Trouble is...they way things stand as I understand it...even if you play ONLY indie, free music, you are still subject to SoundExchanges fees.
You can dodge the SoundExchange bullet by arranging legal royalty waivers with the copyright holders of the content being played. Not having all the correct waivers would get you into trouble of course.
A good way to complement spam source filtering thru greylisting is to block home/dynamic IPs, ranges where mail servers arent supposed to be, but where are the majority of personal pcs (that gets owned by botnets). Spamhaus PBL i.e. have this particular target (or zen that combines this one with other known sources of spam)
Please don't. There is no reason that mail servers shouldn't exist on home/dynamic IP addresses. This is one area where I'm actually happy with my AT&T DSL service - they block outbound port 25 connections by default, but allow you to opt out of the blocking if you want to run your own mail server.
I disagree. If you want to run an outbound MTA, get a static IP and some reverse DNS. While not having those two things doesn't prove you incompetent, having them indicates that you may have a clue as to what you are doing.
With the unfathomable amount of zombie machines on dynamic consumer IP ranges, there is no reason for me to absorb the spam just to allow you to be cheap and lazy. If you can't be bothered to show some signs of being clueful, why should anyone be bothered to accept your email?
If you can't bring yourself to get a static IP with non-generic rDNS, you can always use a smarthost. Barring those two sensible options, I suspect most postmasters would view not delivering your MTA's emails as lossless compression.
Why don't all mail readers which display html simply do what Slashdot does - show the real site linked to in brackets next to whatever text is in the link, like "cnn.com [http://somewhere.de]" - perhaps with highlighting when both look like urls, but they don't match? That would kill so many phishing attempts.
I can't think of any valid reason for HTML email to exist in the first place.
And what threat to his well-being did they pose while running away from him?
These people were habitual criminals and needed removed, the courts wouldn't do it, so Tony did.
The perps had burgled him previously. To say that their departure from their second burglary attempt makes the situation "okay" is disingenuous. The only shame is that Brendan Fearon survived and Tony Martin was convicted for a crime he did not commit.
Sorry, Britain, your laws defy reality, and you will continue to pay the price until your citizens get the situation fixed and restore your God given rights. Until that time, enjoy your nanny state.
Like let's say a new movie like "Sex and the City" is out, and you're half interested for whatever reason, but you would never pay $9 for a ticket to see it. Obviously, nobody sees that movie for the graphics, right?
That depends on *how* graphic. I'd pay for the NC-17 version.
I find Industrial, EBM, and other staples in my listening tastes are unrepresented, but I don't consider those "major" genres.
*Station playlists that would become predictable within a week.
Sometimes this is true, but for me there are other good Sirius stations to listen to for a while, and by the time I make it back to a station that got too predictable, they have usually updated the playlist.
*Sub-genres within all genres utterly unrepresented in general (for example, one Metal station on all of Sirius, and it only plays death metal).
I agree with the initial statement, but I find your example inaccurate. My statement about Industrial & EBM can be expanded to include Cyberpunk, Darkwave, etc, all of which I would consider subgenres of electronic.
Hard Attack, Hair Nation, Octane, and Buzzsaw all play various niches of Metal. Buzzsaw mixes the metal with hard rock, and Hair Nation is old pop metal. Octane is pretty much nothing but Nu-Metal. (I hate that term, but some the bands in that category are pretty good.) Hard Attack is the station the you mistakenly think plays nothing but Death Metal. Hard Attack is certainly the hardest metal station on Sirius, but to call their playlist "all death metal" is extremely inaccurate.
*A whole slew of stations essentially devoted to playing the exact same stuff that you hear on standard Top 40 radio.
I can't offer comment on that since I don't listen to Top 40 terrestrial radio, or the satellite counterpart stations.
*Commercials, despite being advertised as commercial-free.
That depends on what stations you are talking about. The Sirius music channels are indeed commercial free. They advertise commercial free music, not that all channels are commercial free. I don't consider DJs announcing what's happening on other Sirius stations as commercials, anymore than I would consider concert announcements to be commercials.
*Annoying DJs (the receivers display the name/artist playing, you do NOT need DJs trying to be funny between every song).
Some people listen to the radio while doing things other than stare at the radio's display. Not having to run over to the display to get the name of a new band or song you just heard is not a bad thing.
There is some total wanker on Faction who is an absolute dickweed with an annoying British accent and nothing but lame, boastful, egotistical commentary that actually prevents me from tuning that station in, because he annoys me so much. Otherwise, they have a remarkable collection of unrivaled on air talent. One of the things I like about Sirius is the quality DJs. They make Sirius a satellite radio provider, whereas XM is simply a satellite feed of someone's MP3s grouped by genre, and played on eternal shuffle. While that aspect of XM sometimes has appeal, it isn't radio to me.
*Oh, and a monthly fee on top of that.
Frankly, satellite radio was created 10 years too late. Why should I put up with satellite radio when I can use my mp3 player?
Because sometimes it is nice to let someone else be the DJ.
Of course, since Satellite radio is a premium service, no one is forcing you you to put up with anything. Even though it has a wider variety of better programming, and better broadcast coverage than terrestrial radio, you don't have to subscribe.
This is supposedly "News for nerds" and yet somehow a post about the principal actor in TFA (who is indeed an asshole) and his crusade against caffeinated alcohol beverages is moderated as off topic?
Surrender your geek card and all your caffeinated and alcoholic beverages immediately, oh yon delusional moderator!
From a technical standpoint, I have absolutely no problem with an ISP dropping access to USENET. It's an old protocol that has outlived its usefulness. No one expects their ISP to carry access to UUCP anymore, this is no different.
It's plenty different. I'll take good old NNTP and a newsreader over having to scour the web for a myriad of fractured forums with their own account requirements and eye-candy bloat, annoying advertising, privacy implications, possible scripting vulnerabilities, and so on.
...if you didn't send it back with the box checked saying you didn't want their selection of the month, you would receive a CD and a $20 charge for it.
You were always able to return the CD at their expense and avoid the charge.
Writing refused on the package and dropping it back in the mail was enough to get it returned.
I remember the record club changing my terms to only ship what I ordered, when I ordered. Perhaps they tired of the monthly returned "feature selection".
Of note, club copies often pay out only 50% royalties to the artist.
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Trouble is...they way things stand as I understand it...even if you play ONLY indie, free music, you are still subject to SoundExchanges fees.
You can dodge the SoundExchange bullet by arranging legal royalty waivers with the copyright holders of the content being played. Not having all the correct waivers would get you into trouble of course.
Seriously, Blue Ice?
A good way to complement spam source filtering thru greylisting is to block home/dynamic IPs, ranges where mail servers arent supposed to be, but where are the majority of personal pcs (that gets owned by botnets). Spamhaus PBL i.e. have this particular target (or zen that combines this one with other known sources of spam)
Please don't. There is no reason that mail servers shouldn't exist on home/dynamic IP addresses. This is one area where I'm actually happy with my AT&T DSL service - they block outbound port 25 connections by default, but allow you to opt out of the blocking if you want to run your own mail server.
I disagree. If you want to run an outbound MTA, get a static IP and some reverse DNS. While not having those two things doesn't prove you incompetent, having them indicates that you may have a clue as to what you are doing.
With the unfathomable amount of zombie machines on dynamic consumer IP ranges, there is no reason for me to absorb the spam just to allow you to be cheap and lazy. If you can't be bothered to show some signs of being clueful, why should anyone be bothered to accept your email?
If you can't bring yourself to get a static IP with non-generic rDNS, you can always use a smarthost. Barring those two sensible options, I suspect most postmasters would view not delivering your MTA's emails as lossless compression.
We could have seen a GTA clone on the Linux front by now, but we don't
Or do we?
Why don't all mail readers which display html simply do what Slashdot does - show the real site linked to in brackets next to whatever text is in the link, like "cnn.com [http://somewhere.de]" - perhaps with highlighting when both look like urls, but they don't match? That would kill so many phishing attempts.
I can't think of any valid reason for HTML email to exist in the first place.
Adobe after all has Flash for both Mac and Windows PCs.
Adobe has Flash for Linux PCs too.
Linux on a PPC would be immune, since Adobe has no Flash for Linux on PPC.
Now I'm sure that no Slashdot reader will intentionally watch any "sport" that has judges determine the winner
Referees and umpires aren't judges?
Of course you will repeal the 2nd Amendment only after I have fought you to my last breath and last dollar.
...and last round of ammunition.
"How hard is it to run a kosher bidding process?"
You haven't ever tried to find a rabbi on an Indian Reservation, have you?
In some places, it is legal to shoot trespassers.
God bless Texas!
I argue that he was acting in self defense.
And what threat to his well-being did they pose while running away from him?
These people were habitual criminals and needed removed, the courts wouldn't do it, so Tony did.
The perps had burgled him previously. To say that their departure from their second burglary attempt makes the situation "okay" is disingenuous. The only shame is that Brendan Fearon survived and Tony Martin was convicted for a crime he did not commit.
Sorry, Britain, your laws defy reality, and you will continue to pay the price until your citizens get the situation fixed and restore your God given rights. Until that time, enjoy your nanny state.
Like let's say a new movie like "Sex and the City" is out, and you're half interested for whatever reason, but you would never pay $9 for a ticket to see it. Obviously, nobody sees that movie for the graphics, right?
That depends on *how* graphic. I'd pay for the NC-17 version.
But does it run Linux?
I'm 25 years old
Damn kids! Get off my lawn!
*Major genres unrepresented.
I find Industrial, EBM, and other staples in my listening tastes are unrepresented, but I don't consider those "major" genres.
*Station playlists that would become predictable within a week.
Sometimes this is true, but for me there are other good Sirius stations to listen to for a while, and by the time I make it back to a station that got too predictable, they have usually updated the playlist.
*Sub-genres within all genres utterly unrepresented in general (for example, one Metal station on all of Sirius, and it only plays death metal).
I agree with the initial statement, but I find your example inaccurate. My statement about Industrial & EBM can be expanded to include Cyberpunk, Darkwave, etc, all of which I would consider subgenres of electronic.
Hard Attack, Hair Nation, Octane, and Buzzsaw all play various niches of Metal. Buzzsaw mixes the metal with hard rock, and Hair Nation is old pop metal. Octane is pretty much nothing but Nu-Metal. (I hate that term, but some the bands in that category are pretty good.) Hard Attack is the station the you mistakenly think plays nothing but Death Metal. Hard Attack is certainly the hardest metal station on Sirius, but to call their playlist "all death metal" is extremely inaccurate.
*A whole slew of stations essentially devoted to playing the exact same stuff that you hear on standard Top 40 radio.
I can't offer comment on that since I don't listen to Top 40 terrestrial radio, or the satellite counterpart stations.
*Commercials, despite being advertised as commercial-free.
That depends on what stations you are talking about. The Sirius music channels are indeed commercial free. They advertise commercial free music, not that all channels are commercial free. I don't consider DJs announcing what's happening on other Sirius stations as commercials, anymore than I would consider concert announcements to be commercials.
*Annoying DJs (the receivers display the name/artist playing, you do NOT need DJs trying to be funny between every song).
Some people listen to the radio while doing things other than stare at the radio's display. Not having to run over to the display to get the name of a new band or song you just heard is not a bad thing.
There is some total wanker on Faction who is an absolute dickweed with an annoying British accent and nothing but lame, boastful, egotistical commentary that actually prevents me from tuning that station in, because he annoys me so much. Otherwise, they have a remarkable collection of unrivaled on air talent. One of the things I like about Sirius is the quality DJs. They make Sirius a satellite radio provider, whereas XM is simply a satellite feed of someone's MP3s grouped by genre, and played on eternal shuffle. While that aspect of XM sometimes has appeal, it isn't radio to me.
*Oh, and a monthly fee on top of that.
Frankly, satellite radio was created 10 years too late. Why should I put up with satellite radio when I can use my mp3 player?
Because sometimes it is nice to let someone else be the DJ.
Of course, since Satellite radio is a premium service, no one is forcing you you to put up with anything. Even though it has a wider variety of better programming, and better broadcast coverage than terrestrial radio, you don't have to subscribe.
I think that very simply worded new legislation is required...
"Opt Out" is the new default for any new program, feature, change of any kind for any kind of product or service provider.
Any new programs or offerings will default the individuals to opt-out status
That is actually opt-in. Opt-out means that you are on the the list (in the program, etc) unless you opt-out.
Spam is opt-out. Opt-out is theft.
This is supposedly "News for nerds" and yet somehow a post about the principal actor in TFA (who is indeed an asshole) and his crusade against caffeinated alcohol beverages is moderated as off topic?
Surrender your geek card and all your caffeinated and alcoholic beverages immediately, oh yon delusional moderator!
... that both Obama and McCain support this measure. Is this a reflection of middle America's concerns?
McCain abstained.
From a technical standpoint, I have absolutely no problem with an ISP dropping access to USENET. It's an old protocol that has outlived its usefulness. No one expects their ISP to carry access to UUCP anymore, this is no different.
It's plenty different. I'll take good old NNTP and a newsreader over having to scour the web for a myriad of fractured forums with their own account requirements and eye-candy bloat, annoying advertising, privacy implications, possible scripting vulnerabilities, and so on.
We need more NNTP and less Web 2.0
Plain text: the wave of the future!
Still, Cuomo's an asshole.
Why yes indeed, he is. Unless, of course, you actually welcome caffeinated alcoholic beverage prohibiting overlords.
I guess the Gestapo taught them nothing.
Funny, it sounds to me like the Gestapo taught them everything!
and no gigabit ethernet?
If you can afford a gigabit internet connection, then you can certainly afford better than a consumer grade WAP.
Erie ftw!
Ah, yes, the mistake on the lake!
Pittsburgh is cool. Luke Ravenstahl is a tool. Don't forget it.
...if you didn't send it back with the box checked saying you didn't want their selection of the month, you would receive a CD and a $20 charge for it.You were always able to return the CD at their expense and avoid the charge.
Writing refused on the package and dropping it back in the mail was enough to get it returned.
I remember the record club changing my terms to only ship what I ordered, when I ordered. Perhaps they tired of the monthly returned "feature selection".
Of note, club copies often pay out only 50% royalties to the artist.
Many, possibly most, promotional copies already contain wording to the effect that the copy must be returned to the label at their request.
It doesn't seem to have helped their case.