Will it include commercials? If it does, and advertisers are still willing to pay even if the show is not being distrubuted via standard means (i.e. television), then we may be witnessing the beginning of a new era of advertising. Kind of like what Google did with Adwords.
If fines are all he gets, there's still a chance that he's profitable and the spamming is "worth it" to him.
Case in point:
My grandfather is a seafood salesman in Quebec (Canada). He sells to many restaurants. One of major restaurants in the Montreal area was one of his customers. He sold all kinds of different food products to them. One thing he sold was frog's legs.
One day, the restaurant stopped buying frog's legs from him. He asked the owner what had happened. The owner said that they had found someone that could undercut my grandfather's price per pound by $1. My grandfather said surely its impossible. Theres no way you can get frog's legs so cheap.
About a year later the restaurant was temporarily shutdown for investigation. The owner had been selling rat's legs instead of frog's legs.
After the investigation was over and the restaurant reopened, my grandfather went to the owner and said, "I knew you couldn't get frog's legs that cheap." The owner said, "Listen, I was selling one thousand pounds of frog's legs per week. At one dollar a pound I saved $1000 every week for a year. The fine was $1500."
He laughed and said that he would do it again because it was worth it.
True story that happened about 20 years ago, but I'm willing to bet that if the fine on this spammer isn't high enough, he will say it was worth it too.
Schmidt said Google does not intend to offer a 'person-to-person stored-value payments system' like PayPal's, in which money briefly resides in PayPal's control during the transaction
Well what about a 'person-to-person stored-value payments system' like PayPal's, in which money doesn't briefly reside in Google's control during the transaction but rather gets directly transfered to the merchant.
I personnally have always thought that PayPal's way of doing it (keeping the money in your 'PayPal account') was pretty lame.
the more it is adopted at a strategic level, the more it plays back into the hands of the traditional behemoths that dominate the industry
WHAT?!?!? You mean the "behemoths" can use open source too? How could this happen??!?! NO NO NO NO!!!!!
[Sarcasm off]Well what do you expect. Don't forget that opensource software != free software. of course the big guys will start using opensource too, now that they've started to see that light. What did anyone expect? Did you want to FSF to have a monopoly on opensource forever? I think not. I think the result of "big behemoths" switching to open source will be more secure software being delivered to end users. That's the whole point of OSS!
I for one welcome our opensource behemoth overlords.
There is an enormous amount of work that makes Quantum Mechanics play well with relativity.
The problem with quantum mechanics and relativity is that the theory of quantum mechanics only works well when gravity is so weak that it can be neglected. Particle theory only works when we pretend gravity doesn't exist. On the other hand, general relativity only works when we pretend that the Universe is purely classical and that quantum mechanics is not needed in our description of nature.
The solution is string theory. This website has a nice list of expirements that have been done in favor of string theory.
It is hijacking because you can switch any page (i.e. the page ranked #1 for 'online poker') with the URL of your choice. i.e. your URL will be in the #1 position.
Just to the right of where the article says,"So-called "enemies of Linux" are conducting a systematic campaign of disinformation which aims to undermine the enterprise credibility of the open source operating system", I see an add for MS's Get the Facts campaign. Hmmmm.
...The primary author of the legislation, State Sen. Larry Mumper, told the paper the legislature never intended it to apply to individuals selling items over eBay....
In other words, the lawmakers are NOT attempting to target eBay/eBay users with this law. The law is there only to make sure auctioneers are obeying other Ohio laws regarding auctions. eBay already attempts to enforce the law by shutting down illegal auctions or whatever, so it is VERY unlikely that Ohio lawmakers will need to empose this law onto eBay sellers.
I did the same. Mine actually activated, but would randomly "deactivate" itself and claim I never activated it. I also had Norton Firewall which would occasionally start totally blocking *all* ports. I ended up having to simply disable it. Norton suckx.
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Will it include commercials? If it does, and advertisers are still willing to pay even if the show is not being distrubuted via standard means (i.e. television), then we may be witnessing the beginning of a new era of advertising. Kind of like what Google did with Adwords.
Sort of offtopic, but how exactly can it be possible for a question to be moderated informative?
I swear I didnt make the story up; it's true. Like I said, it was one of the major restaurants in Canada (its not there anymore, though).
But anyways, we're kind of getting off topic. We're supposed to be talking about spam, I think.
If fines are all he gets, there's still a chance that he's profitable and the spamming is "worth it" to him.
Case in point:
My grandfather is a seafood salesman in Quebec (Canada). He sells to many restaurants. One of major restaurants in the Montreal area was one of his customers. He sold all kinds of different food products to them. One thing he sold was frog's legs.
One day, the restaurant stopped buying frog's legs from him. He asked the owner what had happened. The owner said that they had found someone that could undercut my grandfather's price per pound by $1. My grandfather said surely its impossible. Theres no way you can get frog's legs so cheap.
About a year later the restaurant was temporarily shutdown for investigation. The owner had been selling rat's legs instead of frog's legs.
After the investigation was over and the restaurant reopened, my grandfather went to the owner and said, "I knew you couldn't get frog's legs that cheap." The owner said, "Listen, I was selling one thousand pounds of frog's legs per week. At one dollar a pound I saved $1000 every week for a year. The fine was $1500."
He laughed and said that he would do it again because it was worth it.
True story that happened about 20 years ago, but I'm willing to bet that if the fine on this spammer isn't high enough, he will say it was worth it too.
Schmidt said Google does not intend to offer a 'person-to-person stored-value payments system' like PayPal's, in which money briefly resides in PayPal's control during the transaction
Well what about a 'person-to-person stored-value payments system' like PayPal's, in which money doesn't briefly reside in Google's control during the transaction but rather gets directly transfered to the merchant.
I personnally have always thought that PayPal's way of doing it (keeping the money in your 'PayPal account') was pretty lame.
the more it is adopted at a strategic level, the more it plays back into the hands of the traditional behemoths that dominate the industry
WHAT?!?!? You mean the "behemoths" can use open source too? How could this happen??!?! NO NO NO NO!!!!!
[Sarcasm off]Well what do you expect. Don't forget that opensource software != free software. of course the big guys will start using opensource too, now that they've started to see that light. What did anyone expect? Did you want to FSF to have a monopoly on opensource forever? I think not. I think the result of "big behemoths" switching to open source will be more secure software being delivered to end users. That's the whole point of OSS!
I for one welcome our opensource behemoth overlords.
I haven't watched Cartoon Network in a while so I had no clue what "Toonami" was nor what "IGPX" was. (I wasn't "highly anticipating" it either).
Shouldn't they at least have posted a link to the official website?
Nickelodeon is running a new show too. Who cares?
There is an enormous amount of work that makes Quantum Mechanics play well with relativity.
The problem with quantum mechanics and relativity is that the theory of quantum mechanics only works well when gravity is so weak that it can be neglected. Particle theory only works when we pretend gravity doesn't exist. On the other hand, general relativity only works when we pretend that the Universe is purely classical and that quantum mechanics is not needed in our description of nature.
The solution is string theory. This website has a nice list of expirements that have been done in favor of string theory.
Didn't LANL or BNL create a black hole for a few seconds, several times?
.pdf so you must open it manually in your PDF reader.
They smashes beams of gold nuclei together at near light speeds, the result was a fireball who's core had "a striking similarity to a black hole." His paper is here. Its in PDF format, although it does not end in
(Note: the file does not end in .pdf, so you have to manually open it from within Acrobat Reader)
Here is his actual article (PDF).
It is hijacking because you can switch any page (i.e. the page ranked #1 for 'online poker') with the URL of your choice. i.e. your URL will be in the #1 position.
Users will have to pay tax each time they visit a webpage on a subscription based website? Visiting a page does involve downloading, of course.
What do you call this?
Open Tax Solver
Who are the enemies
Just to the right of where the article says ,"So-called "enemies of Linux" are conducting a systematic campaign of disinformation which aims to undermine the enterprise credibility of the open source operating system", I see an add for MS's Get the Facts campaign. Hmmmm.
The local drive-in movie screen still pwns all! hahahaha!
Read the article:
In other words, the lawmakers are NOT attempting to target eBay/eBay users with this law. The law is there only to make sure auctioneers are obeying other Ohio laws regarding auctions. eBay already attempts to enforce the law by shutting down illegal auctions or whatever, so it is VERY unlikely that Ohio lawmakers will need to empose this law onto eBay sellers.
What about the horse?
I did the same. Mine actually activated, but would randomly "deactivate" itself and claim I never activated it. I also had Norton Firewall which would occasionally start totally blocking *all* ports. I ended up having to simply disable it. Norton suckx.
from the dept.
the dept? has a nice ring to it. we should hear from this dept more often!
Matthew Garrett
Then check the results from the W3's validator. Its better than the 40+ errors /. has.
It looks like MSN's markup is more valid then Slashdot's is.