As someone who lost a few DVD's to kids who treated them like coasters and thus they became coasters - I actually do rip every DVD that comes into the house.
Because at AU $20 a pop, it's worth the 3 minutes starting up handbrake before I got to bed to ensure that the $20 lasts more than a week.
The author mentions on one occasion that he read the GPL v2 once and didn't understand it. And then he goes on to write an entire article about choosing the right licence for your FOSS code.
Thats a little like me telling people that they shouldn't program in Pascal and that C is the best... even though I tried to program in Pascal once but just didn't get it.
Get them to submit their address - and then use google maps to determine their longtitude and latitude. From there is is fairly straightforward to calculate the distance between a fixed location (town hall in your village) and their address. If it is more than 50 kms, then they can't subscribe.
1. Mobile phones these days are computing platforms. The reason why Microsoft dominates the desktop market is because the vast majority of software runs on it (hey, Macs are cool too, but they don't have the range of PC software). Apple's iPhone has already claimed that victory - to beat the iPhone, one needs to provide an easy way of uploading software, and, IMHO, a way of verifying the quality of the applications.
2. Apple has the advantage that it could leverage off the existing developer base for the Mac - that is, the development environments aren't completely different. Try releasing any computing platform in which people have to learn *another* darn computer programming framework/language and see how you go. Computer languages take *years* to grow to a critical mass.
3. Every technology marketer is saying "blah killer" at the moment. Can you honestly imagine the Palm marketing executives saying, "our phone is pretty powerful, but we really will have to see if the community adopts it and develops worthwhile applications for it". At the same time, all the little journalist worker bees have to get page hits in this new online news world. "iPhone killer" turns up constantly, because it gets clicks. Your here and I am here aren't we:-)
Never happen.
I recently purchased a domain from someone who has my companies.com namesake for around US $4k. Prior to the transaction, the owner offered to lease the domain to me, and we refused outright.
The reason is of course, who wants to build a brand around a domain name, (hopefully) get a whole bunch of traffic going to your site, and then in 2-4 years, when the lease runs out, have the domain owner either (i) increase the rent by 1000x or worse, (ii) offer to put it on the market.
Developing businesses and website traffic is hard - I would be really surprised if they want to give you the opportunity to bend them over the barrel in a few years and get the vaseline out.
I would agree. A few years ago, like many people, I registered a domain with NSI. Whilst it was initially a pain to make changes (remember all those pre-formatted emails you used to have to authorise) eventually NSI got the picture and whilst they are probably more expensive than just about every other registrar, they provide service. I have read a few horror stories about some domain registrars, not unsimilar to your own, but whilst nobody comes out and says that they love NSI, I haven't come across any horror stories either.
NSI is expensive. NSI is not pretty. But NSI just works. When you income (as does mine) comes from your domain working, maybe cheapest isn't best.
The guy who runs Ultracade has made a brief one page statement on the following URL - its linked off ultracades web page - its an interesting point of view, although I don't quite understand the relationship between the cause and his solution.
http://www.ultracade.com/mame.pdf
Indeed - friends of mine use a very much simpler method of whitelisting which avoids all the pain of this system using simple procmail filters.
Simply have the.procmail filter compare the senders from address against a white list - if it matches, allow the email to go through to the spool. If not, bounce a response to the sender saying that they don't recognise the senders email address and that if they can just reply to the bounce message, they will be added.
It works on the basis that most spammers don't read the bounces anyway, real people do. They will reply to the email, the original email will then be released by procmail to the user and they are added to the whitelist.
Its not foolproof, but lets face it, if you can get 95% of your spam removed with a once-off hit on senders, then its a lot better than the complex solutions being offered here.
I don't understand specifically what you mean by the rather broad term "cognitive disabilities" - are you saying that if someone is intellectually challenged to the point that they can't tell the difference between a flower and a man standing up to send someone an email then thats against the law.
Is there a law in the US which enables me to block email from stupid people? Or are you telling me that I specifically have to put systems in place on my mail server to allow intellemelectually (stupid) chalengged people to send me spam - cause lets face it, most spammers are pretty stupido:-)
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As someone who lost a few DVD's to kids who treated them like coasters and thus they became coasters - I actually do rip every DVD that comes into the house.
Because at AU $20 a pop, it's worth the 3 minutes starting up handbrake before I got to bed to ensure that the $20 lasts more than a week.
The author mentions on one occasion that he read the GPL v2 once and didn't understand it. And then he goes on to write an entire article about choosing the right licence for your FOSS code.
Thats a little like me telling people that they shouldn't program in Pascal and that C is the best... even though I tried to program in Pascal once but just didn't get it.
Is it just me?
Get them to submit their address - and then use google maps to determine their longtitude and latitude. From there is is fairly straightforward to calculate the distance between a fixed location (town hall in your village) and their address. If it is more than 50 kms, then they can't subscribe.
1. Mobile phones these days are computing platforms. The reason why Microsoft dominates the desktop market is because the vast majority of software runs on it (hey, Macs are cool too, but they don't have the range of PC software). Apple's iPhone has already claimed that victory - to beat the iPhone, one needs to provide an easy way of uploading software, and, IMHO, a way of verifying the quality of the applications.
2. Apple has the advantage that it could leverage off the existing developer base for the Mac - that is, the development environments aren't completely different. Try releasing any computing platform in which people have to learn *another* darn computer programming framework/language and see how you go. Computer languages take *years* to grow to a critical mass.
3. Every technology marketer is saying "blah killer" at the moment. Can you honestly imagine the Palm marketing executives saying, "our phone is pretty powerful, but we really will have to see if the community adopts it and develops worthwhile applications for it". At the same time, all the little journalist worker bees have to get page hits in this new online news world. "iPhone killer" turns up constantly, because it gets clicks. Your here and I am here aren't we :-)
Never happen. I recently purchased a domain from someone who has my companies .com namesake for around US $4k. Prior to the transaction, the owner offered to lease the domain to me, and we refused outright.
The reason is of course, who wants to build a brand around a domain name, (hopefully) get a whole bunch of traffic going to your site, and then in 2-4 years, when the lease runs out, have the domain owner either (i) increase the rent by 1000x or worse, (ii) offer to put it on the market.
Developing businesses and website traffic is hard - I would be really surprised if they want to give you the opportunity to bend them over the barrel in a few years and get the vaseline out.
I would agree. A few years ago, like many people, I registered a domain with NSI. Whilst it was initially a pain to make changes (remember all those pre-formatted emails you used to have to authorise) eventually NSI got the picture and whilst they are probably more expensive than just about every other registrar, they provide service. I have read a few horror stories about some domain registrars, not unsimilar to your own, but whilst nobody comes out and says that they love NSI, I haven't come across any horror stories either.
NSI is expensive. NSI is not pretty. But NSI just works. When you income (as does mine) comes from your domain working, maybe cheapest isn't best.
The guy who runs Ultracade has made a brief one page statement on the following URL - its linked off ultracades web page - its an interesting point of view, although I don't quite understand the relationship between the cause and his solution. http://www.ultracade.com/mame.pdf
Simply have the .procmail filter compare the senders from address against a white list - if it matches, allow the email to go through to the spool. If not, bounce a response to the sender saying that they don't recognise the senders email address and that if they can just reply to the bounce message, they will be added.
It works on the basis that most spammers don't read the bounces anyway, real people do. They will reply to the email, the original email will then be released by procmail to the user and they are added to the whitelist.
Its not foolproof, but lets face it, if you can get 95% of your spam removed with a once-off hit on senders, then its a lot better than the complex solutions being offered here.
I don't understand specifically what you mean by the rather broad term "cognitive disabilities" - are you saying that if someone is intellectually challenged to the point that they can't tell the difference between a flower and a man standing up to send someone an email then thats against the law. Is there a law in the US which enables me to block email from stupid people? Or are you telling me that I specifically have to put systems in place on my mail server to allow intellemelectually (stupid) chalengged people to send me spam - cause lets face it, most spammers are pretty stupido :-)