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HAHA that's the funniest piece of crap I've seen in a long time. Not even aitcom nor 9netave can beat that!
Maybe the internet is just not meant for advertising, has anybody ever thought of that? You can't apply offline media advertising to online advertising and try to force them to be the same... just as you wouldn't try making a bicycle go at the speed of sound, as you would a jet.
The internet is full of leeches (myself included) who avoid ads at all costs. The net is non-linear. This fact alone is a HUGE disadvantage to online advertising. There's just no way to force someone to look at your ads for a predetermined period of time, unless you're providing streaming media.
Second, unlike traditional media, there's no barrier to entry. That's why you have millions of channels, and gadzillions of unsold advertising inventory. Too much supply, not enough demand. Therefore everything becomes a buyer's (advertisers) market, thus they're the ones who dictate terms of performance.
And how about competition. Since there's no barrier to entry, some guy far off in country XXX, who feels lucky to make $10 U.S. a month, can come online and compete for your dollar. You have to make $3000 a month at least to survive. He only needs $30. How are you going to compete against that?
Hard to believe? Just look at the online porn industry. That market has been over-saturated since about 2 years ago. I should know because I used to have a porn site myself. Things got so bad I was making $10 on 100,000 impressions. Then, if your click-throughs weren't productive enough (leading to enough sales, aka, conversion ratio), you were canned and payment was witheld.
Sadly, I see the non-porn industry headed for the same black hole.
This is ironic. Us computer geeks look up to crackers like Kevin Mitnik. And by doing so we are promoting criminal activities like this. I'll be in a couple of years when this spammer gets out of jail there'd be people looking up to him like a god. Sigh... How quickly people forget...
Seriously, this spammer should be locked up for 10 years just to set an example for all the would-be junkmailers. I mean, if we don't set an example of him, others would just think "oh it's only a minor crime with minor consequences. I'll just keep on spamming!"
If RedHat continues on its current path, they will self-destruct the same way pets.com did. Either that or they will just become a penny-stock company.
Here's why... Most people that use Linux are computer literate and proficient. Agreed?
Well, computer-proficient geeks like us want and need dsl or other broadband services in our homes. And as dsl ramps up more and more of us will be downloading the iso's directly and burning them ourselves.
So how's RedHat going to turn up a dime given this kind of situation?
But then RedHat already knows this, that's why they're looking everywhere else for new strategies.
Their idea of embedded systems is great, although, like vrml, who knows when it's gonna "really" make an impact...
The other is perhaps to sell a security service whereby customers can get instant emails as to when updates are available, and then, with a command or two, have it ALL updated rather than having the admin manually go in and update each individual piece.
Yes, security flaws are very very common with Linux, even more common than with Windows. Why? Because this thing is open-sourced, and there are tons of readily available cracks on the net. Sigh... I see a flame already...
Take a look at history. It's always been revolutions or people going to a foreign land, starting fresh, that true innovation has been able to take place.
Take a look at U.S. If we didn't break from the English, the good old traditions from the motherland would never go away and people will keep grabbing on to the old ways of doing things, even though many such things are not right.
Look at Japan. They got away from China.
Look at China. Look at how hard it is for them to break from their 5,000 years of tradition. Don't get me wrong. Most of it is good, but there are still fundamental ways of thinking that just refuse to go away easily.
You see, culture is a glue that binds a people together and prevent them from breaking apart. But it comes at a price. And that price is the unwillingness to change, especially when the world is changing and one needs to adapt quick.
Think of what I just said as social darwinism. It's about the survival of the fittest. Obviously old cultures don't want to go away (they'll be extinct if they do), but at times real change is needed if one is to be fit for survival in the coming millenium.
Ok, enough of my long-winded philosophy...
The true role of language is for communication, but culture has invaded it to a point where governments would rather make their own people learn the same thing many different times, than to just adapt to whatever is popular. Instead of just letting its people use "internet" they'd rather their own people use "insert-your-own-language-specific-vocab".
Really, is this necessary? This Odon Betanzos is trying to preserve his culture at the huge expense of adding that extra barrier to innovation and freedom.
They should prevent Network Solutions, Register.com, and any other existing registrars from participating in this stupid ICAN'T thingy. Those guys have ulterior motives for promoting/not promoting certain tld's. Think about it, do you think they want another registrar to be annointed with the ".web" tld, and thus steal potentially lots of money away from the current.com? Of course not... The last thing Network Solutions wants is competition!!!!
You know why icann doesn't like.web? Cause they know this tld has the potential to unseat.com as the king of tld's. And if that ever happens guess what? NSI and register.com's ".COM" will be diluted, thus hurting nsi/register.com's bottom line.
For the sake of our future, I hope nsi gets knocked down for good. I mean, I still can't believe it's taken more than a year and they still can't give sex.com to the rightful owner. My god, the domain was stolen! How hard is that to figure out?
The whole point to this icann opening up new domains is to relieve the current shortage in easy-to-remember domain names.
Well if that's the purpose, why are these morons putting Network Solutions, Register.com, and other big registrars on their boards to make these decisions? It's like trusting the FBI to investigate themselves! It just doesn't work like that! They have ulterior motives and will only work to further themselves and prevent themselves from losing future profits. It doesn't benefit us consumers, and it sure doesn't benefit the thousands of businesses that would like to find an alternative to the current.com namespace.
Case in point:.museum???!!!?! First of all, who'd even want to type those 6 extra letters. Second, why museum and not car dealerships, or libraries, or malls, or gardens? Geez... how many museums are there in the world anyways? Dumb fucks!
$2000 to register.biz? Not many frickin idiots are going to ante up this ransom, which means this.biz will be about 1/100th as popular as.net is today! Great job register.com and nsi. Yeah that'll keep your current monopolies safe right?
.web should've made it into the new tlds. Yeah Image Online is doing bad business encouraging people to "pre"-register, but so what? Delegate it to another bidder then!
You heard me, Furby already cusses! Start yours up and keep on massaging it until it says "HUG ME". Listen to that carefully. It actually sounds much more like "FUCK ME"!!
I'm happy that we're actually moving toward robotic advances in terms of finding a way for capitalism to set in. As we all know, once companies find a sweet spot for profit, there will be many many more innovations to come, which in the end, benefits all of us. Look at cars, computers, all electronics, etc...
We've spent way too much time on software, now we should go into hardware computing such as robots.
I'm just dreaming about the day when we can have robotic maids!
A year ago, eToys tried to bully etoy.com out of their domain, which has nothing to do with toys, and was registered much earlier than etoys.com.
When the public saw through their lame tactics they protested. eToys saw that the people aren't that stupid after all and had to back off.
So now a year later... They think we've forgotten all about their lame tactics and so the dog is back doing the same stuff... bullying other people even though they KNOW they have no case!
How about a journalling file system like ReiserFS? I think Red Hat is a piece a crap right now. I have 10GB of stuff and everytime my computer crashes it takes a stinkin' 30 minutes for fsck to get everything back up and running again.
With my windows machine (that's got journalling file system of course) it takes 2 minutes!
Seriously, unless Red Hat ships with ReiserFS built in, gets rid of wu-ftpd, and comes pre-configured with ssh, it's just another piece of crap that I'll never take seriously.
BTW, I know Suse comes with ReiserFS. I've never tried suse myself. How is it compared with RH?
If I were actually going to incite such an action, I'd flat-out say "D0 17 N0W D00DZ."
No you wouldn't. Because then you know you'd definitely be on the hook (according to U.S. criminal law) if anyone did it, and when caught, mentioned your post. You know this, and we all know this. It's like when you're in a crowd, and yell "kick his ass" and a bunch of your frieds do... You'd be inciting violence, and thus guilty as well. However, don't think you can get away with your current action either... Please familiarize yourself with the "noabortion" case if you think so...
(Incidentally the idiot-simple thing to do would be to take out the satellite link the whole country seems it may rely on--but that would just be *stupid* and not interesting. DOS attacks are lame.)
Here you go again... If you want to do it, DO IT YOURSELF and face the consequences YOURSELF.
Of course it's being used as a way to control political power. If change were to occur too quickly China might face chaos, revolution, and anarchy... And in the process maybe break up into bits and pieces (as in the case of the Soviet Union).
But of course, nothing would please the U.S. more than the delicious thought of eliminating China as a potential super-power using this tactic. The U.S. has a monopolistic power over the world right now, and would hate to have that taken away with the rise of another rival.
Yes controlling the internet is ultimately futile. China knows that, we know that. What they're trying to do (as least in my opinion anyways) is to slow it down. China is slowly moving toward a democratic society, but they would like to do so without causing a revolution and perhaps having their country blown up into many small pieces of weaker ones (which, might I stress again, the U.S. would love to see).
I am not racist toward anyone. I try to be fair to all. That's not the view I see in some of these posts.
What you are doing is inciting violence and cracking! Giving us that telnet prompt and other stupid suggestions...
People, don't become this moron's hatchet man and do his dirty-work for him. If you wan to do it muldrake, do it yourself. YOU face jail time and YOU get hanged!
I see many posts here that are against capitalism and greed.
People, think for a minute will ya? What better way to encourage innovation than the prospect of getting filthy rich as a result? If you want constant and fast innovations, you need to have capitalism, trademarks, patents, and copyrights in place. Without it, it's communism. Why would I work my ass off, invent something, create a service for people, just so I get NOTHING out of it? Yes, it can happen, as in the case of open-source software... But would it happen as quickly? If you doubt me, just think of how much the U.S. has innovated compared to other countries (that have adopted capitalism at much slower paces). It's almost a kill! Airplanes, medicine, cars, computers, software, phones, light bulbs, tv, x-rays...
btw: 3-D is where I see the next HUGE wave of opportunity...
And you don't think all the buyers in the US of these pirate software aren't at ANY fault?
And you don't think the millions of people in the U.S. who use Napster to download pirate music are any better?
Oh and let's not forget the morons who poured $12 million into Napster.
Before people open their mouths, THINK! Let he who hasn't sinned cast the first stone!
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What's this I hear about Napster being helpful to new, unknown artists? BS!
Like when's the last time anyone went on Napster to search for "Crystal Bubblesh"? Geeeez... How can one search for something they don't even know the name to?
If you had committed a crime by hacking into someone else's hard drive and then posted it all on the internet, would you not care about these things? 1) getting arrested? 2) becoming the target of revenge by the spammers? At the same time, wouldn't that desire for revenge cause you to do the following? 1) exaggerate events and/or even make up a few more just to fuck with the jerks? 2) leave out certain incriminating details that would add 20 years to your prison time if you're ever caught? 3) add some mis-information so the spammers will be mis-directed should they try to get revenge on YOU? 4) implicated "other" enemies or people you hate just for fun? Now let's see what kind of loopholes can exist! Suppose these facts: You are the original spammer. You purposely leave trails of bread crumbs to entice would-be vigilantes. You "conveniently" place in your hard drive some photos of your (you, the spammer) enemies' photos. You also place other fake incriminating evidence. Then you just let nature take place and allow your honey pot to be broken into... With these thoughts in mind, go and re-read the web site articles...
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HAHA that's the funniest piece of crap I've seen in a long time. Not even aitcom nor 9netave can beat that!
Maybe the internet is just not meant for advertising, has anybody ever thought of that? You can't apply offline media advertising to online advertising and try to force them to be the same... just as you wouldn't try making a bicycle go at the speed of sound, as you would a jet.
The internet is full of leeches (myself included) who avoid ads at all costs. The net is non-linear. This fact alone is a HUGE disadvantage to online advertising. There's just no way to force someone to look at your ads for a predetermined period of time, unless you're providing streaming media.
Second, unlike traditional media, there's no barrier to entry. That's why you have millions of channels, and gadzillions of unsold advertising inventory. Too much supply, not enough demand. Therefore everything becomes a buyer's (advertisers) market, thus they're the ones who dictate terms of performance.
And how about competition. Since there's no barrier to entry, some guy far off in country XXX, who feels lucky to make $10 U.S. a month, can come online and compete for your dollar. You have to make $3000 a month at least to survive. He only needs $30. How are you going to compete against that?
Hard to believe? Just look at the online porn industry. That market has been over-saturated since about 2 years ago. I should know because I used to have a porn site myself. Things got so bad I was making $10 on 100,000 impressions. Then, if your click-throughs weren't productive enough (leading to enough sales, aka, conversion ratio), you were canned and payment was witheld.
Sadly, I see the non-porn industry headed for the same black hole.
This is ironic. Us computer geeks look up to crackers like Kevin Mitnik. And by doing so we are promoting criminal activities like this. I'll be in a couple of years when this spammer gets out of jail there'd be people looking up to him like a god. Sigh... How quickly people forget...
Seriously, this spammer should be locked up for 10 years just to set an example for all the would-be junkmailers. I mean, if we don't set an example of him, others would just think "oh it's only a minor crime with minor consequences. I'll just keep on spamming!"
Let me correct myself. Security flaws are not more common than Windows. Rather, it's the readily-downloadable EXPLOITS that are common.
If RedHat continues on its current path, they will self-destruct the same way pets.com did. Either that or they will just become a penny-stock company.
Here's why... Most people that use Linux are computer literate and proficient. Agreed?
Well, computer-proficient geeks like us want and need dsl or other broadband services in our homes. And as dsl ramps up more and more of us will be downloading the iso's directly and burning them ourselves.
So how's RedHat going to turn up a dime given this kind of situation?
But then RedHat already knows this, that's why they're looking everywhere else for new strategies.
Their idea of embedded systems is great, although, like vrml, who knows when it's gonna "really" make an impact...
The other is perhaps to sell a security service whereby customers can get instant emails as to when updates are available, and then, with a command or two, have it ALL updated rather than having the admin manually go in and update each individual piece.
Yes, security flaws are very very common with Linux, even more common than with Windows. Why? Because this thing is open-sourced, and there are tons of readily available cracks on the net. Sigh... I see a flame already...
Take a look at history. It's always been revolutions or people going to a foreign land, starting fresh, that true innovation has been able to take place.
Take a look at U.S. If we didn't break from the English, the good old traditions from the motherland would never go away and people will keep grabbing on to the old ways of doing things, even though many such things are not right.
Look at Japan. They got away from China.
Look at China. Look at how hard it is for them to break from their 5,000 years of tradition. Don't get me wrong. Most of it is good, but there are still fundamental ways of thinking that just refuse to go away easily.
You see, culture is a glue that binds a people together and prevent them from breaking apart. But it comes at a price. And that price is the unwillingness to change, especially when the world is changing and one needs to adapt quick.
Think of what I just said as social darwinism. It's about the survival of the fittest. Obviously old cultures don't want to go away (they'll be extinct if they do), but at times real change is needed if one is to be fit for survival in the coming millenium.
Ok, enough of my long-winded philosophy...
The true role of language is for communication, but culture has invaded it to a point where governments would rather make their own people learn the same thing many different times, than to just adapt to whatever is popular. Instead of just letting its people use "internet" they'd rather their own people use "insert-your-own-language-specific-vocab".
Really, is this necessary? This Odon Betanzos is trying to preserve his culture at the huge expense of adding that extra barrier to innovation and freedom.
They should prevent Network Solutions, Register.com, and any other existing registrars from participating in this stupid ICAN'T thingy. Those guys have ulterior motives for promoting/not promoting certain tld's. Think about it, do you think they want another registrar to be annointed with the ".web" tld, and thus steal potentially lots of money away from the current .com? Of course not... The last thing Network Solutions wants is competition!!!!
All we need now is for Honda to create one that looks like a beautiful girl, who'll do anything for you when you tell her to. Man I need my viagra!
I forgot to post this, so here goes:
.web? Cause they know this tld has the potential to unseat .com as the king of tld's. And if that ever happens guess what? NSI and register.com's ".COM" will be diluted, thus hurting nsi/register.com's bottom line.
You know why icann doesn't like
For the sake of our future, I hope nsi gets knocked down for good. I mean, I still can't believe it's taken more than a year and they still can't give sex.com to the rightful owner. My god, the domain was stolen! How hard is that to figure out?
The whole point to this icann opening up new domains is to relieve the current shortage in easy-to-remember domain names.
.com namespace.
.museum???!!!?! First of all, who'd even want to type those 6 extra letters. Second, why museum and not car dealerships, or libraries, or malls, or gardens? Geez... how many museums are there in the world anyways? Dumb fucks!
.biz? Not many frickin idiots are going to ante up this ransom, which means this .biz will be about 1/100th as popular as .net is today! Great job register.com and nsi. Yeah that'll keep your current monopolies safe right?
Well if that's the purpose, why are these morons putting Network Solutions, Register.com, and other big registrars on their boards to make these decisions? It's like trusting the FBI to investigate themselves! It just doesn't work like that! They have ulterior motives and will only work to further themselves and prevent themselves from losing future profits. It doesn't benefit us consumers, and it sure doesn't benefit the thousands of businesses that would like to find an alternative to the current
Case in point:
$2000 to register
.web should've made it into the new tlds. Yeah Image Online is doing bad business encouraging people to "pre"-register, but so what? Delegate it to another bidder then!
Can you imagine if Clinton had ran against Bush? Boy it'd be another landslide, with Bob Dole in the back hissing!!
Ha ha... There DEFINITELY is a hole in the bush
... administration.
And to the Gore administration, boy don't they wish they could've let Alien Gonzalez stay so his dad can vote for Al Boreland!!!!
Thanks a lot Janet Weno Your-a-shemale!!!
You heard me, Furby already cusses! Start yours up and keep on massaging it until it says "HUG ME". Listen to that carefully. It actually sounds much more like "FUCK ME"!!
I'm happy that we're actually moving toward robotic advances in terms of finding a way for capitalism to set in. As we all know, once companies find a sweet spot for profit, there will be many many more innovations to come, which in the end, benefits all of us. Look at cars, computers, all electronics, etc...
We've spent way too much time on software, now we should go into hardware computing such as robots.
I'm just dreaming about the day when we can have robotic maids!
eToys is an IdeaLab company!
A year ago, eToys tried to bully etoy.com out of their domain, which has nothing to do with toys, and was registered much earlier than etoys.com.
When the public saw through their lame tactics they protested. eToys saw that the people aren't that stupid after all and had to back off.
So now a year later... They think we've forgotten all about their lame tactics and so the dog is back doing the same stuff... bullying other people even though they KNOW they have no case!
FUCK ETOYS FUCK IDEALAB !!!
How about a journalling file system like ReiserFS? I think Red Hat is a piece a crap right now. I have 10GB of stuff and everytime my computer crashes it takes a stinkin' 30 minutes for fsck to get everything back up and running again.
With my windows machine (that's got journalling file system of course) it takes 2 minutes!
Seriously, unless Red Hat ships with ReiserFS built in, gets rid of wu-ftpd, and comes pre-configured with ssh, it's just another piece of crap that I'll never take seriously.
BTW, I know Suse comes with ReiserFS. I've never tried suse myself. How is it compared with RH?
The future of 3-tiered development will be like this:
gui -> business logic --> data layer
xml -> php/asp/com/jsp/etc... --> mysql/oracle/ms-sql/etc...
I've played with xml. I love that stuff. No more of those messy html snippets embedded within php scripts. Yuck!
If I were actually going to incite such an action, I'd flat-out say "D0 17 N0W D00DZ."
No you wouldn't. Because then you know you'd definitely be on the hook (according to U.S. criminal law) if anyone did it, and when caught, mentioned your post. You know this, and we all know this. It's like when you're in a crowd, and yell "kick his ass" and a bunch of your frieds do... You'd be inciting violence, and thus guilty as well. However, don't think you can get away with your current action either... Please familiarize yourself with the "noabortion" case if you think so...
(Incidentally the idiot-simple thing to do would be to take out the satellite link the whole country seems it may rely on--but that would just be *stupid* and not interesting. DOS attacks are lame.)
Here you go again... If you want to do it, DO IT YOURSELF and face the consequences YOURSELF.
Of course it's being used as a way to control political power. If change were to occur too quickly China might face chaos, revolution, and anarchy... And in the process maybe break up into bits and pieces (as in the case of the Soviet Union).
But of course, nothing would please the U.S. more than the delicious thought of eliminating China as a potential super-power using this tactic. The U.S. has a monopolistic power over the world right now, and would hate to have that taken away with the rise of another rival.
Yes controlling the internet is ultimately futile. China knows that, we know that. What they're trying to do (as least in my opinion anyways) is to slow it down. China is slowly moving toward a democratic society, but they would like to do so without causing a revolution and perhaps having their country blown up into many small pieces of weaker ones (which, might I stress again, the U.S. would love to see).
I am not racist toward anyone. I try to be fair to all. That's not the view I see in some of these posts.
Don't try and pretend you're all innocent...
What you are doing is inciting violence and cracking! Giving us that telnet prompt and other stupid suggestions...
People, don't become this moron's hatchet man and do his dirty-work for him. If you wan to do it muldrake, do it yourself. YOU face jail time and YOU get hanged!
I see many posts here that are against capitalism and greed.
People, think for a minute will ya? What better way to encourage innovation than the prospect of getting filthy rich as a result? If you want constant and fast innovations, you need to have capitalism, trademarks, patents, and copyrights in place. Without it, it's communism. Why would I work my ass off, invent something, create a service for people, just so I get NOTHING out of it? Yes, it can happen, as in the case of open-source software... But would it happen as quickly? If you doubt me, just think of how much the U.S. has innovated compared to other countries (that have adopted capitalism at much slower paces). It's almost a kill! Airplanes, medicine, cars, computers, software, phones, light bulbs, tv, x-rays...
btw: 3-D is where I see the next HUGE wave of opportunity...
And you don't think all the buyers in the US of these pirate software aren't at ANY fault?
And you don't think the millions of people in the U.S. who use Napster to download pirate music are any better?
Oh and let's not forget the morons who poured $12 million into Napster.
Before people open their mouths, THINK! Let he who hasn't sinned cast the first stone!
What's this I hear about Napster being helpful to new, unknown artists? BS!
Like when's the last time anyone went on Napster to search for "Crystal Bubblesh"? Geeeez... How can one search for something they don't even know the name to?
If you had committed a crime by hacking into someone else's hard drive and then posted it all on the internet, would you not care about these things? 1) getting arrested? 2) becoming the target of revenge by the spammers? At the same time, wouldn't that desire for revenge cause you to do the following? 1) exaggerate events and/or even make up a few more just to fuck with the jerks? 2) leave out certain incriminating details that would add 20 years to your prison time if you're ever caught? 3) add some mis-information so the spammers will be mis-directed should they try to get revenge on YOU? 4) implicated "other" enemies or people you hate just for fun? Now let's see what kind of loopholes can exist! Suppose these facts: You are the original spammer. You purposely leave trails of bread crumbs to entice would-be vigilantes. You "conveniently" place in your hard drive some photos of your (you, the spammer) enemies' photos. You also place other fake incriminating evidence. Then you just let nature take place and allow your honey pot to be broken into... With these thoughts in mind, go and re-read the web site articles...