This wasn't a marketing company, it was an e-mail delivery service. It takes a lot of work to deliver thousands of customized e-mails to a customer base. To get it right, you have to learn the SMTP acceptance policies of various ISPs, deliver up to the limit, and then back off until the timeout resets.
This just goes to show why you only give database slices away, all they needed was the text of the e-mail with the variable spots included, the name to put in the variable slot, and the address to send it to.
It's a spammer's dream to get this many active e-mail addresses released, but it's not the kind of thing that should cause much damage.
Long term planned failures seem to do that. Seeing it worked for 30 years is cause for celebration, but it should also have been a going away party. Agreed, A/C in the affected areas is going to cost more this summer.
The Mark I reactor has always had He containers built in that could be triggered to make a quick emergency seal. Once this is done, the reactor is offline forever... but these reactors should have had an orderly shutdown long before the quake hit simply based on their age.
There's a real simple shutdown plan.... trigger the explosives that release helium from containers that were designed to be broken in a case like this into the reactor zone, and you've got a tight seal that radiation can't pass through.
Downside to that plan is if you do it, that reactor is offline for good. Power supply in Japan would go down, and that's an economic impact.
"Eat" pretty much is the right word... we've got rods so radioactive and hot they're melting concrete all the way to vapor. Damn that's powerful when it works right, but damn that's trouble when it's not under control.
As posted in the last story, stories in this site are posted on tomorrow's business after Midnight GMT which was 8pm EDT. We're done with the jokes, now back to serious business.
This is a plant that shouldn't be operating in the first place right now. This series of nuclear reactors is past its expiration date and therefore can't be expected to perform under the duress of an earthquake and following flooding. There always was a plan to lock them up for one last time after which its supposed to be unbreakable (or anybody who does break it would be dead from radiation near instantly) but there never was any other plan for renewing it after it had run for too long.
Sorry Japan, we love electric power just as much as you do, but you've got to pay for what it takes to make it. Doing it on the cheap just causes other problems for humans in other areas than your own.
"Freedom Watch"? Isn't that the title of a Fox Business Network (the minor league farm club of Fox News Channel) which is hosted by a guy they call "judge" despite the fact his only experience in that role was the one-and-done season show "Power of Attorney" where used OJ Simpson lawyers argued "People's Court"/"Judge Judy" style cases.
If this wasn't 1984's definition of "permanent war" then there would be a good guy and bad guy to pick from. This is only Slashworthy because it pulls in Facebook and we've got a SlowNewsDay in effect.
There's no multi-lingual version of Slashdot... so for the first part we have to exclude all of the world that doesn't speak English.
Now, where's the population? Australia's big, but it's mostly unpopulated Outback areas. The UK is a densely populated, but comparatively small island. Most Canadians (even some of those who speak French) speak English, but they're due north of the USA so their time zones are mostly in sync with ours.
Now, let's look at the US distribution. Maine is so far East that the entire state belongs in the "Atlantic" time zone that Canada has, but we lump it in with the US Eastern time zone. There are many of the most historic cities in the East Coast area, and the Eastern Time zone extends far West, and Central time is just one hour off.
California? Important, but it doesn't bring much with it. Las Vegas isn't interested in tech when there isn't a tech convention in town. Redmond might care, but they can respond just 3 hours late to "prime time" stories.
It's the way TV is done, and it's the way Slashdot should be too. GMT is a geek time standard left over from Unix days, but what system in the world still displays the GMT time to a user rather than the local time? And the local time of more USA/Canada population than any other is Eastern Time.
Most of the billion is punitive damages which basically wants to make an example of Facebook saying allowing anti-Israel speech should never be allowed. Kinda flies the the face of the US's 1st Amendment freedoms, but they have no such concept in Israel. Still, see my other post on the problems with picking a venue.
It's an attempt to apply Israeli values to the American Facebook site and that's just not going to stick in an American court, and an Israeli court has no nexus to force Facebook to care about its result. They should be happy the page was pulled and go home.
Nope, the April Fools joke stories were all marked with the fill-in-your-own-word combo boxes. We're now past 8pm ET which means it's past Midnight GMT and we're into April 2nd in GMT and half the world. They really should program the site for the East Coast USA audience because that's where the most Slashdotters actually live, but they're geeks in love with GMT.
As usual, this is my annual first post to the first story after the April Fools Day Denial of Service day on Slashdot. And boy do we have a good one tonight....
Where's the dropdown box to lower the number in the story to something more reasonable than a billion?
Facebook had it right. When the page was new there was no problem with it. When it devolved into hate speech by both sides, it was pulled. All's well, nothing to see here.
It's not a story of what this app does, it's a story of what this app doesn't do. It can't leave home WiFi, won't work while a passenger in a moving bus/train, it essentially acts as a hand-held TV only where you already can put a TV.
Watching your TV content outside the home has always been crippled by legal agreements between the content owners and distributors. See, if TV was available on the web without restriction, they wouldn't be able to charge the bar and restaurant owners the high per-TV rates they do now. So we're stuck with a fancy iPad app that turns your iPad into a small TV but only when you're on your home WiFi. Sure it could work over 3G, but that's not a deal Time Warner Cable wants to write... and by doing so may be protecting the space from somebody who does want to do such a deal.
Most people don't bother to troubleshoot a broken computer, they don't open the case. A non-booting computer is broken, and either needs to be repaired or replaced, both of which cost money. When the costs of the repair exceeds the cost of a new computer, the user will chose the new computer. The point of this story is that it's taking longer for computers to reach that point.
Five years is the typical standard for a magnetic hard disk to fail. (Possibly the source of the noise in the summary) Planned failure creates sales... as annoying as it is for the customers.
The good news here is that the computer buying public is getting more educated about what they need and what's available, and starting to find better deals.
The bad news is that the tech industry has to compete more with itself which means its scrambling over a smaller total of dollars available.
People are used to having daylight later in the day in Summer and not in Winter, leading to things like Little League Baseball games being scheduled for when there's seasonal light and parents can be home from work. If people were to retire the time changes, we'd most likely be in a permanent DST arrangement.
Unless this trading system runs on local-time, New York time will log a normal day on the day this 2-hour jump goes into effect and the world will go on as usual. There's been 2 hour jumps in other timezones before, have you ever looked at the long-long-long list of time zone rules Windows has to abide by and Microsoft has to issue a Critical Update for every time some lawmaking body wants to mess with timekeeping.
This just goes to prove the idea that Windows XP is secure due to being time tested doesn't hold water in all situations. This is one update you have to have, otherwise your system clock will not match the watches of the people around you.
Bur you still haven't fully duplicated the PS3. There's not many games sold at Best Buy for Linux. Sure, most non-Sony PS3 titles have Windows versions, but a Windows 7 license will be about $200 and put you over your budget.
Yep. That's something I agree with. Your DRM is only as good as the work you put into it, and should be replaceable once your encryption key is discovered and/or leaked out. They shouldn't get protection by law, they should back it up with their own money.
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This wasn't a marketing company, it was an e-mail delivery service. It takes a lot of work to deliver thousands of customized e-mails to a customer base. To get it right, you have to learn the SMTP acceptance policies of various ISPs, deliver up to the limit, and then back off until the timeout resets.
This just goes to show why you only give database slices away, all they needed was the text of the e-mail with the variable spots included, the name to put in the variable slot, and the address to send it to.
It's a spammer's dream to get this many active e-mail addresses released, but it's not the kind of thing that should cause much damage.
Long term planned failures seem to do that. Seeing it worked for 30 years is cause for celebration, but it should also have been a going away party. Agreed, A/C in the affected areas is going to cost more this summer.
The Mark I reactor has always had He containers built in that could be triggered to make a quick emergency seal. Once this is done, the reactor is offline forever... but these reactors should have had an orderly shutdown long before the quake hit simply based on their age.
There's a real simple shutdown plan.... trigger the explosives that release helium from containers that were designed to be broken in a case like this into the reactor zone, and you've got a tight seal that radiation can't pass through.
Downside to that plan is if you do it, that reactor is offline for good. Power supply in Japan would go down, and that's an economic impact.
"Eat" pretty much is the right word... we've got rods so radioactive and hot they're melting concrete all the way to vapor. Damn that's powerful when it works right, but damn that's trouble when it's not under control.
As posted in the last story, stories in this site are posted on tomorrow's business after Midnight GMT which was 8pm EDT. We're done with the jokes, now back to serious business.
This is a plant that shouldn't be operating in the first place right now. This series of nuclear reactors is past its expiration date and therefore can't be expected to perform under the duress of an earthquake and following flooding. There always was a plan to lock them up for one last time after which its supposed to be unbreakable (or anybody who does break it would be dead from radiation near instantly) but there never was any other plan for renewing it after it had run for too long.
Sorry Japan, we love electric power just as much as you do, but you've got to pay for what it takes to make it. Doing it on the cheap just causes other problems for humans in other areas than your own.
"Freedom Watch"? Isn't that the title of a Fox Business Network (the minor league farm club of Fox News Channel) which is hosted by a guy they call "judge" despite the fact his only experience in that role was the one-and-done season show "Power of Attorney" where used OJ Simpson lawyers argued "People's Court"/"Judge Judy" style cases.
If this wasn't 1984's definition of "permanent war" then there would be a good guy and bad guy to pick from. This is only Slashworthy because it pulls in Facebook and we've got a SlowNewsDay in effect.
There's no multi-lingual version of Slashdot... so for the first part we have to exclude all of the world that doesn't speak English.
Now, where's the population? Australia's big, but it's mostly unpopulated Outback areas. The UK is a densely populated, but comparatively small island. Most Canadians (even some of those who speak French) speak English, but they're due north of the USA so their time zones are mostly in sync with ours.
Now, let's look at the US distribution. Maine is so far East that the entire state belongs in the "Atlantic" time zone that Canada has, but we lump it in with the US Eastern time zone. There are many of the most historic cities in the East Coast area, and the Eastern Time zone extends far West, and Central time is just one hour off.
California? Important, but it doesn't bring much with it. Las Vegas isn't interested in tech when there isn't a tech convention in town. Redmond might care, but they can respond just 3 hours late to "prime time" stories.
It's the way TV is done, and it's the way Slashdot should be too. GMT is a geek time standard left over from Unix days, but what system in the world still displays the GMT time to a user rather than the local time? And the local time of more USA/Canada population than any other is Eastern Time.
Most of the billion is punitive damages which basically wants to make an example of Facebook saying allowing anti-Israel speech should never be allowed. Kinda flies the the face of the US's 1st Amendment freedoms, but they have no such concept in Israel. Still, see my other post on the problems with picking a venue.
It's an attempt to apply Israeli values to the American Facebook site and that's just not going to stick in an American court, and an Israeli court has no nexus to force Facebook to care about its result. They should be happy the page was pulled and go home.
Nope, the April Fools joke stories were all marked with the fill-in-your-own-word combo boxes. We're now past 8pm ET which means it's past Midnight GMT and we're into April 2nd in GMT and half the world. They really should program the site for the East Coast USA audience because that's where the most Slashdotters actually live, but they're geeks in love with GMT.
As usual, this is my annual first post to the first story after the April Fools Day Denial of Service day on Slashdot. And boy do we have a good one tonight....
Where's the dropdown box to lower the number in the story to something more reasonable than a billion?
Facebook had it right. When the page was new there was no problem with it. When it devolved into hate speech by both sides, it was pulled. All's well, nothing to see here.
It's not a story of what this app does, it's a story of what this app doesn't do. It can't leave home WiFi, won't work while a passenger in a moving bus/train, it essentially acts as a hand-held TV only where you already can put a TV.
Watching your TV content outside the home has always been crippled by legal agreements between the content owners and distributors. See, if TV was available on the web without restriction, they wouldn't be able to charge the bar and restaurant owners the high per-TV rates they do now. So we're stuck with a fancy iPad app that turns your iPad into a small TV but only when you're on your home WiFi. Sure it could work over 3G, but that's not a deal Time Warner Cable wants to write... and by doing so may be protecting the space from somebody who does want to do such a deal.
If It goes too fast and on target, would it become an AIM Instant Messenger?
Most people don't bother to troubleshoot a broken computer, they don't open the case. A non-booting computer is broken, and either needs to be repaired or replaced, both of which cost money. When the costs of the repair exceeds the cost of a new computer, the user will chose the new computer. The point of this story is that it's taking longer for computers to reach that point.
Five years is the typical standard for a magnetic hard disk to fail. (Possibly the source of the noise in the summary) Planned failure creates sales... as annoying as it is for the customers.
The good news here is that the computer buying public is getting more educated about what they need and what's available, and starting to find better deals.
The bad news is that the tech industry has to compete more with itself which means its scrambling over a smaller total of dollars available.
In order to get much value out of a PS3, you must have at least one game/movie disc... your PS3 becomes more valuable to you if you have more discs.
People are used to having daylight later in the day in Summer and not in Winter, leading to things like Little League Baseball games being scheduled for when there's seasonal light and parents can be home from work. If people were to retire the time changes, we'd most likely be in a permanent DST arrangement.
Unless this trading system runs on local-time, New York time will log a normal day on the day this 2-hour jump goes into effect and the world will go on as usual. There's been 2 hour jumps in other timezones before, have you ever looked at the long-long-long list of time zone rules Windows has to abide by and Microsoft has to issue a Critical Update for every time some lawmaking body wants to mess with timekeeping.
This just goes to prove the idea that Windows XP is secure due to being time tested doesn't hold water in all situations. This is one update you have to have, otherwise your system clock will not match the watches of the people around you.
Bur you still haven't fully duplicated the PS3. There's not many games sold at Best Buy for Linux. Sure, most non-Sony PS3 titles have Windows versions, but a Windows 7 license will be about $200 and put you over your budget.
Yep. That's something I agree with. Your DRM is only as good as the work you put into it, and should be replaceable once your encryption key is discovered and/or leaked out. They shouldn't get protection by law, they should back it up with their own money.