This. It's all about the customer. Amazon does many things, but it only does one thing: start with the customer and work backward. Amazon will continue to disrupt until customer morale improves in every industry.
"the investment needed to return to the moon likely to run in excess of $150 billion and the cost of a round trip to Mars easily two to four times that, there is a way to reduce the cost and technical requirements of a manned mission to Mars: send the astronauts on a one way trip..."
Hell, for $150 billion for a moon trip or $600 billion for a one way Mars trip we could send 4,200 troops on a one way trip to Iraq and Afghanistan! Think of all the good their deaths have done for humanity. Man, even my own dark sarcasm sickens me sometimes.
I've always felt like the DMCA is like an authority figure that tries to sound lenient by saying, "You know, we could have made it a lot worse..." or "Aren't you thankful you can still have your toys/music?"
Not one user ever says, Gee, I wish that today I could do *less* with my music today than I could yesterday.
The DMCA is a corporation-driven, draconian rule that is abused on both sides, by the enforcers and the afflicted. Increased government regulation is rarely the answer to any of our societal/economic ills, much less so in the case of digital media.
My Dad's old Corrolla would get 44mpg. He used to track it in his little notebook every time he filled up. It was carburated, 4-cylinder, seated 4, and ran over 200K miles before he sold it. How the hell do today's manufacturers get away with boasting/advertising 25mpg?
I didn't realize anyone was interested in making it easier for Google or Net-Nanny to filter the web for people. Life is R - rated, should the web be any different? It's been said before but it bears repeating, if you don't like it, don't look at it. Do you really think taking the steps you outlined will prevent children from viewing pr0n? When was the last time you were fourteen?
Seconded. Youtube videos, web 2.0 flashy bullshit, ADVERTISEMENTS, these all take up space. I don't want to pay just because some website refreshes itself every 20 seconds. How the hell is this anything other than an attempt to put the horse back in the barn by the telecom companies? How the hell does it cost the telecom more or less money if I use my bandwidth more or less? The pathetic infrastructure we have in this country doesn't change whether I use my internet more or less. This is a recipe for the devolvement of the web. Capping the use at 60G/mo. or whatever is not the point. The cap should be infinity, use it as much as possible. FFS, leave the users alone.
is regrettably no longer anti-American. Given the recent and rapid degradation of the personal privacy of the American public, this type of thinking is sadly becoming quite the defining characteristic of our country. It is only anti-American in the sense that it hurts the citizens which it ostensibly aims to protect, but it is a wholly American way of thinking today.
We are all very happy that all your seaches are ended on the first page. What are you looking for? Steve Lightspeed? Obviously it isn't libxyz.so.2 or some other obscure dependency that is already installed but not satisfying yum or apt or anything else. When this happens, google isn't deep enough to save me from dependency hell.
I hope I am not the only one tired of this type of shit. If "security" means I have to have drones flying over me to keep watch on me, then no, George and Co., I don't want to be secure. Thanks for asking.
Sadly, I do know a person who did purchase an X-10. I was explaining to my old man one day about a year ago this new web browser has a feature that lets you block ads if you get the adblock extension. He seemed unconvinced, so I told him he would never again have to see one of those annoying X-10 popups again.
His response? Oh, X-10, I love that little camera.
You bought one of those????? Dad!!!
He sided with the enemy. He colored outside the lines and supported pop-up advertising, my mortal web enemy. Supporting pop-up advertisements is like walking into a park filled with pigeons with a bag of popcorn.
Not that I think the old guy has, uh, privacy issues, he just like gadgets. I have no idea on the functionality of that camera.
2600 sells a DVD with all of their shows since 1988. I am about halfway through it right now and it is like a walk through time. From the Michelangelo virus to DMCA, it covers everything. At 4+ GB, it will take you a while. Plus, who can get enough of their theme song?
Maybe it works like the word fish. The plural of a single particular species of fish is the word fish as in one fish, two fish. The plural of fish when speaking about multiple species is fishes, as in all the fishes of the sea. I also checked www.m-w.com and octopuses is correct.
I was discussing the functionality of Linux today with a friend as I struggled to get sound working on an FC2 new install. I speculated that Google may be a future answer to the struggles of Linux. Google is and continues to develop new levels of functionality. Google runs linux on its server farms. Google is powerful, cash-rich, and business-savvy. If anyone can do it, Google can. I heard that Google is working to develop a desktop environment, maybe a browser, who knows what, the rumor mill is rife with speculation. What if Google tried to deliver what could be the knockout blow to MS and takes on the challenge of funding a comprehensive, secure, functional, and most importantly user friendly distribution of linux? Could Google unitle the linux clans, or is that fundamentally anti-linux/open source thinking? I have been a linux user for 2 years.
No one does. Ads are a double edged sword. On one hand they help pay for content. On the other, they are like an annoying child, begging for attention. Go ahead and click on them if you want, but you'll only embolden them to think their particular brand of obnoxious, jittering, flashing, morphing, bouncing, and usually misleading advertising is effective.
Annoying ads are my main problem, not all ads in general. In the early days of the internet, it was text ads only. Now, your screen looks like it is having a seizure as it markets to you. My adblock file is a mile long to help combat this problem.
When was the last time an internet ad genuinely enticed you to click on it? There are so many better avenues of research than ads. Ads work for people like my grandmother, who reads every single word on the webpage, from left to right and top to bottom. She does this because this is the way she was taught to read. Now people have to fight to get to the content, and it shouldn't be that way.
Reclaiming the internet experience is really what the adblock feature is about.
A funny thing is happening right now and has been happening for years. Technology 'haves' and 'knows' are outpacing the tech 'have- and know-nots' at an ever increasing rate. Information (intellectual property) will certainly become the currency of the matured digital age. Those with the most information will be the 'richest'. The so-called Digital Age is as yet it it's infancy.
In the current battle being waged by the RIAA, we will see the RIAA attack some uber-geeks and lose, big time. Why? Because some guy is going to bury them in technological knowledge and open to them so many possible ways of moving information, they will never prove he did it. This is only a small slice of the ongoing revolution that is the Internet. To say the exchange of information is pervasive is even now an overstatement. People are just beginning to tap the power of information exchange.
A new class of people is being formed, call them what you want to: The geeks, Slashdottians, whatever, the divide is widening. Some of us cannot even talk to our parents or elder peers because they do not understand what we are talking about when it comes to technology. The problem is ever more apparent that it was 50 years ago when the lastest innovation was television.
Technology and those who know how to utilize it and improve it (hackers) will one day be part of a new ruling class. Even though I struggle to remain in the know, I am outpaced as soon as I unplug for an hour. So I wish the best of luck to the RIAA, you clearly do not know what or who you are attacking. The people you catch, the 50 year-old grandfather, the 23 year-old college woman, they are not your problem. You may frighten them into submission, you may even profit from them, but your real problem is the ones you cannot hope to catch, for they are a breed apart. I say this not as a threat, but as a revelation of reality to you.
Good point and I have added questions: I understand the RIAA 'officially' began logging/seeking out IP addresses in late June. Where are the new names coming from? Current users?
Will subsequent subpeonas come from say, the year 2000 or 2001 or just from those currently sharing? Some people move around very quickly from network to network making sharers quite difficult to track.
Clearly you are correct. Identity theft/masking is what makes the fun part of the internet go around. Share as JohnAshcroft@Kazaa and see if they post that name on the list. More to your point, what if someone hijacks your machine using a trojan or sets up a pr0n server without you knowing it? P2P users are very slippery, and the RIAA will soon find they are after some people who are quite powerful when it comes to this sort of thing. They cannot prove it was you online at the point of the download. If someone uses my IP for something I don't know about, can I be held liable? Doubtful.
Another question -- What about MAC addresses? I know you can spoof these as well, but I think less people do this because of the necessity for MAC authentication on some networks. What do you think/.
My question is this: What if someone takes over your computer via a trojan and uses your computer as a server for music without your knowledge? People's computer get hijacked for use by pron mongers all the time. I get many many many hits per day from people probing my system for trojan vulnerabilities. Then your MAC would be yours (as long as you weren't spoofing it) and the IP could be traced to you. It is not an unreasonable scenario, this happening. What do you tell them in court about this? You tell them this was the scenario, and that this can happen. That's reasonable doubt, and that's all you need.
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This. It's all about the customer. Amazon does many things, but it only does one thing: start with the customer and work backward. Amazon will continue to disrupt until customer morale improves in every industry.
"the investment needed to return to the moon likely to run in excess of $150 billion and the cost of a round trip to Mars easily two to four times that, there is a way to reduce the cost and technical requirements of a manned mission to Mars: send the astronauts on a one way trip..."
Hell, for $150 billion for a moon trip or $600 billion for a one way Mars trip we could send 4,200 troops on a one way trip to Iraq and Afghanistan! Think of all the good their deaths have done for humanity. Man, even my own dark sarcasm sickens me sometimes.
Build another one, then de-orbit both of them. Why build and destroy one when you can do two for twice the price?
I've always felt like the DMCA is like an authority figure that tries to sound lenient by saying, "You know, we could have made it a lot worse..." or "Aren't you thankful you can still have your toys/music?"
Not one user ever says, Gee, I wish that today I could do *less* with my music today than I could yesterday.
The DMCA is a corporation-driven, draconian rule that is abused on both sides, by the enforcers and the afflicted. Increased government regulation is rarely the answer to any of our societal/economic ills, much less so in the case of digital media.
My Dad's old Corrolla would get 44mpg. He used to track it in his little notebook every time he filled up. It was carburated, 4-cylinder, seated 4, and ran over 200K miles before he sold it. How the hell do today's manufacturers get away with boasting/advertising 25mpg?
I didn't realize anyone was interested in making it easier for Google or Net-Nanny to filter the web for people. Life is R - rated, should the web be any different? It's been said before but it bears repeating, if you don't like it, don't look at it. Do you really think taking the steps you outlined will prevent children from viewing pr0n? When was the last time you were fourteen?
Seconded. Youtube videos, web 2.0 flashy bullshit, ADVERTISEMENTS, these all take up space. I don't want to pay just because some website refreshes itself every 20 seconds. How the hell is this anything other than an attempt to put the horse back in the barn by the telecom companies? How the hell does it cost the telecom more or less money if I use my bandwidth more or less? The pathetic infrastructure we have in this country doesn't change whether I use my internet more or less. This is a recipe for the devolvement of the web. Capping the use at 60G/mo. or whatever is not the point. The cap should be infinity, use it as much as possible. FFS, leave the users alone.
is regrettably no longer anti-American. Given the recent and rapid degradation of the personal privacy of the American public, this type of thinking is sadly becoming quite the defining characteristic of our country. It is only anti-American in the sense that it hurts the citizens which it ostensibly aims to protect, but it is a wholly American way of thinking today.
We are all very happy that all your seaches are ended on the first page. What are you looking for? Steve Lightspeed? Obviously it isn't libxyz.so.2 or some other obscure dependency that is already installed but not satisfying yum or apt or anything else. When this happens, google isn't deep enough to save me from dependency hell.
I hope I am not the only one tired of this type of shit. If "security" means I have to have drones flying over me to keep watch on me, then no, George and Co., I don't want to be secure. Thanks for asking.
Why did they have to cover the legs like that? It looks like to torso-less leotard-clad siamese-twin joined monsters
dancing to some whining noise.
Sadly, I do know a person who did purchase an X-10. I was explaining to my old man one day about a year ago this new web browser has a feature that lets you block ads if you get the adblock extension. He seemed unconvinced, so I told him he would never again have to see one of those annoying X-10 popups again.
His response? Oh, X-10, I love that little camera.
You bought one of those????? Dad!!!
He sided with the enemy. He colored outside the lines and supported pop-up advertising, my mortal web enemy. Supporting pop-up
advertisements is like walking into a park filled with pigeons with a bag of popcorn.
Not that I think the old guy has, uh, privacy issues, he just like gadgets. I have no idea on the functionality of that camera.
2600 sells a DVD with all of their shows since 1988. I am about halfway through it right now and it is like a walk through time. From the Michelangelo virus to DMCA, it covers everything. At 4+ GB, it will take you a while. Plus, who can get enough of their theme song?
Maybe it works like the word fish. The plural of a single particular species of fish is the word fish as in one fish, two fish. The plural of fish when speaking about multiple species is fishes, as in all the fishes of the sea. I also checked www.m-w.com and octopuses is correct.
I was discussing the functionality of Linux today with a friend as I struggled to get sound working on an FC2 new install. I speculated that Google may be a future answer to the struggles of Linux. Google is and continues to develop new levels of functionality. Google runs linux on its server farms. Google is powerful, cash-rich, and business-savvy. If anyone can do it, Google can.
I heard that Google is working to develop a desktop environment, maybe a browser, who knows what, the rumor mill is rife with speculation. What if Google tried to deliver what could be the knockout blow to MS and takes on the challenge of funding a comprehensive, secure, functional, and most importantly user friendly distribution of linux? Could Google unitle the linux clans, or is that fundamentally anti-linux/open source thinking?
I have been a linux user for 2 years.
No one does. Ads are a double edged sword. On one hand they help pay for content. On the other, they are like an annoying child, begging for attention. Go ahead and click on them if you want, but you'll only embolden them to think their particular brand of obnoxious, jittering, flashing, morphing, bouncing, and usually misleading advertising is effective.
Annoying ads are my main problem, not all ads in general. In the early days of the internet, it was text ads only. Now, your screen looks like it is having a seizure as it markets to you. My adblock file is a mile long to help combat this problem.
When was the last time an internet ad genuinely enticed you to click on it? There are so many better avenues of research than ads. Ads work for people like my grandmother, who reads every single word on the webpage, from left to right and top to bottom. She does this because this is the way she was taught to read. Now people have to fight to get to the content, and it shouldn't be that way.
Reclaiming the internet experience is really what the adblock feature is about.
Any distro that does will immediately have me as a convert. I'm sure that will motivate them. Oh, to have a SickFreak on their team.
A funny thing is happening right now and has been happening for years. Technology 'haves' and 'knows' are outpacing the tech 'have- and know-nots' at an ever increasing rate. Information (intellectual property) will certainly become the currency of the matured digital age. Those with the most information will be the 'richest'. The so-called Digital Age is as yet it it's infancy.
In the current battle being waged by the RIAA, we will see the RIAA attack some uber-geeks and lose, big time. Why? Because some guy is going to bury them in technological knowledge and open to them so many possible ways of moving information, they will never prove he did it. This is only a small slice of the ongoing revolution that is the Internet. To say the exchange of information is pervasive is even now an overstatement. People are just beginning to tap the power of information exchange.
A new class of people is being formed, call them what you want to: The geeks, Slashdottians, whatever, the divide is widening. Some of us cannot even talk to our parents or elder peers because they do not understand what we are talking about when it comes to technology. The problem is ever more apparent that it was 50 years ago when the lastest innovation was television.
Technology and those who know how to utilize it and improve it (hackers) will one day be part of a new ruling class. Even though I struggle to remain in the know, I am outpaced as soon as I unplug for an hour. So I wish the best of luck to the RIAA, you clearly do not know what or who you are attacking. The people you catch, the 50 year-old grandfather, the 23 year-old college woman, they are not your problem. You may frighten them into submission, you may even profit from them, but your real problem is the ones you cannot hope to catch, for they are a breed apart. I say this not as a threat, but as a revelation of reality to you.
Good point and I have added questions:
I understand the RIAA 'officially' began logging/seeking out IP addresses in late June. Where are the new names coming from? Current users?
Will subsequent subpeonas come from say, the year 2000 or 2001 or just from those currently sharing? Some people move around very quickly from network to network making sharers quite difficult to track.
Clearly you are correct. Identity theft/masking is what makes the fun part of the internet go around. Share as JohnAshcroft@Kazaa and see if they post that name on the list. More to your point, what if someone hijacks your machine using a trojan or sets up a pr0n server without you knowing it? P2P users are very slippery, and the RIAA will soon find they are after some people who are quite powerful when it comes to this sort of thing. They cannot prove it was you online at the point of the download. If someone uses my IP for something I don't know about, can I be held liable? Doubtful.
Another question -- What about MAC addresses? I know you can spoof these as well, but I think less people do this because of the necessity for MAC authentication on some networks. What do you think/.
My question is this: What if someone takes over your computer via a trojan and uses your computer as a server for music without your knowledge? People's computer get hijacked for use by pron mongers all the time. I get many many many hits per day from people probing my system for trojan vulnerabilities. Then your MAC would be yours (as long as you weren't spoofing it) and the IP could be traced to you. It is not an unreasonable scenario, this happening. What do you tell them in court about this? You tell them this was the scenario, and that this can happen. That's reasonable doubt, and that's all you need.