Well, TSG = The SCO Group or The Smoking Gun. Maybe we can start using them interchangeably. Wouldn't it be funny if we got some new terminology out of this whole thing? If a company is suing another company on very dubious and loose grounds, they could be said to have pulled 'a SCO'. Or if someone stubbornly sticks to his or her guns, even though it has been proven many many times that they are wrong, they pulled an 'AdTI'.
This is just amazing. We're really reaching further and further out in the solar system. And not just by blindly sending probes out there, but by consciously seeking to get close to other bodies in the solar system, and really finding out. I really hope I get to see the Europa landings in my lifetime.
How about setting it up so that all that kinds of cache would be stored on something like a key fob? Like the already widely available USB memory plugs. As long as you restrict the storing of cached passwords, cookies etc to such a device, you could at least remove it easily.
Interesting idea - crank up those IR emitters enough, and people will get hot, and need to go buy more drinks. Maybe the big soda companies have a stake in this too?
Development of technology is amazing. I read somewhere a long time ago about and engineer (I think) who said his mother (I think) was afraid that wewilllosecontrol over the computers in a near future. His reponse was that this was very unlikely to happen, but he did believe that we already have lost control over development and technology advancements.
Along those lines - how long until we have a telescope that can see far out/back enough that we can "see" the events even closer to da big boom?
I would argue that there's a slight difference between driving faster than the posted speed limit and having a teenage daughter who just does what all her friends do and simply don't know any better. You know better than to speed, or drive drunk (at least if you are the legal driving age), but how many in the general populus understand IP law...and really care? They just see that a CD costs $15 or more, and "...my friend Betty told me of a way I can get music for free, and why should I have less opportunity to listen to music just because I don't have a mom who makes $60k+/year and can afford to buy CD's?"
As long as spamming is profitable to SOME person in power, it will continue to dodge the legal obstacles people try to set up for spamming. However, it was good that this guy got bagged in SOME manner, even if it was not directly related to spamming per se.
...(or how far out) will they be able to spy with this puppy? I find it very interesting that we've come so far in the understanding of space, but we still have but scratched the surface...
...(or how far out) will they be able to spy with this puppy? I find it very interesting that we've come so far in the understanding of space, but we still have but scratched the surface. I would love to be able to hibernate for say 100 years, and then find out where we're at in technology, space flight and exploration...
That's no joke - I used to have a 180g marine reef tank in my house, and the fact that electricity (about 1kW of lights on the tank) and water consumption (~5 gallons of evaptoration daily, and topoff water was RO/DI at a rate of 7:1 RO filter) was rather high, the basement had a strange glow in it (from the actinic lights), and I picked up active carbon (for the filters) from time to time...well, a co-reefer actually had the police come visit because the neighbor saw a 'strange glow' coming from his house. Needless to say, the cop got a good laugh when he saw the clownfish, shrimp and other miscellaneous critters happily scurriying about in the tank of an otherwise drug-free reefer home.
The classic ploy of undermarketing yourself to make people curious. You ARE a marketing genius!!!
Reminds me of...
"Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me." ...
"You only think I guessed wrong - that's what's so funny. I switched glasses when your back was turned. Ha-ha, you fool. You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia", but only slightly less well known is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian, when *death* is on the line.". Hahahahahah.*falls over dead*
I'm like a consultant - I just suggest, I don't implement...:D
Obviusly my reasoning has flaws, but unless we start really thinking about this and take some kind of action, spamming will never cease. And as far as hijacked servers go, well, that's where I figured the electronic stamp would come in handy. And the tax could go to crime prevention, medical research...whatever is in need of the extra money.
Also, maybe the tax would only be applicable to persons above a certain income bracket? And on the rest, install an email quota? Shoot, I dunno - most of this stuff is impossible to implement w/o infringing on the first amendment and peoples' privacy, but I am SO sick and tired of all the spam.
If it got rid of spam, I wouldn't be opposed to paying $0.01 or even $0.001 per email. Consider this - if a spammer purchases a CD with 1,000,000 email addresses (they're out there, probably more like 10,000,000 emails though), he would have to pay $10,000 or $1,000 to send those. I would have to think that most spammers send more emails than that.
On the other hand, the regular consumer, sending maybe 10 emails per day, tops, 365 days a year (most people email WAY less than that), that would result in an annual cost of either $36.50, or $3.65. I'd say that would be acceptable... How to keep track of emailers, and add an electronic stamp that can't easily be faked - THAT is another issue. Maybe the gov't should put out a competition - the person or persons who develop a bulletproof stamping mechanism would for the next 10 years receive 0.01% of the proceeds for this email tax.
Consider that there is (probably pretty conservatively) 100,000,000 emails sent per day in the US. At the lower tax rate, that equates to $100,000 per day or $36.5M per year. Multiply with 0.01% and you get $36.5k. Per year. For 10 years. I think that would be enough to attract SOME skill...especially if it was tax exempt. Of course, if the stamp code is broken or cracked - bam, no money.
Of course, if one is to believe an old article I found, by 2005 we're supposed to send 36B emails, daily. That bumps the proceeds up quite a bit.
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I love the story about using the UNIVAC as a morse code oscillator. Wouldn't that be the equivalent to using a SUN E15k to play Doom?
Heh.
This is just amazing. We're really reaching further and further out in the solar system. And not just by blindly sending probes out there, but by consciously seeking to get close to other bodies in the solar system, and really finding out. I really hope I get to see the Europa landings in my lifetime.
"Quick! Fire lots and lots of ICMP packets at it!"
Oh yes - text messaging to reporters with up-to-date almost live reporting, or messaging within the courtroom. HUGE implications.
How about setting it up so that all that kinds of cache would be stored on something like a key fob? Like the already widely available USB memory plugs. As long as you restrict the storing of cached passwords, cookies etc to such a device, you could at least remove it easily.
Interesting idea - crank up those IR emitters enough, and people will get hot, and need to go buy more drinks. Maybe the big soda companies have a stake in this too?
Just like the romans and the nazis, both seeking world domination...
Development of technology is amazing. I read somewhere a long time ago about and engineer (I think) who said his mother (I think) was afraid that we will lose control over the computers in a near future. His reponse was that this was very unlikely to happen, but he did believe that we already have lost control over development and technology advancements. Along those lines - how long until we have a telescope that can see far out/back enough that we can "see" the events even closer to da big boom?
I would argue that there's a slight difference between driving faster than the posted speed limit and having a teenage daughter who just does what all her friends do and simply don't know any better. You know better than to speed, or drive drunk (at least if you are the legal driving age), but how many in the general populus understand IP law...and really care? They just see that a CD costs $15 or more, and "...my friend Betty told me of a way I can get music for free, and why should I have less opportunity to listen to music just because I don't have a mom who makes $60k+/year and can afford to buy CD's?"
Reading stories like that makes you sick to your stomach. Blech!
Ugh, mod parent down -200 please. :/
As long as spamming is profitable to SOME person in power, it will continue to dodge the legal obstacles people try to set up for spamming. However, it was good that this guy got bagged in SOME manner, even if it was not directly related to spamming per se.
...(or how far out) will they be able to spy with this puppy? I find it very interesting that we've come so far in the understanding of space, but we still have but scratched the surface...
...(or how far out) will they be able to spy with this puppy? I find it very interesting that we've come so far in the understanding of space, but we still have but scratched the surface. I would love to be able to hibernate for say 100 years, and then find out where we're at in technology, space flight and exploration...
There are also two versions of the Springfield map in Brian Greene's book The Fabric of the Cosmos.
Please insert head in tinfoil hat now.
That's no joke - I used to have a 180g marine reef tank in my house, and the fact that electricity (about 1kW of lights on the tank) and water consumption (~5 gallons of evaptoration daily, and topoff water was RO/DI at a rate of 7:1 RO filter) was rather high, the basement had a strange glow in it (from the actinic lights), and I picked up active carbon (for the filters) from time to time...well, a co-reefer actually had the police come visit because the neighbor saw a 'strange glow' coming from his house. Needless to say, the cop got a good laugh when he saw the clownfish, shrimp and other miscellaneous critters happily scurriying about in the tank of an otherwise drug-free reefer home.
I never realized how big a part of the emotional content the scoring of a movie is until I got a true 5.1 sound system.
This is a great idea... I wonder if you could get a section of the frame(s) you (helped) to render...
Reminds me of...
"Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me."
...
"You only think I guessed wrong - that's what's so funny. I switched glasses when your back was turned. Ha-ha, you fool. You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia", but only slightly less well known is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian, when *death* is on the line.". Hahahahahah.*falls over dead*
So what's the story behind the classic WOW!-signal?
I'm like a consultant - I just suggest, I don't implement... :D
Obviusly my reasoning has flaws, but unless we start really thinking about this and take some kind of action, spamming will never cease. And as far as hijacked servers go, well, that's where I figured the electronic stamp would come in handy. And the tax could go to crime prevention, medical research...whatever is in need of the extra money.
Also, maybe the tax would only be applicable to persons above a certain income bracket? And on the rest, install an email quota? Shoot, I dunno - most of this stuff is impossible to implement w/o infringing on the first amendment and peoples' privacy, but I am SO sick and tired of all the spam.
On the other hand, the regular consumer, sending maybe 10 emails per day, tops, 365 days a year (most people email WAY less than that), that would result in an annual cost of either $36.50, or $3.65. I'd say that would be acceptable... How to keep track of emailers, and add an electronic stamp that can't easily be faked - THAT is another issue. Maybe the gov't should put out a competition - the person or persons who develop a bulletproof stamping mechanism would for the next 10 years receive 0.01% of the proceeds for this email tax.
Consider that there is (probably pretty conservatively) 100,000,000 emails sent per day in the US. At the lower tax rate, that equates to $100,000 per day or $36.5M per year. Multiply with 0.01% and you get $36.5k. Per year. For 10 years. I think that would be enough to attract SOME skill...especially if it was tax exempt. Of course, if the stamp code is broken or cracked - bam, no money.
Of course, if one is to believe an old article I found, by 2005 we're supposed to send 36B emails, daily. That bumps the proceeds up quite a bit.
Please commence flogging.
I would agree. You'd either have to be damn sure of yourself, or pretty dumb, to take on Big Blue.