My ISP is Comcast, not AOL, I just use AOL for e-mail. But that's besides the point. You're right, that they are doing spam filtering already. I don't know. This just doesn't seem right to me.
1. I don't have a use for it. I'm not.
2+3. It will cost more than that.
4. So, if it's a cost-saving measure, why would my bill go up?
So, in closing, let me say this: Don't be an ass, I'm not wrong.
Isn't this the tinfoil hat crowd, who doesn't want anyone forcing them to do anything? Maybe the tinfoil hat wearers are just hypocritical and when they're forced to do something by the "good guys," they don't care.
Oh, thank you! Ever since my husband was killed in the Nigerian War of Fertility, I've had a hard time getting by. $54 million U.S. Dollars will be a start, but in order to survive and provide for my 37 children, I am going to need others to donate. If you would please send this e-mail to 10 of your friends, I would much appreciate it. Thank you, kind sir!
I benefit, I guess. Not directly, as far as I can see. I'm not spammed badly enough for me to need a filter. However, as stated in a different reply by me, this could provide companies an excuse to raise fees by some unreasonable amount (i.e. more than $.25)
It's logic. Big companies have no problem lying to their customers and making up fees. How about all those new fees you found on your phone bill with official looking names?
Don't you think costs to customers will go up because of "Unwanted E-mail Filtering Services" and because it costs our ISP so much money to maintain, they'll "have to" raise prices by $2.95 every month.
I'll admit that I don't know how Spamhaus operates. However, it doesn't detract from what I said. Costs will still be forced upon me for something that I may have no use for. The government does it, but now it may be done from the private sector?
Won't these costs just be forced down onto the customers? Sure, it funds Spamhaus, but why is this a good thing for a user who doesn't have to deal with spam? I get maybe one spam e-mail a day.
I'll admit I don't know Java or much about it, but I did take AP Comp Sci last year (when it was C++) and I took the harder AP Test (AB I think). Now, let me explain that I could have friggin taken a two hour nap and still gotten a 5 on the test (I did get a 5). The entire class was a breeze, but I got a C avg. in it because I spent the time helping the other students. Our teacher wasn't too good with C++ and I was, even back then, a much better coder than her. The class never even got into Win32 programming or even something as simple as using the mouse in a program! I had to friggin teach the other kids how to pause a program, how to delay and how to use a damn pointer! The class was a joke and I knew pretty much everything that was gonna be taught. What I didn't know, the sort and search methods, can easily be found online and adapted to many different languages.
*sigh* Sorry for ranting but I just cannot express my disillusionment in computer science education. I don't even know if I should bother going to college for Computer Science now. Maybe I'll post an "Ask Slashdot" on what people recommend.
Hey Aussies. Let's move to India. There we could be paid decent wages for tech jobs, not be afraid of losing our jobs and even you hippies can be vegetarians without being ostracizes!
This is nothing new. This has been around for a while. For an example, check out www.experts-exchange.com. A lot of websites and forums already have this implemented.
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It's not a wild shot in the dark, asshat.
It's another excuse for big companies to raise prices by an unreasonable amount.
My ISP is Comcast, not AOL, I just use AOL for e-mail. But that's besides the point. You're right, that they are doing spam filtering already. I don't know. This just doesn't seem right to me.
1. I don't have a use for it. I'm not. 2+3. It will cost more than that. 4. So, if it's a cost-saving measure, why would my bill go up? So, in closing, let me say this: Don't be an ass, I'm not wrong. Isn't this the tinfoil hat crowd, who doesn't want anyone forcing them to do anything? Maybe the tinfoil hat wearers are just hypocritical and when they're forced to do something by the "good guys," they don't care.
Oh, thank you! Ever since my husband was killed in the Nigerian War of Fertility, I've had a hard time getting by. $54 million U.S. Dollars will be a start, but in order to survive and provide for my 37 children, I am going to need others to donate. If you would please send this e-mail to 10 of your friends, I would much appreciate it. Thank you, kind sir!
I benefit, I guess. Not directly, as far as I can see. I'm not spammed badly enough for me to need a filter. However, as stated in a different reply by me, this could provide companies an excuse to raise fees by some unreasonable amount (i.e. more than $.25)
Any way to stop this rampant trolling?
It's logic. Big companies have no problem lying to their customers and making up fees. How about all those new fees you found on your phone bill with official looking names? Don't you think costs to customers will go up because of "Unwanted E-mail Filtering Services" and because it costs our ISP so much money to maintain, they'll "have to" raise prices by $2.95 every month.
Isn't my ISP a company that may use Spamhaus to filter e-mail?
I'll admit that I don't know how Spamhaus operates. However, it doesn't detract from what I said. Costs will still be forced upon me for something that I may have no use for. The government does it, but now it may be done from the private sector?
Thanks, jackass. Friggin' trolls.
Won't these costs just be forced down onto the customers? Sure, it funds Spamhaus, but why is this a good thing for a user who doesn't have to deal with spam? I get maybe one spam e-mail a day.
Instead of important innovations, we're moving towards becoming lazier and lazier.
Well, to be fair, I *am* lazy and fat. But this robot wouldn't benefit me any. I don't iron.
I'll admit I don't know Java or much about it, but I did take AP Comp Sci last year (when it was C++) and I took the harder AP Test (AB I think). Now, let me explain that I could have friggin taken a two hour nap and still gotten a 5 on the test (I did get a 5). The entire class was a breeze, but I got a C avg. in it because I spent the time helping the other students. Our teacher wasn't too good with C++ and I was, even back then, a much better coder than her. The class never even got into Win32 programming or even something as simple as using the mouse in a program! I had to friggin teach the other kids how to pause a program, how to delay and how to use a damn pointer! The class was a joke and I knew pretty much everything that was gonna be taught. What I didn't know, the sort and search methods, can easily be found online and adapted to many different languages. *sigh* Sorry for ranting but I just cannot express my disillusionment in computer science education. I don't even know if I should bother going to college for Computer Science now. Maybe I'll post an "Ask Slashdot" on what people recommend.
Very similar to Smart Mass Thinking Puddy. Is the military beginning to read /. and buy products from ThinkGeek for inspiration for R&D?
Sorry :-( It sounded funny in my head.
Hey Aussies. Let's move to India. There we could be paid decent wages for tech jobs, not be afraid of losing our jobs and even you hippies can be vegetarians without being ostracizes!
This is nothing new. This has been around for a while. For an example, check out www.experts-exchange.com. A lot of websites and forums already have this implemented.