The Music industry has gotten way to much control... The copyrights should be held by the band and the writers of the music... not the companies that devolop and distribute the mediums... I think that is what needs to happen... That the Artists retain Copyrights and licence to the diffrent medium vendors... then suddenly alot of problems will go away. Music will be cheap once again instead of priced to extract every little penny possible out of your pocket with a miniscule ammount trickling into the artists hands.
If you want the MP3 rights to the music.. pay for em on what ever licencing arrangement you can come up with.. How many Bands would dive in for 1 million flat rate per song for MP3 format/medium rights.. Then you would truely see 1 hit wonders:)
Not really... Just a re-application of Auto-completeion... What is original about auto-complete? Its just a smart use of Auto-Complete... and to put a patent on it is Dumb.. There is nothing Revolutionary about this.
Thats Great! Honestly posts like this are way better than the topics they are posted under! This topic has been done to death... and your post makes be glad I poped in anyway to see what was to be said..
SMTP needs to be fixed... Plain and simple... the big 15 email account holders should get together and fund a OS project It will save so much time and money.. and also give more time to courts and governing bodies to do other useless things that they can't affect cahneg through legislation.. not to mention this bill obviously invades my personal privacy so it wont hold up long at all..
Come Jesus! Entertain us!! Your last Miracle was way better!! There were way more Special effects and what not... Should call up Stan Winston or ILM for your next one:)
HELLO!!! Legislation will not make spam go away! Its simply does not have enough power to work... the internet is a global resource!!! how can the US do anything that still works on a gobal scale? Invade and occupy every country that remains the home of Spam?!?!
SMTP needs to be fixed.. its broken... if it wasn't spam thrive... SMTP is a useless protocol thanks to spammers... I wrote a big todo about this is the last Spam post...
Blah Blah.... No your missing it actually... Its all about exploitation. Spammers Exploit email to send thier UCE with virtually no cost to them when looking at returns gained.. They have Ablosutlely no reguard for the service providers they spam... at 650,000 emails a hour how much time and bandwidth and computer resources are tied up at the reciving end? Especially when its it unwanted so anti-spam measures are put into place which the spammers do everything they can to get around so even more resources are needed at the reciving end of the spam.. I love to see it when spammers get it back in the face..
Why has SMTP remained broken for so damn long?!? While spending millions and millions of dollars fighting Spammers (Hotmail/AOL/Earthlink and the like) Why don't they fund a OS project to fix whats wrong with SMTP and make it the defacto stanard protocol... After if they team up to do this and offer a good portable free open source product that defeats spammers who in thier right mind wouldn't move to it and eliminate spam. When you look at how many ISP's would jump at the new stanard to eliminate spam from thier networks due the simple fact.. Its cheap.. and reduces overall overhead of managing a email service.. Its a brain dead decision.. Just looking at the number of email addresses that would be covered by the top 15 or 20 email providers would mostlikely add up to be 70% or more of active email addresses.. That right there would suddenly Break Spammers business models... Not to mention including AOL would encompass 90% of the guliable public thats on the internet... so that right there would send spammers into chaos as return on investment plummets to numbers aproaching Zero.
Getting rid of spam simply makes sence... You provide a better service to your customers.. Reduces overhead of offering email service.. Reduces Support costs as well.. you don't have so many customers having problems involved in people changing email addresses cause they are getting spammed to much (Try working for a ISP in the support depart ment talking to people complaining they can't mail people in thier contact list anymore cause they changed thier email address... or people having problems because they have changed thier email address because it was getting flooded.)
They could even build into the Licencing agreement factors that prohibit underhanded tactics used to Send UCE and suspend licencing to those that do not follow the terms and be prevented from sending email at all..
Otp-out doesn't work.. Its plain and simple.. optin is a way better aproach.. People will learn to make sure they don't opt-in.. and if they do by accedent or under handed hidden agreements they you click past to just get what you want. to easily and quickly get back off thier list... Poting out could consume many hours a day of new spammers that found your address any way they could... which is simply wrong... Once its in writing in licencing spammers can easily be charged under the DMCA wide spread umbrella.. (whoo! Imagine that! something good comming from the DMCA!)...
The solution isn't that hard to see at all... All it needs is some of the big players to step up to the plate and start the ball rolling and reap its long term benefits... Wel spammers don't get any benefits from this but they are internet Parasites that need to be exterminated as they are today.
Sorry got off on a bit of a rant... But still.. this would all be moot if a couple VP's at a few big email providers had a few brain cells to rub together.. Its just simply costing them money not to do this! Legislation wont make spam go away! People can setup spam souces off shores ect.. US law can't govern them... But protocol licencing is the only way it will work... as they can set the rules and require people adhere to the rules inorder for thier email to be accepted by servers that are authenticated as protocol compliant and no-Spam complient.
If for some unseen reason there are many ISP that lag and don't join the protocol group.. Hotmail an
Actually It would be interesting to see that being abused... get a Shopping scanner when you walk into the store and find what you want try it on ect... but put it on the shelf and scan it then go up to a machine by the door place the scanner into it and recive a Web confirmation number so when you get home.. pop on-line enter the number pay with youir credit card and Zammo the next day it shows up from out of state (or even within the state dependign on how Lax the Tax laws are) and you Just evaded Tax on the st7uff you just bought.
A similar thing happened in Canada with the GST (7% tax on everything sold except the basic esentials... unsalted peanuts.. no GST.. salted peanuts GST cause its salted:) Pretty dumb.) Most produce was exempt.. So there were a few stores that Changed paced and sturned into Produce stores with Value added Services. Car Dealerships Selling a Banana for 5,000$ but they would give you a free car to drive it home in... a Drycleaner Selling Potatoes for 1$ and cleaning a shirt for you for free. It was a Shame they didn't fair out well in court.. But I could imagine how that would have changed Canada if they got away with it..
Apple's Strong supporters have allways been Desktop publishers... So of course they are gonna have the Spankiest looking desktops... What would Apples customer base have thought if they were restricted to 8 bit colour and crappy colour schemes... It took MS a long time to realise Oh hey! We need to do that too! Gee alot of people are thinking about buying Macs cause they look so Pretty:)
MS has done very little in the field of Innovation. For the longest time they have just looked at what was happening in the buisness enviorment as far as software goes and replicate what people were commonly using to meet thier needs. They haven't truely innovated anything.. Just bundling all these ideas into one package.. and if you think thats really innovation think again...
innovation
Function: noun
Date: 15th century
1 : the introduction of something new
2 : a new idea, method, or device
All the ideas behind MS's software can be found in other products long before thier release of the software. There's nothing new there at all.. Just a rehash of other peoples innovations(in 99.99999% of the cases they make it proprietary and bundle it in with one of thier products to keep compitetion down to a extreamly manageable level).
Well This also happends with Email... You waiting for that important Email from a friend telling you that he needs a ride from the Air port and his email is lost amist Spam or gets filtered and they are completely unaware.. There is alot of important Email that is just as critical as Snail mail... There is No Difference other than Its somewhat easier to change your email address compared to changing your physical address.. Funny thing is you can submit a change of address form as all that Snail Spam will follow you with a Change of address...
All I can say is "Waaaa Waaaa Poor Spammers.. Waaa! Go Cry to your mom! or someone who really cares!" After all thats thier attitude when they send out all thier Spam.
If all Spammers were Reputable and didn't use underhanded tactics their business model wouldn't work.. Who in thier right mind wants to see all that UCE in thier mailbox?!? I am sure the few people that do wouldn't support them enough to actually make a living.
Well only connecting a few buildings to a central one is easy as hell... You can easily do a 3Km hop with Microwave with 5 9's realibility.. only overhead is a Licence to use that freq on those paths and your set... 45Mbit Microwave gear is damn cheap.
Well Thats the thing... DSL/Cable isn't there to replace T1's.. They are lower cost because they are Shared out to offset cost... What do you think they hook DSL/Cable up to?!?! The same stuff T1's do!! Bandwidth has to be paid for... You think just because it gets run through DSL/Cable service the Magic Bandwidth Farie comes by and makes it cheap?! Bandwidth is pretty much a fixed cost(Depending on who is selling it to you and how much they have aswell).. the more you get the cheaper it is... The shorter the local loop the cheaper it gets... Once the data pops out of the DSL/Cable ect equipment do you think it magically appears on the internet?!?! If you can sluff what you are using for Bandwidth off on a shared access medium then do it... But don't put on a big surprize face when they come to shut you down or toss a huge bandwidth bill at you for mis-use of the service.
You Think Regular Grade ft4 grade cvat5 will last long out doors? You can get outdoor rated cat5 but its slightly more.. ~.60-90$ a foot.. do the math and it gets really expencive.. Also getting Pole Space isn't that easy as usually the Power/telephone companies own them and its usually 3-5$ a pole for rental. These costs add up quickly not to mention the time and equipment to properly do pole contacts. Not to mention Where do you stick all of the equipment that is needed from point A to B. Building secure sheds with power can get pricey.
Well what happends when you have 2 Challenge responce systems on each end... Any mechanism that is put in place can be abused by spammers. This will also Fail. White listing Challenge responce servers wont work due to SMTP being broken and the list can easily be spoofed. only buy digital signing by white listed challenge responce servers will work or some thing similar to verify server source. This will drastically reduce spam if it actually works.
I'll live with Banners.. But not pop ups... Annoying to shut downa zillion windows after/during surfing. Like Pop-unders... Whats the deal with those! They are put out of plain site... Effective Advertising? Hard to imagine that. I dislike any form of advertising that generates work for me.. even just simply closing windows... I will click on a banner when asked to support the site I frequent becuase as you said.. Bills needs to be paid some how.
Best way is to use Maintence logs of the current MS setup... How much downtime... time to resolve issues.. frequency of problems.. type of problems.. ect.. once you have compiled all that you have your baseline of what is curently acceptable level of support... Then you can do research on the OS software you will be running and gather stats to compare to... Then play with your stats to prove your point....
Should be fairly easy as MS security is very poor when it comes to alot of thier apps and time to resolve is not allways speedy where OS software beats MS for time to resolution hands down 9 times out of 10.
After all MS's secuirty though obscurity model just doesn't cut the mustard. So there should be loads of data available of MS flaws on secuirty. Then show stats on OpenBSD to show how good security can be with OS software. Secure systems tend to have a drastically better Uptime than insecure ones:)
As for product support.. again demonstrate What kind of support is currently needed and how often its mission critical/effects the way business is done...
Once you have the setup up and running with a testbed to try out patches before they go live its pretty much smooth sailing from there... as Patching is the only headache you will ever have.. so having a near production testbed is essential.. Not to mention make damn sure you have a way to quickly restore any changes made so impact of a "OOPS" is kept to a absolute minimum.
But comparing level of service that you currently get is gonna wind up being your strongest case and point. Upper management is rarely aware of what it takes to keep systems up and running so it will be a real eyeopener for them and will make them more forgiving if you still have a few weak spots in your case or they come up with angles that your arn't 100% prepaird for.. But Have all your stats with you on how the current system runs and equivilant stats on OS systems so you will be able to rebute unforseen lines of questions.
Seems like a no brainer to me. Everything is consumer driven... If you have no customers then you have no business... Its that simple... If a business annoys you don't be a consumer of theirs... Plain and simple. Popups have infested far too many websites these days... but if It causes a problem with the web site that I have takes measures for thier pop-ups not to annoy me.. then I wont go back to be annoyed. (wish it was that simple to get rid of spam:) )
No such thing... You can do what ever the hell you want with a computer.. His statement about not being able to stop the audio ad untill its finished is baloney... I have yet to see any software that can not be stopped:) This I can see will promote the use of OS web broswers that have been patched to reconize these ads as Malicious and prevent them from actually play the audio and sned back the confirmation That it was played:) In the software world there are allways options for counter measures available. After all in the mean time... There is allways the power to pull to stop it from playing:)
Its pretty simple... Don't go to sites that annoy you... Decreased traffic will show them that this is not acceptable behavior and they will stop doing stuff like that. I still use the old host file method for Killin popups and it works great.. mind ya over the years my hosts file has grown rather large and I guess I should check the names in it to see if they are still valid.. wouldn't be shocked if 30% of the hostnames in it are now dead... But thats off topic... People just have to Stop going to sites that utilize sneaky pop-up tactics... Its just like Spam... Untill people Stop opening and buy products that send spam emails there will be spam.. for Pop-ups... kinda the same thing if people stop going to sites that force pop-ups on you then it wont be profitable for them to do so and they will stop.
"Hey doctor its hurts when I do this" "Then stop doing that!"
Solutions are So easy... Dunno why People insist on making thier life hard:)
Well that is a poor statement... The only way the software industry will die is if the hardware market stagnates and innvovation is completely crushed... Of couse I can't say anything like that would out makin a jab at MS so here it is... M$ would love this... That would mean a end to lawsuits and no-more company buy outs would be needed.. and then they could actually force everyone into Renting thier software for Huge $$. But once again if they started to do that... It would lead to a company trying to get around all software copyrights and patents that MS has and build a Compatible OS that would run all the win32 software and sell it for cheaper.. and once again spark some light into the software industry. This is a very poor statement... Hard to belive it comes from a ICON of the software industry.. unless he just wants public opinion to be that it is dead so there is less compitetion:)
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The Music industry has gotten way to much control... The copyrights should be held by the band and the writers of the music... not the companies that devolop and distribute the mediums... I think that is what needs to happen... That the Artists retain Copyrights and licence to the diffrent medium vendors... then suddenly alot of problems will go away. Music will be cheap once again instead of priced to extract every little penny possible out of your pocket with a miniscule ammount trickling into the artists hands.
:)
If you want the MP3 rights to the music.. pay for em on what ever licencing arrangement you can come up with.. How many Bands would dive in for 1 million flat rate per song for MP3 format/medium rights.. Then you would truely see 1 hit wonders
Not really... Just a re-application of Auto-completeion... What is original about auto-complete? Its just a smart use of Auto-Complete... and to put a patent on it is Dumb.. There is nothing Revolutionary about this.
Thats Great! Honestly posts like this are way better than the topics they are posted under! This topic has been done to death... and your post makes be glad I poped in anyway to see what was to be said..
SMTP needs to be fixed... Plain and simple... the big 15 email account holders should get together and fund a OS project It will save so much time and money.. and also give more time to courts and governing bodies to do other useless things that they can't affect cahneg through legislation.. not to mention this bill obviously invades my personal privacy so it wont hold up long at all..
Come Jesus! Entertain us!! Your last Miracle was way better!! There were way more Special effects and what not... Should call up Stan Winston or ILM for your next one :)
You forgot eating Back Bacon and building Igloo's..
Getting married will kill your sexlife 9 times out of 10. The one guy is the lucky bastard :)
Who comes up with the Stupid stuff?!?!
HELLO!!! Legislation will not make spam go away! Its simply does not have enough power to work... the internet is a global resource!!! how can the US do anything that still works on a gobal scale? Invade and occupy every country that remains the home of Spam?!?! SMTP needs to be fixed.. its broken... if it wasn't spam thrive... SMTP is a useless protocol thanks to spammers... I wrote a big todo about this is the last Spam post ...
Blah Blah.... No your missing it actually... Its all about exploitation. Spammers Exploit email to send thier UCE with virtually no cost to them when looking at returns gained.. They have Ablosutlely no reguard for the service providers they spam... at 650,000 emails a hour how much time and bandwidth and computer resources are tied up at the reciving end? Especially when its it unwanted so anti-spam measures are put into place which the spammers do everything they can to get around so even more resources are needed at the reciving end of the spam.. I love to see it when spammers get it back in the face..
Why has SMTP remained broken for so damn long?!? While spending millions and millions of dollars fighting Spammers (Hotmail/AOL/Earthlink and the like) Why don't they fund a OS project to fix whats wrong with SMTP and make it the defacto stanard protocol... After if they team up to do this and offer a good portable free open source product that defeats spammers who in thier right mind wouldn't move to it and eliminate spam. When you look at how many ISP's would jump at the new stanard to eliminate spam from thier networks due the simple fact.. Its cheap.. and reduces overall overhead of managing a email service.. Its a brain dead decision.. Just looking at the number of email addresses that would be covered by the top 15 or 20 email providers would mostlikely add up to be 70% or more of active email addresses.. That right there would suddenly Break Spammers business models... Not to mention including AOL would encompass 90% of the guliable public thats on the internet... so that right there would send spammers into chaos as return on investment plummets to numbers aproaching Zero.
Getting rid of spam simply makes sence... You provide a better service to your customers.. Reduces overhead of offering email service.. Reduces Support costs as well.. you don't have so many customers having problems involved in people changing email addresses cause they are getting spammed to much (Try working for a ISP in the support depart ment talking to people complaining they can't mail people in thier contact list anymore cause they changed thier email address... or people having problems because they have changed thier email address because it was getting flooded.)
They could even build into the Licencing agreement factors that prohibit underhanded tactics used to Send UCE and suspend licencing to those that do not follow the terms and be prevented from sending email at all..
Otp-out doesn't work.. Its plain and simple.. optin is a way better aproach.. People will learn to make sure they don't opt-in.. and if they do by accedent or under handed hidden agreements they you click past to just get what you want. to easily and quickly get back off thier list... Poting out could consume many hours a day of new spammers that found your address any way they could... which is simply wrong... Once its in writing in licencing spammers can easily be charged under the DMCA wide spread umbrella.. (whoo! Imagine that! something good comming from the DMCA!)...
The solution isn't that hard to see at all... All it needs is some of the big players to step up to the plate and start the ball rolling and reap its long term benefits... Wel spammers don't get any benefits from this but they are internet Parasites that need to be exterminated as they are today.
Sorry got off on a bit of a rant... But still.. this would all be moot if a couple VP's at a few big email providers had a few brain cells to rub together.. Its just simply costing them money not to do this! Legislation wont make spam go away! People can setup spam souces off shores ect.. US law can't govern them... But protocol licencing is the only way it will work... as they can set the rules and require people adhere to the rules inorder for thier email to be accepted by servers that are authenticated as protocol compliant and no-Spam complient.
If for some unseen reason there are many ISP that lag and don't join the protocol group.. Hotmail an
Actually It would be interesting to see that being abused... get a Shopping scanner when you walk into the store and find what you want try it on ect... but put it on the shelf and scan it then go up to a machine by the door place the scanner into it and recive a Web confirmation number so when you get home.. pop on-line enter the number pay with youir credit card and Zammo the next day it shows up from out of state (or even within the state dependign on how Lax the Tax laws are) and you Just evaded Tax on the st7uff you just bought. A similar thing happened in Canada with the GST (7% tax on everything sold except the basic esentials... unsalted peanuts.. no GST.. salted peanuts GST cause its salted :) Pretty dumb.) Most produce was exempt.. So there were a few stores that Changed paced and sturned into Produce stores with Value added Services. Car Dealerships Selling a Banana for 5,000$ but they would give you a free car to drive it home in... a Drycleaner Selling Potatoes for 1$ and cleaning a shirt for you for free. It was a Shame they didn't fair out well in court.. But I could imagine how that would have changed Canada if they got away with it..
Apple's Strong supporters have allways been Desktop publishers... So of course they are gonna have the Spankiest looking desktops... What would Apples customer base have thought if they were restricted to 8 bit colour and crappy colour schemes... It took MS a long time to realise Oh hey! We need to do that too! Gee alot of people are thinking about buying Macs cause they look so Pretty :)
MS has done very little in the field of Innovation. For the longest time they have just looked at what was happening in the buisness enviorment as far as software goes and replicate what people were commonly using to meet thier needs. They haven't truely innovated anything.. Just bundling all these ideas into one package.. and if you think thats really innovation think again... innovation Function: noun Date: 15th century 1 : the introduction of something new 2 : a new idea, method, or device All the ideas behind MS's software can be found in other products long before thier release of the software. There's nothing new there at all.. Just a rehash of other peoples innovations(in 99.99999% of the cases they make it proprietary and bundle it in with one of thier products to keep compitetion down to a extreamly manageable level).
Well This also happends with Email... You waiting for that important Email from a friend telling you that he needs a ride from the Air port and his email is lost amist Spam or gets filtered and they are completely unaware.. There is alot of important Email that is just as critical as Snail mail... There is No Difference other than Its somewhat easier to change your email address compared to changing your physical address.. Funny thing is you can submit a change of address form as all that Snail Spam will follow you with a Change of address...
All I can say is "Waaaa Waaaa Poor Spammers.. Waaa! Go Cry to your mom! or someone who really cares!" After all thats thier attitude when they send out all thier Spam.
If all Spammers were Reputable and didn't use underhanded tactics their business model wouldn't work.. Who in thier right mind wants to see all that UCE in thier mailbox?!? I am sure the few people that do wouldn't support them enough to actually make a living.
Well only connecting a few buildings to a central one is easy as hell... You can easily do a 3Km hop with Microwave with 5 9's realibility.. only overhead is a Licence to use that freq on those paths and your set... 45Mbit Microwave gear is damn cheap.
Well Thats the thing... DSL/Cable isn't there to replace T1's.. They are lower cost because they are Shared out to offset cost... What do you think they hook DSL/Cable up to?!?! The same stuff T1's do!! Bandwidth has to be paid for... You think just because it gets run through DSL/Cable service the Magic Bandwidth Farie comes by and makes it cheap?! Bandwidth is pretty much a fixed cost(Depending on who is selling it to you and how much they have aswell).. the more you get the cheaper it is... The shorter the local loop the cheaper it gets... Once the data pops out of the DSL/Cable ect equipment do you think it magically appears on the internet?!?! If you can sluff what you are using for Bandwidth off on a shared access medium then do it... But don't put on a big surprize face when they come to shut you down or toss a huge bandwidth bill at you for mis-use of the service.
You Think Regular Grade ft4 grade cvat5 will last long out doors? You can get outdoor rated cat5 but its slightly more.. ~.60-90$ a foot.. do the math and it gets really expencive.. Also getting Pole Space isn't that easy as usually the Power/telephone companies own them and its usually 3-5$ a pole for rental. These costs add up quickly not to mention the time and equipment to properly do pole contacts. Not to mention Where do you stick all of the equipment that is needed from point A to B. Building secure sheds with power can get pricey.
Well when you think about it... When was HTML not a portable document format :)
Well what happends when you have 2 Challenge responce systems on each end... Any mechanism that is put in place can be abused by spammers. This will also Fail. White listing Challenge responce servers wont work due to SMTP being broken and the list can easily be spoofed. only buy digital signing by white listed challenge responce servers will work or some thing similar to verify server source. This will drastically reduce spam if it actually works.
I'll live with Banners.. But not pop ups... Annoying to shut downa zillion windows after/during surfing. Like Pop-unders... Whats the deal with those! They are put out of plain site... Effective Advertising? Hard to imagine that. I dislike any form of advertising that generates work for me.. even just simply closing windows... I will click on a banner when asked to support the site I frequent becuase as you said.. Bills needs to be paid some how.
Best way is to use Maintence logs of the current MS setup... How much downtime... time to resolve issues.. frequency of problems.. type of problems.. ect.. once you have compiled all that you have your baseline of what is curently acceptable level of support... Then you can do research on the OS software you will be running and gather stats to compare to... Then play with your stats to prove your point....
:)
Should be fairly easy as MS security is very poor when it comes to alot of thier apps and time to resolve is not allways speedy where OS software beats MS for time to resolution hands down 9 times out of 10.
After all MS's secuirty though obscurity model just doesn't cut the mustard. So there should be loads of data available of MS flaws on secuirty. Then show stats on OpenBSD to show how good security can be with OS software. Secure systems tend to have a drastically better Uptime than insecure ones
As for product support.. again demonstrate What kind of support is currently needed and how often its mission critical/effects the way business is done...
Once you have the setup up and running with a testbed to try out patches before they go live its pretty much smooth sailing from there... as Patching is the only headache you will ever have.. so having a near production testbed is essential.. Not to mention make damn sure you have a way to quickly restore any changes made so impact of a "OOPS" is kept to a absolute minimum.
But comparing level of service that you currently get is gonna wind up being your strongest case and point. Upper management is rarely aware of what it takes to keep systems up and running so it will be a real eyeopener for them and will make them more forgiving if you still have a few weak spots in your case or they come up with angles that your arn't 100% prepaird for.. But Have all your stats with you on how the current system runs and equivilant stats on OS systems so you will be able to rebute unforseen lines of questions.
Seems like a no brainer to me. Everything is consumer driven... If you have no customers then you have no business... Its that simple... If a business annoys you don't be a consumer of theirs... Plain and simple. Popups have infested far too many websites these days... but if It causes a problem with the web site that I have takes measures for thier pop-ups not to annoy me.. then I wont go back to be annoyed. (wish it was that simple to get rid of spam :) )
No such thing... You can do what ever the hell you want with a computer.. His statement about not being able to stop the audio ad untill its finished is baloney... I have yet to see any software that can not be stopped :) This I can see will promote the use of OS web broswers that have been patched to reconize these ads as Malicious and prevent them from actually play the audio and sned back the confirmation That it was played :) In the software world there are allways options for counter measures available. After all in the mean time... There is allways the power to pull to stop it from playing :)
Its pretty simple... Don't go to sites that annoy you... Decreased traffic will show them that this is not acceptable behavior and they will stop doing stuff like that. I still use the old host file method for Killin popups and it works great.. mind ya over the years my hosts file has grown rather large and I guess I should check the names in it to see if they are still valid.. wouldn't be shocked if 30% of the hostnames in it are now dead... But thats off topic... People just have to Stop going to sites that utilize sneaky pop-up tactics... Its just like Spam... Untill people Stop opening and buy products that send spam emails there will be spam.. for Pop-ups... kinda the same thing if people stop going to sites that force pop-ups on you then it wont be profitable for them to do so and they will stop.
:)
"Hey doctor its hurts when I do this"
"Then stop doing that!"
Solutions are So easy... Dunno why People insist on making thier life hard
Well that is a poor statement... The only way the software industry will die is if the hardware market stagnates and innvovation is completely crushed... Of couse I can't say anything like that would out makin a jab at MS so here it is... M$ would love this... That would mean a end to lawsuits and no-more company buy outs would be needed.. and then they could actually force everyone into Renting thier software for Huge $$. But once again if they started to do that... It would lead to a company trying to get around all software copyrights and patents that MS has and build a Compatible OS that would run all the win32 software and sell it for cheaper.. and once again spark some light into the software industry. This is a very poor statement... Hard to belive it comes from a ICON of the software industry.. unless he just wants public opinion to be that it is dead so there is less compitetion :)