Until there is some form of "allowable" vigilantism, spam will continue to increase. I once tried to get a particular spammer to stop bombarding me with messages...and eventually, he call my ISP and said I was harassing HIM...and of course HIS spam did not stop. I tried everything I could find, from contacting his ISP to trying to contact the people he was an "affiliate" for...nothing worked. That's one thing that an anti-spam bill should allow...even if we can't track down their servers in China or Thailand, we can darn well find the home of the original criminals, which are almost always in the US...and have a nice friendly conversation with them.
The US military has been looking towards a space-based war for years. They certainly don't have space "fighters" yet, but things like the ASAT (Anti-SATellite) missile that was developed in the mid-80's shows what they have in mind. It was a missile, able to be fired from an F-15, that could knock down a low-earth-orbit satellite...space war IS coming.
Oh, by the way, I've had at least a half-dozen iMacs fry network boards in the past two months (but they convert to wireless pretty well afterwards.) I just cannot believe that people are so willing to turn off reality to embrace a computer brand. I am not a troll, I am not trying to get a "rise" out of anyone. I just want people to hear the truth, and give me the same courtesy.
Are you calling me a liar? I can take you to the computer lab and show you. Or are you just denying the truth? I have made similar comments before...and they are still true. They continue to have problems with their eMacs, including recurring failures of the video boards. My comments hold more water than ever...stay away from eMacs!
This guy may be a troll...but what about all of the fried video cards on eMacs? A neighboring school district bought over 100, and over 50 had fried boards in the first three months...and in fact, they're now sending them ALL back to get "repaired" at Apple. POS if you ask me, but it's just what I've been saying...Macs may appear pretty to some eyes, but they have the same Taiwanese crap on the inside...
I will be much more impressed when they put some sort of semi-permanent station in space, like the US and Russians did lots in the 60's and 70's. The US have greatly helped their "satellite" launch (AKA ballistic missile launch) industry and it's a fallacy, in my view, to talk about this as a "Chinese only venture." It's best chalked up to Red propaganda and left at that.
Having come from an OS 6/7/8/9 background on Macs, I think that OS X is a revolution in moving things around. Chooser? What's that? I have nothing against OS X, and think that certain things (like a legitimate taskbar) are nice about it...but then again, ask some teachers that have used Macs since the "olden days" and they will curse OS X. I think it was too big of a change for too many people. Let me put in some obligatory Mac praises to keep me from being modded as a troll...
MACS RULE...OS X IS WONDERFUL...G5 IS THE FASTEST PC IN THE WORLD...STEVE JOBS IS A VISIONARY
But watch it be modded that way anyway.
I am, within a month, going to installed "multiplexed T1" system over a pair of Proxim wireless units. It will link two schools that I have jurisdiction over, and provide telephone service between them. This will save the district almost $1000 per month in T1 charges. It's not quite VOIP, but it's the same concept of voice-over-digital-data-lines.
There are 126 million people in Pakistan...would India's killing of a large proportion of them, probably eclipsing the death toll of World War II, make any difference to people looking to outsource? Well you're probably right, step 6 would probably go full speed ahead through the rubble.
So if Pakistan and India go to war over Kashmir, neither will resort to nuclear weapons? What about under the circumstances of an Indian breakthrough that is rapidly advancing on the Pakistani capital? Can you rule out tactical use of nuclear weapons? Can you rule out strategic use of weapons after the initial tactical strikes? I am saying that India and Pakistan have both threatened each other with nuclear devastation...and are probably both thinking like the US and USSR thought in the 50's and 60's, that there is a "winnable" nuclear war. My perceptions are obviously from the American side of things...would you care to offer another side?
I suppose you're probably right to some extent...if Bangalore disappears (or is conquered by the Pakistanis) then many of these operations could be moved to some other semi-2nd-world country. but I see too many American companies becoming hollow administrative shells supporting massive overseas operations...all of which is designed to allow companies to undercut their competition on prices...but this is only contributing rampant deflation in the economy...which feeds the flames of job-exporting.
I feel the same way about capitalism to some extent...at the rate we are shipping things out to other countries, how long until HP, for instance, is a wholly-owned Indian or Chinese company?
The thing I fear most about seeing vast swaths of our technology industry shipped to India is their instability with Pakistan. Wait until India, as the largest producer of technology items, gets a 100-kiloton fission device exploded over Bangalore. The workers and infrastructure are there, but the security is not, in my opinion...
I used to use two monitors in my former life as an architectural draftsman...I could have one session of AutoCAD open on one monitor, and another in the second monitor. If you want to copy something, just pick it on one monitor and drag it to another. It was also useful for having reams of specifications open on one monitor while drawing their requirements on another...so there is productivity gain in the right circumstances...but as with most technology, I fear that many people will buy it just for the sake of having it...and not for any particular productivity reason.
The point would be valid for high school seniors too. I have seen too many machines smashed, stolen, and mutilated in my experiences...Unless they buy a really open-ended insurance policy, I'd say half of them will be inoperable in a week.
Has anyone else noticed that the "spam" sort of sites that are nothing but link farms and Gator popups are getting much better at finding their way into Google's rankings? I switched to Google back in the day after search engines like altavista became overrun with such sites. Now I've noticed that they occasionally creep into their rankings...I guess entropy is the way of the universe after all.
Judges and juries can and do make grevious errors in judgement, and are often swayed by the whims and finances of people and corporations. I think that if I make playable audio out of an image, or a program, or this post, it is MY right to call it a "creative work", just as much as lung-gargling bands like Linkin Park or Staind can call their bleatings music. It should then be afforded the same protections and DMCA overprotections that the Insane Clown Posse gets for what they pass off as music...Which would mean the ability to search-and-destroy on the Internet at my whim, because I am simply "protecting my property."
If it's anything like most of the "educators" I've known that prefer Macs, they don't even realize there is a PC equivalent out there. I work with five "Mac People" that wouldn't even consider buying a PC, much less than using one.
Yup, a school district. I would definately agree that going from Netware 5 to Windows anything would be a security decrease...I run out of fingers and toes when I try to count the accounts I get from other school technical guys about how their Windows networks are full of holes, even after literally hundreds of thousands of dollars in consultant fees and Microsoft upgrades.
They offered to give me pretty much anything...Biztalk was yakked about, but never specifically offered. Basically, it was "what do we need to do for you to get you to run at least one Windows server?" It seemed like a get-your-foot-in-the-door method of salemanship. I get similar calls from my ex-Novell salesman, trying to get me to convert all of my machines back to Novell 6, and ZenWorks. After all, he says, Netware 7 is going to be on the Linux kernel (he pronounces it with a long I (aka, lineux.) But I am, overall, very happy with my Linux machines. I basically just start them, and walk away. The only problems I encounter are caused by myself, it seems.
I have a good idea where some of this Linux-shifting is coming from...I talked to some Microsoft salesmen, trying to sell me some financial software. They off-handedly asked me what I had for server software...Previously I had Novell Netware, which they didn't care much about. But the most recent time, I mentioned I ran Linux. They were very, very interested...and in fact offered me a $70,000 software "grant" if I would put in a Windows Server. I am not going to take the same road as my previous district (of which I was an underling, and not in charge)...which is now in the position of almost yearly forced upgrades from Microsoft, at a yearly licensing fee exceeding $50,000. They are caught in a swirling monetary vortex from which there is little or no escape...particularly so since their "consultants" keep pushing MS onto them with no remorse.
Actually, if done correctly, DOE could actually reduce spam...one of the principles of statistical methods is increasing the signal-to-noise ratio to get a better product. Currently, most spams fail...a massive proportion fail. The current industry response to the problem of.001% response is to increase the total volume, hopefully getting a bit more of signal with a lot more noise. If these statistical methods are applied to targeting their e-mails correctly, and making it easier for people that really do want to enlarge their genitals to get their advertising, while reducing the amount of such spam sent to 90-year-old great-grandmothers. DOE is actually a wonderful system, and the cornerstone of W. Edwards Deming's writings (look it up, he was a great guy.)
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Until there is some form of "allowable" vigilantism, spam will continue to increase. I once tried to get a particular spammer to stop bombarding me with messages...and eventually, he call my ISP and said I was harassing HIM...and of course HIS spam did not stop. I tried everything I could find, from contacting his ISP to trying to contact the people he was an "affiliate" for...nothing worked. That's one thing that an anti-spam bill should allow...even if we can't track down their servers in China or Thailand, we can darn well find the home of the original criminals, which are almost always in the US...and have a nice friendly conversation with them.
The US military has been looking towards a space-based war for years. They certainly don't have space "fighters" yet, but things like the ASAT (Anti-SATellite) missile that was developed in the mid-80's shows what they have in mind. It was a missile, able to be fired from an F-15, that could knock down a low-earth-orbit satellite...space war IS coming.
Oh, by the way, I've had at least a half-dozen iMacs fry network boards in the past two months (but they convert to wireless pretty well afterwards.) I just cannot believe that people are so willing to turn off reality to embrace a computer brand. I am not a troll, I am not trying to get a "rise" out of anyone. I just want people to hear the truth, and give me the same courtesy.
Are you calling me a liar? I can take you to the computer lab and show you. Or are you just denying the truth? I have made similar comments before...and they are still true. They continue to have problems with their eMacs, including recurring failures of the video boards. My comments hold more water than ever...stay away from eMacs!
Seigfreid and Roy are running scared!
This guy may be a troll...but what about all of the fried video cards on eMacs? A neighboring school district bought over 100, and over 50 had fried boards in the first three months...and in fact, they're now sending them ALL back to get "repaired" at Apple. POS if you ask me, but it's just what I've been saying...Macs may appear pretty to some eyes, but they have the same Taiwanese crap on the inside...
I will be much more impressed when they put some sort of semi-permanent station in space, like the US and Russians did lots in the 60's and 70's. The US have greatly helped their "satellite" launch (AKA ballistic missile launch) industry and it's a fallacy, in my view, to talk about this as a "Chinese only venture." It's best chalked up to Red propaganda and left at that.
Having come from an OS 6/7/8/9 background on Macs, I think that OS X is a revolution in moving things around. Chooser? What's that? I have nothing against OS X, and think that certain things (like a legitimate taskbar) are nice about it...but then again, ask some teachers that have used Macs since the "olden days" and they will curse OS X. I think it was too big of a change for too many people. Let me put in some obligatory Mac praises to keep me from being modded as a troll... MACS RULE...OS X IS WONDERFUL...G5 IS THE FASTEST PC IN THE WORLD...STEVE JOBS IS A VISIONARY But watch it be modded that way anyway.
I am, within a month, going to installed "multiplexed T1" system over a pair of Proxim wireless units. It will link two schools that I have jurisdiction over, and provide telephone service between them. This will save the district almost $1000 per month in T1 charges. It's not quite VOIP, but it's the same concept of voice-over-digital-data-lines.
There are 126 million people in Pakistan...would India's killing of a large proportion of them, probably eclipsing the death toll of World War II, make any difference to people looking to outsource? Well you're probably right, step 6 would probably go full speed ahead through the rubble.
So if Pakistan and India go to war over Kashmir, neither will resort to nuclear weapons? What about under the circumstances of an Indian breakthrough that is rapidly advancing on the Pakistani capital? Can you rule out tactical use of nuclear weapons? Can you rule out strategic use of weapons after the initial tactical strikes? I am saying that India and Pakistan have both threatened each other with nuclear devastation...and are probably both thinking like the US and USSR thought in the 50's and 60's, that there is a "winnable" nuclear war. My perceptions are obviously from the American side of things...would you care to offer another side?
I suppose you're probably right to some extent...if Bangalore disappears (or is conquered by the Pakistanis) then many of these operations could be moved to some other semi-2nd-world country. but I see too many American companies becoming hollow administrative shells supporting massive overseas operations...all of which is designed to allow companies to undercut their competition on prices...but this is only contributing rampant deflation in the economy...which feeds the flames of job-exporting.
I feel the same way about capitalism to some extent...at the rate we are shipping things out to other countries, how long until HP, for instance, is a wholly-owned Indian or Chinese company? The thing I fear most about seeing vast swaths of our technology industry shipped to India is their instability with Pakistan. Wait until India, as the largest producer of technology items, gets a 100-kiloton fission device exploded over Bangalore. The workers and infrastructure are there, but the security is not, in my opinion...
Obviously the person that moderated me is a spammer...
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I used to use two monitors in my former life as an architectural draftsman...I could have one session of AutoCAD open on one monitor, and another in the second monitor. If you want to copy something, just pick it on one monitor and drag it to another. It was also useful for having reams of specifications open on one monitor while drawing their requirements on another...so there is productivity gain in the right circumstances...but as with most technology, I fear that many people will buy it just for the sake of having it...and not for any particular productivity reason.
The point would be valid for high school seniors too. I have seen too many machines smashed, stolen, and mutilated in my experiences...Unless they buy a really open-ended insurance policy, I'd say half of them will be inoperable in a week.
Has anyone else noticed that the "spam" sort of sites that are nothing but link farms and Gator popups are getting much better at finding their way into Google's rankings? I switched to Google back in the day after search engines like altavista became overrun with such sites. Now I've noticed that they occasionally creep into their rankings...I guess entropy is the way of the universe after all.
Judges and juries can and do make grevious errors in judgement, and are often swayed by the whims and finances of people and corporations. I think that if I make playable audio out of an image, or a program, or this post, it is MY right to call it a "creative work", just as much as lung-gargling bands like Linkin Park or Staind can call their bleatings music. It should then be afforded the same protections and DMCA overprotections that the Insane Clown Posse gets for what they pass off as music...Which would mean the ability to search-and-destroy on the Internet at my whim, because I am simply "protecting my property."
If it's anything like most of the "educators" I've known that prefer Macs, they don't even realize there is a PC equivalent out there. I work with five "Mac People" that wouldn't even consider buying a PC, much less than using one.
Yup, a school district. I would definately agree that going from Netware 5 to Windows anything would be a security decrease...I run out of fingers and toes when I try to count the accounts I get from other school technical guys about how their Windows networks are full of holes, even after literally hundreds of thousands of dollars in consultant fees and Microsoft upgrades.
They offered to give me pretty much anything...Biztalk was yakked about, but never specifically offered. Basically, it was "what do we need to do for you to get you to run at least one Windows server?" It seemed like a get-your-foot-in-the-door method of salemanship. I get similar calls from my ex-Novell salesman, trying to get me to convert all of my machines back to Novell 6, and ZenWorks. After all, he says, Netware 7 is going to be on the Linux kernel (he pronounces it with a long I (aka, lineux.) But I am, overall, very happy with my Linux machines. I basically just start them, and walk away. The only problems I encounter are caused by myself, it seems.
I have a good idea where some of this Linux-shifting is coming from...I talked to some Microsoft salesmen, trying to sell me some financial software. They off-handedly asked me what I had for server software...Previously I had Novell Netware, which they didn't care much about. But the most recent time, I mentioned I ran Linux. They were very, very interested...and in fact offered me a $70,000 software "grant" if I would put in a Windows Server. I am not going to take the same road as my previous district (of which I was an underling, and not in charge)...which is now in the position of almost yearly forced upgrades from Microsoft, at a yearly licensing fee exceeding $50,000. They are caught in a swirling monetary vortex from which there is little or no escape...particularly so since their "consultants" keep pushing MS onto them with no remorse.
Actually, if done correctly, DOE could actually reduce spam...one of the principles of statistical methods is increasing the signal-to-noise ratio to get a better product. Currently, most spams fail...a massive proportion fail. The current industry response to the problem of .001% response is to increase the total volume, hopefully getting a bit more of signal with a lot more noise. If these statistical methods are applied to targeting their e-mails correctly, and making it easier for people that really do want to enlarge their genitals to get their advertising, while reducing the amount of such spam sent to 90-year-old great-grandmothers. DOE is actually a wonderful system, and the cornerstone of W. Edwards Deming's writings (look it up, he was a great guy.)
Wouldn't it be nice if Congress could repeal the DMCA in one day...or perhaps lay the smack down on the RIAA/MPAA in one day...?