Actually, I've been trying to teach various people (ages 45-53) not to double-click on hyperlinks in their browser. I don't know why, but seing someone double-click on a link disturbs me.
Filter it? Why do we have to teach people to filter spam? What do you care if I filter spam or not? Why does it make me stupid to tolerate the spam I receive?
If Joe Sixpack sees an ad for cheap Viagra, he is quite likely to buy it, encouraging the spammer to keep spamming.
I agree, spam is never going to end - but we can try to reduce its effects.
Your sig fits very, very well with the comment:) People are stupid. They get 50 spam mails, say "Well, that's not good, but what can I do about it?." It's the same problem Linux (or any Firefok, or Thunderbird or whatever) has: people accept the state, because they do not know about any alternatives. "Oh look, Windows crashed again," someone says, and maybe continues: "I wish there were some better o/s." What we have to do is to educate people, teach them not to click "yes" to everything they see, and to filter as much spam as possible. When spammers (and phisers) stop getting money, maybe they will stop. Probably won't happen, but we can always dream.
The problem with filtering of spam is false positives. You can filter spam, but what if you also filter important messages? That's why I have set thunderbird to delete nothing, only move it to the junk folder.
How long before this starts to take over peoples' computers and do evil stuff, such as spamming and such? Can this be a disguise for a new zombie technology?
Proper M$ speak would be "infringed on our intellectual property and will therefore be sued to a bloody pulp for attempting to steal users of our superior product."
Indentation, not whitespace. It is there to make code easy to read. Not just one mess of calls. You can't obfuscate Python very much, and that is good. And who the fuck programs in an environment that does not support preserving of indentation?
Does he have a paypal account? Atually, someone suggested this solution, as a test. he proposed that the director put a movie on a BitTorrent tracker, with a link to a paypal account and check how much he got. But the idea is unrealistic. Noone wants to risk that noone pays for the movie.
The appearantly fake raid on Bahnhof was done by Antipiratbyrån, the Swedish anti-piracy organisation. The group I was referring to is Piratbyrån, Sweden's largest pro-piracy organisation.
There was an article in a Swedish newspaper some weeks ago. It was about a true garage band, they didn't have a record contract, hadn't advertised very much and so on. Yet when they went out on tour, people in Milano, Italy were waiting for them at the airport. How did they achive this fame? They released their music on the internet, and soon it became very popular, spreading all over the world. Good music sells, because if someone likes an album, he/she will tell his/her friends about it. Those friends will tell their friends about the album, and it will spread. Now, imagine what this can do with the internet. Imagine if an album was "slashdotted". If a very popular website (more than 100,000 unique visitors/day) posted something about an album, and recommended it. That's practically free advertising for the album! The point is, good music sells, shit does not. Will this only benefit the mainstream artists, the ones which sell lots of records? No. Because of the very low costs of distribution over the internet, a small band without a contract can make their music available for millions of people at almost no cost! That was what the band in the story in the beginning of this comment did.
The director signed a contract, and the middlemen get the most of the cake. Does that mean middlemen are required? Does it mean the directors want to get 3 cents per sold DVD, maybe 50 cents per sold theater ticket? Does it mean that the directors like the middlemen, who take most of the money? No, it does not. Middlemen are not required. Most of them aren't. But the movie industry has not yet realized the opportunities of the internet. Most middlemen can be cut off with distribution over the internet, but so far, it has not been done, because noone dares the risk.
And, by the same logic as your fucked up reasoning: Why should we explore space? Obviously we are happy with earth, because we don't live anywhere else, and why should we, noone wants to move anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
You fire people who waste their time doing nothing, yet you read slashdot? The irony.
Actually, I've been trying to teach various people (ages 45-53) not to double-click on hyperlinks in their browser. I don't know why, but seing someone double-click on a link disturbs me.
Wait, you're saying A and E are different options?
Filter it? Why do we have to teach people to filter spam? What do you care if I filter spam or not? Why does it make me stupid to tolerate the spam I receive?
If Joe Sixpack sees an ad for cheap Viagra, he is quite likely to buy it, encouraging the spammer to keep spamming.
I agree, spam is never going to end - but we can try to reduce its effects.
Your sig fits very, very well with the comment :)
People are stupid. They get 50 spam mails, say "Well, that's not good, but what can I do about it?." It's the same problem Linux (or any Firefok, or Thunderbird or whatever) has: people accept the state, because they do not know about any alternatives. "Oh look, Windows crashed again," someone says, and maybe continues: "I wish there were some better o/s."
What we have to do is to educate people, teach them not to click "yes" to everything they see, and to filter as much spam as possible. When spammers (and phisers) stop getting money, maybe they will stop. Probably won't happen, but we can always dream.
The problem with filtering of spam is false positives. You can filter spam, but what if you also filter important messages? That's why I have set thunderbird to delete nothing, only move it to the junk folder.
How long before this starts to take over peoples' computers and do evil stuff, such as spamming and such?
Can this be a disguise for a new zombie technology?
Proper M$ speak would be "infringed on our intellectual property and will therefore be sued to a bloody pulp for attempting to steal users of our superior product."
Indentation, not whitespace.
It is there to make code easy to read. Not just one mess of calls. You can't obfuscate Python very much, and that is good.
And who the fuck programs in an environment that does not support preserving of indentation?
My brain.
Sir, Linux is a commercial platform. It just happens to be free software.
That's where clever marketing and FUD enter the picture.
I for one, welcome our new nanobot overlords.
In Soviet Russia, you stay inside nanobot!
1) Create nanobots cabable of staying inside people
2) ?????
3) Profit!
All your nanobots are belong to us!
"such as DNA replication"
Genetic pr0n? Sure tells us a lot about the minds of scientists.
Remmember, tell the same lame joke twice for extra lameness!
*Cough*Windows*Cough*
Hey, the Dune novels called. They want their word back.
Argh, one slash too much. http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/0b03f1cd74ffa8734 e4dd63a452912b2/index.html
Stupid slashcode.
I think they made money from live performances, and selling t-shirts and other stuff.
Does he have a paypal account?
Atually, someone suggested this solution, as a test. he proposed that the director put a movie on a BitTorrent tracker, with a link to a paypal account and check how much he got.
But the idea is unrealistic. Noone wants to risk that noone pays for the movie.
The appearantly fake raid on Bahnhof was done by Antipiratbyrån, the Swedish anti-piracy organisation.
The group I was referring to is Piratbyrån, Sweden's largest pro-piracy organisation.
Here you go: http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/0b03f1cd74ffa8734 e4dd63a452912b2/index.html/
There was an article in a Swedish newspaper some weeks ago. It was about a true garage band, they didn't have a record contract, hadn't advertised very much and so on. Yet when they went out on tour, people in Milano, Italy were waiting for them at the airport.
How did they achive this fame? They released their music on the internet, and soon it became very popular, spreading all over the world.
Good music sells, because if someone likes an album, he/she will tell his/her friends about it. Those friends will tell their friends about the album, and it will spread.
Now, imagine what this can do with the internet. Imagine if an album was "slashdotted". If a very popular website (more than 100,000 unique visitors/day) posted something about an album, and recommended it. That's practically free advertising for the album!
The point is, good music sells, shit does not.
Will this only benefit the mainstream artists, the ones which sell lots of records? No. Because of the very low costs of distribution over the internet, a small band without a contract can make their music available for millions of people at almost no cost! That was what the band in the story in the beginning of this comment did.
But people download music, doesn't that mean the prices are too high, that the customers are not willing to pay $20 for an album?
The director signed a contract, and the middlemen get the most of the cake.
Does that mean middlemen are required? Does it mean the directors want to get 3 cents per sold DVD, maybe 50 cents per sold theater ticket? Does it mean that the directors like the middlemen, who take most of the money?
No, it does not.
Middlemen are not required. Most of them aren't. But the movie industry has not yet realized the opportunities of the internet.
Most middlemen can be cut off with distribution over the internet, but so far, it has not been done, because noone dares the risk.
And, by the same logic as your fucked up reasoning:
Why should we explore space? Obviously we are happy with earth, because we don't live anywhere else, and why should we, noone wants to move anyway.