn't a solution.
Some people actually think Jerry Seinfield is funny. These same people see the humor in linoleum, digestive tract surgery, or public floggings. Let's just say we disagree, and that you're full of so much gas that it's compressing your brain. There. Now I feel better.
Let me try to understand this -- I have to download and install a funky browser just to see how it handles a single web site? Then try to un-install the bloody thing?? I've tried Opera, and it's definitely not ready for prime time in my universe...
Why didn't they just post Swedish Chef screen captures? That would be worth a peek.
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Hey folks, spam is a personal problem. Behind each flood of spam is a single person who decides to send out messages which annoy millions of people, and cause wasted time and excess bad karma. Multiple this by all the hundreds or thousands of spammers (people). This is not a technical, political, economic, or social issue -- it's that one person who clicks the button that launches the spambot. Make the consequences of clicking that button so personally horrific that the person will just not do it.
If all else fails (as it has so far with Enterprise), count on that good 'ol standby : sex. Show the average Trek viewer (who is a white male between 14 and 33) some hot babes in revealing clothes and all will be forgiven. Swoopy spaceships just don't seem to cut it with the 'umans anymore. What did you expect from a bipidal meat-snack?
Right......
I'm thinking "front side" massage instead of back-side. I'm thinking Angelina Jolie. I'm thinking high res streaming video. I'm thinking naughty again. Oh dear, better turn myself in.
They call me Mister blimp.
Avoid "PHP and PostgreSQL - Advanced Web Programming" by Ewald Geschwinde and Hans-Jürgen Schönig [Sams 0-672-32382-6]. This book is infected with enough misprints and errors to render it unusable, but at 770+ pages, at least it's bigger'n yours. More 'spensive too. neener-neener-neener.
But seriously folks, 1800 lbs of thrust just does not seem very manly when compared to the Saturn V F1's 1.5 million lbs of studly thrustosterone. Ugh - more power!
You'll go blind.
The Bill of Rights is a barrier between the people and a flood of governmental limitations -- one cannot seriously claim to support this barrier while simultaneously poking holes in it.
Another analogy : Think of the restriction of rights (in this case, 2nd amendment rights) as a process, like trying to bake a pie. The ACLU, along with other groups, uses the courts to perfect a recipe for peach pie (elimination of 2nd amendment rights). Once the recipe is perfected, any other group can change "peach" to "apple" (substitute 4th amendment for 2nd) and bake a different pie. The state sees that it can instigate limitations on the rights of the governed, the courts have a previous case which appears to favor those limitations, and the people have been conditioned to accept those limitations.
....and there goes my karma....
How do I encode properties (fields) of my data: child elements or element attributes?
How do I join the preceding-sibling namespace descendent ancestor-or-self following axis of evil?
Wait.... this is supposed to be funny? This could be a typical breakfast cereal commercial. Or maybe this is one of those "You shoulda been there.." situations?
A good test of a one-liner is that it stands alone, and doesn't require the context, eg, does not require the listener to have experienced the original movie, play, TV show, record, or whatever. AFAIK, most of the quotes mentioned require butt-loads of context. Ok so "Klatu Beretta Necktie" is funny, but only because Gort and me are buds.
What does it have to do with the normal Slashdot faire? Nada. There are other forums available for everyone to discuss their own hidden agendas. Let's try to stick to slashdottish topics please.
and this
Is the uncertainty that of the writer or of the researchers? I'm not comfortable with the idea of them splicing electronics into rat and monkey brains until they have a better grasp on the functions of the component they are bypassing. Perhaps they could experiment on lawyers or politicians instead?
Boy, some guys get to have all the fun....
serious science questions -- Won't all that energy do some very interesing things to the air it passes through? How about dissipation or atmospheric diffraction? What about very fashonable chrome plated missles? What about the "bad guys" with a ground-based version of this thing pointed at the 747?
All it takes is one deluded muslim with an airplane and you've got a huge pile of carbon fibre nanotube trash. This thing would be too tempting a target for anyone who has a grievence against whoever builds it.
Granted, it's kewl, sexy, and has a wide screen, but so does JLo.
I have a couple Win systems that have (apparently) already implemented this this fabric. Yea! Extra points for me!
The only solution which will work is one that involves the spammer at a very real, intimate, and very personal level. This is definitely not a "Politically Correct" solution, would be illegal in many countries, and reprehensible to anyone with a conscious, but it would go a long way toward solving the problem.
Why do so many of the current replies to this topic reference drugs or drug usage, and why are these moderated as "funny"? Am I the only one here who has lost co-workers, friends and relatives to drugs and alcohol? Ok, twenty years ago I might have thought it was funny, but not any more. I've been to too many memorials -- I've had to bury friends who couldn't believe they were dying. And I was almost one of 'em, but that's another story and this isn't the forum.
They say they are using a new source code control system with "acquired technology" , apparently because the previous version (which I'm assuming is SourceSafe) wasn't up to the task. I'd like more details please ... we are considering ditching a very old version of PVCS where I work. Bitkeeper won't do it, and CVS + Bugzilla isn't a solution.
Some people actually think Jerry Seinfield is funny. These same people see the humor in linoleum, digestive tract surgery, or public floggings. Let's just say we disagree, and that you're full of so much gas that it's compressing your brain. There. Now I feel better.
Why didn't they just post Swedish Chef screen captures? That would be worth a peek.