That's funny. My options have a grant date and a vested date. The grant date sets the date, number of shares, and purchase price. The vested date is the date after which I can exercise my options such as buy, hold, or buy/sell. The options also have an expiration date if I don't choose to exercise my options.
You are correct in saying Options are not grants. Options are granted.
EVERY single person I know is underwater on their options. Every Single One.
You need to get to know more people. Some of my options are way underwater. Some are not. Some are near the surface and could be out if the market continues to creep up. The ones way underwater are the ones granted two years ago during the market boom. The ones from 3 years ago and older are above water. Some from last year are barely above and rising. I don't expect the ones from two years ago to ever get above water. If they do, then the older ones will make me a nice buck.
Perhaps Best Buy will eventually drop rebates and just lower their ridiculous prices!
The deceptive shelf pricing is especialy designed to get the credit card customer.
I went in once, selected a few items, prepared to pay cash, and was supprised at the register price. That's when I found reason for the higher than expected price. The fine print next to the big posted shelf price says after rebate.. Needless to say, I hadn't prepared to pre-pay the rebate amount, so I left the entire order at the checkout and went somewhere else. I didn't have the money to give them a free loan.
Best Buy's goal is to become more like Nordstrom's but without pricing themselves out of the latter market. This is a very tall order, and we won't know if they succeeded for about a decade.
Case in point; I needed a network cable. My usual place has them bulk for $2. Best buy was close. The same cable in a blister pack was $12. Thanks but no thanks. The diffrence in price bought lunch for 2.
Dear Comcast Customer, you can now pick from an exciting new cable package with more home shopping channels plus the Hallmark channel! Try not to notice that it's $10 more expensive than you are used to paying.
I like it when the cable company telemarkets me. They ask if I would like cable. I say yes. I would like to have the package I used to have. They ask which one was that.
The affordable one... I dropped cable when it went from 6.95 to 12.95/month.
I don't think it's a misquote, I think it's a mis-statement.
When the over the air broadcasters wonder why nobody pays for commercial time slots, they will find out it's because nobody is tuning in. Then they will find out why nobody is tunning in.. Internet has replaced them..
After that, we may get another legal shot at time shift recording. To get viewers, they are going to have to change the content quality and make other concessions to attract viewers from the alternatives.
Right now, for over the air reception, it's just too expensive for too little. That's why I'm not an early adopter. The FCC has to step in and advertise for the broadcasters because they won't advertise a product they know won't sell. They are looking for a return on advertising investment. Over the air digital TV programming is not it.
I think people need to see a more balanced review of the game.
The review doesn't even consider the chunk of change you have to leave behind to get it. I'm not spending $50 for a disk that I can't back-up. The family doesn't get originals, they get working copies. (that alone has killed console use in our home)
There should be a value rating in the reviews. Great game, but pricy.. bang for the buck, about average. You get what you pay for..
Those lawyers have done nothing for SCO and yet they have greatly enriched themselves from shareholders' money.
If the board decided to blow the money on Vegas showgirls or a cruise to the Bahamas, the expense was the board's fault. Nobody unleashed a horde of hungry lawyers on SCO that took the money. Just like a cruise or Vegas showgirls, the lawyers set their rates and provided a service. They do not promise a favorable outcome.
The blame belongs strictly on the board of directors that squandered SCO's funds on expensive lawyers. SCO just underestimated the fight given by those under attack. The tip of the dragon's tail doesn't look that bad, but attacking it will wake up the dragon. It's bad judgement by the board and nothing else. They made the mistake of staying in the game when the dragon woke up.
No, the hosts file should be checksum checked at each login for alterations along with a bunch of other files that should not be altered by 3rd party programs.
Knowing your machine has been tampered with is half the battle.
Yeah, because it would be too hard to fill a hosts file with the URLs for Citibank, Chase, BankAmerica, and the rest of the top 10 or top 100 banks. Nobody could do that.
I like an old DOS program. It was simple and worked well. It ran from the Autoexec.bat file. It simple would run a checksum on designated files. IF the checksum was changed, it would pause and display the name of the altered file and it's checksum error.
I've thought about loading it into Windows to protect some files. Too bad it's impossible to use on the registery. It gets too many automatic changes to protect it as a non-changing file. However protecting things such as the hosts file should be easy. If you do alter your hosts file, you will have to update the checksum in the batch file to reflect the change.
In Linux, use a checksum checker as part of your logon script and you won't get burned with an altered ls or other file. Knowing something that shouldn't ever be changed, has been replaced, goes a long way in system awareness. Knowing your ls has been changed is a good warning something is seriously wrong.
Y'know, over half the the terrorists were from SAUDI ARABIA. SAUDI ARABIA supported terrorism. IRAQ didn't.
You are joking, right?
Umm, Am I miss-inoformed?
Wasn't the terroist training camp with the 747 airplane in IRAQ?
Where was the other half of the terrorists from?
Who was funding the training and buying weapons?
PLease, don't tell me there were no Iraq connections. The overwhelming evidance seems to indicate some strong connections.
Let me guess, all the RPG's, Mines, and supplies for all the imporvised bombs just happened to be in the shed next to the shovels and tools in the shed.. Outside of our millitary, we don't have access to RPG's, gernades, and large ammounts of high explosives as civilians. Iraq seems to have lots of explosives per person.
I keep reading this.. Then I keep wondering to what they are comparing the DVD to? Do they have a copy of the 3mm print? If they are comparing to a VHS tape that hasn't been compared to the print, then they are comparing the very limited bandwidth of VHS color to NTSC bandwidth color. NTSC has about a half meg color bandwidth. The color signal on VHS is about 600KHZ. That's the carrier, not the bandwidth. Just try putting lots of small colored objects on a VHS recording. The light saber in most scenes is a small colored object. VHS does a poor job with the color of small objects.
An excelent example of this is Walt Disney's Mary Poppins. When it's time for the kids to take the medicine, on the big screen, each flavor is a bright color matching the flavor. On VHS, all three look pretty much alike because they are small areas of color and the VHS color bandwidth doesn't support the high bandwidth of small items hence the medicine looks bland, not brightly colored.
The lightsaber has the same aliment on VHS. Comparing it to DVD is like comparing streaming radio stations on dialup and broadband. It's true that NTSC has it's own limitations on color bandwidth, but consumer broadband doesn't support full uncompressed CD stereo audio either. Neither DVD or VHS has the color bandwidth of the original 35mm print just as dial up and home broadband doesn't support uncompressed CD sound.
and they are approved by the FCC to operate on specific frequencies with specific power levels.
It's like the days of CB radio. Early PLL sets had an easy to access PLL divide by N counter. Feeding it vales other than what the dial provided permitted illegal operation. Later to prevent lawsuits, the divide by N counter had a pre-programmed interface front end. The channel number was input and the divide by N was done internally. It made for more complex chips, but made out of band operation much easier.
Some WiFi chip manufactures may have the same choices. The user interface software may take the chosen channel selection and set the chip PLL to the correct divide by N ratio. The advantage is if later the FCC opens more frequencies, a simple driver update will put the chip on the new frequencies. With OSS, renagades may ditch the FCC permitted channels and find a "channel" without neithborhood interferance and not seen by the wardrivers for additional security. The chip manufacture could be held liable for enabling the out of band operation. The chip manufacture could do like the CB radio chip manufactures later did and do the divide by N table in the chip instead of in the driver software.. Now you have a chip that can become instantly obsolete if/when the FCC opens more bandwidth. The chip costs more to manufacture to boot. In a comptetive market this is a bad thing.
And I have grandkids... You sure like them old. I didn't know greatgrandmothers had much chance of that.. Well I'll be the first to congratulate her on the miracle.
To get 15 thousand calls out in one day, you need more than just a home PC and a sound card. This is a comercial operation such as a call center with a full phone bank for the telemarkers.
The Democrats really are pushing hard to get back in.. Really hard. They needed a full staff of pushy salesmen. The Republicans ran on steadfastness and not policy today by today's poll. Honesty does not require as much salesmanship to convince people.
Oops this is libral Slashdot.. Time to grab the asbestos....
If you read the article, it mentions some specific costomers. One made 15K calls in one day. This kind of customer is commercial. It simply shows up in the billing statement/logs. Now if the consumer just happened to be a Democrat call center... with volunteers manning the phone bank..
Does any of this make sense? It's not rocket science. It's log files, high traffic, and comercial customer accounts, IE, call center with lots of phones. The provider is going to know who has the account.
Look, when 9/11 happened the Americans went nuts. They ended up whacking off two nations. Think about it. The American response to two buildings being destroy was to take out two ENTIRE NATIONS. That is like responding to two guys getting shot by taking out two towns. So, you understand the American prepensely to overreact a little.
Please don't treat 9-11 as a single event unrelated to anything else.. If it was just a couple bad guys pulling off a job, I see your point. However 9-11 was just the icing on the cake of a string of events that would continue forever if not discouraged.
Marine barracs, the basement bombing of the world trade center (9-11 wasn't the first attempt to destroy it!) and the attack on the USS Cole come to mind. We finaly said enough is enough.. Please don't think a couple terrorists got lucky with a few box cutters. It was part of a larger orginazation and not just a lucky shot.
Bush understands it. Too bad much of America and Kerry don't get it.
Time to put on my asbestous underwear..
I explained it to my kids as firemen are horrible people. They break windows, bust doors, chop holes in roofs, and get everything wet including your family photos and computer.
They understand if the fire isn't stopped, everyting will be destroyed.
Bush decided to apply some oposition to the source of the destruction. Bush understands it.
Keep in mind that part b) applies to both sides in the conflict. If you're fighting an adversary capable of launching satellites, you're (by definition) fighting an adversary capable of detecting and lobbing anti-radiation missiles at any EM emitter you own that's more powerful than a microwave oven.
Also keep in mind the jammer may be working on the satelite uplink control and or uplink frequency. The jamming is done with a very high gain dish antenna. The frequencies involved are line of sight. Normal satelite operation is many are on the same frequency, but selected by aiming a high gain dish. (example C-band TV. Many satelites, all operating on the same 24 frequencies selected by aiming the dish.) Great, a US normal uplink type transmitter is now pointed to another country's bird and swamps the control channel and/or uplink communications. You are mid-Atlantic and launch a HARM missle at the source. There is an very good chance you won't find the right source since many uplinks are operating on those frequencies and the dish spillage may be hidden from a missle by natural land features such as the Rocky Mountains. Good luck finding and hitting the right target. The US is a large place with lots of transmitters. Try finding the one that got re-aimed at the foreign satelite and is causing communications problems.
Make that three- they (and many other advertisers and other sites) needlessly set cookie expiration dates to 2040 and whatnot; I wouldn't mind it so much if they didn't collect like a plague; every few weeks I go through my cookie list and there are literally thousands of cookies from a hundred different advertisers all set to expire in a zillion years. It's absurd, and clearly they don't get it- these cookies should have an expiration of maybe one year at the absolute most. A month or so should be fine in most cases.
Since most people upgrade every 3 years or so, Anything past 5 years is useless. Unless they are selling cheap replacement computers.;-)
Where have you been. Ever since I got a few Megabytes of RAM, a 56 Kilobaud modem, and a 2.4 GigaHertz CPU, I've been using Kilo units, Mega, units, and Giga units. I also have a LASER in the 630 nanoMeter wavelength. I get my caffeine in a 2 liter bottle.
(wow, I'm using metric pre-fixes and units of measure such as liters.)
A mysql database records what titles the system has and who has them. You can browse the database through a php scripted web site, members only of course.
Sounds like a central single point of attack like the old Napster. Leave me far away from a central database of traders...
A true SneakerNet does not have any central members list. Remember pre-Internet dorm life? You may have gotten something from your roommate, but do you know his other trading partners? That's true SneakerNet in action. No records, no trails, no central point of failure of the whole net if one member is caught. Each trade is a single transaction between only two parties. The rest of the net has no knowledge of the transaction. A mole in the system is limited to his immediate trading partners only not the extended SneakerNet.
For the bandwidth impaired, streaming content doesn't cut it. It also is incompatible with most all portable players and car systems. Wow, enjoy our content, but only on your cheap PC speakers and 3 watt amp, not on the hi-fi.
For the providers bandwidth limitations, caching a song to play many times is much less bandwidth intensive than streaming it many times to a single user.
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Options ARE NOT, ARE NOT grants.
That's funny. My options have a grant date and a vested date. The grant date sets the date, number of shares, and purchase price. The vested date is the date after which I can exercise my options such as buy, hold, or buy/sell. The options also have an expiration date if I don't choose to exercise my options.
You are correct in saying Options are not grants. Options are granted.
EVERY single person I know is underwater on their options. Every Single One.
You need to get to know more people. Some of my options are way underwater. Some are not. Some are near the surface and could be out if the market continues to creep up. The ones way underwater are the ones granted two years ago during the market boom. The ones from 3 years ago and older are above water. Some from last year are barely above and rising. I don't expect the ones from two years ago to ever get above water. If they do, then the older ones will make me a nice buck.
If anyone registers www.microsoft.com
I would recommend having your lawyers ready...
12 billion in lawyers is a good start...
Stock options are like a carrot on a stick as an incentive to win the the equivalent of the super bowl.
Case in point.. It's not the incentive it used to be.. I have some options with an option price of over $60/share. The stock is near $20 per share.
The options I get now are nice, but the very slow rise in the market are not going to provide a great retirement fund.
Now the options I had at a price of $18/share when the stock was over $60/share were exciting. That was incentive!! Sadly those days are over.
Perhaps Best Buy will eventually drop rebates and just lower their ridiculous prices!
The deceptive shelf pricing is especialy designed to get the credit card customer.
I went in once, selected a few items, prepared to pay cash, and was supprised at the register price. That's when I found reason for the higher than expected price. The fine print next to the big posted shelf price says after rebate..
Needless to say, I hadn't prepared to pre-pay the rebate amount, so I left the entire order at the checkout and went somewhere else. I didn't have the money to give them a free loan.
Best Buy's goal is to become more like Nordstrom's but without pricing themselves out of the latter market. This is a very tall order, and we won't know if they succeeded for about a decade.
Case in point; I needed a network cable. My usual place has them bulk for $2. Best buy was close. The same cable in a blister pack was $12. Thanks but no thanks. The diffrence in price bought lunch for 2.
Dear Comcast Customer, you can now pick from an exciting new cable package with more home shopping channels plus the Hallmark channel! Try not to notice that it's $10 more expensive than you are used to paying.
I like it when the cable company telemarkets me. They ask if I would like cable. I say yes. I would like to have the package I used to have. They ask which one was that.
The affordable one... I dropped cable when it went from 6.95 to 12.95/month.
I don't think it's a misquote, I think it's a mis-statement.
When the over the air broadcasters wonder why nobody pays for commercial time slots, they will find out it's because nobody is tuning in. Then they will find out why nobody is tunning in.. Internet has replaced them..
After that, we may get another legal shot at time shift recording. To get viewers, they are going to have to change the content quality and make other concessions to attract viewers from the alternatives.
Right now, for over the air reception, it's just too expensive for too little. That's why I'm not an early adopter. The FCC has to step in and advertise for the broadcasters because they won't advertise a product they know won't sell. They are looking for a return on advertising investment. Over the air digital TV programming is not it.
I think people need to see a more balanced review of the game.
The review doesn't even consider the chunk of change you have to leave behind to get it. I'm not spending $50 for a disk that I can't back-up. The family doesn't get originals, they get working copies. (that alone has killed console use in our home)
There should be a value rating in the reviews. Great game, but pricy.. bang for the buck, about average. You get what you pay for..
Don't blame the lawyers..
Those lawyers have done nothing for SCO and yet they have greatly enriched themselves from shareholders' money.
If the board decided to blow the money on Vegas showgirls or a cruise to the Bahamas, the expense was the board's fault. Nobody unleashed a horde of hungry lawyers on SCO that took the money. Just like a cruise or Vegas showgirls, the lawyers set their rates and provided a service. They do not promise a favorable outcome.
The blame belongs strictly on the board of directors that squandered SCO's funds on expensive lawyers. SCO just underestimated the fight given by those under attack. The tip of the dragon's tail doesn't look that bad, but attacking it will wake up the dragon. It's bad judgement by the board and nothing else. They made the mistake of staying in the game when the dragon woke up.
It's called TripWire, and it's an excellent program.
That's one version. The one I used in the old DOS days wasn't called Tripwire. I didn't mention any by name. There were several and for several OS'es.
No, the hosts file should be checksum checked at each login for alterations along with a bunch of other files that should not be altered by 3rd party programs.
Knowing your machine has been tampered with is half the battle.
Yeah, because it would be too hard to fill a hosts file with the URLs for Citibank, Chase, BankAmerica, and the rest of the top 10 or top 100 banks. Nobody could do that.
I like an old DOS program. It was simple and worked well. It ran from the Autoexec.bat file. It simple would run a checksum on designated files. IF the checksum was changed, it would pause and display the name of the altered file and it's checksum error.
I've thought about loading it into Windows to protect some files. Too bad it's impossible to use on the registery. It gets too many automatic changes to protect it as a non-changing file. However protecting things such as the hosts file should be easy. If you do alter your hosts file, you will have to update the checksum in the batch file to reflect the change.
In Linux, use a checksum checker as part of your logon script and you won't get burned with an altered ls or other file. Knowing something that shouldn't ever be changed, has been replaced, goes a long way in system awareness. Knowing your ls has been changed is a good warning something is seriously wrong.
Y'know, over half the the terrorists were from SAUDI ARABIA. SAUDI ARABIA supported terrorism. IRAQ didn't.
You are joking, right?
Umm, Am I miss-inoformed?
Wasn't the terroist training camp with the 747 airplane in IRAQ?
Where was the other half of the terrorists from?
Who was funding the training and buying weapons?
PLease, don't tell me there were no Iraq connections. The overwhelming evidance seems to indicate some strong connections.
Let me guess, all the RPG's, Mines, and supplies for all the imporvised bombs just happened to be in the shed next to the shovels and tools in the shed.. Outside of our millitary, we don't have access to RPG's, gernades, and large ammounts of high explosives as civilians. Iraq seems to have lots of explosives per person.
Lightsaber consistency (again)...
I keep reading this.. Then I keep wondering to what they are comparing the DVD to? Do they have a copy of the 3mm print? If they are comparing to a VHS tape that hasn't been compared to the print, then they are comparing the very limited bandwidth of VHS color to NTSC bandwidth color. NTSC has about a half meg color bandwidth. The color signal on VHS is about 600KHZ. That's the carrier, not the bandwidth. Just try putting lots of small colored objects on a VHS recording. The light saber in most scenes is a small colored object. VHS does a poor job with the color of small objects.
An excelent example of this is Walt Disney's Mary Poppins. When it's time for the kids to take the medicine, on the big screen, each flavor is a bright color matching the flavor. On VHS, all three look pretty much alike because they are small areas of color and the VHS color bandwidth doesn't support the high bandwidth of small items hence the medicine looks bland, not brightly colored.
The lightsaber has the same aliment on VHS. Comparing it to DVD is like comparing streaming radio stations on dialup and broadband. It's true that NTSC has it's own limitations on color bandwidth, but consumer broadband doesn't support full uncompressed CD stereo audio either. Neither DVD or VHS has the color bandwidth of the original 35mm print just as dial up and home broadband doesn't support uncompressed CD sound.
and they are approved by the FCC to operate on specific frequencies with specific power levels.
It's like the days of CB radio. Early PLL sets had an easy to access PLL divide by N counter. Feeding it vales other than what the dial provided permitted illegal operation. Later to prevent lawsuits, the divide by N counter had a pre-programmed interface front end. The channel number was input and the divide by N was done internally. It made for more complex chips, but made out of band operation much easier.
Some WiFi chip manufactures may have the same choices. The user interface software may take the chosen channel selection and set the chip PLL to the correct divide by N ratio. The advantage is if later the FCC opens more frequencies, a simple driver update will put the chip on the new frequencies. With OSS, renagades may ditch the FCC permitted channels and find a "channel" without neithborhood interferance and not seen by the wardrivers for additional security. The chip manufacture could be held liable for enabling the out of band operation. The chip manufacture could do like the CB radio chip manufactures later did and do the divide by N table in the chip instead of in the driver software.. Now you have a chip that can become instantly obsolete if/when the FCC opens more bandwidth. The chip costs more to manufacture to boot. In a comptetive market this is a bad thing.
and now she's pregnant.
;)
And I have grandkids... You sure like them old. I didn't know greatgrandmothers had much chance of that.. Well I'll be the first to congratulate her on the miracle.
Just feeding the troll...
To get 15 thousand calls out in one day, you need more than just a home PC and a sound card. This is a comercial operation such as a call center with a full phone bank for the telemarkers.
The Democrats really are pushing hard to get back in.. Really hard. They needed a full staff of pushy salesmen. The Republicans ran on steadfastness and not policy today by today's poll. Honesty does not require as much salesmanship to convince people.
Oops this is libral Slashdot.. Time to grab the asbestos....
If you read the article, it mentions some specific costomers. One made 15K calls in one day. This kind of customer is commercial. It simply shows up in the billing statement/logs. Now if the consumer just happened to be a Democrat call center... with volunteers manning the phone bank..
Does any of this make sense? It's not rocket science. It's log files, high traffic, and comercial customer accounts, IE, call center with lots of phones. The provider is going to know who has the account.
Look, when 9/11 happened the Americans went nuts. They ended up whacking off two nations. Think about it. The American response to two buildings being destroy was to take out two ENTIRE NATIONS. That is like responding to two guys getting shot by taking out two towns. So, you understand the American prepensely to overreact a little.
....maybe..
Please don't treat 9-11 as a single event unrelated to anything else.. If it was just a couple bad guys pulling off a job, I see your point. However 9-11 was just the icing on the cake of a string of events that would continue forever if not discouraged.
Marine barracs, the basement bombing of the world trade center (9-11 wasn't the first attempt to destroy it!) and the attack on the USS Cole come to mind. We finaly said enough is enough.. Please don't think a couple terrorists got lucky with a few box cutters. It was part of a larger orginazation and not just a lucky shot.
Bush understands it. Too bad much of America and Kerry don't get it.
Time to put on my asbestous underwear..
I explained it to my kids as firemen are horrible people. They break windows, bust doors, chop holes in roofs, and get everything wet including your family photos and computer.
They understand if the fire isn't stopped, everyting will be destroyed.
Bush decided to apply some oposition to the source of the destruction. Bush understands it.
Flame on.... Yea yea it's all lies...
Keep in mind that part b) applies to both sides in the conflict. If you're fighting an adversary capable of launching satellites, you're (by definition) fighting an adversary capable of detecting and lobbing anti-radiation missiles at any EM emitter you own that's more powerful than a microwave oven.
Also keep in mind the jammer may be working on the satelite uplink control and or uplink frequency. The jamming is done with a very high gain dish antenna. The frequencies involved are line of sight. Normal satelite operation is many are on the same frequency, but selected by aiming a high gain dish. (example C-band TV. Many satelites, all operating on the same 24 frequencies selected by aiming the dish.) Great, a US normal uplink type transmitter is now pointed to another country's bird and swamps the control channel and/or uplink communications. You are mid-Atlantic and launch a HARM missle at the source. There is an very good chance you won't find the right source since many uplinks are operating on those frequencies and the dish spillage may be hidden from a missle by natural land features such as the Rocky Mountains. Good luck finding and hitting the right target. The US is a large place with lots of transmitters. Try finding the one that got re-aimed at the foreign satelite and is causing communications problems.
Make that three- they (and many other advertisers and other sites) needlessly set cookie expiration dates to 2040 and whatnot; I wouldn't mind it so much if they didn't collect like a plague; every few weeks I go through my cookie list and there are literally thousands of cookies from a hundred different advertisers all set to expire in a zillion years. It's absurd, and clearly they don't get it- these cookies should have an expiration of maybe one year at the absolute most. A month or so should be fine in most cases.
;-)
Since most people upgrade every 3 years or so, Anything past 5 years is useless. Unless they are selling cheap replacement computers.
A metric measure?!? On Slashdot?!?!?
Where have you been. Ever since I got a few Megabytes of RAM, a 56 Kilobaud modem, and a 2.4 GigaHertz CPU, I've been using Kilo units, Mega, units, and Giga units. I also have a LASER in the 630 nanoMeter wavelength. I get my caffeine in a 2 liter bottle.
(wow, I'm using metric pre-fixes and units of measure such as liters.)
A mysql database records what titles the system has and who has them. You can browse the database through a php scripted web site, members only of course.
Sounds like a central single point of attack like the old Napster. Leave me far away from a central database of traders...
A true SneakerNet does not have any central members list. Remember pre-Internet dorm life? You may have gotten something from your roommate, but do you know his other trading partners? That's true SneakerNet in action. No records, no trails, no central point of failure of the whole net if one member is caught. Each trade is a single transaction between only two parties. The rest of the net has no knowledge of the transaction. A mole in the system is limited to his immediate trading partners only not the extended SneakerNet.
For the bandwidth impaired, streaming content doesn't cut it. It also is incompatible with most all portable players and car systems. Wow, enjoy our content, but only on your cheap PC speakers and 3 watt amp, not on the hi-fi.
For the providers bandwidth limitations, caching a song to play many times is much less bandwidth intensive than streaming it many times to a single user.