I'm guessing Microsoft will cripple Outlook or Windows so that it's not possable to spam using that software.
This of course will have zero impact on spam.
As to my solution... Enforce existing laws.
Most spam violates quite a few laws. Truth in adverting. Harrasment. Dishonnest buisness practaces. Advertsing to someone who can not legally buy the product.
If any spammer tried any of this via cold calling or postal they'd be in jail but spammers get a pass.
Don't loby for more laws just yet. Loby for enforcement of the laws we already have in place.
If needed bring spam in complience with junk mail and telemarkting.
If they use the brain lazers like they use drugs today (as an end all cure) then yeah. However brain lazers are a lot healthyer than drugs.
However if they use the lazers to cure the sympoms and then address the real problem then it'll be a real benifit.
There is also the detail that with brain lazers we'd have a deeper understanding of how the brain works and can't (as we do now) fool ourselfs into thinking the patent is cured. We could trace the cause back and see the REAL problem.
Build untill broke Get an invester (Non disclosure) Build untill compleate Patent Produce
With software it's Code untill compleate Copyright Produce
The software is already protected (by copyright). Patent protects against reverse engenearing. For software reverse engenearing costs MORE than the R&D for the original project but for hardware reverse engenearing costs LESS than the original R&D.
With software your better off if your compeditors are cloning your softwares behavure. And you get to say "We are the first" so the compeator (who forked over more in R&D) has to charge less while effectively advertising YOUR product on the pacage.
However software patents mean you can patent compeditors out of business.
You put anything on the TV screen and there will be people to watch it.
The thing is Reality TV being almost pure proffit so it's a success even if the audence is just slightly more than the typical audence for infomertals.
Where as a Sifi needs a significant audence to be a success due to expensive specal effects.
I was a TV adict now I just PVR 2 shows a day. Except on Sat when I watch nothing.
I've pritty much replaced my TV watching with web comics and flash animation.
If that isn't a lesson on why not to choose GPLd software nothing is. It's actually a very good example as to why you should chouse GPLed software.
Linus didn't write all the Linux code so if he were to keep the code for himself he should face the wrath of all those people for whom he just ripped off.
I am willing to contribute code to non GPLed projects as long as you pay me for my work becouse I sure as hack don't expect non-GPLed work to remain free for very.
It's pritty well known that I am a Linux expert around here. I keep telling people "I don't know Windows talk to Jiexi" (Jiexi is the tech kid and resedent Windows expert). Yet every so often people come to ME for technical problems with the Windows boxes. As a result I've been forced to learn more about Windows than rest of the staff would need to learn of Unix if we were to switch to Unix.
But EVERYONE knows Windows... Especally people who don't.
Why dosen't Apple sell Mp3s in it's iStore? Same reason Real and Napster don't offer Mp3s. The recording industry will not liccens music to be sold on unrestricted formats such as Mp3s. They demand DRM. Apple, Real and Napster comply.
At the core Real is ticked becouse they can't sell DRM restricted music the iPod supports.
So what happends now? Fairplay becomes portable and Real can sell fairplay restricted music for about 10 seconds. Then the music industry clamps down before someone makes an application to strip the DRM and make iStore music playable on ANY Mp3 player.
The iPod dies and your now all buying Microsoft media players.
Congradualtions for defending Microsoft against the evil Apple monopoly.
DRM formats are for the most part security by obscurity. The people making the DRM systems don't care if they work well they just care that they work well enough to satisfy the music industry.
Apple would be perfictly happy selling MP3s but Apple can't prevent those same MP3s from turnning up on GnuTella.
People will still use the old method. It will be illegal for minnors to use the technology. People will (and in fact do now) have sex purely for procreation. There are marrage books that actually teach how to make sex not plesurable as it is a nasty thing that should only be used for procreation.
More than likely it'll be people suffering nurrological disorders who use the technology to hack a remap around the defective areas of the brain so they can have normal happy lifes. The repurpous the defective areas for beta projects.
I imagined a beowolf cluster of thies a long time ago. Connected by Wifi. "We are the Linux borg. Resistence is futile"
But slipping into a coma is a normal part of the brains functionality. It happends normally. Just becouse everyone who owns a Nuro-X-Box slips into a coma dosen't mean it's Microsofts fault. Microsofts products just happends to appeal to the coma prone.
It appears Sony is trying to patent sensory input from the nerve while having done zero research into the field. Yet there is a large amount of existing research into the field. Right now most of the practical application is in the area of receaving signals from the brain but the cochlear implants that restore hearing an the cybernetic eye that restores vision are practical examples of sending sensory data back to the brain.
I'm not sure how far we are on the other sensory inputs but I guess that dosen't matter anymore becouse all research will have to be scraped leaving Sony to start pritty much from scrap to redo the decades of research already done.
All becouse Sony got the patent.
Good luck Sony.. None of the researchers working on this field for over 20 years now will ever speak with you let alone share notes.
To Sony it's just theoretical ideas to many reseachers in the medical industry it's science and to some degree a pratical reality.
This is a grand example of abusing the patent office and an ideal example of a patent that should have never been issued.
Going from 32 bits to 64 bits is a direct upgrade. Going from Text to HTML is switching technologys.
If you rename a text file from hello.txt to hello.html and pull it up in your web browser you will lose all the formating as HTML expects you to do formating with HTML commands.
32 bits to 64 bits just means your computer can hold more information in one registar.
Also there is nothing stopping a kernel hacker from modifying Linux to store the time/date in two 32 bit regestars instead of one.
Text to HTML is like the diffrence between walking and riding a bike. To edit HTML you still need text. So if an issue were to crop up with Text (like the 32 bit time bug) not only could we not switch to HTML to fix it HTML would be screwed as well.
HTML is a good technology that (IMAO) has been been pushed too far too fast. But it's not a replacement to text only a better choice when text won't do the job.
Kind of like how a desktop PC dosen't replace a pocket calculator.
And on that note I've been writing my documents mostly in HTML for 10 years now and using a PDA for the last 3. And I still have a solar powered calculator and get all my e-mail in text.
Prior art for remote identifying of users TCP/IP. Packets have a return address so the receaver can respond to the senders request. The ability to respond to requests provides a reasonable method of conferming a users identity.
Someone get Taco to post to this thread... That'll pritty much give us the lowest UID there is:)
Just to note.. It freaked me out the first time someone called my six digit UID "low". (I didn't say anything but I nearly had kittens right then and there)
Remember when it was "You don't get fired for chousing IBM" Now we have "You don't get arrested for using IE"
I'll lazly look over the server logs and see diffrent clients and look em up. Some times it's a bot some times it's a spammer scooping e-mails but I've found some neat new web browsers this way. I guess the first thing the BT admin do when THEY see a client they don't recognise is call the police.
Yes I've seen the comments that suggest the guy was actually hacking the website with lynx. Sure sure he was hacking the website with lynx and I was speeding on a little kids tricycle and broke into fort knox with a paperclip.
On the flip side... yeah it could be a hoax. However I'm rather sceptical that BT could be so sure nothing evil happend before they cought a hacker.
Wait for the next virus/worm/browser hijack etc contain code that changes the browser to report it's "0\\/n3d" or something.
I remember this being commented on during Rush Limbaughs show. One of Dibolds staff called up to explain how everything was good.
1. The Dibold machines can not be hacked from the Internet. They are stand alone machines thus can not be hacked Excuse me? Sounds like Dibold is intentionally confusing the issue. He hammered the notion that there was no connection to the machine so you couldn't hack it. All I could say was "And just how do you vote then?" Stand alone machines are usually quite easy to hack. Far more so than Internet servers as you don't have to worry about the pesky human who actually dose have phisical contact with the box and hence can bypass ANYTHING I do plus track down my fuzzy butt, Once you have phsical contact with the box it's you vs any flaw you may find.
2. Paper trail Dibolds machines provide a paper trail... Ahem: A what? A print out AFTER the election.. After the box has been hacked. A print out that has already been hacked.
It's not enough to ask for a paper trail now that Dibold has redefined the term to mean a paper copy of the internal logs AFTER the machine has been hacked.
On my LJ I posted a long artical called "a better Dibold"... I'll summerise a short version... Instead of the digital card spit out of the Dibold machines spit out a paper card. One side printed with human readable results and the flip side with computer readable data. There you have your paper trail and digital vote all in one paper card.
Plus a "live count" upload the votes as they are being done to a central server. (Multi stage: Upload to polling place puter, Fidonet style networking updates once per 30 min. Main server publishes the results) No more sloppy exit polling...
Then compair the computer automated live count with the digital paper count and see if they match. Automatic audit trail.
Use off the shelf open source software, Have swiss imbeded build the machines. (They'll build anything off the Dragonix core using Linux) One open source cypher backed up by a closed cypher. (Two cyphers)
Open source code, paper audit and I'm pritty dang sure this will pass a security audit.
PS. Some details in this summery didn't appear on my LJ.
Every now and then someone complains about some large TV or radio congomerate who can deside what you can or can't watch (Not talking TV or radio networks like CBS but station owners like Clear Channel)
I don't agree so much. I see the point but IMAO we aren't there. There are plenty of indupendent radio and TV stations where I live.
But with digital radio it's a total of TWO options. To make matters worse you can't buy the radio from just anyone. You gotta buy it directly from the radio network. Crud.
Look at the varity of analog radios and TVs you can buy. Pocket TVs, radios powered by the radio signal, by solar power, by hand crank, by peddle power and no doupt someone has one powered by sex. (Thow I doupt there'd be much of a market for that)
We have car radios becouse nobody controls the technology. Boom boxes wouldn't exist. Walkmans were also not acceptable by "polite" socity when created.
And... radio cards. I could plug a controller card inside my computer and have radio. Make MP3s and not need permission from Clear Channel.
If we had to get permission first there'd be no TiVO, no VCR, no casset tape, no radio card, no boom box, no walkman and no transister radio.
It's a neat idea that XM has and a pritty smart way of getting proffit.
But I'll pass. My solar and hand crank powered short wave radio picks up local stations perfictly fine... (Admittedly too lazy to actually make use of the international radio fuctions)
and honnestly I'm better off getting my power from the hand crank than from the wall socket. Wonder if I can set up a stationary bike and rig up a peddle power generator...
(Buy a peddle power bike light kit and use the generator)
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I'm guessing Microsoft will cripple Outlook or Windows so that it's not possable to spam using that software.
This of course will have zero impact on spam.
As to my solution...
Enforce existing laws.
Most spam violates quite a few laws.
Truth in adverting.
Harrasment.
Dishonnest buisness practaces.
Advertsing to someone who can not legally buy the product.
If any spammer tried any of this via cold calling or postal they'd be in jail but spammers get a pass.
Don't loby for more laws just yet. Loby for enforcement of the laws we already have in place.
If needed bring spam in complience with junk mail and telemarkting.
If they use the brain lazers like they use drugs today (as an end all cure) then yeah. However brain lazers are a lot healthyer than drugs.
However if they use the lazers to cure the sympoms and then address the real problem then it'll be a real benifit.
There is also the detail that with brain lazers we'd have a deeper understanding of how the brain works and can't (as we do now) fool ourselfs into thinking the patent is cured.
We could trace the cause back and see the REAL problem.
Orbital brain lazers
Max Headrom was a show ahead of it's time in many ways.
I see this artical and I think of blipverts (subliminal advertising)
Basicly the way patents are intended to be used.
Build untill broke
Get an invester (Non disclosure)
Build untill compleate
Patent
Produce
With software it's
Code untill compleate
Copyright
Produce
The software is already protected (by copyright).
Patent protects against reverse engenearing.
For software reverse engenearing costs MORE than the R&D for the original project
but for hardware reverse engenearing costs LESS than the original R&D.
With software your better off if your compeditors are cloning your softwares behavure. And you get to say "We are the first" so the compeator (who forked over more in R&D) has to charge less while effectively advertising YOUR product on the pacage.
However software patents mean you can patent compeditors out of business.
You put anything on the TV screen and there will be people to watch it.
The thing is Reality TV being almost pure proffit so it's a success even if the audence is just slightly more than the typical audence for infomertals.
Where as a Sifi needs a significant audence to be a success due to expensive specal effects.
I was a TV adict now I just PVR 2 shows a day.
Except on Sat when I watch nothing.
I've pritty much replaced my TV watching with web comics and flash animation.
It's Communist China you insensitive bastard.
In communist China the whole is dug to you.
If that isn't a lesson on why not to choose GPLd software nothing is.
It's actually a very good example as to why you should chouse GPLed software.
Linus didn't write all the Linux code so if he were to keep the code for himself he should face the wrath of all those people for whom he just ripped off.
I am willing to contribute code to non GPLed projects as long as you pay me for my work becouse I sure as hack don't expect non-GPLed work to remain free for very.
It's pritty well known that I am a Linux expert around here.
... Especally people who don't.
I keep telling people "I don't know Windows talk to Jiexi" (Jiexi is the tech kid and resedent Windows expert).
Yet every so often people come to ME for technical problems with the Windows boxes.
As a result I've been forced to learn more about Windows than rest of the staff would need to learn of Unix if we were to switch to Unix.
But EVERYONE knows Windows
Why dosen't Apple sell Mp3s in it's iStore?
Same reason Real and Napster don't offer Mp3s.
The recording industry will not liccens music to be sold on unrestricted formats such as Mp3s.
They demand DRM. Apple, Real and Napster comply.
At the core Real is ticked becouse they can't sell DRM restricted music the iPod supports.
So what happends now?
Fairplay becomes portable and Real can sell fairplay restricted music for about 10 seconds.
Then the music industry clamps down before someone makes an application to strip the DRM and make iStore music playable on ANY Mp3 player.
The iPod dies and your now all buying Microsoft media players.
Congradualtions for defending Microsoft against the evil Apple monopoly.
DRM formats are for the most part security by obscurity.
The people making the DRM systems don't care if they work well they just care that they work well enough to satisfy the music industry.
Apple would be perfictly happy selling MP3s but Apple can't prevent those same MP3s from turnning up on GnuTella.
People will still use the old method.
It will be illegal for minnors to use the technology.
People will (and in fact do now) have sex purely for procreation.
There are marrage books that actually teach how to make sex not plesurable as it is a nasty thing that should only be used for procreation.
Would the comments from Elizabeth Boukis should be sufficant grounds for having this patent thrown out?
Can I run out and get a patent on energy based wepons or faster than light engens?
Or maybe I could patent using the next release of a Microsoft brand product in business or government?
More than likely it'll be people suffering nurrological disorders who use the technology to hack a remap around the defective areas of the brain so they can have normal happy lifes.
The repurpous the defective areas for beta projects.
I imagined a beowolf cluster of thies a long time ago.
Connected by Wifi.
"We are the Linux borg. Resistence is futile"
But slipping into a coma is a normal part of the brains functionality.
It happends normally.
Just becouse everyone who owns a Nuro-X-Box slips into a coma dosen't mean it's Microsofts fault.
Microsofts products just happends to appeal to the coma prone.
I've patented random no-sex-life jokes pay up.
It appears Sony is trying to patent sensory input from the nerve while having done zero research into the field.
Yet there is a large amount of existing research into the field. Right now most of the practical application is in the area of receaving signals from the brain but the cochlear implants that restore hearing an the cybernetic eye that restores vision are practical examples of sending sensory data back to the brain.
I'm not sure how far we are on the other sensory inputs but I guess that dosen't matter anymore becouse all research will have to be scraped leaving Sony to start pritty much from scrap to redo the decades of research already done.
All becouse Sony got the patent.
Good luck Sony.. None of the researchers working on this field for over 20 years now will ever speak with you let alone share notes.
To Sony it's just theoretical ideas to many reseachers in the medical industry it's science and to some degree a pratical reality.
This is a grand example of abusing the patent office and an ideal example of a patent that should have never been issued.
The typical business modle of the day was:
1. Build untill broke
2. Secure funding (Protected by non-disclosure agreements)
3. Patent
4. Build.
Patents were intended to protect you from having your device stolen AFTER you go into full production.
When your entering into an agreement with individuals a non-disclosure agreement is more binding, more effective and easier to get.
With shrinkwrap liccensing I'm supprised people haven't attempted a shrinkwrap non-disclosure.
Going from 32 bits to 64 bits is a direct upgrade.
Going from Text to HTML is switching technologys.
If you rename a text file from hello.txt to hello.html and pull it up in your web browser you will lose all the formating as HTML expects you to do formating with HTML commands.
32 bits to 64 bits just means your computer can hold more information in one registar.
Also there is nothing stopping a kernel hacker from modifying Linux to store the time/date in two 32 bit regestars instead of one.
Text to HTML is like the diffrence between walking and riding a bike. To edit HTML you still need text. So if an issue were to crop up with Text (like the 32 bit time bug) not only could we not switch to HTML to fix it HTML would be screwed as well.
HTML is a good technology that (IMAO) has been been pushed too far too fast.
But it's not a replacement to text only a better choice when text won't do the job.
Kind of like how a desktop PC dosen't replace a pocket calculator.
And on that note I've been writing my documents mostly in HTML for 10 years now and using a PDA for the last 3.
And I still have a solar powered calculator and get all my e-mail in text.
Prior art for remote identifying of users
TCP/IP. Packets have a return address so the receaver can respond to the senders request. The ability to respond to requests provides a reasonable method of conferming a users identity.
Someone get Taco to post to this thread... :)
That'll pritty much give us the lowest UID there is
Just to note..
It freaked me out the first time someone called my six digit UID "low".
(I didn't say anything but I nearly had kittens right then and there)
Thats it...
Remember how Intell was going to create a new rating for speed?
Well here it is folks... They are mesuring speed by the heat it generates.
AMD won't be able to beat Intells new 75 degree processor....
No need to paint flames on this sucker.....
Remember when it was "You don't get fired for chousing IBM"
Now we have "You don't get arrested for using IE"
I'll lazly look over the server logs and see diffrent clients and look em up. Some times it's a bot some times it's a spammer scooping e-mails but I've found some neat new web browsers this way.
I guess the first thing the BT admin do when THEY see a client they don't recognise is call the police.
Yes I've seen the comments that suggest the guy was actually hacking the website with lynx.
Sure sure he was hacking the website with lynx and I was speeding on a little kids tricycle and broke into fort knox with a paperclip.
On the flip side... yeah it could be a hoax. However I'm rather sceptical that BT could be so sure nothing evil happend before they cought a hacker.
Wait for the next virus/worm/browser hijack etc contain code that changes the browser to report it's "0\\/n3d" or something.
I remember this being commented on during Rush Limbaughs show.
One of Dibolds staff called up to explain how everything was good.
1. The Dibold machines can not be hacked from the Internet. They are stand alone machines thus can not be hacked
Excuse me? Sounds like Dibold is intentionally confusing the issue.
He hammered the notion that there was no connection to the machine so you couldn't hack it.
All I could say was "And just how do you vote then?"
Stand alone machines are usually quite easy to hack. Far more so than Internet servers as you don't have to worry about the pesky human who actually dose have phisical contact with the box and hence can bypass ANYTHING I do plus track down my fuzzy butt,
Once you have phsical contact with the box it's you vs any flaw you may find.
2. Paper trail
Dibolds machines provide a paper trail...
Ahem: A what? A print out AFTER the election.. After the box has been hacked. A print out that has already been hacked.
It's not enough to ask for a paper trail now that Dibold has redefined the term to mean a paper copy of the internal logs AFTER the machine has been hacked.
On my LJ I posted a long artical called "a better Dibold"...
I'll summerise a short version...
Instead of the digital card spit out of the Dibold machines spit out a paper card. One side printed with human readable results and the flip side with computer readable data.
There you have your paper trail and digital vote all in one paper card.
Plus a "live count" upload the votes as they are being done to a central server.
(Multi stage: Upload to polling place puter, Fidonet style networking updates once per 30 min. Main server publishes the results)
No more sloppy exit polling...
Then compair the computer automated live count with the digital paper count and see if they match.
Automatic audit trail.
Use off the shelf open source software,
Have swiss imbeded build the machines.
(They'll build anything off the Dragonix core using Linux)
One open source cypher backed up by a closed cypher. (Two cyphers)
Open source code, paper audit and I'm pritty dang sure this will pass a security audit.
PS. Some details in this summery didn't appear on my LJ.
Every now and then someone complains about some large TV or radio congomerate who can deside what you can or can't watch (Not talking TV or radio networks like CBS but station owners like Clear Channel)
I don't agree so much. I see the point but IMAO we aren't there. There are plenty of indupendent radio and TV stations where I live.
But with digital radio it's a total of TWO options.
To make matters worse you can't buy the radio from just anyone. You gotta buy it directly from the radio network. Crud.
Look at the varity of analog radios and TVs you can buy. Pocket TVs, radios powered by the radio signal, by solar power, by hand crank, by peddle power and no doupt someone has one powered by sex.
(Thow I doupt there'd be much of a market for that)
We have car radios becouse nobody controls the technology. Boom boxes wouldn't exist. Walkmans were also not acceptable by "polite" socity when created.
And... radio cards.
I could plug a controller card inside my computer and have radio. Make MP3s and not need permission from Clear Channel.
If we had to get permission first there'd be no TiVO, no VCR, no casset tape, no radio card, no boom box, no walkman and no transister radio.
It's a neat idea that XM has and a pritty smart way of getting proffit.
But I'll pass.
My solar and hand crank powered short wave radio picks up local stations perfictly fine...
(Admittedly too lazy to actually make use of the international radio fuctions)
and honnestly I'm better off getting my power from the hand crank than from the wall socket.
Wonder if I can set up a stationary bike and rig up a peddle power generator...
(Buy a peddle power bike light kit and use the generator)
They are uninformed how important their vote is.
If they lack this basic knowledge, how would they know about the real, deep, political issues are?
Most people I've known who don't vote do so not out of ignorence of the vote but of knowladge.
"My one vote won't make a diffrence"
It's apathy and what most people don't realise is the wise lead by example. Even when it's a bad example.
One less vote becomes 50, becomes 1,000.
But nobody really seams to understand that.
Your one vote dosen't make for a hill of beans. It's the people who vote folowing your example that make it count.
However one might wonder what example is set by a yellow circle with an eating disorder.