Lots of Spam-purchasers (the client base for the Spammers) see NO RETURN ON THEIR INVESTMENT. They can afford it for a while because its so cheap compared to previous channels but the ultimately close up shop and go away.
The problem is the new suckers out there who buy Spam services to prop up their sagging sales.
Advertising is an inherently inprobable business on the Net.
Traditionally you justify advertising with the argument that "If nobody knows you're selling this [widget name here] nobody's going to buy it. And it IS true.
The problem is with the Web, you can search and find. There is NO JUSTIFICATION for any outfit with a Web presence to advertise. That's what Search engines are for.
Its only the companies without a web presence (either through ignorance or insuficient resources,) who thing they NEED to Spam.
The Spammers client base deserve pity, and a quick dose of reality, to stop spamming.
I have a "catch all" which routes all emails to a couple of accounts.
Then I split them back up with the non-legitimate account names going directly to the trash.
Every email I send has a return address that identifies who I sent it to. If I didn't write to you, I don't want to hear from you.
If I do get Span from that account, I email the Spam to the originator warning them that it has occured (secure your servers) and change the account name.
Since then my Spam count has gone to nearly zero.
I should be getting more Spam (more names on the emails) but instead I find that my connunications are left alone.
It depends on the security of the authentication database for verification.
Extremely secure databases could be set up and answer just a "yea' or a 'nay' for subsequent accesses.
Subsequent acesses may be secure as secure as required.
You could have to do it in front of staff, which implies collusion between you (the 'scan'mer) and the staff (the 'scan'me) who would allow you to use a fingerprint defeating technique.
An ATM could depend on several authentication techniques, such as a video recording the 'scan'mer when the scan is made, in addition to the scan itself.
The only finnicky part is getting your fingerprint pattern key (the raw info is not sent, it gets crunched down by the scanner,) into the database on somebody ELSE's account. HE will be the one stuck with the bill.
You can then run the scam the same way.
Actually it takes less balls to do it because either it works and your laughing or it doesn't and your mutter something about a new scar on your fingerprint to a clerk.
You don't have to worry about getting caught because you're going to have created a false positive (doubling the key) rather than replacing a real record.
Your fingerprint is essentially worthless for security when you've got access to a scanner and to the system.
The trust-worthyness of the original scanner and scannee is the key. The more paranoid you need to be, the more data points you pick, and the more tightly you control the access to the system.
NONE of them can make a good profit because they entered into competition prematurely and with a Microsoft product (WMA).
And NONE of them can afford the usual Microsoft technique of surviving until revision 3.X.
This is NOT the desktop (the corporate market where corporate buyers just wanted compatibility,) and Microsoft can't dictate personal tastes.
As long as Apple sticks to its 'end-run' strategy around Microsoft, they're going to keep winning. Yeah Microsoft owns the desktop but that's ALL it owns, partly because of the anti-trust tactics it employed when it made sure that it owned it.
NONE of the hundreds of people in my building and the thousands of people who work in the bank is rushing out to buy a WMA product.
They just went out to J&R at lunch time to buy iPods though.
That's going to continue happpening.
There is NOTHING that Microsoft can do about it until it gets off the desktop (and that just aint happening.)
"It puzzles me how people like you can stand there and actively defend mediocrity."
Actually, it shouldn't. After all, like likes like.
The reason mediocrity exists, (apart from normalization of curves so that the average IQ of a room full of Einsteins would still only be 100,) is that most people are, well, mediocre.
That's why 'down-side' zealots exist. Just look at the Iraqi insurgents. Why would anyone want what they want? That's why they have to send some out to blow themselves up in a crowd.
The WORST thing you can do is NOT WRITE THINGS DOWN! (You'll find out how well you comminucate when you have to actually read it again. Then write it over again and read it again, until it makes sense.)
I had a boss who came up the ranks and she didn't write anything down. You were expected to hang onto her every word and then do them.
Unfortunately she did not shut up long enough for YOU to write then down and was always saying "Well I told you..."
I quit that job when it was them or me.
I'd rather choose unemployment than working under those conditions.
Uh, where was the budget in 2000? With a surplus? Balanced? $500,000,000,000 in the red?
The dems are not the ones who put us $500,000,000,000/year in the hole. That $500b/year that we've had to borrow. We've borrowed that much and we will have to pay it back, with interest.
I'm surprised that you don't advocate for the kidnapping of women off the sidewalks and forcing thye to have an abortion, whether they wanted on or not.
Personally, no. I haven't hardly filled up my 160GB drive in the year since I bought it.
Professionally, you bet your ass! And that's just the beginning.
And what I'm hoping is going to happen, professionally, is going to change what, how and how much hard disk capacity and RAM mapped to it I will need personally.
This is a good thing. We need cheap BIG, FAST drives with LOTS of cache.
You paint a beam on the target (anything with the beam WILL be the target) and the incoming missile/projective will aim for it.
THAT'S why I don't want some joker with a laser tagging my flight, so some other joker with a shoulder mounted missile, in another location can triangulate in and blow my ass out of the air.
Throw the book at him and get the laser pointers off the street. Its not a question of boring a hole through the planes. Its a question of lighting 'em up for a targeting system.
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Lets stop pussy footing around. There are no ownership or copyright issues.
You start with a plot outline, create a shooting schedule, line up some actors, start filming, put the thing out there.
The quality of the visuals will NOT be up to Star Trek vehicles to date but the writing could be much better, the acting could be better.
Even the set could be a digital one to allow 'transportation' at no cost (think of the techniques used for the "Polar Express".)
Given that we have stories of Bill Gates screaming in 1985 "Make it more like the Mac!"; what if they hadn't been able to do it?
What if Microsoft was just nibbled away at on their DOS prompt desktop until they'd died a slow and agonizing death?
What if?
Writes like the kinda guy who wants da girls in da stable to bring home the money.
"Yeah. I'm friggin' Santa Claws."
"Ho ho ho, hoe. Now get me my fuckin' dough, be-atch"
In order to keep these bastards away, I don't buy any new music.
I have 800+ old CDs moved to iTunes and I've ripped my 400+ vinyl albums to it too so I figure I can listen to that instead for ever.
And the **AAs can kiss my money goodbye...
The next James Bond is a remake of Ca,bloody,sino Roy,friggin',ale. A remake... What a bunch of accountants...
I still remember the one with David Niven. I'm not going to pay to see that again.
They exist for only ONE purpose. To keep the RIAA around.
Long dead musicians or fools who signed their rights away are the RIAA's stoc in thare.
Anything 'new' is hyped, churned, produced in such a way as to bankrupt he musician (see/hear Wall*Mart,) and put into the remainder bin.
That's why you have Golden Oldies stations.
It ain't good music. Its merely the most profitable.
The RIAA is to music what a Mortician is to a beauty parlor.
doesn't make the news.
Lots of Spam-purchasers (the client base for the Spammers) see NO RETURN ON THEIR INVESTMENT. They can afford it for a while because its so cheap compared to previous channels but the ultimately close up shop and go away.
The problem is the new suckers out there who buy Spam services to prop up their sagging sales.
Advertising is an inherently inprobable business on the Net.
Traditionally you justify advertising with the argument that "If nobody knows you're selling this [widget name here] nobody's going to buy it. And it IS true.
The problem is with the Web, you can search and find. There is NO JUSTIFICATION for any outfit with a Web presence to advertise. That's what Search engines are for.
Its only the companies without a web presence (either through ignorance or insuficient resources,) who thing they NEED to Spam.
The Spammers client base deserve pity, and a quick dose of reality, to stop spamming.
You're making a sexist assumption that only males get Spam.
There should a Spam report breaking things down by sex, age, national origin, whatever, so we could gauge the effectiveness of Spam lists.
Selling Viagra knock-offs to 4 year old girls is just wrong.
I have my own domain too.
I have a "catch all" which routes all emails to a couple of accounts.
Then I split them back up with the non-legitimate account names going directly to the trash.
Every email I send has a return address that identifies who I sent it to. If I didn't write to you, I don't want to hear from you.
If I do get Span from that account, I email the Spam to the originator warning them that it has occured (secure your servers) and change the account name.
Since then my Spam count has gone to nearly zero.
I should be getting more Spam (more names on the emails) but instead I find that my connunications are left alone.
I don't even know why but its working.
A scan is just a scan.
It depends on the security of the authentication database for verification.
Extremely secure databases could be set up and answer just a "yea' or a 'nay' for subsequent accesses.
Subsequent acesses may be secure as secure as required.
You could have to do it in front of staff, which implies collusion between you (the 'scan'mer) and the staff (the 'scan'me) who would allow you to use a fingerprint defeating technique.
An ATM could depend on several authentication techniques, such as a video recording the 'scan'mer when the scan is made, in addition to the scan itself.
The only finnicky part is getting your fingerprint pattern key (the raw info is not sent, it gets crunched down by the scanner,) into the database on somebody ELSE's account. HE will be the one stuck with the bill.
You can then run the scam the same way.
Actually it takes less balls to do it because either it works and your laughing or it doesn't and your mutter something about a new scar on your fingerprint to a clerk.
You don't have to worry about getting caught because you're going to have created a false positive (doubling the key) rather than replacing a real record.
Your fingerprint is essentially worthless for security when you've got access to a scanner and to the system.
The trust-worthyness of the original scanner and scannee is the key. The more paranoid you need to be, the more data points you pick, and the more tightly you control the access to the system.
NONE of them can make a good profit because they entered into competition prematurely and with a Microsoft product (WMA).
And NONE of them can afford the usual Microsoft technique of surviving until revision 3.X.
This is NOT the desktop (the corporate market where corporate buyers just wanted compatibility,) and Microsoft can't dictate personal tastes.
As long as Apple sticks to its 'end-run' strategy around Microsoft, they're going to keep winning. Yeah Microsoft owns the desktop but that's ALL it owns, partly because of the anti-trust tactics it employed when it made sure that it owned it.
NONE of the hundreds of people in my building and the thousands of people who work in the bank is rushing out to buy a WMA product.
They just went out to J&R at lunch time to buy iPods though.
That's going to continue happpening.
There is NOTHING that Microsoft can do about it until it gets off the desktop (and that just aint happening.)
My handwriting is non-existant. My verticals go off in every direction and my line is uneven.
Am I disorganized? An idiot?
No. I have MS. To me the pen is an instrument of torture; my own.
With augury you at least get a meal out of it. (ven though it may be your last.)
"It puzzles me how people like you can stand there and actively defend mediocrity."
Actually, it shouldn't. After all, like likes like.
The reason mediocrity exists, (apart from normalization of curves so that the average IQ of a room full of Einsteins would still only be 100,) is that most people are, well, mediocre.
That's why 'down-side' zealots exist. Just look at the Iraqi insurgents. Why would anyone want what they want? That's why they have to send some out to blow themselves up in a crowd.
The WORST thing you can do is NOT WRITE THINGS DOWN! (You'll find out how well you comminucate when you have to actually read it again. Then write it over again and read it again, until it makes sense.)
I had a boss who came up the ranks and she didn't write anything down. You were expected to hang onto her every word and then do them.
Unfortunately she did not shut up long enough for YOU to write then down and was always saying "Well I told you..."
I quit that job when it was them or me.
I'd rather choose unemployment than working under those conditions.
I'm an alien in New York.
Cute reference...
I require that the user have physical access to the fingerprint reader under my keyboard.
My data is locked up? Hell yeah!
That would be like asking Toni Soprano for a loan. That would result in a regular St Valenti's massacre.
Nothing DEC made survived the purchase by Compaq.
Uh, where was the budget in 2000? With a surplus? Balanced? $500,000,000,000 in the red?
The dems are not the ones who put us $500,000,000,000/year in the hole. That $500b/year that we've had to borrow. We've borrowed that much and we will have to pay it back, with interest.
I'm surprised that you don't advocate for the kidnapping of women off the sidewalks and forcing thye to have an abortion, whether they wanted on or not.
Just because some marketing 'droid calls something 'hot' doesn't mean that anyone out there's gonna like it.
Frequent repetition will utterly kill the radio station that falls for the hype.
Its not a question of skepticism (though the next time it will be engaged,) or of the quality of the hype, or of the quantity.
As long as people listen to other people, that will have a wide spread filter for the crap that's out there.
In a way I don't envy the industry. The very thing that make a band, word of mouth, also kills a band.
Either you're for real of your getting a day job...
I can just see monitoring the impressions per month to see how much advertising exposure the ad gets...
Personally, no. I haven't hardly filled up my 160GB drive in the year since I bought it.
Professionally, you bet your ass! And that's just the beginning.
And what I'm hoping is going to happen, professionally, is going to change what, how and how much hard disk capacity and RAM mapped to it I will need personally.
This is a good thing. We need cheap BIG, FAST drives with LOTS of cache.
Wanna bet that when something finally comes out from M$, battered and bruised, it'll just be NT warmed up again with a new 'gadget' look.
When Apple sues the rumor mill is because they broke cardinal rule #1: They got *specific* about features for value.
M$ USES the rumor mill to pre-empt and choke off the competition (whatever's left) by claiming something *changed*. Apple can't do that.
You paint a beam on the target (anything with the beam WILL be the target) and the incoming missile/projective will aim for it.
THAT'S why I don't want some joker with a laser tagging my flight, so some other joker with a shoulder mounted missile, in another location can triangulate in and blow my ass out of the air.
Throw the book at him and get the laser pointers off the street. Its not a question of boring a hole through the planes. Its a question of lighting 'em up for a targeting system.