This country was founded on the principle that people should choose to fight or protest laws they don't agree with, and try to get them changed, rather than quietly obeying them. Deliverately violating a law you don't agree with is called Civil Disobedience, and has a long history as a valid form of protest.
Most all ideolgical groups warn their members, when they propose civil disobedience as a form of protest, that doing so implies that one is willing to suffer the defined penalties.
For example abortion protestors who chain themselves to parked cars, etc. blocking entrances or roadways ARE PREPARED to be arrested.
This is open source, figure out where to submit your patches or else you are nothing but an arm chair security expert.
A restaurant manager once told me I should'nt complain if I hadn't tried running a restaurant. I replied that managing a restaurant was not on my resume, but presumably was on his. If he culdn't do it properly, perhaps he should get a job driving a bus.
If the majority of the cost comes from cleaning the system, I would recommend (in my professional opinion) simply letting the systems remain infected.
I see where you're coming from but....
First, Your ISP will track you down and hurt you. I remember going through this with Klez. I used to ferret out the originating IP and cotact the owner of the IP block. (I had a lot more time on my hands then...) They were usually very appreciative and promised to contact the subscriber with the message "Clean up your system or get kicked of the Net."
Second, if you're a large corporation and run an internal email system like MS Exchange, it will gag and choke until it dies. The internal email teams at big corps HATE these things.
Almost as much as they hate the idiot^H^H^H^H^Hemployees who OPEN THE ATTACHMENTS.
send him a contribution, or just a kind letter thanking him for his efforts.
This an excellent idea, especially if a lot of people did it. Unfortunately it's harder to reward the good guys.
As for the bad congresscritters, visit the Federal Election Commission, www.fec.gov. Last time I checked Fritz Hollings (remember the "Fritz Chip") was getting about as much money from the MPAA and RIAA then from his other main source, understandably tobacco since he's from South Carolina.
Don't take my word for it--- that's hearsay (and possibly out of date). Get the campaign finance reports; theyre on line. Then write and say "Gee, I wonder how many people know how much you get from these guys. Well they're about to find out..."
This could be organized, but I'm up to my ears trying to claw my my back into the workforce, so it's not a battle I can fight right now.
Well if you put Holy Water on your CDs what do you think's gonna happen when you try and play them!?
If you put it on, and wipe with a clean cloth, you can remove some smudges, but Holy Water that you find in churches has a tinge of Baptismal Chrism (oil used for annointing) in it so it might leave a strange residue.
Most important, don't try this with water from the River Jordan!
This one's interesting. The cost of creating, say, Windows 2000 may have been quite high. However the cost of stamping a CD-ROM containing it is quit low. What do they get to deduct? The ICV (pennies)? The "retail" value?
The printer manufacturers wants you to buy a new printer every few years, even if they sell them at a loss.
I haven't bought an printer since 1994. That year I bought an Oki OL400 "LED" printer and an Epson Inket. I'm on my third inkjet, all replaced throught the extended warranty (CompUSA is very good about it...).
The Oki wants a new drum now which will be its fourth. It's still going strong.
To put this in simpler terms, consider this scenario, 90% of all all X-rays that have a certain feature are from women with breast cancer. That is an easy statistic to compute; you have the x-rays and you follow up with the patients.
The trick is derive a statement like: "If an x-ray has this feature, the patient has NN % chances of having breast cancer. THAT's useful tor screening, but it doesn't follow from the first statment (without some serious statistical calculations).
Bayes theorem has all sorts of applications in prediction. In the case of E-mail, we can greatly oversimply and say "We found that X% of E-mails with this subject line are Spam." "We conclude that an E-mail with this subject line has Y% odds of being spam." Note that these are two very different statements. If we can find Y for the second statement and set a threshold we're comfortable with, say, 95% then we can create a filter with 95% confidence of correctness; it may well be wrong 5% of the time.
Other responses have done a good job with the math so I won't repeat it here.
Yes. You missed the point. Back in IBM's heydey during the Iron Age [tuxedo.org] of computing, metered CPU billing was the way most people got their access. This isn't a new idea at all -- it's a comparatively ancient idea being resurrected.
I didn't know "the idea" had ever died. Every corp with a mainframe does that, for accounting purposes. I remembering writing a loop that would spend the number of $$$ input to top off your budget.
Doing it with PC's could get interesting. Of course Microsquish is helping them out with good ol'.NET. "You not only don't own the software, you don't even own the server it runs on..."
Ballpoint pens proclaimed "the wave of the future".
As I recall, at the time, they were considered quite the innovation. I am not a ball-point pen scholar, but I believe they went a long way toward making fountain and "dip" pens obsolete. We still use them by the gazillion. What is so funny? Did I miss the point?
Sure you get to cut the worthless songs but even then the prices match the store prices.
I'm not sure what you're hoping for. When I was a kid, 45's sold for $1. The hit song was on one side and a "throwaway" song was on the other side. Sometimes the "throwaway" song was good or even became a hit. Usually neither was the case.
Now, years later (more than I care to admit), they will sell you a digital copy of a song you want, delivered to your home, for $1 and that's too much money??? I really don't think so. You forget that albums used to be $5-6 simply due to quantity of songs reducing the price per song. Then they went up in price (and the format changed). Now you're back to singles. Same price (almost). That's not bad.
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This country was founded on the principle that people should choose to fight or protest laws they don't agree with, and try to get them changed, rather than quietly obeying them. Deliverately violating a law you don't agree with is called Civil Disobedience, and has a long history as a valid form of protest.
Most all ideolgical groups warn their members, when they propose civil disobedience as a form of protest, that doing so implies that one is willing to suffer the defined penalties.
For example abortion protestors who chain themselves to parked cars, etc. blocking entrances or roadways ARE PREPARED to be arrested.
This is open source, figure out where to submit your patches or else you are nothing but an arm chair security expert.
A restaurant manager once told me I should'nt complain if I hadn't tried running a restaurant. I replied that managing a restaurant was not on my resume, but presumably was on his. If he culdn't do it properly, perhaps he should get a job driving a bus.
Clippy: "It looks like you're trying to sue us, would you like me to delete all of your files?"
"Backup CD-ROMs?! Oh my gosh! No! Don't run Office Setup! Clippy will..."
If the majority of the cost comes from cleaning the system, I would recommend (in my professional opinion) simply letting the systems remain infected.
I see where you're coming from but....
First, Your ISP will track you down and hurt you. I remember going through this with Klez. I used to ferret out the originating IP and cotact the owner of the IP block. (I had a lot more time on my hands then...) They were usually very appreciative and promised to contact the subscriber with the message "Clean up your system or get kicked of the Net."
Second, if you're a large corporation and run an internal email system like MS Exchange, it will gag and choke until it dies. The internal email teams at big corps HATE these things.
Almost as much as they hate the idiot^H^H^H^H^Hemployees who OPEN THE ATTACHMENTS.
send him a contribution, or just a kind letter thanking him for his efforts.
This an excellent idea, especially if a lot of people did it. Unfortunately it's harder to reward the good guys.
As for the bad congresscritters, visit the Federal Election Commission, www.fec.gov. Last time I checked Fritz Hollings (remember the "Fritz Chip") was getting about as much money from the MPAA and RIAA then from his other main source, understandably tobacco since he's from South Carolina.
Don't take my word for it--- that's hearsay (and possibly out of date). Get the campaign finance reports; theyre on line. Then write and say "Gee, I wonder how many people know how much you get from these guys. Well they're about to find out..."
This could be organized, but I'm up to my ears trying to claw my my back into the workforce, so it's not a battle I can fight right now.
Well if you put Holy Water on your CDs what do you think's gonna happen when you try and play them!?
If you put it on, and wipe with a clean cloth, you can remove some smudges, but Holy Water that you find in churches has a tinge of Baptismal Chrism (oil used for annointing) in it so it might leave a strange residue.
Most important, don't try this with water from the River Jordan!
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This one's interesting. The cost of creating, say, Windows 2000 may have been quite high. However the cost of stamping a CD-ROM containing it is quit low. What do they get to deduct? The ICV (pennies)? The "retail" value?
The printer manufacturers wants you to buy a new printer every few years, even if they sell them at a loss.
I haven't bought an printer since 1994. That year I bought an Oki OL400 "LED" printer and an Epson Inket. I'm on my third inkjet, all replaced throught the extended warranty (CompUSA is very good about it...).
The Oki wants a new drum now which will be its fourth. It's still going strong.
To put this in simpler terms, consider this scenario, 90% of all all X-rays that have a certain feature are from women with breast cancer. That is an easy statistic to compute; you have the x-rays and you follow up with the patients.
The trick is derive a statement like: "If an x-ray has this feature, the patient has NN % chances of having breast cancer. THAT's useful tor screening, but it doesn't follow from the first statment (without some serious statistical calculations).
Bayes theorem has all sorts of applications in prediction. In the case of E-mail, we can greatly oversimply and say "We found that X% of E-mails with this subject line are Spam." "We conclude that an E-mail with this subject line has Y% odds of being spam." Note that these are two very different statements. If we can find Y for the second statement and set a threshold we're comfortable with, say, 95% then we can create a filter with 95% confidence of correctness; it may well be wrong 5% of the time.
Other responses have done a good job with the math so I won't repeat it here.
I didn't know "the idea" had ever died. Every corp with a mainframe does that, for accounting purposes. I remembering writing a loop that would spend the number of $$$ input to top off your budget.
Doing it with PC's could get interesting. Of course Microsquish is helping them out with good ol' .NET. "You not only don't own the software, you don't even own the server it runs on..."
JimAs I recall, at the time, they were considered quite the innovation. I am not a ball-point pen scholar, but I believe they went a long way toward making fountain and "dip" pens obsolete. We still use them by the gazillion. What is so funny? Did I miss the point?
Jim
I'm not sure what you're hoping for. When I was a kid, 45's sold for $1. The hit song was on one side and a "throwaway" song was on the other side. Sometimes the "throwaway" song was good or even became a hit. Usually neither was the case.
Now, years later (more than I care to admit), they will sell you a digital copy of a song you want, delivered to your home, for $1 and that's too much money??? I really don't think so. You forget that albums used to be $5-6 simply due to quantity of songs reducing the price per song. Then they went up in price (and the format changed). Now you're back to singles. Same price (almost). That's not bad.
Jim