Program the HTML renderer in a unix mail program to be able to decide (at the whim of the user) whether or not to download foreign content.
The mail program can download and upload mail as it pleases, but the renderer itself can be told not to. That would zap web bugs. ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
that these webbug things are nothing compared to what is coming.
Spammers will pay big money to backbone providers and then they will be given the right to spam as they please. Of course blasting the backbone provider would be like pounding on your spinal cord out of spite.
I also predict there will be an explosion of free ISPs. If the figures concerning profits from data profiling aren't as exaggerated as I think they are, the free ISPs will make good money from feeding customers to these spammers. They may very well push a few normal dialups out. Mix in a TOS which says you WILL not circumvent data profiling activity in the free ISP connect software, add a dash of DMCA, and you are no longer watching your monitor, it is watching you.
The more likely scenario is the big fish ISPs will mutate into a gruesome hybrid of highly reduced priced unlimited service plans, with the TOS requiring you submit unconditionally to the data profiling behavior in their software.
Need I suggest what horrors await if the free DSL thing takes off? Simply put the data profiling will be even faster and more efficient and more transparent.
Like I said, the web bug thing is nothing. They can do far worse to you with a lower priced service with a diabolical TOS and proprietary DMCA-protected ISP connect protocol software (pppoe-freeDSL-8.0.dll, anyone?).
Only the small time spammers will be still using web bugs after that. ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
I propose they should put in a hotkey so if the system doesn't boot, you can use the hotkey to cancel out the graphics and see the actual boot information.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
He's talking about bringing on the very scenario that led to the premise behind the game Deus Ex: distributed monitoring.
"A blip [of Echelon III] runs on every electronic device on earth" - Morgan Everett, Illuminati leader, an approximate quote from Deus Ex
Also note that in the game, the ousted LEADER of the Illuminati was Lucius Debeers. ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Behold the immense power of this article, it has already gotten many people angry at Apple, and if what was claimed isn't true, then a lawsuit could get slapped on slashdot, big time.
I guess everyone now appreciates the damage that false statements can cause. ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Email the developers of the GPL'd app, and the developers of the closed source app that is ripping off the GPL'd code, about the violation.
If you're the GPL code developer whose stuff was ripped off in a closed source app: sue the infringer. (If financially possible).
I have just 1 question:
What is the penalty for violating the GPL? ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Instead of screaming at hard drive producers about how we won't buy from them if they implement this copy/copyright/whatever protection, why not send them letters stating that WE WILL GIVE THEM OUR PATRONAGE IF THEY DO NOT IMPLEMENT IT?
It's less threatening, but it gets the same point across. ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
No sports games made it to the top 15 here. Althought Quake/CTF MIGHT be considered a sport since CTF is played in real life.
Deer Hunter and Test Drive were among the runners up, though no basketball, football, baseball or soccer games, made it in either list.
Hmmmmmmm. I wonder what this says about the geek community. I for one like it!! ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Yes but they still do business in the US. Nobody's gonna go work in the Cayman Islands, a million miles away from civilization.
As long as they try to do business, hire and fire, and sell products in the US, they have to play by our rules. Or else we can revoke their right to hire and sell products here.
Ever heard of Cuba? ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
I doubt there's enough Mentos in the world to get ya out of that situation:) ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
are both enemies of freedom.
We need to return to the thriving capitalism that is smaller businesses. ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Authorize a snitch network funded by massive (multimillion dollar per offense) fines levied against the company.
Any HR person, DNA tester, etc., suddenly becomes a potential opportunistic back stabber who can collect mountains of conclusive evidence against a company that is doing secret DNA testing of employees.
When a conviction is secured and the fine levied, also levy fines against the CEO (automatically), the board of directors, and any HR people who directed this testing to happen. Inform *ALL* employment applicants (at the company's expense) so as to enable them to get in on the reward, and to also leave the company wide open for a class action lawsuit (backed up by the conviction, this lawsuit should be open and shut).
The money the snitch gets would probably far exceed what the company would pay them to stay quiet. Worse yet the company has been paying this employee for months and now s/he keeps what they gave them, plus they bag a cut of the fine.
The execs are now always in fear of profiteering snitches and the total annihilation they leave in their wake: a fatal combination of per-applicant fines, automatic Federal prison sentences, class action lawsuits that no one short of God could get them out of (because the criminal proceedings already provided a conviction), and automatic branding of the CEO and Board members as genetic discriminators (via the conviction)...
What you've done is replaced the well water with hydrochloric acid. Corporations won't even THINK about DNA testing. You could get fired just for mentioning DNA testing on the job.
Hell, you could get fired just for LISTENING to someone mentioning DNA testing on the job:) ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
A national level law of this sort will cause companies to leave the country.
(ahem)
(Yeah, right, leave the USA! NOT!!!!!) ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
I read a lot by Jon Katz, but this one is the most interesting read I've had in a while, and despite what the idiot trolls have to say, he regularly writes some pretty interesting stuff. ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
customer logs into CC (credit card/bank that uses atm cards as credit/check cards) company and requests an anonymous credit card #. the number is assigned and it expires after one purchase or 4 hours. it can be canceled also. the number points back to their account and thus the purchaser does not need ANYTHING else from the merchant but the anonymous credit card number, although for merchandise the merchant will need a shipping address. (porno sites, hehe, will not need any address info at all, they just spit out a username/password for you.)
So for ULTIMATE anonymity you
1) Get a PO Box;
2) Get an anonymous credit card #;
3) Use the PO Box for the shipping address, and then the anonymous credit card # as your method of purchase.
The CONS:
The hacker may look at the anonymous number format and sit on a guessed number until it hatches. Which means s/he picks a credible number and submits it around and around until some unlucky customer gets that number as their 'anonymous' CC#, and boom! you get the purchase. (Of course when you pick up the item you could pick up a free pair of handcuffs, too, hehe.) ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Either the courts or the patent office will take this one back. ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
1) Because it started acting like a monopoly (see: its attempts to bully board makers from making Athlon-compatible motherboards);
2) The way Intel treats its employees;
3) The product serial number blunder.
Also look up: wintel. ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
The BSA could actually do this in about 3 years, using TEMPEST radiation monitoring equipment.
Check these URL's:
http://www.sciam.com/1998/1298issue/1298techbus4 .html
and
http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991106/newsstor y6.html ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
...for all the UCITA fanboy software companies who will be putting Trojans in their software which'll send (via DSL) all kinds of extra information about you and your PC (and your online habits) to their databases. Who'll notice when it's being sent during your idle hours on an always-online system?
At the very least I STRONGLY suggest Americans AND Canadians get Zone Alarm from www.zonelabs.com so as to catch and block such trojan activity. ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Slashdot Mirror
Program the HTML renderer in a unix mail program to be able to decide (at the whim of the user) whether or not to download foreign content.
The mail program can download and upload mail as it pleases, but the renderer itself can be told not to. That would zap web bugs.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
unix based email software (XFmail, Pine, Balsa), none of which yet render HTML or activeX & java/script.
This'll work for now.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
that these webbug things are nothing compared to what is coming.
Spammers will pay big money to backbone providers and then they will be given the right to spam as they please. Of course blasting the backbone provider would be like pounding on your spinal cord out of spite.
I also predict there will be an explosion of free ISPs. If the figures concerning profits from data profiling aren't as exaggerated as I think they are, the free ISPs will make good money from feeding customers to these spammers. They may very well push a few normal dialups out. Mix in a TOS which says you WILL not circumvent data profiling activity in the free ISP connect software, add a dash of DMCA, and you are no longer watching your monitor, it is watching you.
The more likely scenario is the big fish ISPs will mutate into a gruesome hybrid of highly reduced priced unlimited service plans, with the TOS requiring you submit unconditionally to the data profiling behavior in their software.
Need I suggest what horrors await if the free DSL thing takes off? Simply put the data profiling will be even faster and more efficient and more transparent.
Like I said, the web bug thing is nothing. They can do far worse to you with a lower priced service with a diabolical TOS and proprietary DMCA-protected ISP connect protocol software (pppoe-freeDSL-8.0.dll, anyone?).
Only the small time spammers will be still using web bugs after that.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
I propose they should put in a hotkey so if the system doesn't boot, you can use the hotkey to cancel out the graphics and see the actual boot information.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
He's talking about bringing on the very scenario that led to the premise behind the game Deus Ex: distributed monitoring.
"A blip [of Echelon III] runs on every electronic device on earth" - Morgan Everett, Illuminati leader, an approximate quote from Deus Ex
Also note that in the game, the ousted LEADER of the Illuminati was Lucius Debeers.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Behold the immense power of this article, it has already gotten many people angry at Apple, and if what was claimed isn't true, then a lawsuit could get slapped on slashdot, big time.
I guess everyone now appreciates the damage that false statements can cause.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Email the developers of the GPL'd app, and the developers of the closed source app that is ripping off the GPL'd code, about the violation.
If you're the GPL code developer whose stuff was ripped off in a closed source app: sue the infringer. (If financially possible).
I have just 1 question:
What is the penalty for violating the GPL?
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
What about a BUYCOTT?
Instead of screaming at hard drive producers about how we won't buy from them if they implement this copy/copyright/whatever protection, why not send them letters stating that WE WILL GIVE THEM OUR PATRONAGE IF THEY DO NOT IMPLEMENT IT?
It's less threatening, but it gets the same point across.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
I have 1 word for ya:
DIVX
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
No sports games made it to the top 15 here. Althought Quake/CTF MIGHT be considered a sport since CTF is played in real life.
Deer Hunter and Test Drive were among the runners up, though no basketball, football, baseball or soccer games, made it in either list.
Hmmmmmmm. I wonder what this says about the geek community. I for one like it!!
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Yes but they still do business in the US. Nobody's gonna go work in the Cayman Islands, a million miles away from civilization.
As long as they try to do business, hire and fire, and sell products in the US, they have to play by our rules. Or else we can revoke their right to hire and sell products here.
Ever heard of Cuba?
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
on the 150,000th floor?
:)
I doubt there's enough Mentos in the world to get ya out of that situation
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
are both enemies of freedom.
We need to return to the thriving capitalism that is smaller businesses.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Authorize a snitch network funded by massive (multimillion dollar per offense) fines levied against the company.
:)
Any HR person, DNA tester, etc., suddenly becomes a potential opportunistic back stabber who can collect mountains of conclusive evidence against a company that is doing secret DNA testing of employees.
When a conviction is secured and the fine levied, also levy fines against the CEO (automatically), the board of directors, and any HR people who directed this testing to happen. Inform *ALL* employment applicants (at the company's expense) so as to enable them to get in on the reward, and to also leave the company wide open for a class action lawsuit (backed up by the conviction, this lawsuit should be open and shut).
The money the snitch gets would probably far exceed what the company would pay them to stay quiet. Worse yet the company has been paying this employee for months and now s/he keeps what they gave them, plus they bag a cut of the fine.
The execs are now always in fear of profiteering snitches and the total annihilation they leave in their wake: a fatal combination of per-applicant fines, automatic Federal prison sentences, class action lawsuits that no one short of God could get them out of (because the criminal proceedings already provided a conviction), and automatic branding of the CEO and Board members as genetic discriminators (via the conviction)...
What you've done is replaced the well water with hydrochloric acid. Corporations won't even THINK about DNA testing. You could get fired just for mentioning DNA testing on the job.
Hell, you could get fired just for LISTENING to someone mentioning DNA testing on the job
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
A national level law of this sort will cause companies to leave the country.
(ahem)
(Yeah, right, leave the USA! NOT!!!!!)
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
I read a lot by Jon Katz, but this one is the most interesting read I've had in a while, and despite what the idiot trolls have to say, he regularly writes some pretty interesting stuff.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
"oooooh look at the pretty girl!"
*swerve*
aaaaaaaaaaah!!!
*CRASH*
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
I had a similar idea darn it!!!
customer logs into CC (credit card/bank that uses atm cards as credit/check cards) company and requests an anonymous credit card #. the number is assigned and it expires after one purchase or 4 hours. it can be canceled also. the number points back to their account and thus the purchaser does not need ANYTHING else from the merchant but the anonymous credit card number, although for merchandise the merchant will need a shipping address. (porno sites, hehe, will not need any address info at all, they just spit out a username/password for you.)
So for ULTIMATE anonymity you
1) Get a PO Box;
2) Get an anonymous credit card #;
3) Use the PO Box for the shipping address, and then the anonymous credit card # as your method of purchase.
The CONS:
The hacker may look at the anonymous number format and sit on a guessed number until it hatches. Which means s/he picks a credible number and submits it around and around until some unlucky customer gets that number as their 'anonymous' CC#, and boom! you get the purchase. (Of course when you pick up the item you could pick up a free pair of handcuffs, too, hehe.)
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Either the courts or the patent office will take this one back.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
That was in reference to Microsoft :)
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
1) Because it started acting like a monopoly (see: its attempts to bully board makers from making Athlon-compatible motherboards);
2) The way Intel treats its employees;
3) The product serial number blunder.
Also look up: wintel.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Imagine if these lawsuits result in victory for the plaintiff?
Millions of users worldwide will be jumping on a class action lawsuit bandwagon.
Say byebye to unscrupulous advertisers!
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
I'm sure if the Napster servers don't, the opennap ones will :)
Bye bye snoops!!
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
The BSA could actually do this in about 3 years, using TEMPEST radiation monitoring equipment.4 .html
r y6.html
Check these URL's:
http://www.sciam.com/1998/1298issue/1298techbus
and
http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991106/newssto
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
...for all the UCITA fanboy software companies who will be putting Trojans in their software which'll send (via DSL) all kinds of extra information about you and your PC (and your online habits) to their databases. Who'll notice when it's being sent during your idle hours on an always-online system?
At the very least I STRONGLY suggest Americans AND Canadians get Zone Alarm from www.zonelabs.com so as to catch and block such trojan activity.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,