"But there's a case where an accused kidnapper who was using a cloned cell phone sued for the interception of the cell phone conversations... And he won."
This specific case seems VERY different than using a honeypot for computer security, and it sounds like the alleged kidnapper may have actually had a case. I'd like to see more information about that case before making comparisons, unfortunately I was unable to find any.
Or the people with "lyricosis", the disease which causes sufferers to have difficulty understanding song lyrics: Such as in Jimi Hendrix's song, "Scuze me, while I kiss this guy!"
The only way people would even consider this plan is to market it like cell phones, where the first x minutes are free, and each additional minute costs $y. For instance, your first 100 emails are free, but each additional email costs five cents. No one can do much spam damage with only 100 free emails.
But, even then, I'm not convinced customers would embrace this or any other "e-stamp solution."
I'm told that the board will look at the decision in terms of cost, not for benefit to the students.
To have no Windows anywhere is going to cost the college a lot of prospective students who are told, "We have weird computers in our labs with Linux and they won't allow us to have normal computers with Windows because the college gets more money that way." And the prospective students are going to run away, confused.
One person downloads The Two Towers and the whole school can get it. I don't see how the cap will make a huge difference in the long run.
This is why a policy like this might be good. It won't make a huge difference for the students because they will still have The Two Towers available for download on the network, but it WILL make a huge difference for the college, who won't have to pay for downloading the movie multiple times from the internet.
There are a lot of posts worrying about business collusion, but what about customer collusion? A site like PriceWatch should be able to go through a website and collect prices under different profiles.
Then, as a customer, I might get a little annoyed knowing that a company is trying to sell me a book for $20 when I know Person X can get it for $15.
Don't worry, the ISPs still have a core group of subscribers. Namely, the large percentage (I forgot the exact number, but it's big) of the country who don't have access to broadband, like myself. I'll be an Earthlink subscriber for a long time to come because I live about a mile away from people with cable modems, and I called Adelphia the other day and they said I wouldn't have cable internet until a year from now. This is exactly what they said last year.:(
The only problem is the learning curve of new technologies they were not taught puts them that far behind other programmers who went to tech school for 3 weeks to learn C# or something.
When I was a kid, we had to walk to school in the snow uphill, both ways! And we didn't need no copyright mumbo-jumbo. If somebody wanted to sing a song I wrote, I just punched them in the nose!
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To test their theory, the Vortex folks have thrown in rocks, diapers, tomatoes, sweet potato rejects from the farm down the road, 400 pounds of Oreo cookies, frozen pizza dough, even a dead bird.
Ah ha! I was wondering who broke into my house. You can't imagine how hard it is to get your insurance company to believe someone stole 400 pounds of Oreo's from you, not to mention a dead bird.
saying its not a law is like saying I can get in a plane and go 500mph, so the 55mph speed limit on the highway is not a law....
Actually, saying Moore's Law is not a law is more like saying Murphy's Law is not a law. They both aren't really laws, more like generalizations that hold true most of the time.
What I mean is, I don't think an intelligent being would be capable of creating something that is more intelligent than himself.
The machines need to be programmed by humans, who are limited by their own inteligence.
Creating a computer that can think as well as a human or close to that of a human is actually more exciting than you make it out to be. First of all, where is the limit on human intelligence? It's at the amount of data we have and the ability to find new data. We are always discovering more data using the data we have now. If a computer was as smart as a human, then it could discover new data just as a human does, and possibly faster. We would then have more "brains" increasing that limit of human intelligence (and at the same time increasing what we can create with that human intelligence). Secondly, if a computer was as intelligent as a human, then I could have a robot maid! That would be great.
I missed Taken last night which premiered last night on SciFi last night, so I have no opinion whether I liked Taken last night which premiered last night on SciFi last night. Last night I was doing something else last night. I'll try to catch it tonight.
What if they made a game where you got a better score by shooting people? What happens is that people get densensitized to the concerns about murder. Oh wait, that already happened.
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"But there's a case where an accused kidnapper who was using a cloned cell phone sued for the interception of the cell phone conversations... And he won."
This specific case seems VERY different than using a honeypot for computer security, and it sounds like the alleged kidnapper may have actually had a case. I'd like to see more information about that case before making comparisons, unfortunately I was unable to find any.
That didn't work for Lindows....
Or the people with "lyricosis", the disease which causes sufferers to have difficulty understanding song lyrics: Such as in Jimi Hendrix's song, "Scuze me, while I kiss this guy!"
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In Soviet Russia, jokes beat YOU into the ground. Ha! I kill me.
First of all, a group may fail to anticipate a problem before the problem actually arrives.
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If you were trying to make an example that other Slashdotters would understand through their own experience... you failed.
So... we should not only rely on throwing hackers in jail to prevent hacking, we should also increase security on our computers.
And in other news, fire is hot and the Iraqi Information Minister has been telling lies all along.
A slashdot article FTC Encourages Consumers to Forward Them Spam was posted on September 7, 2002 stating that the FTC wanted people to forward them spam at uce@ftc.gov.
The only way people would even consider this plan is to market it like cell phones, where the first x minutes are free, and each additional minute costs $y. For instance, your first 100 emails are free, but each additional email costs five cents. No one can do much spam damage with only 100 free emails.
But, even then, I'm not convinced customers would embrace this or any other "e-stamp solution."
Messed up a link: Porn funds terrorism
Other things that fund terrorism:
Drugs Fund Terrorism
The Drug War Funds Terrorism
Porn Funds Terrorism
Saudi Arabia Funds Terrorism
Also, Diamonds, Weapons, Charities, Muslims, Extortion, bin Laden, and Al-Queda funds terrorism
I'm told that the board will look at the decision in terms of cost, not for benefit to the students.
To have no Windows anywhere is going to cost the college a lot of prospective students who are told, "We have weird computers in our labs with Linux and they won't allow us to have normal computers with Windows because the college gets more money that way." And the prospective students are going to run away, confused.
OK, didn't know it was a short story as well. Thanks!
OK, now I'm intrigued, but I doubt I'll ever see the episode... how does it end? You might should put SPOILER warnings all over your reply! :D
One person downloads The Two Towers and the whole school can get it. I don't see how the cap will make a huge difference in the long run.
This is why a policy like this might be good. It won't make a huge difference for the students because they will still have The Two Towers available for download on the network, but it WILL make a huge difference for the college, who won't have to pay for downloading the movie multiple times from the internet.
There are a lot of posts worrying about business collusion, but what about customer collusion? A site like PriceWatch should be able to go through a website and collect prices under different profiles.
Then, as a customer, I might get a little annoyed knowing that a company is trying to sell me a book for $20 when I know Person X can get it for $15.
Did anyone else read "Is Microsoft Hoisting Its Own Copyright Retard?" No, for some reason I read "European Life in Doubt."
Don't worry, the ISPs still have a core group of subscribers. Namely, the large percentage (I forgot the exact number, but it's big) of the country who don't have access to broadband, like myself. I'll be an Earthlink subscriber for a long time to come because I live about a mile away from people with cable modems, and I called Adelphia the other day and they said I wouldn't have cable internet until a year from now. This is exactly what they said last year. :(
The only problem is the learning curve of new technologies they were not taught puts them that far behind other programmers who went to tech school for 3 weeks to learn C# or something.
Um..... yes, about 3 weeks behind them.
When I was a kid, we had to walk to school in the snow uphill, both ways! And we didn't need no copyright mumbo-jumbo. If somebody wanted to sing a song I wrote, I just punched them in the nose!
To test their theory, the Vortex folks have thrown in rocks, diapers, tomatoes, sweet potato rejects from the farm down the road, 400 pounds of Oreo cookies, frozen pizza dough, even a dead bird.
Ah ha! I was wondering who broke into my house. You can't imagine how hard it is to get your insurance company to believe someone stole 400 pounds of Oreo's from you, not to mention a dead bird.
saying its not a law is like saying I can get in a plane and go 500mph, so the 55mph speed limit on the highway is not a law....
Actually, saying Moore's Law is not a law is more like saying Murphy's Law is not a law. They both aren't really laws, more like generalizations that hold true most of the time.
What I mean is, I don't think an intelligent being would be capable of creating something that is more intelligent than himself. The machines need to be programmed by humans, who are limited by their own inteligence.
Creating a computer that can think as well as a human or close to that of a human is actually more exciting than you make it out to be. First of all, where is the limit on human intelligence? It's at the amount of data we have and the ability to find new data. We are always discovering more data using the data we have now. If a computer was as smart as a human, then it could discover new data just as a human does, and possibly faster. We would then have more "brains" increasing that limit of human intelligence (and at the same time increasing what we can create with that human intelligence). Secondly, if a computer was as intelligent as a human, then I could have a robot maid! That would be great.
CmdrTaco,
I missed Taken last night which premiered last night on SciFi last night, so I have no opinion whether I liked Taken last night which premiered last night on SciFi last night. Last night I was doing something else last night. I'll try to catch it tonight.
What if they made a game where you got a better score by shooting people? What happens is that people get densensitized to the concerns about murder. Oh wait, that already happened.
Nevermind.