Hidden taxing the consumer is fine... would you or a system integrator pay $300 to get a copy of Windows on a $400 computer?
I think it's more likely that the price remains $149(CDN) retail but Microsoft takes a smaller cut. Because even a monopoly or tight oligopoly can go bankrupt. Look at the airlines.
In the short haul, sure. But not for long term, when the population gets wiped out. Consider Spanish Flu, which devastated the world and disappeared as quickly as it came, since it either killed, or it didn't. Or SARS, which was only so blasted virulent because of the long incubation period.
Of course, that doesn't mean a good deal to humans who will all die horrible horrible deaths as a result.
A monoculture means that a single antigen can wipe out a large portion of a population. And in this particular example, the monoculture (Outlook) is particularly susceptible to disease.
And monoculture here is meaning only that Outlook is too heavily deployed. You'd reduce the amount of damage done by a 1/3 if you wrote an Outlook-specific virus facing against Thunderbird and Eudora (for example).
The viruses have mutated in the wake of developed resistance (slightly more educated users). It's an evolutionary battle being fought...
But as there are way too many deployments of Outlook as it is, and because it is Outlook/IE that is being exploited, the first solution would be to increase diversity in that field. Other mail clients, such as Thunderbird, or Eudora, will thrive while Outlook continues to succumb to these new diseases.
Oh who am I kidding, Outlook will continue to wreak its wrath upon the Net and cause us to all suffer as a result.
Why do people keep trying to put machines into the mix here? The simple tried and true method scales linearly.
What method is this? Checkmark next to name, counted by a representative of the Electoral Office, watched over by volunteer supporters of each candidate in the riding/precinct. Use a telephone to call the riding head office, saying "35 foo, 135 bar, 18 quux..."
Paper trail everywhere. Scrutiny everywhere. There was a reason why Canada had no difficulties at all in the 2000 Federal Elections, results out next night.
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So we have a name, of Bernard Balan, and it looks like he's living in the Muskoka regions of Ontario, Canada. How long before he gets Ralskyed?
And shame on the Ottawa Citizen for even trying to portray a bandwidth/storage space thief in a positive light. Neutral at most, and negative more appropriate.
Also, the Challenge Response bit, an interesting solution but slowly you'll start making the tradeoffs between "hard for computer" and "some people can't do this, their vision is poor or they are colourblind."
For all the US citizens reading this - probably the majority of readers - why do you continue to live where you do? Doesn't this kind of information make you angry, or untrested? And have you asked yourselves, "is it worth staying where I am, without the freedoms that I once had, because I am paid well?"
Hundred years ago, when the overlords continued to distrust the citizens, and impose their draconian rule, the people rose up and overthrown the ruling class.
There are other places where a better set of freedoms exist, perhaps at the expense of a lower standard of living. But isn't that freedom worth it?
But they didn't. This is community efforts, NOT Intel. Heck, I'd be saying, DON'T buy Intel as they continue to be uncooperative despite this project now opening.
Like the eepro100 driver from before? Or those Texas Instruments wireless chipsets in the DLink 650+? And a whole mess of other drivers for other devices from hardware companies that won't release technical specifications. Heck, are Broadcom 11g drivers out yet?
I somehow doubt it's that bad to reach 51%, it looks like it's in statistical variation. After all, an early opening chance streak of even 60/40 heads/tails (quite possible) would already skew numbers +20 out of the necessary +100 difference in 10,000 flips they performed. Standard deviation here is 50, so 100 off is well within "natural variation" at 3 sigma.
Well, if it all comes down to it, the impact of a coin on the ground should provide enough random bounce to negate all systemic bias.
Large portions of UUNet have been listed by the various anti-spam blacklists, such as Spamhaus, and all of UUNet is blacklisted in SPEWS. These providers are the scum of the Earth. They will delay, misdirect, and outright lie to keep their sweet large contracts with the spammers, at the expense of all their other customers.
Do you want to put your faith in a business that is indirectly lining the pockets of spammers?
Admittedly, there are things that are better built in the US. I just can't think of any other than service products, such as support contracts or current software, or medical procedures in the United States from ailing foreigners, or tourism in Las Vegas.
It's only outsourced because it's cheaper in US dollars.
The US dollar is heavily propped up by other nations that manufacture primarily to the US retail market. Japan and China are the classic examples here. As a result, the US dollar is greatly overvalued, causing everything to be cheaper elsewhere. This would explain why 1. manufacture goes elsewhere, 2. software production goes elsewhere, 3. the trade deficit is so high.
The US keeps its economy from totally collapsing only from the budget deficit spending. It should rather choose to devalue (inflate) its currency, until the US actually has an absolute cost advantage in something. Of course, the lender nations to the US is not going to be happy about that, but I'm guessing that right now, jobless Americans aren't going to care about that.
- Manufacturing in the US (save automotives) is all but dead as those get outsourced to other nations where labor is cheaper - Information management (programming) is outsourced off to India - Cultural production is stifled and held in the hands of the Hollywood few - Creativity production is stifled and bound by the overworked USPTO and overbearing DMCA
When the nation is nothing but accountants, lawyers, and doctors, whose primary role is to redistribute, rather than create, wealth, don't go crying when suddenly people realize you add nothing to the table.
(Well, this explains an awful lot of why US laws are like that. When you create woefully little, you must defend that little with all your might. Think: if the US can actually compete despite their higher costs because they add more value, what'd be the point of the tight-fisted IP laws?)
Once a person decides that a price of $15 is not a good price for a CD, or that $150 is not a good price for Windows XP, the economy as a whole is better off with that person downloading said program. Sure, the RIAA or Microsoft are happy with it, and would fight to the death over it, but that sale would never have been made in the first place.
The access to the infinitely duplicable material destroys the notion of scarcity of the product itself - whereupon the obvious price for such a product is no more than the cost of transport - usage of an Internet account.
We're seeing the destruction of an entire industry; its old guard will cry foul every step of the way, until the market eventually drags it into this new age. Observe the American car industry in the '70s, or of US Steel.
Too bad it's impossible considering how television is financed and broadcast. It'd be such an irony to see these videos (they're pretty good) broadcast over HDTV, with the no-copy flag on.
You'll notice I didn't say an ARIN lookup, but rather whois information. An Indian registrar can take American customers, with American contact info, and that could be listed as American source.
Open Relays pose problems when reading the SMTP headers, but since the spam is going to have links somewhere, you can track it down, and automate it. Assuming you have a fairly wide pipe, you can crawl the sites of each spam you get, do the appropriate whois, and find quite a bit of detail.
Or just feed an IP address to spews or spamhaus and see what comes back.
Spamming computers may appear to be foreign, but in the end, it's nearly always an American source. Or from the Netherlands for some reason in those stupid 419s.
If you're not blacklisting from Spamhaus's SBL+XBL of spam outfits & open relays, and dialup pools, those ones are natural things to start blocking on connect.
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Hidden taxing the consumer is fine... would you or a system integrator pay $300 to get a copy of Windows on a $400 computer?
I think it's more likely that the price remains $149(CDN) retail but Microsoft takes a smaller cut. Because even a monopoly or tight oligopoly can go bankrupt. Look at the airlines.
Well I suppose you could go (if you were a registered user)
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In the short haul, sure. But not for long term, when the population gets wiped out. Consider Spanish Flu, which devastated the world and disappeared as quickly as it came, since it either killed, or it didn't. Or SARS, which was only so blasted virulent because of the long incubation period.
Of course, that doesn't mean a good deal to humans who will all die horrible horrible deaths as a result.
A monoculture means that a single antigen can wipe out a large portion of a population. And in this particular example, the monoculture (Outlook) is particularly susceptible to disease.
And monoculture here is meaning only that Outlook is too heavily deployed. You'd reduce the amount of damage done by a 1/3 if you wrote an Outlook-specific virus facing against Thunderbird and Eudora (for example).
Good job, you've just infected a fresh Windows XP install without even finishing downloading the patches necessary.
Good job, you've just fubared your computer because one of the patches was broken.
Good job, you've just installed Windows Media Player 9 and now you have to figure ANOTHER weird program out.
The viruses have mutated in the wake of developed resistance (slightly more educated users). It's an evolutionary battle being fought...
But as there are way too many deployments of Outlook as it is, and because it is Outlook/IE that is being exploited, the first solution would be to increase diversity in that field. Other mail clients, such as Thunderbird, or Eudora, will thrive while Outlook continues to succumb to these new diseases.
Oh who am I kidding, Outlook will continue to wreak its wrath upon the Net and cause us to all suffer as a result.
Why do people keep trying to put machines into the mix here? The simple tried and true method scales linearly.
What method is this? Checkmark next to name, counted by a representative of the Electoral Office, watched over by volunteer supporters of each candidate in the riding/precinct. Use a telephone to call the riding head office, saying "35 foo, 135 bar, 18 quux..."
Paper trail everywhere. Scrutiny everywhere. There was a reason why Canada had no difficulties at all in the 2000 Federal Elections, results out next night.
So we have a name, of Bernard Balan, and it looks like he's living in the Muskoka regions of Ontario, Canada. How long before he gets Ralskyed?
And shame on the Ottawa Citizen for even trying to portray a bandwidth/storage space thief in a positive light. Neutral at most, and negative more appropriate.
Also, the Challenge Response bit, an interesting solution but slowly you'll start making the tradeoffs between "hard for computer" and "some people can't do this, their vision is poor or they are colourblind."
For all the US citizens reading this - probably the majority of readers - why do you continue to live where you do? Doesn't this kind of information make you angry, or untrested? And have you asked yourselves, "is it worth staying where I am, without the freedoms that I once had, because I am paid well?"
Hundred years ago, when the overlords continued to distrust the citizens, and impose their draconian rule, the people rose up and overthrown the ruling class.
There are other places where a better set of freedoms exist, perhaps at the expense of a lower standard of living. But isn't that freedom worth it?
But they didn't. This is community efforts, NOT Intel. Heck, I'd be saying, DON'T buy Intel as they continue to be uncooperative despite this project now opening.
And building their own driver.
Like the eepro100 driver from before? Or those Texas Instruments wireless chipsets in the DLink 650+? And a whole mess of other drivers for other devices from hardware companies that won't release technical specifications. Heck, are Broadcom 11g drivers out yet?
you can always make money by suing people.
Except it doesn't. SCO made $20,000 on $3M in costs.
And then there are fossils. Which means the next NASA mission will be funded by Halliburton after all.
I somehow doubt it's that bad to reach 51%, it looks like it's in statistical variation. After all, an early opening chance streak of even 60/40 heads/tails (quite possible) would already skew numbers +20 out of the necessary +100 difference in 10,000 flips they performed. Standard deviation here is 50, so 100 off is well within "natural variation" at 3 sigma.
Well, if it all comes down to it, the impact of a coin on the ground should provide enough random bounce to negate all systemic bias.
Large portions of UUNet have been listed by the various anti-spam blacklists, such as Spamhaus, and all of UUNet is blacklisted in SPEWS. These providers are the scum of the Earth. They will delay, misdirect, and outright lie to keep their sweet large contracts with the spammers, at the expense of all their other customers.
Do you want to put your faith in a business that is indirectly lining the pockets of spammers?
Leading exporter... but also leading importer.
Admittedly, there are things that are better built in the US. I just can't think of any other than service products, such as support contracts or current software, or medical procedures in the United States from ailing foreigners, or tourism in Las Vegas.
It's only outsourced because it's cheaper in US dollars.
The US dollar is heavily propped up by other nations that manufacture primarily to the US retail market. Japan and China are the classic examples here. As a result, the US dollar is greatly overvalued, causing everything to be cheaper elsewhere. This would explain why 1. manufacture goes elsewhere, 2. software production goes elsewhere, 3. the trade deficit is so high.
The US keeps its economy from totally collapsing only from the budget deficit spending. It should rather choose to devalue (inflate) its currency, until the US actually has an absolute cost advantage in something. Of course, the lender nations to the US is not going to be happy about that, but I'm guessing that right now, jobless Americans aren't going to care about that.
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- Manufacturing in the US (save automotives) is all but dead as those get outsourced to other nations where labor is cheaper
- Information management (programming) is outsourced off to India
- Cultural production is stifled and held in the hands of the Hollywood few
- Creativity production is stifled and bound by the overworked USPTO and overbearing DMCA
When the nation is nothing but accountants, lawyers, and doctors, whose primary role is to redistribute, rather than create, wealth, don't go crying when suddenly people realize you add nothing to the table.
(Well, this explains an awful lot of why US laws are like that. When you create woefully little, you must defend that little with all your might. Think: if the US can actually compete despite their higher costs because they add more value, what'd be the point of the tight-fisted IP laws?)
Once a person decides that a price of $15 is not a good price for a CD, or that $150 is not a good price for Windows XP, the economy as a whole is better off with that person downloading said program. Sure, the RIAA or Microsoft are happy with it, and would fight to the death over it, but that sale would never have been made in the first place.
The access to the infinitely duplicable material destroys the notion of scarcity of the product itself - whereupon the obvious price for such a product is no more than the cost of transport - usage of an Internet account.
We're seeing the destruction of an entire industry; its old guard will cry foul every step of the way, until the market eventually drags it into this new age. Observe the American car industry in the '70s, or of US Steel.
Too bad it's impossible considering how television is financed and broadcast. It'd be such an irony to see these videos (they're pretty good) broadcast over HDTV, with the no-copy flag on.
You'll notice I didn't say an ARIN lookup, but rather whois information. An Indian registrar can take American customers, with American contact info, and that could be listed as American source.
Open Relays pose problems when reading the SMTP headers, but since the spam is going to have links somewhere, you can track it down, and automate it. Assuming you have a fairly wide pipe, you can crawl the sites of each spam you get, do the appropriate whois, and find quite a bit of detail.
Or just feed an IP address to spews or spamhaus and see what comes back.
you mean the YOU-CAN-SPAM bill?
NANAE reports suggest that they have quite an effect. Increasing the amount of spam. After all, now only ISPs can bring legal action against spammers.
Spamming computers may appear to be foreign, but in the end, it's nearly always an American source. Or from the Netherlands for some reason in those stupid 419s.
If you're not blacklisting from Spamhaus's SBL+XBL of spam outfits & open relays, and dialup pools, those ones are natural things to start blocking on connect.