How about making the client software generate the fingerprints as it generates the file library? Then, when a transfer is requested, the client software is required to send the fingerprint of the requested song to the server, which checks it against a database.
Of course, client side could mean easily fucked with, but is that such a bad thing?
Not just IBM. NCR and Radio Shack used it too. EISA may not have been quite as technically cool as microchannel, but the backwards compatibility of EISA really killed microchannel more than anything else, in my opinion.
If you've got enough servers behind a NAT box to care about that, you've got plenty of reason to get a small range of IPs from your service provider. Simply "dedicate" one IP per server that needs some ports forwarded, or overlap as needed.
Lik Sang (www.lik-sang.com) is where I got mine, but the listing on the site disappeared a week after I got mine...maybe I got their last one:).
Anyway, the product is called "Gamestation" and is basically a SNES board, Game Doctor SF7, IDE controller, and CD drive all in one unit. Unsure of the actual manufacturer...the box has nothing but the word "Gamestation" and a picture of the unit, along with "Super Family Computer Video Game."
However, for many hours of rom loading fun, you can still get Bung's DoctorGB Game Boy copier products from Lik-Sang. I've got one...it rules. 'Specially since (with a 64mbit flashcard) you can load up a shitload of older games. I think I have 40 or so on my current load. All the nieces and nephews loved me at the last family reunion.
Oh damn...more people might go into space as tourists...and someone might realize there's a MARKET for space tourism...and it'll get more popular...and it'll get cheaper...and OH MY GOD people will be able to go into space for $1M, then $500K, then $100K, then...one day...you'll be able to go to space for only a few thousand, including a couple day's accomodation in an orbital hotel!
You spoke of fear of how bad things might get later if we don't fight now. So do I.
Spamcop may be responsible, but will every outfit take the same precautions? And regardless of responsiblity, the wording of the complaint notice I received from Spamcop was rather aggressive. How do you expect people to react?
I said they were willing to put us on shitlists, for a single isolated incident. We did respond, and to the best of my knowledge we were never actually blocked. But the threat was certainly there.
The point is, a lot of these spam fighting organizations take a very offensive stance after a single report. Hell, in this case, what if said coworker had sent *1* message, by chance to the one recipient who complained? The response from Spamcop would have been the same. It would still be unsolicited, and commercial in the loosest sense of the term (as far as I know this coworker has no monetary interest in the site he mentioned), but certainly not bulk mail.
Too many anti-spam groups are willing to threaten and punish at the drop of a hat. Attack the spammer...file lawsuits...whatever you like, I really don't give a shit. But all these bullshit companies who like blocking all mail from a particular server/domain are just plain WRONG. Hey, that guy in that house over there stole something! Napalm the neighborhood! It's their own fault for living near a thief!
Hrm. I have a few email addresses I regularly use. I do not use any spam filtering technology on any of them. One of those I frequently use for ordering products, filling out surveys, and other such things that everyone else claims will quickly bury you under 3000 messages a day. All told, I get maybe 5 messages a day that could be considered spam, and that's across all mailboxes. And most of those are from vendors/manufacturers/companies that I've actually done business with. I'm not particularly careful. If I see a "don't make my address available to others" checkbox I'll check it, but I won't go out of my way to find it either.
I've been thinking lately...none of the addresses I use on any regular basis are provided by an ISP. Perhaps some people should be looking at their ISP and asking if they've ever sold account lists? Or maybe having an address on an ISP's domain makes one more susceptible to spammers who try millions of possible usernames?
Don't get me wrong...I'm not saying spam is right...but reactionist responses aren't necessarily what's called for. Case in point...one of my coworkers sent about 50 of those automated "Come try this site" emails...all to people he knew. The return address was his personal mailbox on his ISP, but he sent it out via the office's SMTP server. One of the recipients decided to forward it to Spamcop. Next thing I know I'm having to defend my company from being stuck on multiple spam shitlists. One accusation, not even a very strong one, and the spam fighters are willing to cut my company and our clients off.
If you get a lot of spam, there's probably a reason, somewhere or somehow.
Now more than ever, I have to remember a lot of things, make a lot of notes, be at certain places at certain times, etc. Over the years I've tried a whole host of non-electronic notepads, planners, appointment books, organizers, etc. Every single time I lose the bastards...you know why? Because they cost $5.
My Visor Deluxe was $250, plus $30 for a nice beltclippable Rhinoskin case. I've had it for a year and a half now...and you know why? Because I paid too damn much for it to accidentally leave it somewhere. When I first got it, I constantly checked for its presence on my person to make sure I hadn't lost my investment. Now that I've become very dependent on it, I still check for it so I can do things like jot down the model numbers of the routers at a customer site, or make a few notes to myself about things I need to do when I'm back at the office, or maybe write down the trouble ticket number the telco just gave me for that messed up frame relay line. It's now an integral part of my daily processes. Sure most of the things I use it for could be handled with a good notepad and datebook, but I'd lose those in 10 seconds flat.
The best planning in the world doesn't take care of things like critical server and network failures. Sure you have methods of failover and such, but my company's clients demand an immediate response if at all possible. Of course, my phone has a vibration feature...and I use it whenever a ringing sound would be inconsiderate.
Also, as others have brought up, what about doctors? Last time I checked there weren't a lot of failovers for organs...
I suppose you could look at it the same way as an improperly-tagged product at a store (either you/someone else swapped the price tags, or the store screwed up). General idea seems to be that if the cashier doesn't notice, then it's the store's own fault. Of course, there's still the immoral aspect of it.
I'd consider this webpage abuse worse, though...at a brick and mortar store there's at least some real employee of the company who is going to see the product and the price before payment is accepted. Even the dumbest of Best Buy employees would probably notice a laptop ringing up for $3.
NT reboot times are not really dependent on processor speed. They'll always take a while due to disk access times, services which wait on other services to start, intentional wait periods thrown in by developers to keep their bad software from killing itself, etc.
That movie had a whole lot of effects...hell half the extra stuff on the dvd release is explanations of how they did what. The stuff for the mid-air collision is quite neat...give it a watch. Not to mention the exploding buildings at the end...and the virtual fly-through of Jack's apartment...and the zooming-through-structures shots. Tons of really really well done CG in that movie.
Of course, the movie did still have excellent dialogue and a good story, but to say it had little or no special effects is just wrong. Good special effects are the ones that don't leap off the screen as being something that isn't really there.
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Probably will be seen as a small price to pay to get the labels off their backs.
How about making the client software generate the fingerprints as it generates the file library? Then, when a transfer is requested, the client software is required to send the fingerprint of the requested song to the server, which checks it against a database.
Of course, client side could mean easily fucked with, but is that such a bad thing?
Not just IBM. NCR and Radio Shack used it too. EISA may not have been quite as technically cool as microchannel, but the backwards compatibility of EISA really killed microchannel more than anything else, in my opinion.
If you've got enough servers behind a NAT box to care about that, you've got plenty of reason to get a small range of IPs from your service provider. Simply "dedicate" one IP per server that needs some ports forwarded, or overlap as needed.
Lik Sang (www.lik-sang.com) is where I got mine, but the listing on the site disappeared a week after I got mine...maybe I got their last one :).
Anyway, the product is called "Gamestation" and is basically a SNES board, Game Doctor SF7, IDE controller, and CD drive all in one unit. Unsure of the actual manufacturer...the box has nothing but the word "Gamestation" and a picture of the unit, along with "Super Family Computer Video Game."
However, for many hours of rom loading fun, you can still get Bung's DoctorGB Game Boy copier products from Lik-Sang. I've got one...it rules. 'Specially since (with a 64mbit flashcard) you can load up a shitload of older games. I think I have 40 or so on my current load. All the nieces and nephews loved me at the last family reunion.
I have a Super Nintendo console copier with a built-in cd drive for loading rom images...does that count?
Same thing we always did...smile politely and keep them away from the servers.
Just because the path to reasonably affordable space tourism could be long implies that we shouldn't take the first step?
Oh damn...more people might go into space as tourists...and someone might realize there's a MARKET for space tourism...and it'll get more popular...and it'll get cheaper...and OH MY GOD people will be able to go into space for $1M, then $500K, then $100K, then...one day...you'll be able to go to space for only a few thousand, including a couple day's accomodation in an orbital hotel!
Yeah, we've got to put a stop to this now.
You spoke of fear of how bad things might get later if we don't fight now. So do I.
Spamcop may be responsible, but will every outfit take the same precautions? And regardless of responsiblity, the wording of the complaint notice I received from Spamcop was rather aggressive. How do you expect people to react?
I said they were willing to put us on shitlists, for a single isolated incident. We did respond, and to the best of my knowledge we were never actually blocked. But the threat was certainly there.
The point is, a lot of these spam fighting organizations take a very offensive stance after a single report. Hell, in this case, what if said coworker had sent *1* message, by chance to the one recipient who complained? The response from Spamcop would have been the same. It would still be unsolicited, and commercial in the loosest sense of the term (as far as I know this coworker has no monetary interest in the site he mentioned), but certainly not bulk mail.
Too many anti-spam groups are willing to threaten and punish at the drop of a hat. Attack the spammer...file lawsuits...whatever you like, I really don't give a shit. But all these bullshit companies who like blocking all mail from a particular server/domain are just plain WRONG. Hey, that guy in that house over there stole something! Napalm the neighborhood! It's their own fault for living near a thief!
Hrm. I have a few email addresses I regularly use. I do not use any spam filtering technology on any of them. One of those I frequently use for ordering products, filling out surveys, and other such things that everyone else claims will quickly bury you under 3000 messages a day. All told, I get maybe 5 messages a day that could be considered spam, and that's across all mailboxes. And most of those are from vendors/manufacturers/companies that I've actually done business with. I'm not particularly careful. If I see a "don't make my address available to others" checkbox I'll check it, but I won't go out of my way to find it either.
I've been thinking lately...none of the addresses I use on any regular basis are provided by an ISP. Perhaps some people should be looking at their ISP and asking if they've ever sold account lists? Or maybe having an address on an ISP's domain makes one more susceptible to spammers who try millions of possible usernames?
Don't get me wrong...I'm not saying spam is right...but reactionist responses aren't necessarily what's called for. Case in point...one of my coworkers sent about 50 of those automated "Come try this site" emails...all to people he knew. The return address was his personal mailbox on his ISP, but he sent it out via the office's SMTP server. One of the recipients decided to forward it to Spamcop. Next thing I know I'm having to defend my company from being stuck on multiple spam shitlists. One accusation, not even a very strong one, and the spam fighters are willing to cut my company and our clients off.
If you get a lot of spam, there's probably a reason, somewhere or somehow.
A) I'd spend the cash eventually (grr...checkout line taking too long already...hey, I've got $250 in cash, I'll just pay cash and get out of here)
B) I wouldn't get the side benefit of games to play during boring meetings.
Now more than ever, I have to remember a lot of things, make a lot of notes, be at certain places at certain times, etc. Over the years I've tried a whole host of non-electronic notepads, planners, appointment books, organizers, etc. Every single time I lose the bastards...you know why? Because they cost $5.
My Visor Deluxe was $250, plus $30 for a nice beltclippable Rhinoskin case. I've had it for a year and a half now...and you know why? Because I paid too damn much for it to accidentally leave it somewhere. When I first got it, I constantly checked for its presence on my person to make sure I hadn't lost my investment. Now that I've become very dependent on it, I still check for it so I can do things like jot down the model numbers of the routers at a customer site, or make a few notes to myself about things I need to do when I'm back at the office, or maybe write down the trouble ticket number the telco just gave me for that messed up frame relay line. It's now an integral part of my daily processes. Sure most of the things I use it for could be handled with a good notepad and datebook, but I'd lose those in 10 seconds flat.
1) Get cell phone
2) Request caller ID blocking for your cell number
3) Don't tell anyone the number
Problem solved.
I could be wrong, but I believe there are some patents on the "E-meter" that the Scientologists use to measure thetans or some crap like that.
'Tis easy, when the religion's primary goal is to make money.
They did it, but not as high (and therefore with a lower maximum speed before the air resistance becomes a major factor).
Yeah...opinions never leak into other news outlets. Not ever. No way.
The best planning in the world doesn't take care of things like critical server and network failures. Sure you have methods of failover and such, but my company's clients demand an immediate response if at all possible. Of course, my phone has a vibration feature...and I use it whenever a ringing sound would be inconsiderate.
Also, as others have brought up, what about doctors? Last time I checked there weren't a lot of failovers for organs...
I suppose you could look at it the same way as an improperly-tagged product at a store (either you/someone else swapped the price tags, or the store screwed up). General idea seems to be that if the cashier doesn't notice, then it's the store's own fault. Of course, there's still the immoral aspect of it.
I'd consider this webpage abuse worse, though...at a brick and mortar store there's at least some real employee of the company who is going to see the product and the price before payment is accepted. Even the dumbest of Best Buy employees would probably notice a laptop ringing up for $3.
When you send mail to a mailing list, it's like you're speaking in a public forum...totally different scenario than email to a single person.
They may be hard to enforce, but at least it's something that might give an employee a brief moment of thought before jumping into a competitor's lap.
NT reboot times are not really dependent on processor speed. They'll always take a while due to disk access times, services which wait on other services to start, intentional wait periods thrown in by developers to keep their bad software from killing itself, etc.
Fight Club with little or no special effects?
That movie had a whole lot of effects...hell half the extra stuff on the dvd release is explanations of how they did what. The stuff for the mid-air collision is quite neat...give it a watch. Not to mention the exploding buildings at the end...and the virtual fly-through of Jack's apartment...and the zooming-through-structures shots. Tons of really really well done CG in that movie.
Of course, the movie did still have excellent dialogue and a good story, but to say it had little or no special effects is just wrong. Good special effects are the ones that don't leap off the screen as being something that isn't really there.