The breakdown of those fees would probably be something like 0.1% of the purchased value for the credit card flag (Visa, Mastercard etc), 1.2% for the issuer (usually a bank, that gets the credit risk and eventual interests) and another 1.2% for the company that provides the infrastructure and processes every purchase.
Yes, I couldn't agree more with you and the GP. I think a System should be open and there should be a printed ballot that you would check to see if it corresponds to your vote in the computer. Then it would be possible to count the votes manually (counting a sample would be enough in most cases).
As a matter of fact, here in Brazil we have an eletronic voting system (since 1996, if I'm not mistaken) and we are investing on identification of voters through fingerprints, but I really think that a system to print the votes would be more useful at this time.
While I think that stopping the votes of the dead and people voting in the place of others is important, I feel that greater credibility would be more useful at this time.
I think that truecrypt does a very good job at this.
I haven't used it all that much (ya know, while thumbdrives are easy to lose, I don't really care if someone sees how bad my assignments for the Operating Systems class really are), but I think it does a pretty decent job even in different environments.
Why not make it cheaper too??
This reminds me of a piece from the Hennessy and Patterson Computer Architecture book. In the chapter about memories, it says that a memory should be very fast, persistent, large and, why not not make it cheap, while you're at it.
Yes, my friend, people have thought about this before. If someone found a better solution, people would use it, as surprising as that might seem.
Yes, but then there would be DRM to stop those VOIP using thieves and pirates. Not to mention that, even worse, you can actually use VOIP to share lyrics with the songs.
It seems that it is a nice model, since many things we use today are ad powered. But where's the limit? How much more can the budget for ads grow? Are the industries willing to spend that much money on ads?
Not that games cannot be run with money from ads, but this solution is being adopted for paying for everything.
No, they didn't exactly do that. FTA you just linked:
Google and US government lawyers asked for a February courtroom showdown to settle whether the Internet search giant should be forced to hand over records of search inquiries.
That is very different from handing over some data about some websites, or some listings from content on the web. What they tried to do was to investigate the record of search inquiries, which means they are trying to take a peek at what you and I have been googling for.
BitComet broke a chain of trust. Period. When other alternatives are available, there is no point in giving an oportunity for another stab in the back.
Hmmm, I'm no specialist, but would it be effective to use a scheme like that? how would it work? I mean, the key to decrypt it must be inside the box anyway. In my humble ignorance I can only see that this would slow the process.
What I think that might work is a scheme that uses digital signature to block the execution of code. But then again, there would probably be a way to bypass it.
Anyway, for every guy thinking how to protect something, there are a thousand thinkin of breaking it.
How about the security of the password management in browsers? I mean, if you share your computer IE, AFAIK, doesn't even allow you to password protect your passwords. Firefox lets you do this, but just exactly how safe is it??
we are not producing enough waste, according to some of our fellow compannies.
Well, if the DVD which had the film could be used as a DVD+RW or something like that and it costed just over what a regular DVD+RW costs, then, yes, MAYBE we could have a something new. It doesn't seem to be the case. Nothing to see here, please move along to the next post.
In the absence of any real functional difference people will simply use the browser already installed (ie. IE).
Well, yes. But while this is true, people tend to forget that Microsoft is a commercial company. It does have many stockholders.
I'm pretty sure that many of them are just happy with MS's monopoly. But those who feel that remaining as an inventive company is the only way to reassure the monopoly may be not so few.
I very much agree with that. The main public for the kodak public has always been the point-and-shoot public. Not so long ago, kodak has announced it was stopping to manufacture film cameras. Brilliant market analysis! I think 98% of that clientele will be happy to go digital.
Does anybody know a serious photographer that would prefer a kodak camera over a Canon/Nikon/Leica camera? The same goes for b&w paper. It has never been a strong product among the people who still use it.
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The breakdown of those fees would probably be something like 0.1% of the purchased value for the credit card flag (Visa, Mastercard etc), 1.2% for the issuer (usually a bank, that gets the credit risk and eventual interests) and another 1.2% for the company that provides the infrastructure and processes every purchase.
Results may vary as parent already said.
Well... VB is Turing complete. Heck... It still sucks!
While it was very clear that the GP was being sarcastic, I do have the same opinion that the US is not the perfect place.
Yes, I couldn't agree more with you and the GP. I think a System should be open and there should be a printed ballot that you would check to see if it corresponds to your vote in the computer. Then it would be possible to count the votes manually (counting a sample would be enough in most cases).
As a matter of fact, here in Brazil we have an eletronic voting system (since 1996, if I'm not mistaken) and we are investing on identification of voters through fingerprints, but I really think that a system to print the votes would be more useful at this time.
While I think that stopping the votes of the dead and people voting in the place of others is important, I feel that greater credibility would be more useful at this time.
I think that truecrypt does a very good job at this.
I haven't used it all that much (ya know, while thumbdrives are easy to lose, I don't really care if someone sees how bad my assignments for the Operating Systems class really are), but I think it does a pretty decent job even in different environments.
Why not make it cheaper too?? This reminds me of a piece from the Hennessy and Patterson Computer Architecture book. In the chapter about memories, it says that a memory should be very fast, persistent, large and, why not not make it cheap, while you're at it. Yes, my friend, people have thought about this before. If someone found a better solution, people would use it, as surprising as that might seem.
I, for one, welcome our new auto-update overlords. =o)
Yes, but then there would be DRM to stop those VOIP using thieves and pirates. Not to mention that, even worse, you can actually use VOIP to share lyrics with the songs.
Yeah... I guess that is true. But I guess there is some cash to be collected through live performances.
It seems that it is a nice model, since many things we use today are ad powered. But where's the limit? How much more can the budget for ads grow? Are the industries willing to spend that much money on ads? Not that games cannot be run with money from ads, but this solution is being adopted for paying for everything.
Geez! Please! Use your sarcasm tags!
Maybe, but this whole discussion is merely philosophical, since the source would be readily available for download very soon in P2P networks.
the /. community can do better than that!
Where are the decent rootkit jokes?!
BitComet broke a chain of trust. Period. When other alternatives are available, there is no point in giving an oportunity for another stab in the back.
Hmmm, I'm no specialist, but would it be effective to use a scheme like that? how would it work?
I mean, the key to decrypt it must be inside the box anyway. In my humble ignorance I can only see that this would slow the process.
What I think that might work is a scheme that uses digital signature to block the execution of code. But then again, there would probably be a way to bypass it.
Anyway, for every guy thinking how to protect something, there are a thousand thinkin of breaking it.
How about the security of the password management in browsers? I mean, if you share your computer IE, AFAIK, doesn't even allow you to password protect your passwords. Firefox lets you do this, but just exactly how safe is it??
Not to mention that fiber is very lightweitht, compared to copper, so there is no need for huge transmission towers for aerial transmission.
just give them a big race for those little mod points.
we are not producing enough waste, according to some of our fellow compannies. Well, if the DVD which had the film could be used as a DVD+RW or something like that and it costed just over what a regular DVD+RW costs, then, yes, MAYBE we could have a something new. It doesn't seem to be the case. Nothing to see here, please move along to the next post.
I very much agree with that. The main public for the kodak public has always been the point-and-shoot public. Not so long ago, kodak has announced it was stopping to manufacture film cameras. Brilliant market analysis! I think 98% of that clientele will be happy to go digital. Does anybody know a serious photographer that would prefer a kodak camera over a Canon/Nikon/Leica camera? The same goes for b&w paper. It has never been a strong product among the people who still use it.