On the contrary, I see this specific case as good news. I run the AbuseDesk of the ISP I work for, and see how weak the fight against spam is without good legislation.
Congressmen don't care about E-Mail, they don't even read theirs. Of course they won't care about spam.
However...
What is one thing that every congressman owns? Yes, a cell phone.
If the see how abusive the spamming can be, perhaps this will help them pass legislation concerning all E-mail spam, and in a SENSIBLE manner. Yes, I'm probably too optomistic, but I see it as a worthwhile shot that this can get the ball rolling faster.
Something else to complain about: He blew off the one question that i really wanted to see answered: How to get more involved. Reading isn't being involved (although helps)... is he being exclusionary? Screw that...
How Technology Can Enslave Us
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I was hoping to see more notes from Steve Talbott's speech, all it says is this:
'How Technology Can Enslave Us' - Steve Talbott, NetFutures (who provided a pleasant rendition of the 'technology is almost always bad' argument, but it was a little bit over-blown, and contained little that was new)
.. under the Other Invited Speakers Section. Can anyone that was there enlighten me?
Hey, guess what: No matter WHAT happens, you, the RIAA, and big music corporations LOSE. The grim reality of it all is that you can't stop the movement of freely-available information. If you can't beat em, join em. Fine, close napster. But as you said, it's not a solution. Don't treat the effect, treat the cause.
No matter how deep you dig, there's always an underground level that's even deeper.
IRC. Open Source. FTP FreeNet httpd need i continue?
We win. It's already over. I'd love napster to win because its a useful tool (I don't care about man-made laws that protect those who can't get with the times), but all in all, I don't care either way. I'm still going to be able to download whatever I want, whenever I want. I'm going to go out for my victory lap now.
Unfortunately, with names like "Ogg Vorbis And Xiphophorus", this isn't going anywhere. Sad, isn't it? Not only that, but there's been other very valid arguments of the stronghold of mp3 as well.
Oh, oops, i am also willing to admit my mistakes. In that last comment, I meant to say "there are hundreds of other guys reading this that feel the same as i do...."
utterly pathetic (i'm anti-religious, but for their general idea, that's besides my point): Virgin Mary would flip in her grave because of breast implants and sellin out that tramp does. They could have gotten someone way better (natalie portman?):)
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10. Hey. Can I take your derivative?
Well, seeing that the derivative makes a polynomial become of less degree, this makes the girl look thinner... as in when you see her in 3-B vision (3 Beer vision)... or X beers depending on how manly you are (like me!)
9. What's your integral?
This makes the girl look bigger, sloppier (+c), and uglier... kinda like when you wake up the next morning with her and she has no make-up on and comes back from college with a freshman 15:)
Ok, 1/n people will click the link to go the other site. Assuming it's not slashdotted (this is the first problem), then 1/n people at that site will click the slashdot link, and come here! As this goes on for a while and n approaches infinite, the series of the sume from 1 to infinity of (1/n) diverges, going off to infinity. An infinite amount of hits would obviously cause some supreme slashdotting:)
However, the thing is that the other site is going to be slashdotted already, so no one can come back to slashdot, AND the people who go to that site from slashdot probably won't come back to slashdot in such a manner, seeing that they don't need to for the time being, and they won't cause the recursion. Also, the other sites do not cause such web chaos as slashdot does. And we don't have an infinite amount of n's, but we're getting there!
What do you think? And i dunno, what's worse than infinite recursion? Kernel panic?:P
I also heard that there is a place where you can register a star of a foreign solor system as well. Does anyone know about that? One friend of mine (he's back from Israel!) got one for his girlfriend.
Hey SGT PEPPER (fellow clevelander) - Nice to see you get on the front page, nice RFC 2795 link!
and i'm strongly awaiting the millenium force (300 ft high rollercoaster at cedar point)...
You lost me at the 6th paragraph. My recommendation is to write a bit more concisely, I only have so much of an attention span for gobble-de-gook. Let me know if you can make a point in less than 200 words next time.
Have these people ever tried searching for things, or do they just like to have others hand it to him? Go to freshmeat.net. Right at the top is a search. There are tons of streaming mp3 tools, and servers are out there. Search accordingly, find it, use it, read about it. It's not that hard. Ask slashdot should be more complex than THAT
Manic-Depression is obviously a HORRIBLE illness in that such a high percentage of its patients commit suicide and succeed.
It would seem like always-depressed people would commit more suicides, but they don't because they often lack the will or power.
Manic depressants, however, have more of a reason to commit suicide:
First, they know what its like to feel REALLY good, so when they are down, it REALLY sucks.
Second off, when they're coming up or coming down, they have the energy and willpower to actually plan their suicide rather than just feel sorry for themselves.
Third, in their manic states, they might do something like blow off their entire life savings on some crazy risk! When they come back down and realize how crazy they went, they have more of a reason to end their lives.
Fourth, within due time, the gap between the depression and manic parts gets wider and wider. Think of a crazy rollercoaster going up and down. It gets BAD in this case, though.
Fifth, it is harder to treat a manic depressant because when they get better, they don't think they need the medicine, stop taking it, get worse. Repeat cycle.
Sixth, its one of those illnesses that's just tough as nails to treat.
Please add more to the list... and realize how significant of a problem this is. And someone else can take the torch besides the suicide problems, that's what I focused on. There are many bad things with family life and jobs and everything else as well. See ya
Of course i remember you Mikey! Sargent Peppers Lonely Hearts Cafe too:) We had some great times...
Perl programming is BY FAR best in Unix... learning it in windows must suck. I'm going to add a snooze option next, i personally need it! It will play another song (or the same song) 10 minutes after the first alarm, or whatever. See ya!
One way that I see it is that they can't win. You can't stop the free exchange of information in this day and age. It can't happen. No matter how deep you go, there is an underground channel that goes even deeper. We will get what we want. I hope it doesn't have to happen, but personally, I'm not worried either way. We're in control. We can watch their movies anywhere we want.
Hey Sgt! I can easily see some of those huge companies making some troublemakers "disappear".
As far as porting wakeup to win32.. why? Win95/98 have Task Scheduler, just make sure that mp3's are associated to a player, set task scheduler to run an mp3 file in the morning, and it should all go. That's what i did in windows, works fine.
For those who don't know what's going on, wakeup is my easy to use mp3 alarm program so you don't have to use at or cron anymore:) It's at soul.apk.net/wakeup
Back to the subject... in the wake of civil disobedience, many power mongers cannot control themselves and resort to irrational measures. It happened after the Boston Tea Party. It can happen anywhere. Irrationality is everywhere.
The Boston Tea Party (among the other tea parties that get no attention like Boston's) directly led to the deaths of many soon-be Americans. How far is this dispute going to go?
I don't think this will be implemented in any computer anytime soon, seeing what a waste that would be. I was thinking more along the lines of throwing it in a router or other high-speed net equipment that could ship stuff around nets like crazy. No point in throwing it next to your IDE hard drive and PCI bus:)
Also, does the referred page load really crappy for anyone else using mozilla?;)
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That's quite a disgrace, seeing that AIDS is so much more preventable.
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
Congressmen don't care about E-Mail, they don't even read theirs. Of course they won't care about spam.
However...
What is one thing that every congressman owns? Yes, a cell phone.
If the see how abusive the spamming can be, perhaps this will help them pass legislation concerning all E-mail spam, and in a SENSIBLE manner. Yes, I'm probably too optomistic, but I see it as a worthwhile shot that this can get the ball rolling faster.
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
Something else to complain about: He blew off the one question that i really wanted to see answered: How to get more involved. Reading isn't being involved (although helps)... is he being exclusionary? Screw that...
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
'How Technology Can Enslave Us' - Steve Talbott, NetFutures (who provided a pleasant rendition of the 'technology is almost always bad' argument, but it was a little bit over-blown, and contained little that was new)
.. under the Other Invited Speakers Section. Can anyone that was there enlighten me?
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
Don't treat the effect, treat the cause.
No matter how deep you dig, there's always an underground level that's even deeper.
IRC.
Open Source.
FTP
FreeNet
httpd
need i continue?
We win. It's already over. I'd love napster to win because its a useful tool (I don't care about man-made laws that protect those who can't get with the times), but all in all, I don't care either way. I'm still going to be able to download whatever I want, whenever I want. I'm going to go out for my victory lap now.
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
Unfortunately, with names like "Ogg Vorbis And Xiphophorus", this isn't going anywhere. Sad, isn't it? Not only that, but there's been other very valid arguments of the stronghold of mp3 as well.
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
??? Why is it such a big deal that I spoke my mind? I DID post that. I DO agree with my opinions. I'm not afraid to speak up.
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
Oh, oops, i am also willing to admit my mistakes. In that last comment, I meant to say "there are hundreds of other guys reading this that feel the same as i do...."
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
utterly pathetic (i'm anti-religious, but for their general idea, that's besides my point): Virgin Mary would flip in her grave because of breast implants and sellin out that tramp does. They could have gotten someone way better (natalie portman?) :)
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
Well, seeing that the derivative makes a polynomial become of less degree, this makes the girl look thinner... as in when you see her in 3-B vision (3 Beer vision)... or X beers depending on how manly you are (like me!)
9. What's your integral?
This makes the girl look bigger, sloppier (+c), and uglier... kinda like when you wake up the next morning with her and she has no make-up on and comes back from college with a freshman 15 :)
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
Ok, 1/n people will click the link to go the other site. Assuming it's not slashdotted (this is the first problem), then 1/n people at that site will click the slashdot link, and come here! As this goes on for a while and n approaches infinite, the series of the sume from 1 to infinity of (1/n) diverges, going off to infinity. An infinite amount of hits would obviously cause some supreme slashdotting :)
However, the thing is that the other site is going to be slashdotted already, so no one can come back to slashdot, AND the people who go to that site from slashdot probably won't come back to slashdot in such a manner, seeing that they don't need to for the time being, and they won't cause the recursion. Also, the other sites do not cause such web chaos as slashdot does. And we don't have an infinite amount of n's, but we're getting there!
What do you think? And i dunno, what's worse than infinite recursion? Kernel panic? :P
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
Hey SGT PEPPER (fellow clevelander) - Nice to see you get on the front page, nice RFC 2795 link!
and i'm strongly awaiting the millenium force (300 ft high rollercoaster at cedar point)...
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
Thanks for playin....
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
Have these people ever tried searching for things, or do they just like to have others hand it to him? Go to freshmeat.net. Right at the top is a search. There are tons of streaming mp3 tools, and servers are out there. Search accordingly, find it, use it, read about it. It's not that hard. Ask slashdot should be more complex than THAT
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
I hate this weather. I swear, I *WILL NOT* be living here after college (enrolling into OSU Computer Engineering this fall)
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
You couldn't remember your password?! Your slashdot purity must be like 1%! :P
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
It would seem like always-depressed people would commit more suicides, but they don't because they often lack the will or power.
Manic depressants, however, have more of a reason to commit suicide:
First, they know what its like to feel REALLY good, so when they are down, it REALLY sucks.
Second off, when they're coming up or coming down, they have the energy and willpower to actually plan their suicide rather than just feel sorry for themselves.
Third, in their manic states, they might do something like blow off their entire life savings on some crazy risk! When they come back down and realize how crazy they went, they have more of a reason to end their lives.
Fourth, within due time, the gap between the depression and manic parts gets wider and wider. Think of a crazy rollercoaster going up and down. It gets BAD in this case, though.
Fifth, it is harder to treat a manic depressant because when they get better, they don't think they need the medicine, stop taking it, get worse. Repeat cycle.
Sixth, its one of those illnesses that's just tough as nails to treat.
Please add more to the list... and realize how significant of a problem this is. And someone else can take the torch besides the suicide problems, that's what I focused on. There are many bad things with family life and jobs and everything else as well. See ya
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
Perl programming is BY FAR best in Unix... learning it in windows must suck. I'm going to add a snooze option next, i personally need it! It will play another song (or the same song) 10 minutes after the first alarm, or whatever. See ya!
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
Please wait while we save your data...
You cannot enter this contest more than once!
bah. also, i hate how they don't give a suggested retail price.. it's 200 dollars, but 5.5 lbs! Very cool though, and will get better.
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
One way that I see it is that they can't win. You can't stop the free exchange of information in this day and age. It can't happen. No matter how deep you go, there is an underground channel that goes even deeper. We will get what we want. I hope it doesn't have to happen, but personally, I'm not worried either way. We're in control. We can watch their movies anywhere we want.
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
As far as porting wakeup to win32.. why? Win95/98 have Task Scheduler, just make sure that mp3's are associated to a player, set task scheduler to run an mp3 file in the morning, and it should all go. That's what i did in windows, works fine.
For those who don't know what's going on, wakeup is my easy to use mp3 alarm program so you don't have to use at or cron anymore :)
It's at soul.apk.net/wakeup
Back to the subject... in the wake of civil disobedience, many power mongers cannot control themselves and resort to irrational measures. It happened after the Boston Tea Party. It can happen anywhere. Irrationality is everywhere.
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
I'll talk to Emmett if AbiSource releases their next version ever :P
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
The Boston Tea Party (among the other tea parties that get no attention like Boston's) directly led to the deaths of many soon-be Americans. How far is this dispute going to go?
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
Yeah but Win NT sure as hell did!
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
Also, does the referred page load really crappy for anyone else using mozilla? ;)
Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net) - AOL IM: MicroBerto