Except it's not really about defence at all, it's all about being able to make the first strike with impunity. That is the whole point of the missile defense programme also.
What you should remember is that the issue goes well beyond a media player. Microsoft bundling their media player software and DRM with the Operating System gives them huge influence over businesses in the future. Haven't we already heard that MS are currently lobbying music companies in an attempt to force them to use a CD protection scheme which is shipped with Windows. I'd say this is more about the codecs, DRM and various other bytes and pieces than the public perception of a "media player".
What about this for an example. My 12" Powerbook, not more than 5 months old has dust behind the screen, has a broken DVD burner and crashes all the time. And when I say crash, I don't mean a kernel panic, I mean the system freezes.. halts if you will. Sometimes the mouse can be moved, othertimes it completely stops. Much of thye problems seem to come from iTunes, an Apple product no less.
I'd say my Windows machine was far more stable. Take that how you will.
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My Panther powerbook g4 crashes all the time - I suppose if you're just running textedit, finder and itunes the system will be ROCK SOLID.
Maybe because this type of filtering can only really work for a single user on their own corpus of email. In effect it's an end-user solution not something that could be deployed across the whole spectrum of mail servers (as I understand it). Take for example Scott Richter (or however you spell the name), that scabby-little spammer - he loves the stuff, and wouldn't wish it to be filtered from his inbox.
Blacklists are there to swallow-up this bandwidth wasting traffic forced down our necks by spammers. Personally, I would rather the crap be denied before it ever has to reach my section of the line. I don't know about you, but I get a chuff-load of spam every day which seriously hacks me off. Getting onto a blacklist for any length of time means a boat load of spam must be coming from that machine - hence it's the fault of your host provider for not cracking down sooner.
You idiot. How the hell do I encrypt an email you to me at a Gmail address? It's not like I can download it from a POP address, encrypt it and send it back really is it? I mean the damn thing is already spread across the whole system. God only knows how you've been rated Interesting - that's probably the most stupid comment I've ever read.
Don't know if anyone else has made this point - I got a little bored of reading the same "Claria is junk" post I must admit. But.... I was wondering if we'll see spyware-removal companies being sued for interfering with business practices? Here we have a company giving away, or selling in some cases a product which will reduce a company's advertising revenues. Will it be any more serious or carry more weight if perpetrated against a public company... maybe not
I don't actually think you get it. This guy hasn't really built the bloody thing, it's not an attempt to market anything other a "challenging", intra-local-connective-type concept, if there exists such a thing;) He's just one of those people you know who always have a concept, and believe a device or technology group has this raison d'etre.
I mean look at the site, it's a backpack with a Powerbook in (good choice), and the machine is running Apache with some MT blog. It's total crapola. Am I going to leave my Powerbook on while I strole around the city. Well shit, I reckon not. So where could it be used - only when people are sat down cafe or park, and actively using their machines. I suppose in that fanciful, Hollywood-esque way it's quite an attractive idea - we have a pretty girl, or.. yes,a hot chick sitting just across the way. She notices the bouncing icon - woooohhh someone is close-by.. and blogging!! - *glances over* - *we smile* (not the whole slashdot collective you understand).... Aaaaand we're golden! That's our piece of Fresher ass sorted for this evening. To bring us slighty back on-topic, the one thing that might have indicated to you that this idea was absolute dog, is the false iPac used for "visual display of activity...".
Exactly, and I agree with you because I didn't say (or I think imply) you would be guilty. If I use this "right to silence", enter a court and try to use a defence which wasn't discussed with the Police, I can be prevented from doing so. So I won't be assumed guilty, but I'll have to use an alternative defence. Hence my saying there is no right to silence.
It's also the reason you rarely find comparative advertising aired in the UK. The laws have only recently been relaxed to permit such claims, but companies usually steer well clear because it's a dangerous avenue to venture down.
Firstly... "a few hundred complaints" - when was the last time you heard of an advert getting "a few hundred" complaints.... a *few hundred* for gods sake. No! There are rarely that many complaints.
Secondly, in the UK there is no such thing as freedom of speech, and there's no such thing as a right to silence.
Is it me, or are the American "Authorities" trying to look mean in order to garner consumer confidence, or deflect criticism before the US Administration enacts a law which permit wide scale spamming?
Nice advertising TechStuff, but you fail to mention the 12" PowerBook in the above. It doesn't have the faster firewire, a 1ghz chip, faster networking, etc, etc. However, not to sound like I'm repeating everyone else, but it's all been mentioned before in the day.... you might like to revise your "blog".
Here's a slight tangent, and this is where the lawyers actually come into their own... Those little rascals can be pliable with the interpretation of the evidence. This means including sites which may have scant relation to the complaint. The "takedown" notice (how american) says they *believe* the content to be infringing. The also law provides the accused with a means of refuting these claims. Would you, the site owner be willing to file such a rebuttal against a reasonably larger entity ? Fair enough, Sharman, not exactly a FTSE100 blockbuster... but I'd be put off. Look at 2600;-)
However, and I may be mistaken, but hasn't some version, somewhere, of the Kazaa spyware-free software been released bearing the Zeropaid URL ?
Maybe I'm just sadly naive, but a company launching a $1bn, attention seeking law suite/campaign against an enormous, multinational company such as IBM, forging documents really isn't a route one would follow. Just think, with all these new "tough" laws GW is enacting in regards to America's business accountability; the recent downfall of the beleaguered accountancy firm, Andersen, for document interference, and all the remaining prime examples of business corruption, there is simply no room for anything of this sort. If they were found to be forging documents, you can bet your life the US government would come down hard, because it's a simple and relatively clean endeavour to garner market, and public confidence. Also, if the law firm, on instructions from their client presented forged documents in court, you could see another corporate giant topple.
Is it really an option ? I do profess to having no faith in the US system(s), but still... Coincidently, should I seek help ?
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Except it's not really about defence at all, it's all about being able to make the first strike with impunity. That is the whole point of the missile defense programme also.
What you should remember is that the issue goes well beyond a media player. Microsoft bundling their media player software and DRM with the Operating System gives them huge influence over businesses in the future. Haven't we already heard that MS are currently lobbying music companies in an attempt to force them to use a CD protection scheme which is shipped with Windows. I'd say this is more about the codecs, DRM and various other bytes and pieces than the public perception of a "media player".
What about this for an example. My 12" Powerbook, not more than 5 months old has dust behind the screen, has a broken DVD burner and crashes all the time. And when I say crash, I don't mean a kernel panic, I mean the system freezes.. halts if you will. Sometimes the mouse can be moved, othertimes it completely stops. Much of thye problems seem to come from iTunes, an Apple product no less. I'd say my Windows machine was far more stable. Take that how you will. shoez
My Panther powerbook g4 crashes all the time - I suppose if you're just running textedit, finder and itunes the system will be ROCK SOLID.
fussy nazi sciento-freak
I think the phrase you seek is: pedantic cock-jerker.
I had an altavista.net address which closed down - it was operated by those mail.com people, Outblaze or something.
Maybe because this type of filtering can only really work for a single user on their own corpus of email. In effect it's an end-user solution not something that could be deployed across the whole spectrum of mail servers (as I understand it). Take for example Scott Richter (or however you spell the name), that scabby-little spammer - he loves the stuff, and wouldn't wish it to be filtered from his inbox.
Blacklists are there to swallow-up this bandwidth wasting traffic forced down our necks by spammers. Personally, I would rather the crap be denied before it ever has to reach my section of the line. I don't know about you, but I get a chuff-load of spam every day which seriously hacks me off. Getting onto a blacklist for any length of time means a boat load of spam must be coming from that machine - hence it's the fault of your host provider for not cracking down sooner.
I say all power to them!
You idiot. How the hell do I encrypt an email you to me at a Gmail address? It's not like I can download it from a POP address, encrypt it and send it back really is it? I mean the damn thing is already spread across the whole system. God only knows how you've been rated Interesting - that's probably the most stupid comment I've ever read.
Will Google interface with nuclear missile technology as well?
Well I bet they could modify their advanced search algorithms to facilitate discovery of the 'missing' nukes from the old Soviet bloc....
Don't know if anyone else has made this point - I got a little bored of reading the same "Claria is junk" post I must admit. But.... I was wondering if we'll see spyware-removal companies being sued for interfering with business practices? Here we have a company giving away, or selling in some cases a product which will reduce a company's advertising revenues. Will it be any more serious or carry more weight if perpetrated against a public company... maybe not
I don't actually think you get it. This guy hasn't really built the bloody thing, it's not an attempt to market anything other a "challenging", intra-local-connective-type concept, if there exists such a thing ;) He's just one of those people you know who always have a concept, and believe a device or technology group has this raison d'etre.
I mean look at the site, it's a backpack with a Powerbook in (good choice), and the machine is running Apache with some MT blog. It's total crapola. Am I going to leave my Powerbook on while I strole around the city. Well shit, I reckon not. So where could it be used - only when people are sat down cafe or park, and actively using their machines. I suppose in that fanciful, Hollywood-esque way it's quite an attractive idea - we have a pretty girl, or.. yes,a hot chick sitting just across the way. She notices the bouncing icon - woooohhh someone is close-by.. and blogging!! - *glances over* - *we smile* (not the whole slashdot collective you understand).... Aaaaand we're golden! That's our piece of Fresher ass sorted for this evening. To bring us slighty back on-topic, the one thing that might have indicated to you that this idea was absolute dog, is the false iPac used for "visual display of activity...".
Marketing it isn't....
shoez
Sir, no wonder you are unemployed if you can't operate the most basic of all a net users tool's - the unimpeachable Google
Watch the brand of ibuprofen you use though, because some of the "fast acting" brands actually contain caffeine ;)
Exactly, and I agree with you because I didn't say (or I think imply) you would be guilty. If I use this "right to silence", enter a court and try to use a defence which wasn't discussed with the Police, I can be prevented from doing so. So I won't be assumed guilty, but I'll have to use an alternative defence. Hence my saying there is no right to silence.
Exactly! Ergo, no right to silence. But I think we digress :)
It's also the reason you rarely find comparative advertising aired in the UK. The laws have only recently been relaxed to permit such claims, but companies usually steer well clear because it's a dangerous avenue to venture down.
tom
Firstly... "a few hundred complaints" - when was the last time you heard of an advert getting "a few hundred" complaints.... a *few hundred* for gods sake. No! There are rarely that many complaints.
Secondly, in the UK there is no such thing as freedom of speech, and there's no such thing as a right to silence.
pedants rule O.K.
tom
Is it me, or are the American "Authorities" trying to look mean in order to garner consumer confidence, or deflect criticism before the US Administration enacts a law which permit wide scale spamming?
tom
I wonder how much damage a bit of strange quark matter would do ? ;) dark quarks
or as some say (no idea who mind)... Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
o c. html
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/post-h
Nice advertising TechStuff, but you fail to mention the 12" PowerBook in the above. It doesn't have the faster firewire, a 1ghz chip, faster networking, etc, etc. However, not to sound like I'm repeating everyone else, but it's all been mentioned before in the day.... you might like to revise your "blog".
Here's a slight tangent, and this is where the lawyers actually come into their own... Those little rascals can be pliable with the interpretation of the evidence. This means including sites which may have scant relation to the complaint. The "takedown" notice (how american) says they *believe* the content to be infringing. The also law provides the accused with a means of refuting these claims. Would you, the site owner be willing to file such a rebuttal against a reasonably larger entity ? Fair enough, Sharman, not exactly a FTSE100 blockbuster... but I'd be put off. Look at 2600 ;-)
However, and I may be mistaken, but hasn't some version, somewhere, of the Kazaa spyware-free software been released bearing the Zeropaid URL ?
... err, just to deviate
True, but only if he's a Slashdot subscriber though....
Future security vulnerabilities? Nope. Think Palladium...
Maybe I'm just sadly naive, but a company launching a $1bn, attention seeking law suite/campaign against an enormous, multinational company such as IBM, forging documents really isn't a route one would follow. Just think, with all these new "tough" laws GW is enacting in regards to America's business accountability; the recent downfall of the beleaguered accountancy firm, Andersen, for document interference, and all the remaining prime examples of business corruption, there is simply no room for anything of this sort. If they were found to be forging documents, you can bet your life the US government would come down hard, because it's a simple and relatively clean endeavour to garner market, and public confidence. Also, if the law firm, on instructions from their client presented forged documents in court, you could see another corporate giant topple.
Is it really an option ? I do profess to having no faith in the US system(s), but still... Coincidently, should I seek help ?
shoez