Okay, so anyone sending a message automatically whitelists the recipient.
But what happens the first time a spammer sends a message to an Earthlink subscriber... with a forged "from" address of another Earthlink subscriber? Neither account will have authorised the other, so theoretically it'll hit a loop.
I'm sure they've worked this out, I'm just curious what the solution is...
4) Cables suck. KVMs work, but suck. Multiple keyboards suck. Multiple anything with computers generally suck.
I run a PC and Mac here at work, using a Mitsubishi DP 900 U monitor. It has dual inputs (one VGA, one BNC) and a USB hub with two upstream ports - when I hit the switch on the front of the monitor to swap the video input, it automagically swaps the USB peripherals between the two machines as well, with almost no delay (less than a second). I'd occasionally get problems with Mac OS 9, but under X it all works perfectly.
As a dual machine solution goes, it's pretty elegant - I have one keyboard, monitor and mouse driving two machines, and i don't suffer the quality loss of a "normal" KVM switcher.
Unfortunately, the new Mitsubishi monitors don't offer this functionality any more, and I'm not aware of any current monitors that do...if anyone does, please post!
Like it or not, music DOES revolve around math. Beat, Harmony, Melody, Rhythm, and Tone are all by definition the elements that make something into music instead of just a bunch of noise.
That may be your definition, but not everyone will agree. Your requirement for "harmony" rules out every solo voice performance ever made, for example.
Besides, some of the most atonal stuff around is considered classical - take something like Stockhausen for example. His stuff is so difficult to describe conventionally he had to invent his own system of scoring for people to be able to play it - yet the biggest fan of his I've met was a music professor, who can hardly be accused of having simplistic tastes.
Reminds me of the old hypercolor shirts in approximately the early 90s that changed color when you wore them. I could see this feature appealing to a younger generation.
Yep, I suspect my eight year old sister would love it.
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TiVo's biggest rival, Sky Plus (Sky+) [sky.com] did everything that TiVo did, and more, came pre-packaged with an installation engineer's visit and had the branding and backing of the UK's largest pay-TV provider, Sky (backed by Rupert Murdoch/Fox corp).
Erm, "everything that TiVO did, and more"? Sky+ doesn't support suggestions, it doesn't support wishlists, season passes don't work as reliably (and until a recent patch used to fail extremely regularly), etc. Sky+ is a fairly good product, but it's much younger than TiVo, and it shows.
Sorry, you're totally, utterly, staggeringly wrong. TiVo is an entirely different system to Sky+ (the latter doesn't offer suggestions or wishlists, for example). Different hardware (Sky+ made by Pace, actually) and home grown software, which is nowhere near as mature as TiVo.
Maybe you're confused because TiVo was marketed in the UK by Sky, and TiVo used to have a "supported by Sky" flash on the main menu?
Your comment is modded up as funny, but it's actually somewhat insightful.
Think about it - what's to stop a bunch of hackers sitting down and brainstorming every nasty way they can think of to screw up peer to peer networks and then patenting the lot? This would be a rather elegant way of preventing the record industry from using any of those techniques, unless they could prove prior art.
You can then pass those patents over to a pack of rabid, no win - no fee lawyers and tell them they can keep any money they can collect. That should prevent any of the "if you can't afford to sue, it won't do you any good to have the patents" problems...
Oh, and by the way, Britney can whine all she wants, but for every $1 she's whining about, the execs are out 15! She's just the puppet in "her" anti-piracy campaign.
And, of course, who do you think is paying for her adverts, promotional appearances, studio time, limousines, etc etc? I'll give you a clue, it's not coming out of the record company's share.
The record industry is one of the best definitions of "parasitic" I've ever come across. They screw the customers, they screw the artists (who wants to bet that in five years Britney will be broke and suing the labels?), they even screw people buying unrelated items like data CD-Rs!
I'm not convinced that extinction is the most likely outcome... but I've got my fingers crossed.
I'm not sure which I find funnier. Shatner's hillariously dry wit when answering these questions, or the fact that 90% of/. seems to be completely missing the point and taking great offense at them.
I couldn't agree more - it seems that people here are obsessed with the quantity of the answers and not the quality... and I'm speaking as someone who is totally disinterested in Star Trek (any of them, TV or film).
Read it again, people. Even when he's blowing you off, he's still making a point, which (to my mind) is far more interesting than a lot of the interviews we get.
The pornindustry shys away from it because it is proven ineffective! It makes people annoyed, remember their name and associate it with false advertising, and they will never sign up!
I can't help finding it slightly ironic that you're posting to a story about deceptive advertising, with a fake "MOD PARENT UP" link in your.sig... aren't you worried that people might be annoyed, remember your name, and associate it with false advertising?;)
The "personal" edition is only $39, which is much more reasonable for personal use. I bought it online a few hours ago (for Mac OS X), downloaded and installed it flawlessly over the beta which I've been using for the past few weeks.
That's still fairly worrying, though. It implies that in the event of a power failure, you now have a floating missile travelling at 250 mph towards the next station, with no way of braking, and (since it's floating) almost no frictional braking...
So try taking one of these crippled music disks back to MonstroMart and claiming that it doesn't play in your CD player.
You're missing the point - they're trying this in Europe, where we have substantially stronger consumer rights than your side of the pond. If I get sold one of these discs, I'll simply return it as "unfit for purpose" under the (UK) sale of goods act for a full refund - and if the shop tries to refuse that, I'll bring a small claims court action against them (which is cheap and easy) and I'll win.
The only way shops could avoid this would be by clearly labelling these CDs as "This 'CD' may not work correctly in computers, in car CD players, and some audio CD players', and you can imagine the effect a label of that kind would have on sales... and even then the courts might still rule that they should accept returns.
You're assuming a hypothetical "alien race" which operates on the same sort of timescales that we do. If they "live" a few orders of magnitude more slowly, then radio waves suddenly become (to them) a few orders of magnitude faster...
Bear in mind that even amongst cultures on earth, perceptions of timescales vary. I've heard the phrase "In Europe they think 100 miles is a long way; In America they think 100 years is a long time". Imposing human values on a hypothetical alien race is somewhat anthropomorphic...
You may joke, but a hot topic in the UK at the moment is the idea of running diesel engined cars on used cooking fat mixed with a little white spirit.
This does apparently work (although I'm not sure about the long terms effects on the engine, or performance), and over here, where automotive fuels run to about 5 dollars a gallon, the potential savings are huge - apparently some supermarkets have been running out of cooking oil and have had to impose rationing, and I'm sure that restauranteurs are finding themselves unusually popular...
Robert X Cringely may well be able to get all of his media under 200 Mb. He clearly doesn't have a digital video camera, which would hit that limit in around 3 minutes.
Sure, you can archive it off to DV tape, but that's slow to access, and inconvenient for editing. 320 Gb will get you around 25 hours of DV footage, which for a home video enthusiast isn't really that much... there are plenty of "legit" uses for this sort of data capacity.
Alternatiively, how about music? (Writing music, not mp3s.) It's common to run 32 channels, each at 24 bit / 96 KHz. That comes up to about 9 Mb per second - or about 33 Gb for 60 minutes of material. By the time you throw in multiple takes, storage requirements can get pretty hefty.
There are two possibilities. Either this will work by simply archiving the information from the ISP mail server (in which case, just use a mailserver in another country...) or they're going to have to sniff all traffic to check whether it's SMTP / POP / IMAP etc.
So, for a little civil disobedience:
1. Option 1. If you're using an external mail server, you're not using the ISP mail server, right? So that gives you a "junk" email box. Why not set up a peer to peer system along the lines of SETI@home, which uses idle cycles to exchange email at the rate of a few hundred a minute.
2. Option 2 - if they're sniffing all traffic, even better - write something similar, but do all the inter-client communication using SMTP. You should be able to simulate a few hundred messages per second.
Get enough people on board (using SETI like marketing tactics - email chain letters encouraging people to "fight the spies" etc) and you could utterly dwarf "real" email under a storm of junk data. Even if they can somehow parse out the "real" data, the cost of storing the information has risen exponentially - and all you have to do after that is work out a way to embed real messages in the "fakes", and you've got unmonitored communications again!
PGP only helps hide content, which this legislation doesn't ask for. Remailers would work, of course, but would look "suspicious"....
Flawed net business number 582093092! If I choose to block ads and a site doesn't work because of that, I just won't bother going there.
That's not an example of a flawed business model. If the site is funded by ads, and you have ads blocked, they don't want you to go there... you're costing them money. If you refuse to visit the site because you can't block the ads, that's probably exactly what they set out to achieve.
That's definitely photoshopped. The other responder states that you can see planes queuing at Heathrow (London's main airport) which is true, but these are queued behnd each other, usually at least 2-3 minutes apart.
I've worked at Heathrow (Concorde taking off about fifty yards away is impressive, but it's very weird as it's completely silent - the soundproofing in those buildings is astoundingly good) and although the skies are getting a little cramped, a picture like the one that adorns this story would give most air traffic controllers a heart attack.
I'm a little disappointed in the BBC. Photoshopping composites to illustrate a news story is quite common, but this particular picture could easily be perceived by naive readers as genuine - I think this is straying dangerously near to FUD.
Interesting stuff, but this seems pretty primitive. From a human interface point of view, I can't help feel that having to keep moving your head to move the pointer is going to cause neck strain, especially for tasks that involve a lot of "mousing".
A few years ago, there were some consumer cameras which used a laser to detect where you were looking the viewfinder, and then focussed on that area. Something like that seems to have a lot more potential, and would make the suggested "blink to click" metaphor much easier to implement as well...
Firstly, emusic isn't 5-10 bucks a month, it's 10-15.
Secondly, their range is pretty restricted. For example, their "Rock / Alternative" section lists the grand total of 45 bands - if they're trying to promote new music, why isn't there more available? I may be missing something but when I trialled emusic I basically couldn't find enough to occupy me for a day, let alone the minimum three month subscription (or 12 months if you want to get the lower, 10 dollar a month rate).
Thirdly, their MP3s are hardly high bitrate - everything is as 128 kbits, which might have been classed as high quality a few years ago, but in these days of vbr lame rips sounds decidedly shoddy.
The emusic concept is quite good, but to entice me they'd need around 10-100 times as much content and decent quality mp3s.
Claiming that PC users get IE 6 while Mac users languish at 5.1 is misleading, as the two versions have very different feature sets. 5.1 for mac already has some features that still aren't in the PC version, and have been present for some time - the "GetRight" like download manager has been present since (iirc) 4.5, and things like the Page Holder and Scrapbook (which let you basically hold pages full of links in a sidebar, making it easy to navigate through sites) are very, very clever.
I run a PC and Mac at work, with IE 5.1 on the Mac. I'm typing this message on the Mac, because IE 5.1 is a damned good browser - I've been using it for the past few months, and it hasn't crashed on me once (and I browse a lot).
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But what happens the first time a spammer sends a message to an Earthlink subscriber... with a forged "from" address of another Earthlink subscriber? Neither account will have authorised the other, so theoretically it'll hit a loop.
I'm sure they've worked this out, I'm just curious what the solution is...
I run a PC and Mac here at work, using a Mitsubishi DP 900 U monitor. It has dual inputs (one VGA, one BNC) and a USB hub with two upstream ports - when I hit the switch on the front of the monitor to swap the video input, it automagically swaps the USB peripherals between the two machines as well, with almost no delay (less than a second). I'd occasionally get problems with Mac OS 9, but under X it all works perfectly.
As a dual machine solution goes, it's pretty elegant - I have one keyboard, monitor and mouse driving two machines, and i don't suffer the quality loss of a "normal" KVM switcher.
Unfortunately, the new Mitsubishi monitors don't offer this functionality any more, and I'm not aware of any current monitors that do...if anyone does, please post!
That may be your definition, but not everyone will agree. Your requirement for "harmony" rules out every solo voice performance ever made, for example.
Besides, some of the most atonal stuff around is considered classical - take something like Stockhausen for example. His stuff is so difficult to describe conventionally he had to invent his own system of scoring for people to be able to play it - yet the biggest fan of his I've met was a music professor, who can hardly be accused of having simplistic tastes.
Yep, I suspect my eight year old sister would love it.
Erm, "everything that TiVO did, and more"? Sky+ doesn't support suggestions, it doesn't support wishlists, season passes don't work as reliably (and until a recent patch used to fail extremely regularly), etc. Sky+ is a fairly good product, but it's much younger than TiVo, and it shows.
Maybe you're confused because TiVo was marketed in the UK by Sky, and TiVo used to have a "supported by Sky" flash on the main menu?
Think about it - what's to stop a bunch of hackers sitting down and brainstorming every nasty way they can think of to screw up peer to peer networks and then patenting the lot? This would be a rather elegant way of preventing the record industry from using any of those techniques, unless they could prove prior art.
You can then pass those patents over to a pack of rabid, no win - no fee lawyers and tell them they can keep any money they can collect. That should prevent any of the "if you can't afford to sue, it won't do you any good to have the patents" problems...
And, of course, who do you think is paying for her adverts, promotional appearances, studio time, limousines, etc etc? I'll give you a clue, it's not coming out of the record company's share.
The record industry is one of the best definitions of "parasitic" I've ever come across. They screw the customers, they screw the artists (who wants to bet that in five years Britney will be broke and suing the labels?), they even screw people buying unrelated items like data CD-Rs!
I'm not convinced that extinction is the most likely outcome... but I've got my fingers crossed.
I couldn't agree more - it seems that people here are obsessed with the quantity of the answers and not the quality... and I'm speaking as someone who is totally disinterested in Star Trek (any of them, TV or film).
Read it again, people. Even when he's blowing you off, he's still making a point, which (to my mind) is far more interesting than a lot of the interviews we get.
I can't help finding it slightly ironic that you're posting to a story about deceptive advertising, with a fake "MOD PARENT UP" link in your .sig... aren't you worried that people might be annoyed, remember your name, and associate it with false advertising? ;)
The "personal" edition is only $39, which is much more reasonable for personal use. I bought it online a few hours ago (for Mac OS X), downloaded and installed it flawlessly over the beta which I've been using for the past few weeks.
That's still fairly worrying, though. It implies that in the event of a power failure, you now have a floating missile travelling at 250 mph towards the next station, with no way of braking, and (since it's floating) almost no frictional braking...
Am I the only person who finds it rather amusingly ironic that you have an ad in your .sig?
You're missing the point - they're trying this in Europe, where we have substantially stronger consumer rights than your side of the pond. If I get sold one of these discs, I'll simply return it as "unfit for purpose" under the (UK) sale of goods act for a full refund - and if the shop tries to refuse that, I'll bring a small claims court action against them (which is cheap and easy) and I'll win.
The only way shops could avoid this would be by clearly labelling these CDs as "This 'CD' may not work correctly in computers, in car CD players, and some audio CD players', and you can imagine the effect a label of that kind would have on sales... and even then the courts might still rule that they should accept returns.
Bear in mind that even amongst cultures on earth, perceptions of timescales vary. I've heard the phrase "In Europe they think 100 miles is a long way; In America they think 100 years is a long time". Imposing human values on a hypothetical alien race is somewhat anthropomorphic...
This does apparently work (although I'm not sure about the long terms effects on the engine, or performance), and over here, where automotive fuels run to about 5 dollars a gallon, the potential savings are huge - apparently some supermarkets have been running out of cooking oil and have had to impose rationing, and I'm sure that restauranteurs are finding themselves unusually popular...
Also, I think the reference to the "Curious Yellow" feather in Vurt was taken from the legendary film, I am Curious, Yellow...
Look on the bright side - every dollar Hollywood spends on pointless snake oil, is one less dollar they can spend buying politicians. :)
Sure, you can archive it off to DV tape, but that's slow to access, and inconvenient for editing. 320 Gb will get you around 25 hours of DV footage, which for a home video enthusiast isn't really that much... there are plenty of "legit" uses for this sort of data capacity.
Alternatiively, how about music? (Writing music, not mp3s.) It's common to run 32 channels, each at 24 bit / 96 KHz. That comes up to about 9 Mb per second - or about 33 Gb for 60 minutes of material. By the time you throw in multiple takes, storage requirements can get pretty hefty.
So, for a little civil disobedience:
1. Option 1. If you're using an external mail server, you're not using the ISP mail server, right? So that gives you a "junk" email box. Why not set up a peer to peer system along the lines of SETI@home, which uses idle cycles to exchange email at the rate of a few hundred a minute.
2. Option 2 - if they're sniffing all traffic, even better - write something similar, but do all the inter-client communication using SMTP. You should be able to simulate a few hundred messages per second. Get enough people on board (using SETI like marketing tactics - email chain letters encouraging people to "fight the spies" etc) and you could utterly dwarf "real" email under a storm of junk data. Even if they can somehow parse out the "real" data, the cost of storing the information has risen exponentially - and all you have to do after that is work out a way to embed real messages in the "fakes", and you've got unmonitored communications again!
PGP only helps hide content, which this legislation doesn't ask for. Remailers would work, of course, but would look "suspicious"....
That's not an example of a flawed business model. If the site is funded by ads, and you have ads blocked, they don't want you to go there... you're costing them money. If you refuse to visit the site because you can't block the ads, that's probably exactly what they set out to achieve.
That's definitely photoshopped. The other responder states that you can see planes queuing at Heathrow (London's main airport) which is true, but these are queued behnd each other, usually at least 2-3 minutes apart.
I've worked at Heathrow (Concorde taking off about fifty yards away is impressive, but it's very weird as it's completely silent - the soundproofing in those buildings is astoundingly good) and although the skies are getting a little cramped, a picture like the one that adorns this story would give most air traffic controllers a heart attack.
I'm a little disappointed in the BBC. Photoshopping composites to illustrate a news story is quite common, but this particular picture could easily be perceived by naive readers as genuine - I think this is straying dangerously near to FUD.
Interesting stuff, but this seems pretty primitive. From a human interface point of view, I can't help feel that having to keep moving your head to move the pointer is going to cause neck strain, especially for tasks that involve a lot of "mousing".
A few years ago, there were some consumer cameras which used a laser to detect where you were looking the viewfinder, and then focussed on that area. Something like that seems to have a lot more potential, and would make the suggested "blink to click" metaphor much easier to implement as well...
Erm, nope.
Firstly, emusic isn't 5-10 bucks a month, it's 10-15.
Secondly, their range is pretty restricted. For example, their "Rock / Alternative" section lists the grand total of 45 bands - if they're trying to promote new music, why isn't there more available? I may be missing something but when I trialled emusic I basically couldn't find enough to occupy me for a day, let alone the minimum three month subscription (or 12 months if you want to get the lower, 10 dollar a month rate).
Thirdly, their MP3s are hardly high bitrate - everything is as 128 kbits, which might have been classed as high quality a few years ago, but in these days of vbr lame rips sounds decidedly shoddy.
The emusic concept is quite good, but to entice me they'd need around 10-100 times as much content and decent quality mp3s.
Claiming that PC users get IE 6 while Mac users languish at 5.1 is misleading, as the two versions have very different feature sets. 5.1 for mac already has some features that still aren't in the PC version, and have been present for some time - the "GetRight" like download manager has been present since (iirc) 4.5, and things like the Page Holder and Scrapbook (which let you basically hold pages full of links in a sidebar, making it easy to navigate through sites) are very, very clever.
I run a PC and Mac at work, with IE 5.1 on the Mac. I'm typing this message on the Mac, because IE 5.1 is a damned good browser - I've been using it for the past few months, and it hasn't crashed on me once (and I browse a lot).