If you want to market the software, that's one thing. But if you just want to have access to the software, that's another. In that case, start telling people about your idea, and if it's a good idea, it's likely you'll get some people interested.
If you want to market the idea, you're probably screwed unless you can put a lot of money into it up front. There are so many nonsense patent laws out there that you are almost certainly going to have someone screaming about "I have a patent on the OK button and another on scrolling a list of items" and such. If you can't afford the lawyers, you can't afford to go into the software business.
You walk through the street, someone shoves a petition in your face. Do you lock them up as well?
If every time I walked down the street I had 10,000 people shoving a petition in my face, then I'd be all in favor of locking them up. As it is, I get 10,000 emails a day, and have to do some heavy filtering. My ISP has to carry extra traffic that's just going to get thrown away. I sometimes lose legitimate email because anyone who isn't whitelisted is fairly likely to get caught in the filters.
Good luck cause I last checked it a week ago, the 2nd to last time I checked was 6 months ago.
This works out to "I don't really use email enough to matter, and so I don't care if spammers ruin it for everyone else".
The EFF is opposed to laws against spam, opposed to black lists to avoid spam, etc. They claim spam is free speech.
They are on the spammers side.
They are evil.
Anyone number of people should be able to accept a single click to check-out, what should be patented is the system behind the checkout. The mechanism for tying in the user's login, prioritizing recently used shipping addresses and payment methods, etc... You need to patent the process or the invention, not an ethereal idea.
I know I'm in the minority when I say I'm against the CAN-SPAM Act.
I doubt it. The CAN-SPAM act was written by the spammers, for the spammers. It did exactly what it was designed to do. Anyone that is opposed to spam and has paid any attention is against the CAN-SPAM act.
That's OK. We all thought Sanford "Spamford" Wallace [wikipedia.org] and Walt "Picklejar" Rines were out of business as of ten years ago.
I didn't.
He moved to spyware and got caught by the feds back in 2004. I don't believe he's ever left the spam business, he's just expanded into other bullshiat and started working a bit more at hiding.
He'll spam until he dies or they throw him in prison.
Nowadays, people who could have made a real change by marching in the streets, burning tires and protesting these horrible things, simply type away furiously, and think that someone cares
And burning tires does what? Smokes up the neighborhood? Messes with the environment? Pisses off the local cops who have to deal with it? What do you do after you burn a bunch of tires? Break out a few windows, flip over a car? Set off a bomb?
Great plan. Maybe random violence will convince people to do what you want. Maybe the government will be so impressed that they'll give you a medal for setting things on fire.
A deaf friend calls me from time to time. She either txt msgs or uses her computer to IM a translator service here in Dallas. She gives them my name and number, and what she wants to say. They call me, tell me they are the service, who is calling, and what the msg is. They then text or IM her (depending on how she contacted them). We go back and forth that way. Slow, but functional.
So far, we haven't tried talking dirty to each other via the service, but we've thought about it.:^)
Several years back, Earthlink started sending me "past due" notices.
I have never had an Earthlink account. They didn't even bother sending me regular bills - the past due notice was the first thing I had heard from them.
They bought my info from an ISP who did a lousy job, which caused me to cancel. Never contacted me at all, until the Past Due crap, so even if I had wanted to use their service, I couldn't have.
Earthlink sucks.
It's too bad that now fundamentalists are going to have this news story as a weapon against proponents of science. This is despite this person apparently having nothing to do with science.
It's too bad that the fundemenalists used this as an excuse to beat the crap out of the professeor. But it doesn't really surprise me - most religions people are nuts.
The Mack Truck theory explains that any employee from the CEO down must be replaceable. Your company must be able to survive if they don't show up tomorrow, because they may be hit by a Mack truck.
A related theory is "The Irreplaceable Man". If you can't replace him, then the theory says you need to find him and fire him. Because if you don't, he has your company by the balls, if he chooses to squeeze, and he's putting you at serious risk of dying off due to the Mack Truck theory.
Why would the EFF care that they're "simply enforcing their rights"? A major part of the EFF's work is to fight things that may be technically legal, but are morally bankrupt.
The EFF supports spam. They don't give a damn if somehting is morally bankrupt.
If that's entrapment, then when banks set aside money with known serial numbers that they will give to bank robbers, it's entrapment. "I didn't mean to rob the bank, they made me! Entrapment!"
Sorry, but the copies they gave out were not supposed to be distributed. They were distributed. LucasArts didn't make them distribute these, nor did they encourage it. They just made sure that if someone did, they would have a way to track it back to the source. That's not entrapment, that's good planning.
It's just like... OK... that's cool that you're on the DNC list, but we're still legally allowed to call you.
And I'm legally allowed to tell you "Fuck off, telespammer" and hang up on you.
How hard is it to understand that people on the DNC list that cuss you out are *not* going to buy form you when you keep calling them?
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These things have advanced so quickly because they're needed as our country becomes more technologically advanced, not because of porn.
Sorry to bust your bubble, but sex sells. It works in advertising, movies, technology. You may not like it. You may hate pornography, pictures of cute women, and the very idea of sex outside of marriage - but sex sells.
And porn has certainly had an impact on the development and spread of technology, whether you admit it or not.
You are the one promoting censorship. After all, a RBL list is simply a list of IP's that the RBL recommends you not accept mail from. They don't force anyone to use it - they create a list and publish it.
Some admins choose to partially protect their users from spam by refusing mail from listed sites - others don't. What gives you the right to say "They shouldn't be allowed to publish that list!"?
You are the one advocating censorship. You are probably opposed to Consumer Reports, too. After all, it's essentially the same thing.
Disclosure : No, my mail server doesn't bounce anything based on an RBL list, but I do use RBL lists as part of my filtering because the fucking spammers you don't want us to block would make email useless if no filtering was done.
He used the word correctly. I didn't realize that you were a grammer nazi without a clue to how the language works or I wouldn't have bothred. Asshole.
Coliverhb, I must give credit where credit is due. That is quite possibly the stupidest statement that anyone ever made on Slashdot. "Thinking itself is flawed and entirely useless" indeed.
I do, however, see that you've choosen to live your life without thinking.
However, you hit a pet peeve of mine, which is using whom instead of who (or I instead of me) in a failed attempt to follow the more nuanced rules of English grammar.
Grammar nazi's are idiots who don't understand that the point of language is communication. They want abstract rules and an opportunity to bitch and whine when those rules aren't followed. All I want is to be able to communicate, and I don't give a damn if I miss an apostrophe or dangle a participle (whatever the hell they are.)
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If you want to market the idea, you're probably screwed unless you can put a lot of money into it up front. There are so many nonsense patent laws out there that you are almost certainly going to have someone screaming about "I have a patent on the OK button and another on scrolling a list of items" and such. If you can't afford the lawyers, you can't afford to go into the software business.
If every time I walked down the street I had 10,000 people shoving a petition in my face, then I'd be all in favor of locking them up. As it is, I get 10,000 emails a day, and have to do some heavy filtering. My ISP has to carry extra traffic that's just going to get thrown away. I sometimes lose legitimate email because anyone who isn't whitelisted is fairly likely to get caught in the filters.
Good luck cause I last checked it a week ago, the 2nd to last time I checked was 6 months ago.
This works out to "I don't really use email enough to matter, and so I don't care if spammers ruin it for everyone else".
The EFF is opposed to laws against spam, opposed to black lists to avoid spam, etc. They claim spam is free speech. They are on the spammers side. They are evil.
This is what copyright is for.
I doubt it. The CAN-SPAM act was written by the spammers, for the spammers. It did exactly what it was designed to do. Anyone that is opposed to spam and has paid any attention is against the CAN-SPAM act.
I didn't.
He moved to spyware and got caught by the feds back in 2004. I don't believe he's ever left the spam business, he's just expanded into other bullshiat and started working a bit more at hiding.
He'll spam until he dies or they throw him in prison.
All of this crap should be modded down because it's off topic.
And burning tires does what? Smokes up the neighborhood? Messes with the environment? Pisses off the local cops who have to deal with it? What do you do after you burn a bunch of tires? Break out a few windows, flip over a car? Set off a bomb?
Great plan. Maybe random violence will convince people to do what you want. Maybe the government will be so impressed that they'll give you a medal for setting things on fire.
I was unaware that popes normally change their names. (But I just read about regnal names on wiki.)
No, they were protesting about what a *different* pope said in the past.
After all, EVERY day is bash-a-christian day. I keep hearing Christians say that, but like much of what they believe, the evidence doesn't match.
A deaf friend calls me from time to time. She either txt msgs or uses her computer to IM a translator service here in Dallas. She gives them my name and number, and what she wants to say. They call me, tell me they are the service, who is calling, and what the msg is. They then text or IM her (depending on how she contacted them). We go back and forth that way. Slow, but functional. So far, we haven't tried talking dirty to each other via the service, but we've thought about it. :^)
Several years back, Earthlink started sending me "past due" notices. I have never had an Earthlink account. They didn't even bother sending me regular bills - the past due notice was the first thing I had heard from them. They bought my info from an ISP who did a lousy job, which caused me to cancel. Never contacted me at all, until the Past Due crap, so even if I had wanted to use their service, I couldn't have. Earthlink sucks.
It's too bad that the fundemenalists used this as an excuse to beat the crap out of the professeor. But it doesn't really surprise me - most religions people are nuts.
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No we didn't. Bush isn't a Texan. He moved here from Connecticut.
A related theory is "The Irreplaceable Man". If you can't replace him, then the theory says you need to find him and fire him. Because if you don't, he has your company by the balls, if he chooses to squeeze, and he's putting you at serious risk of dying off due to the Mack Truck theory.
The EFF supports spam. They don't give a damn if somehting is morally bankrupt.
Sorry, but the copies they gave out were not supposed to be distributed. They were distributed. LucasArts didn't make them distribute these, nor did they encourage it. They just made sure that if someone did, they would have a way to track it back to the source. That's not entrapment, that's good planning.
And I'm legally allowed to tell you "Fuck off, telespammer" and hang up on you.
How hard is it to understand that people on the DNC list that cuss you out are *not* going to buy form you when you keep calling them?
Sorry to bust your bubble, but sex sells. It works in advertising, movies, technology. You may not like it. You may hate pornography, pictures of cute women, and the very idea of sex outside of marriage - but sex sells.
And porn has certainly had an impact on the development and spread of technology, whether you admit it or not.
You are the one promoting censorship. After all, a RBL list is simply a list of IP's that the RBL recommends you not accept mail from. They don't force anyone to use it - they create a list and publish it.
Some admins choose to partially protect their users from spam by refusing mail from listed sites - others don't. What gives you the right to say "They shouldn't be allowed to publish that list!"?
You are the one advocating censorship. You are probably opposed to Consumer Reports, too. After all, it's essentially the same thing.
Disclosure : No, my mail server doesn't bounce anything based on an RBL list, but I do use RBL lists as part of my filtering because the fucking spammers you don't want us to block would make email useless if no filtering was done.
He used the word correctly. I didn't realize that you were a grammer nazi without a clue to how the language works or I wouldn't have bothred. Asshole.
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I do, however, see that you've choosen to live your life without thinking.
Grammar nazi's are idiots who don't understand that the point of language is communication. They want abstract rules and an opportunity to bitch and whine when those rules aren't followed. All I want is to be able to communicate, and I don't give a damn if I miss an apostrophe or dangle a participle (whatever the hell they are.)