This is absolutely backward, though. When advertisers realize fewer people are responding to their ads, there reaction is to make them MORE annoying, MORE obnoxious, and hence more attention-getting. HEAD-ON!!! APPLY DIRECTLY TO YOUR IDIOT-DOME!!!
The way I see it, the only end-game is for advertisers to work closely with site owners so that ads are integrated with the content in such a way that software cannot distinguish the ads from the content.
I doubt that. I've caught viral botnets that spread via weak SSH passwords. They scan for port 22, try "root/root" and "guest/guest" etc. until they go through their entire username/password dictionary file, then they move on to the next host...
Once they pwn a box, they of course connect out to IRC or whatever to start hosting warez (or whatever else their masters desire). And they continue scanning for 22 and cracking when they see it...
Congrats to the Ubuntu team for disabling ssh by default. You can't get a more secure desktop system than that. But there are datacenters and datacenters full of improperly configured unix servers out there.
I find it hard to believe these big-budget, high-tech killing machines don't use RSA (or hell, OTP!) encryption with every transmission. More likely, this is a decoy transmission designed to mislead the enemy.
I just visited Mount Rushmore, and there are signs on the fountains stating that the EPA lowered the accepted arsenic level from 50ppm to 10ppm, but the water there actually has 12ppm. Are you 1/600 Rushmore tourists are going to get bladder cancer due to the 20% extra arsenic in the Coke?
You can't "cause" an earthquake. They are caused by tectonic pressure. You may be able to adjust the timing of one, though.
Perhaps this man's 3.4 quake actually saved the village from having a 4.0 quake a few years later! Did anyone think of that? Perhaps they should be giving him a medal.
non smart ass answer = Steam. Whenever they have a sale, I buy games. Lots of games. I'm not going to pay $60 for a game, but $20-$30 = impulse buy. And you don't even have to leave your house to get the games. You don't have to juggle discs. Just click and play. Since everybody has a computer anyway, a $100 graphics card will get you better graphics than a console at a lower price than a console. Gaming with Steam is just a better experience at a better price.
smart ass answer = Unless you're playing a 2D scroller, joysticks are for losers.
Our laws are complex. There simply is no simple, fair solution to solving legal disputes, unless we re-write the laws from scratch, toss away centuries of precedents, and stop legislatures from messing things up again. So... it's not gonna happen.
The US system isn't fair because the better-funded legal team will simply have an advantage due to the unavoidable expenses in analyzing law and collecting evidence.
"Loser pays" systems are not fair, either. If you sue someone for something they really did do, but you just can't find enough evidence to convince the jury of that reality, it's unfair to force you to pay that person's legal bills.
One might imagine a system whereby both sides of a legal dispute must agree to use only the resources the poorer party can "reasonably" afford. But then there would be endless legal argument over what that amount is and how the rule is enforced!
The fact of the matter is that justice is prohibitively expensive.
The major "big money" cybercrime these days is eastern European mafia attacking western European banks. I don't see the USA as caring about this as much as Europe does.
Part of the treatment for hypochondria is to remind patients that they aren't ill. Perhaps if you make an effort remind yourself that it's just hypochondria, you can help yourself. This seems more sensible than telling everyone around you to turn off their laptops and wifi-enabled cellphones, yanking the batteries out of cordless phones, and shutting down wireless routers. All these things broadcast 2.4GHz.
Thanks! You are the first person to really answer my question!
For those who can't bother to click his link:
In October 2009, Technology Review reported a new mechanism of DNA damage from terahertz radiation:[8]
The evidence that terahertz radiation damages biological systems is mixed. "Some studies reported significant genetic damage while others, although similar, showed none..."
So it seems that certain RF frequencies might actually damage DNA (more-so than equivalent heat levels, one would assume).
I would bet money that you could not tell, in a double-blind test, whether or not there is a 2.4GHz transmitter near you. I think you are self-deluded.
If you read about this at all, you would know that Google does use the records to generate stats (as in: people who visit slashdot.org have a 2% chance of visiting thinkgeek.com). Google claims they do not keep DNS records in a manner which can identify individuals.
That said, the big telcos can snoop your DNS queries and DO turn that info over to government agencies. If your ISP or your government want to know who Dogun of Slashdot is IRL, they need only observe that the same IP which posts as you here also logs in as Thomas Q Payne at Chase bank.
Wait--are you trying to tell me that the US software industry wants to the US government to negotiate trade deals with other countries to ensure that the citizens of those countries compensate the software companies for the software they use?
The reason they are using trading instead of taxing is because taxing takes money out of the system, whereas trading keeps it in there (which is supposedly better for the overall economy).
Hm... no, I'm actually aware of that, and it seems completely contradictory to the fact that it is a "near certainty" that DRM songs stop working in "a few years."
Businesses are motivated by 'moral incentive?' What planet are you from? If a buying a more efficient generator would decrease a factory's profit margin by 1%, it just wouldn't happen... unless the alternative was to pay a pollution tax of 2%. Morality doesn't enter into it. Businesses run by the numbers.
They are an attempt to provide an economic incentive to pollute less. Without such incentive, the tragedy of the commons ensures we will wreck our collective selves while seeking individual profits.
This is not anywhere near the same thing as imaginary religious crap. It's economics, man.
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Wrong. The annoying advertisers will drive people to adblock, which puts ALL advertisers out of business.
This is absolutely backward, though. When advertisers realize fewer people are responding to their ads, there reaction is to make them MORE annoying, MORE obnoxious, and hence more attention-getting. HEAD-ON!!! APPLY DIRECTLY TO YOUR IDIOT-DOME!!!
The way I see it, the only end-game is for advertisers to work closely with site owners so that ads are integrated with the content in such a way that software cannot distinguish the ads from the content.
I doubt that. I've caught viral botnets that spread via weak SSH passwords. They scan for port 22, try "root/root" and "guest/guest" etc. until they go through their entire username/password dictionary file, then they move on to the next host...
Once they pwn a box, they of course connect out to IRC or whatever to start hosting warez (or whatever else their masters desire). And they continue scanning for 22 and cracking when they see it...
Congrats to the Ubuntu team for disabling ssh by default. You can't get a more secure desktop system than that. But there are datacenters and datacenters full of improperly configured unix servers out there.
I find it hard to believe these big-budget, high-tech killing machines don't use RSA (or hell, OTP!) encryption with every transmission. More likely, this is a decoy transmission designed to mislead the enemy.
I just visited Mount Rushmore, and there are signs on the fountains stating that the EPA lowered the accepted arsenic level from 50ppm to 10ppm, but the water there actually has 12ppm. Are you 1/600 Rushmore tourists are going to get bladder cancer due to the 20% extra arsenic in the Coke?
You can't "cause" an earthquake. They are caused by tectonic pressure. You may be able to adjust the timing of one, though.
Perhaps this man's 3.4 quake actually saved the village from having a 4.0 quake a few years later! Did anyone think of that? Perhaps they should be giving him a medal.
I'm sorry, but that's just fantasy. There is no such thing as a "libertarian type [legal] system." Show me one example--just one.
non smart ass answer = Steam. Whenever they have a sale, I buy games. Lots of games. I'm not going to pay $60 for a game, but $20-$30 = impulse buy. And you don't even have to leave your house to get the games. You don't have to juggle discs. Just click and play. Since everybody has a computer anyway, a $100 graphics card will get you better graphics than a console at a lower price than a console. Gaming with Steam is just a better experience at a better price.
smart ass answer = Unless you're playing a 2D scroller, joysticks are for losers.
Our laws are complex. There simply is no simple, fair solution to solving legal disputes, unless we re-write the laws from scratch, toss away centuries of precedents, and stop legislatures from messing things up again. So... it's not gonna happen.
The US system isn't fair because the better-funded legal team will simply have an advantage due to the unavoidable expenses in analyzing law and collecting evidence.
"Loser pays" systems are not fair, either. If you sue someone for something they really did do, but you just can't find enough evidence to convince the jury of that reality, it's unfair to force you to pay that person's legal bills.
One might imagine a system whereby both sides of a legal dispute must agree to use only the resources the poorer party can "reasonably" afford. But then there would be endless legal argument over what that amount is and how the rule is enforced!
The fact of the matter is that justice is prohibitively expensive.
The major "big money" cybercrime these days is eastern European mafia attacking western European banks. I don't see the USA as caring about this as much as Europe does.
For there to even be a "debate" there must be either evidence or a proposed mechanism. There seems to be neither--no "debate."
I think you need to re-read this thread before you make more of a fool of yourself.
Part of the treatment for hypochondria is to remind patients that they aren't ill. Perhaps if you make an effort remind yourself that it's just hypochondria, you can help yourself. This seems more sensible than telling everyone around you to turn off their laptops and wifi-enabled cellphones, yanking the batteries out of cordless phones, and shutting down wireless routers. All these things broadcast 2.4GHz.
https://health.google.com/health/ref/Hypochondria
As someone else pointed out, there is some evidence to suggest that you are simply wrong.
http://arxiv.org/pdf/0910.5294v1
Thanks! You are the first person to really answer my question!
For those who can't bother to click his link:
So it seems that certain RF frequencies might actually damage DNA (more-so than equivalent heat levels, one would assume).
I would bet money that you could not tell, in a double-blind test, whether or not there is a 2.4GHz transmitter near you. I think you are self-deluded.
It looks like someone came through and modded every comment in this story as "troll". Seems these mods are being corrected as we speak.
If you read about this at all, you would know that Google does use the records to generate stats (as in: people who visit slashdot.org have a 2% chance of visiting thinkgeek.com). Google claims they do not keep DNS records in a manner which can identify individuals.
That said, the big telcos can snoop your DNS queries and DO turn that info over to government agencies. If your ISP or your government want to know who Dogun of Slashdot is IRL, they need only observe that the same IP which posts as you here also logs in as Thomas Q Payne at Chase bank.
Are there any levels/frequencies of RF that are known to increase cancer rates? Or could I live on top of a radio tower and do just fine?
Wait--are you trying to tell me that the US software industry wants to the US government to negotiate trade deals with other countries to ensure that the citizens of those countries compensate the software companies for the software they use?
Inconceivable!!!
The reason they are using trading instead of taxing is because taxing takes money out of the system, whereas trading keeps it in there (which is supposedly better for the overall economy).
Hm... no, I'm actually aware of that, and it seems completely contradictory to the fact that it is a "near certainty" that DRM songs stop working in "a few years."
Businesses are motivated by 'moral incentive?' What planet are you from? If a buying a more efficient generator would decrease a factory's profit margin by 1%, it just wouldn't happen... unless the alternative was to pay a pollution tax of 2%. Morality doesn't enter into it. Businesses run by the numbers.
You're just deluded.
They are an attempt to provide an economic incentive to pollute less. Without such incentive, the tragedy of the commons ensures we will wreck our collective selves while seeking individual profits.
This is not anywhere near the same thing as imaginary religious crap. It's economics, man.
A near certainty? Over a few years? When did all the iTunes songs stop working? I must have missed that in the news.