Why not let me (the consumer) decide the matter? Millionaires will obviously be the ones to go to space *first* (just like they drove first, flew first, and had broadband Internet first). Eventually, you'll be able to rent a Kia-brand spacecraft and complain about not getting good reception on your cell phone when you're 60 miles up.
I think a pay-per-view model like the one IBM described, available here would somewhat alleviate the problem. I'd be happy to accept spam if I was paid, say, $0.01 per email received. Perhaps something like a tax on the ISPs, so Joe's ISP can send out 100 emails a day per user, any more is taxed at $0.01 per email. So each user gets the 100, if they need more, then they either pay a little bit, or maybe even get a license for unlimited. I wouldn't mind paying a TINY bit for a solution to the spam problem. As long as these fucktards use open relays (run by fucktards), I'm never going to be able to tell the penis enlargement mailing lists I REALLY sign up for from the spam.
According to the (U.S.) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, a 2001 study conducted by the Mayo Clinic also found that heavy computer use â" up to seven hours a day â" did not increase the userâ(TM)s risk of developing the injury.
7 hours a day? So this obviously isn't directed at the 18-20 hour a day/. crowd.
Actually it was a bad attempt on my part to be funny. I've used debug before, mostly to crack old Sierra games.
Seriously, however, none of the 'kids' today know a thing about those 400 naked wires that make their start menu pop up, it would be wise to learn if they ever wanted to code in something other than VB.
What would stop the RIAA from handing over to Verizon, Earthlink, Optimum Online... a list of IPs and timestamps and saying, "Give me everyone on the list." Since Verizon lost this one battle, is that the next step?
Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for gps users. Participating in a cache hunt is a good way to take advantage of the wonderful features and capability of a gps unit. The basic idea is to have individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find the caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. All the visitor is asked to do is if they get something they should try to leave something for the cache.
Well from personal experience, I've lost 2/2 Maxtors (within 2 years), and 1/8 WDs (it must have been 5 or 6 years old at the time it failed). I'm happy to pay the extra premium for WD, so the story didn't convince me of anything, it just reinforced what I believed anyway.
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This is a such a great idea. I can't begin to tell you how many hours I spend in frustration trying to line up my credit card with the swiper. Not to mention the huge amounts of dirt and grime that i have to clean off my cards every night!
Maybe they should just surgically implant a credit card in my brain so i can just *think* about buying something and it's done.
It looks like people may soon accept the fact that Nuclear * is here to stay! With energy consumption rising, and coal/oil/etc screwing everything up, we need something safe, clean, etc for the future.
I think there was a Bond movie about some solar cell thing-a-ma-jiggy that would solve this. I guess nuke's will work too.
I'm holding off on getting a new car until I get get a hydrogen one.
until a business need exists for it. Since US companies (ISPs, schools, etc) will have to back it first, and most won't make any extra money from Lao Po in Beijing having a class D instead of a NAT'ed single IP, I don't see this happening. And since US ISPs are now NAT'ing and giving people gateways like 255.255.255.254, they've delayed our running out of IPs for quite a while.
And to the guy who mentioned that MIT probably isn't using their entire class A, I think they've given a unique IP to each student, book, pencil, and brick on campus.
Unfortunately, this is the way it had to end-- the RIAA would lose face to the public if they went for criminal charges, and the $12-17k is a realistic warning to other file traders. If they suit had been for a hundred million trillion dollars (or however must Hilary--err, the RIAA-- estimated as damages), it would have also been a defeat in the public's eyes. $3000 a year, hmmm $300 a month for "unlimited" MP3 downloads? Sounds like a marketing campaign!
Actually, that does sound pretty good, would you pay, say $59 a month or something for unlimited mp3s? I might...
I think maybe giving the data to spammers in the form of email addresses would be the key-- they'd keep it forever, and they'd never remove any of the data!
This makes me totally sick. What is the government thinking? There MUST be people out there who can make good decisions? Why aren't they doing anything???...and everywhere the ceremony of innocence...
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Except in the case of the DMCA/RIAA. Then we're all guilty as sin. Period.
Why not let me (the consumer) decide the matter? Millionaires will obviously be the ones to go to space *first* (just like they drove first, flew first, and had broadband Internet first). Eventually, you'll be able to rent a Kia-brand spacecraft and complain about not getting good reception on your cell phone when you're 60 miles up.
"The industry estimates it loses $4 billion a year in revenue."
Just like the RIAA is losing $Infinity billion due to mp3s.
just trade an MP3 and wait for the RIAA to contact the FBI for you!
I think a pay-per-view model like the one IBM described, available here would somewhat alleviate the problem. I'd be happy to accept spam if I was paid, say, $0.01 per email received. Perhaps something like a tax on the ISPs, so Joe's ISP can send out 100 emails a day per user, any more is taxed at $0.01 per email. So each user gets the 100, if they need more, then they either pay a little bit, or maybe even get a license for unlimited. I wouldn't mind paying a TINY bit for a solution to the spam problem. As long as these fucktards use open relays (run by fucktards), I'm never going to be able to tell the penis enlargement mailing lists I REALLY sign up for from the spam.
According to the (U.S.) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, a 2001 study conducted by the Mayo Clinic also found that heavy computer use â" up to seven hours a day â" did not increase the userâ(TM)s risk of developing the injury. /. crowd.
7 hours a day? So this obviously isn't directed at the 18-20 hour a day
Actually it was a bad attempt on my part to be funny. I've used debug before, mostly to crack old Sierra games.
Seriously, however, none of the 'kids' today know a thing about those 400 naked wires that make their start menu pop up, it would be wise to learn if they ever wanted to code in something other than VB.
Why was this post rated 'funny'?
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how about as execs from the RIAA. Oh wait, I didn't realize this wasn't part of the RIAA-bashing discussion.
Sure, and while you're at it, send me $1 too, I've got a slew of credit card bills. Just $1, folks!
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I called, they're still open. The lady was kind of rude on the phone though. Anybody up for a class-action?
Quicktime sucks, it core-dumped twice and it's got its dirty tentacles all over the OS now. I thought there was a winamp mov plugin somewhere...
What would stop the RIAA from handing over to Verizon, Earthlink, Optimum Online... a list of IPs and timestamps and saying, "Give me everyone on the list." Since Verizon lost this one battle, is that the next step?
...from Geocaching.com/faq.asp"
What is Geocaching?
Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for gps users. Participating in a cache hunt is a good way to take advantage of the wonderful features and capability of a gps unit. The basic idea is to have individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find the caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. All the visitor is asked to do is if they get something they should try to leave something for the cache.
Well from personal experience, I've lost 2/2 Maxtors (within 2 years), and 1/8 WDs (it must have been 5 or 6 years old at the time it failed). I'm happy to pay the extra premium for WD, so the story didn't convince me of anything, it just reinforced what I believed anyway. M
I think I lost my hard drive in my pocket!
This seems to be great, as long as they're more reliable than Maxtors.
This is a such a great idea. I can't begin to tell you how many hours I spend in frustration trying to line up my credit card with the swiper. Not to mention the huge amounts of dirt and grime that i have to clean off my cards every night!
Maybe they should just surgically implant a credit card in my brain so i can just *think* about buying something and it's done.
It looks like people may soon accept the fact that Nuclear * is here to stay! With energy consumption rising, and coal/oil/etc screwing everything up, we need something safe, clean, etc for the future.
I think there was a Bond movie about some solar cell thing-a-ma-jiggy that would solve this. I guess nuke's will work too.
I'm holding off on getting a new car until I get get a hydrogen one.
until a business need exists for it. Since US companies (ISPs, schools, etc) will have to back it first, and most won't make any extra money from Lao Po in Beijing having a class D instead of a NAT'ed single IP, I don't see this happening. And since US ISPs are now NAT'ing and giving people gateways like 255.255.255.254, they've delayed our running out of IPs for quite a while. And to the guy who mentioned that MIT probably isn't using their entire class A, I think they've given a unique IP to each student, book, pencil, and brick on campus.
The star has it's own website?!!
Awwww, my first IBM XT, playing Decathelon (which says "Copyright Microsoft 1980" when it boots up (5.25", self-contained o/s)
Unfortunately, this is the way it had to end-- the RIAA would lose face to the public if they went for criminal charges, and the $12-17k is a realistic warning to other file traders. If they suit had been for a hundred million trillion dollars (or however must Hilary--err, the RIAA-- estimated as damages), it would have also been a defeat in the public's eyes. $3000 a year, hmmm $300 a month for "unlimited" MP3 downloads? Sounds like a marketing campaign!
Actually, that does sound pretty good, would you pay, say $59 a month or something for unlimited mp3s? I might...
I think maybe giving the data to spammers in the form of email addresses would be the key-- they'd keep it forever, and they'd never remove any of the data!
This makes me totally sick. What is the government thinking? There MUST be people out there who can make good decisions? Why aren't they doing anything??? ...and everywhere the ceremony of innocence...