There have been several attempts in Germany with this scheme over the past, say 12 months to trick customers out of their money. A variation is to send bills for the entry of a domain/site into a "registry" which turns out to be little more than an ill-maintained "index" on a website. At best.
Another sign that we have hit mainstream, I guess.
All that is missing now is the sale of domains via TV informercials. ("For only 200 bucks this great.com address could be yours! call our friendly staff now!")
When I told this to my co-workers, one of them said her son watches dragonball z, and they recently started to put a 25% of the screen border around the show. What does this border display? Why, commercials of course.
Now, I do not own a TV myself, so I cannot verify this (Who can?). But I can tell you people one thing: I am SO glad I tossed mine out a long time ago.
Nice site, I just wish they had more screenshots of various tetris versions.
I can't imagine how much time I spent with this damned game.;-) Especially the game boy version, which I liked best. Tetris also sparked a number of similar games. For example Puzzle Bobble. Anybody remember that? Very addictive, a friend of mine and I played that game for NINE hours straight. That night, I dreamt of those darned bubbles... It was not funny.;)
...I think Google should counter-file. This would be in their best interest: They really should be considered a library, or a common carrier. Otherwise, Google just admit that they are responsible for any site they index and cache. And this is probably not what they want. IANAL of course.
Anybody not technologically savy enough. Plus I could well imagine that some isps/online services block 53 udp/tcp. They will especially do this once they can lock in their customer to "their" version of say sex.com. They also might especially do this to lessen tech support issues. T-Online (biggest isp in Germany) provided a version of netscape wehre you could not change the mail settings to customers (I do not know if they still do). This wasn't out of deep evil intentions, but because people would change the settings and then get desperate because they wouldn't get their email.
Breaking up the centralized DNS system still doesn't make any sense. It will not bring competition, it will bring confusion and anarchy. Advertise your site as slashdot.org - and include a DNS server that works with it? No thanks. It's complete nonsense.
First of all those are isolated events. Second of all, it's usually far away from most populated area. If you want to live in a smog infested city, fine, fill your house with smoke. But most of us prefer cleaner air, thanks.
Because if you take away the universal standard, there's no garuantee that a host will be universally accessible. Suddenly, there will be a dozen slashdot.org and a thousand sex.com sites.
Blasting massive amounts of pollution into the atmosphere seems like a very bad idea nevertheless. Remember acid rain? Smog? I do, even though I haven't been in a smog filled city for decades. It's not only about saving the environment for the sake of saving the environment. It's a quality of life question.
It is against CeBit rules to provide games. Microsoft was not the only exhibitor to complain about Sony. As far as I know, the trade show organizers asked Sony to switch off the games, but Sony decided to take away the PS2's alltogether. Presumably, Sony was pissed that they were forced to stop letting people play. To my knowledge, no-one asked Sony to remove the playstations.
You do have to admit that this is pretty good PR for Sony and pretty bad PR for Microsoft.
I think this is probably the best news for manned spaceflight since the construction of ISS began. Why? Simple: It brings manned spaceflight to the market. There's a huge demand for space tourism, and that should bring down prices quickly.
The better our launch capabilities become, the sooner we will become a truely space faring civilization.
And that is something I want to see in my life time.
Not wanting to be a spoilsport - and admitting I am no expert on rollercoasters - I really wonder whether this thing is safe, especially for the small children depicted on the photos. I surely hope he's gotten this thing tested by the proper authorities.
So, they make a choice. They chose wealth and fame over a fair contract. But please then do not whine about it later on.
Fighting is never pleasant... but if my company offered me a contract "you will get such and such more a month, but you cannot work for any competitor for 20 years afterwards" I'd certainly NOT sign it - it would effectively put me out of the job market.
Of course. But other industries had to have the fight, too. Remember the living and working conditions of factory workers in the 19th century? They had to fight for their rights as well. Don't get me wrong. I know how difficult it is to fight this battle. You need to get organized and everything. But if things are really as bad as that article describes, then to me it does not really look like you have any choice.
Well 1) is really a matter of scope, not an issue. So maybe a track of music is comparable to a short story.
As for 2)... it works. I have read many novels on my PalmIIIx while sitting in darkish trains going to places all over Europe. (Thank you project Gutenberg.) I read bbc world news instead of a newspaper and I do read all kinds of stuff on my screen on a PC. It does work, it's just not very common. But the point of my proposal was less to sell the books in a convenient way, but to give the publishers a virtual finger.
Besides, it could be argued that if a lot of high quality electronic books became available at a low price or for free, decent readers would follow soon. Why am I not buying eBooks? Because they come in fscked up formats and cost as much as physical books, without the physical book to justify the price.
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There have been several attempts in Germany with this scheme over the past, say 12 months to trick customers out of their money. A variation is to send bills for the entry of a domain/site into a "registry" which turns out to be little more than an ill-maintained "index" on a website. At best.
.com address could be yours! call our friendly staff now!")
Another sign that we have hit mainstream, I guess.
All that is missing now is the sale of domains via TV informercials. ("For only 200 bucks this great
Ah, but if I remember correctly - IANAL and I am not American either - computer crime/fraud across state lines already is a federal crime.
and in those cases the communication does not cross state lines, it probably rightfully belongs into the state courts anyway.
Either way this thing sounds like overkill.
Then why is a new law needed?
When I told this to my co-workers, one of them said her son watches dragonball z, and they recently started to put a 25% of the screen border around the show. What does this border display? Why, commercials of course.
Now, I do not own a TV myself, so I cannot verify this (Who can?). But I can tell you people one thing: I am SO glad I tossed mine out a long time ago.
Nice site, I just wish they had more screenshots of various tetris versions.
;-) Especially the game boy version, which I liked best. Tetris also sparked a number of similar games. For example Puzzle Bobble. Anybody remember that? Very addictive, a friend of mine and I played that game for NINE hours straight. That night, I dreamt of those darned bubbles... It was not funny. ;)
I can't imagine how much time I spent with this damned game.
"Sorry. We thought it was a good idea."
;)
That should pretty much cover everything.
I mean AT&T's safeguards, of course. ;-)
This kind of behaviour should be common practice, really.
I always thought it was a pun on "CDE".
That's what PGP is for. Nuff said.
...I think Google should counter-file. This would be in their best interest: They really should be considered a library, or a common carrier. Otherwise, Google just admit that they are responsible for any site they index and cache. And this is probably not what they want. IANAL of course.
Anybody not technologically savy enough. Plus I could well imagine that some isps/online services block 53 udp/tcp. They will especially do this once they can lock in their customer to "their" version of say sex.com. They also might especially do this to lessen tech support issues. T-Online (biggest isp in Germany) provided a version of netscape wehre you could not change the mail settings to customers (I do not know if they still do). This wasn't out of deep evil intentions, but because people would change the settings and then get desperate because they wouldn't get their email.
Now imagine this chaos with DNS.
Breaking up the centralized DNS system still doesn't make any sense. It will not bring competition, it will bring confusion and anarchy. Advertise your site as slashdot.org - and include a DNS server that works with it? No thanks. It's complete nonsense.
First of all those are isolated events. Second of all, it's usually far away from most populated area. If you want to live in a smog infested city, fine, fill your house with smoke. But most of us prefer cleaner air, thanks.
Yeah but a lot of people do not have a choice.
No, a "do what you want" dns system is NOT a good idea.
Because if you take away the universal standard, there's no garuantee that a host will be universally accessible. Suddenly, there will be a dozen slashdot.org and a thousand sex.com sites.
Blasting massive amounts of pollution into the atmosphere seems like a very bad idea nevertheless. Remember acid rain? Smog? I do, even though I haven't been in a smog filled city for decades. It's not only about saving the environment for the sake of saving the environment. It's a quality of life question.
It is against CeBit rules to provide games. Microsoft was not the only exhibitor to complain about Sony. As far as I know, the trade show organizers asked Sony to switch off the games, but Sony decided to take away the PS2's alltogether. Presumably, Sony was pissed that they were forced to stop letting people play. To my knowledge, no-one asked Sony to remove the playstations.
You do have to admit that this is pretty good PR for Sony and pretty bad PR for Microsoft.
Do they use this for the NYC subway, too?
I think this is probably the best news for manned spaceflight since the construction of ISS began. Why? Simple: It brings manned spaceflight to the market. There's a huge demand for space tourism, and that should bring down prices quickly.
The better our launch capabilities become, the sooner we will become a truely space faring civilization.
And that is something I want to see in my life time.
It's their ad line for all versions of windows.
Not wanting to be a spoilsport - and admitting I am no expert on rollercoasters - I really wonder whether this thing is safe, especially for the small children depicted on the photos. I surely hope he's gotten this thing tested by the proper authorities.
So, they make a choice. They chose wealth and fame over a fair contract. But please then do not whine about it later on.
Fighting is never pleasant... but if my company offered me a contract "you will get such and such more a month, but you cannot work for any competitor for 20 years afterwards" I'd certainly NOT sign it - it would effectively put me out of the job market.
Of course. But other industries had to have the fight, too. Remember the living and working conditions of factory workers in the 19th century? They had to fight for their rights as well. Don't get me wrong. I know how difficult it is to fight this battle. You need to get organized and everything. But if things are really as bad as that article describes, then to me it does not really look like you have any choice.
Well 1) is really a matter of scope, not an issue. So maybe a track of music is comparable to a short story.
As for 2)... it works. I have read many novels on my PalmIIIx while sitting in darkish trains going to places all over Europe. (Thank you project Gutenberg.) I read bbc world news instead of a newspaper and I do read all kinds of stuff on my screen on a PC. It does work, it's just not very common. But the point of my proposal was less to sell the books in a convenient way, but to give the publishers a virtual finger.
Besides, it could be argued that if a lot of high quality electronic books became available at a low price or for free, decent readers would follow soon. Why am I not buying eBooks? Because they come in fscked up formats and cost as much as physical books, without the physical book to justify the price.
It's really a chicken and egg problem.