my canon pixma ip4000 (170 euro) can print on Specially coated cd's/dvd's just fine in full color.
Not everybody has a colour printer. And now consider this: paying extra ~10 Euros for CD/DVD drive for this feature. What is the difference in price for canon printer WITHOUT CD/DVD printing and the one you have?
Of course, it would be luxury to by extra driver just for this feature, but if one is buying a CD/DVD driver anyway, paying extra for this feature looks reasonable to me.
No daubt that ink-jet printed image on CD is of superior quality (Colours!) than monochrome Lightescribe (tm) but it costs more too.
I would like to find a program from trusted distributor (open source preferably) that would do the following things:
Would "suck" bandwidth from: a) spamvertised sites I find in my e-mailbox; or b) spamvertised sites other people I trust received in their e-mail box'es.
On a) So I would pick from my e-mails web-sites I want to go down and feed the to the program. It is absolutely LEGAL. They SPAMED me, They PROVIDED their website, and they WILL PAY for extra bandwidth. I am free to post on the web these websites as BAD, NEVER-TO-GO-TO&SUCK-BANDWIDTH-FROM WEB-SITES.
On b) I trust a few spam-busting sites, and I would be happy if some of those people *would publish addresses of spamvertised sites they received*. (Once again - perfectly legal). This could be published in RSS to which I would link from my program.
Final Result: many people would be getting addresses automatically from spam-busting sites via RSS every 4-6 hours. Those on spam-busting sites would update their RSS as soon as they see spamvertised sites going down, so resources of "bandwith-suckers" would not be wasted:)
This would hurt those who pay spammers and affect economy spam is based on.
For those who argue, that spammers would fight back and become more mean/ would apply illegal tactics: This is GOOD. The more illegal things they will do, the more likely they are going to be busted by law enforcement.
I quess eferything is legal in my proposal: everybody is free to publish spamvertised web-sites he/she received and everybody is free to "suck" bandwidth from web-sites.
P.S. Of course program should pick only IP's from RSS, sucking should be made in non-rerotable manner and so on, but this is just technical details programmers would take into account.
I wish more webmasters put such letters on their websites. More people would get aware of that surfing the net leaves traces and all of us would have more clear picture of how many subpoenas are served to webmasters.
Unless you patent technology in all the countries that have launch sites.
Patents are enforceable/protected only territorially i.e. there is no authority that could enforce patents in high seas and space.
It would be great business for some country near equator to withdraw from all international treaties and abandon patent protection to open a launch site and attract anybody wishing to launch patent abbridged stuff to space.
Slashdot Mirror
And to kill the phenomenon of slashdoting ? :)
Your are enemy to modern net culture!!!
Hydrofluoric acid ?
No problem - just wax your space suit before moon-walking.
(Hydrofluoric acid was stored in paraffin bottles before teflon was comercially available)
Of course, it would be luxury to by extra driver just for this feature, but if one is buying a CD/DVD driver anyway, paying extra for this feature looks reasonable to me.
No daubt that ink-jet printed image on CD is of superior quality (Colours!) than monochrome Lightescribe (tm) but it costs more too.
Salo is supposed to be eaten with onions/pickles and vodka. Non-fried potatoes are horrible too :)
I would like to find a program from trusted distributor (open source preferably) that would do the following things:
:)
Would "suck" bandwidth from:
a) spamvertised sites I find in my e-mailbox; or
b) spamvertised sites other people I trust received in their e-mail box'es.
On a)
So I would pick from my e-mails web-sites I want to go down and feed the to the program. It is absolutely LEGAL. They SPAMED me, They PROVIDED their website, and they WILL PAY for extra bandwidth. I am free to post on the web these websites as BAD, NEVER-TO-GO-TO&SUCK-BANDWIDTH-FROM WEB-SITES.
On b)
I trust a few spam-busting sites, and I would be happy if some of those people *would publish addresses of spamvertised sites they received*. (Once again - perfectly legal). This could be published in RSS to which I would link from my program.
Final Result: many people would be getting addresses automatically from spam-busting sites via RSS every 4-6 hours. Those on spam-busting sites would update their RSS as soon as they see spamvertised sites going down, so resources of "bandwith-suckers" would not be wasted
This would hurt those who pay spammers and affect economy spam is based on.
For those who argue, that spammers would fight back and become more mean/ would apply illegal tactics: This is GOOD. The more illegal things they will do, the more likely they are going to be busted by law enforcement.
I quess eferything is legal in my proposal: everybody is free to publish spamvertised web-sites he/she received and everybody is free to "suck" bandwidth from web-sites.
P.S. Of course program should pick only IP's from RSS, sucking should be made in non-rerotable manner and so on, but this is just technical details programmers would take into account.
I wish more webmasters put such letters on their websites. More people would get aware of that surfing the net leaves traces and all of us would have more clear picture of how many subpoenas are served to webmasters.
If your logic is not flawn, let's impose tax on health and long living. USA would become the healthiest and longest living nation in the world.
Unless you patent technology in all the countries that have launch sites. Patents are enforceable/protected only territorially i.e. there is no authority that could enforce patents in high seas and space. It would be great business for some country near equator to withdraw from all international treaties and abandon patent protection to open a launch site and attract anybody wishing to launch patent abbridged stuff to space.
Holding something in space is dangerous and inefficient. Most probably dangerous asteroid will be spotted while it is far enough to launch rockets from earth and change it's path. ESA http://www.esa.int/ is planning Don Quijote http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060 188707?v=glance mission http://www.space.com/spacenews/donquixote_040714.h tml http://www.esa.int/export/esaCP/SEMZO8M26WD_Expand ing_0.html.
I saw a 15 seconds movie illustrating the impact but can't find a link at the moment.
I guess, if we spot something that close to earth that launching from space would be quicker than from the Earth, that would already be too late.