Then again, disruptive and shakey connections to India might just be suitable punishment for those companies that thought it would be smart to outsource all those jobs there...
So if you like the shirt, and if you don't like the other twelve, and the price is too high for all of them, and if the one shirt isn't available on itunes for a buck, and no one else makes one equally as good, and as such your life will apparently end because you don't have that one particular shirt, then it's okay to steal it?
Just checking to see if we need a blue moon in that decision chain... or if this analogy was equally bad.
Borders and B&N, for starters, do let you listen to the music in the store.
And there's a difference between tring on clothes in the store, and walking out with them and "trying" them for a couple of months before you decide if, when, or at all, that you're going to pay for them.
First, when enough people steal it, and not enough people pay for it, the reduced revenues can mean the difference between profitabilty and a sea of red ink. Too much red ink, and the people who create the work don't get paid, denying them the income they depend on to pay the rent and feed the kids.
Theft has an impact on people's lives, and you're not entitled to their work without fair compensation.
Second, from an earlier/. post, "At one now defunct company that I know about they had 20 real licenses for about 150 work stations and servers. In my experience this isn't a very uncommon at all."
Further, from my own experience implementing a software protection scheme, and seeing sales suddenly double from "loyal" customers, I'd say there's quite a bit of "evidence" that people would pay for it... if they had to.
Unfortunately, kid's can now steal from the privacy of their parent's basement without going to the mall and without a good chance of getting caught. High reward, little risk.
But please, don't tell me they wouldn't or couldn't have paid for it otherwise. When I was a teenager we somehow always found the money for the things we really wanted.
Or (scary concept) did without.
Third, if you think the price is unreasonable, then... and here's another idea: don't buy it. The company will get the idea and adjust prices.
But don't steal the work anyway just because you think you're somehow entitled to it.
Sorry, but too many of your "points" are nothing more than the rationalizations a thief always makes, as in "He shouldn't have left that door unlocked. Really just asking for it."
...namely, that while the spam will no longer get to your inbox, it will still be sent and take up bandwidth and resources.
Usually the second protocol sequence of a mail session is "mail from me@example.com". With an SPF aware system, if the SPF record doesn't match the reverse DNS IP lookup then and there, the message is rejected and not sent/received at all.
Should the message get sent because "mail from" was forged to a valid domain, "from" needs to match "mail from". If it doesn't, then it can be rejected, and all the other expensive spam checks can be dispensed with.
So yes, it can reduce bandwidth and resources. And if anything reduces the number of forged phishing emails, then that's a great thing in my book. One step at a time.
... but I don't expect a wide-spread adoption given the administration costs.
What administration costs? It took about about 10 minutes for me to create and install a SPF record for my site.
As for supporting it on the other side, future releases of mail software will do so the next time I would have upgraded anyway.
I'm all for it. You would not believe the number of phishing emails, purporting to be from my site, that say, "Your account information is enclosed. Please open and read."
It may break some forwarding, but I'd rather END phishing and trojans. Besides, we're not supposed to be open relaying anyway...
I'm sure that if you looked at it from their side, you'd see that they consider the increase in legal downloads to be the direct result of their bitching....;)
I think we're in agreement. While line-item-veto is (theoretically) designed to elminate unwarrented attachments and other pork in a bill, it could, as you say, be abused.
Better, I think, to set things up such that a bill or desired legislation pertains to one (and only one) subject. That eliminates the major reason line-item-veto is needed. (Not why the executive branch wants it, but why they need it.)
Not all attachments are stupid, but not all are appropriate to the bill at hand, like the REAL ID act recently approved by attaching it to a military appropriations bill.
If a bill is worthy of becoming a law it's worthy of debate on it's OWN merits.
Decouple attachments that don't directly pertain to the bill, and you'll have fewer bad laws, and less pork spending.
The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest of the Pacific, killed more people than Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and invasion of the Japanese homeland was projected to be at least 10 times worse.
While Hiroshima and Nagasaki were unfortunate, it prevented the need for an invasion that would have killed tens of thousands on both sides. In addition, a "public" target was choosen to illustrate to the Japanese people what would happen if their leaders failed to surrender.
Bombing an out-of-way military target would not have had the same effect, and could potentially be denied by the government.
What we "wanted" was to end the war, and to minimzie the number of our people that would have to die in the process. If such could be accomplished, AND a message sent to others at the same time discouraging further aggression, then all the better.
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Sure, as long as you can heat, form, and cool the glass in three seconds...
The problem with that is that it is too restrictive and/or too annoying for your typical user to leave on.
As such doesn't really exist, I fail to see how you make the blanket statement that some potential future system will be too restrictive and/or annoying for your typical user...
Why??? Here we are decades past Xerox Park, the Star, and the Lisa, and you're telling me that the best way to interface with a "modern" OS is to memorize hundreds of cryptic text command line and configuration file options?
Are you sure you wouldn't care for a bank of front panel switches so you can toogle in the boot loader by hand?
It's not, IMHO, that in the majority of cases a CLI is better, it's that the high priests of the servers delight in secret, unintelligible, arcane rituals that no one else understands...
...the big credit reporting agencies in the U.S. don't even have a record of "a few days late". Typically, one must be 30+ days, 60+ days, 90+ days or 120+ days late on a payment...
I believe that "30 days late" has come to mean the first 30 days, and late, with 30 days the assumed term. As such, if you're payment is due 20 days from now, and you pay on the 22nd day, you're still "30" days (1 payment) late in their, and the credit bureau's, eyes.
The F-22 seems to be a prime candidate, as it looks like remotely piloted vehicles are rapidly approaching viability and no conceivable enemy has an aircraft more capable than the current generation of fighters.
But not in air-superiority roles, and I'm leary of depending upon anything that can be nullified by jamming.
and no conceivable enemy has an aircraft more capable than the current generation of fighters.
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Not just for photos any more...
When's that iPod video codec going to be done?
Cause? No. But perhaps the straw...
Then again, disruptive and shakey connections to India might just be suitable punishment for those companies that thought it would be smart to outsource all those jobs there...
You mean other than the thinly veiled allusion in the first post?
Or are you implying that Linux keeps going backwards?
Just checking to see if we need a blue moon in that decision chain... or if this analogy was equally bad.
And there's a difference between tring on clothes in the store, and walking out with them and "trying" them for a couple of months before you decide if, when, or at all, that you're going to pay for them.
No, you only THINK it came from your friend, because it said it did, even though it didn't, and SPF WOULD help there... ;)
Theft has an impact on people's lives, and you're not entitled to their work without fair compensation.
Second, from an earlier /. post, "At one now defunct company that I know about they had 20 real licenses for about 150 work stations and servers. In my experience this isn't a very uncommon at all."
Further, from my own experience implementing a software protection scheme, and seeing sales suddenly double from "loyal" customers, I'd say there's quite a bit of "evidence" that people would pay for it... if they had to.
Unfortunately, kid's can now steal from the privacy of their parent's basement without going to the mall and without a good chance of getting caught. High reward, little risk.
But please, don't tell me they wouldn't or couldn't have paid for it otherwise. When I was a teenager we somehow always found the money for the things we really wanted.
Or (scary concept) did without.
Third, if you think the price is unreasonable, then... and here's another idea: don't buy it. The company will get the idea and adjust prices.
But don't steal the work anyway just because you think you're somehow entitled to it.
Sorry, but too many of your "points" are nothing more than the rationalizations a thief always makes, as in "He shouldn't have left that door unlocked. Really just asking for it."
Usually the second protocol sequence of a mail session is "mail from me@example.com". With an SPF aware system, if the SPF record doesn't match the reverse DNS IP lookup then and there, the message is rejected and not sent/received at all.
Should the message get sent because "mail from" was forged to a valid domain, "from" needs to match "mail from". If it doesn't, then it can be rejected, and all the other expensive spam checks can be dispensed with.
So yes, it can reduce bandwidth and resources. And if anything reduces the number of forged phishing emails, then that's a great thing in my book. One step at a time.
What administration costs? It took about about 10 minutes for me to create and install a SPF record for my site.
As for supporting it on the other side, future releases of mail software will do so the next time I would have upgraded anyway.
I'm all for it. You would not believe the number of phishing emails, purporting to be from my site, that say, "Your account information is enclosed. Please open and read."
It may break some forwarding, but I'd rather END phishing and trojans. Besides, we're not supposed to be open relaying anyway...
Switch to one that does. Try ZoneEdit.com. Depending upon the size of your site, they're free.
Plain, boring, and unobtrusive gets you unseen and unwatched...
Unless you think someone ELSE is going to pay out of their own pocket for all of this pontification...
Sort of belies the "most downloads wouldn't have resulted in sales anyway" theory, doesn't it?
I'm sure that if you looked at it from their side, you'd see that they consider the increase in legal downloads to be the direct result of their bitching.... ;)
Admit what you're reading has value, and engage in the quid pro quo.
Better, I think, to set things up such that a bill or desired legislation pertains to one (and only one) subject. That eliminates the major reason line-item-veto is needed. (Not why the executive branch wants it, but why they need it.)
If a bill is worthy of becoming a law it's worthy of debate on it's OWN merits.
Decouple attachments that don't directly pertain to the bill, and you'll have fewer bad laws, and less pork spending.
The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest of the Pacific, killed more people than Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and invasion of the Japanese homeland was projected to be at least 10 times worse.
While Hiroshima and Nagasaki were unfortunate, it prevented the need for an invasion that would have killed tens of thousands on both sides. In addition, a "public" target was choosen to illustrate to the Japanese people what would happen if their leaders failed to surrender.
Bombing an out-of-way military target would not have had the same effect, and could potentially be denied by the government.
What we "wanted" was to end the war, and to minimzie the number of our people that would have to die in the process. If such could be accomplished, AND a message sent to others at the same time discouraging further aggression, then all the better.
Sure, as long as you can heat, form, and cool the glass in three seconds...
As such doesn't really exist, I fail to see how you make the blanket statement that some potential future system will be too restrictive and/or annoying for your typical user...
Learn to do things without pretty GUIs..
Why??? Here we are decades past Xerox Park, the Star, and the Lisa, and you're telling me that the best way to interface with a "modern" OS is to memorize hundreds of cryptic text command line and configuration file options?
Are you sure you wouldn't care for a bank of front panel switches so you can toogle in the boot loader by hand?
It's not, IMHO, that in the majority of cases a CLI is better, it's that the high priests of the servers delight in secret, unintelligible, arcane rituals that no one else understands...
I believe that "30 days late" has come to mean the first 30 days, and late, with 30 days the assumed term. As such, if you're payment is due 20 days from now, and you pay on the 22nd day, you're still "30" days (1 payment) late in their, and the credit bureau's, eyes.
Or in this case, generally higher interest rates, fees, and charges.
But not in air-superiority roles, and I'm leary of depending upon anything that can be nullified by jamming.
and no conceivable enemy has an aircraft more capable than the current generation of fighters.
Today.