It is no secret that Dell does not sell cutting/bleeding edge technologies. They like to wait for other companies to spend money on the R&D, and marketing for stuff. Once the technology matures and there is a demand then they jump into the market.
Does this sound a bit familiar? (cough, microsoft, cough)
I am a college admin and I understand both sides to this issue. I have taken the stance that I only implement policies set by administration.
IMHO my job is to point out the options (with risks, costs, etc) and let the people in charge decide. I do not want to be part of an IT dept that is always seen as saying No.
In a perfect world everyone would be able to do whatever they want. Guess what? The world ain't perfect but we can keep trying.
Google has had the Google appliance for years now. These things save tons of bandwidth by hosting the entire Internet locally.:-)
I couldn't resist. A friend of mine worked at a place that was looking into the Google appliance.The PHB was totally disinterested after learning that the device wasn't for caching the Internet.
Thanks from the spammer geeks that read/. that may not have stumbled across that directory.
Thanks from the students who are probably now going to get a new surge of spam.
My employer has a similar type of diretory. I made my point that it was too easy for spammers to collect email addresses. Of course no one believed me. Now everyone one at my work complains about spam. The upper admins want a "silver bullet" spam solution and it takes forever for things to get evaluated and approved.
Unlimited space might take a while. The more abundant space becomes the more we can turn up the quality of digitizing audio, video, etc.
* Regarding search-based system *
I was first exposed to a search/tag-based filing system by Opera's M2 mail client. It wasn't until Gmail and del.icio.us that I realized the advantages of search/tag-based filing systems. It finally hit me like a brick and I felt I had to tell all of my friends and get them on board.
Now however, the more I think about it the more I start to think this won't be the panacea it looks like at first. Think about having ALL of your files in ONE folder in a few years. When I say ALL, I mean emails, documents, music, video, data files, etc. What happens when you need to manually find something because for whatever reason searching won't do the job?
Imagine looking through tens of thousands of files with counter-intuitive names (file001.jpg, readme-542.txt, etc). Imagine how slow the "old" tools (dir, explorer, ls, etc) will work with those tens of thousands of files in one folder. Frustration will set in very very quickly.
I am still a proponent of the search/tag-based approach but I think it will need to be incorporated into the hierarchical system currently in use.
Existing laws should be applicable. Lets see spam at a minimum usually involves
* forgery with the intention to deceive. * theft of service * trespassing
Reshape the existing laws to include new technologies.
While we are at it, go after the end benificiary of spam. The ones selling a product or service. I know some will say that it is too easy to set someone up. Is it? In the U.S. one is presumed innocent unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Hmm... we should be able to spot a setup.
Heck why laws at all? Most times the parties involved cross multiple boundries/jurisdictions. Laws, in the long run, are not the way to go. The technology needs fixing
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hmm I thought the google/ig boxes were draggable .. .works for me in IE, FF, and Opera.
Can MS prove they really compete with Google? ;-)
You are new here.
... yes, skipping commercials if you want choose.
Time-shifting, season passes, pausing live TV, AND
XP Pro for $85? Is that an "upgrade" or full version price?
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90% of Hotmail IS probably spam. I admin about 3,000 email users and our spam percentage is more like 50%.
Anyone else got stats?
It is no secret that Dell does not sell cutting/bleeding edge technologies. They like to wait for other companies to spend money on the R&D, and marketing for stuff. Once the technology matures and there is a demand then they jump into the market.
Does this sound a bit familiar? (cough, microsoft, cough)
Feeling lucky with Google :-)
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Anything that prevents that sort of knee-jerk idiocy from happening again is okay in my book
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Not downloading more than a gig per day seems like a good start.
Why should a school pay to help out a business? A business that is COSTING the school in it's bandwidth.
I say the college's let the Napster/Dell install the devices for free or a small fee.
This way the colleges AND Napster save bandwidth.
I am a college admin and I understand both sides to this issue. I have taken the stance that I only implement policies set by administration.
IMHO my job is to point out the options (with risks, costs, etc) and let the people in charge decide. I do not want to be part of an IT dept that is always seen as saying No.
In a perfect world everyone would be able to do whatever they want. Guess what? The world ain't perfect but we can keep trying.
Google has had the Google appliance for years now. These things save tons of bandwidth by hosting the entire Internet locally. :-)
I couldn't resist. A friend of mine worked at a place that was looking into the Google appliance.The PHB was totally disinterested after learning that the device wasn't for caching the Internet.
I don't know where you work but in most workplaces executive types (and their assistants) refuse to be bothered by such incoveniences.
If it doesn't work automagically then it is not acceptable to them.
You and I know the realitiies of dealing with the scum of the Internet but it is going to take a while longer for everyone else to catch up.
Aren't you going to be mister popular!?!
/. that may not have stumbled across that directory.
Thanks from the spammer geeks that read
Thanks from the students who are probably now going to get a new surge of spam.
My employer has a similar type of diretory. I made my point that it was too easy for spammers to collect email addresses. Of course no one believed me. Now everyone one at my work complains about spam. The upper admins want a "silver bullet" spam solution and it takes forever for things to get evaluated and approved.
I run a bayesian filter and go about my business.
Now we got derailed from calculus to statistics. :-)
Unlimited space might take a while. The more abundant space becomes the more we can turn up the quality of digitizing audio, video, etc.
* Regarding search-based system *
I was first exposed to a search/tag-based filing system by Opera's M2 mail client. It wasn't until Gmail and del.icio.us that I realized the advantages of search/tag-based filing systems. It finally hit me like a brick and I felt I had to tell all of my friends and get them on board.
Now however, the more I think about it the more I start to think this won't be the panacea it looks like at first. Think about having ALL of your files in ONE folder in a few years. When I say ALL, I mean emails, documents, music, video, data files, etc. What happens when you need to manually find something because for whatever reason searching won't do the job?
Imagine looking through tens of thousands of files with counter-intuitive names (file001.jpg, readme-542.txt, etc). Imagine how slow the "old" tools (dir, explorer, ls, etc) will work with those tens of thousands of files in one folder. Frustration will set in very very quickly.
I am still a proponent of the search/tag-based approach but I think it will need to be incorporated into the hierarchical system currently in use.
and what do I really know.
Are you saying he is listed as a sex offender becuase he got arrested? I would think he would have to be convicted.
Maybe /. should cover this guys hosting bill this month?
Existing laws should be applicable. Lets see spam at a minimum usually involves
* forgery with the intention to deceive.
* theft of service
* trespassing
Reshape the existing laws to include new technologies.
While we are at it, go after the end benificiary of spam. The ones selling a product or service. I know some will say that it is too easy to set someone up. Is it? In the U.S. one is presumed innocent unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Hmm... we should be able to spot a setup.
Heck why laws at all? Most times the parties involved cross multiple boundries/jurisdictions. Laws, in the long run, are not the way to go. The technology needs fixing
Quick somebody make a Trillian for social networks! Google may come knocking.
rust me it will be adapted for WiFi. These things have a way of working themselves out. ;-)
It is like when cell phones went digital. The providers swear everything will be better and I swear it sounds worse.
I think the REAL motivation was to get more cell users on a cell.
So if I leave my door open and someone steals "a film, software program or music" then is it the same?
Too funny. I read the first page of the article using Firefox. None of the subsequent page links work. IE works fine.
I guess I will miss it.
Those should standard guidelines for dealing with scripted tech support staff.