I can't seem to find them now, but I've made several comments on this in the past.
People should put more energy into making higher quality analog copies.
After all, it's just like you said. If you can see it with your eyes, you can record it. If you can hear it with your ears, you can record it. And unless microphones and CCDs (or even film) are outlawed, no one can stop it.
Fortune.com has a story about Santa Clara-based InterTrust Technologies is claiming that their suite of 26 issued patents and 85 pending patents covers digital rights management technology currently in use by Microsoft.
I knew there was bound to be a period in there somewhere.
Re:people just need to be organize
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ISP Chief on Spam
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Yeah, and some SMTP server still gets to use up al that bandwidth.
Oh yeah, and the company that runs the SMTP server gets to fot the bill for that bandwidth. All for mail that you don't even want.
Your solution is rediculous. In fact, it's not a solution at all. It's just closing your eyes and ignoring the problem.
Good guestion. This reminds me abut the "no sales calls" list that I pay $10/year to be part of. If I'm on the list, and I get a sales call, that person is fined roughly $10k per offense, but I see exactly $0.00 of that $10k. Why is that? I'm the one who was inconvenienced by the sales call, right? I'm the one who paid to be on the list, right?
0900 = call to order 0910 = roll call 0930 = "Old business?.....Spam sucks." 0931 = "What have we done about it?.....Nothing." 0932 = "New business?.....Spam still sucks." 0933 = "What are we going to do about it?.....Probably nothing." 0934 = "Meeting adjourned.....let's go get some chinese food!"
It looks to me like a tornado in a room. Judging by that picture, this will work great as a prototype Quake weapon. You just have to tell your enemy "OK, now sit right here under this blue cone looking thing, while I pulverize you".
Quoting myself: They most likely choose to buy from the retailer with the lowest price. That is, unless they have some personal loyalty to a higher priced retailer, or perhaps they had a bad experience from the low price retailer, and won't buy from that particular store.
Doesn't this pretty much sum up what you just said?
I've noticed that a lot of big retailers, including one who is on the list of complainants against FatWallet are now allowing web site visitors to "review" products that they sell.
I'm wondering if the manufacturers of these products could sue the retailers under the DMCA in a similar fashion for allowing their customers to badmouth their products...
Why would a company want to stop this free advertising?
Well, if their prices are not the lowest, they obviously don't want that to be a well known fact.
Once again, this is just a case of old time, brick and mortar mentality creeping into the global, immediate nature of the internet.
Before the internet was so popular, consumers actually had to get off their fat arses and go to the stores to shop/compare prices/etc. Sure there were newspapers and magazines that made it possible to compare prices, but these can hardly compete with the speed and penetration of the internet.
What happens if everyone knows of a website where they can go to see retailers prices on certain products? They most likely choose to buy from the retailer with the lowest price. That is, unless they have some personal loyalty to a higher priced retailer, or perhaps they had a bad experience from the low price retailer, and won't buy from that particular store.
Obviously, this is bad news for the retailers. I'm sure that they made quite a few sales based on impulse, where the consumer is in the store, looking at the product, and is tired of driving all over town looking for the best price. He's gonna buy at a higher price, right? That's what the retailers are betting on.
Unfortunately for the retailers, the internet is forcing them to rethink their business strategies, and sometimes it's easier for them to bully the little guy than to change their entire strategy.
Honestly folks, do we really need a front page story every time a new version of Mozilla is realeased? I'm sure there's other applications that are more deserving than a web browser.
And that's just from the first two pages of search results. I know we all love our Mozilla, but I'm sure there's something else a little more newsworthy going on today.
"absolutely nobody I know would think that "Windows Backup", presented in an appropriate manner, was produced or sanctioned by M$"
As opposed to say: Windows Update Windows Explorer Windows Media Player
So you're saying that the same people think that the above applications are produced by a third party other than Microsoft? I seriously doubt that. The parent poster is right.
Your experiences may vary, but I've never been to a Radio Shack store that complained when someone told them "No, I don't want to give you my name and address". The salesman politely explains that this is just for their mailing list, and the customer again refuses. At this point, I've never seen a salesman do anything except say "OK".
Again, your experiences may be vastly different from mine, so let's hear 'em. Gimme your best RatShack name/address refusal stories.
I've been using UltraDNS for more than 2 years now, and I'm also nothing but happy with them.
You're right about their ease of use, it's definitely a strong point.
I've never had any issues with them, and come to think of it, I dodn't have any problems this weekend either. In fact, I got -more- spam than usual, so I'm going to assume that if the spammers didn't have a problem resolving my domain name, neither did anyone else.
Also, why would they want to stop this free advertising?
Well, if their prices are not the lowest, they obviously don't want that to be a well known fact.
Once again, this is just a case of old time, brick and mortar mentality creeping into the global, immediate nature of the internet.
Before the internet was so popular, consumers actually had to get off their fat arses and go to the stores to shop/compare prices/etc. Sure there were newspapers and magazines that made it possible to compare prices, but these can hardly compete with the speed and penetration of the internet.
What happens if everyone knows of a website where they can go to see retailers prices on certain products? They most likely choose to buy from the retailer with the lowest price. That is, unless they have some personal loyalty to a higher priced retailer, or perhaps they had a bad experience from the low price retailer, and won't buy from that particular store.
Obviously, this is bad news for the retailers. I'm sure that they made quite a few sales based on impulse, where the consumer is in the store, looking at the product, and is tired of driving all over town looking for the best price. He's gonna buy at a higher price, right? That's what the retailers are betting on.
Unfortunately for the retailers, the internet is forcing them to rethink their business strategies, and sometimes it's easier for them to bully the little guy than to change their entire strategy.
We have the same thing here in FL, except i think the fine is $10000.
I used to get 10 sales calls a day (really). After getting my name on the "non-solicitation list", i get maybe one call every other week.
The thing that pisses me off now is that these people are fined by the state. Why should the state get the $10000. What did they do because someone called me? What did they do to prevent someone calling me? Nothing really. Shouldn't I get some of that money, considering I'm the one who was violated?
Good luck...?
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Good luck?
When are we going to realize that we are most definitely a minority. Call us nerds, geeks, techno-savvy, educated...call us whatever you want, but the general public, en masse has no idea about any of this.
Ask you average AOL using grandma/grandpa to define DRM, DMCA, GPL, OSS, etc., and all you'll get is a puzzled look of bewilderment. These people have no idea what's brewing beneath the shiny exterior of their favorite programs. All they know, and all they care about is the latest, greates features in those programs. Do you really think grandma is going to read that EULA, start to finish, and understand the implications involved in it? In fact, I'm willing to bet that grandma doesn't even know what an EULA is, so you can add that to the list of acronyms above.
So you see, there will most likely not be any luck involved in this at all. The developers just have to give the users the features they want, and the users will buy into it. Nobody is going to hear us, the minority screaming about fair use, privacy, or any of that.
I'm not saying that we're wrong, just that luck is hardly a factor when the average computer user has no idea why this type of stuff is bad.
Trashdot Editors: "Quick, cmdr...post a bunch of new lame stories right away. That'll force our obvious lame troll "Florida voting" story down on the page so no one will reply anymore."
I feel like this just confirms my thoughts that Slashdot, while a grat meeting place, has really become overrun with closed-anything == evil, Microsoft-anything == evil, privacy-anything == evil trolls.
You're right, it's old, and lame, and we get it already.
Slashdot Mirror
Wouldn't it be better if they cloned a penguin and then inserted the uber linux brainchip?
I can't seem to find them now, but I've made several comments on this in the past.
People should put more energy into making higher quality analog copies.
After all, it's just like you said. If you can see it with your eyes, you can record it. If you can hear it with your ears, you can record it. And unless microphones and CCDs (or even film) are outlawed, no one can stop it.
Fortune.com has a story about Santa Clara-based InterTrust Technologies is claiming that their suite of 26 issued patents and 85 pending patents covers digital rights management technology currently in use by Microsoft.
I knew there was bound to be a period in there somewhere.
Yeah, and some SMTP server still gets to use up al that bandwidth.
Oh yeah, and the company that runs the SMTP server gets to fot the bill for that bandwidth. All for mail that you don't even want.
Your solution is rediculous. In fact, it's not a solution at all. It's just closing your eyes and ignoring the problem.
Good guestion.
This reminds me abut the "no sales calls" list that I pay $10/year to be part of. If I'm on the list, and I get a sales call, that person is fined roughly $10k per offense, but I see exactly $0.00 of that $10k. Why is that? I'm the one who was inconvenienced by the sales call, right? I'm the one who paid to be on the list, right?
0900 = call to order
0910 = roll call
0930 = "Old business?.....Spam sucks."
0931 = "What have we done about it?.....Nothing."
0932 = "New business?.....Spam still sucks."
0933 = "What are we going to do about it?.....Probably nothing."
0934 = "Meeting adjourned.....let's go get some chinese food!"
Tornado in a can?
It looks to me like a tornado in a room. Judging by that picture, this will work great as a prototype Quake weapon. You just have to tell your enemy "OK, now sit right here under this blue cone looking thing, while I pulverize you".
Not exactly portable is it?
"Lauder slammed his Replay box"
"He also openly called on the cable companies and Hollywood to sue the PVR companies for copyright infringement"
So, he's openly calling for industry to sue, but he owns a PVR himself? That's pretty funny.
Um, did you even read my whole post?
Quoting myself:
They most likely choose to buy from the retailer with the lowest price. That is, unless they have some personal loyalty to a higher priced retailer, or perhaps they had a bad experience from the low price retailer, and won't buy from that particular store.
Doesn't this pretty much sum up what you just said?
I've noticed that a lot of big retailers, including one who is on the list of complainants against FatWallet are now allowing web site visitors to "review" products that they sell.
I'm wondering if the manufacturers of these products could sue the retailers under the DMCA in a similar fashion for allowing their customers to badmouth their products...
Just something to think about.
Why would a company want to stop this free advertising?
Well, if their prices are not the lowest, they obviously don't want that to be a well known fact.
Once again, this is just a case of old time, brick and mortar mentality creeping into the global, immediate nature of the internet.
Before the internet was so popular, consumers actually had to get off their fat arses and go to the stores to shop/compare prices/etc. Sure there were newspapers and magazines that made it possible to compare prices, but these can hardly compete with the speed and penetration of the internet.
What happens if everyone knows of a website where they can go to see retailers prices on certain products? They most likely choose to buy from the retailer with the lowest price. That is, unless they have some personal loyalty to a higher priced retailer, or perhaps they had a bad experience from the low price retailer, and won't buy from that particular store.
Obviously, this is bad news for the retailers. I'm sure that they made quite a few sales based on impulse, where the consumer is in the store, looking at the product, and is tired of driving all over town looking for the best price. He's gonna buy at a higher price, right? That's what the retailers are betting on.
Unfortunately for the retailers, the internet is forcing them to rethink their business strategies, and sometimes it's easier for them to bully the little guy than to change their entire strategy.
Honestly folks, do we really need a front page story every time a new version of Mozilla is realeased? I'm sure there's other applications that are more deserving than a web browser.
Mozilla 1.2.1 Released
Mozilla 1.2 Unleashed
Mozilla 1.2 Beta Released
Mozilla 1.2 Betas Start Flowing
Mozilla 1.1 Hits The Street
Mozilla 1.1 Beta Out And About
And that's just from the first two pages of search results. I know we all love our Mozilla, but I'm sure there's something else a little more newsworthy going on today.
"absolutely nobody
I know would think that "Windows Backup", presented in an appropriate manner, was produced or sanctioned by M$"
As opposed to say:
Windows Update
Windows Explorer
Windows Media Player
So you're saying that the same people think that the above applications are produced by a third party other than Microsoft? I seriously doubt that. The parent poster is right.
Well, "visa" is also a generic term, and yet we still have to deal with things like this. Don't ever put anything past big business.
Your experiences may vary, but I've never been to a Radio Shack store that complained when someone told them "No, I don't want to give you my name and address". The salesman politely explains that this is just for their mailing list, and the customer again refuses. At this point, I've never seen a salesman do anything except say "OK".
Again, your experiences may be vastly different from mine, so let's hear 'em. Gimme your best RatShack name/address refusal stories.
I've been using UltraDNS for more than 2 years now, and I'm also nothing but happy with them.
You're right about their ease of use, it's definitely a strong point.
I've never had any issues with them, and come to think of it, I dodn't have any problems this weekend either. In fact, I got -more- spam than usual, so I'm going to assume that if the spammers didn't have a problem resolving my domain name, neither did anyone else.
Also, why would they want to stop this free advertising?
Well, if their prices are not the lowest, they obviously don't want that to be a well known fact.
Once again, this is just a case of old time, brick and mortar mentality creeping into the global, immediate nature of the internet.
Before the internet was so popular, consumers actually had to get off their fat arses and go to the stores to shop/compare prices/etc. Sure there were newspapers and magazines that made it possible to compare prices, but these can hardly compete with the speed and penetration of the internet.
What happens if everyone knows of a website where they can go to see retailers prices on certain products? They most likely choose to buy from the retailer with the lowest price. That is, unless they have some personal loyalty to a higher priced retailer, or perhaps they had a bad experience from the low price retailer, and won't buy from that particular store.
Obviously, this is bad news for the retailers. I'm sure that they made quite a few sales based on impulse, where the consumer is in the store, looking at the product, and is tired of driving all over town looking for the best price. He's gonna buy at a higher price, right? That's what the retailers are betting on.
Unfortunately for the retailers, the internet is forcing them to rethink their business strategies, and sometimes it's easier for them to bully the little guy than to change their entire strategy.
Hmmm...
It looks like your REAL datacenter's web server just went down in flames, and the link's only in a comment, not the main story!
I may be mistaken, but hasen't Mr. Kamen said in several interviews that Segway is absolutely *not* IT?
I wonder if someone makes a spell-checker to run on that old hardware...
Technically, this is not the future. This is the present.
We have the same thing here in FL, except i think the fine is $10000.
I used to get 10 sales calls a day (really). After getting my name on the "non-solicitation list", i get maybe one call every other week.
The thing that pisses me off now is that these people are fined by the state. Why should the state get the $10000. What did they do because someone called me? What did they do to prevent someone calling me? Nothing really. Shouldn't I get some of that money, considering I'm the one who was violated?
Good luck?
When are we going to realize that we are most definitely a minority. Call us nerds, geeks, techno-savvy, educated...call us whatever you want, but the general public, en masse has no idea about any of this.
Ask you average AOL using grandma/grandpa to define DRM, DMCA, GPL, OSS, etc., and all you'll get is a puzzled look of bewilderment. These people have no idea what's brewing beneath the shiny exterior of their favorite programs. All they know, and all they care about is the latest, greates features in those programs. Do you really think grandma is going to read that EULA, start to finish, and understand the implications involved in it? In fact, I'm willing to bet that grandma doesn't even know what an EULA is, so you can add that to the list of acronyms above.
So you see, there will most likely not be any luck involved in this at all. The developers just have to give the users the features they want, and the users will buy into it. Nobody is going to hear us, the minority screaming about fair use, privacy, or any of that.
I'm not saying that we're wrong, just that luck is hardly a factor when the average computer user has no idea why this type of stuff is bad.
Trashdot Editors: "Quick, cmdr...post a bunch of new lame stories right away. That'll force our obvious lame troll "Florida voting" story down on the page so no one will reply anymore."
No, I don't feel ashamed.
I feel like this just confirms my thoughts that Slashdot, while a grat meeting place, has really become overrun with closed-anything == evil, Microsoft-anything == evil, privacy-anything == evil trolls.
You're right, it's old, and lame, and we get it already.