"Of course, I admit that there's one charge against video games that is a slam dunk. Kids don't get physical exercise when they play a video game, and indeed the rise in obesity among younger people is a serious issue. But, of course, you don't get exercise from doing homework either."
Aside from the massive adrenaline rushes during shootouts in some of the better FPS games I've become addicted to during the last few years, the claim that video games lead to laziness and obesity is misleading.
Yes, if you don't ever leave the computer and have nothing else requiring physical effort during the rest of the day then it's likely you'll end up a big, fat slob. But this type of person probably already started out that way and would behave the same whether it was a television being watched or just paint drying on a wall.
The constraint placed on physical involvement in video games is only as significant as the available peripherals and the associated programming by developers. Examples like Dance Dance Revolution, Silent Scope, or a golf simulator all show how adding a physical component makes the game better and provides a way to get exercise if so inclined. But rather than allow the industry time to develop the necessary peripheral devices and necessary control software our legislative branch has decided to place more barriers on an already extremely competitive market.
Result: Gamers get the same recycled games from the big developers like EA where the game's only selling point is some controversial bit of content. Meanwhile smaller companies get displaced since they don't have the resources to develop both the technology and the code themselves.
Closing parts of the Internet off from one another is completely contrary to the notion that the Internet exists to provide a global, open network of networks that can never be disabled since it has no single links. Without that there is not much point in having email or websites in the first place.
The worst thing that could happen is for the problem to be managed by a series of punitive changes. Spam offenders would just change their tactics until no one used email anymore. Better to comply with the RFC's for running a mail server so that the problems inherent in the SMTP protocol are acknowledged and a replacement is found.
If a group of terrorists armed to the teeth managed to break into a building monitored by a single security guard would we draw the conclusion that security everywhere is useless? Of course not, just that for this particular situation some highly trained criminals exploited a poorly guarded target.
It's the same with mail servers, fix one problem and another appears, ad infinitum. Bottom line; SMTP is useless and should be relegated to the dark ages when only scientists and soldiers used email.
SMTP requires trust in others mail servers' good faith (a) adherence to RFCs and standard practices, and (b) prevention of malicious intent. Close an open relay and reinstalling W2K server with the default options opens another one at least for a bit. Shut down an ISP haven for hackers and some shmuck running an NT 3.51 server on a Commodore 64 down in Kenya will decide to try to setup a webserver without deselecting SMTP from the other Web services.
The whole system of SMTP is a mess of patches, fixes, and outright nonsense that requires less ingenuity to circumvent than it does to repair. As a matter of fact, the smarter you are the more you work around the rules such as using relays and Deny Lists to either fabricate your own information or else restrict communications on the Internet. Which is worse lying about something with good intentions or following the rules and violating the basic principle the Net was founded on?
Not to mention it's a great proof of concept for why the Music and Entertainment industries need to remove their heads from their asses and implement a digital storefront.
Bittorrent should have been developed years ago but they make more money off of advertising if they stick with the old system. Even though the revenue is totally unnecessary if you have 1/1000th of the operating costs after getting rid of all the old useless infrastructure.
If development was left to them, we'd be listening to the phonograph and watching silent movies. But true to form, rather than adapt to a new world they try to regulate it with legal solutions. Anyone who has taken economics will tell you what happens to a market that uses legal restrictions to control the supply and demand.
High prices, shortage of goods, and economic regression of both the companies, customers and employees.
quote: "and rightly shouldn't be, as there is a very low signal to noise ration in graffiti."
An intrinsic part of the free speech is that you cannot infringe a person's right to free speech because it was inarticulate or unintelligible due to the ignorance or lack of education in the communicator. To do so allows groups to silence the minority when they try to voice an unpopular opinion. Graffiti is illegal because it is destroying either public or private property, not because of any message inside.
If we allow the VoIP industry to incubate with either limited (some of the states) or no regulation it has greater opportunities to become a widely acceptable communications medium. However, eventually you will have a patchwork of overlapping VoIP networks which will require federal regulation for publishing acceptable implementations. Isolated networks can easily cope with limited regulation but a national infrastructure does benefit from having some degree of uniformity.
Of course the VoIP infrastructure should be regulated by the federal government; when it has a larger portion of the market and the technology has matured. In the meantime, regulation by the states would only explore alternatives for when it eventually becomes necessary to enact federal statutes. And the communications industry will continue to impede the development of VoIP, since it is cheaper to only lobby one group of officials.
Everything you have listed are problems faced by the ISP, not the email recipient. Incoming emails simply clog up the lines of communication making it difficult (to varying degrees) to receive legitimate email.
The main problem is most if not all of the spammers blatantly falsify their sender information or exploit vulnerablities in software in order to wrest away control of your PC. How is turning my PC into a zombie email server pushing forward the limits of email?
The exploitation of technology will no doubt continue, as our leaders are neither capable or willing to prevent spam. Clearly our only option is to rise up and exterminate these digital whores.
I for one eagerly await the growing population of quasi-intelligent robots just so I can torment them on new and exciting levels. Such as going to stores in order to find a combination of items that when obtained will overload the robots memory capacity and literally blow it's little mind.
I'm pretty sure that there is a legal defense in saying that you wanted to track your half of the car.
Concerned that she abused the car verbally and physically, you had no other choice but to install a TrackYoCaddy device to monitor the situation.
Capitalization depends on whether the word is being used as proper noun or adjective.
Adj. This internet connection is awesome.
Noun. This connection to the Internet is awesome.
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Why don't they just piss in each other's food.
I'm sure living in confined quarters would cause a lot of resentment that could be relieved through cooking!
Honestly I feel so ripped of having paid for CD's throguhout my teens and twenties that I honestly feel that I should never have to buy music again. CD's for $18.99, ha ha. What percentage of that is artistic content and how much goes to the artist?
But on a completely different subject, I have black market fingers to sell, cheap?
Buy 4 and I'll sell you a thumb for half price!
Special happy price!
Attach a flywheel to a massive capacitor and after getting the flywheel up to speed it should be able to rapidly convert kinetic energy into stored charge in the capacitor. Then you can discharge the capacitor through some kind of metal wand (with insulated handle) into the mugger's now-extra-crispy corpse.
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Aside from the massive adrenaline rushes during shootouts in some of the better FPS games I've become addicted to during the last few years, the claim that video games lead to laziness and obesity is misleading.
Yes, if you don't ever leave the computer and have nothing else requiring physical effort during the rest of the day then it's likely you'll end up a big, fat slob. But this type of person probably already started out that way and would behave the same whether it was a television being watched or just paint drying on a wall.
The constraint placed on physical involvement in video games is only as significant as the available peripherals and the associated programming by developers. Examples like Dance Dance Revolution, Silent Scope, or a golf simulator all show how adding a physical component makes the game better and provides a way to get exercise if so inclined. But rather than allow the industry time to develop the necessary peripheral devices and necessary control software our legislative branch has decided to place more barriers on an already extremely competitive market.
Result: Gamers get the same recycled games from the big developers like EA where the game's only selling point is some controversial bit of content. Meanwhile smaller companies get displaced since they don't have the resources to develop both the technology and the code themselves.
Closing parts of the Internet off from one another is completely contrary to the notion that the Internet exists to provide a global, open network of networks that can never be disabled since it has no single links. Without that there is not much point in having email or websites in the first place.
The worst thing that could happen is for the problem to be managed by a series of punitive changes. Spam offenders would just change their tactics until no one used email anymore. Better to comply with the RFC's for running a mail server so that the problems inherent in the SMTP protocol are acknowledged and a replacement is found.
If a group of terrorists armed to the teeth managed to break into a building monitored by a single security guard would we draw the conclusion that security everywhere is useless? Of course not, just that for this particular situation some highly trained criminals exploited a poorly guarded target.
It's the same with mail servers, fix one problem and another appears, ad infinitum. Bottom line; SMTP is useless and should be relegated to the dark ages when only scientists and soldiers used email.
SMTP requires trust in others mail servers' good faith (a) adherence to RFCs and standard practices, and (b) prevention of malicious intent. Close an open relay and reinstalling W2K server with the default options opens another one at least for a bit. Shut down an ISP haven for hackers and some shmuck running an NT 3.51 server on a Commodore 64 down in Kenya will decide to try to setup a webserver without deselecting SMTP from the other Web services.
The whole system of SMTP is a mess of patches, fixes, and outright nonsense that requires less ingenuity to circumvent than it does to repair. As a matter of fact, the smarter you are the more you work around the rules such as using relays and Deny Lists to either fabricate your own information or else restrict communications on the Internet. Which is worse lying about something with good intentions or following the rules and violating the basic principle the Net was founded on?
Not to mention it's a great proof of concept for why the Music and Entertainment industries need to remove their heads from their asses and implement a digital storefront. Bittorrent should have been developed years ago but they make more money off of advertising if they stick with the old system. Even though the revenue is totally unnecessary if you have 1/1000th of the operating costs after getting rid of all the old useless infrastructure. If development was left to them, we'd be listening to the phonograph and watching silent movies. But true to form, rather than adapt to a new world they try to regulate it with legal solutions. Anyone who has taken economics will tell you what happens to a market that uses legal restrictions to control the supply and demand. High prices, shortage of goods, and economic regression of both the companies, customers and employees.
quote: "and rightly shouldn't be, as there is a very low signal to noise ration in graffiti." An intrinsic part of the free speech is that you cannot infringe a person's right to free speech because it was inarticulate or unintelligible due to the ignorance or lack of education in the communicator. To do so allows groups to silence the minority when they try to voice an unpopular opinion. Graffiti is illegal because it is destroying either public or private property, not because of any message inside.
If we allow the VoIP industry to incubate with either limited (some of the states) or no regulation it has greater opportunities to become a widely acceptable communications medium. However, eventually you will have a patchwork of overlapping VoIP networks which will require federal regulation for publishing acceptable implementations. Isolated networks can easily cope with limited regulation but a national infrastructure does benefit from having some degree of uniformity.
Of course the VoIP infrastructure should be regulated by the federal government; when it has a larger portion of the market and the technology has matured. In the meantime, regulation by the states would only explore alternatives for when it eventually becomes necessary to enact federal statutes. And the communications industry will continue to impede the development of VoIP, since it is cheaper to only lobby one group of officials.
Everything you have listed are problems faced by the ISP, not the email recipient. Incoming emails simply clog up the lines of communication making it difficult (to varying degrees) to receive legitimate email. The main problem is most if not all of the spammers blatantly falsify their sender information or exploit vulnerablities in software in order to wrest away control of your PC. How is turning my PC into a zombie email server pushing forward the limits of email?
The exploitation of technology will no doubt continue, as our leaders are neither capable or willing to prevent spam. Clearly our only option is to rise up and exterminate these digital whores.
I for one eagerly await the growing population of quasi-intelligent robots just so I can torment them on new and exciting levels. Such as going to stores in order to find a combination of items that when obtained will overload the robots memory capacity and literally blow it's little mind.
I'm pretty sure that there is a legal defense in saying that you wanted to track your half of the car. Concerned that she abused the car verbally and physically, you had no other choice but to install a TrackYoCaddy device to monitor the situation.
Just cut off the gravity and grtow super-szied tomatoes. Then you only have to park the truck underneath them and take an axe to the stem.
I see you've never had to kill anything for food.
Capitalization depends on whether the word is being used as proper noun or adjective. Adj. This internet connection is awesome. Noun. This connection to the Internet is awesome.
Why don't they just piss in each other's food. I'm sure living in confined quarters would cause a lot of resentment that could be relieved through cooking!
Honestly I feel so ripped of having paid for CD's throguhout my teens and twenties that I honestly feel that I should never have to buy music again. CD's for $18.99, ha ha. What percentage of that is artistic content and how much goes to the artist? But on a completely different subject, I have black market fingers to sell, cheap? Buy 4 and I'll sell you a thumb for half price! Special happy price!
Attach a flywheel to a massive capacitor and after getting the flywheel up to speed it should be able to rapidly convert kinetic energy into stored charge in the capacitor. Then you can discharge the capacitor through some kind of metal wand (with insulated handle) into the mugger's now-extra-crispy corpse.