It's difficult enough to convince my non-technical peers to start using e-mail clients instead of webmail services, let alone have them attend key-signing parties.
As Computerworld notes, men are more likely to fall for scams than women, and over 30% of losses are between $1,000 and $5,000. Hey! It's not my fault that the most interesting and nifty stuff is only available online!
Or you could look at it as the target audience diversifying far more than they ever did before.
From the inception of vinyl until the turn of the century, most people just bought pop music, because that was the only music they could hear at the time. There was nothing to compare contemporary music to, so people bought it out of ignorance. Generation gaps, outdated and worn out audio formats, scarcity due to albums going out of print, and a general lack of interest or time/money to sample, kept the majority of listeners from experiencing music's rich history.
Once Napster came about, people suddenly had instantaneous access to almost the entire back catalog of all prerecorded music (or at least all music that was released on CDs). This allowed for a rebirth of older music and genres that hadn't seen as many fans since their industry-granted 15 minutes of fame expired, as well as the diversification and maturing of musical taste in the majority of listeners. Lots of people I know like older music as well as new music, and have a far more diverse set of musical ascetics than any of the generations past. The success of the Guitar Hero franchise is an excellent example of this. Most of the soundtrack is either indie music or music that's at least 20 years old, yet it sells because people have heard a decent amount of the soundtrack before and found that they liked it much better than what plays on today's top 40 radio or what's in the CD racks at Wal-Mart.
The industry is dying primarily because their business model relied on music being disposable and the audience being fickle and spontaneous. Since P2P emerged, tastes have become more engraved in the general populace, and it's usually difficult to get people to stop liking the really good artists just because something new has come out. Now that they can't get people to throw out their old albums anymore for new ones, the industry has lost its moneymaker. Yes, people are now more used to the idea of music being "free," but the real cause of sales slippage is because the industry has failed to diversify as fast as its populace has. It's still trying to market pop idols as if these were the days of old. Not anymore.
I'm sorry, but I just can't buy into the argument that $1 per-track is too expensive or that CDs in general are overpriced. Not when video games are $60 each.
Yes, the entities that are supposed to protect your identity from fraudulent use should be held accountable if it is indeed their fault, but you can still become a victim of fraud from your own faults, such as falling for a phishing website. Blaming your bank because you failed to check that the URL is authentic is just as irresponsible as losing sensitive information and not bothering to inform your clients out of fear of a lost reputation.
To the one with common scene, yes. But in this state of government-induced fear it could easily be spun so that it appears to be giving advice to terrorists.
This is a case of fraud, not theft. This man's identity was not "stolen," but used fraudulently in an attempt to gain illegitimate access to goods and services under the guise of someone else. Using words like "identity theft" is no better than the RIAA calling copyright infringement "theft."
It doesn't appear anyone is *likening* engineers, in general, to terrorists. What they are saying is if you can recruit engineerss to your terrorist cause, that can benefit your cause, because they are good at solving problems and planning. So then the article is giving out advice to terrorists?
479 bytes? Are you really so committed to efficiency that you'll complain about an extra amount of data that even dial-up users can download with ease? I think your complaints are better suited to the seemingly exponential amount of Web and software bloat these days rather than complaining about a mere 479 bytes.
From the article:
Merrill plans to experiment with ad-supported music download services, pointing to Google's success with targeted advertising, and subscription models. Lucky for him these services alreadyexist.
Believe it or not, record companies still provide vital marketing for their artists even though their primary purpose of distribution has been made obsolete.
If I wanted to sell something that related to another product, I'd consider the planned obsolescence of that product before timeliness.
Think of it economically: Window of profitability of book on normal release: 18 months Window of profitability of book on LTS release: at least 3 years
Considering the time and expense involved in writing and publishing a book, it makes far more sense to make the "profitability window" as large as possible rather than trying to get the product on the shelves as soon as you can.
Considering that Hardy will be coming out in a few weeks, and will be supported for 3-5 years as opposed to 18 months, wouldn't it have been a smarter idea to write a book on 8.04 Hardy Heron instead?
Umm, no. You can have privacy controls set so that no one but your friends see your profile, and you have to sign up for Facebook just to see any profiles at all. I'll admit it's not really security, but it certainly isn't the same as a public MySpace page where literally anyone can see it.
Well it's really a twofold problem. No one is going to implement encryption and digital signatures by default if no one requests it, and most people either don't know or don't care that 95% of all their Internet traffic is transmitted in the clear. I've seen plenty of people stupidly logging into their Facebook accounts and sending instant messages over unencrypted public Wi-Fi connections.
We don't need IPv6 to do this. We just need to get more people to start using current technologies like OTR and PGP so that the minority who use them now don't have to suffer from everybody else's unwillingness to use them.
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It's difficult enough to convince my non-technical peers to start using e-mail clients instead of webmail services, let alone have them attend key-signing parties.
They can still read the URL.
Or you could look at it as the target audience diversifying far more than they ever did before.
From the inception of vinyl until the turn of the century, most people just bought pop music, because that was the only music they could hear at the time. There was nothing to compare contemporary music to, so people bought it out of ignorance. Generation gaps, outdated and worn out audio formats, scarcity due to albums going out of print, and a general lack of interest or time/money to sample, kept the majority of listeners from experiencing music's rich history.
Once Napster came about, people suddenly had instantaneous access to almost the entire back catalog of all prerecorded music (or at least all music that was released on CDs). This allowed for a rebirth of older music and genres that hadn't seen as many fans since their industry-granted 15 minutes of fame expired, as well as the diversification and maturing of musical taste in the majority of listeners. Lots of people I know like older music as well as new music, and have a far more diverse set of musical ascetics than any of the generations past. The success of the Guitar Hero franchise is an excellent example of this. Most of the soundtrack is either indie music or music that's at least 20 years old, yet it sells because people have heard a decent amount of the soundtrack before and found that they liked it much better than what plays on today's top 40 radio or what's in the CD racks at Wal-Mart.
The industry is dying primarily because their business model relied on music being disposable and the audience being fickle and spontaneous. Since P2P emerged, tastes have become more engraved in the general populace, and it's usually difficult to get people to stop liking the really good artists just because something new has come out. Now that they can't get people to throw out their old albums anymore for new ones, the industry has lost its moneymaker. Yes, people are now more used to the idea of music being "free," but the real cause of sales slippage is because the industry has failed to diversify as fast as its populace has. It's still trying to market pop idols as if these were the days of old. Not anymore.
I'm sorry, but I just can't buy into the argument that $1 per-track is too expensive or that CDs in general are overpriced. Not when video games are $60 each.
I'm sure the femanazis are pleased.
Yes, the entities that are supposed to protect your identity from fraudulent use should be held accountable if it is indeed their fault, but you can still become a victim of fraud from your own faults, such as falling for a phishing website. Blaming your bank because you failed to check that the URL is authentic is just as irresponsible as losing sensitive information and not bothering to inform your clients out of fear of a lost reputation.
To the one with common scene, yes. But in this state of government-induced fear it could easily be spun so that it appears to be giving advice to terrorists.
This is a case of fraud, not theft. This man's identity was not "stolen," but used fraudulently in an attempt to gain illegitimate access to goods and services under the guise of someone else. Using words like "identity theft" is no better than the RIAA calling copyright infringement "theft."
Based on previous experience, about 0.2.
No. That's called business.
479 bytes? Are you really so committed to efficiency that you'll complain about an extra amount of data that even dial-up users can download with ease? I think your complaints are better suited to the seemingly exponential amount of Web and software bloat these days rather than complaining about a mere 479 bytes.
Flea markets? eBay? There are plenty of people who claim to buy media secondhand because they don't want to support the lawsuits.
Believe it or not, record companies still provide vital marketing for their artists even though their primary purpose of distribution has been made obsolete.
That's already being implemented.
If I wanted to sell something that related to another product, I'd consider the planned obsolescence of that product before timeliness.
Think of it economically:
Window of profitability of book on normal release: 18 months
Window of profitability of book on LTS release: at least 3 years
Considering the time and expense involved in writing and publishing a book, it makes far more sense to make the "profitability window" as large as possible rather than trying to get the product on the shelves as soon as you can.
Considering that Hardy will be coming out in a few weeks, and will be supported for 3-5 years as opposed to 18 months, wouldn't it have been a smarter idea to write a book on 8.04 Hardy Heron instead?
Bullshit
Umm, no. You can have privacy controls set so that no one but your friends see your profile, and you have to sign up for Facebook just to see any profiles at all. I'll admit it's not really security, but it certainly isn't the same as a public MySpace page where literally anyone can see it.
You must tell me how you got past those anti-shouting filters.
Well it's really a twofold problem. No one is going to implement encryption and digital signatures by default if no one requests it, and most people either don't know or don't care that 95% of all their Internet traffic is transmitted in the clear. I've seen plenty of people stupidly logging into their Facebook accounts and sending instant messages over unencrypted public Wi-Fi connections.
We don't need IPv6 to do this. We just need to get more people to start using current technologies like OTR and PGP so that the minority who use them now don't have to suffer from everybody else's unwillingness to use them.
Great. Now I have to wear a mask and forgo my discount every time I go shopping just to secure my privacy.