Oh yeah it probably will, but the large corporations making the devices will have an 'easy' button hiddenon the underside for the Republican supports to press when things look like its going bad for them..:)
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WFIW, I agree..
And Personally, I feel that any large corporation, be it IBM, HP or Microsoft, will do whatever it feels is necessary to protect it's own position.
IBM may be the 'hero of the hour' right now, but I have a nasty feeling that this may be a very insideous form of 'Embrace and Extend'...a practice that may on slashdot accuse Microsoft of carrying out, and yet it may be happening even now, right under our noses.
In the end companies are in business to make money, not friends...
ATT are s**ting themselves now that MCI/Worldcom are about to come out of bankruptcy and kick their (and verizons and sbc's ) asses. Expect to see more consolodation in the phone industry... The only reason that Verizon, SBC, etc didn't end up like Worldcom is 'cause they didn't get *caught*... allegedy:)
So since they are about to loose more money in their phone business, they have to use the SCO doctorine:)
OK, how many times do I have to say this.
I have never purchased or used ANYTHING that I have had an email (spam) Ad for and I never will, so you can logically assume that I won't buy or use anything I get an IM ad for. I don't care how many times you send something to me, it won't change my mind.
So, like, just don't bother.
Interestingly enough, I just allowed an old domain I used to run, to expire and had the domain hosting folks remove the zonefiles from their DNS - my daily spam load has dropped from almost 25 a day to zero. I'm being a lot more careful in how I use email addresses, so it really does make a difference.
The ones I do find particularly insideous are those spider bots that comb websites looking for contact addresses - that to me is by far the worst abuse...
Here I am, brain the size of a planet...
Of course, you know that viruses are actually written by the same people who write the virus checking software... It's a clever scam to create a software business out of nothing:)
The more schemes like this that come along, the more I realize that the terrorists that were behind the World Trade Center and Pentagon attrocities have, in fact, achieved some of their aims.
The US (and other western nations) are slowly, but surely, relieving the average citizen of their privacy rights in the interests of 'the war on terror' (such as it is). And of course, it's is our very freedoms (in many things) that the terrorists want to take away - to make us afraid...
I don't know what the future holds, but worlds such as those portrayed in films like 'Minority Report' don't seem so far fetched anymore..
Turn on MTV and watch for about an hour. Keep track with a pencil and paper, count how many of these pop artists actually play an instrument. Then count how many of those actually write their own music. It's disgraceful to call these people "professional". They in no way act professional. They neither write music, play music nor perform it. They have dance instructors for the performances and lipsync the albums.
Hah! since when did you last see anything about MUSIC on MTV? Between "Surf Girls" and "Real World" and all that other shit they broadcast, they ought to change their name...
MTV is a mechanism to rot the brains of those who watch it... thus turning them into morons who buy CD's...
You know, USENET may be old, creaking at the seams and all, but given that everything passing over USENET has (I believe) been already legally protected by the ISP's 'common carrier' status, I don't see distribution of MP3's stopping anytime soon.
The RIAA is posturing to focus all attention on P2P methods, and while they are perhaps winning the tactical battle, they will not win the longterm strategic war, because I really can't see the RIAA being able to challenge ISP's over the stuff thats going out over USENET - and as someone who administers a large 'fleet' of USENET news servers, I am VERY aware of the huge ongoing increase in multipart RAR-split binaries. In my traffic analysis, the MP3 binary groups consistently come out on top, and the number is only going up - and will continue to go up as the RIAA's slimy lawyers do their work...
People have already tried to sue ISP's over the content of their USENET data streams, and failed - perhaps in the end, one of the oldest technologies/protocols on the internet will bring these bastards to their knees - I sincerely hope so...
If part of the intention of the terrorists was to change the U.S. way of life, then they have succeeded in ways that they could not have imagined.
I'm all for taking REASONABLE precautions (it's ALWAYS a good idea to have an emergency plan and supplies, especially if you live in a tornado or hurricane-prone area), but people are scared, and this is exactly what these terrorist f**kwits want.
You believe that corporate-sponsored bullshit?
The fact is that no-one... and I mean NO_ONE in this company deserves a bonus. If these so-called key people are unhappy, let them give their 'two weeks notice' like the rest of us and **** off.
And for Worldcom to clam that the passing of this would "Improve employee Morale" is such bullshit...
yeah it'll improve the morale of 325 poeple... so the other 65675 can just go home now...
Unbelieveable - immoral...a total outrage...
Let's face it... until the 'baby' Bells get what they want (i.e. access to long distance markets without having to open up their own networks) they won't make it any easier for providers to give their customers broadband access.
And even then, I doubt that they will make it easier.
I blame the lack of broadband access in the US, fairly and squarely on the bells...
Yeah, sounds good, but unfortunately, once you start bringing in the tech firms, and the jobs start rolling, that ever-present human trait of GREED will soon render your rents and housing costs unaffordable..
It happened in Loudoun County Virginia... it can happen anywhere...because greedy landlords and developers are everywhere:)
If only we could convince the general public how bad this idea is, and so dissuade them from buying any new hardware with this technology built in... pipe dream, I know...but it would soon have a few companies squirming as they see their bottom lines slide south as their sales disappeared...
Sure, they'll tempt us with movies and such that can only be played on protected equipment, but if we can only resist this temptation...
In the end, the real power, i.e. the power to purchase or NOT to purchase is in our hands....
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Hmm I thought it kinda looked like Jabba the Hutt with his mouth open (ho ho ho.... )
Oh yeah it probably will, but the large corporations making the devices will have an 'easy' button hiddenon the underside for the Republican supports to press when things look like its going bad for them.. :)
10 or so years down the line, expect to have someone run your 'health check' at the same time they run your credit report....
I hate to be paranoid, but this is EXACTLY whats going to happen...
Will it be in Miltary green, or John Deere green?
And Personally, I feel that any large corporation, be it IBM, HP or Microsoft, will do whatever it feels is necessary to protect it's own position.
IBM may be the 'hero of the hour' right now, but I have a nasty feeling that this may be a very insideous form of 'Embrace and Extend'...a practice that may on slashdot accuse Microsoft of carrying out, and yet it may be happening even now, right under our noses.
In the end companies are in business to make money, not friends...
ATT are s**ting themselves now that MCI/Worldcom are about to come out of bankruptcy and kick their (and verizons and sbc's ) asses. Expect to see more consolodation in the phone industry... The only reason that Verizon, SBC, etc didn't end up like Worldcom is 'cause they didn't get *caught*... allegedy :)
So since they are about to loose more money in their phone business, they have to use the SCO doctorine :)
OK, how many times do I have to say this. I have never purchased or used ANYTHING that I have had an email (spam) Ad for and I never will, so you can logically assume that I won't buy or use anything I get an IM ad for. I don't care how many times you send something to me, it won't change my mind. So, like, just don't bother. Interestingly enough, I just allowed an old domain I used to run, to expire and had the domain hosting folks remove the zonefiles from their DNS - my daily spam load has dropped from almost 25 a day to zero. I'm being a lot more careful in how I use email addresses, so it really does make a difference. The ones I do find particularly insideous are those spider bots that comb websites looking for contact addresses - that to me is by far the worst abuse... Here I am, brain the size of a planet...
Of course, you know that viruses are actually written by the same people who write the virus checking software... It's a clever scam to create a software business out of nothing :)
The US (and other western nations) are slowly, but surely, relieving the average citizen of their privacy rights in the interests of 'the war on terror' (such as it is). And of course, it's is our very freedoms (in many things) that the terrorists want to take away - to make us afraid...
I don't know what the future holds, but worlds such as those portrayed in films like 'Minority Report' don't seem so far fetched anymore..
Hah! since when did you last see anything about MUSIC on MTV? Between "Surf Girls" and "Real World" and all that other shit they broadcast, they ought to change their name...
MTV is a mechanism to rot the brains of those who watch it... thus turning them into morons who buy CD's...
The RIAA is posturing to focus all attention on P2P methods, and while they are perhaps winning the tactical battle, they will not win the longterm strategic war, because I really can't see the RIAA being able to challenge ISP's over the stuff thats going out over USENET - and as someone who administers a large 'fleet' of USENET news servers, I am VERY aware of the huge ongoing increase in multipart RAR-split binaries. In my traffic analysis, the MP3 binary groups consistently come out on top, and the number is only going up - and will continue to go up as the RIAA's slimy lawyers do their work...
People have already tried to sue ISP's over the content of their USENET data streams, and failed - perhaps in the end, one of the oldest technologies/protocols on the internet will bring these bastards to their knees - I sincerely hope so...
So by definition, probably most people fall into the "Pay Check Collector" category. What's different is how you apply yourself to the job you do...
Which reminds me of an old saying that is so true...
"A person is never too tired to tell how hard they have worked..."
If part of the intention of the terrorists was to change the U.S. way of life, then they have succeeded in ways that they could not have imagined.
I'm all for taking REASONABLE precautions (it's ALWAYS a good idea to have an emergency plan and supplies, especially if you live in a tornado or hurricane-prone area), but people are scared, and this is exactly what these terrorist f**kwits want.
Jeez, I can remember having a Forth compiler for my Commodore 64!!!!
I had heard that Sun use forth for their OpenBoot proms...
You believe that corporate-sponsored bullshit? The fact is that no-one... and I mean NO_ONE in this company deserves a bonus. If these so-called key people are unhappy, let them give their 'two weeks notice' like the rest of us and **** off. And for Worldcom to clam that the passing of this would "Improve employee Morale" is such bullshit... yeah it'll improve the morale of 325 poeple... so the other 65675 can just go home now... Unbelieveable - immoral...a total outrage...
Let's face it... until the 'baby' Bells get what they want (i.e. access to long distance markets without having to open up their own networks) they won't make it any easier for providers to give their customers broadband access. And even then, I doubt that they will make it easier. I blame the lack of broadband access in the US, fairly and squarely on the bells...
Yeah, sounds good, but unfortunately, once you start bringing in the tech firms, and the jobs start rolling, that ever-present human trait of GREED will soon render your rents and housing costs unaffordable..
:)
It happened in Loudoun County Virginia... it can happen anywhere...because greedy landlords and developers are everywhere
If only we could convince the general public how bad this idea is, and so dissuade them from buying any new hardware with this technology built in... pipe dream, I know...but it would soon have a few companies squirming as they see their bottom lines slide south as their sales disappeared...
Sure, they'll tempt us with movies and such that can only be played on protected equipment, but if we can only resist this temptation...
In the end, the real power, i.e. the power to purchase or NOT to purchase is in our hands....