"Vorbis, on the other hand is named after the Terry Pratchett character from the book 'Small Gods'. The name holds some significance, but it's an indirect, uninteresting story."
And Gytha "Nanny" Ogg is also a character in Pratchett's Discworld books (just about any of 'em)
It's also worth pointing out that each movie has a soundtrack of similar length. Yet, a DVD is close to the same cost as an album. Promotion is just as high, if not higher for movies (when's the last time you saw a toy for an album at McDonalds?)
If you put a disclaimer on that web page supplying the address, it's not unsolicited now, is it? It's simply an unknown sender fulfilling your request.
If you plainly state you are open to such offers, that e-mail isn't spam. If you say you aren't (or don't state a preference), it's spam.
Right now, I get loads of spam with ADV, all coming through relays and proxies. I tend do doubt the remove list means squat. And why should I opt out of something I never asked for in the first place?
Yes ADV is trivially filterable. NEITHER IS THAT THE POINT. By the time it's on your client, a large portion of the costs of spam have already been realized.
Economics? What economics? Spam is currently incredibly easy to send. It costs them more to filter the lists than to not filter them. So why adjust them?
Because some spam is accepted, there are even more people that try, hoping theirs will be accepted. Your mail very rapidly becomes unusable.
There is no such thing as good spam. Unsolicited bulk e-mail is not a viable form of advertising. It does not scale. Would you like several thousand to tens of thousands e-mail in your inbox daily? That's what you'd get if it was an accepted practice, not the shady side of the net it is now.
I remember (article here?) there was a clever response from DTV that destroyed pirate cards. Was there ever a workaround for that?
Are the DTV cards always 2 way communication? E.g. For every single channel change is there communication with the server revalidating the card? You could do that with every upload to a DRM enabled MP3 player.
e.g. all communication between client and server is signed. Client encrypts with server public key, server signs with its private key. The client rejects anything unsigned or incorrectly signed. If the authentication requests are always changing (random number, time, counter are included in the signed request), replay attacks won't work.
You would need to either compromise the private key or find a weakness in the algorithm. Done correctly, that would take many years to do. By which point the newest version of the product is out and you have to start over on the attack.
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Wasn't there a study of what was in print in 1925 that is still in print now show something along the lines of 30 works out of 10,000?
If there was incentive to restore and disseminate works, wouldn't this have been a lot higher?
Would it?
*Limited* times. With respect to a human lifetime, 1000 years is not limited.
Nothing has fallen out of copyright since almost 50 years before I was born. How is that limited?
If it's under much less scrutiny, how is it obviously superior?
Security by Obscurity and all that bit
And Gytha "Nanny" Ogg is also a character in Pratchett's Discworld books (just about any of 'em)
No. See Looking Glass for an example. Killed thanks to Daikatana, that oh so successful FPS.
So, how many bombs does Hollywood produce?
It's also worth pointing out that each movie has a soundtrack of similar length. Yet, a DVD is close to the same cost as an album. Promotion is just as high, if not higher for movies (when's the last time you saw a toy for an album at McDonalds?)
Blackthorne rocked?
You must have ADD. It was fine for a while, but it got repetitive fast.
Want some Skittles?
Everquest *IS* $10
He does seem remarkably clue resistant though. He *IS* running an open relay and admits it.
So what if you have to forge the FROM. It's not like spammers don't do that anyway.
IIRC, there's about 2MB of OS9 in ROM on the Macs. Don't include the ROM on new machines
Can an assembly book be (completely) OS agnostic?
Think about it (and it was mentioned in the review as well)
int main(int argc,char **argv)
{
printf("hello world");
}
is largely OS agnostic.
Now, do the same in OS agnostic assembly.
OK, so console I/O was unfair. How about:
{
int *x = new int[20];
delete [] x;
}
the x86 command set doesn't magically change just because you installed linux. There's no such thing as 'OS specific' assembler.
So, int 21 does what on linux? What about int 2e on DOS or Linux?
Scoop? This was on fark yesterday.
Don't forget - MS' servers were hacked too. Didn't that happen sometime last year, with a trojan on somebody on their VPN?
If you put a disclaimer on that web page supplying the address, it's not unsolicited now, is it? It's simply an unknown sender fulfilling your request.
If you plainly state you are open to such offers, that e-mail isn't spam. If you say you aren't (or don't state a preference), it's spam.
Right now, I get loads of spam with ADV, all coming through relays and proxies. I tend do doubt the remove list means squat. And why should I opt out of something I never asked for in the first place?
Yes ADV is trivially filterable. NEITHER IS THAT THE POINT. By the time it's on your client, a large portion of the costs of spam have already been realized.
Economics? What economics? Spam is currently incredibly easy to send. It costs them more to filter the lists than to not filter them. So why adjust them?
No, not simple.
Because some spam is accepted, there are even more people that try, hoping theirs will be accepted. Your mail very rapidly becomes unusable.
There is no such thing as good spam. Unsolicited bulk e-mail is not a viable form of advertising. It does not scale. Would you like several thousand to tens of thousands e-mail in your inbox daily? That's what you'd get if it was an accepted practice, not the shady side of the net it is now.
Flamebait?
/. article) is flamebait?
MS admitting that Linux is cheaper in the long run (and yes, it's on their site. It was also a
Did Gates become a moderator or something? Possible with all the VS.NET ads I'm seeing plastered here.
Nope, it's not SPAM, since it isn't a pink meat(?) from Hormel.
Spam on the other hand, it most certainly is. There is one key factor - Is it unsolicited? It's consent, not content.
Not quite.
You have the right[1] to free speech. You do not have the right to force that speech upon others or use others resources without permission to do so.
[1] In the US.
And that lessens the load on the network exactly how?
You're a little behind.
Ballmer already admitted the TCO of linux is less than the TCO of Win
I remember (article here?) there was a clever response from DTV that destroyed pirate cards. Was there ever a workaround for that?
Are the DTV cards always 2 way communication? E.g. For every single channel change is there communication with the server revalidating the card? You could do that with every upload to a DRM enabled MP3 player.
PKI = Public Key Infrastructure
e.g. all communication between client and server is signed. Client encrypts with server public key, server signs with its private key. The client rejects anything unsigned or incorrectly signed. If the authentication requests are always changing (random number, time, counter are included in the signed request), replay attacks won't work.
You would need to either compromise the private key or find a weakness in the algorithm. Done correctly, that would take many years to do. By which point the newest version of the product is out and you have to start over on the attack.