I'm surprised no one has linked to the/. article about 3 or 4 years ago, when M$ said they didn't mind China pirating Windows, because it would get them "addicted" to M$ products. And yes, they did say addicted.
So why don't they subsidize unlocked (read FOSS) phones? Cause heck! I'd jump to the first carrier that offered me that!
Meh... but who am I kidding? Then there'd be no reason for me to sign up for another two-year contract, because my phone could easily ($50) be upgraded. Oh well!
Really the easiest way of defeating captcha is this:
1)Open up Visual Basic (That's right, your pirated version. Go on, it's that icon right there.)
2)Yoink some browser code from the intarwebs.
3)Customize it so it creates random user details, displaying only your CAPTCHA. Also it logs all the user/pass in a csv.
4)As you're sitting there with nothing to do, pass 5 or 10 CAPTCHAs. Or 50.
5)Pass the information to your botnets.
6)Enjoy the money garnered from the complete f***tards that click on spam links.
7)Wash, rinse, repeat.
One of my SK friends could've made a program like that in about... oh two hours, tops.
And if you have 10 people to split some profits with... well, there you go! 15,000 in less than three months.
You can already do some sweet stuff with the Wiimote...
I wonder if you could "type" with it? I think that would be one of the coolest things... you see someone waving their phone around - "Dude, what are you doing?" "Oh, I'm just chatting with my Mom." *friend backs away slowly*
I could think of a few really compelling apps for business.... Not to mention this has a +5 in security, because you can design the encryption/auth specifically for your phone(s)
They're big, ugly, and noisy, they tend to restrict public access to the surrounding land, and they cause the all-important property values of private individuals to plummet. As opposed to ****Marts, which are big, ugly, noisy, and tend to restrict public access to the surrounding land, and cause the all-important property values of private individuals (read: land barons) to skyrocket.
And of course those don't do anything to promote global warming.
Bands which, when they were just starting, also blatantly abused THEIR predecessors... I find it so amazing that this sort of thought even exists...
During the Baroque/Classical/Renaissance eras you were actually considered... well, a really poor composer if you didn't borrow motifs and phrases from some other better known composer.
And now, if you borrow a small phrase without permission/repayment/blah blah, you're some sort of really really horrid and terrible person.
But then again, we also pay to wear advertisements for Nike, et al.
if a person who might commit a crime, suddenly finds out they are under scrutiny by law enforcement, they will very likely cease the criminal conspiratorial activities, hence no crime is committed, and no additional tax dollars are diverted prosecuting and imprisoning someone, everybody wins. Actually, that might stop 90% of the people. 10% will just find a way around...
As lockpicks and hackers alike are fond of repeating - there's no lock one man created, that another cannot break.
Plus because they know the system and the system believes they're invulnerable, the underdogs get further, deeper, faster.
Too many industries have decided that marketing means making the people want what we want to sell, instead of selling what the people want. That's exactly the problem. Those bins at your Virgin store, those aren't the advertised marketed music. And it's not the music we want to hear. It's the music that
that earn[s] the most margin. Not the music best suited for our tastes or needs. It's the car companies telling us to get an SUV when I'm almost certain that about 90% of those SUVs have never even been into a gravel parking lot!
Compare that with my Chevette that I took out on... well this road had 1-2' ruts in it. And yes, that's *feet*.
Believe it or not - neither the auto companies, nor the music overlords have our best interests in mind. Or our needs.
Obscurity doesn't work best
Like you said, it's really a horrid way of trying to secure XYZ.
I think security through obscurity works the same way as leaving one door in your house unlocked at all times, but not telling anyone you do, or having any visitors.
That doesn't make your house more secure than a home that locks up, has bars on the windows, and lets plenty of people visit and publish pictures on the internet.
*mutters things about morons in power*
It provides a better or less expensive products for the consumer. I call BS!
I don't know of any company that has ever lowered the price for their products when something would be cheaper.
Case and point - when Nintendo switched from cartridge to DVD format - this was printed in either a letter to Nintendo Power or the Editor's response. But it was said that DVDs would be cheaper than cartridges.
When I first saw that (and Gamecube was still Dolphin or whatever it was), I said it was crap. And now? Games are still that $60 they were when it was a cartridge. And I have a big honking loading time. As for memory/size - I've seen a 4 GB sd card, so you can't try and BS there's more memory available on a DVD. Maybe size/weight, but whatever.
So the profit margin simply increased. Not better or cheaper goods.
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The problem here is that the United States Government thinks that it has a monopoly on everything the world needs. The problem? We don't. We don't even come close. But we still act like we do. Do you know what happens to companies that think they have it made and stop looking at the competition? They fail and are bought out by some other competitor.
Currently, Americans are finding that to be the case. Our jobs are being "purchased" by the competitors - India, China, Canada for crying out loud! (on a side note, one week ago, $110 USD was $117 CAN - I seem to recall a $5 USD book being in the realm of $9 CAN.)
Until America wakes up and realizes that we're going out of business (Me? I'd say our only current "commodity" is war... and there's not so much market for that right now), we will continue to see jobs slip away to more inspired consumers who are good for the resources.
Actually... they all look alike, and most of them perform alike - stock.
If you shave[detnews.com] all the current cars... I'm guessing about 10 or 20 models you could tell who manufactured that vehicle. And I'm not referring to say the crossovers from GMC/Pontiac/Cheverolet/Cadillac, but referring to Toyota/Lexus/GM/Ford/Diamler-Chrysler/Kia, etc...
And I'm pretty sure what he meant when he said music industry was referring to the radio/mega-mart's CDs, etc. blah blah.
Not the little niche market stores/online retailers/XM/etc.
H'actually, the state in the US where I live has banned smoking in public businesses that allow clientele under the age of 21.
So if the pub/restraunt/club wants to allow smoking indoors - gotta be 21+
My problem with that is I have to walk through that smoke to get into the restraunt, etc.
What really gets me is when I go hiking, say up a mountain - and people are smoking there!
"Ahh, that was a lovely hike, I feel invigorated! What fresh air! Can't stand the stuff, let me light up here..."
I always felt it a little peculiar...
Well, technically it's only within the RIAA's power to file charges/civil lawsuit.
Unless the RIAA has been granted powers of deputy by... well, I suppose it would have to do with the FBI, if it involves the internet...
The problem that most people have with the RIAA's legal practices - how much of those cheques went to the artists? My educated guess? Somewhere in the realm of not-a-red-cent.
Instead of bringing lawsuits in the realm of thousands and thousands of dollars, if they had simply required that the "consumer" purchase the files at a fair market value, no-one would really care.
But instead they attacked people who were by-and-large innocent, in that they had no idea that what they were doing was wrong. I mean - if I can record what comes across my radio, then why shouldn't I be able to download that same music?
That's the thought that most people (if any thought at all) had.
See, I'm just curious why someone hasn't tried a class-action lawsuit (okay, I'm really not, it's probably in the recording contract). Why not an anti-trust against the RIAA? There seems to be somewhat of a monopolistic desire there. They want to have not only vertical integration from the point of origin (the artist) to the point of sale, but they want to completely control "their" product, to the point of telling you how, when, and where you can listen to it.
I think their problem is they came 20 years too late... I'm sure plenty of people would've been glad they got those "pirates", with their boom-boxes, walking down the street, broadcasting music illegally. Take 'em down!
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Rather than using DNS - put a *nix box between your XP and M$ - voila, instant access, and I'm sure there are plenty of packet sniffers out there...
non-profit (at least the pure term) refers to stations like your local public radio.
Radio's customers are NOT the listeners. Their customers are their advertisers. Their commodity is YOU, the loyal listener. Their product is not music, music is simply one of their expenses.
Non-profit radio stations don't really have customers. At the most you could call either the listener, or the artists the customers. Listener, most likely, as you're the one who may or may not donate to them.
Non-profit radio stations, by virtue of who and what they are, (AFAIK) are legally only allowed to play music that they have permission to play. Indie bands/copyleftists who don't mind if people share their music because they know the money comes from playing live, rather than music purchases. Just ask any big name artist where the major % comes from - records or concerts.
And if you want to own a physical copy of the CD, you can usually contact the artist directly, and 100% of the profits go to them, rather than 2-3c on the $15+.
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I'm surprised no one has linked to the /. article about 3 or 4 years ago, when M$ said they didn't mind China pirating Windows, because it would get them "addicted" to M$ products. And yes, they did say addicted.
So why don't they subsidize unlocked (read FOSS) phones? Cause heck! I'd jump to the first carrier that offered me that!
Meh... but who am I kidding? Then there'd be no reason for me to sign up for another two-year contract, because my phone could easily ($50) be upgraded. Oh well!
Didn't look far enough. No keyboard? Pshaw!
Really the easiest way of defeating captcha is this:
1)Open up Visual Basic (That's right, your pirated version. Go on, it's that icon right there.)
2)Yoink some browser code from the intarwebs.
3)Customize it so it creates random user details, displaying only your CAPTCHA. Also it logs all the user/pass in a csv.
4)As you're sitting there with nothing to do, pass 5 or 10 CAPTCHAs. Or 50.
5)Pass the information to your botnets.
6)Enjoy the money garnered from the complete f***tards that click on spam links.
7)Wash, rinse, repeat.
One of my SK friends could've made a program like that in about... oh two hours, tops.
And if you have 10 people to split some profits with... well, there you go! 15,000 in less than three months.
You can already do some sweet stuff with the Wiimote... I wonder if you could "type" with it? I think that would be one of the coolest things... you see someone waving their phone around - "Dude, what are you doing?" "Oh, I'm just chatting with my Mom." *friend backs away slowly*
We deal in Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics --Statiticians everywhere!
Compare that with my Chevette that I took out on... well this road had 1-2' ruts in it. And yes, that's *feet*.
Believe it or not - neither the auto companies, nor the music overlords have our best interests in mind. Or our needs.
Damn you, Thermodynamics!!!
@~:locate myfile.txt
Works just fine for me ^_^
Obscurity doesn't work best Like you said, it's really a horrid way of trying to secure XYZ. I think security through obscurity works the same way as leaving one door in your house unlocked at all times, but not telling anyone you do, or having any visitors. That doesn't make your house more secure than a home that locks up, has bars on the windows, and lets plenty of people visit and publish pictures on the internet. *mutters things about morons in power*
makes me want to beat someone into the ground!
I don't know of any company that has ever lowered the price for their products when something would be cheaper.
Case and point - when Nintendo switched from cartridge to DVD format - this was printed in either a letter to Nintendo Power or the Editor's response. But it was said that DVDs would be cheaper than cartridges.
When I first saw that (and Gamecube was still Dolphin or whatever it was), I said it was crap. And now? Games are still that $60 they were when it was a cartridge. And I have a big honking loading time. As for memory/size - I've seen a 4 GB sd card, so you can't try and BS there's more memory available on a DVD. Maybe size/weight, but whatever.
So the profit margin simply increased. Not better or cheaper goods.
----
The problem here is that the United States Government thinks that it has a monopoly on everything the world needs. The problem? We don't. We don't even come close. But we still act like we do. Do you know what happens to companies that think they have it made and stop looking at the competition? They fail and are bought out by some other competitor.
Currently, Americans are finding that to be the case. Our jobs are being "purchased" by the competitors - India, China, Canada for crying out loud! (on a side note, one week ago, $110 USD was $117 CAN - I seem to recall a $5 USD book being in the realm of $9 CAN.)
Until America wakes up and realizes that we're going out of business (Me? I'd say our only current "commodity" is war... and there's not so much market for that right now), we will continue to see jobs slip away to more inspired consumers who are good for the resources.
Let's just hope we do wake up...
Actually... they all look alike, and most of them perform alike - stock. If you shave[detnews.com] all the current cars... I'm guessing about 10 or 20 models you could tell who manufactured that vehicle. And I'm not referring to say the crossovers from GMC/Pontiac/Cheverolet/Cadillac, but referring to Toyota/Lexus/GM/Ford/Diamler-Chrysler/Kia, etc... And I'm pretty sure what he meant when he said music industry was referring to the radio/mega-mart's CDs, etc. blah blah. Not the little niche market stores/online retailers/XM/etc.
Now listed on organBay(tm): One slightly used, but excellent condition liver! $5 USD S&H: $500,000
H'actually, the state in the US where I live has banned smoking in public businesses that allow clientele under the age of 21. So if the pub/restraunt/club wants to allow smoking indoors - gotta be 21+ My problem with that is I have to walk through that smoke to get into the restraunt, etc. What really gets me is when I go hiking, say up a mountain - and people are smoking there! "Ahh, that was a lovely hike, I feel invigorated! What fresh air! Can't stand the stuff, let me light up here..." I always felt it a little peculiar...
Well, technically it's only within the RIAA's power to file charges/civil lawsuit. Unless the RIAA has been granted powers of deputy by... well, I suppose it would have to do with the FBI, if it involves the internet... The problem that most people have with the RIAA's legal practices - how much of those cheques went to the artists? My educated guess? Somewhere in the realm of not-a-red-cent. Instead of bringing lawsuits in the realm of thousands and thousands of dollars, if they had simply required that the "consumer" purchase the files at a fair market value, no-one would really care. But instead they attacked people who were by-and-large innocent, in that they had no idea that what they were doing was wrong. I mean - if I can record what comes across my radio, then why shouldn't I be able to download that same music? That's the thought that most people (if any thought at all) had. See, I'm just curious why someone hasn't tried a class-action lawsuit (okay, I'm really not, it's probably in the recording contract). Why not an anti-trust against the RIAA? There seems to be somewhat of a monopolistic desire there. They want to have not only vertical integration from the point of origin (the artist) to the point of sale, but they want to completely control "their" product, to the point of telling you how, when, and where you can listen to it. I think their problem is they came 20 years too late... I'm sure plenty of people would've been glad they got those "pirates", with their boom-boxes, walking down the street, broadcasting music illegally. Take 'em down!
Rather than using DNS - put a *nix box between your XP and M$ - voila, instant access, and I'm sure there are plenty of packet sniffers out there...
non-profit (at least the pure term) refers to stations like your local public radio.
Radio's customers are NOT the listeners. Their customers are their advertisers. Their commodity is YOU, the loyal listener. Their product is not music, music is simply one of their expenses.
Non-profit radio stations don't really have customers. At the most you could call either the listener, or the artists the customers. Listener, most likely, as you're the one who may or may not donate to them.
Non-profit radio stations, by virtue of who and what they are, (AFAIK) are legally only allowed to play music that they have permission to play. Indie bands/copyleftists who don't mind if people share their music because they know the money comes from playing live, rather than music purchases. Just ask any big name artist where the major % comes from - records or concerts.
And if you want to own a physical copy of the CD, you can usually contact the artist directly, and 100% of the profits go to them, rather than 2-3c on the $15+.
Our libraries just carry (for the most part) lame movies.
Some of them carry music CDs, but I haven't heard about anyone whinging because you can rip MP3s from them.
I'm all for it though - power to the people!