In Oklahoma, they use paper cards. There is a broken line with each of the canidate choices. You complete the line to make your selection. THe ink is magnetic, and you put it in the reader and it counts it electronically. It works quite well, is nearly fail safe, and is fast. I don't know why more states don't do something similar. Its kinda like best of both..
California Moves to Ban Unsolicited E-Mail By SAUL HANSELL
California is trying a deceptively simple approach to the problem of junk e-mail: It is about to ban spam.
Gov. Gray Davis of California signed a bill today that outlaws sending most commercial e-mail to or from the state that the recipient did not explicitly request. That is a far more wide-reaching law than any of the 35 other state laws meant to regulate spam or any of the proposed bills in Congress.
``We are saying that unsolicited e-mail cannot be sent and there are no loopholes,'' said Kevin Murray, the Democratic state senator from Los Angeles who sponsored the bill.
The law would fine spammers $1,000 for each unsolicited message sent up to $1 million for each campaign.
As the nation's most populous state and the home to many large Internet companies, the California bill could well have a significant effect on spam. The bill puts the burden on the sender to determine if the recipient resides in California.
The marketing industry vehemently opposes the law, saying that it will only restrict actions by legitimate marketers and not the rouges who send the most offensive spam.
The burden of complying with the state law, moreover, could well affect nearly all e-mail marketing.
``California represents up to 20 percent of the e-mail that is sent or received,'' said J. Trevor Hughes, the executive director, of the Network Advertising Initiative, a group of technology companies that send e-mail for marketers. ``Instead of trying to segregate the California e-mail addresses, many of our members are going to make the California standard the lowest common denominator.
Thirty-five states have already passed laws meant to regulate spam. But mostly these ban deceptive practices in commercial e-mail - like fake return addresses - and many require that spam be identified with the phrase ``ADV'' in the subject. But these laws do nothing to stop someone from sending advertising by e-mail, so long as it was properly labeled and not deceptive.
Delaware, also, banned sending unsolicited e-mail in 1999. But that law can only be enforced by the state attorney general, who has not taken any action under the statute.
Action under the California law, by contrast, can be brought by the state, by e-mail providers that have to handle spam and by the recipient. The bill's proponents say the right of individuals to file lawsuits should ensure that the bill is enforced, even if state prosecutors have other priorities. Indeed, a similar provision is credited with helping to insure compliance with the federal law against unsolicited faxes.
But at a news conference today, Kathleen Hamilton, the director of California Department of Consumer Affairs, promised that the state was ready to enforce the new law when it takes effect on Jan. 1.
``There will be a focus to make sure that once this law is in effect that advertisers abide by it so consumers and businesses are free from unsolicited spam,'' she said.
Does anyone have this? I want to call and negotiate the prices for licensing my 500+ CPUs running Linux. ASAP please. I'll let you know how it all turns out.
My browser works, most of my games work, Photoshop works, Microsoft word works,
Do your research, Wine, Transgaming, Crossoveroffice
Yes, true. And Joe User doesn't want to bother (or know how) installing, recompiling, etc just to get their apps to work, when they can just install the program and run it from Windows and only have a few crashes/reboots. Sad but true. I think you may be forgetting not everyone is a/.er
Anyway though, thats totally off topic. I just had to get that in.
I just had a thought..
SCO still has relations with them, and any copy of United Linux is licensed by them? Ehh I probably don't know what I'm talking about.
The four partner companies in UnitedLinux LLC - Conectiva, the SCO Group, SuSE Linux and Turbolinux -- continue to support products powered by UnitedLinux Version 1.0 and customers deploying these products.
Yep! Kinda like the RIAA with P2P software, except not nearly as evil.
(the P2P is cutting our revenues! Our revenues are lower than before, and less people are using P2P, but its still their fault!!!)
name one street drug that used to be available, and is no longer
Mescaline
uhh.....
its still around kansas/missouri, and if you know the right people its pretty cheap...
and i remember finding some a few years ago in oklahoma when i was in hs (3 or 4 years)...
yes it is most definitely still around...
And Apple is far from the only company that does something like that. You think service parts purchased legitimately from a Chevrolet dealer will let you assemble your own Corvette for less than the normal price of a factory-built one? Hell, no!
Someone in my highschool autoshop class priced out how much it would cost for him to build a complete new Mustang from scratch, down to every last part, from the Ford dealership. I think it ended up comming out to well over $100k
Some legal experts suggested Hatch's provocative remarks were more likely intended to compel technology and music executives to work faster toward ways to protect copyrights online than to signal forthcoming legislation.
Others believe the senator is just talking out of his ass.
I didn't even know they still made 3 GB hard drives.
They say its a refurb from an IBM ThinkPad. That must be at least three years old if not four. I wonder how long it will last. That said, the Microtel or Tiger systems are a much better deal. I've been looking at getting one of these to replace my parents K6-233 (overclocked even:-/) as everytime I come home my mother bitches about how slow it is. This would be perfect for them.
Why wait and why pay money if you can install Linux/PPC on it?
Cause the vast majority of Mac users don't wanna fuck with Linux...they will be perfectly content using OSX's pretty interface and staying far away from that scary console!
Actually...the Xeon is at 3.06GHz now...with a 1MB L2 version on the way.
The Itanium, very different architecture, built from the ground up, unrelated to x86. But itsz still rising in clock speed (800MHz - 1GHz for the Itanium 1, 1GHz to 1.5 for thew Itanium 2, with 1.5GHz+ chips on the way with 3MB-6MB of L3...)
AMD actually is starting the Opteron/Athlon64 out at lower clocks than the Athlon XPs.
The Pentium-M is the child of the Pentium III, so the clocks are still higher than the P3s. Not higher than the Pentium 4, but once again the P4 uses a different architecture.
867MHz PowerPC G4 w/ 1MB L3
512MB SDRAM - 2 SO DIMMs
60GB Ultra ATA drive
Combo Drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW)
AirPort Card
Keyboard/Mac OS - U.S. English
15.2-inch TFT Display
Subtotal $2,228.00
Dell Inspiron 600m
1.6GHz Pentium M w/ 1MB L2
512MB DDR 2100
60GB UATA Drive
DVD/CD-RW combo drive
Intel ProWireless 802.11b card
14.1" XGA Screen
64MB Mobility Radeon 9000 graphics
$1991
Wow...much faster and still $300 less...
I need to remember to use HTML and hte preview button..
Of course they won't!
That would the sensible thing to do!!
But then they wouldn't be able to keep the PowerMacs priced more than a nice used car.
Theres also the chance it could take away some of their 3% market share.
woooo FreeBSD forever!!!!
After being brutally beaten by Wintel, Apple might be ready to come back. Its good that they're going with IBM, Motorola doesn't seem to have the capabilities of keeping up with the CPU race. Now I just wonder if they'll make Macs affordable...
uh....yeah...cause everyone knows how to write software...
most of us just have to wait for someone to develop a program we need...
and the digital ink stuff for linux isn't there yet...
personally i'd stick with windows.
learn ( P ) Pronunciation Key (lÃrn)
v. learned, also learnt (lÃrnt) learnÂing, learns
v. tr.
To gain knowledge, comprehension, or mastery of through experience or study.
To fix in the mind or memory; memorize: learned the speech in a few hours.
To acquire experience of or an ability or a skill in: learn tolerance; learned how to whistle.
To become aware: learned that it was best not to argue.
To become informed of; find out. See Synonyms at discover.
Nonstandard. To cause to acquire knowledge; teach.
Obsolete. To give information to.
v. intr.
To gain knowledge, information, comprehension, or skill: learns quickly; learned about computers; learned of the job through friends.
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In Oklahoma, they use paper cards. There is a broken line with each of the canidate choices. You complete the line to make your selection. THe ink is magnetic, and you put it in the reader and it counts it electronically. It works quite well, is nearly fail safe, and is fast. I don't know why more states don't do something similar. Its kinda like best of both..
California Moves to Ban Unsolicited E-Mail
By SAUL HANSELL
California is trying a deceptively simple approach to the problem of junk e-mail: It is about to ban spam.
Gov. Gray Davis of California signed a bill today that outlaws sending most commercial e-mail to or from the state that the recipient did not explicitly request. That is a far more wide-reaching law than any of the 35 other state laws meant to regulate spam or any of the proposed bills in Congress.
``We are saying that unsolicited e-mail cannot be sent and there are no loopholes,'' said Kevin Murray, the Democratic state senator from Los Angeles who sponsored the bill.
The law would fine spammers $1,000 for each unsolicited message sent up to $1 million for each campaign.
As the nation's most populous state and the home to many large Internet companies, the California bill could well have a significant effect on spam. The bill puts the burden on the sender to determine if the recipient resides in California.
The marketing industry vehemently opposes the law, saying that it will only restrict actions by legitimate marketers and not the rouges who send the most offensive spam.
The burden of complying with the state law, moreover, could well affect nearly all e-mail marketing.
``California represents up to 20 percent of the e-mail that is sent or received,'' said J. Trevor Hughes, the executive director, of the Network Advertising Initiative, a group of technology companies that send e-mail for marketers. ``Instead of trying to segregate the California e-mail addresses, many of our members are going to make the California standard the lowest common denominator.
Thirty-five states have already passed laws meant to regulate spam. But mostly these ban deceptive practices in commercial e-mail - like fake return addresses - and many require that spam be identified with the phrase ``ADV'' in the subject. But these laws do nothing to stop someone from sending advertising by e-mail, so long as it was properly labeled and not deceptive.
Delaware, also, banned sending unsolicited e-mail in 1999. But that law can only be enforced by the state attorney general, who has not taken any action under the statute.
Action under the California law, by contrast, can be brought by the state, by e-mail providers that have to handle spam and by the recipient. The bill's proponents say the right of individuals to file lawsuits should ensure that the bill is enforced, even if state prosecutors have other priorities. Indeed, a similar provision is credited with helping to insure compliance with the federal law against unsolicited faxes.
But at a news conference today, Kathleen Hamilton, the director of California Department of Consumer Affairs, promised that the state was ready to enforce the new law when it takes effect on Jan. 1.
``There will be a focus to make sure that once this law is in effect that advertisers abide by it so consumers and businesses are free from unsolicited spam,'' she said.
Does anyone have this? I want to call and negotiate the prices for licensing my 500+ CPUs running Linux. ASAP please. I'll let you know how it all turns out.
its the state of america, today :-/
some day i hope americans will look back on us and think "god they were stupid"
As of 3:36PM CST the song is going for $320.69....
Probably not serious bidders, though
What Apps can I not run under Linux?
My browser works, most of my games work, Photoshop works, Microsoft word works,
Do your research, Wine, Transgaming, Crossoveroffice
Yes, true. And Joe User doesn't want to bother (or know how) installing, recompiling, etc just to get their apps to work, when they can just install the program and run it from Windows and only have a few crashes/reboots. Sad but true. I think you may be forgetting not everyone is a
Anyway though, thats totally off topic. I just had to get that in.
I just had a thought.. SCO still has relations with them, and any copy of United Linux is licensed by them? Ehh I probably don't know what I'm talking about.
United Linux
The four partner companies in UnitedLinux LLC - Conectiva, the SCO Group, SuSE Linux and Turbolinux -- continue to support products powered by UnitedLinux Version 1.0 and customers deploying these products.
heh! heh! heh!!!
I agree with you, its just something I pointed out in his post =P
Yep! Kinda like the RIAA with P2P software, except not nearly as evil. (the P2P is cutting our revenues! Our revenues are lower than before, and less people are using P2P, but its still their fault!!!)
But they did get into the US from other countries...
Mescaline
uhh.....
its still around kansas/missouri, and if you know the right people its pretty cheap...
and i remember finding some a few years ago in oklahoma when i was in hs (3 or 4 years)...
yes it is most definitely still around...
2. Sell in Sweden after 1/1/2004.
2.5 Collect Underpants
3. Profit!!!
Someone in my highschool autoshop class priced out how much it would cost for him to build a complete new Mustang from scratch, down to every last part, from the Ford dealership. I think it ended up comming out to well over $100k
Some legal experts suggested Hatch's provocative remarks were more likely intended to compel technology and music executives to work faster toward ways to protect copyrights online than to signal forthcoming legislation.
Others believe the senator is just talking out of his ass.
I didn't even know they still made 3 GB hard drives. :-/) as everytime I come home my mother bitches about how slow it is. This would be perfect for them.
They say its a refurb from an IBM ThinkPad. That must be at least three years old if not four. I wonder how long it will last. That said, the Microtel or Tiger systems are a much better deal. I've been looking at getting one of these to replace my parents K6-233 (overclocked even
Not a troll, just my website. =P
Cause the vast majority of Mac users don't wanna fuck with Linux...they will be perfectly content using OSX's pretty interface and staying far away from that scary console!
Xeon: 2.6 GHz
Pentium M: 1.6 GHz
Itanium 2: 1 GHz
Actually...the Xeon is at 3.06GHz now...with a 1MB L2 version on the way.
The Itanium, very different architecture, built from the ground up, unrelated to x86. But itsz still rising in clock speed (800MHz - 1GHz for the Itanium 1, 1GHz to 1.5 for thew Itanium 2, with 1.5GHz+ chips on the way with 3MB-6MB of L3...)
AMD actually is starting the Opteron/Athlon64 out at lower clocks than the Athlon XPs.
The Pentium-M is the child of the Pentium III, so the clocks are still higher than the P3s. Not higher than the Pentium 4, but once again the P4 uses a different architecture.
512MB SDRAM - 2 SO DIMMs
60GB Ultra ATA drive
Combo Drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW) AirPort Card
Keyboard/Mac OS - U.S. English
15.2-inch TFT Display
Subtotal $2,228.00
Dell Inspiron 600m
1.6GHz Pentium M w/ 1MB L2
512MB DDR 2100
60GB UATA Drive
DVD/CD-RW combo drive
Intel ProWireless 802.11b card
14.1" XGA Screen
64MB Mobility Radeon 9000 graphics
$1991
Wow...much faster and still $300 less... I need to remember to use HTML and hte preview button..
867MHz PowerPC G4 w/ 1MB L3 â 512MB SDRAM - 2 SO DIMMs â 60GB Ultra ATA drive â Combo Drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW) â AirPort Card â Keyboard/Mac OS - U.S. English â 15.2-inch TFT Display Subtotal $2,228.00 Dell Inspiron 600m 1.6GHz Pentium M w/ 1MB L2 512MB DDR 2100 60GB UATA Drive DVD/CD-RW combo drive Intel ProWireless 802.11b card 14.1" XGA Screen 64MB Mobility Radeon 9000 graphics $1991 Wow...much faster and still $300 less...
Of course they won't! That would the sensible thing to do!! But then they wouldn't be able to keep the PowerMacs priced more than a nice used car. Theres also the chance it could take away some of their 3% market share. woooo FreeBSD forever!!!!
After being brutally beaten by Wintel, Apple might be ready to come back.
Its good that they're going with IBM, Motorola doesn't seem to have the capabilities of keeping up with the CPU race.
Now I just wonder if they'll make Macs affordable...
uh....yeah...cause everyone knows how to write software... most of us just have to wait for someone to develop a program we need... and the digital ink stuff for linux isn't there yet... personally i'd stick with windows.
learn ( P ) Pronunciation Key (lÃrn) v. learned, also learnt (lÃrnt) learnÂing, learns v. tr. To gain knowledge, comprehension, or mastery of through experience or study. To fix in the mind or memory; memorize: learned the speech in a few hours. To acquire experience of or an ability or a skill in: learn tolerance; learned how to whistle. To become aware: learned that it was best not to argue. To become informed of; find out. See Synonyms at discover. Nonstandard. To cause to acquire knowledge; teach. Obsolete. To give information to. v. intr. To gain knowledge, information, comprehension, or skill: learns quickly; learned about computers; learned of the job through friends. www.dictionary.com