This, of course, would not stop the people who are using spam to send "stock tips" for pump and dump schemes
The appearance of a stock in a pump'n'dump spam should be enough to freeze trading in the stock and look at recent buyers. Hmm, looks like that's been done at least once:
Some sleazebag spammer sends me spam. I complain to the authorities. Said authorities decide that the spammer is breaking the law (fraud, spam laws, whatever). And the spammer says that the e-mails can't be used as evidence against him, because it's his private communication?
IANAL but I might argue that sending a document in as few as ONE unsolicited email makes it NOT a private communication, but rather an attempt at widely publishing the document as an advertisement, even if it says (quoting from a "You won a lottery" spam):
Due to mix up of some names and addresses, we urge you to keep this winning personal and discreet until your claims have been processed and your funds remitted to you, this is part of our security measures to avoid double claiming or unwarranted abuse of the system by other participants or impersonators.
Even if this IS a good argument in other email communications, it's a really stupid argument for a spammer. Hmm, that jibes really well with Rule #1 (or is it #3? reasonable websites disagree on this) about Spammers.
(This may be a too-short summation of the talk but...) Bussard was a bit cynical of larger governmental organizations which weren't into funding his fusion research ideas.
For years now that company has gotten away with some of the most slapped together, rushed and verbose code on the planet. (Some VERY good code too, it's not all bad)
This (the VERY good code part) is easily explained by the old (pre-digital) saying that "even a broken clock is right twice a day."
It is possible, though, that they're just trying to provide the best possible product.
Look at the charter for ANY company, it's to make as much money as possible. Occasionally (or perhaps rarely) the company does that by making the best possible product, but as Gates has admitted, Microsoft may not make "the best possible products" but makes products that are "good enough," and that, supposedly, is what microcomputer users want.
I maintain that Microsoft products are NOT good enough. Others here are certainly detailing many of Microsoft's sins, but one I recall is how new versions of products generally have "new and improved" features, but not fixes of well-known and widely reported bugs from earlier versions. Bug fixes don't sell newer versions, but new features do.
You will find that astronauts fall into one of two categories: Those who choose to shield their heads and those who choose to shield something else. They are easily told apart during a solar storm by their bodies pointing in opposite directions.
You'd think those who want to shield "something else" would leave a sample "in the bank" just as Lance Armstrong did.
2) This guy is quite clearly interested in fiddling with Google rankings - indulging him by linking and quoting his blog is really really not very helpful.
Presuming Mr. [edited] actually contacted Google as he said he did, he has admitted to Google that he DOES want to fiddle with his ratings. And thus I'm sure Google will give Mr. [edited] the exact amount of attention he deserves.
Maybe I remember wrong, it's been a long time since I heard/read about it, but I heard of a speech where she handed out those one-nanosecond wires (11 inches long, the way I heard it) to PROGRAMMERS to explain "Every time you waste a nanosecond light goes this far." This made it a "micro-manage your code for the highest execution speed" speech, which is the opposite of what a high-level language is for, to make the programmer more productive (in the amount of code he writes), and the code more easily human-readable and maintainable at the expense of some execution speed and code bloat. And of course today's compilers have good enough optimization that one rarely if ever needs to use assembly.
in smaller embedded applications. Good C compilers are a godsend for DSP's and smaller 8 and 16 bit processors/microcontrollers, where the choices as short as 10 years ago were assembly or BAD C compilers.
Sorry, surely some slashdotters have around since before I was reading about Usenet carried by Arpanet in Jerry Pournelle's Byte column, but some others don't seem to know the difference.
As the other poster said, it doesn't matter for a sub-orbital flight. But even for orbital flights, taxes are a lot larger percentage of a commercial entities expenses than the equator's speed is a percentage of orbital velocity.
But it also depends on what orbit you want. For a polar orbit it doesn't matter where you launch from, as an east-west speed differential won't help you go north-south. The big problem with a polar launch for an equatorial orbit surely isn't the lack of equator velocity boost, but rather the fuel used to go from the pole to the equator and then making that 90-degree turn at the equator.
I always found john DVORAK's columns to be annoying, though I think in the one or two that I've read in more recent years, he may have dropped the habit of making every tenth word bold.
I'm beginning to think that working with customers to develop a specification is actually a suffciently hard job that it should be a specialised position - lord knows enough developers seem to have little in the way of an idea about it.
There's a job title of "sales engineer" though too often the person AND the job the person fills falls way short of the goal.
There are many interesting points about this case, another is the method of murder that allowed the victim to live long enough to talk to the news media. He was on the front page of cnn.com twice in recent days, once concerning the rare, radioactive poison he had injested, and again announcing his death.
Slashdot Mirror
This, of course, would not stop the people who are using spam to send "stock tips" for pump and dump schemes
The appearance of a stock in a pump'n'dump spam should be enough to freeze trading in the stock and look at recent buyers. Hmm, looks like that's been done at least once:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20061219/tc_zd/196808
But clearly this isn't done enough. I've been getting a lot more pump'n'dump spam in recent weeks and months.
IANAL but I might argue that sending a document in as few as ONE unsolicited email makes it NOT a private communication, but rather an attempt at widely publishing the document as an advertisement, even if it says (quoting from a "You won a lottery" spam): Even if this IS a good argument in other email communications, it's a really stupid argument for a spammer. Hmm, that jibes really well with Rule #1 (or is it #3? reasonable websites disagree on this) about Spammers.
Many may remember this hour-and-a-half video of Bussard speaking at Google under this Slashdot story "Should Google Go Nuclear?"
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http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11
(This may be a too-short summation of the talk but...) Bussard was a bit cynical of larger governmental organizations which weren't into funding his fusion research ideas.
Of course, in these days of rampant terrorism, any interest in chemistry will get you flagged on a watchlist, so you might just do without
That has been going on for MANY years due to the War On Drugs. Just ordering chemical glassware can get you on a drug-making suspect list.
OTOH, the book "Building Scientific Apparatus" has a chapter on blowing your own glass, as well as much other useful info.
For years now that company has gotten away with some of the most slapped together, rushed and verbose code on the planet. (Some VERY good code too, it's not all bad)
This (the VERY good code part) is easily explained by the old (pre-digital) saying that "even a broken clock is right twice a day."
It is possible, though, that they're just trying to provide the best possible product.
Look at the charter for ANY company, it's to make as much money as possible. Occasionally (or perhaps rarely) the company does that by making the best possible product, but as Gates has admitted, Microsoft may not make "the best possible products" but makes products that are "good enough," and that, supposedly, is what microcomputer users want.
I maintain that Microsoft products are NOT good enough. Others here are certainly detailing many of Microsoft's sins, but one I recall is how new versions of products generally have "new and improved" features, but not fixes of well-known and widely reported bugs from earlier versions. Bug fixes don't sell newer versions, but new features do.
Maybe it's jealousy, maybe not, but I can't think of any examples of entities that are perennially at the top of their heap AND are loved.
There's Coca-Cola, but a lot of it in this case may be that Pepsi is such a strong #2 brand.
You will find that astronauts fall into one of two categories: Those who choose to shield their heads and those who choose to shield something else. They are easily told apart during a solar storm by their bodies pointing in opposite directions.
You'd think those who want to shield "something else" would leave a sample "in the bank" just as Lance Armstrong did.
Which is well-known for legal harassment of any business that has the word monster in its name or its products' names?
However, to rephrase Lloyd Bentsen, "Mr. [edited], you're no Monster Cable."
2) This guy is quite clearly interested in fiddling with Google rankings - indulging him by linking and quoting his blog is really really not very helpful.
Presuming Mr. [edited] actually contacted Google as he said he did, he has admitted to Google that he DOES want to fiddle with his ratings. And thus I'm sure Google will give Mr. [edited] the exact amount of attention he deserves.
Most people probably run servers of some sort and just don't know it.
Yes, these servers go by several names such as zombies and spambots.
Maybe I remember wrong, it's been a long time since I heard/read about it, but I heard of a speech where she handed out those one-nanosecond wires (11 inches long, the way I heard it) to PROGRAMMERS to explain "Every time you waste a nanosecond light goes this far." This made it a "micro-manage your code for the highest execution speed" speech, which is the opposite of what a high-level language is for, to make the programmer more productive (in the amount of code he writes), and the code more easily human-readable and maintainable at the expense of some execution speed and code bloat. And of course today's compilers have good enough optimization that one rarely if ever needs to use assembly.
in smaller embedded applications. Good C compilers are a godsend for DSP's and smaller 8 and 16 bit processors/microcontrollers, where the choices as short as 10 years ago were assembly or BAD C compilers.
Compiles Only Because Of Luck
And "Google Groups" is NOT Usenet.
news:comp.lang.cobol
Sorry, surely some slashdotters have around since before I was reading about Usenet carried by Arpanet in Jerry Pournelle's Byte column, but some others don't seem to know the difference.
Because nobody has broken into the dog and forced it to bite somebody.
The owner could be sued even if the dog has rabies.
As the other poster said, it doesn't matter for a sub-orbital flight. But even for orbital flights, taxes are a lot larger percentage of a commercial entities expenses than the equator's speed is a percentage of orbital velocity.
But it also depends on what orbit you want. For a polar orbit it doesn't matter where you launch from, as an east-west speed differential won't help you go north-south. The big problem with a polar launch for an equatorial orbit surely isn't the lack of equator velocity boost, but rather the fuel used to go from the pole to the equator and then making that 90-degree turn at the equator.
I always found john DVORAK's columns to be annoying, though I think in the one or two that I've read in more recent years, he may have dropped the habit of making every tenth word bold.
I'm beginning to think that working with customers to develop a specification is actually a suffciently hard job that it should be a specialised position - lord knows enough developers seem to have little in the way of an idea about it.
There's a job title of "sales engineer" though too often the person AND the job the person fills falls way short of the goal.
Rather than click parent's link, this plain-text link takes you to the same discount:r agmatic-Programmers/dp/097451408X
http://www.amazon.com/Practices-Agile-Developer-P
Or if you still don't trust MY link, go to amazon.com and put in the title Agile Developer.
Fair disclosure: I have used books for sale through Amazon, though not this one.
Here's something REALLY scary: 40 years ago this is what "Made In Japan" meant.
What about being the pilot on route to drop a nuke on a major city?
Obligatory movie reference: "Fail Safe"
There are many interesting points about this case, another is the method of murder that allowed the victim to live long enough to talk to the news media. He was on the front page of cnn.com twice in recent days, once concerning the rare, radioactive poison he had injested, and again announcing his death.
Authors: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Omega, et. al.
Abstract: The Authors have discovered a method to control The Universe.
Even better, it will hold the fridge to Billy's painting!