That would be Blimpie. The joke was something to the effect of the founder of Blimpie (the guy in the ad) would never stoop to such low levels, no matter what the ad exectutives told him. I'm fairly sure they also did a commercial where they combined the two most powerful forces in advertising by having puppies playing with babies.
I'd much rather have those tongue-in-cheek ads than the current batch of "shock" commerials. Actually, I'd rather have no ads at all, but that's not a likely option.
They can say, which they are, that while both of you are in violation they will only go after the big companies. The iffy part of this is that the small people cannot even purchase "licenses".
There is nothing forcing them to sue everyone, just like the RIAA can choose to only sue those above a certain amount of shared files.
There are two types of radioactive waste: that which comes from nuclear weapons productions, and that which doesn't.
The ultra-nasty stuff the US has a probblem which came from weapons production. That's where all the liquid waste and high-level waste came from. It must be vitrified (combined with glass) and stored away somewhere for a long time. That's what yucca mountain is being prepped for.
Waste from power plants isn't that big of a deal. Currently, if you could go to any nuclear power plant you would see a couple of big cylindrical jars off on a concrete pad. That's the "waste". Actually, only a few percent of the fuel (~3% IIRC) is actually used. That waste sits there because it is cheaper to produce new fuel pellets than to recycle the old ones. One day those jars will be processed, the small amount of low-level waste removed, and the fuel will be re-used.
As people have said earlier in this discussion, the radioactive waste produced by a civilian nuclear power plant is much lower in amount and toxicity than that produced by the cleanest of coal fired plants. What's more, the nuclear station doesn't spread its radioactivity everywhere like the coal does. All the waste you have to watch after is a pellet the size of a pencil eraser.
The point of this was the spammer realised that if they went to court, they would have their backgrounds passed under a microscope by people who want them dead, out of buisness, or both (the last being the favored option).
The spammers don't want their deals uncovered, their ISPs don't want the contracts they signed witht spammers in the open, and the people who they spammed for don't want lawyers knocking at their doors with papers that allow them access to their records. Spamming in itself may be boarderline legal, but many of the actions that go on behind the scenes probably are not legal.
Continuing this case would open them up to negative publicity at best and very damaging lawsuits/criminal trials at worst. They won't appeal unless they have nothing to lose, and they have a lot to lose.
Why not just use Netscape.net or netscape.aol.com?
I would guess that it won't use the Gecko engine. Honestly I bet that it is just a dialer that sets your homepage to a place where you can get your email using a webmail interface, using whatever browser you have as default. There's no reason to do anything more.
Or that a subsciption to Rolling Stone for $3.95 a week (that's over $200 a year) is a really good deal.* People are idiots, so while some may actually need a refinance, they don't have the intelligence to figure out that by getting one from a telemarketer they are just perpetuating the cycle.
* This is from an actual telemarketing call. I was bored so I wanted to waste their time, so heard the sales pitch and was rewarded for my trouble with the most humorously blatent rip-off I have ever been pitched.
I still play X-Wing and TIE Fighter all the time. I have the collector's CD-Roms, which featured amazing voice briefings and radio chatter. I had totally forgotten about the "joy" dealing with EMS and XMS memory.
The oldest game I have is Moraff's world, still on 5 1/4" floppy.
Same here, I nearly forgot about that. I have one of the Model-M's that were manufactured by Lexmark, and don't have the detachable cord. Best keyboard ever, I'm keeping it around, even if it is a bit loud.
Besides that, I have an Elsa Gladiac, the first Geforce 2 card on the market, and a zip drive from 1997 in my current desktop computer. Both get the job done decently.
But, I have a fully functional 486sx I keep around for games. I don't use it now that I found VDMsound to let me run old stuff on my current hardware without fighting sound compaibility (the worst part or trying to run old games).
That's why I actually have three email accounts at any one time. One is the junk account, gets a few a day, because even though it is disposable I still don't toss it around. The second is the one I give out to people I trust, and gets no spam.
Both these accounts foward to the third account, where incoming mail is filtered based on the To: header. Mail coming into the junk acocunt goes into one subfolder, the personal account goes into another to be further filtered.
Works great. Becuase I NEVER give out my real email address, all the spam has to go through a filter. And if someone sends me something that gets me spammed, I can open a new account, and be sure not to give that address to them. Webmail is useless to me though, because the messages aren't filtered.
The range of RFID tags is not long enough to make tracking you by them possible.
This will just make checking out books a bit easier. Walk through the RFID scanner, swipe you library card, and walk out. The "man" can track your book useage by your library card anyway.
Also, every library I've been in has had those theft prevention devices that beep like crazy if you pass one of the books through them. This could make it a bit easier for the library to figure out just what book got taken.
This seems like an actual good use for RFID. It should be carefully eyed, but not just dismissed because RFID is somehow involved.
What I think he was saying that law prohibits distributing code that can be used to crack encryption methods. So, instead of distributing program X, for example, you are only making avalible a pointless.wav file, which happens to become program X when you run it through some filter. The bots searching the web for pirated copies of program X would likely miss it.
I don't think this argument would fly. Even if it is in a different form, the tool is still being made avalible. Just a different format. As soon as news gets out that the.wav is the program, you'll be busted.
This is going to be too damn complex for any online retailer to keep track of. SC has a yearly sales tax holiday, will online tax be dropped during that weekend? Is Bob's-Fun-Shop.com going to have to send 8000 checks a year to the different sales tax regions? Imaging getting audited by even 1% of those...
It is too complex, one more huge database that simply has to be kept up to date. The states aren't losing money, they are seeing a stream of money that they haven't attached their tenticles to. You can't lose something you never had.
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Ok, I'm impressed. I can't think of many downloads linked on
I'll leave BT running all night, share the unused bandwidth.
I'd much rather have those tongue-in-cheek ads than the current batch of "shock" commerials. Actually, I'd rather have no ads at all, but that's not a likely option.
There is nothing forcing them to sue everyone, just like the RIAA can choose to only sue those above a certain amount of shared files.
While this isn't the overall solution, a list of known non-spam servers could be a very important part of a spam filtering system.
The ultra-nasty stuff the US has a probblem which came from weapons production. That's where all the liquid waste and high-level waste came from. It must be vitrified (combined with glass) and stored away somewhere for a long time. That's what yucca mountain is being prepped for.
Waste from power plants isn't that big of a deal. Currently, if you could go to any nuclear power plant you would see a couple of big cylindrical jars off on a concrete pad. That's the "waste". Actually, only a few percent of the fuel (~3% IIRC) is actually used. That waste sits there because it is cheaper to produce new fuel pellets than to recycle the old ones. One day those jars will be processed, the small amount of low-level waste removed, and the fuel will be re-used.
As people have said earlier in this discussion, the radioactive waste produced by a civilian nuclear power plant is much lower in amount and toxicity than that produced by the cleanest of coal fired plants. What's more, the nuclear station doesn't spread its radioactivity everywhere like the coal does. All the waste you have to watch after is a pellet the size of a pencil eraser.
The spammers don't want their deals uncovered, their ISPs don't want the contracts they signed witht spammers in the open, and the people who they spammed for don't want lawyers knocking at their doors with papers that allow them access to their records. Spamming in itself may be boarderline legal, but many of the actions that go on behind the scenes probably are not legal.
Continuing this case would open them up to negative publicity at best and very damaging lawsuits/criminal trials at worst. They won't appeal unless they have nothing to lose, and they have a lot to lose.
Verisign would then count those as people "using" the "service" and sell advertising for more.
I would guess that it won't use the Gecko engine. Honestly I bet that it is just a dialer that sets your homepage to a place where you can get your email using a webmail interface, using whatever browser you have as default. There's no reason to do anything more.
* This is from an actual telemarketing call. I was bored so I wanted to waste their time, so heard the sales pitch and was rewarded for my trouble with the most humorously blatent rip-off I have ever been pitched.
The oldest game I have is Moraff's world, still on 5 1/4" floppy.
Besides that, I have an Elsa Gladiac, the first Geforce 2 card on the market, and a zip drive from 1997 in my current desktop computer. Both get the job done decently.
But, I have a fully functional 486sx I keep around for games. I don't use it now that I found VDMsound to let me run old stuff on my current hardware without fighting sound compaibility (the worst part or trying to run old games).
That is entirely too much blue...
What's keeping microsoft from breaking a few things compatibility-wise to get you to upgrade? DRM could be blamed for a lot of "problems"...
Cheaper than an international call. So much for stopping the outsourcing.
THat would set a very dangerous precident. 90% of the people I see on a daily basis are blantantly guilty of stupidity...
Most of the political shit I get is prerecorded. you cannot say no, because there is nobody to say no to!
It is at 3990 for me. That works out to be about...
81 hits/min
or
1.4 hits/sec
That's assuming no hits were lost when the counter was AWOL. Pretty impressive.
Meanwhile you will be kicked out of the bars because your stripe doesn't work, so you must have a fake ID.
Both these accounts foward to the third account, where incoming mail is filtered based on the To: header. Mail coming into the junk acocunt goes into one subfolder, the personal account goes into another to be further filtered.
Works great. Becuase I NEVER give out my real email address, all the spam has to go through a filter. And if someone sends me something that gets me spammed, I can open a new account, and be sure not to give that address to them. Webmail is useless to me though, because the messages aren't filtered.
This will just make checking out books a bit easier. Walk through the RFID scanner, swipe you library card, and walk out. The "man" can track your book useage by your library card anyway.
Also, every library I've been in has had those theft prevention devices that beep like crazy if you pass one of the books through them. This could make it a bit easier for the library to figure out just what book got taken.
This seems like an actual good use for RFID. It should be carefully eyed, but not just dismissed because RFID is somehow involved.
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What I think he was saying that law prohibits distributing code that can be used to crack encryption methods. So, instead of distributing program X, for example, you are only making avalible a pointless .wav file, which happens to become program X when you run it through some filter. The bots searching the web for pirated copies of program X would likely miss it.
I don't think this argument would fly. Even if it is in a different form, the tool is still being made avalible. Just a different format. As soon as news gets out that the .wav is the program, you'll be busted.
It is too complex, one more huge database that simply has to be kept up to date. The states aren't losing money, they are seeing a stream of money that they haven't attached their tenticles to. You can't lose something you never had.
At least I hope that they are.
Not yet, still too hot out. Let's wait until October.