I've heard that reasoning a few times here on slashdot, but I have to disagree with the statement that if people didn't buy spammed products there wouldn't be any spam. Sending out mass amounts of email is extremely cheap, and a lot of new spammers join in every day.
While the volume would certainly be less if spam didn't make money, there will always be someone willing to spend 50 or 100 bucks to give it a try, just like there are always people signing up for the latest get-rich-quick schemes advertised on TV.
Writing down passwords and storing them in a secure location isn't the issue, it is portability. Most passwords these days need to go with you wherever you are, at home, the office, on travel. If your password is too complicated to remember, then it would have to be stored somewhere on your person. That's the security risk.
Even my piddily little domain, because it has a catch-all for invalid addresses, rakes in about 3700 messages a day. Spam killers help get rid of it, but what a nuisance.
It's getting to the point where the web traffic for a typical domain is less than spam traffic.
That response is like stealing a candy bar and then saying "I'll just pay for the candy bar" when you get caught. It's not the point. Financial punishment is a part of getting caught, more so than the actual value of the thing stolen.
Not that I'm a fan of either MPAA or RIAA, but that would be the way a court would respond to your comment.
There is a simple underlying equation which is cost vs reward. The cost of this solution will continue to go down, while the reward will either remain the same or go up. It is only a matter of time until the equation balances itself out and is voted into effect.
Placing mechanical eyes and ears in public areas where it is already legal to place real eyes and ears shouldn't make much of a difference legality wise.
Black powder has its advantages
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The one thing I did like about black powder is the ability for controlled burns, allowing a much slower ascent for fireworks which light up on the way up. I don't think that's possible with this technique.
Although the contents of the original email can sometimes indicate a scam, most often it is the content of the linked URL or the address of the linked URL which gives it away.
If the address of the URL is hosted on the domain (such as PayPal), the phishing scam would also require the phisher to hack the domain in question.
One question I would ask is how they are defining music - many "groups" are releasing full albums as archives (zip files, etc) which these investigations may not pick up on if they are filtering on other criteria (mp3, wma)
This could be the case, but the editors of the site do have control over labelling an ad as such.
I believe on Linux Today the flash advertisement in question shows up as if it's part of the site, or at least sponsored by the site as valid information about linux.
The latest 8+ megapixel cameras constitue a threat against copying money as well. Should my holiday vacation photos come out black because someone in the background had their wallet out?
HTML actually comes in handy as many clients now use it for text formatting such as bold, italics, or bulleted items. Especially in the workplace, I'm finding those characteristics more common to non-spam email as well.
What we really need is a client that renders the HTML but doesn't establish objects requiring outside connections in the process. Does anyone know of an HTML rendering email client that has such an option?
I believe the original post was not to elaborate the incompetence of Indian outsourcing, but to purely warn that regardless of how innovative an outsourced product or technology is, it still remains outsourced. That effectively means that the amount of retained innovation is lessened.
I have also worked with very skilled and talented software engineers from abroad, and although the results have ranged from mediocre to outstanding, a side effect has always remained; innovation and intellectual property of the parent / outsourcing company is affected, especially in the case when the outsourcing is based on short term contracts.
Lets give the old google honeymoon a run for it's money then. Can any slashdotter out there provide a search engine that yields (in your opinion) a more accurate result for a given phrase?
Aside from a few specialized search engines, I hav yet to see more accurate results than google, which is arguably why google's honeymoon is not quite over.
Some sites that want to make money on value-added URLS usually have a log-in procedure wherein you can dynamically control the access priveledges to users accessing your site. It's a pretty cool feature.
These are very important rules here people! How hard is it to obey a disclaimer by not copying material or hyperlinking to it?
Their Disclaimer clearly states
"American Express prohibits caching, unauthorized hypertext links to the Site and the framing of any Content available through the Site"
Sneaking into a theater with a camera is nothing new. This wasn't any more of a leak than borrowing your movie critic friends VHS tape was 10 or 15 years ago.
It's sad that such powerful software progress like P2P will pay the price for "leaks" that have existed for years.
And I'm still under the impression that with movies this big, "leak" publicity stunts like this only serve to promote the movies release, not hinder it.
I'de have to agree with schlach that we are talking about a very small demographic that would cut into movie sales.
Of course the real thing blocking laptop fuel cell commercialization is the fact that we slash dot the hosting sites back to the stone age. Anyone have a mirror?
This article misses the boat on reviewing component differences. Does a better cable affect a component image? Their response:
"Without spending five thousand dollars, it's impossible to take screenshots using a component connector, so you'll have to trust us. We figure that you would probably prefer that we spend that $5000 toward bringing you more PC hardware or PC/console gaming articles. "
-SR
Kyocera Wireless had the first 3G (CDMA2000 1X) phone launched over a year ago. The
2200 Series have sold in excess of 3 million units at
Verizon,
Sprint, and
Virgin Mobile USA. Nokia really isn't doing anything special here.
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I've heard that reasoning a few times here on slashdot, but I have to disagree with the statement that if people didn't buy spammed products there wouldn't be any spam. Sending out mass amounts of email is extremely cheap, and a lot of new spammers join in every day.
While the volume would certainly be less if spam didn't make money, there will always be someone willing to spend 50 or 100 bucks to give it a try, just like there are always people signing up for the latest get-rich-quick schemes advertised on TV.
Writing down passwords and storing them in a secure location isn't the issue, it is portability. Most passwords these days need to go with you wherever you are, at home, the office, on travel. If your password is too complicated to remember, then it would have to be stored somewhere on your person. That's the security risk.
Now they can do for the camera and music industry what they've done for the game industry with N-Gage! I'm so excited!
Even my piddily little domain, because it has a catch-all for invalid addresses, rakes in about 3700 messages a day. Spam killers help get rid of it, but what a nuisance.
It's getting to the point where the web traffic for a typical domain is less than spam traffic.
That response is like stealing a candy bar and then saying "I'll just pay for the candy bar" when you get caught. It's not the point. Financial punishment is a part of getting caught, more so than the actual value of the thing stolen. Not that I'm a fan of either MPAA or RIAA, but that would be the way a court would respond to your comment.
Check out the grand canyon in gigapixel glory
There is a simple underlying equation which is cost vs reward. The cost of this solution will continue to go down, while the reward will either remain the same or go up. It is only a matter of time until the equation balances itself out and is voted into effect. Placing mechanical eyes and ears in public areas where it is already legal to place real eyes and ears shouldn't make much of a difference legality wise.
The one thing I did like about black powder is the ability for controlled burns, allowing a much slower ascent for fireworks which light up on the way up. I don't think that's possible with this technique.
Although the contents of the original email can sometimes indicate a scam, most often it is the content of the linked URL or the address of the linked URL which gives it away. If the address of the URL is hosted on the domain (such as PayPal), the phishing scam would also require the phisher to hack the domain in question.
One question I would ask is how they are defining music - many "groups" are releasing full albums as archives (zip files, etc) which these investigations may not pick up on if they are filtering on other criteria (mp3, wma)
This could be the case, but the editors of the site do have control over labelling an ad as such. I believe on Linux Today the flash advertisement in question shows up as if it's part of the site, or at least sponsored by the site as valid information about linux.
to boost virus levels 30 months ago to never before seen heights.
I knew comedy central was getting desperate trying to hype up battle bots, but this is just ridiculous.
The latest 8+ megapixel cameras constitue a threat against copying money as well. Should my holiday vacation photos come out black because someone in the background had their wallet out?
HTML actually comes in handy as many clients now use it for text formatting such as bold, italics, or bulleted items. Especially in the workplace, I'm finding those characteristics more common to non-spam email as well.
What we really need is a client that renders the HTML but doesn't establish objects requiring outside connections in the process. Does anyone know of an HTML rendering email client that has such an option?
I believe the original post was not to elaborate the incompetence of Indian outsourcing, but to purely warn that regardless of how innovative an outsourced product or technology is, it still remains outsourced. That effectively means that the amount of retained innovation is lessened.
I have also worked with very skilled and talented software engineers from abroad, and although the results have ranged from mediocre to outstanding, a side effect has always remained; innovation and intellectual property of the parent / outsourcing company is affected, especially in the case when the outsourcing is based on short term contracts.
Lets give the old google honeymoon a run for it's money then. Can any slashdotter out there provide a search engine that yields (in your opinion) a more accurate result for a given phrase?
Aside from a few specialized search engines, I hav yet to see more accurate results than google, which is arguably why google's honeymoon is not quite over.
...about hitting that speakerphone key
Some sites that want to make money on value-added URLS usually have a log-in procedure wherein you can dynamically control the access priveledges to users accessing your site. It's a pretty cool feature.
These are very important rules here people! How hard is it to obey a disclaimer by not copying material or hyperlinking to it? Their Disclaimer clearly states
"American Express prohibits caching, unauthorized hypertext links to the Site and the framing of any Content available through the Site"
It really says this... go ahead and read it.
And by the way, be sure to disable caching or history in your browser before visiting the site.
Yes
Sneaking into a theater with a camera is nothing new. This wasn't any more of a leak than borrowing your movie critic friends VHS tape was 10 or 15 years ago. It's sad that such powerful software progress like P2P will pay the price for "leaks" that have existed for years. And I'm still under the impression that with movies this big, "leak" publicity stunts like this only serve to promote the movies release, not hinder it. I'de have to agree with schlach that we are talking about a very small demographic that would cut into movie sales.
Of course the real thing blocking laptop fuel cell commercialization is the fact that we slash dot the hosting sites back to the stone age. Anyone have a mirror?
This article misses the boat on reviewing component differences. Does a better cable affect a component image? Their response: "Without spending five thousand dollars, it's impossible to take screenshots using a component connector, so you'll have to trust us. We figure that you would probably prefer that we spend that $5000 toward bringing you more PC hardware or PC/console gaming articles. " -SR
Kyocera Wireless had the first 3G (CDMA2000 1X) phone launched over a year ago. The 2200 Series have sold in excess of 3 million units at Verizon, Sprint, and Virgin Mobile USA. Nokia really isn't doing anything special here.