I can't be the only guy that would rather have a girl that is thick to a girl that is really skinny?
I'm with you, man. More cushion for the pushin'. Seriously, if a girl doesn't have any ass, and she's a great lay, what exactly am I supposed to grab onto? When I spank, I don't want to hit bone. And when she climbs up onto me, I want boobs in my face. You can't get that with no ass and hard tits. No way!
He solves this problem on the board, and the next hting he knows the math professor really wants him to work on problems together. Then Robin Williams shows up and...oh, wait a minute.
I don't want her if she's gonna wind up biting my dick off...
Distribute over the internet (they've been working on that, little by little)
REvise their "value proposition". At this time, they have none.
Stop fighting new technologies and instead look at how they can embrace them. RIAA and MPAA have fought many new technologies, historically, and have been proven wrong every time.
Offer more value in general. It's valueless to me to buy a CD no matter how badly I want it if I know it's going to fund the RIAA when they go sue my neighbors and friends. Worse, they'll sue me if I try to share the music. Part of the value proposition in CDs is being able to share it with your friends and family. Also, better music would be pretty cool. Once upon a time the pop charts were loaded with variety, because record labels were putting out variety.
Stop blaming your customers for your own failings. It's *not* their responsibility to prop up your skyscraper. It's your responsibility to provide them value if you want their money, and after you have their money then you can prop up your own skyscraper.
However, if you want to keep them from launching law suit after law suit, perhaps you should be looking for legitimate ways to get songs from their catalogs or look elsewhere for music.
I think Ronald Reagan said it best when he said "We will not give in to terrorism."
On a side note, the only reason I know that quote and who said it is because of a record recorded under an RIAA member label. Care to guess which one?
Call up a fav radio station and request the song, then just start recording that station, then edit out the song you wanted. So now I guess they should start Sueing the radio stations for transmitting of copyright material.
INteresting you mention radio in this context, since the RIAA did oppose music over radio for awhile. They lost the battle (but I don't recall what exactly happened, maybe they saw reason) and now we have radio that plays music. THe lesson they learned was that not only should they allow radio stations to play the music, but they should also PAY them to play the music (payola) because it sold records! Why can't they apply that lesson to P2P music sharing? Why oh why do they have to learn every lesson anew? It's like they don't learn at all, really.
The part I find interesting, though, is that this is the exact argument that a conservative uses with gun control--that gun control only restricts the good buys, and the bad guys will get their guns through illegitimate methods anyway. I'm not sure why liberals rebuff/ignore that argument, but I also find that this argument is so pervasive in this thread about DRM and music.
I think Anthrax said it best when they said "I'm at both ends of the spectrum, you're somewhere in the between"
I say that because I oppose gun control, and I oppose DRM, and I'm willing to acquire a weapon to perform both opposals as needed.:)
DRM is not a formation of a police state. DRM is the absolute right of the copyright owner to do whatever they wish with the the content they "own." Now if the copyright owner wishes to further "protect" the DRM part of the content with laws the criminalize certain uses of that content, or if they wish to attack alleged violators of the content they "own" without due process, then that gets into a police state.
No, no, and yes.
DRM is not a formation of a police state. It is a system where someone (hopefully you!) gets to determine what content will run on your computer and what content will not run on your computer.
DRM is being pushed by content producers, but it's not limited in that scope.
Yes, DRM as a *law* will turn the place into a police state.
Now, why is DRM in the Linux kernel? (Or rather, why is there a patch to enable it?) I think that it would be a Good Thing(tm) for there to be a number of "trusted" servers on the internet where a person can chose the server they trust and the level of drm to enforce. For censorship freak parents, they could chose a server and level that will prevent their kids from viewing PORN. For those of us that are more sensible, we might wish to prevent unauthorized executables from running on our computers. This is similar to making sure an RPM has the correct digital signature before installing it, except that your checking the signature at runtime as well. Worthless for stuff you install that checks out, priceless for preventing virii from running.
I would approve a law that provides registered copyright owners with the obligation of signing their work when they release it (read: force them to sign their work. Why not? They registered the copyright!). That is the only DRM law I would approve, because it allows everyone the freedom to use it or not to use it. As an added law I might think about, I might require content producers to register their copyright (and reduce copyright registration fees and procedures) and I might be willing to rearrange copyright law a little bit to remove copyright protection from unregistered copyrights, so long as registering a copyright is not a long and arduous process. I *might*, I'm not saying I will. I'd have to think about it.
Your point on globalism made sense up until you portray global trade as some sort of charity.
Actually, I was trying to turn the Parent Poster's arguments around on him, subtly accusing him of racism and/or nationalism, neither of which has any place in a global economy. My point on globalism was intended to stand on its own without the "charity" bit.:) Sorry if that wasn't clear.
How do things like environmental laws come into play?
It's complex, but not insurmountable. I would personally be more interested in a company manufacturing plastics (in your example) that does so in an environmentally friendly fashion, and as a consumer with the right information to make the decision, I would buy into that value proposition. So the way to compete isn't always by lowering costs, it's by increasing value, and hopefully doing so without raising production costs. Now, this is a simple solution that will *not* work in every case. In the cases where it doesn't work, you have to adapt to changing circumstances somehow. In the end, some people get screwed no matter what. Shit happens. Like Stu Hamm said, "Hey dude, if you're scared, stay home!"
If only competition were so simple...
If only.:) I never said it was simple, I only assert that it's necessary.
We also have to turn it around and look at it from these "third world" perspectives. They are trying to adapt themselves, and compete. And in many ways they're trying to do so against seemingly superior resources. So they shape their own value proposition around saving money, and they can do so because they have the inherent advantage of a lower cost of living. Give it long enough and that advantage will go away to an extent (i.e. if offshore outsourcing was so cheap, why don't we outsource to the Brits? If we did, would people be as angry about it as they are about oursourcing to India?). The important thing to realize is that we aren't the only people in this world, and everyone is trying to basically do the same things, and we're all competing for "our share" of the global wealth. We need to realize that, instead of sinking into pits of despair over what's going on. Realize that, and you can find your own competitive niche with your own value proposition and your own pricetag.
I'm just mystified as to how you believe that we would EVER be able to compete without becoming a third world country ourselves?
It's what marketers and sales people call your "Value Proposition". If you offer more value than they do for the price you're bidding, you should expect to eke out a living.
I am a business owner of a startup business that is growing and doing web marketing, and I have a hard time believing the times are as rough as they say. Adapt, organize, and put together your own value proposition. Root, hog, or die. It's your choice to make.
I'm very happy that your project worked out for you. Now, please be so kind as to tell us what company you work for so those of us with a conscience can avoid your products/services.
Um, dude? Don't we have a good-sized "global economy" going on, these days? Turn it around, since the job was outsourced, how many hundreds of programmers in India were able to eat and feed their families? Isn't India one of the more poverty-stricken places in the world? wtf makes you and your nationalism more important than those poor people in India? Think of the children!
Seriously, though, get real. Buying locally-made is a strong preference of mine as well, but good service and good product for a low price is also a requirement if you want my money, no matter where you are.
This has nothing to do with isolationalism, either. Notice that I have made no mention of my home country, as this is happening in many countries. The simple fact is that these decisions are being driven by short-sided, amateurish stockholders who have no comprehension of base economics and lack the ability to look beyond the figures for Next Quarter.
You're right, it's nationalism plain and simple. See, a Nationalist says "Buy *insert my country's name here*". A Patriot says "Buy the best shit" because the Patriot knows that if your economy is focused on buying the best shit, and they want to survive, they will also produce the best shit.
Until investors and corporate shareholders return to a sensible economic approach to investing in business, this trend will only continue to increase.
Great, now we expect investors to use a "sensible" economic approach to investing, but we're supposed to spend our money solely based on where a company is located and whether or not they have recently taken jobs from us? Compete. Is it that hard? It can very well be a dog eat dog world, and you have to be competitive.
Don't wanna be competitive? Then we likely don't need you in the gene pool any more.:)
Um, you talk about misspelling in your post, and then give an example to back it up, but in your example every word is spelled correctly.
I'll tell you why someone with english as a second language has a better chance at spelling correctly: bad habit. You've grown up around english and heard bad grammar and seen it written and seen and experienced poor spelling. It's a part of you, whether you like it or not. Sometimes it's easy to let localized words and phrases slip in to what you're writing, but someone with english as a second language comes from a different perspective. If you're talking about an IT company in India, chances are they actually got a real English education and learned proper english grammar and so forth.
Grammar errors abound in many multilinguists, but spelling errors actually seem to decrease the more a person stacks up languages.
Is it the "mechanical" act of fretting a string and hitting it or opening your mouth and exhaling air in a specific way or is it thinking and coming up with chord changes, melodies and harmonies?
NOt to mention a computer can never replace standing up with your own guitar, metal-thrashing mad, and moshing up your living room.
Nope, all you can do is think "Damn, I shoulda gotten insurance 'fore I went off and moshed my house up."
For the average person that needs to be able to plug in their digital camera without going into the terminal window, we think that the user's experience with any brand of Linux will be sub-par.
Why is it so hard to have real user-friendliness in Linux?
Check out Mandrake 9.2.:) With the default kernel installed, my Olympus d520z (using a broken USB protocol which previously required a kernel patch that didn't always work) works out of the box! Mounts up as a mass storage device and there's an icon on my desktop to open it and browse the pictures.
I expect similar results with other cameras, but do not have other cameras to test.
Since most humans can't hear much beyond 20kHz anyway, the 49kHz frequency ceiling on a 98k-sampled recording wouldn't be a bottleneck at all. Of course, if your dog is an audiophile, you might want to spring for the 98k sample rate... he'd be able to hear a difference up to 120k sample rates! =D
I don't consider it "safe" to have recordings where we can't hear significant frequencies, actually, so I'd have to say that 48k (which we already have) is where we should stop for musical recordings.:) Combine that with 32-bit float, and we're done, digital is perfect.:)
(just as a point of fact, I went totally digital already, and all my gear is digital or for sale)
You're right. I looked at the source of the page and slashdot apparently removed the username & password fields from the url. It does highlight another important danger associated with HTML email, though, which is that you can't see where the link goes unless you hover on the link *and* your mail client shows you where it goes.
Slashdot also parsed the URL, and removed the username and password, so it broke the intended nature of the link too. So you'll just have to read it and remove the space.
That's funny, I hovered over it with Mozilla and saw the username and password, and then clicked it and saw the intended nature of the link. I'll try again, maybe I was on crack?
It seems that rather than accepting redirects, browsers should warn you with a dialogue box akin to the a cookie request: "Site X wishes to redirect you to Site Y, do you wish to be redirected". Or do they already do that and I'm just not in the know?
I could swear Mozilla did that, but I couldn't find the option in the preferences dialog.
I did find a little tidbit in the KDE Control Center, though. Under Browsing->Behavior, there's a checkbox that reads "Allow AUtomatic delayed loading/redirection".
I found nothing for Galeon on the subject.
I recall using a browser in the last year that had a feature that enabled you to limit how many redirections you would take before stopping, and also to block/prompton redirection. I thought it was Mozilla. Maybe it was Opera?
The only problem with this is that someone has to be trusted enough to be a central authority to issue the certificates. Who would that be?
Um, Verisign?
Yeah, that was a joke. Frankly, I don't see why the government can't be trusted to hold public keys, so long as you can change yours. Actually, the government is the one who logically gets this role, since they are the ones who issue the original certificates that say you're you (birth certificate, photo ids, etc). As long as all the government does is make sure you're you when you give them a public key, and make the public keys available for download without tracking who downloads them, I'm all for it.
The thing is, say you give the government your public key, and they track IP addresses who download it. Now you accidentally reply to a spam and sign it, and the government learns later that the IP address your email went to was used as a spam relay. Will they associate you with the spammer? Better if they just don't log IP addresses, or destroy them after a period of time (so they can log them for intrusion detection).
Next to that, I'd be willing to let the EFF host my public key, if everyone would agree to use the EFF for that purpose and the EFF agreed to shoulder the burden. I'd also be interested in federal grants for the EFF to cover the costs of such a system.
If they are abroad, enforcement may still be possible, as this is clearly an extraditable crime (whereas most types of spamming aren't). This of course depends on exactly where they are. Even if the US has no extradition treaty with their country, the fraud may still constitute a local criminal offence, and the US may be able to persuade local authorities to act.
The fraudsters it's not clear. You're right.:) I was under the impression that you can only extradite someone who has been convicted of a crime, but not necessarily someone who has only been charged. Are you really a lawyer?:)
I was actually thinking about the malware attacks perpetrated with the same software that led back to that russian server. Last I heard, we had no extradition treaties with the Russian Federation, but I could be wrong about that.
Long story short: I have all this information, and don't know exactly what to do with it. I've tried to contact the London Metropolitan police anonymously (via email), several times, and have not heard back. I'm not sure if I should go to my own federal authority because what I've done to gather the information is illegal.
If it were in the states, you're fucked. Completely. And runaway and hide or something. Reason is, the law can't use the information because it was collected without due process (warrants and stuff). Now, if you can show that the people are terrorists, then the law can probably use it. But they're likely to just label you a terrorist and prosecute you instead.
The press is the only place you can go with this, since it's highly unlikely that the law anywhere in the world can or will use it. I'd gather up all the information that proves that the people you've fingered are the perpetrators, make printout copies (because it's considered more credible if it's printed, for some reason), and drop packages at local news stations (make sure they're networks). Give a brief writeup explaining what the information is and how to read it (if you're especially paranoid, run it through Babelfish set on English-English).
But since you're in Canada, you may be able to get someone in the states to notice it. If *any* of the perpetrators are in the states, you might be able to get the FBI to go after them. While the FBI couldn't use illegally gathered information in court, I understand they *can* use the information to figure out what to legally gather. And since you're in Canada, you should be safe, but I'd still do it anonymously.
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I can't be the only guy that would rather have a girl that is thick to a girl that is really skinny?
I'm with you, man. More cushion for the pushin'. Seriously, if a girl doesn't have any ass, and she's a great lay, what exactly am I supposed to grab onto? When I spank, I don't want to hit bone. And when she climbs up onto me, I want boobs in my face. You can't get that with no ass and hard tits. No way!
He solves this problem on the board, and the next hting he knows the math professor really wants him to work on problems together. Then Robin Williams shows up and...oh, wait a minute.
I don't want her if she's gonna wind up biting my dick off...
What's so sexy about a woman who can't figure out how to use Tivo?
Other than the fact that she couldn't read the manual with her head stuffed in her pillow?
If DRM is not the answer, what is?
Lower prices. That's obvious, and well-repeated.
Distribute over the internet (they've been working on that, little by little)
REvise their "value proposition". At this time, they have none.
Stop fighting new technologies and instead look at how they can embrace them. RIAA and MPAA have fought many new technologies, historically, and have been proven wrong every time.
Offer more value in general. It's valueless to me to buy a CD no matter how badly I want it if I know it's going to fund the RIAA when they go sue my neighbors and friends. Worse, they'll sue me if I try to share the music. Part of the value proposition in CDs is being able to share it with your friends and family. Also, better music would be pretty cool. Once upon a time the pop charts were loaded with variety, because record labels were putting out variety.
Stop blaming your customers for your own failings. It's *not* their responsibility to prop up your skyscraper. It's your responsibility to provide them value if you want their money, and after you have their money then you can prop up your own skyscraper.
However, if you want to keep them from launching law suit after law suit, perhaps you should be looking for legitimate ways to get songs from their catalogs or look elsewhere for music.
I think Ronald Reagan said it best when he said "We will not give in to terrorism."
On a side note, the only reason I know that quote and who said it is because of a record recorded under an RIAA member label. Care to guess which one?
Call up a fav radio station and request the song, then just start recording that station, then edit out the song you wanted. So now I guess they should start Sueing the radio stations for transmitting of copyright material.
INteresting you mention radio in this context, since the RIAA did oppose music over radio for awhile. They lost the battle (but I don't recall what exactly happened, maybe they saw reason) and now we have radio that plays music. THe lesson they learned was that not only should they allow radio stations to play the music, but they should also PAY them to play the music (payola) because it sold records! Why can't they apply that lesson to P2P music sharing? Why oh why do they have to learn every lesson anew? It's like they don't learn at all, really.
The part I find interesting, though, is that this is the exact argument that a conservative uses with gun control--that gun control only restricts the good buys, and the bad guys will get their guns through illegitimate methods anyway. I'm not sure why liberals rebuff/ignore that argument, but I also find that this argument is so pervasive in this thread about DRM and music.
I think Anthrax said it best when they said "I'm at both ends of the spectrum, you're somewhere in the between"
I say that because I oppose gun control, and I oppose DRM, and I'm willing to acquire a weapon to perform both opposals as needed. :)
DRM is not a formation of a police state. DRM is the absolute right of the copyright owner to do whatever they wish with the the content they "own." Now if the copyright owner wishes to further "protect" the DRM part of the content with laws the criminalize certain uses of that content, or if they wish to attack alleged violators of the content they "own" without due process, then that gets into a police state.
No, no, and yes.
DRM is not a formation of a police state. It is a system where someone (hopefully you!) gets to determine what content will run on your computer and what content will not run on your computer.
DRM is being pushed by content producers, but it's not limited in that scope.
Yes, DRM as a *law* will turn the place into a police state.
Now, why is DRM in the Linux kernel? (Or rather, why is there a patch to enable it?) I think that it would be a Good Thing(tm) for there to be a number of "trusted" servers on the internet where a person can chose the server they trust and the level of drm to enforce. For censorship freak parents, they could chose a server and level that will prevent their kids from viewing PORN. For those of us that are more sensible, we might wish to prevent unauthorized executables from running on our computers. This is similar to making sure an RPM has the correct digital signature before installing it, except that your checking the signature at runtime as well. Worthless for stuff you install that checks out, priceless for preventing virii from running.
I would approve a law that provides registered copyright owners with the obligation of signing their work when they release it (read: force them to sign their work. Why not? They registered the copyright!). That is the only DRM law I would approve, because it allows everyone the freedom to use it or not to use it. As an added law I might think about, I might require content producers to register their copyright (and reduce copyright registration fees and procedures) and I might be willing to rearrange copyright law a little bit to remove copyright protection from unregistered copyrights, so long as registering a copyright is not a long and arduous process. I *might*, I'm not saying I will. I'd have to think about it.
There's an important lesson for the RIAA in there, I think...
Um, the MPAA is backing DRM as well, and that $10 dvd you just bought is going to support DRM.
Continue pirating movies and music, it's good for the world. :)
Your point on globalism made sense up until you portray global trade as some sort of charity.
Actually, I was trying to turn the Parent Poster's arguments around on him, subtly accusing him of racism and/or nationalism, neither of which has any place in a global economy. My point on globalism was intended to stand on its own without the "charity" bit. :) Sorry if that wasn't clear.
How do things like environmental laws come into play?
It's complex, but not insurmountable. I would personally be more interested in a company manufacturing plastics (in your example) that does so in an environmentally friendly fashion, and as a consumer with the right information to make the decision, I would buy into that value proposition. So the way to compete isn't always by lowering costs, it's by increasing value, and hopefully doing so without raising production costs. Now, this is a simple solution that will *not* work in every case. In the cases where it doesn't work, you have to adapt to changing circumstances somehow. In the end, some people get screwed no matter what. Shit happens. Like Stu Hamm said, "Hey dude, if you're scared, stay home!"
If only competition were so simple...
If only. :) I never said it was simple, I only assert that it's necessary.
We also have to turn it around and look at it from these "third world" perspectives. They are trying to adapt themselves, and compete. And in many ways they're trying to do so against seemingly superior resources. So they shape their own value proposition around saving money, and they can do so because they have the inherent advantage of a lower cost of living. Give it long enough and that advantage will go away to an extent (i.e. if offshore outsourcing was so cheap, why don't we outsource to the Brits? If we did, would people be as angry about it as they are about oursourcing to India?). The important thing to realize is that we aren't the only people in this world, and everyone is trying to basically do the same things, and we're all competing for "our share" of the global wealth. We need to realize that, instead of sinking into pits of despair over what's going on. Realize that, and you can find your own competitive niche with your own value proposition and your own pricetag.
I'm just mystified as to how you believe that we would EVER be able to compete without becoming a third world country ourselves?
It's what marketers and sales people call your "Value Proposition". If you offer more value than they do for the price you're bidding, you should expect to eke out a living.
I am a business owner of a startup business that is growing and doing web marketing, and I have a hard time believing the times are as rough as they say. Adapt, organize, and put together your own value proposition. Root, hog, or die. It's your choice to make.
I'm very happy that your project worked out for you. Now, please be so kind as to tell us what company you work for so those of us with a conscience can avoid your products/services.
Um, dude? Don't we have a good-sized "global economy" going on, these days? Turn it around, since the job was outsourced, how many hundreds of programmers in India were able to eat and feed their families? Isn't India one of the more poverty-stricken places in the world? wtf makes you and your nationalism more important than those poor people in India? Think of the children!
Seriously, though, get real. Buying locally-made is a strong preference of mine as well, but good service and good product for a low price is also a requirement if you want my money, no matter where you are.
This has nothing to do with isolationalism, either. Notice that I have made no mention of my home country, as this is happening in many countries. The simple fact is that these decisions are being driven by short-sided, amateurish stockholders who have no comprehension of base economics and lack the ability to look beyond the figures for Next Quarter.
You're right, it's nationalism plain and simple. See, a Nationalist says "Buy *insert my country's name here*". A Patriot says "Buy the best shit" because the Patriot knows that if your economy is focused on buying the best shit, and they want to survive, they will also produce the best shit.
Until investors and corporate shareholders return to a sensible economic approach to investing in business, this trend will only continue to increase.
Great, now we expect investors to use a "sensible" economic approach to investing, but we're supposed to spend our money solely based on where a company is located and whether or not they have recently taken jobs from us? Compete. Is it that hard? It can very well be a dog eat dog world, and you have to be competitive.
Don't wanna be competitive? Then we likely don't need you in the gene pool any more. :)
obExample: "All Your Base Are Belong To Us"
Um, you talk about misspelling in your post, and then give an example to back it up, but in your example every word is spelled correctly.
I'll tell you why someone with english as a second language has a better chance at spelling correctly: bad habit. You've grown up around english and heard bad grammar and seen it written and seen and experienced poor spelling. It's a part of you, whether you like it or not. Sometimes it's easy to let localized words and phrases slip in to what you're writing, but someone with english as a second language comes from a different perspective. If you're talking about an IT company in India, chances are they actually got a real English education and learned proper english grammar and so forth.
Grammar errors abound in many multilinguists, but spelling errors actually seem to decrease the more a person stacks up languages.
Is it the "mechanical" act of fretting a string and hitting it or opening your mouth and exhaling air in a specific way or is it thinking and coming up with chord changes, melodies and harmonies?
NOt to mention a computer can never replace standing up with your own guitar, metal-thrashing mad, and moshing up your living room.
Nope, all you can do is think "Damn, I shoulda gotten insurance 'fore I went off and moshed my house up."
Do you really think FOTR/TTT would be NEARLY as enjoyable if Gollum had been more like Jar-Jar?
Yousa thinkin' Massah is yousa friend? Yousa don't know whatta youa speakin!
Shut up! Meesa gonna kick yousa ass.
Yousa no botha. Yousa stoopid. No-wanna like-a yousa.
Massah take-a good care of weesa.
Rush Limbaugh: "Kurt Cobain died of a drug-induced suicide, ...he was a worthless shred of human waste."
Duck. Rush Limbaugh finally says something I agree with....
The idea was trashed in 30 seconds, b/c who wants a voice that raps like an off duty LAPD Sergeant at Karaoke night?
How many people downlaoded the new eminem cd?
For the average person that needs to be able to plug in their digital camera without going into the terminal window, we think that the user's experience with any brand of Linux will be sub-par.
Why is it so hard to have real user-friendliness in Linux?
Check out Mandrake 9.2. :) With the default kernel installed, my Olympus d520z (using a broken USB protocol which previously required a kernel patch that didn't always work) works out of the box! Mounts up as a mass storage device and there's an icon on my desktop to open it and browse the pictures.
I expect similar results with other cameras, but do not have other cameras to test.
Since most humans can't hear much beyond 20kHz anyway, the 49kHz frequency ceiling on a 98k-sampled recording wouldn't be a bottleneck at all. Of course, if your dog is an audiophile, you might want to spring for the 98k sample rate... he'd be able to hear a difference up to 120k sample rates! =D
I don't consider it "safe" to have recordings where we can't hear significant frequencies, actually, so I'd have to say that 48k (which we already have) is where we should stop for musical recordings. :) Combine that with 32-bit float, and we're done, digital is perfect. :)
(just as a point of fact, I went totally digital already, and all my gear is digital or for sale)
You're right. I looked at the source of the page and slashdot apparently removed the username & password fields from the url. It does highlight another important danger associated with HTML email, though, which is that you can't see where the link goes unless you hover on the link *and* your mail client shows you where it goes.
Slashdot also parsed the URL, and removed the username and password, so it broke the intended nature of the link too. So you'll just have to read it and remove the space.
That's funny, I hovered over it with Mozilla and saw the username and password, and then clicked it and saw the intended nature of the link. I'll try again, maybe I was on crack?
It seems that rather than accepting redirects, browsers should warn you with a dialogue box akin to the a cookie request: "Site X wishes to redirect you to Site Y, do you wish to be redirected". Or do they already do that and I'm just not in the know?
I could swear Mozilla did that, but I couldn't find the option in the preferences dialog.
I did find a little tidbit in the KDE Control Center, though. Under Browsing->Behavior, there's a checkbox that reads "Allow AUtomatic delayed loading/redirection".
I found nothing for Galeon on the subject.
I recall using a browser in the last year that had a feature that enabled you to limit how many redirections you would take before stopping, and also to block/prompton redirection. I thought it was Mozilla. Maybe it was Opera?
The only problem with this is that someone has to be trusted enough to be a central authority to issue the certificates. Who would that be?
Um, Verisign?
Yeah, that was a joke. Frankly, I don't see why the government can't be trusted to hold public keys, so long as you can change yours. Actually, the government is the one who logically gets this role, since they are the ones who issue the original certificates that say you're you (birth certificate, photo ids, etc). As long as all the government does is make sure you're you when you give them a public key, and make the public keys available for download without tracking who downloads them, I'm all for it.
The thing is, say you give the government your public key, and they track IP addresses who download it. Now you accidentally reply to a spam and sign it, and the government learns later that the IP address your email went to was used as a spam relay. Will they associate you with the spammer? Better if they just don't log IP addresses, or destroy them after a period of time (so they can log them for intrusion detection).
Next to that, I'd be willing to let the EFF host my public key, if everyone would agree to use the EFF for that purpose and the EFF agreed to shoulder the burden. I'd also be interested in federal grants for the EFF to cover the costs of such a system.
If they are abroad, enforcement may still be possible, as this is clearly an extraditable crime (whereas most types of spamming aren't). This of course depends on exactly where they are. Even if the US has no extradition treaty with their country, the fraud may still constitute a local criminal offence, and the US may be able to persuade local authorities to act.
The fraudsters it's not clear. You're right. :) I was under the impression that you can only extradite someone who has been convicted of a crime, but not necessarily someone who has only been charged. Are you really a lawyer? :)
I was actually thinking about the malware attacks perpetrated with the same software that led back to that russian server. Last I heard, we had no extradition treaties with the Russian Federation, but I could be wrong about that.
Long story short: I have all this information, and don't know exactly what to do with it. I've tried to contact the London Metropolitan police anonymously (via email), several times, and have not heard back. I'm not sure if I should go to my own federal authority because what I've done to gather the information is illegal.
If it were in the states, you're fucked. Completely. And runaway and hide or something. Reason is, the law can't use the information because it was collected without due process (warrants and stuff). Now, if you can show that the people are terrorists, then the law can probably use it. But they're likely to just label you a terrorist and prosecute you instead.
The press is the only place you can go with this, since it's highly unlikely that the law anywhere in the world can or will use it. I'd gather up all the information that proves that the people you've fingered are the perpetrators, make printout copies (because it's considered more credible if it's printed, for some reason), and drop packages at local news stations (make sure they're networks). Give a brief writeup explaining what the information is and how to read it (if you're especially paranoid, run it through Babelfish set on English-English).
But since you're in Canada, you may be able to get someone in the states to notice it. If *any* of the perpetrators are in the states, you might be able to get the FBI to go after them. While the FBI couldn't use illegally gathered information in court, I understand they *can* use the information to figure out what to legally gather. And since you're in Canada, you should be safe, but I'd still do it anonymously.