If you truly do this without any commercial involvement, the RIAA doesn't give two shits what you do with your music. If, on the other hand, you sign a recording contract with an RIAA member company, you most likely are giving them exclusive distribution rights to some of your music. In this case, you may very well find yourself on the wrong end of the RIAA's legal juggernaut if you give away recordings covered under the contract by posting MP3s, handing out CDs, etc. that haven't been approved by the record company.
It probably doesn't make a huge difference these days, as most spam seems to be HTML email embedded with webbugs (1x1 image tag pointing at a logging script) so they know your address is valid as soon as you open the email if your client renders HTML. It's still a good idea not to reply, but it's a better idea not to open it in the first place.
In this case though, the article was about calling phone numbers listed in the spam, which if nothing else, at least increases the cost of doing business for the spammer. I'd imagine the parent poster was talking about the same, as email replies aren't likely to impose much of a burden on the spammer. It's a lot cheaper to glance at an email and hit shift-delete than to have an inbound phone circuit and operator tied up while somebody rants at them about the evils of spam.
Or submit the link for the program (this or any program) and have it e-mailed to you, that way it wouldn't need to be pre-installed and could be easily updated.
Ummmmm... isn't the point of pre-installing the application to remove the necessity of downloading it over a slow connection?
Just make sure to go into advanced mode and setup a watchword or two. Otherwise, someone familiar with the service can easily continue to spam you by generating random new addresses with your username (e.g. aaaaaaaaaa.10.you@spamgourmet.com, aaaaaaaaab.10.you@spamgourmet.com, etc.).
I think it's a perfect analogy; both are cases of assigning blame for a crime to the manufacturer of a device used by people who commit that crime, despite significant legitimate uses for that device. The severity of the crime is irrelevant WRT evaluating the validity of the assignment of blame.
The funny part is that when it comes to (1) RIAA suits against P2P file sharing and (2) Clinton-era suits against gun manufacturers, most Americans will argue that one of these is perfectly justified and the other is utter nonsense.
Yeah, it is rather suspicious. However, if you click through the "Show All Topics" link in the "Popular linux topics" section at the top of the page, one of the 20 topics you get is "Xbox Linux (software)", in which the top hit is the Xbox Linux Project. Interesting, considering Microsoft's position on converting XBoxes to linux PCs, no?
The problem with this naming scheme is of course, that they have to come up with new and more impressive names for each new version of USB. I expect that the standard computer in 2015 will support USB eXtra Fast Super Ludicrous Hi-Speed.
Nah. We'll get Fast USB, then Wide USB, then Fast Wide USB, then Ultra-Wide USB, then Fast Ultra-Wide, etc. This way they can claim they're only following precedent.
The 10% surcharge just doesn't make sense to me. Are they so naive as to think that the list price of closed source software won't increase by 10% as soon as such a surcharge is implemented?
Nah. They do it to discourage people from actually joining the list. This way they can point to the existence of the list as evidence that they are consumer-friendly while significantly reducing the number of people who will actually join the list. The $5.00 fee probably provides about the same level of disincentive as the inconvenience of printing and mailing the form.
5. Cellular network availability in times of crisis.
Remember 9/11/2001? Here in DC, it was practically impossible to get a cellular call through because of network saturation as everybody called their family/friends to make sure they were ok, business contacts to cancel meetings, etc. Meanwhile, calls between landlines went through just fine.
As far as I'm concerned, a phone whose reliability is inversely proportional to the urgency of my need to use it isn't ready to replace my land line.
Definitely, but this shouldn't really surprise anyone. Just as the industrial revolution led to abuses that in turn resulted in child labor laws and organized labor protection, the information revolution is making possible abuses that eventually (God willing) will result in stronger consumer protection and personal privacy legislation.
hell dig a hole in the ground and crawl inside. it's your land you s/b free to do that. people won't come knocking on the entrance of your underground hole to "bother" you or steal your precious resources.
I dunno, man. Those Jehova's Witnesses are pretty persistent.
Most of the big junk mailers are members, as this is their advocacy group. Though I don't see an unrestricted member list, this page tells us:
The DMA membership roster includes companies like AT&T, IBM, AOL Time Warner, Mellon Bank, Microsoft, Home Shopping Network, The New York Times, Rapp Collins, Prudential Insurance, Phillip Morris, Proctor & Gamble, as well as R.R. Donnelley, Acxiom, Experian and DoubleClick.
I would be very surprised if the volume of junk mail from large national direct mailers did not decrease noticably a few months after you added your address to the list. You probably will not see a noticable decrease in mail from local merchants and organizations, as these guys are a lot less likely to be able to justify the $1075 annual membership dues.
It only costs $5 to submit it online. If you hit the "Register by Mail" button you can print out the form and mail it in for the cost of a stamp and envelope.
He also said that rolling the system back didn't fix it. It's possible the timing was coincidental.
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Doesn't work, I'm afraid. The first system to get any particular workload can simply return gibberish and there's no way for the querying system to know that it isn't valid. If the next system to get the workload returns a different answer, we have no way of knowing whether the invalid result is the first, second, or both. Moreover, if we implement some sort of system to queue emails until a sufficient number of matching results are obtained, the spammers can simply agree on a standard garbage response always to send to a querying server.
It was a New York chain of stores whose commercials became legendary on the East coast in the 80s. There is a tribute page here . Crazy Eddie even got a nod on Futurama as Malfunctioning Eddie the robot (this episode was just on Adult Swim the other night, which is why it was fresh on my mind).
They also think annoying people will get them to buy their advertizers' products.
This is more effective than you might think - look at x10. They were the first company to carpet-bomb the web with popups, everybody hates them, yet they are pretty successful at selling their product. Also consider loud, annoying TV commercials. They are universally despised and hated, yet everybody remembers that Crazy Eddie has the best prices on electronics.
Nah, it's more likely the plaintext was recoverd by compromising keyring passwords. If short keylengths (e.g. 56-bit DES) were used, they also may simply have brute-forced them.
Trespassing per se was not a crime. So you can stand in someones yard or unlocked house without committing a crime.
So I can drop by and crash on your sofa if I run in the open door while you're down the driveway getting your mail? Sweet! Let me call a few friends and we'll be right over.
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It's a chain. There's also a website, but it's unclear whether they're the same company. And yes, they carry the RoboSweep.
Good point. An awful lot of people also confuse Windows version with Office version, now that they've been in sync for a few revs.
If you truly do this without any commercial involvement, the RIAA doesn't give two shits what you do with your music. If, on the other hand, you sign a recording contract with an RIAA member company, you most likely are giving them exclusive distribution rights to some of your music. In this case, you may very well find yourself on the wrong end of the RIAA's legal juggernaut if you give away recordings covered under the contract by posting MP3s, handing out CDs, etc. that haven't been approved by the record company.
It probably doesn't make a huge difference these days, as most spam seems to be HTML email embedded with webbugs (1x1 image tag pointing at a logging script) so they know your address is valid as soon as you open the email if your client renders HTML. It's still a good idea not to reply, but it's a better idea not to open it in the first place.
In this case though, the article was about calling phone numbers listed in the spam, which if nothing else, at least increases the cost of doing business for the spammer. I'd imagine the parent poster was talking about the same, as email replies aren't likely to impose much of a burden on the spammer. It's a lot cheaper to glance at an email and hit shift-delete than to have an inbound phone circuit and operator tied up while somebody rants at them about the evils of spam.
Or submit the link for the program (this or any program) and have it e-mailed to you, that way it wouldn't need to be pre-installed and could be easily updated.
... isn't the point of pre-installing the application to remove the necessity of downloading it over a slow connection?
Ummmmm
Just make sure to go into advanced mode and setup a watchword or two. Otherwise, someone familiar with the service can easily continue to spam you by generating random new addresses with your username (e.g. aaaaaaaaaa.10.you@spamgourmet.com, aaaaaaaaab.10.you@spamgourmet.com, etc.).
I think it's a perfect analogy; both are cases of assigning blame for a crime to the manufacturer of a device used by people who commit that crime, despite significant legitimate uses for that device. The severity of the crime is irrelevant WRT evaluating the validity of the assignment of blame.
The funny part is that when it comes to (1) RIAA suits against P2P file sharing and (2) Clinton-era suits against gun manufacturers, most Americans will argue that one of these is perfectly justified and the other is utter nonsense.
Yeah, it is rather suspicious. However, if you click through the "Show All Topics" link in the "Popular linux topics" section at the top of the page, one of the 20 topics you get is "Xbox Linux (software)", in which the top hit is the Xbox Linux Project. Interesting, considering Microsoft's position on converting XBoxes to linux PCs, no?
Tim?
The problem with this naming scheme is of course, that they have to come up with new and more impressive names for each new version of USB. I expect that the standard computer in 2015 will support USB eXtra Fast Super Ludicrous Hi-Speed.
Nah. We'll get Fast USB, then Wide USB, then Fast Wide USB, then Ultra-Wide USB, then Fast Ultra-Wide, etc. This way they can claim they're only following precedent.
The 10% surcharge just doesn't make sense to me. Are they so naive as to think that the list price of closed source software won't increase by 10% as soon as such a surcharge is implemented?
Hmm. That's interesting; I was in Friendship Heights and assumed the situation there was the same throughout the city.
Nah. They do it to discourage people from actually joining the list. This way they can point to the existence of the list as evidence that they are consumer-friendly while significantly reducing the number of people who will actually join the list. The $5.00 fee probably provides about the same level of disincentive as the inconvenience of printing and mailing the form.
The clincher for me is:
5. Cellular network availability in times of crisis.
Remember 9/11/2001? Here in DC, it was practically impossible to get a cellular call through because of network saturation as everybody called their family/friends to make sure they were ok, business contacts to cancel meetings, etc. Meanwhile, calls between landlines went through just fine.
As far as I'm concerned, a phone whose reliability is inversely proportional to the urgency of my need to use it isn't ready to replace my land line.
Definitely, but this shouldn't really surprise anyone. Just as the industrial revolution led to abuses that in turn resulted in child labor laws and organized labor protection, the information revolution is making possible abuses that eventually (God willing) will result in stronger consumer protection and personal privacy legislation.
hell dig a hole in the ground and crawl inside. it's your land you s/b free to do that. people won't come knocking on the entrance of your underground hole to "bother" you or steal your precious resources.
I dunno, man. Those Jehova's Witnesses are pretty persistent.
Most of the big junk mailers are members, as this is their advocacy group. Though I don't see an unrestricted member list, this page tells us:
The DMA membership roster includes companies like AT&T, IBM, AOL Time Warner, Mellon Bank, Microsoft, Home Shopping Network, The New York Times, Rapp Collins, Prudential Insurance, Phillip Morris, Proctor & Gamble, as well as R.R. Donnelley, Acxiom, Experian and DoubleClick.
I would be very surprised if the volume of junk mail from large national direct mailers did not decrease noticably a few months after you added your address to the list. You probably will not see a noticable decrease in mail from local merchants and organizations, as these guys are a lot less likely to be able to justify the $1075 annual membership dues.
It only costs $5 to submit it online. If you hit the "Register by Mail" button you can print out the form and mail it in for the cost of a stamp and envelope.
He also said that rolling the system back didn't fix it. It's possible the timing was coincidental.
Doesn't work, I'm afraid. The first system to get any particular workload can simply return gibberish and there's no way for the querying system to know that it isn't valid. If the next system to get the workload returns a different answer, we have no way of knowing whether the invalid result is the first, second, or both. Moreover, if we implement some sort of system to queue emails until a sufficient number of matching results are obtained, the spammers can simply agree on a standard garbage response always to send to a querying server.
It was a New York chain of stores whose commercials became legendary on the East coast in the 80s. There is a tribute page here . Crazy Eddie even got a nod on Futurama as Malfunctioning Eddie the robot (this episode was just on Adult Swim the other night, which is why it was fresh on my mind).
Yeah, it was fraud that did them in. There's a pretty good synopsis here (scroll down to Case 2).
They also think annoying people will get them to buy their advertizers' products.
This is more effective than you might think - look at x10. They were the first company to carpet-bomb the web with popups, everybody hates them, yet they are pretty successful at selling their product. Also consider loud, annoying TV commercials. They are universally despised and hated, yet everybody remembers that Crazy Eddie has the best prices on electronics.
Nah, it's more likely the plaintext was recoverd by compromising keyring passwords. If short keylengths (e.g. 56-bit DES) were used, they also may simply have brute-forced them.
Trespassing per se was not a crime. So you can stand in someones yard or unlocked house without committing a crime.
So I can drop by and crash on your sofa if I run in the open door while you're down the driveway getting your mail? Sweet! Let me call a few friends and we'll be right over.