Its been mentioned before but I'll put in another plug for text only browsing. True, many of the high bandwidth sites will not work with a text browser like Lynx or with FireFox configured with MM shut down [http://news.cnet.com/8301-13880_3-9837331-68.html]. I believe that's the point, avoiding all the high bandwidth multi media browsing.
You might also consider applying my solution to spam email. I bill spammers for unsolicited email. that's right, I forward all my spam to a little script that strips out the URLs or businesses names being advertised and adds them to a simple database. Each month I send out bills to those being advertised. In face I've never actually collected a single dollar from them but strangely enough my spam dropped to almost 0 within the first three months and has remained very low. Specifically, from over 100 messages per day to ~0 per month on average. rarely, I'll get a flurry of offers to enlarge my penis but those mysteriously stop when I start sending out the collection notices. I think the trick is to leave an escape clause in the bills and collection notices that basically says they can have their balance eliminated if the spam stops.
I wonder if the same approach could be applied to banner advertisements? Browse through a logging proxy and filter out all the banner adds. Then use the same mechanism to identify the advertised and send them a bill for bandwidth plus a service charge.
Actually, you don't really need to be all that careful about removing the residual WD-40. It's non-corrosive and non-conductive. The biggest reason to remove it is so that dust will not accumulate as quickly. I have saved cell phones and pda's that unintentionally went swimming with this. The key is to remove any batteries as soon after the soaking as possible. As noted by another poster, batteries + moisture = corrosion.
Trivia Note: WD-40 was developed to ensure there was no moisture on electronics in missile guidance systems. In that application, the only effort to remove the WD-40 was to let them drip dry. Your tax dollars at work! Um, I wonder if the origins of duct tape can be traced to....... Nah
Sure it would, If I have to pay for Cable and the premium channels I'd cancel my Cable. They're on thin ice already with me, it would not take much to convince me I can do without them.
Think of this as education. While it's common practice, most consumers who look to/. for objective information don't understand the difference between bandwidth and throughput. Unfortunately I could not find any end user suitable tools for measuring throughput. While Stanford has a decent list of tools it's by no means exhaustive and they're not packaged for the end user. http://www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/nmtf/nmtf-tools.html#thruput
FWIW, the poster's measurement of throughput, crude though it is, is way better than I see through Time Warner during normal business hours. It's unfortunate what we yanks pass off as Broadband, but then again; when was the last time you read about a horribly obtuse piece of pork barrel legislation on/. and immediately called your legislature to complain about it? Now if you'll excuse me, I have to compose an email to WHO and threaten to withhold my pittance of support of they don't get their $#|t together.
I telecommute 100% of the time. As a software developer I often have need to transfer large data sets both upstream and downstream. I've come to accept the slow 128kbps upstream. At least it's consistent. It's the downstream bandwidth where their official polity departs from their practices. Within an hour of starting a large transfer I find my bandwidth "mysteriously" drop to 48kbps and remains there for exactly 24 hours after the transfer is complete. My neighbor's bandwidth measurements seem unaffected at these times. Time Warner support claims no such bandwidth caps exist and try to baffle me with their poor understanding of network implementation. At least two level 3 support reps have referred me to a paragraph in their TOS stating that P2P is an unauthorized use of their network. Other level 2 reps press a hard sell for their business class service which would (officially) only get me hosting space in their data center at twice the market rate.
All the wink, wink, nod, nod feedback from their support staff leads me to believe that not only are they capping bandwidth but doing so in a legally shady manner. I suppose the prospect of an official tiered bandwidth package is appealing so long as they actually deliver the promised bandwidth.
Unfortunately, Time Warner Cable is the only broadband provider for miles around. If there were anything else (even a decent satellite signal) I'd switch in a heartbeat. I've had nothing but trouble with them form the get go and don't even get me started on VOIP through their network. I don't believe the only reason their service is reliable and others aren't has anything to do with the expertiese of the other providers That makes them a local monopoly and in my opinion a "Public Utility". So why do we keep exempting them from PUC oversight?
Other than "contact with foreign government, military, or intelligence officials", these are typical activities of anyone learning. Um, isn't that why there in University?
Quick, someone report the FBI agents giving these briefs as suspicious individuals and a clear and present danger to Democracy.
Letting the big boys review patent applications is a blatant conflict of interest!
I propose that patent applications be listed in Slashdot for peer review. That should speed up the review process to something between 1 day and 1 week. (sometimes I get behind om my/. reading)
Think about it. * Peer review in mass. * dopes and dupes flamed immediately. * prior art identified and referenced. * total review transparency
It's a win win situation. The only way to improve upon it would be to restrict replies by anonymous coward (who is that guy anyway?)
Interesting, If this report is true then any "evidence" collected by non LEA personnel at the scene is questionable under NY law http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/nycodes/c16/a36.htmlARTICLE 45 EVIDENCE Rules 4514, 4517... (sorry I could not find reference to chain of custody rules but the report suggests that was broken as well).
This raises the question of why there were people wearing RIAA jackets at a alleged crime scene in the first place. I speculate that the exercise was more about harassment or publicity than protecting actual legal damages.
My opinion may be bias. I'm still wondering why RIAA and its parent agents (Sony, Virgin...) are NOT being prosecuted for Anti Trust violations. Their behavior over the past few years is far more egregious than M$ ever was.
begin rant Even GW can't take republicanism to the extreme you extol libertarianism to, and don't even get me started on what 2 lbs of mercury would do to an ecosystem. Try for the life time of your great grand children and that only if there is a concerted cleanup effort costing millions and affecting every downstream watershed. end rant
Did we forget to consider that the pirate radio effort is a form of civil disobedience. The new microbroadcaster designation is a start. Unfortunately it only legalized the hobbyist. What's at stake is not anarchy of the air waves. On the contrary, if you wanted to start a community broadcast station you either need funding outside the reach of all but the largest conglomerate corporations or you break the law.
Current FCC regulations are an example of legislation that promotes a mono culture (They're Bad! They don't tolerate change well and they're subject to pests, including political despots). For example, I have nothing against Clear Channel Communications but I'd like to hear some blue grass now and then. They won't program it because their bean counters say it's not profitable enough. My neighbors and I either need $20 million to bid on a broadcast license (and we'd probably loose the bid) or we break the law and broadcast above 1 watt (less than a mile range).
If one had the $20 million one could use it to "Lobby" their representative to introduce a bill to change FCC rules but then there would be nothing left to buy the votes needed to get it passed or to affect the wording of the rules written to satisfy the bill should it pass.
The broadcasters won't dedicate any air time to informing the public of this issue so there is little hope of legislators giving the bill any importance. The grass roots are growing, but very very slowly.
Only channel left for change is the judicial branch. Unfortunately, to use this branch of government one must break the law, AKA Civil Disobedience....or were you sleeping through Civics class?
November is getting close. As it is, none of the incumbents are on my list of candidates. Those running unchallenged will find write in candidates voted for on my ballot.
It's past time to make politicians legally liable for the legislation they pass. Pass a law that's later deemed unconstitutional and be charged with Treason.
Mucker Doo! ---------------------- Where have all the hippies gone? Gone to prison every one. When will we ever learn?
Let's face it, network access is become a public utility. So why are the carriers exempt compliance with public utility law?
Part of the reason for all the big money lobbying is that the carriers recognise that loop hole and are looking for legislation favorable to milking a cash cow. I say bull puckey!
Is it just me or does the Internet look more and more like a broadcast media than it did 2 years ago. 6,360,000 search results to choose from but there is still nothing to watch on IP. A tiered Internet is not about improving the quality of your IP Phone call, it's about controlling the content so it's like TV and Radio.
Come November I'm looking to clean House (and Senate) of all the carpetbaggers. Legislators with a record of voting for Big Business profits can polish their resume as far as I'm concerned.
As a network software developer I sick of having to patch my code to work around yet another limitation imposed by the carriers and ISPs. How many of you readers can still use port 25 to send mail? darn few if my ORTS database is any indication. That's got nothing to do with SPAM control. It's about indexing your mail content for marketing purposes. (imho)
Micro$oft actually gives it away (yea right) in their OS. An even more powerful version is part of with their SQL Server product and WebDAV Product. Problem it... All of them $u(k! Sure they integrate nicely with other M$ server products and the early google appliances (my experience with them) were a completely stand alone solution but....
I droped a first generation google appliance in to the network of one of my clients, told it what to index and the next day all the corporate users were hammering it with search requests. The only complaint to come out of the exercise was a realization that they had multiple copies of the same document on multiple servers and no one was sure which was the correct version of the document. OK, there was one other whine... Some civil engineers were surprised that it did not also index the accounting and project management databases.
There was a lot of this going on the winter of 2004/2005. I remember 6 times I could feel a tingling in my legs while standing in the vicinity of a man hole. Usually in older sections of Boston that had recently been gentrified.
An N-Star line man I know told me the problem happens because demand exceeds the pace they can upgrade the circuits. The oldest circuits in the grid could not handle the load and the insulators would begin to break down. He said they were prioritizing upgrades by Ground Fault reports, then statistical analysis, then business outage complaints.
I thought the statistical analysis was a rather cool approach. He sad they identified high risk circuits by looking for statistical anomalies in the billing database. Specifically, where a circuit load exceeded the total customer usage.
Setting aside the implications for abuse of the system (which, I agree with other posters here, is the real motive of this)....
So ISP's build a database of tags identifying all existing CP and use it to prevent use of their bandwidth for distribution. Let's assume that it's a spohisticated marker that will tollerate significant alteration of the digital stream and still identify CP with 99.99% accuracy.
What they've done is prevent the flesh peddlers from re-selling their 'stock art' and force them to acquire new images that have not been tagged by the CP database. Of course the flesh peddlers could just give up their lucerative black market income.
Remind me how this is going to prevent or reduce child abuse?
As a level 2 support tech I see the result of education not differentiating "Computer Literacy" (vocational skills) vs "Information Literacy" (Critical Thinking in a digital context).
I learned a long time ago that most information system users are bright and intelligent beings who are required to utilize technology in their chosen vocation. Being well educated, they learned wrote skills, if they do A then B then C they will get result D. They are unprepared for any anomaly in the process. Update program B and production stops.
When computers still required their own room and support staff.. my father taught me to think of a computer like a box of tools. Start with the basic hand tools and learn what they do and how to use them. For example, a screw driver does not make an effective pry bar. Likewise, email is not an effective file transfer tool.
An Old adage states "There is nothing like the right tool". I don't necessarily need to be an expert on every tool so long as I know what they are. To be more specific;
I can identify classes of tools:
I can identify tools within a given classification:
I can identify the mediums in which a tool works:
I can describe the modality of the tool:
Third, be aware of the medium in which I'm working and know which tools apply to that medium. To me the digital mediums extend beyond display, print, and audio. I look at networks as mediums distinguished by their protocols.
The Mc Donalds in downtown Seattle has been doing this for years. Except they play music inside and outside at high volume.
"The sidewalk outside the McDonald's at Third Avenue and Pike Street has always been a popular spot to loiter, and six years ago, its owner, Rick Barrett, decided to do something about it. First, he took the lead of several other cities and began piping MUZAK out onto the corner. The kids stayed put, so Barrett switched tactics by blasting country music, a racially acute bit of target marketing that garnered noise complaints from the neighbors."
I was undecided over a Sony or Sharp plasma TV. Then Sony fcuked up my system and cost me a day's productivity. I now have a new 42" Aquis hanging on my wall. Nope, I can't see Sony did anything wrong but then again, I'm not a share holder!
PS: I'd like to sue Sony for lost productivity but my employer won't sign a deposition. Anybody know of a class action suit in the making?
Not sure about the cards but the NTT phones have a fingerprint scanner so they aren't acrivated by accident when the user walks by a Pepsi maching in the Tokyo train terminal. Swipe your finger and wave the phone within 10sec, RF broadcast of single use cypher, debit account. Now that I can live with. ( so long as the gang of thrasher punks don't cut my finger off when they steal my phone. At least they will leave my wallet and ID.)
Tenet said "Terorists are a back door through which carpet baggers and power mongers can control and monopolize the internet..."
Oh wait! Sorry, that dislexia can be troublesome.
Did we forget tell George that the internet treats censorship like an error and roughts around it? No George, the internet is NOT like the Wild West. In the wild west, bad actors were shot. Now go back to the meeting house and leave this internet thing to the men.
SID or SPF or SMTP are not designed to eliminate spam. Nor should they be!! When I lived in Washington State I had access to a state law that allowed me to bill spammers for up to $300 per incident for unsolicited email. When I took the time to bill the company being advertised (regardless of who sent the email) I stoped getting spam! True, I never collected a dime but then I really didn't want the money. I was amazed how fast the spam stopped. Within two weeks my daily count of unsolicited email went form >250 to <10. Within a month it was 0 and stayed there until almost a year after I moved to Massechusetts.
What if you could collect $5.00 from your ISP for every message you flagged as SPAM because they billed the advertiser $10.00? "Honey, we got the check from AOL... they're only sending us $45.00 this month!"
On the other hand, if you really want to block email based on the SID then just flag all messages with valid SIDs as spam.
Last time I checked, niether the UN nor ITU were standards bodies or members of the internet community. They can hold all the meetings they want but that's won't affect 'The Net'. If they want input in to how the internet works, they'll have to participate in the process like everyone else does, and that includes working with ICANN. Otherwise, there little more than another hitless web site.
If read Section 10.b correctly. SunnComm is inviolation. These guys knew their product was defective before selling it to the recording industry and investors. That's a "manipulative or deceptive device or contrivance".
By the way, did they name Uncle Bill in their suit? After all, holding down the shift key has been in the Windows Documentation since Windows 95.
Slashdot Mirror
Its been mentioned before but I'll put in another plug for text only browsing. True, many of the high bandwidth sites will not work with a text browser like Lynx or with FireFox configured with MM shut down [http://news.cnet.com/8301-13880_3-9837331-68.html]. I believe that's the point, avoiding all the high bandwidth multi media browsing.
You might also consider applying my solution to spam email. I bill spammers for unsolicited email. that's right, I forward all my spam to a little script that strips out the URLs or businesses names being advertised and adds them to a simple database. Each month I send out bills to those being advertised. In face I've never actually collected a single dollar from them but strangely enough my spam dropped to almost 0 within the first three months and has remained very low. Specifically, from over 100 messages per day to ~0 per month on average. rarely, I'll get a flurry of offers to enlarge my penis but those mysteriously stop when I start sending out the collection notices. I think the trick is to leave an escape clause in the bills and collection notices that basically says they can have their balance eliminated if the spam stops.
I wonder if the same approach could be applied to banner advertisements? Browse through a logging proxy and filter out all the banner adds. Then use the same mechanism to identify the advertised and send them a bill for bandwidth plus a service charge.
Actually, you don't really need to be all that careful about removing the residual WD-40. It's non-corrosive and non-conductive. The biggest reason to remove it is so that dust will not accumulate as quickly. I have saved cell phones and pda's that unintentionally went swimming with this. The key is to remove any batteries as soon after the soaking as possible. As noted by another poster, batteries + moisture = corrosion.
Trivia Note: ....... Nah
WD-40 was developed to ensure there was no moisture on electronics in missile guidance systems. In that application, the only effort to remove the WD-40 was to let them drip dry. Your tax dollars at work! Um, I wonder if the origins of duct tape can be traced to
Sure it would, If I have to pay for Cable and the premium channels I'd cancel my Cable. They're on thin ice already with me, it would not take much to convince me I can do without them.
Think of this as education. /. for objective information don't understand the difference between bandwidth and throughput. Unfortunately I could not find any end user suitable tools for measuring throughput. While Stanford has a decent list of tools it's by no means exhaustive and they're not packaged for the end user.
/. and immediately called your legislature to complain about it? Now if you'll excuse me, I have to compose an email to WHO and threaten to withhold my pittance of support of they don't get their $#|t together.
While it's common practice, most consumers who look to
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/nmtf/nmtf-tools.html#thruput
FWIW, the poster's measurement of throughput, crude though it is, is way better than I see through Time Warner during normal business hours. It's unfortunate what we yanks pass off as Broadband, but then again; when was the last time you read about a horribly obtuse piece of pork barrel legislation on
I telecommute 100% of the time. As a software developer I often have need to transfer large data sets both upstream and downstream. I've come to accept the slow 128kbps upstream. At least it's consistent. It's the downstream bandwidth where their official polity departs from their practices. Within an hour of starting a large transfer I find my bandwidth "mysteriously" drop to 48kbps and remains there for exactly 24 hours after the transfer is complete. My neighbor's bandwidth measurements seem unaffected at these times. Time Warner support claims no such bandwidth caps exist and try to baffle me with their poor understanding of network implementation. At least two level 3 support reps have referred me to a paragraph in their TOS stating that P2P is an unauthorized use of their network. Other level 2 reps press a hard sell for their business class service which would (officially) only get me hosting space in their data center at twice the market rate.
All the wink, wink, nod, nod feedback from their support staff leads me to believe that not only are they capping bandwidth but doing so in a legally shady manner. I suppose the prospect of an official tiered bandwidth package is appealing so long as they actually deliver the promised bandwidth.
Unfortunately, Time Warner Cable is the only broadband provider for miles around. If there were anything else (even a decent satellite signal) I'd switch in a heartbeat. I've had nothing but trouble with them form the get go and don't even get me started on VOIP through their network. I don't believe the only reason their service is reliable and others aren't has anything to do with the expertiese of the other providers That makes them a local monopoly and in my opinion a "Public Utility". So why do we keep exempting them from PUC oversight?
Normally, I'd agree that this is just another patent abuse case...
Given Sony's track record for patent (and copywrite) abuse I'm hoping they loose their shirts over this!
Why did Georgie commute the prison portion? Because he told libby to lie?
Hmmmm... Naw, that can't possibly be true!
Other than "contact with foreign government, military, or intelligence officials", these are typical activities of anyone learning. Um, isn't that why there in University?
Quick, someone report the FBI agents giving these briefs as suspicious individuals and a clear and present danger to Democracy.
Though clearly INAL....
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Letting the big boys review patent applications is a blatant conflict of interest!
I propose that patent applications be listed in Slashdot for peer review. That should speed up the review process to something between 1 day and 1 week. (sometimes I get behind om my
Think about it.
* Peer review in mass.
* dopes and dupes flamed immediately.
* prior art identified and referenced.
* total review transparency
It's a win win situation. The only way to improve upon it would be to restrict replies by anonymous coward (who is that guy anyway?)
Muck
Interesting, If this report is true then any "evidence" collected by non LEA personnel at the scene is questionable under NY law http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/nycodes/c16/a36.html ARTICLE 45 EVIDENCE Rules 4514, 4517... (sorry I could not find reference to chain of custody rules but the report suggests that was broken as well).
...) are NOT being prosecuted for Anti Trust violations. Their behavior over the past few years is far more egregious than M$ ever was.
This raises the question of why there were people wearing RIAA jackets at a alleged crime scene in the first place. I speculate that the exercise was more about harassment or publicity than protecting actual legal damages.
My opinion may be bias. I'm still wondering why RIAA and its parent agents (Sony, Virgin
Did we forget to consider that the pirate radio effort is a form of civil disobedience.
The new microbroadcaster designation is a start. Unfortunately it only legalized the hobbyist. What's at stake is not anarchy of the air waves. On the contrary, if you wanted to start a community broadcast station you either need funding outside the reach of all but the largest conglomerate corporations or you break the law.
Current FCC regulations are an example of legislation that promotes a mono culture (They're Bad! They don't tolerate change well and they're subject to pests, including political despots). For example, I have nothing against Clear Channel Communications but I'd like to hear some blue grass now and then. They won't program it because their bean counters say it's not profitable enough. My neighbors and I either need $20 million to bid on a broadcast license (and we'd probably loose the bid) or we break the law and broadcast above 1 watt (less than a mile range).
If one had the $20 million one could use it to "Lobby" their representative to introduce a bill to change FCC rules but then there would be nothing left to buy the votes needed to get it passed or to affect the wording of the rules written to satisfy the bill should it pass.
The broadcasters won't dedicate any air time to informing the public of this issue so there is little hope of legislators giving the bill any importance. The grass roots are growing, but very very slowly.
Only channel left for change is the judicial branch. Unfortunately, to use this branch of government one must break the law, AKA Civil Disobedience.
November is getting close. As it is, none of the incumbents are on my list of candidates. Those running unchallenged will find write in candidates voted for on my ballot.
It's past time to make politicians legally liable for the legislation they pass. Pass a law that's later deemed unconstitutional and be charged with Treason.
Mucker Doo!
----------------------
Where have all the hippies gone?
Gone to prison every one.
When will we ever learn?
Let's face it, network access is become a public utility. So why are the carriers exempt compliance with public utility law?
Part of the reason for all the big money lobbying is that the carriers recognise that loop hole and are looking for legislation favorable to milking a cash cow. I say bull puckey!
Is it just me or does the Internet look more and more like a broadcast media than it did 2 years ago. 6,360,000 search results to choose from but there is still nothing to watch on IP. A tiered Internet is not about improving the quality of your IP Phone call, it's about controlling the content so it's like TV and Radio.
Come November I'm looking to clean House (and Senate) of all the carpetbaggers.
Legislators with a record of voting for Big Business profits can polish their resume as far as I'm concerned.
As a network software developer I sick of having to patch my code to work around yet another limitation imposed by the carriers and ISPs. How many of you readers can still use port 25 to send mail? darn few if my ORTS database is any indication. That's got nothing to do with SPAM control. It's about indexing your mail content for marketing purposes. (imho)
à contraire mon leidner
Micro$oft actually gives it away (yea right) in their OS. An even more powerful version is part of with their SQL Server product and WebDAV Product. Problem it... All of them $u(k! Sure they integrate nicely with other M$ server products and the early google appliances (my experience with them) were a completely stand alone solution but....
I droped a first generation google appliance in to the network of one of my clients, told it what to index and the next day all the corporate users were hammering it with search requests.
The only complaint to come out of the exercise was a realization that they had multiple copies of the same document on multiple servers and no one was sure which was the correct version of the document. OK, there was one other whine... Some civil engineers were surprised that it did not also index the accounting and project management databases.
Try
h tml?st=advanced&QryTxt=N-Star+Manholel e
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bostonherald/results.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=n-star+manho
There was a lot of this going on the winter of 2004/2005. I remember 6 times I could feel a tingling in my legs while standing in the vicinity of a man hole. Usually in older sections of Boston that had recently been gentrified.
An N-Star line man I know told me the problem happens because demand exceeds the pace they can upgrade the circuits. The oldest circuits in the grid could not handle the load and the insulators would begin to break down. He said they were prioritizing upgrades by Ground Fault reports, then statistical analysis, then business outage complaints.
I thought the statistical analysis was a rather cool approach. He sad they identified high risk circuits by looking for statistical anomalies in the billing database. Specifically, where a circuit load exceeded the total customer usage.
Setting aside the implications for abuse of the system (which, I agree with other posters here, is the real motive of this)....
So ISP's build a database of tags identifying all existing CP and use it to prevent use of their bandwidth for distribution. Let's assume that it's a spohisticated marker that will tollerate significant alteration of the digital stream and still identify CP with 99.99% accuracy.
What they've done is prevent the flesh peddlers from re-selling their 'stock art' and force them to acquire new images that have not been tagged by the CP database. Of course the flesh peddlers could just give up their lucerative black market income.
Remind me how this is going to prevent or reduce child abuse?
Way more than 2 cents there...
As a level 2 support tech I see the result of education not differentiating "Computer Literacy" (vocational skills) vs "Information Literacy" (Critical Thinking in a digital context).
I learned a long time ago that most information system users are bright and intelligent beings who are required to utilize technology in their chosen vocation. Being well educated, they learned wrote skills, if they do A then B then C they will get result D. They are unprepared for any anomaly in the process. Update program B and production stops.
When computers still required their own room and support staff..
my father taught me to think of a computer like a box of tools. Start with the basic hand tools and learn what they do and how to use them. For example, a screw driver does not make an effective pry bar. Likewise, email is not an effective file transfer tool.
An Old adage states "There is nothing like the right tool". I don't necessarily need to be an expert on every tool so long as I know what they are. To be more specific;
I can identify classes of tools:
I can identify tools within a given classification:
I can identify the mediums in which a tool works:
I can describe the modality of the tool:
Third, be aware of the medium in which I'm working and know which tools apply to that medium. To me the digital mediums extend beyond display, print, and audio. I look at networks as mediums distinguished by their protocols.
The Mc Donalds in downtown Seattle has been doing this for years. Except they play music inside and outside at high volume.
_ music_24hours.php
"The sidewalk outside the McDonald's at Third Avenue and Pike Street has always been a popular spot to loiter, and six years ago, its owner, Rick Barrett, decided to do something about it. First, he took the lead of several other cities and began piping MUZAK out onto the corner. The kids stayed put, so Barrett switched tactics by blasting country music, a racially acute bit of target marketing that garnered noise complaints from the neighbors."
http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0545/051109
Funny thing was. it worked! all the teens went down to the Public Market to hang out. Barrett reported record profits that month.
PS: I'd like to sue Sony for lost productivity but my employer won't sign a deposition. Anybody know of a class action suit in the making?
Not sure about the cards but the NTT phones have a fingerprint scanner so they aren't acrivated by accident when the user walks by a Pepsi maching in the Tokyo train terminal. Swipe your finger and wave the phone within 10sec, RF broadcast of single use cypher, debit account. Now that I can live with. ( so long as the gang of thrasher punks don't cut my finger off when they steal my phone. At least they will leave my wallet and ID.)
Tenet said "Terorists are a back door through which carpet baggers and power mongers can control and monopolize the internet..."
Oh wait! Sorry, that dislexia can be troublesome.
Did we forget tell George that the internet treats censorship like an error and roughts around it? No George, the internet is NOT like the Wild West. In the wild west, bad actors were shot. Now go back to the meeting house and leave this internet thing to the men.
What if you could collect $5.00 from your ISP for every message you flagged as SPAM because they billed the advertiser $10.00? "Honey, we got the check from AOL... they're only sending us $45.00 this month!"
On the other hand, if you really want to block email based on the SID then just flag all messages with valid SIDs as spam.
Last time I checked, niether the UN nor ITU were standards bodies or members of the internet community. They can hold all the meetings they want but that's won't affect 'The Net'. If they want input in to how the internet works, they'll have to participate in the process like everyone else does, and that includes working with ICANN. Otherwise, there little more than another hitless web site.