DDT isn't a food additive, it's a pesticide, and in fact it is non-toxic to humans, but it does build up in the food chain with deleterious effects in some birds. These problems are almost always directly linked to the overruse of DDT, which is far more effective infrequent doses than in regular usage.
But then again, it's also saved millions of lives by preventing malarial infection and other tropical diseases spread by mosquitoes and other insect pests.
Every major food watchdog group and several major medical associations, including the Mayo Clinic have both refuted the tinfoil hat claims about aspartame.
What kind of data do you need? It's the most studied food additive in the FDA's history. Do you need 50 year histories to be satisified?
Total bullshit. Aspartame is the most widely studied food additive ever, and none of the claims about formadelyhyde, methanol poisoning, headaches, lupis, or anything else have EVER been proven true.
Is there a way to get...target=blank requests to open up in a NEW TAB instead of IN A WHOLE NEW WINDOW? Too many sites needlessly have a target =blank next to links, and drives me batty.
Another technique is to have a Big Question that can be asked as a series of small questions and a series of medium questions. Ideally the smaller questions will be of a Yes/No variety to avoid vague answers.
Once you have all the "right" answers to the small questions, you can start asking the big question again as medium-sized questions and when they answer "wrong", ask them which is right, this answer or their answer to the two smaller questions.
If you're lucky, they'll give the "right" answers to the medium questions -- then you can drop the bomb on them with the "Big Question". When they give their canned answer, you can use their other answers against them.
They'll either have to give in or you get to depict them as lying scumbags. It's less effective in print than on TV, though, since you can see the sweat.
60 Minutes made this an art form in the 1970s, including the sweaty denial footage.
It strikes me that this is a crime that's decidedly low-tech, not high tech, and that the people behind it don't have the resources or skill to scan for open proxies or other methods of subterfuge to accomplish it.
The Rwanda tragedy was in great part caused by "developed" countries interventions (mostly from France and Belgium) during the colonial era and more recent events.
So how, exactly, did French and Belgian colonial actions of 30-plus years ago *cause* a bunch of Rwandans to massacre each other? Did they put a gun to their heads and say "kill each other"? Were the Rwandans once peaceful people for whom war and killing were completely foreign?
I'm all for a certain amount of historical blame, but at a certain point I have to ask myself if the people in these places (Rwanda, Zaire/Congo, Liberia, Angola, and so on) aren't actually victims of their own sociocultural problems inherent to their own cultures, and that they should be held accountable for them as well.
Tivo costs too much for many people. I bought my Series2 a year and a half ago (right as TW Cable started making their SA 8000 DVR available), and box+lifetime was over $500.
TW's box was $6.95 per month at my package level (HBO/Cinemax). I have to have my S2 for over 6 years to get ahead of renting from TW, and that presumes I don't blow a HDD or have some other failure that requires me to spend $100 getting mine fixed to retain the lifetime (you can do this). Adding in a repair trip pushes it over 7 years.
I wouldn't trade my Tivo for TW's box, but to a lot of ordinary people they do the same thing and the TW box is *way* cheaper to own. No upfront costs. No repair liability. Dual-tuner capability. I'm not saying the TW box is *better*, just that it has some compelling feartures and a great price point for the masses who can make or break a product.
Personally I think Tivo needs to alter their revenue model and innovate a lot more. Some random ideas:
Free Tivo basic. One sub fee for multiple boxes per household. Free HMO for second (third,...) boxes. Sell "cool" or requested software updates as modules (Batch Save to VCR, distributed scheduling). Really innovate the hardware -- firewire for additional storage/tuners, built-in GigE, 900Mhz digital remotes -- *and* figure out how to sell it for a profit. Sell a "PC Pak" -- HW accelerated TV card + TivoOS for HTPC applications.
I love Tivo, but I can't help but think its high price vs. cable and absence of innovation in software or hardware will sink it against the cable behemoths.
And you're right about Islam terror breading here too, but what's the cause of that?
It's not America OR Israel; it's the clash of a rigid belief system against a modern world culture that rejects many of its beliefs. Unfortunately, instead of attempting to reconcile Islam with modernity, its leaders have instead chosen a rear-guard action to "defeat" Islam's "enemies".
You do have a legitimate argument about the apparent arrogance of American foreign policy, especially under the Bush administration.
What bothers me about much of this criticism isn't Bush's arrogance or the poorly planned war in Iraq, but the oh-so-convenient ignornace of recent European history.
The dead were being piled like cordwood in the Balkans before the Europeans did anything besides send ineffective peacekeepers who stood by and watched genocide take place, it took direct US military involvement to acheive anything resembling an end to hostilities. The French bombed a *Greenpeace* ship in a *New Zealand* harbor so they could perform a nuclear test without harassment. And the convenient forgetting of less recent European history. Alegeria. French Indochina. Congo. Rwanda. Palestine. Suez Canal. The list goes on.
It makes European criticism of Bush (regardless of how stupid Bush acts) seems really, really hypocritical. And then there's the sense that the Europeans have simply grown accomodating of Muslim extremism, either because they enjoy the trade with Iran, Iraq, Syria, and so on, or because they simply agree with anti-semitic sentiments surrounding the Israeli question.
Unfortunately, Islamic terror is hitting a lot closer to home for Europeans. The last time they chose appeasement, in 1938, it didn't work out so well. I keep wondering if they're willing to stop being mad at the US and face the reality of what they've been nurturing, both at home and abroad, or if the King of England will need to send forth crusaders to defend Europe again.
Granted I don't agree with the raid, but this argument is so overused. Should we stop all traffic enforcement so that we can use those police resources to go solve murder cases?
It can be carried too far, as in your unrealistic example, but the application and proportionality of law enforcement resources is *always* a great argument, both for practical reasons and for the obvious political choices demonstrated by making some enforcement targets high priority and others get little or no priority.
For example, why is there an ongoing bong task force but no ongoing anti-fraud task force nailing spammers?
And as others have pointed out, why did we spend hundreds of millions figuring out whether Monica Lewinsky swallowed or not, instead of spending hundreds of millions tracking illegal immigrants or other undesirables pre-9/11?
In my mind, these things only underscore the fact that politics is the priority, and everything else is secondary. High minded claims otherwise just ignore all the other, more serious problems that get ignored so that other more politically favored issues can be pursued.
The US hasn't had a war on own soil yet; so everything is a "far far away not affecting me" kindof thing for the US-citizens (or under a propagaded motive; "WMD!", "terrorism", "Nuclear treath!",...).
100% incorrect. The US experienced the greatest loss of life in any military conflict during the Civil War, which was fought on US soil. 620,000 deaths is a generally accepted number, including the destruction of a number of cities, including Atlanta. That's almost 1 in 10 white males between 15 and 59.
The three battles of Gettysburg, Chancellorsville and Chickamauga alone took only a total of 9 days yet killed over 110,000 people, and this was before the development of weapons most people would even consider modern.
I work for a business that *sometimes* bills *some* portions of *some* projects in terms of the hours that went into them. I never work on those or any other client projects, and my time is always billed to the "overhead" job number.
I can appreciate collecting time information for people who work on billable business so that either you can bill directly for the hours or determine appropriate fee structures for non-hourly client billing, but why overhead employees?
The timesheets are never seen by HR, so it has nothing to do with time off or compensation. I've asked repeatedly (including getting into a heated argument with the dork that collects timesheets) why they can't just take my total hours worked in a year - vacation and divide by 12 and call it a day, and I get a lot of mumbo jumbo about why that wouldn't work.
It's unrealistic because the vast majority of MS stockholders ARE MS stockholders because it's a money machine. They don't really care what MS does as long as the machine keeps printing money. It's also unrealistic because the amount of stock necessary to actually change anything amounts to tens of billions of dollars, and "we" will never accumulate that kind of capital.
It's also been demonstrated to be ineffective, even if you hold millions of shares -- many major institutional shareholders (CALPERS, to name just one) have tried to use the proxy process to make *minor* changes in company behavior and have been rejected time and again; when the board and senior management don't want to do something, there's little you can do unless you own a majority of the stock, and even then it needs to be a mission of religious faith to get changes.
Let's face it, major businesses are like mini nation-states -- barring the application of lethal force, they'll do whatever they want -- they own the civil government.
There are a number of places, including, I think New York City that now don't have parking meters, they have a box that takes coins, cash or credit cards and spits out a receipt you're supposed to be put on your dash indicating you've paid.
The nice part is that you CAN use credit cards and buy a longer period of parking than you can typically find in coins in your car/pocket.
The old mechanical meters we used to have in Minneapolis could be jimmied, and sometimes in the winter, actually be *frozen* if you put water into the mechanism.
Not all of IPX, but at least the numbering scheme felt halfway thought out: full addresses were 80 bits long, comprised of 32 bits of network address and 48 bits of node addresss, the latter almost always being the device's MAC address (which is a delicious hack for ARP tables on ethernet networks).
The 48 bit node address space would make it easy to have large single-subnet LANs without dealing with multiple subnets/NAT/routing, and the network portion of the address space is as large as the entire/24 space for IPv4.
The rest of IPX was kind of a kludge, but I liked the numbering system.
I thought the Apple earbuds sucked, relative to two other pair of earbuds I have, some unknown-model Sennheisers that came with a Teac mini-CD MP3 player and a pair of Koss buds that have some kind of squishy material that expands in your ear canal like earplugs.
Sound quality aside, they all suck for three major reasons: a nuisance to put in, a nuisance to *keep* in, and a total cable-management nightmare.
The best portable headphones I've ever used have been a pair of Koss Porta-Pro Jrs. I bought mine about 6 years ago and they still sound great.
...the ones with the normal headphone band that goes over your head, and the speaker part that is about the size of a penny and is set perpendicular to your ear opening so that the front of the speaker essentially faces forward as you put it on?
Those were my favorites, too, do they still sell them? They seemed to have disappeared when they started selling those earbuds, which I can't stand.
A recent newspaper article talked about all the bad financial decisions people are making on cars; really long term loans (8-10 years), negative equity transactions, and so on. The car industry keeps this going because they need to keep plants running and cars selling to keep the whole machine turning, and consumers are dumb ass enough to keep paying massive lease or loan payments.
How do we know that the next step in this consumer financial treadmill isn't "subscription cars"? When it breaks beyond a certain level, you go to the dealership, turn in your car and get into a newly refurbished one. No hassle for the dealer to figure out complicated parts or systems, just basic fluid level maintenence.
Auto mechanics become few and far between; the use/broken/damaged cars are shipped by train/ship to $third_world where they're parted out and reassembled to be returned to dealers. The truly bad parts are either scrapped for base metals or, if modular, further disassembled for their own reassembly.
At this point, we don't have mechanics with any more skill than the droolers at Rapid-Oil and the high value technician jobs really have been essentially outsourced to a third world country. For the US, Mexico would make more sense than India due to simple geography and the size/weight of a car; but it's not improbable that labor rates in India/China/Philipines would be low enough that transhipping cars overseas would make sense.
and SGI could offer Apple some technology that would give the XServe a shot in the arm.
Back when OS X wasn't even out yet, I thought Apple should have engineered a merger with SGI. There's lots of reasons why it didn't happen, but I think there's a bunch that could have come out of it -- a lot of benefit for Apple in the visualization arena, high-end goodies for OS X, and credibility in the machine room.
SGI would have gotten a company with better marketing capabilities, a product line that stretched from desktop to cluster, and a lot of user interface goodies.
Ah well, won't happen now, but I sometimes wonder if maybe a Sun-Apple merger might make sense. MS can have the "business desktop" and SunApple can take all the other parts -- enterprise server, graphics, etc.
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Presumably a single S/390 can handle thousands of low-cycle Linux images simultaneously. You're being paid by the *hour*, not by the message, KB or any other piecework metric.
1000 images * 24 hours = $24k per day. Rate limit the aggregate pipe to the internet for all images to 9600 bps, to mitigate the real damage.
In a week the spammer could owe you nearly $200k.
How many S/390s can we get to collaborate on this? 10? 20?
The same thing might work on a more limited scale with Mac and PC based virtual environments, as well as maybe FreeBSD jails.
DVD is fine, but any real quantity of data ends up on so many media its almost not worth it.
At their price point it is too little, too late. If their price point per cart was $5-10, they'd have a huge seller and I'd consider buying one, since the carts would be essentially disposable and it would greatly outstrip DVD as a backup medium due to the larger per-unit storage, and it would beat hard-disks as storage since it would be a lot simpler than dealing with removable ATA sleds.
OK, so spyware is in a mostly different category than viruses, but doesn't it seem odd that the companies with the greatest experience in scanning computers looking for software haven't moved into the market dominated by smaller companies/freeware?
I think it would be a HUGE seller to corporations who lose of a ton of productivity to this crap. I know I'd push it in a heartbeat if it was available, as would others.
So why does McAfee or Norton do this? I know it's not a conspiracy -- but it really feels like one.
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DDT isn't a food additive, it's a pesticide, and in fact it is non-toxic to humans, but it does build up in the food chain with deleterious effects in some birds. These problems are almost always directly linked to the overruse of DDT, which is far more effective infrequent doses than in regular usage.
But then again, it's also saved millions of lives by preventing malarial infection and other tropical diseases spread by mosquitoes and other insect pests.
Every major food watchdog group and several major medical associations, including the Mayo Clinic have both refuted the tinfoil hat claims about aspartame.
What kind of data do you need? It's the most studied food additive in the FDA's history. Do you need 50 year histories to be satisified?
Total bullshit. Aspartame is the most widely studied food additive ever, and none of the claims about formadelyhyde, methanol poisoning, headaches, lupis, or anything else have EVER been proven true.
Stop spreading this lie.
Is there a way to get ...target=blank requests to open up in a NEW TAB instead of IN A WHOLE NEW WINDOW? Too many sites needlessly have a target =blank next to links, and drives me batty.
Another technique is to have a Big Question that can be asked as a series of small questions and a series of medium questions. Ideally the smaller questions will be of a Yes/No variety to avoid vague answers.
Once you have all the "right" answers to the small questions, you can start asking the big question again as medium-sized questions and when they answer "wrong", ask them which is right, this answer or their answer to the two smaller questions.
If you're lucky, they'll give the "right" answers to the medium questions -- then you can drop the bomb on them with the "Big Question". When they give their canned answer, you can use their other answers against them.
They'll either have to give in or you get to depict them as lying scumbags. It's less effective in print than on TV, though, since you can see the sweat.
60 Minutes made this an art form in the 1970s, including the sweaty denial footage.
It strikes me that this is a crime that's decidedly low-tech, not high tech, and that the people behind it don't have the resources or skill to scan for open proxies or other methods of subterfuge to accomplish it.
So why won't this be successful?
The Rwanda tragedy was in great part caused by "developed" countries interventions (mostly from France and Belgium) during the colonial era and more recent events.
So how, exactly, did French and Belgian colonial actions of 30-plus years ago *cause* a bunch of Rwandans to massacre each other? Did they put a gun to their heads and say "kill each other"? Were the Rwandans once peaceful people for whom war and killing were completely foreign?
I'm all for a certain amount of historical blame, but at a certain point I have to ask myself if the people in these places (Rwanda, Zaire/Congo, Liberia, Angola, and so on) aren't actually victims of their own sociocultural problems inherent to their own cultures, and that they should be held accountable for them as well.
This could be the final piece in the puzzle needed to make wearable computing a mainstream reality (rather than a thing for visionary geeks).
You misspelled "dorky."
They reconfigured the acronym after the first pass.
Tivo costs too much for many people. I bought my Series2 a year and a half ago (right as TW Cable started making their SA 8000 DVR available), and box+lifetime was over $500.
...) boxes. Sell "cool" or requested software updates as modules (Batch Save to VCR, distributed scheduling). Really innovate the hardware -- firewire for additional storage/tuners, built-in GigE, 900Mhz digital remotes -- *and* figure out how to sell it for a profit. Sell a "PC Pak" -- HW accelerated TV card + TivoOS for HTPC applications.
TW's box was $6.95 per month at my package level (HBO/Cinemax). I have to have my S2 for over 6 years to get ahead of renting from TW, and that presumes I don't blow a HDD or have some other failure that requires me to spend $100 getting mine fixed to retain the lifetime (you can do this). Adding in a repair trip pushes it over 7 years.
I wouldn't trade my Tivo for TW's box, but to a lot of ordinary people they do the same thing and the TW box is *way* cheaper to own. No upfront costs. No repair liability. Dual-tuner capability. I'm not saying the TW box is *better*, just that it has some compelling feartures and a great price point for the masses who can make or break a product.
Personally I think Tivo needs to alter their revenue model and innovate a lot more. Some random ideas:
Free Tivo basic. One sub fee for multiple boxes per household. Free HMO for second (third,
I love Tivo, but I can't help but think its high price vs. cable and absence of innovation in software or hardware will sink it against the cable behemoths.
You just misspelled profit margin.
And you're right about Islam terror breading here too, but what's the cause of that?
It's not America OR Israel; it's the clash of a rigid belief system against a modern world culture that rejects many of its beliefs. Unfortunately, instead of attempting to reconcile Islam with modernity, its leaders have instead chosen a rear-guard action to "defeat" Islam's "enemies".
You do have a legitimate argument about the apparent arrogance of American foreign policy, especially under the Bush administration.
What bothers me about much of this criticism isn't Bush's arrogance or the poorly planned war in Iraq, but the oh-so-convenient ignornace of recent European history.
The dead were being piled like cordwood in the Balkans before the Europeans did anything besides send ineffective peacekeepers who stood by and watched genocide take place, it took direct US military involvement to acheive anything resembling an end to hostilities. The French bombed a *Greenpeace* ship in a *New Zealand* harbor so they could perform a nuclear test without harassment. And the convenient forgetting of less recent European history. Alegeria. French Indochina. Congo. Rwanda. Palestine. Suez Canal. The list goes on.
It makes European criticism of Bush (regardless of how stupid Bush acts) seems really, really hypocritical. And then there's the sense that the Europeans have simply grown accomodating of Muslim extremism, either because they enjoy the trade with Iran, Iraq, Syria, and so on, or because they simply agree with anti-semitic sentiments surrounding the Israeli question.
Unfortunately, Islamic terror is hitting a lot closer to home for Europeans. The last time they chose appeasement, in 1938, it didn't work out so well. I keep wondering if they're willing to stop being mad at the US and face the reality of what they've been nurturing, both at home and abroad, or if the King of England will need to send forth crusaders to defend Europe again.
Granted I don't agree with the raid, but this argument is so overused. Should we stop all traffic enforcement so that we can use those police resources to go solve murder cases?
It can be carried too far, as in your unrealistic example, but the application and proportionality of law enforcement resources is *always* a great argument, both for practical reasons and for the obvious political choices demonstrated by making some enforcement targets high priority and others get little or no priority.
For example, why is there an ongoing bong task force but no ongoing anti-fraud task force nailing spammers?
And as others have pointed out, why did we spend hundreds of millions figuring out whether Monica Lewinsky swallowed or not, instead of spending hundreds of millions tracking illegal immigrants or other undesirables pre-9/11?
In my mind, these things only underscore the fact that politics is the priority, and everything else is secondary. High minded claims otherwise just ignore all the other, more serious problems that get ignored so that other more politically favored issues can be pursued.
The US hasn't had a war on own soil yet; so everything is a "far far away not affecting me" kindof thing for the US-citizens (or under a propagaded motive; "WMD!", "terrorism", "Nuclear treath!", ...).
100% incorrect. The US experienced the greatest loss of life in any military conflict during the Civil War, which was fought on US soil. 620,000 deaths is a generally accepted number, including the destruction of a number of cities, including Atlanta. That's almost 1 in 10 white males between 15 and 59.
The three battles of Gettysburg, Chancellorsville and Chickamauga alone took only a total of 9 days yet killed over 110,000 people, and this was before the development of weapons most people would even consider modern.
What is the deal with timesheets, anyway?
I work for a business that *sometimes* bills *some* portions of *some* projects in terms of the hours that went into them. I never work on those or any other client projects, and my time is always billed to the "overhead" job number.
I can appreciate collecting time information for people who work on billable business so that either you can bill directly for the hours or determine appropriate fee structures for non-hourly client billing, but why overhead employees?
The timesheets are never seen by HR, so it has nothing to do with time off or compensation. I've asked repeatedly (including getting into a heated argument with the dork that collects timesheets) why they can't just take my total hours worked in a year - vacation and divide by 12 and call it a day, and I get a lot of mumbo jumbo about why that wouldn't work.
It's unrealistic because the vast majority of MS stockholders ARE MS stockholders because it's a money machine. They don't really care what MS does as long as the machine keeps printing money. It's also unrealistic because the amount of stock necessary to actually change anything amounts to tens of billions of dollars, and "we" will never accumulate that kind of capital.
It's also been demonstrated to be ineffective, even if you hold millions of shares -- many major institutional shareholders (CALPERS, to name just one) have tried to use the proxy process to make *minor* changes in company behavior and have been rejected time and again; when the board and senior management don't want to do something, there's little you can do unless you own a majority of the stock, and even then it needs to be a mission of religious faith to get changes.
Let's face it, major businesses are like mini nation-states -- barring the application of lethal force, they'll do whatever they want -- they own the civil government.
There are a number of places, including, I think New York City that now don't have parking meters, they have a box that takes coins, cash or credit cards and spits out a receipt you're supposed to be put on your dash indicating you've paid.
The nice part is that you CAN use credit cards and buy a longer period of parking than you can typically find in coins in your car/pocket.
The old mechanical meters we used to have in Minneapolis could be jimmied, and sometimes in the winter, actually be *frozen* if you put water into the mechanism.
Not all of IPX, but at least the numbering scheme felt halfway thought out: full addresses were 80 bits long, comprised of 32 bits of network address and 48 bits of node addresss, the latter almost always being the device's MAC address (which is a delicious hack for ARP tables on ethernet networks).
/24 space for IPv4.
The 48 bit node address space would make it easy to have large single-subnet LANs without dealing with multiple subnets/NAT/routing, and the network portion of the address space is as large as the entire
The rest of IPX was kind of a kludge, but I liked the numbering system.
I thought the Apple earbuds sucked, relative to two other pair of earbuds I have, some unknown-model Sennheisers that came with a Teac mini-CD MP3 player and a pair of Koss buds that have some kind of squishy material that expands in your ear canal like earplugs.
Sound quality aside, they all suck for three major reasons: a nuisance to put in, a nuisance to *keep* in, and a total cable-management nightmare.
The best portable headphones I've ever used have been a pair of Koss Porta-Pro Jrs. I bought mine about 6 years ago and they still sound great.
...the ones with the normal headphone band that goes over your head, and the speaker part that is about the size of a penny and is set perpendicular to your ear opening so that the front of the speaker essentially faces forward as you put it on?
Those were my favorites, too, do they still sell them? They seemed to have disappeared when they started selling those earbuds, which I can't stand.
A recent newspaper article talked about all the bad financial decisions people are making on cars; really long term loans (8-10 years), negative equity transactions, and so on. The car industry keeps this going because they need to keep plants running and cars selling to keep the whole machine turning, and consumers are dumb ass enough to keep paying massive lease or loan payments.
How do we know that the next step in this consumer financial treadmill isn't "subscription cars"? When it breaks beyond a certain level, you go to the dealership, turn in your car and get into a newly refurbished one. No hassle for the dealer to figure out complicated parts or systems, just basic fluid level maintenence.
Auto mechanics become few and far between; the use/broken/damaged cars are shipped by train/ship to $third_world where they're parted out and reassembled to be returned to dealers. The truly bad parts are either scrapped for base metals or, if modular, further disassembled for their own reassembly.
At this point, we don't have mechanics with any more skill than the droolers at Rapid-Oil and the high value technician jobs really have been essentially outsourced to a third world country. For the US, Mexico would make more sense than India due to simple geography and the size/weight of a car; but it's not improbable that labor rates in India/China/Philipines would be low enough that transhipping cars overseas would make sense.
and SGI could offer Apple some technology that would give the XServe a shot in the arm.
Back when OS X wasn't even out yet, I thought Apple should have engineered a merger with SGI. There's lots of reasons why it didn't happen, but I think there's a bunch that could have come out of it -- a lot of benefit for Apple in the visualization arena, high-end goodies for OS X, and credibility in the machine room.
SGI would have gotten a company with better marketing capabilities, a product line that stretched from desktop to cluster, and a lot of user interface goodies.
Ah well, won't happen now, but I sometimes wonder if maybe a Sun-Apple merger might make sense. MS can have the "business desktop" and SunApple can take all the other parts -- enterprise server, graphics, etc.
Presumably a single S/390 can handle thousands of low-cycle Linux images simultaneously. You're being paid by the *hour*, not by the message, KB or any other piecework metric.
1000 images * 24 hours = $24k per day. Rate limit the aggregate pipe to the internet for all images to 9600 bps, to mitigate the real damage.
In a week the spammer could owe you nearly $200k.
How many S/390s can we get to collaborate on this? 10? 20?
The same thing might work on a more limited scale with Mac and PC based virtual environments, as well as maybe FreeBSD jails.
Try fitting 35 gig on a single DVD.
DVD is fine, but any real quantity of data ends up on so many media its almost not worth it.
At their price point it is too little, too late. If their price point per cart was $5-10, they'd have a huge seller and I'd consider buying one, since the carts would be essentially disposable and it would greatly outstrip DVD as a backup medium due to the larger per-unit storage, and it would beat hard-disks as storage since it would be a lot simpler than dealing with removable ATA sleds.
Can someone explain that to me?
OK, so spyware is in a mostly different category than viruses, but doesn't it seem odd that the companies with the greatest experience in scanning computers looking for software haven't moved into the market dominated by smaller companies/freeware?
I think it would be a HUGE seller to corporations who lose of a ton of productivity to this crap. I know I'd push it in a heartbeat if it was available, as would others.
So why does McAfee or Norton do this? I know it's not a conspiracy -- but it really feels like one.