for several years, as a solution to an account of mine being marked as spam by my university because a colleague got his pc infected, I've used movie quotes in every email header.
Its been successful, everyone I mail expects this, and on the rare occasions that they have received emails from me not using this format I've got confirmation mails asking if it was really me.
Possibly this wouldn't work for eveyone, but I suggest it, since it works for me.
If someone else who turns out to be a real terrorist, or even makes the list of 'shifty looking, might be a danger' shops in the same place, or turns out to have been there at the same time, expect 'inconveniences'.
Well, I wish I had some patents, since it appears that nowadays in the US all you need to make it rich is a half baked poorly specified and over broad patent or two.
There's no way the patent troll is going to be going away, not while there are potentially so many billions to be made from having IP on paper.
I can also see why other countries, like China and India, would have reason to be positively delighted at this mess. After all, while the US is circling the IT drain and losing impetus on innovation due to the all singing all dancing patent, they can get on with actually doing new stuff.
It can understand spoken commands and reacts accordingly. It builds its own map of its surroundings and can navigate itself on learning. This is a big deal for the disabled or the elderly that need help to do various day to day tasks.
Environments change, and people who need help often tend to lose the ability to speak clearly.
If someone falls over and knocks things the environment would change fast too.
It's a nice idea, but the abilities spoken off are still effectively lab bound except for toy applications.
I know about those, but unless the US can untertake a complete re-working of its long haul rail lines, including adding many many more such lines, they wouldn't be enough on their own.
Right now, as far as I recall, the US long haul train services are dominated by coal transportation, so much so that passenger trains take second place in scheduling. Doesn't sound like a system ripe for fast expansion to me.
That unless they can find a way for Big Oil (c)(tm) to get a huge slice of the revenue pie, there will be no electric cars in our future...
It's more likely that until there is an electric engine capable of hauling an Articulated lorry several hundred miles without a refill that they won't be widely used. The economy won't be able to do without all those trucks taking goods around 24/7.
Ordinary cars for that matter. I don't know the travel habits of your average American, but if a car couldn't be expected to go more than a couple of hundred miles between top ups you'd have problems doing anything but commuting. Unless that is, there are refill stations *everywhere*. That would cost rather a lot.
Wait till the first child gets born. They might be the first people able to claim multinationality, or perhaps to be able to drop the concept of nationality altogether.
Under such a system where they could actually restrict your access to anything else the Internet has to offer, well, that's like AOL
As much as I hate to come in on the side of AOL you are talking rubbish. AOL have their own software for connecting to the net, true, but once connected you can use any browser or protocol you want without problems.
I know this because until about eight months ago I was stuck with an AOL contract where I moved to. No linux net access was a pain, but that was the only problem. As much as I didn't like their client, the service was reliable, the connection rarely dropped, and tbh I was more or less happy with it. Bittorrent worked perfectly, and at a nice speed. Ok I changed to another ISP the first day I could, but that was because I prefer not to have to use their client, and I wanted linux net acess, not because AOL were restricting what I could do when connected.
Well thankyou for agreeing with me. I was thinking I'd be moderated troll for stating my opinion. It's based on observation though, which is the best I can do.
I dunno...the younger age group there, really does not understand or comprehend how their actions being published on the net can have LONG term consequences.
Have you ever considered that they might not care? Seriously, they might not. My son and his friends share things using technology it never would have occurred to me to share. Things I would keep private they share, and these kids will be the ones forming companies and running the technology world in the ot too distant future.
Privacy means different things to kids now. It may well be that all it will mean in the future is access to your money is restricted.
For me, quite a lot. I'm wanting to start up a software house some time in the next year. These patent wars frankly wory me. I don't know if I'd be that keen on entering the US market, since some shark will no doubt try to take a bite if my product is seen to be making money. Better to work in Europe and the far east methinks.
Yeah, software piracy is a tad rife there, but I'd rather be strategising against pirates (services instead of software payment etc), than have my company gutted because of some shitbar patent suit in texas.
I believe the point has been made several times of late that the constitution may need either replacing or significant updating. Things have changed too much. For one thing when it was written 70-80% of the US population were farmers.
How that would go in this age of corporate and special interest lobbyists is something to contemplate.
They can't outlaw encryption, since that will affect business badly. Nor can they outlaw encrypted emails, same reason. All they can do is make it so they can have the keys on asking, which I imagine is already the case. Mind you under this totalitarianist approach, the mere act of using encryption as a private citizen places you under suspicion.
So, how is it there in the land of the free? Good still?
The type of organizations that want Red Hat Enterprise Linux want it for the support Red Hat offers. Take that away and there's not really any competition.
Which is exactly what Red Hat have always been mindful of. After all they have Fedora too, and Red Hat have released everything they do as open source from the very beginning. They really sell the support infrastructure, although they do add a lot to the linux they provide.
I don't doubt they'd love their version of Linux to become the next Debian, used as a base for new distro's. That means they absolutely must not hammer anyone else who uses their stuff. I don't see it as likely that they will pursue anyone to end an unofficial version, that would likely be something they wouldn't even consider, so long as their Mark is respected.
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PGP, man. also, who mods stuff like this up ?
So how exactly would pgp stop my email address being nicked from someone elses adress book? Do tell.
Not all of us live in a state of paranoia and therefore we don't use PGP for everything.
for several years, as a solution to an account of mine being marked as spam by my university because a colleague got his pc infected, I've used movie quotes in every email header.
Its been successful, everyone I mail expects this, and on the rare occasions that they have received emails from me not using this format I've got confirmation mails asking if it was really me.
Possibly this wouldn't work for eveyone, but I suggest it, since it works for me.
Patents as such aren't the issue (my mistake in losing clarity there), I meant software patents.
yes, if you shop in one of the mined locations.
If someone else who turns out to be a real terrorist, or even makes the list of 'shifty looking, might be a danger' shops in the same place, or turns out to have been there at the same time, expect 'inconveniences'.
Well, I wish I had some patents, since it appears that nowadays in the US all you need to make it rich is a half baked poorly specified and over broad patent or two.
There's no way the patent troll is going to be going away, not while there are potentially so many billions to be made from having IP on paper.
I can also see why other countries, like China and India, would have reason to be positively delighted at this mess. After all, while the US is circling the IT drain and losing impetus on innovation due to the all singing all dancing patent, they can get on with actually doing new stuff.
Actually the ribbon came to mind the instant I read this slashdot story.
I tried office 2007 beta, and really liked it. I don't see why I should replace my current office XP though, since that still does everything I want.
That's the problem I think, good as it is, it's expensive, and thus for most people, not good enough to warrant dumping something that still works.
It can understand spoken commands and reacts accordingly. It builds its own map of its surroundings and can navigate itself on learning. This is a big deal for the disabled or the elderly that need help to do various day to day tasks.
Environments change, and people who need help often tend to lose the ability to speak clearly.
If someone falls over and knocks things the environment would change fast too.
It's a nice idea, but the abilities spoken off are still effectively lab bound except for toy applications.
I know about those, but unless the US can untertake a complete re-working of its long haul rail lines, including adding many many more such lines, they wouldn't be enough on their own.
Right now, as far as I recall, the US long haul train services are dominated by coal transportation, so much so that passenger trains take second place in scheduling. Doesn't sound like a system ripe for fast expansion to me.
That unless they can find a way for Big Oil (c)(tm) to get a huge slice of the revenue pie, there will be no electric cars in our future...
It's more likely that until there is an electric engine capable of hauling an Articulated lorry several hundred miles without a refill that they won't be widely used. The economy won't be able to do without all those trucks taking goods around 24/7.
Ordinary cars for that matter. I don't know the travel habits of your average American, but if a car couldn't be expected to go more than a couple of hundred miles between top ups you'd have problems doing anything but commuting. Unless that is, there are refill stations *everywhere*. That would cost rather a lot.
Wait till the first child gets born. They might be the first people able to claim multinationality, or perhaps to be able to drop the concept of nationality altogether.
Ok, unlikely, but would it not rock?
Under such a system where they could actually restrict your access to anything else the Internet has to offer, well, that's like AOL
As much as I hate to come in on the side of AOL you are talking rubbish.
AOL have their own software for connecting to the net, true, but once connected you can use any browser or protocol you want without problems.
I know this because until about eight months ago I was stuck with an AOL contract where I moved to. No linux net access was a pain, but that was the only problem. As much as I didn't like their client, the service was reliable, the connection rarely dropped, and tbh I was more or less happy with it. Bittorrent worked perfectly, and at a nice speed. Ok I changed to another ISP the first day I could, but that was because I prefer not to have to use their client, and I wanted linux net acess, not because AOL were restricting what I could do when connected.
Well thankyou for agreeing with me. I was thinking I'd be moderated troll for stating my opinion. It's based on observation though, which is the best I can do.
I dunno...the younger age group there, really does not understand or comprehend how their actions being published on the net can have LONG term consequences.
Have you ever considered that they might not care? Seriously, they might not. My son and his friends share things using technology it never would have occurred to me to share. Things I would keep private they share, and these kids will be the ones forming companies and running the technology world in the ot too distant future.
Privacy means different things to kids now. It may well be that all it will mean in the future is access to your money is restricted.
more the far east, but yes, europe. Europe isn't just france germany and england you know...
interesting information, thanks, I shall make a note of it.
For me, quite a lot. I'm wanting to start up a software house some time in the next year. These patent wars frankly wory me. I don't know if I'd be that keen on entering the US market, since some shark will no doubt try to take a bite if my product is seen to be making money. Better to work in Europe and the far east methinks.
Yeah, software piracy is a tad rife there, but I'd rather be strategising against pirates (services instead of software payment etc), than have my company gutted because of some shitbar patent suit in texas.
Is this an ad or an article?
It reads like an Advert. I wonder....
then that, or some provision that means it, must be added to the constitution.
the constitution does not mention email....
I believe the point has been made several times of late that the constitution may need either replacing or significant updating. Things have changed too much. For one thing when it was written 70-80% of the US population were farmers.
How that would go in this age of corporate and special interest lobbyists is something to contemplate.
They can't outlaw encryption, since that will affect business badly. Nor can they outlaw encrypted emails, same reason. All they can do is make it so they can have the keys on asking, which I imagine is already the case. Mind you under this totalitarianist approach, the mere act of using encryption as a private citizen places you under suspicion.
So, how is it there in the land of the free? Good still?
Hmm, so I got modded troll for voicing an opinion as to his dodgy ethics. Fortunately my karma can absorb the hit, so I don't mind.
I manage the Red Hat relationship for a Fortune 500 company with thousands of RH seats
You don't exactly stand as an example of professionalism, if indeed you're being truthful, discussing private business matters on a public website.
Red Hat support is horrible and always has been
Ah, so that explains how they've built a multi billion dollar business on providing software services and support. Wait, what?
The type of organizations that want Red Hat Enterprise Linux want it for the support Red Hat offers. Take that away and there's not really any competition.
Which is exactly what Red Hat have always been mindful of. After all they have Fedora too, and Red Hat have released everything they do as open source from the very beginning. They really sell the support infrastructure, although they do add a lot to the linux they provide.
I don't doubt they'd love their version of Linux to become the next Debian, used as a base for new distro's. That means they absolutely must not hammer anyone else who uses their stuff. I don't see it as likely that they will pursue anyone to end an unofficial version, that would likely be something they wouldn't even consider, so long as their Mark is respected.