After finding that the words 'them', 'claim', 'Internet', 'is', '2011', and 'damn' were part of copyrighted works, the FBI has begun a strict crackdown on their usage, hence his obscuring them.
"Couldn't have gotten far in life without saying 'is'!"
The "next life" thing is there to make some people feel better about their loss, make some people feel better about their gain, and to keep some people in charge of them all while they laugh all the way to the bank.
I don't think actually selling a product is always the intent. I suspect some people spam for the sake of wasting time and network resources to accomplish some moral imperative unknown to us.
I heard a rumor that they will include a game where two tanks, or helicopters in some cases, maneuver through various predefined courses trying to destroy the other. It should include enough levels to keep people occupied until the tennis game comes out two months after release.
I'm hoping for a game where you steer a cowboy through a bunch of cattle, trying to rope one, all while avoiding cow skulls.
You have hit the nail on the head. The problem with implementing any kind of social/economic/political movement on a large scale is that the number of corrupt individuals involved increases proportionally (sometimes exponentially?) with the size of the movement itself. Those individuals do not have the same goals in mind as the founders of said movement, but have learned how to make the it work for them by exploiting the naivety/idealism of those founders. As someone above said, communism as in farming communes works on a small scale, just as anarchy would work on a small scale. The people in that scale need to be able to police their own to eliminate the elements that do not contribute to the movement as a whole though. Without that policing, the undesired elements gain too much power and create their own powerful -- and difficult to dislodge -- structure of corruption.
The patent is basically for an electronic mail distribution system that tracks if emails have been opened, etc. It does specify that the subscribers should be members of an opt-in list, which would preclude UCE. Of course it could be used to nefarious ends by having a spammer submit the addresses as if they were opted in, but it's initial purpose doesn't seem to be one of sending UCE.
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After finding that the words 'them', 'claim', 'Internet', 'is', '2011', and 'damn' were part of copyrighted works, the FBI has begun a strict crackdown on their usage, hence his obscuring them.
"Couldn't have gotten far in life without saying 'is'!"
up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, start will get you the shutdown option
The "next life" thing is there to make some people feel better about their loss, make some people feel better about their gain, and to keep some people in charge of them all while they laugh all the way to the bank.
being slaves to the second most intelligent animals on the earth.
my kingdom for mod points
boo... just boo
I'm surprised no one else pointed this out yet
oh pfft, people only have empathy for users when they're paid to.
I don't think actually selling a product is always the intent. I suspect some people spam for the sake of wasting time and network resources to accomplish some moral imperative unknown to us.
Willis tower observation level? Man, I had to test that thing a few times with my foot before stepping out on it.
bloop
just coralize the link, add nyud.net after the hostname. in this case: http://www.techreviewsource.com.nyud.net/blog/?p=781
to teach better tucking
I heard a rumor that they will include a game where two tanks, or helicopters in some cases, maneuver through various predefined courses trying to destroy the other. It should include enough levels to keep people occupied until the tennis game comes out two months after release.
I'm hoping for a game where you steer a cowboy through a bunch of cattle, trying to rope one, all while avoiding cow skulls.
My God, it's full of electronics
uh.. i do believe the girl wasn't 4 at the time she sent the picture... she just sent a picture of herself *taken when she was four years old*
well, least i thought that was obvious
Cause R'lyeh is at 49 degrees South, 128 degrees West, which is in the Pacific. He prolly wouldn't hear it if he didn't hear the Bikini Atoll blasts.
seems like a CTRL+A, CTRL+C by a few thousand slashdotters might cause some issues.
no no, they'd have to have it on a line or something.
all grey ones
You have hit the nail on the head. The problem with implementing any kind of social/economic/political movement on a large scale is that the number of corrupt individuals involved increases proportionally (sometimes exponentially?) with the size of the movement itself. Those individuals do not have the same goals in mind as the founders of said movement, but have learned how to make the it work for them by exploiting the naivety/idealism of those founders. As someone above said, communism as in farming communes works on a small scale, just as anarchy would work on a small scale. The people in that scale need to be able to police their own to eliminate the elements that do not contribute to the movement as a whole though. Without that policing, the undesired elements gain too much power and create their own powerful -- and difficult to dislodge -- structure of corruption.
The patent is basically for an electronic mail distribution system that tracks if emails have been opened, etc. It does specify that the subscribers should be members of an opt-in list, which would preclude UCE. Of course it could be used to nefarious ends by having a spammer submit the addresses as if they were opted in, but it's initial purpose doesn't seem to be one of sending UCE.
wow, that sounds oddly parallel to going to work every day. *sigh*