I should be able to decide who makes it into my mailbox, and who I want to mail. If I abuse that somehow (stalking, advertising w/o opt-in, etc.), the law should be brought into it. Not Spamhaus. And in the meantime, the user should be empowered to use whitelist or blacklist or both at the level of their *own* mailbox. That's one of the most important jobs of every mail client author there ever was or ever will be. There are people I always want to hear from; there are people I never want to hear from; and there are people I've not made a decision about. But it is MY decision to make. Not anyone else's, barring actual legal issues.
*Cry me a river* You have a choice. dont use ISP that are known to harbor spammers,and dont spam yourself and you wont have a problem. If you dont like the way black lists work then choice and ISP that dont use the black lists you dont like and quit complaining about it. Take action. Because your complaints are not worth anything simply because there are enough people that value the service and use it. If that was not the case the service wouldn't be in existence. Technology will always be better at solving issues with spam then the law every will as technology reflects the will of the people to get problems solved where law can get bogged down by people who have power to change it for selfish ends. Im glad the spam services are there and I think the burden of proof should always be on the the person or network who has been accused of spamming countless times to either put up or shut up. People that complain about this just dont like the fact that they dont have control over the decision making process. Which by the way is a big problem in the US and possible other countries.
Crowdsourcing this sort of privacy/security function to anonymous people with unverified credibility leads to the well being poisoned with deliberate or unintended misinformation. They are even vulnerable to ill-intentioned people with axes to grind and a willingness to wreck significant swaths of the Internet to exact their vengeance.
Ohh, boy. its not like I havent heard this argument before. If we take your supposed logic to its end, who should be the ones to verify these so called anonmous people you talk about? The supposed business community? There only interest is to continue business as usual, they dont have any interested in removing spam from the network. Its a false claim that the system can be abused by someone with an axe to grind simply because there are checks and balances to prevent that. You can request to be removed from the blacklist once you clean up your act. I swear to god does the business community think they have a god given right to send email unsolicited? Get over yourselves if your organization is allowing spam though,you dont have any rights, get your network straightened out and stop complaining to people who dont care about the reasons.
.. I use Spamhaus's blocklist myself, but organizations like Spamhaus and Cisco SenderBase need to take some responsibility to ensure that they are not unduly effecting legitimate businesses and networks. Taking large-scale blanket actions that effect many legitimate sites undermines the anti-spam industry as a whole, because it makes it more difficult for people to rely on anti-spam products/services.
Umm, no they dont. The dont have a responsibility to ensure they are not unduly effecting legitimate business. The only responsibility they have is to block organizations that have been known to host spammers. If your business gets affected guess whos fault it is? Either you or your ISP's failure to deal with the situation.
You may think its the wrong approach, but they have the right to black list your ISP. Nobody is forcing people to use Spamhaus as a spam filter service.
Im sorry i have no sympathy for people that complain about a service that is voluntary. If your ISP is hosting a spammer, the whole domain should be blocked until its resolved.
This kind of distorted thinking is what is causing so many problems with innovation in this country. Its the classic text book economic position that if you can get something by giving then its worthless to pursue it. But something tells me that inventing for the purpose of improving society has benifits of its own and has been working for a long time, which in turn directly benefit your establishment in many ways not really thought about. Im sorry im not buying the idea that you cant profit off of something without having exclusive rights to it.
This is one of the most true statements ever made about this issue. And its funny to watch people go on as if we still have a government that operates for the people.
Im sorry, i have to call this out. Thats a fucking stupid way to look at things. You call it tangable because its easier to see the damage of a starving child, but because you can see the damage of the climate it someone less tangible?
Yeah, they are so open minded that they take in whatever lies the major news media spews out and regurgitates it as fact because they cant think for themselves. I guess you could call that open mindedness. If you are stupid enough to see it that way.
. And it has publicly lectured competitors to 'create their own original technology, not steal ours.'
Don't be ridiculous apple, we are all building off each others ideas no matter how innovative we think we are. As developers no matter how many laws we try to make or how many people we try to convince of this illusion, software and ideas are not the same as property and they never will be.
I already dropped my cellphone plan because the data package was too expensive, being forced to purchase a separate tethering plan that is more expensive makes me think I have made the right choice. Im not going to be paying for two data plans, my home internet and my cell internet. Ill find a way to make it work with home internet and wifi hotspots.
What do we do? America is a Republic, not a Democracy. The only thing we can do to try to "fix" the problem is reelect more people who end up falling to the same bribes as those who we previously wanted out. At any given time out of a population of well over 300 million people, there are really only 1000 or so people that truly have the power to change the system. That number is small enough to simply be bought out. Put new people in and they'll buy them out. Wanna change the system? Can't. The people that can do it are the same people who would lose from it doing so.
Short of an armed revolution, things are not going to change. Ever. Thing is, they've got the bread and circuses act down pact. Most of the masses are relatively content. Their reality shows come on every night and the food is relatively cheap. They have no interest in losing what they have. We're going to have to wait for our ruling class to really run the country absolutely into the ground, shutting off supply of cheap trinkets to the population, before things really change.
It goes even deeper than that, we really need to start with overhauling our economic system. Corruption will always be part of this society until we can invent a new system where people don't have to choose between surviving and being happy or content with their life. When 90% of the people believe the illusion that money is the answer to all their problems their will always be an incentive to become part of the corruption. Everything else is just a byproduct of this ingrained belief.
omg, overreact much? I dont care how much pirating is going on its making a copy of a copy. The right holder doesnt lose his works, just his ability to control pricing and control of pricing should belong to the people because that is how you know what is and isnt valuable. Its not even remotely worth putting people in jail for.
IMHO this is all about control of distribution and has nothing to do with theft. They want to lock down the internet so tight they will control how sales happen on the net.
Thats because every candidate is corrupt, it doesnt matter which one you choose. The game is stacked against us even before we get to the table so the money needs to be taken out of the system before we can have any meaningful election that works for the people.
Regarding your Speech at the Hearing On Costly Problem Of Online Infringement. You state that people who steal will always find a way. That statement clearly shows that your administration doesn't understand the issues at hand. For one thing, making a copy of a bike and taking the copy home to assemble a new bike from a copy at home doesn't mean its a its stealing. If someone found a way to scan a bike and make a copy of it, it would be new technology and it would change the way we went about obtaining bikes. Its not productive to ban the makers and users of the technology simply because they have made it much more easier for people to obtain want they need.
When the entertainment industry refers to music piracy as using bolt cutters to steal a bike what would happen if we started banning or restricting the use of bolt cutters simply because the product has non-legitimate uses?
This is an issue where the entertainment industry saw the writing on the wall (digital entertainment being much easier to distribute) and choose to do nothing about it. Now they are losing business because of their decision to do nothing and now should pay the price for doing nothing. Dont make the public suffer with further restrictions on copying simply because this industry choose to stick their head in the sand and not change their business. If you follow the same line that they caused you and your administration is going to perpetuate the problem and cause more suffering than needed. If you are taking money from this industry I suggest you stop doing so and simple bow out. you are not helping the American people by catering to this industry's wishes. They exist because the people of this country allow them to. Nothing more, nothing less.
you had a site that needed some improvement in the white space department. But the thing is the look you had before was the right balance, on mobile devices and on big screens.. and now you want to turn it into a mobile only layout? If it aint broke, dont fix it.
I dont know why, but "The Revolution will not be televised" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id--ZFtjR5c comes to mind when I hear about this. I know nothing of Hungary, but everywhere I look I see Rich populations rising to power so they can take away basic freedoms from the people. In the U.S Privatization has killed our health care system where the rich stay healthy and the sick get sicker. It seems like in so many countries do not serve its people, but instead serves selfish interests.
IF they are going to do a prequel It should happen before Sigourney Weaver's character(or any other characters from the first two) was involved. There are some comics written about the alien home-world, hopefully they will focus on visiting the alien home world and not accidentally get stowaways on board on the trip back to earth. Hint, Hint.
Capitalism discourages equal access to wealth, leading to enormous gaps between rich and poor. The free market lacks a conscience, giving rise to inequalities of education, health care, and job opportunities. Finally, capitalism if unchecked promotes corruption, both economic and political.
The market decides bull-crap leaves out the human factor. The internet is a method of communication that should be built around ideas of low cost access to all, without censorship and packet filtering based on profit motives as that is counter to the needs of the public.
I went with an http://www.entourageedge.com/Entourage Edge Dual Screen, ebook/tablet device. Kind of heavy compared to other tablet devices, but its great for drawing, taking notes, surfing the net and what not, runs android.
'We probably got a little too aggressive near the end and probably open sourced too much and tried too hard to appease the community and tried too hard to share,' McNealy said. 'You gotta take care of your shareholders or you end up very vulnerable like we got. We were a wonderful acquisition -- we got stolen for a song at the bottom of the Dow.'"
That my friends, is what is wrong with capitalism. When you are punished for giving back to the community, and praised for being selfish you know something is seriously fucked up about how this country operates.
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If you say so then it must be true. Internet person with no authority.
*Cry me a river* You have a choice. dont use ISP that are known to harbor spammers,and dont spam yourself and you wont have a problem. If you dont like the way black lists work then choice and ISP that dont use the black lists you dont like and quit complaining about it. Take action. Because your complaints are not worth anything simply because there are enough people that value the service and use it. If that was not the case the service wouldn't be in existence. Technology will always be better at solving issues with spam then the law every will as technology reflects the will of the people to get problems solved where law can get bogged down by people who have power to change it for selfish ends. Im glad the spam services are there and I think the burden of proof should always be on the the person or network who has been accused of spamming countless times to either put up or shut up. People that complain about this just dont like the fact that they dont have control over the decision making process. Which by the way is a big problem in the US and possible other countries.
Ohh, boy. its not like I havent heard this argument before. If we take your supposed logic to its end, who should be the ones to verify these so called anonmous people you talk about? The supposed business community? There only interest is to continue business as usual, they dont have any interested in removing spam from the network. Its a false claim that the system can be abused by someone with an axe to grind simply because there are checks and balances to prevent that. You can request to be removed from the blacklist once you clean up your act. I swear to god does the business community think they have a god given right to send email unsolicited? Get over yourselves if your organization is allowing spam though ,you dont have any rights, get your network straightened out and stop complaining to people who dont care about the reasons.
Umm, no they dont. The dont have a responsibility to ensure they are not unduly effecting legitimate business. The only responsibility they have is to block organizations that have been known to host spammers. If your business gets affected guess whos fault it is? Either you or your ISP's failure to deal with the situation.
You may think its the wrong approach, but they have the right to black list your ISP. Nobody is forcing people to use Spamhaus as a spam filter service.
Im sorry i have no sympathy for people that complain about a service that is voluntary. If your ISP is hosting a spammer, the whole domain should be blocked until its resolved.
This kind of distorted thinking is what is causing so many problems with innovation in this country. Its the classic text book economic position that if you can get something by giving then its worthless to pursue it. But something tells me that inventing for the purpose of improving society has benifits of its own and has been working for a long time, which in turn directly benefit your establishment in many ways not really thought about. Im sorry im not buying the idea that you cant profit off of something without having exclusive rights to it.
This is one of the most true statements ever made about this issue. And its funny to watch people go on as if we still have a government that operates for the people.
Im sorry, i have to call this out. Thats a fucking stupid way to look at things. You call it tangable because its easier to see the damage of a starving child, but because you can see the damage of the climate it someone less tangible?
Yeah, they are so open minded that they take in whatever lies the major news media spews out and regurgitates it as fact because they cant think for themselves. I guess you could call that open mindedness. If you are stupid enough to see it that way.
Don't be ridiculous apple, we are all building off each others ideas no matter how innovative we think we are. As developers no matter how many laws we try to make or how many people we try to convince of this illusion, software and ideas are not the same as property and they never will be.
I already dropped my cellphone plan because the data package was too expensive, being forced to purchase a separate tethering plan that is more expensive makes me think I have made the right choice. Im not going to be paying for two data plans, my home internet and my cell internet. Ill find a way to make it work with home internet and wifi hotspots.
It goes even deeper than that, we really need to start with overhauling our economic system. Corruption will always be part of this society until we can invent a new system where people don't have to choose between surviving and being happy or content with their life. When 90% of the people believe the illusion that money is the answer to all their problems their will always be an incentive to become part of the corruption. Everything else is just a byproduct of this ingrained belief.
omg, overreact much? I dont care how much pirating is going on its making a copy of a copy. The right holder doesnt lose his works, just his ability to control pricing and control of pricing should belong to the people because that is how you know what is and isnt valuable. Its not even remotely worth putting people in jail for.
IMHO this is all about control of distribution and has nothing to do with theft. They want to lock down the internet so tight they will control how sales happen on the net.
That depends on what your definition of successful is, not everything is about money.
Thats because every candidate is corrupt, it doesnt matter which one you choose. The game is stacked against us even before we get to the table so the money needs to be taken out of the system before we can have any meaningful election that works for the people.
http://leahy.senate.gov/contact/
Here is my letter:
Regarding your Speech at the Hearing On Costly Problem Of Online Infringement.
You state that people who steal will always find a way. That statement clearly shows that your administration doesn't understand the issues at hand. For one thing, making a copy of a bike and taking the copy home to assemble a new bike from a copy at home doesn't mean its a its stealing. If someone found a way to scan a bike and make a copy of it, it would be new technology and it would change the way we went about obtaining bikes. Its not productive to ban the makers and users of the technology simply because they have made it much more easier for people to obtain want they need.
When the entertainment industry refers to music piracy as using bolt cutters to steal a bike what would happen if we started banning or restricting the use of bolt cutters simply because the product has non-legitimate uses?
This is an issue where the entertainment industry saw the writing on the wall (digital entertainment being much easier to distribute) and choose to do nothing about it. Now they are losing business because of their decision to do nothing and now should pay the price for doing nothing. Dont make the public suffer with further restrictions on copying simply because this industry choose to stick their head in the sand and not change their business. If you follow the same line that they caused you and your administration is going to perpetuate the problem and cause more suffering than needed. If you are taking money from this industry I suggest you stop doing so and simple bow out. you are not helping the American people by catering to this industry's wishes. They exist because the people of this country allow them to. Nothing more, nothing less.
Its more likley that Al-Qaeda is a myth created by the CIA that allowed us to attack Afganastan and IRAQ
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7787
you had a site that needed some improvement in the white space department. But the thing is the look you had before was the right balance, on mobile devices and on big screens.. and now you want to turn it into a mobile only layout? If it aint broke, dont fix it.
I dont know why, but "The Revolution will not be televised" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id--ZFtjR5c comes to mind when I hear about this. I know nothing of Hungary, but everywhere I look I see Rich populations rising to power so they can take away basic freedoms from the people. In the U.S Privatization has killed our health care system where the rich stay healthy and the sick get sicker. It seems like in so many countries do not serve its people, but instead serves selfish interests.
Its the wall street journal, free market bullshit at its finest. Another journal that believes we live in a free country.
IF they are going to do a prequel It should happen before Sigourney Weaver's character(or any other characters from the first two) was involved. There are some comics written about the alien home-world, hopefully they will focus on visiting the alien home world and not accidentally get stowaways on board on the trip back to earth. Hint, Hint.
The Free Market is an illusion.
Capitalism discourages equal access to wealth, leading to enormous gaps between rich and poor. The free market lacks a conscience, giving rise to inequalities of education, health care, and job opportunities. Finally, capitalism if unchecked promotes corruption, both economic and political.
The market decides bull-crap leaves out the human factor. The internet is a method of communication that should be built around ideas of low cost access to all, without censorship and packet filtering based on profit motives as that is counter to the needs of the public.
I went with an http://www.entourageedge.com/Entourage Edge Dual Screen, ebook/tablet device. Kind of heavy compared to other tablet devices, but its great for drawing, taking notes, surfing the net and what not, runs android.
That my friends, is what is wrong with capitalism. When you are punished for giving back to the community, and praised for being selfish you know something is seriously fucked up about how this country operates.