At first I thought this "Entirely different" comment was in reference to the Exploratorium comment above, and I was going to reply saying "actually, your description sounds like it's pretty much the same technology." Then I saw the collapsed "fingerworks" parent thread.
And now for my terrible joke:
It looks like this technology will require users who are either tall, have long arms, or both. They will have to develop midget widgets for the software.
I think this is just a marketing ploy for the suicide clubs. I assume they face a fairly low member-retention rate, and have to keep up the recruitment.
It's nice to see a society that lets people take their own deaths in their own hands, though. In the U.S., the "Justice" system does it piece by piece for them. Marijuana possession + slippery slope politics = life in prison = death in prison
However, the spy/adware companies are most certainly complicit - they operate in a manner where they encourage and facilitate botnets. To go back to your trollish example, it would be like if Colt were advertising guns as 'man killers' or 'the perfect sniper tool', selling armour piercing bullets, etc etc.
approach to fighting spam ...
(x) Sending email should be free
In theory, if e-mail users don't like it, they can change providers (presumably not from AOL to Yahoo). In theory....
My ISP attached its service to Yahoo's web-based e-mail and homepage service, without my permission. I tolerated it at the time, since Gmail didn't have group lists at the time, which I needed.
Then I discover that Yahoo's service becomes more and more cumbersome with every update in Mozilla (now SeaMonkey), and my ISP replies that I can sit on a tack because they don't support Mozilla-based browsers. (Excuse me? Market-based?)
Just like everything else telecommunications, market theory fails, since it is overridden by long-term contracts and an inability to easily change providers (i.e. keeping cell numbers; having to update e-mail contacts). Heck, if this new scheme keeps legit users from contacting me (who knows whether they'll tighten their spam filters down the road!), I won't even be able to simply forward my e-mail to avoid the annoying UI, since it won't get there in the first place!
Well, it fails for the user. For the korporations, it works plenty fine.
I'll hate to see the e-mail zombie equivalent of the various non-computer owners sued by the RIAA!
If the U.S. military helps to reduce U.S. dependence on "foreign" oil (keep in mind that as much oil comes from up here in Canada than from all mideast countries combined), then there won't be any job for them any more, will there?
Somewhere, there's a general wishing on a star that this whole solar thing will just blow over.
I think you're giving MS too much credit. For it to BSOD on that, they'd have to have either anticipated it, or created a quick patch in response to it.
Frankly, I'm happy that I updated from Mozilla 1.7.12 to SeaMonkey 1.0 100% painlessly.
BTW, suites are good for people like me. I didn't know what an IRC client was, but I decided to install the full mozilla (at the time) suite. When I clicked on an IRC link, it took me to the IRC client and I could start IRCing. If I had to learn about IRC, research available clients, download, install and configure it, just to visit #wikipedia to ask a very simple question, I wouldn't have.
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At first I thought this "Entirely different" comment was in reference to the Exploratorium comment above, and I was going to reply saying "actually, your description sounds like it's pretty much the same technology." Then I saw the collapsed "fingerworks" parent thread.
And now for my terrible joke:
It looks like this technology will require users who are either tall, have long arms, or both. They will have to develop midget widgets for the software.
I think this is just a marketing ploy for the suicide clubs. I assume they face a fairly low member-retention rate, and have to keep up the recruitment.
It's nice to see a society that lets people take their own deaths in their own hands, though. In the U.S., the "Justice" system does it piece by piece for them. Marijuana possession + slippery slope politics = life in prison = death in prison
- RG>
However, the spy/adware companies are most certainly complicit - they operate in a manner where they encourage and facilitate botnets. To go back to your trollish example, it would be like if Colt were advertising guns as 'man killers' or 'the perfect sniper tool', selling armour piercing bullets, etc etc.
...where you get paid for every person you shoot.
Oh, come on...they just stole this idea from the Chinese!
Is the U.S. government going to resort to Communism next?!?
- RG>
Your post advocates a
( ) technical ( ) legislative (x) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam
...
(x) Sending email should be free
In theory, if e-mail users don't like it, they can change providers (presumably not from AOL to Yahoo). In theory....
My ISP attached its service to Yahoo's web-based e-mail and homepage service, without my permission. I tolerated it at the time, since Gmail didn't have group lists at the time, which I needed.
Then I discover that Yahoo's service becomes more and more cumbersome with every update in Mozilla (now SeaMonkey), and my ISP replies that I can sit on a tack because they don't support Mozilla-based browsers. (Excuse me? Market-based?)
Just like everything else telecommunications, market theory fails, since it is overridden by long-term contracts and an inability to easily change providers (i.e. keeping cell numbers; having to update e-mail contacts). Heck, if this new scheme keeps legit users from contacting me (who knows whether they'll tighten their spam filters down the road!), I won't even be able to simply forward my e-mail to avoid the annoying UI, since it won't get there in the first place!
Well, it fails for the user. For the korporations, it works plenty fine. I'll hate to see the e-mail zombie equivalent of the various non-computer owners sued by the RIAA!
Clearly this device is part of a conspiracy to force ambidextrous computer users like me to buy two mice!
In an unnamed leftorium, in an unnamed mall, Ned Flanders is eyeing the market opportunity.
If the U.S. military helps to reduce U.S. dependence on "foreign" oil (keep in mind that as much oil comes from up here in Canada than from all mideast countries combined), then there won't be any job for them any more, will there?
Somewhere, there's a general wishing on a star that this whole solar thing will just blow over.
(Side note: I love the ad for MS VisualStudio 2005 that /. bundled with the article summary for me!)
I'm skeptical that this isn't just another case of those Earn Tounsands each week of dollars from your own home scams.
I think you're giving MS too much credit. For it to BSOD on that, they'd have to have either anticipated it, or created a quick patch in response to it.
Frankly, I'm happy that I updated from Mozilla 1.7.12 to SeaMonkey 1.0 100% painlessly.
BTW, suites are good for people like me. I didn't know what an IRC client was, but I decided to install the full mozilla (at the time) suite. When I clicked on an IRC link, it took me to the IRC client and I could start IRCing. If I had to learn about IRC, research available clients, download, install and configure it, just to visit #wikipedia to ask a very simple question, I wouldn't have.
Windows Vista won't need any antivirus software, it's practically unsinkable!
- RG>