Thats one of those marketing tricks, where the purpose of the whole excercise is to get denied and get in the papers.
Dear ACCLAIM: Due to your recent marketing on the site of the dead you have lost market share with the living. I will not purchase another product from your company again.
BTW, I really sent this, it will be interesting if the reply
Tools: If you have a little cash that Rotozip tool is great for doing plexiglass stuff and includes an attachment to cut perfect hole (for fans)
Heat and Discoloration: You don't want your case to look like the back window of an old rag top convertable, either vent well or choose a grade of plastic that kind stand higher temps for the MB Backing. Also a big fan with the lights attached to the fins will look cool
Safety: EYES, Lungs, and Skin when ever your cutting plastics or metal with power tools wear a heavy long sleeve shirt, working gloves, eye protection to avoid spinters. (a plastic spinter in your eyes is bad news) Also if you use a power sander or rotory tool wear a dust mask.
Look Here Amazing that a google search for marine computers brings up all the info you need without some smart ass/.'ers to tell use a F**king Search engine in the first place. Sigh... I getting too old for this..
Re:Actually. CompUSA (in Dallas) is pretty good
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I'm not sure what the scope of this program is, but where it's in place, it rocks!
I haven't been for awhile but the store in downtown San Francisco (Union Square) has a similar setup. You would not be able to come close to getting away this this stunt though. Before you enter you must check you bag and electronic recording equipment. And the store is setup with a *kill* zone to stop any potential shoplifiting or buglary. The side effect of this is noticably lower prices for stuff, even cables.
Since you were modded down for that Reply...
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Yeah, he really deprived them of income by "stealing" those 1s and 0s.
In the eyes of law, the intent of that young man was to steal property (office XP) of the owner (CompUSA). And By leaving the store with property he had not paid for (shoplifting and grand theft). I am not even getting into the DMCA, this is common law. If you walk out of a retail establishment with services/property/etc without paying, you are a thief. period.
Now, what would be interesting is if the young man had asked permission to copy OfficeXP on to his iPOD (which you could probably sweet talk a CompUSA employee into letting you do) and then CompUSA would be up shit creek with MS for breaking the A)Liceneces and Retail Distribution agreements and B) the DMCA.
Back in the Day..
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About 10 years ago I used to hang out in the mac lab at a local university while my Mom went to classes. I used to have a 2GB external HD the pluged in to the wall and used a huge scsi cable to hook up to the back of the Mac. I had copies of everything and they (computer lab guys) watched me do it, and said nothing. Times have changed (a little)and I became an adult. Yes you can get in a significant amount of trouble *if your caught*. It is very easy to steal anything regardless of how you physically do it, thats why we laws that say if your *caught* you will be punished. If you are over 18 and you pulled this stunt, *I* would have no problem reporting you as a shoplifter. this kid is the reason/excuse we have for crappy laws like the DMCA. IMHO if your moral standards are such that you *know* your stealing from someone and say its ok because they didn't lock it up good enough, then your sliding down a very slippery slope. (but I'll still visit you in jail when you get caught)
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The brain's automatic pilot
Sandra Blakeslee The New York Times Thursday, February 21, 2002 NEW YORK Compulsive gambling, attendance at sporting events, vulnerability to telephone scams and exuberant investing in the stock market may not seem to have much in common. But neuroscientists have uncovered a common thread. . Such behaviors, they say, rely on brain circuits that evolved to help animals assess rewards important to their survival, like food and sex. Researchers have found that those same circuits are used by the human brain to assess social rewards as diverse as investment income and surprise home runs at the bottom of the ninth. . They found that the brain systems that detect and evaluate such rewards generally operate outside conscious awareness. In navigating the world and deciding what is rewarding, humans are often closer to zombies than sentient beings. . The findings, which are gaining wide adherence among neuroscientists, challenge the notion that people always make conscious choices about what they want and how to obtain it. In fact, the neuroscientists say, much of what happens in the brain goes on outside conscious awareness. . The idea has been around since Freud, said Gregory Berns, a psychiatrist at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. Psychologists have studied unconscious processing of information in terms of subliminal effects, memory and learning, he said, and they have started to map what parts of the brain are involved in such processing. But only now are they learning how these different circuits interact, he said. . "My hunch is that most decisions are made subconsciously with many gradations of awareness," Berns said. . P. Read Montague, a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, says that the idea that people can get themselves to work on automatic pilot raises two questions: How does the brain know what it must pay conscious attention to? And how did evolution create a brain that could make such distinctions? . The answer emerging from experiments on animals and people is that the brain has evolved to shape itself, starting in infancy, according to what it encounters in the external world. . As Montague explained it, much of the world is predictable: Buildings usually stay in one place, gravity makes objects fall, light at an oblique angle makes long shadows, and so forth. As children grow, their brains build internal models of everything they encounter, gradually learning to identify objects and to predict how they move. . As new information flows into it from the outside world, the brain automatically compares it with what it already knows. If things match up - as when people drive to work every day along the same route - events, objects and the passage of time may not reach conscious awareness. . But if there is a surprise - a car suddenly runs a red light - the mismatch between what is expected and what is happening instantly shifts the brain into a new state. A brain circuit involved in decision-making is activated, again out of conscious awareness. Drawing on past experience held in memory banks, a decision is made: Hit the brake, swerve the wheel or keep going. Only a second or so later, after hands and feet have initiated the chosen action, does the sense of having made a decision arise. Montague estimates that 90 percent of what people do every day is carried out by this kind of automatic, unconscious system that evolved to help creatures survive. . Animals use these circuits to know what to attend to, what to ignore and what is worth learning about. People use them for the same purposes, which as a result of their bigger brains and culture include listening to music, eating chocolate, assessing beauty, gambling, investing in stocks and experimenting with drugs - all topics that have been studied this past year with brain-imaging machines that directly measure the activity of human brain circuits. . The circuits that have been studied most extensively involve how animals and people assess rewards. They involve a chemical called dopamine. One circuit, which is in a middle region of the brain, helps animals and people instantly assess rewards or lack of rewards. . The circuit was described in greater detail several years ago by Wolfram Schultz, a neuroscientist at Cambridge University in England, who tracked dopamine production in a monkey's midbrain and experimented with various types of rewards, usually squirts of apple juice that the animal liked. . Schultz found that when the monkey got more juice than it expected, dopamine neurons fired vigorously. When the monkey got an amount of juice that it expected, based on previous squirts, dopamine neurons did nothing. And when the monkey expected to get juice but got none, the dopamine neurons decreased their firing rate, as if to signal a lack of reward. . Scientists believe that this midbrain dopamine system is constantly making predictions about what to expect in terms of rewards. Learning takes place only when something unexpected happens and dopamine firing rates increase or decrease. When nothing unexpected happens, as when the same amount of delicious apple juice keeps coming, the dopamine system is quiet. In animals, Montague said, these midbrain dopamine signals are sent directly to brain areas that initiate movements and behavior. These brain areas figure out how to get more apple juice or sit back and do nothing. In humans, though, the dopamine signal is also sent to a higher brain region called the frontal cortex for more elaborate processing.
Back to Start of Article NEW YORK Compulsive gambling, attendance at sporting events, vulnerability to telephone scams and exuberant investing in the stock market may not seem to have much in common. But neuroscientists have uncovered a common thread. . Such behaviors, they say, rely on brain circuits that evolved to help animals assess rewards important to their survival, like food and sex. Researchers have found that those same circuits are used by the human brain to assess social rewards as diverse as investment income and surprise home runs at the bottom of the ninth. . They found that the brain systems that detect and evaluate such rewards generally operate outside conscious awareness. In navigating the world and deciding what is rewarding, humans are often closer to zombies than sentient beings. . The findings, which are gaining wide adherence among neuroscientists, challenge the notion that people always make conscious choices about what they want and how to obtain it. In fact, the neuroscientists say, much of what happens in the brain goes on outside conscious awareness. . The idea has been around since Freud, said Gregory Berns, a psychiatrist at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. Psychologists have studied unconscious processing of information in terms of subliminal effects, memory and learning, he said, and they have started to map what parts of the brain are involved in such processing. But only now are they learning how these different circuits interact, he said. . "My hunch is that most decisions are made subconsciously with many gradations of awareness," Berns said. . P. Read Montague, a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, says that the idea that people can get themselves to work on automatic pilot raises two questions: How does the brain know what it must pay conscious attention to? And how did evolution create a brain that could make such distinctions? . The answer emerging from experiments on animals and people is that the brain has evolved to shape itself, starting in infancy, according to what it encounters in the external world. . As Montague explained it, much of the world is predictable: Buildings usually stay in one place, gravity makes objects fall, light at an oblique angle makes long shadows, and so forth. As children grow, their brains build internal models of everything they encounter, gradually learning to identify objects and to predict how they move. . As new information flows into it from the outside world, the brain automatically compares it with what it already knows. If things match up - as when people drive to work every day along the same route - events, objects and the passage of time may not reach conscious awareness. . But if there is a surprise - a car suddenly runs a red light - the mismatch between what is expected and what is happening instantly shifts the brain into a new state. A brain circuit involved in decision-making is activated, again out of conscious awareness. Drawing on past experience held in memory banks, a decision is made: Hit the brake, swerve the wheel or keep going. Only a second or so later, after hands and feet have initiated the chosen action, does the sense of having made a decision arise. Montague estimates that 90 percent of what people do every day is carried out by this kind of automatic, unconscious system that evolved to help creatures survive. . Animals use these circuits to know what to attend to, what to ignore and what is worth learning about. People use them for the same purposes, which as a result of their bigger brains and culture include listening to music, eating chocolate, assessing beauty, gambling, investing in stocks and experimenting with drugs - all topics that have been studied this past year with brain-imaging machines that directly measure the activity of human brain circuits. . The circuits that have been studied most extensively involve how animals and people assess rewards. They involve a chemical called dopamine. One circuit, which is in a middle region of the brain, helps animals and people instantly assess rewards or lack of rewards. . The circuit was described in greater detail several years ago by Wolfram Schultz, a neuroscientist at Cambridge University in England, who tracked dopamine production in a monkey's midbrain and experimented with various types of rewards, usually squirts of apple juice that the animal liked. . Schultz found that when the monkey got more juice than it expected, dopamine neurons fired vigorously. When the monkey got an amount of juice that it expected, based on previous squirts, dopamine neurons did nothing. And when the monkey expected to get juice but got none, the dopamine neurons decreased their firing rate, as if to signal a lack of reward. . Scientists believe that this midbrain dopamine system is constantly making predictions about what to expect in terms of rewards. Learning takes place only when something unexpected happens and dopamine firing rates increase or decrease. When nothing unexpected happens, as when the same amount of delicious apple juice keeps coming, the dopamine system is quiet. In animals, Montague said, these midbrain dopamine signals are sent directly to brain areas that initiate movements and behavior. These brain areas figure out how to get more apple juice or sit back and do nothing. In humans, though, the dopamine signal is also sent to a higher brain region called the frontal cortex for more elaborate processing. NEW YORK Compulsive gambling, attendance at sporting events, vulnerability to telephone scams and exuberant investing in the stock market may not seem to have much in common. But neuroscientists have uncovered a common thread. . Such behaviors, they say, rely on brain circuits that evolved to help animals assess rewards important to their survival, like food and sex. Researchers have found that those same circuits are used by the human brain to assess social rewards as diverse as investment income and surprise home runs at the bottom of the ninth. . They found that the brain systems that detect and evaluate such rewards generally operate outside conscious awareness. In navigating the world and deciding what is rewarding, humans are often closer to zombies than sentient beings. . The findings, which are gaining wide adherence among neuroscientists, challenge the notion that people always make conscious choices about what they want and how to obtain it. In fact, the neuroscientists say, much of what happens in the brain goes on outside conscious awareness. . The idea has been around since Freud, said Gregory Berns, a psychiatrist at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. Psychologists have studied unconscious processing of information in terms of subliminal effects, memory and learning, he said, and they have started to map what parts of the brain are involved in such processing. But only now are they learning how these different circuits interact, he said. . "My hunch is that most decisions are made subconsciously with many gradations of awareness," Berns said. . P. Read Montague, a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, says that the idea that people can get themselves to work on automatic pilot raises two questions: How does the brain know what it must pay conscious attention to? And how did evolution create a brain that could make such distinctions? . The answer emerging from experiments on animals and people is that the brain has evolved to shape itself, starting in infancy, according to what it encounters in the external world. . As Montague explained it, much of the world is predictable: Buildings usually stay in one place, gravity makes objects fall, light at an oblique angle makes long shadows, and so forth. As children grow, their brains build internal models of everything they encounter, gradually learning to identify objects and to predict how they move. . As new information flows into it from the outside world, the brain automatically compares it with what it already knows. If things match up - as when people drive to work every day along the same route - events, objects and the passage of time may not reach conscious awareness. . But if there is a surprise - a car suddenly runs a red light - the mismatch between what is expected and what is happening instantly shifts the brain into a new state. A brain circuit involved in decision-making is activated, again out of conscious awareness. Drawing on past experience held in memory banks, a decision is made: Hit the brake, swerve the wheel or keep going. Only a second or so later, after hands and feet have initiated the chosen action, does the sense of having made a decision arise. Montague estimates that 90 percent of what people do every day is carried out by this kind of automatic, unconscious system that evolved to help creatures survive. . Animals use these circuits to know what to attend to, what to ignore and what is worth learning about. People use them for the same purposes, which as a result of their bigger brains and culture include listening to music, eating chocolate, assessing beauty, gambling, investing in stocks and experimenting with drugs - all topics that have been studied this past year with brain-imaging machines that directly measure the activity of human brain circuits. . The circuits that have been studied most extensively involve how animals and people assess rewards. They involve a chemical called dopamine. One circuit, which is in a middle region of the brain, helps animals and people instantly assess rewards or lack of rewards. . The circuit was described in greater detail several years ago by Wolfram Schultz, a neuroscientist at Cambridge University in England, who tracked dopamine production in a monkey's midbrain and experimented with various types of rewards, usually squirts of apple juice that the animal liked. . Schultz found that when the monkey got more juice than it expected, dopamine neurons fired vigorously. When the monkey got an amount of juice that it expected, based on previous squirts, dopamine neurons did nothing. And when the monkey expected to get juice but got none, the dopamine neurons decreased their firing rate, as if to signal a lack of reward. . Scientists believe that this midbrain dopamine system is constantly making predictions about what to expect in terms of rewards. Learning takes place only when something unexpected happens and dopamine firing rates increase or decrease. When nothing unexpected happens, as when the same amount of delicious apple juice keeps coming, the dopamine system is quiet. In animals, Montague said, these midbrain dopamine signals are sent directly to brain areas that initiate movements and behavior. These brain areas figure out how to get more apple juice or sit back and do nothing. In humans, though, the dopamine signal is also sent to a higher brain region called the frontal cortex for more elaborate processing. NEW YORK Compulsive gambling, attendance at sporting events, vulnerability to telephone scams and exuberant investing in the stock market may not seem to have much in common. But neuroscientists have uncovered a common thread. . Such behaviors, they say, rely on brain circuits that evolved to help animals assess rewards important to their survival, like food and sex. Researchers have found that those same circuits are used by the human brain to assess social rewards as diverse as investment income and surprise home runs at the bottom of the ninth. . They found that the brain systems that detect and evaluate such rewards generally operate outside conscious awareness. In navigating the world and deciding what is rewarding, humans are often closer to zombies than sentient beings. . The findings, which are gaining wide adherence among neuroscientists, challenge the notion that people always make conscious choices about what they want and how to obtain it. In fact, the neuroscientists say, much of what happens in the brain goes on outside conscious awareness. . The idea has been around since Freud, said Gregory Berns, a psychiatrist at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. Psychologists have studied unconscious processing of information in terms of subliminal effects, memory and learning, he said, and they have started to map what parts of the brain are involved in such processing. But only now are they learning how these different circuits interact, he said. . "My hunch is that most decisions are made subconsciously with many gradations of awareness," Berns said. . P. Read Montague, a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, says that the idea that people can get themselves to work on automatic pilot raises two questions: How does the brain know what it must pay conscious attention to? And how did evolution create a brain that could make such distinctions? . The answer emerging from experiments on animals and people is that the brain has evolved to shape itself, starting in infancy, according to what it encounters in the external world. . As Montague explained it, much of the world is predictable: Buildings usually stay in one place, gravity makes objects
After seeing that last article, I guess todays flavor of the day is SPAM. I hate getting SPAM too But it seems the editors are SPAMMING the Slashdot Readers with SPAM articles and anti-SPAMMING. How about a good old fashion PEEZ story or something that doesn't invole lawyers. I getting tired of reading about the fscking lawyers..lawyers and SPAM. And don't forget.NET man I hate.NET ads on/. Why can't we talk about getting good jobs, hacking the latest gadget or trying installing Linux on GameBoy, when was the last time we talked about one of those extremly overfunctioned graphing caculators (I still love my TI-92). Chirst you think this was CNET or YAHOO for crying out loud. I AM GEEK and I'M MAD AS HELL!
My uncle (he wrote WordStar) learned a very expensive lesson in the 80's when he did a similar R&D disclosure. The Companies (MS, Lotus, Corel) copied the work and later released their 'own' products and stiffed my uncle on roytalies. After years of court battles the cases we're lost. What you can do today is patent protect your core technology. Patents infrigment cases are defended by the US patent Office process rather than your States Licence agreement/contract laws.
Yeah, we'll download it from Morpheus instead *sigh* No Don't do that either! I have boycotted the MPAA, Adobe and MS buy not giving them any of my money. To fight the DMCA: 1) Write your Representative and tell them how you feel about the DMCA. By law they are required to respond to all letters. 2) Don't purchase products from DCMA supporters 3) Tell DMCA supports that you will no longer buy their product because...
If you read this and think its too much trouble...fine I won't flame, but you should know that our Gov't laws are made by your representitives in congress and the senate, not by Corporations. Your congressman is a whore who values two things money and apporvel ratings. If you are a provider of either they will listen.
Interesting, I thought they we're there to make sure minors weren't buying beer and tobacco. Checks are a different story, you can now have the cashier print the amount on your check, all you do is sign. But I agreee, there still needs to be a way to match the person with the id/credit card/check via visual or password verification.
Sir, we've made contact with itelligent life...The radio telescope is picking up all sorts of information...Wait a sec, that college kid is bouncing a wireless lan connection of our dish to an access point in China! Damn you Boy.
I remeber reading something about the radio free "Dark Areas" in the US are almost extinct. This is important to those Radio Telescope operators and the super senstive listening device the gov't uses. If you are thinking of experimenting with your wireless equipment be aware of the FCC regulations about interfernce and protected feq. Ingorance of these laws and regulations is not a defence when you get fined thousands of dollars for screwing up local broadcast signals for emergency vechicles. Just don't your know neighbors your responsiable for the weird static they get on cordless phones.
Um Polar Bear don't eat Penguins...Why..Because Peguins live in the southern hemisphere, Polar Bears live in the Northern. Thus making it quite impossiable for a predator/prey relationship.
That's the best part of going to Expos, the Booth Babes!
That my friend was CES in Las Vegas. But like ALL trade shows/expos/conferneces their will be two things slimy sales guys and keynote speakers. Sales and Marketing folks must get some high off spending gobs of money for the oppurtunity to spew sales pitches at complete strangers for hours on end. The only thing I get out of the shows is the ability to get face time with the engineers/programmers to discuss the tech and find out where they hangout online, before the sales guys stuffs a phone book size amount of marketing crap into my arms.
I was a little disappointed in the selection of the the JVM's they selected for their example. Especially now that PDAs/CellPhones are now powerful enough to run real applications on the client. I have yet to see a StrongArm device ship with the Sun, IBM, or KaffeJVM, why, because they are slow. The JVMs listed in the subject line run 10-200x faster on devices. Soon we will see EJB and other J2EE compents on PDAs. As a developer of client java applications/applets I would never distribute a device specific application, it would be a nightmare to have 160 diiferent compiled versions of the same application. The good JVMs already have done that, and my code I compiled years ago works on the newest PDAs...So there
They article mentioned that these would be used in oceans near industrial areas, not your local artisan well or mountain spring. And if you did *drink* them, well then you would *release* them later on, a billionth of an inch is so small you could breath these in a 1,000 at a time and they would get stuck in the mucus membrane in your lungs. Ok..Ok.. You get injected with these things via a crazed scientist in your local mall, your white blood cells, liver, and kidneys would desolve them in you blood stream and release the waste o'natural.
Now for those of us that read the Damn article. The ability for the project to suceed on only 1.5 mil is pretty ambitious, the article mentions that they need the software to link together millions of these 'bots via weak radio link, and a mass producing method of creating the other 999,990 units. I would really like to know how they fit a device that transmits a unique indenitifer and a binary digit in an envirment that would seem to distort any type of transmission and amplify electric interfernece.
No, That was the name of the fashion show not the sponser. Palm, Compaq, Samsung, and et al where the hosts. Don't bother responding your keyboard might get sticky
I was at CES this year and while Samsung was there, they only had sales people there (big suprise) and where right across from the MS (CE.NET) booth. Anyway, CES has thousands of exhibitors from Car Audio and Entertainment to Cell Phone Battery manufactures. The Sharp Booth was showing off the Zarus to a very positive crowd reaction and Royal was showing the Li@ux Device they had to a very mild hmmm. With the exception of the Xplode Demo booth and the Super CDs Sony was noticeably absent this year in the main halls, there was maybe 1 or 2 PS2s I saw being used in TV demos.
The Coolest addition this year was the Digital Convergence Fashion Show held in the main hall. Though the models didn't er quite know what they where suppossed to do with these gadgets damn did they look good showing them off.
I would say that CES has gotten too big, It was really hard to find specific catagoies of products without just walking around until you're back hurts, even with all the books and magizines it was still difficult. BTW the 20ft by 60ft. Blue Screen of Death shown at the Phillips booth Wednesday for 2 hours was cool.
Hello..Hello...Operator I have an emergency...beep..beep..beep.
*The Line You Have Reached is Busy, Please Try AOL Keyword 9-1-1*
Kidding Aside from my point of view I see double billing up the...I use my broadband cable connection as my phone, for important calls I carry a cell (voicemail, caller id etc..), I do not use the local telco for anything. My cost is 50 bucks a month thats a long way away from 230
At least some here knows about real studio equipment. After reading the article I feel sick, it doesn't even make sense. There is no mention of this guy's needs except for some reason (unexplained) he needs a lunchbox machine?!? Com'on This guy (1) can't afford real audio equipment (2) Hasn't picked up a Damn music hardware catalog in about five years. (3) Probably has never played a real gig. Sorry if this sounds harsh, but if this guys a pro musician I will cut off my arms so everyone would know that I'm not.
Now all those real sys admins can start earning some nice kickbacks from shady ISP customers for bug(as in wire tapping not GPF) free browsing and from your local SS/FBI office for ratting out the ones that wouldn't pay you. Its creating organized crime oppertunity not preventing it. Hey at least I would be able to afford housing in CA for once.
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Thats one of those marketing tricks, where the purpose of the whole excercise is to get denied and get in the papers.
Dear ACCLAIM:
Due to your recent marketing on the site of the dead you have lost market share with the living. I will not purchase another product from your company again.
BTW, I really sent this, it will be interesting if the reply
Tools: If you have a little cash that Rotozip tool is great for doing plexiglass stuff and includes an attachment to cut perfect hole (for fans)
Heat and Discoloration: You don't want your case to look like the back window of an old rag top convertable, either vent well or choose a grade of plastic that kind stand higher temps for the MB Backing. Also a big fan with the lights attached to the fins will look cool
Safety: EYES, Lungs, and Skin when ever your cutting plastics or metal with power tools wear a heavy long sleeve shirt, working gloves, eye protection to avoid spinters. (a plastic spinter in your eyes is bad news) Also if you use a power sander or rotory tool wear a dust mask.
Look Here Amazing that a google search for marine computers brings up all the info you need without some smart ass /.'ers to tell use a F**king Search engine in the first place. Sigh... I getting too old for this ..
I'm not sure what the scope of this program is, but where it's in place, it rocks!
I haven't been for awhile but the store in downtown San Francisco (Union Square) has a similar setup. You would not be able to come close to getting away this this stunt though. Before you enter you must check you bag and electronic recording equipment. And the store is setup with a *kill* zone to stop any potential shoplifiting or buglary. The side effect of this is noticably lower prices for stuff, even cables.
Yeah, he really deprived them of income by "stealing" those 1s and 0s.
In the eyes of law, the intent of that young man was to steal property (office XP) of the owner (CompUSA). And By leaving the store with property he had not paid for (shoplifting and grand theft). I am not even getting into the DMCA, this is common law. If you walk out of a retail establishment with services/property/etc without paying, you are a thief. period.
Now, what would be interesting is if the young man had asked permission to copy OfficeXP on to his iPOD (which you could probably sweet talk a CompUSA employee into letting you do) and then CompUSA would be up shit creek with MS for breaking the A)Liceneces and Retail Distribution agreements and B) the DMCA.
About 10 years ago I used to hang out in the mac lab at a local university while my Mom went to classes. I used to have a 2GB external HD the pluged in to the wall and used a huge scsi cable to hook up to the back of the Mac. I had copies of everything and they (computer lab guys) watched me do it, and said nothing. Times have changed (a little)and I became an adult. Yes you can get in a significant amount of trouble *if your caught*. It is very easy to steal anything regardless of how you physically do it, thats why we laws that say if your *caught* you will be punished. If you are over 18 and you pulled this stunt, *I* would have no problem reporting you as a shoplifter. this kid is the reason/excuse we have for crappy laws like the DMCA. IMHO if your moral standards are such that you *know* your stealing from someone and say its ok because they didn't lock it up good enough, then your sliding down a very slippery slope. (but I'll still visit you in jail when you get caught)
The brain's automatic pilot
Sandra Blakeslee The New York Times Thursday, February 21, 2002
NEW YORK Compulsive gambling, attendance at sporting events, vulnerability to telephone scams and exuberant investing in the stock market may not seem to have much in common. But neuroscientists have uncovered a common thread.
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Such behaviors, they say, rely on brain circuits that evolved to help animals assess rewards important to their survival, like food and sex. Researchers have found that those same circuits are used by the human brain to assess social rewards as diverse as investment income and surprise home runs at the bottom of the ninth.
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They found that the brain systems that detect and evaluate such rewards generally operate outside conscious awareness. In navigating the world and deciding what is rewarding, humans are often closer to zombies than sentient beings.
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The findings, which are gaining wide adherence among neuroscientists, challenge the notion that people always make conscious choices about what they want and how to obtain it. In fact, the neuroscientists say, much of what happens in the brain goes on outside conscious awareness.
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The idea has been around since Freud, said Gregory Berns, a psychiatrist at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. Psychologists have studied unconscious processing of information in terms of subliminal effects, memory and learning, he said, and they have started to map what parts of the brain are involved in such processing. But only now are they learning how these different circuits interact, he said.
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"My hunch is that most decisions are made subconsciously with many gradations of awareness," Berns said.
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P. Read Montague, a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, says that the idea that people can get themselves to work on automatic pilot raises two questions: How does the brain know what it must pay conscious attention to? And how did evolution create a brain that could make such distinctions?
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The answer emerging from experiments on animals and people is that the brain has evolved to shape itself, starting in infancy, according to what it encounters in the external world.
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As Montague explained it, much of the world is predictable: Buildings usually stay in one place, gravity makes objects fall, light at an oblique angle makes long shadows, and so forth. As children grow, their brains build internal models of everything they encounter, gradually learning to identify objects and to predict how they move.
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As new information flows into it from the outside world, the brain automatically compares it with what it already knows. If things match up - as when people drive to work every day along the same route - events, objects and the passage of time may not reach conscious awareness.
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But if there is a surprise - a car suddenly runs a red light - the mismatch between what is expected and what is happening instantly shifts the brain into a new state. A brain circuit involved in decision-making is activated, again out of conscious awareness. Drawing on past experience held in memory banks, a decision is made: Hit the brake, swerve the wheel or keep going. Only a second or so later, after hands and feet have initiated the chosen action, does the sense of having made a decision arise. Montague estimates that 90 percent of what people do every day is carried out by this kind of automatic, unconscious system that evolved to help creatures survive.
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Animals use these circuits to know what to attend to, what to ignore and what is worth learning about. People use them for the same purposes, which as a result of their bigger brains and culture include listening to music, eating chocolate, assessing beauty, gambling, investing in stocks and experimenting with drugs - all topics that have been studied this past year with brain-imaging machines that directly measure the activity of human brain circuits.
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The circuits that have been studied most extensively involve how animals and people assess rewards. They involve a chemical called dopamine. One circuit, which is in a middle region of the brain, helps animals and people instantly assess rewards or lack of rewards.
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The circuit was described in greater detail several years ago by Wolfram Schultz, a neuroscientist at Cambridge University in England, who tracked dopamine production in a monkey's midbrain and experimented with various types of rewards, usually squirts of apple juice that the animal liked.
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Schultz found that when the monkey got more juice than it expected, dopamine neurons fired vigorously. When the monkey got an amount of juice that it expected, based on previous squirts, dopamine neurons did nothing. And when the monkey expected to get juice but got none, the dopamine neurons decreased their firing rate, as if to signal a lack of reward.
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Scientists believe that this midbrain dopamine system is constantly making predictions about what to expect in terms of rewards. Learning takes place only when something unexpected happens and dopamine firing rates increase or decrease. When nothing unexpected happens, as when the same amount of delicious apple juice keeps coming, the dopamine system is quiet. In animals, Montague said, these midbrain dopamine signals are sent directly to brain areas that initiate movements and behavior. These brain areas figure out how to get more apple juice or sit back and do nothing. In humans, though, the dopamine signal is also sent to a higher brain region called the frontal cortex for more elaborate processing.
Back to Start of Article NEW YORK Compulsive gambling, attendance at sporting events, vulnerability to telephone scams and exuberant investing in the stock market may not seem to have much in common. But neuroscientists have uncovered a common thread.
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Such behaviors, they say, rely on brain circuits that evolved to help animals assess rewards important to their survival, like food and sex. Researchers have found that those same circuits are used by the human brain to assess social rewards as diverse as investment income and surprise home runs at the bottom of the ninth.
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They found that the brain systems that detect and evaluate such rewards generally operate outside conscious awareness. In navigating the world and deciding what is rewarding, humans are often closer to zombies than sentient beings.
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The findings, which are gaining wide adherence among neuroscientists, challenge the notion that people always make conscious choices about what they want and how to obtain it. In fact, the neuroscientists say, much of what happens in the brain goes on outside conscious awareness.
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The idea has been around since Freud, said Gregory Berns, a psychiatrist at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. Psychologists have studied unconscious processing of information in terms of subliminal effects, memory and learning, he said, and they have started to map what parts of the brain are involved in such processing. But only now are they learning how these different circuits interact, he said.
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"My hunch is that most decisions are made subconsciously with many gradations of awareness," Berns said.
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P. Read Montague, a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, says that the idea that people can get themselves to work on automatic pilot raises two questions: How does the brain know what it must pay conscious attention to? And how did evolution create a brain that could make such distinctions?
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The answer emerging from experiments on animals and people is that the brain has evolved to shape itself, starting in infancy, according to what it encounters in the external world.
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As Montague explained it, much of the world is predictable: Buildings usually stay in one place, gravity makes objects fall, light at an oblique angle makes long shadows, and so forth. As children grow, their brains build internal models of everything they encounter, gradually learning to identify objects and to predict how they move.
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As new information flows into it from the outside world, the brain automatically compares it with what it already knows. If things match up - as when people drive to work every day along the same route - events, objects and the passage of time may not reach conscious awareness.
.
But if there is a surprise - a car suddenly runs a red light - the mismatch between what is expected and what is happening instantly shifts the brain into a new state. A brain circuit involved in decision-making is activated, again out of conscious awareness. Drawing on past experience held in memory banks, a decision is made: Hit the brake, swerve the wheel or keep going. Only a second or so later, after hands and feet have initiated the chosen action, does the sense of having made a decision arise. Montague estimates that 90 percent of what people do every day is carried out by this kind of automatic, unconscious system that evolved to help creatures survive.
.
Animals use these circuits to know what to attend to, what to ignore and what is worth learning about. People use them for the same purposes, which as a result of their bigger brains and culture include listening to music, eating chocolate, assessing beauty, gambling, investing in stocks and experimenting with drugs - all topics that have been studied this past year with brain-imaging machines that directly measure the activity of human brain circuits.
.
The circuits that have been studied most extensively involve how animals and people assess rewards. They involve a chemical called dopamine. One circuit, which is in a middle region of the brain, helps animals and people instantly assess rewards or lack of rewards.
.
The circuit was described in greater detail several years ago by Wolfram Schultz, a neuroscientist at Cambridge University in England, who tracked dopamine production in a monkey's midbrain and experimented with various types of rewards, usually squirts of apple juice that the animal liked.
.
Schultz found that when the monkey got more juice than it expected, dopamine neurons fired vigorously. When the monkey got an amount of juice that it expected, based on previous squirts, dopamine neurons did nothing. And when the monkey expected to get juice but got none, the dopamine neurons decreased their firing rate, as if to signal a lack of reward.
.
Scientists believe that this midbrain dopamine system is constantly making predictions about what to expect in terms of rewards. Learning takes place only when something unexpected happens and dopamine firing rates increase or decrease. When nothing unexpected happens, as when the same amount of delicious apple juice keeps coming, the dopamine system is quiet. In animals, Montague said, these midbrain dopamine signals are sent directly to brain areas that initiate movements and behavior. These brain areas figure out how to get more apple juice or sit back and do nothing. In humans, though, the dopamine signal is also sent to a higher brain region called the frontal cortex for more elaborate processing. NEW YORK Compulsive gambling, attendance at sporting events, vulnerability to telephone scams and exuberant investing in the stock market may not seem to have much in common. But neuroscientists have uncovered a common thread.
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Such behaviors, they say, rely on brain circuits that evolved to help animals assess rewards important to their survival, like food and sex. Researchers have found that those same circuits are used by the human brain to assess social rewards as diverse as investment income and surprise home runs at the bottom of the ninth.
.
They found that the brain systems that detect and evaluate such rewards generally operate outside conscious awareness. In navigating the world and deciding what is rewarding, humans are often closer to zombies than sentient beings.
.
The findings, which are gaining wide adherence among neuroscientists, challenge the notion that people always make conscious choices about what they want and how to obtain it. In fact, the neuroscientists say, much of what happens in the brain goes on outside conscious awareness.
.
The idea has been around since Freud, said Gregory Berns, a psychiatrist at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. Psychologists have studied unconscious processing of information in terms of subliminal effects, memory and learning, he said, and they have started to map what parts of the brain are involved in such processing. But only now are they learning how these different circuits interact, he said.
.
"My hunch is that most decisions are made subconsciously with many gradations of awareness," Berns said.
.
P. Read Montague, a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, says that the idea that people can get themselves to work on automatic pilot raises two questions: How does the brain know what it must pay conscious attention to? And how did evolution create a brain that could make such distinctions?
.
The answer emerging from experiments on animals and people is that the brain has evolved to shape itself, starting in infancy, according to what it encounters in the external world.
.
As Montague explained it, much of the world is predictable: Buildings usually stay in one place, gravity makes objects fall, light at an oblique angle makes long shadows, and so forth. As children grow, their brains build internal models of everything they encounter, gradually learning to identify objects and to predict how they move.
.
As new information flows into it from the outside world, the brain automatically compares it with what it already knows. If things match up - as when people drive to work every day along the same route - events, objects and the passage of time may not reach conscious awareness.
.
But if there is a surprise - a car suddenly runs a red light - the mismatch between what is expected and what is happening instantly shifts the brain into a new state. A brain circuit involved in decision-making is activated, again out of conscious awareness. Drawing on past experience held in memory banks, a decision is made: Hit the brake, swerve the wheel or keep going. Only a second or so later, after hands and feet have initiated the chosen action, does the sense of having made a decision arise. Montague estimates that 90 percent of what people do every day is carried out by this kind of automatic, unconscious system that evolved to help creatures survive.
.
Animals use these circuits to know what to attend to, what to ignore and what is worth learning about. People use them for the same purposes, which as a result of their bigger brains and culture include listening to music, eating chocolate, assessing beauty, gambling, investing in stocks and experimenting with drugs - all topics that have been studied this past year with brain-imaging machines that directly measure the activity of human brain circuits.
.
The circuits that have been studied most extensively involve how animals and people assess rewards. They involve a chemical called dopamine. One circuit, which is in a middle region of the brain, helps animals and people instantly assess rewards or lack of rewards.
.
The circuit was described in greater detail several years ago by Wolfram Schultz, a neuroscientist at Cambridge University in England, who tracked dopamine production in a monkey's midbrain and experimented with various types of rewards, usually squirts of apple juice that the animal liked.
.
Schultz found that when the monkey got more juice than it expected, dopamine neurons fired vigorously. When the monkey got an amount of juice that it expected, based on previous squirts, dopamine neurons did nothing. And when the monkey expected to get juice but got none, the dopamine neurons decreased their firing rate, as if to signal a lack of reward.
.
Scientists believe that this midbrain dopamine system is constantly making predictions about what to expect in terms of rewards. Learning takes place only when something unexpected happens and dopamine firing rates increase or decrease. When nothing unexpected happens, as when the same amount of delicious apple juice keeps coming, the dopamine system is quiet. In animals, Montague said, these midbrain dopamine signals are sent directly to brain areas that initiate movements and behavior. These brain areas figure out how to get more apple juice or sit back and do nothing. In humans, though, the dopamine signal is also sent to a higher brain region called the frontal cortex for more elaborate processing. NEW YORK Compulsive gambling, attendance at sporting events, vulnerability to telephone scams and exuberant investing in the stock market may not seem to have much in common. But neuroscientists have uncovered a common thread.
.
Such behaviors, they say, rely on brain circuits that evolved to help animals assess rewards important to their survival, like food and sex. Researchers have found that those same circuits are used by the human brain to assess social rewards as diverse as investment income and surprise home runs at the bottom of the ninth.
.
They found that the brain systems that detect and evaluate such rewards generally operate outside conscious awareness. In navigating the world and deciding what is rewarding, humans are often closer to zombies than sentient beings.
.
The findings, which are gaining wide adherence among neuroscientists, challenge the notion that people always make conscious choices about what they want and how to obtain it. In fact, the neuroscientists say, much of what happens in the brain goes on outside conscious awareness.
.
The idea has been around since Freud, said Gregory Berns, a psychiatrist at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. Psychologists have studied unconscious processing of information in terms of subliminal effects, memory and learning, he said, and they have started to map what parts of the brain are involved in such processing. But only now are they learning how these different circuits interact, he said.
.
"My hunch is that most decisions are made subconsciously with many gradations of awareness," Berns said.
.
P. Read Montague, a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, says that the idea that people can get themselves to work on automatic pilot raises two questions: How does the brain know what it must pay conscious attention to? And how did evolution create a brain that could make such distinctions?
.
The answer emerging from experiments on animals and people is that the brain has evolved to shape itself, starting in infancy, according to what it encounters in the external world.
.
As Montague explained it, much of the world is predictable: Buildings usually stay in one place, gravity makes objects
After seeing that last article, I guess todays flavor of the day is SPAM. I hate getting SPAM too But it seems the editors are SPAMMING the Slashdot Readers with SPAM articles and anti-SPAMMING. How about a good old fashion PEEZ story or something that doesn't invole lawyers. I getting tired of reading about the fscking lawyers..lawyers and SPAM. And don't forget .NET man I hate .NET ads on /. Why can't we talk about getting good jobs, hacking the latest gadget or trying installing Linux on GameBoy, when was the last time we talked about one of those extremly overfunctioned graphing caculators (I still love my TI-92). Chirst you think this was CNET or YAHOO for crying out loud. I AM GEEK and I'M MAD AS HELL!
My uncle (he wrote WordStar) learned a very expensive lesson in the 80's when he did a similar R&D disclosure. The Companies (MS, Lotus, Corel) copied the work and later released their 'own' products and stiffed my uncle on roytalies. After years of court battles the cases we're lost. What you can do today is patent protect your core technology. Patents infrigment cases are defended by the US patent Office process rather than your States Licence agreement/contract laws.
A gram of hydrogen contains about 6x10^23 atoms. Therefore, a "few thousand" weighs about 10^-20 grams -- much less than even the smallest virus.
.43^-10 grams)
Western Digital 120 GB HD = 1.32 lb (+/- 0.14 lb)
120 GB = 598.742 g
122, 880 MB = 598.742 g
125829120 KB = 598.742 g
128,849,018,880 Bytes = 598.742 g (+/- 63.5029g)
12 byte virus = 4.6^-10 grams (+/-
Yep, the smallest virus would still be about twice as heavy as the cluster of antimatter atoms
Yeah, we'll download it from Morpheus instead *sigh* No Don't do that either! I have boycotted the MPAA, Adobe and MS buy not giving them any of my money. To fight the DMCA:
1) Write your Representative and tell them how you feel about the DMCA. By law they are required to respond to all letters.
2) Don't purchase products from DCMA supporters
3) Tell DMCA supports that you will no longer buy their product because...
If you read this and think its too much trouble...fine I won't flame, but you should know that our Gov't laws are made by your representitives in congress and the senate, not by Corporations. Your congressman is a whore who values two things money and apporvel ratings. If you are a provider of either they will listen.
apple.slashdot.org == The kids that ride the short bus
I was wondering why that domain name was port scanning my servers.
Interesting, I thought they we're there to make sure minors weren't buying beer and tobacco. Checks are a different story, you can now have the cashier print the amount on your check, all you do is sign. But I agreee, there still needs to be a way to match the person with the id/credit card/check via visual or password verification.
Sir, we've made contact with itelligent life...The radio telescope is picking up all sorts of information...Wait a sec, that college kid is bouncing a wireless lan connection of our dish to an access point in China! Damn you Boy.
I remeber reading something about the radio free "Dark Areas" in the US are almost extinct. This is important to those Radio Telescope operators and the super senstive listening device the gov't uses. If you are thinking of experimenting with your wireless equipment be aware of the FCC regulations about interfernce and protected feq. Ingorance of these laws and regulations is not a defence when you get fined thousands of dollars for screwing up local broadcast signals for emergency vechicles. Just don't your know neighbors your responsiable for the weird static they get on cordless phones.
Um Polar Bear don't eat Penguins...Why..Because Peguins live in the southern hemisphere, Polar Bears live in the Northern. Thus making it quite impossiable for a predator/prey relationship.
That's the best part of going to Expos, the Booth Babes!
That my friend was CES in Las Vegas. But like ALL trade shows/expos/conferneces their will be two things slimy sales guys and keynote speakers. Sales and Marketing folks must get some high off spending gobs of money for the oppurtunity to spew sales pitches at complete strangers for hours on end. The only thing I get out of the shows is the ability to get face time with the engineers/programmers to discuss the tech and find out where they hangout online, before the sales guys stuffs a phone book size amount of marketing crap into my arms.
I was a little disappointed in the selection of the the JVM's they selected for their example. Especially now that PDAs/CellPhones are now powerful enough to run real applications on the client. I have yet to see a StrongArm device ship with the Sun, IBM, or KaffeJVM, why, because they are slow. The JVMs listed in the subject line run 10-200x faster on devices. Soon we will see EJB and other J2EE compents on PDAs. As a developer of client java applications/applets I would never distribute a device specific application, it would be a nightmare to have 160 diiferent compiled versions of the same application. The good JVMs already have done that, and my code I compiled years ago works on the newest PDAs...So there
They article mentioned that these would be used in oceans near industrial areas, not your local artisan well or mountain spring. And if you did *drink* them, well then you would *release* them later on, a billionth of an inch is so small you could breath these in a 1,000 at a time and they would get stuck in the mucus membrane in your lungs. Ok..Ok.. You get injected with these things via a crazed scientist in your local mall, your white blood cells, liver, and kidneys would desolve them in you blood stream and release the waste o'natural.
Now for those of us that read the Damn article. The ability for the project to suceed on only 1.5 mil is pretty ambitious, the article mentions that they need the software to link together millions of these 'bots via weak radio link, and a mass producing method of creating the other 999,990 units. I would really like to know how they fit a device that transmits a unique indenitifer and a binary digit in an envirment that would seem to distort any type of transmission and amplify electric interfernece.
No, That was the name of the fashion show not the sponser. Palm, Compaq, Samsung, and et al where the hosts. Don't bother responding your keyboard might get sticky
I was at CES this year and while Samsung was there, they only had sales people there (big suprise) and where right across from the MS (CE .NET) booth. Anyway, CES has thousands of exhibitors from Car Audio and Entertainment to Cell Phone Battery manufactures. The Sharp Booth was showing off the Zarus to a very positive crowd reaction and Royal was showing the Li@ux Device they had to a very mild hmmm. With the exception of the Xplode Demo booth and the Super CDs Sony was noticeably absent this year in the main halls, there was maybe 1 or 2 PS2s I saw being used in TV demos.
The Coolest addition this year was the Digital Convergence Fashion Show held in the main hall. Though the models didn't er quite know what they where suppossed to do with these gadgets damn did they look good showing them off.
I would say that CES has gotten too big, It was really hard to find specific catagoies of products without just walking around until you're back hurts, even with all the books and magizines it was still difficult. BTW the 20ft by 60ft. Blue Screen of Death shown at the Phillips booth Wednesday for 2 hours was cool.
Hello..Hello...Operator I have an emergency...beep..beep..beep. *The Line You Have Reached is Busy, Please Try AOL Keyword 9-1-1* Kidding Aside from my point of view I see double billing up the...I use my broadband cable connection as my phone, for important calls I carry a cell (voicemail, caller id etc..), I do not use the local telco for anything. My cost is 50 bucks a month thats a long way away from 230
At least some here knows about real studio equipment. After reading the article I feel sick, it doesn't even make sense. There is no mention of this guy's needs except for some reason (unexplained) he needs a lunchbox machine?!? Com'on This guy (1) can't afford real audio equipment (2) Hasn't picked up a Damn music hardware catalog in about five years. (3) Probably has never played a real gig. Sorry if this sounds harsh, but if this guys a pro musician I will cut off my arms so everyone would know that I'm not.
Now all those real sys admins can start earning some nice kickbacks from shady ISP customers for bug(as in wire tapping not GPF) free browsing and from your local SS/FBI office for ratting out the ones that wouldn't pay you. Its creating organized crime oppertunity not preventing it. Hey at least I would be able to afford housing in CA for once.