1 - Start a business. Charge an arm and a leg (figuratively) to create and maintain a brain-dead clone for your client. Now he has his own personal organ bank.
2 - Pay Natalie Portman an exhorbitant sum of money for a DNA sample so you can have a daughter that looks like Natalie Portman. (I could have said Salma Hayek, but I have never made a Natalie Portman post before.)
2a - When your Natalie-clone daughter is born, sell her DNA. Undercut the original Natalie's prices.
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If 19,000 people in a Florida county had trouble punching a hole in the right circle, how many of them (or any of 17% of America) do you think will have a problem keeping track of mbB1wW32JfDS or Mphi7pcR0CMb?
See, this one is from my left pinkie and this one is from my right pinkie. This one is from my left ring finger and that one is from my right ring finger. These two are from my thumbs . . .
I used to work for a company that did commercial diskette duplication. This was just before AOL started distributing CDs. We got AOL as a customer and they placed an (initial) order for 250,000 diskettes.
I don't remember how long it took to fill that order. 2nd shift was doing nothing but AOL for a while.
My thoughts on this issue were similar to yours:
1) The default URLS are basically product placement for which MS (or NS) is paid
2) They and the clients both want to know how much traffic these (paid for) links generate
My own reaction was more along the lines of:
1) I don't use IE (thank you 98lite)
2) The first thing I do when I install any browser is delete all the default bookmarks.
Of course, if I found out that MS had my IP address and a list of all the sites I visited on file somewhere then I would be upset. Of course, it would be pure paranoia to think that they would do that . . .
ZoneAlarm Pro offers password protection, and customized security features. If you run a network it might be worthwhile, but for personal use the free version should be plenty.
You can probably find more information on Steve Gibson's Shields Up! newsgroup at news.grc.com
So then, are you saying that programs like "Just Say No" or "Abstinence Only" are wrong? That "Zero Tolerance" and "Mandatory Minimums" don't work?
Maybe we should just roll all these programs into one, and call it "You are a child and I am an adult and you will BY GOD do what I tell you and not question my judgement or my authority!".
According to the people who advocate these programs, anything else will only serve to encourage the type of behavior we are trying to prevent.
Actually, neither is a completely correct analogy.
Sony released Beta, which was proprietary. Severely proprietary, as in "This is ours. If you want to use one, you buy it from us."
JVC then came out with VHS. It was lower quality, but the tapes were longer (1 movie, 1 tape) and they licensed the technology to the whole world.
Mass Marketing is what killed Beta. It was a case of quality vs quantity and quantity won.
Vobis/Ogg is in the position of offering what may be a superior product in place of an already entrenched format. They are basically in the position that Beta was in when Sony started trying to play catch-up.
1. No one knows the name of your unknown garage band. Therefore, no one will search for your songs on Napster.
Step 1: Search Napster for songs you like Step 2: Add user who has them to Hotlist Step 3: Look at the other songs user is sharing Step 4: Download the ones that look interesting
My take on it is that if enough acts of rampant stupidity cause the idiots to be removed from the gene pool, it might result in rampant stupidity being removed from the gene pool. That's Darwinism.
However, evolving away that much stupidity could take a loooooooooong time:)
If you have a file called GreatSex.mp3.avi.exe it will: - Have an EXE icon unless it is set to use an embedded icon - Be identified as an Application in Detail view - Be identified as GreatSex.mp3.avi if you have the "Hide file extensions" turned on (default setting) - Be identified as GreatSex.mp3.avi.exe if you have the "Hide file extensions" turned off.
There is a very large difference between "bundled with" and "integrated into".
MS bundled IE with Windows for years and nobody cared. It was when they tried to claim that it was an integral and necessary part of Windows, and punish vendors who promoted any other browser, that this started.
This is the heart of my only main objection to spammers.
If they use an ISP's mail servers without permission they should be held accountable. If they falsely use somebody else's email address as a return address, they should be held accountable.
These issues can probably be dealt with using existing laws. There is only one thing that I think spammers should be required to do - have a valid return address in the message, and have that address be the only way to respond to the message. No other email addresses, no phone numbers. That way they would have to deal with all the negative reactions to their spam along with any actual responses. I doubt that there is any viable way to do this, but it is what I would like to see happen.
Strangely enough, I've never read any of his Star Trek novels. I've read most of the other ST:TOS novels (am re-reading The Price of the Phoenix and The Fate of the Phoenix, by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath)
Whenever I think of James Blish, I think of the Cities in Flight series and the novel Midsummer Century, which is easily one of the strangest novels I have ever read.
People who buy mass-pirated CD-Rs at swap meets for $5 a copy are probably not willing to pay the industry's inflated price in the first place for the music, so the industry doesn't really lose their business (even though they count that in their official statistics)
If the pirated CDs were not available, then those people would have to choose between paying for the product or going without.
I believe that more people would end up buying them than you might think.
Neither rating is meant to indicate porn of any kind. The ratings are based on the MPAA's opinion of the level of sex, drugs, violence, nudity and profanity in the movie. I saw an article at synge.com that stated that the difference between an NC17 rating and an R rating for the movie American Pie was "two pie thrusts". They cut it from 5 to 3, and that was all it took to change the rating. 2 seconds of film. It is because of the moralising of people who equated NC17 with porn that the rating practically does not exist any more.
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1 - Start a business. Charge an arm and a leg (figuratively) to create and maintain a brain-dead clone for your client. Now he has his own personal organ bank.
2 - Pay Natalie Portman an exhorbitant sum of money for a DNA sample so you can have a daughter that looks like Natalie Portman. (I could have said Salma Hayek, but I have never made a Natalie Portman post before.)
2a - When your Natalie-clone daughter is born, sell her DNA. Undercut the original Natalie's prices.
Remember, IE was once optional too.
Still is - www.98lite.net
If 19,000 people in a Florida county had trouble punching a hole in the right circle, how many of them (or any of 17% of America) do you think will have a problem keeping track of mbB1wW32JfDS or Mphi7pcR0CMb?
No, they are fingernail pairings.
See, this one is from my left pinkie and this one is from my right pinkie. This one is from my left ring finger and that one is from my right ring finger. These two are from my thumbs . . .
I used to work for a company that did commercial diskette duplication. This was just before AOL started distributing CDs. We got AOL as a customer and they placed an (initial) order for 250,000 diskettes.
I don't remember how long it took to fill that order. 2nd shift was doing nothing but AOL for a while.
My thoughts on this issue were similar to yours:
1) The default URLS are basically product placement for which MS (or NS) is paid
2) They and the clients both want to know how much traffic these (paid for) links generate
My own reaction was more along the lines of:
1) I don't use IE (thank you 98lite)
2) The first thing I do when I install any browser is delete all the default bookmarks.
Of course, if I found out that MS had my IP address and a list of all the sites I visited on file somewhere then I would be upset. Of course, it would be pure paranoia to think that they would do that . . .
OK, that's it. Godwin's law. This forum is now closed.
ZoneAlarm Pro offers password protection, and customized security features. If you run a network it might be worthwhile, but for personal use the free version should be plenty.
You can probably find more information on Steve Gibson's Shields Up! newsgroup at news.grc.com
So then, are you saying that programs like "Just Say No" or "Abstinence Only" are wrong? That "Zero Tolerance" and "Mandatory Minimums" don't work?
Maybe we should just roll all these programs into one, and call it "You are a child and I am an adult and you will BY GOD do what I tell you and not question my judgement or my authority!".
According to the people who advocate these programs, anything else will only serve to encourage the type of behavior we are trying to prevent.
Actually, neither is a completely correct analogy.
Sony released Beta, which was proprietary. Severely proprietary, as in "This is ours. If you want to use one, you buy it from us."
JVC then came out with VHS. It was lower quality, but the tapes were longer (1 movie, 1 tape) and they licensed the technology to the whole world.
Mass Marketing is what killed Beta. It was a case of quality vs quantity and quantity won.
Vobis/Ogg is in the position of offering what may be a superior product in place of an already entrenched format. They are basically in the position that Beta was in when Sony started trying to play catch-up.
1. No one knows the name of your unknown garage band. Therefore, no one will search for your songs on Napster.
Step 1: Search Napster for songs you like
Step 2: Add user who has them to Hotlist
Step 3: Look at the other songs user is sharing
Step 4: Download the ones that look interesting
If you really want to help, pay the $1 without downloading the installment.
He got blown up once in an episode of Highlander . . .
My take on it is that if enough acts of rampant stupidity cause the idiots to be removed from the gene pool, it might result in rampant stupidity being removed from the gene pool.
:)
That's Darwinism.
However, evolving away that much stupidity could take a loooooooooong time
That's what they do.
If you have a file called GreatSex.mp3.avi.exe it will:
- Have an EXE icon unless it is set to use an embedded icon
- Be identified as an Application in Detail view
- Be identified as GreatSex.mp3.avi if you have the "Hide file extensions" turned on (default setting)
- Be identified as GreatSex.mp3.avi.exe if you have the "Hide file extensions" turned off.
There is a very large difference between "bundled with" and "integrated into".
MS bundled IE with Windows for years and nobody cared. It was when they tried to claim that it was an integral and necessary part of Windows, and punish vendors who promoted any other browser, that this started.
A single cdrom can hold pads for over a million messages, and of course all your units have a different one.
All your units have the same one, otherwise they wouldn't be able to decrypt each other's messages.
One problem with this - Napster searches your shared drives looking for
There may be ways to propagate the virus/worm/trojan thinking that it is an MP3, but Napster is not one of them.
This is the heart of my only main objection to spammers.
If they use an ISP's mail servers without permission they should be held accountable.
If they falsely use somebody else's email address as a return address, they should be held accountable.
These issues can probably be dealt with using existing laws. There is only one thing that I think spammers should be required to do - have a valid return address in the message, and have that address be the only way to respond to the message. No other email addresses, no phone numbers. That way they would have to deal with all the negative reactions to their spam along with any actual responses. I doubt that there is any viable way to do this, but it is what I would like to see happen.
Burning your own property and then filing an insurance claim to recover the value of the property destroyed by the fire would be considered arson.
Fire the chef? What do cafeteria workers have to do with this?
Strangely enough, I've never read any of his Star Trek novels. I've read most of the other ST:TOS novels (am re-reading The Price of the Phoenix and The Fate of the Phoenix, by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath)
Whenever I think of James Blish, I think of the Cities in Flight series and the novel Midsummer Century, which is easily one of the strangest novels I have ever read.
People who buy mass-pirated CD-Rs at swap meets for $5 a copy are probably not willing to pay the industry's inflated price in the first place for the music, so the industry doesn't really lose their business (even though they count that in their official statistics)
If the pirated CDs were not available, then those people would have to choose between paying for the product or going without.
I believe that more people would end up buying them than you might think.
Jane Fonda.
She denounced the US in the Vietnam War.
She went to Hanoi (Vietnam) to do it.
NA-17 (hard porn) to an R (soft porn) rating,
Neither rating is meant to indicate porn of any kind.
The ratings are based on the MPAA's opinion of the level of sex, drugs, violence, nudity and profanity in the movie. I saw an article at synge.com that stated that the difference between an NC17 rating and an R rating for the movie American Pie was "two pie thrusts". They cut it from 5 to 3, and that was all it took to change the rating. 2 seconds of film. It is because of the moralising of people who equated NC17 with porn that the rating practically does not exist any more.