The US already does this, often indirectly. For example, we tax sugar from overseas, so Florida sugar corporations can sell their sugar for a high price (this is the reason you get high fuctose corn syrup in soda instead of the high priced sugar).
Things like this are also the reason why you only get mandarin oranges in Canada at certain times of the year. They grow year round, of course, in different countries, but the US wants us all to buy Florida or Californian oranges, so they make it hard-to-impossible to get them at other times.
At least, that's the gist of something someone told me recently.
With all the push towards deciding how many times people can view a particular event, I'm surprised the TV Studios and MPAA don't give up on TV and film entirely, and devote all their efforts into producing live theatre.
Having had to deal with this from an almost identically named company in America, the quoted phrases don't seem nearly as sneaky and dirty as some I've seen, but it's good to see a precedent.
DRoEurope is run by the same folks who brought you DRoAmerica and DRoCanada... these guys, who seem to be affiliated with Enom somehow (and who can't build a proper pending page, it seems).
DRoC was earlier slapped for sending mail using a logo remarkably similar to the Canadian governments logo.
Obviously these guys have no scruples. On the plus side, you can probably safely ignore anything you receive from the Domain Registry of Africa, Domain Registry of Asia and the Domain Registry of Oceania.
How about a distributed project where millions of people around the world can correct spelling mistakes in Slashdot articles. Or cancel previously posted stories.
How can the gravitational pull of the Earth and Moon be balanced at points L2 and L3? Maybe the gravitational force from both bodies is the same at those points, but both points, the Earth is on the same side of the point as the moon, making them not-so-ideal for satellites or space stations I would think.
The forces wouldn't cancel each other out. Right?
(Actually, I can see how L3 would work, if the satellite had the same orbital period as the moon. But L2 confuses my little general-arts-degree mind.)
Okay, I'm looking at the displays page on the Apple store*. All of the LCDs list an Apple computer as a hardware requirement.
That, obviously, can't be the case, but I'm wondering what PC hardware I need in order to use one of these puppies?
(* That link'll probably give you a "session timed-out" error on that link. Just click "return to store", then scroll down for "displays" on the left side menu.)
Now, a bullet will get you more information, but with the sheer numbers of weapons out there in the US-Canada-Mexico pushing the 300-400 million range...
I don't know about your southern neighbours, but I'm pretty sure us Canucks aren't contributing to that 300-400 million estimate very significantly.
In not one of the three original articles does it say the this is being hailed as the "most important discovery in the past 72 years". They all say that it is the biggest find in the Solar System since Pluto itself 72 years ago.
And, if you read the articles in context, it's pretty obvious that they mean "size" big, not "important" big.
I'm all for editorializing, but get your facts straight, Mr. theBrownfury.
Well, big business is going to be paying for the distribution, right? So I don't suppose they'll be too interested if they are made to look like bad guys.
(I realize the RIAA isn't a film distributor, but I bet they have back-scratching relationships with Universal, Paramount, etc..)
Also, I'd just like to say that a movie about Fanning, starring Fanning... well that's just dumb in my books. Unless this is some "fourth-wall", Po-Mo, Brechtian alienation conceit.
I still say spring for a real actor, at least. It's a movie, not a documentary, right?
Like I've often said to friends, there are certain things in life (e.g. having sex, parenting, preparing legal briefs, etc.) that true dummies just shouldn't be encouraged to do.
Why not try it? The problem the guy had last week was that he did this on his home box that we used for other stuff (specifically, some mail-related stuff).
So when he was blacklisted, his legitimate work was affected.
There is nothing inherently wrong with running a honeypot mail-server. Just do it somewhere that isn't going to screw you when it shows up in ORBZ.
(In fact, you could set up one server that acted as a honey-pot, and publish all the IPs of the spammers who try and connect to it. Other servers could use those IPs to block access at a lower level, without the risk of running their own honey-pots.)
Most of the "bias" never gets onto video tape anyway. By that point, the story editor and/or journalist has narrowed the focus of their story down already.
It's not like they film three versions of a news story, all with different takes on the subject and choose one to show.
So, unless they plan on releasing all of his paper notes, his scriblings, his internal thought processes during the initial stages of a story, I don't think this is going to be much more than a Choose-Your-Own-Camera-Angle adventure.
You have no idea what the next guy likes, dislikes, hates, doesn't hate, or how much he does.
No, I don't. It's a figure of speech.
And FWIW, the DNS blacklists are no longer an effective tool for the antis. They are much more effective at providing a list of useful open relays to the spammers.
So... respite from spam through obscurity? As long as no one tells anyone who has open relays, things will be fine?
Get real. Sure, the published lists are used by spammers: the lazy ones, or the ones too cheap to afford the lists that spammers themselves publish. If the antispammers lists weren't published, the open relays would still be open and spammers would still use them.
I'd rather have an educated public than an ignorant one.
I will almost always scour a few used CD stores in my neighbourhood for a CD I want first. Only if I can't find it there will I check out HMV.
RIAA numbers don't include those sales, do they? And (based on the fact that new used-CD stores are popping up all over), I'm guessing that might be where more and more people are choosing to spend their discretionary income.
If I opened a bakery, and all I did was sell white bread, eventually I'm going to hit a saturation point. After that, I can't expect my sales to improve much year over year.
So I could either increase the price of my white bread, to compensate for the lack of additional sales. But that's a dangerous route to take, because for every price increase, I'm going to probably lose customers (either to another bakery, or to people who just decide to bake at home).
If I wanted the government to mandate that people can only buy white bread, or only from me, or that other bakeries pay me a $0.05 for every loaf they sell, or that consumers pay me a $10.00 levy when they purchase a new oven... you'd think I was nuts.
The right choice would also expand my product line. and sell other types of bread. Of course, this too will reach a limit. But as long as I sell a variety of products, at reasonable prices, I should make enough money to cover my expenses and be happy.
This article really turned my crank. What a load of hogs-wallop. To wit:
For one, the Danish antispam organization falsified an email header to gain access to my mail server. Illegal access to a computer system is, if not a criminal violation, then a trespass on my private property.
Except that he previously admitted to asking the antispam people to check his mail server. So it isn't trespass if you invite them in. Or it's entrapment on his part, right?
As I've discussed previously in this space, one of the novel legal theories now catching on for these kinds of unacceptable accesses to computer systems is a centuries-old tort called "trespass to chattels." At a minimum, I ought to be able to sue the Danish company for the damage it caused me from its illegal access.
Alternatively, you could secure your f'ing mail server properly.
But in spite of all that, I could probably get an injunction, or least a dollar or two to compensate me for my injuries and establish that I have been wronged.
Always the lawyer...:)
Who knows whether the organization is a real legal entity or just some name cooked up by a group of self righteous individuals.
At some point along here I gave up reading. This guy is a whining, deluded, litiginous fuckwad. And a bit xenophobic (maybe he had a bad experience with a Danish girl once... I dunno). His actions are not only irresponsible, they are just plain stupid.
Okay... I skipped to the end and read:
It isn't difficult to imagine that the RIAA could pressure a sufficient number of ISPs into subscribing to this copyright blackhole list and blocking access to their users, or to any traffic emanating from them.
Except (you half-wit), the RIAA would likely use pressure. The anti-spam list doesn't force ISPs to use it... ISPs use it voluntarily. Hell, switch ISPs if you don't like the level of access they provide you with!
I hate spam as much as the next guy. If I found out my mail server was an open relay (which we did at one point), I sure as hell would spend my energies fixing the problem, rather than ranting about it and plotting a lawsuit.
I really hope that if he decides to take legal action, some judge with half a brain will say "You could've solved this yourself in half an hour... Why are you wasting the courts' time?"
I don't want all of the info that the Ontario Government has on it's citizens (like me and my family) being broadcast for anyone to see/save/use.
Don't worry Scott Kormick (SIN: 574-782-401). All of your personal information -- such as your annual salary of $45,490 as Assistant Manager of a Subway franchise, your 12 unpaid parking tickets, and your criminal record (shame on you for drinking in High Park) -- is secure within the governement's system.
In order to assure you, I stopped by your house at 312 College St. to let you know in person. I guess you were at the hospital having that nasty rash looked at (I hear it's hereditary).
1) Get satellite and a Bell ExpressVu PVR. I've had mine for almost a year now, and am very happy with it's performance. I've barely touched my VCR since then!
2) Get a PC with a video capture/playback card (like ATI's All-In-Wonder Radeon), and some open source software and roll-yer-own PVR. You can get TV listings for Canada with the XMLTV project. The Linux VCR HOWTO will probably be helpful.
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The US already does this, often indirectly. For example, we tax sugar from overseas, so Florida sugar corporations can sell their sugar for a high price (this is the reason you get high fuctose corn syrup in soda instead of the high priced sugar).
Things like this are also the reason why you only get mandarin oranges in Canada at certain times of the year. They grow year round, of course, in different countries, but the US wants us all to buy Florida or Californian oranges, so they make it hard-to-impossible to get them at other times.
At least, that's the gist of something someone told me recently.
With all the push towards deciding how many times people can view a particular event, I'm surprised the TV Studios and MPAA don't give up on TV and film entirely, and devote all their efforts into producing live theatre.
Having had to deal with this from an almost identically named company in America, the quoted phrases don't seem nearly as sneaky and dirty as some I've seen, but it's good to see a precedent.
... these guys, who seem to be affiliated with Enom somehow (and who can't build a proper pending page, it seems).
DRoEurope is run by the same folks who brought you DRoAmerica and DRoCanada
DRoC was earlier slapped for sending mail using a logo remarkably similar to the Canadian governments logo.
Obviously these guys have no scruples. On the plus side, you can probably safely ignore anything you receive from the Domain Registry of Africa, Domain Registry of Asia and the Domain Registry of Oceania.
How about a distributed project where millions of people around the world can correct spelling mistakes in Slashdot articles. Or cancel previously posted stories.
How can the gravitational pull of the Earth and Moon be balanced at points L2 and L3? Maybe the gravitational force from both bodies is the same at those points, but both points, the Earth is on the same side of the point as the moon, making them not-so-ideal for satellites or space stations I would think.
The forces wouldn't cancel each other out. Right?
(Actually, I can see how L3 would work, if the satellite had the same orbital period as the moon. But L2 confuses my little general-arts-degree mind.)
Okay, I'm looking at the displays page on the Apple store*. All of the LCDs list an Apple computer as a hardware requirement.
That, obviously, can't be the case, but I'm wondering what PC hardware I need in order to use one of these puppies?
(* That link'll probably give you a "session timed-out" error on that link. Just click "return to store", then scroll down for "displays" on the left side menu.)
According to the CBC article, there are around 8 million guns in Canada. That's with a population of 32 million, or around 1 gun for every 4 people.
Compare that to a guestimate of 1 gun or more per person in the US (population: ~280 million, # of guns: ~300 million).
Look at the main picture in the gallery.
What's with the multi-sided dice? Trying to appeal to the ex-D&D-now-Linux-crazed geeks out there?
Now, a bullet will get you more information, but with the sheer numbers of weapons out there in the US-Canada-Mexico pushing the 300-400 million range ...
I don't know about your southern neighbours, but I'm pretty sure us Canucks aren't contributing to that 300-400 million estimate very significantly.
Sigh.
In not one of the three original articles does it say the this is being hailed as the "most important discovery in the past 72 years". They all say that it is the biggest find in the Solar System since Pluto itself 72 years ago.
And, if you read the articles in context, it's pretty obvious that they mean "size" big, not "important" big.
I'm all for editorializing, but get your facts straight, Mr. theBrownfury.
Well, big business is going to be paying for the distribution, right? So I don't suppose they'll be too interested if they are made to look like bad guys.
... well that's just dumb in my books. Unless this is some "fourth-wall", Po-Mo, Brechtian alienation conceit.
(I realize the RIAA isn't a film distributor, but I bet they have back-scratching relationships with Universal, Paramount, etc..)
Also, I'd just like to say that a movie about Fanning, starring Fanning
I still say spring for a real actor, at least. It's a movie, not a documentary, right?
Like I've often said to friends, there are certain things in life (e.g. having sex, parenting, preparing legal briefs, etc.) that true dummies just shouldn't be encouraged to do.
Why not try it? The problem the guy had last week was that he did this on his home box that we used for other stuff (specifically, some mail-related stuff).
So when he was blacklisted, his legitimate work was affected.
There is nothing inherently wrong with running a honeypot mail-server. Just do it somewhere that isn't going to screw you when it shows up in ORBZ.
(In fact, you could set up one server that acted as a honey-pot, and publish all the IPs of the spammers who try and connect to it. Other servers could use those IPs to block access at a lower level, without the risk of running their own honey-pots.)
Therefore, the ads would be much cheaper, and i'd think, if marketed correctly, many companies, possibly even personal ads.
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The really-long-stick thing bugged me too for the longest time, except, I always imagined spinning the rod instead of pushing on one end.
The answer I was given is that the rod might be indestructable, but it isn't rigid. In fact, in relativity, there is no such thing as a rigid body.
This page has a pretty good explanation.
Most of the "bias" never gets onto video tape anyway. By that point, the story editor and/or journalist has narrowed the focus of their story down already.
It's not like they film three versions of a news story, all with different takes on the subject and choose one to show.
So, unless they plan on releasing all of his paper notes, his scriblings, his internal thought processes during the initial stages of a story, I don't think this is going to be much more than a Choose-Your-Own-Camera-Angle adventure.
So they save money on post-production, I guess.
You have no idea what the next guy likes, dislikes, hates, doesn't hate, or how much he does.
... respite from spam through obscurity? As long as no one tells anyone who has open relays, things will be fine?
No, I don't. It's a figure of speech.
And FWIW, the DNS blacklists are no longer an effective tool for the antis. They are much more effective at providing a list of useful open relays to the spammers.
So
Get real. Sure, the published lists are used by spammers: the lazy ones, or the ones too cheap to afford the lists that spammers themselves publish. If the antispammers lists weren't published, the open relays would still be open and spammers would still use them.
I'd rather have an educated public than an ignorant one.
Used CDs are around $10 here (in Canada ... YMMV).
I will almost always scour a few used CD stores in my neighbourhood for a CD I want first. Only if I can't find it there will I check out HMV.
RIAA numbers don't include those sales, do they? And (based on the fact that new used-CD stores are popping up all over), I'm guessing that might be where more and more people are choosing to spend their discretionary income.
If I opened a bakery, and all I did was sell white bread, eventually I'm going to hit a saturation point. After that, I can't expect my sales to improve much year over year.
... you'd think I was nuts .
So I could either increase the price of my white bread, to compensate for the lack of additional sales. But that's a dangerous route to take, because for every price increase, I'm going to probably lose customers (either to another bakery, or to people who just decide to bake at home).
If I wanted the government to mandate that people can only buy white bread, or only from me, or that other bakeries pay me a $0.05 for every loaf they sell, or that consumers pay me a $10.00 levy when they purchase a new oven
The right choice would also expand my product line. and sell other types of bread. Of course, this too will reach a limit. But as long as I sell a variety of products, at reasonable prices, I should make enough money to cover my expenses and be happy.
Right?
This article really turned my crank. What a load of hogs-wallop. To wit:
... :)
... I dunno). His actions are not only irresponsible, they are just plain stupid.
... I skipped to the end and read:
... ISPs use it voluntarily. Hell, switch ISPs if you don't like the level of access they provide you with!
... Why are you wasting the courts' time?"
For one, the Danish antispam organization falsified an email header to gain access to my mail server. Illegal access to a computer system is, if not a criminal violation, then a trespass on my private property.
Except that he previously admitted to asking the antispam people to check his mail server. So it isn't trespass if you invite them in. Or it's entrapment on his part, right?
As I've discussed previously in this space, one of the novel legal theories now catching on for these kinds of unacceptable accesses to computer systems is a centuries-old tort called "trespass to chattels." At a minimum, I ought to be able to sue the Danish company for the damage it caused me from its illegal access.
Alternatively, you could secure your f'ing mail server properly.
But in spite of all that, I could probably get an injunction, or least a dollar or two to compensate me for my injuries and establish that I have been wronged.
Always the lawyer
Who knows whether the organization is a real legal entity or just some name cooked up by a group of self righteous individuals.
At some point along here I gave up reading. This guy is a whining, deluded, litiginous fuckwad. And a bit xenophobic (maybe he had a bad experience with a Danish girl once
Okay
It isn't difficult to imagine that the RIAA could pressure a sufficient number of ISPs into subscribing to this copyright blackhole list and blocking access to their users, or to any traffic emanating from them.
Except (you half-wit), the RIAA would likely use pressure. The anti-spam list doesn't force ISPs to use it
I hate spam as much as the next guy. If I found out my mail server was an open relay (which we did at one point), I sure as hell would spend my energies fixing the problem, rather than ranting about it and plotting a lawsuit.
I really hope that if he decides to take legal action, some judge with half a brain will say "You could've solved this yourself in half an hour
Sheesh.
I don't want all of the info that the Ontario Government has on it's citizens (like me and my family) being broadcast for anyone to see/save/use.
Don't worry Scott Kormick (SIN: 574-782-401). All of your personal information -- such as your annual salary of $45,490 as Assistant Manager of a Subway franchise, your 12 unpaid parking tickets, and your criminal record (shame on you for drinking in High Park) -- is secure within the governement's system.
In order to assure you, I stopped by your house at 312 College St. to let you know in person. I guess you were at the hospital having that nasty rash looked at (I hear it's hereditary).
Oh, and your cat Snickers is cute.
In Canada (and the US too, I think), you don't pay tax on the capital gains from selling your primary residence.
Gains on income property, you do.
It's all Flash animation, which means I can't run it through babelfish, but ...
http://www.sony.jp/products/Consumer/CSV/
Can someone who reads Japanese click on the "My Net Communication" and translate the text? Looks like it's programmable through the net (cool).
Also, what is this image all about? That's a weird looking GUI for a channel guide!
1) Get satellite and a Bell ExpressVu PVR. I've had mine for almost a year now, and am very happy with it's performance. I've barely touched my VCR since then!
2) Get a PC with a video capture/playback card (like ATI's All-In-Wonder Radeon), and some open source software and roll-yer-own PVR. You can get TV listings for Canada with the XMLTV project. The Linux VCR HOWTO will probably be helpful.
Oooh look! Someone copied the sales blurb from their website and submitted it as a "story".
/. to make some money: disguise advertising as information?
Or is this a subtle way for