The first two sentences were my favorite, in which he called RMS' referral to him as a "Microsoft apologist" a "personal attack," then proceeded to launch into his apology for Microsoft.
Actually, if they represent themselves as not censoring their reviews, they're lying to the public. If that's not unethical, I don't know what is, "ownership" rights or not. The extent of my "rights" in the matter does not only include "not liking it," as the plutocrats who would have me on my knees worshipping their property "rights" to lie by censorship but also includes doing my best to put a dent in their sales by making very public the fact they are screening legitimate negative reviews.
When you were talking about Google deleting the single email, I thought you meant at the request of the bank rather than at the request of the court. The right thing for the bank to do is to notify the affected account holders and pay for credit monitoring for a year or two. Of course, that would have caused bad PR:).
Would you want to be a server administrator getting a bunch of phone calls each day from people who wanted to "recall" emails they or their employees had sent to your users? For one thing, how would you (efficiently) determine whether these requests actually came on behalf of the sender?
There are always options, but MS is relying on the likelihood that at least the perceived cost of switching will be greater than that year's licensing fees, and that no CIO is going to risk his/her job by taking a huge budget hit to switch off the platform in return for not having to pay the maintenance every year.
Covert duress works great in protecting nuclear weapons, but Joe Sixpack is going to fatfinger and enter the duress code so many times that there aren't enough cops on earth to respond. Got to admit that I'd had the same idea in the past, though.
Love and obsession are easily confused perhaps because they're often paired, but whatever drives someone to spy on his/her ex is most certainly not love.
All that and if you're at work on a Windows domain network, your friendly eye-tee people have access to your mounted filesystems and everything contained therein . . .
Email with a link to an unique IMG tag that you make sure to never read. If the web server gets a hit for that image, someone's reading your email. Of course, that fails in the presence of an adversary smart enough to open your mailbox read-only and turn off image loading in the client. Another idea is to put something so juicy in a bogus email that an obsessed ex-lover reading it would be likely to act on the information--say, a fake date at a time and place--if your stalker ex "happens by," s/he is probably reading your email.
Vista is regarded as bad by people in the know because they're aware that:
Windows XP is Windows 2000 + eye candy and spyware
Windows Vista is Windows XP + more spyware and more DRM
Windows 7 is Windows Vista + even more DRM
Nice that it keeps search terms out of ISP and webserver logs, but how do I know I can trust the people behind Scroogle. Seems a collection of IP addresses and search terms from people with "something to hide" could be quite valuable.
Wives or prospective wives are actually against prostitutes because prostitutes undercut the cost of wives by far. Actually, any woman who will have sex with a man without a long term commitment is reviled by females at large, because each act deflates what they can get from men for sex or a long term contract therefor (i.e. marriage), hence the labeling of women who will do so as "sluts" or "whores."
When the margins are so huge as to be infinite (case in point SMS, about which the cellular fat cats are answering pointed questions on the Hill), they really aren't taking all that much of a risk. They bill thousands of dollars for services that cost them pennies, then write off the losses when the occasional customer declares bankruptcy. I'm sure they're not hemorrhaging money too badly from that.
By the time your laundry list would be complete, you wouldn't be able to leave. There are already internal checkpoints--flown lately? Or driven within 100 miles of the border?
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Nice to see the robber barons on the run from the administration and the public instead of on the run for once.
The first two sentences were my favorite, in which he called RMS' referral to him as a "Microsoft apologist" a "personal attack," then proceeded to launch into his apology for Microsoft.
Actually, if they represent themselves as not censoring their reviews, they're lying to the public. If that's not unethical, I don't know what is, "ownership" rights or not. The extent of my "rights" in the matter does not only include "not liking it," as the plutocrats who would have me on my knees worshipping their property "rights" to lie by censorship but also includes doing my best to put a dent in their sales by making very public the fact they are screening legitimate negative reviews.
IOW, you're a power-tripping wannabe eye-tee network nazi who's about to get "schooled" in who really runs things at your college.
When you were talking about Google deleting the single email, I thought you meant at the request of the bank rather than at the request of the court. The right thing for the bank to do is to notify the affected account holders and pay for credit monitoring for a year or two. Of course, that would have caused bad PR :).
Would you want to be a server administrator getting a bunch of phone calls each day from people who wanted to "recall" emails they or their employees had sent to your users? For one thing, how would you (efficiently) determine whether these requests actually came on behalf of the sender?
They aren't confused. They're intentionally using freeware as a pejorative.
There are always options, but MS is relying on the likelihood that at least the perceived cost of switching will be greater than that year's licensing fees, and that no CIO is going to risk his/her job by taking a huge budget hit to switch off the platform in return for not having to pay the maintenance every year.
Well put. Wish I still had mod points.
Exactly--just like there are no ads on cable because subscribers pay for it. Oh, wait :(.
Covert duress works great in protecting nuclear weapons, but Joe Sixpack is going to fatfinger and enter the duress code so many times that there aren't enough cops on earth to respond. Got to admit that I'd had the same idea in the past, though.
Love and obsession are easily confused perhaps because they're often paired, but whatever drives someone to spy on his/her ex is most certainly not love.
All that and if you're at work on a Windows domain network, your friendly eye-tee people have access to your mounted filesystems and everything contained therein . . .
Email with a link to an unique IMG tag that you make sure to never read. If the web server gets a hit for that image, someone's reading your email. Of course, that fails in the presence of an adversary smart enough to open your mailbox read-only and turn off image loading in the client. Another idea is to put something so juicy in a bogus email that an obsessed ex-lover reading it would be likely to act on the information--say, a fake date at a time and place--if your stalker ex "happens by," s/he is probably reading your email.
You use the illegally gotten information to "stumble" upon other evidence legally. The same way the police do it.
Vista is regarded as bad by people in the know because they're aware that: Windows XP is Windows 2000 + eye candy and spyware Windows Vista is Windows XP + more spyware and more DRM Windows 7 is Windows Vista + even more DRM
Nice that it keeps search terms out of ISP and webserver logs, but how do I know I can trust the people behind Scroogle. Seems a collection of IP addresses and search terms from people with "something to hide" could be quite valuable.
Wives or prospective wives are actually against prostitutes because prostitutes undercut the cost of wives by far. Actually, any woman who will have sex with a man without a long term commitment is reviled by females at large, because each act deflates what they can get from men for sex or a long term contract therefor (i.e. marriage), hence the labeling of women who will do so as "sluts" or "whores."
At work, I'd be surprised if emails routed in and out aren't stored separately from the copies you deleted for some period of time.
You underestimate the ability of the maintainers of the block lists. Your little trick will have a lifespan measured in hours, if not minutes.
Until it's illegal to surveil them. Citizens have already been arrested and charged for taping cops in public or on their own property.
When the margins are so huge as to be infinite (case in point SMS, about which the cellular fat cats are answering pointed questions on the Hill), they really aren't taking all that much of a risk. They bill thousands of dollars for services that cost them pennies, then write off the losses when the occasional customer declares bankruptcy. I'm sure they're not hemorrhaging money too badly from that.
By the time your laundry list would be complete, you wouldn't be able to leave. There are already internal checkpoints--flown lately? Or driven within 100 miles of the border?
Thanks, grabbed this as well.
Thank you, Good Sir. Grabbed.