Of course, you do realize that to make this work, there would have to be effective Digital Rights Management to prevent "stolen" copies. Bwaahahaha!
I always did like Borland's original "EULA": Use this software like a book. Install on as many machines as you like, so long as only one copy in in use at a time. It meant that developers could install at home. And for $40, you'd feel like heel for ripping them off.
What if the library could insure that only one active copy could be in use at a time, with active copies set to expire within a period of time. (To avoid the problem of "overdue" ebooks.)
The library would retain a dormant copy that couldn't be used to generate another active copy until the active copy was "checked in" or expired?
This might also work for an ebookstore, except the ebooks wouldn't expire, and the store would have to order more "stock".
This is just off the top of my head. The technology would be a problem.
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Nerdier.. Using the email feature for when you get a reply or are modded.
Nerdiest.. Noticing the replies or moderation before you get the email.
D'oh! I forgot to post the line showing coming through Cossette Communication. 172.16.48.10 is Internet Assigned Numbers Authority and I doubt they are spammers.:^)
You know those Sympatico Compass newsletters that they send out every month or two? They hired spammers to send send it for them.
Received: from delano.blitzdata.com (HELO mailer.blitzdata.com) (172.16.48.10)
by mail1.blitzdata.com with SMTP; 2 Dec 2002 18:55:13 -0000
Blitzdata is pretty pink, and they're using spamware to send it. (The base64 encoding is also a tip-off.) Nice of Sympatico to share email addresses with spammers who probably sold the names out the back door on their next "Millions" CDROM.
I wonder how they plan to prevent people from abusing this? Some spammer, who's had his nth ISP toss him off, could just take his laptop and head for the subway. Blocking only port 25 would work because spammers also use open proxy servers on other ports. And if you start blocking too many other ports, what's the use of this? (Hmm, will they try to block KaZaa?)
How much stuff is out there that is just undocumented? How much wasted technology is out there that will never be found.
You mean like pneumatic message tubes, or lost subway stations and lines? In Montreal there was a tunnel running from the O'Keefe brewery to the Blackhorse brewery. The Blackhorse brewery was long gone when I saw the tunnel, so I have no idea where it went. (I wasn't going in there!) The O'Keefe is sort of gone too, but I bet the tunnel is still there.
Things get lost down there. Toronto only has a couple of "lost" subways stations. Pikers to New York and London!
And blocklist the ISPs that tolerate spammer money. It's tough on other users of the ISP, but it's their own ISP that really hurting them. Once the cost of spammers outweighs the benefit to the ISP, the spammers will get the boot.
The idea is that you'd block any email that didn't have a token or wasn't whitelisted. Kind of a pain setting up a whitelist for everyone who might me non-spam email. Also, by the time the token is read, you have to except full delivery, and can't kick back a 550 error letting them know the email was dropped into/dev/null.
It's actually an idea that's been kicked around for years.
Honestly? Corrupt politicians bowing before their music and movie industry masters in some of the most influential states of the union (New York, California, basically all liberal strongholds).
Odd, wasn't NYC basically a loyalist hotbed during the Revolutionary War? And in other conservative swings, Nelson Rockefeller from NY state, no? And Ronnie Raygun from California. Stronghold, you keep using that word... (Don't sweat it, many Americans believe that they've always had a two party system. Yeah Free Silver and the Know Nothing Party!)
Before the mid-1990s none of this was really an issue.
Yes it was.
Did you ever fear that thugs would be breaking down your door and carting away all your stereo equipment, or that you'd be dragged into court and brought up on charges?
Sort of like why the film industry moved to California in the first place? Edison goons were beating the hell out of them. The desert weather and lack on rain had nothing to do with it. (Much.)
Likewise, Jake V. doesn't want an equal playing-field. He wants movies made in LA, maybe SF, rented forever. I'd check him out for organized crime links (if they'd stoop so low).
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If I might suggest: From The Restaurant at the End of the Universe "Do people want fire which can be fitted nasally?"
But if it did happen, here's the plot synopsis:
Star Trek V (Never Happened): God and Kirk compare egos. God loses.
Yeah, we could send in a strike team of those robot butterfly assassins built in Soviet Russia.
No, but we're getting better. Check out Asimo and his home page. (Yes, I submitted it. ;^)
I always did like Borland's original "EULA": Use this software like a book. Install on as many machines as you like, so long as only one copy in in use at a time. It meant that developers could install at home. And for $40, you'd feel like heel for ripping them off.
Hopefully He will be switching to Open Source!
The library would retain a dormant copy that couldn't be used to generate another active copy until the active copy was "checked in" or expired?
This might also work for an ebookstore, except the ebooks wouldn't expire, and the store would have to order more "stock".
This is just off the top of my head. The technology would be a problem.
When I buy a book, I expect to read it a number of times, sometimes just to quickly check a reference on a particular page.
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Nerdiest
That's nothing special. I have the Super Power to vapourise air by my mere presence! My proof: Everywhere I go on Earth, the air is a vapour. :^)
RIAA edition iPod (you buy it, but it sues you anyway)
Mod the parent up as funny!
Twist away the gates of steel
Unlock the secret voice
Give in to ancient noise
Take a chance a brand new dance
Twist away the gates of steel
She's always been one of those Pod People!
D'oh! I forgot to post the line showing coming through Cossette Communication. 172.16.48.10 is Internet Assigned Numbers Authority and I doubt they are spammers. :^)
Received: from delano.blitzdata.com (HELO mailer.blitzdata.com) (172.16.48.10) by mail1.blitzdata.com with SMTP; 2 Dec 2002 18:55:13 -0000
Blitzdata is pretty pink, and they're using spamware to send it. (The base64 encoding is also a tip-off.) Nice of Sympatico to share email addresses with spammers who probably sold the names out the back door on their next "Millions" CDROM.
I wonder how they plan to prevent people from abusing this? Some spammer, who's had his nth ISP toss him off, could just take his laptop and head for the subway. Blocking only port 25 would work because spammers also use open proxy servers on other ports. And if you start blocking too many other ports, what's the use of this? (Hmm, will they try to block KaZaa?)
Instead of scribbled notes above the payphone of "For a good time call...", it'll be "For a good time browse to..."
You mean like pneumatic message tubes, or lost subway stations and lines? In Montreal there was a tunnel running from the O'Keefe brewery to the Blackhorse brewery. The Blackhorse brewery was long gone when I saw the tunnel, so I have no idea where it went. (I wasn't going in there!) The O'Keefe is sort of gone too, but I bet the tunnel is still there.
Things get lost down there. Toronto only has a couple of "lost" subways stations. Pikers to New York and London!
And blocklist the ISPs that tolerate spammer money. It's tough on other users of the ISP, but it's their own ISP that really hurting them. Once the cost of spammers outweighs the benefit to the ISP, the spammers will get the boot.
Hey, I'll do it! I'll just send everyone an email to send me a dollar, and I'll deal with their spammers and .. oh wait, D'OH!
Pffft! I'd just automate my email to say that I'd read it. (Actually it was my friend Dave Null.)
It's actually an idea that's been kicked around for years.
Odd, wasn't NYC basically a loyalist hotbed during the Revolutionary War? And in other conservative swings, Nelson Rockefeller from NY state, no? And Ronnie Raygun from California. Stronghold, you keep using that word... (Don't sweat it, many Americans believe that they've always had a two party system. Yeah Free Silver and the Know Nothing Party!)
Before the mid-1990s none of this was really an issue.
Yes it was.
Did you ever fear that thugs would be breaking down your door and carting away all your stereo equipment, or that you'd be dragged into court and brought up on charges?
Sort of like why the film industry moved to California in the first place? Edison goons were beating the hell out of them. The desert weather and lack on rain had nothing to do with it. (Much.)
Likewise, Jake V. doesn't want an equal playing-field. He wants movies made in LA, maybe SF, rented forever. I'd check him out for organized crime links (if they'd stoop so low).
Had dinner II, bed time, night!
Be careful who's listening when you sing Happy Birthday. Do it at a public event, and someone might slap you with a bill.