In my humble experience, spam is not sent with attachments, but rather sends HTML emails which upload an image when opened (thus allowing checking of readers as well as saving bandwidth costs for them).
Why not use an email prog like Eudora, Netscape or Mozilla which, IMHO, far surpass IE or Outlook and will allow default blocking of uploading remote images in emails, blocking popups (have seen the odd couple in emails) etc?
Nice idea... charge those worth charging and let others (friends, colleagues etc) free. Sounds like good practice.
IMHO, email needs a re-vanp. When recieving an emil, authentication of the originating address should be required - would stop a lot.
But, just as ass regulation, it would need global acceptance, meaning it would probably have to be accepted as a UN resolution.
Hmmmm, famine debate about dying babies or removing some spam... let me think...
I agree it should be done, but some of us need more to care about the future of the planet, about humanity, about human afflictions more than how much spam they get.
Thanks, that's really useful, I don't suppose you have a link to the original German transcript do you?
Evan Davis has always been a man of high credability in my book - I would be really interested to see the originals as misinformation is in no one's interest.
INdeed I don't get paid overtime, but I get a pretty salary, and frankly, (sad as it sounds) I really enjoy my job.
So, I get a good wage, I enjoy my work. Sometimes it isn't all fun, but hell there's always rough with smooth.
This is the perfect job for me! If there was no 'give and take' I'd quit, because frankly I could walk into another 'easier' job.
Enough of me though, some workers are abused by their management and they should truely take action.
It sounds like you've got really good supporting management - something increasingly hard to find when they are also getting bitched on by directors these days.
Sounds like the right choice to make, but makes me feel I must stay 'generalist' and 'marketable' because we may not all be so lucky.
But when getting promotion in a corporation, or if your refusal to do something 'avove 48 hours' cost the team, then you could get a bad reference, a bad personal recommendation (not on paper, can't be audited), a bad rep, plain passed up.
What bankers (yeah yeah yeah) in London don't do > 50 hours ALL of the time. Yes we'd like to do less, but we ALL know we'd lose our job if that were so, whatever the regulation says. Most I ever did was 400 hours/month, I didn't like it and I'm not paid by-the-hour, but it demonstrated my commitment and played a part in a promotion.
Regulation is to satisfy unionised work or protect low skill low wage jobs with no chance of promotion. For the most of us here, it is irrelevant.
And in the end, its not the hours we do, but finisheing a project in time.
Reminds me of a story on TV in the UK a week ago (BBC2, Correspondant, Sunday night, all about the eurozone but no link unfortuately).
A German manufacturing company manager was being interviewed. He said a project was due on Monday but Friday night was not finished... so the workers decided to come in on Saturday to finish it. The manager did not know the workers were coming in. The project went out on Monday. Some months later the employer was called to court - someone had mentioned this to the authorities, and although they were working voluntarily he was ordered to change locks at the factory and hold all keys himself only, and if a worker did voluntary overtime he should fire them!!!!
Wow! That is a nanny state wrapping you in cotton woll and duct tape until you asphixiate.
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And I forgot to mention that NO intercontinental airline is around at the moment that didn't and still don't get some substantial government subsidy (be it purchase of planes, assistance in maintenance etc).
The best thing would be to for the government to let American go under... we have a serious overcapacity at the moment, but no, Mr G Dubya (hell, Bill C would probably have done the same) will subsidise and bail out AA all it needs vainly hoping another intercontinental carrier will go under, while their governments do the same subsidy hoping AA or some other will do just that.
So the subsidies continue, so money that could be spent on 3rd world development, or even hell, sensible tax breaks (not the short sighted rubbish at the moment) so we could have more money in our pocket so we could spend more on our seats, if we really wanted them, in the first place.
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That's the point.
AA sucked financially because people won't pay for a better service.
Fly business if you want better room... yeah it is expensive, no? But that is more like the 'real' price of your flight - the economy passengers pay the marginal cost of their seat, but the business class pay quite close to the average cost... so quit complaining and pay more, or does it come down to price and not comfort.
Note: Total cost = fixed cost + marginal cost (cost for an additional unit, or in this case, passenger)
Average cost = total cost / passengers
Economy pay marginal cost or marginal + very very little fixed cost, so they're worth to treat badly. Business class subsidise the average cost for the economy passengers.
OK, so you talk probabilities, but there is both payoff and tradeoff.
Is (probability of disaster)*(impact of disaster)(benefit of using nuclear power in this case)
It could well be, I can't say, or even predict from my standpoint. The risks may be high, but hell, we're far more likely to be computer simulations anyway, so go for it!
Hell, these nuclear space ships are a lot cheaper than those shuttles. But, if I remember correctly, back in the day they said shuttle launches would be $6m each too.
His article may have boiled her blood, but it seemed pretty spot on to me, the quote from Bill G especially.
His point is this law was written by the Business Software Alliance in such a way and to use such vague language that it will be up to 'interpretation' only to the richest corporates with the most expensive lawyers. I.e., they are taking a space where there is a need for a law and plugging their law - dress up as "free and good" to placate those with a call for it but engineered to benefit only them.
Also, she mentioned "With many of our traditional industries migrating to the Far East leaving behind job losses, we Europeans are having to rely on licensing out inventiveness to generate income and create jobs."
Since when does Amazon having a patent secure that patent to the country it was registered in?! Either she is grossly incompetant, plain stupid, or cunning and devious.
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Damn that's tough. I'm in the UK, althought I only get 500kbps down amd 250 kbps up (regular low spec ADSL) I'll leave the computer on overnight and must get 30GB/month total - my ISP (only my, given the flak in the press recently about ISPs limiting to 1GB/day - I can do 2 easily some days) seem pretty happy with this usage pattern (note - this is 'off peak', if i did this peak i'd have my arse thrown at the wall no doubt).
Sometimes I think what they pay on the wholesale market for this, but as long as they let me get away with it and still make a profit yours must be making a KILLING (I seriously doubt 'last mile' costs are big (in the broader scheme of what they charge) in most cases)!
Smalltalk shitty? No, it is grand daddy and still leading OO language.
Haskell sucks - it is the theory of a functional language, there are other, better functional languages, the Haskall to functional languages is like the Turing to procedural languages... to use it for anything more than learning purposes is madness - there are better functional languages out there for purposes other than programming 101.
Infact, of all languages, I think Haskell is more like VBA (if you can really use VBA) than any other.
And yes, I do like to go low level.
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Why don't i sue Apple for infringement of me being able to make a computational device from apples. In what was does 'Apple' resemble an aple in functionality. On behalf of COXs everywhere, I will Sue Apple for the COX abacus.
> I'm generally against government secrecy, but quietly investigating spammers isn't as bad as secret courts and arrests.
And secret courts and arrests aren't as bad as automatic imprisonment on suspect of sending spam, which isn't as bad as automatic imprisonment on suspect of infringing the DCMA, which isn't a bad as public execution, which isn't as bad as holocost.
Slippery slope indeed.
Law is law. Law is dictated by the government. Infringement of the law deserves punishment. 'Secretly investigating spammers' gives an excuse for secretly investigating [if the need is worthwhile...what is worthwhile?] and will never stand up in court as it is not founded in law an fancy lawyers can get around it [unless another law is made].
Slashdot Mirror
Hey, this is Slashdot, you don't expect them to spell 'litres' correctly do you?!
That has also happened to me.
But only when posting as AC.
Why upload the remote images.
In my humble experience, spam is not sent with attachments, but rather sends HTML emails which upload an image when opened (thus allowing checking of readers as well as saving bandwidth costs for them).
Why not use an email prog like Eudora, Netscape or Mozilla which, IMHO, far surpass IE or Outlook and will allow default blocking of uploading remote images in emails, blocking popups (have seen the odd couple in emails) etc?
Give them a try.
And how do you prove it when someone counter-sues for waste of time?
We need a more wholesome solution, with lots of fibre.
Nice idea... charge those worth charging and let others (friends, colleagues etc) free. Sounds like good practice.
IMHO, email needs a re-vanp. When recieving an emil, authentication of the originating address should be required - would stop a lot.
But, just as ass regulation, it would need global acceptance, meaning it would probably have to be accepted as a UN resolution.
Hmmmm, famine debate about dying babies or removing some spam... let me think...
I agree it should be done, but some of us need more to care about the future of the planet, about humanity, about human afflictions more than how much spam they get.
Thanks, that's really useful, I don't suppose you have a link to the original German transcript do you?
Evan Davis has always been a man of high credability in my book - I would be really interested to see the originals as misinformation is in no one's interest.
INdeed I don't get paid overtime, but I get a pretty salary, and frankly, (sad as it sounds) I really enjoy my job. So, I get a good wage, I enjoy my work. Sometimes it isn't all fun, but hell there's always rough with smooth. This is the perfect job for me! If there was no 'give and take' I'd quit, because frankly I could walk into another 'easier' job. Enough of me though, some workers are abused by their management and they should truely take action.
It sounds like you've got really good supporting management - something increasingly hard to find when they are also getting bitched on by directors these days. Sounds like the right choice to make, but makes me feel I must stay 'generalist' and 'marketable' because we may not all be so lucky.
No, you can't explicitly be fired.
But when getting promotion in a corporation, or if your refusal to do something 'avove 48 hours' cost the team, then you could get a bad reference, a bad personal recommendation (not on paper, can't be audited), a bad rep, plain passed up.
What bankers (yeah yeah yeah) in London don't do > 50 hours ALL of the time. Yes we'd like to do less, but we ALL know we'd lose our job if that were so, whatever the regulation says. Most I ever did was 400 hours/month, I didn't like it and I'm not paid by-the-hour, but it demonstrated my commitment and played a part in a promotion.
Regulation is to satisfy unionised work or protect low skill low wage jobs with no chance of promotion. For the most of us here, it is irrelevant.
And in the end, its not the hours we do, but finisheing a project in time.
Haha!
Reminds me of a story on TV in the UK a week ago (BBC2, Correspondant, Sunday night, all about the eurozone but no link unfortuately).
A German manufacturing company manager was being interviewed. He said a project was due on Monday but Friday night was not finished... so the workers decided to come in on Saturday to finish it. The manager did not know the workers were coming in. The project went out on Monday. Some months later the employer was called to court - someone had mentioned this to the authorities, and although they were working voluntarily he was ordered to change locks at the factory and hold all keys himself only, and if a worker did voluntary overtime he should fire them!!!!
Wow! That is a nanny state wrapping you in cotton woll and duct tape until you asphixiate.
And I forgot to mention that NO intercontinental airline is around at the moment that didn't and still don't get some substantial government subsidy (be it purchase of planes, assistance in maintenance etc).
The best thing would be to for the government to let American go under... we have a serious overcapacity at the moment, but no, Mr G Dubya (hell, Bill C would probably have done the same) will subsidise and bail out AA all it needs vainly hoping another intercontinental carrier will go under, while their governments do the same subsidy hoping AA or some other will do just that.
So the subsidies continue, so money that could be spent on 3rd world development, or even hell, sensible tax breaks (not the short sighted rubbish at the moment) so we could have more money in our pocket so we could spend more on our seats, if we really wanted them, in the first place.
That's the point.
AA sucked financially because people won't pay for a better service.
Fly business if you want better room... yeah it is expensive, no? But that is more like the 'real' price of your flight - the economy passengers pay the marginal cost of their seat, but the business class pay quite close to the average cost... so quit complaining and pay more, or does it come down to price and not comfort.
Note: Total cost = fixed cost + marginal cost (cost for an additional unit, or in this case, passenger)
Average cost = total cost / passengers
Economy pay marginal cost or marginal + very very little fixed cost, so they're worth to treat badly. Business class subsidise the average cost for the economy passengers.
OK, so you talk probabilities, but there is both payoff and tradeoff.
Is (probability of disaster)*(impact of disaster)(benefit of using nuclear power in this case)
It could well be, I can't say, or even predict from my standpoint. The risks may be high, but hell, we're far more likely to be computer simulations anyway, so go for it!
Hell, these nuclear space ships are a lot cheaper than those shuttles. But, if I remember correctly, back in the day they said shuttle launches would be $6m each too.
His article may have boiled her blood, but it seemed pretty spot on to me, the quote from Bill G especially.
His point is this law was written by the Business Software Alliance in such a way and to use such vague language that it will be up to 'interpretation' only to the richest corporates with the most expensive lawyers. I.e., they are taking a space where there is a need for a law and plugging their law - dress up as "free and good" to placate those with a call for it but engineered to benefit only them.
Also, she mentioned "With many of our traditional industries migrating to the Far East leaving behind job losses, we Europeans are having to rely on licensing out inventiveness to generate income and create jobs."
Since when does Amazon having a patent secure that patent to the country it was registered in?! Either she is grossly incompetant, plain stupid, or cunning and devious.
Damn that's tough. I'm in the UK, althought I only get 500kbps down amd 250 kbps up (regular low spec ADSL) I'll leave the computer on overnight and must get 30GB/month total - my ISP (only my, given the flak in the press recently about ISPs limiting to 1GB/day - I can do 2 easily some days) seem pretty happy with this usage pattern (note - this is 'off peak', if i did this peak i'd have my arse thrown at the wall no doubt).
Sometimes I think what they pay on the wholesale market for this, but as long as they let me get away with it and still make a profit yours must be making a KILLING (I seriously doubt 'last mile' costs are big (in the broader scheme of what they charge) in most cases)!
Smalltalk shitty? No, it is grand daddy and still leading OO language.
Haskell sucks - it is the theory of a functional language, there are other, better functional languages, the Haskall to functional languages is like the Turing to procedural languages... to use it for anything more than learning purposes is madness - there are better functional languages out there for purposes other than programming 101.
Infact, of all languages, I think Haskell is more like VBA (if you can really use VBA) than any other.
And yes, I do like to go low level.
$8 GB?!?!?!
Are you for real?!
hmmmm
I learnt in Smalltalk, which was great.
I'd prefer Pascal to VB, my college used Turing which was fun and Haskell which was bad!
Who is Sue?
I ate an Apple 'Apple Corp' was dreamt up!
Why don't i sue Apple for infringement of me being able to make a computational device from apples. In what was does 'Apple' resemble an aple in functionality. On behalf of COXs everywhere, I will Sue Apple for the COX abacus.
Wow, you are really dumb, aren't you? Any irony excaped me like goatse faeces passing into a vacuum.
Yeah.
> I'm generally against government secrecy, but quietly investigating spammers isn't as bad as secret courts and arrests.
And secret courts and arrests aren't as bad as automatic imprisonment on suspect of sending spam, which isn't as bad as automatic imprisonment on suspect of infringing the DCMA, which isn't a bad as public execution, which isn't as bad as holocost.
Slippery slope indeed.
Law is law. Law is dictated by the government. Infringement of the law deserves punishment. 'Secretly investigating spammers' gives an excuse for secretly investigating [if the need is worthwhile...what is worthwhile?] and will never stand up in court as it is not founded in law an fancy lawyers can get around it [unless another law is made].
Can you see beyond your nose?
You are a faeces.
I am a Penguin.
Penguins have faeces.
Your are created by me.
Your thoughts are created by me.
For some time, my thoughts revolved around you.
But you are the faeces of reply.
> Ask the people waiting on fresh drinking water....
Funny how the oil pipelines flowed so quickly, but there is still no restored water supply in much of Baghdad.