Of course it's a scam, there's no question about that. But where they're getting REALLY ambitious is their "member programs," starting at US $15,000 and topping out at a cool 2 million bucks (http://www.medisoncelebrity.com/adsfacts.html).
I don't understand stream ripping. Why would anyone want to listen to a song more than once? You hear it, and there it is in your head. And don't give me any of this "I want to learn the words" crap.
In elementary school, I read a book by Holling Clancy Holling called Paddle-to-the-Sea. It's about a toy that was set free in Lake Michigan, and its adventures floating through the Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence, and into the Atlantic. That story captured my imagination when I was a kid, and I can't wait to get home to tell my five-year-old son the story of these ducks.
But you're sort of missing the entire idea of a rootkit. It takes over your system so that you can no longer trust things like dd, find, md5sum. Every command on your system conspires to lie to you. The idea behind the detectors is that you catch the system in a lie somehow. But if you're running the detector on a compromised system, it's got to be really well designed.
> Rutkowska should also think about the reward: "If we're wrong, she keeps the laptop." Who the hell wants a laptop infected with undetectable malware?
The compensation appears to be the greatest sticking point for getting this contest run. She wants a staff of 2 compensated at $200/hr. for six months to get Blue Pill ready for the contest. So she's basically saying, "How about instead of doing it for a laptop if I win, I do it for $500,000 whether I win or not?"
> Isn't this a pretty good example of the RIAA or at least the ERA operating as a defacto monopoly in the music business
They may be a defacto monopoly, but this isn't a good example of that. TFA isn't saying that the RIAA or any other big record company is upset. When the editors (of TFA) used the words "Music Industry" in the title, that was somewhat misleading. It's actually the British retailers who are upset, because the album can't be sold in stores if it's being given away.
Sure, retail music stores are dying, with good reason. But retailers have to buy CDs in order to sell them, and they probably had to pre-order well ahead of the release date. If I owned a record store, and I ordered copies of a CD to sell, and I later found out that the same company that sold me those CDs was giving them away to the people most likely to actually want them, I'd be pretty upset.
Also, nobody's talking about retaliating against Prince by refusing to sell his older music. That would be self-destructive. But for the new disc, why would a retailer buy it and devote retail footage to it and put up marketing materials for it?
> I wonder if I will ever be able to read slashdot articles without using the google calculator...
Dude, I live in the US and I don't freak when I see something measured in meters. You can do some simple arithmetic in your head, right? Or do you really need to go to six decimal places?
Man, am I sorry I RTFA. It's like the guy got called to dinner after ten minutes of rambling and just submitted his "column" before he went. I'm sure that there's something interesting that could be said about the psychology of fanboys. Perhaps if there was something written by a psychologist, and the result of rigorous study, and more than 500 words long, and couldn't be summarized by with "Let's all be tolerant," it could be a subject worth exploring.
> Odds that such a planet exists anywhere is astronomical
"Astronomical?" I know that when you say "astronomical" you mean "a really low probability." But what the rest of your post is saying, and it's probably right, is that life requires certain conditions to exist. You'd need to have an awful big number of samples to beat those odds. An astronomical number of samples, even. Astronomical:Universe == 1:1, by definition?
> could someone please try to explain to me the reasoning and rationale that had iPod forego radio?
Cleanliness. I think it echoes Apple's general hardware design practice. When Apple ditched serial ports and a floppy drive on the iMac, there was something of an outcry. But moving on from serial ports and floppy drives soon became regarded as a natural evolution. At some point you need to make the decision to dump the legacy equipment.
I heard an ad on XM Radio the other day about the 30th Anniversary of Star Wars. It wished Star Wars fans well with a phrase sure to draw their ire: "Live long and prosper."
> This would also be a great approach to a lot of NLP/Translation annotation tasks.
This would also be a great approach to solving captchas on other sites. Wanna buy tickets with a bot but have a captcha in your way? Set up a third-party captcha server to have humans solve your captchas for you!
The 2006 guy is Booker T. Washington. For some reason, they never actually mention his name in the summary or the full treatment. (http://www.medicalalumni.org/CPC/pages/previous.h tm)
Here's a fun one. I used to have several sites hosted by Seanic (www.seanic.net). This outfit is a social engineer's wet dream:
(1) All I had to do to get my FTP host, user ID and password was ask. It didn't matter what email address I used. No verification at all. (2) On two separate occasions, they accidentally emailed me somebody ELSE'S FTP login information, at random, without me even contacting them. (2) I requested a telnet account (no SSH), and the permissions were such that I could cd / and cd into any other client's home directory. I assume that other telnet users could access my home directory as well.
> Is it possible for an organization like IBM (who pay to keep the Linux kernel in development) to sue Microsoft
In the US, anyone can sue anyone for anything. I know a guy who once sued HIMSELF to get some seized assets back. Seriously. I can sue you right now for being Canadian. I'd probably lose, of course, unless my lawyer is better than yours. Which he damn sure is. So you'd better walk softly around here, Jaques.
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Of course it's a scam, there's no question about that. But where they're getting REALLY ambitious is their "member programs," starting at US $15,000 and topping out at a cool 2 million bucks (http://www.medisoncelebrity.com/adsfacts.html).
I don't understand stream ripping. Why would anyone want to listen to a song more than once? You hear it, and there it is in your head. And don't give me any of this "I want to learn the words" crap.
> As most Windows users don't know what RAM is, they don't use this free upgrade.
I'm rolling my eyes at you.
From TFA:
> Now to me it seems that a blog post can be classified in this day and age as the modern equivalent of a "printed publication"
Ah, a J.D. in the old "It Seems To Me" School of Legal Theory. Let me know how that works out for you.
> Just when did it go out of fashion to type the full term at least once before going into acronym overdrive?
April 3, 1983 at 4:29EST.
In elementary school, I read a book by Holling Clancy Holling called Paddle-to-the-Sea. It's about a toy that was set free in Lake Michigan, and its adventures floating through the Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence, and into the Atlantic. That story captured my imagination when I was a kid, and I can't wait to get home to tell my five-year-old son the story of these ducks.
Oh, and in Soviet Russia, we duck the Chinese.
But you're sort of missing the entire idea of a rootkit. It takes over your system so that you can no longer trust things like dd, find, md5sum. Every command on your system conspires to lie to you. The idea behind the detectors is that you catch the system in a lie somehow. But if you're running the detector on a compromised system, it's got to be really well designed.
> Rutkowska should also think about the reward: "If we're wrong, she keeps the laptop." Who the hell wants a laptop infected with undetectable malware?
The compensation appears to be the greatest sticking point for getting this contest run. She wants a staff of 2 compensated at $200/hr. for six months to get Blue Pill ready for the contest. So she's basically saying, "How about instead of doing it for a laptop if I win, I do it for $500,000 whether I win or not?"
> Isn't this a pretty good example of the RIAA or at least the ERA operating as a defacto monopoly in the music business
They may be a defacto monopoly, but this isn't a good example of that. TFA isn't saying that the RIAA or any other big record company is upset. When the editors (of TFA) used the words "Music Industry" in the title, that was somewhat misleading. It's actually the British retailers who are upset, because the album can't be sold in stores if it's being given away.
Sure, retail music stores are dying, with good reason. But retailers have to buy CDs in order to sell them, and they probably had to pre-order well ahead of the release date. If I owned a record store, and I ordered copies of a CD to sell, and I later found out that the same company that sold me those CDs was giving them away to the people most likely to actually want them, I'd be pretty upset.
Also, nobody's talking about retaliating against Prince by refusing to sell his older music. That would be self-destructive. But for the new disc, why would a retailer buy it and devote retail footage to it and put up marketing materials for it?
> I wonder if I will ever be able to read slashdot articles without using the google calculator...
Dude, I live in the US and I don't freak when I see something measured in meters. You can do some simple arithmetic in your head, right? Or do you really need to go to six decimal places?
...the next step (10**18) is the "exaflop."
> Really, what is the point?
To paraphrase Sam Seaborn in West Wing episode, "Why go to Mars? Because Mars is next."
Man, am I sorry I RTFA. It's like the guy got called to dinner after ten minutes of rambling and just submitted his "column" before he went. I'm sure that there's something interesting that could be said about the psychology of fanboys. Perhaps if there was something written by a psychologist, and the result of rigorous study, and more than 500 words long, and couldn't be summarized by with "Let's all be tolerant," it could be a subject worth exploring.
...the spacecraft crashes the computer.
> Odds that such a planet exists anywhere is astronomical
"Astronomical?" I know that when you say "astronomical" you mean "a really low probability." But what the rest of your post is saying, and it's probably right, is that life requires certain conditions to exist. You'd need to have an awful big number of samples to beat those odds. An astronomical number of samples, even. Astronomical:Universe == 1:1, by definition?
> could someone please try to explain to me the reasoning and rationale that had iPod forego radio?
Cleanliness. I think it echoes Apple's general hardware design practice. When Apple ditched serial ports and a floppy drive on the iMac, there was something of an outcry. But moving on from serial ports and floppy drives soon became regarded as a natural evolution. At some point you need to make the decision to dump the legacy equipment.
I heard an ad on XM Radio the other day about the 30th Anniversary of Star Wars. It wished Star Wars fans well with a phrase sure to draw their ire: "Live long and prosper."
> This would also be a great approach to a lot of NLP/Translation annotation tasks.
This would also be a great approach to solving captchas on other sites. Wanna buy tickets with a bot but have a captcha in your way? Set up a third-party captcha server to have humans solve your captchas for you!
Screw you guys, I got my IPv4!
...Does Microsoft's company directory use the term "FUD Division" or "Division of FUD"?
So... the news is that there's alarmism?
Thanks. I'll be sure to watch out for it.
The 2006 guy is Booker T. Washington. For some reason, they never actually mention his name in the summary or the full treatment. (http://www.medicalalumni.org/CPC/pages/previous.h tm)
...are the ones you can't see even with a telescope.
Here's a fun one. I used to have several sites hosted by Seanic (www.seanic.net). This outfit is a social engineer's wet dream:
(1) All I had to do to get my FTP host, user ID and password was ask. It didn't matter what email address I used. No verification at all.
(2) On two separate occasions, they accidentally emailed me somebody ELSE'S FTP login information, at random, without me even contacting them.
(2) I requested a telnet account (no SSH), and the permissions were such that I could cd / and cd into any other client's home directory. I assume that other telnet users could access my home directory as well.
All for only four bucks a month.
> Is it possible for an organization like IBM (who pay to keep the Linux kernel in development) to sue Microsoft
In the US, anyone can sue anyone for anything. I know a guy who once sued HIMSELF to get some seized assets back. Seriously. I can sue you right now for being Canadian. I'd probably lose, of course, unless my lawyer is better than yours. Which he damn sure is. So you'd better walk softly around here, Jaques.