People stop trying to profit so much to help reduce or stop it...
I'm not sure who's worse anymore, the companies out there who sell services to 'help' you reduce/eliminate spam, or the spammers. (Maybe one in the same, in some instances)..
The only resolution I see to spam is good, solid legislation THAT IS ENFORCED. Country harbors spammers, cut them off from the US internet. Spammers AND the companies that hire them BOTH held equally liable. If it's a criminal act to spam, it's a criminal act to hire someone to spam.
People can write programs all day to try and stop spam, it won't matter. If someone can write a program to filter x out, someone else will find a way to get y through. It's an endless cycle.
Watch, MS will copyright some key element that allows the OS to interface with the USB devices - prohibiting anyone from making compatible software.
On top of that, if you simply bypass their key element - it's copyright circumvention because it bypasses that security check or whatever that MS implemented.
I'm not saying that's the way it's going to be - but it's a possibility.
In the end, though, it doesn't matter what MS tries to do - they're not going to cripple FOSS. The nastier they get, the less people care for their company and products. That means more people to FOSS and other competition - and less political influence for Microsoft to continue out it's battle. (Not that I want to see MS gone, but perhaps when they're not the biggest kid on the playground they'll have to behave themselves a bit more.)
Windows average uptime.. listed in days...
Linux average uptime... Should I list this in days, months, or years?
Seriously, though, I've had Linux servers running and used frequently that were not restarted for upwards of a year or more -- and even then it was because of a flood, power went out - generator was submerged (so obviously shut off), and UPS's ran out of power after 20 mins = everything got rebooted.
I have 'never' had to reboot a Linux system because of various parts of the OS or other programs not functioning properly which would be fixed by restarting the machine.
I don't care if you're a Windows lover or a Windows hater, everyone knows if something doesn't work right in Windows -- restart, it just might start mysteriously working again. I know of no other OS that behaves this way. Not that I care, really - I like both OS's.
I personally perfer to use Linux, but everyone at my company is 50 year old women - when it comes to the thought of training them on how to use Linux... forget that!
"And why should legislative bodies protect telecommunications monopolies?"
Campaign donations... It's all about money, if telco's are going to rollout fiber they want to be the only ones to use it. I thought the FCC already ruled on this, and was 'giving' telcos a monopoly nationwide? (Being that if they roll the fiber, they don't 'have' to sell it to competition?)
Regardless, these telcos have deeper pockets and connections then the **AA's do - with the US so far behind in the communications area, I think it has to become painfully obvious there is more at play then just the difficulty and expense of rolling out the glass. IMHO, the telcos are refusing to do it waiting on the government to pay for it AND let them control it. Telcos don't want glass everywhere because once things go digital they don't know how to play anymore. And God knows people are itching to drop telcos like a bad habbit. And after years and years of dog poor service (IE, got a problem? Call support, wait 2 hours on hold - get transferred twice with additional hour of wait time per transfer, then get disconnected. Rinse, repeat. - Then you switch to cable instead of DSL - have a problem - call support - on hold for 10 minutes...)
Beleive it or not, I have better things to do with my time then sift through THOUSANDS of garbage spam mails a day.
It's extremely time consuming. Well, was... I gave up on filtering the crap out about a week ago. I shut down the mail account and removed the MX record from my DNS server so I would have to see the damn processes running.
Yeah, losing 1 in 25,000 would have been acceptable to me...
And now, I'll go through and update all my NIC records with my new email and in a few months I'll get the same crap again, I'm sure. But, a few months without having to deal with it is worth it.
This is the second time I've switched my primary email address. Just like the last I had to knock the MX record out for the domain name. It's that or sit and watch the qmail processes run by the thousands as it accepts the spam essentially to just delete it.
Now, if only we could get everyone to redirect their spam to a congressman or something.
Because there is a major advantage to switching to an open IM protocol.
For one, you can write your own client to work with the service(s). Secondly, the service(s) are not dependant on a specific client so the IM network as a whole is substantially more secure.
There are multitudes of other clients available, widely, for just about any platform you can think of.
Just like other open source projects, open source IM protocol(s) bring 'choice' back into the users hands. Sure, you can download Trillian or whatever and get on multiple IM services - but it's messy and the proprietary protocols (particularly Yahoo) are constantly being changed to prevent other messenger apps from working on their networks.
Just love it. Man, hope Google does do this. *Laughs* Like I needed another reason to love Google.:)
Okay, so people use a product in an illegal manner and it's the products manufacturer who is liable for the illegal activities? As well, it's the product manufacturer who is supposed to prevent people from breaking the law?
WTF?
Okay, lets see - I got up this morning and turned on my TV. My TV has a built in DVD/CD/MP3 player so I played a few MP3's that are illegal on it....
Then I got in my car and went atlesat 5mph over the speed-limit the whole way to work.
On the way to work I used my cellphone to make illegal prank calls to people.
When I got to work, I instantly pulled out my PDA and used it to illegally download some files.
Then I got on my computer and illegally downloaded some files.
Poor me, for all these manufacturers have provided me with such temptation! JAIL THEM ALL!
Kiss the Red Cross goodbye... And any other non-profit organization.
God forbid a man have the right to freely give his time.
Hey, by the way I took a shit for about 15 minutes today - feel free to tax me - I'd be MORE then happy to bring 10% of it by any government office and put it right in an officials hand!
You can't maintain an authorative position over a family member or significant other.
It's a tricky game, and in the end everyone loses.
Particularly with regards to involving that 'special someone.' When the relationship gets rocky, the business suffers as a result. And when the business suffers and the relationship is fine, the relationship begins to suffer.
You can't maintain a true family life and enforce any authorative position over a sibling or lover. It's a serious mistake to think otherwise.
If you are going to involve loved ones within your business, be prepared to lose authorative control over the area in which those people are involved.
I've worked in several similar situations.
In one situation, I owned a small business (7 employees) that delt in mobile vehicle customization, security, and electronics. I involved my Brother in this venture.
Trying to work side by side with my sibling was an obvious mistake that made itself apparent within the first few months. My brother was older then I, and me taking an authorative position over him was something he had a hard time dealing with. As well, him being my brother provided for an atmosphere in which I would behave in a manner not conducive to a professional environment.
The solution, I found, was to simply seperate the business into two main areas and seperate our involvement. I placed my Brother in charge of everything 'shop' related, while I maintained control over everything 'office and retail.'
I found this to be a positive result.
I eventually employed my significant other in a secretarial position. This worked great for her and I, but created discomfort for other employees.
Eventually, I cut her position and placed her as the sole employee working with marketing - she works from home. She was happy, employees were happy, and I got 12-14hrs a day away from her. Everyone was happy! *laughs*
Later I sold the business. Stress begone!
Then, missing the stress - created a new business in a partnership with my Father. Having delt with issues with my Brother in my previous company - I decided to do the same thing.
The problem ended up being my Father underperformed and the business suffered as a result. The company eventually went under, and the reasoning is clear. We both lost on the deal, and no feelings were hurt - but it only remained as such because losing $80k wasn't worth having hard feelings towards my Father to me.
If you can't stomache a loss as the result of a family member, don't involve them.
If you can't relinquish control or behave professionally around those people, don't involve them.
The most important point is that YOU will have to be the one to make sacrifices to these people. Your company and other employees may suffer as a result.
If you fail to do so, you risk damaging the relationship(s) with family/lover.
And probably the most important metal position to take is that of the other parties. Reverse every situation you encounter as though you were the employee rather then the owner. Something you would _not_ do with a typical employee.
Essentially, you will be walking on eggshells with these people. You will suffer, they will suffer, and your relationship will suffer.
Bottom line, it's a gamble. If your busienss is a complete success and you make your loved ones wealthy - things will probably be great. But, if you suffer the two year lagg time most companies do -- you will likely have some very rough times - and possibly do damage that cannot be mended.
It may or may not be worth it. Personally, I do not think it is worth it. Wait until the company is a success - ask family members if they would like to volunteer services occassionaly if they feel the need to be involved. But don't allow loved ones to become dependant on your companies success.
Things like this are disturbing. It's become acceptable, in today's society, for a company to tell it's customers how they can and can't use their products.
It's like a pencil manufacturer selling you a pencil, then saying you can only write on the paper they make.
Doesn't make much sense to me, but what would I know.
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People stop trying to profit so much to help reduce or stop it...
I'm not sure who's worse anymore, the companies out there who sell services to 'help' you reduce/eliminate spam, or the spammers. (Maybe one in the same, in some instances)..
The only resolution I see to spam is good, solid legislation THAT IS ENFORCED. Country harbors spammers, cut them off from the US internet. Spammers AND the companies that hire them BOTH held equally liable. If it's a criminal act to spam, it's a criminal act to hire someone to spam.
People can write programs all day to try and stop spam, it won't matter. If someone can write a program to filter x out, someone else will find a way to get y through. It's an endless cycle.
Spam is like a virus in so many ways...
D...M..C.A...
And copyrights...
Watch, MS will copyright some key element that allows the OS to interface with the USB devices - prohibiting anyone from making compatible software.
On top of that, if you simply bypass their key element - it's copyright circumvention because it bypasses that security check or whatever that MS implemented.
I'm not saying that's the way it's going to be - but it's a possibility.
In the end, though, it doesn't matter what MS tries to do - they're not going to cripple FOSS. The nastier they get, the less people care for their company and products. That means more people to FOSS and other competition - and less political influence for Microsoft to continue out it's battle. (Not that I want to see MS gone, but perhaps when they're not the biggest kid on the playground they'll have to behave themselves a bit more.)
Windows average uptime.. listed in days... Linux average uptime... Should I list this in days, months, or years? Seriously, though, I've had Linux servers running and used frequently that were not restarted for upwards of a year or more -- and even then it was because of a flood, power went out - generator was submerged (so obviously shut off), and UPS's ran out of power after 20 mins = everything got rebooted. I have 'never' had to reboot a Linux system because of various parts of the OS or other programs not functioning properly which would be fixed by restarting the machine. I don't care if you're a Windows lover or a Windows hater, everyone knows if something doesn't work right in Windows -- restart, it just might start mysteriously working again. I know of no other OS that behaves this way. Not that I care, really - I like both OS's. I personally perfer to use Linux, but everyone at my company is 50 year old women - when it comes to the thought of training them on how to use Linux... forget that!
"And why should legislative bodies protect telecommunications monopolies?"
Campaign donations... It's all about money, if telco's are going to rollout fiber they want to be the only ones to use it. I thought the FCC already ruled on this, and was 'giving' telcos a monopoly nationwide? (Being that if they roll the fiber, they don't 'have' to sell it to competition?)
Regardless, these telcos have deeper pockets and connections then the **AA's do - with the US so far behind in the communications area, I think it has to become painfully obvious there is more at play then just the difficulty and expense of rolling out the glass. IMHO, the telcos are refusing to do it waiting on the government to pay for it AND let them control it. Telcos don't want glass everywhere because once things go digital they don't know how to play anymore. And God knows people are itching to drop telcos like a bad habbit. And after years and years of dog poor service (IE, got a problem? Call support, wait 2 hours on hold - get transferred twice with additional hour of wait time per transfer, then get disconnected. Rinse, repeat. - Then you switch to cable instead of DSL - have a problem - call support - on hold for 10 minutes...)
Isn't that the thing, that one deal, you know - to make IE more secure? Right?
I didn't think a parachute could work for a mars landing because the atmosphere was so thin...
I don't even know what to say here...
Well, co government - they sit alongside the RIAA and MPAA as dictators.
C'mon, how many of you bought your Linux distro a cake?
I get over 100,000 spam emails a month.
Beleive it or not, I have better things to do with my time then sift through THOUSANDS of garbage spam mails a day.
It's extremely time consuming. Well, was... I gave up on filtering the crap out about a week ago. I shut down the mail account and removed the MX record from my DNS server so I would have to see the damn processes running.
Yeah, losing 1 in 25,000 would have been acceptable to me...
And now, I'll go through and update all my NIC records with my new email and in a few months I'll get the same crap again, I'm sure. But, a few months without having to deal with it is worth it.
This is the second time I've switched my primary email address. Just like the last I had to knock the MX record out for the domain name. It's that or sit and watch the qmail processes run by the thousands as it accepts the spam essentially to just delete it.
Now, if only we could get everyone to redirect their spam to a congressman or something.
Open source MS Office. :)
Because there is a major advantage to switching to an open IM protocol.
:)
For one, you can write your own client to work with the service(s). Secondly, the service(s) are not dependant on a specific client so the IM network as a whole is substantially more secure.
I love jabber. Checkout Coccinella.
There are multitudes of other clients available, widely, for just about any platform you can think of.
Just like other open source projects, open source IM protocol(s) bring 'choice' back into the users hands. Sure, you can download Trillian or whatever and get on multiple IM services - but it's messy and the proprietary protocols (particularly Yahoo) are constantly being changed to prevent other messenger apps from working on their networks.
Just love it. Man, hope Google does do this. *Laughs* Like I needed another reason to love Google.
I could come up with some intelligent arguement as to why this is wrong - but "Fuck 'em" just sums it up so well. So why bother.
Fuck 'em!
It's just about money.
Fuck the people!
Only a 15" available!?
Hey, when I'm surfing my pr0n in 3D I want to see BIGuns'!
Okay, so people use a product in an illegal manner and it's the products manufacturer who is liable for the illegal activities? As well, it's the product manufacturer who is supposed to prevent people from breaking the law? WTF? Okay, lets see - I got up this morning and turned on my TV. My TV has a built in DVD/CD/MP3 player so I played a few MP3's that are illegal on it.... Then I got in my car and went atlesat 5mph over the speed-limit the whole way to work. On the way to work I used my cellphone to make illegal prank calls to people. When I got to work, I instantly pulled out my PDA and used it to illegally download some files. Then I got on my computer and illegally downloaded some files. Poor me, for all these manufacturers have provided me with such temptation! JAIL THEM ALL!
Suprised it took this long before a publicly documented case of the PA being abused would occurr.
How absurd.
Of course, we don't _really_ know the details, so coming to a conclusion now seems a tad premature.
If it really was a fan site, I feel sorry for the guy. What a crock of crap to get arrested for creating a shrine in honor of a show you love.
I hope Richard Dean Anderson comes out and speaks against this attack on our civil liberties.
Wha? What the [explative]!?!?
*click* *click*
O_o
MOTHER [explative]!!!
Alt+Ctrl+Del+Del+Del+Del+Del!!!
*smack* *smack* *smack*
GOD [explative] MOTHER [explative] [explative]!
*kick* *kick* *punch*
Computer: *daa doooo daa dooo daa dooo*
AHHHHHHHHHHHH [explative] [explative] [explative] [explative] MOTHER [explative] SON OF A [explative] D13!!!!!!!!!! [explative] [explative] [explative] [explative] [explative] [explative]!!!!
*rip computer from desk*
*toss computer out window*
*push KVM 1*
*Linux pops up*
*sigh* ahhhhh good 'ol Tux. *smoch*
Here ya go Tux, how about a nice fresh Sardine!
*shock* *zap*
*convultions* *spasms*
MOTHER [explative]! Stupid [explative] penguin!
*kick* *kick*
Computer: *daa dooo daa dooo daa dooo*
HOPE YOU CAN FLY [explative] PENGUIN!
*toss*
*crash* *boom* *splat*
That's what I thought [explative].
*turns on TV*
*Cable company rearranged all the channels*
[explative]...
Kiss the Red Cross goodbye... And any other non-profit organization.
God forbid a man have the right to freely give his time.
Hey, by the way I took a shit for about 15 minutes today - feel free to tax me - I'd be MORE then happy to bring 10% of it by any government office and put it right in an officials hand!
For once, Microsoft could be looking at a company with a product it might actually be able to improve!
Internet fraud would drop 80% if they could stop AOLers from putting their credit card numbers into forms hosted on geocities.
You can't maintain an authorative position over a family member or significant other. It's a tricky game, and in the end everyone loses. Particularly with regards to involving that 'special someone.' When the relationship gets rocky, the business suffers as a result. And when the business suffers and the relationship is fine, the relationship begins to suffer. You can't maintain a true family life and enforce any authorative position over a sibling or lover. It's a serious mistake to think otherwise. If you are going to involve loved ones within your business, be prepared to lose authorative control over the area in which those people are involved. I've worked in several similar situations. In one situation, I owned a small business (7 employees) that delt in mobile vehicle customization, security, and electronics. I involved my Brother in this venture. Trying to work side by side with my sibling was an obvious mistake that made itself apparent within the first few months. My brother was older then I, and me taking an authorative position over him was something he had a hard time dealing with. As well, him being my brother provided for an atmosphere in which I would behave in a manner not conducive to a professional environment. The solution, I found, was to simply seperate the business into two main areas and seperate our involvement. I placed my Brother in charge of everything 'shop' related, while I maintained control over everything 'office and retail.' I found this to be a positive result. I eventually employed my significant other in a secretarial position. This worked great for her and I, but created discomfort for other employees. Eventually, I cut her position and placed her as the sole employee working with marketing - she works from home. She was happy, employees were happy, and I got 12-14hrs a day away from her. Everyone was happy! *laughs* Later I sold the business. Stress begone! Then, missing the stress - created a new business in a partnership with my Father. Having delt with issues with my Brother in my previous company - I decided to do the same thing. The problem ended up being my Father underperformed and the business suffered as a result. The company eventually went under, and the reasoning is clear. We both lost on the deal, and no feelings were hurt - but it only remained as such because losing $80k wasn't worth having hard feelings towards my Father to me. If you can't stomache a loss as the result of a family member, don't involve them. If you can't relinquish control or behave professionally around those people, don't involve them. The most important point is that YOU will have to be the one to make sacrifices to these people. Your company and other employees may suffer as a result. If you fail to do so, you risk damaging the relationship(s) with family/lover. And probably the most important metal position to take is that of the other parties. Reverse every situation you encounter as though you were the employee rather then the owner. Something you would _not_ do with a typical employee. Essentially, you will be walking on eggshells with these people. You will suffer, they will suffer, and your relationship will suffer. Bottom line, it's a gamble. If your busienss is a complete success and you make your loved ones wealthy - things will probably be great. But, if you suffer the two year lagg time most companies do -- you will likely have some very rough times - and possibly do damage that cannot be mended. It may or may not be worth it. Personally, I do not think it is worth it. Wait until the company is a success - ask family members if they would like to volunteer services occassionaly if they feel the need to be involved. But don't allow loved ones to become dependant on your companies success.
You can't draft us, we all moved to India. Assholes.
Now THAT is a toy!!
I'll take a dozen!
Things like this are disturbing. It's become acceptable, in today's society, for a company to tell it's customers how they can and can't use their products. It's like a pencil manufacturer selling you a pencil, then saying you can only write on the paper they make. Doesn't make much sense to me, but what would I know.
I've got to get into this new broad-patent thing! It seems to be all the craze.
Anyone know if someone has patented "a substance used to create stuff?"
Or how about; 'a method or process of converting oxygen to carbon-dioxide?'