Since the problem is so widespread and since there does not seem to be a regulatory body concerning the properties of a donut, congressional inquiries can almost not be avoided.
You can expect that law enforcement agencies will fight that idea tooth and nail!!!
If so, what should ACME do to verify you are you instead?
They don't. They can't. That's precisely the idea: stop spamming dead on it's tracks. Once companies will be able to legally send a "first post" to anyone at all without prior approval, the slightest smidgeon of spamming will be illegal, and therefore prosecutable.
The idea is to make companies scared to death of the concept of using e-mail for advertising.
I never get how anyone can ever use the argument that some people might "want" spam. If you want to buy something, you can find it on the net. I NEVER want to be inundated with junk adverts.
Marketer brains are totally out of whack with reality. They operate not only in a different universe, but in a totally orthogonal plane of reality. It is therefore not surprising that they cannot understand nor fathom the motivations of normal people who are sick and tired of advertising being plastered all over the available meatspace.
Once they realize that, we'll be fighting to keep that ability in F/OSS operating systems. They'll try to make the protection mandatory, and ban or severely discourage the use of operating systems that don't support it.
That's only in the USA, and maybe one or two ass-licking banana republics. So the rest of the world is safe and shall not be concerned.
Over the years, the Bell System, which basically sold switchable end-to-end circuits charged by connection time, developped packet-switching in order to multiplex (voice) circuits. Those packet-switching networks were understandably optimized for voice.
Meanwhile, TCP/IP was developped to transfer data, and could run on the same kind of network used by the Bell System, but did not charge either by connection time nor amount of data transferred.
Now, we see people talking about making voice-circuits over packet-switching networks, and that the network oughta be optimized for such "voice" use. All this to avoid the connect-time-priced-voice-circuit pricing scheme used by phone companies...
As you said, the secret in cryptography is the key, no the algorithm. However, in DRM, the user has both the encrypted data AND the key, so DRM can only get so good...
hat's what makes this so technically interesting.
And why DRM is always doomed to fail (unless one uses a central controlling server).
Ie, the future of computing involves your trusty computer doing massive amounts of extra work for 0 reward to you except to keep Hollywood happy.
They tried that before a few years ago, with hard-disk that would have had to check if the bits they copy are copyrighted or not.
Of course, that did not come to pass...
What is galling is the balls the insignificant entertainment industry (about 0.5% of the Economy) has by pretending to dictate to the rest of society how it's computers should work... For this alone, Hollywood should be annihilated, for attempted subversion.
Not exactly a new idea, goverments have been paranoid of "Terrorists" using stego on places like ebay for triggers.
It was even before e-bay... During WW-II, there were whole squadrons of knitters who tried knitting patterns submitted to newspaper knitting columns to check if the to-be-printed coded patterns were legitimate and were not coded messages...
How many messages to dormant agents were sent though classified ads like "purple sofa, $145"???
Actually, many were. The 30's were called "the streamline era", because everything was streamlined. Several designers rose to stardom status (more info here and here.
How many times have you been completely and utterly insulted by children who know there's nothing you can do about it.
So what? it's CHILDREN!!! It's a good thing you weren't able to do anything against those children, because it takes a real stupid insecure jerk to feel insulted by what children said and who knows how much children would be abused if jerks would be able to do something against children at the first perceived insult!!!
The Russian stuff for the most part, while functional, was comparatively speaking - low tech.
This is why IT SIMPLY WORKS. COHO3 may be "old-fashioned" and carry only two guys, but it has no tiles, no complex engines, no toilet to malfunction. It gets there AND BACK.
HP is collapsing, laying off people left and right, and it's core specialty seems to be how many flimsy colored-plastic facades they can make to "modernize" their computers and notebooks.
Hey! Look at the bright side of it: they'll soon be hooking-up alternators to William Hewlett and David Packard who are spinning in their graves to do their part for the energy shortage!!!
And finally, the car... Sure, the basic design of a car hasn't changed a great deal, but we have fuel injectors now instead or carburretors, streamlined vehicles instead of boxes on wheels
Er... Streamlined cars are more than 70 year old...
It baffles me that they are still willing to send astronauts up in them? Beyond that, I'm just as perplexed by the fact that there are astronauts blinded by the "I'm going to be in a text book one day" mentality that they are willing to ride up in the damn thing! Just plain stupidity if you asked me.
I've seen a friend marry a doctor, who later became an astro-nut. When she was pregnant, HE, the DOCTOR did not take proper care of his wife, not reminding her to take routine tests as her pregnancy went on.
Result: the child is retarded (it would have been caught very early in the pregnancy had Dr Fathead not been an astro-nut) and the fucker had the balls to blame the mother for that and cancel the shower!!!
If that's not an asshole, I dunno what is!!!
Then the $NON_US_SPACE_ADMINISTRATION refused to pay for the child special care (fortunately, they did after the astro-nuts went on strike) when they were down in Houston.
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Bail-out.
If I INITIATE a dialogue with a company ("hey, are your whickerbills available in metric sizes?"), they can e-mail me.
It's no rocket science, really, you OPT-IN by INITIATING contact. They just can't send you something out-of-the-blue.
More importantly, will the changes be retroactive, thus throwing out the plethora of obvious patents we've seen recently???
You don't. Period.
The idea is to make companies scared to death of the concept of using e-mail for advertising.
We're not talking about mass-produced consumer electronics components, but about open-source and cracking software.
Meanwhile, TCP/IP was developped to transfer data, and could run on the same kind of network used by the Bell System, but did not charge either by connection time nor amount of data transferred.
Now, we see people talking about making voice-circuits over packet-switching networks, and that the network oughta be optimized for such "voice" use. All this to avoid the connect-time-priced-voice-circuit pricing scheme used by phone companies...
Talk about re-inventing the wheel!!!
Not a chance this being widely adopted. The control-freaks that run media companies will never understand why "security through obscurity" is bad.
Of course, that did not come to pass...
What is galling is the balls the insignificant entertainment industry (about 0.5% of the Economy) has by pretending to dictate to the rest of society how it's computers should work... For this alone, Hollywood should be annihilated, for attempted subversion.
How many messages to dormant agents were sent though classified ads like "purple sofa, $145"???
Actually, many were. The 30's were called "the streamline era", because everything was streamlined. Several designers rose to stardom status (more info here and here.
Result: the child is retarded (it would have been caught very early in the pregnancy had Dr Fathead not been an astro-nut) and the fucker had the balls to blame the mother for that and cancel the shower!!!
If that's not an asshole, I dunno what is!!!
Then the $NON_US_SPACE_ADMINISTRATION refused to pay for the child special care (fortunately, they did after the astro-nuts went on strike) when they were down in Houston.