And they know it. Hillary Rosen (former head of RIAA) admitted this in a Wired interview once.
The recording industry won't even exist in the future, IMHO. They're a clearing house that isn't needed. Adam Curry's and CC Chapman's Podsafe Music Network is a rough example of how things might look someday; you listen to 'radio' that promotes new music and bands, and you support the bands by buying CDs (that's today), maybe making a donation (?), or seeing them live.
CDs obsoleted in 30 years? I wouldn't give it that long.
I think I figured out what triggered mine: I had been trying Tor (tor.eff.org), the anonymizer that makes it look like you're coming from various IPs from around the world. That seems to have triggered a rule that says you shouldn't log in from a bunch of different IPs in a short time.
I never got a personal response, but Google did send a short letter with some standard explanations, and I did write them back to explain about Tor, in case they hadn't considered the anonymizer factor before.
Maybe this putz can explain to us why Gmail has started randomly locking out its users for 24 hours at a time -- accusing them of "irregular activity." I'm a victim, and I know I haven't done anything "irregular" with my Gmail account.
How can this guy talk about enterprise apps when they can't even figure out how to run an email service? (Without picking on random, innocent users, anyway.)
They need to bring the buyer to product and if they don't understand the buyer...who knows
I do. I see it every day: MBAs who haven't the slightest clue about what market they serve or how to serve it, here in America. So why not outsource them? Won't make a lick of difference.
Keep the Business Credo in mind: most businesses that succeed do so in spite of themselves.
It is official; NetCraft has confirmed: OpenBSD 3.7 has been hacked by a rogue internet group less than 24 hours after release.
"We can't believe how easy this one was to crack. There are 3 exploits you can do over the internet right out of the box, and I think we're going to find more," said ZeroC00L, a leader of the X0r h@X0rs, in an IRC session. The group claims responsibility for demonstrating exploits in the past 5 OpenBSD releases.
"I think the main reason that people think OpenBSD is 'secure' is because Theo [de Raadt, leader of the OpenBSD 'project'] says it is. The truth is about the opposite; we can't find a single exploit in the latest RedHat, but OpenBSD is OpenSwissCheese. All that crap legacy code from fucking Berkeley hippies, you know."
I wonder what would happen if we stopped outsourcing the smart people (technologists) and started outsourcing the business and marketing people. You can reduce what those guys do to a few bullet-pointed scripts, so it'd be easy enough for a Bangalorian outsourcing firms to replicate the jobs.
Hmmmmm.
Imagine the money a company could make if it didn't have to pay MBA salaries and bonuses.
And Open Source is dead, and iTunes is dead, and the Mac is dead, and PlayStation is dead, and RealPlayer is dead, and Netscape is dead, and Firefox is dead, and QuickTime is dead, and Linux is dead, and Apache is dead, and OpenOffice is dead, and Java is dead, and World of Warcraft is dead, and mp3 is dead, and Sun is dead (er, well, maybe), and Novell is dead, and WINE is dead, and RedHat is dead, and Adobe is dead, and Oracle is dead, and MySQL is dead...
How a Bookmaker and a Whiz Kid Took On an Extortionist -- and Won
Facing an online extortion threat, Mickey Richardson bet his Web-based business on a networking whiz from Sacramento who first beat back the bad guys, then helped the cops nab them. If you collect revenue online, you'd better read this.
By Scott Berinato
Saturday, Nov. 22, 2003, 7:57 a.m. Origins of an Onslaught
The e-mail began, "Your site is under attack," and it gave Mickey Richardson two choices: "You can send us $40K by Western Union [and] your site will be protected not just this weekend but for the next 12 months," or, "If you choose not to pay...you will be under attack each weekend for the next 20 weeks, or until you close your doors."
Richardson ran to the IT department, where Lebumfacil was watching the biggest DoS attack he'd ever seen. He remembers feeling sick to his stomach.
Richardson runs BetCris.com, an online wagering site, one of hundreds of sites ensconced in Costa Rica that take bets from Americans (and others around the world) without concern for U.S. bookmaking laws. Richardson received the e-mail just as he and his competitors were preparing for the year's busiest wagering season. With pro and college football, pro and college basketball and other sports in full swing, and with Thanksgiving and Christmas about to create plenty of free time, BetCris and the others stood to rake in millions over the holidays. Richardson was even planning an advertising blitz for the season to drive new traffic to his site. Ripe Targets for Online Extortion
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If BetCris went down, he knew his customers would find another online bookie, "which will cost you tens of thousands of dollars in lost wagers and customers," the extortionists reminded him.
Despite all that, the e-mail didn't have the fearsome effect on Richardson that the extortionists hoped it would. He just asked his network administrator, Glenn Lebumfacil, if they should be concerned. "I said--God, in hindsight, what an idiot--I said, 'We should be safe. I think our network is nice and tight,'" recalls Lebumfacil.
As a precaution, Richardson alerted his ISP, but essentially, he says, "We kind of fluffed it off." The veteran bookmaker didn't panic because, in fact, he had dealt with online extortionists before. Two years earlier, hackers crashed BetCris.com with a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, and then demanded by e-mail a $500 protection fee in eGold (an online form of trading bullion). Richardson paid without a second thought. Compared to downtime, $500 was trivial.
That first attack got his attention, though. Richardson consulted another industry veteran who confessed to having a similar problem, and who told Richardson to call a consultant named Barrett Lyon in Sacramento, Calif. Lyon didn't come to BetCris's offices--he had no interest in baby-sitting infrastructure in Costa Rica--but he did recommend some off-the-shelf products that had recently been developed specifically to fight DoS attacks. Lyon thought (actually he hoped) that he'd never hear from them again. Richardson and Lebumfacil were confident they had protected themselves.
When the attack finally came on that Saturday in November, sometime after that first e-mail but before 11:30 a.m., BetCris crashed hard. The off-the-shelf products Lyon had recommended survived less than 10 minutes. BetCris's ISP crashed, and then the ISP for BetCris's ISP crashed. Richardson ran to the IT department, where Lebumfacil was watching the biggest DoS attack he'd ever seen. He remembers feeling sick to his stomach.
At 1:03 p.m., another e-mail arrived. "I guess you have decided to fight instead of making a deal. We thought you were smart.... You have 1 hour to make a deal today or it will cost you $50K to make a deal on Sunday." Then they knocked BetCris.com offline again. The Extortion Problem
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It is official; Netcraft has confirmed:
OpenBSD is dying.
You only start bashing others when you know you're on a sinking ship.
It is official.
And they know it. Hillary Rosen (former head of RIAA) admitted this in a Wired interview once.
The recording industry won't even exist in the future, IMHO. They're a clearing house that isn't needed. Adam Curry's and CC Chapman's Podsafe Music Network is a rough example of how things might look someday; you listen to 'radio' that promotes new music and bands, and you support the bands by buying CDs (that's today), maybe making a donation (?), or seeing them live.
CDs obsoleted in 30 years? I wouldn't give it that long.
Bite me, you lymie.
:-p
Gmail is not free. They show ads, and I pay for the service by having to see them. You lose on that one.
Being in beta does not mean you need to lock people out of accounts for 24 hours; an hour or less would do fine. You lose again.
Software that is in "beta" for over a year is not in beta. It's just being held back, probably because of legal issues.
Man, that was easy. I wonder why you couldn't beat us in those wars we had, way back when.
I think I figured out what triggered mine: I had been trying Tor (tor.eff.org), the anonymizer that makes it look like you're coming from various IPs from around the world. That seems to have triggered a rule that says you shouldn't log in from a bunch of different IPs in a short time.
I never got a personal response, but Google did send a short letter with some standard explanations, and I did write them back to explain about Tor, in case they hadn't considered the anonymizer factor before.
Gee, Chris, do you think calling your customers "putz" is a good idea?
Maybe this putz can explain to us why Gmail has started randomly locking out its users for 24 hours at a time -- accusing them of "irregular activity." I'm a victim, and I know I haven't done anything "irregular" with my Gmail account.
How can this guy talk about enterprise apps when they can't even figure out how to run an email service? (Without picking on random, innocent users, anyway.)
Jesus god! Check the spelling for chrissakes!
SACRAMENTO not Sacromento.
I love it when Taco calls himself a Journalist. Journalists can spell, and they have editors who correct spelling, just in case.
LOL
I only troll the deserving.
podcasting is neat & all, but the breathy overstatement of how it will change our lives is a wee bit overdone.
"This 'worldwide web' is neat and all, but all the breathy overstatement of how it will change our lives is a wee bit overdone." -- Hemos, 1994
Hemos has no idea what kind of harbinger Podcasting may be.
What I see: if nothing else, it has the potential to completely route around the music establishment -- and make the first internet music stars.
AFAIC, those who dismiss Podcasting don't actually understand it yet.
Heh, Kevin, you know I'm being at least a little tongue-in-cheek, right?
But if you know smart, in-touch MBAs, you're in a rare company.
They need to bring the buyer to product and if they don't understand the buyer...who knows
I do. I see it every day: MBAs who haven't the slightest clue about what market they serve or how to serve it, here in America. So why not outsource them? Won't make a lick of difference.
Keep the Business Credo in mind: most businesses that succeed do so in spite of themselves.
It is official; NetCraft has confirmed: OpenBSD 3.7 has been hacked by a rogue internet group less than 24 hours after release.
"We can't believe how easy this one was to crack. There are 3 exploits you can do over the internet right out of the box, and I think we're going to find more," said ZeroC00L, a leader of the X0r h@X0rs, in an IRC session. The group claims responsibility for demonstrating exploits in the past 5 OpenBSD releases.
"I think the main reason that people think OpenBSD is 'secure' is because Theo [de Raadt, leader of the OpenBSD 'project'] says it is. The truth is about the opposite; we can't find a single exploit in the latest RedHat, but OpenBSD is OpenSwissCheese. All that crap legacy code from fucking Berkeley hippies, you know."
Theo de Raadt could not be reached for comment.
I wonder what would happen if we stopped outsourcing the smart people (technologists) and started outsourcing the business and marketing people. You can reduce what those guys do to a few bullet-pointed scripts, so it'd be easy enough for a Bangalorian outsourcing firms to replicate the jobs.
Hmmmmm.
Imagine the money a company could make if it didn't have to pay MBA salaries and bonuses.
Hmmmmm.
My product is an arrangement of bits that can be easily duplicated ad infinitum without detection.
Hmm, does anyone else sense a failing business model?
Sorry, but how does this story qualify for the 'tapler icon?
I believe you have my 'tapler.
Dude, it's not like he got his job because of his qualifications.
He's Gates' fat, arrogant college buddy.
And Open Source is dead, and iTunes is dead, and the Mac is dead, and PlayStation is dead, and RealPlayer is dead, and Netscape is dead, and Firefox is dead, and QuickTime is dead, and Linux is dead, and Apache is dead, and OpenOffice is dead, and Java is dead, and World of Warcraft is dead, and mp3 is dead, and Sun is dead (er, well, maybe), and Novell is dead, and WINE is dead, and RedHat is dead, and Adobe is dead, and Oracle is dead, and MySQL is dead ...
yadda yadda yadda.
As Spock once said in a Star Trek novel "A difference that makes no difference is no difference".
As William Shatner once said, "Get a life! Will you people!?"
Online Extortion
How a Bookmaker
and a Whiz Kid
Took On an Extortionist --
and Won
Facing an online extortion threat, Mickey Richardson bet his Web-based business on a networking whiz from Sacramento who first beat back the bad guys, then helped the cops nab them. If you collect revenue online, you'd better read this.
By Scott Berinato
Saturday, Nov. 22, 2003, 7:57 a.m.
Origins of an Onslaught
The e-mail began, "Your site is under attack," and it gave Mickey Richardson two choices: "You can send us $40K by Western Union [and] your site will be protected not just this weekend but for the next 12 months," or, "If you choose not to pay...you will be under attack each weekend for the next 20 weeks, or until you close your doors."
Richardson ran to the IT department, where Lebumfacil was watching the biggest DoS attack he'd ever seen. He remembers feeling sick to his stomach.
Richardson runs BetCris.com, an online wagering site, one of hundreds of sites ensconced in Costa Rica that take bets from Americans (and others around the world) without concern for U.S. bookmaking laws. Richardson received the e-mail just as he and his competitors were preparing for the year's busiest wagering season. With pro and college football, pro and college basketball and other sports in full swing, and with Thanksgiving and Christmas about to create plenty of free time, BetCris and the others stood to rake in millions over the holidays. Richardson was even planning an advertising blitz for the season to drive new traffic to his site.
Ripe Targets for Online Extortion
Who, What, When, Where, Why & How
Read More
If BetCris went down, he knew his customers would find another online bookie, "which will cost you tens of thousands of dollars in lost wagers and customers," the extortionists reminded him.
Despite all that, the e-mail didn't have the fearsome effect on Richardson that the extortionists hoped it would. He just asked his network administrator, Glenn Lebumfacil, if they should be concerned. "I said--God, in hindsight, what an idiot--I said, 'We should be safe. I think our network is nice and tight,'" recalls Lebumfacil.
As a precaution, Richardson alerted his ISP, but essentially, he says, "We kind of fluffed it off." The veteran bookmaker didn't panic because, in fact, he had dealt with online extortionists before. Two years earlier, hackers crashed BetCris.com with a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, and then demanded by e-mail a $500 protection fee in eGold (an online form of trading bullion). Richardson paid without a second thought. Compared to downtime, $500 was trivial.
That first attack got his attention, though. Richardson consulted another industry veteran who confessed to having a similar problem, and who told Richardson to call a consultant named Barrett Lyon in Sacramento, Calif. Lyon didn't come to BetCris's offices--he had no interest in baby-sitting infrastructure in Costa Rica--but he did recommend some off-the-shelf products that had recently been developed specifically to fight DoS attacks. Lyon thought (actually he hoped) that he'd never hear from them again. Richardson and Lebumfacil were confident they had protected themselves.
When the attack finally came on that Saturday in November, sometime after that first e-mail but before 11:30 a.m., BetCris crashed hard. The off-the-shelf products Lyon had recommended survived less than 10 minutes. BetCris's ISP crashed, and then the ISP for BetCris's ISP crashed. Richardson ran to the IT department, where Lebumfacil was watching the biggest DoS attack he'd ever seen. He remembers feeling sick to his stomach.
At 1:03 p.m., another e-mail arrived. "I guess you have decided to fight instead of making a deal. We thought you were smart.... You have 1 hour to make a deal today or it will cost you $50K to make a deal on Sunday." Then they knocked BetCris.com offline again.
The Extortion Problem
We know this about online extortion: It hap
When your vote is worth jack-shit, then your vote is worth jack-shit. You're a feather in the wind: completely meaningless.
TYPICAL republi-nazi response -- everyone's a millionare and can afford lawyers, so there's yer justice.
FUCK OFF you fucking fuck.
This is worth some karma points just to say this:
a-fucking-men
oh,
a-fucking-men, Mr. Dannenberg,
a-fucking-men.
FUCK THE RIAA and its self-righteous, cheating membership.
All you goddamn fucking RIAA supporters (who are usually *BSD users, too), go ahead and mod me down. I don't give a shit.
it is difficult to see how CS can match expected future demand for IT workers
Demand? Demand is satisfied by outsourcing companies in Bangalore. We don't need no stinking American CS majors.
He was raised by a troll who lives under a bridge.
It is official: netcraft has confirmed that gcc is dead. Red ink flows like a river of blood. For all intents, gcc is dead.