When I first starting using email in 1995 or so, it was GREAT. I could keep in touch with friends from across the country without piling up a giant phone bill or tasting the back of stamps.
Unfortunately by the next year spam was already becoming rampant, and I and most of my friends pretty much stopped using email entirely because of the sheer volume of messages.
Spam is a huge problem, just as unsolicited telemarketing is a huge problem, just as unsolicited junk mail is a huge problem. These people are bothering me and reducing the quality of my life, and so of COURSE I should have the legal recourse to receive compensation for the damages incurred, caused by them.
Laws like this are NECESSARY because they SPELL OUT that these kinds of harrassment are indeed harassments worthy of compensation.
Anyway, sorry for the rant, but SPAM, junk mail, and telemarketers significantly bother me. If there were laws like this in place, these people would have to stop bothering me. I like that.
etoy.com is not generating any confusion. etoy.com was the original site. etoys.com registered their web site much after etoy.com, so who is creating the confusion, hrm? perhaps etoys.com needs to get a new domain name, not etoy.com. how about 'buyoverpricedtoyshere.com'.
While I am a Java developer primarily and I use FreeBSD for almost all my machines, this is not a real concern for me. I use FreeBSD on older machines (486,386,etc) to make them useful (probably more useful than my p-II monster running NT, etc), and with Java's performance I wouldn't want to try to run in on a 486. Maybe when FreeBSD's SMP support is better I'll worry about Java, but there are other things more important to me about FreeBSD than Java support.
Well, aside from believing that capital punishment is wrong in any case... Here we go anyway. Or I, whatever. The way it was explained to me, the reason hate crimes have a special distinction is because a gay person has to live in fear of being killed just because he is gay, and if we can more quickly and effectively punish those who would kill him because he is gay, he doesn't have to be afraid anymore. A 'normal' murder, while very very bad and definitely deserved of punishment as well, does not make the general populace live in fear of dying because of who they are. Not saying which is the better argument, just trying to relate how it was explained to me...
Is very much like trying to patent Newton's laws of motion. "That's it, no one else's airplanes are allowed to use Newtonian physics in their flying apparatus." Locality is the one fundamental law of computing.
that was the last thing i was waiting on for beOs. now it's going on my machine in the next couple weeks. finally. java 2 is getting there enough to make development fairly straightforward and beOs is built to handle its needs.
But it's better not to switch and let those lazy bastards running the sites KNOW how wrong they are and that you aren't going to submit. Which doesn't solve the problem that I wanted to view their material TODAY, not a week from now when/if they change their site.
I was using netscape on a linux box for browsing, but you just can't do that unless you want to be shut out of a LOT of sites. You can't even just use netscape on windows, because IE's javascript is different from the specs, etc. So I am stuck using IE on Windows if I want to browse the web. That's just the way it goes.
My opinion of Jobs is finally starting to form a bit. The way he phrases his sentences is very familiar, much like the way very smart people I know phrase things, with confidence. Probably my two favorite things he said in the interview were the comment about normal vs. talented people, and woz. He said that a small group of very talented people can do much greater things than ANY number of normal people. And I think that is definately correct. He also said that the normal 'talented' label applies to usually only 30% better than normal, with twice as good being VERY good. Then he says woz was 25 times or more better than average. Wow. That's a compliment. Anyhoo... I dunno bout you guys, but I like reading these kind of stories, a bit of the history of computing, a bit of its future.
dialing into the web (text only, please) my old 486 made tons of screen noise when lots of text went scrolling by. i never thought of trying to purposely get it to make songs, though. these guys have a lot of time on their hands?
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I completely disagree, and here is my rant.
When I first starting using email in 1995 or so, it was GREAT. I could keep in touch with friends from across the country without piling up a giant phone bill or tasting the back of stamps.
Unfortunately by the next year spam was already becoming rampant, and I and most of my friends pretty much stopped using email entirely because of the sheer volume of messages.
Spam is a huge problem, just as unsolicited telemarketing is a huge problem, just as unsolicited junk mail is a huge problem. These people are bothering me and reducing the quality of my life, and so of COURSE I should have the legal recourse to receive compensation for the damages incurred, caused by them.
Laws like this are NECESSARY because they SPELL OUT that these kinds of harrassment are indeed harassments worthy of compensation.
Anyway, sorry for the rant, but SPAM, junk mail, and telemarketers significantly bother me. If there were laws like this in place, these people would have to stop bothering me. I like that.
etoy.com is not generating any confusion. etoy.com was the original site. etoys.com registered their web site much after etoy.com, so who is creating the confusion, hrm? perhaps etoys.com needs to get a new domain name, not etoy.com. how about 'buyoverpricedtoyshere.com'.
While I am a Java developer primarily and I use FreeBSD for almost all my machines, this is not a real concern for me. I use FreeBSD on older machines (486,386,etc) to make them useful (probably more useful than my p-II monster running NT, etc), and with Java's performance I wouldn't want to try to run in on a 486. Maybe when FreeBSD's SMP support is better I'll worry about Java, but there are other things more important to me about FreeBSD than Java support.
Well, aside from believing that capital punishment is wrong in any case... Here we go anyway. Or I, whatever. The way it was explained to me, the reason hate crimes have a special distinction is because a gay person has to live in fear of being killed just because he is gay, and if we can more quickly and effectively punish those who would kill him because he is gay, he doesn't have to be afraid anymore. A 'normal' murder, while very very bad and definitely deserved of punishment as well, does not make the general populace live in fear of dying because of who they are. Not saying which is the better argument, just trying to relate how it was explained to me...
Is very much like trying to patent Newton's laws of motion. "That's it, no one else's airplanes are allowed to use Newtonian physics in their flying apparatus." Locality is the one fundamental law of computing.
that was the last thing i was waiting on for beOs. now it's going on my machine in the next couple weeks. finally. java 2 is getting there enough to make development fairly straightforward and beOs is built to handle its needs.
But it's better not to switch and let those lazy bastards running the sites KNOW how wrong they are and that you aren't going to submit. Which doesn't solve the problem that I wanted to view their material TODAY, not a week from now when/if they change their site.
I was using netscape on a linux box for browsing, but you just can't do that unless you want to be shut out of a LOT of sites. You can't even just use netscape on windows, because IE's javascript is different from the specs, etc. So I am stuck using IE on Windows if I want to browse the web. That's just the way it goes.
Because this all happened a long time ago, before Johnny Cochran could have come to Chewie's aid.
My opinion of Jobs is finally starting to form a bit. The way he phrases his sentences is very familiar, much like the way very smart people I know phrase things, with confidence. Probably my two favorite things he said in the interview were the comment about normal vs. talented people, and woz. He said that a small group of very talented people can do much greater things than ANY number of normal people. And I think that is definately correct. He also said that the normal 'talented' label applies to usually only 30% better than normal, with twice as good being VERY good. Then he says woz was 25 times or more better than average. Wow. That's a compliment. Anyhoo... I dunno bout you guys, but I like reading these kind of stories, a bit of the history of computing, a bit of its future.
dialing into the web (text only, please) my old 486 made tons of screen noise when lots of text went scrolling by. i never thought of trying to purposely get it to make songs, though. these guys have a lot of time on their hands?
Uh... retiring does not mean he is giving up the work. Retiring in THIS context is an ADJECTIVE to mean he shies away from the spotlight.
Just give every page the worst rating possible. After all, the internet is evil, no child should be exposed to it. They might learn something.