You raise a very interesting point, but I think that SCO is NOT going to win in this case. It's so obvious that the execs are using this suit to inflate stock prices for a while. The SEC better get their thumbs out of their asses and stick these fuckers in Club Fed for a while.
You know why nobody gives a damn? Because the government agencies in charge of keeping shit like this from happening don't do a goddam thing when it does.
Remember Enron? There wasn't a person in this country that wasn't calling for Kenneth Lay's severed fucking head on a pole, but did he do any jail time? Fuck no. He had to sell one or two of his 4 mansions to pay some fines.
It's shit like that that is jading us, making us realize that people in high places are going to pretty much remain untouchable no matter what they do or who they fuck over...just because they have some influential friends. You're living in modern feudalism, buddy. Get used to it or start capping these rich arrogant bitches, because there is no in-between anymore.
medial mail is rather cheap to ship a book with. Your average text costs about $3.00 to send in this manner. This is more than made up by the $20-$60 you just saved by not getting anally ruined by the local school bookstore.
Yeah, but isn't Microsoft the one that is trying to lay claim to the technology? These guys are just saying "we did it before microsoft and we didn't even invent it ourselves, therefore microsoft cannot possible patent this"
It sounds like you got fired for refusing a managerial order to commit a crime. Can you say "lawsuit?" I'm not a big fan of frivolous litigation, but I'm all about sticking to fucking corrupt managers.
Start a movement, last I checked www.punishspamcustomers.com was available. Write letters to congresscritters suggesting this sort of approach as an anti-spam bill. Hire lobbyists. You know, the usual way a law gets passed. If enough people get behind it, it will get attention in state capitols.
I'm not flaming you, although you requested it, but I'd like to point out that not all spam is generated by authentic customers. Many spammers abuse open relays which your solution would do nothing to solve. What needs to happen is the CUSTOMERS of the spammers need to start being punished. The people who are actually selling penis-enlargement cream or auto insurance...the spam will always give a phone number or URL. Trace this # or URL back a real person or business (easily done by citizens, let alone law enforcement) and levy a big honking fine upon them. THAT will make spammers evaporate overnight...these people aren't mass-mailing because it's fun for them, they're doing it because they're being PAID to.
That would make this sort of thing fall under the Rico Statute though, which would get the Feds involved. Once a few smart-ass cracka-gangsta wannabes go to Federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison, that sort of nonsense will stop real fast. (Assuming it's perpetrated from our country) If it's done by foreign crackers, I'm sure G.W. and friends can declare them "enemy combatants" and they will be quickly and quietly sent off to sunny Cuba.
If you had read the article, you would have known that previous synthetic diamonds were as expensive to produce as natural diamonds are to buy. The two companies mentioned in the article have come developed methods to quite cheaply produce diamonds, which is why De Beers is freaking out...they can't compete with someone selling an equivalent of a $15,000 stone for $500. (well, they CAN compete with that, but they really don't WANT to since it means they don't have a strangle hold on the industry anymore.)
Re:Eventually
on
P2P Spam?
·
· Score: 4, Insightful
THe other possible scenario is that prosecutors will start going after the company that advertised via the spam. I'd like that solution, I've been saying that should be going on for years...spammers will go away if people are now afraid to use that method of marketing for fear of hefty fines.
There have been a couple attempts at it, and there are a few currently in development. The problem is, a search engine in an expensive thing to run. You need tons of processing power, storage space, and bandwidth. These things are not free, nor are they cheap. (well, maybe storage space is)
You'd also need to pay engineers to maintain it. It would be a full time job for several people, and you're not gonna get people doing THAT for free.
I think google does a pretty good job of balancing commercialism with a very functional fast search engine. I see no need for anything else right now.
It's an economy of scale. They may "only" get 1.26 a pound, but you gotta remember they're selling tens to hundreds of tons of beans.
Most manufactureres / growers don't make anything near the sale price. For instance, the nutritional supplement manufacturere I worked for this summer makes things like Acidophilus and glucosamine/chondroitin. They sell them to resellers for like.50-1.00 a bottle, and the reseller in turn either sells them to someone else for a nice markup or puts them on the shelves for anywhere from 6.00 to 25.00 a bottle. Does that mean we're not getting a fair share?
Ask a US corn farmer how much get gets per pound of corn. It ain't anywhere near what you'd pay in the grocery store. It's just how these things work. The growers don't have to deal with the distribution, marketing, packagine, storage, importing, etc. THat's what drives the cost up.
I used to run a coffee shop. 3/4 of the "fair trade" whiners that came in were wearing clothing and sneakers made by foreign child labor. I'm not saying you're the same way, I'm just commenting on how your average American cares about human rights only when it is trendy to do so.
These are the same people that bitch about what bad drivers people are while they themselves are driving a truck or SUV that's 2 sizes too big for them while juggling a coffee in one hand and a cell phone in the other.
Even if they were recognized as a self-ruling state, that doesn't mean the RIAA can send in a squad of death ninjas to take these guys out. The Palestinian government would still have to support and allow extradition or local prosecution. (the latter requiring the RIAA to have a presence in Palestine)
Why do you think Kazaa's still running? Whatever country they're based out of (can't remember right now...Denmark I think?) doesn't have extradition agreements with the US in regards to stupid IP law...just big stuff like terrorists and murderers.
She's probably referring to large corporate campaign contributions, not private donations. The former is the problem with our elections today, where politicians loyalties can be bought for the average salary of an experienced engineer. It's a sad state of affairs.
Is there any movement out there to create a standardized IM protocol? We have one for just about every OTHER major IP application, (Mail, news, etc) so why not develop an open IM protocol and let people release their own clients with their own feature-sets that operate within these designated standards?
If I had mod points you'd get modded up, not down. I'm no friend of the right (or the left for that matter) but Dean's a creep. We need someone in office who will shake things up...we're in a sad state of affairs right now and neither side is brave enough to make any major changes. (Unless of course those changes involve the erosion of our civil liberties and/or more money in their consituents' pockets.)
What, Dean use shady, under-handed tactics? You're surprised? His creepy pedophile smile says it all. I don't care if he spends millions of dollars so that disabled kids can spend all day being licked by kittens, I would never even think of voting for someone who so obviously reeked of evil in such a disturbing way.
The left is as bad as the right, if not worse. Not only are they just as self-serving, when it comes right down to it, they whine like bitches when they don't get their way, too. I can't begin to fathom the logic in voting for a spooky bitchwad like Dean just because you don't like Bush. There are better alternatives.
Vote Green, vote Libertarian, hell, vote Whig for all i care....just don't vote Democrat or Republican and encourage these dumb selfish fuckers any longer.
And whatever candidate from either major party that we put into office is going keep perpetuating the status quo. The only difference is going to be how much tax rich people pay. Nothing else will change. Our prisons will still be full of nonviolent drug offenders, public programs will continue to be slashed while the DEA gets billions to ensure the above happens. Copyright and IP law will keep getting more restrictive. Civil rights will continue to dwindle. Nothing will change.
Tell him that if he doesn't send you your money back, you're coming to his house to collect it personally. it's not THAT hard to track someone down, especially if he's sent you something.
Already started happening as of a few years ago. Every damn Texan and Californian with an SUV who wants to see snow in the winter but still wants agonizingly hot summers lives here now. That's all we need is MORE.
Slashdot Mirror
You raise a very interesting point, but I think that SCO is NOT going to win in this case. It's so obvious that the execs are using this suit to inflate stock prices for a while. The SEC better get their thumbs out of their asses and stick these fuckers in Club Fed for a while.
You know why nobody gives a damn? Because the government agencies in charge of keeping shit like this from happening don't do a goddam thing when it does.
Remember Enron? There wasn't a person in this country that wasn't calling for Kenneth Lay's severed fucking head on a pole, but did he do any jail time? Fuck no. He had to sell one or two of his 4 mansions to pay some fines.
It's shit like that that is jading us, making us realize that people in high places are going to pretty much remain untouchable no matter what they do or who they fuck over...just because they have some influential friends. You're living in modern feudalism, buddy. Get used to it or start capping these rich arrogant bitches, because there is no in-between anymore.
I've never had a media mail book take more than 8 days to get to me. It also helps to order your books before the semester starts.
medial mail is rather cheap to ship a book with. Your average text costs about $3.00 to send in this manner. This is more than made up by the $20-$60 you just saved by not getting anally ruined by the local school bookstore.
Yeah, but isn't Microsoft the one that is trying to lay claim to the technology? These guys are just saying "we did it before microsoft and we didn't even invent it ourselves, therefore microsoft cannot possible patent this"
It sounds like you got fired for refusing a managerial order to commit a crime. Can you say "lawsuit?" I'm not a big fan of frivolous litigation, but I'm all about sticking to fucking corrupt managers.
Start a movement, last I checked www.punishspamcustomers.com was available. Write letters to congresscritters suggesting this sort of approach as an anti-spam bill. Hire lobbyists. You know, the usual way a law gets passed. If enough people get behind it, it will get attention in state capitols.
I'm not flaming you, although you requested it, but I'd like to point out that not all spam is generated by authentic customers. Many spammers abuse open relays which your solution would do nothing to solve. What needs to happen is the CUSTOMERS of the spammers need to start being punished. The people who are actually selling penis-enlargement cream or auto insurance...the spam will always give a phone number or URL. Trace this # or URL back a real person or business (easily done by citizens, let alone law enforcement) and levy a big honking fine upon them. THAT will make spammers evaporate overnight...these people aren't mass-mailing because it's fun for them, they're doing it because they're being PAID to.
That would make this sort of thing fall under the Rico Statute though, which would get the Feds involved. Once a few smart-ass cracka-gangsta wannabes go to Federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison, that sort of nonsense will stop real fast. (Assuming it's perpetrated from our country) If it's done by foreign crackers, I'm sure G.W. and friends can declare them "enemy combatants" and they will be quickly and quietly sent off to sunny Cuba.
If you had read the article, you would have known that previous synthetic diamonds were as expensive to produce as natural diamonds are to buy. The two companies mentioned in the article have come developed methods to quite cheaply produce diamonds, which is why De Beers is freaking out...they can't compete with someone selling an equivalent of a $15,000 stone for $500. (well, they CAN compete with that, but they really don't WANT to since it means they don't have a strangle hold on the industry anymore.)
THe other possible scenario is that prosecutors will start going after the company that advertised via the spam. I'd like that solution, I've been saying that should be going on for years...spammers will go away if people are now afraid to use that method of marketing for fear of hefty fines.
There have been a couple attempts at it, and there are a few currently in development. The problem is, a search engine in an expensive thing to run. You need tons of processing power, storage space, and bandwidth. These things are not free, nor are they cheap. (well, maybe storage space is)
You'd also need to pay engineers to maintain it. It would be a full time job for several people, and you're not gonna get people doing THAT for free.
I think google does a pretty good job of balancing commercialism with a very functional fast search engine. I see no need for anything else right now.
It's an economy of scale. They may "only" get 1.26 a pound, but you gotta remember they're selling tens to hundreds of tons of beans.
.50-1.00 a bottle, and the reseller in turn either sells them to someone else for a nice markup or puts them on the shelves for anywhere from 6.00 to 25.00 a bottle. Does that mean we're not getting a fair share?
Most manufactureres / growers don't make anything near the sale price. For instance, the nutritional supplement manufacturere I worked for this summer makes things like Acidophilus and glucosamine/chondroitin. They sell them to resellers for like
Ask a US corn farmer how much get gets per pound of corn. It ain't anywhere near what you'd pay in the grocery store. It's just how these things work. The growers don't have to deal with the distribution, marketing, packagine, storage, importing, etc. THat's what drives the cost up.
I used to run a coffee shop. 3/4 of the "fair trade" whiners that came in were wearing clothing and sneakers made by foreign child labor. I'm not saying you're the same way, I'm just commenting on how your average American cares about human rights only when it is trendy to do so.
These are the same people that bitch about what bad drivers people are while they themselves are driving a truck or SUV that's 2 sizes too big for them while juggling a coffee in one hand and a cell phone in the other.
it wasn't that funny when Denis Leary said it, and it isn't any funnier now.
it's amazing how the bitterness of one coke-head drunken comic can infect thousands of seemingly intelligent beings.
Even if they were recognized as a self-ruling state, that doesn't mean the RIAA can send in a squad of death ninjas to take these guys out. The Palestinian government would still have to support and allow extradition or local prosecution. (the latter requiring the RIAA to have a presence in Palestine)
Why do you think Kazaa's still running? Whatever country they're based out of (can't remember right now...Denmark I think?) doesn't have extradition agreements with the US in regards to stupid IP law...just big stuff like terrorists and murderers.
I had understood Jabber to be a client, not a protocol. Guess I'm behind the times. I'll go look closer at it now, thanks.
A little of both, actually. =(
She's probably referring to large corporate campaign contributions, not private donations. The former is the problem with our elections today, where politicians loyalties can be bought for the average salary of an experienced engineer. It's a sad state of affairs.
Is there any movement out there to create a standardized IM protocol? We have one for just about every OTHER major IP application, (Mail, news, etc) so why not develop an open IM protocol and let people release their own clients with their own feature-sets that operate within these designated standards?
If I had mod points you'd get modded up, not down. I'm no friend of the right (or the left for that matter) but Dean's a creep. We need someone in office who will shake things up...we're in a sad state of affairs right now and neither side is brave enough to make any major changes. (Unless of course those changes involve the erosion of our civil liberties and/or more money in their consituents' pockets.)
What, Dean use shady, under-handed tactics? You're surprised? His creepy pedophile smile says it all. I don't care if he spends millions of dollars so that disabled kids can spend all day being licked by kittens, I would never even think of voting for someone who so obviously reeked of evil in such a disturbing way.
The left is as bad as the right, if not worse. Not only are they just as self-serving, when it comes right down to it, they whine like bitches when they don't get their way, too. I can't begin to fathom the logic in voting for a spooky bitchwad like Dean just because you don't like Bush. There are better alternatives.
Vote Green, vote Libertarian, hell, vote Whig for all i care....just don't vote Democrat or Republican and encourage these dumb selfish fuckers any longer.
And whatever candidate from either major party that we put into office is going keep perpetuating the status quo. The only difference is going to be how much tax rich people pay. Nothing else will change. Our prisons will still be full of nonviolent drug offenders, public programs will continue to be slashed while the DEA gets billions to ensure the above happens. Copyright and IP law will keep getting more restrictive. Civil rights will continue to dwindle. Nothing will change.
Tell him that if he doesn't send you your money back, you're coming to his house to collect it personally. it's not THAT hard to track someone down, especially if he's sent you something.
Naw, it's gonna be really hard fitting a turban inside a space helmet. I think we're safe for a while longer.
Already started happening as of a few years ago. Every damn Texan and Californian with an SUV who wants to see snow in the winter but still wants agonizingly hot summers lives here now. That's all we need is MORE.