I met someone not long ago that wanted some DB work. They were wanting to organize and sell phone numbers, street addresses, email addresses, and they attempt to collect/gather as much meta information as possible. Various relationships tell them whether you are a good target for any given spam type email or direct mail campaign.
Someone with your address on their list will try to sell it for $.50 or up to $5/10 if they can get it providing it is a valid address. There is money in selling such information. THAT is why you get spam. If they could figure out how to make all drivers of any vehicle made before 2000 as they drive down the highway, people would sell that to autodealers... Its all about Ad revenues, and your email address is just another pageview sort of thing for people buying the lists.
There is no method to prevent this. If one person at company X illegally sells a list of clients of that company, it will be out in the wild, nothing to stop it from being resold dozens of times.
Actually, I meant for it to be a second screen on the entertainment/pvr system in the family/living room area. The interface is all fingers (good) and doesn't require traditional PC equipment in a place that traditionally doesn't have PC equipment... could be a good thing. The main viewing for video should still be on the flat screen etc., but the UI for the system could be on the top of the 'coffee table'
Actually it does have a market, just not at $10,000 a pop. Running windows not withstanding, If it ran Linux and was not a DRM encumbered PVR, then HELL yes, it has a market...
While I'm not sure your idea would work or not, I do know that there are many ways to compromise the nice-play Internet that we all think it is. Some of them are being used right now and we just haven't figured it out yet. DDoS is but one of those ways and might be *ONLY* a distraction while surreptitious malware or spyware is installed in government facilities. This in fact could be a test of the new Chinese cyber-warfare units in order to demonstrate what they are capable of...
Just a thought from the 'stay in your happy place group' (TM)
I've stopped reading any print media whether it is a magazine or a newspaper. Both are unbearably slow sources of standard news articles compared to the Internet. The only print media I read anymore are those that give in-depth or otherwise insightful articles that are not reported by the up-to-the-minute-news services. Even those I tend to read electronically. There are some trade mags that publish things that just are not in the "news" so they are good... but any 'news' information is best had off the web. Google reader helps quite a bit.
You are right on the money there, but Google only 'indexes' the world's information, they do not channel it... a small but important difference, though I'd like to see the source of the article highlighted before going there. If three say from AP and one from UPI, then I know that I really only need to read two of the stories. Maybe someday
You have exactly the tack that they need to be thinking, but won't. Use the new media or rather exploit it without expecting others to do all your work. Will it blend would be a good place to start. Will a bottle of Heinz blend? hmmmmm
That is what viral marketing is about, not asking others to do your work for you. Produce something that people will watch for whatever bizarre reason, and let it go...
"for just 39 cents per day, you can keep a needy hotdog or hamburger clothed in Heinz ketchup." Now do a YouTube commercial type video on that premise. Advertising agencies are only good about 10% of the time. Web 2.0 has them all flummoxed.
"...and by Enlightenment philosophers, who chipped away at biblical authority" - emphasis mine
I always question that phrase; who gave the bible authority? I'm reasonably certain of my history, and in this case, it was mankind who gave the bible any authority at all, if it really has any.
That question is more important than the question of what truth's if any, does it hold.
Should we be pleased that the kids can out-think TV producers?" The right question is: "Should we be surprised that the kids can out-think TV producers?"
The military has much higher requirements for equipment. It wasn't until just recently that 'throw away' equipment became good enough for military use. By that I mean that the cost of replacement / repair became equivalent or parity. A cantenna and a $70 router can be replaced quickly without need for repairs... that is to say that the repair process is called replacement. This was never the case for military grade equipment in the past.
The advent of surface mount parts caused the cost of manufacture to drastically drop while the cost of repair soared. This doesn't work for armored vehicles, but for electronics it does.
You will notice other effects of 'modern warfare' also: the humble low-tech RPG has been a fiercely dangerous weapon. Very low-tech roadside bombs are rising in popularity too. While that has little to do with the cantenna and COTS 802.11g router, it does show that high dollar, high tech equipment is not always the best choice. If it works, well.. it works, and if people in the field find something that works, you will have trouble stopping them from using it.
I'm sure that the Pringles company are more than willing to keep shipping chips to the middle east.
Let me try to correct what you have said:
This is good because M$ is an enemy of free software and has made trouble for everyone else far too long. I'm reasonably certain that if you ask Borland, Digital Research, Novell of the 80-90s, Wordstar, Wordperfect, Paradox coders, and hundreds of other people that worked for not-free software companies they would tell you that MS is the enemy of *anyone* who is not Microsoft.... including Windows end users.
The simple fact is that MS did not perceive F/OSS software as a threat until it was too late. Once Linux liberated the kernel the "fat lady" started warming up for the final song. Now, MS sees F/OSS as a threat and are busy trying to find ways to beat down this johnny-come-lately, and having little success in trying to run people out of business who really aren't in business. Sure RedHat et al are in business, but MS has no traction in competing with them. In short, MS pretty much got blind-sided with F/OSS in general and GNU/Linux in particular. OOo and other applications are the peccadillo's in MS' cash cows.
The failures by MS of late are not typical, but indeed are spectacular, and I expect that the fireworks show at the end will be nothing less than 4th-of-July impressive.
My statement was almost apologetic in that I said they 'apparently' believe in the same 'god of Abraham'
Whether they actually have the same faith, doctrine, or indeed deity histories is another matter. What is important is that the very same Abraham is where any forking happened, or slightly thereafter. Yes, we all know that there is more to it than that, but that is how the popular information reads today.
At one point or more in history, these three 'religions' decided that they hated each other, as often as not because of the other's genocidal tendencies, the the claim thereof.
In summary: All talk of genocide or rather lack thereof by any religious group is IMO nothing more than political posturing, something that the god of Abraham was not above doing/supporting. Ergo, it fits well with the followers of the god of Abraham that genocide and arguments about genocide are part and parcel of the business of religion.
I think you misread my intent. "From Joshua 6:17 And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent."
This was only part of the wars the Jews fought to claim the promised land, in which every breathing living thing was put to death, except for notable exceptions of those who aided them at times. What happened in the 20th century is a different matter altogether.
Genocide, as defined by Merriam-Websters: the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group
Note that it does not say complete destruction, as in totally eliminating them. So, technically, as I've said, the Jews are also guilty of genocide, or attempting it.
Holocaust denial is generally an antisemitic point of view. The Muslims, Jews, and Christians all believe in the same deity... apparently, but that doesn't stop them from hating one another. Other famous holocaust deniers are good friends of the KKK.
It is AFAIK a religious belief. There are many arguments for or against it, but the simple fact that it happened is the strongest argument for it. There is no reason to believe that it wouldn't happen. Genocide is one of humankind's hobbies... if you will. There was Pol Pot, Husein, Chechin?, and other examples like what the Europeans in general did to the new world. The Japanese have their history, as do many other countries on this planet. There are several really good examples in the South American continent.
In fact, I think if you read the book, the Jews may have been promises the 'promised land' but they committed genocide in the process of claiming it.
Not to get on a rant, but genocide does seem to be rather common. There is no reason to think that the Germans weren't trying a bit of it on their own.
This whole issue is starting to bother me greatly. Sure, if it wasn't an open AP, it would be stealing. If free Wi-Fi wasn't so common an average person might know better. Even in the case of it not being offered to customers, how are you supposed to know? That is tantamount to telling a police officer that you left a bag of $20 bills on a park bench yesterday, and when you went back to get it today it was gone. If you had locked it in the trunk of your car, that would be different. Lets make it more palatable; Say you left a bag of candy bars on a park bench where 100s of children play daily. When you go back the next day to retrieve it, it's gone. What would the police say? Naturally they would hide their laughter until you turn your back to them.
If public parks are paid for by citizens of that municipality, are people from out of town allowed to use them? Free means free. I was under the impression that if something is only free to customers as a marketing ploy, you have to do something to keep it from those who are not customers. How is this a crime? If a store offers free candy bars to the first 1000 shoppers on Saturday morning as a marketing ploy, have you committed a crime if you take one of the candy bars but don't buy anything? I think that we need to ensure that businesses advertise that they have either FREE Wi-Fi or Free-to-customers Wi-Fi to clear this up. Once it is posted (like no trespassing signs) there is no longer any question about whether it's a crime or not.
To me, "The music industry" seems to have become the bane of civil and modern life. As if there exist no problems in the world, no wars, no poverty, no economic issues but fucking more-cash problems of the "music industry". makes one start to treat individuals involved in this "music industry" like lowlifes in everyday life. - emphasis mine
"Makes one start to treat individuals involved in this 'music industry' like the lowlifes that they really are."
I have to say that you are quite off base here. My wife (ooh, a/.er with a wife? WTF) has no patience for computers. It doesn't matter whether it's running Windows or Linux or Max or something from a scifi movie, she just has no patience when it doesn't work well. Guess what? She is just fine with Ubuntu. The interface is good, she found her way everywhere she needed to go. Within minutes found FF needed a plugin, installed it and was off. Got IM running in no time. Found and activated the unsigned NVIDIA driver. The only problem she has had is a couple of FF crashes.
Your assertion that GNU/Linux distributions (builds) are not compatable [sic] is rather sickening. Compatible with what? Windows? Seriously, why should we hold up Windows as a standard? There are clearly good arguments as to why it's not a technically good GUI. Because it happens to have the largest market share does NOT mean that it is technically and aesthetically the best. Please stop using that assumption.
1) Quick, get JT, this behavior was causes by that candy bar advertisement 2) People are still using MySpace???? WTF 3) If someone posts links to a video that you don't like, find out who made the film and posted it to the public forums. 4) if you want to suspend all people who post links to it, I suggest that the entire population of that school start posting links now. Let them suspend the entire school population for 40 days.
5) Have you seen that video... OMG, they have a right to complain IMO. There is enough evidence to support making fun of the teacher. Hell, late night comedians could make fun of this situation just looking at the video and take a no child left behind theme... wow.
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I met someone not long ago that wanted some DB work. They were wanting to organize and sell phone numbers, street addresses, email addresses, and they attempt to collect/gather as much meta information as possible. Various relationships tell them whether you are a good target for any given spam type email or direct mail campaign.
Someone with your address on their list will try to sell it for $.50 or up to $5/10 if they can get it providing it is a valid address. There is money in selling such information. THAT is why you get spam. If they could figure out how to make all drivers of any vehicle made before 2000 as they drive down the highway, people would sell that to autodealers... Its all about Ad revenues, and your email address is just another pageview sort of thing for people buying the lists.
There is no method to prevent this. If one person at company X illegally sells a list of clients of that company, it will be out in the wild, nothing to stop it from being resold dozens of times.
Actually, I meant for it to be a second screen on the entertainment/pvr system in the family/living room area. The interface is all fingers (good) and doesn't require traditional PC equipment in a place that traditionally doesn't have PC equipment... could be a good thing.
The main viewing for video should still be on the flat screen etc., but the UI for the system could be on the top of the 'coffee table'
Actually it does have a market, just not at $10,000 a pop. Running windows not withstanding, If it ran Linux and was not a DRM encumbered PVR, then HELL yes, it has a market...
Apparently just about anyone... ergo the need for such a device? :-/
Altruism != generosity even if they go hand in hand.
While I'm not sure your idea would work or not, I do know that there are many ways to compromise the nice-play Internet that we all think it is. Some of them are being used right now and we just haven't figured it out yet. DDoS is but one of those ways and might be *ONLY* a distraction while surreptitious malware or spyware is installed in government facilities. This in fact could be a test of the new Chinese cyber-warfare units in order to demonstrate what they are capable of...
Just a thought from the 'stay in your happy place group' (TM)
I've stopped reading any print media whether it is a magazine or a newspaper. Both are unbearably slow sources of standard news articles compared to the Internet. The only print media I read anymore are those that give in-depth or otherwise insightful articles that are not reported by the up-to-the-minute-news services. Even those I tend to read electronically. There are some trade mags that publish things that just are not in the "news" so they are good... but any 'news' information is best had off the web. Google reader helps quite a bit.
You are right on the money there, but Google only 'indexes' the world's information, they do not channel it... a small but important difference, though I'd like to see the source of the article highlighted before going there. If three say from AP and one from UPI, then I know that I really only need to read two of the stories. Maybe someday
You have exactly the tack that they need to be thinking, but won't. Use the new media or rather exploit it without expecting others to do all your work. Will it blend would be a good place to start. Will a bottle of Heinz blend? hmmmmm
That is what viral marketing is about, not asking others to do your work for you. Produce something that people will watch for whatever bizarre reason, and let it go...
"for just 39 cents per day, you can keep a needy hotdog or hamburger clothed in Heinz ketchup." Now do a YouTube commercial type video on that premise. Advertising agencies are only good about 10% of the time. Web 2.0 has them all flummoxed.
I always question that phrase; who gave the bible authority? I'm reasonably certain of my history, and in this case, it was mankind who gave the bible any authority at all, if it really has any.
That question is more important than the question of what truth's if any, does it hold.
The military has much higher requirements for equipment. It wasn't until just recently that 'throw away' equipment became good enough for military use. By that I mean that the cost of replacement / repair became equivalent or parity. A cantenna and a $70 router can be replaced quickly without need for repairs... that is to say that the repair process is called replacement. This was never the case for military grade equipment in the past.
The advent of surface mount parts caused the cost of manufacture to drastically drop while the cost of repair soared. This doesn't work for armored vehicles, but for electronics it does.
You will notice other effects of 'modern warfare' also: the humble low-tech RPG has been a fiercely dangerous weapon. Very low-tech roadside bombs are rising in popularity too. While that has little to do with the cantenna and COTS 802.11g router, it does show that high dollar, high tech equipment is not always the best choice. If it works, well.. it works, and if people in the field find something that works, you will have trouble stopping them from using it.
I'm sure that the Pringles company are more than willing to keep shipping chips to the middle east.
that there are typically 5 people sitting in the same chair at Monday morning 8:00 a.m. Calculus classes....
The simple fact is that MS did not perceive F/OSS software as a threat until it was too late. Once Linux liberated the kernel the "fat lady" started warming up for the final song. Now, MS sees F/OSS as a threat and are busy trying to find ways to beat down this johnny-come-lately, and having little success in trying to run people out of business who really aren't in business. Sure RedHat et al are in business, but MS has no traction in competing with them. In short, MS pretty much got blind-sided with F/OSS in general and GNU/Linux in particular. OOo and other applications are the peccadillo's in MS' cash cows.
The failures by MS of late are not typical, but indeed are spectacular, and I expect that the fireworks show at the end will be nothing less than 4th-of-July impressive.
My statement was almost apologetic in that I said they 'apparently' believe in the same 'god of Abraham'
Whether they actually have the same faith, doctrine, or indeed deity histories is another matter. What is important is that the very same Abraham is where any forking happened, or slightly thereafter. Yes, we all know that there is more to it than that, but that is how the popular information reads today.
At one point or more in history, these three 'religions' decided that they hated each other, as often as not because of the other's genocidal tendencies, the the claim thereof.
In summary: All talk of genocide or rather lack thereof by any religious group is IMO nothing more than political posturing, something that the god of Abraham was not above doing/supporting. Ergo, it fits well with the followers of the god of Abraham that genocide and arguments about genocide are part and parcel of the business of religion.
I think you misread my intent.
"From Joshua 6:17 And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent."
This was only part of the wars the Jews fought to claim the promised land, in which every breathing living thing was put to death, except for notable exceptions of those who aided them at times. What happened in the 20th century is a different matter altogether.
Genocide, as defined by Merriam-Websters: the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group
Note that it does not say complete destruction, as in totally eliminating them. So, technically, as I've said, the Jews are also guilty of genocide, or attempting it.
Holocaust denial is generally an antisemitic point of view. The Muslims, Jews, and Christians all believe in the same deity... apparently, but that doesn't stop them from hating one another. Other famous holocaust deniers are good friends of the KKK.
It is AFAIK a religious belief. There are many arguments for or against it, but the simple fact that it happened is the strongest argument for it. There is no reason to believe that it wouldn't happen. Genocide is one of humankind's hobbies... if you will. There was Pol Pot, Husein, Chechin?, and other examples like what the Europeans in general did to the new world. The Japanese have their history, as do many other countries on this planet. There are several really good examples in the South American continent.
In fact, I think if you read the book, the Jews may have been promises the 'promised land' but they committed genocide in the process of claiming it.
Not to get on a rant, but genocide does seem to be rather common. There is no reason to think that the Germans weren't trying a bit of it on their own.
I think they could make the whole flying experience better if they banned the TSA people from the security checkpoint... but that's just me. meh
bullets capable of penetrating this new body armor are on the way in
3.... 2....
Guess I'm just cynical.
This whole issue is starting to bother me greatly. Sure, if it wasn't an open AP, it would be stealing. If free Wi-Fi wasn't so common an average person might know better. Even in the case of it not being offered to customers, how are you supposed to know? That is tantamount to telling a police officer that you left a bag of $20 bills on a park bench yesterday, and when you went back to get it today it was gone. If you had locked it in the trunk of your car, that would be different. Lets make it more palatable; Say you left a bag of candy bars on a park bench where 100s of children play daily. When you go back the next day to retrieve it, it's gone. What would the police say? Naturally they would hide their laughter until you turn your back to them.
If public parks are paid for by citizens of that municipality, are people from out of town allowed to use them? Free means free. I was under the impression that if something is only free to customers as a marketing ploy, you have to do something to keep it from those who are not customers. How is this a crime? If a store offers free candy bars to the first 1000 shoppers on Saturday morning as a marketing ploy, have you committed a crime if you take one of the candy bars but don't buy anything? I think that we need to ensure that businesses advertise that they have either FREE Wi-Fi or Free-to-customers Wi-Fi to clear this up. Once it is posted (like no trespassing signs) there is no longer any question about whether it's a crime or not.
mea culpa - I just read an article about NIN's Trent Reznor. http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,217 41980-5006024,00.html and he's pretty blunt about it. These people you reference ARE lowlifes, and this is coming from one of their clients.
"Makes one start to treat individuals involved in this 'music industry' like the lowlifes that they really are."
There, that sounds better
I have to say that you are quite off base here. My wife (ooh, a /.er with a wife? WTF) has no patience for computers. It doesn't matter whether it's running Windows or Linux or Max or something from a scifi movie, she just has no patience when it doesn't work well. Guess what? She is just fine with Ubuntu. The interface is good, she found her way everywhere she needed to go. Within minutes found FF needed a plugin, installed it and was off. Got IM running in no time. Found and activated the unsigned NVIDIA driver. The only problem she has had is a couple of FF crashes.
Your assertion that GNU/Linux distributions (builds) are not compatable [sic] is rather sickening. Compatible with what? Windows? Seriously, why should we hold up Windows as a standard? There are clearly good arguments as to why it's not a technically good GUI. Because it happens to have the largest market share does NOT mean that it is technically and aesthetically the best. Please stop using that assumption.
1) Quick, get JT, this behavior was causes by that candy bar advertisement
2) People are still using MySpace???? WTF
3) If someone posts links to a video that you don't like, find out who made the film and posted it to the public forums.
4) if you want to suspend all people who post links to it, I suggest that the entire population of that school start posting links now. Let them suspend the entire school population for 40 days.
5) Have you seen that video... OMG, they have a right to complain IMO. There is enough evidence to support making fun of the teacher. Hell, late night comedians could make fun of this situation just looking at the video and take a no child left behind theme... wow.
Like that is going to happen?