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Charging for email doesn't discourage spam. It discourages mass email.
Yea, but for that you can have white lists. If you're registered in a mailing list all that list has to do is digitally sign its messages. Your mail server can have a list of 'allowed' senders which would not have to pay the computational cost. I think the whole idea of a computational email price is genius.
As an American student, book prices are absolutely ridiculous
I totaly feel for you. Here's what the situation's like in Israel, if anyone's interested in the comparison (I'm a BA student):
Tuition for a school year in every university (we got 5) is a fixed price of about 2000$.
Most books can be borrowed, or at least xeroxed, from the libraries. Funny enough, since most Israeli students prefer to read in Hebrew it usually means that they all "fight" over the few Hebrew translations and the English originals are usually avaiable for borrowing.
New books never cost more than about 20$, usually less.
While American universities are arguably the highest level of education in the world, Israel's few universities measure up pretty well.
Because it's a small country there's a lot less Dorms, meaning most people can continue to live at home (or find a place of their own, which starts at 200$ a month in the center).
The average age of male students in Israeli universities is at least 3 years higher than in the U.S. (mandatory army service). For girls there's a difference of about 2 years. This means that the environment is a lot more mature. Those 3 years really make a difference.
An average student job gets you about 700$ a month.
Then of course there's the thing with the busses that explode every once in a while... but you get used to it fairly quickly. On the other hand, there's practically no crime in Israel (in comparison to the US). And, of course, everyone's jewish.
his school lets students "leave the classroom during an exam or [...] may even take the exam home" (U. of V.). The professors trust the students because of the enforcement factor.
That might work for open questions that require some essay writing but will not work for most exact sciences courses. If a student takes the exam home and cannot prove the last equation you can bet your ass he's going to ask around.
The most burning legal issue is being detected as a file-sharer by RIAA, right? So how does disabling direct connections by routing traffic through mediate nodes achieve that? At least theoreticaly speaking, if RIAA were so inclined, they could deploy a large number of MUTE nodes until they create a situation in which the connection between the pirate-file-sharere and the RIAA-spy-node is completely filled with RIAA nodes (which could practically mean only a few nodes). It seems feasable. RIAA could then sue that sharer for whatever rediculous sum of money they manage to conjur up and cover the cost of this sting operation. So how does the ant protocol deal with this issue? Or did I misunderstand the basic idea behind the procotol in which case my point is MOOT?
For those of you who don't know, Aruz 7 is a pirate radio station owned and operated by and for the exteremly religious parties in Israel. Kind of like the christian evangalist channels that operate in the US - only jewish and with less money. This "news" radio station was shut down recently by an injuction for broadcasting over illegal radio frequencies that disturb flight and ship navigation systems. The station broadcasts to the exteremly religious minority of Israel, the kind that is not allowed to listen to other "secular" radio and TV channels because they are considered by that community Obsene and Immoral.:)
Funny this tech-news piece should come from Aruz 7, as it is the least respectable news source in Israel (unless you consider Hamas and Fatah (Arafat) broadcasting as Israeli media).
It's irrelevant. The effect of a shaved-by-the-US-Saddam is what came through the screen and that's all that matters. The emotional impact, believe me, is profound.
Man, whoever edited that video of Saddam being checked out by that medic sure knew what he was doing:
1. First of all Saddam looks like he's being examined by a vet! His shaggy hair and beard being checked for lice and bald spots...
2. The shaving of the beard is not something incidental. In Arabic culture a man's beard has a huge importance and to shave Saddam's beard and display his pictures before and after the shave is one of the biggest forms of humiliation possible in arabic culture.
3. The first shot of Saddam in that clip shows him pointing to something on the left side of his head. The point is it looks as if he's cowaring and covering his head in fear during the first couple of seconds. The psychological effects this has on the average Iraqi viewer are profound. It even gave me a slight tingling, to see the man who attacked my country with rockets during the first Gulf war displayed so patheticaly.
I say it again, whoever edited that video sequence knew what he was doing. Damn fine entertainment.
One guys VS the chemical/biological/nuclear arsonal of one of the worlds most powerfull armies (I think Iraq ranked in the top 15 before 1991).
Top 15, true, but you have to remember that the gap between the top 3-4 and the rest of the armies was huge. The US and Soviet armies back then were an order of magnitude bigger then the rest of the larger militaries. Nowadays it is still true about the US army. So 'top 15' doesn't really say much.
Iraq has sent large sums of money to the family of each suicide bomber that has exploded in Israel since 2001. Does this qualify as a 'remote link to terrorism'? Iraq has launched wars against almost all it's neighbors and massaquered the Cruds and Iranians, all the time existing as an apartheid state in which the minority tribe rules the vast majority (an oligarchy). Iraq has developed numerous kinds of WMD, being successful mostly with chemical and biological onee - experimenting with them on it's own citizens and neighbor countries - (which the first Gulf war more or less put a stop to) and less successfull with atomic ones. Iraq's leader celebrated the disaster of 9.11 and proclaimed many times his hostility against the west (lead by America) and willingness to develop WMD for that purpose.
The fact that Iraq is not an Islamic fueled hate-state like afganistan does not mean that it is less dangerous. Don't you understand that it is statements like your's: "But they weren't really Islamic enough to be friends with terrorists..." that make America seem (and to some extent be) anti-islamic?? The fact that Bush went out after Saddam despite the fact that Saddam's was not an Islamic regime per-se just proves the point that it is not anti-islamism that motivates him but a sense of security. (although the timing of the Iraqi thing could have been better, IMO. North Korea could have come before).
Also, putting aside for a moment the so-called 'cold calculations' of US interests, you have to see the lines of resemblence between Iraq under Saddam - a modern day tyranny that has commited crimes against humanity so many times we lost count - and Nazi-Germany, Taliban-afganistan, White-South-Afrika, etc. The seperatist world view that was America's foreign policy until Pearl harbor is what allowed millions to be killed during WW2. The US realized back then that it can no longer sit aside while people suffocate under the rule of tyrans. There is no such thing as a benevolent dictator, and not-assisting a fellow human being in misery is contributing to it. This may all seem a bit sapy to you and unintersting but history has taught us that was goes around comes around. 50 years from now the school texts in Iraq will remember this military excursion as something positive to the Iraqi people - lead by America out of self-interest and oil-interest - but ultimatly for the benefit of the entire world. See the bigger picture: America is safer.
That's true, it's not irrelevant to US security interests. It made the US less safe. That's relevant.
The US is less safe due to the overthrow of Saddam Hussein? Please elaborate.
The fact that you fail to see how the fall of a major arabic tyranny that has threatened middle eastern peace for centuries and caused the death of millions helps to make the world (and America, which is still apart of the world) a safer place is disturbing. True, Bush might have done better to go after North Korea first, put more effort in finding ben-laden or concentrate on solving the isr-pal conflict, but to say that liberating Iraq is irrelevant to US security interests is plain wrong.
So what's new with this initiative? Isn't it just like digitally signed email? My opinion is that there's no need for Yahoo to do us users any favors, all that needs to happen is the price of digital signatures should drop to something more reasonable, like a few dollars. That sum can be worked into the ISP's fee, as the ISP is usually the one supplying the email. If everyone just had dig-sig then spam would never had been a problem in the first place. Also, smtp is ancient and should be replaced.
It's simply not true that MS Office's (and the OS ingeneral) Hebrew support is anything less than perfect. MS pratically wrote the book on bi-di localization and Hebrew and Arabic support. The entire OS supports these languages in every application, and Office has additional word processing support (spelling, graphics, forms, what have you). As a Hebrew Windows user I can tell you that I've been waiting for quite a log time for some company to actually be able to compete with MS's level of Hebrew support. The recent version of OO has got the bidi issue right for the first time, and that's a nice long-awaited change, but let's no confuse ourselve - they're way behind MS on localization. This is the kind of issue that huge companies with fat contracts can deal with much better than even the most highly motivated open source developers which just happen not to know Hebrew.
In legal terms, the CAPS is meant as a vocalization and pronunciation guide. In this case, you should shriek in an almost uncontrolled manner with a thick German accent.
:) True. Also italics should be pronounced with an Italian accent and bold text as George Costanza.
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Charging for email doesn't discourage spam. It discourages mass email.
Yea, but for that you can have white lists. If you're registered in a mailing list all that list has to do is digitally sign its messages. Your mail server can have a list of 'allowed' senders which would not have to pay the computational cost.
I think the whole idea of a computational email price is genius.
"The infidels packets are slaughtering themselves at the ports to our OS"
ROTFPMP -Rolling on the floor pissing my pants!
Goddamn, that was the funniest shit I ever read. And I read some funny shit. Thanks.
There goes my bussines idea. I wanted to start a bussines that puts humans in an eastern europe contry to sort corporate e-mail.
A year into that project you'd get an email: "Progess is good. Spam was filtered. Send more cans!"
I totaly feel for you. Here's what the situation's like in Israel, if anyone's interested in the comparison (I'm a BA student):
Then of course there's the thing with the busses that explode every once in a while... but you get used to it fairly quickly. On the other hand, there's practically no crime in Israel (in comparison to the US). And, of course, everyone's jewish.
his school lets students "leave the classroom during an exam or [...] may even take the exam home" (U. of V.). The professors trust the students because of the enforcement factor.
That might work for open questions that require some essay writing but will not work for most exact sciences courses. If a student takes the exam home and cannot prove the last equation you can bet your ass he's going to ask around.
Or just d/l the whole thing with BitTorrent.
Yes, but why is there even a black and white camera on board? What possible advantage can it have over a color one?
So why are all the pictures black and white?
I've replied on this before /. not bring stories from Aruz7. What's next? Al-Jazeera?
I really wish
Slashdot editors, do your site a favor and don't link up to Aruz7 - it just looks rediculous and weird.
The most burning legal issue is being detected as a file-sharer by RIAA, right? So how does disabling direct connections by routing traffic through mediate nodes achieve that? At least theoreticaly speaking, if RIAA were so inclined, they could deploy a large number of MUTE nodes until they create a situation in which the connection between the pirate-file-sharere and the RIAA-spy-node is completely filled with RIAA nodes (which could practically mean only a few nodes). It seems feasable. RIAA could then sue that sharer for whatever rediculous sum of money they manage to conjur up and cover the cost of this sting operation. So how does the ant protocol deal with this issue? Or did I misunderstand the basic idea behind the procotol in which case my point is MOOT?
For those of you who don't know, Aruz 7 is a pirate radio station owned and operated by and for the exteremly religious parties in Israel. Kind of like the christian evangalist channels that operate in the US - only jewish and with less money. This "news" radio station was shut down recently by an injuction for broadcasting over illegal radio frequencies that disturb flight and ship navigation systems. The station broadcasts to the exteremly religious minority of Israel, the kind that is not allowed to listen to other "secular" radio and TV channels because they are considered by that community Obsene and Immoral. :)
Funny this tech-news piece should come from Aruz 7, as it is the least respectable news source in Israel (unless you consider Hamas and Fatah (Arafat) broadcasting as Israeli media).
It's irrelevant. The effect of a shaved-by-the-US-Saddam is what came through the screen and that's all that matters. The emotional impact, believe me, is profound.
Can anyone say what kind of streaming technology is used by such swf pages? Is it better/worse than Real or WMA or whatever?
Iraq's government hasn't been around for centuries. It was ruled by the Ottoman Empire, then the British Empire until the 1940s.
Of course, please excuse my poor English. Obviously I meant to say "decades" and not "centuries". Saddam took power in a military coop in 1969 IIRC.
Man, whoever edited that video of Saddam being checked out by that medic sure knew what he was doing:
1. First of all Saddam looks like he's being examined by a vet! His shaggy hair and beard being checked for lice and bald spots...
2. The shaving of the beard is not something incidental. In Arabic culture a man's beard has a huge importance and to shave Saddam's beard and display his pictures before and after the shave is one of the biggest forms of humiliation possible in arabic culture.
3. The first shot of Saddam in that clip shows him pointing to something on the left side of his head. The point is it looks as if he's cowaring and covering his head in fear during the first couple of seconds. The psychological effects this has on the average Iraqi viewer are profound. It even gave me a slight tingling, to see the man who attacked my country with rockets during the first Gulf war displayed so patheticaly.
I say it again, whoever edited that video sequence knew what he was doing. Damn fine entertainment.
But I thought Saddam and Osama were like.. you know.. an item.
No, that's Saddam and Satan! Don't you watch Southpark?? ya stupid git...
One guys VS the chemical/biological/nuclear arsonal of one of the worlds most powerfull armies (I think Iraq ranked in the top 15 before 1991).
Top 15, true, but you have to remember that the gap between the top 3-4 and the rest of the armies was huge. The US and Soviet armies back then were an order of magnitude bigger then the rest of the larger militaries. Nowadays it is still true about the US army. So 'top 15' doesn't really say much.
Iraq has sent large sums of money to the family of each suicide bomber that has exploded in Israel since 2001. Does this qualify as a 'remote link to terrorism'? Iraq has launched wars against almost all it's neighbors and massaquered the Cruds and Iranians, all the time existing as an apartheid state in which the minority tribe rules the vast majority (an oligarchy). Iraq has developed numerous kinds of WMD, being successful mostly with chemical and biological onee - experimenting with them on it's own citizens and neighbor countries - (which the first Gulf war more or less put a stop to) and less successfull with atomic ones. Iraq's leader celebrated the disaster of 9.11 and proclaimed many times his hostility against the west (lead by America) and willingness to develop WMD for that purpose.
The fact that Iraq is not an Islamic fueled hate-state like afganistan does not mean that it is less dangerous. Don't you understand that it is statements like your's: "But they weren't really Islamic enough to be friends with terrorists..." that make America seem (and to some extent be) anti-islamic?? The fact that Bush went out after Saddam despite the fact that Saddam's was not an Islamic regime per-se just proves the point that it is not anti-islamism that motivates him but a sense of security. (although the timing of the Iraqi thing could have been better, IMO. North Korea could have come before).
Also, putting aside for a moment the so-called 'cold calculations' of US interests, you have to see the lines of resemblence between Iraq under Saddam - a modern day tyranny that has commited crimes against humanity so many times we lost count - and Nazi-Germany, Taliban-afganistan, White-South-Afrika, etc. The seperatist world view that was America's foreign policy until Pearl harbor is what allowed millions to be killed during WW2. The US realized back then that it can no longer sit aside while people suffocate under the rule of tyrans. There is no such thing as a benevolent dictator, and not-assisting a fellow human being in misery is contributing to it. This may all seem a bit sapy to you and unintersting but history has taught us that was goes around comes around. 50 years from now the school texts in Iraq will remember this military excursion as something positive to the Iraqi people - lead by America out of self-interest and oil-interest - but ultimatly for the benefit of the entire world. See the bigger picture: America is safer.
That's true, it's not irrelevant to US security interests. It made the US less safe. That's relevant.
The US is less safe due to the overthrow of Saddam Hussein? Please elaborate.
The fact that you fail to see how the fall of a major arabic tyranny that has threatened middle eastern peace for centuries and caused the death of millions helps to make the world (and America, which is still apart of the world) a safer place is disturbing. True, Bush might have done better to go after North Korea first, put more effort in finding ben-laden or concentrate on solving the isr-pal conflict, but to say that liberating Iraq is irrelevant to US security interests is plain wrong.
So what's new with this initiative? Isn't it just like digitally signed email? My opinion is that there's no need for Yahoo to do us users any favors, all that needs to happen is the price of digital signatures should drop to something more reasonable, like a few dollars. That sum can be worked into the ISP's fee, as the ISP is usually the one supplying the email. If everyone just had dig-sig then spam would never had been a problem in the first place. Also, smtp is ancient and should be replaced.
It's simply not true that MS Office's (and the OS ingeneral) Hebrew support is anything less than perfect. MS pratically wrote the book on bi-di localization and Hebrew and Arabic support. The entire OS supports these languages in every application, and Office has additional word processing support (spelling, graphics, forms, what have you). As a Hebrew Windows user I can tell you that I've been waiting for quite a log time for some company to actually be able to compete with MS's level of Hebrew support. The recent version of OO has got the bidi issue right for the first time, and that's a nice long-awaited change, but let's no confuse ourselve - they're way behind MS on localization. This is the kind of issue that huge companies with fat contracts can deal with much better than even the most highly motivated open source developers which just happen not to know Hebrew.
In legal terms, the CAPS is meant as a vocalization and pronunciation guide. In this case, you should shriek in an almost uncontrolled manner with a thick German accent.
:) True. Also italics should be pronounced with an Italian accent and bold text as George Costanza.
- more like a big brother.
I quit my first job ... (they wanted to do porn and I didn't)...
You gave a job that entailed free access to porn?? w/animals?!!