Microsoft is allowing people to purchase the program and not have to renew, but if they want they can force consumers to goto subscription based (gee, a monopoly kinda does that) software.
Norton and mcaffee are already trying this:
they have web-based subscription anti-virus services. they announced that they were moving towards web-based services and that regular anti-virus would no longer be available in the future.
The message seems to have 'disappeared' on both sites, so i assume that it do not work out as well as they had hoped, hopefully the same thing happens to microsoft.
There is a lot more profit to be made in 'web-based' applications, but not many people are buying due to the overall cost.
Because it's a privacy program (and an anonymizer) , therefore the censorware must block it at all costs. Hmm would that mean tweakui with its paranoid settings be considered a privacy program? (kinda of hard to block something thats already on a system)
Would the censorware work if someone installed an anonymizer as a dekstop application instead of a webbased application?
I used to work for an ISP, a lot of the major are going to port 25 blocking and ip address filtering, meaning:
1) you can only go thru port 25 no other ports
2) only with the ISP's ip address (mostly prevents spammers from grabbing the mail servers)
3) The ISP users can only use the ISP's smtp unless they are a domain account.
Most ISP's do #1 and #2, and a lot more are becoming spammer unfriendly by instituting rule #3.
P.S. Good luck in stopping ICQ spam
I have mine set to do not accept wwpager messages, do not except email express messages, do not except multi-recipient messages from users not on my contact list. Also i tend to sometimes get spam URLS, so I add them to my ignore list and lately using ICQ I havent had spam URLS.
(I think ICQ is doing squat about the URL spammers, as when i didnt add them to the ignore list they kept coming from the same ICQ #'s)
Wont this type of activity add signicantly to an already overburdened and congested internetwork (the internet)?
It is possible to asertain a geographical area just by doing a tracert (or tracxeroute for those you specifcally use unix) or in the case of some cable modems by dns/computer name?
Heck , i can spook ppl on ICQ by naming thier hometown, by doing a traceroute on thier ip address.
1) I have read thru the subscription agreement and it does not state anywhere, that the schools are to be charged for the equipment. But it does state that the computer equipment can only be used the with 'approved' zapme use , which means technically nothing can be done on those computer without zapme's approval.
2) The computers HAVED to be in use for 4 hours out of the day. Does that mean students have to be forced to view ads or that they are denied educational time to be forced to use the zapme system? (note that 4hrs per computer not student).
3) All lesson plans or educational material used with the zapme equipment becomes property of zapme with no recompense or credit to be made to the actually creator of the material (doesnt this technically violate IP laws?).Can we say ala homestead.
4) This already has been referenced in the media but, the equipment can be used by other parties after hours and zapme doesnt not have to pay for any school resources or equipment used.
5) According to the agreement no 3rd party software nor material maybe used without zapme's permission. OHNO guess that mavis teaches typing is illegal to use on the computers without zapme's written consent. Also it means nor more unauthorized lesson plans according to the guidelines in the zapme agreement. (this may not be enforced)
6) Zapme's user agreement is automatically in place for everyone in the school (hmm, doesnt this violate the shrink wrap license agreement laws)?
7) The school shall provide user logs to zapme including names and personal information to 'verify user accts'. Not to mention its the schools responsibility to provide edited user logs providing age, grade, and gender.
Hmm I guess that means the schools are doing the marketing work directly for zapme then correct?
Just some thoughts and ideas
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Microsoft is allowing people to purchase the program and not have to renew, but if they want they can force consumers to goto subscription based (gee, a monopoly kinda does that) software. Norton and mcaffee are already trying this: they have web-based subscription anti-virus services. they announced that they were moving towards web-based services and that regular anti-virus would no longer be available in the future. The message seems to have 'disappeared' on both sites, so i assume that it do not work out as well as they had hoped, hopefully the same thing happens to microsoft. There is a lot more profit to be made in 'web-based' applications, but not many people are buying due to the overall cost.
Because it's a privacy program (and an anonymizer) , therefore the censorware must block it at all costs. Hmm would that mean tweakui with its paranoid settings be considered a privacy program? (kinda of hard to block something thats already on a system) Would the censorware work if someone installed an anonymizer as a dekstop application instead of a webbased application?
I used to work for an ISP, a lot of the major are going to port 25 blocking and ip address filtering, meaning:
1) you can only go thru port 25 no other ports
2) only with the ISP's ip address (mostly prevents spammers from grabbing the mail servers)
3) The ISP users can only use the ISP's smtp unless they are a domain account.
Most ISP's do #1 and #2, and a lot more are becoming spammer unfriendly by instituting rule #3.
P.S. Good luck in stopping ICQ spam
I have mine set to do not accept wwpager messages, do not except email express messages, do not except multi-recipient messages from users not on my contact list. Also i tend to sometimes get spam URLS, so I add them to my ignore list and lately using ICQ I havent had spam URLS.
(I think ICQ is doing squat about the URL spammers, as when i didnt add them to the ignore list they kept coming from the same ICQ #'s)
Wont this type of activity add signicantly to an already overburdened and congested internetwork (the internet)?
It is possible to asertain a geographical area just by doing a tracert (or tracxeroute for those you specifcally use unix) or in the case of some cable modems by dns/computer name?
Heck , i can spook ppl on ICQ by naming thier hometown, by doing a traceroute on thier ip address.
1) I have read thru the subscription agreement and it does not state anywhere, that the schools are to be charged for the equipment. But it does state that the computer equipment can only be used the with 'approved' zapme use , which means technically nothing can be done on those computer without zapme's approval. 2) The computers HAVED to be in use for 4 hours out of the day. Does that mean students have to be forced to view ads or that they are denied educational time to be forced to use the zapme system? (note that 4hrs per computer not student). 3) All lesson plans or educational material used with the zapme equipment becomes property of zapme with no recompense or credit to be made to the actually creator of the material (doesnt this technically violate IP laws?).Can we say ala homestead. 4) This already has been referenced in the media but, the equipment can be used by other parties after hours and zapme doesnt not have to pay for any school resources or equipment used. 5) According to the agreement no 3rd party software nor material maybe used without zapme's permission. OHNO guess that mavis teaches typing is illegal to use on the computers without zapme's written consent. Also it means nor more unauthorized lesson plans according to the guidelines in the zapme agreement. (this may not be enforced) 6) Zapme's user agreement is automatically in place for everyone in the school (hmm, doesnt this violate the shrink wrap license agreement laws)? 7) The school shall provide user logs to zapme including names and personal information to 'verify user accts'. Not to mention its the schools responsibility to provide edited user logs providing age, grade, and gender. Hmm I guess that means the schools are doing the marketing work directly for zapme then correct? Just some thoughts and ideas