you,re right... and thats the hard part about this issue, There's clearly some compromizes on privacy that's needs to be made to track people who is dangerous to the country. The problem of allowing the governemnt to have such extensive spying capability are the potential for abuse.
Good point. I live in Canada, and I don't have cable, so I don't get to watch Fox News. I go to the US for business trips occasionally, and out of curiosity, I tune into Fox News, and it's scary how they spin and twist stories to the far right. What is even more scary is the studies that show that people trust news from their TV the most. With the huge audience that Fox News has, one can conclude that there's a lot of Americans that trust Fox News most as a news source.
Everyone doesn't have the time/will to perform their own research to draw their own conclusions. As a result, many people adopt the opinions of Fox News. On top of that, I read somewhere that the Bush administration gives preferential treatment to Fox News for their media outlet. The Bush government has an scary ability to manipulate and form the opinions of its own people.
I'm on the fence about the government snooping on its citizens. On one hand, you're right to privacy is being eroded, on the other hand, I really want them to find people who are planning attacks on my country.
What's really worrisome is that they flat-out lied about their spying program. Bush lied about WMDs which has resulted in thousands of dead US soldiers. Why isn't he impeached? Clinton lied about his personal affair with an intern, and he got impeached. No one can argue which was more harmful to the country.
The US government gets such a bad rap nowadays. Spying on it's own citizens, the non-existent WMDs in Iraq, the turtle-like response to Katrina, giving huge tax breaks to the richest. They're in desparate need for a ministry responsible for PR, perhaps a Ministry of Propaganda? I wouldn't be surprised.
I think the RIAA will eventually legislate a country wide tax that will go directly to them, and just stop making music all together, because at that point, they'll just make money by doing nothing. Now, I gotta figure out how to do this for myself.
The obvious solution to this problem is to make music un-listenable, and make e-books un-readable. Such a simple solution to copy protection... Can't wait to buy the next Celine Dion CD so I can't listen to it.
That's why we ALL should buy a copy of windows, and the next version of windows that microsoft churns out, and the next one, and the next one. In fact, we might as well take our paycheques and deposit into Microsoft's fat-ass bank account. This way MS will never go under, and they will keep producing their superbly secure and bug-free software that we all can enjoy.
It's so true. These copy protection schemes are basically punishing the users that BUY their software, and the pirates are hardly affected. Sooner or later it'll be easier to pirate software than to buy it. If you know where to look that's actually the case. And you know their going to blame the people when their software sales go down because it's impossible to install.
Last year, DoubleClick came to my university to try to recruit coop students. I don't think anyone took them seriously. It was when dot-coms were dropping like flies, and I was so sure DoubleClick was going down too.
As they point fingers, and deny any problem with their business model, their profits will continue to dwindle. F EM! Let them lose profits. Every keep pirating music, stop buying these overpriced CDs! CD buyers are just allowing the record titans more time to deflect blame. Until their revenues crash, they won't change the way they think.
I bet the campaign will pay for the message, and you won't be charged anything. That's the only logical solution to spamming on SMS. Who in the right mind would send an SMS spam that would cost everyone 10 cents, it'll be political suicide....
Alright, e-mail spammers are scum, and should be shot.
Fax spammers are worse. Not only do they consume your time, they waste your paper. Fax spammers should be stoned to death. But that's unlikely, so I hope Fax.com loses, and I hope that their executives are sent to jail.
Because the WiFi spectrum is unregulated, what's stopping disgruntled people from jamming their signal, seriously. That's what should be done, and force them off the channel.
Now that Starbucks has conquered the coffee market, they must move into new worlds. I wonder how they're gonna train their coffee monkeys to use a computer....
This article is talking about e-mail that users choose to receive. I actually like this feature because I'm notified whenever there's a sale going on at a store. I get an e-mail flyer every week from Canadian Tire, and I don't mind at all. It's better than wasting paper, and I never miss a sale. The real spam are the ones where you never asked for it in the first place.
I read an article last week explaining a pretty cool way to block spam using statistical analysis.
Basically, you have a blacklist of words that typically appear in spam, such as "unsubscribe" or "click" or "teen". Then every e-mail is rated for it's spam probability. You set up a filter to kill any e-mail which has a 90% or more probability of being spam. There's other measures to make sure that legit e-mail doesn't get caught in here, which I can't remember right now, but it seems pretty fool proof now. The only counter-measure I can see is if spammers start mutating their words: "un-subscribe", "cl1ck", "t33n", etc.
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You would think they would try what Microsoft support would tell them to do right away: re-install Windows.
you,re right... and thats the hard part about this issue, There's clearly some compromizes on privacy that's needs to be made to track people who is dangerous to the country. The problem of allowing the governemnt to have such extensive spying capability are the potential for abuse.
Good point. I live in Canada, and I don't have cable, so I don't get to watch Fox News. I go to the US for business trips occasionally, and out of curiosity, I tune into Fox News, and it's scary how they spin and twist stories to the far right. What is even more scary is the studies that show that people trust news from their TV the most. With the huge audience that Fox News has, one can conclude that there's a lot of Americans that trust Fox News most as a news source. Everyone doesn't have the time/will to perform their own research to draw their own conclusions. As a result, many people adopt the opinions of Fox News. On top of that, I read somewhere that the Bush administration gives preferential treatment to Fox News for their media outlet. The Bush government has an scary ability to manipulate and form the opinions of its own people.
I'm on the fence about the government snooping on its citizens. On one hand, you're right to privacy is being eroded, on the other hand, I really want them to find people who are planning attacks on my country. What's really worrisome is that they flat-out lied about their spying program. Bush lied about WMDs which has resulted in thousands of dead US soldiers. Why isn't he impeached? Clinton lied about his personal affair with an intern, and he got impeached. No one can argue which was more harmful to the country.
The US government gets such a bad rap nowadays. Spying on it's own citizens, the non-existent WMDs in Iraq, the turtle-like response to Katrina, giving huge tax breaks to the richest. They're in desparate need for a ministry responsible for PR, perhaps a Ministry of Propaganda? I wouldn't be surprised.
I think the RIAA will eventually legislate a country wide tax that will go directly to them, and just stop making music all together, because at that point, they'll just make money by doing nothing. Now, I gotta figure out how to do this for myself.
I predict by the time that happens, Microsoft will own the Internet, which will be plagued with frequent crashes.
I think AMD is banking on the average person's inability to multiply 2 single digit numbers.
Sweet, that means I can watch 4 different pr0n movies, each having their own processor.
I'm a student, my life savings is currently -$10000 (I owe money). The RIAA can take away my life savings.
The obvious solution to this problem is to make music un-listenable, and make e-books un-readable. Such a simple solution to copy protection... Can't wait to buy the next Celine Dion CD so I can't listen to it.
That's why we ALL should buy a copy of windows, and the next version of windows that microsoft churns out, and the next one, and the next one. In fact, we might as well take our paycheques and deposit into Microsoft's fat-ass bank account. This way MS will never go under, and they will keep producing their superbly secure and bug-free software that we all can enjoy.
It's so true. These copy protection schemes are basically punishing the users that BUY their software, and the pirates are hardly affected. Sooner or later it'll be easier to pirate software than to buy it. If you know where to look that's actually the case. And you know their going to blame the people when their software sales go down because it's impossible to install.
Last year, DoubleClick came to my university to try to recruit coop students. I don't think anyone took them seriously. It was when dot-coms were dropping like flies, and I was so sure DoubleClick was going down too.
Dude, more space means more pr0n, everyone can use more of that.
You mean a woman?
As they point fingers, and deny any problem with their business model, their profits will continue to dwindle. F EM! Let them lose profits. Every keep pirating music, stop buying these overpriced CDs! CD buyers are just allowing the record titans more time to deflect blame. Until their revenues crash, they won't change the way they think.
I bet the campaign will pay for the message, and you won't be charged anything. That's the only logical solution to spamming on SMS. Who in the right mind would send an SMS spam that would cost everyone 10 cents, it'll be political suicide....
Alright, e-mail spammers are scum, and should be shot.
Fax spammers are worse. Not only do they consume your time, they waste your paper. Fax spammers should be stoned to death. But that's unlikely, so I hope Fax.com loses, and I hope that their executives are sent to jail.
Dude, this would be REALLY trippy if you're high.
;)
Alright, pass me a joint. I'll be happy to beta test this
Of course not, dear. And even if you were there would just be more of you for me to love.
!!!!!! This will earn you a few nights on the couch. Your first sentence was sufficient.
Because the WiFi spectrum is unregulated, what's stopping disgruntled people from jamming their signal, seriously. That's what should be done, and force them off the channel.
Now that Starbucks has conquered the coffee market, they must move into new worlds. I wonder how they're gonna train their coffee monkeys to use a computer....
This article is talking about e-mail that users choose to receive. I actually like this feature because I'm notified whenever there's a sale going on at a store. I get an e-mail flyer every week from Canadian Tire, and I don't mind at all. It's better than wasting paper, and I never miss a sale. The real spam are the ones where you never asked for it in the first place.
I read an article last week explaining a pretty cool way to block spam using statistical analysis.
Basically, you have a blacklist of words that typically appear in spam, such as "unsubscribe" or "click" or "teen". Then every e-mail is rated for it's spam probability. You set up a filter to kill any e-mail which has a 90% or more probability of being spam. There's other measures to make sure that legit e-mail doesn't get caught in here, which I can't remember right now, but it seems pretty fool proof now. The only counter-measure I can see is if spammers start mutating their words: "un-subscribe", "cl1ck", "t33n", etc.