No, not Divx:-), DIVX. The licensed "DVD" player released by Hollywood and Circuit City. It crashed and burned extremely hard.
Custom hardware, custom media, strict licensing protections (Buy a disk, it would only play on your player). Didn't sell and was abandoned. Something suspicously like you proposed, massively rejected by consumers.
Instead of trying to wreck or cripple personal computers, why aren't they trying to build a new special-purpose media device with the decryption method in hardware and the case sealed? Doing this would let them implement DRM in any way they chose without interfering with anyone's work, it would give them a new product to sell, and it would probably leave everyone happy. Not just happy; probably delighted
You mean like DIVX? We all know how well that worked
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Umm, did you notice the last two commands, neither of which (AFAIK), exist on *nix?
Hell, you can just make the check part of the admin's domain logon script. Nothing says it has to run on a server, nor on *nix. You can do regex and name lookups in VBS/JScript, just as you can in Perl. And Perl is available for Windows too. Worst case, automate IE to the osirusoft rblcheck page and dump it to file that's e-mailed to the admin.
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Well, excuse me for assuming that mail admins are familar with such l33t t00lz as whois, bash, perl, wscript and cmd.
I will stop assuming there are such things as competent admins who understand their jobs.
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Nah, most spammers would only find us by sheer chance (no website, small company etc). Checked monthly.
While that might sound arrogant and downright dangerous its the only practical solution given the resources made available to me. Having just checked, we are only listed on ORBZ... but thats only because they now list the whole 'net:)
Yes, very dangeous. There was a company here that thought the same. They made a news article about spam, being relay raped 6 times in 2 months, sending millions of messages. They didn't allocate the resources for the mail system, and have completely shut it off.
Because the user hit a clickthrough EULA when they downloaded and installed Gator. ESA likely doesn't have a clickthrough EULA when you go onto their site.
Gator has been known to be installed without user permission, hence no EULA. There's a reason it's called spyware.
The information in question is already out there, in the hands of corporations, which have less admirable motives than preventing terrorism, and are not under democratic control.
They aren't under democratic control? Stop "voting" for them and see what happens.
Sure, you go right on believing that. Never mind that a GOP-led senate passed the DMCA and Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. Pretty much unanimously, IIRC.
You're right. It was pretty much unanimous. Which means the party had little to no effect on it passing.
Istvan, if you download the patch, you can lower re-spawn rates. That
doesn't exactly address your concern, but it might help. In terms of
sales, my understanding is approx. 200-220k worldwide as of today,
though I don't have up to date data (we developers have to wait!)
Ken Levine
General Manager, Irrational Games
Lead Designer, System Shock 2
This is actually true. There are two edges to this; First, take the original Grand Theft Auto. It didn't really do too well critically(The magazine I was subscribing to at the time gave it a "c", and it was fairly liberal with the marks), but it ended up selling over 90 thousand copies and spawned three sequels. On the other side, System Shock 2(which I own, incidently), recieved critical acclaim from just about everybody, and sold relatively poorly(which is a damn shame, since it is an incredible game, IMHO).
"Relatively poorly"? More 2-3x your "successful" 90K is poorly?
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Umm, if it's (really) opt-in, it's not spam.
There is nothing wrong (IMHO) with bulk e-mail. Have I bought things from bulk e-mail? Yup. Have I bought from spam? Not on your freaking life.
Every single one that I bought from HAD MY CONSENT, aka, *not* spam.
It's not spam. Consent was given when the original e-mail was sent.
From the way she describes it, I'd call it an HD crash. Autosave every freaking second isn't going to help there.
Of course, a Mac wouldn't have helped in that case either.
No, not Divx:-), DIVX. The licensed "DVD" player released by Hollywood and Circuit City. It crashed and burned extremely hard.
Custom hardware, custom media, strict licensing protections (Buy a disk, it would only play on your player). Didn't sell and was abandoned. Something suspicously like you proposed, massively rejected by consumers.
You mean like DIVX? We all know how well that worked
Umm, did you notice the last two commands, neither of which (AFAIK), exist on *nix?
Hell, you can just make the check part of the admin's domain logon script. Nothing says it has to run on a server, nor on *nix. You can do regex and name lookups in VBS/JScript, just as you can in Perl. And Perl is available for Windows too. Worst case, automate IE to the osirusoft rblcheck page and dump it to file that's e-mailed to the admin.
Well, excuse me for assuming that mail admins are familar with such l33t t00lz as whois, bash, perl, wscript and cmd.
I will stop assuming there are such things as competent admins who understand their jobs.
While that might sound arrogant and downright dangerous its the only practical solution given the resources made available to me. Having just checked, we are only listed on ORBZ... but thats only because they now list the whole 'net :)
Yes, very dangeous. There was a company here that thought the same. They made a news article about spam, being relay raped 6 times in 2 months, sending millions of messages. They didn't allocate the resources for the mail system, and have completely shut it off.
You are missing the *MAJOR* point of spam.
If it makes it to the client side, even if filtered, the theft of services has already occurred.
Yes, filters help an individual. BUT THEY DON'T SOLVE THE PROBLEM
Sheer chance? A good admin would check the blocklists, at least weekly. Hell, script it and test daily or hourly. Common sense.
If the client isn't secure, then things can be done with its credentials on the supposedly secure server.
And where, pray tell, is the restriction that says kids must be restricted to this domain?
Gator has been known to be installed without user permission, hence no EULA. There's a reason it's called spyware.
No, they "voted" ten times more. It's not one person = one vote, it's one dollar = one vote
They aren't under democratic control? Stop "voting" for them and see what happens.
Simple: Party doesn't matter in the slightest. You're gonna get screwed by *AA no matter what.
If party mattered, why wasn't DMCA and Bono split along party lines?
$25? Where do you get tickets for $25 for non-local artists?
You're right. It was pretty much unanimous. Which means the party had little to no effect on it passing.
There is no such thing as properly in this case. It doesn't exist. The order violates the standard. Any choice at all can be considered proper.
How is a browser that sticks to the standard broken?
"Relatively poorly"? More 2-3x your "successful" 90K is poorly?
http://www.example.com/foo.asp?id=1;DELETE+FROM+S
It's just a GET request, but if the site suffers from SQL Injection problems, which many sites do, stuff may be deleted from the database.
And also in violation of the HTTP standard. GET requests are supposed to be idempotent.
So, what about benzene?
How do you know it will uninstall with that option?
There are several programs (aka Gator) that don't