Generally speaking, I agree with you. Unfortunately, as has been demonstrated in the article, the filtering can be avoided by countless methods of obfuscation. Thus, it's not really accomplishing anything at all.
The third-party developer issue is a chicken-and-egg situation. Third parties have left the big N because they have for 2 console generations (N64 and Gamecube) been playing second and third fiddle to Sony and Microsoft. Publishers go to platforms that give them the best chance for success, which means developing for the consoles who have an existing install-base.
Now that the Wii is overtaken Sony and Microsoft (at least for now) new development is sure to follow. Publishers go where the money is, just like any other business.
And the answer is, they don't want to be in the music business, at least no more than they have to be.
The only reason they are curently is because the music business provides content for their hardware business, which is where the real money is made.
The iTunes Store is effectively a loss-leader to sell iPods. Jobs has said as much already.
Windows Mobile already provides Push email through MS Exchange via DirectPush. Exchange is by far the most common groupware app, so I don't see who they're targeting with this service, at least running on Windows Mobile. Perhaps Lotus Notes people, or other esoteric implementations, but those are dieing off quickly.
Who's actually going to be buying this?
My thoughts precisely. A simple format is easy to recover from, and even the $400 attempt fee would be worth trying.
We sent a drive off to DriveSavers just the other day, and they recovered all the data even though the drive itself was completley dead. The real waste here is that they didn't use all the available resoruces to recover the data.
I see it as an opportunity.
Voting is not something we should be outsourcing. I'd like to see the government bring the development in house completely. Buy Diebold's e-voting division, and open the entire system up to audit by whomever chooses to audit it.
Leaving an election up to a (potentially partisan) third party is an awfully bad idea in my opinion.
This should at least be marked as an editorial, and an extraordinarily poorly written one at that. Something so inflamatory and infantile shouldn't have made it to the front page in the first place.
Those are EVIL and should be banned from the Internet.
My personal domain has been hijacked by spammers. Despite having a valid SPF record, they still send spam with my domain forged as the sender. Consequently, when someone has a challenge-response spam filter configured, those challenge message come to ME, despite the fact that I had nothing to do with the original message. I consider those challenge messages spam themselves, and report them to spamcop as such.
There are better ways of filtering spam. Forcing other people to filter your mail for you is extremely inconsiderate.
All of it legitimate, and less than 1% of it was purchased from the iTMS.
I prefer to have a fully uncompressed original, that I can then encode at my chosen bitrate, and then keep as a backup.
I'm not going to spend money on compressed music that I have to then backup on my own. If Apple starts offering Apple Lossless downloads, I might think about it, but otherwise, I'll just keep buying CDs.
Wow, Trumpet. That brings back very scary memories of trying to configure Trumpet Winsock on Win3.11 to connect to a PPP server at a local BBS. That was the single flakeyest program I think I have ever used.
Does anyone else find it strange that the website for New Abilities (the company who makes the keyboard) is entirely flash? Flash is the single most unadaptable technology on the planet.
Exactly. Nixon has been extremely successful collecting from telemarketers. It may not work, but at least it's something. Missouri is doing a lot more about spam than the feds are, that's for certain.
They're just putting a file out on a web page. It's people's choice (since they chose to become infected) to download and execute it.
More power to the team. A nice way of eradicating a nuisance.
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Generally speaking, I agree with you. Unfortunately, as has been demonstrated in the article, the filtering can be avoided by countless methods of obfuscation. Thus, it's not really accomplishing anything at all.
The third-party developer issue is a chicken-and-egg situation. Third parties have left the big N because they have for 2 console generations (N64 and Gamecube) been playing second and third fiddle to Sony and Microsoft. Publishers go to platforms that give them the best chance for success, which means developing for the consoles who have an existing install-base. Now that the Wii is overtaken Sony and Microsoft (at least for now) new development is sure to follow. Publishers go where the money is, just like any other business.
And the answer is, they don't want to be in the music business, at least no more than they have to be. The only reason they are curently is because the music business provides content for their hardware business, which is where the real money is made. The iTunes Store is effectively a loss-leader to sell iPods. Jobs has said as much already.
Windows Mobile already provides Push email through MS Exchange via DirectPush. Exchange is by far the most common groupware app, so I don't see who they're targeting with this service, at least running on Windows Mobile. Perhaps Lotus Notes people, or other esoteric implementations, but those are dieing off quickly. Who's actually going to be buying this?
My thoughts precisely. A simple format is easy to recover from, and even the $400 attempt fee would be worth trying. We sent a drive off to DriveSavers just the other day, and they recovered all the data even though the drive itself was completley dead. The real waste here is that they didn't use all the available resoruces to recover the data.
I see it as an opportunity. Voting is not something we should be outsourcing. I'd like to see the government bring the development in house completely. Buy Diebold's e-voting division, and open the entire system up to audit by whomever chooses to audit it. Leaving an election up to a (potentially partisan) third party is an awfully bad idea in my opinion.
To those who hold those views, rational thought isn't precisely something they find intuitive.
You do have to appreciate the irony...
Agreed. The author is obviously not well versed in the area of cryptography. A quick trip to Wikipedia would be advisable.
This should at least be marked as an editorial, and an extraordinarily poorly written one at that. Something so inflamatory and infantile shouldn't have made it to the front page in the first place.
That's called a challenge-response system.
Those are EVIL and should be banned from the Internet.
My personal domain has been hijacked by spammers. Despite having a valid SPF record, they still send spam with my domain forged as the sender. Consequently, when someone has a challenge-response spam filter configured, those challenge message come to ME, despite the fact that I had nothing to do with the original message. I consider those challenge messages spam themselves, and report them to spamcop as such.
There are better ways of filtering spam. Forcing other people to filter your mail for you is extremely inconsiderate.
All of it legitimate, and less than 1% of it was purchased from the iTMS. I prefer to have a fully uncompressed original, that I can then encode at my chosen bitrate, and then keep as a backup. I'm not going to spend money on compressed music that I have to then backup on my own. If Apple starts offering Apple Lossless downloads, I might think about it, but otherwise, I'll just keep buying CDs.
You just need to look harder.
http://www.johnpetrucci.com/ just to name one.Wow, Trumpet. That brings back very scary memories of trying to configure Trumpet Winsock on Win3.11 to connect to a PPP server at a local BBS. That was the single flakeyest program I think I have ever used.
You and me both. As much as I hate the stuff, spyware has just about made me a mint.
Does anyone else find it strange that the website for New Abilities (the company who makes the keyboard) is entirely flash? Flash is the single most unadaptable technology on the planet.
I'm not sure where the 802.11 interference thing comes from.
I can tell you that, right now, my Powerbook is connected via 11g, and I'm using a (Microsoft) Bluetooth mouse. It works beautifully.
Exactly. Nixon has been extremely successful collecting from telemarketers. It may not work, but at least it's something. Missouri is doing a lot more about spam than the feds are, that's for certain.
OT: Actually, if its a MIPS-based series 2 (or DirecTV DVR) it is running 2.4.
My biggest annoyance are the people who know everything about anything Linux, and have no tolerance for those whom may not be so enlightened.
Let's face it, linux hackers don't write the best documentation. Go easy on the newbies.
Series 1 TiVos do run a 2.1 kernel, however, the series 2 boxes run 2.4. (for native USB support)
Death to SCO.
No one ever said lawmakers could spell...
I was, until I saw the native resolution.
1024 vertical lines is attrocious for a 29" display. My 18" Philips 180P2 is native at 1280x1024.
I've seen these giant monitor/TV hybrids before. Ultimately, they end up being a jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none knd of device.
On my Xbox (with a Thompson drive) +RWs work about 80% of the time. A friend's box that has a Philips drive will only play -R/Ws, and CD-RWs.
They're just putting a file out on a web page. It's people's choice (since they chose to become infected) to download and execute it. More power to the team. A nice way of eradicating a nuisance.