This post is ridiculous. The advancement here isn't a better submarine. It's using ballast to raise this submersible and then having it glide forward as it descends again. It's not something you'd use for stringing cable (surface vessels are quite capable) or rescuing people trapped underwater (existing submarines are better).
Well, of course you are right. For admins, this concept would be troublesome.... but actually not as troublesome as spam relays created by trojans and worms. p2p traffic can pretty effectively be snuffed-out by packet shaping. Getting your domain un-blacklisted is a little more difficult after a user's machine has become a spam relay. In either case, an admin running a tight ship would be fuming.
All you punk virus writers who are comprimising peoples' computers for the purpose of setting up spam relays, please hear me now!
We need you to modify your code for the sake of humanity. Please create a virus that installs a standard p2p mp3 filesharing app. You provide all these kids with a defense against these RIAA jackbooted thugs, and you'll have fewer irate admins hunting your asses down over spam. I can promise you that.
I apologize for the usage of such extremist baiting as the word 'fascist'.. I didn't mean that you are a fascist. The approach hinted at in your original post would be to organize people not to have sex 'indiscriminately'. The only way to set this up would be via authoritarian regime. Fortunately, any such regime attempting this in America would definitely be overthrown immediately. China has sort of tried it as a means of population control... with little success.
Again, my apologies for using the word fascist. Your mom sounds like someone I'd like to bang, though. Is she hot? A woman who knows not to argue and just accept things is a rare commodity.
Let's play this game in your utopian world where people don't have indiscriminate sex for 2-3 generations.
1. Child born today to AIDS-infected mother.
2. Child lives to age 17 thanks to modern medicine. 3. Child gets married and screws spouse. 4. Resulting offspring has AIDS. 5. Process repeats. 6. Profit! (for the pharmaceutical companies).
I have no idea what you meant by people having sex who are 60 years different in age. The fact that AIDS carriers are living longer destroys your argument that it's a disease that can be waited-out if no new infections occurr. That works well for diseases like Ebola which kills its host quickly. AIDS will definitely be with us until a vaccine is found, regardless of what fascist controls you may apply to society.
Yes I know that some people get aids through other means, but those other means are rare
Oh, like being born to an AIDS-infected mother? Your 2-3 generations argument is losing steam as the life expectancy of AIDS-infected humans increases. With all the current and developing AIDS-management medicines, it is plausible that AIDS babies will begin living to reproductive age.
When people like you describe anything as a 'voluntary' disease, you are laying blame on the carriers of said disease. Most car accidents are also voluntary. Hopefully, if you are in one, the paramedics won't stand around discussing how your indescriminate driving habits led to you being crushed inside a car.
Not trying to be as big of a smartass as I normally am, I'd like to point out that we've got basically this L-bone thing going on right now. It's called Usenet.
Microsoft did plenty of political lobbying. The tides turned for them after Bush got in the white house.
Hey, I only got on my high horse after you made that horrible comparison of free soft drinks and the microsoft case. Please go back and speak to the academics at your school and have them explain how that is not the same.
Unfortunately, I agree. There will probably not be a more harsh judgement found against MS in the future for its anti-competive leverage on its OS monopoly.
You are way off target.Coke giving away free samples is in no way the same thing as what the MS anti-trust suit was about. The rub came in when MS was, in their own words, "cutting off the air supply" of Netscape by giving away a product with their OS that made it impossible for Netscape to sell its browser.
There were many other facets. Resellers (PC manufacturers) faced all kinds of pricing hijinks if they installed competing products (Netscape, Linux, etc.) on their hardware. Since these hardware vendors are hugely dependent on the pricing whims of MS for the OS installed on the majority of the computers they sold, they were disinclined to sell boxes with other OS because they would receive pricing retribution from Microsoft. If you were / are a company trying to create an alternative OS, it was very difficult finding hardware vendors to partner with.
As for your claim about the IBM/Oracle/Sun "co-opting the political / legal system", you are full of crap. As with anyone who has been wronged, they are free to file lawsuits against criminals. Microsoft was found GUILTY in a US court of abusing its monopoly. Sounds like Netscape, Sun, et. al. weren't completely talking out of their asses. Unfortunately, Bush got elected and the Republican party is now owned by the mega-corporations. MS, in case you haven't noticed, is more 'mega' than the others.
I came across a 'freeware' app called TorrentSearch that is full of Malware. Additionally, the EULA has the user agreeing to allow the installation of ANY software at any later date by the software maker. So whoever installs TorrentSearch is volunteering her computer to be part of who-knows-what network of zombied computers controlled by the author.
Here's a thread on the TorrentSearch site that contains the EULA. The thing I find a little odd is that the discussion board is hosted on a server called "projectOwned.com"... What's up with that?
Nice made-up story. Please post a link to back it up if you want to be taken seriously.
These email scammers are not strong-armed thugs. If they were, they would be kidnapping people in their own country and holding them for ransom. These are wimp-ass criminals. The kind who can't hold a pistol straight enough to steal money the old-fashioned way.
Screw with them by all means possible. The more people that absorb their time, the more of a tarpit their scam becomes and they won't be able to operate as effectively on the gullible. Send them fake bank account numbers. Tell them you'll send money via Western Union and then don't send anything. Get them to run their asses off.
I run the Mac OS X Jaguar on my B/W G3 450mhz box just fine. I bought that computer in 1998. If I had an iPod, I expect it would work ok. I don't, though. I have an old Rio500 that iTunes supports even though the company that made the Rio500 doesn't exist anymore.
And you know what? iTunes is a superior interface for uploading songs to the Rio than the software that shipped with the player or the Real Audio player.
No. I'm saying that they only release one version. The Walmart-approved version.
I wasn't saying this hypothetical band would sell one million CDs a day at Walmart. I was saying Walmart itself sells perhaps a million discs a day across its 32,000 stores. Both these figures (number of discs and stores) are entirely made up for the purpose of this illustration. Whatever the real numbers are, they're big and they give Walmart a lot of leverage.
Great example. And that was the almighty
Nirvana that bowed to this pressure. It's expensive for a record label to release multiple versions of the same album. The Walmart version and the street version.
For a less powerful band.. as in any small band just signed onto a major.. it's not going to be such a nice compromise. It'll be more like, "Hey guys. Nice work in the studio. Uhhh.. gotta do some post-production on your song 'Artificial Life'.. Walmart thinks it is too critical of consumerism. They are responsible for a million cd sales a day. We gotta do what they say or your CD won't be carried in 32,000 stores across the country."
So don't think Walmart and Blockbuster aren't having an impact on what you see and hear.
That case was not the same as what I'm talking about. HP (or any other inkjet company) has not tried to sue the companies selling inkjet refill kits. The Lexmark case is about how a laserprinter toner cartridge manufacturer (SCC) reverse-engineered the circuitry on the Lexmark toner carts and sold their own compatible toner carts. It would be the same if I were talking about HP suing people who are selling HP compatible inkjet cartridges.
Inkjet refill kits circumvent the built-in obsolesence of the inkjet cartridges. it's a hardware hack that allows the user to use the firmware of the carts beyond its intended use of x volume of ink.
Hopefully someone will come up with a similar hack for those disposable DVDs that recently hit the market. When they are opened, Oxygen begins a chemical reaction that limits their usage to a few days. Perhaps a device could be constructed that would open the packages while submerged in a clear liquid such as epoxy. This liquid would bond to the entire surface of the disc such that when it is removed, it blocks the reaction with oxygen and allows the discs to be played for much longer.
I appreciate you describing the perspective of the DMCA on this. I doubt, however, that the Ritz camera people will bother taking anyone to court over this because the hacking is of a physical nature. There is little precedent for the DMCA to be used on physical hacks.
A good opportunity would be for HP to prosecute the people who make inkjet refill kits. HP sells their printers at a loss and intends to make money from the cartrdiges. They put proprietary electronics unnecessarily on the carts so competing vendors can't fabricate compatible cartridges. Nothing stops the user (owner) from puncturing the cart and injecting fresh ink into it. This is pretty similar to making your own cable to connect to one of these cameras and downloading the pictures yourself.
Glad you brought up the CueCat while discussing the business model. In years to come, I think, the CueCat will be so forgotten that it will be regarded as an urban legend when used to illustrate a point about an absurd business model. I agree with everything you're saying here. I would say, though, that the people behind a concept like this are not the tech-savvy individuals who would even consider that the product might be hacked which destroys their 'give away the razor, sell the blades' business model. Eventually, the MBA textbooks will be updated with case studies of the
eyeOpener, CueCat, and the Ritz Disposable Digital camera. Future marketers will know that they have to ensure that their free razor blades can't be used without their proprietary blades. By the way, my fingers are crossed that the XboX will also be discussed in the same chapter of the afformentioned MBA textbooks.
These criminals aren't cracking the systems of the people they're squeezing money from. They're performing a denial of service attack from a bunch of other comprimised systems and demanding money from their targets. It doesn't matter what software their victims have installed. The criminals are exploiting vulnerabilities of the TCP/IP protocol itself.
Not that I expect her opinion really influences many people these days. But I was taken aback that she was such a hater.
Letterman asked her if she had ever ridden on a Segway. She said she had spent no more than 30 seconds on it because she felt she looked silly.
She went on in the interview to talk about how she loves hunting birds in England because she loves wearing the clothes. And they don't read any magazines, newspapers, or watch television at her house. And she's sending her daughter off to a nun's convent. Seriously.
Cuckoo!
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One thing I haven't seen a lot of discussion of is why MS hasn't stepped forward to do anything about popups and spam before this. Enjoying their monopoly in the OS arena, they've established a browser monopoly and have no competitive pressure to improve their browser. IE users have been subjected to torturous popup ads for a few years now. If you examine any of the MSN marketing materials (intentional alliteration), you'll see that they tout popup blocking as one of the advantages to their service.
If the company would improve its browser, they would have one less 'feature' in their MSN service.
Clear example of monopoly exploitation in one product (browser) to gain an advantage in another area (ISP service). Sure, every other ISP is offering pop-up blocking, but let's see how they implement this service patch. Wouldn't it be interesting if it sort of half-works, but is 100% effective for MSN users?
I've seen this band several times. Techincal, comical, and musical marvel. The guy is coming to Austin, TX November 20th. Playing at Emo's. The trick is, wherever he plays, he usually plays first because he's got to spend 4 hours setting up and then takes it all down so the other bands can play on the stage. So what I'm trying to tell you is that wherever you might go to see Captured by Robots, be sure to go early. If you assume he's going on last, and you show up at midnight, you'll probably miss him.
The difference is that a lot of American cities have zoning restrictions on billboard advertising. Here in Austin, TX, the city passed a moratorium on billboards. No more can be built. And when any of the existing billboards have to be renovated, they will have to be reduced in size by 50%.
Unfortunately, now we have these billboard trucks adding congestion to our downtown. The trucks don't haul anything except a trailer with a billboard on it. Very f-ing obnoxious.
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