You don't have to stick with those. There have been a few articles in various magazines recently on how to contruct a simple SMTP/POP3 local proxy server that connects to Hotmail's undocumented protocol.
I don't do that because while some silliness is a good thing, too much of anything can kill you!
Hotmail does have an interface for doing this. It's custom, but there've been a number of magazine articles on how to do it outside of Outleak recently. (Usually a tiny Hotmail proxy server to convert it to civilized protocols transparently.)
Okay, sure, just not using Hotmail would be easier, picky picky!;)
My hotmail accounts (dating back before MS bought them) generally last 4-5 years with no data loss. After that, the account gets deleted with no warning, losing the stuff I'd never bothered to delete myself--but that was probably from a joe-job or false spam reports from spanked spammers or the cult of the rabid weasel.
I use mine on Usenet posts and Slashdot. It allows people I don't know to get in touch without exposing a real address. The spam gets filtered to my junkbox, which is good. However, the "Microsoft update" virus crud (harvesting from Usenet) also goes there, and at 144k per "update" it doesn't take long to fill the freebee quota. I could have it immediately delete junkbox email, but there have been false positives. So I have to visit once a day or so to scan for real email, then flush the "updates" and the letters from PRINCE MOYO SITHOLE.
If that's the number of genuine Apple IIs, then multiply it by a large factor for all the clones. (And where did you get that two million figure from?)
What stops them? Why, the same security that stops malware writers from packaging all that into a worm that rapidly spreads to all open Linksys gateways without even a computer attached.
Just think of the havoc that a Linksys Flash worm would cause: a worm that searches out other vulnerable Linksys boxes, re-flashes them with the wormed software, and contines on while the offspring does likewise. Something like that would spread very rapidly and result in a lot of junked undead WiFi gateways.
Anyone know of another WiFi gateway company that would be good to buy stock in? They might suddenly be getting a massive number of orders.
The article wasn't too clear. Is this another DRM system that depends on people installing their lame-ass software on computers? To paraphrase what you said, once you've got the bits, you've got their balls.
Sure they could make a system that couldn't be read, but it probably wouldn't play well in a normal CD player either.
You have to do an improvement over the patented method, and then patent your improvement. This shuts out the small guy who can't afford to play this little game or the lawyers who do the playing.
There is absolutely no reason that you can't donate your time, effort and money into the effort of fighting spam for free. Many people have. Some other people need to cover some costs. Some others might want anything they get for it.
Luckily, you have the freedom to pick and choose. There are loads of free products out there. At the moment at least.. before they get a letter from McAfee about that patent violation..
McAfee is only patenting this as a defensive move. They would only use it if someone tried to attack them with another patent. They would never use it to try and derail competitors or shut-out or steal ideas from the small newcomer that tried to enter the market.
Bleh, enough of that! I need a coffee.. and a shower.
Projecting an "invisible" image has one advantage: How about 90 minutes of unused advertising space? Pirating will happen anyway, but theatre copies would be crummy video with ghostly advertising.
Make your own. Some place local or DigiKey or such on the web will sell high-output IR LEDs. Use them to replace the LEDs in a bicycle flasher. Use a camcorder, digital camera or night-goggles to test it.
Rather than playing sneeky-peeky with night-vision goggles, just project a static image on the screen in near infra-red which camcorders are sensitive to, and which will show up on all pirate tapes. (But invisible to all non super-heroes watching.)
Initially it sounded like the probe was in comet rush-hour traffic: making observations of one comet, zipping over to another one to get samples... However I relaxed when I saw that it was making observations from 95 million km away. (The Moon is roughly 380,000 km away.)
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I don't do that because while some silliness is a good thing, too much of anything can kill you!
Oh yeah, and I don't like the idea of puting an "Intergrated Fusion Device" in my pocket either!
With the small size and weight of phones these days, I can't see holding this anchor up-side my head.
Okay, sure, just not using Hotmail would be easier, picky picky! ;)
And you made sure to regularly backup your information elsewhere .. right .. ?
Data kept in one place will eventually be lost.
I use mine on Usenet posts and Slashdot. It allows people I don't know to get in touch without exposing a real address. The spam gets filtered to my junkbox, which is good. However, the "Microsoft update" virus crud (harvesting from Usenet) also goes there, and at 144k per "update" it doesn't take long to fill the freebee quota. I could have it immediately delete junkbox email, but there have been false positives. So I have to visit once a day or so to scan for real email, then flush the "updates" and the letters from PRINCE MOYO SITHOLE.
If that's the number of genuine Apple IIs, then multiply it by a large factor for all the clones. (And where did you get that two million figure from?)
Bah, they should have used a Heisenberg compensator!
Sleep well tonight.
Anyone know of another WiFi gateway company that would be good to buy stock in? They might suddenly be getting a massive number of orders.
Er no. More like caught wind of the nuisance lawsuits and DoS attacks that have been happening to various anti-spammers over the last few years.
Sure they could make a system that couldn't be read, but it probably wouldn't play well in a normal CD player either.
No, I'd say that the word he wanted was definitely circumcised. :)
You have to do an improvement over the patented method, and then patent your improvement. This shuts out the small guy who can't afford to play this little game or the lawyers who do the playing.
Luckily, you have the freedom to pick and choose. There are loads of free products out there. At the moment at least .. before they get a letter from McAfee about that patent violation..
Bleh, enough of that! I need a coffee .. and a shower.
But most important: it's fun!
Projecting an "invisible" image has one advantage: How about 90 minutes of unused advertising space? Pirating will happen anyway, but theatre copies would be crummy video with ghostly advertising.
Make your own. Some place local or DigiKey or such on the web will sell high-output IR LEDs. Use them to replace the LEDs in a bicycle flasher. Use a camcorder, digital camera or night-goggles to test it.
A little goatse should go a long way...
A search of "Babylon gun" will get you links. It was never finished--a certain neighbour of Iraq was not happy about the likely practical uses.
RoboCode involves much the same in Java with the added fun of a game. Okay, so the turtles have guns... ;)
Cancel that call to Bruce Willis!
They make a proxy request for a page that says "ok". If they get it, then it's not okay, I guess. Slashlogic :)