it's not simply webpages that are the problem. it's digital storage in toto.
because we as a generation are quickly moving away from our previous long-lived forms of storage, and toward digital management of archives, it's trivial for someone to decide to unilaterally delete (not backup?) a whole decade of data in some area of our history.
i remember the photographer who found the photograph of bill clinton meeting monica lewinsky 10 years ago. he was in a gaggle of press photographers, but nobody else had this picture because they were all using digital cameras and he was still on film. most of their pictures from that day had been deleted years ago since they weren't worth the cost of storing. but this guy had it on film.
yes. websites are disappearing. but there's a greater problem lurking in the background. the cost of preserving this stuff digitally, indefinately. who's going to pony up the cash for that? unfortunately, no one. and we'll all ultimately pay dearly for that... (hell -- we already have trouble learning from the past.)
the point isn't that people will get the receipt and double-check it. although that will be a nice side-effect.
the point is that we'll have a complete paper record of who voted for who. the system will be accountable for its results instead of just numbers in an access database that could have been tampered with.
that should have read: "now comes a device which can pretty much guarantee we can now go our entire lives never having to talk to another person with a different *idea* to us."
>We don't make closed source or "secret" laws in
>this country, ie, laws that effect the public
>in general, and that the public is not
>permitted to know or examine, but yet will be
>held accountable to. We don't have anonymous or
>secret agencies enforcing laws and arresting
>people, ie, a secret police force.
are you serious? two words my friend: Patriot. Act.
there doesn't seem to be any stupid adware or popups simply because their end user agreement specifies that after the trial period ends, the user will be offered a subscription or they'll be kicked out.
what's the point of installing if you'll only be uninstalling again in 3 months?
collectively - it was worth millions this year alone.
if you don't think the big boys are earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year spamming then you're absolutely dreaming.
If you really could get rich as a spammer, then everyone would be doing it
You can - but it's hard to get right. My friend went through spam "setups" in latvia, russia, central america and finally china. Once you get it right, the dollars roll in.
i had a friend who recently turned to the dark side and now boasts that his circle of friends include the biggest spammers in the world.
and believe it or not, the biggest break these guys have had in the past year has been help from people on the "inside".
to give you an example, an ex-AOL employer has written them a little proggy for these guys to send messages that makes the AOL mailservers think that the mail originated on the inside of the network (which means that none of it is spam checked or filtered.)
their usual 10% deliverability to AOL.com suddenly went to 100%. make no mistake -- that was worth millions to 'em.
amazon don't post negative reviews if there aren't enough positives, i've found.
one book i read by some guy that was just awful only had 1 glowing review (by his girlfriend/wife/fuckpuppet). so i reviewed it badly 3 months ago. i'm still waiting for that review to arrive.
the other big one is fraud.
in a country where central america means kansas - anyone outside of the U.S of A is obviously a credit card fraudster.
i'm australian and regularly have to do battle with americanized order forms that treat 99% of their potential customers as 'rest of world'.
annoying and unnecessary.
murray.
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it's not simply webpages that are the problem. it's digital storage in toto.
because we as a generation are quickly moving away from our previous long-lived forms of storage, and toward digital management of archives, it's trivial for someone to decide to unilaterally delete (not backup?) a whole decade of data in some area of our history.
i remember the photographer who found the photograph of bill clinton meeting monica lewinsky 10 years ago. he was in a gaggle of press photographers, but nobody else had this picture because they were all using digital cameras and he was still on film. most of their pictures from that day had been deleted years ago since they weren't worth the cost of storing. but this guy had it on film.
yes. websites are disappearing. but there's a greater problem lurking in the background. the cost of preserving this stuff digitally, indefinately. who's going to pony up the cash for that? unfortunately, no one. and we'll all ultimately pay dearly for that... (hell -- we already have trouble learning from the past.)
the point isn't that people will get the receipt and double-check it. although that will be a nice side-effect.
the point is that we'll have a complete paper record of who voted for who. the system will be accountable for its results instead of just numbers in an access database that could have been tampered with.
that's what "paper trail" means.
prof.hojo.
my site.
You hear it all the time - and, most of the time, actually no, it isn't. Hypocritical and/or cynical, more likely.
prof. hojo
heh heh.
:)
somoebody mod this gup up +funny.
d'oh.
that should have read: "now comes a device which can pretty much guarantee we can now go our entire lives never having to talk to another person with a different *idea* to us."
my apologies.
holy shit.
we already have no idea how to talk to people who have different ideas to us. hell -- we're so scared of them we'd rather bomb them than talk to them.
now comes a device which can pretty much guarantee we can now go our entire lives never having to talk to another person with a different to us.
"you mean i can set this thing so that i only ever meet people who believe in the creation theory??? yeee haaar!!"
this is the reason we're in the shit that we're in people. don't you think it's time to use technology to help us start including... not excluding?
prof. h.
Babylon 5 is the only scifi i ever mourned.
g'day,
the faq says "if you can't see the other shared computer, then this software won't be of any use to you."
now... we have 2 computers hanging off a billion router which i believe does NAT automatically for us. neither iTunes can see the other.
does anyone have any ideas on how to make it work like it should?
all the best, prof.h
>We don't make closed source or "secret" laws in
>this country, ie, laws that effect the public
>in general, and that the public is not
>permitted to know or examine, but yet will be
>held accountable to. We don't have anonymous or
>secret agencies enforcing laws and arresting
>people, ie, a secret police force.
are you serious? two words my friend: Patriot. Act.
get your memory checked now: http://www.thememoryhole.org
well --
... so it seems like 2006 is right on the money for the next OS.
don't forget that it was 6 years between NT (1994) and 2K
prof. hojo
>interoperable, intelligent, dynamic, flexible and scalable
they forgot "interactive" and "multimedia".
ph
After all -- wasn't he the same guy who wrote that book 'Virtual Reality' back in the early 90s?
Wow -- didn't all those clowns call that one wrong.
ph
...people stopped buying their crap.
i mean -- who the HELL buys penis enlargements, weight loss drugs and college diplomas from these sites? obviously -- too many of us.
prof.
it doesn't know where saddam is either...
ph
there doesn't seem to be any stupid adware or popups simply because their end user agreement specifies that after the trial period ends, the user will be offered a subscription or they'll be kicked out.
what's the point of installing if you'll only be uninstalling again in 3 months?
prof.
if you don't think the big boys are earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year spamming then you're absolutely dreaming. You can - but it's hard to get right. My friend went through spam "setups" in latvia, russia, central america and finally china. Once you get it right, the dollars roll in.
If spam didn't work, no-one would be doing it.
i had a friend who recently turned to the dark side and now boasts that his circle of friends include the biggest spammers in the world.
and believe it or not, the biggest break these guys have had in the past year has been help from people on the "inside".
to give you an example, an ex-AOL employer has written them a little proggy for these guys to send messages that makes the AOL mailservers think that the mail originated on the inside of the network (which means that none of it is spam checked or filtered.)
their usual 10% deliverability to AOL.com suddenly went to 100%. make no mistake -- that was worth millions to 'em.
amazon don't post negative reviews if there aren't enough positives, i've found.
one book i read by some guy that was just awful only had 1 glowing review (by his girlfriend/wife/fuckpuppet). so i reviewed it badly 3 months ago. i'm still waiting for that review to arrive.
*sigh*
this is almost as ridiculous as that guy who successfully patented the HYPERLINK.
which is in turn, easily less rediculous than comnpanies who actually PAID to use the hyperlinks.
the other big one is fraud. in a country where central america means kansas - anyone outside of the U.S of A is obviously a credit card fraudster. i'm australian and regularly have to do battle with americanized order forms that treat 99% of their potential customers as 'rest of world'. annoying and unnecessary. murray.