Why don't states like Utah spend more time lobbying the Feds to repeal all of the laws which funnel taxpayer dollars into these corrupt startups?
Do you think you could be more specific? You posted this general notion a couple different times, but I'm not aware of a single bit of legislation on the books entitled the "Corrupt Startup Protection Act."
Or am I going to get modded down for asking for clarification from a replier?
Gambling is basically a tax on poor, dumb people that benefits rich entities. It promotes a something-for-nothing, perverse work ethic.
I wasn't aware that I was gambling as some way to subsist, or as a way to express my work ethic. I thought I was gambling for pure entertainment. Thanks for setting me straight though, obviously you see all the angles.
Mod parent down. This suggestion has already been implemented in several different forms. Just the other day I was in a piano bar playing the original Joust, Defender and Root Beer Tapper, all on the same physical cabinet, all for one quarter a pop. There were also a bunch of relatively more recent games bundled in, like SF2 and such.
Barrett complained about federal agriculture subsidies he said were worth tens of billions of dollars while government investment in physical sciences was a relatively low $5 billion. "I can't understand why we continue to pour resources into the industries of the 19th century," Barrett said.
Yeah, that whole eating thing is sooo 19th century.
If for no other reason than you might catch him doing something he's not supposed to be doing. I know that, as a child, I was terrified of doing something I wasn't supposed to be doing because my mom/dad could wander into my room at any moment.
As if the threat of going blind wasn't enough...;)
Don't blame the artists for the work of the RIAA: we're as much victims of the music industry cartels as the consumer.
And whose fault is that? As a musician, didn't you, sign a contract with one of the RIAA member companies? If not, then you're not part of the problem. If so, then you are.
Who keeps signing these ridiculous contracts? This whole RIAA situation is a result of three truths: 1) Record company people are shady. 2) Agents/managers are either shady or incompetent. 3) Musicians are ignorant.
Otherwise musicians wouldn't sign away the permanent rights to their own work, for pennies on each dollar that the record company makes.
you have to fundamentally change it (eg, stop it being turn based)
Yeah, it had always struck me that games like Gauntlet was the extension of Rogue/Nethack type games into the multiplayer dimension.
However, it is worth noting that multiple players playing Nethack on the same system can interact, albeit indirectly, with each other. If my character dies, there is a chance that the same map level will be reproduced in someone else's future game, complete with the ghost of my character and all his equipment. Though most of it will be cursed.
Does Intel lack the ability to block external e-mail addresses? Geez, I'm buying AMD next time!
Contained in your joke is an interesting, non-funny point. This court ruling bodes bad for anybody who wants to retain the privilege of using email at work for personal purposes. The easiest way for Intel to remove malcontents' ability to communicate with its employees is to cut off all external email communication and restrict general email use to inside the corporation.
Okay, so they're collecting information on what I'm watching with my TiVo. Great. I hope they use it to make sure that more programs that I like (Firefly, etc) stay afloat while more retarded programming gets axed.
One thing, though. When I "power down" my TV viewing system, I do it by shutting off my television and stereo receiver and walking away. The Tivo stays happily on whatever channel it was on, thereby "viewing" whatever show is on between then and when I next turn it on. Unless something gets recorded in the meantime, for which it will have to change channels.
So I suppose I better change the channel right before I turn the system off, in order to artificially boost the ratings of whatever network I happen to be watching? What if this is the usage model of a million different people?
Yes. The "something more" is that EA had a licensing agreement in place with the Bundesliga that they evidently assumed would give them some limited right to use the likenesses of the players therein.
There was some mention in the article that if there ends up being damages declared that EA has to pay, they will in turn sue Bundesliga to recoup.
Well then it looks like AG is taking a relatively pragmatic stance on this. I suppose that's a good thing, they don't appear to be hiding behind "virtues" or "ideals," simply that some customers were freaked out and asked for them to take action. Now as to the veracity of that claim... Seems dubious to me.
If I see a picture of Ronald McDonald used in some nasty cartoon that my kids should never see anyways, I'm not going to complain to McDonalds about it. That's totally misguided.
Also, RV hasn't responded to your well-put point about the whole thing backfiring on them. I feel secure in speculating that there are more people pissed off at them NOW, than were pissed off about the Strawberry Shortcake cartoon in the first place.
Because the DMCA is constructed in such a way that the violators are presumed guilty until proven innocent. Now the RIAA can go directly to Verizon and say "give us this name" and they must do so, without intervention or assistance from a judge.
I do not trust the RIAA with that power. Neither should you.
Assuming a business model like the following, which may or may not closely resemble this 'Thank You' software:
- User runs a distributed computing app on his computer, accumulating credits of some kind on a per work-unit basis.
- User can cash in his work-unit credits for merchandise, music, software, whatever.
This could have interesting impact on the whole "how much CPU power is too much" question. Suddenly there are more reasons than just bragging rights to have the fastest CPU on the block. I wonder if Intel or AMD would start to encourage this kind of thing.
I'm still looking for evidence that we're decreasing the typical latency to get important info (like the fact that I just shot my sniper rifle at some counter-terrorist) across the globe.
Imagine, international internet gaming with low latencies all 'round. Sounds like a pipe dream.
I was the target of a joe-job since last April. A spammer advertising a Human Growth Hormone website based in China was sending out tens of thousands of spams over a long period, with my long-held email addy in the From: address.
The vast majority of the mails you get back are administrative emails saying that "the user does not exist." There is also a small amount that you get that are ill-informed, ignorant, and often very inflamed responses from people who respond.
At the peak of the attack, I got over 14,000 emails in a single day. It almost caused me to have to give up my email address, which I had held for almost seven years at the time. I didn't want to give it up so easily.
My solution was to install and use the Tagged Message Delivery Agent (http://www.tmda.net), which is a whitelisting service. It has my admiration for rejecting 100% of the unwanted emails for two reasons. First administrative accounts don't reply to their whitelisting requests, and second, ignorant angry users don't bother to reply to get whitelisted anyways.
As for the question of why someone would do this, I have thought of three reasons:
- To make their spam look more legitimate. - Just to cause general havoc - Because I have, in the past, not hesitated to complain to service providers about spam. This was probably retribution.
I did attempt to bring some form of legal action into the fray. I talked informally to Scott Frewing, a US attorney (one of the prime players in the Skylarov case), about the attack. He referred me to the FBI's online fraud folks, but couldn't really give me much encouragement on the chance of the success, since the spammer's website was located in the China Telecom domain, although the company it claimed to represent was in New Jersey. In fact, he told me I would probably be better off pursuing the case strictly on the basis of fraud and possible identity theft (the use of my email address) rather than as a spam case.
I stopped pursuing it after talking to Frewing.
In any event, I have won the battle in the sense that I will never see the unwanted mails. But I have lost the war in the sense that I can't really make the F*CKER stop doing it, and it does consume resources on my linux box.
References, please. If you're going to claim these things about our legislative branch, you should know better than to say them without backing them up.
Your logic only holds assuming infinite (or at least "always enough") storage space on devices.
The reason that mp3 and ogg are so successful is that, to most human ears, it's no loss in audio quality and a 8x improvement in storage capacity.
Unless I'm one of the very small handful of people that can discern a carefully LAME-encoded mp3 from its original CD source, why would I *NOT* want continued improvement in lossy codecs? Nothing to lose, storage space to gain.
And exactly how are they going to detect this evil traffic? By monitoring the origination ports of the network traffic? Presumably they're going to look at the port numbers and go "hm, that number's different from the one a few minutes ago. Must be a NAT!"
If that's the case, then I encourage any Comcast customer who uses a single computer, who has the know-how, to write a script that generates arbitrary originating port numbers on all the traffic. That would rule.
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Do you think you could be more specific? You posted this general notion a couple different times, but I'm not aware of a single bit of legislation on the books entitled the "Corrupt Startup Protection Act."
Or am I going to get modded down for asking for clarification from a replier?
Gambling is basically a tax on poor, dumb people that benefits rich entities. It promotes a something-for-nothing, perverse work ethic.
I wasn't aware that I was gambling as some way to subsist, or as a way to express my work ethic. I thought I was gambling for pure entertainment. Thanks for setting me straight though, obviously you see all the angles.
Mod parent down. This suggestion has already been implemented in several different forms. Just the other day I was in a piano bar playing the original Joust, Defender and Root Beer Tapper, all on the same physical cabinet, all for one quarter a pop. There were also a bunch of relatively more recent games bundled in, like SF2 and such.
Barrett complained about federal agriculture subsidies he said were worth tens of billions of dollars while government investment in physical sciences was a relatively low $5 billion. "I can't understand why we continue to pour resources into the industries of the 19th century," Barrett said.
Yeah, that whole eating thing is sooo 19th century.
If for no other reason than you might catch him doing something he's not supposed to be doing. I know that, as a child, I was terrified of doing something I wasn't supposed to be doing because my mom/dad could wander into my room at any moment.
;)
As if the threat of going blind wasn't enough...
Don't blame the artists for the work of the RIAA: we're as much victims of the music industry cartels as the consumer.
And whose fault is that? As a musician, didn't you, sign a contract with one of the RIAA member companies? If not, then you're not part of the problem. If so, then you are.
Who keeps signing these ridiculous contracts? This whole RIAA situation is a result of three truths: 1) Record company people are shady. 2) Agents/managers are either shady or incompetent. 3) Musicians are ignorant.
Otherwise musicians wouldn't sign away the permanent rights to their own work, for pennies on each dollar that the record company makes.
you have to fundamentally change it (eg, stop it being turn based)
Yeah, it had always struck me that games like Gauntlet was the extension of Rogue/Nethack type games into the multiplayer dimension.
However, it is worth noting that multiple players playing Nethack on the same system can interact, albeit indirectly, with each other. If my character dies, there is a chance that the same map level will be reproduced in someone else's future game, complete with the ghost of my character and all his equipment. Though most of it will be cursed.
the "Crushbone Factor", referencing a particular area of Everquest
Great. We refer to part of Everquest to measure how good a game is?
That's like complimenting a game by saying it has the "root canal" factor.
How do we reconcile these two statements:
- "most PC games are designed specifically to be controlled with a mouse and keyboard"
- there are no commonly-available mouse/keyboard style controller for console gaming platforms
Either PC game authors are really missing the boat, or console peripheral designers are really missing the boat.
Does Intel lack the ability to block external e-mail addresses? Geez, I'm buying AMD next time!
Contained in your joke is an interesting, non-funny point. This court ruling bodes bad for anybody who wants to retain the privilege of using email at work for personal purposes. The easiest way for Intel to remove malcontents' ability to communicate with its employees is to cut off all external email communication and restrict general email use to inside the corporation.
Louisville, KY??? what are they smoking.
Exactly, my friend... Exactly.
Okay, so they're collecting information on what I'm watching with my TiVo. Great. I hope they use it to make sure that more programs that I like (Firefly, etc) stay afloat while more retarded programming gets axed.
One thing, though. When I "power down" my TV viewing system, I do it by shutting off my television and stereo receiver and walking away. The Tivo stays happily on whatever channel it was on, thereby "viewing" whatever show is on between then and when I next turn it on. Unless something gets recorded in the meantime, for which it will have to change channels.
So I suppose I better change the channel right before I turn the system off, in order to artificially boost the ratings of whatever network I happen to be watching? What if this is the usage model of a million different people?
Yes. The "something more" is that EA had a licensing agreement in place with the Bundesliga that they evidently assumed would give them some limited right to use the likenesses of the players therein.
There was some mention in the article that if there ends up being damages declared that EA has to pay, they will in turn sue Bundesliga to recoup.
Well then it looks like AG is taking a relatively pragmatic stance on this. I suppose that's a good thing, they don't appear to be hiding behind "virtues" or "ideals," simply that some customers were freaked out and asked for them to take action. Now as to the veracity of that claim... Seems dubious to me.
If I see a picture of Ronald McDonald used in some nasty cartoon that my kids should never see anyways, I'm not going to complain to McDonalds about it. That's totally misguided.
Also, RV hasn't responded to your well-put point about the whole thing backfiring on them. I feel secure in speculating that there are more people pissed off at them NOW, than were pissed off about the Strawberry Shortcake cartoon in the first place.
Because the DMCA is constructed in such a way that the violators are presumed guilty until proven innocent. Now the RIAA can go directly to Verizon and say "give us this name" and they must do so, without intervention or assistance from a judge.
I do not trust the RIAA with that power. Neither should you.
my wife is currently here on an H1B
:)
Being the wife of an American citizen, doesn't she already qualify for a guaranteed permanent immigrant status?
Either that or that or I should stop watching Gerard Depardieu movies.
That strange noise you heard was a monkey flying out of Bill Gates's butt.
Assuming a business model like the following, which may or may not closely resemble this 'Thank You' software:
- User runs a distributed computing app on his computer, accumulating credits of some kind on a per work-unit basis.
- User can cash in his work-unit credits for merchandise, music, software, whatever.
This could have interesting impact on the whole "how much CPU power is too much" question. Suddenly there are more reasons than just bragging rights to have the fastest CPU on the block. I wonder if Intel or AMD would start to encourage this kind of thing.
I'm still looking for evidence that we're decreasing the typical latency to get important info (like the fact that I just shot my sniper rifle at some counter-terrorist) across the globe.
Imagine, international internet gaming with low latencies all 'round. Sounds like a pipe dream.
I was the target of a joe-job since last April. A spammer advertising a Human Growth Hormone website based in China was sending out tens of thousands of spams over a long period, with my long-held email addy in the From: address.
The vast majority of the mails you get back are administrative emails saying that "the user does not exist." There is also a small amount that you get that are ill-informed, ignorant, and often very inflamed responses from people who respond.
At the peak of the attack, I got over 14,000 emails in a single day. It almost caused me to have to give up my email address, which I had held for almost seven years at the time. I didn't want to give it up so easily.
My solution was to install and use the Tagged Message Delivery Agent (http://www.tmda.net), which is a whitelisting service. It has my admiration for rejecting 100% of the unwanted emails for two reasons. First administrative accounts don't reply to their whitelisting requests, and second, ignorant angry users don't bother to reply to get whitelisted anyways.
As for the question of why someone would do this, I have thought of three reasons:
- To make their spam look more legitimate.
- Just to cause general havoc
- Because I have, in the past, not hesitated to complain to service providers about spam. This was probably retribution.
I did attempt to bring some form of legal action into the fray. I talked informally to Scott Frewing, a US attorney (one of the prime players in the Skylarov case), about the attack. He referred me to the FBI's online fraud folks, but couldn't really give me much encouragement on the chance of the success, since the spammer's website was located in the China Telecom domain, although the company it claimed to represent was in New Jersey. In fact, he told me I would probably be better off pursuing the case strictly on the basis of fraud and possible identity theft (the use of my email address) rather than as a spam case.
I stopped pursuing it after talking to Frewing.
In any event, I have won the battle in the sense that I will never see the unwanted mails. But I have lost the war in the sense that I can't really make the F*CKER stop doing it, and it does consume resources on my linux box.
References, please. If you're going to claim these things about our legislative branch, you should know better than to say them without backing them up.
Your logic only holds assuming infinite (or at least "always enough") storage space on devices.
The reason that mp3 and ogg are so successful is that, to most human ears, it's no loss in audio quality and a 8x improvement in storage capacity.
Unless I'm one of the very small handful of people that can discern a carefully LAME-encoded mp3 from its original CD source, why would I *NOT* want continued improvement in lossy codecs? Nothing to lose, storage space to gain.
Here's why I'll never get a machine that plays this format:
BE KIND, REWIND
And exactly how are they going to detect this evil traffic? By monitoring the origination ports of the network traffic? Presumably they're going to look at the port numbers and go "hm, that number's different from the one a few minutes ago. Must be a NAT!"
If that's the case, then I encourage any Comcast customer who uses a single computer, who has the know-how, to write a script that generates arbitrary originating port numbers on all the traffic. That would rule.
Suddenly I find myself rather inspired to donate my body to science. I guess because I just realized it might be useful.