Robb Topolski is urging people to opt-out in the InfoWorld summary.
"If people reject the settlement, they are freed from the restrictions of this settlement and can sue independently or join any other action," Topolski said in an email. "If enough people reject the settlement, it sends a strong message that the class of people that this settlement was intended to represent are dissatisfied."
The use of encryption is already forbidden in China, and could potentially be suspicious enough to warrant further investigation. You'd have to use an encryption scheme that appears to send normal SMS messages.
I always thought the high price wasn't from the inks themselves, but because there are somewhat sophisticated microfluidic devices in each ink cartridge. Do they actually claim it's the ink that's expensive?
Which are mostly in place to make it more difficult for people to offer 3rd party generic cartridges.
To be honest, as an Xbox Live user, I have no problem with Microsoft's decision on this one. For me, people that are modding and hacking the games totally ruin the online experience and take the fun out of it for the rest of us, and I don't think it's at all unreasonable for Microsoft to assume that modded consoles are being used to cheat in this way.
Furthermore, I'm actually glad to have a service that's pay to play because it provides that much more incentive for users not to cheat/harass or do other things that ruin the service for others.
This is a good strategy if and only you are confident that you are the best option available. In Google's case, this is probably true, but I can't speak for the GP's case. (Although the fact that confidence is attractive to most women might help in this case.)
Actually, all of them have been granted monopolies over the use of certain frequencies by the FCC. If we are going to grant them these special exclusive licenses, we should also consider what these companies do with that privilege.
Yep. If you can characterize the behavior pattern enough to automatically determine that it's "human-like," then you can automatically generate "human-like" behavior. The only way around it that I can see is if there is some sort of asymmetrical information involved, such as the invisible form honeypot mentioned in TFA--the website's creator (and thus the bot-detection script) knows that there is an invisible form present, but it's difficult for a script to see without rendering the site in standards compliant CSS.
I've uploaded a lot of my photos to facebook for friends to be able to see. Am I foolish to think that they shouldn't have rights to use my photos any way they want after I leave? Flickr is free. Does Flickr have rights to use people's photos even after they close their account?
Sometimes we do expect privacy, even in public. We're used to looking around to see if there are people watching us, but security cameras are often more difficult to detect. Furthermore we know that even if there are people watching us, there's no way for anyone who's not watching us at that particular second to see the things we do. I.E. for an action to be observed, an observer would have to be present in a rather narrow window of time and space. But when cameras are involved, a recording is made, which means anyone at any time and in any location in the future can view the recording. Security cameras allow for a potentially massive magnification of an event's persistence in time and space.
So it's more like riding a ski lift with a fake lift pass, or sneaking onto a subway without paying the fare, or telling your friends you aren't hungry when they split the cost of a pizza and waiting until they get full and eating the leftovers?
Exactly. Not spending money is sometimes effective in getting companies to change their actions, but spending money on things they do correctly is orders of magnitude more effective. iTunes Plus is great. Not only is there no DRM, but it's encoded at a much higher bitrate as well.
You get "paid" in an MMO as well, just in Gold or Gil or some other virtual currency? What makes getting paid in dollars more legitimate than getting paid in video game currency? Beyond paying for basic needs, all it can cover is shiny accessories also. The only real currency is time, and you have to pay that to both systems.
Actually, modern dictionary crackers are fluent in 1337 and are designed to substitute common replacements such as 1 for i and 0 for o. Taking a dictionary word and changing some of the letters to numbers is not a secure solution.
Also, it prevents passengers from using the driver's phone, or the driver from using his or her own phone while someone else is driving. Both of these are pretty common scenarios. I receive calls all the time when I am in the car, and I simply have the passenger answer my phone for me. I also sometimes let other people drive my car. This thing creates more problems than it solves.
Size. There's no reason to make someone download 3-4GB of data to play a short demo. Publishers don't want to pay for the bandwidth, users don't want to wait for it to download.
So the demo is a smaller restricted version with all the superfluous data files removed.
Until they just indiscriminately block all packets they can't identify. ISP are already itching to do that.
Sure, but we can do them one better: camouflaged encryption. Couldn't we come up with something that looks like MySpace or an AIM conversation, for example, but isn't?
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Best of all, it doesn't take 3 hours per student.
But even in a small class of 20, if it takes a half hour per student, that's 10 hours for the professor.
Amazon MP3 has over 11 million songs.
Robb Topolski is urging people to opt-out in the InfoWorld summary.
"If people reject the settlement, they are freed from the restrictions of this settlement and can sue independently or join any other action," Topolski said in an email. "If enough people reject the settlement, it sends a strong message that the class of people that this settlement was intended to represent are dissatisfied."
Bush 2.0
I've always preferred "2 Bush 2 Furious" myself.
The use of encryption is already forbidden in China, and could potentially be suspicious enough to warrant further investigation. You'd have to use an encryption scheme that appears to send normal SMS messages.
Confederate cash is rare and a century and a half old. It's worth a fortune.
In some cases, yes, but its current market value is not in any way proportional to its face value:
$500
$5
Inability to understand or accept belief systems other than one's own - check
I always thought the high price wasn't from the inks themselves, but because there are somewhat sophisticated microfluidic devices in each ink cartridge. Do they actually claim it's the ink that's expensive?
Which are mostly in place to make it more difficult for people to offer 3rd party generic cartridges.
To be honest, as an Xbox Live user, I have no problem with Microsoft's decision on this one. For me, people that are modding and hacking the games totally ruin the online experience and take the fun out of it for the rest of us, and I don't think it's at all unreasonable for Microsoft to assume that modded consoles are being used to cheat in this way. Furthermore, I'm actually glad to have a service that's pay to play because it provides that much more incentive for users not to cheat/harass or do other things that ruin the service for others.
Thanks, I actually really needed to hear that.
This is a good strategy if and only you are confident that you are the best option available. In Google's case, this is probably true, but I can't speak for the GP's case. (Although the fact that confidence is attractive to most women might help in this case.)
Actually, all of them have been granted monopolies over the use of certain frequencies by the FCC. If we are going to grant them these special exclusive licenses, we should also consider what these companies do with that privilege.
Yep. If you can characterize the behavior pattern enough to automatically determine that it's "human-like," then you can automatically generate "human-like" behavior. The only way around it that I can see is if there is some sort of asymmetrical information involved, such as the invisible form honeypot mentioned in TFA--the website's creator (and thus the bot-detection script) knows that there is an invisible form present, but it's difficult for a script to see without rendering the site in standards compliant CSS.
DownLoadable Content.
Right, but in this case they are changing the Terms of Service after the fact.
I've uploaded a lot of my photos to facebook for friends to be able to see. Am I foolish to think that they shouldn't have rights to use my photos any way they want after I leave? Flickr is free. Does Flickr have rights to use people's photos even after they close their account?
Sometimes we do expect privacy, even in public. We're used to looking around to see if there are people watching us, but security cameras are often more difficult to detect. Furthermore we know that even if there are people watching us, there's no way for anyone who's not watching us at that particular second to see the things we do. I.E. for an action to be observed, an observer would have to be present in a rather narrow window of time and space. But when cameras are involved, a recording is made, which means anyone at any time and in any location in the future can view the recording. Security cameras allow for a potentially massive magnification of an event's persistence in time and space.
So it's more like riding a ski lift with a fake lift pass, or sneaking onto a subway without paying the fare, or telling your friends you aren't hungry when they split the cost of a pizza and waiting until they get full and eating the leftovers?
Exactly. Not spending money is sometimes effective in getting companies to change their actions, but spending money on things they do correctly is orders of magnitude more effective. iTunes Plus is great. Not only is there no DRM, but it's encoded at a much higher bitrate as well.
You get "paid" in an MMO as well, just in Gold or Gil or some other virtual currency? What makes getting paid in dollars more legitimate than getting paid in video game currency? Beyond paying for basic needs, all it can cover is shiny accessories also. The only real currency is time, and you have to pay that to both systems.
Actually, modern dictionary crackers are fluent in 1337 and are designed to substitute common replacements such as 1 for i and 0 for o. Taking a dictionary word and changing some of the letters to numbers is not a secure solution.
Also, it prevents passengers from using the driver's phone, or the driver from using his or her own phone while someone else is driving. Both of these are pretty common scenarios. I receive calls all the time when I am in the car, and I simply have the passenger answer my phone for me. I also sometimes let other people drive my car. This thing creates more problems than it solves.
Invisibility will do you no good. Tsunamis can smell your sin.
Size. There's no reason to make someone download 3-4GB of data to play a short demo. Publishers don't want to pay for the bandwidth, users don't want to wait for it to download. So the demo is a smaller restricted version with all the superfluous data files removed.
Until they just indiscriminately block all packets they can't identify. ISP are already itching to do that.
Sure, but we can do them one better: camouflaged encryption. Couldn't we come up with something that looks like MySpace or an AIM conversation, for example, but isn't?