There are some structural problems with micropayments that need to be overcome:
- paypal sucks. Everytime I think I should give them a second chance, they bombard me with 10 more reasons I need to stay away. They are like Best Buy in that regard.
- Charge/merchant processing is still horribly expensive, to the point of making this unattainable. Long ago I had thought that paypal was going to smash the deathgrip that charge processors had on the world, but that has not come to pass, as they likely are also a victim of the charge processors.
If I spend $.50 per month on digital media, and even if charges are batched monthly AND they get a super deal on charge processing costs, they will likely end up with
Between this and their roadmap that almost exclusively involves power consumption improvements, Intel is starting to lose it's edge over AMD. From talking to Intel folks quite a bit, it seems like there is a lot of blind pride on Intel's part in their product line and vision, and they dismiss most anything that I raise as an issue with their performance vs. AMD, and that's not a good sign to me. Intel is not dying that's for sure, but they're going to have to make a course correction and not make another decade long mistake like itanium.
Because it's the Internet, there are so many permuations of where the server is, who owns the site, and who made the comment, and where all those people live. Certainly, a company needs to do what it can to defend it's name, but I've got to believe it's going to get a LOT harder to do so.
Isn't this the reason that there is supposed to be an air gap between classified networks are and unclassified networks?
I'm wondering how much of what was obtained is planted information to look like something valuable. Then again, it is the government we're talking about, so it could well be national secrets.
Quality of life standards are improving, driving up labor rates, and most of the "easy" outsourcing has already been done. Outsourcing larger development projects ends up not saving as much as expected because of the added management layers that are needed here and there to ensure a successful project.
...does google's popularity start to wane? There's a growing sense of frustration with them, and I've found that many other search engines yield better results, so it is a matter of time before internet users at large start using something else?
Granted, I think the reasons that their results are not good is that there are SO many of these black hats trying to pollute their index, so in a sense, they are falling victim to their own success.
I have read this article everywhere I turn, on every news show I've watched today. Most of them are *NOT* portraying the "discovery" in its proper context.
I talk to the big telcos on a regular basis as part of my job and I've been jabbing them for a while about the impending death of their voice business, but their stories have been changing, well not Bell South, but the others are really pushing hard into home and business VOIP, especially ATT.
POTS doesn't need a death watch yet, but it's certainly moving that way.
Sadly, the need for that much capacity is probably driven by spam, which means ISPs are spending a boat load of money to facilitate spam that neither they, nor their customers want, and the ISPs have to turn around and charge higher prices because of it.
Certainly, any ISP worth its salt is going to be filtering spam, but there aren't a lot of anti-spam systems out there that are effective over the long term or aren't annoying as all hell.
What you're describing is socialism. We'll tax radios, cd burners, blank media, memory, hard drives, etc and pay that to the RIAA who distributes it to the record labels, who turns around and gives the artists their meager salary (meager in proportion to the starting amount).
Once that happens, we all may as well become musicians because it won't matter one bit how popular or good we are to get paid. Our money is derived from the tax, not from CD sales any more.
Clearly not. I am not one of the people that thinks all intellectual property is bad. But, what I am saying is that the current model has been broken into a million little pieces by the state of technology, and hence will no longer be sufficient to make money and compensate artists and *cough* record labels.
100% of piracy is a result of people/companies releaseing copywrited works.
Whether it's recordable media, p2p, thumb drives, magic crystals, or something else, the cat is out of the bag, and there's no going back. Time after time after time efforts to counter the problem are thwarted very quickly. Honest people are going to be honest, (but with the try before you buy advantage) and bad people are going to be bad.
This reminds me of the story of Sisyphus. It's time to stop pushing the rock up the hill and start looking for new business models!
To the security departments of companies the elevated levels mean that we have something new to pay attention to that we haven't been looking for before. Certainly being green doesn't mean that we can let our guards down.
Applying these alert levels doesn't make any sense at the individual level, for the exact reason you gave.
This was long after reentry. They outline of the ship was very visible from a ground camera at for what I'm talking about. But, I recall that it was still going >3000mph at about 100,000ft.
I wonder what the cost of landing at Edwards vs. Kennedy is. Now that have to put it on top of a 747 and truck it back to Florida. That can't be cheap, and they're not exactly rolling in dough.
There was definitely a rotating light on the top of the shuttle that was illuminating the vertical stablizer. Otherwise, it may have been hot gas from the friction of the ship moving at a few thousand miles per hour.
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Does this mean that I'll be getting people calling me for my ebay account info on my skype line now?
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
It must be monday when my post gets cut off... ... with
There are some structural problems with micropayments that need to be overcome:
- paypal sucks. Everytime I think I should give them a second chance, they bombard me with 10 more reasons I need to stay away. They are like Best Buy in that regard.
- Charge/merchant processing is still horribly expensive, to the point of making this unattainable. Long ago I had thought that paypal was going to smash the deathgrip that charge processors had on the world, but that has not come to pass, as they likely are also a victim of the charge processors.
If I spend $.50 per month on digital media, and even if charges are batched monthly AND they get a super deal on charge processing costs, they will likely end up with
Between this and their roadmap that almost exclusively involves power consumption improvements, Intel is starting to lose it's edge over AMD.
From talking to Intel folks quite a bit, it seems like there is a lot of blind pride on Intel's part in their product line and vision, and they dismiss most anything that I raise as an issue with their performance vs. AMD, and that's not a good sign to me.
Intel is not dying that's for sure, but they're going to have to make a course correction and not make another decade long mistake like itanium.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
Because it's the Internet, there are so many permuations of where the server is, who owns the site, and who made the comment, and where all those people live. Certainly, a company needs to do what it can to defend it's name, but I've got to believe it's going to get a LOT harder to do so.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
Isn't this the reason that there is supposed to be an air gap between classified networks are and unclassified networks?
I'm wondering how much of what was obtained is planted information to look like something valuable. Then again, it is the government we're talking about, so it could well be national secrets.
Jerry
http://www.itcapability.com/
I'm pretty sure they're talking about finally adding the evil bit to packet headers so firewalls can much more easily ferret out bad traffic.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
Quality of life standards are improving, driving up labor rates, and most of the "easy" outsourcing has already been done. Outsourcing larger development projects ends up not saving as much as expected because of the added management layers that are needed here and there to ensure a successful project.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
...does google's popularity start to wane? There's a growing sense of frustration with them, and I've found that many other search engines yield better results, so it is a matter of time before internet users at large start using something else?
Granted, I think the reasons that their results are not good is that there are SO many of these black hats trying to pollute their index, so in a sense, they are falling victim to their own success.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
I have read this article everywhere I turn, on every news show I've watched today. Most of them are *NOT* portraying the "discovery" in its proper context.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
I talk to the big telcos on a regular basis as part of my job and I've been jabbing them for a while about the impending death of their voice business, but their stories have been changing, well not Bell South, but the others are really pushing hard into home and business VOIP, especially ATT.
POTS doesn't need a death watch yet, but it's certainly moving that way.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
I look forward to the creative uses that are sure to come from this...
Now, if they could just offer real time radar feeds, I'd be happy.
Jerry
Sadly, the need for that much capacity is probably driven by spam, which means ISPs are spending a boat load of money to facilitate spam that neither they, nor their customers want, and the ISPs have to turn around and charge higher prices because of it.
Certainly, any ISP worth its salt is going to be filtering spam, but there aren't a lot of anti-spam systems out there that are effective over the long term or aren't annoying as all hell.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
Hopefully the hax0rs are not the only ones reading this. There are some valuable lessons for MS and security providers.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
What you're describing is socialism. We'll tax radios, cd burners, blank media, memory, hard drives, etc and pay that to the RIAA who distributes it to the record labels, who turns around and gives the artists their meager salary (meager in proportion to the starting amount).
Once that happens, we all may as well become musicians because it won't matter one bit how popular or good we are to get paid. Our money is derived from the tax, not from CD sales any more.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
Clearly not. I am not one of the people that thinks all intellectual property is bad. But, what I am saying is that the current model has been broken into a million little pieces by the state of technology, and hence will no longer be sufficient to make money and compensate artists and *cough* record labels.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
100% of piracy is a result of people/companies releaseing copywrited works.
Whether it's recordable media, p2p, thumb drives, magic crystals, or something else, the cat is out of the bag, and there's no going back. Time after time after time efforts to counter the problem are thwarted very quickly. Honest people are going to be honest, (but with the try before you buy advantage) and bad people are going to be bad.
This reminds me of the story of Sisyphus. It's time to stop pushing the rock up the hill and start looking for new business models!
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
It means that I'm not looking forward to another worm, but I'm realizing that the circumstances are right for one to happen.
That's what I meant.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
To the security departments of companies the elevated levels mean that we have something new to pay attention to that we haven't been looking for before. Certainly being green doesn't mean that we can let our guards down.
Applying these alert levels doesn't make any sense at the individual level, for the exact reason you gave.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
But it's been a while since we've had a good/effective worm.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
I didn't think they went to Houston, but I was starting to question my sanity. I'm not sure what he was thinking...
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
This was long after reentry. They outline of the ship was very visible from a ground camera at for what I'm talking about. But, I recall that it was still going >3000mph at about 100,000ft.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
I wonder what the cost of landing at Edwards vs. Kennedy is. Now that have to put it on top of a 747 and truck it back to Florida. That can't be cheap, and they're not exactly rolling in dough.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
There was definitely a rotating light on the top of the shuttle that was illuminating the vertical stablizer. Otherwise, it may have been hot gas from the friction of the ship moving at a few thousand miles per hour.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
It's ironic that 20 billion just happens to be the VERY SAME number of links on www.yahoo.com... hmm, coincidence?
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/