Xoom got shut down when General Electric gave up on their failed NBCi project. Angelfire is also a part of Lycos so they'll likely get the same fate as Tripod.
And then there was one... GeoCities is the last of the "free web hosting" companies left standing as an offshoot of Yahoo!
> > Spreadsheets could offload all sorts of calculations
> Yes. Faster spreadsheets. We must have faster spreadsheets.
It may sound funny, but when/if these are integrated into PCs, I can guarantee that people will be using that tactic to convince accountants, business owners, old people wanting something cheap for their email, etc. into upgrading. If you don't believe me, go to Best Buy and watch as they try and sell you the most bloated system they have for you to use for simple office work. I don't know about you, but I can't remember the last time I needed a DVD burner, flat panel monitor, and 128MB video card for Microsoft Word.
How much longer until they implant GPS devices into everybody, so that the data can be used for proving they're telling the truth about their whereabouts. (Why they couldn't work, why they couldn't have committed a crime, that they didn't stop anywhere on the way home, etc.)
I never got that joke... During the Civil War, didn't the soldiers all stand shoulder to shoulder in rows, so that if the enemy had bad aim and missed Soldier B by a foot, it would still successfully hit soldier's A or C?
How the hell do you get a bunch of monkeys to stand still, or even in rows for that matter?!?
Do you think it would be legal to attach a sticker to a CD "TOS: Don't copy"...
It should be legal to attach a sticker to a CD, regardless of what the sticker says. It's what some would call free speech.
First, I doubt that there's any material cost to you.
You're on slashdot. Do you realize how many people here actually DO have to pay for the excess bandwidth wasted by spam?
What about the people who go on vacation only to come back and find out that an important email was never recieved, because their account had gone over it's quota, due to spam.
Second, everyone who has resources consumed by spam can pretty safely be said to have known that there were costs involved in being connected to the network -- if they proceeded, they assumed those costs. It's what one of my profs refers to as the Superchicken rule. Postal mail and telephones cost the user money as well. When you get a telemarketing call, or junk mail, it costs you money. If you don't like it, don't receive mail or have a phone.
Of course, we do realize that there are costs involved in "being connected". Although, the wise thing to do would be to try and minimize those costs, and not just ignore them.
If someone scratches obscenities all over your vehicle on a regular basis, would you leave them alone and consider continuously repainting it as a cost involved in owning a vehicle?
First, I doubt that there's any material cost to you.
You're on slashdot. Do you realize how many people here actually DO have to pay for the excess bandwidth wasted by spam?
What about the people who go on vacation only to come back and find out that an important email was never recieved, because their account had gone over it's quota, due to spam.
Second, everyone who has resources consumed by spam can pretty safely be said to have known that there were costs involved in being connected to the network -- if they proceeded, they assumed those costs. It's what one of my profs refers to as the Superchicken rule. Postal mail and telephones cost the user money as well. When you get a telemarketing call, or junk mail, it costs you money. If you don't like it, don't receive mail or have a phone.
Of course, we do realize that there are costs involved in "being connected". Although, the wise thing to do would be to try and minimize those costs, and not just ignore them.
If someone scratches obscenities all over your vehicle on a regular basis, would you leave them alone and consider continuously repainting it as a cost involved in owning a vehicle?
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Easynews is $9.95 for 6 gigabytes. And just as legal. What makes newsgroups any more legal than IRC, FTP, AOL, BT, or P2P?
Xoom got shut down when General Electric gave up on their failed NBCi project. Angelfire is also a part of Lycos so they'll likely get the same fate as Tripod.
And then there was one... GeoCities is the last of the "free web hosting" companies left standing as an offshoot of Yahoo!
There are tons of free web hosting companies.
When searching google for "free web hosting", notice how Xoom.com shows up on the first page. Although now they're "the smarter way to send money".
Why would you need to worry about that? If the smaller blimps can't maneuver around you, then that's their problem...
> > Spreadsheets could offload all sorts of calculations
> Yes. Faster spreadsheets. We must have faster spreadsheets.
It may sound funny, but when/if these are integrated into PCs, I can guarantee that people will be using that tactic to convince accountants, business owners, old people wanting something cheap for their email, etc. into upgrading. If you don't believe me, go to Best Buy and watch as they try and sell you the most bloated system they have for you to use for simple office work. I don't know about you, but I can't remember the last time I needed a DVD burner, flat panel monitor, and 128MB video card for Microsoft Word.
How much longer until they implant GPS devices into everybody, so that the data can be used for proving they're telling the truth about their whereabouts. (Why they couldn't work, why they couldn't have committed a crime, that they didn't stop anywhere on the way home, etc.)
I never got that joke... During the Civil War, didn't the soldiers all stand shoulder to shoulder in rows, so that if the enemy had bad aim and missed Soldier B by a foot, it would still successfully hit soldier's A or C?
How the hell do you get a bunch of monkeys to stand still, or even in rows for that matter?!?
Do you think it would be legal to attach a sticker to a CD "TOS: Don't copy"... It should be legal to attach a sticker to a CD, regardless of what the sticker says. It's what some would call free speech.
First, I doubt that there's any material cost to you.
You're on slashdot. Do you realize how many people here actually DO have to pay for the excess bandwidth wasted by spam?
What about the people who go on vacation only to come back and find out that an important email was never recieved, because their account had gone over it's quota, due to spam.
Second, everyone who has resources consumed by spam can pretty safely be said to have known that there were costs involved in being connected to the network -- if they proceeded, they assumed those costs. It's what one of my profs refers to as the Superchicken rule. Postal mail and telephones cost the user money as well. When you get a telemarketing call, or junk mail, it costs you money. If you don't like it, don't receive mail or have a phone.
Of course, we do realize that there are costs involved in "being connected". Although, the wise thing to do would be to try and minimize those costs, and not just ignore them.
If someone scratches obscenities all over your vehicle on a regular basis, would you leave them alone and consider continuously repainting it as a cost involved in owning a vehicle?
First, I doubt that there's any material cost to you. You're on slashdot. Do you realize how many people here actually DO have to pay for the excess bandwidth wasted by spam? What about the people who go on vacation only to come back and find out that an important email was never recieved, because their account had gone over it's quota, due to spam. Second, everyone who has resources consumed by spam can pretty safely be said to have known that there were costs involved in being connected to the network -- if they proceeded, they assumed those costs. It's what one of my profs refers to as the Superchicken rule. Postal mail and telephones cost the user money as well. When you get a telemarketing call, or junk mail, it costs you money. If you don't like it, don't receive mail or have a phone. Of course, we do realize that there are costs involved in "being connected". Although, the wise thing to do would be to try and minimize those costs, and not just ignore them. If someone scratches obscenities all over your vehicle on a regular basis, would you leave them alone and consider continuously repainting it as a cost involved in owning a vehicle?