Plus, if they give up and drop the connection to your SMTP server, you don't get their Spam.
The only downside I forsee could be trying to send email from work after your company was blacklisted for some pseudo-spam mailing they send out regularly to registered users.
This type of blacklisting could hurt the same people existing blacklists do, but in a far more damaging way. And I don't think our methods for determining who gets blacklisted are based on some judicious process. This would give Spammers a means to fight back against this otherwise very cool system.
The docs are text/XML, but they wrap them with DRM, which is just like any other encryption except that it has meta-info/rules included. To get at the text/XML, you have to be authorized via the DRM system on the machine.
Palladium provides hardware that makes the DRM system less vulnerable to hacks.
The system will be short lived because people will know they can purchase 19 items and then never use it again. Or find a loophole with which to create new accounts.
Though I equate this to be better than the losses many e-companies are seeing from theft (or copyright infringement). And unfortunately, I think it is more appealing to your average schmuck.
Still, I like the random idea. I think another way to make it more acceptable to the masses is to assure them they won't get hit for $10 until they've purchased at least $5 worth of goods. I think as with all things now, retailers (and maybe banks) need to dangle some free carrots to get people to buy into the system.
Whatever algos are chosen, they need to allow people to do some fairly fine-tuned budgeting, and they need to have a way to weigh the random-ness to prevent that millionth customer from getting hit 10 times in a row.
I think with the right FAQ, this idea could be successful.
If I watch one of these ads with the knowledge that all of these people registered their software with Microsoft, I will have even less faith in their testimonials than I do in Apple's "Hey, you want to be on TV?" approach to choosing "switchers."
Budding legislation that has to be leaked is, by definition, not conducive to any form of democracy, representative or total....even if this is just a draft and they plan on releasing the final version.
1 party owning both houses and the exectutive branch is just plain stupid. I hope this kind of shit gets worse before it gets better so we learn our lesson.
Pick anything out there today and store them. Just pick something you expect will be easy to migrate, and have at least 3 backups in separate locations. None of today's digital storage media are very reliable long term. Also, plan on migrating before you have to worry about decay.
Slime is not a product of font size. Drudge does NOT follow the 2 sources rule, and I doubt Walter Kronkite would approve. I know I don't. But I will say he's no worse than CNN.
Dynamix was not at fault for Tribes 2 sucking. They made a great game, even if it wasn't great until 6 months after it was released. Sierra's management pushed it out the door early despite the waving arms and plank walking of most of the developers.
I've been saying since I was downloading mp3s on my Mac IIci (and converting them to mp2's because it wasn't fast enough to decode a single mp3 in less than 20 hours), that THIS is what the government and record labels should have done about widespread copyright violation from the beginning.
And after all the "It's not theft, it's copyright infringement" arguments we've seen here, now we find out it HAS been "theft" for the last 5+ years.
Let's face it, everyone who's ever used Napster or the like, has known full well they were stealing. Why should they not be prosecuted?
Tycho compared this to the bottom of the internet barrel. It's a kind of slimy Drudge style of reporting that won't be able to provide 2 separate reliable sources for most of its reports, and yet I don't really mind. I can separate in my mind a rumor from news. We often criticize sites like this for lacking journalistic integrity, but they often make no bones about the fact that they're simply doing the best they can.
Moreover, I don't want to spoil movies before I see them. But when it comes to inside info on games, I do want to know some things ahead of time. With the way game development schedules are often stretched to infinity, with no word to the anxious public, it'll be nice to have developers tattling on their tight lipped bosses. I mean, when can I expect the sequel to my favorite game (H&D)? I may want to pick the right moment close to its release to purchase a new $1500 machine. That's not something I'll do for the movies, and I feel cheated everytime a company won't admit they're having problems.
Tribes 2 came out way before it was ready (stable, fast, fun). I guess the market taught them a lesson in the end, but had the discord among the developers been more public, management wouldn't have tried to ship a broken game.
Most of the industry's desired legislation is utterly insane. It wouldn't look good on our books, and we shouldn't be compromising the integrety of our laws. Maybe if they came up with some other contract "deal" for consumers to buy into that would be a means of enacting such a compromise, but I don't think it should be done by making crappy laws.
We're no longer talking about protecting authors' works in the cases that are currently so hotly debated. We're protecting corporate ownership. And the balance between corporate interests and consumer interests has been shifted so that consumers still have to fight to get what they want in a technological era that should have seen the end to such boudaries (out of print material, excessive price gouging, forced repurchase of content on new media standards, etc).
California (I guess I was mainly thinking of LA) has made vast strides in air quality.
I admit ignorance as to exactly how they've done it, so if it's through ultimately more harmfull additives, then I would say our approach to "copying" them should leave those out and hope to still see some results. Additives suck anyways. Gas is great, we just need to use less of it until we can come up with the means to power large cars equally well with a cleaner fuel source.
Driving less helps. How does a freedom professing government see that this happens? Taxation. We should be taxing individual vehicles based on their emissions test results, and we should be taxing gas, possibly more than we are. Frequent drivers of inefficient vehicles are taxing humanity's common resources, so they should be taxed financially.
Here in Oregon where I live, we were the recipients of loads of Federal money for light rail projects. Taxpayers failed to match funds often, so we don't have tracks nearly as extensive as we had the opportunity for, but it helps with some of the long commuters. With more trains and a greater cost of driving to work, people will come around. I love driving as much as the next person, but I can't imagine why anyone would rather have to occupy themselves for a long trip to and from when they could be reading or watching TV.
If 10 people drove SUV's once a week as part of a publicity stunt, it wouldn't be the environmental problem it is.
And pollution is just one of the arguments against SUVs.
The pollution problem is a cumulative effect. The most effective way to cut pollution is to pollute less on our twice daily commutes by driving more efficient vehicles more often. It's not by out and out banning any one type of vehicle. California made great progress over the last 10 years, and their system should be copied. However, it's clear that it was only a first step, and it now needs to be taken farther through more widespread adoption, and more stringent efficiency regulations.
Java really does suck on FreeBSD as of 4.7. I feel like someone who's behind the times by saying I want Java to be great on BSD, but that is my sole wish for FreeBSD 5.
Just the other day I wrote the simplest tool in Java and it crashed the VM. And since I'd settled on the Linux version of the JVM being the best choice, I couldn't exactly submit a bug to anyone.
RE: Skylarov
Skylarov decison aside, any country is welcome to convict anyone for crimes against their laws and property.
That person would then have to weigh whether or not to vacation there.
Further, companies who do business in a particular country have the right to play the games. While I'm strongly against peer to peer sharing of copyrighted material, I find it sweet that AUS would laugh such heavy handed tactics out of town.
Slashdot Mirror
"Smile, I'm about to take your picture punk!"
mmmmmmm...Universe
It's only obvious now because we've lived with it for 20 years.
Trust me, back then it was revolutionary.
That's nothing, Bob Cringely said Solaris was dead 2 weeks ago.
I think Sun knew that several years ago.
Of course when these people say it's dead, they really mean it's going to die off eventually.
I wonder what Dell's CIO would say about Apple's status/future.
Plus, if they give up and drop the connection to your SMTP server, you don't get their Spam.
The only downside I forsee could be trying to send email from work after your company was blacklisted for some pseudo-spam mailing they send out regularly to registered users.
This type of blacklisting could hurt the same people existing blacklists do, but in a far more damaging way. And I don't think our methods for determining who gets blacklisted are based on some judicious process. This would give Spammers a means to fight back against this otherwise very cool system.
The docs are text/XML, but they wrap them with DRM, which is just like any other encryption except that it has meta-info/rules included. To get at the text/XML, you have to be authorized via the DRM system on the machine. Palladium provides hardware that makes the DRM system less vulnerable to hacks.
If you wait for the right time for everything, you'll spend your whole life waiting.
The system will be short lived because people will know they can purchase 19 items and then never use it again. Or find a loophole with which to create new accounts.
Though I equate this to be better than the losses many e-companies are seeing from theft (or copyright infringement). And unfortunately, I think it is more appealing to your average schmuck.
Still, I like the random idea. I think another way to make it more acceptable to the masses is to assure them they won't get hit for $10 until they've purchased at least $5 worth of goods. I think as with all things now, retailers (and maybe banks) need to dangle some free carrots to get people to buy into the system.
Whatever algos are chosen, they need to allow people to do some fairly fine-tuned budgeting, and they need to have a way to weigh the random-ness to prevent that millionth customer from getting hit 10 times in a row.
I think with the right FAQ, this idea could be successful.
If I watch one of these ads with the knowledge that all of these people registered their software with Microsoft, I will have even less faith in their testimonials than I do in Apple's "Hey, you want to be on TV?" approach to choosing "switchers."
Budding legislation that has to be leaked is, by definition, not conducive to any form of democracy, representative or total. ...even if this is just a draft and they plan on releasing the final version.
1 party owning both houses and the exectutive branch is just plain stupid. I hope this kind of shit gets worse before it gets better so we learn our lesson.
I'm from Oregon (no sales tax), and this is an outrage.
Not only that, but I find it rather interesting that this comes at a time when these retailers are having a hard enough time getting business.
Pick anything out there today and store them. Just pick something you expect will be easy to migrate, and have at least 3 backups in separate locations. None of today's digital storage media are very reliable long term. Also, plan on migrating before you have to worry about decay.
Slime is not a product of font size. Drudge does NOT follow the 2 sources rule, and I doubt Walter Kronkite would approve. I know I don't. But I will say he's no worse than CNN.
Dynamix was not at fault for Tribes 2 sucking. They made a great game, even if it wasn't great until 6 months after it was released. Sierra's management pushed it out the door early despite the waving arms and plank walking of most of the developers.
I've been saying since I was downloading mp3s on my Mac IIci (and converting them to mp2's because it wasn't fast enough to decode a single mp3 in less than 20 hours), that THIS is what the government and record labels should have done about widespread copyright violation from the beginning.
And after all the "It's not theft, it's copyright infringement" arguments we've seen here, now we find out it HAS been "theft" for the last 5+ years.
Let's face it, everyone who's ever used Napster or the like, has known full well they were stealing. Why should they not be prosecuted?
If the rest of the world's governments use OSS, the US government might have a harder time spying on them.
Tycho compared this to the bottom of the internet barrel. It's a kind of slimy Drudge style of reporting that won't be able to provide 2 separate reliable sources for most of its reports, and yet I don't really mind. I can separate in my mind a rumor from news. We often criticize sites like this for lacking journalistic integrity, but they often make no bones about the fact that they're simply doing the best they can.
Moreover, I don't want to spoil movies before I see them. But when it comes to inside info on games, I do want to know some things ahead of time. With the way game development schedules are often stretched to infinity, with no word to the anxious public, it'll be nice to have developers tattling on their tight lipped bosses. I mean, when can I expect the sequel to my favorite game (H&D)? I may want to pick the right moment close to its release to purchase a new $1500 machine. That's not something I'll do for the movies, and I feel cheated everytime a company won't admit they're having problems.
Tribes 2 came out way before it was ready (stable, fast, fun). I guess the market taught them a lesson in the end, but had the discord among the developers been more public, management wouldn't have tried to ship a broken game.
I live in Oregon. The flock of geese must have been napping to let this article show up on my Slashdot page.
California (I guess I was mainly thinking of LA) has made vast strides in air quality.
I admit ignorance as to exactly how they've done it, so if it's through ultimately more harmfull additives, then I would say our approach to "copying" them should leave those out and hope to still see some results. Additives suck anyways. Gas is great, we just need to use less of it until we can come up with the means to power large cars equally well with a cleaner fuel source.
Driving less helps. How does a freedom professing government see that this happens? Taxation. We should be taxing individual vehicles based on their emissions test results, and we should be taxing gas, possibly more than we are. Frequent drivers of inefficient vehicles are taxing humanity's common resources, so they should be taxed financially.
Here in Oregon where I live, we were the recipients of loads of Federal money for light rail projects. Taxpayers failed to match funds often, so we don't have tracks nearly as extensive as we had the opportunity for, but it helps with some of the long commuters. With more trains and a greater cost of driving to work, people will come around. I love driving as much as the next person, but I can't imagine why anyone would rather have to occupy themselves for a long trip to and from when they could be reading or watching TV.
And pollution is just one of the arguments against SUVs.
The pollution problem is a cumulative effect. The most effective way to cut pollution is to pollute less on our twice daily commutes by driving more efficient vehicles more often. It's not by out and out banning any one type of vehicle. California made great progress over the last 10 years, and their system should be copied. However, it's clear that it was only a first step, and it now needs to be taken farther through more widespread adoption, and more stringent efficiency regulations.
Yeah, I learned to walk in under an hour!
Just the other day I wrote the simplest tool in Java and it crashed the VM. And since I'd settled on the Linux version of the JVM being the best choice, I couldn't exactly submit a bug to anyone.
Skylarov decison aside, any country is welcome to convict anyone for crimes against their laws and property.
That person would then have to weigh whether or not to vacation there.
Further, companies who do business in a particular country have the right to play the games. While I'm strongly against peer to peer sharing of copyrighted material, I find it sweet that AUS would laugh such heavy handed tactics out of town.
If you think the DMCA is bad, wait until the Chinese government decides to stop piracy.