-I havent had any spam on it yet
- clean, clear interface (1 banner, bottom of page, for the Opera browser. no doubleclick adserver tracking you.)
- https
Been using it for quite a while now (about 1.5 years I think) and I'm happy with it.
nobody has to spam. it is a choice. if you make the choice to harass people, you deserve a lot of what is coming your way. someone who has to give out an email address to get a t-shirt says: I want that t-shirt. he didn't say: I want that t-shirt, and regular junkmail from you. also be aware that some people (like me) act rabidly. RBL is my friend. and it is yours too. It may have already saved your business, since it has stopped some spam. you have already sent spam. If you're lucky, nobody reported you to the RBL yet. but if someone has, it's your own fault. if that ruins some company.. good...that's one spammer less. Maybe the next company WILL behave. the RBL is what self-regulation is all about, which america seems to like so much. But look at companies whine when it doesn't work in their favour. All spammers disgust me, and remember: I am NOT your target audience.
you really really need a minimal filter? just filter doubleclick and the likes. now those banners REALLY have no place in a library. or do you find a lot of advertisments in your library? And yes.. I have found porn in my library. at least in america it'd be porn. for normal people it's just erotic art. and art definately has a place in libraries.
yup.. think I saw it a few times in EULA's. yes, I actually read them cos I like a good laugh. a EULA can't stop a review, bad or good. a EULA cant say: you cant sue us. you can. EULA's are filled with all kinds of standard lawyer crap, and in most cases the biggest part of the EULA is not valid. Ofcourse, maybe in the states you can do these silly things.
Europe has left most of the feudal ways, the US is reinstating them with corporations as the new nobles. companies give money to the two political parties that have a chance of getting a president. That's not necessarily because they like the views of that party, but it's because they want to buy influence or at least a willing ear.
>ICAAN could have made our lives alot easier by giving us a.sex or.xxx TLD. We could have neatly cubbyholed all of the porn.
not really. maybe the USian porn. You'll still have porn on most country TLDs, and no US law can do anything about it. and then there's ofcourse the definition of porn.. nudity? hardly.. intercourse? what about sex ed? remember.. you probably had pussy on your head when you were born..
>Taking away our rights to speak and be heard in order to 'protect' us from spam is a complete violation of the first amendment.
make a law that outlaws spam, and both the RBS and MAPS will die a quick death. Both are just reactions to bring a modicum of rules to the internet. rules certain governments refuse to make. This is self-regulation at its finest.
I used to get called by isnurance salesmen. They're annoting. They're also easy to get rid of: they usually want to make an appointment to come round to talk it all over in person. fine with me, you can come round next thursday, 14:00. What I don't tell them is that I'm at work. They get the hint after standing in front of the same closed doors a few times, and you don't have to do anything.
I have a non-compete agreement, but there's some important clauses:
- the agreement doesn't count when I'm fired
- the non-compete is very, very narrow. I am bound to a radius of 25 km, in which I can't find a similar job (ok, better defined in the agreement, but you get the drift)
the 25 km was interesting.. I work at a local ISP, and there's not much else in those 25 km. however... there's more companies located at 26 km, and my boss won't have a problem with me going to work there (this is specifically why I was quite happy with the 25km clause)
>and with advertising money drying up more and more every day (yes, we felt that too)
the money drying up is not the public's fault, most of whom didn't like ads. Business knows people go to toilets, get chips, or just zap away during commercial breaks. Now it turns out that ads on the web don't work, and businesses are withdrawing money. Yes, this may hurt the hobby site. However.. you didn't 'sell' click-throughs, you sold a space on your page(s), so don't blame me for not behaving as you would like. you simply cant sell my behavior. the fact that businesses don't want to advertise more is their own fault for choosing a dodgy business method.
>Companies actually (gasp) use this information to determine how to best initiate information, and what sort of information to give you.
the information they give me is:
-we have product foo
-it does bar, and generally monkeys around beter than anything else [for this price]
-it'll cost you this much
gues what.. if I want bar and some general monkeying around, I'll look up the information (independant tests usually from specialist mags or consumer orgs) or ask in a couple of stores about what there is, and at what cost. this would bring down cost for the product, since there's no more millions gone on so-called info. I would be a lot less annoyed, and so would many many people with me. all this better communnication talk is the difference between carpet-bombing and laser-guided smartbombs. the result is destructive and everyone would be better off without it.
>It also doesn't help when people use things like Junkbuster to further eliminate any chance these companies have of making money.
Anywhere else except on the web, if a company wants to get money by annoying people, and those people blatantly ignore the company, it's the company's fault. I say let'em go bust. Unlike people, businesses do NOT have a right to continued existence. (no, I'm not saying there shouldn't be any businesses. But if they go bust, they go bust. It is not my fault that I'm not buying from them)
or do you also blame me for not reading the newspaper ads?
I admit it! I used to be a criminal! when legitimate business put useful information (AKA advertisements) in my (physical) mailbox, I did not read each and every word, but saw the colours that hurt my eyes and threw it away! I may have cost them revenue! I'm a thief! And think of all the trees that died for it. I no longer get unsollicited mail, I have rehabilitated..
You want a good audio system, go to a good HiFi, or if you have the chance, High End audio store. Spend most of the money on speakers, that'll do most for the sound. listen to the speakers before you buy'em. when you go to the store, bring one or 2 CDs you know well, preferably in completely different genres. You'll need this to determine how well your speakers sound. Make sure the store you go to has a separate listening room, a demonstration in the main store is just about useless (BAD acoustics). You CAN go for cheap speaker-cable, but if you do, take it double length, and make all connections from speaker to amp go over a double connection. this greatly decreases resistance, and is usually cheaper than going for high-quality wiring. Make sure the amp is powerful enough, you're dealing with digital media which can need pretty high peak-performance from the amp. The amp should be close in output per channel to the number of watts the speakers can handle, or stronger. a weak amp may cause clipping (temporary direct current. speakers don't like that). again, it's peak performance that counts. If you have digital out, and want real high quality sound it may be a choice to get a separate DA converter (especially useful if your CD player also has digital output). And if you really have the money, get a pre-amp, and a single mono-amp for each channel.
and microsoft lost millions because they didn't raise the price of windows/office. they could have made $10 more per bundle, at 1 million bundles, that's $10 million! That's a lot of lost prospective revenue!
it's also complete and utter bullshit.
Ideally, people would be payed for the work they do, not the reproduction of the work, especially if reproduction is without cost. I get payed for writing programs, I don't get paid for the programs I write. This is a significantly different viewpoint, and we'll probably never agree. Such is life.
PS. I have written slightly more than a few lines of code
we have it here, and as long as you don't use telnet and/or ssh, it's quite good. speed is good. a 2 second latency sucks though, but you'll have that with any sat link.
>So think twice the next time you download that Metallica mp3, how would you like it if Dave Mustaine came round your house and stole your stereo ?
quite bad.. then again.. when I download a metallica mp3 (yeah.. right..) Dave Mustaine hasn't lost anything, where in the other case, I have lost my stereo. you can't compare intellectual and real property: intellectual property is copied. nobody looses anything, everyone wins.
DeCSS doesn't break anything, it fixes. It is also completely legal just about anywhere except the US of A. This is just another control mechanism that has no basis in law, which I will be completely free to defeat and/or reverse engineer.
Slashdot Mirror
-I havent had any spam on it yet
- clean, clear interface (1 banner, bottom of page, for the Opera browser. no doubleclick adserver tracking you.)
- https
Been using it for quite a while now (about 1.5 years I think) and I'm happy with it.
//rdj
nobody has to spam. it is a choice. if you make the choice to harass people, you deserve a lot of what is coming your way. someone who has to give out an email address to get a t-shirt says: I want that t-shirt. he didn't say: I want that t-shirt, and regular junkmail from you. also be aware that some people (like me) act rabidly. RBL is my friend. and it is yours too. It may have already saved your business, since it has stopped some spam. you have already sent spam. If you're lucky, nobody reported you to the RBL yet. but if someone has, it's your own fault. if that ruins some company.. good...that's one spammer less. Maybe the next company WILL behave. the RBL is what self-regulation is all about, which america seems to like so much. But look at companies whine when it doesn't work in their favour. All spammers disgust me, and remember: I am NOT your target audience.
//rdj
you really really need a minimal filter? just filter doubleclick and the likes. now those banners REALLY have no place in a library. or do you find a lot of advertisments in your library? And yes.. I have found porn in my library. at least in america it'd be porn. for normal people it's just erotic art. and art definately has a place in libraries.
//rdj
yup.. think I saw it a few times in EULA's. yes, I actually read them cos I like a good laugh. a EULA can't stop a review, bad or good. a EULA cant say: you cant sue us. you can. EULA's are filled with all kinds of standard lawyer crap, and in most cases the biggest part of the EULA is not valid. Ofcourse, maybe in the states you can do these silly things.
Europe has left most of the feudal ways, the US is reinstating them with corporations as the new nobles. companies give money to the two political parties that have a chance of getting a president. That's not necessarily because they like the views of that party, but it's because they want to buy influence or at least a willing ear.
//rdj
>So where else can a kid go these days to get some porn? The library.
until the kids discover cache-surfing
>ICAAN could have made our lives alot easier by giving us a .sex or .xxx TLD. We could have neatly cubbyholed all of the porn.
not really. maybe the USian porn. You'll still have porn on most country TLDs, and no US law can do anything about it. and then there's ofcourse the definition of porn.. nudity? hardly.. intercourse? what about sex ed? remember.. you probably had pussy on your head when you were born..
//rdj
>Taking away our rights to speak and be heard in order to 'protect' us from spam is a complete violation of the first amendment.
make a law that outlaws spam, and both the RBS and MAPS will die a quick death. Both are just reactions to bring a modicum of rules to the internet. rules certain governments refuse to make. This is self-regulation at its finest.
//rdj
I used to get called by isnurance salesmen. They're annoting. They're also easy to get rid of: they usually want to make an appointment to come round to talk it all over in person. fine with me, you can come round next thursday, 14:00. What I don't tell them is that I'm at work. They get the hint after standing in front of the same closed doors a few times, and you don't have to do anything.
//rdj
I think Siemens had some of those machines with built-in OHP. they are NOT cheap.
//rdj
IMO, what it all comes down to is this:
do you work to live, or do you live to work?
Take the time off that you earned, it's your right.
//rdj
I have a non-compete agreement, but there's some important clauses:
- the agreement doesn't count when I'm fired
- the non-compete is very, very narrow. I am bound to a radius of 25 km, in which I can't find a similar job (ok, better defined in the agreement, but you get the drift)
the 25 km was interesting.. I work at a local ISP, and there's not much else in those 25 km. however... there's more companies located at 26 km, and my boss won't have a problem with me going to work there (this is specifically why I was quite happy with the 25km clause)
//rdj
>and with advertising money drying up more and more every day (yes, we felt that too)
the money drying up is not the public's fault, most of whom didn't like ads. Business knows people go to toilets, get chips, or just zap away during commercial breaks. Now it turns out that ads on the web don't work, and businesses are withdrawing money. Yes, this may hurt the hobby site. However.. you didn't 'sell' click-throughs, you sold a space on your page(s), so don't blame me for not behaving as you would like. you simply cant sell my behavior. the fact that businesses don't want to advertise more is their own fault for choosing a dodgy business method.
//rdj
>Companies actually (gasp) use this information to determine how to best initiate information, and what sort of information to give you.
the information they give me is:
-we have product foo
-it does bar, and generally monkeys around beter than anything else [for this price]
-it'll cost you this much
gues what.. if I want bar and some general monkeying around, I'll look up the information (independant tests usually from specialist mags or consumer orgs) or ask in a couple of stores about what there is, and at what cost. this would bring down cost for the product, since there's no more millions gone on so-called info. I would be a lot less annoyed, and so would many many people with me. all this better communnication talk is the difference between carpet-bombing and laser-guided smartbombs. the result is destructive and everyone would be better off without it.
//rdj
PS. less trees will die too
>It also doesn't help when people use things like Junkbuster to further eliminate any chance these companies have of making money.
Anywhere else except on the web, if a company wants to get money by annoying people, and those people blatantly ignore the company, it's the company's fault. I say let'em go bust. Unlike people, businesses do NOT have a right to continued existence. (no, I'm not saying there shouldn't be any businesses. But if they go bust, they go bust. It is not my fault that I'm not buying from them)
or do you also blame me for not reading the newspaper ads?
//rdj
I admit it! I used to be a criminal! when legitimate business put useful information (AKA advertisements) in my (physical) mailbox, I did not read each and every word, but saw the colours that hurt my eyes and threw it away! I may have cost them revenue! I'm a thief! And think of all the trees that died for it. I no longer get unsollicited mail, I have rehabilitated..
//rdj
You want a good audio system, go to a good HiFi, or if you have the chance, High End audio store. Spend most of the money on speakers, that'll do most for the sound. listen to the speakers before you buy'em. when you go to the store, bring one or 2 CDs you know well, preferably in completely different genres. You'll need this to determine how well your speakers sound. Make sure the store you go to has a separate listening room, a demonstration in the main store is just about useless (BAD acoustics). You CAN go for cheap speaker-cable, but if you do, take it double length, and make all connections from speaker to amp go over a double connection. this greatly decreases resistance, and is usually cheaper than going for high-quality wiring. Make sure the amp is powerful enough, you're dealing with digital media which can need pretty high peak-performance from the amp. The amp should be close in output per channel to the number of watts the speakers can handle, or stronger. a weak amp may cause clipping (temporary direct current. speakers don't like that). again, it's peak performance that counts. If you have digital out, and want real high quality sound it may be a choice to get a separate DA converter (especially useful if your CD player also has digital output). And if you really have the money, get a pre-amp, and a single mono-amp for each channel.
//rdj
And if they put it out closed source.. wasn't there this MS boosted organisation dealing with software piracy? Hello BSA..
//rdj
It was likened to phonecalls.. does that mean companies can do wiretapping in the US? damn... make some laws already. You need'em.. badly..
//rdj
and microsoft lost millions because they didn't raise the price of windows/office. they could have made $10 more per bundle, at 1 million bundles, that's $10 million! That's a lot of lost prospective revenue!
it's also complete and utter bullshit.
Ideally, people would be payed for the work they do, not the reproduction of the work, especially if reproduction is without cost. I get payed for writing programs, I don't get paid for the programs I write. This is a significantly different viewpoint, and we'll probably never agree. Such is life.
PS. I have written slightly more than a few lines of code
we have it here, and as long as you don't use telnet and/or ssh, it's quite good. speed is good. a 2 second latency sucks though, but you'll have that with any sat link.
//rdj
tachyon will. latency over satellite is terrible though..
//rdj
>So think twice the next time you download that Metallica mp3, how would you like it if Dave Mustaine came round your house and stole your stereo ?
quite bad.. then again.. when I download a metallica mp3 (yeah.. right..) Dave Mustaine hasn't lost anything, where in the other case, I have lost my stereo. you can't compare intellectual and real property: intellectual property is copied. nobody looses anything, everyone wins.
//rdj
if copyright doesn't exist, ALL copies of windows are legit.
//rdj
sure it's _A_ law. just not a law that affects me, being dutch, and in the netherlands.
//rdj
DeCSS doesn't break anything, it fixes. It is also completely legal just about anywhere except the US of A. This is just another control mechanism that has no basis in law, which I will be completely free to defeat and/or reverse engineer.
//rdj