I'm a bit confused here. Someone help me clarify my broken thinking.
Japan, where the corporations are REALLY good at making consumer electronics, may want to sell a Linux based system in the US. How would they overcome some of the little hurdles we have here like:
1) Fleets of RIAA lawyers. 2) The MPAA. 3) The DMCA. 4) Another evil(tm) acronym.
Will they not have a problem balancing the release of source code and the restrictions of the DMCA? How does Tivo do this?
Or will they see their product as a consumer friendly alternative and damn the consequences?
Re:This list is why I keep a Windows box around.
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So when the Quake 2 engine was the top of the heap, Diakatana kicked ass?
I just love it when people think that laying down a tax, subsidizing an industry, or making something manditory will help improve the quality or price of the service or product:
Federal security guard sleeps on job.
Bailing out the US automotive and airline industry.
WTO opposes overseas subsidy of industries.
Medicaid Abused by state government.
US prescription drug costs too high for many to afford. They go shopping in Canada instead.
Yup. Taxing your ISP is going to create guaranteed income for the recording industry. Some people have mentioned that [gasp] software has been pirated as well. If this passes will it not pave the way to have the federal government subsidize a company found guilty of monopolistic practices?
While it would be ironic as hell, it wouldn't suprise me.
Stupid question. IANA math guru by any stretch of the imagination, as this post will plainly show.
As even numbers (0,2,4,6,8) and numbers divisable by 5 (ending with 5 or 0) are right out, only those ending with 1,3,7, or 9 are potentially valid. Finding numbers that are divisible by 3 involves adding up the digits of a number (370,370,367 for example) (3+7+3+7+3+6+7=36) (3+6=9). Is the tactic for cracking these primes basically making a lookup table of all primes (and possibly products of two primes as well) and using that rather than calculating them from scratch each time? Since a portion of the numberspace has already been calculated has all of the previous work and CPU hours spent been wasted?
If I remember correctly for the RC5 space (which is VASTLY smaller) used for storing your MSWindows password there is a lookup table to find what the answer is available on the web. Is that possible for the RSA space? Put in your number and have it return your two primes?
In the event of any piece of MS Windows source code being released accidently, intentionally, or otherwise, MS reserves the right to say, and execute on said statement,All Your Are Base Belong To MS Now.
I used to work at a glass company in the greater Seattle area (name withheld to protect them). Their server room had wiring on the walls inside a half baked closet (yes it was hot, too). Now, rather than just running Cat-5A or Cat-5B they had both. The wiring in the snakes was Cat-5B and the rest was Cat-5A. Lots of fun when you have to repunch or patch on the fly.
But that is never enough is it? They also ran serial connections through the snakes without using any serial concentrators along the way. All of the wiring was thrown together as was needed with documentation a distant dream rather than a reality.
Knowing that this system was in serious trouble (RAID level 0 with no way to reinstall without calling an out of state vendor to bail us out), and knowing that a migration was looming about a year away (from AIX to Windows and I was happy about it), I proceeded to map the darn thing. Took a week of climbing through broken glass (remember where this was), scaling ladders to find runs that went nowhere, and finding that old runs were ran along the outside of the office (well, before they expanded the office that is).
After making a diagram of where everything went and checking everything twice, my manager started ripping out wires before I could get there. Fortunately he didn't pull anything vital and we remained up and running, but I really wanted to deck him for that.
In the server room I pulled out over 500 feet (I measured it as I didn't believe it) of dead wire. We had only three computers in there but major runs ran down into the electrical room below.
Imagine standing on an electrical transformer while installing a new hub and really hoping that you don't slip onto the trash laden floor. That was fun!
I didn't mention that the server room was directly above the electrical room and that above the server room was an ancient air conditioning unit that would dump its condensation on the server did I? Moving the server protected it from the 'rain', buckets prevented the water from pooling, and the cleaning crew would remove the acoustical tiling when they would rot and fall down.
Are our future spawn coming back in time as violent homosexuals or is the behavior a side effect of time travel? That is the only explanation that I can think of for all of the cattle mutilations and the endless anal probing.
I mean who is going to tell Cartman that wasn't an alien probe, but rather was a manmade one, stickin' outta his ass. This could be the last straw for him. The one to push him over the edge.
But perhaps we should give our descendents a break. After all we don't know what sort of pressures they might be under. Perhaps their orgasmatrons have all broken and they are pissed about that. Perhaps they are all sterile after the great war and need our sperm and ovum to propagate the species and are using the anal probing as a distraction during the procedure.
Hell, perhaps the cows are super intelligent due to excessive hormonal treatment and are exacting their revenge upon the homo-sapiens that feasted upon them for so many years. That would explain the mutilations to some extent if they were harvesting ovum and sperm due to species infertility. Also, isn't is some poor unsuspecting cow farmer in the middle of nowhere that usually recieves the anal probe? Thought so.
It is a smarter person than me that knows the answer.
Yeah, but how many of you used advertising methods in an effort to get that new machine that you wanted?
I cannot remember the name of the song, but Commodore used a classical piano piece in some of their ads that was kinda catchy. In an effort using subliminal messages and Neuro Linguistic Programming Skills (I was in junior high at the time) I taught myself the first thirty seconds of that song FAST and played it often.
Alas, to no avail. I had to go freakin' buy one many years later after they were very obsolete. Sheesh.
George Orwell's "Thought Police" seem to be a step closer. Are we going to be arresting potential hackers because someone is computer literate? How about arresting potential rapists because the person is about to hit their sexual prime?
What are the requirments for entry into this exclusive database? Income level? High incidents of arrest of your immediate family? High intelligence? Low intelligence? Neighborhood you grew up in?
Take this a step further: Just enter EVERYONE into the thing and link it with our upcoming national ID system. Now everyone is a suspicious person until they prove themselves innocent.
Imagine the problems of using this to store election results in Florida. The resulting chad debacle would be a riot. Watching people using their electron microscopes to see if their favorite candidate really won for 72 straight hours on CNN would give whole new meaning to the phrase "As far as winning the election goes, I give him a small chance."
Hit them where it (financially) hurts.
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A concerted effort seems to be required to stem the unending tide of spam. As one poster previously stated, making it unattractive to send spam would help a lot.
What would happen if people did the following: 1) We went to every advertised site sent to us by a piece of spam to give them a nice dose of the slashdot effect. I'm sure that their ISP would slam them with increased bandwidth charges incurred by this level of activity. 2) While you are there study what their product is and give their customer service department a letter stating what you liked about their product or service and what you didn't like about their product or service. Then tell them that you recieved a piece of spam and have effectively put them on a blacklist and will never purchase from them. Ever. 3) Find the home state of the advertised site and submitted complaints to the State Attorney General for their behavior. If your state has anti-spam laws show them how they violated them (I live in Washington) and ask them how to get your $500 per unsolicited e-mail. If the SAG got overwhelmed by complaints they might do something about it. 4) This is unethical (like spam isn't IMHO) and illegal (like spam isn't IMHO) but hack the site into oblivion. Backdoor the place and use it for a DOS on the spam generating sites.
Not that anyone will actually DO this, but I am thinking about doing this for my hotmail account. If someone hits my home account I DO some of the above items. A typical e-mail looks like this:
To the SysAdmin at phat.co.nz: Your server may have been hacked or spoofed. Here is the information.
To the SysAdmin at freelance.docspages.com: You are having unsolicited e-mail for your server being sent out.
------- FORWARD, Original message follows -------
Date: Thursday, 25-Jul-02 09:54 AM
From: postmaster@myisp.com \ Internet: (postmaster@myisp.com) To: talinom \ Internet: (talinom@myisp.com)
Final-Recipient: rfc822; philmoss@phat.co.nz Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 (Permanent failure - no additional status information available) Remote-MTA: dns; sitemail.everyone.net Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 : Recipient address rejected: This user does not have
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I do not know how you acquired my e-mail address as I guard it very closely , however I am a member of Washington State and will use our anti-spam law: http://search.leg.wa.gov/wslrcw/RCW%20%2019%20%20T ITLE/RCW%20%2019%20.
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I would also like to be removed from any list of any related or subsidiary companies or organizations you may have associations with. I may require contacting some of the people listed below (information found courtesy of the Internet) should my request be unheeded.
I do not tolerate unsolicited e-mail and will prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law when I find the cause of the matter.
I apologize for my bluntness and rudeness in this matter, however I never requested that this e-mail be sent to me.
The information regarding the phat.co.nz domain is as follows: registrar: Domainz domain_name: phat.co.nz domain_DateCreated: 12-Apr-2001 00:00:00 domain_DateLastModified: 19-Apr-2002 14:26:02 holder_name: Adam Jones holder_contact: Adam Jones holder_phone: 021 128 6780 holder_fax: . holder_email: kraven@inspire.net.nz holder_address: PO Box 12002,., . holder_addr_citycountry: PALMERSTON NORTH, NEW ZEALAND technical_contact: InSPire Net Limited technical_contact_phone: +64 6 357 8559 technical_contact_fax: +64 6 353 1154 technical_contact_email: domains@inspire.net.nz technical_contact_address_line_1: PO Box 4387 technical_contact_address_line_2: Palmerston North ns_name_1: ns2.inspire.net.nz ns_ip_1: 203.79.89.3 ns_name_2: ns1.inspire.net.nz ns_ip_2: 203.79.89.2
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Phone: 7755887862 Fax: 7755887823
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Date: Thursday, 25-Jul-02 03:41 AM
From: Phil Moss \ Internet: (philmoss@phat.co.nz) To: Kevin Moore \ Internet: (talinom@myisp.net)
Subject: hey!
Hi there,
How's it going?
If you need help with your last project (or have some free time and want to pick up some freelance work) check out http://freelance.docspages.com
Hope this info could be useful to you:-)
Sincerely,
Phil Moss
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OK, in the post 9/11 world this could be used as a terrorist device. Put one of these CDs on a computer that is supposed to be crash or hack resistant and watch it go boom.
Does this mean that Sony can be sued by a company that had a person crash their network using this device? I thought the US government was working on legislating stuff like this.
Won't the companies that will be retailing these also be selling computers? How happy will they be when some hacker d00d puts one of these in their computers and ruins it.
I have very strong views on spam and unwanted advertising. I have two e-mail addresses, one for friends and one for everything else. Guess which one gets the spam?
Advertising is done because it generates revenue. Fine. They want money and want to get their product out to the masses so that they can make their money.
Fine.
When I hear a commercial I evaluate it to see if it is annoying to me. If it is insulting or annoying, even if it is a product that currently "can't live without" I live without it, at least until the bad advertising campaign is over.
In a nutshell I reward the companies that advertise in a way that doesn't offend me and punish the ones that do offend me. While I am one person and this one person has zero effect on the bottom line I am willing to keep fighting my own little battle in my own little way, even if it means having no effect other than making me feel good.
What would it take to make the companies realize that certain forms of advertising are unwelcome? Since the only thing that they understand is revenue, what would it take for people to have a noticable effect on companies' revenue stream?
Boycott the companies that offend you. If enough people (and this seems highly unlikely) were to do this AND let the companies know that continuing this insulting, intrusive, and idiotic form of advertising is counterproductive then perhaps they would rethink their marketing structure and redeploy their efforts in known and productive ways. Of course, getting the public to do something that requires forethought and determination might be asking just a little bit too much.
Perhaps another way would be to notify the companies enne mass (e.g. petition) to inform them that if you see spam on your e-mail account or on your cell phone then you will cease and desist buying their products until the advertising campaign ends.
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I'm a bit confused here. Someone help me clarify my broken thinking.
Japan, where the corporations are REALLY good at making consumer electronics, may want to sell a Linux based system in the US. How would they overcome some of the little hurdles we have here like:
1) Fleets of RIAA lawyers.
2) The MPAA.
3) The DMCA.
4) Another evil(tm) acronym.
Will they not have a problem balancing the release of source code and the restrictions of the DMCA? How does Tivo do this?
Or will they see their product as a consumer friendly alternative and damn the consequences?
So when the Quake 2 engine was the top of the heap, Diakatana kicked ass?
If they get their hands on this then we may have a problem.
Isn't this how the great Irish potato famine started?
Are they using Kazaa or e-Donkey 2000?
Sure the X-Box is only good for running games. MS Windows is the same way.
But having M$ say "All your games are belong to us now" would really frost my Wheaties.
I just love it when people think that laying down a tax, subsidizing an industry, or making something manditory will help improve the quality or price of the service or product:
Federal security guard sleeps on job.
Bailing out the US automotive and airline industry. WTO opposes overseas subsidy of industries.
Medicaid Abused by state government.
US prescription drug costs too high for many to afford. They go shopping in Canada instead.
Yup. Taxing your ISP is going to create guaranteed income for the recording industry. Some people have mentioned that [gasp] software has been pirated as well. If this passes will it not pave the way to have the federal government subsidize a company found guilty of monopolistic practices?
While it would be ironic as hell, it wouldn't suprise me.
Stupid question. IANA math guru by any stretch of the imagination, as this post will plainly show.
As even numbers (0,2,4,6,8) and numbers divisable by 5 (ending with 5 or 0) are right out, only those ending with 1,3,7, or 9 are potentially valid. Finding numbers that are divisible by 3 involves adding up the digits of a number (370,370,367 for example) (3+7+3+7+3+6+7=36) (3+6=9). Is the tactic for cracking these primes basically making a lookup table of all primes (and possibly products of two primes as well) and using that rather than calculating them from scratch each time? Since a portion of the numberspace has already been calculated has all of the previous work and CPU hours spent been wasted?
If I remember correctly for the RC5 space (which is VASTLY smaller) used for storing your MSWindows password there is a lookup table to find what the answer is available on the web. Is that possible for the RSA space? Put in your number and have it return your two primes?
I can just see it now:
In the event of any piece of MS Windows source code being released accidently, intentionally, or otherwise, MS reserves the right to say, and execute on said statement, All Your Are Base Belong To MS Now.
Gee, and we thought the Taliban was bad.
If the whole thing crashed for some reason, would that require a cluster-fsck?
I used to work at a glass company in the greater Seattle area (name withheld to protect them). Their server room had wiring on the walls inside a half baked closet (yes it was hot, too). Now, rather than just running Cat-5A or Cat-5B they had both. The wiring in the snakes was Cat-5B and the rest was Cat-5A. Lots of fun when you have to repunch or patch on the fly.
But that is never enough is it? They also ran serial connections through the snakes without using any serial concentrators along the way. All of the wiring was thrown together as was needed with documentation a distant dream rather than a reality.
Knowing that this system was in serious trouble (RAID level 0 with no way to reinstall without calling an out of state vendor to bail us out), and knowing that a migration was looming about a year away (from AIX to Windows and I was happy about it), I proceeded to map the darn thing. Took a week of climbing through broken glass (remember where this was), scaling ladders to find runs that went nowhere, and finding that old runs were ran along the outside of the office (well, before they expanded the office that is).
After making a diagram of where everything went and checking everything twice, my manager started ripping out wires before I could get there. Fortunately he didn't pull anything vital and we remained up and running, but I really wanted to deck him for that.
In the server room I pulled out over 500 feet (I measured it as I didn't believe it) of dead wire. We had only three computers in there but major runs ran down into the electrical room below.
Imagine standing on an electrical transformer while installing a new hub and really hoping that you don't slip onto the trash laden floor. That was fun!
I didn't mention that the server room was directly above the electrical room and that above the server room was an ancient air conditioning unit that would dump its condensation on the server did I? Moving the server protected it from the 'rain', buckets prevented the water from pooling, and the cleaning crew would remove the acoustical tiling when they would rot and fall down.
Ask me if I miss the place.
It should be hosted by Geraldo Rivera. I mean this is way older than Al Capone's vault.
Are our future spawn coming back in time as violent homosexuals or is the behavior a side effect of time travel? That is the only explanation that I can think of for all of the cattle mutilations and the endless anal probing.
I mean who is going to tell Cartman that wasn't an alien probe, but rather was a manmade one, stickin' outta his ass. This could be the last straw for him. The one to push him over the edge.
But perhaps we should give our descendents a break. After all we don't know what sort of pressures they might be under. Perhaps their orgasmatrons have all broken and they are pissed about that. Perhaps they are all sterile after the great war and need our sperm and ovum to propagate the species and are using the anal probing as a distraction during the procedure.
Hell, perhaps the cows are super intelligent due to excessive hormonal treatment and are exacting their revenge upon the homo-sapiens that feasted upon them for so many years. That would explain the mutilations to some extent if they were harvesting ovum and sperm due to species infertility. Also, isn't is some poor unsuspecting cow farmer in the middle of nowhere that usually recieves the anal probe? Thought so.
It is a smarter person than me that knows the answer.
Mod me down for being a twit.
Yeah, but how many of you used advertising methods in an effort to get that new machine that you wanted?
I cannot remember the name of the song, but Commodore used a classical piano piece in some of their ads that was kinda catchy. In an effort using subliminal messages and Neuro Linguistic Programming Skills (I was in junior high at the time) I taught myself the first thirty seconds of that song FAST and played it often.
Alas, to no avail. I had to go freakin' buy one many years later after they were very obsolete. Sheesh.
George Orwell's "Thought Police" seem to be a step closer. Are we going to be arresting potential hackers because someone is computer literate? How about arresting potential rapists because the person is about to hit their sexual prime?
What are the requirments for entry into this exclusive database? Income level? High incidents of arrest of your immediate family? High intelligence? Low intelligence? Neighborhood you grew up in?
Take this a step further: Just enter EVERYONE into the thing and link it with our upcoming national ID system. Now everyone is a suspicious person until they prove themselves innocent.
This is wrong on SO many levels. IMHO of course.
Imagine the problems of using this to store election results in Florida. The resulting chad debacle would be a riot. Watching people using their electron microscopes to see if their favorite candidate really won for 72 straight hours on CNN would give whole new meaning to the phrase "As far as winning the election goes, I give him a small chance."
A concerted effort seems to be required to stem the unending tide of spam. As one poster previously stated, making it unattractive to send spam would help a lot.
T ITLE/RCW%20%2019%20.
190%20%20CHAPTER/RCW%20%2019%20.190%20%20chapter.h tm s p
., .
What would happen if people did the following:
1) We went to every advertised site sent to us by a piece of spam to give them a nice dose of the slashdot effect. I'm sure that their ISP would slam them with increased bandwidth charges incurred by this level of activity.
2) While you are there study what their product is and give their customer service department a letter stating what you liked about their product or service and what you didn't like about their product or service. Then tell them that you recieved a piece of spam and have effectively put them on a blacklist and will never purchase from them. Ever.
3) Find the home state of the advertised site and submitted complaints to the State Attorney General for their behavior. If your state has anti-spam laws show them how they violated them (I live in Washington) and ask them how to get your $500 per unsolicited e-mail. If the SAG got overwhelmed by complaints they might do something about it.
4) This is unethical (like spam isn't IMHO) and illegal (like spam isn't IMHO) but hack the site into oblivion. Backdoor the place and use it for a DOS on the spam generating sites.
Not that anyone will actually DO this, but I am thinking about doing this for my hotmail account. If someone hits my home account I DO some of the above items. A typical e-mail looks like this:
To the SysAdmin at phat.co.nz:
Your server may have been hacked or spoofed. Here is the information.
To the SysAdmin at freelance.docspages.com:
You are having unsolicited e-mail for your server being sent out.
------- FORWARD, Original message follows -------
Date: Thursday, 25-Jul-02 09:54 AM
From: postmaster@myisp.com \ Internet: (postmaster@myisp.com)
To: talinom \ Internet: (talinom@myisp.com)
Subject: Delivery failure (philmoss@phat.co.nz)
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Date: Thu, 25 Jul 02 09:57:42 -0500
From: talinom
X-Mailer: E-Mail Connection v2.5.02
-- [ From: talinom * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --
I do not know how you acquired my e-mail address as I guard it very closely , however I am a member of Washington State and will use our anti-spam law:
http://search.leg.wa.gov/wslrcw/RCW%20%2019%20%20
Chapter 19.190 RCW on http://search.leg.wa.gov/pub/textsearch/default.a
to assist should this action be insufficient.
I would also like to be removed from any list of any related or subsidiary companies or organizations you may have associations with. I may require contacting some of the people listed below (information found courtesy of the Internet) should my request be unheeded.
I do not tolerate unsolicited e-mail and will prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law when I find the cause of the matter.
I apologize for my bluntness and rudeness in this matter, however I never requested that this e-mail be sent to me.
The information regarding the phat.co.nz domain is as follows:
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Date: Thursday, 25-Jul-02 03:41 AM
From: Phil Moss \ Internet: (philmoss@phat.co.nz)
To: Kevin Moore \ Internet: (talinom@myisp.net)
Subject: hey!
Hi there,
How's it going?
If you need help with your last project (or have some free time and want to pick up some freelance work) check out http://freelance.docspages.com
Hope this info could be useful to you:-)
Sincerely,
Phil Moss
**This email is intended exclusively for the addressee(s) named above and may contain privileged and confidential information. If you are not (among) the intended recipient(s), you may not copy, utilize or distribute any of the information contained herein. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately via return email and delete the original from your mailbox. Thank you.
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I think they put it up there in the sub-zero temperatures to enhance it's overclocking potential.
I find it immensely interesting that an advertisement on the same page as the story is suggesting to us that "It's time to rejoin the fight. It's time to take on the right wing!"
Um, I thought that Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, D-S.C. was on the left wing, being a democrat and everything.
[sarcasm]Does that then mean that we should support President Bush because he is a tree-hugging liberal?[/sarcasm]
Just think, now that they have all of this processing power they can do some of the following:
1) Make a metal that looks like plastic. Handy for all of those rocket launches.
2) Genetically engineer large reptiles to guard their country from invaders.
3) One word: Gundam.
4) Launch theoretical bombs at ASCI White and see if they can finally win the technology war.
5) Create a fully aware computer program that will help guard us from ourselves.
6) Make a fully synthetic actor that can outact, say, Keanu Reeves. (Oh, sorry, that was the Thunderbirds).
What other possibilities can this thing hold?
A few thoughts:
OK, in the post 9/11 world this could be used as a terrorist device. Put one of these CDs on a computer that is supposed to be crash or hack resistant and watch it go boom.
Does this mean that Sony can be sued by a company that had a person crash their network using this device? I thought the US government was working on legislating stuff like this.
Won't the companies that will be retailing these also be selling computers? How happy will they be when some hacker d00d puts one of these in their computers and ruins it.
The page is slashdotted. Does anyone know what the google mirror is?
I suppose that it could be worse. Companies like Coke and Pepsi might entice us to shop at our local AMPM or CircleK more often with a chance to win money or something. At the absolut wurst they could embed advertising into our very content and change the nature of our speech to suit their needs.
Or isn't that being done already?
Mod me down to -1. This is a rant.
I have very strong views on spam and unwanted advertising. I have two e-mail addresses, one for friends and one for everything else. Guess which one gets the spam?
Advertising is done because it generates revenue. Fine. They want money and want to get their product out to the masses so that they can make their money.
Fine.
When I hear a commercial I evaluate it to see if it is annoying to me. If it is insulting or annoying, even if it is a product that currently "can't live without" I live without it, at least until the bad advertising campaign is over.
In a nutshell I reward the companies that advertise in a way that doesn't offend me and punish the ones that do offend me. While I am one person and this one person has zero effect on the bottom line I am willing to keep fighting my own little battle in my own little way, even if it means having no effect other than making me feel good.
What would it take to make the companies realize that certain forms of advertising are unwelcome? Since the only thing that they understand is revenue, what would it take for people to have a noticable effect on companies' revenue stream?
Boycott the companies that offend you. If enough people (and this seems highly unlikely) were to do this AND let the companies know that continuing this insulting, intrusive, and idiotic form of advertising is counterproductive then perhaps they would rethink their marketing structure and redeploy their efforts in known and productive ways. Of course, getting the public to do something that requires forethought and determination might be asking just a little bit too much.
Perhaps another way would be to notify the companies enne mass (e.g. petition) to inform them that if you see spam on your e-mail account or on your cell phone then you will cease and desist buying their products until the advertising campaign ends.
Enough about what I think. What do you think?
I don't care how many worlds there are in the Galaxy. I'm NOT going to wear a red shirt when I beam down to one of them.
Oops, I thought they meant a watch running Linux at 1.4Ghz with 256MB RAM.
Booya! I'll take one of those.