This bill will also cure indigestion, poor circulation, and the common cold. It will also quiet squeeky wheels and keep your toes warm on cold winter nights.
Come on people, do you really trust politicians?
These politicians created a DO NOT CALL list that allows everyone BUT cold-calling businesses to call you... and people were dumb enough to sign up.
These are also the same people who want to create an OPT-OUT spam bill. They want to legitimize spam. Think about what that will do to your Inbox.
I submitted this story a week ago. My comments back then were mainly about the lawyer going after the money... not the parents of these 2 kids. How do you let your 16 year old out of the house with a.22 rifle? How do you then let him drive? with a 14 year old?
Where's mom and dad? Dad left? Mom is an alcoholic? Maybe the responsibility ends there. The rest of the world doesn't seem to have a problem with GTA. How did this kid get to buy GTA? Mom doesn't care?
Imagine the teenagers of the future... leaving the gift that keeps on giving. They could have graffiti that changes by remote control.
Imagine a national press conference and suddenly, the wall behind the speaker changes to show a particularly embarrassing photo from the speakers' past. The networks would probably be in delay, so they might have a chance to roll to another camera. Think of the fun you could have?... or the nastiness that could happen?
One of the sponsors of this bill is Sen. Byron L. Dorgan of North Dakota. Have you ever been to North Dakota? They have NO choice in TV, radio, or newspaper. How would they notice any difference? This guy is a puppet, and someone who hates Clearchannel is behind it.
I don't much care for ClearChannel, but whoever's got Dorgan's ear probably isn't any better.
I don't like too much regulation. How many of you think that we elect the WISEST and most INTELLIGENT people to office in this country?
I'd like to point out Sen Tom Daschle, who allows big business out of billions in cleanup costs for mining in S. Dakota, but then complains about the Bush's clean air record. I'll also point out Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Houston), with her recent effort to rename Freedom Fries back to French Fries, and her recent push to have more black names for hurricanes.
I don't listen to clearchannel, but since they have come to town, I have noticed that we have more stations, and a larger variety. We have formats that others have tried and failed... before Clearchannel was around.
It leads me to believe that they're subsidizing these small audience stations. Frankly, there's no way I'd listen to smooth jazz, but for those people that want it, clearchannel has one. Every other station that's tried it has dropped out after several months (or even weeks!) I don't think there's any advertising revenue for smooth jazz, but clear channel has to be subsidizing it with their more popular stations. How can more choice be bad? Frankly, if I wanted to buy advertising time, the last place I'd consider would be a smooth jazz station, but they seem to be making a go of it.
All of these ideas depend on middlemen. I realize that there's a need for marketing. But, I don't want to pay for it. The artists I want to hear don't need $3million in advertising to sell $4million in records. There's no way the record labels could be the middlemen. No one likes them, even though they take most of the risks in today's business model.
People want an honest, free-market method without all of the label/distribution overhead. I think a subscription service could cover it. A smart card, like a satellite DSS card would probably do it.
I listen to ___ hours of music per month.
I'll tolerate ___ minutes of advertisements per day.
Set rates accordingly. Download.
$5 for 20 hours of music w/ 1 minute of advertisements per hour.
$10 for 20 hours of music w zero advertisements.
The player plays it once, unless you want to repeat, and then it'll charge ____ against your account. It'd have to be less than the original charge, as there wouldn't be any additional overhead to gain access to the music.
These are examples, but that's about as much music as I listen to per month. That's about as much as I'd be willing to pay per month. Allow me to put my card in any electronic device (MP3 player, computer, car stereo, etc.)
I get to pick the programming. I don't want to ever listen to Justin Timberlake. EVER.
If some company "suggest" I listen to Justin Timberlake and wants to offer free stuff, I should be given the opportunity. Listen to one Timberlake tune, get a free year of service. (I'd consider it... but only w/ a gun to my head.) Other offers could eliminate commercials, or add free listening.
Actually, the average script kiddy is counting on the general public's stupidity. A percentage of the population will choose where their votes go. A larger percentage will leave the choice to automatic.
There are so many holes in this process. Virus writers/script kiddies will have all kinds of things to do to try and divert money to themselves.
Frankly, it'd probably be easier to slightly alter an MP3 from a mainstream artist. Then, attribute that MP3 to a fake artist account also slightly similar to the original. Lastly, flood this MP3 everywhere. The general public smart enough to vote will, in part, vote for the incorrect artist because they have the incorrect MP3. Watch the money come rolling in. Watch the real artist try and re-coup their losses. Obviously, there are people who will spot this stuff immediately, but there are a lot who won't.
My point here is this: There's a LOT of thinking and planning to do to make the system foolproof, and a virus still might fool the system if enough people got the virus and didn't know it.
I've already figured out a way around the user licensing. Start a company with a minimum number of employees. Use this company as an IT shell for dozens of other businesses. Put out a separate annual report.
I'm going to patent this process. Anyone using open source software will not need to pay anything to use my idea. Everyone else will have to pay me $50 per employee to copy my methods.
I think the real problem here is that Sun is hurting for money. The dotcom "I wanna sell dogfood on the internet" is over. No one is buying new servers. No one needs new software. Wall Street expects good earnings reports.
Sun isn't thinking clearly, they're grasping at straws.
I work for a company w/ 50K+ employees. I'd guess that less than 1% would ever have an active session on a Sun machine. I can't imagine the next IT meeting in which someone needs a new server, or an upgrade, and they get stuck with the $5 million additional bill.
You are correct. Innovate. But, protect your innovations from Microsoft. File patents, donate them back to the public domain, and vigourously defend the IP. Don't sell out. Sadly, it's quite possible that Microsoft will "enhance" your idea, then file a patent.
Outside of long distance telephone companies, my favorite is to ask the caller to "hold on, someone's at the door." I park the handset next to the TV speaker, or lately, on top of the aquarium pump. They get a nice humm. After a few minutes, I grab the phone, ask them to "hang on... just a minute... " I've stretched this out to more than 20 minutes on several occasions.
With long distance telephone companies, I usually ask a lot of questions, starting with full name and number of the person, their supervisor, where they're located, etc. Sometimes, they panic and disconnect. These are the slammers that will change your long distance without telling you. Careful with these people... especially if it's some no-name company.
Senator Billy Tauzin, for the lousy OPT-OUT spam bill he's parading around.
Who's in his back pocket? Big spam? I doubt he's that smart, he's just a moron.
It's really too bad he chairs the committee that hears all of the anti-spam bills.
I wonder if the Democrats will flee to New Mexico if it doesn't pass?
Back to Billy Tauzin...
I don't have any confidence that the gov't can legislate any effective measures to reduce spam, however, I DEFINITELY don't want stupid legislation that gives every moron the right to send me (legally) junk email for any reason.
Someone should have been smart, whipped up an Opt-In provision, and smuggled it into last weeks' transportation bill that also contained a 4% payraise for legislators. It would've been passed without Billy Tauzin ever having the chance to shoot it down.
Cheaper? I pay $60 for cable modem through Comcast. If I pay $15/month for barebones cable, they reduce the price on my cable modem to $44.95. So, I effectively get barebones cable for free. Big deal.
DSL, which just became available, is $$43.00 month, including line charges.
The cable company is always screaming at the phone company, which I find utterly ironic... it's the cable company that has the monopoly. I have no choice in who I want for my cable. I went satellite, and the picture is AWESOME! Digital cable is not very good. The picture is color-compressed. It looks like 8 bit color at times. Terrible.
From a quick look, it seems like the author leans a teensy bit to the left.
Paranoid about right wing conspiracies? Still p*ssed about Alger Hiss?
The author might want to spend a little less time hanging out on college campuses, get a job, pay taxes, and spend some time asking why 50% of income was just lit on fire by liberals who then start screaming for more money.
Has google ceased to index blogs with the rest of the web? I know there was some grumbling in the past months about this.
I just got an account on the freeware blogger from google. The PRO was down. I don't think I would have paid for the "pro" features. Just like I wouldn't pay for a free email box.
Blogging is the online method of talking to the bartender. It's kind of relaxing... until you realize you have no idea who you are talking to.
Can anyone duplicate GPS signalling and jam (locally) the signal? It wouldn't take much signal to overpower GPS.
Let's say I commute from Munich to Berlin for work everyday, and that everyday, after a 10 minute drive, I turn on the jammer. As I return from Berlin in the evening, I turn off the jammer. I get billed for a short drive, not a long drive.
Wouldn't it make more sense to use RFID? Put scanners near the road. Scan cars that go by. Cars with bad ID's don't get on the freeway. Police pull over bad ID's or cars w/ missing ID's. Traffic would be easy to monitor... traffic accidents would be easier to detect. Speeding would be easier to detect too.
Do I get to tape the radio? Can I then listen to that song as much as I want? How about my friends? Do they have to cover their ears?
What happens if I used my computer to tape the radio?
Has anyone tried to re-sell their E-books?
I know I can run down to the local 1/2 price book store and sell/buy for a fraction of what the retail value.
I go to Petco and use someone else's number all the time. I don't care about the "buy 5, get the 6th free", I just want to screw with the marketing information. Same thing with grocery cards. I get a new one all the time. I usually run them over the magnet so that the clerk has a tough time, and they pull out their own to make things quicker.
I'll be a fly in the ointment... it's somehow satisfying.
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4 or 5 minutes to boot up? Are they using Windows95 on a Pentium 90 w/ 16meg of RAM?
Microsoft helped drive this development. It's another excuse for Microsoft to make bloatware. They'll say that this will decrease development costs. The reason? Code doesn't have to be efficient.
PDAs will benefit. Boot times will be quicker. Soon, attaching to a wireless network will be the bottleneck. Same w/ phones.
To get back to M$, even with XP, I've had to re-boot twice today. Bootup takes 1/2 the time compared to shut-down.
How many times do you reboot your Linux machines? I have several, one hasn't been rebooted in over a year, but the other 2 are monthly or occasionally weekly.
Gotta love joint ventures...
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Is Rambus involved? I didn't see any mention of Rambus, but someone might want to check... your backside for a knife... er... I mean check the US Patent Office to see if they've patented the IP.
Then you won't mind your medical records becoming public information? It's being done right now.
Minnesota (and elsewhere) wants to make all medical information available in a statewide database. Who has access to it? Some say that the state will only allow access to statistics without any identification of the "patient". How long will that last?
The gov't isn't very secure. We all know that. Do you trust them? I barely trust the hospital.
Who else gets this info? Insurance companies? Hospitals? Prescription drug companies? How about your employer? What if the gov't sells the info?
Did you ever get a sexually-transmitted disease in college? Did you ever imagine every blood test you ever took will be a matter of public record? Did they keep a DNA sample?
It'll be part of your state record. It'll follow you around for the rest of your life.
Did you ever take a test for HIV?
How about a family predisposition for cancer? What are your chances of getting that next bank loan when the underwriter starts perusing your medical history.
Do you trust politicians? They just voted themselves a 4% payraise by hiding it in a Transportation bill.
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This bill will also cure indigestion, poor circulation, and the common cold. It will also quiet squeeky wheels and keep your toes warm on cold winter nights.
Come on people, do you really trust politicians?
These politicians created a DO NOT CALL list that allows everyone BUT cold-calling businesses to call you... and people were dumb enough to sign up.
These are also the same people who want to create an OPT-OUT spam bill. They want to legitimize spam. Think about what that will do to your Inbox.
I submitted this story a week ago. My comments back then were mainly about the lawyer going after the money... not the parents of these 2 kids. How do you let your 16 year old out of the house with a .22 rifle? How do you then let him drive? with a 14 year old?
Where's mom and dad? Dad left? Mom is an alcoholic? Maybe the responsibility ends there. The rest of the world doesn't seem to have a problem with GTA. How did this kid get to buy GTA? Mom doesn't care?
towards Microsoft. They want interoperability with everyone else... but when someone wants the same thing with .NET, watch the subpoenas fly.
Ford sues Chevy over cars and trucks. Louisville Slugger sues Easton over the baseball bat.
Imagine the teenagers of the future... leaving the gift that keeps on giving. They could have graffiti that changes by remote control.
... or the nastiness that could happen?
Imagine a national press conference and suddenly, the wall behind the speaker changes to show a particularly embarrassing photo from the speakers' past. The networks would probably be in delay, so they might have a chance to roll to another camera. Think of the fun you could have?
will have to change the way they do business. They'll need to hire a lot of lawyers.
One of the sponsors of this bill is Sen. Byron L. Dorgan of North Dakota. Have you ever been to North Dakota? They have NO choice in TV, radio, or newspaper. How would they notice any difference? This guy is a puppet, and someone who hates Clearchannel is behind it.
I don't much care for ClearChannel, but whoever's got Dorgan's ear probably isn't any better.
I don't like too much regulation. How many of you think that we elect the WISEST and most INTELLIGENT people to office in this country?
I'd like to point out Sen Tom Daschle, who allows big business out of billions in cleanup costs for mining in S. Dakota, but then complains about the Bush's clean air record.
I'll also point out Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Houston), with her recent effort to rename Freedom Fries back to French Fries, and her recent push to have more black names for hurricanes.
I don't listen to clearchannel, but since they have come to town, I have noticed that we have more stations, and a larger variety. We have formats that others have tried and failed... before Clearchannel was around.
It leads me to believe that they're subsidizing these small audience stations. Frankly, there's no way I'd listen to smooth jazz, but for those people that want it, clearchannel has one. Every other station that's tried it has dropped out after several months (or even weeks!) I don't think there's any advertising revenue for smooth jazz, but clear channel has to be subsidizing it with their more popular stations. How can more choice be bad? Frankly, if I wanted to buy advertising time, the last place I'd consider would be a smooth jazz station, but they seem to be making a go of it.
All of these ideas depend on middlemen. I realize that there's a need for marketing. But, I don't want to pay for it. The artists I want to hear don't need $3million in advertising to sell $4million in records. There's no way the record labels could be the middlemen. No one likes them, even though they take most of the risks in today's business model.
People want an honest, free-market method without all of the label/distribution overhead. I think a subscription service could cover it. A smart card, like a satellite DSS card would probably do it. I listen to ___ hours of music per month. I'll tolerate ___ minutes of advertisements per day. Set rates accordingly. Download.
$5 for 20 hours of music w/ 1 minute of advertisements per hour.
$10 for 20 hours of music w zero advertisements.
The player plays it once, unless you want to repeat, and then it'll charge ____ against your account. It'd have to be less than the original charge, as there wouldn't be any additional overhead to gain access to the music. These are examples, but that's about as much music as I listen to per month. That's about as much as I'd be willing to pay per month. Allow me to put my card in any electronic device (MP3 player, computer, car stereo, etc.)
I get to pick the programming. I don't want to ever listen to Justin Timberlake. EVER. If some company "suggest" I listen to Justin Timberlake and wants to offer free stuff, I should be given the opportunity. Listen to one Timberlake tune, get a free year of service. (I'd consider it... but only w/ a gun to my head.) Other offers could eliminate commercials, or add free listening.
Actually, the average script kiddy is counting on the general public's stupidity. A percentage of the population will choose where their votes go. A larger percentage will leave the choice to automatic.
There are so many holes in this process. Virus writers/script kiddies will have all kinds of things to do to try and divert money to themselves.
Frankly, it'd probably be easier to slightly alter an MP3 from a mainstream artist. Then, attribute that MP3 to a fake artist account also slightly similar to the original. Lastly, flood this MP3 everywhere. The general public smart enough to vote will, in part, vote for the incorrect artist because they have the incorrect MP3. Watch the money come rolling in. Watch the real artist try and re-coup their losses. Obviously, there are people who will spot this stuff immediately, but there are a lot who won't.
My point here is this: There's a LOT of thinking and planning to do to make the system foolproof, and a virus still might fool the system if enough people got the virus and didn't know it.
The next virus/malicious web script will repeatedly play artists' music on your PC, artificially influencing your "vote" for where the money goes.
I've already figured out a way around the user licensing. Start a company with a minimum number of employees. Use this company as an IT shell for dozens of other businesses. Put out a separate annual report.
I'm going to patent this process. Anyone using open source software will not need to pay anything to use my idea. Everyone else will have to pay me $50 per employee to copy my methods.
I think the real problem here is that Sun is hurting for money. The dotcom "I wanna sell dogfood on the internet" is over. No one is buying new servers. No one needs new software. Wall Street expects good earnings reports. Sun isn't thinking clearly, they're grasping at straws.
I work for a company w/ 50K+ employees. I'd guess that less than 1% would ever have an active session on a Sun machine. I can't imagine the next IT meeting in which someone needs a new server, or an upgrade, and they get stuck with the $5 million additional bill.
You are correct. Innovate. But, protect your innovations from Microsoft. File patents, donate them back to the public domain, and vigourously defend the IP. Don't sell out. Sadly, it's quite possible that Microsoft will "enhance" your idea, then file a patent.
Outside of long distance telephone companies, my favorite is to ask the caller to "hold on, someone's at the door." I park the handset next to the TV speaker, or lately, on top of the aquarium pump. They get a nice humm. After a few minutes, I grab the phone, ask them to "hang on... just a minute... " I've stretched this out to more than 20 minutes on several occasions.
With long distance telephone companies, I usually ask a lot of questions, starting with full name and number of the person, their supervisor, where they're located, etc. Sometimes, they panic and disconnect. These are the slammers that will change your long distance without telling you. Careful with these people... especially if it's some no-name company.
Senator Billy Tauzin, for the lousy OPT-OUT spam bill he's parading around.
Who's in his back pocket? Big spam? I doubt he's that smart, he's just a moron. It's really too bad he chairs the committee that hears all of the anti-spam bills.
I wonder if the Democrats will flee to New Mexico if it doesn't pass?
Back to Billy Tauzin... I don't have any confidence that the gov't can legislate any effective measures to reduce spam, however, I DEFINITELY don't want stupid legislation that gives every moron the right to send me (legally) junk email for any reason.
Someone should have been smart, whipped up an Opt-In provision, and smuggled it into last weeks' transportation bill that also contained a 4% payraise for legislators. It would've been passed without Billy Tauzin ever having the chance to shoot it down.
Cheaper? I pay $60 for cable modem through Comcast. If I pay $15/month for barebones cable, they reduce the price on my cable modem to $44.95. So, I effectively get barebones cable for free. Big deal. DSL, which just became available, is $$43.00 month, including line charges. The cable company is always screaming at the phone company, which I find utterly ironic... it's the cable company that has the monopoly. I have no choice in who I want for my cable. I went satellite, and the picture is AWESOME! Digital cable is not very good. The picture is color-compressed. It looks like 8 bit color at times. Terrible.
From a quick look, it seems like the author leans a teensy bit to the left. Paranoid about right wing conspiracies? Still p*ssed about Alger Hiss? The author might want to spend a little less time hanging out on college campuses, get a job, pay taxes, and spend some time asking why 50% of income was just lit on fire by liberals who then start screaming for more money.
Has google ceased to index blogs with the rest of the web? I know there was some grumbling in the past months about this.
I just got an account on the freeware blogger from google. The PRO was down. I don't think I would have paid for the "pro" features. Just like I wouldn't pay for a free email box.
Blogging is the online method of talking to the bartender. It's kind of relaxing... until you realize you have no idea who you are talking to.
Can anyone duplicate GPS signalling and jam (locally) the signal? It wouldn't take much signal to overpower GPS.
Let's say I commute from Munich to Berlin for work everyday, and that everyday, after a 10 minute drive, I turn on the jammer. As I return from Berlin in the evening, I turn off the jammer. I get billed for a short drive, not a long drive.
Wouldn't it make more sense to use RFID? Put scanners near the road. Scan cars that go by. Cars with bad ID's don't get on the freeway. Police pull over bad ID's or cars w/ missing ID's. Traffic would be easy to monitor... traffic accidents would be easier to detect. Speeding would be easier to detect too.
Do I get to tape the radio? Can I then listen to that song as much as I want? How about my friends? Do they have to cover their ears? What happens if I used my computer to tape the radio?
Has anyone tried to re-sell their E-books? I know I can run down to the local 1/2 price book store and sell/buy for a fraction of what the retail value.
I go to Petco and use someone else's number all the time. I don't care about the "buy 5, get the 6th free", I just want to screw with the marketing information. Same thing with grocery cards. I get a new one all the time. I usually run them over the magnet so that the clerk has a tough time, and they pull out their own to make things quicker.
I'll be a fly in the ointment... it's somehow satisfying.
4 or 5 minutes to boot up? Are they using Windows95 on a Pentium 90 w/ 16meg of RAM?
Microsoft helped drive this development. It's another excuse for Microsoft to make bloatware. They'll say that this will decrease development costs. The reason? Code doesn't have to be efficient.
PDAs will benefit. Boot times will be quicker. Soon, attaching to a wireless network will be the bottleneck. Same w/ phones.
To get back to M$, even with XP, I've had to re-boot twice today. Bootup takes 1/2 the time compared to shut-down.
How many times do you reboot your Linux machines? I have several, one hasn't been rebooted in over a year, but the other 2 are monthly or occasionally weekly.
Is Rambus involved? I didn't see any mention of Rambus, but someone might want to check... your backside for a knife... er... I mean check the US Patent Office to see if they've patented the IP.
Then you won't mind your medical records becoming public information? It's being done right now.
Minnesota (and elsewhere) wants to make all medical information available in a statewide database. Who has access to it? Some say that the state will only allow access to statistics without any identification of the "patient". How long will that last?
The gov't isn't very secure. We all know that. Do you trust them? I barely trust the hospital. Who else gets this info? Insurance companies? Hospitals? Prescription drug companies? How about your employer?
What if the gov't sells the info? Did you ever get a sexually-transmitted disease in college? Did you ever imagine every blood test you ever took will be a matter of public record? Did they keep a DNA sample?
It'll be part of your state record. It'll follow you around for the rest of your life. Did you ever take a test for HIV?
How about a family predisposition for cancer? What are your chances of getting that next bank loan when the underwriter starts perusing your medical history.
Do you trust politicians? They just voted themselves a 4% payraise by hiding it in a Transportation bill.