Yes, spam is a social problem, and so spammers can use social engineering to counter the widespread use of filters.
They just have to announce that clicking the "more info" link in one in a million of their e-mails wins that person $1000, which they promptly pay in full. The procedure to check whether you've won would have to be protected by a captcha to prevent automated checking.
It's like Nigerian scammers sending out a totally legitimate offer of money to a few people, then exploiting the reduced skepticism engendered when those people actually get paid what they were promised.
Interesting! I've been using a hidden (Javascript-calling and DOM-manipulating) Java applet to make my browser-based user interfaces work like normal applications, but Openthought has done this using pure Javascript in a hidden frame: fake a form submission to send data from the browser to the server-side code; use Javascript in the page returned by the form submission to update the browser display.
The advantange of this is that the UI can be on a separate computer from the application logic. A current disadvantage is that the application must be written in Perl.
Can Openthought handle asynchronous updates of the UI by the server? That is, in response to some external event or timeout, rather than triggered directly by the user manipulating the UI?
...is that it sucks you in because it's free, but at the same time is closed source so that you have to beg some unresponsive god to fix bugs or add features.
Start and end times of both programs and ad breaks could be sent over the Internet -- from live monitors (pressing buttons on remotes or keyboards) to those watching or recording programs.
You could actually build a free community-based live monitoring system using (1), aggregation of signals from many monitors (based on their history of accuracy), and (2), a system whereby credits are accrued by sending accurate signals that can be used to receive signals at other times. Would work best with broadband connections.
Could this sort of thing be added to Linux-based PVRs like MythTV?
Yes, push-style advertising will eventually go the way of push-style web pages. Remember channels?
I find commercial radio unlistenable, and always mute or skip TV ads (I can't recall ever purchasing a product based on a TV ad I saw). I also browse the web with an ad blocker because (1), the ads I saw were invariably for something I had no interest in purchasing at that time, or were not relevant to my location, and (2), the colours, animation, and extra windows were too distracting.
Of course this poses a problem for providers of content that are unable to link their content to highly-relevant ads, which is just about everything except for search and reviews. Subscriptions are usually too coarse-grained, so nanopayments may be the ultimate solution. Maybe also a way for companies to pay for highly-regarded "what's new", "where to buy", and review editorial in a way that avoids conflicts of interest.
If there were effective anti-piracy mechanisms, or if either you or your parents believed piracy was wrong, then you would have had an incentive to earn more, either through chores or a job (I was a paper boy at 11), giving you more money to purchase games, so giving developers more funds to develop better games.
Is it right for the poor to steal? Bread? Computer games?
So then, to totally lock down a device you'd have to completely eliminate analog output.
Heh. Good luck there, RIAA.
Well it is possible to lock down electrical analog output. Just make digital speakers with an encrypted input link and a sealed, destruct-on-open, D/A converter and transducer.
But you can always capture the actual sound with a microphone, unless the RIAA gets the government to ban normal ears and mandates use of an encrypted direct-injection model.
There are another kind of collaborative work, that is the process of discussing something. Is not announcing, nor defining, but a lot of people talking around something interchanging points of view, giving new data, etc. Usenet, forums, comments attached to wiki pages or blog entries, even this very discussion, are examples of this third kind of online collaboration. In the discussion you maybe not reach a "conclusion", is not part of the forum itself (but someone could extract what he interprets as a conclusion on some topic and post it in i.e. a wiki page), is the discussion what is the final objective.
Open on-line discussion is a wonderful tool for exploring an issue, but can lead to information overload. Makethecase.net is a site based on Faq-O-Matic where pro and con cases can both debate the finer points of each case as well as summarize their cases for those new to theissue.
This document presents an argument that a debating system of this kind is useful.
some amazing solutions would show up for Java that will probably never appear with it being closed source. like what?
Developing in Java is frustrating, because the no-cost tools draw you in, but then you become frustrated when a library has a bug or lacks a feature and you don't have the ability to fix it yourself. You must wait on someone in Sun to answer your reports, which often takes many months, if ever, and still Sun may refuse to make the changes you've requested.
Sun should at least open-source the class libraries.
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They just have to announce that clicking the "more info" link in one in a million of their e-mails wins that person $1000, which they promptly pay in full. The procedure to check whether you've won would have to be protected by a captcha to prevent automated checking.
It's like Nigerian scammers sending out a totally legitimate offer of money to a few people, then exploiting the reduced skepticism engendered when those people actually get paid what they were promised.
Interesting! I've been using a hidden (Javascript-calling and DOM-manipulating) Java applet to make my browser-based user interfaces work like normal applications, but Openthought has done this using pure Javascript in a hidden frame: fake a form submission to send data from the browser to the server-side code; use Javascript in the page returned by the form submission to update the browser display.
The advantange of this is that the UI can be on a separate computer from the application logic. A current disadvantage is that the application must be written in Perl.
Can Openthought handle asynchronous updates of the UI by the server? That is, in response to some external event or timeout, rather than triggered directly by the user manipulating the UI?
...is that it sucks you in because it's free, but at the same time is closed source so that you have to beg some unresponsive god to fix bugs or add features.
Start and end times of both programs and ad breaks could be sent over the Internet -- from live monitors (pressing buttons on remotes or keyboards) to those watching or recording programs.
You could actually build a free community-based live monitoring system using (1), aggregation of signals from many monitors (based on their history of accuracy), and (2), a system whereby credits are accrued by sending accurate signals that can be used to receive signals at other times. Would work best with broadband connections.
Could this sort of thing be added to Linux-based PVRs like MythTV?
Yes, push-style advertising will eventually go the way of push-style web pages. Remember channels?
I find commercial radio unlistenable, and always mute or skip TV ads (I can't recall ever purchasing a product based on a TV ad I saw). I also browse the web with an ad blocker because (1), the ads I saw were invariably for something I had no interest in purchasing at that time, or were not relevant to my location, and (2), the colours, animation, and extra windows were too distracting.
Of course this poses a problem for providers of content that are unable to link their content to highly-relevant ads, which is just about everything except for search and reviews. Subscriptions are usually too coarse-grained, so nanopayments may be the ultimate solution. Maybe also a way for companies to pay for highly-regarded "what's new", "where to buy", and review editorial in a way that avoids conflicts of interest.
If there were effective anti-piracy mechanisms, or if either you or your parents believed piracy was wrong, then you would have had an incentive to earn more, either through chores or a job (I was a paper boy at 11), giving you more money to purchase games, so giving developers more funds to develop better games.
Is it right for the poor to steal? Bread? Computer games?
But you can always capture the actual sound with a microphone, unless the RIAA gets the government to ban normal ears and mandates use of an encrypted direct-injection model.
Apparently some extra software settings are needed
I have located one drive that supports this, but I'd like some choice.
Can anyone recommend a USB flash drive that is able to auto-run a program, just like a CD?
some amazing solutions would show up for Java that will probably never appear with it being closed source.
like what?
Developing in Java is frustrating, because the no-cost tools draw you in, but then you become frustrated when a library has a bug or lacks a feature and you don't have the ability to fix it yourself. You must wait on someone in Sun to answer your reports, which often takes many months, if ever, and still Sun may refuse to make the changes you've requested.
Sun should at least open-source the class libraries.