So it's strange, I have completely mixed feelings about this. If Sony is using such borderline techniques to try and prevent people from downloading torrents of PII data pilfered from their servers such as SSNs, tax returns, W2s, celebrity phone numbers, etc, then I am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. This may be slightly over the line, but if it is to protect the data belonging to outside people, then I am inclined to view it more favorably.
If, on the other hand, this is about preventing the latest ZOMG HD SCREENER TORRENT of their most popular film from being shared one more time, I view such activities much less favorably.
There is probably not a legal distinction between protecting future profits and protecting the private data of one's employees, but it certainly makes me struggle with how to view this..
Remember back oh 12-13 years ago when drive manufactures did this? All drive warranties dropped from 5 years to 1 year. This went on for about a year, then got hit with a massive collusion suit. It drove Fujitsu right out of the market. I get the suspicion that this is the same thing, I do not think this has anything to do with debugging the lines, or anything else.
I really expect the same thing to happen, it smells and feels exactly the same.
Yes! This is not the first time this has happened. I don't believe it was a full 12-13 years ago, but this is absolutely not the first time we've seen this dance.
The warranties slowly crept back up as drive makers started marketing premium offerings and soon it became rare to see a one year warranty any where. I certainly hope this trend repeats itself, but I worry that the less competition at the moment might prevent that.
I cannot do that, because as United proves "economy plus" means 2 inches more leg room on a plane too old to have any in flight entertainment, worse than average food and flights that never take off on time.
It used to mean 5. I think they made up for it by shrinking the regular seats by 3 inches.
American Airlines: 31" seat pitch is standard US Airways: 30-32" seat pitch Virgin Atlantic: 31-32" seat pitch is standard (just to preempt the 'omg non-US airlines are better') Southwest: 32-33" seat pitch United: 31" standard, 34-36" for economy+. The vast majority of the mainline fleet is 36" pitch in E+, with the notable exception of the 747 which is 34".
Thus most of the time, you are in fact getting 4-5" extra legroom in Economy Plus, and no the 'Economy Minus' seats are no worse than other legacy (and international) carriers. Yes, if you go Southwest, you can get 1-2" over legacy carriers, but no where near the gain of Economy Plus. (Also note that Southwest ONLY has 17" wide seats -- about 50% of United's fleet is 18" wide seats).
3-5" extra inches of legroom combined with a company who will only pay for coach worldwide, is why this 6'4" traveler is usually on United. (Also note that Delta just announced they are copying this concept fleet-wide)
The truth is, I'm going to feed a retarded troll. Every state that has a carry permit requires you to take a class: "training". You're an idiot.
Would you care to cite any facts?
12 states permit unlicensed open carry of firearms as a _right_ of competant adults. An additional 16 states permit some unlicensed open carry, albeit with some restrictions. So in over half the states, no, training is not required to exercise this right, no more than training is required for freedom of expression.
Now, of course being familiar with and practicing with your firearm is a really good idea. But that familiarity and practice could come from any number of sources. Perhaps someone has been taught by a parent, friend or family member, is ex-military, etc. Just because being famliar with your firearm is a good idea doesn't mean the government should mandate X as a precondition for exercising such a right.
To the GP's point, modern handguns ARE rediculously simple, and they do more effectively level the playing field when dealing with an attacker.
What is especially curious is that this sort of praise for the police and military seems to come from the same people who keep telling us that the government can't ever do anything right. They don't seem to be aware that the police and military are pretty much all government employees, working from some of the biggest government bureaucracies that exist.
I respect those who voluneteer for our armed forces, follow our duly elected civilian leaders, and protect our country. Even if that means they are deployed in cases which they may not agree with, or even are unjust/unwarranted. I respect them because it takes courage to volunteer for dangerous, low pay jobs in support of your country. I respect them even if I disagree with the politicians who sent them to war.
I consider myself conservative/libertarian, and despite my respect for the milatary, and in some capacities law enforcement, I absolutely believe that neither group is above the law.
1. There is absolutely no circumstance that comes to mind where it should be illegal for a civilian to record his/her own interaction with the police. If the police question/talk/harass/interrogate me, and I have the ability to record it, it should absolutely be protected 100%. If you are a member of law enforcement, you simply have no right to privacy with respect to the people you are interacting with. Furthermore, if you are properly enforcing the law, you have nothing to fear!
2. It should additionally be absolutely protected for third parties to record police interactions, as long as it occurs in a public forum -- streets, parks, building lobbies, open resturants, etc. A law enforcement official enforcing the law in a public forum has no expectation of privacy whatsoever, period.
Unfortunately, I see no long term path that can take us effectively towards this goal. Our best hope is a number of hard-fought battles in a federal court.
$195/month is the sort a price that only a monopoly can get away with demanding. Too bad nobody bothers to enforce the Sherman Antitrust Act these days.
Take a look at the areas where FIOS competes with the cable companies. I live in such an area, and you will find that prices are down and features are up. Both Verizon and the cable companies try to one-up each other with internet speeds, tv packages and discounts.
While far from perfect competition, FIOS vs Cable really works out in the consumer's favor. In non-FIOS areas, the cable companies have far less of a motivation to compete.
she refused to go calmly through the metal detector, setting it off twice
Does she have some kind of mutant superpower where emotional distress causes her to manifest lumps of metal inside her body?
As for the rest of this, yeah, this shit is sick. Pat-downs were invasive even before, and now they've turned them into non-consensual erotic massages.
If you touch the side of the detector, it goes off, and you have to walk through again. I suspect this is what happened.
It's all just marketing speak anyway. It IS a higher-resolution display, but giving it a name like "retina" to a display is just the marketing guys trying to make you think that you won't notice any pixelation.
To be fair, think of the alternative. Apple could have simply branded the screen "HD", the moniker-du-jour for the past couple years, even though it has no relation to HDTV or any other standard whatsoever.
At least they were mildly creative, unlike HD Radio, iPad "HD" apps, HTC HD, etc.
My son was born with a thyroid problem, without the required state testing he probably wouldn't have been diagnosed until after he started having developmental issues. Because of the screening he was immediately put on Synthroid and leads a normal healthy life.
Let's be clear: Genetic testing is not the problem here -- on the contrary, I am sure there are many positive examples like yours where genetic testing has helped people. It's even okay for the government to mandate testing -- yes, there is a compelling public health interest.
The problem arises with the disclosure of the substance (dna itself) and results of this testing. The government has no claim to either beyond basic statistics of 'X cases of Y in Z area'. As a soon-to-be parent, I am outraged that the government will attempt to obtain personally identifiable DNA samples and testing results from my child without my consent or due process of law.
1) Defend the borders & provide for basic public saftey. 2) Deliver the mail 3) Build the roads 4) _Maybe_ provide public education 5) Collect enough tax renevue to do ONLY the above.
In any case, not to get distracted from the subject at hand, I refute that speeding, as defined by going faster than a posted limit, is needlessly endangering lives. Those limits are decided by engineers who have NOT decided on the best speed. They've applied some rules of thumb, some rules of law, and some rules of common sense to arrive at a nice round number that is more correct than not. However, with cameras you're no longer talking more or less. You're talking exactly, atomically, right or wrong.
You see, I could agree with your argument regarding the validity of speed limits if these limits were always decided by engineers. There are sound civil engineering practices which determine the ideal speed limit for a given road. If engineers need people to slow down, they change the design of the road. (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limit#85th_percentile_rule).
However, more often than not, the speed limits are set an arbitrary amount _below_ the ideal number. Multiple studies have shown that raising or lowering the speed limit by a significant amount on a given road does not affect the overall flow of traffic. Artificially low speed limits set by politicians simply criminilize the vast majority of the population and breed disrespect for the law.
Set the speed limits by sound engineering practices so that only the people who are truely going faster than a safe speed are in violation, and then come back to me and talk about stricter enforcement.
Hard work is penalized, and laziness will be rewarded.
For hard working citizens such as yourself this cloud has a silver lining!
Take the next 4 years off, don't work, drink beer all day. You'll be better off than if you had a job! That is, if you really believe what you just wrote.
So did you copy these talking points directly from the Obama web site, or did you venture out to moveon.org?
My goodness, if you are going to advocate for the guy, go for it, but you certainly aren't going to convince anyone by repeating Obama's tired campaign commercials.
I currently pay $55/mo for FIOS 30mb down 5mb up service in northern VA, and let me tell you, there is nothing consumer grade about it.
I was torrenting the latest release of CentOS the other day, and I maxed out the full 3.6mBYTES/s no problem. I've uploaded gigs of pictures in a single day, and downloaded as much as I feel like. Not only is it rock solid (with sub 30ms pings to google), but I havent seen any hints of traffic shaping or bandwidth capping.
If you call verizon you can have them switch your net connection from cable over to Cat5 coming off of the fiber box. You can then use your own router. If you google around you can find more information.
(If you also have FIOS tv then you need to keep the actiontech around, but it can be behind your other router)
Does anybody know if Virginia Tech has a policy against firearms on campus? If so, I hope people stop and ask: could one student, armed with a handgun, have prevented the death toll from climbing as high as it did? Virginia Tech does have a policy against firearms on campus. The Virginia Attorney General a couple years ago clarified that the administration of Virginia Universities has a right to prevent students from having weapons on campus but not citizens attending a public event or in public spaces. (As virginia is for the most part an open-carry state)
Since Circuit City has the software and tools to do the copy and would presumably not be handing them out to customers the standard "providing tools to circumvent copyright" issue wouldn't apply. Since backups for play on another device are fair use and legal I don't see the issue.
This is an interesting point. Does the DMCA specifically disallow the sale or distribution of tools that provide for a circumvention, or does it disallow the circumvention itself? If it is the former, then Circuit City is just providing a service that enables the fair use rights of the consumer.
Now, if the act of circumvention itself is illegal, then CC is up a creek without a legal paddle.
I wish I had the points to mod the parent up -- this is the first reasonably insightful comment in this thread as it did not contain complaints about commercials or complaints about complaints about commercials.
Running Linux on one of these things is simply INSANE.
I have been through a lot of chip transitions over the years and been impressed with the leaps each new generation has made.
But Cell is something entirely different. It is such a HUGE leap in performance beyond x86 systems that to go back to using a x86 machine is unthinkable now for me. I almost feel drunk from the power I have at my hands...
Read up all the Cell info you can at IBM's site and read the various patents IBM, Toshiba, and Sony have out there. And find some way to get your hands on one of these...
I can now see why the PS3 stuff we are seeing is so amazing...
Sure, the cell is amazing, IF you are doing the right things. You say that you simply want to leave the old x86 architecture behind but the truth of the matter is that the two do not even begin to compare.
It is not simply a matter of saying "OMG my cell has 8 cores at 4ghz". The main Power Processing Element is crippled at best for simple single threaded applications -- roughly equivalent to a PowerPC of the G3 era, but specifically in-order execution. The SPEs (the other 8 cores) are essentially mini vector computers. They can perform a massive amount of floating point calculations in parrallel, however they do not enjoy an inante ability to deal well with all sorts of code as a standard x86 cpu could.
The cell designers have comptley sacrificed instruction level parrallelism in exchange for thread level parrallelism. It is certainly a valid and interesting way to achieve speed, but not for single threaded applications. -- Don't throw out your x86 just yet.
I've been playing Civ4 as I am sure a lot of geeks have been of late and I noticed the icon of "The Internet" world wonder was a picture of Al Gore. I guess Sid Meiers is not without a sense of humor
Okay, so it's a bug. This does not mean that it is acceptible for TIVO to release software to its users, especially software which is forcibly updated which would cause this sort of bug. If TIVO cannot be reasonably sure that it's system will not misintepret noise as a broadcast flag, then it should not release the software
Due to the distributed and international nature of the Internet, it just isnt possible for governments to take action against the publicly accessible al-qaeda sites. My question is this: why haven't US and UK based hackers taken action against these sites? It certainly seems like a slightly more productive use of time and energy than writing viruses.
I am currently listening to the iPod mini i got from the freeipods site. I signed up in late july for one of the AOL offers. The link spent a couple weeks in my AIM profile and I had the five referrals by early august. My order was confirmed on Aug 11 and I had it in my hand by mid October (due to the ipod mini shortages). I canceled the AOL for broadband in a 5min phone call. To date I have not recieved any phone or snail mail spam directly related, and it was a throwaway email address.
Will it work for absolutely everyone?
-No
Will everyone who signs up get a free ipod?
-Probably not
Did I get a free ipod for less than an hours worth of work?
-Yup
Its not a scam. They make money AND give out "free" ipods.
I've been using an Empeg (rio car) for about a year now, and they truely are incredible machines considering they were produced 5 years ago. Not many people cruise around with two 12gb drives and a 220mhz strongARM linux box in their cars:-).
I mean can YOU telnet into your stereo system? Seriously though, I look forward to see what new things they come out with as it is sorta hard to explain to passengers that no, they can't buy one of these anymore.
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So it's strange, I have completely mixed feelings about this. If Sony is using such borderline techniques to try and prevent people from downloading torrents of PII data pilfered from their servers such as SSNs, tax returns, W2s, celebrity phone numbers, etc, then I am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. This may be slightly over the line, but if it is to protect the data belonging to outside people, then I am inclined to view it more favorably.
If, on the other hand, this is about preventing the latest ZOMG HD SCREENER TORRENT of their most popular film from being shared one more time, I view such activities much less favorably.
There is probably not a legal distinction between protecting future profits and protecting the private data of one's employees, but it certainly makes me struggle with how to view this..
Remember back oh 12-13 years ago when drive manufactures did this? All drive warranties dropped from 5 years to 1 year. This went on for about a year, then got hit with a massive collusion suit. It drove Fujitsu right out of the market. I get the suspicion that this is the same thing, I do not think this has anything to do with debugging the lines, or anything else.
I really expect the same thing to happen, it smells and feels exactly the same.
Yes! This is not the first time this has happened. I don't believe it was a full 12-13 years ago, but this is absolutely not the first time we've seen this dance.
The warranties slowly crept back up as drive makers started marketing premium offerings and soon it became rare to see a one year warranty any where. I certainly hope this trend repeats itself, but I worry that the less competition at the moment might prevent that.
I cannot do that, because as United proves "economy plus" means 2 inches more leg room on a plane too old to have any in flight entertainment, worse than average food and flights that never take off on time.
It used to mean 5. I think they made up for it by shrinking the regular seats by 3 inches.
From http://www.seatguru.com/ :
American Airlines: 31" seat pitch is standard
US Airways: 30-32" seat pitch
Virgin Atlantic: 31-32" seat pitch is standard (just to preempt the 'omg non-US airlines are better')
Southwest: 32-33" seat pitch
United: 31" standard, 34-36" for economy+. The vast majority of the mainline fleet is 36" pitch in E+, with the notable exception of the 747 which is 34".
Thus most of the time, you are in fact getting 4-5" extra legroom in Economy Plus, and no the 'Economy Minus' seats are no worse than other legacy (and international) carriers. Yes, if you go Southwest, you can get 1-2" over legacy carriers, but no where near the gain of Economy Plus. (Also note that Southwest ONLY has 17" wide seats -- about 50% of United's fleet is 18" wide seats).
3-5" extra inches of legroom combined with a company who will only pay for coach worldwide, is why this 6'4" traveler is usually on United. (Also note that Delta just announced they are copying this concept fleet-wide)
Your patents are weak old man. When I left you, I was but the licensee, now _I_ am the patent troll!
The truth is, I'm going to feed a retarded troll. Every state that has a carry permit requires you to take a class: "training". You're an idiot.
Would you care to cite any facts?
12 states permit unlicensed open carry of firearms as a _right_ of competant adults. An additional 16 states permit some unlicensed open carry, albeit with some restrictions. So in over half the states, no, training is not required to exercise this right, no more than training is required for freedom of expression.
See: http://opencarry.org/opencarry.html
Now, of course being familiar with and practicing with your firearm is a really good idea. But that familiarity and practice could come from any number of sources. Perhaps someone has been taught by a parent, friend or family member, is ex-military, etc. Just because being famliar with your firearm is a good idea doesn't mean the government should mandate X as a precondition for exercising such a right.
To the GP's point, modern handguns ARE rediculously simple, and they do more effectively level the playing field when dealing with an attacker.
What is especially curious is that this sort of praise for the police and military seems to come from the same people who keep telling us that the government can't ever do anything right. They don't seem to be aware that the police and military are pretty much all government employees, working from some of the biggest government bureaucracies that exist.
I respect those who voluneteer for our armed forces, follow our duly elected civilian leaders, and protect our country. Even if that means they are deployed in cases which they may not agree with, or even are unjust/unwarranted. I respect them because it takes courage to volunteer for dangerous, low pay jobs in support of your country. I respect them even if I disagree with the politicians who sent them to war.
I consider myself conservative/libertarian, and despite my respect for the milatary, and in some capacities law enforcement, I absolutely believe that neither group is above the law.
1. There is absolutely no circumstance that comes to mind where it should be illegal for a civilian to record his/her own interaction with the police. If the police question/talk/harass/interrogate me, and I have the ability to record it, it should absolutely be protected 100%. If you are a member of law enforcement, you simply have no right to privacy with respect to the people you are interacting with. Furthermore, if you are properly enforcing the law, you have nothing to fear!
2. It should additionally be absolutely protected for third parties to record police interactions, as long as it occurs in a public forum -- streets, parks, building lobbies, open resturants, etc. A law enforcement official enforcing the law in a public forum has no expectation of privacy whatsoever, period.
Unfortunately, I see no long term path that can take us effectively towards this goal. Our best hope is a number of hard-fought battles in a federal court.
$195/month is the sort a price that only a monopoly can get away with demanding. Too bad nobody bothers to enforce the Sherman Antitrust Act these days.
Take a look at the areas where FIOS competes with the cable companies. I live in such an area, and you will find that prices are down and features are up. Both Verizon and the cable companies try to one-up each other with internet speeds, tv packages and discounts.
While far from perfect competition, FIOS vs Cable really works out in the consumer's favor. In non-FIOS areas, the cable companies have far less of a motivation to compete.
Does she have some kind of mutant superpower where emotional distress causes her to manifest lumps of metal inside her body?
As for the rest of this, yeah, this shit is sick. Pat-downs were invasive even before, and now they've turned them into non-consensual erotic massages.
If you touch the side of the detector, it goes off, and you have to walk through again. I suspect this is what happened.
It's all just marketing speak anyway. It IS a higher-resolution display, but giving it a name like "retina" to a display is just the marketing guys trying to make you think that you won't notice any pixelation.
To be fair, think of the alternative. Apple could have simply branded the screen "HD", the moniker-du-jour for the past couple years, even though it has no relation to HDTV or any other standard whatsoever.
At least they were mildly creative, unlike HD Radio, iPad "HD" apps, HTC HD, etc.
My son was born with a thyroid problem, without the required state testing he probably wouldn't have been diagnosed until after he started having developmental issues. Because of the screening he was immediately put on Synthroid and leads a normal healthy life.
Let's be clear: Genetic testing is not the problem here -- on the contrary, I am sure there are many positive examples like yours where genetic testing has helped people. It's even okay for the government to mandate testing -- yes, there is a compelling public health interest.
The problem arises with the disclosure of the substance (dna itself) and results of this testing. The government has no claim to either beyond basic statistics of 'X cases of Y in Z area'. As a soon-to-be parent, I am outraged that the government will attempt to obtain personally identifiable DNA samples and testing results from my child without my consent or due process of law.
Uhm, what do you think governments are for then?
1) Defend the borders & provide for basic public saftey.
2) Deliver the mail
3) Build the roads
4) _Maybe_ provide public education
5) Collect enough tax renevue to do ONLY the above.
And thats it.
In any case, not to get distracted from the subject at hand, I refute that speeding, as defined by going faster than a posted limit, is needlessly endangering lives. Those limits are decided by engineers who have NOT decided on the best speed. They've applied some rules of thumb, some rules of law, and some rules of common sense to arrive at a nice round number that is more correct than not. However, with cameras you're no longer talking more or less. You're talking exactly, atomically, right or wrong.
You see, I could agree with your argument regarding the validity of speed limits if these limits were always decided by engineers. There are sound civil engineering practices which determine the ideal speed limit for a given road. If engineers need people to slow down, they change the design of the road. (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limit#85th_percentile_rule).
However, more often than not, the speed limits are set an arbitrary amount _below_ the ideal number. Multiple studies have shown that raising or lowering the speed limit by a significant amount on a given road does not affect the overall flow of traffic. Artificially low speed limits set by politicians simply criminilize the vast majority of the population and breed disrespect for the law.
Set the speed limits by sound engineering practices so that only the people who are truely going faster than a safe speed are in violation, and then come back to me and talk about stricter enforcement.
Hard work is penalized, and laziness will be rewarded.
For hard working citizens such as yourself this cloud has a silver lining!
Take the next 4 years off, don't work, drink beer all day. You'll be better off than if you had a job! That is, if you really believe what you just wrote.
Regarding such things, this video shows my favorite Obama supporter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36x8rTb3jI
It just boggles the mind.
So did you copy these talking points directly from the Obama web site, or did you venture out to moveon.org?
My goodness, if you are going to advocate for the guy, go for it, but you certainly aren't going to convince anyone by repeating Obama's tired campaign commercials.
I currently pay $55/mo for FIOS 30mb down 5mb up service in northern VA, and let me tell you, there is nothing consumer grade about it.
I was torrenting the latest release of CentOS the other day, and I maxed out the full 3.6mBYTES/s no problem. I've uploaded gigs of pictures in a single day, and downloaded as much as I feel like. Not only is it rock solid (with sub 30ms pings to google), but I havent seen any hints of traffic shaping or bandwidth capping.
If you call verizon you can have them switch your net connection from cable over to Cat5 coming off of the fiber box. You can then use your own router. If you google around you can find more information.
(If you also have FIOS tv then you need to keep the actiontech around, but it can be behind your other router)
This is an interesting point. Does the DMCA specifically disallow the sale or distribution of tools that provide for a circumvention, or does it disallow the circumvention itself? If it is the former, then Circuit City is just providing a service that enables the fair use rights of the consumer.
Now, if the act of circumvention itself is illegal, then CC is up a creek without a legal paddle.
I wish I had the points to mod the parent up -- this is the first reasonably insightful comment in this thread as it did not contain complaints about commercials or complaints about complaints about commercials.
Running Linux on one of these things is simply INSANE.
I have been through a lot of chip transitions over the years and been impressed with the leaps each new generation has made.
But Cell is something entirely different. It is such a HUGE leap in performance beyond x86 systems that to go back to using a x86 machine is unthinkable now for me. I almost feel drunk from the power I have at my hands...
Read up all the Cell info you can at IBM's site and read the various patents IBM, Toshiba, and Sony have out there. And find some way to get your hands on one of these...
I can now see why the PS3 stuff we are seeing is so amazing...
Sure, the cell is amazing, IF you are doing the right things. You say that you simply want to leave the old x86 architecture behind but the truth of the matter is that the two do not even begin to compare.
It is not simply a matter of saying "OMG my cell has 8 cores at 4ghz". The main Power Processing Element is crippled at best for simple single threaded applications -- roughly equivalent to a PowerPC of the G3 era, but specifically in-order execution. The SPEs (the other 8 cores) are essentially mini vector computers. They can perform a massive amount of floating point calculations in parrallel, however they do not enjoy an inante ability to deal well with all sorts of code as a standard x86 cpu could.
The cell designers have comptley sacrificed instruction level parrallelism in exchange for thread level parrallelism. It is certainly a valid and interesting way to achieve speed, but not for single threaded applications. -- Don't throw out your x86 just yet.
I've been playing Civ4 as I am sure a lot of geeks have been of late and I noticed the icon of "The Internet" world wonder was a picture of Al Gore. I guess Sid Meiers is not without a sense of humor
This is a bug on behalf of the Tivo software...
See
http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2005/09/
Okay, so it's a bug. This does not mean that it is acceptible for TIVO to release software to its users, especially software which is forcibly updated which would cause this sort of bug. If TIVO cannot be reasonably sure that it's system will not misintepret noise as a broadcast flag, then it should not release the software
Due to the distributed and international nature of the Internet, it just isnt possible for governments to take action against the publicly accessible al-qaeda sites. My question is this: why haven't US and UK based hackers taken action against these sites? It certainly seems like a slightly more productive use of time and energy than writing viruses.
I am currently listening to the iPod mini i got from the freeipods site. I signed up in late july for one of the AOL offers. The link spent a couple weeks in my AIM profile and I had the five referrals by early august. My order was confirmed on Aug 11 and I had it in my hand by mid October (due to the ipod mini shortages). I canceled the AOL for broadband in a 5min phone call. To date I have not recieved any phone or snail mail spam directly related, and it was a throwaway email address.
Will it work for absolutely everyone?
-No
Will everyone who signs up get a free ipod?
-Probably not
Did I get a free ipod for less than an hours worth of work?
-Yup
Its not a scam. They make money AND give out "free" ipods.
I've been using an Empeg (rio car) for about a year now, and they truely are incredible machines considering they were produced 5 years ago. Not many people cruise around with two 12gb drives and a 220mhz strongARM linux box in their cars :-).
I mean can YOU telnet into your stereo system? Seriously though, I look forward to see what new things they come out with as it is sorta hard to explain to passengers that no, they can't buy one of these anymore.