I've been on the other end of this, I did web design for a while and a company called "Specialty Technical Publications" found my address on my site, sent me a CD, then a month later sent me an invoice for a monthly $500+ charge for as many months as I wanted to keep the CD, including a month that had passed... this reminds me, I have to go file a BBB complaint.
Anyone read this quickly as 'Futurama'?
Normally I will question the brain of anyone who clicks a link without confirming with the person who sent it that it's not a virus, but all my friends know I love futurama clips.
Good news everyone, I can be socially engineered.
Islamists are Muslims, which is just a religion. There's nothing in your statement to qualify it to a more direct, smaller culture of death, such as suicide bombers. If you replace your words with Jews it sounds awfully like the anti-semetic propaganda of pre-WWII.
Wow, that entire statement is ignorant.
Next time Google a word you don't understand before accusing someone of being intolerant. Muslims are followers of Islam. They are people, not "a religion" as you say. Islam is the religion. Islamists are *violent* radical Islamic fundamentalists. They ARE a more direct, smaller culture of terrorists. I know several Muslims, but have never met an Islamist.
As for replacing his words with "Jews"... that's not bad flamebait, but how about you try replacing it with something close to it's definition, like... terrorist? Would that help you understand the post better?
The only posts I dislike more than the blatently incorrect statements and conspiracy theories are the ones that correct and critisize people who are right. Stop destroying the community with this trash!
To use the bully analogy, there are options besides caving and fighting. After the bully punches you. You stand back up, stick out you chest, and look at him, waiting for him to hit you again (they seldom do). Bullies don't know how to deal with this responce. They actually prefer you swing at them...
You do a good job justifying the bully analogy, but the analogy itself is very flawed. First of all, bullies opress their victims and intimidate them with greater size and power. Terrorists are more like mosquitos than bullies, desperately trying to take little bites, and usually causing much more irritation than damage. (*usually*... I guess 9/11 was like being bitten by a west nile mosquito.) Second, the only modivation of the bully is attention. This is certianly the main modivation of terrorists, but not the only one. They religiously believe that killing Brits/USAsians/etc is something with devine approval. We aren't dealing with a bully at all here, we're dealing with a less powerful, but deranged hateful army of psychopaths. If we rebuild and simply let them hit us again, they most certianly will!
I think the reverse could be true also... The agencies like doubleclick etc keep changing their ad styles, and the adblock tools keep getting stronger while fighting it. Eventually the agencies will see the intense lengths people are going through to get rid of them and realize that those are not the people that are clicking their ads anyway, so it's not worth fighting for space on their monitor, which will only serve to infuriate them.
If given the choice, I would pick the current newspaper with ads and the lower price. That's because the content of the paper is definately worth having to look at the ads. In fact, newspaper ads are often informative, or have cupons I might actually use. However, the second the Boston Globe starts placing ads on the front page, over the content I'm trying to read that move around, blink, play a store's jingle and tell me that it knows my newspaper's IP address... you can bet I will stop reading it.
This is how the free market is supposed to work. Customers are showing that they will not tolerate intrusive advertisments and DoubleClick, one of the worst offenders, is responding. If they had chosen to advertise responsibly (see the success of adsense) insted of insulting users with "You won a billion Ipods!!!!! Click HERE!!" ads, they wouldn't have this problem. Also, 10% of internet users using firefox, and realisticly 1% of them using AdBlock correctly. Firefox growth is slowing down because it's very hard to reach into the percentage of people that don't even know what a browser is and think the "E" on their desktop is the internet. Those are the people that will be clicking his ads anyway... and they will be using IE well into the Longhorn years. Is this really a threat to him at all?
Come on mods, flamebait? This comment is very off topic, but I really doubt it's intended to start a flame war. I'm a libertarian from Boston (Boston= quite liberal) and when I mention watching the BBC I do occasionally get responses suggesting I am anti-Bush/USA/whatever. The parent isn't saying that the BBC is anti-American propaganda, just that when he tries to watch it, other Americans tell him that it is.
Please RTFA, it's specifically about how many millions of hits/impressions the BBC handles, so I thought I'd make a little joke. It's supposed to be kind of sarcastic... ironic maybe? you know, a mirror to the BBC... no? you don't get it?..::cries offstage::
Hey, I detected your sarcasm immidately, the least you could do was return that favor.
PS: It's ok, I'm not actually crying, that part's a joke too.
I've also had some problems with Thunderbird. I'm a student in Northeastern's College of Computer Science and I was contacted by systems. They told me I was trying to make IMAP connections in a loop for hours at a time, the times corresponding to when I had Thunderbird open. I also have the problem of not getting emails when I hit the button to check it. Hours later I'll have 20 new messages dated from well before I started checking.
Despite the complaints, it's still my favorite windows email client, but I can't wait for the port of Evolution.
I remember reading an interview with Bram Cohen, (on a blog linked to from slashdot) that focused on his form of autism. It talked about how one of the major effects was an inability to recognize sarcasm. Now that this part of the brain has been located, perhaps more research could show if it is affected by autism, and if anything can be done to treat it.
I doubt that would really work, everyone's brain is probably slightly different physical hardware, so it would be like trying to run your precompiled brain image on the wrong archecture. However, if the brain data can be accessed while on the server you could use ad-aware and spybot to clean out all of your pesky non-desirable habits.
I can't wait until the kernel supports BrainFS. Then I can echo wget("http://www.slashdot.org") >/mnt/brain/uselessfacts every morning and impress everyone with facts about how you can download your brain. (50 years from now, when this is old duped news)
Actually, you'll at least want to go use lead boxers while you use your new nuke-laptop. Otherwise, geeks will NEVER reproduce.
Hmm... Poor social skills + Slashdot oriented sense of humor + Laptop heat + a nuclear battery sitting on your lap... No wonder there's a shortage of computer science majors, we can't reprodce, we're becoming extinct!
Yes, and in the name of protecting the artists, the whole process of the broadcast flag has cost our country millions or wasted dollars. There are all the hardware companies that... since it's May, must have already spent millions in R&D getting the flag working. Not to mention the people buying HDTV's early, or stocking up on un-DRM'd TV tuner cards before the July 1st deadline.
I honestly believe the FCC stopped fighting for the broadcast flag because of all the negative publicity it would have caused. Anybody who knew what it is would just buy a tuner card early and not be affected by it. Everybody else would find out when they tried to record things and couldn't... making them furious. Overall this was a PR nightmare, and was only going to get worse.
Exactly, this was the issue with JibJab.com
The "This Land is Your Land..." tune and chorus was copied directly from Woody Guthrie's song. Since it was obviously a parody, (which this site was also) the court ruled in JibJab's favor citing fair use. That case alone should be enough precedent to get this thrown out of court.
I'm sorry if you're joking or baiting here, but I'll bite because it's 2:30 AM where I am.
That said... I very much disagree with your idea to regulate or tax soda. I personally don't drink a sip of soda myself, but government regulation isn't going to solve anything. It's the responsibility of parents to teach their children what is good for them. It's true that a lot of them suck, but where I went to school we had weekly 'health' class where we learned about the food pyramid and how everything we like is in that little triangle on the top that we should avoid. When I heard about the guy suing McDonalds for making him obese I laughed like crazy at the idea that somebody could be so stupid. Then when I heard that some state was trying to pass legislation that would require an 18+ id to buy oreos I got a bit worried. Americans are overweight, but it's not the government's fault. Having the government figuratively hold a twinkie over our heads and say "Bad hacker, not until you do one situp!" isn't going to help. I'm in the shape I'm in as a direct result of what I've eaten and how much I've exersized. If I am in shape it's because I want to be. If I am overweight, likewise. I want to be free to be fat, free to be uneducated, free to be lazy, free to smoke, free to drink, and free to do whatever else I want to my body without the government regulating, taxing, or even knowing about it.
Is it fair for the cities to decide that it should be free and drive them out of business?
No, it isn't fair and unfortunately somebody is always going to lose. Starting a business is a gamble, and there is always a risk of something like this happening. It's more a question of whether or not it benefits the general public. To stick with the library analogy, if your company offered the same services as a library and charged members a $20/month fee, then the government suddenly started building libraries and put you out of business, that would be awful for you, but it doesn't make libraries a bad idea.
How is this different than Microsoft giving away Internet Explorer to drive Netscape out of business?
Intent? The government would do this (all corruption theories aside) to provide citizens with a free service, not to tighten their monopolistic grip on the Wi-Fi Market.
As a libertarian I'm generally against state governments spending tax dollars on services that people would otherwise pay for themselves, but municipal Wi-Fi is not a bad thing. The goal is to provide information to people who wouldn't normally be able to access to it. It's not anti-competitive because people still need cable or DSL if they want their own IP address, a more reliable connection, a web server, or just more bandwidth... if they don't need these things then DSL/cable wouldn't be worth it to them anyway. Free Wi-Fi is no more wrong than having free public libraries... or more relevantly, free internet at public libraries. What is the difference between providing your citizens with encyclopedias for reference at libraries, and access to Wikipedia via municipal Wi-Fi? I will admit that I have purchased fewer books because I have had access to public libraries, but bookstores still have their place. Sometimes I would really rather own a book than check it out for a week. This service provides very basic internet access, and anybody who wants more than that will pay for it. SBC should not be any more worried than your local bookstore.
...and if you disagree respond insted of just modding me down, I'd way rather hear your point than go to karma hell =)
This is the biggest reason I would expect to see us invade N. Korea. Now that Bush has been re-elected he cares less what people think of him 'now' and more what the history books will have to say about him. He wants to be remembered a crusader for "good". That's why he's appointing people to clean up the airwaves, fighting against gay marriage, and taking on this "Axis of Evil". The presidents that we remember are the ones we had during wars. I honestly believe that the reason we are still in Iraq is because Bush wants to be remembered as the man who brought Democracy there. If it was really about WMD, we would have taken off as soon as we realized there weren't any. If it was really about oil, we would have taken off as soon as we realized this war would cost us more in money and soldiers than any amount of oil we could possibly get out of them. Bush is padding his resume by adding "Brought democracy to Iraq" despite the massive cost so that he will be remembered for it. "Stopped North Korean military threat." would be something he'd like to add, but it's not possible with our military so overworked as it is.
Note: I generally get karma-killed when I post in politics and don't know why... This isn't supposed to be a troll or flamebait. If you disagree post back, I would really like to hear what you think.
The big players here are Intel, ATI, and Nvidia. Since this report shows that ATI and Nvidia both gained market share, it's not really a sign that ATI is making major progress. It just shows that Intel is not doing so well in this area.
MLB and the NFL may be hurting their popularity by doing this. All the companies left out of their exclusive deals aren't going to just let their game engines go to waste. Within the next few years we are probably going to see more NCAA games. Many people prefer watching the unpaid college athletes over the professionals anyway and these excluseive deals will make college sports more popular... it's free publicity for the NCAA.
After reading the blog entry, VOIP looks like it is very susceptible to spam. Some of the limits of telemarketers today are paying to make the calls, and accountability. New spammer/telemarketers could use a semi-anonymous SIP address.... or use a virus to control someone else's and send out millions of bulk recorded messages. Also, spam detection software to prevent something like this would be infinately more difficult to create than email filtering software.
Slashdot Mirror
I've been on the other end of this, I did web design for a while and a company called "Specialty Technical Publications" found my address on my site, sent me a CD, then a month later sent me an invoice for a monthly $500+ charge for as many months as I wanted to keep the CD, including a month that had passed... this reminds me, I have to go file a BBB complaint.
a video called 'Fantasma.'
Anyone read this quickly as 'Futurama'?
Normally I will question the brain of anyone who clicks a link without confirming with the person who sent it that it's not a virus, but all my friends know I love futurama clips.
Good news everyone, I can be socially engineered.
Islamists are Muslims, which is just a religion. There's nothing in your statement to qualify it to a more direct, smaller culture of death, such as suicide bombers. If you replace your words with Jews it sounds awfully like the anti-semetic propaganda of pre-WWII.
Wow, that entire statement is ignorant. Next time Google a word you don't understand before accusing someone of being intolerant.
Muslims are followers of Islam.
They are people, not "a religion" as you say. Islam is the religion.
Islamists are *violent* radical Islamic fundamentalists. They ARE a more direct, smaller culture of terrorists. I know several Muslims, but have never met an Islamist.
As for replacing his words with "Jews"... that's not bad flamebait, but how about you try replacing it with something close to it's definition, like... terrorist? Would that help you understand the post better?
The only posts I dislike more than the blatently incorrect statements and conspiracy theories are the ones that correct and critisize people who are right. Stop destroying the community with this trash!
To use the bully analogy, there are options besides caving and fighting. After the bully punches you. You stand back up, stick out you chest, and look at him, waiting for him to hit you again (they seldom do). Bullies don't know how to deal with this responce. They actually prefer you swing at them...
You do a good job justifying the bully analogy, but the analogy itself is very flawed. First of all, bullies opress their victims and intimidate them with greater size and power. Terrorists are more like mosquitos than bullies, desperately trying to take little bites, and usually causing much more irritation than damage. (*usually*... I guess 9/11 was like being bitten by a west nile mosquito.) Second, the only modivation of the bully is attention. This is certianly the main modivation of terrorists, but not the only one. They religiously believe that killing Brits/USAsians/etc is something with devine approval. We aren't dealing with a bully at all here, we're dealing with a less powerful, but deranged hateful army of psychopaths. If we rebuild and simply let them hit us again, they most certianly will!
I think the reverse could be true also... The agencies like doubleclick etc keep changing their ad styles, and the adblock tools keep getting stronger while fighting it. Eventually the agencies will see the intense lengths people are going through to get rid of them and realize that those are not the people that are clicking their ads anyway, so it's not worth fighting for space on their monitor, which will only serve to infuriate them.
If given the choice, I would pick the current newspaper with ads and the lower price. That's because the content of the paper is definately worth having to look at the ads. In fact, newspaper ads are often informative, or have cupons I might actually use. However, the second the Boston Globe starts placing ads on the front page, over the content I'm trying to read that move around, blink, play a store's jingle and tell me that it knows my newspaper's IP address... you can bet I will stop reading it.
- Andy (happy newspaper reader and adblock user)
This is how the free market is supposed to work. Customers are showing that they will not tolerate intrusive advertisments and DoubleClick, one of the worst offenders, is responding. If they had chosen to advertise responsibly (see the success of adsense) insted of insulting users with "You won a billion Ipods!!!!! Click HERE!!" ads, they wouldn't have this problem. Also, 10% of internet users using firefox, and realisticly 1% of them using AdBlock correctly. Firefox growth is slowing down because it's very hard to reach into the percentage of people that don't even know what a browser is and think the "E" on their desktop is the internet. Those are the people that will be clicking his ads anyway... and they will be using IE well into the Longhorn years. Is this really a threat to him at all?
Come on mods, flamebait? This comment is very off topic, but I really doubt it's intended to start a flame war. I'm a libertarian from Boston (Boston= quite liberal) and when I mention watching the BBC I do occasionally get responses suggesting I am anti-Bush/USA/whatever. The parent isn't saying that the BBC is anti-American propaganda, just that when he tries to watch it, other Americans tell him that it is.
Please RTFA, it's specifically about how many millions of hits/impressions the BBC handles, so I thought I'd make a little joke. It's supposed to be kind of sarcastic... ironic maybe? you know, a mirror to the BBC... no? you don't get it? .. ::cries offstage::
Hey, I detected your sarcasm immidately, the least you could do was return that favor.
PS: It's ok, I'm not actually crying, that part's a joke too.
Yeah, that looks pretty good, but just in case... here's a mirror
I've also had some problems with Thunderbird. I'm a student in Northeastern's College of Computer Science and I was contacted by systems. They told me I was trying to make IMAP connections in a loop for hours at a time, the times corresponding to when I had Thunderbird open. I also have the problem of not getting emails when I hit the button to check it. Hours later I'll have 20 new messages dated from well before I started checking.
Despite the complaints, it's still my favorite windows email client, but I can't wait for the port of Evolution.
I was reading this article on the BBC website when it hit slashdot... would have posted it sooner but apparently I don't pass the turing test.
I remember reading an interview with Bram Cohen, (on a blog linked to from slashdot) that focused on his form of autism. It talked about how one of the major effects was an inability to recognize sarcasm. Now that this part of the brain has been located, perhaps more research could show if it is affected by autism, and if anything can be done to treat it.
I doubt that would really work, everyone's brain is probably slightly different physical hardware, so it would be like trying to run your precompiled brain image on the wrong archecture. However, if the brain data can be accessed while on the server you could use ad-aware and spybot to clean out all of your pesky non-desirable habits.
/mnt/brain/uselessfacts every morning and impress everyone with facts about how you can download your brain. (50 years from now, when this is old duped news)
I can't wait until the kernel supports BrainFS. Then I can echo wget("http://www.slashdot.org") >
Actually, you'll at least want to go use lead boxers while you use your new nuke-laptop. Otherwise, geeks will NEVER reproduce.
Hmm... Poor social skills + Slashdot oriented sense of humor + Laptop heat + a nuclear battery sitting on your lap...
No wonder there's a shortage of computer science majors, we can't reprodce, we're becoming extinct!
Yes, and in the name of protecting the artists, the whole process of the broadcast flag has cost our country millions or wasted dollars. There are all the hardware companies that... since it's May, must have already spent millions in R&D getting the flag working. Not to mention the people buying HDTV's early, or stocking up on un-DRM'd TV tuner cards before the July 1st deadline.
I honestly believe the FCC stopped fighting for the broadcast flag because of all the negative publicity it would have caused. Anybody who knew what it is would just buy a tuner card early and not be affected by it. Everybody else would find out when they tried to record things and couldn't... making them furious. Overall this was a PR nightmare, and was only going to get worse.
Can we know this for sure? Has google confirmed it? What is the trustrank of newscientist.com ?
Exactly, this was the issue with JibJab.com
The "This Land is Your Land..." tune and chorus was copied directly from Woody Guthrie's song. Since it was obviously a parody, (which this site was also) the court ruled in JibJab's favor citing fair use. That case alone should be enough precedent to get this thrown out of court.
I'm sorry if you're joking or baiting here, but I'll bite because it's 2:30 AM where I am.
That said... I very much disagree with your idea to regulate or tax soda. I personally don't drink a sip of soda myself, but government regulation isn't going to solve anything. It's the responsibility of parents to teach their children what is good for them. It's true that a lot of them suck, but where I went to school we had weekly 'health' class where we learned about the food pyramid and how everything we like is in that little triangle on the top that we should avoid. When I heard about the guy suing McDonalds for making him obese I laughed like crazy at the idea that somebody could be so stupid. Then when I heard that some state was trying to pass legislation that would require an 18+ id to buy oreos I got a bit worried. Americans are overweight, but it's not the government's fault. Having the government figuratively hold a twinkie over our heads and say "Bad hacker, not until you do one situp!" isn't going to help. I'm in the shape I'm in as a direct result of what I've eaten and how much I've exersized. If I am in shape it's because I want to be. If I am overweight, likewise. I want to be free to be fat, free to be uneducated, free to be lazy, free to smoke, free to drink, and free to do whatever else I want to my body without the government regulating, taxing, or even knowing about it.
Is it fair for the cities to decide that it should be free and drive them out of business?
No, it isn't fair and unfortunately somebody is always going to lose. Starting a business is a gamble, and there is always a risk of something like this happening. It's more a question of whether or not it benefits the general public. To stick with the library analogy, if your company offered the same services as a library and charged members a $20/month fee, then the government suddenly started building libraries and put you out of business, that would be awful for you, but it doesn't make libraries a bad idea.
How is this different than Microsoft giving away Internet Explorer to drive Netscape out of business?
Intent? The government would do this (all corruption theories aside) to provide citizens with a free service, not to tighten their monopolistic grip on the Wi-Fi Market.
As a libertarian I'm generally against state governments spending tax dollars on services that people would otherwise pay for themselves, but municipal Wi-Fi is not a bad thing. The goal is to provide information to people who wouldn't normally be able to access to it. It's not anti-competitive because people still need cable or DSL if they want their own IP address, a more reliable connection, a web server, or just more bandwidth... if they don't need these things then DSL/cable wouldn't be worth it to them anyway. Free Wi-Fi is no more wrong than having free public libraries... or more relevantly, free internet at public libraries. What is the difference between providing your citizens with encyclopedias for reference at libraries, and access to Wikipedia via municipal Wi-Fi? I will admit that I have purchased fewer books because I have had access to public libraries, but bookstores still have their place. Sometimes I would really rather own a book than check it out for a week. This service provides very basic internet access, and anybody who wants more than that will pay for it. SBC should not be any more worried than your local bookstore.
...and if you disagree respond insted of just modding me down, I'd way rather hear your point than go to karma hell =)
- Will help president's legacy: Check
This is the biggest reason I would expect to see us invade N. Korea. Now that Bush has been re-elected he cares less what people think of him 'now' and more what the history books will have to say about him. He wants to be remembered a crusader for "good". That's why he's appointing people to clean up the airwaves, fighting against gay marriage, and taking on this "Axis of Evil". The presidents that we remember are the ones we had during wars. I honestly believe that the reason we are still in Iraq is because Bush wants to be remembered as the man who brought Democracy there. If it was really about WMD, we would have taken off as soon as we realized there weren't any. If it was really about oil, we would have taken off as soon as we realized this war would cost us more in money and soldiers than any amount of oil we could possibly get out of them. Bush is padding his resume by adding "Brought democracy to Iraq" despite the massive cost so that he will be remembered for it. "Stopped North Korean military threat." would be something he'd like to add, but it's not possible with our military so overworked as it is.
Note: I generally get karma-killed when I post in politics and don't know why... This isn't supposed to be a troll or flamebait. If you disagree post back, I would really like to hear what you think.
The big players here are Intel, ATI, and Nvidia. Since this report shows that ATI and Nvidia both gained market share, it's not really a sign that ATI is making major progress. It just shows that Intel is not doing so well in this area.
MLB and the NFL may be hurting their popularity by doing this. All the companies left out of their exclusive deals aren't going to just let their game engines go to waste. Within the next few years we are probably going to see more NCAA games. Many people prefer watching the unpaid college athletes over the professionals anyway and these excluseive deals will make college sports more popular... it's free publicity for the NCAA.
After reading the blog entry, VOIP looks like it is very susceptible to spam. Some of the limits of telemarketers today are paying to make the calls, and accountability. New spammer/telemarketers could use a semi-anonymous SIP address.... or use a virus to control someone else's and send out millions of bulk recorded messages. Also, spam detection software to prevent something like this would be infinately more difficult to create than email filtering software.