They wouldn't have to camp, at least not around here. The pr0n store seems to be open late, many open 24h.
Somewhat odd when one thinks that you can't buy music or Pirates of the Carribean past 6pm/12am, but you can pick up a pr0n vid anytime you want.
As for the addiction factor, pr0n breeds the desire to buy more pr0n... as it is the variety that seems to matter to many.
So you might not see people camping beside the Adult XXX Video Store, but you will see some people that come in and out on a regular basis renting/buying chains of new/different titles.
Not really so much that the RIAA are greater slimeballs (though I don't discount the possibility), but just that their marketing dept and perspective are so screwed that they're completely clueless as to the marketing capability of the internet.
If you do a little browsing on Kazaa, you'll find that many of the pr0n films come labelled with a website address or a distributer etc. That's because, inevitably, the pr0n makers know that somebody will probably following that link home like a fish on a line and possibly become a customer.
The RIAA on the other hand, see the fish gobbling up the bugs amongst the reeds at the other side of the pond, and rather than use the bugs or fish in the reeds they decided they would rather
a) Cut down/remove all the reeds (free food) and hope the fish come to them
b) Shoot some of the fish with a gun to scare them away from the reeds, but actually scare most of the fish away altogether.
It appears that pr0n companies just know much better how to market than the RIAA. If music came predominantly in low-quality or teaser clips in kazaa then they'd have a good worm on their hook... instead the worms are in management.
I've been playing DC for a little while not, and the gameplay is incredible. With the levels that are really loaded, you have a huge array of things you can do.
Walk around with your gun... get shot by a tank
Respawn, grab a helicopter or a bomber, blast the tank... get blown away by a jet
Jump into an AA gunsite, or a tank with AA... blow away the jet.
The vehicles greatly enhance what you can do, and of course there's also joy in just trekking around on foot. Nothing quite like the joy of actually taking out that annoying hind all by your lonesome with just a stinger missile.
This statement is why you are the minority. But impairing printers for all their customers, HP is making a statement that they consider all their customers to be potential crooks.
What percentage of people using these printers do you think counterfeit money? Less than 5%, maybe less than 1%. Crooks may be resourceful, and I would applaud if HP made attempts to go after counterfeiters that didn't involve tainting the output of printers for the other 99% of us that are only interested in getting pictures of that nice sunset we saw last Friday to print out nicely.
HP has the right idea but needs a better implimentation
Here you've got it nailed. Stopping counterfeiting is good, so if HP is worried about it why not donate to anti-counterfeiting education programs, or developing tools that could easily spot counterfeit currency quickly.
And one last point... it's easy to catch these things. They look wrong, feel wrong, smell wrong, or many other factors. The fact that my last pictures turned into a spotted mess when they got a tiny bit of snow/moisture on them indicate to me that catching a counterfeit bill could be as simple as keeping a small bowl of water to dip the corner at your till...
I have this printer, and from what I have read it does incorporate some protection against currency printing.
No, I'm not a photo professional, but I do take a lot of high-end digital photos. And yes, at high resolution with good paper, this printer will print pictures that are about on par with studio pictures in many cases. Besides, who says this is restricted to $200 printers, and who considers $200 cheap? While I might consider a $50 lexmark throwaway printer cheap... in terms of my bank account and many others $200-300 for a printer isn't exactly cheap.
And no, it doesn't have to be the professional wedding photographer who gets his pictures ruined, it could be anyone who takes a decent picture only to have it mangled by the printer misrecognising it as money.
You play both sides of the fence here, but the fact is that for my $200-$400 when I buy a printer, I expect it to print all my pictures without interference and without bias. It doesn't matter whether I'm a professional photographer buying a printer for $2000 or a semi-amateur buying one for $200, the printer should fit the purpose it was intended (printing pictures with clarity to the best of its abilities).
And just to mention it, a fair bit money was probably also spent developing/incorporating such features. Maybe if they hadn't spent $XX on stupid things like this they could have given me better features that I actually want for my money... or maybe lessened the cost of the printer itself
Yes, sounds like a good addition for Despair.com. Perhaps if you find a picture to go with it (a meteorite, maybe with dinosaurs perhaps) you could have it posted to the demotivators
Are you making use of IPV6? While it is possible I don't really know many people that are, so perhaps you could just not use the IPV6 bindings for now until the problem blows over?
Excempting the case where a domain is registered via stolen card, they should be able to track the person down via the card etc used in registration of said domain. To my knowledge you can't exactly pay cash for these things (or at least I can't with my registrar).
Now if a domain were registered with a stolen CC, it shouldn't take too long to pop up on the radar. It's not a consumable or other item that can be used and "dissappear," so in the event of CC theft the domain could either be quickly cancelled, or monitored to track the owner (either it will forward elsewhere, or somebody will eventually have to FTP/etc and setup a page on it, right?)
Indeed. I recently got a letter from the Domain Registry of Canada (geeze, I thought these guys had been killed off a year ago). While they no longer word their "renewal" requests so that they sound as if they are affliated with your domain registrar... they are still obviously pulling my info from my WHOIS record.
I could see how this definately would be a problem for others, especially those with multiple registered domains. WHOIS records can lead to email spam, mail spam, and at times possibly a threat to your personal health (let us say, perhaps, that somebody disagrees with content on your site or a moderation of his/her own posting and decided to track you down to "discuss it").
Hell, it's not just private citizens I'd worry about. If I were a US citizen, I would be wary of government action against "free speech" on a site, such as many of the anti-bush sites.
When an American soldier in Iraq gets shot down and one of several dozen "terrorist" groups are happily taking the "credit" it's much different from inferring that since the MyDoom viruses attack MS/SCO, they must have been written by a linux user. Furthermore, since MyDoom was written to propogate on a windows platform, in a language for windows, one can also infer that the programmer was at least familiar enough with windows to write said virus.
Maybe the writer uses linux, maybe he doesn't. He's not standing up asking for congrats on taking on SCO, nor is there anything to really link him to Linux... so hence the bias.
You know what, when somebody has money, has a project in mind, and wants advice on a project... comments like this are really a pain. Do you really think that most people wouldn't consider alternate uses for the money? Do people always have to have a personal gain in mind raither than a personal "project."
There's nothing wrong with setting up a WAPnet for the neighbours (so long as it doesn't interfere with other people's WAP's etc). There's nothing wrong with doing with one's one money what one sees fit.
You know, if I came across and extra $7000 and wanted to spend it buying a few computers for a school etc, I would much rather have advice on that topic for slashdot than a bunch of "WTF - giving money away - invest it!" BS comments. In this case, the guy is donating to his apartment community instead of a school etc, but it's the same concept.
Oh, and p.s., $7000 is tons for WAP. Why not come down and check out my apartment building when you're done yours </joking>
Also of note is the reason why we still have a dot-matrix at work: It can print pages/reports on longer paper than a standard laser (and most inkjets). We have some old software (DOS) that hasn't been replaced yet (oh please *DEITY* somebody replace it soon) that requires the dot-matrix simply because there are no functions to change between printing landscape/portrait mode on the captured port for a laser (and besides, this big momma of a dot matrix is still longer than a laser page either way, even against A4)
Somewhat OT, but it is interesting that you bring up Casinos not having clocks. It seems from my experience that indeed they do not, and I wonder if this is based on some concept that "if they don't see the time, they won't think how long they've been here losing money."
Department stores... same idea I suppose too. Anyone got a take on this?
If you really don't want them to be 100% aware of your habits generate some random noise.
The modern method would be an IR-equipped laptop which can change channels/volume/etc randomly while you're away (just have your TV volume down).
Or you could do it the old fashioned way (tape a few dozen remotes to the ground of a small room, put a few dozen cats in room... or just tape remotes to cat's feet).
Ummmm, we're not being paid taxdollars to do it... and it's our money that's being wasted (well, yours, I'm Canadian so my gov't wastes money in other ways).
Set a cutoff. If you don't get an "X-sender-verified" tag by period X, don't receive mail from the sending server. Maybe a year should be a long enough period to enact a standard?
Well, with SCO taking the record of their site off the nameserver, perhaps we could start distributing a batch file to update the HOSTS file with www.sco.com and a valid IP address?
Indeed, of all the commercial in the last while this is probably the one most mentioned by my friends. Maybe I just hang around with a bunch of sickos (well, probably), but still it obviously proves that the commercial is getting high visibility.
You might want to remember, if 10% of people ignore a commercial, 45% of people remember it because they like it, and 45% of people remember it but it bothered them... 90% still remember the commercial and have a company name quite possibly stuck in their head. How many of those will say "I'd never eat there after that aweful commercial?"
Mindshare works, just look at the SCO fud... even negetive publicity is publicity, though personally I found it somewhat amusing as well.
I have the same problem with some people at work. The trick is that firebird really does look enough like MSIE to be considered by many windows lamerz to be an upgraded version.
So, all you really have to do is install firebird, then right click on the shortcut, change icon, and point it to the MSIE icon iexplore.exe
So far most of the people at work that would otherwise have bitched about using something "strange and different" haven't clued in... but they are happy that "this new MS upgrade seems good, why would I need anything else"
If you primarily used a competing product, you might get a sense for that product but you would lose a sense of your own. That way, you try to emulate the good things in competing product Y while not fixing up the really bad things in your own product X.
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They wouldn't have to camp, at least not around here. The pr0n store seems to be open late, many open 24h.
Somewhat odd when one thinks that you can't buy music or Pirates of the Carribean past 6pm/12am, but you can pick up a pr0n vid anytime you want.
As for the addiction factor, pr0n breeds the desire to buy more pr0n... as it is the variety that seems to matter to many.
So you might not see people camping beside the Adult XXX Video Store, but you will see some people that come in and out on a regular basis renting/buying chains of new/different titles.
Not really so much that the RIAA are greater slimeballs (though I don't discount the possibility), but just that their marketing dept and perspective are so screwed that they're completely clueless as to the marketing capability of the internet.
If you do a little browsing on Kazaa, you'll find that many of the pr0n films come labelled with a website address or a distributer etc. That's because, inevitably, the pr0n makers know that somebody will probably following that link home like a fish on a line and possibly become a customer.
The RIAA on the other hand, see the fish gobbling up the bugs amongst the reeds at the other side of the pond, and rather than use the bugs or fish in the reeds they decided they would rather
a) Cut down/remove all the reeds (free food) and hope the fish come to them
b) Shoot some of the fish with a gun to scare them away from the reeds, but actually scare most of the fish away altogether.
It appears that pr0n companies just know much better how to market than the RIAA. If music came predominantly in low-quality or teaser clips in kazaa then they'd have a good worm on their hook... instead the worms are in management.
I've been playing DC for a little while not, and the gameplay is incredible. With the levels that are really loaded, you have a huge array of things you can do.
Walk around with your gun... get shot by a tank
Respawn, grab a helicopter or a bomber, blast the tank... get blown away by a jet
Jump into an AA gunsite, or a tank with AA... blow away the jet.
The vehicles greatly enhance what you can do, and of course there's also joy in just trekking around on foot. Nothing quite like the joy of actually taking out that annoying hind all by your lonesome with just a stinger missile.
Nope, but I've heard that it's a popular drink at the Starbucks near the SCO offices and certain political buildings...
Crooks are smart, inventive, and resourceful.
This statement is why you are the minority. But impairing printers for all their customers, HP is making a statement that they consider all their customers to be potential crooks.
What percentage of people using these printers do you think counterfeit money? Less than 5%, maybe less than 1%. Crooks may be resourceful, and I would applaud if HP made attempts to go after counterfeiters that didn't involve tainting the output of printers for the other 99% of us that are only interested in getting pictures of that nice sunset we saw last Friday to print out nicely.
HP has the right idea but needs a better implimentation
Here you've got it nailed. Stopping counterfeiting is good, so if HP is worried about it why not donate to anti-counterfeiting education programs, or developing tools that could easily spot counterfeit currency quickly.
And one last point... it's easy to catch these things. They look wrong, feel wrong, smell wrong, or many other factors. The fact that my last pictures turned into a spotted mess when they got a tiny bit of snow/moisture on them indicate to me that catching a counterfeit bill could be as simple as keeping a small bowl of water to dip the corner at your till...
I have this printer, and from what I have read it does incorporate some protection against currency printing.
No, I'm not a photo professional, but I do take a lot of high-end digital photos. And yes, at high resolution with good paper, this printer will print pictures that are about on par with studio pictures in many cases. Besides, who says this is restricted to $200 printers, and who considers $200 cheap? While I might consider a $50 lexmark throwaway printer cheap... in terms of my bank account and many others $200-300 for a printer isn't exactly cheap.
And no, it doesn't have to be the professional wedding photographer who gets his pictures ruined, it could be anyone who takes a decent picture only to have it mangled by the printer misrecognising it as money.
You play both sides of the fence here, but the fact is that for my $200-$400 when I buy a printer, I expect it to print all my pictures without interference and without bias. It doesn't matter whether I'm a professional photographer buying a printer for $2000 or a semi-amateur buying one for $200, the printer should fit the purpose it was intended (printing pictures with clarity to the best of its abilities).
And just to mention it, a fair bit money was probably also spent developing/incorporating such features. Maybe if they hadn't spent $XX on stupid things like this they could have given me better features that I actually want for my money... or maybe lessened the cost of the printer itself
Yes, sounds like a good addition for Despair.com. Perhaps if you find a picture to go with it (a meteorite, maybe with dinosaurs perhaps) you could have it posted to the demotivators
Are you making use of IPV6? While it is possible I don't really know many people that are, so perhaps you could just not use the IPV6 bindings for now until the problem blows over?
Excempting the case where a domain is registered via stolen card, they should be able to track the person down via the card etc used in registration of said domain. To my knowledge you can't exactly pay cash for these things (or at least I can't with my registrar).
Now if a domain were registered with a stolen CC, it shouldn't take too long to pop up on the radar. It's not a consumable or other item that can be used and "dissappear," so in the event of CC theft the domain could either be quickly cancelled, or monitored to track the owner (either it will forward elsewhere, or somebody will eventually have to FTP/etc and setup a page on it, right?)
Indeed. I recently got a letter from the Domain Registry of Canada (geeze, I thought these guys had been killed off a year ago). While they no longer word their "renewal" requests so that they sound as if they are affliated with your domain registrar... they are still obviously pulling my info from my WHOIS record.
I could see how this definately would be a problem for others, especially those with multiple registered domains. WHOIS records can lead to email spam, mail spam, and at times possibly a threat to your personal health (let us say, perhaps, that somebody disagrees with content on your site or a moderation of his/her own posting and decided to track you down to "discuss it").
Hell, it's not just private citizens I'd worry about. If I were a US citizen, I would be wary of government action against "free speech" on a site, such as many of the anti-bush sites.
When an American soldier in Iraq gets shot down and one of several dozen "terrorist" groups are happily taking the "credit" it's much different from inferring that since the MyDoom viruses attack MS/SCO, they must have been written by a linux user. Furthermore, since MyDoom was written to propogate on a windows platform, in a language for windows, one can also infer that the programmer was at least familiar enough with windows to write said virus.
Maybe the writer uses linux, maybe he doesn't. He's not standing up asking for congrats on taking on SCO, nor is there anything to really link him to Linux... so hence the bias.
You know what, when somebody has money, has a project in mind, and wants advice on a project... comments like this are really a pain. Do you really think that most people wouldn't consider alternate uses for the money? Do people always have to have a personal gain in mind raither than a personal "project."
There's nothing wrong with setting up a WAPnet for the neighbours (so long as it doesn't interfere with other people's WAP's etc). There's nothing wrong with doing with one's one money what one sees fit.
You know, if I came across and extra $7000 and wanted to spend it buying a few computers for a school etc, I would much rather have advice on that topic for slashdot than a bunch of "WTF - giving money away - invest it!" BS comments. In this case, the guy is donating to his apartment community instead of a school etc, but it's the same concept.
Oh, and p.s., $7000 is tons for WAP. Why not come down and check out my apartment building when you're done yours </joking>
Also of note is the reason why we still have a dot-matrix at work: It can print pages/reports on longer paper than a standard laser (and most inkjets). We have some old software (DOS) that hasn't been replaced yet (oh please *DEITY* somebody replace it soon) that requires the dot-matrix simply because there are no functions to change between printing landscape/portrait mode on the captured port for a laser (and besides, this big momma of a dot matrix is still longer than a laser page either way, even against A4)
Somewhat OT, but it is interesting that you bring up Casinos not having clocks. It seems from my experience that indeed they do not, and I wonder if this is based on some concept that "if they don't see the time, they won't think how long they've been here losing money."
Department stores... same idea I suppose too. Anyone got a take on this?
If you really don't want them to be 100% aware of your habits generate some random noise.
The modern method would be an IR-equipped laptop which can change channels/volume/etc randomly while you're away (just have your TV volume down).
Or you could do it the old fashioned way (tape a few dozen remotes to the ground of a small room, put a few dozen cats in room... or just tape remotes to cat's feet).
But, in recent news, the "Times New Roman" font is being renamed to "Freedom Font"
Sorry, I had to...
Ummmm, we're not being paid taxdollars to do it... and it's our money that's being wasted (well, yours, I'm Canadian so my gov't wastes money in other ways).
Unless he wasn't resolving hostnames from IP's
Hmmmm... options already exist:
SMTP-Auth (you must supply a username/password when sending email)
POP3/IMAP-SSL, not sure if there is an SMTP-SSL but there should be... at least for the authentication process.
Set a cutoff. If you don't get an "X-sender-verified" tag by period X, don't receive mail from the sending server. Maybe a year should be a long enough period to enact a standard?
Well, with SCO taking the record of their site off the nameserver, perhaps we could start distributing a batch file to update the HOSTS file with www.sco.com and a valid IP address?
Indeed, of all the commercial in the last while this is probably the one most mentioned by my friends. Maybe I just hang around with a bunch of sickos (well, probably), but still it obviously proves that the commercial is getting high visibility.
You might want to remember, if 10% of people ignore a commercial, 45% of people remember it because they like it, and 45% of people remember it but it bothered them... 90% still remember the commercial and have a company name quite possibly stuck in their head. How many of those will say "I'd never eat there after that aweful commercial?"
Mindshare works, just look at the SCO fud... even negetive publicity is publicity, though personally I found it somewhat amusing as well.
How about Java support? I've as of yet had no luck getting this to work with Firebird/Linux
Anyone else had luck with this?
I have the same problem with some people at work. The trick is that firebird really does look enough like MSIE to be considered by many windows lamerz to be an upgraded version.
So, all you really have to do is install firebird, then right click on the shortcut, change icon, and point it to the MSIE icon iexplore.exe
So far most of the people at work that would otherwise have bitched about using something "strange and different" haven't clued in... but they are happy that "this new MS upgrade seems good, why would I need anything else"
If you primarily used a competing product, you might get a sense for that product but you would lose a sense of your own. That way, you try to emulate the good things in competing product Y while not fixing up the really bad things in your own product X.