That is interesting... they could call the account type "high security" account. Then people will think, yeah I'm nervous about identity theft and terrorism, I want a high security account!
If you are in Canada and want to send money back and forth online, all the major Canadian banks have an agreement that allows you to transfer cash to another account. It's an Interac-like system, see Certapay. Why isn't something like this available across the border, so we could send money throughout North America like this? Seems beautiful to me.
On the vendor side, if you are trying to sell your own arbitrary goods, then 2CO might work out for you.
Actually in business it's called a float. Any kind of a system that ensures money going in and out, with some time delay, produces a beautifully huge float of cash that a company can then leverage for investments. Free money is good and companies can create a flow of free money for themselves in many ways.
The insurance industry is entirely based on this, for example. The "insurance" aspect is a side issue. The constant inflow of money, and delayed outflow of money (after some is fraudulantly held back of course) creates a massive amount of cash that the company can generate income on.
Here's the way I'd like to see Google approach this, for my own selfish needs. Make a GOOD online payment system - so I can sell arbitrary goods from my web site (subscriptions, software, whatever) and customers can pay by credit cards or whatever. None of this sign of for membership first nonsense - drive by, pay me, I deliver the goods. Google has the expertise to implement a beautiful notification/receipt/auto-delivery system upon payment. And they can keep the fees low, meaning they will get all the business from their competitors like digibuy, 2co etc... and now they have billions more in cash to throw around. It's good for the company, it's good for everyone (except their competitors)
Let's review this nonsense of an operating system that does not cooperate with you. I refuse to run any operating system that pesters me with activation codes etc, if I do something simple like modify the hardware. I'm still running Windows 2000 and refuse to move to any release that includes mechanisms to lock me out of my own system. I don't need the hassle, and I won't PAY for the privilege of being harassed.
There was a widespread incident a few years back where corporate installations of Microsoft Office expired on some date and required a web activation. This resulted in millions of dollars of lost productivity world wide while IT departments scrambled to get valid codes for all those machines with word processors that failed for no particular reason.
Is this the future of computing? Well I'm not putting up with that kind of crap. If I'm running OpenOffice on Linux or FreeBSD, I know my operating system or application vendor isn't going to wake up on the wrong side of the bed one morning and kick my ass out of my system.
people from my univ might recognize this... there was a famous guy in our engineering faculty who, back in the 90s, had written some kind of an automated porn downloading app. It was running on their UNIX servers but he left it running unattended. apparently he had no quota because within a few days he had filled up the entire system storage with porn, several hundreds of megabytes worth which was very substantial back then.
I had a similar experience, I was playing around on irc back when we were swapping video files through DCC. apparently some downloading got out of hand and paged the admin, who contacted me and politely pointed out that I had a process running wild and filling/tmp... oops, must be an experiment gone wrong I had to say
Did you visit the site? It's a real petition - names, addresses on paper. We have 5 people nationally coordinating document collection. Approximately 2000 Canadians have already signed the petition. The petition is prepared in accordance with House specifications, and has already been presented to Parliament and as more signatures accumulate
The moral is, the USA isn't really more corrupt or backward than many other governments out there. They were just the first to get it
Wrong, you obviously don't know the back ground to WIPO. All of this nonsense originated in the USA. American companies lobbied Clinton government in 1995; that legislation (NII) never passed Congress, it was circumvented outside the borders through the United Nations and implemented in the WIPO Treaty. Now it's stage 2, implement WIPO worldwide. We wouldn't have any of this crap if it wasn't for industry lobbies in the USA.
All this digital anti-copying stuff really does not come down to piracy and copying media for your convenience. Even if it happens in mass quantities. A much more significant issue is at the heart of the matter; in the balance of law (the goal is to provide balance), do we lean towards the rights of the citizen/consumer or the rights of the corporation?
The problem with these DMCA-style legislations (originating in the WIPO) is that by all measures they move the balance towards corporations and away from consumers. The industry gains the ability to preempt what they perceive as theft through measures limiting the convenience and freedom of citizens when they use computers and digital equipment.
I am a Canadian electrical engineer. My main concern about the DMCA coming into Canada is the headache it will create in my field with respect to research and innovation. Some of the security research I will be doing next year for my postgraduate degree is borderline illegal in the USA; however, I feel it is essential research for furthering security in digital hardware (globally - who gives a shit about pop music).
Freedom of speech and information is also a significant concern. When laws like the DMCA are in place, big business gains a big red button to harass citizens as a whole. Evidence is of course the DMCA, which can be invoked to automatically kick customers off of ISPs without even verifying that any "theft" was taking place.
The WIPO treaty is a crock of shit, to put it bluntly, and I think I can outlast the recording industry's business timespan with my persistence. I think the media industry is nearly dead.
And sign the petition. This site originally started as anti-DMCA in Canada and that's still the basic idea. But yes, definitely get in contact with your MP.
Though not implementing this law would mean violating the WIPOs rulings
Who cares? WIPO isn't the word of God floating down to earth from heaven above. It's the result of a 1995 American bill (NII) under Clinton, which failed in Congress. The industry picked up the flame outside US borders in the WIPO committee under the United Nations. Basically this is a disgusting effort of the media industry to force their desires, which could not originally pass in the USA as law, upon the rest of the world. [reference]
I've been working pretty hard against this for years. I have phoned up my government representative and tried to talk to them about the issue but realistically, people in government do not understand the issue and are voting blindly. I have documented the proposed changes to law in this Q and A (no surprise, the background is in US legislation). There was a lot of interest from concerned Canadians, including a petition (with thousands of signatures).
Personally, I will never again buy music or media that originates from an artist under the membership of one of the industry associations (CRIA, RIAA, MPAA) that has lobbied governments and fooled our politicans. From now on it's rentals and second-used (used) media only for me. Please help keep your money out of the hands of these associations; they are already dying, let's finish them off.
I will not shed a tear for them. These ridiculous laws are not in the best interest of citizens or consumers, at all. You can't convince me otherwise no matter how you spin it.
Since XviD is open source MPEG-4 codec (implying it's easier to get free tools to encode and decode)... what major advantages does the commercial divx have over xvid? They would reall have to blow away the competition in space savings to really make it worthwhile right?
The stock market is suffering a "financials boom" right now. While by market weight, technology was most dominant heading into 2000 by now it is by far the world of the financial industry and services. When that bubble bursts everyone is going to wonder wtf happened.
You know how during the tech craze, anyone could go and get an awesome paying job seemingly doing nothing? Well my friends in economics and commerce are experiencing that (past 5 years or so). But they do absolutely nothing, and the business has been exhausted IMHO.
GOOG is going to stay solvent much much longer than say CFC
Funny, I find that my speed limiting factor when doing any work is the thinking! I do most of my "work" with a blue Pilot pen. Man I love those pens. Then I go to the computer and write it/code it.
Stuff like this happens all the time... 99.9% of the time, things bounce back very quickly
Boy are you guys going to have a fun time when there is a real market "event", not just a random glitch but a systemic problem. Those "discontinuities" look scary on graphs.
I figure we're not getting the entire story. Remember, the NASDAQ had a "mysterious glitch" within the past few weeks as well (quotes off by multiples). Two of the best run, most important stock exchanges in the world suffering unusual and silly sounding errors?
There are lots of spammer sites hosted in China. Try it out... look through your spam box, pick up IPs given in URLs and do a whois lookup. You will find that most of them are physically located in Asia.
Some of them are on professional spam hosting services (see ROKSO) but there are also many running on compromised machines, even spam zombies. Does this mean that if we report such sites to the Chinese government, that they will imprison some kid who had a virus infected computer that's aiding in hosting a pharma web site?
More likely, such government initiatives will just hurt honest citizens who play by the rules without touching the criminal element.
Here is some background on WIPO, DMCA and the legislative monkey work that got American legislation that could not make it through Congress into an international treaty. Dirty.
Are graduate students considered eligible students? (e.g. summer between completed undergraduate degree and upcoming Master's program). Yes, I need money.
Is a programmer eligible for this if they already have been developing open source software? In other words, they already have experience working with OSS projects and producing public code.
This is why countries outside the USA are going to avoid DRM platforms. It is essential for security that computation and control occurs locally. It is a threat to national security to include cryptographic external control mechanisms within a computer.
You know would would be really phunny, if the USA with its handholding of the media industry loses its edge in technology to say Chinese CPU manufacturers who are going to have a larger international market without DRM nonsense.
Grab copies of public spam blacklists, and run the IPs through grepcidr to see if any IPs from your network(s) are blacklisted. Nice that Microsoft is providing additional data, letting us know where spam comes from. With the information known by Hotmail alone (being made public) we should be able to easily locate the majority of worldwide spamming IPs.
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That is interesting... they could call the account type "high security" account. Then people will think, yeah I'm nervous about identity theft and terrorism, I want a high security account!
Now wikipedia can also become overcomplicated and sluggish with background services nobody needs!
kidding... though I'm an xfce fan myself
If you are in Canada and want to send money back and forth online, all the major Canadian banks have an agreement that allows you to transfer cash to another account. It's an Interac-like system, see Certapay. Why isn't something like this available across the border, so we could send money throughout North America like this? Seems beautiful to me.
On the vendor side, if you are trying to sell your own arbitrary goods, then 2CO might work out for you.
Actually in business it's called a float. Any kind of a system that ensures money going in and out, with some time delay, produces a beautifully huge float of cash that a company can then leverage for investments. Free money is good and companies can create a flow of free money for themselves in many ways.
The insurance industry is entirely based on this, for example. The "insurance" aspect is a side issue. The constant inflow of money, and delayed outflow of money (after some is fraudulantly held back of course) creates a massive amount of cash that the company can generate income on.
Here's the way I'd like to see Google approach this, for my own selfish needs. Make a GOOD online payment system - so I can sell arbitrary goods from my web site (subscriptions, software, whatever) and customers can pay by credit cards or whatever. None of this sign of for membership first nonsense - drive by, pay me, I deliver the goods. Google has the expertise to implement a beautiful notification/receipt/auto-delivery system upon payment. And they can keep the fees low, meaning they will get all the business from their competitors like digibuy, 2co etc... and now they have billions more in cash to throw around. It's good for the company, it's good for everyone (except their competitors)
Let's review this nonsense of an operating system that does not cooperate with you. I refuse to run any operating system that pesters me with activation codes etc, if I do something simple like modify the hardware. I'm still running Windows 2000 and refuse to move to any release that includes mechanisms to lock me out of my own system. I don't need the hassle, and I won't PAY for the privilege of being harassed.
There was a widespread incident a few years back where corporate installations of Microsoft Office expired on some date and required a web activation. This resulted in millions of dollars of lost productivity world wide while IT departments scrambled to get valid codes for all those machines with word processors that failed for no particular reason.
Is this the future of computing? Well I'm not putting up with that kind of crap. If I'm running OpenOffice on Linux or FreeBSD, I know my operating system or application vendor isn't going to wake up on the wrong side of the bed one morning and kick my ass out of my system.
people from my univ might recognize this... there was a famous guy in our engineering faculty who, back in the 90s, had written some kind of an automated porn downloading app. It was running on their UNIX servers but he left it running unattended. apparently he had no quota because within a few days he had filled up the entire system storage with porn, several hundreds of megabytes worth which was very substantial back then.
/tmp... oops, must be an experiment gone wrong I had to say
I had a similar experience, I was playing around on irc back when we were swapping video files through DCC. apparently some downloading got out of hand and paged the admin, who contacted me and politely pointed out that I had a process running wild and filling
Did you visit the site? It's a real petition - names, addresses on paper. We have 5 people nationally coordinating document collection. Approximately 2000 Canadians have already signed the petition. The petition is prepared in accordance with House specifications, and has already been presented to Parliament and as more signatures accumulate
All this digital anti-copying stuff really does not come down to piracy and copying media for your convenience. Even if it happens in mass quantities. A much more significant issue is at the heart of the matter; in the balance of law (the goal is to provide balance), do we lean towards the rights of the citizen/consumer or the rights of the corporation?
The problem with these DMCA-style legislations (originating in the WIPO) is that by all measures they move the balance towards corporations and away from consumers. The industry gains the ability to preempt what they perceive as theft through measures limiting the convenience and freedom of citizens when they use computers and digital equipment.
I am a Canadian electrical engineer. My main concern about the DMCA coming into Canada is the headache it will create in my field with respect to research and innovation. Some of the security research I will be doing next year for my postgraduate degree is borderline illegal in the USA; however, I feel it is essential research for furthering security in digital hardware (globally - who gives a shit about pop music).
Freedom of speech and information is also a significant concern. When laws like the DMCA are in place, big business gains a big red button to harass citizens as a whole. Evidence is of course the DMCA, which can be invoked to automatically kick customers off of ISPs without even verifying that any "theft" was taking place.
The WIPO treaty is a crock of shit, to put it bluntly, and I think I can outlast the recording industry's business timespan with my persistence. I think the media industry is nearly dead.
And sign the petition. This site originally started as anti-DMCA in Canada and that's still the basic idea. But yes, definitely get in contact with your MP.
I've been working pretty hard against this for years. I have phoned up my government representative and tried to talk to them about the issue but realistically, people in government do not understand the issue and are voting blindly. I have documented the proposed changes to law in this Q and A (no surprise, the background is in US legislation). There was a lot of interest from concerned Canadians, including a petition (with thousands of signatures).
Personally, I will never again buy music or media that originates from an artist under the membership of one of the industry associations (CRIA, RIAA, MPAA) that has lobbied governments and fooled our politicans. From now on it's rentals and second-used (used) media only for me. Please help keep your money out of the hands of these associations; they are already dying, let's finish them off.
I will not shed a tear for them. These ridiculous laws are not in the best interest of citizens or consumers, at all. You can't convince me otherwise no matter how you spin it.
Since XviD is open source MPEG-4 codec (implying it's easier to get free tools to encode and decode)... what major advantages does the commercial divx have over xvid? They would reall have to blow away the competition in space savings to really make it worthwhile right?
The stock market is suffering a "financials boom" right now. While by market weight, technology was most dominant heading into 2000 by now it is by far the world of the financial industry and services. When that bubble bursts everyone is going to wonder wtf happened.
You know how during the tech craze, anyone could go and get an awesome paying job seemingly doing nothing? Well my friends in economics and commerce are experiencing that (past 5 years or so). But they do absolutely nothing, and the business has been exhausted IMHO.
GOOG is going to stay solvent much much longer than say CFC
Funny, I find that my speed limiting factor when doing any work is the thinking! I do most of my "work" with a blue Pilot pen. Man I love those pens. Then I go to the computer and write it/code it.
Stuff like this happens all the time... 99.9% of the time, things bounce back very quickly
Boy are you guys going to have a fun time when there is a real market "event", not just a random glitch but a systemic problem. Those "discontinuities" look scary on graphs.
I figure we're not getting the entire story. Remember, the NASDAQ had a "mysterious glitch" within the past few weeks as well (quotes off by multiples). Two of the best run, most important stock exchanges in the world suffering unusual and silly sounding errors?
There are lots of spammer sites hosted in China. Try it out... look through your spam box, pick up IPs given in URLs and do a whois lookup. You will find that most of them are physically located in Asia.
Some of them are on professional spam hosting services (see ROKSO) but there are also many running on compromised machines, even spam zombies. Does this mean that if we report such sites to the Chinese government, that they will imprison some kid who had a virus infected computer that's aiding in hosting a pharma web site?
More likely, such government initiatives will just hurt honest citizens who play by the rules without touching the criminal element.
Here is some background on WIPO, DMCA and the legislative monkey work that got American legislation that could not make it through Congress into an international treaty. Dirty.
Are graduate students considered eligible students? (e.g. summer between completed undergraduate degree and upcoming Master's program). Yes, I need money.
Is a programmer eligible for this if they already have been developing open source software? In other words, they already have experience working with OSS projects and producing public code.
Call up your broker, buy 1,000 shares FFOX!!
This is why countries outside the USA are going to avoid DRM platforms. It is essential for security that computation and control occurs locally. It is a threat to national security to include cryptographic external control mechanisms within a computer.
You know would would be really phunny, if the USA with its handholding of the media industry loses its edge in technology to say Chinese CPU manufacturers who are going to have a larger international market without DRM nonsense.
Grab copies of public spam blacklists, and run the IPs through grepcidr to see if any IPs from your network(s) are blacklisted. Nice that Microsoft is providing additional data, letting us know where spam comes from. With the information known by Hotmail alone (being made public) we should be able to easily locate the majority of worldwide spamming IPs.