"Or you can pick up a prostitute and have sex with her in the back of your stolen car, then beat her to death - or shoot her, bludgeon her, whatever you want."
how do you do that? I've been playing Vice City for a while and didn't know you could do that.
I actively subscribe to a lot of tech sites that have tens of thousands of subscribers. Slashdot is one of those sites. How many people have Slashdot e-mail their mail to them? How are legitimate bulk mailers (of their own content, not ads) supposed to send out newsletters, etc.)? If a retail outlet with a legitimate opt-in newsletter needs to send it to 50,000 or 100,000 people, what kind of hardware upgrades are they going to be looking at. I mean, I can add them to a trusted senders list on my side, but that doesn't tell them that they no longer have to run the computations.
"If I don't know you, I have to prove to you that I have spent a little bit of time in resources to send you that e-mail.
How do you know whether you "know" me or not? Does the user's mail client alert the sending server that it approves of mail from that SMTP server?
Once senders have proved they have solved the required "puzzle", they can be added to a "safe list" of senders.
Whose list? My personal list that is part of my mail client? My mail service's white list? Microsoft's special white list?
http://www.crime-research.org/news/2003/11/Mess270 2.html
Check the above article. They say he logged into AN account registered on that computer. It could have been that he logged onto the Wells Fargo guy's account (with password saved). After all, he is a data thief, and not a very smart one apparently. If the FBI had AOL watching that guy's account, then they could have simply traced the IP Address. No big deal...if that's the case. It would help if the articles would be little more specific.
While I must agree that it doesn't break the law, since when has breaking an actual law been a requirement for the RIAA lobbyists to purchase...er, I mean push legislation and/or invoke lawsuits.
Let me think about it. A company wants to watch my PC usage habits. Do I:
A. Continue downloading MP3s from Kazaa while the company monitors my every move
or
B. Delete (or burn to CD, then delete) my MP3s until the company is done monitoring me.
I've got a pretty go idea that anyone who is participating in the Neilson ratings is careful with what late-night Cinemax movies they watch too.
Anyway, the fact that a few thousand people out of 40,000 who knew they were being watched stopped doing something illegal doesn't surprise me at all. The fact that a large surveying company would fail to note this and would apply this skewed number to the population of the US is ridiculous.
Yes, I have my PhD and BS...or is it a PhD IN BS
By refurbish, I mean they would buy a couple hundred old PCs from company X who had recently replaced those systems. They would wipe the drive, and test all of the hardware. They would then turn around and sell the bare systems online. No moving of settings at all.
I used to work for BlueCurrent. They used to be called Lincoln Financial. Their business was refurbishing and reselling companies' old PCs and laptops. As I was leaving the company, I think they were getting some sort of contract with Dell to do warranty service for them. I have no idea where this patent would fit into their business model unless they have made some significant changes in the last 4 years or so.
If you're up and cominge, you're looking at people like Brittany Spears, the Goo Goo Dolls, etc. who are making TONS of money and saying "Hell, I can do that." Then some sleazy record exec comes to you and sweet talks you about how much money you can make doing what you love and they sign you. Then they screw you. Why wouldn't bands avoid this scenario? Because you never hear about the tens of thousands of bands that fail. Only the ones that succeed. And of course the record companies aren't about to tell you that. Take the Goo Goo Dolls for example. I watched an interview where they were talking about their first contract. It was for a five-album deal. They thought, "great", so they sent the contract to the only lawyer they knew, who sent it back with a single note - "Guys, this is a slavery contract. Don't do it." They signed anyway and spent a decade in obscurity living out of a van and crappy hotel rooms. Sure, they eventually made it, but the VAST majority won't. That is why the bands keep aspiring. They don't hear about the reality of the business. Or they do, but decide to take a risk, to their own detriment. I'm sorry, but record labels are truly deceitful.
While I understand what you're saying and I signed up for the list, I have to disagree. The majority is not always right. Majority opinion sways with issues and is iften easy to incite. It's very easy to get the majority of Americans to hate someone without good reason or to, say, convince the majority of Americans (in polls) that Saddam Hussein was somehow behind the September 11th attacks, simply by repeating something over and over. You see, most people don't bother to go out and look for detail and facts. Most people just watch their 30 minutes of news and form their opinions on that. Asside from the whole samll-population states vs. large-population states arguments, part of the reason that we have 2 houses of Congress deals with public opinion. House members are elected every 2 years while Senate members are elected every 6. This means that house members pay more attention to the issues of the moment and follow public opinion very closely because they have to worry about what their opponents are going to try and smear them with in the next election. They are in an almost continual cycle of campaigning. So they may vote based on public opinion even if they're aware that the public isn't fully grasping the situation. The Senate on the other hand, only has to worry about elections every 6th year and can spend more time in between elections worrying about the actual issues. This makes them far more stable, but also means that they may vote against public opinion if they realize that the public is being mislead or is not fully informed.
I believe in majority rule (at least in principle), but I don't believe that it is the only thing that matters. Hell, look at a subject like slavery. If 80% of the population wants to enslave 20% of the population, does majority rule make it right? No. In that case, there is much more at stake than that. To tie that in to the issue at hand, 50 million people's opinions should definitely be considered, but it is more important that the system (checks and balances - what part of the government can and can't do something) be followed. Otherwise, it's a slippery-slope situation and you'd better hope that simple public-opinion never falls against you. If there is a problem with the system, use your voting power to change the system, but don't circumvent it.
I agree that there needs to be a national no-call list, but I also agree that it needs to be implemented the right way, and if this was implemented incorrectly, we need to correct the problem.
Doesn't the amount you lose to formatting depend on what filesystem you use? And possibly cluster size?
There's a very good chance that I am completely wrong on this so would someone who knows for sure please respond?
Didn't Microsoft threaten to sue the Philly school system for licensing issues. I would swear that I read that. If so, isn't it ironic that MS is going to be the driving force behind the OS/Office Suite that Philly students are going to learn to use. It would be like the RIAA telling a university - "Hey, we're going to sure you for letting your students download music...but we might let you off. By the way, we have this cool new campus-oriented web-based music-selling software you might want to look at."
The S750 has been my favorite printer in the last 10 years. The color cartridges are seperate and I can buy an entire set or replacement cartridges (the 3 different colors and a black) for under $10 total. It's fast as hell and does an excellent job with color. No problems with Win XP or SuSE on my computer at home. It's not in stores anymore, but you can find retail boxed ones from online PC shops and E-Bay.
providing power for the chip to broadcast
So you're saying that any store who has an RFID reader makes the chip broadcast. Since I'm not worried about stores without readers, I don't see where the location of the power source makes a difference.
Cookies can be blocked or deleted. If you could do that with RFIDs, I'd be fine. As for misuse, I think RFIDs would be a great way to track where people go. All we need is for RFIDs to become a standard, then have another major terror attack, prompting congress to approve TIA. They would love the ability to force stores with RFIDs to log every RFID that enters a building along with date, time, etc. Yes, it's a very long shot, but worse has already happened in American history (Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, Espionage Act of 1917, Sedition Act of 1918, Internment of 120,000 Japanese-Americans, McCarthyism, and the list goes on.) Major catastrophies tend to prompt knee-jerk reactions by the government. I just prefer to limit the breadth of the problem ahead of time. If the RFIDs were disabled at the counter (shouldn't be all that hard) then they're a great idea.
It's different because 7-11 doesn't write "2 slurpies and a Ho Ho" next to my name every time I come in, whether they recognize my face or not. It would be too time-consuming. It's often "ease of use" that prompts information-gathering.
I buy a shirt at Wal-Mart and wear it a week later to my friendly supermarket. Since the RFID tags broadcast, the supermarket counter realizes that the person at the counter has RFID #123456789. Once I swipe my debit card, they can combine my name, debit card, and an RFID. Each time my debit card is swiped at the store, a new RFID may be logged along with it. The next time that I pay with cash, the device at the counter may still be able to track what I buy because it knows that RFID 123456789 is John Doe and he just bought some . Broadcasting IDs is a VERY bad thing because it allows passive devices to pick it up. I don't want to be able for my local store to be able to identify me based on the shirt I'm wearing.
You know, it's funny. I seem to get this same "you're too young to understand" argument from a lot of over-30 people when they have trouble backing up their views. The ones that have valid points to contradict what I'm saying never seem to say it. I guess that's probably because they realize that age and wisdom don't necessarily go hand in hand. I know quite a few older adults who are completely clueless. They believe pretty much whatever makes their life easier. For a lot of people, believing that their time was so much better is an easy way of placing the blame for their problems on someone else's shoulders - thus alieviating themselves of the burden of accountability. Sure a lot of the stuff from Wal-Mart is crap. But guess what, not everyone can afford to shop Nieman Marcus. As for the whole $1700 car issue - it's called inflation. Apparently you've never bumped into it. It must simply be a problem created by my generation. It never happened in the old days. Please drop the holier-than-thou, village-chieftain ideology where the older you get, the smarter you get. I think it is fair to point out that your average college student has more knowledge about the world around him and the history of that world than the average adult. It's not that college kids are smarter. It's the fact that their daily lives revolve around educating themselves - something most adults cease doing over time.
I live in Edmond (suburb of Oklahoma City) and we just got hit with tornados AGAIN!!!!! First yesterday, when it took out the GM plant. Tonight it took out the Xerox plant. I went right over my wife's parents house and both her grandparents' houses. It then turned and proceded over the houses of my grandmother, then my father, then my mother, and then made another turn and started heading for our house. Mother nature seems to dislike my family. It eventually started heading more east than north, and tracked just to the east of Edmond as it headed up the turnpike toward Tulsa. It's funny, but they have a tendency to follow major highways. This one literally took I-40, then crossed a little bit of town and moved up I-44 to I-35, then veered off from I-35 to the Turnpike. I don't think it paid any toll. Who should the highway patrol send the license plate photo to?
I wouldn't say that atheists are the most vocal. It's really pretty even. I've been flamed pretty badly by religious people as well. I agree with you that it shouldn't matter to anyone else what you believe. It shouldn't matter to anyone else what I believe. But for some reason, I'm often told that I will burn in hell of all eternity (blah blah blah) because I don't believe in EXACTLY the same manner as they do. I also love when people tell me that my being an agnostic is worse than my being atheist. That I need to pick a side. What is this? Playground Dodgeball? In that case, I want to be on the orange team. Why is it that I am inferior just becuase I'm not highly religious?
BTW, these comments aren't directed at you. They're directed at those who try to impose their religion (or atheism) on others.
Congressional Republicans today introduced a bill at the request of President Bush which proposes a number of changes to the National Cathedral. Speaking at a White House Rose Garden ceremony, President Bush had this to say, "My fellow Americans. As many of you know, the gargoyles on the exterior of the National Cathedral are meant to represent the evil that exists in the world. (pause) To my left, you might see a resemblance to Adolf Hilter in that one up there. (pause) To my right is my old nemesis, Darth 'Death Star' Vadar - who single-handedly oversaw the building of the largest Weapon of Mass Destruction in the history of science fiction. But enough about history and fiction (pause). I'm here (pause) to talk about the here and now (pause for applause). Because no greater evil exists in the world (pause) than these fellows." (pause for applause) At this point, the President removed a large tarp from a small section of the cathedral wall, unveiling four new gargoyles with the heads of Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, Kim Il Jung, and Jacques Chirac. "This 'Axis of Evil' should not be forgotten. (pause for applause) A national poll of young Americans was taken a few months ago (pause) to determine (pause) whose faces should adorn this mighty cathedral. (pause) The children picked The Green Goblin (pause), but we've over-ruled them (pause for applause). The esteemed Mr. Ashcroft believes that this was simply a terrorist plot to deflect Americans' attention from the real evils at hand. (pause)The children in question are now under 24 hour surveillance with a little help from our friend the PATRIOT Act. (pause) We will find the deviants who we know used fear and intimidation to skew the results (pause for applause). And we will restore democracy to our youngsters." (pause for applause)
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"Or you can pick up a prostitute and have sex with her in the back of your stolen car, then beat her to death - or shoot her, bludgeon her, whatever you want." how do you do that? I've been playing Vice City for a while and didn't know you could do that.
I actively subscribe to a lot of tech sites that have tens of thousands of subscribers. Slashdot is one of those sites. How many people have Slashdot e-mail their mail to them? How are legitimate bulk mailers (of their own content, not ads) supposed to send out newsletters, etc.)? If a retail outlet with a legitimate opt-in newsletter needs to send it to 50,000 or 100,000 people, what kind of hardware upgrades are they going to be looking at. I mean, I can add them to a trusted senders list on my side, but that doesn't tell them that they no longer have to run the computations. "If I don't know you, I have to prove to you that I have spent a little bit of time in resources to send you that e-mail. How do you know whether you "know" me or not? Does the user's mail client alert the sending server that it approves of mail from that SMTP server? Once senders have proved they have solved the required "puzzle", they can be added to a "safe list" of senders. Whose list? My personal list that is part of my mail client? My mail service's white list? Microsoft's special white list?
http://www.crime-research.org/news/2003/11/Mess270 2.html
Check the above article. They say he logged into AN account registered on that computer. It could have been that he logged onto the Wells Fargo guy's account (with password saved). After all, he is a data thief, and not a very smart one apparently. If the FBI had AOL watching that guy's account, then they could have simply traced the IP Address. No big deal...if that's the case. It would help if the articles would be little more specific.
"All Your Bases Are Belong to Us" ...I don't know. You tell me.
While I must agree that it doesn't break the law, since when has breaking an actual law been a requirement for the RIAA lobbyists to purchase...er, I mean push legislation and/or invoke lawsuits.
Just remember: You're jacking every iPod they've ever jacked. Be sure to practice safe jacking.
Let me think about it. A company wants to watch my PC usage habits. Do I: A. Continue downloading MP3s from Kazaa while the company monitors my every move or B. Delete (or burn to CD, then delete) my MP3s until the company is done monitoring me. I've got a pretty go idea that anyone who is participating in the Neilson ratings is careful with what late-night Cinemax movies they watch too. Anyway, the fact that a few thousand people out of 40,000 who knew they were being watched stopped doing something illegal doesn't surprise me at all. The fact that a large surveying company would fail to note this and would apply this skewed number to the population of the US is ridiculous. Yes, I have my PhD and BS...or is it a PhD IN BS
By refurbish, I mean they would buy a couple hundred old PCs from company X who had recently replaced those systems. They would wipe the drive, and test all of the hardware. They would then turn around and sell the bare systems online. No moving of settings at all.
I used to work for BlueCurrent. They used to be called Lincoln Financial. Their business was refurbishing and reselling companies' old PCs and laptops. As I was leaving the company, I think they were getting some sort of contract with Dell to do warranty service for them. I have no idea where this patent would fit into their business model unless they have made some significant changes in the last 4 years or so.
If you're up and cominge, you're looking at people like Brittany Spears, the Goo Goo Dolls, etc. who are making TONS of money and saying "Hell, I can do that." Then some sleazy record exec comes to you and sweet talks you about how much money you can make doing what you love and they sign you. Then they screw you. Why wouldn't bands avoid this scenario? Because you never hear about the tens of thousands of bands that fail. Only the ones that succeed. And of course the record companies aren't about to tell you that. Take the Goo Goo Dolls for example. I watched an interview where they were talking about their first contract. It was for a five-album deal. They thought, "great", so they sent the contract to the only lawyer they knew, who sent it back with a single note - "Guys, this is a slavery contract. Don't do it." They signed anyway and spent a decade in obscurity living out of a van and crappy hotel rooms. Sure, they eventually made it, but the VAST majority won't. That is why the bands keep aspiring. They don't hear about the reality of the business. Or they do, but decide to take a risk, to their own detriment. I'm sorry, but record labels are truly deceitful.
While I understand what you're saying and I signed up for the list, I have to disagree. The majority is not always right. Majority opinion sways with issues and is iften easy to incite. It's very easy to get the majority of Americans to hate someone without good reason or to, say, convince the majority of Americans (in polls) that Saddam Hussein was somehow behind the September 11th attacks, simply by repeating something over and over. You see, most people don't bother to go out and look for detail and facts. Most people just watch their 30 minutes of news and form their opinions on that. Asside from the whole samll-population states vs. large-population states arguments, part of the reason that we have 2 houses of Congress deals with public opinion. House members are elected every 2 years while Senate members are elected every 6. This means that house members pay more attention to the issues of the moment and follow public opinion very closely because they have to worry about what their opponents are going to try and smear them with in the next election. They are in an almost continual cycle of campaigning. So they may vote based on public opinion even if they're aware that the public isn't fully grasping the situation. The Senate on the other hand, only has to worry about elections every 6th year and can spend more time in between elections worrying about the actual issues. This makes them far more stable, but also means that they may vote against public opinion if they realize that the public is being mislead or is not fully informed. I believe in majority rule (at least in principle), but I don't believe that it is the only thing that matters. Hell, look at a subject like slavery. If 80% of the population wants to enslave 20% of the population, does majority rule make it right? No. In that case, there is much more at stake than that. To tie that in to the issue at hand, 50 million people's opinions should definitely be considered, but it is more important that the system (checks and balances - what part of the government can and can't do something) be followed. Otherwise, it's a slippery-slope situation and you'd better hope that simple public-opinion never falls against you. If there is a problem with the system, use your voting power to change the system, but don't circumvent it. I agree that there needs to be a national no-call list, but I also agree that it needs to be implemented the right way, and if this was implemented incorrectly, we need to correct the problem.
Doesn't the amount you lose to formatting depend on what filesystem you use? And possibly cluster size? There's a very good chance that I am completely wrong on this so would someone who knows for sure please respond?
Didn't Microsoft threaten to sue the Philly school system for licensing issues. I would swear that I read that. If so, isn't it ironic that MS is going to be the driving force behind the OS/Office Suite that Philly students are going to learn to use. It would be like the RIAA telling a university - "Hey, we're going to sure you for letting your students download music...but we might let you off. By the way, we have this cool new campus-oriented web-based music-selling software you might want to look at."
The S750 has been my favorite printer in the last 10 years. The color cartridges are seperate and I can buy an entire set or replacement cartridges (the 3 different colors and a black) for under $10 total. It's fast as hell and does an excellent job with color. No problems with Win XP or SuSE on my computer at home. It's not in stores anymore, but you can find retail boxed ones from online PC shops and E-Bay.
providing power for the chip to broadcast So you're saying that any store who has an RFID reader makes the chip broadcast. Since I'm not worried about stores without readers, I don't see where the location of the power source makes a difference.
Cookies can be blocked or deleted. If you could do that with RFIDs, I'd be fine. As for misuse, I think RFIDs would be a great way to track where people go. All we need is for RFIDs to become a standard, then have another major terror attack, prompting congress to approve TIA. They would love the ability to force stores with RFIDs to log every RFID that enters a building along with date, time, etc. Yes, it's a very long shot, but worse has already happened in American history (Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, Espionage Act of 1917, Sedition Act of 1918, Internment of 120,000 Japanese-Americans, McCarthyism, and the list goes on.) Major catastrophies tend to prompt knee-jerk reactions by the government. I just prefer to limit the breadth of the problem ahead of time. If the RFIDs were disabled at the counter (shouldn't be all that hard) then they're a great idea.
It's different because 7-11 doesn't write "2 slurpies and a Ho Ho" next to my name every time I come in, whether they recognize my face or not. It would be too time-consuming. It's often "ease of use" that prompts information-gathering.
I buy a shirt at Wal-Mart and wear it a week later to my friendly supermarket. Since the RFID tags broadcast, the supermarket counter realizes that the person at the counter has RFID #123456789. Once I swipe my debit card, they can combine my name, debit card, and an RFID. Each time my debit card is swiped at the store, a new RFID may be logged along with it. The next time that I pay with cash, the device at the counter may still be able to track what I buy because it knows that RFID 123456789 is John Doe and he just bought some . Broadcasting IDs is a VERY bad thing because it allows passive devices to pick it up. I don't want to be able for my local store to be able to identify me based on the shirt I'm wearing.
You know, it's funny. I seem to get this same "you're too young to understand" argument from a lot of over-30 people when they have trouble backing up their views. The ones that have valid points to contradict what I'm saying never seem to say it. I guess that's probably because they realize that age and wisdom don't necessarily go hand in hand. I know quite a few older adults who are completely clueless. They believe pretty much whatever makes their life easier. For a lot of people, believing that their time was so much better is an easy way of placing the blame for their problems on someone else's shoulders - thus alieviating themselves of the burden of accountability. Sure a lot of the stuff from Wal-Mart is crap. But guess what, not everyone can afford to shop Nieman Marcus. As for the whole $1700 car issue - it's called inflation. Apparently you've never bumped into it. It must simply be a problem created by my generation. It never happened in the old days. Please drop the holier-than-thou, village-chieftain ideology where the older you get, the smarter you get. I think it is fair to point out that your average college student has more knowledge about the world around him and the history of that world than the average adult. It's not that college kids are smarter. It's the fact that their daily lives revolve around educating themselves - something most adults cease doing over time.
I live in Edmond (suburb of Oklahoma City) and we just got hit with tornados AGAIN!!!!! First yesterday, when it took out the GM plant. Tonight it took out the Xerox plant. I went right over my wife's parents house and both her grandparents' houses. It then turned and proceded over the houses of my grandmother, then my father, then my mother, and then made another turn and started heading for our house. Mother nature seems to dislike my family. It eventually started heading more east than north, and tracked just to the east of Edmond as it headed up the turnpike toward Tulsa. It's funny, but they have a tendency to follow major highways. This one literally took I-40, then crossed a little bit of town and moved up I-44 to I-35, then veered off from I-35 to the Turnpike. I don't think it paid any toll. Who should the highway patrol send the license plate photo to?
I wouldn't say that atheists are the most vocal. It's really pretty even. I've been flamed pretty badly by religious people as well. I agree with you that it shouldn't matter to anyone else what you believe. It shouldn't matter to anyone else what I believe. But for some reason, I'm often told that I will burn in hell of all eternity (blah blah blah) because I don't believe in EXACTLY the same manner as they do. I also love when people tell me that my being an agnostic is worse than my being atheist. That I need to pick a side. What is this? Playground Dodgeball? In that case, I want to be on the orange team. Why is it that I am inferior just becuase I'm not highly religious? BTW, these comments aren't directed at you. They're directed at those who try to impose their religion (or atheism) on others.
Congressional Republicans today introduced a bill at the request of President Bush which proposes a number of changes to the National Cathedral. Speaking at a White House Rose Garden ceremony, President Bush had this to say, "My fellow Americans. As many of you know, the gargoyles on the exterior of the National Cathedral are meant to represent the evil that exists in the world. (pause) To my left, you might see a resemblance to Adolf Hilter in that one up there. (pause) To my right is my old nemesis, Darth 'Death Star' Vadar - who single-handedly oversaw the building of the largest Weapon of Mass Destruction in the history of science fiction. But enough about history and fiction (pause). I'm here (pause) to talk about the here and now (pause for applause). Because no greater evil exists in the world (pause) than these fellows." (pause for applause) At this point, the President removed a large tarp from a small section of the cathedral wall, unveiling four new gargoyles with the heads of Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, Kim Il Jung, and Jacques Chirac. "This 'Axis of Evil' should not be forgotten. (pause for applause) A national poll of young Americans was taken a few months ago (pause) to determine (pause) whose faces should adorn this mighty cathedral. (pause) The children picked The Green Goblin (pause), but we've over-ruled them (pause for applause). The esteemed Mr. Ashcroft believes that this was simply a terrorist plot to deflect Americans' attention from the real evils at hand. (pause)The children in question are now under 24 hour surveillance with a little help from our friend the PATRIOT Act. (pause) We will find the deviants who we know used fear and intimidation to skew the results (pause for applause). And we will restore democracy to our youngsters." (pause for applause)