I'm not sure I'm in favor of this approach, but I'm sure not against it just because the spammer's ISPs might "suffer".
Your statement doesn't reflect the reality of the Internet 'design'. The Internet is not made of millions of point-to-point cables. All that traffic traverses multiple segments owned and operated by different entities. Each one incurs the extra bandwith, not just the Spammers ISP. I was referring to the ISP / bandwidth providers in general, not just the Spammers.
Lycos is wrong on this one. Part of the problem with SPAM is that despite the appearance of email being free, there are hidden costs (Kind of like environmental impact costs). In the case of SPAM the costs are bourne by the ISP / bandwidth providers and the recipients time, energy, and money. Lycos makes the problem worse for the ISP.
Hell, if I were a SPAMMER, why not add some third party advertisements to my SPAM page. Perhaps each hit from these screensavers would generate revenue for me!
I'm also having trouble seeing how they claim this is not a DDOS attempts. Obviously by increasing the number of screensavers in use, the load increases on the target sites. Perhaps a new concept--the DDOP--distributed denial of performance? Keep flooding until ping time of site is > 30 seconds. Still sounds illegal to me.
You must be getting phished, cause it clearly doesn't have anything beyond client number and PIN.
He is talking about the United States ING Direct, not Canadas.
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If anyone believes this, it justifies fairly extraordinary investment to combat it.
It sure is a stunning number. However, the credit card industry is a huge rip off. They charge consumers interest rates in the 12 - 23% range. (This us during a time in history where interests rates are at historic lows). They charge the merchant fees from 1.5 - 7% on each transaction. The ever increasing fees are adding more profit. They are changing due dates to Sundays hoping to increase late fees. Telemarketing their customers. Trying to sell stuff when you call with the customer support lines.
Last year the credit card industry profits were nearly $30 billion dollars. My guess is that they just write off the fraud and then pass those costs onto the consumer. The average credit card debt keeps increasing so it seems they can pass these costs along and the customer is so reliant on credit card debt for daily life that they don't fight it. What a sham, what a shame.
I think this is an example of how poorly regulated capitalism doesn't work. Despite the appearance of hundreds of credit card competitors and so many cards to choose from, the industry is extremely anti-consumer. The better business bureau reports that the credit card agencies are number one when it comes to consumer complaints.
I don't think it is fair to blame them for that. When tech people follow a troubleshooting process, they need to be careful of being too biased from what the user says. The majority of users are not informed--they few who are suffer. Unfortunately, without a relationship/trust between a doctor and patient, there should be a reluctance to skip all the troubleshooting steps because the patient thinks they already know the problem.
How many times as a programmer has someone told you that something doesn't work and they claim to have isolated the issue. After a long debugging session you find out it was something very simple and at a much higher level than what the person was so focused on.
A new doctor does need to not be biased until they establish a baseline. That is not to say that the patient cannot be an effective member of a team trying to solve the problem. But how would you like to spend so much time, effort, and money focused on one area when the problem lies elsewhere.
Are we sure they're pursuing weapons? We are talking about the Air Force, and it's funny how they'd compare the relative energy to a spaceship fuel tank, of all things...
Keep in mind that the presentation was at a NASA conference. As far as presentations go, remember, know your target audience.
I thought you just plug the device into a USB port and it shows up as a removable drive. No special software or 'manager' programs. Just copy your tunes from whatever USB-enabled OS you are running.
Whats this talk of 'iRiver Manger' renaming files. Are you talking about using ripping using the device?
What you fail to understand is that online music distribution is not the same as retail. This will sound like marketing speak, but the whole Internet concept enables a new music distribution paradigm.
You know all the cost required to press a CD, the costs to ships them to stores aren't needed. The markup to cover retail space isn't needed. Todays middleman each grabbing a slice of the record sale dollar leaving scraps for the original artist are not longer fully needed. They are doing everything in their power to fight that. Its only in their twisted logic that a download of an album cost the same as a retail album or even more.
I can't believe this makes 'news'. This is the same old crappy E-music as before.
For those who don't know, E-music had high quality VBR MP3 titles for download. Most labels would not license to them, so their catalog consists of mainly out of the maintstream / lesser known labels. In exchange for this less than up to date collection, they allowed unlimited downloads. That all ended in October 2003. First those who had the audicity to load up on the unlimited songs in large quantities quietely had their accounts cancelled.
In Oct 2003, part of the email they sent was the following:
"
In order to respond to these ongoing challenges and
maintain a compelling service for our valued customers,
EMusic will be making a number of significant changes
in the coming weeks and months. As part of these changes,
we will be discontinuing the unlimited service plan and
replacing it with a new service offering.
Unless you visit the link below:
http://help.emusic.com/cu/index.cgi?cmd=step2&st=1 &categoryID=1198
and notify us of your intention to cancel your subscription
prior to November 8, 2003, your EMusic subscription will
convert into EMusic Basic. Under EMusic Basic, you will be
billed $9.99 per month for access to the service with no
minimum monthly commitment, but you will be limited to no
more than 40 downloads during your monthly billing cycle. "
So you can see, nothing has changed. Browsing their catalog the selection appears to be the same limited catalog. Their price point hasn't even changed. In fact, their same website stills has the same 'sleaze' factor. Information on the costs and limitations are not easily available from the front page. Clicking - sign me up for a trial - doesn't give much details until you give personal information.
The same limitations remain from Nov 2003. If you hit your whopping 40 tracks download in the month, thats it. There is no per song fee for each song over that.
Like I said, its hard to believe this qualifies as news. I wonder if someone was cleaning out their email and say Emusics email from Sep 2003 and thought it was 2004?
We need a MS platform for interoperable virii. What if a machine is infected with multiple competing virii - there needs to be a middleware to arbitrate the flood requests, the MAPI calls, and the registry accesses. And what if the virii authors try to use the same registry locations to get their exploits to run at bootup.
I think a new Virus API - VAPI32 is required. Maybe introduced into the.IOWNYOUR.NET technologies.
2) After many 'deadbeats' were tying up the support forums with support questions and 'add this feature for me even though I don't pay for support but I feel entitled' requests, the small development team had to change things. They closed the support forums so that only subscribers can get support.
3) Public releases don't require a subscription.
4) Bleeding edge pre-release 'beta' firmwares require a subscription to download. I'm pretty sure linksys goes through beta cycles without widely releasing code. At some point they call is stable, and that becomes a release version.
5) $49 for the source code on CD via snail mail is a expensive, however, these guys are internationally based and most postage will be international. I'm pretty sure I remember FSF providing expensive costs for media / CD-ROMs / TAPEs of things like Emacs, gcc, etc.
I'm not sure what the real problem is here. These guys are trying to make money while improving and supporting an open source product. If you don't like it go use another firmware.
Their main goal appears to be identifying which subscriber redistributes pre release software so they can cancel that users subscription. These terms are disclosed up front before you subscribe.
Send-Safe Honeypot Hunter is a tool designed for checking lists of HTTPS and SOCKS proxies for so called "honey pots". "Honey pots" are fake proxies run by the people who are attempting to frame bulkers by using those fake proxies for logging traffic through them and then send complaints to ones' ISPs.
You gotta love the descrption! 'People attempting to frame bulkers'
I don't think the hoopla is over the use of RFID for Walmart increasing productivity in the back office / logistics area.
What has me concerned, and really pisses me off that others don't see it, is that there is an entire industry out there who feels it is there God-given right to track your every habit so they can target whatever product they have to to sell to you.
The problem with RFID tags is the potential for abuse. It is the data mining and data correlation that is the problem. Some company (perhaps Walmart or a third party) is going to provide an entire service of cross referencing RFID items with personally identifiable information.
The real problem here is that technology is moving faster than law and that our 'right to privacy' is not being addressed in these technological solutions. The real problem is that these technologies slowly chip away at our privacy and lead to futher erosion. Maybe passive RFID today, but active RFID tomorrow. Today a promise of no personally identifiable information associated with RFID, public areas/shopping malls with RFID triangulation building a database.
From the article:
"That's why we want our customers to know that RFID tags will not contain nor collect any additional information about consumers. In fact, for the foreseeable future, there won't even be any RFID readers on our stores' main sales floor."
So for now they understand there is some uneasiness. But thats for now...
i dont see why redhat can get away with EOLing its products, and still maintain integrity as a company?
Because people like myself made Redhat who they are today and they were providing a great product. However, since they have been corrupted by wall street and the requirement for massive growth to justify their stock prices, they need to ditch us and look for some other money making scheme.
Their initial plans are to roll this out using a password protected website (that could be automated using wget, etc). I would prefer up2date or something similar to keep things updated.
This seems like a pretty big undertaking...I wish them luck with the resources of patching/recompiling all the packages.
No, but it did 45mph from New Foundland to Ireland and if it crashed wasn't likely to kill anybody and certainly is less controversial. It also highlights the fun of hobby aviation. It provided challenges that could be improved upon without creating a weapon of destruction.
http://tam.plannet21.com/ - a site that documents a flight across the atlantic of a model airplane using GPS. Just change model airplane to a metal cylinder.
But it struck me, why are there only market approvals for hardware and not software?
What approvals are you talking about? Certainly UL/CSA will prevent poor design from burning your house down!
Or are you talking about those really strict consumer oriented approvals--like Better Home and Gardens Seal of Approval or Approved by the American Dentistry Assoc. These are just marketing schemes to allow a logo usage with practically no guarantee of anything.
My cookbook recipe software database is certified with the Betty Crocker Seal of Approval!
Seriously, Microsoft submits its stuff to many so called independant testing laboratories, etc. There is the Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) which guarantees your signed driver will be months older than the one you need to fix the latest bugs. Is this really helping anyone other than Microsoft Tech Support narrow down the number of supportable combinations?
When the car manufacturors stopped making older cars a whole industry sprang up supporting older models.
Those entreprenuers had to reverse engineer the parts and come up with compatible/comparible after-market solutions. In software, this reverse engineering has been deemed illegal by the DCMA.
The ruling in the Lexmark case claimed that 'Static Control' who reverse engineered a chip Lexmark added to their toner was not illegal because the toner/chip was readily available to 'Static Control'. I'm not so sure that if this was about software it would work the same way. And who wants to battle the lawyers at MS on this one? The settlement that Sun reached was in 2001 and MS is just now complying?
You said: "Out in the Bay Area there are plenty of folks who would love to
create a little bit of protectionism around their I.T. jobs, but we are far
better off letting a lot of those jobs go. Low-skill jobs like coding are
moving offshore and what's left in their place are more advanced project
management jobs."
Ok, I can understand outsourcing certain fields, especially those that are
mechanical in nature. However, how can you call 'coding' low-skill? Unless
you are speaking of a typist, computer programming or software engineering
is not low-skill--it requires skills in logic/science as well as an the
creative flair of an art. Furthermore, your speak of 'coding' as a low skill
job whereas 'advanced project management jobs' are by inference higher
skill? Are you nuts? What type of skill does it take for some MS Project
jockey to update his/her schedule charts. Perhaps my low skill 'coding'
background (B.S. in E.E. and M.S. in C.S) needs you to educate me in these
advanced project management jobs. Please do. Or are you referring to the
highly complex project management of off book derivative/special purpose
entity accounting practiced by the likes of Enron.
I notice your publications seem to revolve around supply chain management.
Is that the highly specialized project management jobs category that cannot
be outsourced? Why not? Who do you think is going to design and implement
your Theory of Contraints software packages, etc?
One thing you are missing is that our economy is consumer based. At some
point the unemployed or underemployed are not going to be able to consume at
the levels required for continued growth. It will be pretty trivial to
manage that supply chain.
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I'm not sure I'm in favor of this approach, but I'm sure not against it just because the spammer's ISPs might "suffer".
Your statement doesn't reflect the reality of the Internet 'design'. The Internet is not made of millions of point-to-point cables. All that traffic traverses multiple segments owned and operated by different entities. Each one incurs the extra bandwith, not just the Spammers ISP. I was referring to the ISP / bandwidth providers in general, not just the Spammers.
Lycos is wrong on this one. Part of the problem with SPAM is that despite the appearance of email being free, there are hidden costs (Kind of like environmental impact costs). In the case of SPAM the costs are bourne by the ISP / bandwidth providers and the recipients time, energy, and money. Lycos makes the problem worse for the ISP.
Hell, if I were a SPAMMER, why not add some third party advertisements to my SPAM page. Perhaps each hit from these screensavers would generate revenue for me!
I'm also having trouble seeing how they claim this is not a DDOS attempts. Obviously by increasing the number of screensavers in use, the load increases on the target sites. Perhaps a new concept--the DDOP--distributed denial of performance? Keep flooding until ping time of site is > 30 seconds. Still sounds illegal to me.
You must be getting phished, cause it clearly doesn't have anything beyond client number and PIN.
He is talking about the United States ING Direct, not Canadas.
If anyone believes this, it justifies fairly extraordinary investment to combat it.
It sure is a stunning number. However, the credit card industry is a huge rip off. They charge consumers interest rates in the 12 - 23% range. (This us during a time in history where interests rates are at historic lows). They charge the merchant fees from 1.5 - 7% on each transaction. The ever increasing fees are adding more profit. They are changing due dates to Sundays hoping to increase late fees. Telemarketing their customers. Trying to sell stuff when you call with the customer support lines.
Last year the credit card industry profits were nearly $30 billion dollars. My guess is that they just write off the fraud and then pass those costs onto the consumer. The average credit card debt keeps increasing so it seems they can pass these costs along and the customer is so reliant on credit card debt for daily life that they don't fight it. What a sham, what a shame.
I think this is an example of how poorly regulated capitalism doesn't work. Despite the appearance of hundreds of credit card competitors and so many cards to choose from, the industry is extremely anti-consumer. The better business bureau reports that the credit card agencies are number one when it comes to consumer complaints.
http://www.aspergillus.man.ac.uk/languages/indexho me_lang.htm?english.htm~main
I don't think it is fair to blame them for that. When tech people follow a troubleshooting process, they need to be careful of being too biased from what the user says. The majority of users are not informed--they few who are suffer. Unfortunately, without a relationship/trust between a doctor and patient, there should be a reluctance to skip all the troubleshooting steps because the patient thinks they already know the problem.
How many times as a programmer has someone told you that something doesn't work and they claim to have isolated the issue. After a long debugging session you find out it was something very simple and at a much higher level than what the person was so focused on.
A new doctor does need to not be biased until they establish a baseline. That is not to say that the patient cannot be an effective member of a team trying to solve the problem. But how would you like to spend so much time, effort, and money focused on one area when the problem lies elsewhere.
Mr. Candidate, I understand your position on the issues, but do you support Ogg?
I thought you just plug the device into a USB port and it shows up as a removable drive. No special software or 'manager' programs. Just copy your tunes from whatever USB-enabled OS you are running.
Whats this talk of 'iRiver Manger' renaming files. Are you talking about using ripping using the device?
What you fail to understand is that online music distribution is not the same as retail. This will sound like marketing speak, but the whole Internet concept enables a new music distribution paradigm.
You know all the cost required to press a CD, the costs to ships them to stores aren't needed. The markup to cover retail space isn't needed. Todays middleman each grabbing a slice of the record sale dollar leaving scraps for the original artist are not longer fully needed. They are doing everything in their power to fight that. Its only in their twisted logic that a download of an album cost the same as a retail album or even more.
Nothing to see, move along folks.
1 &categoryID=1198
and notify us of your intention to cancel your subscription
prior to November 8, 2003, your EMusic subscription will
convert into EMusic Basic. Under EMusic Basic, you will be
billed $9.99 per month for access to the service with no
minimum monthly commitment, but you will be limited to no
more than 40 downloads during your monthly billing cycle. "
I can't believe this makes 'news'. This is the same old crappy E-music as before.
For those who don't know, E-music had high quality VBR MP3 titles for download. Most labels would not license to them, so their catalog consists of mainly out of the maintstream / lesser known labels. In exchange for this less than up to date collection, they allowed unlimited downloads. That all ended in October 2003. First those who had the audicity to load up on the unlimited songs in large quantities quietely had their accounts cancelled.
In Oct 2003, part of the email they sent was the following:
" In order to respond to these ongoing challenges and maintain a compelling service for our valued customers, EMusic will be making a number of significant changes in the coming weeks and months. As part of these changes, we will be discontinuing the unlimited service plan and replacing it with a new service offering.
Unless you visit the link below: http://help.emusic.com/cu/index.cgi?cmd=step2&st=
So you can see, nothing has changed. Browsing their catalog the selection appears to be the same limited catalog. Their price point hasn't even changed. In fact, their same website stills has the same 'sleaze' factor. Information on the costs and limitations are not easily available from the front page. Clicking - sign me up for a trial - doesn't give much details until you give personal information.
The same limitations remain from Nov 2003. If you hit your whopping 40 tracks download in the month, thats it. There is no per song fee for each song over that.
Like I said, its hard to believe this qualifies as news. I wonder if someone was cleaning out their email and say Emusics email from Sep 2003 and thought it was 2004?
We need a MS platform for interoperable virii. What if a machine is infected with multiple competing virii - there needs to be a middleware to arbitrate the flood requests, the MAPI calls, and the registry accesses. And what if the virii authors try to use the same registry locations to get their exploits to run at bootup.
.IOWNYOUR.NET technologies.
I think a new Virus API - VAPI32 is required. Maybe introduced into the
1) The $20/year is a charge for support.
2) After many 'deadbeats' were tying up the support forums with support questions and 'add this feature for me even though I don't pay for support but I feel entitled' requests, the small development team had to change things. They closed the support forums so that only subscribers can get support.
3) Public releases don't require a subscription.
4) Bleeding edge pre-release 'beta' firmwares require a subscription to download. I'm pretty sure linksys goes through beta cycles without widely releasing code. At some point they call is stable, and that becomes a release version.
5) $49 for the source code on CD via snail mail is a expensive, however, these guys are internationally based and most postage will be international. I'm pretty sure I remember FSF providing expensive costs for media / CD-ROMs / TAPEs of things like Emacs, gcc, etc.
I'm not sure what the real problem is here. These guys are trying to make money while improving and supporting an open source product. If you don't like it go use another firmware.
Their main goal appears to be identifying which subscriber redistributes pre release software so they can cancel that users subscription. These terms are disclosed up front before you subscribe.
I feel sorry for this John Doe character, he's always getting picked on.
I'm pretty sure John Doe is in the morgue. Why all the expense going after him?
From send-safes website-
Send-Safe Honeypot Hunter is a tool designed for checking lists of HTTPS and SOCKS proxies for so called "honey pots". "Honey pots" are fake proxies run by the people who are attempting to frame bulkers by using those fake proxies for logging traffic through them and then send complaints to ones' ISPs.
You gotta love the descrption! 'People attempting to frame bulkers'
I don't think the hoopla is over the use of RFID for Walmart increasing productivity in the back office / logistics area.
What has me concerned, and really pisses me off that others don't see it, is that there is an entire industry out there who feels it is there God-given right to track your every habit so they can target whatever product they have to to sell to you.
The problem with RFID tags is the potential for abuse. It is the data mining and data correlation that is the problem. Some company (perhaps Walmart or a third party) is going to provide an entire service of cross referencing RFID items with personally identifiable information.
The real problem here is that technology is moving faster than law and that our 'right to privacy' is not being addressed in these technological solutions. The real problem is that these technologies slowly chip away at our privacy and lead to futher erosion. Maybe passive RFID today, but active RFID tomorrow. Today a promise of no personally identifiable information associated with RFID, public areas/shopping malls with RFID triangulation building a database.
From the article: "That's why we want our customers to know that RFID tags will not contain nor collect any additional information about consumers. In fact, for the foreseeable future, there won't even be any RFID readers on our stores' main sales floor."
So for now they understand there is some uneasiness. But thats for now...
This isn't normal Slashdot subject matter, but I figured it was worth mentioning.
You were wrong, keep the war coverage to other venues.
SCO has launched a denial of truth attack against the linux community.
i dont see why redhat can get away with EOLing its products, and still maintain integrity as a company?
Because people like myself made Redhat who they are today and they were providing a great product. However, since they have been corrupted by wall street and the requirement for massive growth to justify their stock prices, they need to ditch us and look for some other money making scheme.
Their initial plans are to roll this out using a password protected website (that could be automated using wget, etc). I would prefer up2date or something similar to keep things updated.
This seems like a pretty big undertaking...I wish them luck with the resources of patching/recompiling all the packages.
No, but it did 45mph from New Foundland to Ireland and if it crashed wasn't likely to kill anybody and certainly is less controversial. It also highlights the fun of hobby aviation. It provided challenges that could be improved upon without creating a weapon of destruction.
http://tam.plannet21.com/ - a site that documents a flight across the atlantic of a model airplane using GPS. Just change model airplane to a metal cylinder.
But it struck me, why are there only market approvals for hardware and not software?
What approvals are you talking about? Certainly UL/CSA will prevent poor design from burning your house down!
Or are you talking about those really strict consumer oriented approvals--like Better Home and Gardens Seal of Approval or Approved by the American Dentistry Assoc. These are just marketing schemes to allow a logo usage with practically no guarantee of anything.
My cookbook recipe software database is certified with the Betty Crocker Seal of Approval!
Seriously, Microsoft submits its stuff to many so called independant testing laboratories, etc. There is the Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) which guarantees your signed driver will be months older than the one you need to fix the latest bugs. Is this really helping anyone other than Microsoft Tech Support narrow down the number of supportable combinations?
When the car manufacturors stopped making older cars a whole industry sprang up supporting older models.
Those entreprenuers had to reverse engineer the parts and come up with compatible/comparible after-market solutions. In software, this reverse engineering has been deemed illegal by the DCMA.
The ruling in the Lexmark case claimed that 'Static Control' who reverse engineered a chip Lexmark added to their toner was not illegal because the toner/chip was readily available to 'Static Control'. I'm not so sure that if this was about software it would work the same way. And who wants to battle the lawyers at MS on this one? The settlement that Sun reached was in 2001 and MS is just now complying?
Here is what I emailed to the author:
You said: "Out in the Bay Area there are plenty of folks who would love to create a little bit of protectionism around their I.T. jobs, but we are far better off letting a lot of those jobs go. Low-skill jobs like coding are moving offshore and what's left in their place are more advanced project management jobs."
Ok, I can understand outsourcing certain fields, especially those that are mechanical in nature. However, how can you call 'coding' low-skill? Unless you are speaking of a typist, computer programming or software engineering is not low-skill--it requires skills in logic/science as well as an the creative flair of an art. Furthermore, your speak of 'coding' as a low skill job whereas 'advanced project management jobs' are by inference higher skill? Are you nuts? What type of skill does it take for some MS Project jockey to update his/her schedule charts. Perhaps my low skill 'coding' background (B.S. in E.E. and M.S. in C.S) needs you to educate me in these advanced project management jobs. Please do. Or are you referring to the highly complex project management of off book derivative/special purpose entity accounting practiced by the likes of Enron.
I notice your publications seem to revolve around supply chain management. Is that the highly specialized project management jobs category that cannot be outsourced? Why not? Who do you think is going to design and implement your Theory of Contraints software packages, etc?
One thing you are missing is that our economy is consumer based. At some point the unemployed or underemployed are not going to be able to consume at the levels required for continued growth. It will be pretty trivial to manage that supply chain.