I think it's high time someone told MS that they can't overcharge ($500 for XP professional, i think) Linux is a superior OS (in my opinion) and certainly at a superior price. Also Mac OS X is a great, and there are many business apps that run on Linux and OS X. Now if only the CONSUMERS would stop hurling there money at MS.
My expirience: I am going to be a junior in HS this year and will be taking Pre-Calc. Last year I took Accel Geometry (Geometry with more work and moving faster) and before that I took Algebra. Algebra was really easy for me. Geometry was only slightly harder. Middle School was a pain in the ass. There is nothing worse than doing the exact same stacks of meaningless problems for four years in a row! Well, I simply stopped doing any work and sneazed out the tests like they were nothing. In the end I came out with terrible arithmatic skills (I have to use a calculator to multiply a 2 digit with another 2 digit number and I simply can't do anything beyond simple division) I had to teach myself the concepts of negative numbers, fractions being division, other basic things that aren't taught in a "here's two numbers, do stuff with them" It's disgusting, we need to get away from just doing arithmatic and actually aplying it. And actually teaching the concepts instead of just the steps in the operation.
I am not saying that mailing lists are spam I am saying that mailing lists could fall under a law banning spam. In the article interviewing spammers they said that they used false identities to sign up for internet accounts. Many people suggested using existing laws (like laws against fraud) to attack spammers. I think this is an excelent idea.
I think that spam is a necassary evil that can be easily controlled. If we make a law to simply ban spam then we might be banning other things like mail lists. I personally recieve NO SPAM in my main account and less than one piece a day in my "junk mail account." That's inluding things that the spam filter catches. All people have to do is to be careful with their e-mail addresses. Spam is not a problem for people who use a modicum of common sense
I think that people on slashdot are quite hypocritical when it comes to spam. Slashdotters say: I want free speach! they say: I want spam banned! Some may say that spam laws only infringe on free speach a little but this would create precident for other laws against free speach. Perhaps a spam law that says that when you opt-out of something that you can't be signed up for any other lists.
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ahh, Russ Feingold (you know, the Mcain / Feingold campaign finance reform bill) he seems like a decent guy
I think it's high time someone told MS that they can't overcharge ($500 for XP professional, i think) Linux is a superior OS (in my opinion) and certainly at a superior price. Also Mac OS X is a great, and there are many business apps that run on Linux and OS X. Now if only the CONSUMERS would stop hurling there money at MS.
My expirience: I am going to be a junior in HS this year and will be taking Pre-Calc. Last year I took Accel Geometry (Geometry with more work and moving faster) and before that I took Algebra. Algebra was really easy for me. Geometry was only slightly harder. Middle School was a pain in the ass. There is nothing worse than doing the exact same stacks of meaningless problems for four years in a row! Well, I simply stopped doing any work and sneazed out the tests like they were nothing. In the end I came out with terrible arithmatic skills (I have to use a calculator to multiply a 2 digit with another 2 digit number and I simply can't do anything beyond simple division) I had to teach myself the concepts of negative numbers, fractions being division, other basic things that aren't taught in a "here's two numbers, do stuff with them" It's disgusting, we need to get away from just doing arithmatic and actually aplying it. And actually teaching the concepts instead of just the steps in the operation.
I am not saying that mailing lists are spam I am saying that mailing lists could fall under a law banning spam. In the article interviewing spammers they said that they used false identities to sign up for internet accounts. Many people suggested using existing laws (like laws against fraud) to attack spammers. I think this is an excelent idea.
I think that spam is a necassary evil that can be easily controlled. If we make a law to simply ban spam then we might be banning other things like mail lists. I personally recieve NO SPAM in my main account and less than one piece a day in my "junk mail account." That's inluding things that the spam filter catches. All people have to do is to be careful with their e-mail addresses. Spam is not a problem for people who use a modicum of common sense
I think that people on slashdot are quite hypocritical when it comes to spam. Slashdotters say: I want free speach! they say: I want spam banned!
Some may say that spam laws only infringe on free speach a little but this would create precident for other laws against free speach. Perhaps a spam law that says that when you opt-out of something that you can't be signed up for any other lists.