Future aficionados of the genre will compare Star Trek: Enterprise to Galactica 1980. Unfavorably.
Rick Berman took on the canon monster and lost. He should have stuck to being a Trekkie fanboi who couldn't get a date on a Friday night without Rohypnol.
I'm in the same boat. I had this wacky idea in 1992 that the Internet needed some way to search through it for specific words and phrases. Kind of like the index to a book.
But alas, somebody else got there first.
(I still have some stock with the name of my business, Boogle.com. Want some?)
Unless you live in a city or well-developed suburb, you are pretty much stuck with the good old phone modem as an affordable link to the Internet. Considering that an established goal of providing content at 100 Mbps to 100 million homes and small businesses by 2010 is considered to be "lofty" by many, I believe that the next big Internet business model will be the provision of cheap "last mile" connectivity.
Wise and aggressive spectrum management techniques and initiatives, efficient cost control, and complete market penetration will be key to accomplishing this goal. And the company or companies that can do it fastest with the mostest will be able to print their own money.
The smart investors are already trying to figure out how to craft the next Wal-Mart business model when it comes to broadband connectivity.
"Millions" CDs are nothing new under the sun. Spammers have been using "dirty" lists since ARPANET days, and they merely turn "just hit delete" sheeple into raving anti-spam activists.
As for the author's assertion that the "bulletproof" spam hosts are in India, I give you... China, Brazil, most of the Pacific Rim, as well as clueless/malicious providers such as Level3, Wanadoo.fr, etc. I can count the number of spams I've received from Indian sources recently on one hand, while the Chinese/Brazilian spam numbers in the tens of thousands.
You know I can understand this point for other things such as supercomputing or various technologies which have some purpose other than full-scale annihilation but I just don't know why people need this information.
If AT&T handles cellphone number portability issues with anywhere near the same level of incompetence and even malice as they have heretofore demonstrated in the way they handle complaints against their customers who send unsolicited commercial email, their stockholders should grease themselves up now and prepare for maximum fineage.
Im implying that the judge probably moved it up the ladder due to the presence of the RIAA's high, over, paied lawyers.
One man's grasping, overpaid landshark is another man's knight errant wearing an Armani suit and wielding a briefcase.
I don't buy music from artists represented by RIAA anyway, so as far as I'm concerned they can accrue all the high-priced legal talent they want. At least it keeps 'em off the streets at night.
Thank $deity for your vigilance. It is only by the tireless efforts of people like you that spelling errors are not allowed to pass unchallenged on Slashdot.
From my experience here so far, yes, people do replace their stuff - especially electronics - quite often.
As a formerly penurious American living in Japan, you haven't lived until you've gone on a "gomie" pile run with a truck and a few friends, right after Golden Week. Perfectly-good furniture, carpets, and household furnishings, all on the trash pile because the Japanese family wanted to buy THIS year's model instead.
Talk about your wretched excess. (I STILL have a coffee table from a gomie pile in my home, 15 years later).
I can see email whitelists becoming a LOT more popular if this new law passes. Its the only way that email will continue to be usable as a communications medium if spammers are allowed free rein into people's email boxes.
His parents should be horsewhipped for giving him a name like that. Somehow, I don't think that he would have been subject to so much worldwide abuse if his name had been Pierre or Jacques.
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Rick Berman took on the canon monster and lost. He should have stuck to being a Trekkie fanboi who couldn't get a date on a Friday night without Rohypnol.
But alas, somebody else got there first.
(I still have some stock with the name of my business, Boogle.com. Want some?)
Wise and aggressive spectrum management techniques and initiatives, efficient cost control, and complete market penetration will be key to accomplishing this goal. And the company or companies that can do it fastest with the mostest will be able to print their own money.
The smart investors are already trying to figure out how to craft the next Wal-Mart business model when it comes to broadband connectivity.
As for the author's assertion that the "bulletproof" spam hosts are in India, I give you ... China, Brazil, most of the Pacific Rim, as well as clueless/malicious providers such as Level3, Wanadoo.fr, etc. I can count the number of spams I've received from Indian sources recently on one hand, while the Chinese/Brazilian spam numbers in the tens of thousands.
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?
They don't call it "The Bill of Needs."
I've seen Windows source code - anybody/thing CAN.
"Pink" contracts for spammers, routinely binning/ignoring/denying spam complaints, even supplying spammers with tools to bypass spam filters - The Death Star does it all if you want to spam.
One man's grasping, overpaid landshark is another man's knight errant wearing an Armani suit and wielding a briefcase.
I don't buy music from artists represented by RIAA anyway, so as far as I'm concerned they can accrue all the high-priced legal talent they want. At least it keeps 'em off the streets at night.
Thank $deity for your vigilance. It is only by the tireless efforts of people like you that spelling errors are not allowed to pass unchallenged on Slashdot.
I'll be better next time.
As a formerly penurious American living in Japan, you haven't lived until you've gone on a "gomie" pile run with a truck and a few friends, right after Golden Week. Perfectly-good furniture, carpets, and household furnishings, all on the trash pile because the Japanese family wanted to buy THIS year's model instead.
Talk about your wretched excess. (I STILL have a coffee table from a gomie pile in my home, 15 years later).
(The cup holder already works great)
His parents should be horsewhipped for giving him a name like that. Somehow, I don't think that he would have been subject to so much worldwide abuse if his name had been Pierre or Jacques.