Doesn't look like Clueless Mailers, the originators of that map, have updated that site for quite a while (Feb 2003).
According to some of their lists, credit companies and other massive databases of individuals are part of the whole web of unsolicited mail. Will anybody go after them?
I once followed an alumni finder service (that royally screwed up my name and current address) up through about five parent companies to a giant person database that supplies data to the FBI and also partners Equifax, who purchased marketers Naviant, etc...
It is truly amazing when you look at the scale of things. It goes way beyond some creep in Toledo.
They were visible on last night's WWE RAW on Insight (Time Warner) cable
What's really going to (try to) happen is the division of entertainment to specialized programming for each major media outlet. Channels owned by one company will be shut off and be replaced with similar channels owned by the provider company. In the long run, the consumer will get screwed, wanting one channel on one provider and another on a different one. It was that way for Fox Sports for a while until most cable providers eventually ran it in addition to ESPN. The consumer is getting screwed already not having a-la carte channels on digital - if I want Fox Sports World to keep up with the EPL, I have to buy into a package with 15 other channels I have no use for.
Sorry for putting on the aluminum hat but this seems to be it's destiny.
Like caller ID worked for the phone system. About 90 percent of my calls were either "Unknown" or "Private Line", and some action was still requried on my part to respond to the ringing phone.
I don't have facts readily available to back this up but I'll assume somebody made money off caller-ID, as will Microsoft will attempt to do with their new "standards".
Here at work use IBM through and through. Not many problems with any Think Centres but some batches of them come with Western Digital drives inside. We replace faulty drives with Maxtor drives and have had the best results with them, although there are some that are very noisy (but haven't and won't die). Loads vary due to segment: either workstation (client server and word, no big stress) or student workstation (they've seen the worst).
Personally, I have had horrid luck with the Western Digital JB (i.e. special edition) series. All have failed on me and I wouldn't trust them outside of an IDE RAID mirrored situation. About a dozen Maxtor drives have yet to die. I also have Fujistu, Seagate and the old IBM 8.4 original quit drives (best drive ever, IMO).
From what I see at deal sites like fatwallet and bens bargain's, overall drive quality has gone down in the past year or so. Some drives are over abused though, as I've seen people rip DVD's and re-encode to the same drive and wonder why they fail after about 8 months...
I owned a copy of geoWorks Ensemble - it really was incredible having a simple, fully featured and blindingly fast windows system on a monochrome 286 computer. Windows 3.1 on a 486 couldn't touch it
I still remember being outraged at PC Magazine who knocked it because you couldn't change all the interface colors like you could in Windows. Bastards
I also had GEOS 1 and 2 for my C64. Never really used it too much.
It will be interesting to see what digital cable on demand does to Blockbuster. Last time my family and I wanted to watch "The Hulk" I gave it a try instead of trying to find my Blockbuster Card and driving there. Excellent quality but I admit I didn't use the features (rewind, etc.)
To me, that's the future. We can be lazy and not even have to drive or leave the couch and stare at a CRT.
You know it's bad karma when you shun a pizza boy job for a gay porn job, but end up playing a pizza delivery boy fulfilling an order for a "large sausage with extra toppings"... in a gay porn
High-end CPU's aren't just for gamers. Personally, when I upgraded from a Athlon 800 to XP 1700 to now an XP Barton 2500 overclocked to think its a 3000 I benefited from:
Faster compiles
VM Ware virtual machine performance increased
Better video captures and much faster compression (12 to 8 to 4.5 hours)
Better grid.org scores
The Barton was $90 retail shipped from Newegg and always at 50% CPU or above at around 50% on die. One of my motherboards is on the verge of flaking out, so I'll consider an Athlon 64 solution when that time comes.
Upgrading my girlfriend's Duron 1.1ghz to an XP 1700 made her computer perform much smoother as a whole.
You don't have to be a gamer to enjoy processing power, just buy when the time is right and enjoy. In fact, Quake2 is the only game I have installed.
I had to do a double take to make sure it was FBucks and not something else...
The most advanced card I have is the ATI AIW 8500 DV and I really don't see a reason to leave it for something newer. For the $300 I could get a sizable memory upgrade and another hard disk, or a cheap LCD.
I was caught up in the "upgrade" fever a while ago, though. Getting burned a couple of times by Matrox (Marvel capture/driver support is not and will not be supported under Windows XP) and once by ATI (early 8500 drivers were horrific) diverted my geek money elsewhere.
That's why I only buy my beer, rubbers, and hand lotion at the local Kroger (with their special card) to see what happens. Sometimes I'll buy a package of clothesline, clothes pins and a copy of "Teen People" just to mess with their heads
Seriously though, shouldn't they be working on technology to make the shopping process more secure and more efficient? All this will be is an extra layer of complexity and extra usage of bandwidth.
Or what if you're at work and don't really want others to know what you should be buying?
But I wouldn't be surprised to see larger broadband service providers providing their own "P2P"-like products that might distribute the load for popular files to their own servers while at the same time monitoring those files (for copyright or to cover their asses). Perhaps something like my current binary usenet setup: BNR2 configured to pull binaries from my broadband host (free/blindingly fast) and pull missing parts from another news host (paid for/still fast/better completion and retention) - I this case, it would go to the local server and if that object was not available try another server from the provider, then true P2P
Actually I don't remember Yahoo having this until version 5 or 5.5?
I remember it distinctly because my girlfriend's Yahoo wasn't working so we had to default to (ugh) MSN messenger. We liked the Yahoo emoticons better but the only thing I liked about MSN messenger was the message that someone was typing a reply, thinking "wow, I wish Yahoo had that."
These scare tactics will inevitably hinder valid academic pursuits.
How?
Students will continue to learn... I've been working at/kept in touch with a community college for over ten years. I've also been friends with a network administrator for a Big 10 school for years. Student's that want to learn will always do what they need to do to learn, obtain their degree/transfer and get on with life. But, even before the Internet, the vast majority of bandwith used was not research or educational and used by a small minority of people. It was people downloading every.gif from Compuserve's libraries. People using Mosaic to get a "pic of the day" from France... People hitting the alt. newsgroup tree (at one point %85 of all traffic was incoming alt.binaries.pictures)... Now it's people installing P2P (or trying to install) services on computers to download as much as they can before getting caught. And it is such a minority of people that it is a shame the majority of students, there to learn, are suffering because a group of people feel it is their God given right to exploit every single resource afforded to them.
Oh and by the way, this costs money... Something a lot of schools are in desperate need of.
Millions of lost jobs in an important industry? End of telemarketing as an economical way of doing business?
Millions of lost jobs, yeah tell that to the damned auto-recording that calls my number almost every freaking day, I'm sure that machine's job will be missed. Why not move telemarketers over to call support - about the same thing. Better service is why I cancelled one telco to choose another - at least one telemarketer a week wanting to switch my local but 45 minutes to get support, from the same company... If my number is on the list, it is saving a telemarketer money - I'm not buying so why waste time calling?
Advertising as a whole is a scary business model to build upon. This is just one of many examples where people are just plain sick of it.The year and a half I spent without a land line (all cell) was heaven, I'm ready to go back. Caller ID never worked and neither did "take me off your list, don't call." I'm not going to pay extra for a privacy manager or a private PBX so what am I supposed to do? IMHO telemarketers inflated their own worth and ignored growing anger towards them for at least four years now, so good riddance...
It's also important to note that the primary concern on cable and certain ADSL networks is the upstream traffic. Cable in particular normally allocates 1/10th of their bandwidth to upstream and 90% to downstream. Too much going out and everyone loses.
Not sure if anybody else notices, but most broadband cable commercials on television always reference "download" speeds, i.e. Yosemite Sam "I'm a downloading movies and music faster than ever."... No mention of upload speed, though, or "sharing" for that matter.
I don't hold anything against India workers, but I truly hate any corporation that farms work to India (and other cheap countries) all for the sake of a quick buck.
As long as there is one corporation farming work out to an overseas region with a lower standard of living and thus cheaper cost to that company, corporations that compete with that corporation will need to take similar measures or find some other way to cut costs to stay competitive.
That is the real problem here.
Not to make matters worse, but if you are getting $30 US per $300 US billed - just think about all those H1B VISA holders or recent immigrants are getting (my guess would be about $21 for new ones), which makes the numbers at your location look realllllllllllll good.
My kid already has a Playstation 2 w/net adaptor (which he bought with his own money instead of an XBox) in what little space he has left in his bedroom. If all I have to do is add a USB KB/mouse (already have) and a 40 gig hard drive (already have) to give him the ability to do research/schoolwork, check email and whatever without hogging the family PC, then yeah I'd be willing to do that.
Many of the more popular boards have "modded" BIOSes anyways; like my ECS K7S5A and my ABit KT7A-RAID for example. People will modify firmware on Raite and Apex DVD players. No matter how encrypted the BIOS is, someone will eventually crack it; and as long as the software has to be backwardly compatible with non-DRM BIOSes there will be a way to sever the links.
Also, correct me if I'm wrong, don't most operating systems bypass the BIOS for video/audio/peripherals and disk with their own drivers? How does this enhance anything?
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I wish I had some mod points right about now. Maybe one of our Novell admins has some.
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Sorry if I seem like I'm trolling but these questions will be asked at some point
Doesn't look like Clueless Mailers, the originators of that map, have updated that site for quite a while (Feb 2003).
According to some of their lists, credit companies and other massive databases of individuals are part of the whole web of unsolicited mail. Will anybody go after them?
I once followed an alumni finder service (that royally screwed up my name and current address) up through about five parent companies to a giant person database that supplies data to the FBI and also partners Equifax, who purchased marketers Naviant, etc...
It is truly amazing when you look at the scale of things. It goes way beyond some creep in Toledo.
something Orrin Hatch would have thought up
They were visible on last night's WWE RAW on Insight (Time Warner) cable
What's really going to (try to) happen is the division of entertainment to specialized programming for each major media outlet. Channels owned by one company will be shut off and be replaced with similar channels owned by the provider company. In the long run, the consumer will get screwed, wanting one channel on one provider and another on a different one. It was that way for Fox Sports for a while until most cable providers eventually ran it in addition to ESPN. The consumer is getting screwed already not having a-la carte channels on digital - if I want Fox Sports World to keep up with the EPL, I have to buy into a package with 15 other channels I have no use for.
Sorry for putting on the aluminum hat but this seems to be it's destiny.
Like caller ID worked for the phone system. About 90 percent of my calls were either "Unknown" or "Private Line", and some action was still requried on my part to respond to the ringing phone.
I don't have facts readily available to back this up but I'll assume somebody made money off caller-ID, as will Microsoft will attempt to do with their new "standards".
Here at work use IBM through and through. Not many problems with any Think Centres but some batches of them come with Western Digital drives inside. We replace faulty drives with Maxtor drives and have had the best results with them, although there are some that are very noisy (but haven't and won't die). Loads vary due to segment: either workstation (client server and word, no big stress) or student workstation (they've seen the worst).
Personally, I have had horrid luck with the Western Digital JB (i.e. special edition) series. All have failed on me and I wouldn't trust them outside of an IDE RAID mirrored situation. About a dozen Maxtor drives have yet to die. I also have Fujistu, Seagate and the old IBM 8.4 original quit drives (best drive ever, IMO).
From what I see at deal sites like fatwallet and bens bargain's, overall drive quality has gone down in the past year or so. Some drives are over abused though, as I've seen people rip DVD's and re-encode to the same drive and wonder why they fail after about 8 months...
I owned a copy of geoWorks Ensemble - it really was incredible having a simple, fully featured and blindingly fast windows system on a monochrome 286 computer. Windows 3.1 on a 486 couldn't touch it
I still remember being outraged at PC Magazine who knocked it because you couldn't change all the interface colors like you could in Windows. Bastards
I also had GEOS 1 and 2 for my C64. Never really used it too much.
It will be interesting to see what digital cable on demand does to Blockbuster. Last time my family and I wanted to watch "The Hulk" I gave it a try instead of trying to find my Blockbuster Card and driving there. Excellent quality but I admit I didn't use the features (rewind, etc.)
To me, that's the future. We can be lazy and not even have to drive or leave the couch and stare at a CRT.
Sorry. Off main topic but worth mentioning.
You know it's bad karma when you shun a pizza boy job for a gay porn job, but end up playing a pizza delivery boy fulfilling an order for a "large sausage with extra toppings" ... in a gay porn
High-end CPU's aren't just for gamers. Personally, when I upgraded from a Athlon 800 to XP 1700 to now an XP Barton 2500 overclocked to think its a 3000 I benefited from:
The Barton was $90 retail shipped from Newegg and always at 50% CPU or above at around 50% on die. One of my motherboards is on the verge of flaking out, so I'll consider an Athlon 64 solution when that time comes.
Upgrading my girlfriend's Duron 1.1ghz to an XP 1700 made her computer perform much smoother as a whole.
You don't have to be a gamer to enjoy processing power, just buy when the time is right and enjoy. In fact, Quake2 is the only game I have installed.
I had to do a double take to make sure it was FBucks and not something else...
The most advanced card I have is the ATI AIW 8500 DV and I really don't see a reason to leave it for something newer. For the $300 I could get a sizable memory upgrade and another hard disk, or a cheap LCD.
I was caught up in the "upgrade" fever a while ago, though. Getting burned a couple of times by Matrox (Marvel capture/driver support is not and will not be supported under Windows XP) and once by ATI (early 8500 drivers were horrific) diverted my geek money elsewhere.
It works now, why bother changing
on when their blog will suffer a critical security exploit?
I don't see why Microsoft is handing out more matches while trying to put out their own fires...
That's why I only buy my beer, rubbers, and hand lotion at the local Kroger (with their special card) to see what happens. Sometimes I'll buy a package of clothesline, clothes pins and a copy of "Teen People" just to mess with their heads
Seriously though, shouldn't they be working on technology to make the shopping process more secure and more efficient? All this will be is an extra layer of complexity and extra usage of bandwidth.
Or what if you're at work and don't really want others to know what you should be buying?
Maybe not P2P...
But I wouldn't be surprised to see larger broadband service providers providing their own "P2P"-like products that might distribute the load for popular files to their own servers while at the same time monitoring those files (for copyright or to cover their asses). Perhaps something like my current binary usenet setup: BNR2 configured to pull binaries from my broadband host (free/blindingly fast) and pull missing parts from another news host (paid for/still fast/better completion and retention) - I this case, it would go to the local server and if that object was not available try another server from the provider, then true P2P
Or maybe not...
I also understand that he's incredibly handsome, hung like a horse...
Maybe the penis enlargers and other products in his mass mailings actually worked?
Hey, you have to spend money to make money ...
Actually I don't remember Yahoo having this until version 5 or 5.5?
I remember it distinctly because my girlfriend's Yahoo wasn't working so we had to default to (ugh) MSN messenger. We liked the Yahoo emoticons better but the only thing I liked about MSN messenger was the message that someone was typing a reply, thinking "wow, I wish Yahoo had that."
These scare tactics will inevitably hinder valid academic pursuits.
How?
Students will continue to learn... I've been working at/kept in touch with a community college for over ten years. I've also been friends with a network administrator for a Big 10 school for years. Student's that want to learn will always do what they need to do to learn, obtain their degree/transfer and get on with life. But, even before the Internet, the vast majority of bandwith used was not research or educational and used by a small minority of people. It was people downloading every .gif from Compuserve's libraries. People using Mosaic to get a "pic of the day" from France... People hitting the alt. newsgroup tree (at one point %85 of all traffic was incoming alt.binaries.pictures)... Now it's people installing P2P (or trying to install) services on computers to download as much as they can before getting caught. And it is such a minority of people that it is a shame the majority of students, there to learn, are suffering because a group of people feel it is their God given right to exploit every single resource afforded to them.
Oh and by the way, this costs money... Something a lot of schools are in desperate need of.
Millions of lost jobs in an important industry? End of telemarketing as an economical way of doing business?
Millions of lost jobs, yeah tell that to the damned auto-recording that calls my number almost every freaking day, I'm sure that machine's job will be missed. Why not move telemarketers over to call support - about the same thing. Better service is why I cancelled one telco to choose another - at least one telemarketer a week wanting to switch my local but 45 minutes to get support, from the same company... If my number is on the list, it is saving a telemarketer money - I'm not buying so why waste time calling?
Advertising as a whole is a scary business model to build upon. This is just one of many examples where people are just plain sick of it.The year and a half I spent without a land line (all cell) was heaven, I'm ready to go back. Caller ID never worked and neither did "take me off your list, don't call." I'm not going to pay extra for a privacy manager or a private PBX so what am I supposed to do? IMHO telemarketers inflated their own worth and ignored growing anger towards them for at least four years now, so good riddance...
It's also important to note that the primary concern on cable and certain ADSL networks is the upstream traffic. Cable in particular normally allocates 1/10th of their bandwidth to upstream and 90% to downstream. Too much going out and everyone loses.
Some additional information:
How the Upstream Cap can affect Downstream Speed(Navas Cable Modem/DSL Tuning Guide)
Not sure if anybody else notices, but most broadband cable commercials on television always reference "download" speeds, i.e. Yosemite Sam "I'm a downloading movies and music faster than ever."... No mention of upload speed, though, or "sharing" for that matter.
In a CNN article which looks more like something out of The Onion
Puh-lease
This is offensive to anybody (like myself) who takes The Onion's news more seriously than anything from Bill and his minions.
I don't hold anything against India workers, but I truly hate any corporation that farms work to India (and other cheap countries) all for the sake of a quick buck.
As long as there is one corporation farming work out to an overseas region with a lower standard of living and thus cheaper cost to that company, corporations that compete with that corporation will need to take similar measures or find some other way to cut costs to stay competitive.
That is the real problem here.
Not to make matters worse, but if you are getting $30 US per $300 US billed - just think about all those H1B VISA holders or recent immigrants are getting (my guess would be about $21 for new ones), which makes the numbers at your location look realllllllllllll good.
My kid already has a Playstation 2 w/net adaptor (which he bought with his own money instead of an XBox) in what little space he has left in his bedroom. If all I have to do is add a USB KB/mouse (already have) and a 40 gig hard drive (already have) to give him the ability to do research/schoolwork, check email and whatever without hogging the family PC, then yeah I'd be willing to do that.
Many of the more popular boards have "modded" BIOSes anyways; like my ECS K7S5A and my ABit KT7A-RAID for example. People will modify firmware on Raite and Apex DVD players. No matter how encrypted the BIOS is, someone will eventually crack it; and as long as the software has to be backwardly compatible with non-DRM BIOSes there will be a way to sever the links.
Also, correct me if I'm wrong, don't most operating systems bypass the BIOS for video/audio/peripherals and disk with their own drivers? How does this enhance anything?