People want to remain anonymous on the net. I don't see why registering a domain should force them to give up that right. I have Semi-accurate contact information for my domains, but I don't want to give out my phone number and address to anyone who requests it.
Several services exist which will register the domain for you and put in their contact information to protect your anoniymity.
Yeah, if you're trying to track down the owner of a domain for some reason and their whois info is bogus, it sucks. But I definitely do not think it should be a requirement for people to put real personal information in the record.
So, what you are proposing is that more popular songs cost more, and less popular cost less. Would that truly maximize the profit? The more they go up in price, the less people will buy them. Of course, then the price will come back down and eventually stabilize. But just because it stabilizes for awhile at a particular price, does that mean it's actually the optimum price point to maximize the profit?
Since most popular music stays on the charts for a very short time, people who are holding out might not even like the song anymore when the price drops enough for them to consider purchasing it. Compare this with just having a low price all the time. If the price is low enough, like say 25 cents, people won't even think twice about purchasing music. In fact, I would go so far as to say that if music was that cheap, people would buy stuff they don't even really like that much. It's not like music downloads really cost anything to distribute. The entire sale is pretty much pure profit.
Apple should convince the record companies to do a test. Say, for like 2 weeks, all music is 25 cents. Or, maybe just the top 10 are 25 cents. Compare the earnings over a previous 2 week period and see how they compare. I'm sure you could get all analytical on it, and I'm sure if they did something like this there would be more structure behind the study.
But, I just don't think 99 cents is the optimum price point for them to maximize profit. The record companies think they will make more by raising prices, I'm saying the opposite. I think they will make more by lowering prices. If I'm gonna pay $1 for a song, I'm gonna make damn sure I really like it first. At 25 cents, I don't really care. I'll buy stuff just to buy it at that price.
This guy has obviously just read every UFO conspiracy theory ever published and believed it all. It takes a lot of balls to get up in front of everyone and claim that we are going to war with aliens, you gotta give him some credit for that.
But, even though he sounds like a nutcase, maybe some of what he speaks of it true. I've often thought that the military does much more space stuff than NASA does, and it's not outside the realm of possibility that the military will be the first to have a secret moon base. I once read that what the govt releases now is tech that is 20 years old. So if you think we'll have a moon base in 20 years, maybe we have one now.
Well, considering 99% of people who have wireless access points have no idea how to even log into the damn thing, it's not that surprising that there is virtually no cooperation going on.
I see a few different solutions: 1. Set up a box which forges 802.11 deauth messages and boots everyone off their wireless for a period of a month (You can do this even if they are using WEP). After they get sick of it not working they will give up and toss it in the closet.
2. If you're in an apt complex, put up flyers detailing the wireless problem, tell people that you have a solution and you know they are experiencing it also, and set up a mailing list or forum where you can discuss options. Options can include intelligent channel selection based on physical location, lowering the power output of the AP, or any combination thereof. Additionally, you could show people how to enable channels 12-14 on their AP's and laptops if those devices have the capability.
3. Figure out what direction most of the AP's are from your apartment, and cover that wall with tin foil (hide the foil with some curtains. They also make wallpaper and other things which are actually designed to block that signal. I would assume that if you could block incoming signals from one or two directions, you'd probably be able to use your own wireless. Plus, you'd also be contributing to the health of the wireless situation by blocking your signals going out.
I heard yesterday that the MPAA and Bram were going to announce something, and truthfully, I got a bit excited hoping that we would see some sort of Bittorrent related legal movie download service.
Gimme a break, this announcement it total BS. So Bram announces that he will censor his site, a site which is a search engine and doesn't even really have content of its own. The only reason that it's newsworthy is that it's because the little guy bowed to the big guy and gave in to their censorship requests. Bittorrent.com doesn't do anything illegal by offering search results, it's sites like thepiratebay that are doing the illegal stuff.
Wake me up when the MPAA and Bram actually have something interesting to announce.
Back when I was going to college, I did very poorly one quarter because I was a bit lazy. They forced me to take a study skills class, and since I was late registering (again because I was lazy), the only one left open was an experimental one where the prof taught everyone self-hypnosis and how to use it when studying and taking notes. I went into it thinking it was a crock of shit, and so did most of the people in the class.
After the second week of class, I was able to self hypnotize myself in about 20 seconds before the start of a class. You don't really get the feeling that you're in a trance or anything when you're sitting up in class taking notes and listening, but there was a very marked improvement in the notes I took and the info I remembered just from lectures. I'm pretty good at remembering things anyway, but after I started doing this, I no longer needed to study for tests. I just kind of remembered everything I was told in class or read. He also taught us how to read while hynotized. I took a speed reading course when I was in 6th grade, and ever since I've been able to read extremely fast. However, sometimes I would have problems remembering everything I read. Using this prof's ideas, I could remember nearly everything.
Hypnosis, and self-hypnosis is not a crock, it does work. It's really quite interesting also. If you ever get the chance to learn how to do it, I highly recommend it. Another thing it can be used for, at least with practice, is lucid dreaming. Many people spend years of their lives trying to get into this state, it took me about a week or two to finally get it.
Around $500? You can get a NetScreen 5gt for less than $500, and they have an Untrust/Work/Home mode. However, for around $600 (search froogle), you can pick up the 5gt wireless. 802.11g built in, up to 4 different SSID's at one time, and you can drop each SSID into a different zone.
Plus, both of these allow you to license inline virus scanning and their Deep Inspection engine (which can thwart other attacks or strange activity). Crazy IPSec throughput, easy configuration through a CLI or a GUI, and too many other things to list that would make any self-respecting geek drool.
Not sure what you're doing, but this might give you some ideas. I scan all of my papers docs in using a Fujitsu ScanSnap in OSX. It can automatically pipe them to ReadIris Pro for OCR, and dump them in a save directory. I can search for whatever I want in spotlight, and it pops right up. "Hennepin county property tax 2002" bring up one document, and putting in my address and the words "purchase agreement" comes up with the purchase agreement for my house.
That pricing model is insane. If the average CD has 10 songs, it will cost me $25 to download a CD worth of songs. But what's more crazy, is that people are going to do it. And what's even crazier than that, is that the record companies are going to use it to go back on Apple and say "we are selling tunes for $2.50 through Sprint, this is irrefutable proof that you need to raise your prices." In reality, it proves nothing except that people are stupid and don't realize what they are spending until they get their bill at the end of the month.
Personally, I have a hard time justifying spending 99 cents on a track through iTunes. It's not that I cannot afford it, it's just the principle behind it. Basically I'm giving 2 or 3 cents (best case) to the actual artist, while a bunch of greedy bastards get rich by screwing the very people that keep them in business (both consumers and artists). This has been gone over a million times here before, so there's not really any need to explain this further.
I haven't purchased a CD in roughly 3 years. I listen to satellite radio, and I go to shows when the artists I like are in town. BTW, satellite radio is a great way to find excellent artists that are not signed with RIAA labels.
Sign up for OKCupid. It's free, and it's a pretty interesting site. Back when I was single, I used it. I met a couple people on it. I met more on match.com though, and they were more attractive.:)
This is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of. When I have kids, I'm going to make sure their chat clients won't send a message unless every word is properly spelled.
This reminds me of something similar, but in reverse: It is in the realm of possibility to coerce a member of the equine species to a source of oxidized hydrogen, however, one cannot force him to imbibe.
I don't think it will be possible to stop people from getting it running on non-apple hardware. It's just going to be a constant battle. There are too many people working on breaking it. Look at the Xbox, with its whole encryption/authentication scheme. That was broken after a few months.
Most of the people installing it on non-apple hardware probably wouldn't purchase apple hardware anyway. It's a good, non-official way, for apple to gain marketshare. The highschool/college kids of today are the decision makers of tomorrow. Get them hooked on OSX now (even if it's an illegal copy) means that they will likely influence their friends/family and employer to go with it.
Maybe apple should stop spending money on the resources to add copy protection and just let it go. If someone comes up with a good solution in the future, they can just roll it out in an update. In the meantime, let people get hooked.
I used to think this was an advantage, but it is not. The reason is that if an attacker tricked a user into typing in their next few passwords, they could use it at their leisure, instead of having to use it immediately.
It's still more secure than a static password though.
Looks like Michigan's new programming labor camp didn't work out so well.
In light of this failure, they have just adopted the "prison guard labor camp". Give those bastards the keys and make them do the shitty job of watching the prisoners.
Yesterday I was thinking about this. What if you could find a 12" screen that was higher resolution and would fit in a 12" powerbook? Would the card support the higher resolution?
Does anyone know what maker/model of lcd is in it? I'll pony up the cash to try it out if they have one the same size but better resolution.
I've been looking for a really complex clock to put on my desk. A kit is fine too.
I just want something that's mechanically complex, has maybe some kind of ingenious escapement, and something that is not cheaply made (made of solid, heavy pieces of metal). I've searched the net high and low and I can't find anything.
I've been seriously considering getting some books on clock design and finding someone local with access to machine tools. I used to be a machinist, so if I had to fab the parts, it wouldn't be that difficult. Just time consuming.
We had an IT person in our london office at a previous job. When I was out there, I had mentioned that they were running out of IP's for the office and we'd have to assign a new block. She pulls out her spreadsheet which is fully poplated up to something like.253, and proceeds to show me all the empty space up to.999.
Obviously we are underutilizing the ipv4 space, no one seems to use anything above.255. We should just all follow her lead and go to.999. It's like a network that goes to 11 man.
The only thing to do in ND when you're 13 is to drive around in your dad's pickup drinking and shooting at stop signs. When I lived there, it was illegal to buy anything except for gas and "essential" food on sundays. All other stores were required by law to be closed.
They just got electricity in 2002, and they just heard of the internets like last year. Imagine the surprise when they find out on the intarweb the earth is not flat like their state.
Traditionally, most managers are of the mindset that they need to make the people under them fix problems, and sugarcoat everything to the people above them. A lot of problems get filtered out on the way up the chain, nothing gets done because there's no funding or poor planning, morale suffers, etc.
This is a good way to bypass that whole problem. I would suspect that companies where the C*O has open email policies, managers and directors will be less likely to leave out pertinent info and to just tell it like it is.
I'm well known among my peers for not sugarcoating anything. If there's a problem or an issue, I'll speak up about it. I'm not going to lie or "stretch the truth." On a couple of occasions, I've been pulled into my bosses office and yelled at, but then immediately after had HIS boss tell me "great job." The only way to fix your problems is to be open about them and confront them, hopefully with backing all the way up to the executive level. Everyone in between has the attitude that execs need to be kept in the dark and they will deal with any issues "internally." Dishonest people have no place in management, but sadly, that's probably how they got there.
Anyway, my point is, an open email policy to Execs is a good tool for keeping your management team honest, and it also tends to weed out the people that are hacks. Additionally, it allows employee ideas which otherwise might not have seen the light of day to be evaluated by someone with (hopefully) more experience than a regular manager type person. Execs are supposed to see the big picture and "get it."
When I end up at the executive level, I will surely encourage my employees to feel free to email me. It's the only way to get a no-nonsense view of the way your company is running internally.
These guys have a virtual desktop that I've been using for a couple of years. It's probably the best virtual desktop I've ever used. If you have two screens, you can even designate one to never switch, the only switching that happens is on your other display. Handy if you have something you want displayed at all times. I usually use it for my mail and IM.
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People want to remain anonymous on the net. I don't see why registering a domain should force them to give up that right. I have Semi-accurate contact information for my domains, but I don't want to give out my phone number and address to anyone who requests it.
Several services exist which will register the domain for you and put in their contact information to protect your anoniymity.
Yeah, if you're trying to track down the owner of a domain for some reason and their whois info is bogus, it sucks. But I definitely do not think it should be a requirement for people to put real personal information in the record.
So, what you are proposing is that more popular songs cost more, and less popular cost less. Would that truly maximize the profit? The more they go up in price, the less people will buy them. Of course, then the price will come back down and eventually stabilize. But just because it stabilizes for awhile at a particular price, does that mean it's actually the optimum price point to maximize the profit?
Since most popular music stays on the charts for a very short time, people who are holding out might not even like the song anymore when the price drops enough for them to consider purchasing it. Compare this with just having a low price all the time. If the price is low enough, like say 25 cents, people won't even think twice about purchasing music. In fact, I would go so far as to say that if music was that cheap, people would buy stuff they don't even really like that much. It's not like music downloads really cost anything to distribute. The entire sale is pretty much pure profit.
Apple should convince the record companies to do a test. Say, for like 2 weeks, all music is 25 cents. Or, maybe just the top 10 are 25 cents. Compare the earnings over a previous 2 week period and see how they compare. I'm sure you could get all analytical on it, and I'm sure if they did something like this there would be more structure behind the study.
But, I just don't think 99 cents is the optimum price point for them to maximize profit. The record companies think they will make more by raising prices, I'm saying the opposite. I think they will make more by lowering prices. If I'm gonna pay $1 for a song, I'm gonna make damn sure I really like it first. At 25 cents, I don't really care. I'll buy stuff just to buy it at that price.
This guy has obviously just read every UFO conspiracy theory ever published and believed it all. It takes a lot of balls to get up in front of everyone and claim that we are going to war with aliens, you gotta give him some credit for that.
But, even though he sounds like a nutcase, maybe some of what he speaks of it true. I've often thought that the military does much more space stuff than NASA does, and it's not outside the realm of possibility that the military will be the first to have a secret moon base. I once read that what the govt releases now is tech that is 20 years old. So if you think we'll have a moon base in 20 years, maybe we have one now.
But Intergalactic war?? Jebus.
Well, considering 99% of people who have wireless access points have no idea how to even log into the damn thing, it's not that surprising that there is virtually no cooperation going on.
I see a few different solutions:
1. Set up a box which forges 802.11 deauth messages and boots everyone off their wireless for a period of a month (You can do this even if they are using WEP). After they get sick of it not working they will give up and toss it in the closet.
2. If you're in an apt complex, put up flyers detailing the wireless problem, tell people that you have a solution and you know they are experiencing it also, and set up a mailing list or forum where you can discuss options. Options can include intelligent channel selection based on physical location, lowering the power output of the AP, or any combination thereof. Additionally, you could show people how to enable channels 12-14 on their AP's and laptops if those devices have the capability.
3. Figure out what direction most of the AP's are from your apartment, and cover that wall with tin foil (hide the foil with some curtains. They also make wallpaper and other things which are actually designed to block that signal. I would assume that if you could block incoming signals from one or two directions, you'd probably be able to use your own wireless. Plus, you'd also be contributing to the health of the wireless situation by blocking your signals going out.
I heard yesterday that the MPAA and Bram were going to announce something, and truthfully, I got a bit excited hoping that we would see some sort of Bittorrent related legal movie download service.
Gimme a break, this announcement it total BS. So Bram announces that he will censor his site, a site which is a search engine and doesn't even really have content of its own. The only reason that it's newsworthy is that it's because the little guy bowed to the big guy and gave in to their censorship requests. Bittorrent.com doesn't do anything illegal by offering search results, it's sites like thepiratebay that are doing the illegal stuff.
Wake me up when the MPAA and Bram actually have something interesting to announce.
BTW, feel free to check out my forum link if you have any questions on the devices.
Back when I was going to college, I did very poorly one quarter because I was a bit lazy. They forced me to take a study skills class, and since I was late registering (again because I was lazy), the only one left open was an experimental one where the prof taught everyone self-hypnosis and how to use it when studying and taking notes. I went into it thinking it was a crock of shit, and so did most of the people in the class.
After the second week of class, I was able to self hypnotize myself in about 20 seconds before the start of a class. You don't really get the feeling that you're in a trance or anything when you're sitting up in class taking notes and listening, but there was a very marked improvement in the notes I took and the info I remembered just from lectures. I'm pretty good at remembering things anyway, but after I started doing this, I no longer needed to study for tests. I just kind of remembered everything I was told in class or read. He also taught us how to read while hynotized. I took a speed reading course when I was in 6th grade, and ever since I've been able to read extremely fast. However, sometimes I would have problems remembering everything I read. Using this prof's ideas, I could remember nearly everything.
Hypnosis, and self-hypnosis is not a crock, it does work. It's really quite interesting also. If you ever get the chance to learn how to do it, I highly recommend it. Another thing it can be used for, at least with practice, is lucid dreaming. Many people spend years of their lives trying to get into this state, it took me about a week or two to finally get it.
Around $500? You can get a NetScreen 5gt for less than $500, and they have an Untrust/Work/Home mode. However, for around $600 (search froogle), you can pick up the 5gt wireless. 802.11g built in, up to 4 different SSID's at one time, and you can drop each SSID into a different zone.
Plus, both of these allow you to license inline virus scanning and their Deep Inspection engine (which can thwart other attacks or strange activity). Crazy IPSec throughput, easy configuration through a CLI or a GUI, and too many other things to list that would make any self-respecting geek drool.
Not sure what you're doing, but this might give you some ideas. I scan all of my papers docs in using a Fujitsu ScanSnap in OSX. It can automatically pipe them to ReadIris Pro for OCR, and dump them in a save directory. I can search for whatever I want in spotlight, and it pops right up. "Hennepin county property tax 2002" bring up one document, and putting in my address and the words "purchase agreement" comes up with the purchase agreement for my house.
It's pretty insane how much time it saves me.
That pricing model is insane. If the average CD has 10 songs, it will cost me $25 to download a CD worth of songs. But what's more crazy, is that people are going to do it. And what's even crazier than that, is that the record companies are going to use it to go back on Apple and say "we are selling tunes for $2.50 through Sprint, this is irrefutable proof that you need to raise your prices." In reality, it proves nothing except that people are stupid and don't realize what they are spending until they get their bill at the end of the month.
Personally, I have a hard time justifying spending 99 cents on a track through iTunes. It's not that I cannot afford it, it's just the principle behind it. Basically I'm giving 2 or 3 cents (best case) to the actual artist, while a bunch of greedy bastards get rich by screwing the very people that keep them in business (both consumers and artists). This has been gone over a million times here before, so there's not really any need to explain this further.
I haven't purchased a CD in roughly 3 years. I listen to satellite radio, and I go to shows when the artists I like are in town. BTW, satellite radio is a great way to find excellent artists that are not signed with RIAA labels.
Sign up for OKCupid. It's free, and it's a pretty interesting site. Back when I was single, I used it. I met a couple people on it. I met more on match.com though, and they were more attractive. :)
This is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of. When I have kids, I'm going to make sure their chat clients won't send a message unless every word is properly spelled.
This reminds me of something similar, but in reverse:
It is in the realm of possibility to coerce a member of the equine species to a source of oxidized hydrogen, however, one cannot force him to imbibe.
I don't think it will be possible to stop people from getting it running on non-apple hardware. It's just going to be a constant battle. There are too many people working on breaking it. Look at the Xbox, with its whole encryption/authentication scheme. That was broken after a few months.
Most of the people installing it on non-apple hardware probably wouldn't purchase apple hardware anyway. It's a good, non-official way, for apple to gain marketshare. The highschool/college kids of today are the decision makers of tomorrow. Get them hooked on OSX now (even if it's an illegal copy) means that they will likely influence their friends/family and employer to go with it.
Maybe apple should stop spending money on the resources to add copy protection and just let it go. If someone comes up with a good solution in the future, they can just roll it out in an update. In the meantime, let people get hooked.
Jebus! That's what my girlfriend did when I explained it to her. Hmm...
She's engaged??
It's only 5 million pounds. It can house 4000 people, that works out to 1250 pounds each. I'll toss in a couple grand to be part owner. :)
I used to think this was an advantage, but it is not. The reason is that if an attacker tricked a user into typing in their next few passwords, they could use it at their leisure, instead of having to use it immediately.
It's still more secure than a static password though.
Looks like Michigan's new programming labor camp didn't work out so well.
In light of this failure, they have just adopted the "prison guard labor camp". Give those bastards the keys and make them do the shitty job of watching the prisoners.
Yesterday I was thinking about this. What if you could find a 12" screen that was higher resolution and would fit in a 12" powerbook? Would the card support the higher resolution?
Does anyone know what maker/model of lcd is in it? I'll pony up the cash to try it out if they have one the same size but better resolution.
I've considered that. I'd really like to see a Tourbillon movement sitting on my desk with as much exposed as possible.
Or even an enlarged version of this considering I can't really justify spending $8-12k on the watch.
I've been looking for a really complex clock to put on my desk. A kit is fine too.
I just want something that's mechanically complex, has maybe some kind of ingenious escapement, and something that is not cheaply made (made of solid, heavy pieces of metal). I've searched the net high and low and I can't find anything.
I've been seriously considering getting some books on clock design and finding someone local with access to machine tools. I used to be a machinist, so if I had to fab the parts, it wouldn't be that difficult. Just time consuming.
Does anyone have any info on how the verified the identity of the voter? How did they ensure the client was who he says he was?
I'm not being critical of them at all, I'm just curious how they ensured there was no fraud, either by people lying or by MITM attacks.
We had an IT person in our london office at a previous job. When I was out there, I had mentioned that they were running out of IP's for the office and we'd have to assign a new block. She pulls out her spreadsheet which is fully poplated up to something like .253, and proceeds to show me all the empty space up to .999.
.255. We should just all follow her lead and go to .999. It's like a network that goes to 11 man.
Obviously we are underutilizing the ipv4 space, no one seems to use anything above
The only thing to do in ND when you're 13 is to drive around in your dad's pickup drinking and shooting at stop signs. When I lived there, it was illegal to buy anything except for gas and "essential" food on sundays. All other stores were required by law to be closed.
They just got electricity in 2002, and they just heard of the internets like last year. Imagine the surprise when they find out on the intarweb the earth is not flat like their state.
Traditionally, most managers are of the mindset that they need to make the people under them fix problems, and sugarcoat everything to the people above them. A lot of problems get filtered out on the way up the chain, nothing gets done because there's no funding or poor planning, morale suffers, etc.
This is a good way to bypass that whole problem. I would suspect that companies where the C*O has open email policies, managers and directors will be less likely to leave out pertinent info and to just tell it like it is.
I'm well known among my peers for not sugarcoating anything. If there's a problem or an issue, I'll speak up about it. I'm not going to lie or "stretch the truth." On a couple of occasions, I've been pulled into my bosses office and yelled at, but then immediately after had HIS boss tell me "great job." The only way to fix your problems is to be open about them and confront them, hopefully with backing all the way up to the executive level. Everyone in between has the attitude that execs need to be kept in the dark and they will deal with any issues "internally." Dishonest people have no place in management, but sadly, that's probably how they got there.
Anyway, my point is, an open email policy to Execs is a good tool for keeping your management team honest, and it also tends to weed out the people that are hacks. Additionally, it allows employee ideas which otherwise might not have seen the light of day to be evaluated by someone with (hopefully) more experience than a regular manager type person. Execs are supposed to see the big picture and "get it."
When I end up at the executive level, I will surely encourage my employees to feel free to email me. It's the only way to get a no-nonsense view of the way your company is running internally.
These guys have a virtual desktop that I've been using for a couple of years. It's probably the best virtual desktop I've ever used. If you have two screens, you can even designate one to never switch, the only switching that happens is on your other display. Handy if you have something you want displayed at all times. I usually use it for my mail and IM.
Kicks the crap out of Desktop Manager.