I've looked up our friend Mr. Ralsky on spamhaus and it would seem he's probably not paid anything yet in damages.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2002- 10-29-spam-suit_x.htm
http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/search.lasso?evidenc efile=1290
Further it would seem he has enough money to hire lawyers to appeal convictions and the other normal legal ramblings which take forever to settle lawsuits. Won't this suit/injuction simply be more of the same?
This might be good for web surfers annoyed with pop-ups since the patent might stop some websites from using them and maybe webhosting companies will halt services to their customers still using them in fear of a lawsuit.
At the same time, a lot of websites depend on pop-ups to keep their websites up as an only form of revenue.
I'm suprised no one can claim prior art on this.
Although, if someone can find a way to patent spam the internet might finally be a better place.
When I've gotten telemarketing calls, instead of saying the typical "I'm not interested" I'll say the first ridiculous excuse that comes off the top of my head and it seems to work. I used to be called at least 2 to 3 times a week (and no I did not buy their products) and now I rarely get a call during a given month.
For example: 1) Lawn care companies? Tell them you have a turf lawn or similar. Or tell them the overspray from the company spraying your neighbors lawn is taking care of your lawn as well. Its worked quite well. 2) Newpapers? I tell them I'm illiterate. 3) Alarm Systems? This is the best of all! I acutally convinced the guy I live on a military base in a nuclear bunker and he bought it! Funny thing was, he tried selling me fire and theft insurance. Of course, I explaied these are theft and fire proof as they housed nuclear weapons.
Who needs lawsuits? I have fun with them and I get rid of their calls. I've had to threaten the repeat callers w/ small claims court suits and it works. However, we need stronger/clearer laws against telemarketing and spammers.
Please don't mod this as funny. I'm quite serious even with the Alarm system thing. The idiot bought it but they also stopped calling.
I go to this site every once in a while. There are various riddles on it of increasing difficulty incl math and science ones. There happens to be riddles Microsoft uses during interviews. Enjoy!
The only thing that works is exercise and the 40-40-30 (protein, carbs, fat) diet. You have to stay consistent with both. If you can't jog or workout in the gym, walk for 1/2 hour a day. The "experts" keep changing their fad diets and exercises every year.
Remember how the ab exercise equipment was supposed to give everyone "washboard" abs and the exercise equipment from Suzanne Summers was supposed to give women great thighs and asses. Well I don't see the abs or the asses;).
If you don't lose weight from walking, its more exercise and more relaxing than coding 12/7. Think of it more as a stress relief. Ask your work to give you 1/2 hour a day to go for a walk particularly if you're working 10+ hour days.
IMO its better to take of your body and your career. Not just the latter. Your career will end prematurely otherwise.
Buy a Celeron, MB and 128 MB of RAM and a HDD etc and build your own Samba box. This is much cheaper than the product advertised and easily upgradeable - buy an extra HDD or setup Raid on it.
Still doesn't have the same feel to it for me either.
I'm hoping I can get a Wacom tablet type device and scribble on top of Word, WordPerfect or openoffice documents with my corrections ( if possible and I don't have the Wacom yet ). I don't code either and it would be much nicer to do everything electronically then with the plain ol' paper route.
Finally, I've been waiting for this! My productivity at work will double!
I have dual screens on my workstation. Now if I get another USB keyboard and use hydra, I can type with my right hand looking at the screen on the right and correct my mistakes with my left hand on the other screen/combo. I can code and correct simultaneously, now all I need is coffee intravenously.
Who needs two programmers when one programmer can do all the work?
Most ( if not all ) grandfather clocks I've seen don't have a hand for seconds so how are you going to know you've lost a second of time? Stare at the clock for an hour? Have fun!
Not that its unexpected but $300 US for the Mobo and CPU for - presumably a decent G3 - is a fraction of what I would pay even for a student discouted desktop. Apple puts huge markups on the harddrive and memory and I can't order a system w/o it despite the fact I have 3 in my case right now.
Either Apple should lower hardware prices a few extra hundred bucks or give students a better break ( hey, I am a student! ).
I've wanted to get a Mac for a long time now and I'm too tempted to order one from California and have it shipped up the Canada.
I would have expected better co-operation on this prank. I'm guessing Rasterman went to the effort of editiing the webpage in the new section. The stable version on the top of the page is/was still listed as 0.16.5 and CVS as 0.17. That was a dead give away.
Now, if this story gets posted tommorrow then I will be happy since it will presumably be true. Otherwise, the mods are definately slacking off.
I happen to find Flash Memory handy to make backups - am I the only one here? They're better than floppies, CD-RWs, CD-Rs and zip disks. They're quick, convienient, reliable, and reuseable.
I write a lot of documents and I find using a flash key chain drive practical. I pop the drive in at school and upload the documents via USB to the keychain drive. I do the same at home to have mulitple backups. I'm paranoid - but - I also haven't lost anything.
I don't know about failure rates on these things but I have enough backups not to worry.
It only makes sense that all the information intended for declassification does not contain a hint of what might be vital information to US secruity. For instance stuff that happened during the Cold War - tapping cables in the ocean, encounters with Russian subs and so on.
Some information has been declassified about the Cuban missile crisis largely found here: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/
. I sure this is not all the information on the CMC and some might still be "sensitive".
It took the British at leat 25 years before they admitted they had cracked the Enigma machines presumably because the Germany military and embassies were using them after WW2 thinking they were impervious. The British wouldn't want the Germans to know what confidential information they new of thier military operations and political commniques.
I just hope a lot of this information is declassified in the next 20 or 30 years. There are some great stories to be told and it would definately be of great historical importance.
I'm running a Pentium 3 on my desktop computer. And most all I do on the desktop is word processing, spreadsheets, surf the Net and e-mail. 64-bit processors will not help me out at all.
More addressable memory, registers and better float math is not helping at all. I'm like many other computer users out there and I don't see anyone buying into it.
Even if the processors are the same price, my computer still works fine. Until smoke starts spewing out from the case, I'm not upgrading.
If Dvorak were to work for Apple they would be bankrupt by now. Apple would always operate on rumors and not business decisions.
Think of the average consumer walking into a retail store. Doesn't know the difference between a PC, MAC or a motherboard and a CPU. If you tell him that this Windows computer runs an Intel processor and so does the Mac but the PC is cheaper which would he buy? Why would a techie buy a MAC if they can get a desktop with the same/similar CPU for less and be able to run FreeBSD or Linux?
Apple needs to reduce the price of the Itaniums by producing larger quantities. If Apple wants to use it, they'll also have to lower the power consumption since Apple will have to sell it in Powerbooks. Never mind the potential software and OS incompatabilites.
Buying an Itanium leaves nothing for the lower budget consumer. I'd like to see them sell try t get the laptops still in the $1200 - $1500 range with an Itanium when they first enter market. And what of the iMacs?
I'm not surprised by any means that MS would chose a proprietary standard. It seems MS over the years has made importing/exporting.DOC documents much harder; locking people to using their apps. Which for MS is from a business/revenue perspective is understandable. It seems Wordperfect has OTOH, been much easier to convert/import and most documents I've imported have been nearly flawless.
Perhaps on a separate note, what format would be best to use to compose essays and large documents in non-corporate environment. I compose a lot of documents as a student and I require something that I can easily format and safekeep electronically for many years. Other than POT ( no, not that but Plain OLD TEXT ), would some form of XML be better or Tex/TeTex..... ? It would be nice to standardize everything to one format and not have to worry many years later about not being able to retrieve it.
If you believe in creation, bacteria are amonst the first living forms of live upon which every other living being is based. This means one thing: they are very easy to adapt.
Simply using other bacteria to attack bacteria might work for awhile. If some of the Staph bacteria survive then they will change their DNA over several generations - which would be weeks or months - to resist this "attack". What then?
For $18 a month, I get unlimited downloads and streams but can only burn 10 songs a month? Whats the whole point in downloading the songs if I can't burn them to a CD?
I can get free streams of music on-line from Shoutcast and its not limited to one company's offerings ( AOL TW ).
What % of the shuttle has been recovered?
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Unrelated to the news at hand....
I heard in the news that some 1,500 + parts have been recovered. Are there any estimates as to what percentage of the space shuttle this might comprise? It would be interesting to see how much of the shuttle they expect to recover and wether or not the amount recovered so far might help to elimitate other theories.
I'm wondering if this is not an act of revenge on an ex-husband/boyfriend. She may have decided to take some of her ex-hubby's possessions and destroy them to oblivion - or put them in the over knowing they wouldn't make a nutricious meal.
I find it odd that they use the following statement "among its members Adobe Systems, Apple Canada, Microsoft Canada, and Symantec..." while still claiming to be a non-profit organization.
When I want to become a "member" of an organisation, I have to pay money. I also expect to get a return on investment. That's not to say that non-profit organizations require money ( e.g. Unicef legitimately needs money for administrative fees ). In this case there seems to be a conflict of interest:
1) Software company gives money for "membership" to CAAST or BSA. They can prodly annonce they are a member.
2) The member, in return, gets to reduce software piracy.
But here's the catch:
3) There has to be reciprocity in the exchange. The Non-profit organisation is probably making its "volunteers" serious cash, since I presume, they must get a cut for each software sale made. I don't see how it can all go to administrative fees.
Who would volunteer to help reduce software piracy while devoting a serious amount of personal time w/o compensation - if they're as busy as they claim ( sending letters, having techs scan the network, check licenses, report to vendor....). Show of hands? I don't see any.
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I've looked up our friend Mr. Ralsky on spamhaus and it would seem he's probably not paid anything yet in damages. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2002- 10-29-spam-suit_x.htm
http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/search.lasso?evidenc efile=1290
Further it would seem he has enough money to hire lawyers to appeal convictions and the other normal legal ramblings which take forever to settle lawsuits. Won't this suit/injuction simply be more of the same?
This might be good for web surfers annoyed with pop-ups since the patent might stop some websites from using them and maybe webhosting companies will halt services to their customers still using them in fear of a lawsuit.
At the same time, a lot of websites depend on pop-ups to keep their websites up as an only form of revenue.
I'm suprised no one can claim prior art on this.
Although, if someone can find a way to patent spam the internet might finally be a better place.
When I've gotten telemarketing calls, instead of saying the typical "I'm not interested" I'll say the first ridiculous excuse that comes off the top of my head and it seems to work. I used to be called at least 2 to 3 times a week (and no I did not buy their products) and now I rarely get a call during a given month.
For example:
1) Lawn care companies? Tell them you have a turf lawn or similar. Or tell them the overspray from the company spraying your neighbors lawn is taking care of your lawn as well. Its worked quite well.
2) Newpapers? I tell them I'm illiterate.
3) Alarm Systems? This is the best of all! I acutally convinced the guy I live on a military base in a nuclear bunker and he bought it! Funny thing was, he tried selling me fire and theft insurance. Of course, I explaied these are theft and fire proof as they housed nuclear weapons.
Who needs lawsuits? I have fun with them and I get rid of their calls. I've had to threaten the repeat callers w/ small claims court suits and it works. However, we need stronger/clearer laws against telemarketing and spammers.
Please don't mod this as funny. I'm quite serious even with the Alarm system thing. The idiot bought it but they also stopped calling.
I go to this site every once in a while. There are various riddles on it of increasing difficulty incl math and science ones. There happens to be riddles Microsoft uses during interviews. Enjoy!
Microsoft Interview Questions
The only thing that works is exercise and the 40-40-30 (protein, carbs, fat) diet. You have to stay consistent with both. If you can't jog or workout in the gym, walk for 1/2 hour a day. The "experts" keep changing their fad diets and exercises every year.
;) .
Remember how the ab exercise equipment was supposed to give everyone "washboard" abs and the exercise equipment from Suzanne Summers was supposed to give women great thighs and asses. Well I don't see the abs or the asses
If you don't lose weight from walking, its more exercise and more relaxing than coding 12/7. Think of it more as a stress relief. Ask your work to give you 1/2 hour a day to go for a walk particularly if you're working 10+ hour days.
IMO its better to take of your body and your career. Not just the latter. Your career will end prematurely otherwise.
Buy a Celeron, MB and 128 MB of RAM and a HDD etc and build your own Samba box. This is much cheaper than the product advertised and easily upgradeable - buy an extra HDD or setup Raid on it.
Still doesn't have the same feel to it for me either.
I'm hoping I can get a Wacom tablet type device and scribble on top of Word, WordPerfect or openoffice documents with my corrections ( if possible and I don't have the Wacom yet ). I don't code either and it would be much nicer to do everything electronically then with the plain ol' paper route.
Finally, I've been waiting for this! My productivity at work will double!
I have dual screens on my workstation. Now if I get another USB keyboard and use hydra, I can type with my right hand looking at the screen on the right and correct my mistakes with my left hand on the other screen/combo. I can code and correct simultaneously, now all I need is coffee intravenously.
Who needs two programmers when one programmer can do all the work?
Most ( if not all ) grandfather clocks I've seen don't have a hand for seconds so how are you going to know you've lost a second of time? Stare at the clock for an hour? Have fun!
I know plenty of people who become neurotic from using the computer too much. Who cares about the comuter!
Not that its unexpected but $300 US for the Mobo and CPU for - presumably a decent G3 - is a fraction of what I would pay even for a student discouted desktop. Apple puts huge markups on the harddrive and memory and I can't order a system w/o it despite the fact I have 3 in my case right now.
Either Apple should lower hardware prices a few extra hundred bucks or give students a better break ( hey, I am a student! ).
I've wanted to get a Mac for a long time now and I'm too tempted to order one from California and have it shipped up the Canada.
I would have expected better co-operation on this prank. I'm guessing Rasterman went to the effort of editiing the webpage in the new section. The stable version on the top of the page is/was still listed as 0.16.5 and CVS as 0.17. That was a dead give away.
Now, if this story gets posted tommorrow then I will be happy since it will presumably be true. Otherwise, the mods are definately slacking off.
I happen to find Flash Memory handy to make backups - am I the only one here? They're better than floppies, CD-RWs, CD-Rs and zip disks. They're quick, convienient, reliable, and reuseable.
I write a lot of documents and I find using a flash key chain drive practical. I pop the drive in at school and upload the documents via USB to the keychain drive. I do the same at home to have mulitple backups. I'm paranoid - but - I also haven't lost anything.
I don't know about failure rates on these things but I have enough backups not to worry.
It only makes sense that all the information intended for declassification does not contain a hint of what might be vital information to US secruity. For instance stuff that happened during the Cold War - tapping cables in the ocean, encounters with Russian subs and so on. Some information has been declassified about the Cuban missile crisis largely found here: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/ . I sure this is not all the information on the CMC and some might still be "sensitive". It took the British at leat 25 years before they admitted they had cracked the Enigma machines presumably because the Germany military and embassies were using them after WW2 thinking they were impervious. The British wouldn't want the Germans to know what confidential information they new of thier military operations and political commniques. I just hope a lot of this information is declassified in the next 20 or 30 years. There are some great stories to be told and it would definately be of great historical importance.
I'm running a Pentium 3 on my desktop computer. And most all I do on the desktop is word processing, spreadsheets, surf the Net and e-mail. 64-bit processors will not help me out at all.
More addressable memory, registers and better float math is not helping at all. I'm like many other computer users out there and I don't see anyone buying into it.
Even if the processors are the same price, my computer still works fine. Until smoke starts spewing out from the case, I'm not upgrading.
If Dvorak were to work for Apple they would be bankrupt by now. Apple would always operate on rumors and not business decisions.
Think of the average consumer walking into a retail store. Doesn't know the difference between a PC, MAC or a motherboard and a CPU. If you tell him that this Windows computer runs an Intel processor and so does the Mac but the PC is cheaper which would he buy? Why would a techie buy a MAC if they can get a desktop with the same/similar CPU for less and be able to run FreeBSD or Linux?
Apple needs to reduce the price of the Itaniums by producing larger quantities. If Apple wants to use it, they'll also have to lower the power consumption since Apple will have to sell it in Powerbooks. Never mind the potential software and OS incompatabilites.
Buying an Itanium leaves nothing for the lower budget consumer. I'd like to see them sell try t get the laptops still in the $1200 - $1500
range with an Itanium when they first enter market. And what of the iMacs?
To help debunk the number of MS vs. Linux users:
Maybe if more people registered With Linux Counter we could have a more accurate count of the number of Linux users.
Actually, more like Habitat Taliban.
I'm not surprised by any means that MS would chose a proprietary standard. It seems MS over the years has made importing/exporting .DOC documents much harder; locking people to using their apps. Which for MS is from a business/revenue perspective is understandable. It seems Wordperfect has OTOH, been much easier to convert/import and most documents I've imported have been nearly flawless.
Perhaps on a separate note, what format would be best to use to compose essays and large documents in non-corporate environment. I compose a lot of documents as a student and I require something that I can easily format and safekeep electronically for many years. Other than POT ( no, not that but Plain OLD TEXT ), would some form of XML be better or Tex/TeTex..... ? It would be nice to standardize everything to one format and not have to worry many years later about not being able to retrieve it.
The "National Criminal Intelligence Service"? Are they providing a service to the general public or to Criminals?
If you believe in creation, bacteria are amonst the first living forms of live upon which every other living being is based. This means one thing: they are very easy to adapt.
Simply using other bacteria to attack bacteria might work for awhile. If some of the Staph bacteria survive then they will change their DNA over several generations - which would be weeks or months - to resist this "attack". What then?
For $18 a month, I get unlimited downloads and streams but can only burn 10 songs a month? Whats the whole point in downloading the songs if I can't burn them to a CD? I can get free streams of music on-line from Shoutcast and its not limited to one company's offerings ( AOL TW ).
Unrelated to the news at hand....
I heard in the news that some 1,500 + parts have been recovered. Are there any estimates as to what percentage of the space shuttle this might comprise? It would be interesting to see how much of the shuttle they expect to recover and wether or not the amount recovered so far might help to elimitate other theories.
I'm wondering if this is not an act of revenge on an ex-husband/boyfriend. She may have decided to take some of her ex-hubby's possessions and destroy them to oblivion - or put them in the over knowing they wouldn't make a nutricious meal.
I find it odd that they use the following statement "among its members Adobe Systems, Apple Canada, Microsoft Canada, and Symantec..." while still claiming to be a non-profit organization.
When I want to become a "member" of an organisation, I have to pay money. I also expect to get a return on investment. That's not to say that non-profit organizations require money ( e.g. Unicef legitimately needs money for administrative fees ). In this case there seems to be a conflict of interest:
1) Software company gives money for "membership" to CAAST or BSA. They can prodly annonce they are a member.
2) The member, in return, gets to reduce software piracy.
But here's the catch:
3) There has to be reciprocity in the exchange. The Non-profit organisation is probably making its "volunteers" serious cash, since I presume, they must get a cut for each software sale made. I don't see how it can all go to administrative fees.
Who would volunteer to help reduce software piracy while devoting a serious amount of personal time w/o compensation - if they're as busy as they claim ( sending letters, having techs scan the network, check licenses, report to vendor....). Show of hands? I don't see any.