You can save far more energy by shutting them off, as in disconnecting the power going to them. Energy saving devices don't save energy any more than screen savers save screens.
Require them to go through an install process that alters their kernel, "whatever the hell that is, won't that break it? I mean, why can't I just mouse it or something? Really, I'm not a hacker, and I don't want to be one, I just want to use my computer, and if linux is better, GREAT, so why the hell can't all those thousands of people working together put together something I can run without having to understand how it runs much less how to change how it runs?"
The positive of the concept is far out done by the negative of the implimentation.
BCW2 (168187) sez: "The problem with prosecuting the spammers is, how do you get to the ones out of the U.S.?"
Simple. Remove that country's top level listing from DNS.
Who stands to lose if China disappears off the net.map? The Chinese and US businesscritters trying to develop business between the two. That business benefits China as a whole far more than the US as a whole -- we could take it or leave it. The Chinese government wants the income. They'll do what it takes to protect that.
It doesn't have to happen as a global action either. If a couple dozen major pipes send email to the appropriate ministry in China saying that due to the amount of spam, all traffic from China to that system will be dev/nulled, they'll start to notice.
When VSNL had a usenet spammer/abuser they wouldn't handle after six months of problems, they got handed a usenet death penalty. All usenet traffic from there got cancels issued. It took them two days to fix it. VSNL is India. This was a dozen guys doing this. Get major ISPs to take large scale action and it'll work at least as well as this did.
"The technology is great, but the potential for abuse is definitely there."
Why is it people whine when there's dupe stories (as though every story they happened to see MUST have been seen by everyone) but nobody finds it odd when this FUDlette gets tacked onto hundreds of stories per year?
Of COURSE it's possible to abuse. ANYTHING is. If you can't figure out a way that, say (just taking from today's headlines) a 400GB ATA drive can be used in a naughty way, you're just not trying.
Lord Grey (463613) sez: "BTW, one of the best short stories along those lines was Isaac Asimov's The Last Question (published in Nine Tomorrows among other places)."...which was the conceptual origin of the existentially troubled Bomb 19 in "Dark Star".
All my respect to the FTC and their spam efforts, and especially Commissioner Orson "What we need is a few good old fashioned hangings" Swindell. Hopefully it's merely having to work within the beltway mentality that caused this conclusion to be reached and announced at this late time, because this is precisely what everyone (except the few spammers present) told them at the spam conference 15 months ago.
Ensconsed in Commissioner Swindell's colorful words is a hint of the real problem: The problem is a social one, not a technological one.
The means of execution (no pun intended, but I'll take it) may be technological, but not the cause. Trying to solve it technologically will be equivalent to allopathic medicine where the symptoms are treated instead of the cause. Sure, you can kill the tumor, but if you don't remove the cause of the cancer, the problem remains.
Stop treating spam as though it came forth by breaking the vaccuum symmetry and existed suddenly where nothing had before. It's a new face on an old problem and could easily be treated as such, if it weren't for the mentality that still thinks that anything printed in dot matrix on green and white line tractor feed paper is more real and authoritive than handwriting.
The TCPA works for junk faxes. Rewrite it so as not to be strictly telecom.
When people hijack machines as spam drones, catch their ass and prosecute them under computer crimes laws.
There are STILL cops who refuse to handle stalking cases where email is involved because they're allowed to claim their ignorance prevents them from acting, when the fact is the stalking laws say nothing like "unless it's in email".
Stop treating it as if it's all new and different. It's all just new ways of doing the same old things, and the old ways of stopping it would still work.
...is take what the newbies say and use it for yet another thing to argue about, rather than listen to it. Because they don't HAVE to listen. Because they're doing this for FREE, giving of their own precious time for others' benefit, so how dare those ungreatful newbies criticize our fine work. Hell, even the commercial distros do it entirely their own way and then try to provide tech support which the newbies can barely understand rather than making something the newbies can understand from the outset.
Mod it troll, mod it flamebait, it's just a damn shame you can't mod it professional opinion, or wager.
Orlando had such a system in place for a year and a half. It resulted in precisely zero hits on known criminals. But when has that stopped government purchasing?
deego (587575) sez: "Oh, of course, I completely agree. however, Big corporations will be the ones ignoring them, *we*, the individuals will be sued."
By who? The big corporations that would be doing the ignoring are the ones that'd have to sue. They don't have the gonadal substructure to sue people for the same thing they're doing themselves. That sort of silly assed behavior is reserved for corporations dealing with other corporations.
The US is only the best at ignoring them if they're inconvenient. This would cause so many problems for US business that the government will ignore this even if WIPO were to descend from a cloud in a fiery chariot and writing the treaty into the side of a mountain with a flaming finger.
If they really want to create an autonomous robot, let's see them make one that they can't get to come back.
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I've picked up three plastic kits of the Jupiter C rocket, Hawk models circa 1958, built two so far and converted them to fly with model rocket engines and recover by parachute.
I fly them from a launch pad made from an Erector Set Rocket Launcher kit with the appropriate additions for the launch rail.
Never happen, unless they make CDs unplayable or convince everyone to switch to completely digital amplification systems. To play a CD is to convert it to an analog signal. When that happens, all digital protections are gone. A to D conversions will then contain no such coding. The fix is no more difficult than hooking up your CD player to your stereo.
By the way, the above material is a violation of the DMCA. And so is plugging your CD player into your stereo, for the reasons stated. The RIAA and its purchased congresscritters have set a new standard for "stepped on their own dick". As soon as they tangle with a technologically expert attorney and a clued in judge, there will be some red faces and bare asses.
The air in doctors' offices can carry air vectored germs. All medical treatment should therefore be carried out in a vaccuum, preferably in orbit to prevent contamination of uncontaminated atmosphere.
Except that might infect space. Those germs might be able to survive in a vaccuum, and we'd be infecting the entire universe.
We are dirty dirty dirty and our planet should be sterilized so we don't kill the universe. Nuke us from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Riptide_dot sez: (1) "I thought that the NX command was being put in to make sure that code could only be executed in certain memory spaces, not to make sure that only certain code could be executed." (2) "And it requires specific processors and chipsets that support the command." (3) "My understanding was that it's more for protection of the stability of the OS, not protection of copyrights of software..."
#2, definitely true. Given consumer equipment turnover, how long before a significant portion of such equipment is in peoples' hands?
#1 and #3: You can talking supposed to, from press releases. I am talking able to, from watching many cycles of engineered obselescence. It would be nearly trivial to make the OS only able to run software that supported this (for example, force playback programs to execute in certain memory spaces, and then read the broadcast flag to set the NX to stop it), and use only those files which carried the flag, whether set or unset. My money STILL says XP was designed to evolve into a DRM based pay-per-view jukebox, this is just the next step in that process, and it's increasing problems with older media types are evidence of prior steps along that path. MS is masterful at trying to swing compatibility issues into their monopolistic domain. Arranging it so their mediacentric OS makes it easiest for media publishers to institute DRM does the same thing and takes it outside their domain and into that of the media producers, arranging it so said producers are putting them in the position of a monopoly, not simply their own direct marketing actions.
My money says this is precisely the intended use of the NX (no execute) command supposedly being instituted in teh upcoming service pack of Windows XP.
"Some wag" is a cop out. They did it and are afraid to admit it. Who else would have the necessary safety equipment to put the toy there, other than the people who put the web cam there, and who else would know exactly where the web cam was on an island that "people don't go on"? We're expected to believe "some wag" jusy happened along in that forbidding scenery and just happened to be carrying that particular toy, and happened to find that aprticular spot and know what the thing was attached to?
Any records keeping is doomed to failu8re, because you'll poke around for "just a connector" and shuffle stuff and mix it up and not record this. It is ESSENTIAL to keep it all umbled in boxes. That way you have to look through all of it to find something, which (1) reminds you where everything is (come on, you KNOW you know which of a couple boxes a particular thing probably is in),(2) provides you with the opportunilty to mull through all your cool stuff admiring it and yourself for having gathered such a fine collection and (3) feeding synchronicity by presenting you with some random widget that suddenly gives you a great idea and you yank it out to go do this great thing. Of course, it'll end up going into a different box, but at least you had that synchronicity experience.
BTW, you know you married well when you find your cool junk and her cool junk starting to mingle in the boxes.
It remains to be seen whether Mojave will in fact get approved. Either way, Southwest Regional Spaceport near Las Cruces NM had already been announced by Ansari/X-Prize, as the spaceport site chosen for at least an annual X-Prize event, and expecting the X-Prize contenders who (win or lose) continue on and offer services to the public. Plus, according to the articles which may or may not be accurate, Mojave is being considered for horizontal launched craft. SRS is not being restricted to horizontal launch. My money says SRS will become a regular gathering place for the next step in rocketry, those growing out of amateur/hobbyist rocketry ($100 gets you a model that goes Mach 1 and a mile up) and those following hot on the jets of Ky "Rocketman" Michaelson and CSXT's recent first private rocket into space.
I've worked for several since before they were called ISPs (networked BBS's at best). They don't delete customer info. Even before they figured out that personal data was worth money, they knew that a customer was a customer, whether active or inactive. The latter usually meant "not presently using our service" as weasel words for "ex-customer", though I know of one instance where it meant "dead". How else could they claim those enormous numbers of users? It was everyone who'd ever signed on for even a brief time. If every user claimed by every provider were active at that time, there'd be more active accounts than people on the planet.
It's not the best distro available, but it's easy to set up and run, and comes with installation, migration and operation support as part of the selling price. List price is $100, but it might still be selling for half that as the intro sale. It'd be my "For Dummies" pick.
"What you've got is stolen credit card numbers being transported across state lines. That makes it a federal matter. You call the FBI."
Definitely. Even if your particular access to the sample is local, as long as the access is not obviously restricted to local, it is assumed to be available interstate. That's FBI jurisdiction.
Depending on circumstances, sometimes the FBI requests you contact local law enforcement and have them file a report first, providing evidence that the FBI should be involved. Not sure about this instance. Call your closest FBI field office (see http://www.fbi.gov/contact/fo/fo.htm ) first. They'll either initiate action or tell you to call local LE.
What would be your course of action if you found your number there?
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You can save far more energy by shutting them off, as in disconnecting the power going to them. Energy saving devices don't save energy any more than screen savers save screens.
Monospaced text. One person's web design is another person's ugly waste of bandwidth.
Require them to go through an install process that alters their kernel, "whatever the hell that is, won't that break it? I mean, why can't I just mouse it or something? Really, I'm not a hacker, and I don't want to be one, I just want to use my computer, and if linux is better, GREAT, so why the hell can't all those thousands of people working together put together something I can run without having to understand how it runs much less how to change how it runs?"
The positive of the concept is far out done by the negative of the implimentation.
BCW2 (168187) sez: "The problem with prosecuting the spammers is, how do you get to the ones out of the U.S.?"
Simple. Remove that country's top level listing from DNS.
Who stands to lose if China disappears off the net.map? The Chinese and US businesscritters trying to develop business between the two. That business benefits China as a whole far more than the US as a whole -- we could take it or leave it. The Chinese government wants the income. They'll do what it takes to protect that.
It doesn't have to happen as a global action either. If a couple dozen major pipes send email to the appropriate ministry in China saying that due to the amount of spam, all traffic from China to that system will be dev/nulled, they'll start to notice.
When VSNL had a usenet spammer/abuser they wouldn't handle after six months of problems, they got handed a usenet death penalty. All usenet traffic from there got cancels issued. It took them two days to fix it. VSNL is India. This was a dozen guys doing this. Get major ISPs to take large scale action and it'll work at least as well as this did.
...are artists. If you can't do it, shut up. And if you can, you know better than to try to can it in software.
"The technology is great, but the potential for abuse is definitely there."
Why is it people whine when there's dupe stories (as though every story they happened to see MUST have been seen by everyone) but nobody finds it odd when this FUDlette gets tacked onto hundreds of stories per year?
Of COURSE it's possible to abuse. ANYTHING is. If you can't figure out a way that, say (just taking from today's headlines) a 400GB ATA drive can be used in a naughty way, you're just not trying.
Lord Grey (463613) sez: "BTW, one of the best short stories along those lines was Isaac Asimov's The Last Question (published in Nine Tomorrows among other places)." ...which was the conceptual origin of the existentially troubled Bomb 19 in "Dark Star".
"Let there be light."
All my respect to the FTC and their spam efforts, and especially Commissioner Orson "What we need is a few good old fashioned hangings" Swindell. Hopefully it's merely having to work within the beltway mentality that caused this conclusion to be reached and announced at this late time, because this is precisely what everyone (except the few spammers present) told them at the spam conference 15 months ago.
Ensconsed in Commissioner Swindell's colorful words is a hint of the real problem: The problem is a social one, not a technological one.
The means of execution (no pun intended, but I'll take it) may be technological, but not the cause. Trying to solve it technologically will be equivalent to allopathic medicine where the symptoms are treated instead of the cause. Sure, you can kill the tumor, but if you don't remove the cause of the cancer, the problem remains.
Stop treating spam as though it came forth by breaking the vaccuum symmetry and existed suddenly where nothing had before. It's a new face on an old problem and could easily be treated as such, if it weren't for the mentality that still thinks that anything printed in dot matrix on green and white line tractor feed paper is more real and authoritive than handwriting.
The TCPA works for junk faxes. Rewrite it so as not to be strictly telecom.
When people hijack machines as spam drones, catch their ass and prosecute them under computer crimes laws.
There are STILL cops who refuse to handle stalking cases where email is involved because they're allowed to claim their ignorance prevents them from acting, when the fact is the stalking laws say nothing like "unless it's in email".
Stop treating it as if it's all new and different. It's all just new ways of doing the same old things, and the old ways of stopping it would still work.
...is take what the newbies say and use it for yet another thing to argue about, rather than listen to it. Because they don't HAVE to listen. Because they're doing this for FREE, giving of their own precious time for others' benefit, so how dare those ungreatful newbies criticize our fine work. Hell, even the commercial distros do it entirely their own way and then try to provide tech support which the newbies can barely understand rather than making something the newbies can understand from the outset.
Mod it troll, mod it flamebait, it's just a damn shame you can't mod it professional opinion, or wager.
Orlando had such a system in place for a year and a half. It resulted in precisely zero hits on known criminals. But when has that stopped government purchasing?
deego (587575) sez: "Oh, of course, I completely agree. however, Big corporations will be the ones ignoring them, *we*, the individuals will be sued."
By who? The big corporations that would be doing the ignoring are the ones that'd have to sue. They don't have the gonadal substructure to sue people for the same thing they're doing themselves. That sort of silly assed behavior is reserved for corporations dealing with other corporations.
The US is only the best at ignoring them if they're inconvenient. This would cause so many problems for US business that the government will ignore this even if WIPO were to descend from a cloud in a fiery chariot and writing the treaty into the side of a mountain with a flaming finger.
What a silly question. Better for what?
Is ice cream so great?
In root beer, sure.
In tuna cassarole, not so great.
In your car's transmission.....
If they really want to create an autonomous robot, let's see them make one that they can't get to come back.
I've picked up three plastic kits of the Jupiter C rocket, Hawk models circa 1958, built two so far and converted them to fly with model rocket engines and recover by parachute.
I fly them from a launch pad made from an Erector Set Rocket Launcher kit with the appropriate additions for the launch rail.
Never happen, unless they make CDs unplayable or convince everyone to switch to completely digital amplification systems. To play a CD is to convert it to an analog signal. When that happens, all digital protections are gone. A to D conversions will then contain no such coding. The fix is no more difficult than hooking up your CD player to your stereo.
By the way, the above material is a violation of the DMCA. And so is plugging your CD player into your stereo, for the reasons stated. The RIAA and its purchased congresscritters have set a new standard for "stepped on their own dick". As soon as they tangle with a technologically expert attorney and a clued in judge, there will be some red faces and bare asses.
The air in doctors' offices can carry air vectored germs. All medical treatment should therefore be carried out in a vaccuum, preferably in orbit to prevent contamination of uncontaminated atmosphere.
Except that might infect space. Those germs might be able to survive in a vaccuum, and we'd be infecting the entire universe.
We are dirty dirty dirty and our planet should be sterilized so we don't kill the universe. Nuke us from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Riptide_dot sez: (1) "I thought that the NX command was being put in to make sure that code could only be executed in certain memory spaces, not to make sure that only certain code could be executed." (2) "And it requires specific processors and chipsets that support the command." (3) "My understanding was that it's more for protection of the stability of the OS, not protection of copyrights of software..."
#2, definitely true. Given consumer equipment turnover, how long before a significant portion of such equipment is in peoples' hands?
#1 and #3: You can talking supposed to, from press releases. I am talking able to, from watching many cycles of engineered obselescence. It would be nearly trivial to make the OS only able to run software that supported this (for example, force playback programs to execute in certain memory spaces, and then read the broadcast flag to set the NX to stop it), and use only those files which carried the flag, whether set or unset. My money STILL says XP was designed to evolve into a DRM based pay-per-view jukebox, this is just the next step in that process, and it's increasing problems with older media types are evidence of prior steps along that path. MS is masterful at trying to swing compatibility issues into their monopolistic domain. Arranging it so their mediacentric OS makes it easiest for media publishers to institute DRM does the same thing and takes it outside their domain and into that of the media producers, arranging it so said producers are putting them in the position of a monopoly, not simply their own direct marketing actions.
Over rated my ass.
My money says this is precisely the intended use of the NX (no execute) command supposedly being instituted in teh upcoming service pack of Windows XP.
"Some wag" is a cop out. They did it and are afraid to admit it. Who else would have the necessary safety equipment to put the toy there, other than the people who put the web cam there, and who else would know exactly where the web cam was on an island that "people don't go on"? We're expected to believe "some wag" jusy happened along in that forbidding scenery and just happened to be carrying that particular toy, and happened to find that aprticular spot and know what the thing was attached to?
Any records keeping is doomed to failu8re, because you'll poke around for "just a connector" and shuffle stuff and mix it up and not record this. It is ESSENTIAL to keep it all umbled in boxes. That way you have to look through all of it to find something, which (1) reminds you where everything is (come on, you KNOW you know which of a couple boxes a particular thing probably is in),(2) provides you with the opportunilty to mull through all your cool stuff admiring it and yourself for having gathered such a fine collection and (3) feeding synchronicity by presenting you with some random widget that suddenly gives you a great idea and you yank it out to go do this great thing. Of course, it'll end up going into a different box, but at least you had that synchronicity experience.
BTW, you know you married well when you find your cool junk and her cool junk starting to mingle in the boxes.
It remains to be seen whether Mojave will in fact get approved. Either way, Southwest Regional Spaceport near Las Cruces NM had already been announced by Ansari/X-Prize, as the spaceport site chosen for at least an annual X-Prize event, and expecting the X-Prize contenders who (win or lose) continue on and offer services to the public. Plus, according to the articles which may or may not be accurate, Mojave is being considered for horizontal launched craft. SRS is not being restricted to horizontal launch. My money says SRS will become a regular gathering place for the next step in rocketry, those growing out of amateur/hobbyist rocketry ($100 gets you a model that goes Mach 1 and a mile up) and those following hot on the jets of Ky "Rocketman" Michaelson and CSXT's recent first private rocket into space.
I've worked for several since before they were called ISPs (networked BBS's at best). They don't delete customer info. Even before they figured out that personal data was worth money, they knew that a customer was a customer, whether active or inactive. The latter usually meant "not presently using our service" as weasel words for "ex-customer", though I know of one instance where it meant "dead". How else could they claim those enormous numbers of users? It was everyone who'd ever signed on for even a brief time. If every user claimed by every provider were active at that time, there'd be more active accounts than people on the planet.
It's not the best distro available, but it's easy to set up and run, and comes with installation, migration and operation support as part of the selling price. List price is $100, but it might still be selling for half that as the intro sale. It'd be my "For Dummies" pick.
"What you've got is stolen credit card numbers being transported across state lines. That makes it a federal matter. You call the FBI."
Definitely. Even if your particular access to the sample is local, as long as the access is not obviously restricted to local, it is assumed to be available interstate. That's FBI jurisdiction.
Depending on circumstances, sometimes the FBI requests you contact local law enforcement and have them file a report first, providing evidence that the FBI should be involved. Not sure about this instance. Call your closest FBI field office (see http://www.fbi.gov/contact/fo/fo.htm ) first. They'll either initiate action or tell you to call local LE.
What would be your course of action if you found your number there?