Does anyone actually use kazaa anymore? Seriously, after the RIAA, the
viruses, (not just this latest one either) the fake files, the silly repeating
songs, the cursed songs with phone tones in them, and the overall spyware nature
of Kazaa (and don't mention kazaa lite please)
Why don't you want me to mention Kazaa
Lite? As far as RIAA & fake files, the Bad IP Updater takes care of
them, MP3 Shield for those who've already been tricked.
Who actually uses Kazaa anymore?
2.8 million people today. That's the clincher for me. The software
may have problems (lack of error checking being a big one), but what's the point
of a fancy network if you're the only person on it?
It is also the best type of spam filtering I've ever used. Catches about 75% and only one false positive ever. Combine with the Bayesian & RegEx filters and you have an almost perfect system.
A vastly cheaper way of doing it would be to track the time spent looking at / interacting with a page. Most of the pages in my history, I spent less than a second looking at. The ones I go back for are usually ones I spent a lot of time reading. Or they are any of the 50 pages I have open at any one time.
MPC isn't the old Windows version, it just looks like it. It supports DivX, Xvid and DVD VOBs natively, as well as being able to use any codec installed.
Most people don't know what DivX is, so unlike MP3, its current lead over XviD isn't a big barrier and XviD is what most of the Doom9 guys are now using.
I suspect Theora would have to be better than both to stand a chance.
Software support by Gordian Knot and similar all-in-one packages would be necessary too.
then you still have the option of moving your host, but that costs real
money and is a huge beaurocratic PITA to boot.
And spam isn't? Sorry, but somebody will have to pay to solve this problem,
and if ISPs aren't doing enough to to stop their own clients perpetuating spam,
then this is the way to motivate them.
Yes, MS would rather you never heard of them, but they do exist, have been developed by many of MS' competitors, but have been illegally crushed by MS' typical monopolistic practices.
Murder is generally a crime of passion. Spammers can spam freely - they only do it for money, and I imagine the profits are falling rapidly. Add in the threat of jail-time (actually a public stoning would be better) and we could start seeing a big reduction.
Right, because Israel, the UK, and France have been just so sucessfull
in their counter-terrorism programs, or are they a bunch of softies too? Israel
is probbably the most brutal nation on the planet right now, and they can't
seem to do much of anything to stop terrorism.
What's being brutal got to do with stopping terrorism? How do you know
how much terrorism any of these countries are stopping?
Gordon Thomas' book Gideon's
Spies mentions a big decline recently in Mossad's 'efficiency'.
And these attacks on Israel might be justifiably called 'self-defence'.
Exposure therapy is not pleasant, but it does tend to work. I don't know
much about PTSD, but for anxiety disorders and phobias exposure is quite effective
and virtual reality techniques have been becoming more and more popular for
this.
Yes, the less well rendered your spider is, the less scary it is. We
all know this.
But it also teaches you a more appropriate response to the visual stimulus.
It is much easier to go from being calm in response to a clunky, pixelated spider
to being calm with a real spider than it is from KNOWING you'll always being
afraid of spiders.
For treating someone with public speaking anxiety it's easier to get a
virtual audience than to arrange for a bunch of people in a room...
You still need the bunch of people in the room. Fear of public speaking
is anticipatory anxiety - it is based on expecting to be anxious and make a
mess of it.
Without a real audience, that doubt will probably creep in and make the person
anxious anyway.
FWIW, I have 7 years clinical experience and a 90+% success rate with this sort of thing. I also offer a money-back guarantee.
Maybe I'm being sentimental, but it seems to me that what allows us to
grow from painful experiences is having to come to terms with them, not getting
desensitized.
What's the difference? The pain is the main thing that's stopping you
coming to terms with it.
Well, the trick of PTSD is that, for most people, the daily struggle to
not remember (and avoid things that remind them) is much more traumatic.
Struggle to not remember a purple caterpillar wearing sunglasses. Really
try not to remember that caterpillar.
Imagine walking down a street, and a certain type of tree or smell in
the air sets you off. Between having that and having one extremely painful session
of emotion-dulling via reliving the experience, I'll take emotion dulling. At
least it will bring a somewhat permanent conclusion.
Sensible - however, there are much better, faster, cheaper and painless treatments
eg Fast Phobia
Cure, EFT, EMDR.
Who is going to program the virtual reality machine for individual trauma reliving?
What about rape cases? How are you going to program in that smell?
This is, of course, assuming that it actually WORKS. =)
How would you know if it did? Would you trust the same people who tell
you frying your brain WORKS?
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is often one of the more difficult psychological
disorders to treat,
Difficult for whom to treat in what way?
PTSD is one of the easiest to treat in my experience (7 years as a clinical
hypnotherapist). You know exactly what the problem is (recurring memories),
and you know what the therapeutic outcome is (ability to remember whilst remaning
calm). Where's the difficulty?
and is pretty much tops in the category of anxiety-related
disorders.
tops??? Who modded this up?
It would be a wonderful thing if it actually is useful in treatment.
The drug companies have a near stranglehold
over psychiatry. Without big money to fund the trials and marketing, it
will never reach mass-usage.
Neither are evil - this is human nature (greed & lack of objectivity). Of course, when millions of people are affected, we need counter-balances. Accountability is the main one.
I'll be interested in knowing how you propose to fix user laziness.
I think you're right about DRM though. Microsoft's financial future depends on it. This is why they're promising so much about security, yet doing nothing about it. I doubt they deliberately leaked the source code, but I bet they didn't worry overly when they started relaxing their restrictions on who could see it.
The recent Iraqi war was largely won by persuading most of the Iraqis to not fight. The leader of the Medina division claimed that only 15% of the Iraqi Army fought. The main means of persuasion was via a series of satellite phones the CIA gave to Iraqi army commanders & officials.
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Does anyone actually use kazaa anymore? Seriously, after the RIAA, the viruses, (not just this latest one either) the fake files, the silly repeating songs, the cursed songs with phone tones in them, and the overall spyware nature of Kazaa (and don't mention kazaa lite please)
Why don't you want me to mention Kazaa Lite? As far as RIAA & fake files, the Bad IP Updater takes care of them, MP3 Shield for those who've already been tricked.
Who actually uses Kazaa anymore?
2.8 million people today. That's the clincher for me. The software may have problems (lack of error checking being a big one), but what's the point of a fancy network if you're the only person on it?
In markets where Microsoft is truly inferior, they dominate. What chance has OpenGL in the games market where DirectX is actually superior?
I presume Palladium will be there??
No, it is the popular belief itself that produces erections.
Impotence is generally caused by feeling anxious about being unable to perform sexually. Any improved expectations will help.
... if there were some P2P means of establishing how many individuals had received a particular spam.
There is - check out DCC.
It is also the best type of spam filtering I've ever used. Catches about 75% and only one false positive ever. Combine with the Bayesian & RegEx filters and you have an almost perfect system.
I don't think I've ever once gotten a legitimate email in HTML.
I've started getting a lot, seems to be the standard output from Yahoo Mail these days.
A vastly cheaper way of doing it would be to track the time spent looking at / interacting with a page.
Most of the pages in my history, I spent less than a second looking at. The ones I go back for are usually ones I spent a lot of time reading.
Or they are any of the 50 pages I have open at any one time.
I don't know if I'm proud to be European for the first time... or simply glad I'm NOT American.
Halo was originally done for the PC, before the XBox even existed.
GTA3 was awful. Not tried Vice City or KOTOR.
Monopolies charge what the market will bear.
No, monopolies charge what they can get away with. The fine may be used to justify higher prices for Longhorn.
MPC isn't the old Windows version, it just looks like it.
It supports DivX, Xvid and DVD VOBs natively, as well as being able to use any codec installed.
Great piece of free software. Open source too.
Most people don't know what DivX is, so unlike MP3, its current lead over XviD isn't a big barrier and XviD is what most of the Doom9 guys are now using.
I suspect Theora would have to be better than both to stand a chance.
Software support by Gordian Knot and similar all-in-one packages would be necessary too.
then you still have the option of moving your host, but that costs real money and is a huge beaurocratic PITA to boot.
And spam isn't? Sorry, but somebody will have to pay to solve this problem, and if ISPs aren't doing enough to to stop their own clients perpetuating spam, then this is the way to motivate them.
I'm still concerned about false positives though.
Yes, MS would rather you never heard of them, but they do exist, have been developed by many of MS' competitors, but have been illegally crushed by MS' typical monopolistic practices.
Murder is generally a crime of passion. Spammers can spam freely - they only do it for money, and I imagine the profits are falling rapidly.
Add in the threat of jail-time (actually a public stoning would be better) and we could start seeing a big reduction.
Blair Broadcasting Corporation?
Just wondering if you were paying attention to the whole David Kelly fiasco.
While every government attempts to influence/control the BBC, it's also obvious that many employees of the BBC strongly resist it.
Right, because Israel, the UK, and France have been just so sucessfull in their counter-terrorism programs, or are they a bunch of softies too? Israel is probbably the most brutal nation on the planet right now, and they can't seem to do much of anything to stop terrorism.
What's being brutal got to do with stopping terrorism? How do you know how much terrorism any of these countries are stopping?
Gordon Thomas' book Gideon's Spies mentions a big decline recently in Mossad's 'efficiency'.
And these attacks on Israel might be justifiably called 'self-defence'.
Exposure therapy is not pleasant, but it does tend to work. I don't know much about PTSD, but for anxiety disorders and phobias exposure is quite effective and virtual reality techniques have been becoming more and more popular for this.
Yes, the less well rendered your spider is, the less scary it is. We all know this.
But it also teaches you a more appropriate response to the visual stimulus. It is much easier to go from being calm in response to a clunky, pixelated spider to being calm with a real spider than it is from KNOWING you'll always being afraid of spiders.
For treating someone with public speaking anxiety it's easier to get a virtual audience than to arrange for a bunch of people in a room...
You still need the bunch of people in the room. Fear of public speaking is anticipatory anxiety - it is based on expecting to be anxious and make a mess of it.
Without a real audience, that doubt will probably creep in and make the person anxious anyway.
FWIW, I have 7 years clinical experience and a 90+% success rate with this sort of thing. I also offer a money-back guarantee.
Maybe I'm being sentimental, but it seems to me that what allows us to grow from painful experiences is having to come to terms with them, not getting desensitized.
What's the difference? The pain is the main thing that's stopping you coming to terms with it.
Well, the trick of PTSD is that, for most people, the daily struggle to not remember (and avoid things that remind them) is much more traumatic.
Struggle to not remember a purple caterpillar wearing sunglasses. Really try not to remember that caterpillar.
Imagine walking down a street, and a certain type of tree or smell in the air sets you off. Between having that and having one extremely painful session of emotion-dulling via reliving the experience, I'll take emotion dulling. At least it will bring a somewhat permanent conclusion.
Sensible - however, there are much better, faster, cheaper and painless treatments eg Fast Phobia Cure, EFT, EMDR.
Who is going to program the virtual reality machine for individual trauma reliving? What about rape cases? How are you going to program in that smell?
This is, of course, assuming that it actually WORKS. =)
How would you know if it did? Would you trust the same people who tell you frying your brain WORKS?
And don't remember that caterpillar OK?
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is often one of the more difficult psychological disorders to treat,
Difficult for whom to treat in what way?
PTSD is one of the easiest to treat in my experience (7 years as a clinical hypnotherapist). You know exactly what the problem is (recurring memories), and you know what the therapeutic outcome is (ability to remember whilst remaning calm). Where's the difficulty?
and is pretty much tops in the category of anxiety-related disorders.
tops??? Who modded this up?
It would be a wonderful thing if it actually is useful in treatment.
The drug companies have a near stranglehold over psychiatry. Without big money to fund the trials and marketing, it will never reach mass-usage.
Neither are evil - this is human nature (greed & lack of objectivity).
Of course, when millions of people are affected, we need counter-balances.
Accountability is the main one.
I'll be interested in knowing how you propose to fix user laziness.
I think you're right about DRM though. Microsoft's financial future depends on it. This is why they're promising so much about security, yet doing nothing about it. I doubt they deliberately leaked the source code, but I bet they didn't worry overly when they started relaxing their restrictions on who could see it.
We need a counter campaign - any ideas?
The recent Iraqi war was largely won by persuading most of the Iraqis to not fight. The leader of the Medina division claimed that only 15% of the Iraqi Army fought.
The main means of persuasion was via a series of satellite phones the CIA gave to Iraqi army commanders & officials.
I know IBM had one.