"Hey, everyone else is running out to see Mel Gibsons snuff film. Whats wrong with this one?"
This guy's real, Jesus wasn't.
Say what you want about religion, but we're definitely sure the actor who played Jesus was not fatally harmed during the making of the movie. He was, however, struck by lightning.
Carlin has made this point all through his life. What ever society considers a taboo just makes the basic human instinct of curiosity unsatisfied, and therefore makes people want to see it more.
Sure, there are crimes committed, but the cameras caught one car theft and one guy holding a gun.
The camera also prevented an unknown number of crimes in that area... Most criminals aren't dumb enough to comitt a crime within the viewable area of a well-known camera operated by the police. How many crimes were reported there before the camera was put up?
Sure, some of this crime will move to other parts of the city, but at least the good people are no longer scared away from a business district. No wonder the business owners want the camera there.
There's a space between the "p" and the "h" in "php" in the URL as displayed on the screen, yet the hyperlink code is correct. This isn't really a report of Google censorship... it's just a dumb attempt to get karma by trying to sneak the actual link onto Slashdot.
BTW, after the parent hits -1... feel free to send this post down too so it doesn't create an arrow inviting people to see the parent post.
Google is appearing to give me what I'd call the "proper" behavior... the site is in their main search, however it disavows knowledge of the entire site should you enable SafeSearch.
Unfortunately, once any piece of tape gets in the hands of the police, it's hard to keep private. That "Freedom of Information Act" can get darn annoying sometimes.
A: To sell something illegal/immoral. Any doctor who is writing any perscription for somebody who has never been to his office is on the wrong side of the ethical line, and in most cases steps over the legal one as well. Scammers love the lack of tracablity.
B: Lead generation. There's no actual product, but they collect the list of signups to send direct mail or phone marketers your way from more-legit companies. Of course, the more-legit companies don't want leads created this way, but they have no way of telling the difference from the ones they do want.
Florida has an interesting power of attracting rich-yet-lowlife characters who have managed to be declared scum yet have avoided being put in jail.
The key is that unlike other states, Florida has no value limit on what you can claim has your "homestead" when you are claiming bankruptcy. That is to say, you could own a multi-million dollar home and have billions in unpaid debt. You won't be able to own much else in your own name, but you can keep your homestead. With only a few exceptions, creditors simply can't force you to sell your homestead in that state.
That's why spammers live in Florida. Pass all the civil liabity laws you want... you can't touch anything they have. You have to make spamming a crime in order for them to be worried.
I think money is his main motivation... and he's realized that there's more money in the anti-spam industry than the actual spamming industry. He's willing to go turncoat if there's money in it... being a spammer is already lower than being a turncoat.:)
Well, true, spammers are among the lowest forms of human life and deserve the status. However, at least Scott Richter is willing to do something that most other spammers won't... admit that he does it and is willing to talk about it.
Let's face it, he's willing to explain his motivations and disclose his tactics. Most spammers take great lengths to hide their identity, and are scared to even tell their family what they do for a living. Even if we don't like what he does, at least he's willing to help us attempt to understand the problem. If anybody proposes an anti-spam system, he'll at least do us the favor of pointing out how it's not going to work before we waste our time on it.
Seriously, whenever you go outside of your company (not even internationally) to get custom programming and you don't get to see the source... you might as well ASSUME there's a backdoor that your vendor has left in there. You'll never be able to prove otherwise, afterall...
The only totally secured application is one that you're able to inspect the code yourself. That doesn't have to be fully GPL Open Source, but the code at least has to be open to you. Otherwise, you're just taking somebody else's word for it being secured.
Can we really trust closed-source vendors, such as Cisco, to develop secure products that are free of backdoors?
Well, we certainly can't trust Cisco anymore. The reason is because trust is built up by having the ability to screw up and then not doing so. Cisco has clearly violated the trust of anybody who wanted a zero-backdoor product, and I submit that this breach is one that cannot be recovered from.
However, I certainly understand why Cisco insists on there being such a hard-coded full-control backdoor. If you ever lose possession of the root password, you are screwed and you can turn a big-dollarsign router into a paperweight. It makes sense that Cisco should be able to swap your locked-up router for a like part in its default settings, and then be able to recover most of its value as an "open box" "remanufactured" item since there was nothing wrong with it other than an unknown password that since has been reset.
Really, I'm not mad at Cisco for having backdoors as much as the fact that they refused to admit that there were secret backdoors.
As only a casual X-Prize follower, SpaceShipOne is the only X-Prize contestant team name I can come up with off the top of my head now.
Is there any other team that's anywhere close to keeping SpaceShipOne's pace, or are they now the presumed winner of the X-Prize unless they really stumble?
I would hope that Apple is willing to do exactly what Echostar did with Viacom recently... drop those who are demanding a price increase from their service for a while.
Content owners have for a long time enjoyed the fact that when they demanded rate increases, they had content providers to take the blow of having to present the rate increases to the consumers. It's about time our content distributors, on behalf of us, stood up and told the providers that they've been insisting on too many pay raises and that's going to have to stop now.
Keep it up RIAA, can't wait to see your sales go down by another 7% next year.
And I think the stat keepers are going to need to make sure that their survey numbers reflect the fact that RIAA sales != total music industry sales...
Exactly. The "record executives" are the ones trying to hold on to antiquated models because the new model already its "digtal music service exectitives" jobs filled.
Out of context quoting on your second snip... the full phrase was
K.D. had watched her mom, my wife, and me using the various Linux-based computers in our home...
Her mom is the writer's daughter. The writer's wife is a different person being listed along with the writer, since all three use the Linux-based computers in the home.
Sure, if you can dumb it down into a kisok...
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The whole idea behind this setup is taking the time to put the system-important screens outside of the 4-year-old's view, so therefore she could click around the screen and even get to the web without getting into much trouble.
A Windows-expert parent could set up Windows to be the same way. The key thing to having a kid be able to use a computer without breaking it is having a smart admin as a parent.
Yes, but the maker already has the "SEA-DOO" and "SKI-DOO" product lines, so "SCUBA-DOO" is a logical extention for the SCUBA product to come from that family. Therefore, they've got a little more claim to the phrase than somebody new coming up and wanting that name.
True, what is really interesting here is that presently there's not that much of a difference between "studio quality" and "consumer quality" equipment when it comes to recording standards. That is to say, if your camcorder captures something newsworthy, your local TV station doesn't have to do much to get it on the air other than throw it in a playback machine.
What's more, some TV stations actually have the right to republish another station's news content... and that is simply plucked out of the air with no encoding involved. Seriously, CNN has been known to use a Dish Network unit with special permission to view all local stations in order to quickly get access to stations whose breaking news reports they have the right to put on the air. Clearly, that stream is going to need to be produced with the broadcast flag turned off, or devices that ignore the broadcast flag be in existance, in order for the major news networks to continue such content-sharing operations.
I say if you don't have the copyright to what you broadcast, you shouldn't have the right to prevent redistribution.
The actual copyright owner who's licensing broadcast rights could stand up and demand that no broadcast flag be used during the broadcast of their content as part of the license given to the broadcaster... but I doubt anybody will. Moot point.
"Outsourcing" has always been a bad word to describe jobs headed to other countries, since "outsourcing" really just means transfering the work to another company, it doesn't quite imply the location of the other company.
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"Hey, everyone else is running out to see Mel Gibsons snuff film. Whats wrong with this one?"
This guy's real, Jesus wasn't.
Say what you want about religion, but we're definitely sure the actor who played Jesus was not fatally harmed during the making of the movie. He was, however, struck by lightning.
Great work... it appears that you've Slashdotted WABC-TV New York. :)
Carlin has made this point all through his life. What ever society considers a taboo just makes the basic human instinct of curiosity unsatisfied, and therefore makes people want to see it more.
Sure, there are crimes committed, but the cameras caught one car theft and one guy holding a gun.
The camera also prevented an unknown number of crimes in that area... Most criminals aren't dumb enough to comitt a crime within the viewable area of a well-known camera operated by the police. How many crimes were reported there before the camera was put up?
Sure, some of this crime will move to other parts of the city, but at least the good people are no longer scared away from a business district. No wonder the business owners want the camera there.
There's a space between the "p" and the "h" in "php" in the URL as displayed on the screen, yet the hyperlink code is correct. This isn't really a report of Google censorship... it's just a dumb attempt to get karma by trying to sneak the actual link onto Slashdot.
BTW, after the parent hits -1... feel free to send this post down too so it doesn't create an arrow inviting people to see the parent post.
Google is appearing to give me what I'd call the "proper" behavior... the site is in their main search, however it disavows knowledge of the entire site should you enable SafeSearch.
Unfortunately, once any piece of tape gets in the hands of the police, it's hard to keep private. That "Freedom of Information Act" can get darn annoying sometimes.
Spam now falls into two categories:
A: To sell something illegal/immoral. Any doctor who is writing any perscription for somebody who has never been to his office is on the wrong side of the ethical line, and in most cases steps over the legal one as well. Scammers love the lack of tracablity.
B: Lead generation. There's no actual product, but they collect the list of signups to send direct mail or phone marketers your way from more-legit companies. Of course, the more-legit companies don't want leads created this way, but they have no way of telling the difference from the ones they do want.
Florida has an interesting power of attracting rich-yet-lowlife characters who have managed to be declared scum yet have avoided being put in jail.
The key is that unlike other states, Florida has no value limit on what you can claim has your "homestead" when you are claiming bankruptcy. That is to say, you could own a multi-million dollar home and have billions in unpaid debt. You won't be able to own much else in your own name, but you can keep your homestead. With only a few exceptions, creditors simply can't force you to sell your homestead in that state.
That's why spammers live in Florida. Pass all the civil liabity laws you want... you can't touch anything they have. You have to make spamming a crime in order for them to be worried.
I'd be interested in still pics or short video clips of Richter and his buddies. Did anybody snap any?
Do you own a dartboard?
I think money is his main motivation... and he's realized that there's more money in the anti-spam industry than the actual spamming industry. He's willing to go turncoat if there's money in it... being a spammer is already lower than being a turncoat. :)
Well, true, spammers are among the lowest forms of human life and deserve the status. However, at least Scott Richter is willing to do something that most other spammers won't... admit that he does it and is willing to talk about it.
Let's face it, he's willing to explain his motivations and disclose his tactics. Most spammers take great lengths to hide their identity, and are scared to even tell their family what they do for a living. Even if we don't like what he does, at least he's willing to help us attempt to understand the problem. If anybody proposes an anti-spam system, he'll at least do us the favor of pointing out how it's not going to work before we waste our time on it.
Seriously, whenever you go outside of your company (not even internationally) to get custom programming and you don't get to see the source... you might as well ASSUME there's a backdoor that your vendor has left in there. You'll never be able to prove otherwise, afterall...
The only totally secured application is one that you're able to inspect the code yourself. That doesn't have to be fully GPL Open Source, but the code at least has to be open to you. Otherwise, you're just taking somebody else's word for it being secured.
Can we really trust closed-source vendors, such as Cisco, to develop secure products that are free of backdoors?
Well, we certainly can't trust Cisco anymore. The reason is because trust is built up by having the ability to screw up and then not doing so. Cisco has clearly violated the trust of anybody who wanted a zero-backdoor product, and I submit that this breach is one that cannot be recovered from.
However, I certainly understand why Cisco insists on there being such a hard-coded full-control backdoor. If you ever lose possession of the root password, you are screwed and you can turn a big-dollarsign router into a paperweight. It makes sense that Cisco should be able to swap your locked-up router for a like part in its default settings, and then be able to recover most of its value as an "open box" "remanufactured" item since there was nothing wrong with it other than an unknown password that since has been reset.
Really, I'm not mad at Cisco for having backdoors as much as the fact that they refused to admit that there were secret backdoors.
As only a casual X-Prize follower, SpaceShipOne is the only X-Prize contestant team name I can come up with off the top of my head now.
Is there any other team that's anywhere close to keeping SpaceShipOne's pace, or are they now the presumed winner of the X-Prize unless they really stumble?
I would hope that Apple is willing to do exactly what Echostar did with Viacom recently... drop those who are demanding a price increase from their service for a while.
Content owners have for a long time enjoyed the fact that when they demanded rate increases, they had content providers to take the blow of having to present the rate increases to the consumers. It's about time our content distributors, on behalf of us, stood up and told the providers that they've been insisting on too many pay raises and that's going to have to stop now.
Keep it up RIAA, can't wait to see your sales go down by another 7% next year.
And I think the stat keepers are going to need to make sure that their survey numbers reflect the fact that RIAA sales != total music industry sales...
Exactly. The "record executives" are the ones trying to hold on to antiquated models because the new model already its "digtal music service exectitives" jobs filled.
Out of context quoting on your second snip... the full phrase was
K.D. had watched her mom, my wife, and me using the various Linux-based computers in our home...
Her mom is the writer's daughter. The writer's wife is a different person being listed along with the writer, since all three use the Linux-based computers in the home.
The whole idea behind this setup is taking the time to put the system-important screens outside of the 4-year-old's view, so therefore she could click around the screen and even get to the web without getting into much trouble.
A Windows-expert parent could set up Windows to be the same way. The key thing to having a kid be able to use a computer without breaking it is having a smart admin as a parent.
Yes, but the maker already has the "SEA-DOO" and "SKI-DOO" product lines, so "SCUBA-DOO" is a logical extention for the SCUBA product to come from that family. Therefore, they've got a little more claim to the phrase than somebody new coming up and wanting that name.
If you ever lose it... you just have to yell out the following command to make it come to surface:
"Scuba-scuba-doo, where are you?"
True, what is really interesting here is that presently there's not that much of a difference between "studio quality" and "consumer quality" equipment when it comes to recording standards. That is to say, if your camcorder captures something newsworthy, your local TV station doesn't have to do much to get it on the air other than throw it in a playback machine.
What's more, some TV stations actually have the right to republish another station's news content... and that is simply plucked out of the air with no encoding involved. Seriously, CNN has been known to use a Dish Network unit with special permission to view all local stations in order to quickly get access to stations whose breaking news reports they have the right to put on the air. Clearly, that stream is going to need to be produced with the broadcast flag turned off, or devices that ignore the broadcast flag be in existance, in order for the major news networks to continue such content-sharing operations.
I say if you don't have the copyright to what you broadcast, you shouldn't have the right to prevent redistribution.
The actual copyright owner who's licensing broadcast rights could stand up and demand that no broadcast flag be used during the broadcast of their content as part of the license given to the broadcaster... but I doubt anybody will. Moot point.
"Outsourcing" has always been a bad word to describe jobs headed to other countries, since "outsourcing" really just means transfering the work to another company, it doesn't quite imply the location of the other company.
"Exporting of jobs" would be a better term.