Reminds me of the vision of the future of advertising in Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson. Basically 100 or 200 foot billboards, ie: make them as big as possible, and when people just became blind to them they made them "interactive" so that the mediatrons (moving pictures) addressed the user and jumped out at them to try to get their attention. In the end though, people became just as blind to them as we are to banner ads today.
I like how they hype them as a good thing. It's also amusing that they are basically selling this as the net equivelant of a 30s TV ad spot. Too bad they don't seem to realize that the internet is not television.
"You Red Hat guys must get sick of dependency hell..." "I'm too stupid to understand that circular dependencies can be resolved by specifying BOTH.rpms together on the command line, and that problems hardly ever occur if one uses proper Red Hat packages instead of mixing SuSE, Mandrake and Joe's Linux packages together (which the system wasn't designed for)."
Actually, dependancy hell is when you download program X to try it out. rpm -i and it requires package Y... search around and find package Y only to find it depends on packages Z, A and C, find these packages and discover that they depend on...
Sure, if you're using mandrake and urpmi (and a mirror source that doesn't suck) this isn't an issue, nor is it an issue if you use only the approved packages and download sources, but dare you step out of that little box....
Oh, and while I am a gentoo user, I'm not saying that similar problems don't exist on gentoo btw. However the above has been my experience more than once when downloading j-random-rpm from the net.
The new licensing tactics are working against them here as well. The cost of licensing, or going through an audit, to confirm compliance for all users having office is just much too high compared to rolling out openoffice. OO doens't have all the features, and can be broken, but the cost is just too high to *not* do it.
From what I've seen MS has gotten greedy.... they now have pretty much everyone in their pockets (90% or whatever) and they now can go to $random_large_company and simply say "here is a bill for either a) licensing for the next year for our $product licenses or b) the cost of an audit to ensure you are in compliance with our licenses". There've been more than one story on/. about this sort of thing, but it's definately here, and at least here (in our canada/us wide insurance brokerage) this sort of thing means that OO.o is being rolled out this summer.
I thought that True Lies was an amusing ride, and Eraser, while it did suck, didn't suck so much I don't watch it when it comes on TV.
I also don't think it's fair to include batman and robin in the list, as I don't think it's fair to say that arnold did a whole lot of work for that movie. I'd be willing to bet that he spent more time getting in and out of his costume than on screen in the final cut.
I realize I'm feeding the trolls here, but this brings up the point that a lot of spam does not come from the US, but from the.tw,.hk, etc domains, where (in theory) the FTC has no juristiction. I suppose they could wall off the country and start filtering email not originating in the US (not that that is an easy task of course), but then suddenly the whole idea of the internet stops working.
In theory this could do good to get the US spammers, but until something is done on a global / mail server level...
The article notes that the cookie allow/deny dialoge is almost identical between the two browsers, but misses one huge plus for mozilla. The IE cookie confirm dialoge doesn't save it's state. I personally browse with the cookie set to "ask me" each time, and I look at the cookie that is being set, make sure my IP address or other personal-looking information is in there, and allow or deny.
In mozilla the "more" dialoge starts up open if it was open last time, but the IE dialoge always starts closed, so I have to hit "more info" each and every time. Because of this mozilla is a big winner there for me, just from this one small detail.
The nay sayers will say "no one does that", but I say that for the minority of us out there, it *does* help, and the majority will never see or be affected anyway...
For his card. If you have a common card (ie: the sb live!) you have had this forever from what I remember, if you have some wacky card that no one has gotten around to writing drivers for (what I assume he has) then the *drivers* are behind.
Maybe the analogy of "looking at a house to see if the doors are open, or if there is a big 'welcome' sign by the door". I think the analogy of trying a door is better matched up to trying exploits on a port, whereas port scanning is just looking at an open or closed door.
On a related note a friend of mine once wrote a java web app for someone. They didn't pay. He ended up using a function he put in the program that allowed writing of data to the system logger for debugging purposes and writing something to the effect of "your bill is past due, please pay immediately" until the hard drive filled up. And everyone knows how well NT works with no disk space.
Needless to say he was promptly paid.
As for the ethics of this, I can't say. Personally when I have dealt with customers and the code has a backdoor (or "developer access") the customers are informed and have the ability to turn it on or off. Generally if there is a problem we'll call them up, ask them to flip the switch, do our work (update, whatever) say thankyou, you can turn it off now, and go away.
The backdoors are generally protected well, so even if you knew they were there, you still couldn't log in with a default password or no password, but the system is always safer with the backdoor turned off.
Backdoors are great until you yourself are bitten in the ass by some random script kiddie finding out you [insert software here] has one and starts playing around.
Actually the last time I bought a PC gamer type mag it was in the $7 range (canadian), one with a CD attached (not that you have a choice in the matter if you want that one) and they are $12 or so.
I don't object so much with free markets, but I want to know when I'm getting an ad. There was a suit/complaint/bitch a few years back that people were drawn in by ads that were made to look like legit news reports. This is what I object to. If someone puts in their blog that they really like doctor pepper that's fine, but I want to know that they are saying that because they actually like it, not that they are being paid off by DP to say that.
Same bitch with not being able to get Coke/Pepsi in college because your college/univ had a deal with Pepsi/Coke that turned Coke/Pepsi into essensially a controlled substance.
An interesting read about a view of advertising in the future is Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson, where billboards are animated and hundreds of feet tall, sell nothing but sex and violence, and even your chopsticks have banners on them. If you get eye implants you run the risk of them being "hacked" and you haveing ads constantly running in your peripheral vision, causing some to go crazy.
With the number of mp3 and ogg devices out there these days, it might be useful to add to your +1 interesting comment the following:
- give an option to burn as an audio cd or a data cd
- if a data cd is chosen, high quality mp3s (say, 192kbit) or ogg files are burnt
If you've already got a huge catalog of.wavs available, converting to.mp3,.ogg or even (bleah).wma wouldn't be an issue. Of course, the consumer could always rip them themselves.
Personally I'd be willing to pay the same price as a regular CD from the store, or even a little bit more (which it would be with shipping, taxes, etc) as being able to get a "real" CD with the songs I want would be great.
My real dream would be able to get a mp3 CD of properly tagged high quality songs that I could plug right into the mp3-CD player in my car, without having to dig through kazaa for the songs I like, tag them, rename them, listen to them all to see if they are good quality, complete, etc, then burn....
Answer: You must pay as much money as microsoft says when their lawyers come knocking on your door threatening to audit you unless you simply cough up some cash for licenses.:)
Sounds like far more work than I'm willing to do:) My solution is (I'm lucky enough to have my own domain on a co-lo-ed server) bogofilter/spamassassin, and a bit of training to get these spam filters to see what is spam and what isn't. End result, one or two spams get through every couple of days, the rest is filtered to a spam folder which I keep around for amusement, and to someday categorize and post on the web in some humorous form:)
Yes, I love how the junk filter setting of "only allow mail that I have explicitly allowed" blocks everyone but them.
*sigh*
Gotta love being a monopoly. Of course, depending on how you think of it, it's their service, so they can do what they want with it, no one is forcing you to use it.
Well, no one except MS themselves, who force you to get a hotmail account for your.NET stuff, but no one is forcing you to use that.
Well, except for MS who is building.NET into their OS, apps, and pretty much everything else they have, and they only have 90% of the desktop.
As noted many times over around the time katz's hellmouth series came out, high school is not like the real world. In fact, it's about as far from the truth of the real world as you can get. Like prision, there is a social structure, and like prision, you either make someone your bitch, or you are someone's bitch, or you hide.
Like hell the RIAA will let mp3s (or ogg) exist anymore, and if they do, I'll bet the default setting for any mp3 you record will be "don't copy this". How much do you think the RIAA will want to be paid for the right to change that bit? Changing it yourself is a violation of the DMCA, even though you're the copyright holder because the DMCA protects that bit not your copyright.
I guess I'll have to be a rebel, sitting and ripping my CDs with grip, abcde, or whatever other non-drm/palladium infected linux mp3 ripper I have.
There is a big difference between space for uploading warez on anon ftps and having your program exploitable enough to bring down 911 systems, atms, etc.
Now I'm not saying that OSS isn't vulnerable, just that your example isn't quite up to the level of what people were talking about.
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Reminds me of the vision of the future of advertising in Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson. Basically 100 or 200 foot billboards, ie: make them as big as possible, and when people just became blind to them they made them "interactive" so that the mediatrons (moving pictures) addressed the user and jumped out at them to try to get their attention. In the end though, people became just as blind to them as we are to banner ads today.
I like how they hype them as a good thing. It's also amusing that they are basically selling this as the net equivelant of a 30s TV ad spot. Too bad they don't seem to realize that the internet is not television.
*sigh*
Looks like the 30 are just cut out from the 12 magazine scans....
Just because you can't get Tuva [amazon.com] when the service opens doesn't make it a bad service.
:(
Worse, there is no Hawkwind....
If MS did it it would all be DRM enabled WMV files instead of DRM enabled AAC files :(
"You Red Hat guys must get sick of dependency hell..." .rpms together on the command line, and that problems hardly ever occur if one uses proper Red Hat packages instead of mixing SuSE, Mandrake and Joe's Linux packages together (which the system wasn't designed for)."
"I'm too stupid to understand that circular dependencies can be resolved by specifying BOTH
Actually, dependancy hell is when you download program X to try it out. rpm -i and it requires package Y... search around and find package Y only to find it depends on packages Z, A and C, find these packages and discover that they depend on...
Sure, if you're using mandrake and urpmi (and a mirror source that doesn't suck) this isn't an issue, nor is it an issue if you use only the approved packages and download sources, but dare you step out of that little box....
Oh, and while I am a gentoo user, I'm not saying that similar problems don't exist on gentoo btw. However the above has been my experience more than once when downloading j-random-rpm from the net.
The new licensing tactics are working against them here as well. The cost of licensing, or going through an audit, to confirm compliance for all users having office is just much too high compared to rolling out openoffice. OO doens't have all the features, and can be broken, but the cost is just too high to *not* do it.
/. about this sort of thing, but it's definately here, and at least here (in our canada/us wide insurance brokerage) this sort of thing means that OO.o is being rolled out this summer.
From what I've seen MS has gotten greedy.... they now have pretty much everyone in their pockets (90% or whatever) and they now can go to $random_large_company and simply say "here is a bill for either a) licensing for the next year for our $product licenses or b) the cost of an audit to ensure you are in compliance with our licenses". There've been more than one story on
I thought that True Lies was an amusing ride, and Eraser, while it did suck, didn't suck so much I don't watch it when it comes on TV.
I also don't think it's fair to include batman and robin in the list, as I don't think it's fair to say that arnold did a whole lot of work for that movie. I'd be willing to bet that he spent more time getting in and out of his costume than on screen in the final cut.
You mean tabacco companies suing people producing anti-smoking ads don't you?
I realize I'm feeding the trolls here, but this brings up the point that a lot of spam does not come from the US, but from the .tw, .hk, etc domains, where (in theory) the FTC has no juristiction. I suppose they could wall off the country and start filtering email not originating in the US (not that that is an easy task of course), but then suddenly the whole idea of the internet stops working.
In theory this could do good to get the US spammers, but until something is done on a global / mail server level...
The article notes that the cookie allow/deny dialoge is almost identical between the two browsers, but misses one huge plus for mozilla. The IE cookie confirm dialoge doesn't save it's state. I personally browse with the cookie set to "ask me" each time, and I look at the cookie that is being set, make sure my IP address or other personal-looking information is in there, and allow or deny.
In mozilla the "more" dialoge starts up open if it was open last time, but the IE dialoge always starts closed, so I have to hit "more info" each and every time. Because of this mozilla is a big winner there for me, just from this one small detail.
The nay sayers will say "no one does that", but I say that for the minority of us out there, it *does* help, and the majority will never see or be affected anyway...
For his card. If you have a common card (ie: the sb live!) you have had this forever from what I remember, if you have some wacky card that no one has gotten around to writing drivers for (what I assume he has) then the *drivers* are behind.
Maybe the analogy of "looking at a house to see if the doors are open, or if there is a big 'welcome' sign by the door". I think the analogy of trying a door is better matched up to trying exploits on a port, whereas port scanning is just looking at an open or closed door.
On a related note a friend of mine once wrote a java web app for someone. They didn't pay. He ended up using a function he put in the program that allowed writing of data to the system logger for debugging purposes and writing something to the effect of "your bill is past due, please pay immediately" until the hard drive filled up. And everyone knows how well NT works with no disk space.
Needless to say he was promptly paid.
As for the ethics of this, I can't say. Personally when I have dealt with customers and the code has a backdoor (or "developer access") the customers are informed and have the ability to turn it on or off. Generally if there is a problem we'll call them up, ask them to flip the switch, do our work (update, whatever) say thankyou, you can turn it off now, and go away.
The backdoors are generally protected well, so even if you knew they were there, you still couldn't log in with a default password or no password, but the system is always safer with the backdoor turned off.
Backdoors are great until you yourself are bitten in the ass by some random script kiddie finding out you [insert software here] has one and starts playing around.
Actually the last time I bought a PC gamer type mag it was in the $7 range (canadian), one with a CD attached (not that you have a choice in the matter if you want that one) and they are $12 or so.
I don't object so much with free markets, but I want to know when I'm getting an ad. There was a suit/complaint/bitch a few years back that people were drawn in by ads that were made to look like legit news reports. This is what I object to. If someone puts in their blog that they really like doctor pepper that's fine, but I want to know that they are saying that because they actually like it, not that they are being paid off by DP to say that.
Same bitch with not being able to get Coke/Pepsi in college because your college/univ had a deal with Pepsi/Coke that turned Coke/Pepsi into essensially a controlled substance.
An interesting read about a view of advertising in the future is Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson, where billboards are animated and hundreds of feet tall, sell nothing but sex and violence, and even your chopsticks have banners on them. If you get eye implants you run the risk of them being "hacked" and you haveing ads constantly running in your peripheral vision, causing some to go crazy.
A good read (and disturbing in some ways).
With the number of mp3 and ogg devices out there these days, it might be useful to add to your +1 interesting comment the following:
.wavs available, converting to .mp3, .ogg or even (bleah) .wma wouldn't be an issue. Of course, the consumer could always rip them themselves.
- give an option to burn as an audio cd or a data cd
- if a data cd is chosen, high quality mp3s (say, 192kbit) or ogg files are burnt
If you've already got a huge catalog of
Personally I'd be willing to pay the same price as a regular CD from the store, or even a little bit more (which it would be with shipping, taxes, etc) as being able to get a "real" CD with the songs I want would be great.
My real dream would be able to get a mp3 CD of properly tagged high quality songs that I could plug right into the mp3-CD player in my car, without having to dig through kazaa for the songs I like, tag them, rename them, listen to them all to see if they are good quality, complete, etc, then burn....
That's not going to happen anytime soon though...
... and on Buffy. More than once I've heard Willow say something about "googling for [insert mystic sounding stuff here]".
Wasn't Dubbya also a crack head not that long ago? No, seriously, that's what I heard?
Answer: You must pay as much money as microsoft says when their lawyers come knocking on your door threatening to audit you unless you simply cough up some cash for licenses. :)
Sounds like far more work than I'm willing to do :) My solution is (I'm lucky enough to have my own domain on a co-lo-ed server) bogofilter/spamassassin, and a bit of training to get these spam filters to see what is spam and what isn't. End result, one or two spams get through every couple of days, the rest is filtered to a spam folder which I keep around for amusement, and to someday categorize and post on the web in some humorous form :)
Yes, I love how the junk filter setting of "only allow mail that I have explicitly allowed" blocks everyone but them.
.NET stuff, but no one is forcing you to use that.
.NET into their OS, apps, and pretty much everything else they have, and they only have 90% of the desktop.
*sigh*
Gotta love being a monopoly. Of course, depending on how you think of it, it's their service, so they can do what they want with it, no one is forcing you to use it.
Well, no one except MS themselves, who force you to get a hotmail account for your
Well, except for MS who is building
As noted many times over around the time katz's hellmouth series came out, high school is not like the real world. In fact, it's about as far from the truth of the real world as you can get. Like prision, there is a social structure, and like prision, you either make someone your bitch, or you are someone's bitch, or you hide.
Like hell the RIAA will let mp3s (or ogg) exist anymore, and if they do, I'll bet the default setting for any mp3 you record will be "don't copy this". How much do you think the RIAA will want to be paid for the right to change that bit? Changing it yourself is a violation of the DMCA, even though you're the copyright holder because the DMCA protects that bit not your copyright.
I guess I'll have to be a rebel, sitting and ripping my CDs with grip, abcde, or whatever other non-drm/palladium infected linux mp3 ripper I have.
*sigh* I hate technology sometimes, you know?
There is a big difference between space for uploading warez on anon ftps and having your program exploitable enough to bring down 911 systems, atms, etc.
Now I'm not saying that OSS isn't vulnerable, just that your example isn't quite up to the level of what people were talking about.
I hope they add a "make it so it doesn't fry the users' lap" priority to this list.