All versions of the Flash player are fully backwards-compatible with all previous versions. I think this is broken occasionally on security grounds, but in general a ton of work goes into compatibility. The next release of Flash is a lot less likely to break your existing content than the next release of IE.
I've heard of IE, isn't that the browser that runs on that legacy platform, Microsoft Windows?
All kidding aside, until it can run natively on 32-bit and 64-bit Linux, with native 32-bit and 64-bit plugins for the standard browsers on those platforms (Firefox, Konqueror, Opera), and until it has the ability to degrade its output to non-Flash for those clients which do not support it, and until it can be delivered with some method of interacting with its content (for indexing, TTS, etc.), then it becomes a niche market of things, like Flash is today.
Now, for HIGHLY regulated environments (medical, pharma, kiosk, training facilities), I can see where this might be a plus. You lock down a machine with a known set of components that will NEVER change, and use strict quality control on those platforms, and deploy your app in Flash/Flex on that, and things should work (modulo any inherent crashes on those "legacy" Windows platforms).
But that isn't the real world, and certainly not with the varied number of platforms, browsers, versions, etc. you'll find in the general Internet populous.
Heck, Flash itself doesn't even run on ~50% of the current Linux distributions out there, because those distributions are running on current hardware, which Flash has no plugin for (64-bit platforms).
Its getting better, but we're still years off from making it usable on the popular platforms of today.
So I can assume that this application generates 100% valid HTML and XHTML constructs, with their own proprietary Flash being an additional extension to that baseline, riiiiiight?
Flash is:
Nonstandard, proprietary
Not easily indexed by search engines
Does not work consistently in all browsers
Does not work in text-mode browsers
Does not work with text-to-speech browsers for the blind/disabled
Does not have cross-version compatibility with its own plugins
Buggy and inconsistent
And this message goes to all of those "web developers" who use Flash in their websites.. please use HTML to deliver the Flash, not the reverse.
Stealing is depriving one person of something while giving it to another.
If I steal your bicycle, you no longer have the bicycle, and I now have the bicycle. I have deprived you of the ability to use your bicycle.
What exactly is being "stolen" here? What have I deprived Sony BMG of, if I already compensated them by purchasing the original CD media?
That being said, I dislike Sony for violating the GPL with the Palm OS Emulator source code several years ago. Their products are sub-par, their external storage media (MemoryStick) only works on Sony devices, and their stance on working with the music, movie and media industry is frankly... a joke.
Another in a series of my Dragons posts, this time about more invasion of my rights. This Guardian Unlimited article talks about the police wanting to make it illegal to withold encryption keys when asked for them.
They also want to make it a criminal offence for suspects to refuse to cooperate in giving the police full access to computer files by refusing to disclose their encryption keys.
Let me just publically reply to that with one word: NO.
My encryption keys are put there to keep YOU out, permanently. If you do not have the right to see the information, data or other bits encrypted by my (exceptionally-strong) keys, you simply wont get access to it.
Threaten me with jail, throw me in jail, do what you think will work to get me to turn over my keys it will not work. I would rather spend a lifetime in jail protecting my data, than give you the irrevokable right to invade my privacy and freedoms and the freedoms of others who would come after me.
The persuit of freedom and upholding those freedoms is worth more than my life or the lives of any of my friends or family. They dont have my keys and torturing them will not get me to give them up. I have an incredible tolerance to pain, some would say inhuman in some cases (Ive had doctors tell me this several times, as I underwent E.R. procedures without any numbing agent).
Shipping me off to some other country that allows torture to try to extract my encryption keys will result in one of two things:
A frustrated torturer, who is unable to extract my keys
A dead suspect, after enduring hundreds of different torture methods, unsuccessfully
Either way, you dont get my keys, or my data, or anything I dont elect to give you. Pain, medications, whatever you think will work, will not. My willpower and tolerance is stronger than anything you have.
Let me reiterate, you will not get my encryption keys, under pain of threat, physical pain, medication or otherwise. Either I will be dead, or you will give up. Either way, you have nothing.
It's not just electronics. We also purchase a majority of our concrete from China, as well as our own copper products back. We sell our copper to them (at market rates), and then we buy back what they don't use (at marked-up prices). This is why the price of copper has skyrocketed in the last 3-5 years. Tried to rewire your house lately? Check the prices... its insane.
The U.S. budget deficit is also financed by borrowing. More and more of that money comes from China, now the United States' second-largest lender, after Japan.
We're deeper in the hole with China than many realize. If they stopped lending us money to pay back our own debts, our economy would crash in a second.
You should amend that to state that the $400 does not include that 2 year contract. So you pay:
$400 for the phone from your local Apple store
Log into iTunes and sign up for a 2-year contract through your AT&T provider
That cost is significantly higher than just $400-out-the-door, and add to that the fact that at the end of the 2 years you own the phone, you'll need to replace that battery twice, at $80+ per replacement.
Years ago, I worked for ${BIGGEST_PHARMA} when they were making the switch to users having to have 2 authorizing signatures on a form before they were given Internet access, and allowing all users access to the live Internet. This was back in 1997/1998 timeframe, when most people were still using dialup at home to get to the net.
Initially, the Powers-that-Be that ran the network topology, fed a list of 'bad words' into their filters, and blocked any content based on that. They filtered on words like breast, sex, penis and other body parts of people and animals.
Suddenly, they noticed a dropoff in their productivity, because now internal scientists were no longer able to search for papers and articles on 'breast cancer', 'determining sex of mice', 'erectile dysfunction', and so on. Scientists were blocked from legitimate searches for legitimate content, and so the filters were relaxed and removed almost entirely.
Searching for 'bomb', or 'genocide' or 'terrorism', is certainly not an indicator that you wish to perpetrate those crimes, or are a terrorist yourself. Heck, I converted the entire 9/11 Commission Report to clean, validated HTML, and it gets an enormous amount of hits. You should see the kinds of search criteria that brings people to the page:
Here are the top 50 from today:
1 4 2.03% 911 tower jumpers 2 3 1.52% islam 3 2 1.02% american airlines 911 4 2 1.02% bin la din 5 2 1.02% fdny ladder 123 6 2 1.02% fdny units respond wtc 7 2 1.02% islam history 8 2 1.02% islamic historical places 9 2 1.02% muslim harassment 10 2 1.02% norad%27s job 911 11 2 1.02% prevent continued growth islamist terrorism 12 2 1.02% rise of al qaeda 13 2 1.02% sheikh mohammad makki 14 2 1.02% tawfiq deek 15 2 1.02% terrorist entrepreneur 16 2 1.02% the 14 survivors who escaped the impact zone of south tower 17 2 1.02% the near capture of bin ladin in 2004 18 2 1.02% unity of effort in the congress 19 2 1.02% usama 20 2 1.02% usama bin ladin 21 2 1.02% vaughn allex 22 1 0.51% # of fdny firefighters killed in south tower 23 1 0.51% 000 years for revenge: international terrorism and the fbi - th 24 1 0.51% 1996 when the taliban arrived in afghanistan 25 1 0.51% 2 ziad jarrah 26 1 0.51% 2007 united states of america director of fbi 27 1 0.51% 265d-ny-280350 28 1 0.51% 9 11 commission report united states 29 1 0.51% 9 11 renew 30 1 0.51% 9/ 11 tower jumpers 31 1 0.51% 9/11 339 32 1 0.51% 9/11 attribute 33 1 0.51% 9/11 hijackers herndon virginia 34 1 0.51% 9/11 pilots photos 35 1 0.51% 9/11 university of arizona students hanjour 36 1 0.51% 911 attack pilots training school 37 1 0.51% 911 commission report 339 38 1 0.51% 911 designs 39 1 0.51% 911 muslims 40 1 0.51% 911 pilots training florida 41 1 0.51% 911 report 42 1 0.51% 911 stewardess amy sweeney 43 1 0.51% 911 twin tower jumpers 44 1 0.51% aal11 cvr 45 1 0.51% abu musab waleed al shehri 46 1 0.51% air traffic control 47 1 0.51% air traffic controller in question was later stabbed and killed 48 1 0.51% al qaeda defeated ussr 49 1 0.51% al qaeda organization committee 50 1 0.51% alias don diego fbi
"We are not at liberty to document the additional monitoring and DRM controls that have been imposed upon us by the United States Government and the RIAA/MPAA, and we cannot at this time, reverse these controls, without impacting our financial bottom line.
Every play of an mp3 file is digitally signed, tested, and transmitted upstream to Microsoft's servers for review and analysis by the proper authorities.
This policy is not subject to change at this time.
(Americans *WILL DIE* if you don't let us do whatever we want to do!!!!)
Gosh, I hope so... seriously.
Millions of Americans have died over the last 300+ years defending the liberties and freedoms that make this country great. I certainly hope more people will put their lives on the line to preserve it (and I don't mean the soldiers fighting in Iraq, who are just warm bodies being put into the oven over there to stoke the War Furnace).
Because as thousands of people have said before... a barcode only encourages further fraud of an already-fraudulent system of calculating electronic votes.
For example:
You line up and verify that you are who you say you are, and are allowed to vote.
You walk to the electronic voting machine, close the curtain, and begin making your vote selection
At the end of the voting process, you finish your vote, and a paper ballot is printed, which includes a human-readable version of your votes, and a barcode at the bottom, presumably to "serialize" your voting ballot.
You visually verify that the votes recorded are accurate, separate your 1/2 of the paper ballot as a "receipt" and drop the remainder of the paper ballot in the box for counting at a later date.
So far, so good, right? Wrong.
What happens if the machine is pre-determined to select a specific candidate (as was shown hundreds of times with the Diebold and ES&S machines already). That barcode could include a boolean value which says:
If Candidate_A is not chosen, print Candidate_B on human part, record vote on barcode as Candidate_A
If Candidate_A IS chosen, print Candidate_A on human part, record vote on barcode as Candidate_A.
But if you voted for Candidate_B and your version of the paper ballot says that you voted for Candidate_B, would you feel confident in your vote? What if that barcode said "Whatever was voted for here, select Candidate_A."
With the main advantage being in the UV spectrum, it seems to me the best application would be to UV preferential cells in orbit or on Mars, Luna, etc.. Doubly so given the difficulty in shedding excess heat in Space.
As you no-doubt know, current PV cells only capture the visible light spectrum, and that means unobscured, near-direct sunlight during the daytime.
The biggest advantage I see from a PV cell that can capture and turn UV into electricity, is the ability for it to continue to provide power during cloudy, rainy, inclement weather.
The last piece we need is to find a way to capture the IR spectrum, so we can continue to provide power with PV cells during the dark of night, and we can probably call this technology truly renewable.
Right now, there's "free money" raining down on us for a good 1/3 to 1/2 of the day, and we just ignore it.
I just randomly checked four of the oldest paperbacks in my collection (sixties vintage), and half had ads. So it wasn't universal back then, but it was common. Today, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a mass-market book that didn't contain ads.
By "books", are you specifically referring to magazines and comic books? Because I just checked a cross-section of my own personal bookshelf of about 200 books, novels and tech books... and not a single one contained any ads on any page. A few of the novels had references to a list of the author's other books, but that is hardly an advertisement (it was simply "Here are some other books by...").
I don't know which books you might be reading, but a good 98% of my 200 books have zero ads, and the other 2% have mention of other books by the same author; not ads.
Magazines and comic books on the other hand, are riddles with ads, I'll grant you that.
I PAID FOR the music, and they're STILL inserting advertisements? The whole point of advertising, is to offset the cost of the property itself, in lieu of actual payment.
We see commercials on television, because it helps pay for the actual programming you watch for free.
We hear commercials on the radio because it helps pay for the airtime you listen to for free.
But when we BUY a product (such as music, a DVD, etc.) it should NOT contain those ads, because guess what... the purchase price I just paid, went to offset the cost of the property itself.
If you still need to insert advertising into a product I just purchased, your pricing model for the item is incorrect, and needs to be rethought.
If I hear one advertisement in the middle of a song on a CD I purchase from the store, you can bet I'll be bringing it back for a full refund price, no questions asked. If they decline to issue a refund, I'll just dispute the charge with my credit card company, forcing a refund + costly chargeback fee to the store itself.
If this trend continues, the independent artists will get my money, not the big, money-hungry conglomerates.
What about everyone using IceWeasel on Debian? Is he blocking them too?
What about those using Mozilla, or Epiphany (both using the same XUL and underlying Gecko HTML engine)?
How is he blocking them? By UserAgent? That's assinine, because you can just change it, and be done with it (or remove it altogether).
Why not block MSIE also? Their HTTP request objects are malformed, and they do not follow the specifications. Not to mention, they don't properly support standards, CSS, or HTML properly.
Blocking browsers is futile, and all we ended up doing by posting this to Slashdot, was bring attention to his ad-ridden blog, generating him a ton of cash, negating the whole point in the first place.
Sigh, kids. What they should do, is learn proper SEO, and how to write and market a website properly, to generate actual revenue from people who WANT to click on the ads you present to them. Plenty ofmy pages are precisely that.
"But your honor, I came into the casino with $10.00, won $8,500, and then lost it all!
The point is, stealing is very strictly defined. You deprive one person of some sort of physical property. You take it, and they no longer have it.
Depriving someone of a sale which has not happened yet, is not stealing. You don't have the money, therefore preventing you from having it, is also not stealing.
Please, let the teenager-with-his-blog have his rant. Maybe it makes him feel powerful that Slashdot picked up on it, but it's a blip on the radar, just as he is a blip on the genetic radar.
Err, so I need to obtain an SDK license to see the latest specs so I can implement them in my client?
You're assuming that the license allows you to repurpose what you see there, in an Open Source, competing application. Their license (much like Palm, Microsoft, etc.) may simply prohibit you from using the SDK to develop anything that could compete with their core line of business.
This is yet another example of how our corrupt government is trying to retroactively rewrite history (sound familiar?).
The person with the "evidence" showing that the NSA was engaged in illegal, warrantless wiretapping, has all of his assets seized, frozen and property taken, including his own children's laptops! Now the evidence that he DID have, is locked up by the same corrupt government bureaus who are trying to deny that it ever existed in the first place.
The best part of this story, is that Tamm was served with a SEALED warrant. He wasn't even allowed to see why his property was being taken, or to what extent the warrant was covered.
BlackOps? You bet it was. Expect much more of this to happen in the future to try to silence the REAL patriots out there... you, me, and everyone else who cares about the principles that founded this country.
The answer? When you have evidence of anything, BEFORE you leak it to the public, encrypt it and disseminate it across the Internet to hundreds of thousands of people via the web, email, spam, torrent and any and all methods you can.
THEN reveal that you have the information. Once its out there, they can't unring the bell.
Soon, encryption for private e-mails will be forbidden as well.
Let them forbid it. I'll keep using it, as will several hundred thousand of my closest friends.
Hiding spam in emails is old news, but certainly not the way to get the problem addressed or fixed. If you try to "hide" your communications, now you're putting yourself in the exact position that they want you to be in, avoiding the laws, "hiding" your information.
Don't hide it, openly encrypt it. Let them know you won't stand for their illegal, warrantless games.
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Doesn't anyone use Google Analytics?
Urchin is featured prominently there, as well as in every website that uses Google Analytics.
They've revealed their new business model for 2008:
If you can't innovate, LITIGATE !
I've heard of IE, isn't that the browser that runs on that legacy platform, Microsoft Windows?
All kidding aside, until it can run natively on 32-bit and 64-bit Linux, with native 32-bit and 64-bit plugins for the standard browsers on those platforms (Firefox, Konqueror, Opera), and until it has the ability to degrade its output to non-Flash for those clients which do not support it, and until it can be delivered with some method of interacting with its content (for indexing, TTS, etc.), then it becomes a niche market of things, like Flash is today.
Now, for HIGHLY regulated environments (medical, pharma, kiosk, training facilities), I can see where this might be a plus. You lock down a machine with a known set of components that will NEVER change, and use strict quality control on those platforms, and deploy your app in Flash/Flex on that, and things should work (modulo any inherent crashes on those "legacy" Windows platforms).
But that isn't the real world, and certainly not with the varied number of platforms, browsers, versions, etc. you'll find in the general Internet populous.
Heck, Flash itself doesn't even run on ~50% of the current Linux distributions out there, because those distributions are running on current hardware, which Flash has no plugin for (64-bit platforms).
Its getting better, but we're still years off from making it usable on the popular platforms of today.
So I can assume that this application generates 100% valid HTML and XHTML constructs, with their own proprietary Flash being an additional extension to that baseline, riiiiiight?
Flash is:
And this message goes to all of those "web developers" who use Flash in their websites.. please use HTML to deliver the Flash, not the reverse.
Stealing is depriving one person of something while giving it to another.
If I steal your bicycle, you no longer have the bicycle, and I now have the bicycle. I have deprived you of the ability to use your bicycle.
What exactly is being "stolen" here? What have I deprived Sony BMG of, if I already compensated them by purchasing the original CD media?
That being said, I dislike Sony for violating the GPL with the Palm OS Emulator source code several years ago. Their products are sub-par, their external storage media (MemoryStick) only works on Sony devices, and their stance on working with the music, movie and media industry is frankly... a joke.
No thanks, nothing to see here. Moving along...
It's not just electronics. We also purchase a majority of our concrete from China, as well as our own copper products back. We sell our copper to them (at market rates), and then we buy back what they don't use (at marked-up prices). This is why the price of copper has skyrocketed in the last 3-5 years. Tried to rewire your house lately? Check the prices... its insane.
The U.S. budget deficit is also financed by borrowing. More and more of that money comes from China, now the United States' second-largest lender, after Japan.
We're deeper in the hole with China than many realize. If they stopped lending us money to pay back our own debts, our economy would crash in a second.
Look at how fast that machine boots to the desktop from a cold boot. And that's XP (!!)
And not a single one contains "Hot Monkey Fecal Sex". Basically you searched for:
1. Fecal
2. Hot
3. Monkey
4. Sex
That's 4 separate, and unlinked/unrelated terms. Of course there are 321k results for it.
You should amend that to state that the $400 does not include that 2 year contract. So you pay:
That cost is significantly higher than just $400-out-the-door, and add to that the fact that at the end of the 2 years you own the phone, you'll need to replace that battery twice, at $80+ per replacement.
Years ago, I worked for ${BIGGEST_PHARMA} when they were making the switch to users having to have 2 authorizing signatures on a form before they were given Internet access, and allowing all users access to the live Internet. This was back in 1997/1998 timeframe, when most people were still using dialup at home to get to the net.
Initially, the Powers-that-Be that ran the network topology, fed a list of 'bad words' into their filters, and blocked any content based on that. They filtered on words like breast, sex, penis and other body parts of people and animals.
Suddenly, they noticed a dropoff in their productivity, because now internal scientists were no longer able to search for papers and articles on 'breast cancer', 'determining sex of mice', 'erectile dysfunction', and so on. Scientists were blocked from legitimate searches for legitimate content, and so the filters were relaxed and removed almost entirely.
Searching for 'bomb', or 'genocide' or 'terrorism', is certainly not an indicator that you wish to perpetrate those crimes, or are a terrorist yourself. Heck, I converted the entire 9/11 Commission Report to clean, validated HTML, and it gets an enormous amount of hits. You should see the kinds of search criteria that brings people to the page:
Here are the top 50 from today:
You spelled "hardware vendors" wrong.
"We are not at liberty to document the additional monitoring and DRM controls that have been imposed upon us by the United States Government and the RIAA/MPAA, and we cannot at this time, reverse these controls, without impacting our financial bottom line.
Every play of an mp3 file is digitally signed, tested, and transmitted upstream to Microsoft's servers for review and analysis by the proper authorities.
This policy is not subject to change at this time.
Thank you for supporting Microsoft."
Gosh, I hope so... seriously.
Millions of Americans have died over the last 300+ years defending the liberties and freedoms that make this country great. I certainly hope more people will put their lives on the line to preserve it (and I don't mean the soldiers fighting in Iraq, who are just warm bodies being put into the oven over there to stoke the War Furnace).
Because as thousands of people have said before... a barcode only encourages further fraud of an already-fraudulent system of calculating electronic votes.
For example:
So far, so good, right? Wrong.
What happens if the machine is pre-determined to select a specific candidate (as was shown hundreds of times with the Diebold and ES&S machines already). That barcode could include a boolean value which says:
But if you voted for Candidate_B and your version of the paper ballot says that you voted for Candidate_B, would you feel confident in your vote? What if that barcode said "Whatever was voted for here, select Candidate_A."
Now what?
As you no-doubt know, current PV cells only capture the visible light spectrum, and that means unobscured, near-direct sunlight during the daytime.
The biggest advantage I see from a PV cell that can capture and turn UV into electricity, is the ability for it to continue to provide power during cloudy, rainy, inclement weather.
The last piece we need is to find a way to capture the IR spectrum, so we can continue to provide power with PV cells during the dark of night, and we can probably call this technology truly renewable.
Right now, there's "free money" raining down on us for a good 1/3 to 1/2 of the day, and we just ignore it.
Perhaps they're sending your music up the network pipe for comparison and analysis as you play?
</theory>
By "books", are you specifically referring to magazines and comic books? Because I just checked a cross-section of my own personal bookshelf of about 200 books, novels and tech books... and not a single one contained any ads on any page. A few of the novels had references to a list of the author's other books, but that is hardly an advertisement (it was simply "Here are some other books by...").
I don't know which books you might be reading, but a good 98% of my 200 books have zero ads, and the other 2% have mention of other books by the same author; not ads.
Magazines and comic books on the other hand, are riddles with ads, I'll grant you that.
Wait, wait, wait just one second!
I PAID FOR the music, and they're STILL inserting advertisements? The whole point of advertising, is to offset the cost of the property itself, in lieu of actual payment.
We see commercials on television, because it helps pay for the actual programming you watch for free.
We hear commercials on the radio because it helps pay for the airtime you listen to for free.
But when we BUY a product (such as music, a DVD, etc.) it should NOT contain those ads, because guess what... the purchase price I just paid, went to offset the cost of the property itself.
If you still need to insert advertising into a product I just purchased, your pricing model for the item is incorrect, and needs to be rethought.
If I hear one advertisement in the middle of a song on a CD I purchase from the store, you can bet I'll be bringing it back for a full refund price, no questions asked. If they decline to issue a refund, I'll just dispute the charge with my credit card company, forcing a refund + costly chargeback fee to the store itself.
If this trend continues, the independent artists will get my money, not the big, money-hungry conglomerates.
Why not just block everyone EXCEPT Firefox users?
What about everyone using IceWeasel on Debian? Is he blocking them too?
What about those using Mozilla, or Epiphany (both using the same XUL and underlying Gecko HTML engine)?
How is he blocking them? By UserAgent? That's assinine, because you can just change it, and be done with it (or remove it altogether).
Why not block MSIE also? Their HTTP request objects are malformed, and they do not follow the specifications. Not to mention, they don't properly support standards, CSS, or HTML properly.
Blocking browsers is futile, and all we ended up doing by posting this to Slashdot, was bring attention to his ad-ridden blog, generating him a ton of cash, negating the whole point in the first place.
Sigh, kids. What they should do, is learn proper SEO, and how to write and market a website properly, to generate actual revenue from people who WANT to click on the ads you present to them. Plenty of my pages are precisely that.
Gambler's Logic is not a valid defense here.
"But your honor, I came into the casino with $10.00, won $8,500, and then lost it all!
The point is, stealing is very strictly defined. You deprive one person of some sort of physical property. You take it, and they no longer have it.
Depriving someone of a sale which has not happened yet, is not stealing. You don't have the money, therefore preventing you from having it, is also not stealing.
Please, let the teenager-with-his-blog have his rant. Maybe it makes him feel powerful that Slashdot picked up on it, but it's a blip on the radar, just as he is a blip on the genetic radar.
You're assuming that the license allows you to repurpose what you see there, in an Open Source, competing application. Their license (much like Palm, Microsoft, etc.) may simply prohibit you from using the SDK to develop anything that could compete with their core line of business.
This is yet another example of how our corrupt government is trying to retroactively rewrite history (sound familiar?).
The person with the "evidence" showing that the NSA was engaged in illegal, warrantless wiretapping, has all of his assets seized, frozen and property taken, including his own children's laptops! Now the evidence that he DID have, is locked up by the same corrupt government bureaus who are trying to deny that it ever existed in the first place.
The best part of this story, is that Tamm was served with a SEALED warrant. He wasn't even allowed to see why his property was being taken, or to what extent the warrant was covered.
BlackOps? You bet it was. Expect much more of this to happen in the future to try to silence the REAL patriots out there... you, me, and everyone else who cares about the principles that founded this country.
The answer? When you have evidence of anything, BEFORE you leak it to the public, encrypt it and disseminate it across the Internet to hundreds of thousands of people via the web, email, spam, torrent and any and all methods you can.
THEN reveal that you have the information. Once its out there, they can't unring the bell.
They have the LED Puke-Saber...
Shortly afterwards, special contact lenses that filter the "puke color" out are developed, neutralizing the effects.
Let them forbid it. I'll keep using it, as will several hundred thousand of my closest friends.
Hiding spam in emails is old news, but certainly not the way to get the problem addressed or fixed. If you try to "hide" your communications, now you're putting yourself in the exact position that they want you to be in, avoiding the laws, "hiding" your information.
Don't hide it, openly encrypt it. Let them know you won't stand for their illegal, warrantless games.