FWIW, Google Voice is essentially a poor man's call router. Totally free except for Google keeping a record of all your phone calls. I have never had a robo-call, or in fact any other unwanted call, get past the system and make my phone ring. Somedays I'll check the log of hang-ups and just smile.
Wrong. I get called once every few months by my visa card due to something that sets off their software. It hasn't been real identity theft yet, but they do call you before shutting off the card. Shutting off the card is done if they can't contact you.
Your experience is limited. Banks can and do shut your card down and then call you. I've had it happen a number of times when I've made online purchases - large ones late at night and foreign ones (DVD orders for non-domestic DVDs). They block the transaction, then they shut you down for any new transactions and then 8 hours later they robo-call you to tell you they shut you down and that you should call them back.
In the many cases where it has happened to me it has been excessively stupid because I use disposable credt card numbers which means I have to log into their website and generate the disposable number before I can make a transaction. So I've just authenticated with username/password before making the purchase. What's worse is that when you return their robo-call, they want to verify it is really you so they ask you stuff only you "should" know - like what were the last 3 purchases on your card, or where is your billing address -- all information readily available to anyone able to log into their website, which I just proved I could do by placing the order in the first place...
So yeah, its a pet peeve of mine and I remember the many cases so well because they have all been so brain-dead stupid about how they handle the situation.
in that it creates a market demand for children to be raped. ...
Rather, the already existing demand for child pornography leads to people raping children
You can't have it both ways. Either the demand already exists or kiddie porn creates the demand. Pick one, stick with it and be prepared to back it up.
see, you'll never stop creating trash. you're never going to win the war on trash. its always going to accumulate, no matter what you do. so you should let the trash sit in your room and fester, and live in it
just scrolling down to the first 5 comments above a 3 threshold in the 3 randomly chosen recent threads below on the topic, in 2 or 3 of the comments out of the 5, one finds the retarded idea that censoring *anything* is as bad as the worst censoring places on the globe.
I'm sorry but what? All I see are the specific half-assed really-stretching-it-to-make-it-count posts I warned you about. Link to specific posts, get down to brass tacks take responsibility for them being your examples and skip the hand-waving.
it creates a market demand for children to be raped.
Big fat citation needed. And not just some flunky who stands to gain political power or department budget, but real, honest to God quality research. Because what you are saying is pretty much the same argument used against violent video games and the absolute best anyone has been able to do with that is to show a minor increase in aggressive behaviour by very young children, that subsists pretty quickly, immediately following game playing.
yet you see people all the time, especially on slashdot, actually saying "country A censors child porn so how can it criticize another country for censoring political opinion?
Really? ALL the time? ESPECIALLY on slashdot? Lets see two examples. Not half-assed examples that might kinda sorta mean what you say if you looked at them from the most biased perspective, nor examples of people trolling, I want full-ass examples. Gotta be pretty easy to come up with since they happen ALL the time, ESPECIALLY here. Right?
Where are all the people clambering for censorship when the internet is used for something good?
How can you argue against something that makes it more difficult for asshat dictators to remain in power?
They are naive enough to believe that only "bad" things will be censored. They seem unable to grasp that everyone's definitions for bad aren't the same and they don't realize that by enabling censorship they are putting the controls into the hands of those with most to gain through censorship. Its almost as if they believe that power doesn't corrupt, it purifies.
How do you send less than one message to a target?
Its called "zero." You may have heard of the number, its been around for quite a few centuries now. As in not all zombies in a single botnet will necessarily spam all targets.
And your interpretation is extremely blind in my opinion. How does any piece of software or code get put under the GPL. Simple that author chooses it place it there.
Which has absolutely NOTHING to do with the intent of the GPL.
This sense of entitlement is just some of the worst self indulgent twaddle...
You are lost in a maze of cognitive dissonance and self-righteousness, unable to speak or reason coherently in the face of simply stated facts. Sorry I couldn't be your xyzzy. See you next time you post the same misrepresentations.
First, I wonder about the 20-30 messages a day bit. There are roughly 150 billion spam messages sent daily. There are 6 billion people on the planet. In order for your 20-30 messages a day number to be correct, that would every man, woman, and child on the earth would need a computer and every single one of them would be part of a botnet.
You make the error of assuming spam sending is distributed evenly. Compromised systems at large corps and government offices can easily send many orders of magnitude more spam and still get lost in the noise of legit email from their sites.
There are only so many routers that lead into the US, set these up to monitor email traffic (is it port 22? 25? I don't remember)... and look for patterns.
That's an increase in workload that is many orders of magnitude larger than what even the largest routers do now. Furthermore, the US has the second highest zombie infection rate in the world, so border routers aren't all that useful and sending the cops after people with zombied computers is impractical. They are millions and they aren't standouts.
(a) Hard to detect a lot of sources because they are lost in the noise (b) Extremely expensive to do pattern matching on all mail traffic (c) Cops don't have the resources
If the problem were easy, it would have been solved.
Because spam doesn't work that way anymore. It comes from botnets where each individual zombie only sends one or less messages to the target and need only send out 20 or 30 each day total to still be effective.
It also restricts what and end user can do with the copy he has. He can not for example distribute just the binary and he must include the GPL with it.
That's a deliberately blind interpretation. The GPL is about maximizing what the end user can do with the copy he receives. If he distributes it, he is no longer the END user, he is now a middle-man.
If there was no copyright law nothing would keep me from putting lots of DRM on to a piece of software that includes GPL code and selling it.
The goal is to get the market to the same place where other markets like automobiles are - practically no one would consider purchasing a car with the hood welded shut, the market simply does not tolerate that sort of proprietary behavior. When the market for software gets to the same point the need for the GPL will be over.
The GPL uses copyright law for exactly what the copyright law was intended to do. Protect the rights of the author.
No in the USA, copyright has never been about "protecting the rights" of the author. Maybe in France you might have an argument, but droits d'auteur is pretty much an alien concept in common-law countries like the USA.
The GPL uses copyright law against itself. Copyright law exists to restrict what the end user can do with the copy he receives so that the author can benefit. The GPL's intent is to maximize what the end user can do with the copy he receives without respect to the author's benefit.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.
Ultimately you can control when, where and for how much you work. You just can't control what people do with the output of that work - trying to stop pirates is as futile as trying to stop people from applying the knowledge they gained from your reading your book. So look for ways to capitalize on the pirating instead of worrying about fighting it. Look for ways to make the pirates help you.
For example, you are now a published expert in the field and apparently knowledgeable enough that people want to copy what you have written. There are ways to capitalize on that, for example:
1) Sell your consulting services for obscene rates. As a consultant myself I've found that the more you charge the more highly regarded you are, the trick is getting to the point where people will even notice you in the first place - seems like you have been noticed already, so using your authorship as a credential should mean something in the right market. Depending on the gig, you may be able to bill in the $400-$500/hr + expenses strata.
2) Similarly, teach. Put together a course that is a day or two long - charge $500-$1000 per head, you can even just use your book as course materials. Look for opportunities to do private engagements - a single company brings you in to run a course for a handful of their employees and public engagements where you advertise for 6 months ahead of time and take registrations (with a non-refundable reservation fee that goes towards the final price) and then rent a classroom yourself. If there are any conventions for industries where your book is relevant, get yourself set up to run a session at those too. There might even be a market for guest lecturer at universities that teach from your book.
How? I only commented on the fact that they had a system with a list of all people with a driver's license,
No, that is what you commented. But is not what you commented ON. What you commented ON was the discussion in the thread. If you really believe that what you said had absolutely nothing to do with failure to be in a database being an arrestable offence then what you posted was completely irrelevant to the discussion in which you posted.
Memory pages on i386 were 4 KiB. In modern x86 CPUs, they're often 4 MiB, which fits a lot better with the 128 KiB to 1 MiB erase blocks of high-capacity flash memory if your operating system supports 4 MiB page mode.
I'm fairly sure that 4MB pages don't cause the pager to swap 4MB chunks to disk at a time. In every unix I've looked at that supports larger-than-4K pages the way it works is that the large pagesize exists to reduce TLB thrashing, because what once took 1024 TLB entries now only takes 1 TLB entry (for the 4MB size). But whenever the system needs to handle pieces less than 4MB, it "flips the bit" to break the large page back down into its constituent 4KB sizes and handles them individually, including paging out to disk.
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Their list has three 16GB, three 4GB, one 2GB and one 1GB flash drives. How is that "mostly 4GB and 8GB"?
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Only on slashdot would working in a call center (inbound or outbound) be seen as comparable to being a baby rapist or axe murderer.
And only on slashdot would someone be moronic enough to equate an inbound call center with a telemarketer.
FWIW, Google Voice is essentially a poor man's call router. Totally free except for Google keeping a record of all your phone calls.
I have never had a robo-call, or in fact any other unwanted call, get past the system and make my phone ring. Somedays I'll check the log of hang-ups and just smile.
Wrong. I get called once every few months by my visa card due to something that sets off their software. It hasn't been real identity theft yet, but they do call you before shutting off the card. Shutting off the card is done if they can't contact you.
Your experience is limited. Banks can and do shut your card down and then call you. I've had it happen a number of times when I've made online purchases - large ones late at night and foreign ones (DVD orders for non-domestic DVDs). They block the transaction, then they shut you down for any new transactions and then 8 hours later they robo-call you to tell you they shut you down and that you should call them back.
In the many cases where it has happened to me it has been excessively stupid because I use disposable credt card numbers which means I have to log into their website and generate the disposable number before I can make a transaction. So I've just authenticated with username/password before making the purchase. What's worse is that when you return their robo-call, they want to verify it is really you so they ask you stuff only you "should" know - like what were the last 3 purchases on your card, or where is your billing address -- all information readily available to anyone able to log into their website, which I just proved I could do by placing the order in the first place...
So yeah, its a pet peeve of mine and I remember the many cases so well because they have all been so brain-dead stupid about how they handle the situation.
in that it creates a market demand for children to be raped.
...
Rather, the already existing demand for child pornography leads to people raping children
You can't have it both ways. Either the demand already exists or kiddie porn creates the demand. Pick one, stick with it and be prepared to back it up.
see, you'll never stop creating trash. you're never going to win the war on trash. its always going to accumulate, no matter what you do. so you should let the trash sit in your room and fester, and live in it
There is no demand for trash.
just scrolling down to the first 5 comments above a 3 threshold in the 3 randomly chosen recent threads below on the topic, in 2 or 3 of the comments out of the 5, one finds the retarded idea that censoring *anything* is as bad as the worst censoring places on the globe.
I'm sorry but what? All I see are the specific half-assed really-stretching-it-to-make-it-count posts I warned you about.
Link to specific posts, get down to brass tacks take responsibility for them being your examples and skip the hand-waving.
Unless, of course, he planned his own assassination.
They are really serious about party loyalty down there in central america.
it creates a market demand for children to be raped.
Big fat citation needed. And not just some flunky who stands to gain political power or department budget, but real, honest to God quality research.
Because what you are saying is pretty much the same argument used against violent video games and the absolute best anyone has been able to do with that is to show a minor increase in aggressive behaviour by very young children, that subsists pretty quickly, immediately following game playing.
as yes there actually ARE some things, like child porn, that SHOULD be censored, according to ANY ideology
Right! Life is never more complicated than an ultimatum!
yet you see people all the time, especially on slashdot, actually saying "country A censors child porn so how can it criticize another country for censoring political opinion?
Really? ALL the time? ESPECIALLY on slashdot? Lets see two examples. Not half-assed examples that might kinda sorta mean what you say if you looked at them from the most biased perspective, nor examples of people trolling, I want full-ass examples. Gotta be pretty easy to come up with since they happen ALL the time, ESPECIALLY here. Right?
Where are all the people clambering for censorship when the internet is used for something good?
How can you argue against something that makes it more difficult for asshat dictators to remain in power?
They are naive enough to believe that only "bad" things will be censored. They seem unable to grasp that everyone's definitions for bad aren't the same and they don't realize that by enabling censorship they are putting the controls into the hands of those with most to gain through censorship. Its almost as if they believe that power doesn't corrupt, it purifies.
How do you send less than one message to a target?
Its called "zero." You may have heard of the number, its been around for quite a few centuries now.
As in not all zombies in a single botnet will necessarily spam all targets.
And your interpretation is extremely blind in my opinion.
How does any piece of software or code get put under the GPL.
Simple that author chooses it place it there.
Which has absolutely NOTHING to do with the intent of the GPL.
This sense of entitlement is just some of the worst self indulgent twaddle...
You are lost in a maze of cognitive dissonance and self-righteousness, unable to speak or reason coherently in the face of simply stated facts.
Sorry I couldn't be your xyzzy. See you next time you post the same misrepresentations.
First, I wonder about the 20-30 messages a day bit. There are roughly 150 billion spam messages sent daily. There are 6 billion people on the planet. In order for your 20-30 messages a day number to be correct, that would every man, woman, and child on the earth would need a computer and every single one of them would be part of a botnet.
You make the error of assuming spam sending is distributed evenly. Compromised systems at large corps and government offices can easily send many orders of magnitude more spam and still get lost in the noise of legit email from their sites.
There are only so many routers that lead into the US, set these up to monitor email traffic (is it port 22? 25? I don't remember)... and look for patterns.
That's an increase in workload that is many orders of magnitude larger than what even the largest routers do now. Furthermore, the US has the second highest zombie infection rate in the world, so border routers aren't all that useful and sending the cops after people with zombied computers is impractical. They are millions and they aren't standouts.
(a) Hard to detect a lot of sources because they are lost in the noise
(b) Extremely expensive to do pattern matching on all mail traffic
(c) Cops don't have the resources
If the problem were easy, it would have been solved.
Because spam doesn't work that way anymore. It comes from botnets where each individual zombie only sends one or less messages to the target and need only send out 20 or 30 each day total to still be effective.
It also restricts what and end user can do with the copy he has.
He can not for example distribute just the binary and he must include the GPL with it.
That's a deliberately blind interpretation.
The GPL is about maximizing what the end user can do with the copy he receives.
If he distributes it, he is no longer the END user, he is now a middle-man.
If there was no copyright law nothing would keep me from putting lots of DRM on to a piece of software that includes GPL code and selling it.
The goal is to get the market to the same place where other markets like automobiles are - practically no one would consider purchasing a car with the hood welded shut, the market simply does not tolerate that sort of proprietary behavior. When the market for software gets to the same point the need for the GPL will be over.
The GPL uses copyright law for exactly what the copyright law was intended to do. Protect the rights of the author.
No in the USA, copyright has never been about "protecting the rights" of the author. Maybe in France you might have an argument, but droits d'auteur is pretty much an alien concept in common-law countries like the USA.
Maybe future historians will consider this a dark age, whose intellectual production was lost.
Current historians and librarians already do.
Have you ever read the GPL? It has an incredible amount of restrictions when you compare it to something like the BSD license.
Yes I have. Have you? What part of "end user" are you having trouble comprehending?
Why do you assume Panera food is any more "pure" than that from McDonald's?
What part of "presumably" do you fail to understand?
Have you really never heard it used as a synonym of "for the sake of argument?"
Or link directly to Amazon's page for his book. That way he can also get the commission from Amazon.
Books and other creative works, even if they are in electronic form, still take time and dedication to create, as well as research, proofread, etc.
And so the requirement is to find a way to get compensation for that effort which does not rely on a mechanism which requires no effort.
The GPL is enforced under copyright law.
The GPL uses copyright law against itself. Copyright law exists to restrict what the end user can do with the copy he receives so that the author can benefit.
The GPL's intent is to maximize what the end user can do with the copy he receives without respect to the author's benefit.
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Ultimately you can control when, where and for how much you work. You just can't control what people do with the output of that work - trying to stop pirates is as futile as trying to stop people from applying the knowledge they gained from your reading your book. So look for ways to capitalize on the pirating instead of worrying about fighting it. Look for ways to make the pirates help you.
For example, you are now a published expert in the field and apparently knowledgeable enough that people want to copy what you have written. There are ways to capitalize on that, for example:
1) Sell your consulting services for obscene rates. As a consultant myself I've found that the more you charge the more highly regarded you are, the trick is getting to the point where people will even notice you in the first place - seems like you have been noticed already, so using your authorship as a credential should mean something in the right market. Depending on the gig, you may be able to bill in the $400-$500/hr + expenses strata.
2) Similarly, teach. Put together a course that is a day or two long - charge $500-$1000 per head, you can even just use your book as course materials. Look for opportunities to do private engagements - a single company brings you in to run a course for a handful of their employees and public engagements where you advertise for 6 months ahead of time and take registrations (with a non-refundable reservation fee that goes towards the final price) and then rent a classroom yourself. If there are any conventions for industries where your book is relevant, get yourself set up to run a session at those too. There might even be a market for guest lecturer at universities that teach from your book.
How? I only commented on the fact that they had a system with a list of all people with a driver's license,
No, that is what you commented. But is not what you commented ON. What you commented ON was the discussion in the thread.
If you really believe that what you said had absolutely nothing to do with failure to be in a database being an arrestable offence then what you posted was completely irrelevant to the discussion in which you posted.
Memory pages on i386 were 4 KiB. In modern x86 CPUs, they're often 4 MiB, which fits a lot better with the 128 KiB to 1 MiB erase blocks of high-capacity flash memory if your operating system supports 4 MiB page mode.
I'm fairly sure that 4MB pages don't cause the pager to swap 4MB chunks to disk at a time. In every unix I've looked at that supports larger-than-4K pages the way it works is that the large pagesize exists to reduce TLB thrashing, because what once took 1024 TLB entries now only takes 1 TLB entry (for the 4MB size). But whenever the system needs to handle pieces less than 4MB, it "flips the bit" to break the large page back down into its constituent 4KB sizes and handles them individually, including paging out to disk.
Their list has three 16GB, three 4GB, one 2GB and one 1GB flash drives. How is that "mostly 4GB and 8GB"?
Its an average!
(16GB*3 + 4GB*3 + 2GB + 1GB) / 7 = 7.875GB