Sometimes people make mistakes, did you contact the seller and give them an opportunity to rectify the problem? If not then it is you who was in the wrong and if don't give the seller a chance to fix their mistake then you shouldn't leave feedback!
I'm not accusing you of anything here so I apologise if it looks that way.
Feedback is more than just numbers so when someone reads the feedback for that item you will look more genuine than the seller who made a stupid comment instead of explaining the issue.
I'm sure eBay understands that there are no sellers without buyers. If people are afraid to purchase items on eBay because of jerk sellers, then people won't buy things, and good sellers will use a more reputable service to sell, so eBay will take in fewer fees. In order to survice, eBay needs to keep up its reputation with the end consumer, not merely the entity with which it directly involves itself (the seller, via fees). Correction there are no buyers without sellers, how popular do you think an empty shop is? Not only that but sellers are customers of ebay and buyers are the customers of sellers.
Why shouldent I beable to leave negative feedback for buyers who don't pay, take along time to pay or decide on an alternate payment solution that was never listed?
Most buyers are legitimate but you get alot of moron buyers who just stuff sellers around and now they can get away with it!
Dude with the billions that are given to the military and separate agencies each year, it wouldn't be very difficult to build awesome supercomputers. Plus isn't it common knowledge that the CIA or FBI or whoever (I'm not that up on my government agencies, and I've never even been to the USA) have supercomputers to crack encryption on communications, and in fact it's 'illegal' to use encryption over a certain strength? Illegal to use encryption!
Where did you get that from?
Where I live there are anti-fortification laws on buildings so perhaps its not so far fetched.
With physical security even a cheap $50 lock provides some level of defence against would be intruders and altho no building is impenetrable there is a time limit the bad guys can't spend all day/night attempting entry because someone will catch them in the process but if you have a laptop stolen the thief has all the time in the world and only strong encryption will offer any defence.
Weak encryption is the same as closing your front door but leaving it unlocked, most would be thieves will be stopped by a closed door as opposed to one that's left wide open because they don't test to see if it IS open they just see the closed door and assume its locked but if they did try the door they would easily gain access.
Problem I have is that I dont shut my notebook down I just put it to sleep at night and for transport.
During the day I just lock by WindowsKey + L
Im not sure how good the windows lock is but if its good enuth that someone would have to reboot to get around it then the disk should become encrypted as soon as the system loses power for the reboot.
BitTorrent isn't crucial for the success of open source projects - open source was around long before BitTorrent and the larger files that are suited to the protocol are always heavily mirrored by HTTP mirroring services anyway. If BitTorrent were to disappear tomorrow it wouldn't affect the open source world at all.
Ok suppose I have a 1GB file that I wish to share with my users 100 users = 100GB of downloads not to mention a few who might download more than once. With bit torrent my bandwidth is far less than that since everyone is contributing and it becomes possible for everyone to download at the same time instead of my costly server becoming unreachable due to down loaders filling the line.
Even sharing small 50-60MB Media files can consume allot of bandwidth if you get thousands of downloads.
Struggling musicians being bankrupted by bandwidth costs? I'd be interested to see examples of that. Bandwidth is pretty cheap these days if you shop around. There are plenty of services out there to help such people... mp3.com being one obvious site. MySpace being another.
It doesn't make sense to limit your exposure and those sites are only suited for some needs.
Anyway, your point that BitTorrent has legal uses is sound, but to be frank, I'm not convinced it is used that much for legal stuff in practice. I mean, BitTorrent is an inherently crappy way to distribute stuff. It generates way more traffic than is strictly necessary by using a mesh instead of a tree structure, it requires custom clients (it's not in a web browser) and it doesn't tend to play nicely with NAT. Or at least, never did for me. If you want to distribute large files via HTTP in an efficient way, that's what CDNs like Akamai are for. It solves all of the above problems for distributing large, legal files. If you don't have any money (eg, Linux distros) there are usually volunteer "mini CDNs" like the mirror network which exist for this. And if you're distributing only very small files but want to insulate yourself against bandwidth spikes, specialised services like MP3.COM or various "web drive" systems can help with that.
Bittorrent isn't always used for lawful purposes, but neither is a car.
I use Linux, and buy MP3s from minor struggling artists, but I never use BitTorrent. Partly because I don't need to, and partly because the few times I did try to use it (for a few game demos?) it didn't work properly and gave far inferior speeds to regular HTTP servers. Probably some misconfiguration on my end, but whatever. Life is short.
I agree its far from an ideal solution I personally rather put things online for http download because its far more user friendly but I cannot deny that bittorrent has its place.
But The Pirate Bay is not like that. There's a hint in the name, see? The Pirate Bay is openly and unashamedly dedicated to supporting and promoting illegal activity. But its NOT illegal or they would have been shut dwn along time ago.
They are demonstrating it to Middle Eastern states. "We can isolate you just like that". Now, who would want to do that? The West could do it without resorting to destroying valuable assets. Just block the countries. That requires cooperation and would be very noticable the sysadmins and ISPs are ordinary civillians not agents sworn to secrecy.
a Submarine deep under the oocean would be almost undetectable and only a handfull of people would be aware of its presence, Submarines exist for this very reason to remain undetected not even most of the crew need to know of their current position.
In Australia the speed limit is 70kmph 43mph on alot of highyways that have two lanes eachway and a center divider.
We have the road safety council over here who are a bunch of frauds that you rather blame the road toll on people who speed than the dickheads who don't give way to other vehicles.
The real problem with roads in my state is nothing to do with people speeding, the problem is that there is no requirement to getting a drivers license here you just need to drive around the block without crashing.
also if you do 24mph over the limit say goodbye to your car for 6 months say goodbye forever the 3rd time.
The biggest crock argument that file thieves make is that they are entitled to steal content because the music industry is somehow immoral. After all, if all of a sudden we can go willy nilly and pick and chooose copyrights because we feel some institution is moral and another is not, then, what's to suddenly argue that well, the GPL is amoral and Linus Torvald's isn't even an American, and start stealing that work as well!
It's really simple. If you don't like to buy music from some morally bankrupt institution, then, don't buy it. Thats just it we DONT buy it we download it
Really? You've never gotten, "We're sorry, all circuits are busy now. Please try your call again later".
I get that maybe 2 or 3 times a year tops. Retrying works. But I don't consider it fraud - just too many people on at once. Only one newyears when I was on a real lousy provider (who alot of people seem to complain about) but never on anyother network.
Our standards here in Austalia seem to be alot better than in the US I assume this is to do with US providers having monopoly over certain areas because over here you have at least the 3 biggest networks covering most of the population.
Worried about your email adresses? Why not buy a domain and then forward it to whatever is the latests adress with filter you use at that moment?
That way people see your adress, but you grab it from anywhere you desire, without the roblems of setting up your own filters. Ive been useing my own domains for emails for years now. Its so good to be in control of my addresses and well worth the registration fee's.
How can you oversell and still have the customer be able to use what you sell them? It only works right now, because you have thousands of grannies with high speep internet who only use the internet for checking email and getting brownie recipies. Once you have everybody downloading a couple movies every week, things will start to get a lot worse. Because not everyone will use 100% of what they are provided.
This month I might use 100% of my avalible bandwith but next month I might use only 20% but when I want to use it I can.
Overselling is not without risk there is an outside chance that overselling will backfire and the isp may/should have compensation plans in place for IF that happens. With overselling you do need to carefully assess the situation to minimise your chances of failing to provide the customer with what they paid for. It is normally safer for larger ISPs to oversell because they have allot of users and are less likely to have 100% of their user base use up all of their allowance.
This has already been through the courts. Someone tried exactly your argument and failed.
The ISPs successfully argued 'unlimited' means unlimited *access* not unlimited service. As long as they're not saying you can long use the internet at certain times they're safe. What does unlimited access mean?
I can access as much content as I want!
But I cant because the ISP wont provide that even if the user paid for it.
What is a car has broken down? will it trigger a traffic jam notification? How about paralell roads that are jammed? Or taxi's waiting at the trainstation for a pick up? I agree how can you tell how many cars there are by the number of phones?
Lets not forget busses/trams that add a huge number of phones to the area but only one vehicle, trains that dont affect road traffic (with the exception of railway crossings) and pedestrians, will two people walking down the footpath be counted as 2 slow moving cars.
If I have 5 people in my car it means there is a minimum of 5 phones in one vehicle and other times there is just me with 1 phone.
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If law enforcement didn't abuse technology and trample on people's privacy development of cryptography wouldn't have gotten as far as it is today.
It's simple supply & demand.
Its the censor/wiretap attitude today that make users look for ways to secure their privacy and freedom of speech.
~Dan
Sometimes people make mistakes, did you contact the seller and give them an opportunity to rectify the problem?
If not then it is you who was in the wrong and if don't give the seller a chance to fix their mistake then you shouldn't leave feedback!
I'm not accusing you of anything here so I apologise if it looks that way.
Feedback is more than just numbers so when someone reads the feedback for that item you will look more genuine than the seller who made a stupid comment instead of explaining the issue.
~Dan
Not only that but sellers are customers of ebay and buyers are the customers of sellers.
Why shouldent I beable to leave negative feedback for buyers who don't pay, take along time to pay or decide on an alternate payment solution that was never listed?
Most buyers are legitimate but you get alot of moron buyers who just stuff sellers around and now they can get away with it!
~Dan
Where did you get that from?
Where I live there are anti-fortification laws on buildings so perhaps its not so far fetched.
With physical security even a cheap $50 lock provides some level of defence against would be intruders and altho no building is impenetrable there is a time limit the bad guys can't spend all day/night attempting entry because someone will catch them in the process but if you have a laptop stolen the thief has all the time in the world and only strong encryption will offer any defence.
Weak encryption is the same as closing your front door but leaving it unlocked, most would be thieves will be stopped by a closed door as opposed to one that's left wide open because they don't test to see if it IS open they just see the closed door and assume its locked but if they did try the door they would easily gain access.
~Dan
Or they could just use Skype
Problem I have is that I dont shut my notebook down I just put it to sleep at night and for transport.
During the day I just lock by WindowsKey + L
Im not sure how good the windows lock is but if its good enuth that someone would have to reboot to get around it then the disk should become encrypted as soon as the system loses power for the reboot.
~Dan
The heat must have caused the pixels to stick.
My old computer didnt like its firey doom, but then neither did the neighbours.
~Dan
Insightful,
You have a good point in the 90's most of us never predicted services such as youtube.
Service providers need to increase the gap between supply and demand.
In the 21st century a standardised file format for Word Processors and other office documents is long overdue.
.ODF format all the way.
I support the
~Dan
BitTorrent isn't crucial for the success of open source projects - open source was around long before BitTorrent and the larger files that are suited to the protocol are always heavily mirrored by HTTP mirroring services anyway. If BitTorrent were to disappear tomorrow it wouldn't affect the open source world at all.
Ok suppose I have a 1GB file that I wish to share with my users 100 users = 100GB of downloads not to mention a few who might download more than once. With bit torrent my bandwidth is far less than that since everyone is contributing and it becomes possible for everyone to download at the same time instead of my costly server becoming unreachable due to down loaders filling the line.Even sharing small 50-60MB Media files can consume allot of bandwidth if you get thousands of downloads.
Struggling musicians being bankrupted by bandwidth costs? I'd be interested to see examples of that. Bandwidth is pretty cheap these days if you shop around. There are plenty of services out there to help such people ... mp3.com being one obvious site. MySpace being another.
It doesn't make sense to limit your exposure and those sites are only suited for some needs.Anyway, your point that BitTorrent has legal uses is sound, but to be frank, I'm not convinced it is used that much for legal stuff in practice. I mean, BitTorrent is an inherently crappy way to distribute stuff. It generates way more traffic than is strictly necessary by using a mesh instead of a tree structure, it requires custom clients (it's not in a web browser) and it doesn't tend to play nicely with NAT. Or at least, never did for me. If you want to distribute large files via HTTP in an efficient way, that's what CDNs like Akamai are for. It solves all of the above problems for distributing large, legal files. If you don't have any money (eg, Linux distros) there are usually volunteer "mini CDNs" like the mirror network which exist for this. And if you're distributing only very small files but want to insulate yourself against bandwidth spikes, specialised services like MP3.COM or various "web drive" systems can help with that.
Bittorrent isn't always used for lawful purposes, but neither is a car.I use Linux, and buy MP3s from minor struggling artists, but I never use BitTorrent. Partly because I don't need to, and partly because the few times I did try to use it (for a few game demos?) it didn't work properly and gave far inferior speeds to regular HTTP servers. Probably some misconfiguration on my end, but whatever. Life is short.
I agree its far from an ideal solution I personally rather put things online for http download because its far more user friendly but I cannot deny that bittorrent has its place.~Dan
Some Mod who dosent agree with the Parents view.
Fortunatly we have metamoderating for this like that.
Personal disagreements should play no part in the modding process.
a Submarine deep under the oocean would be almost undetectable and only a handfull of people would be aware of its presence, Submarines exist for this very reason to remain undetected not even most of the crew need to know of their current position.
In Australia the speed limit is 70kmph 43mph on alot of highyways that have two lanes eachway and a center divider.
We have the road safety council over here who are a bunch of frauds that you rather blame the road toll on people who speed than the dickheads who don't give way to other vehicles.
The real problem with roads in my state is nothing to do with people speeding, the problem is that there is no requirement to getting a drivers license here you just need to drive around the block without crashing.
also if you do 24mph over the limit say goodbye to your car for 6 months say goodbye forever the 3rd time.
The iPhone is nothing special other than clever marketing.
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone
No that would be theft!
Im not stealing anything.
It's really simple. If you don't like to buy music from some morally bankrupt institution, then, don't buy it. Thats just it we DONT buy it we download it
I get that maybe 2 or 3 times a year tops. Retrying works. But I don't consider it fraud - just too many people on at once. Only one newyears when I was on a real lousy provider (who alot of people seem to complain about) but never on anyother network.
Our standards here in Austalia seem to be alot better than in the US I assume this is to do with US providers having monopoly over certain areas because over here you have at least the 3 biggest networks covering most of the population.
That way people see your adress, but you grab it from anywhere you desire, without the roblems of setting up your own filters. Ive been useing my own domains for emails for years now.
Its so good to be in control of my addresses and well worth the registration fee's.
~Dan
This month I might use 100% of my avalible bandwith but next month I might use only 20% but when I want to use it I can.
Overselling is not without risk there is an outside chance that overselling will backfire and the isp may/should have compensation plans in place for IF that happens. With overselling you do need to carefully assess the situation to minimise your chances of failing to provide the customer with what they paid for. It is normally safer for larger ISPs to oversell because they have allot of users and are less likely to have 100% of their user base use up all of their allowance.
~Dan
Its a slow news week. /. this weekend.
either that or ive been spending way to much time on
The ISPs successfully argued 'unlimited' means unlimited *access* not unlimited service. As long as they're not saying you can long use the internet at certain times they're safe. What does unlimited access mean?
I can access as much content as I want!
But I cant because the ISP wont provide that even if the user paid for it.
Lets not forget busses/trams that add a huge number of phones to the area but only one vehicle, trains that dont affect road traffic (with the exception of railway crossings) and pedestrians, will two people walking down the footpath be counted as 2 slow moving cars.
If I have 5 people in my car it means there is a minimum of 5 phones in one vehicle and other times there is just me with 1 phone.
~Dan
free-to-air makes money of advertising.
So arnt they gaining from this?
It makes no sense.
Will it not be misused by finding the routine information of people?
Mayb not today, Mayb not tomorro.... but some day!