For everyone talking about escrows in the dollar+ range... that's crazy. Frankly, even a quarter is excessive... A 1 cent escrow is all that would be necessary to take any profitablity out of spam, (and that penny probably more than evens out the amount of time it takes for you to hit the delete key). The point here is not to take piles of money from strangers who have a reason email you. With the right infrastructure: some mechanism to make whitelisting a signature easy, this would be perfect. At 1 cent per email, no individual sending legit emails would likely ever have to spend much more than a dollar or two in escrow. Spammers would have to have hundreds to thousands of dollars for each spam campaign. And with an easy enough whitelisting mechanism, adding a mailing list should be no problem.
If you read the article... it's only talking about getting premium channels individually. So you can get just one nightly dose of Skinemax, w/o paying for cinemax 2, 3 and 4.
Care to keep it civilized, blank? blank: hell no SmarterChild: Whatever, blank. blank: fuck off SmarterChild: OK, let's play a fun game. You try to chat with me without using dirty words and I'll show you lots of cool things.
Waddaya think? blank: fuck SmarterChild: Hey, c'mon, don't say that. There's no need for that. blank: fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck SmarterChild: You know what? I think you need to apologize for that. Waddaya say? dave mt32: fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck SmarterChild: I'm not f... um, fooling around. You've got to apologize.
It seems to me that China's just trying to propagandize the public into a position where the gov't could, if ever it feels it's necessary for political reasons, shut down the cafes, blaming it on the "poison of pornography." Otherwise, some simple porn filters in public internet cafes is really nothing to get all up in arms about; The real censorship on the internet in China comes through the main Chinanet portals through which the vast majority of Chinese users access the internet, and this censorship has been going on for several years.
Having lived in China:
Yes, China does have a huge black market; however, the people involved are generally very mobile (selling things out of suitcases) as they are constantly searched out by the police. Black market internet cafes don't exactly have that mobility on their side.
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For those who can't get past the shockwave, here's a link to the html page with the description of the product:
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For everyone talking about escrows in the dollar+ range... that's crazy. Frankly, even a quarter is excessive... A 1 cent escrow is all that would be necessary to take any profitablity out of spam, (and that penny probably more than evens out the amount of time it takes for you to hit the delete key). The point here is not to take piles of money from strangers who have a reason email you. With the right infrastructure: some mechanism to make whitelisting a signature easy, this would be perfect. At 1 cent per email, no individual sending legit emails would likely ever have to spend much more than a dollar or two in escrow. Spammers would have to have hundreds to thousands of dollars for each spam campaign. And with an easy enough whitelisting mechanism, adding a mailing list should be no problem.
Now realistically will this ever happen? no.
If you read the article... it's only talking about getting premium channels individually. So you can get just one nightly dose of Skinemax, w/o paying for cinemax 2, 3 and 4.
Doesn't apply to basic cable.
SmarterChild: Hello!
Care to keep it civilized, blank?
blank: hell no
SmarterChild: Whatever, blank.
blank: fuck off
SmarterChild: OK, let's play a fun game. You try to chat with me without using dirty words and I'll show you lots of cool things.
Waddaya think?
blank: fuck
SmarterChild: Hey, c'mon, don't say that. There's no need for that.
blank: fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck
SmarterChild: You know what? I think you need to apologize for that. Waddaya say?
dave mt32: fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck
SmarterChild: I'm not f... um, fooling around. You've got to apologize.
Interestingly, for the others who mention that Kazaa perpetrated this attack to boost their ad revenues, take a look at the Kazaa website.
The way they have a large graphic to welcome over Morpheus users makes it look rather suspicious at least...
It seems to me that China's just trying to propagandize the public into a position where the gov't could, if ever it feels it's necessary for political reasons, shut down the cafes, blaming it on the "poison of pornography."
Otherwise, some simple porn filters in public internet cafes is really nothing to get all up in arms about; The real censorship on the internet in China comes through the main Chinanet portals through which the vast majority of Chinese users access the internet, and this censorship has been going on for several years.
Having lived in China: Yes, China does have a huge black market; however, the people involved are generally very mobile (selling things out of suitcases) as they are constantly searched out by the police. Black market internet cafes don't exactly have that mobility on their side.