Does this mean some annoying patent possibly held by Fentek Industries (who only make US layout keyboards) will be repealed so Cherry can resume their manufacture of the ErgoPlus G80-5000 (which used to come in all typical layouts) - without having to pass patent extortion on to the consumer.
"I believe it is unethical to kill and eat defenseless little plants which are rooted in the ground and are unable to put up any fight at all against human harvestors. Animals at least have a chance to escape or mount a defense."
What's more, vegetarians cruelly deprive the poor defenseless animals of their natural food. I'd imagine death by starvation is not very nice.
Any file that is encrypted is not identifiable for billing purposes, so file swappers need only provide their files in encrypted form to thwart this initiative.
Most readers will realize that was sarcasm, but let's pretend you're doing the devils advocate thing.
> What I don't understand is why there isn't an outrage amongst the general populace.
Classic.
> The people who oppose our services are cutting people off from their right to be marketed to.
There are other media available so nobody is "cutting people off from their right to be marketed to". If that is indeed a right. I have yet to hear anyone complain that their "right to be marketed to" was being violated.
ISPs provide services for money. If it makes economic sense they will refuse certain services to certain customers. Bulk mailing on its own put a significant load on an ISPs SMTP server(s). Bulk mailing usually generates generous amounts complaints to abuse@ which require a substantial amount of (expensive) human attention. Forged headers are of no use - there are plenty of people who can tell what is forged and what is not. The solution for spammers is simple - make sure your mailing list only contains addresses of people who would be "outraged" if their "their freedom to choose" were "being interfered with" - rather than addresses of cretins who respond to unwanted email by sending complaints to abuse@.
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Does this mean some annoying patent possibly held by Fentek Industries (who only make US layout keyboards) will be repealed so Cherry can resume their manufacture of the ErgoPlus G80-5000 (which used to come in all typical layouts) - without having to pass patent extortion on to the consumer.
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleprint/26 58/-1/1
Found a hosts file "configured" for extensive "parasite" blocking from an unexpected source
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt
just replace 127.0.0.1 with 0.0.0.0
and remember to change localhost back.
Yet Google have Pigeonrank
"I believe it is unethical to kill and eat defenseless little plants which are rooted in the ground and are unable to put up any fight at all against human harvestors. Animals at least have a chance to escape or mount a defense."
What's more, vegetarians cruelly deprive the poor defenseless animals of their natural food. I'd imagine death by starvation is not very nice.
Any file that is encrypted is not identifiable for billing purposes, so file swappers need only provide their files in encrypted form to thwart this initiative.
Is sarcasm patentable?
Most readers will realize that was sarcasm, but let's pretend you're doing the devils advocate thing.
> What I don't understand is why there isn't an outrage amongst the general populace.
Classic.
> The people who oppose our services are cutting people off from their right to be marketed to.
There are other media available so nobody is "cutting people off from their right to be marketed to". If that is indeed a right. I have yet to hear anyone complain that their "right to be marketed to" was being violated.
ISPs provide services for money. If it makes economic sense they will refuse certain services to certain customers.
Bulk mailing on its own put a significant load on an ISPs SMTP server(s). Bulk mailing usually generates generous amounts complaints to abuse@ which require a substantial amount of (expensive) human attention. Forged headers are of no use - there are plenty of people who can tell what is forged and what is not. The solution for spammers is simple - make sure your mailing list only contains addresses of people who would be "outraged" if their "their freedom to choose" were "being interfered with" - rather than addresses of cretins who respond to unwanted email by sending complaints to abuse@.
MSIE has been doing this for ages
Why do you think more and more techies are switching to mozilla?