Maybe, but from what I can tell it doesn't actually get supplied with any email addresses - it's just a mailing list utility program (which looks pretty good, actually), with hundreds of legitimate uses.
That said, some of the tools the software provides do look like being tailored towards the bulk advertising market...but they too also have some legitimate use...
It's 1 million items, but each of those items is probably going to be at least an 8-12 track album. Some of them might be box sets, etc, so you're probably looking at a very rough figure of 15 million individual songs per day from Amazon alone.
Because there's far more biomatter available than high tensile power wires. I'm looking out the window now, and can see no power lines at all (it's all underground), but I can see a ton of biomass.
Also, taking power from power lines would render the whole point of the project redundant - renewable, clean energy? Power from power lines has to be generated, and it's highly likely that power is coming from a highly polluting source.
If I remember correctly, I remember reading in one of Jacob Nielson's usability books about how a surprisingly large majority of users thought (this was back in the day before Google) that the Yahoo search field "was the internet". They typed everything into it, and payed no attention to the adress bar.
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"Why do you think the first thing the Scottish scientist cloned was a sheep?"...look, it's the Welsh, not the Scots...the Welsh!:)
"Also, how is he supposed to look depressed if he doesnt have a face!!"
The radio series conveyed Marvin's depression exceedingly well, and I don't remember seeing his face...and anything is better than the BBC TV version. As long as Warwick Davis is a good as Stephen Moore (who played him on the BBC series)...
Nescafe marketed these sorts of drinks s few years back, but as the above poster says, they were basically just warmed up cold coffee, and tasted like it too. Plus, you didn't get much, god only knows what the enormous containers did to the environment, and they cost far too much.
They were withdrawn from sale shortly after introduced, due to lack of popularity.
"Do not count on Wi/Fi manufactures to protect you, for some reason they just simply refuse to provide secure products."
I wouldn't trust Wi-Fi as a fully secure medium even if the manufacturers built in more security measures. As a completely hypothetical and unrealistic example, say I had a completely closed network, with no outside net connections at all. Now, to gain access with physical connections, I've either got to get actual access to a terminal, or do a bit of cable snipping. Now, if I network with Wi-Fi, the job's a lot easier.
Compeltely hypothetical of course, but shows the difficulties of mainting secure access (as in personel able to use, rather than data) to a wi-fi network.
...you never know - these idiots might follow the Dilbert theory, and get promoted up to the top of the NASA chain of command...they might move on to government next, and who knows what might happen.
Does this mean computers could get legally married? Will we see adultury among computers ("you've been wirelessly networking with that laptop again!")
More interestingly, will computers be "coming out"? Will we see PCs telling their owners that "actually, I prefer Linux to Windows." ("I'm the only Linux PC in the village?")
"If individuals can't sue big spamming companies, something like a class action lawsuit could give us (well, you, im not us citizen) another $1b?"
But come on - how much of that billion will actually be paid? I doubt however rich the spammers are they ever came close to that figure from the products they were selling. The least the judgement does is act as a warning other spammers (not that it'll do that, because I suspect a vast number of spammers live outside the US), and at best the ISP will see a little of the $1 billion awarded.
The wonderul privacy country where I come from (the UK, AKA "CCTV Capital of the World") have multiple cameras on roads, mainly motorways and A-(main)Roads. They're mainly used to monitor traffic remotely, and reduce the need for police patrols. They don't directly reduce the traffic, but the information they provide is used on radio reports etc.
A side effect of the proliferation of cameras has been the availability to the public - you can access nearly all of the cameras via the BBC websites - London alone must have well over 50 you can look at ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/travel/jamcams/camloco/camlist.shtml ).
In the UK, we already have a similar system. Some computer games are rated by the BBFC (the violent ones - non violent games are not usually rated by them), and are given the same ratings to those applied to films and videos. Although the system is not perfect, it allows for some degree of control. As an example, games such as Manhunt are given 18 ratings, with Quake III getting a 15 etc. Of course, this still doesn't stop the occasionaly press frenzy over violent games and children (...suspiciously familiar in tone to the "video nasties are corrupting us" 20 years ago...)
The laws only apply to sale and distribution - for example, it's illegal for a minor to buy an 18 rated game, but it's perfectly fine for their parents (if they think it's sutiable) to buy it on their behalf, and them allow them to play it, as you suggest.
"With our troops and weaponry increasingly dependent on the technology, the outcome could be much worse for us in that we could be left completely unable to respond to the attack."
One would imagine the military would have some sort of "access code" or equipment - I honestly can't see the military allowing the government to shut down the entire GPS system, giving them no access at all...either that, or the rational is "if nobody uses it the playing field is level"...
I believe that Guardian Newspaper ran a small campaign a few months back in their science section about "Dr" Gillian McKeith, the author of "You Are What you Eat", a number 1 book and popular TV programme over here in the UK. It turned out she'd actually got her doctorate from an online institution (it may even have been Trinity Southern, I forget the name) - either way, it was "accredited" by the same bogus board as Trinity Southern (and if you've read her book, it's pretty obvious she has no clue what she's talking about - chlorophyll is apparantly "high in oxygen", and "the 'blood' of the plant will really oxygenate your blood." when you eat it...depite the fact there's no light in your gut...).
The Guardian's point was that millions of people were buying this book under the impression she was an accredited doctor, when in fact she was nothing of the sort. However good her advice may have been, she was still misleading the public over her credentials... see http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience/story/0, 12980,1285600,00.html
In a similar theme, the journalist in question got his cat a "nutrationalist specialist" certificate...
...I particularly like the "no/. anymore" message at the bottom of the page - slightly optimistic - clearly, lighting does struck twice (or thrice?) for them...
...so it's an old link, but he's added a new addition to celebrate the release of HL2 - the case has a new motor built in that randomly vibrates the case, causing it so shudder and shake at intervals throughout the game. Now that's the real HL experience:)
[...in all fairness, I've had no problems with the skipping bug...]
Wasn't there a failed trail of face recognition by one of the UK police forces - they installed software that would match faces of known offenders with live CCTV footage and identify them. However, I believe it was a complete disaster, and the system identified nearly all false positives. I can't quite remember the police force in question, but the software was from a US company specialising in biometrics...again, I'm not sure which one exactly.
...because there is no line to draw. "Animal" simply means "A multicellular organism of the kingdom Animalia" - Animal is a classification, and humans are part of the Animalia kingdom. Thus, humans are animals.
Lambs are animals. Humans are animals. Simple as that. Humans are not some special exemption - they are animals, and so to say "when do you draw the line between humans and animals" is just plain wrong. Go take a basic high school Biology course.
Perhaps what was meant to be said was "species" - a species is defined as a group of related organisms capable of interbreeding. Although humans could technically breed with sheep (and living near Wales, I should know...), the offspring would be sterile...
...it's "migration". Migration is defined as a move from one area to another, for at least one year (anything else being classed as "other" - holiday, sabbatical, gap year etc.). There is no such thing as reverse migration.
To say so implies that by migrating, people are moving from a poorer country to a richer one (ie, from India to the US). That's not the case at all - migrating can be forced, can be voluntary, can be from an LEDC to an MEDC, from an MEDC to an LEDC...there's no "set" rule.
I did (for once...) read the article, but didn't download the video my question might be answered in that (although if it is only answered in the video, that's pretty stupid - I'm sure many people can't view it, and it's WMV, so I wouldn't actually want to...) but does he actually say what the website visited was?
I mean, I'm guessing most people would visit a reputable search engine, or the default MSN page when they first installed Windows and opened up IE, instead of what I'm guessing must be a fairly dodgy site in order to install so much spyware.
That's not to discredit what he's done - I'm sure novice users would easily get onto these sort of spyware laden pages by mistake pretty quickly...I'm just interested, that's all.
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Maybe, but from what I can tell it doesn't actually get supplied with any email addresses - it's just a mailing list utility program (which looks pretty good, actually), with hundreds of legitimate uses.
That said, some of the tools the software provides do look like being tailored towards the bulk advertising market...but they too also have some legitimate use...
True, but it was sure as hell better as what us Brits usually do a soccer matches - chuck bricks :)
It's 1 million items, but each of those items is probably going to be at least an 8-12 track album. Some of them might be box sets, etc, so you're probably looking at a very rough figure of 15 million individual songs per day from Amazon alone.
Because there's far more biomatter available than high tensile power wires. I'm looking out the window now, and can see no power lines at all (it's all underground), but I can see a ton of biomass. Also, taking power from power lines would render the whole point of the project redundant - renewable, clean energy? Power from power lines has to be generated, and it's highly likely that power is coming from a highly polluting source.
If I remember correctly, I remember reading in one of Jacob Nielson's usability books about how a surprisingly large majority of users thought (this was back in the day before Google) that the Yahoo search field "was the internet". They typed everything into it, and payed no attention to the adress bar.
"Why do you think the first thing the Scottish scientist cloned was a sheep?" ...look, it's the Welsh, not the Scots...the Welsh! :)
Go on! Mod me flamebait!
Sorry, I meant the BBC radio series voice (which was (and still is I guess, with the 4th series coming along) played by Stephen Moore.
"Also, how is he supposed to look depressed if he doesnt have a face!!" The radio series conveyed Marvin's depression exceedingly well, and I don't remember seeing his face...and anything is better than the BBC TV version. As long as Warwick Davis is a good as Stephen Moore (who played him on the BBC series)...
Nescafe marketed these sorts of drinks s few years back, but as the above poster says, they were basically just warmed up cold coffee, and tasted like it too. Plus, you didn't get much, god only knows what the enormous containers did to the environment, and they cost far too much.
They were withdrawn from sale shortly after introduced, due to lack of popularity.
"Do not count on Wi/Fi manufactures to protect you, for some reason they just simply refuse to provide secure products."
I wouldn't trust Wi-Fi as a fully secure medium even if the manufacturers built in more security measures. As a completely hypothetical and unrealistic example, say I had a completely closed network, with no outside net connections at all. Now, to gain access with physical connections, I've either got to get actual access to a terminal, or do a bit of cable snipping. Now, if I network with Wi-Fi, the job's a lot easier.
Compeltely hypothetical of course, but shows the difficulties of mainting secure access (as in personel able to use, rather than data) to a wi-fi network.
...you never know - these idiots might follow the Dilbert theory, and get promoted up to the top of the NASA chain of command...they might move on to government next, and who knows what might happen.
Oh, wait.
Does this mean computers could get legally married? Will we see adultury among computers ("you've been wirelessly networking with that laptop again!")
More interestingly, will computers be "coming out"? Will we see PCs telling their owners that "actually, I prefer Linux to Windows." ("I'm the only Linux PC in the village?")
"If individuals can't sue big spamming companies, something like a class action lawsuit could give us (well, you, im not us citizen) another $1b?"
But come on - how much of that billion will actually be paid? I doubt however rich the spammers are they ever came close to that figure from the products they were selling. The least the judgement does is act as a warning other spammers (not that it'll do that, because I suspect a vast number of spammers live outside the US), and at best the ISP will see a little of the $1 billion awarded.
The wonderul privacy country where I come from (the UK, AKA "CCTV Capital of the World") have multiple cameras on roads, mainly motorways and A-(main)Roads. They're mainly used to monitor traffic remotely, and reduce the need for police patrols. They don't directly reduce the traffic, but the information they provide is used on radio reports etc. A side effect of the proliferation of cameras has been the availability to the public - you can access nearly all of the cameras via the BBC websites - London alone must have well over 50 you can look at ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/travel/jamcams/camloco /camlist.shtml ).
In the UK, we already have a similar system. Some computer games are rated by the BBFC (the violent ones - non violent games are not usually rated by them), and are given the same ratings to those applied to films and videos. Although the system is not perfect, it allows for some degree of control. As an example, games such as Manhunt are given 18 ratings, with Quake III getting a 15 etc. Of course, this still doesn't stop the occasionaly press frenzy over violent games and children (...suspiciously familiar in tone to the "video nasties are corrupting us" 20 years ago...)
The laws only apply to sale and distribution - for example, it's illegal for a minor to buy an 18 rated game, but it's perfectly fine for their parents (if they think it's sutiable) to buy it on their behalf, and them allow them to play it, as you suggest.
"With our troops and weaponry increasingly dependent on the technology, the outcome could be much worse for us in that we could be left completely unable to respond to the attack."
One would imagine the military would have some sort of "access code" or equipment - I honestly can't see the military allowing the government to shut down the entire GPS system, giving them no access at all...either that, or the rational is "if nobody uses it the playing field is level"...
I've added some new features to your wonderful program, which I too am releasing under the GPL. I call it:
"Breaking in to the Neighbor's House to steal a Movie".
I believe that Guardian Newspaper ran a small campaign a few months back in their science section about "Dr" Gillian McKeith, the author of "You Are What you Eat", a number 1 book and popular TV programme over here in the UK. It turned out she'd actually got her doctorate from an online institution (it may even have been Trinity Southern, I forget the name) - either way, it was "accredited" by the same bogus board as Trinity Southern (and if you've read her book, it's pretty obvious she has no clue what she's talking about - chlorophyll is apparantly "high in oxygen", and "the 'blood' of the plant will really oxygenate your blood." when you eat it...depite the fact there's no light in your gut...).
, 12980,1285600,00.html
The Guardian's point was that millions of people were buying this book under the impression she was an accredited doctor, when in fact she was nothing of the sort. However good her advice may have been, she was still misleading the public over her credentials... see http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience/story/0
In a similar theme, the journalist in question got his cat a "nutrationalist specialist" certificate...
...I particularly like the "no /. anymore" message at the bottom of the page - slightly optimistic - clearly, lighting does struck twice (or thrice?) for them...
...so it's an old link, but he's added a new addition to celebrate the release of HL2 - the case has a new motor built in that randomly vibrates the case, causing it so shudder and shake at intervals throughout the game. Now that's the real HL experience :)
[...in all fairness, I've had no problems with the skipping bug...]
To be honest, I think I many more people wouldn't mind the White House being destroyed by aliens this time around... :)
Wasn't there a failed trail of face recognition by one of the UK police forces - they installed software that would match faces of known offenders with live CCTV footage and identify them. However, I believe it was a complete disaster, and the system identified nearly all false positives. I can't quite remember the police force in question, but the software was from a US company specialising in biometrics...again, I'm not sure which one exactly.
...because there is no line to draw. "Animal" simply means "A multicellular organism of the kingdom Animalia" - Animal is a classification, and humans are part of the Animalia kingdom. Thus, humans are animals.
Lambs are animals.
Humans are animals.
Simple as that. Humans are not some special exemption - they are animals, and so to say "when do you draw the line between humans and animals" is just plain wrong. Go take a basic high school Biology course.
Perhaps what was meant to be said was "species" - a species is defined as a group of related organisms capable of interbreeding. Although humans could technically breed with sheep (and living near Wales, I should know...), the offspring would be sterile...
...it's "migration". Migration is defined as a move from one area to another, for at least one year (anything else being classed as "other" - holiday, sabbatical, gap year etc.). There is no such thing as reverse migration.
To say so implies that by migrating, people are moving from a poorer country to a richer one (ie, from India to the US). That's not the case at all - migrating can be forced, can be voluntary, can be from an LEDC to an MEDC, from an MEDC to an LEDC...there's no "set" rule.
I did (for once...) read the article, but didn't download the video my question might be answered in that (although if it is only answered in the video, that's pretty stupid - I'm sure many people can't view it, and it's WMV, so I wouldn't actually want to...) but does he actually say what the website visited was?
I mean, I'm guessing most people would visit a reputable search engine, or the default MSN page when they first installed Windows and opened up IE, instead of what I'm guessing must be a fairly dodgy site in order to install so much spyware.
That's not to discredit what he's done - I'm sure novice users would easily get onto these sort of spyware laden pages by mistake pretty quickly...I'm just interested, that's all.