But sadly, I think it needs a bit more work. Otherwise, the first cop you walk past will nail you for illegally supplying copyrighted material to the PDA in his pocket.
Re: Boston: this article seems to suggest it's very easy to navigate from Boston to Indian Point nuclear power plant. According to this protest site, the plant lies "within a 50-mile radius of 8 percent of the population of the U.S.A." This is a tolerably good reason to impose a no-fly zone; so perhaps no need to start hypothesising about Dick Cheney's big glass dome o' smallpox just yet.
Perhaps the idea is that, based on current trends, 1,400 emails a day will be sent to our email accounts - which is why we need the good people at TrustE to make sure email remaiins viable.
Spam is spam... sort of. As J*nK*tz said the other day, people don't mind spam half so much if it's something they're genuinely interested in.
I hate to admit it, but I really don't mind getting emails from ebuyer.com telling me that they're doing 256Mb DIMMs for £13 (or whatever). It's the stuff that's just blatant opportunism that angers me - where they fire off the same email to a million people on the assumption that maybe 2% of them will be interested. Even if I wanted to sign up for half of the business scams, I couldn't because I'm not in the US. And my friend Julie is getting pretty fed up with the constant stream of emails promising to show her a 100% natural way to increase the size of her penis.
So I'm reserving judgment for now. If this idea can be made to work properly then it might make life harder for these idiot address-harvesters, and hopefully provide a stable, reliable opt-out system for the email we do receive (well, we can hope). But I have to say, I'm not convinced the battle's won yet. The article says that "trusted spam" will have a seal which
will appear in the top corner of the body of the message, will contain an encrypted digital signature along with information on the valid sender and recipient and the date and time. An appliance installed at the commercial emailer's location generates the digital signature. When the consumer clicks on the seal, they are connected to the Trusted Sender computer, which verifies the digital signature.
Any Pine users care to comment?
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I agree. There was a guy a little way above who wanted to use one program to talk to friends using a variety of IM transports. This is a perfectly reasonable thing to want, but it's not a right: if AOL doesn't want AOL IM to be able to talk to other IM systems, that's its choice (however misguided).
Trillian is a very good work-around; but as this type of thing shows, it is (sadly) only a work-around. The only lasting solution to the IM kerfuffle is to get people to stop using closed systems and move onto some open, non-proprietary system.
Actually, that sounds like it could be a good thing in general. I'm surprised it hasn't occurred to anybody here before.
While I admire IBM's cheek, I'm alarmed if they really were given a fine they were able just to shrug off. By most accounts, it seems they've been rewarded for breaking the law.
And, you know, it was only last week I wrote a letter to the Department of Justice saying I thought companies should not be allowed to profit from illegal activities.
I can only offer my sincerest sympathies. Nobody deserves to lose a friend or relative to terrorism, particulaly not over something in which they are almost certainly not personally involved.
But the point is, the men who murdered ~3,000 people on 11/9/01 are dead already. So obviously they can't be the enemy in a war that started after the event. As a previous poster said, a war on Al-Qaeda would be an understandable response -- though a very difficult one to prosecute, because, unlike a country, Al-Qaeda can move around, disguise itself, distribute itself and take shelter within other countries and institutions.
Of course, Bush can hardly say "well, international terrorism is almost impossible to fight effectively, so we're just going to have to take September 11th on the chin and hope they don't do it again." But I'm sure even he would have to admit that the enemy he has chosen is, by its very nature, ill-defined.
This JVC press release, dated 3rd July 1998, announces that the D-VHS format has been finalised for HD. There's also some technical descriptions of the format and the two modes: HS and LS (basically, high quality or long play).
You may wonder why anyone would launch a new tape format in 2002; but D-VHS has actually been around for several years.
If you can read Japanese you can read the press release for the launch of Hitachi's first D-VHS machine in August 1998 here; otherwise you might like to take a look at this press release from 1999 which announces the first HD consumer VCR, which used D-VHS and was manufactured by Panasonic.
When D-VHS kit was first being developed it was all but impossible for consumers to record to DVD, so D-VHS looked like it might have a future. But DVD recording technology started to become affordable very soon after, so I guess by the time the manufacturers were ready to really push D-VHS in the West it was a non-starter.
And I can't say I'm surprised the major studios are looking at it - for the time being at least, no-one's hacked the copy protection, which is more than can be said for DVDs!
I'm sure we could all fill any arbitrary amount of space; but by the time more than 1% of us actually has a genuine use for this kind of capacity, we'll probably be able to buy it in a single drive from PC World for £199.
I'm not sure if this is wonderful, or very depressing. It certainly doesn't make the article any less fun.
I was getting excited at the thought of a Beowulf cluster of William Shatners. Just imagine! Hook a couple of hundred of them together and you could get a throughput of thousands of alien babes per second.
All Slashdot says is that "Dark Horizons has obtained a copy of what it believes is the script for Attack of the Clones" (emphasis added); and there's a link to the site and the relevant page. Unless you think Dark Horizons is simply trolling, you can hardly say Slashdot is being taken in. It's just publicising something interesting, which is pretty much what it's supposed to do.
And anyway, if it is a hoax, how are the editors supposed to know? The synopsis is perfectly plausible, and Dark Horizons is a well-respected site, which reviews many scripts ahead of release. It's not (AFAIK) normally given to perpetrating hoaxes or excessive credulity. In the absence of any "official" material, this is about as convincing it's going to get until the thing's released.
If you start blasting Slashdot for running reports like this then where does it end? Olaf Christ running TCP/IP on Mindstorms? Uncorroborated. Linux for the PS2? We only have Sony's word for it. Judge grants request to bar the media from the MS trial? That's what he says. Etc. etc.
Examine, if you will, the two most important law documents in the world: The U.S. Constitutuion and the Bible [...] they were written by God Almighty.
I have an idea the US Constitution was actually written in 1787 by a convention of 55 state representatives from around the nation. But I suppose it might have been Almighty God. I do get the two confused sometimes.
Do they have things like the Kays catalogue in the States?
Here (in the UK), the catalogues are very popular with girls: you get a free ~1Kpage glossy catalogue to flick through, and if you see anything you like, you just return the (pre-paid) form, stating the garment number and your size. The thing arrives in a few weeks, and shortly afterwards you get a statement (and a new catalogue every season). So long as you pay off something like 5% of what you owe them every month, you're free to keep on ordering until your wardrobe bursts.
Seems to me that if this is a viable business model, surely people could be persuaded to sign up for an internet-based equivalent, particularly if they delivered the goods as quickly as Amazon (often I used to order books, standard delivery, last thing in the evening before I left work at 5pm; and would come in at 8am the next morning to find them waiting on my desk).
It could be - I imagine before it wore out it would have generated enough energy to build a new one. The website says all the component parts are already in "practical and productive everyday use," so it only needs to make a small contribution to keeping the factories going.
Unless of course one of the components is the sun, or something.
Dammit! That other guy posted while I was writing my post. BUT it turns out we were both wrong, at least about the Ogg part (I was right about Vorbis). Look. See?
Surely it sounds like a character from Wyrd Sisters (or Witches Abroad, Maskerade, Carpe Jugulum, Lords and Ladies, etc. etc.)?
I guess Terry Pratchett isn't so big in the States? I always took "Ogg Vorbis" to be two very blatant references to Pratchett's Discworld novels: Nanny Ogg is a perennial member of the Lancre coven, who appears in many of the books; and Vorbis is the name of the High Priest in Small Gods.
If I'm going to buy an MP3 player it has to have a remote control, like my MD player.
Why?
(a) I like to listen to music on the tube. Hence, I often need to turn the music up when the train's moving, and sometimes even remember to turn it down again once I get off. Plus, I often need to stop it suddenly to hear an announcement. The remote means I can do this almost instantly, without having to constantly rummage in my pocket. This is a Good Thing.
Okay, many MP3 players are sufficiently small that I could carry one as if it were the remote on my MD player. But:
(b) I'm buggered if I'm going to stand on the concourse at Victoria at 1am on a Saturday morning holding a £200 device in full view while I scan through several hundred tracks in search of the one I feel like listening to.
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What, like George Michael?
But sadly, I think it needs a bit more work. Otherwise, the first cop you walk past will nail you for illegally supplying copyrighted material to the PDA in his pocket.
Re: Boston: this article seems to suggest it's very easy to navigate from Boston to Indian Point nuclear power plant. According to this protest site, the plant lies "within a 50-mile radius of 8 percent of the population of the U.S.A." This is a tolerably good reason to impose a no-fly zone; so perhaps no need to start hypothesising about Dick Cheney's big glass dome o' smallpox just yet.
From the Newsbytes story: "In the interview, Austin said he did not write the bomb instructions but instead copied the pages from another site."
Never mind incitement to violence - this guy's a copyright violator! Let him fry, I say.
Perhaps the idea is that, based on current trends, 1,400 emails a day will be sent to our email accounts - which is why we need the good people at TrustE to make sure email remaiins viable.
I hate to admit it, but I really don't mind getting emails from ebuyer.com telling me that they're doing 256Mb DIMMs for £13 (or whatever). It's the stuff that's just blatant opportunism that angers me - where they fire off the same email to a million people on the assumption that maybe 2% of them will be interested. Even if I wanted to sign up for half of the business scams, I couldn't because I'm not in the US. And my friend Julie is getting pretty fed up with the constant stream of emails promising to show her a 100% natural way to increase the size of her penis.
So I'm reserving judgment for now. If this idea can be made to work properly then it might make life harder for these idiot address-harvesters, and hopefully provide a stable, reliable opt-out system for the email we do receive (well, we can hope). But I have to say, I'm not convinced the battle's won yet. The article says that "trusted spam" will have a seal which Any Pine users care to comment?
I agree. There was a guy a little way above who wanted to use one program to talk to friends using a variety of IM transports. This is a perfectly reasonable thing to want, but it's not a right: if AOL doesn't want AOL IM to be able to talk to other IM systems, that's its choice (however misguided).
Trillian is a very good work-around; but as this type of thing shows, it is (sadly) only a work-around. The only lasting solution to the IM kerfuffle is to get people to stop using closed systems and move onto some open, non-proprietary system.
Actually, that sounds like it could be a good thing in general. I'm surprised it hasn't occurred to anybody here before.
While I admire IBM's cheek, I'm alarmed if they really were given a fine they were able just to shrug off. By most accounts, it seems they've been rewarded for breaking the law.
And, you know, it was only last week I wrote a letter to the Department of Justice saying I thought companies should not be allowed to profit from illegal activities.
I can only offer my sincerest sympathies. Nobody deserves to lose a friend or relative to terrorism, particulaly not over something in which they are almost certainly not personally involved.
But the point is, the men who murdered ~3,000 people on 11/9/01 are dead already. So obviously they can't be the enemy in a war that started after the event. As a previous poster said, a war on Al-Qaeda would be an understandable response -- though a very difficult one to prosecute, because, unlike a country, Al-Qaeda can move around, disguise itself, distribute itself and take shelter within other countries and institutions.
But this enemy is even more nebulous than that. Bush wants to go after "thousands of dangerous killers [...] spread throughout the world like ticking time bombs - set to go off without warning." When he says "set to go off without warning," he's effectively admitting that we don't know who they are. And for the most part, we won't know until/unless they strike. Trouble is, the war is supposed to make sure they don't. It's a horrible problem.
Of course, Bush can hardly say "well, international terrorism is almost impossible to fight effectively, so we're just going to have to take September 11th on the chin and hope they don't do it again." But I'm sure even he would have to admit that the enemy he has chosen is, by its very nature, ill-defined.
The rhythm is the bass, and the bass is the treble.
Sorry, just found a better link.
This JVC press release, dated 3rd July 1998, announces that the D-VHS format has been finalised for HD. There's also some technical descriptions of the format and the two modes: HS and LS (basically, high quality or long play).
You may wonder why anyone would launch a new tape format in 2002; but D-VHS has actually been around for several years.
If you can read Japanese you can read the press release for the launch of Hitachi's first D-VHS machine in August 1998 here; otherwise you might like to take a look at this press release from 1999 which announces the first HD consumer VCR, which used D-VHS and was manufactured by Panasonic.
When D-VHS kit was first being developed it was all but impossible for consumers to record to DVD, so D-VHS looked like it might have a future. But DVD recording technology started to become affordable very soon after, so I guess by the time the manufacturers were ready to really push D-VHS in the West it was a non-starter.
And I can't say I'm surprised the major studios are looking at it - for the time being at least, no-one's hacked the copy protection, which is more than can be said for DVDs!
I think I'd rather my house was hit by three tons of titanium than by three tons of titanium and a hundred gallons of rocket fuel.
I'm sure we could all fill any arbitrary amount of space; but by the time more than 1% of us actually has a genuine use for this kind of capacity, we'll probably be able to buy it in a single drive from PC World for £199.
I'm not sure if this is wonderful, or very depressing. It certainly doesn't make the article any less fun.
Surely someone could write a Linux "wrapper" to launch unsanctioned (and indeed copied) PS2 games? Or am I missing something?
No William Shatner? Aw nuts. :(
I was getting excited at the thought of a Beowulf cluster of William Shatners. Just imagine! Hook a couple of hundred of them together and you could get a throughput of thousands of alien babes per second.
All Slashdot says is that "Dark Horizons has obtained a copy of what it believes is the script for Attack of the Clones" (emphasis added); and there's a link to the site and the relevant page. Unless you think Dark Horizons is simply trolling, you can hardly say Slashdot is being taken in. It's just publicising something interesting, which is pretty much what it's supposed to do.
And anyway, if it is a hoax, how are the editors supposed to know? The synopsis is perfectly plausible, and Dark Horizons is a well-respected site, which reviews many scripts ahead of release. It's not (AFAIK) normally given to perpetrating hoaxes or excessive credulity. In the absence of any "official" material, this is about as convincing it's going to get until the thing's released.
If you start blasting Slashdot for running reports like this then where does it end? Olaf Christ running TCP/IP on Mindstorms? Uncorroborated. Linux for the PS2? We only have Sony's word for it. Judge grants request to bar the media from the MS trial? That's what he says. Etc. etc.
esbeniaugh, n. = ESPIONAGE [from Fr. espionnage] The practice or employment of spies.
-- Oxford Dictionary of Wantonly Misspelt Words (Oxford: Clarendon P, 2002)
Hmm. With Internet Explorer that post just comes up as incomprehensible crap. Are you that guy from CrackedMonkey?
Examine, if you will, the two most important law documents in the world: The U.S. Constitutuion and the Bible [...] they were written by God Almighty.
I have an idea the US Constitution was actually written in 1787 by a convention of 55 state representatives from around the nation. But I suppose it might have been Almighty God. I do get the two confused sometimes.
Do they have things like the Kays catalogue in the States?
Here (in the UK), the catalogues are very popular with girls: you get a free ~1Kpage glossy catalogue to flick through, and if you see anything you like, you just return the (pre-paid) form, stating the garment number and your size. The thing arrives in a few weeks, and shortly afterwards you get a statement (and a new catalogue every season). So long as you pay off something like 5% of what you owe them every month, you're free to keep on ordering until your wardrobe bursts.
Seems to me that if this is a viable business model, surely people could be persuaded to sign up for an internet-based equivalent, particularly if they delivered the goods as quickly as Amazon (often I used to order books, standard delivery, last thing in the evening before I left work at 5pm; and would come in at 8am the next morning to find them waiting on my desk).
It could be - I imagine before it wore out it would have generated enough energy to build a new one. The website says all the component parts are already in "practical and productive everyday use," so it only needs to make a small contribution to keeping the factories going.
Unless of course one of the components is the sun, or something.
Dammit! That other guy posted while I was writing my post. BUT it turns out we were both wrong, at least about the Ogg part (I was right about Vorbis). Look. See?
Surely it sounds like a character from Wyrd Sisters (or Witches Abroad, Maskerade, Carpe Jugulum, Lords and Ladies, etc. etc.)?
I guess Terry Pratchett isn't so big in the States? I always took "Ogg Vorbis" to be two very blatant references to Pratchett's Discworld novels: Nanny Ogg is a perennial member of the Lancre coven, who appears in many of the books; and Vorbis is the name of the High Priest in Small Gods.
If I'm going to buy an MP3 player it has to have a remote control, like my MD player.
Why?
(a) I like to listen to music on the tube. Hence, I often need to turn the music up when the train's moving, and sometimes even remember to turn it down again once I get off. Plus, I often need to stop it suddenly to hear an announcement. The remote means I can do this almost instantly, without having to constantly rummage in my pocket. This is a Good Thing.
Okay, many MP3 players are sufficiently small that I could carry one as if it were the remote on my MD player. But:
(b) I'm buggered if I'm going to stand on the concourse at Victoria at 1am on a Saturday morning holding a £200 device in full view while I scan through several hundred tracks in search of the one I feel like listening to.
The prosecution rests.