The rest of the usage must be porn! Its the only reason the interet exists is the first place. I know my first site would not have got any hits if its weren't for the "sex anal boobs teen thumbnails free xxx" in my headers (I miss search engines that actually searched meta tags). The interet has always been like the VCR. It started as a way to see more porn at home, and then legitimate uses were created as wives started asking questions.
My first job back in high school was for a telemarketing company. I didn't need the money but the old man said he would kick me out (before I got a chance to graduate) unless I started doing something other than playing with computers all day. I decieded to work at the telemarketing company because the job required little effort to get because they were hiring anybody and because I was a stoner and it was the only place in town without a piss test (this was before they sold clean piss on the internet to fake these tests out). I was a good employee compared to most they had there (it seemed that prostitutes and coke dealers were also drawn to the place for the same reasons). Yet one day when the boss gave me a little shit for not relying on the paycheck like most of the employees did, I proved him right and quit. Ever since I refuse to put the company on my resume because it
a. no longer exists
b. I hated how the company encouraged preying on the lonely, elderly and intoxicated
c. did not want to explain to a future employer why I worked there in the first place (well sir my dad demand I have a job. and my pot habit was expensive. and the place didn't piss test. ect.)
Overall I gained valuble life experiance (and some good dealers) from working there. Also I got to taste corporate work before I had to for a living. All in all I don't regret it, but I'm not to proud of it either.
Hey you are on slashdot. If you haven't noticed the site is overrun by teen and twenty-somethings that smoke a lot of weed. Just cause your old, square self can't understand doesn't mean you should be nasty (or try to stop us).
Its the only reason I still have a blockbuster card in the days of Kazaa and Netflix.
1.Rent whatever dvd just messed up for you.
2. Take a sharp knife and peal off the protective sticker (becareful not to cut it up- in one piece is best).
3. Return DVD THAT DAY and complain that it doesn't work. Not only will you get off scott free but you will also get a refund or another rental.
In all honesty I mostly only do this with video games which cost so much and damage so easily that they are worth it. The way a playstion seems to kill a game just by playing it a lot makes blockbuster a great asset.
I had my account size doubled. I went from 50 megs of server space to 100, plus I got a cgi bin and a catch-all email address (all I had to do was to agree to pay a years worth of hosting up front instead of a monthly bill).
This is the best X-mas present from a company I don't work for. Considering how cheap my account is (2 dollars a month) I amazed by the good sevice. Truely a great web geek gift.
The DOJ dropping this is not that big of deal. Even if they would have found the RIAA to be a monopoly the organization would have received something akin to a slap on the wrist in monetary terms (for them). The only positive thing that could have come from it would be that the common man would have learned off CNN to equate the RIAA with a monopoly. Since this is simply a shell organization created to protect the interests of the biggest record industries, if such bad press would have occurred they would have simply disbanded it and make a new organization with a different name but the same job (like the WFRP- warm and fuzzy record producers). Nothing from the DOJ could have really changed the market or change their tactics. The have politicians of both parties in their pocket and they are not scarred to use them.
The real punishment for their evils is one worse than any gov. agency could give. In a world where name recognition is all important, the refusal to sell music online at first made illegal PSP programs have the biggest name in online music. Now if the common man wants digital music he thinks of kazaa long before pressplay. Reclaiming the Napster name helped them a little, but their was too much time between the Napster of old and its new corporate foil. They are dieing for not growing when they had the chance. The DOJ might have realized that and felt bad enough for them to call off the dogs.
There must be millions of scams working in the world today. Just because a particularly lame one has entrapped this man does not make him special. The most interesting fact regarding this article is how someone that gullible got that much money to lose in the first place.
In fact victims of this scam probably deserve less pity (the only reason for coming out in public that you were duped) than most other. For a person to bite on a Nigerian scam they must be unusually greedy. Many other scams take advantage of altruism. It is those that deserve some pity. Be not admitting to being scammed (yea right like he doesn't know when an article is written about him being scammed) the man seems to want to come off innocent and naive probably to gain pity and a new income. But this is just him trying to scam the altruistic masses of the internet. This man just reaped what he sowed.
This is why I think publically traded companies are immoral. If an inverstor is inversting in a privately traded company they must have some understanding what the company does. Also usually you must know someone in the company. That way if something happens (at the company, in that sector of the economy, ect.) you have enough knowledge to understand that not every quarter is profitable.
On the otherhand publically traded companies are bought by people that can know nothing of the company who EXPECT that every quarter is profitable. Public traders just stare at a computer cussing every stock that always doesn't go up. I look at commercials for interent trading sites and it sets the whole sorry scene. It shows how any person can buy a part of a company and profit as the numbers "magically" go up. Public traders don't care about the company or its actually production that makes the numbers go up. They just demand the numbers go up. Public trading ruined stocks like AOL uses ruined usenet.
Since shit happens (and supply is limited of anything) it is impossible for a honest company to be profitable every quarter. The ones that do profit every quarter usually have recent skeletons not deep in the closet. But the pressure on those companies for doing dirty deeds to stay in the black comes from publicly traded stocks and their inverstor hordes. That is why public trading is immoral. The whole fact is made worse when you see what companies do to stay profitable (buy senators, don't clean up toxic messes, employ children in places with no labor laws to work dangerous 14 hour days).
Encryption and the privacy that comes from it is not a end in and of itself.
You are right in your assumption that most people don't care about encryption for day to day email and whatnot. But that is not the issue. The issue is for spreading information that might get you in trouble. If I wrote an email to my mom to get an iPod i would not care if someone intercepted it and saw it. Encryption would never find a use in this instance.
Now say I want to send my friend some email giving him insider information that we will both (illegally) make money off of. That email I WOULD want encrypted. The best argument against such encryption (that I have seen modded high in this thread) is to say that the best use for hidden information is for actions that are immoral in nature. To that I argue that the internet is formed (or not formed really) from the social codes of the world. Its immoral to you but not someone across the world in a different culture. The Chinese Government would laugh at the RIAA if it asked it to stop music downloads.
And therein lies the issue. Main stream encryption won't come from Microsoft just like mainsteam P2P didn't. Because its more likely (in a big company like MS's eyes) to be used to steal the new office software that secure a home office. Main stream encryption will spread the same way napster was. Just as geeks then told nongeeks "Hey try this napster thing, you install it and it will let you get free music," encryption will be spread by an added sentence to the geek-nongeek conversation. "Hey try this kazaa (or what ever is the next big P2P app) thing, you install it and it will let you get free music. Also install (insert encryption program here)so that you can get away with it."
Encryption prevents the powers that be from bring down the hammer for not following order. That has nothing to do with something you mom probably wants to be involved with. Yet for some reason I like it cause I hate the man (even though I do like his stuff).
but the one thing the parent poster would settle for would be easy to set themes. If a uses wants, then he/her should easily be able to make the programs follow one them based on skins. these can be made by the user so it would be the best.
I bet most people who shop for computers at Walmart associate Java with coffee (nice coffee too). Walmart isn't known for its computers anyway. Most people buying them there would have no concept of the Java that was basically the last time Sun took on MS. To the luddite Java is hip sounding (the reason the last project used it) and so if it is cheap it might be a positive thing. Us geeks give the common computer user too much credit. Well actually, anybody that has worked for tech support is probably way ahead of me.
These authoritarian whimps who currently hold power over the most powerful nation in the world still need more ways to lose accountability from each other. When most of the baby boomers were growing up they got this freedom by saying if we don't we will die (through a nuclear holocost). The evil bureacratic powers that be eventually discovered that they didn't even have to give a good reason. Problem is all of the old farts still remembering how much worse it was to maybe die at any second don't care about just losing their freedoms any second. Lesser of two evils. Cool thing is that the children of this generation grew up in a world of peace and sharing (as seen on TV) which eventually will make us throw out these bureacrats (and their terrified voting base) because they don't have a good reason to pull the sheets over our eyes. I just hope this generation doesn't make it to hard to fix it down the road (see situation with constitution and slavery).
And when you train to be a telemarketer for them they tell you to be particular about what people said regarding ATT's do not call list. If they say "take me off your list" you did were to do nothing but reschedule the call. If they said the correct response "Please put me on your do not call list and never call back" you were to put them on a special list. Which some people did.
I hated being a telemarker. I did it because the hours were good, but sooooo many night time salesmen lied to sell, or didn't tell every thing. Every night I'd talk to 2 or so people that had been screwed by ATT. And an implied truth was that if your manager was listening in on you call, it was better to lie about the calling plans than to not make a sale to a weak target (old person, intoxicated person, gullible people, people that were too nice to say no). No body cared. They all just wanted commission. It was sad. I quit after only three months and now that telemarketing branch is closed. thank god.
The only way the "establishment" can actually hope to enforce unreasonable laws is by making detection a certainty and/or making the punishment vastly disproportionate to the "crime" and thus overpower any possible "benefit" that might reduce the "cost".
The "establishment" wishes it were that easy. If it was than the billions spent on the war on drugs yearly would have actually reduce supply instead of increasing the market value. In America their is no better example of disporportionate punishments than the manditory sentences for drug offenders. Yet yearly surveys show that everywhere mary jane and coke are easier to attain by children than alchohol. Its seems that in order for an unpopular law to remain unbroken, it needs to remain unwritten.
Its sad to hear that you can't use courier outside of college. Its like a penal implant for papers. Pump on courier and POOF, you paper has an extra page for every three. Die times new roman. And papers that use a word count instead. Grrrrr.
Video Games need more old farts to dislike. Us young impressionable whippersnappers get tired of our daddies gripping of SCOs and Microsofts. Anyone have this guys address, email or real. I know some companies with great offers that would love to get ahold of him. (Wink)
"You can't legislate morality" is a term used when people object to gov. intervention in their dialy lives. A more exact term would be "You can't legislate the morality of me within my home" which is true in a sense. I mean you COULD pass such laws but they would be uninforcible until technology is advanced enough to watchover every person. (Which is why these parinoid slashdot articles are posted in the first place) While you could say that it is in society's interest to legislate personal things such as homosexuality, the truth is that considering how no one group now has the loudest voice in society it is in society's best interest to move towards a social climate that resides in tolerance of personal freedom (no matter how much you hate it). Nearly every modern example of personal legislation has been been unsuccessful (for example I knew many homosexuals in Texas before it was legal and I smoke weed everyday with no repercussions) and often times the legislation itself harms society more than the "immoral" personal act in which it forbids. The sooner people realize that is is NOT just YOUR world and NOT just YOUR society, the sooner the US no longer has the worlds largest prison system (by far).
You know, I often think of this everyday when I read slashdot. Every time I read about some new invasive law, technology, or company I wonder what sort of wrath those that live outside the law will use to enact (what they call) justice.
For example I know the RIAA is considered evil for suing kids and it seems that they will never have a working website as punishment.
I mean how important is this power. I know if I was SCO's top brass I would never get on the internet again in fear that a hacker would put enough child porn on my pc to keep me from ever seing the light of day again.
What is the worth of the lawless in a society of bad laws?
Ok lets think for a second... Napster started in 1999, the internet which facilitated this "filesharing revolution" is much older than that, and it takes until 2003 before companies actually begin to offer full legitimate alternatives. Where was the record companies right after this download mania became popular. Oh yea, they were spending all their efforts suing napster out of existence. It takes them FOUR FREAKING YEARS to finally allow OTHER COMPANIES (read: not their costs) to put their music on the internet in grand scale. That is four years of wasted time, which is a lot in the digital age, in which they allowed free p2p to solidify its market share. Reason's for this delay are easy to see in a
online strategy that relies more on litigation that service. (shakes head)
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm more than content to steal (no sugar coating for me) into extinction any SERVICE based industry that would rather buy a new law than expand their business in a necessary amount of time. I mean they COULD have done this before napster, but they were also given a while afterwards to rectify the mistake but instead they chose to sic their pet senators and lawyers on college kids.
Any organization that relies on a thin moral code and leverage to operate should not be surprised when consumers>>>>people do the same when the table is turned.
Of course people buy things from telemarketers, or they would not still be in business. I recently quit my job at a telemarketing firm (which I will not mention to avoid trouble) and I sold about 14 products a day which is worth $100+ for me from commission. A lot of the stuff is sold to drunk, drugged up people who will say yes to anything, or elderly that are so happy to talk to a human that they will buy anything. I made the most of my money pretending to be a customer service rep (as telemarketers are naturally hated) so I could sell the products to people who thought they were customers, as a lot of people really have no idea until bill time whose services they used. Anyone who wasn't a customer got a weak sales pitch from me and a hang-up. This pissed off my managers enough that I was forced to quit to avoid punishment.
A lot of my coworkers resorted to outright lying (called slamming) to sell products. They would tell them wrong information or leave out important information. These people usually didn't get caught , but if they did they didn't care as they got the commission anyway.
In the end I'm glad I left. The job left me with a dirty feeling because of how we were encouraged to pick on the elderly, plus since the company lacked a drug policy (and had high pay) every low-life in town was using the place as their "legit" job. But before I left, I sold over 2000 products. I know that's better than some brick and mortar salesmen!
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The rest of the usage must be porn! Its the only reason the interet exists is the first place. I know my first site would not have got any hits if its weren't for the "sex anal boobs teen thumbnails free xxx" in my headers (I miss search engines that actually searched meta tags). The interet has always been like the VCR. It started as a way to see more porn at home, and then legitimate uses were created as wives started asking questions.
the end is near my friends
a. no longer exists
b. I hated how the company encouraged preying on the lonely, elderly and intoxicated
c. did not want to explain to a future employer why I worked there in the first place (well sir my dad demand I have a job. and my pot habit was expensive. and the place didn't piss test. ect.)
Overall I gained valuble life experiance (and some good dealers) from working there. Also I got to taste corporate work before I had to for a living. All in all I don't regret it, but I'm not to proud of it either.
When conservatives today are people like G. W., even the moderates seem extreme.
Hey you are on slashdot. If you haven't noticed the site is overrun by teen and twenty-somethings that smoke a lot of weed. Just cause your old, square self can't understand doesn't mean you should be nasty (or try to stop us).
1.Rent whatever dvd just messed up for you.
2. Take a sharp knife and peal off the protective sticker (becareful not to cut it up- in one piece is best).
3. Return DVD THAT DAY and complain that it doesn't work. Not only will you get off scott free but you will also get a refund or another rental.
In all honesty I mostly only do this with video games which cost so much and damage so easily that they are worth it. The way a playstion seems to kill a game just by playing it a lot makes blockbuster a great asset.
This is the best X-mas present from a company I don't work for. Considering how cheap my account is (2 dollars a month) I amazed by the good sevice. Truely a great web geek gift.
The real punishment for their evils is one worse than any gov. agency could give. In a world where name recognition is all important, the refusal to sell music online at first made illegal PSP programs have the biggest name in online music. Now if the common man wants digital music he thinks of kazaa long before pressplay. Reclaiming the Napster name helped them a little, but their was too much time between the Napster of old and its new corporate foil. They are dieing for not growing when they had the chance. The DOJ might have realized that and felt bad enough for them to call off the dogs.
My eyes suck at blue and slashdot's blue game section sucks for my eyes.
In fact victims of this scam probably deserve less pity (the only reason for coming out in public that you were duped) than most other. For a person to bite on a Nigerian scam they must be unusually greedy. Many other scams take advantage of altruism. It is those that deserve some pity. Be not admitting to being scammed (yea right like he doesn't know when an article is written about him being scammed) the man seems to want to come off innocent and naive probably to gain pity and a new income. But this is just him trying to scam the altruistic masses of the internet. This man just reaped what he sowed.
On the otherhand publically traded companies are bought by people that can know nothing of the company who EXPECT that every quarter is profitable. Public traders just stare at a computer cussing every stock that always doesn't go up. I look at commercials for interent trading sites and it sets the whole sorry scene. It shows how any person can buy a part of a company and profit as the numbers "magically" go up. Public traders don't care about the company or its actually production that makes the numbers go up. They just demand the numbers go up. Public trading ruined stocks like AOL uses ruined usenet.
Since shit happens (and supply is limited of anything) it is impossible for a honest company to be profitable every quarter. The ones that do profit every quarter usually have recent skeletons not deep in the closet. But the pressure on those companies for doing dirty deeds to stay in the black comes from publicly traded stocks and their inverstor hordes. That is why public trading is immoral. The whole fact is made worse when you see what companies do to stay profitable (buy senators, don't clean up toxic messes, employ children in places with no labor laws to work dangerous 14 hour days).
You are right in your assumption that most people don't care about encryption for day to day email and whatnot. But that is not the issue. The issue is for spreading information that might get you in trouble. If I wrote an email to my mom to get an iPod i would not care if someone intercepted it and saw it. Encryption would never find a use in this instance.
Now say I want to send my friend some email giving him insider information that we will both (illegally) make money off of. That email I WOULD want encrypted. The best argument against such encryption (that I have seen modded high in this thread) is to say that the best use for hidden information is for actions that are immoral in nature. To that I argue that the internet is formed (or not formed really) from the social codes of the world. Its immoral to you but not someone across the world in a different culture. The Chinese Government would laugh at the RIAA if it asked it to stop music downloads.
And therein lies the issue. Main stream encryption won't come from Microsoft just like mainsteam P2P didn't. Because its more likely (in a big company like MS's eyes) to be used to steal the new office software that secure a home office. Main stream encryption will spread the same way napster was. Just as geeks then told nongeeks "Hey try this napster thing, you install it and it will let you get free music," encryption will be spread by an added sentence to the geek-nongeek conversation. "Hey try this kazaa (or what ever is the next big P2P app) thing, you install it and it will let you get free music. Also install (insert encryption program here)so that you can get away with it."
Encryption prevents the powers that be from bring down the hammer for not following order. That has nothing to do with something you mom probably wants to be involved with. Yet for some reason I like it cause I hate the man (even though I do like his stuff).
but the one thing the parent poster would settle for would be easy to set themes. If a uses wants, then he/her should easily be able to make the programs follow one them based on skins. these can be made by the user so it would be the best.
I bet most people who shop for computers at Walmart associate Java with coffee (nice coffee too). Walmart isn't known for its computers anyway. Most people buying them there would have no concept of the Java that was basically the last time Sun took on MS. To the luddite Java is hip sounding (the reason the last project used it) and so if it is cheap it might be a positive thing. Us geeks give the common computer user too much credit. Well actually, anybody that has worked for tech support is probably way ahead of me.
Typing Britney Spears into Kazaa search.
1,345,678 sources found
Archiving is cool but nothing beats preteen girls and their puters.
These authoritarian whimps who currently hold power over the most powerful nation in the world still need more ways to lose accountability from each other. When most of the baby boomers were growing up they got this freedom by saying if we don't we will die (through a nuclear holocost). The evil bureacratic powers that be eventually discovered that they didn't even have to give a good reason. Problem is all of the old farts still remembering how much worse it was to maybe die at any second don't care about just losing their freedoms any second. Lesser of two evils. Cool thing is that the children of this generation grew up in a world of peace and sharing (as seen on TV) which eventually will make us throw out these bureacrats (and their terrified voting base) because they don't have a good reason to pull the sheets over our eyes. I just hope this generation doesn't make it to hard to fix it down the road (see situation with constitution and slavery).
And when you train to be a telemarketer for them they tell you to be particular about what people said regarding ATT's do not call list. If they say "take me off your list" you did were to do nothing but reschedule the call. If they said the correct response "Please put me on your do not call list and never call back" you were to put them on a special list. Which some people did. I hated being a telemarker. I did it because the hours were good, but sooooo many night time salesmen lied to sell, or didn't tell every thing. Every night I'd talk to 2 or so people that had been screwed by ATT. And an implied truth was that if your manager was listening in on you call, it was better to lie about the calling plans than to not make a sale to a weak target (old person, intoxicated person, gullible people, people that were too nice to say no). No body cared. They all just wanted commission. It was sad. I quit after only three months and now that telemarketing branch is closed. thank god.
The "establishment" wishes it were that easy. If it was than the billions spent on the war on drugs yearly would have actually reduce supply instead of increasing the market value. In America their is no better example of disporportionate punishments than the manditory sentences for drug offenders. Yet yearly surveys show that everywhere mary jane and coke are easier to attain by children than alchohol. Its seems that in order for an unpopular law to remain unbroken, it needs to remain unwritten.
Its sad to hear that you can't use courier outside of college. Its like a penal implant for papers. Pump on courier and POOF, you paper has an extra page for every three. Die times new roman. And papers that use a word count instead. Grrrrr.
Video Games need more old farts to dislike. Us young impressionable whippersnappers get tired of our daddies gripping of SCOs and Microsofts. Anyone have this guys address, email or real. I know some companies with great offers that would love to get ahold of him. (Wink)
"You can't legislate morality" is a term used when people object to gov. intervention in their dialy lives. A more exact term would be "You can't legislate the morality of me within my home" which is true in a sense. I mean you COULD pass such laws but they would be uninforcible until technology is advanced enough to watchover every person. (Which is why these parinoid slashdot articles are posted in the first place) While you could say that it is in society's interest to legislate personal things such as homosexuality, the truth is that considering how no one group now has the loudest voice in society it is in society's best interest to move towards a social climate that resides in tolerance of personal freedom (no matter how much you hate it). Nearly every modern example of personal legislation has been been unsuccessful (for example I knew many homosexuals in Texas before it was legal and I smoke weed everyday with no repercussions) and often times the legislation itself harms society more than the "immoral" personal act in which it forbids. The sooner people realize that is is NOT just YOUR world and NOT just YOUR society, the sooner the US no longer has the worlds largest prison system (by far).
You know, I often think of this everyday when I read slashdot. Every time I read about some new invasive law, technology, or company I wonder what sort of wrath those that live outside the law will use to enact (what they call) justice. For example I know the RIAA is considered evil for suing kids and it seems that they will never have a working website as punishment. I mean how important is this power. I know if I was SCO's top brass I would never get on the internet again in fear that a hacker would put enough child porn on my pc to keep me from ever seing the light of day again. What is the worth of the lawless in a society of bad laws?
Ok lets think for a second... Napster started in 1999, the internet which facilitated this "filesharing revolution" is much older than that, and it takes until 2003 before companies actually begin to offer full legitimate alternatives. Where was the record companies right after this download mania became popular. Oh yea, they were spending all their efforts suing napster out of existence. It takes them FOUR FREAKING YEARS to finally allow OTHER COMPANIES (read: not their costs) to put their music on the internet in grand scale. That is four years of wasted time, which is a lot in the digital age, in which they allowed free p2p to solidify its market share. Reason's for this delay are easy to see in a online strategy that relies more on litigation that service. (shakes head) I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm more than content to steal (no sugar coating for me) into extinction any SERVICE based industry that would rather buy a new law than expand their business in a necessary amount of time. I mean they COULD have done this before napster, but they were also given a while afterwards to rectify the mistake but instead they chose to sic their pet senators and lawyers on college kids. Any organization that relies on a thin moral code and leverage to operate should not be surprised when consumers>>>>people do the same when the table is turned.
A lot of my coworkers resorted to outright lying (called slamming) to sell products. They would tell them wrong information or leave out important information. These people usually didn't get caught , but if they did they didn't care as they got the commission anyway.
In the end I'm glad I left. The job left me with a dirty feeling because of how we were encouraged to pick on the elderly, plus since the company lacked a drug policy (and had high pay) every low-life in town was using the place as their "legit" job. But before I left, I sold over 2000 products. I know that's better than some brick and mortar salesmen!