If you've ever tried to take a dump on a C-130 in flight, going through a thunderstorm, after a 60 day deployment to a tent in Turkey, when your entire digestive tract is in full rebellion...you'd be damn glad that the toilet is designed properly.
Location based information is inherently valuable to people.
And even more valuable to those who wish to jam ever more intrusive ads down our collective throats, in an attempt to sell us crap we don't need, and didn't even know we wanted.
Now, all this is very interesting, but personally, I do hope that snailmail will go away and be (for most things) replaced by electronic mail, which is faster, cheaper, healthier for the environment and, used correctly, more secure too.
I don't. Handwritten hardcopy (with a date across the stamp) has its place.
Going through my parents effects, coming across letters between my mom and my grandomther after she moved out is priceless. Holding a letter in your hands that you *know* had been in your moms hands 50 years before.
Somehow, scanning through some undeleted emails just isn't the same.
Some of the software we have now is too stubborn to let you enter anything else than a 5-digit zip code.
No, some of the developers who wrote those applications are too stubborn. Multinational zip/postcodes are easy, if you bother to think about if for more than 3 seconds.
Sharman executives say the new system is well worth bundling inside their software, but they say it can be easily removed if users don't wish to participate.
"Altnet's Peer Points is like the spell checker in Microsoft's Word," said Phil Morle, director of technology for Sharman Networks. "It's an integral part of the program that you can choose to use or not."
easily removed and integral part are mutually exclusive. Who are they trying to BS?
Getting paid for using my PC resources (bandwidth and HD space)? I don't think so. Have any of these schemes worked in the past?
Paid for browsing
Paid for viewing ads/click-thru's
Paid for buying 'Flooz'?
Yeah, right. All down the tubes, just like this will.
Throw in Brilliant's spyware track record, and this is a non-starter.
What these tax cuts do is pressure people to get married for the wrong reasons, it makes me think "Well I can get married, and get $1000 extra dollars a year, let me find some girl from overseas and get her to come to the USA and marry me, or marry one of my friends, then we can get free money from the government!"
Well...considering it costs significantly more than $1000 to support another person (spouse/child) for a year, your logic is rather faulty.
"hmm...Let me spend $5000 to get back $1000! Looks good to me!"
I want the ad moguls and networks to know what I watch, because they might just notice that my viewing habits, like those of many people, are nothing like what they believe them to be.
I don't watch ads. Period.
Then you are not on their radar, except as to drum up support for more devious ad insertions and product placement.
You are the product. The advertisers are the customers.
Many, many actions in GTA would be 'illegal' IRL. Do we now have whole new sets of laws, one for each game?
In this one, it's legal to carjack another player's virtual property, but in that one, you (and your real world persona) may get thrown in jail for 'stealing' virtual property
Curiously though, not long after NASA announced discovering life on Mars, they retracted their statement and said what they detected was not life, but rather an unusual chemical reaction.
Ok, maybe "millions" per individual person is a bit over the top.
But would say that the ability to hand out, for free, perfect, first gen copies of music, for which you yourself have paid exactly $0.00, to anyone and everyone who asks for it...constitutes fair use? Would you say the same if it was your livliehood on the line? Your music?
And I'm tired of BS rationalizations for obtaining use of a product without providing compensation to the originators.
I never understood the reasoning behind the idea of mp3's and p2p being illegal.
Distribution, my son. Now, you are capable of giving that mp3 to millions and millions, for free. Previously, taping off the radio and 'sharing' with your friends was a mostly ignored, slight illegality. But if you were to tape an entire album off the radio, make a few million copies, and you and your buddies stand on street corners giving them out, you can be sure the RIAA would have come down on you.
The copying and distribution has merely become much, much cheaper and easier. For the cost of an internet connection which you already have, and a few MB hard drive space (pennies) you can give awy free what they'd prefer you to pay for.
As for racist dorks who intentionally avoid choosing minority candidates, I doubt this occurs very often.
I can see you're not a 'minority'. Trust me, it DOES happen. And it is devilishly hard to prove.
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he has no choice but to resort to forging the sender information in his bulk e-mail so he can be anonymous and maintain his connection to the Internet.
Is that like bank robbers being forced to don a mask so they can remain anonymous and maintain their 'business operations'?
I've had one of my email addresses used as a reply to: for quite a few spams. A real PITA. Not only did that address get the standard spam, it get bounces from nonexistent recipients. Sometimes in the hundreds per day, as the result of dictionary attacks on various ISP's. On top of that, you get the indignant replies from pissed off people.
Blatant forgeries in commercial email headers should be made illegal.
I think people just wanted these concepts tested a bit more before using them in battle.
Ya gotta test it sometime. Non-battlefield testing can only go so far. Red Flag, NTC in California, whatever the Navy equivalent is...can only do so much.
Not until you really set up in the field, and close with the enemy do you know what will happen.
With today's comms, aircraft from 3 different bases (US, England, Diego Garcia), 5-8,000 miles away, can hit a target 10 minutes after an Army unit has left the area. And 5 minutes after the Navy cruise missiles have hit. And all aircraft get within one minute ToT.
Without these comms and nav aids, we'd have to revert to Vietnam or even WWII era tactics. Bombing and communication has become so good, we started using cement shapes to kill tanks, instead of actual explosives.
As a password ages, finger familiarity increases. You type that sequence faster than the 1st few times. Especially if it is a strong pw, and not a standard word.
At some point, you have to reset the timing. Say every n logons. But at that point, a cracker could reset the timming for you...:)
In less than 10 years all the formentioned companies will be converted to either a...
That's what they said 10-20 years ago, when those systems were new.
"Don't worry about that pesky 2 digit year thing. These systems will not be around that long."
And they already do, with FAR less oversight than TIA.
Far less security, far fewer rules as to what they can/will do with all that 'marketing' information. Far less structure to weed out bad/incorrect records.
We can (hopefully) vote out foolish leaders. The heads of corporations are there as long as they want, doing whatever they want.
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If you've ever tried to take a dump on a C-130 in flight, going through a thunderstorm, after a 60 day deployment to a tent in Turkey, when your entire digestive tract is in full rebellion...you'd be damn glad that the toilet is designed properly.
Location based information is inherently valuable to people.
And even more valuable to those who wish to jam ever more intrusive ads down our collective throats, in an attempt to sell us crap we don't need, and didn't even know we wanted.
Now, all this is very interesting, but personally, I do hope that snailmail will go away and be (for most things) replaced by electronic mail, which is faster, cheaper, healthier for the environment and, used correctly, more secure too.
I don't. Handwritten hardcopy (with a date across the stamp) has its place.
Going through my parents effects, coming across letters between my mom and my grandomther after she moved out is priceless. Holding a letter in your hands that you *know* had been in your moms hands 50 years before.
Somehow, scanning through some undeleted emails just isn't the same.
Some of the software we have now is too stubborn to let you enter anything else than a 5-digit zip code.
No, some of the developers who wrote those applications are too stubborn. Multinational zip/postcodes are easy, if you bother to think about if for more than 3 seconds.
Sharman executives say the new system is well worth bundling inside their software, but they say it can be easily removed if users don't wish to participate.
"Altnet's Peer Points is like the spell checker in Microsoft's Word," said Phil Morle, director of technology for Sharman Networks. "It's an integral part of the program that you can choose to use or not."
easily removed and integral part are mutually exclusive. Who are they trying to BS?
Getting paid for using my PC resources (bandwidth and HD space)? I don't think so. Have any of these schemes worked in the past?
Paid for browsing
Paid for viewing ads/click-thru's
Paid for buying 'Flooz'?
Yeah, right. All down the tubes, just like this will.
Throw in Brilliant's spyware track record, and this is a non-starter.
What these tax cuts do is pressure people to get married for the wrong reasons, it makes me think "Well I can get married, and get $1000 extra dollars a year, let me find some girl from overseas and get her to come to the USA and marry me, or marry one of my friends, then we can get free money from the government!"
Well...considering it costs significantly more than $1000 to support another person (spouse/child) for a year, your logic is rather faulty.
"hmm...Let me spend $5000 to get back $1000! Looks good to me!"
I want the ad moguls and networks to know what I watch, because they might just notice that my viewing habits, like those of many people, are nothing like what they believe them to be.
I don't watch ads. Period.
Then you are not on their radar, except as to drum up support for more devious ad insertions and product placement.
You are the product. The advertisers are the customers.
If they are that hostile, they'll attack anyway. Wouldn't you want at least a little forewarning?
ohh boy. That's gonna be ugly.
Many, many actions in GTA would be 'illegal' IRL. Do we now have whole new sets of laws, one for each game?
In this one, it's legal to carjack another player's virtual property, but in that one, you (and your real world persona) may get thrown in jail for 'stealing' virtual property
Talk about blurring the lines.
Sounds like some other companies geared towards a lifestyle, such as Adidas.
For the coporate types, maybe. The overseas workers producing the shoes for a couple of dollars a day might have a different take on things.
..you choose whatever platform/software that will do the job the best.
Functionality
Availability
Budget
Useability
Philosophy is far down the list.
... and for the forseeable future most of them will be using Internet Explorer ...
AOL's version of IE has little or nothing to do with the regular MS offering. Most AOLers do not know or care what code base delivers their webpages.
Any browser functionality is encapsulated within the AOL interface, and you never know if it is Netscape, IE, or whatever.
Curiously though, not long after NASA announced discovering life on Mars, they retracted their statement and said what they detected was not life, but rather an unusual chemical reaction.
And the difference would be...what, exactly?
Ok, maybe "millions" per individual person is a bit over the top.
But would say that the ability to hand out, for free, perfect, first gen copies of music, for which you yourself have paid exactly $0.00, to anyone and everyone who asks for it...constitutes fair use?
Would you say the same if it was your livliehood on the line? Your music?
And I'm tired of BS rationalizations for obtaining use of a product without providing compensation to the originators.
I never understood the reasoning behind the idea of mp3's and p2p being illegal.
Distribution, my son. Now, you are capable of giving that mp3 to millions and millions, for free.
Previously, taping off the radio and 'sharing' with your friends was a mostly ignored, slight illegality. But if you were to tape an entire album off the radio, make a few million copies, and you and your buddies stand on street corners giving them out, you can be sure the RIAA would have come down on you.
The copying and distribution has merely become much, much cheaper and easier. For the cost of an internet connection which you already have, and a few MB hard drive space (pennies) you can give awy free what they'd prefer you to pay for.
Should it be illegal? Dunno. Is it illegal? Yes.
Transfer money to a Swiss bank account (Billions)...
Do the time (15years max)
Embezzle money in a Swiss bank account(trillions)
Do the time (10years max?)
Hold up a bank for a few hundred thousand
Get shot, do the time (25years max)
Federal 'pound me in the ass' prison makes those pretty bad steps in the process.
As for racist dorks who intentionally avoid choosing minority candidates, I doubt this occurs very often.
I can see you're not a 'minority'. Trust me, it DOES happen. And it is devilishly hard to prove.
he has no choice but to resort to forging the sender information in his bulk e-mail so he can be anonymous and maintain his connection to the Internet.
Is that like bank robbers being forced to don a mask so they can remain anonymous and maintain their 'business operations'?
I've had one of my email addresses used as a reply to: for quite a few spams. A real PITA. Not only did that address get the standard spam, it get bounces from nonexistent recipients. Sometimes in the hundreds per day, as the result of dictionary attacks on various ISP's. On top of that, you get the indignant replies from pissed off people.
Blatant forgeries in commercial email headers should be made illegal.
Oh, go piss up a rope.
I think people just wanted these concepts tested a bit more before using them in battle.
Ya gotta test it sometime. Non-battlefield testing can only go so far. Red Flag, NTC in California, whatever the Navy equivalent is...can only do so much.
Not until you really set up in the field, and close with the enemy do you know what will happen.
With today's comms, aircraft from 3 different bases (US, England, Diego Garcia), 5-8,000 miles away, can hit a target 10 minutes after an Army unit has left the area. And 5 minutes after the Navy cruise missiles have hit. And all aircraft get within one minute ToT.
Without these comms and nav aids, we'd have to revert to Vietnam or even WWII era tactics. Bombing and communication has become so good, we started using cement shapes to kill tanks, instead of actual explosives.
Well...for one reason, digitizing court documents leaves open the risk of alteration. As with digital photos.
Yes, they can be timestamped, hashed, whatever...but the legal system hasn't caught up to current technology. Law procedures change verrrry slowly.
And besides, the final decision is the only one that really matters.
As a password ages, finger familiarity increases. You type that sequence faster than the 1st few times. Especially if it is a strong pw, and not a standard word.
At some point, you have to reset the timing. Say every n logons. But at that point, a cracker could reset the timming for you...:)
In less than 10 years all the formentioned companies will be converted to either a...
That's what they said 10-20 years ago, when those systems were new.
"Don't worry about that pesky 2 digit year thing. These systems will not be around that long."
General Motors has a HUGE presence, albeit under different names.
Saab
Opel/Vauxhall
Cadillac
Chevrolet's are starting to appear
Daewoo
Probably 500,000 cars annually
getting/having this than the government.
And they already do, with FAR less oversight than TIA.
Far less security, far fewer rules as to what they can/will do with all that 'marketing' information. Far less structure to weed out bad/incorrect records.
We can (hopefully) vote out foolish leaders. The heads of corporations are there as long as they want, doing whatever they want.