The above is very odd. I have to hit the 'Preview' button 10x just to get it to appear correctly, then it STILL chops it! I'm not using special characters or anything. Ideas?
Sorry for posting this twice, for whatever reasons, Slashdot seems to be repeatedly cutting my response short.:/
What is spam? Who will decide what is and what isn't?
I think that trying to decide whether or not a piece of email is spam is like having an elephant walk into your room, and you say "Is this *really* an elephant?" It's pretty OBVIOUS what constitutes spam.
As far as spam being wasteful, someone already pointed out how much of an extra load it is on large/popular mail servers, or domains with a smaller bandwidth. Are there any estimates on how much email being sent is unecessary spam? I would have to guess it as being *at least* half the messages out there, if not more (simply because a spammer can fire off 100-200K of messages in a day). This is unecessary, and is a big contribution to the congestion out there. It is good in the sense that it forces networks to be upgraded to handle the load, but it would be nice to see this balance out so that eventually most networks are big, inexpensive, and spam-free.
ALL spam is a waste. Real-life spam uses up unecessary amounts of papeand ink, and usually ends up cluttering landfills, since the good majority don't recycle. Wrong to have the government step in? How can we NOT have them step in? This isn't "freedom," this is abuse.
What is spam? Who will decide what is and what isn't?
I think that trying to decide whether or not a piece of email is spam is like having an elephant walk into your room, and you say "Is this *really* an elephant?" It's pretty OBVIOUS what constitutes spam.
As far as spam being wasteful, someone already pointed out how much of an extra load it is on large/popular mail servers, or domains with a smaller bandwidth. Are there any estimates on how much email being sent is unecessary spam? I would have to guess it as bei
I learned on Slackware. I still think it has one of the easier install interfaces, especially against things like dselect. I don't think I would have learned as much about compiling my own stuff if I had started on another distribution. It had and still has problems, but what distro doesn't? Here's to the distribution that also has the coolest name ever.
The t-shirt says GNU/Linux on the back! That's just a little too politically correct for me. Nothing against the people who feel they have to call it GNU/Linux, I just feel that's a little excessive. The hats are cool though:)
I'm just excited to see that they're porting CorelDRAW. Plus I'm glad they're basing it on Debian. How much different will that make it from the official distribution of Debian though? Or is that really a question that anyone can answer?
But I'm actually really busy finishing school and working to support my family. I was fully expecting to have to write the driver myself, pinhead, but that's going to take time. Secondly, my comment was just that the general attitude of higher-ups tends to be "Geez, buy some *decent* hardware." Hmm, buy hardware that works under Linux and Windows, or feed my family/pay rent. Hmm...
I've been noticing lately that a lot of the higher-ups in the Linux crowd seem to be snubbing some types of hardware, as in,"Aww, that's shitty, you don't want that under Linux," when it should/used to be "We don't care *what* your hardware is, we'll get it to work under Linux, and work WELL!" Case in point: I have a Microtek parallel scanner, for which there is no support under Linux. If you go to the Microtek section of the SANE homepage, you'll see that the developers actually *laugh* about the fact that their drivers will never support parallel port scanners. Now I know a SCSI scanner is better, and I would've gone with SCSI if I did a reasonable amount of scanning, and it wasn't that much more of an investment to get a card. (Don't reply to this saying "you can get a cheap card at a flea market" or some crap, I know what a bitch it can be getting those types of cards working *at all.*) So how about it? Am I/are we wrong to assume the Linux community should support all types of hardware, regardless of how crappy it is? Generally, the people using it are aware of how bad it is. But most of us are left with no other choice.
Slackware was the first distribution I ever attempted to install, and it wasn't easy, but I did it. After using it for a year, and listening to various people rattle their 'my distribution is the best' sabre, I thought I'd expand my horizons.
So far, I've tried SuSE, Debian, and Red Hat. I tried each version for about 2 weeks (that's roughly 3-4 hours per day of use) and I found that *none* of them are as configurable as slackware. Sure slackware takes a bit of upgrading when you get it. In the long run though, it does *exactly* what I want it to do.
I don't post much, but I just thought I'd say I appreciate your hard work, Rob. This is the only site I hit on a (many-times-during) daily basis. Thank-you for Slashdot. We'll be patient.
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...when you can walk in the virtual front door?
...since that's where this species hails from.
The northernmost point in California is several hundred miles further north than the southernmost point in Canada.
polar bears keep on eating residents
More people get eaten/mauled by pitbulls in a year in the states than have been attacked/killed by polar bears in the last century.
They have a stupid sport
WWF. What more can I say?
they enter their own players into the olympics! How snotty is that?
Can we say "Dream Team"?
they won't even allow themselves to be admitted as the 51st state! They would rather stay a wholly own subsidary of the state of New York!
You tried to invade us once; we sent ya packin'. Don't make us set the White House on fire again.
'nuff said.
She knows what she's doing, I'm there everyday. Good quality stuff. I wonder if she talks to any of the people she spoofs. :)
The above is very odd. I have to hit the 'Preview' button 10x just to get it to appear correctly, then it STILL chops it! I'm not using special characters or anything. Ideas?
Sorry for posting this twice, for whatever reasons, Slashdot seems to be repeatedly cutting my response short. :/
What is spam? Who will decide what is and what isn't?
I think that trying to decide whether or not a piece of email is spam is like having an elephant walk into your room, and you say "Is this *really* an elephant?" It's pretty OBVIOUS what constitutes spam.
As far as spam being wasteful, someone already pointed out how much of an extra load it is on large/popular mail servers, or domains with a smaller bandwidth. Are there any estimates on how much email being sent is unecessary spam? I would have to guess it as being *at least* half the messages out there, if not more (simply because a spammer can fire off 100-200K of messages in a day). This is unecessary, and is a big contribution to the congestion out there. It is good in the sense that it forces networks to be upgraded to handle the load, but it would be nice to see this balance out so that eventually most networks are big, inexpensive, and spam-free.
ALL spam is a waste. Real-life spam uses up unecessary amounts of papeand ink, and usually ends up cluttering landfills, since the good majority don't recycle. Wrong to have the government step in? How can we NOT have them step in? This isn't "freedom," this is abuse.
What is spam? Who will decide what is and what isn't?
I think that trying to decide whether or not a piece of email is spam is like having an elephant walk into your room, and you say "Is this *really* an elephant?" It's pretty OBVIOUS what constitutes spam.
As far as spam being wasteful, someone already pointed out how much of an extra load it is on large/popular mail servers, or domains with a smaller bandwidth. Are there any estimates on how much email being sent is unecessary spam? I would have to guess it as bei
Hey Jon, what's up? Anyone have any ideas on this? Let us know, that was my favourite stuff to read.
I learned on Slackware. I still think it has one of the easier install interfaces, especially against things like dselect. I don't think I would have learned as much about compiling my own stuff if I had started on another distribution. It had and still has problems, but what distro doesn't? Here's to the distribution that also has the coolest name ever.
The t-shirt says GNU/Linux on the back! That's just a little too politically correct for me. Nothing against the people who feel they have to call it GNU/Linux, I just feel that's a little excessive. The hats are cool though :)
I'm just excited to see that they're porting CorelDRAW. Plus I'm glad they're basing it on Debian. How much different will that make it from the official distribution of Debian though? Or is that really a question that anyone can answer?
AfterStep, Gnome, KDE, Enlightenment, and WindowMaker? I think that might be what he's talking about.
But I'm actually really busy finishing school and working to support my family. I was fully expecting to have to write the driver myself, pinhead, but that's going to take time. Secondly, my comment was just that the general attitude of higher-ups tends to be "Geez, buy some *decent* hardware." Hmm, buy hardware that works under Linux and Windows, or feed my family/pay rent. Hmm...
I've been noticing lately that a lot of the higher-ups in the Linux crowd seem to be snubbing some types of hardware, as in,"Aww, that's shitty, you don't want that under Linux," when it should/used to be "We don't care *what* your hardware is, we'll get it to work under Linux, and work WELL!" Case in point: I have a Microtek parallel scanner, for which there is no support under Linux. If you go to the Microtek section of the SANE homepage, you'll see that the developers actually *laugh* about the fact that their drivers will never support parallel port scanners. Now I know a SCSI scanner is better, and I would've gone with SCSI if I did a reasonable amount of scanning, and it wasn't that much more of an investment to get a card. (Don't reply to this saying "you can get a cheap card at a flea market" or some crap, I know what a bitch it can be getting those types of cards working *at all.*) So how about it? Am I/are we wrong to assume the Linux community should support all types of hardware, regardless of how crappy it is? Generally, the people using it are aware of how bad it is. But most of us are left with no other choice.
Slackware was the first distribution I ever attempted to install, and it wasn't easy, but I did it. After using it for a year, and listening to various people rattle their 'my distribution is the best' sabre, I thought I'd expand my horizons.
So far, I've tried SuSE, Debian, and Red Hat. I tried each version for about 2 weeks (that's roughly 3-4 hours per day of use) and I found that *none* of them are as configurable as slackware. Sure slackware takes a bit of upgrading when you get it. In the long run though, it does *exactly* what I want it to do.
Slackware forever.
I don't post much, but I just thought I'd say I appreciate your hard work, Rob. This is the only site I hit on a (many-times-during) daily basis. Thank-you for Slashdot. We'll be patient.
...to run 'shutdown -h now'
What would be the best O'Reilly book to get, to narrow it down a bit?