You say the fact that it is already happening as if it should be something comforting. I find it extremely disturbing that it is already happening and that now they go even one step further.
When I am in public, I do not expect that everybody is filming me and keep records of me whatever I do. I expect to have MORE privacy then why I am in a non-public place, like at work.
I am not paranoia anymore, I know that I am followed.
You OTOH are a bit TOO positive about all this and that is suspicuious, so we will keep an eye on you.
For newspapers the advertisers are their customers. Those are the ones who bring in most of the money. For Consumer Reports, the consumer is the customer.
So all in all what has been proven is that businesses do is look at their customers for income. The time has long gone that the consumer was the newspapers customer.
It depends on the product and the advertisement that goes along with it, but it often is used to get people in the store. People who just are interested to buy that one item is not who they are interested in, because margins on that product can be minimal.
What they could be interested in is people comming in the store and buying other things.
I got the same. Do n ot blame us, we are not the ones who put thos dirty pictures on line. Come on, imagene that children see those pictures. Doesn't anyboy think of the children, I mean that what has been seen can not be unseen
I agree. Many people blame truck drivers for a lot of things, while the real pirates are the assholes who do not dare to overhaul a truck and keep driving just behind it.
The problem is that some people in the USofA see Europe as one country. Well, it isn't. Each country has its own laws and political situation. E.g. In Belgium you can not sell a contract as part of a phone deal. Also the phone can never be locked. You can sell them at the same time, but you can not sell them as part of one contract.
I believe it is the same in Portugal. In other countries the situation is different. The fun part is that because much of Europe is one economic entity, you can easily buy a phone in another country unlocked and no contract and use it where you live.
Belgium: They can't decide if they want to remain an independent country.
Well, if they would listen to the people, they would know. And there are so many governements that one more or less is not realy an issue.:-D
On the other side, locking phones in Belgium is illegal. So that means you have a choice and you pay for your phone whatever you like. Wether you pay 40 EUR or 800 EUR for a phone, is completely up to you and wether you do that with a cheap pre-payed card or with something else is also up to you.
So you actualy think the spammer is sending thise emails from their servers and their accounts.
Who are you going to send the bill and how are you going to collect? Be specific.
Also, do you have a mailinglist I can subscribe to? I am sure I can come up with a script that can subscribe there and then NEVER open any of them. Also you seen to be having your numbers wrong. 50USD a day would mean 15000 a year. So how much did those big spammers make again?
The attacker does not need access to good.exe. He however can send me evil.exe and tell me to look on for the MD5SUM and verify for myself that said program is valid if I so desire.
Yes, you COULD then download it from the trusted site. However people interested in doing this are not interested in the failed attapts. They are interested in the attapated that worked.
And then after the 6 hours, turn off all the spam filters. Let us then see if people will start taking Spam seriously. Because now it is just a bit troublesome, exept for those who do the actual filtering.
The thing is, why should I be botherd about spam if I hardly see it? I remember when spamming started, I got about 2-5 a day. Now with all the filters I get about 2-5 a day. The fact that 20.000.000 are filterd out or that 20 are filterd out is of no relevance to me.
Most people are thinking about how much is filterd. Spammers do not thingk about that. They think about how many (not in percentage, but in numbers) are NOT filterd.
What I do online is irrelevant to what I do as a profession and I try to keep them seperated as much as possible.
However I can imagine that it IS relevant for some, especialy if you are a webdesigner or a developer, highly involved in OSS projects. I would just add them as past experience.
e.g. I have developed/designe XYZ under the alias foo@example.com
However you must also provide some proof that you actualy ARE that alias, I would say.
moderation of both people who post and the editor how allow people like RP to post just so they can generate trafic.
I am not sure wether this posting will be moderated insightfull, off-topic or whatever, but at least people have an option to do it. Unfortunatly this is not possible with the obvious abusers.
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You say the fact that it is already happening as if it should be something comforting. I find it extremely disturbing that it is already happening and that now they go even one step further.
When I am in public, I do not expect that everybody is filming me and keep records of me whatever I do. I expect to have MORE privacy then why I am in a non-public place, like at work.
I am not paranoia anymore, I know that I am followed.
You OTOH are a bit TOO positive about all this and that is suspicuious, so we will keep an eye on you.
Humans will just change the rules. This has been done since forever. I would not call that raising the bar, I would call that cheating.
For newspapers the advertisers are their customers. Those are the ones who bring in most of the money. For Consumer Reports, the consumer is the customer.
So all in all what has been proven is that businesses do is look at their customers for income. The time has long gone that the consumer was the newspapers customer.
Isn't there a copyright on the US DMCA that would prevent these things?
It depends on the product and the advertisement that goes along with it, but it often is used to get people in the store. People who just are interested to buy that one item is not who they are interested in, because margins on that product can be minimal.
What they could be interested in is people comming in the store and buying other things.
I got the same. Do n ot blame us, we are not the ones who put thos dirty pictures on line. Come on, imagene that children see those pictures. Doesn't anyboy think of the children, I mean that what has been seen can not be unseen
I agree. Many people blame truck drivers for a lot of things, while the real pirates are the assholes who do not dare to overhaul a truck and keep driving just behind it.
The problem is that some people in the USofA see Europe as one country. Well, it isn't. Each country has its own laws and political situation.
E.g. In Belgium you can not sell a contract as part of a phone deal. Also the phone can never be locked. You can sell them at the same time, but you can not sell them as part of one contract.
I believe it is the same in Portugal. In other countries the situation is different. The fun part is that because much of Europe is one economic entity, you can easily buy a phone in another country unlocked and no contract and use it where you live.
Well, if they would listen to the people, they would know. And there are so many governements that one more or less is not realy an issue.
On the other side, locking phones in Belgium is illegal. So that means you have a choice and you pay for your phone whatever you like. Wether you pay 40 EUR or 800 EUR for a phone, is completely up to you and wether you do that with a cheap pre-payed card or with something else is also up to you.
That subject looked like IPatent Troll to me , or something Apple could come up with.
We had some telecoms bidding for some stff here as well a few years ago. Some of them went almost bankrupt over it.
So you actualy think the spammer is sending thise emails from their servers and their accounts.
Who are you going to send the bill and how are you going to collect? Be specific.
Also, do you have a mailinglist I can subscribe to? I am sure I can come up with a script that can subscribe there and then NEVER open any of them. Also you seen to be having your numbers wrong. 50USD a day would mean 15000 a year. So how much did those big spammers make again?
Funny? Mod this insightfull or interesting.
They should ask the Americans the same questions. Nobody would be coming back. :-D
openSUSE still uses it in their meetings
It is a pretty effective way to have meetings between several people.
Also a lot of support is done there, as well as a lot of other things
I alsways thought that MD5SUMS where there only to verify wether a download was successfull or not.
The attacker does not need access to good.exe. He however can send me evil.exe and tell me to look on for the MD5SUM and verify for myself that said program is valid if I so desire.
Yes, you COULD then download it from the trusted site. However people interested in doing this are not interested in the failed attapts. They are interested in the attapated that worked.
And then after the 6 hours, turn off all the spam filters. Let us then see if people will start taking Spam seriously. Because now it is just a bit troublesome, exept for those who do the actual filtering.
The thing is, why should I be botherd about spam if I hardly see it? I remember when spamming started, I got about 2-5 a day. Now with all the filters I get about 2-5 a day. The fact that 20.000.000 are filterd out or that 20 are filterd out is of no relevance to me.
Most people are thinking about how much is filterd. Spammers do not thingk about that. They think about how many (not in percentage, but in numbers) are NOT filterd.
So you are saying they are withhelding information, making people less smart over time. Neat.
Also you are asuming that they take fresh students as lawers, they don't.
Yes, the master will be stronger IN THE BEGINNING, till the padawan has build up some real world experience.
Well, you can do it with http://userstyles.org/stylish/
Just redesign it and then put it up for other people to use, like http://userstyles.org/styles/search/slashdot
What I do online is irrelevant to what I do as a profession and I try to keep them seperated as much as possible.
However I can imagine that it IS relevant for some, especialy if you are a webdesigner or a developer, highly involved in OSS projects. I would just add them as past experience.
e.g. I have developed/designe XYZ under the alias foo@example.com
However you must also provide some proof that you actualy ARE that alias, I would say.
moderation of both people who post and the editor how allow people like RP to post just so they can generate trafic.
I am not sure wether this posting will be moderated insightfull, off-topic or whatever, but at least people have an option to do it. Unfortunatly this is not possible with the obvious abusers.
Even better is to have it do a search and show that result.
John has a large moustache. I repeat: John has a large moustache.
Just proof that not even the editors bother to RTFA.