The current advertising schemes have obviously been working since the 90s. What new features are these sites planning on that cost so much they need such a boost in advertising revenue? Are new costly features headed to the public, or are they just padding their income?
Either way, it won't be long before the IP or host name of the servers are found just like todays ad servers. As soon as that happens people can block them using their hosts file or firewall software.
People should just start posting the google image cache link by default. We all know the average slashdotter just wants to look at pretty pictures anyway.
Unless you enjoy goatse and beyond, don't bother clicking on the above link. If I were using IE I would be annoyed, but Firebird puts an end to it rather fast.
Religion would be so much more respectable if 2 things happened. First: people would have to realize that Religion and Spirituality are most definitely not mutually exclusive. Second: Science is fully capable of acting morally without people placing pseudo-Christian laws on its' actions. People often forget that they have a choice in using knowledge from scientific research. If a good Christian has a spinal injury and the only cure comes from stem cell research, he should naturally turn it down for prayer instead. A good Christian, however, should not use legislature to force his principals on others.
I'm just amazed at the number of people who hold such a strong opinion yet have next to no idea of what it involves. They hear stem cells and they think aborted fetuses. They hear cloning and they see cloning a whole human to harvest a liver. Intelligence is like a river, the deeper it runs, the quieter it is. Nobody ever stops to think that further research can tells us how to turn almost any cell into a stem cell, or the ability to clone just an organ or organ group instead of a whole person.
They can legislate all they want. It's up to the member nations if any of it will be enforced or not. The only time in recent history I can recall the UN directly interceding in other nations matters is when it involved crimes against humanity or oil (first Gulf War).
It's actually Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta if you want to get technical. RGB works with pigments, monitors, TV, etc, because of the colors the cones of our eyes sense.
Would you have the same opinion if the UN had been around to do the same to Hitler? Exactly how evil does a leader need to be before someone says fuck sovereignty?
And which tabloid rag did you get your education from? Do you realize that real power is held by those who can manipulate the minds of the masses? Most news outlets are run by the same bodies (such as GE and Rupert Murdoch). It's the same reason identical, low brow productions rule TV and all pop music sounds alike. It's the same reason all news papers and TV reports are telling the same side of the story. An educated and diversified public is a threat the true potential New World Order(tm)... corporations. That's why most Americans are either paranoid or apathetic about the UN. The "free press" can't have you getting wise to their activities, so they distract you with the scapegoat that has become the UN.
At least with the UN the people representing us are somehow linked to a voting choice. We vote for our officials who then place their choices in UN positions. The damned thing is that everyone loves to bitch about the UN, but nobody makes our UN representatives a topic when voting for the very people who give them that position. Corporations, on the other hand, are driven by profit and not constituents. What makes the most money at the least expense is the right thing to do. The question is: will you continue to let your money speak for you instead of your vote?
What's even more interesting is that in the context of IDE interfaces, the slave drive would not be doing any work. It would be using the other drives' controller.
I thought the general agreement was that viruses aren't considered life because can't metabolize energy. A virus looks like a simple lego block compared to the complex architecture of a single bacterium.
The dozens of computer crime laws enacted over the last couple of decades should be more than enough to slow down related crimes. The problem is that a company that tells tales of how important security is to them is puting a reward on hackers instead of writing more secure code. Imagine if GM or Ford didn't install seat belts or air bags and instead funded victims for law suits. All Microsoft is doing is issuing a challenge to the black hat community. If anything, this wll help increase the number of known and circulating exploits. If they really cared about security, they would take this reward money and hire some new programmers to revise and rewrite code. Instead, they think that publicity will make people feel better than actual security.
Instead of writing more secure code or locking down system services by default, MS is going after the people who write viri. How is this going to fix the (in)security problem? Do they think this is the last generation of assembly hackers? Bah. Every day I'm reminded of why the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement is a good idea. Just remember that one day MS will be one of the many corporations that provides sponsered funding for your child's or grandchild's school.
I would agree with everything. I didn't mention antivirus software because that should be a given. Even trusted sources should be scanned. Software firewalls are just liek any other type of software, vulnerable to programming errors. Any type of technology (even hardware) should not be assumed as safe. That's why it sould be used in conjunction with multiple layers of protection in order to cover all bases. One of the easiest things to do if you want the best protection is to block all internet traffic when you leave your machine. I know there are people who wouldn't find this acceptable, but the 'average' person doesn't use programs that need constant access to the internet (except maybe p2p).
The one thing that many parents have a problem with is that they treat TV and the internet like it's a babysitter. Parents are just like any other person, they hate taking the blame if they feel they can pass it off on someone else. In the end, the parent has the last say in any of their childrens matters.
Can anyone recommend a good non-symantec antivirus and software firewall? (Please, please, please don't say ZoneAlarm.)
I've had great results with Sygate Personal Firewall. This puts zonealarm to shame. ZA will assume windows components and modules are safe, but sygate prompts for everything. I use it along with my routers firewall and NAT. That's about as secure as you can make an average home users computer without uberexpensive corporate solutions.
Look at Futurama (just one example). That series had great potential. Unfortunately some setwork suits decided to move it to a new day evry week so people didn't know it was on. Then it got moved to the half hour block directly after every major sporting event, as if most of them end on time. The good shows tend not to be he low brow ones. The networks being in the business of profit, love lowest common denominator shows because it's like fishing with the biggest net.
I know you are just joking, but ut's reasons like that that I expect this thing to be so DRM ridden that it will probably use some super intgrated wifi/cell connection to call the local police and have them pick me up using GPS. As far as I'm concerned, there is no tinfoil hat big enough to protect me from microsoft.
I know you are just trolling but....
First off: either you have a problem understanding teenage sarcasm or you are surrounded by idiots.
I'm about to go off on a rant, but there is a very shot thing you should take away from this. If you hold onto a sinking ship, it's your choice. Just remember that your family will go down with you. If you really cared about saving your business, you would study your demographic and location, and you would revise your business plan. If all you can do is whine about unseen forces acting against you and spout some neo-McCarthyistic bullshit and think it's a solution, well, I guess you deserve what you bring on yourself.
For someone so interested in good Christian morals and [your idea of] good family values in your music you have an awfully dirty mouth. You refuse to sell recodes that feature artists using profanity to stir an emotional response for some socioeconomic plight, but have no qualm throwing it in some teenagers face. For you outburst, I'm sure you have converted them to another recording industry lap dog. Assume they don't. There are a couple of likely outcomes. First: these kids never bought anything form your store, and probably never will. Second: They have bought something from your store, but won't again. As far as how either is going to help you immediately, I'm not sure.
Then there is the issue of your demographic. You state that you are proud of your achievement of running a store devoid of profanity and non-Christian values. The thing I find amazing is that there are actually people out there who model their lifestyles off of the Cleaver's yet still swap songs. Do you think that stocking your shelves with albums that are stamped with the explicit lyric label (such as Frank Zappa's lyric-less albums) might increase or decrease the piracy rate? I can't blame you for your praise of satin's children who call themselves Metallica. It's obvious you both enjoy smacking people around instead of taking their money.
I'm no business student; I'm an informatics student, so my sense of logic hasn't been warped yet. As far as I know, a business model is a complex thing that needs to be adapted over time to conform to market change. Sales projections are much the same. They use multiple variables that must be taken studied and individually accounted for. Your sales equation sounds like it uses constants, not variables, so the only explanation for a drop in sales is piracy. Do you take into account the changing tastes of your demographic, stiffer competition (including legal internet distribution), a stale economy and reduced disposable incomes, or the quality of and demand for your product?
It's easy to assign blame to something that can't or won't defend itself. After all, man has been using scapegoats since the creation of religion, and probably before. The RIAA is successful in blaming pirates because they have billions of dollars over decades of time to influence laws, people's tastes, and technology. I find it odd that you use the phrase "powerful pirate lobby" when I have not heard of such a delusion. If there is a music related lobby with bottomless pockets and laws to bend, it would be the RIAA. Who else could so powerfully convince law makers that EVERY blank CD and tape will be used to pirate music, and the sole way to solve it is to tax each blank and give it to the industry.
And for the record, Wal-Mart puts more locally owned and operated (mom and pop) stores out of business than any amount of piracy could ever hope to accomplish.
"Who would you rather see selling drugs? Law-abiding citizens in a legalized environment who won't sell to kids? Or criminals in a black-market environment who will?"
yes... because we all know that no one underage ever gets cigarettes or alcohol. That method works like a charm.
For most of my preadult life pot was a hundred times easier to get hold of than cigarettes or alcohol. We still got beer when we could, but kids around your age aren't going to be nearly as picky as an adult or clerk.
ZA trusts things that (for example) sygate will stop and ask about. As far as free software firewalls go, I was over pleased when I switched from ZA to sygate. Sometimes the kernel will send stuff to an MS server. I've seen about everything in windows send something to an MS server, even windows help.
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The current advertising schemes have obviously been working since the 90s. What new features are these sites planning on that cost so much they need such a boost in advertising revenue? Are new costly features headed to the public, or are they just padding their income?
Either way, it won't be long before the IP or host name of the servers are found just like todays ad servers. As soon as that happens people can block them using their hosts file or firewall software.
People should just start posting the google image cache link by default. We all know the average slashdotter just wants to look at pretty pictures anyway.
Unless you enjoy goatse and beyond, don't bother clicking on the above link. If I were using IE I would be annoyed, but Firebird puts an end to it rather fast.
Religion would be so much more respectable if 2 things happened. First: people would have to realize that Religion and Spirituality are most definitely not mutually exclusive. Second: Science is fully capable of acting morally without people placing pseudo-Christian laws on its' actions. People often forget that they have a choice in using knowledge from scientific research. If a good Christian has a spinal injury and the only cure comes from stem cell research, he should naturally turn it down for prayer instead. A good Christian, however, should not use legislature to force his principals on others.
I'm just amazed at the number of people who hold such a strong opinion yet have next to no idea of what it involves. They hear stem cells and they think aborted fetuses. They hear cloning and they see cloning a whole human to harvest a liver. Intelligence is like a river, the deeper it runs, the quieter it is. Nobody ever stops to think that further research can tells us how to turn almost any cell into a stem cell, or the ability to clone just an organ or organ group instead of a whole person.
They can legislate all they want. It's up to the member nations if any of it will be enforced or not. The only time in recent history I can recall the UN directly interceding in other nations matters is when it involved crimes against humanity or oil (first Gulf War).
It's actually Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta if you want to get technical. RGB works with pigments, monitors, TV, etc, because of the colors the cones of our eyes sense.
My issue with the UN is that I did not vote for my representative there.
But you did vote for the people who put them there. If you decided not to make their appointments to the UN an issue, that's your own fault.
Would you have the same opinion if the UN had been around to do the same to Hitler? Exactly how evil does a leader need to be before someone says fuck sovereignty?
And which tabloid rag did you get your education from? Do you realize that real power is held by those who can manipulate the minds of the masses? Most news outlets are run by the same bodies (such as GE and Rupert Murdoch). It's the same reason identical, low brow productions rule TV and all pop music sounds alike. It's the same reason all news papers and TV reports are telling the same side of the story. An educated and diversified public is a threat the true potential New World Order(tm)... corporations. That's why most Americans are either paranoid or apathetic about the UN. The "free press" can't have you getting wise to their activities, so they distract you with the scapegoat that has become the UN.
At least with the UN the people representing us are somehow linked to a voting choice. We vote for our officials who then place their choices in UN positions. The damned thing is that everyone loves to bitch about the UN, but nobody makes our UN representatives a topic when voting for the very people who give them that position. Corporations, on the other hand, are driven by profit and not constituents. What makes the most money at the least expense is the right thing to do. The question is: will you continue to let your money speak for you instead of your vote?
The man running the free world...
Every day, all the coal furnaces around the world release more radioactive material into the atmosphere than will be carried on this mission.
What's even more interesting is that in the context of IDE interfaces, the slave drive would not be doing any work. It would be using the other drives' controller.
Lost energy from increased mass.
I thought the general agreement was that viruses aren't considered life because can't metabolize energy. A virus looks like a simple lego block compared to the complex architecture of a single bacterium.
The dozens of computer crime laws enacted over the last couple of decades should be more than enough to slow down related crimes. The problem is that a company that tells tales of how important security is to them is puting a reward on hackers instead of writing more secure code. Imagine if GM or Ford didn't install seat belts or air bags and instead funded victims for law suits. All Microsoft is doing is issuing a challenge to the black hat community. If anything, this wll help increase the number of known and circulating exploits. If they really cared about security, they would take this reward money and hire some new programmers to revise and rewrite code. Instead, they think that publicity will make people feel better than actual security.
Instead of writing more secure code or locking down system services by default, MS is going after the people who write viri. How is this going to fix the (in)security problem? Do they think this is the last generation of assembly hackers? Bah. Every day I'm reminded of why the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement is a good idea. Just remember that one day MS will be one of the many corporations that provides sponsered funding for your child's or grandchild's school.
I would agree with everything. I didn't mention antivirus software because that should be a given. Even trusted sources should be scanned. Software firewalls are just liek any other type of software, vulnerable to programming errors. Any type of technology (even hardware) should not be assumed as safe. That's why it sould be used in conjunction with multiple layers of protection in order to cover all bases. One of the easiest things to do if you want the best protection is to block all internet traffic when you leave your machine. I know there are people who wouldn't find this acceptable, but the 'average' person doesn't use programs that need constant access to the internet (except maybe p2p).
The one thing that many parents have a problem with is that they treat TV and the internet like it's a babysitter. Parents are just like any other person, they hate taking the blame if they feel they can pass it off on someone else. In the end, the parent has the last say in any of their childrens matters.
Can anyone recommend a good non-symantec antivirus and software firewall? (Please, please, please don't say ZoneAlarm.)
I've had great results with Sygate Personal Firewall. This puts zonealarm to shame. ZA will assume windows components and modules are safe, but sygate prompts for everything. I use it along with my routers firewall and NAT. That's about as secure as you can make an average home users computer without uberexpensive corporate solutions.
Look at Futurama (just one example). That series had great potential. Unfortunately some setwork suits decided to move it to a new day evry week so people didn't know it was on. Then it got moved to the half hour block directly after every major sporting event, as if most of them end on time. The good shows tend not to be he low brow ones. The networks being in the business of profit, love lowest common denominator shows because it's like fishing with the biggest net.
I know you are just joking, but ut's reasons like that that I expect this thing to be so DRM ridden that it will probably use some super intgrated wifi/cell connection to call the local police and have them pick me up using GPS. As far as I'm concerned, there is no tinfoil hat big enough to protect me from microsoft.
I know you are just trolling but....
First off: either you have a problem understanding teenage sarcasm or you are surrounded by idiots.
I'm about to go off on a rant, but there is a very shot thing you should take away from this. If you hold onto a sinking ship, it's your choice. Just remember that your family will go down with you. If you really cared about saving your business, you would study your demographic and location, and you would revise your business plan. If all you can do is whine about unseen forces acting against you and spout some neo-McCarthyistic bullshit and think it's a solution, well, I guess you deserve what you bring on yourself.
For someone so interested in good Christian morals and [your idea of] good family values in your music you have an awfully dirty mouth. You refuse to sell recodes that feature artists using profanity to stir an emotional response for some socioeconomic plight, but have no qualm throwing it in some teenagers face. For you outburst, I'm sure you have converted them to another recording industry lap dog. Assume they don't. There are a couple of likely outcomes. First: these kids never bought anything form your store, and probably never will. Second: They have bought something from your store, but won't again. As far as how either is going to help you immediately, I'm not sure.
Then there is the issue of your demographic. You state that you are proud of your achievement of running a store devoid of profanity and non-Christian values. The thing I find amazing is that there are actually people out there who model their lifestyles off of the Cleaver's yet still swap songs. Do you think that stocking your shelves with albums that are stamped with the explicit lyric label (such as Frank Zappa's lyric-less albums) might increase or decrease the piracy rate? I can't blame you for your praise of satin's children who call themselves Metallica. It's obvious you both enjoy smacking people around instead of taking their money.
I'm no business student; I'm an informatics student, so my sense of logic hasn't been warped yet. As far as I know, a business model is a complex thing that needs to be adapted over time to conform to market change. Sales projections are much the same. They use multiple variables that must be taken studied and individually accounted for. Your sales equation sounds like it uses constants, not variables, so the only explanation for a drop in sales is piracy. Do you take into account the changing tastes of your demographic, stiffer competition (including legal internet distribution), a stale economy and reduced disposable incomes, or the quality of and demand for your product?
It's easy to assign blame to something that can't or won't defend itself. After all, man has been using scapegoats since the creation of religion, and probably before. The RIAA is successful in blaming pirates because they have billions of dollars over decades of time to influence laws, people's tastes, and technology. I find it odd that you use the phrase "powerful pirate lobby" when I have not heard of such a delusion. If there is a music related lobby with bottomless pockets and laws to bend, it would be the RIAA. Who else could so powerfully convince law makers that EVERY blank CD and tape will be used to pirate music, and the sole way to solve it is to tax each blank and give it to the industry.
And for the record, Wal-Mart puts more locally owned and operated (mom and pop) stores out of business than any amount of piracy could ever hope to accomplish.
"Who would you rather see selling drugs? Law-abiding citizens in a legalized environment who won't sell to kids? Or criminals in a black-market environment who will?"
yes... because we all know that no one underage ever gets cigarettes or alcohol. That method works like a charm.
For most of my preadult life pot was a hundred times easier to get hold of than cigarettes or alcohol. We still got beer when we could, but kids around your age aren't going to be nearly as picky as an adult or clerk.
ZA trusts things that (for example) sygate will stop and ask about. As far as free software firewalls go, I was over pleased when I switched from ZA to sygate. Sometimes the kernel will send stuff to an MS server. I've seen about everything in windows send something to an MS server, even windows help.