I've said it before, I'll say it again:
Bust a couple spam rings
Sieze the customer list
Send each customer a free sample of cyanide-- labeled "Viagra"
The market dries up
Less customers means less money flowing to scummy companies. Less money flowing to them means less money being given to spammers. No money in spamming means people stop spamming.
And for the inevitable and snarky "here's why your idea won't work list" post to follow: I know that it isn't legal. That's why your hire a plausible deniability, like a merc company, to do it for you. Geez.
Facist! That reeks like something that would happen in Nazi Germany.
Look at the current banking crisis. Bankers, realtors, appraisers, all conspiring to convince some gullible idiot that he or she can afford to not only buy a house 3X their yearly income, but said house would become a magic money machine. The ARM mortgage would be no problem because the laws of conservation no longer existed, and the double digit growth in value would continue forever, and the house could be sold at a profit at any point.
Then there were the gullible idiots who bought the magical risk free packaged investments based on the magical mortgages. These magical financial instruments were another guaranteed trove of never ending money generation.
Of course, like spammers, the only people who made money were the criminals, and, like spammers, should be in jail.
The flaw in your logic is easy money is that only thing that makes people stupid faster than easy sex. Tell people that a magic fairy will give them money, and most will believe it. That is why our presidential candidates primary sources of income, alcohol and gambling, are so lucrative.
A few years ago I got back in touch with an old friend from high school. He was selling mortgages. Needless to say, he was quite gullible. I even tried to point out to him that selling lots and lots and lots of mortgages without really caring if they could be paid back was somewhat odd. He was so gullible that he couldn't concieve of the damage that he was helping do to our economy.
Needless to say; salesmen selling scams are often decieved into believing that the scam is a good deal.
The FCC censors over-the-air television or radio in order to protect children. It makes sense they would do the same for over-the-air internet.
If you don't want child-friendly service, then go purchase cable tv, satellite radio, or private internet. Those are not censored & offer lots of adult nudity or swearing or sex.
I don't like buying back my freedom. If I have to pay money to be free, then I'm not truly free.
We really should be saying something like this:
The FCC mandates that over-the-air television and radio is free and uncensored in order to protect our childrens' freedom. It makes sense they would do the same for over-the-air internet.
If you want child-friendly service, then go purchase $en$ornet cable tv, $atellite radio, or private internet. Those are censored & allow you to control what your children are exposed to.
It isn't hard to beat analogue TV, but most people ditched analogue TV many years ago
I Subscribe to Comcast in San Francisco, and recently subscribed in Silicon Valley. In both areas, Comcast's uplink to Comedy Central and FX is analog; even though they transmit digital. The snow plays games with MPEG's compression; and they also comress (aka loudness wars) the sound.
The difference is noticable when the high-def channels carry standard TV. For example, all of the broadcast stations have two channels. (FOX is 02 for SD, and 702 for HD.) When FOX shows the Simpsons, which is SD; 703 is MUCH better then 03, because 03's uplink is analog.
Another example can be seen by comparing the DVD of The Shield to Comcast. Again, Comcast delivers a horrible picture and distorted sound. It's because their uplink is analog.
and resolution aside, they don't come close to broadcast quality from the encoding point of view either
YouTube is leaps and bounds better quality video then what I used to see on the internet 10 years ago.
Also, have you ever watched full-length episodes on Hulu or Comedy Central? The picture and sound is better then what I get on analog cable TV; except in high-motion scenes.
About the only thing this is going to do is make troubleshooting problems with Ethereal or other packet sniffers a pain in the a$$. Thanks.
Which is the point! SSL is a pain to enable when using SOAP on a LAN, because the man-in-the-middle attack isn't as much of a risk as Ethereal being used to sniff a password.
The video starts out saying that increased encryption is needed thanks in part to warrantless government surveillance. It then goes on to describe a system that assumes no MITM attacks can exist. The fact is, however, that governments are entirely capable of performing MITM attacks, as can telecommunications companies; and if it becomes popular we may see more techniques that allow individuals to perform MITM attacks. While this algorithm has significant merit, care needs to be taken to avoid a false sense of security.
There is a commercial need for encrypted HTTP that doesn't need SSL's complicated certificate system. For example, when using SOAP on a LAN, encryption is a requirement to deter casual sniffing of passwords. The MITM issue just simply isn't a risk that justifies certificates.
I like Hulu enough to sit through 30 seconds of advertising which I think is a fair trade for the programming they offer. I just can't think of a reason why I should spend $199 for a device that will eliminate 2 minutes of commercials.
...I can think of a reason: When Tivo buys all the ads and fills up the 30 seconds with some guy sraping his nails on a chalk board saying "If you bought a Tivo you could skip this torture."
Oy vey - you really missed it. The problem with adding charging points at gas station is hanging out at one for four hours waiting for your car to charge.
Rapid-charging batteries are on the market; they are just immature. Did you see the article about Toshiba's new laptop that can charge to 90% capacity in 10 minutes?
Besides, there are alternatives to charging. Isreal is implementing a battery exchange program. Furthermore, Tesla estimates that driving range will double about every 5 years, which eventually leads to batteries that can go as many miles between charges as we currently go between oil changes.
Were it true. But unfortunately you can't make bad wine into good wine just by aging it. It just becomes older bad wine.
Typically the 'age-worthy' wines are made with the choice fruit, and are designed to age by balancing the acid content with the fruit content. As the fruit mellows over time so do the acids (tannins). It is an art as much as as it is a science.
However, this dohicky eliminates the 2-3 year wait between buying a good bottle of wine and it being ready to drink!
I disagree. There were significant changes in the 60's that you aren't getting. First, airline travel was more widespread in the 60's. Second, there were people having unprotected sex with dozens or hundreds of partners. Sure that was going on in the 50's, but by the 70's there was a lot more possibilities for HIV infection to propagate. Finally, heroin use grew dramatically as the Vietnam War dragged on, providing a more reliable means for HIV infection via used needles.
Consider this: In Africa, in the out-of-the-way villages, people will often have 7-8 children. In such an isolated village, the entire village could live with a less deadly version of AIDS for many generations and evolve a tolerance. In theory, a village could live for many generations with a small percentage resilant enough to reproduce.
Thus, I think AIDS has been mutating in some out-of-the-way African villages for many generations without anyone knowing about it.
Actually, the cause of death wasn't unknown. They very clearly died of cholera/yellow fever/smallpox, and the patient had always been rather sickly. The doctors just didn't realize that there was a disease that caused the patient to be sickly all those years.
Somehow I suspect that AIDS has been around much longer then we realize... It's just that a more recent mutation made it more communicable and deadly. For example, perhaps there was an older version that had a 40-50 year incubation period and was harder to spread?
There are people of many Faiths that believe in Creation and a Creator, but that the Creation event was many (billions) of years ago, not 4004BC, and that the cosmos and the creatures therin have evolved over that (long) time.
It's important to understand the difference between philosophy and religion.
The concept, not belief, that God created everything; (including the Big Bang, Multiverse, and what came before and outside of them,) is so universally accepted that our Supreme Court allows us to put "In God We Trust" on our money, even though our Constitution expressly forbids Congress from endorsing any religion through law.
Philosohpy argues for the existance of God through the logic; there is no belief at all. Religion, or Faith, would state things like "God loves you", "creation is good", "man is the keeper of the world."
Many people approach God as a subject of philosophy, and not faith or belief.
Why not include a 24-bit 192 or 96 khz lossless format, and maybe something in 5.1 instead? DVD-Audio and SACD didn't take off because no one adopted the players, but it might take off if you made it easily playable. I might even pay a slight premium.
I own a lot of DVD-As and SACDs. All of them are excellent, and worth every penny... BUT:
Concert DVDs in 5.1 and DVDs with music videos trampled DVD-A and SACD in the marketplace. Frankly, now that I've purchased a fancy TV, if I'm going to go through the effort to listen to something in 5.1; I want to see a video of something as well. For example, when BT released "This Binary Universe", he released it with a DVD that contained the entire album in 5.1 DTS with increadible animations.
For all intents and purposes, DTS's highest bitrate is just as good as lossless. (Look up "noise shaping" and you'll understand why). This means that a concert DVD-V with 48khz or 96khz DTS is audiophile-grade; and much more likely to succeed in the marketplace when compared with the same concert without the video.
So... Even though I LOOOOOOOVE my DVD-A and SACDs; I find that the format is really only good for remasters of older recordings that didn't have video. Furthermore, the format is kind of useless because DVD-A supports the same audio quality with 96khz DTS.
The other thing with 5.1 is that it's really only a living room format. It doesn't work well with headphones, it's difficult in a car, and it requires a bit of obsessivness on the side of the consumer. For that reason, it's difficult to sell in an audio-only version; because most people want some kind of a video in their living room.
My solution is simple and 100% environmentaly sound! I eat a big bowl of beans every morning. When I'm ready to go to work, I hop into my radio flyer, pull down my pants, flick my lighter, and let off the largest fart you've ever seen.
It also helps that I live in an area where I can travel downhill both ways.
Before I got began my current career I worked for a number of telemarketing centres
Telemarking is essentially theft of other people's time. Stealing another person's time is the worst kind of theft that you can do.
Back in the 90s, my family's life would be disrupted every hour by people trying to make us listen to commercials at the ring of a bell. While we were polite to the other people on the line, these people truly did not understand the level of theft that they were performing on society. Our dinnertime was sacred to us, and the 3-4 interruptions of our time was theft. It was not a business opertunity; it was harrassment.
having to sit idley while the death threats poured through the lines
Death threats are inexcusable, but it was people's only percieved defense against the theft that your industry performed day after day. No one wants to listen to commercials every time a bell rings.
I hope that you now use better judgement in choosing an honest profession.
Actually, how long before they offer a discount if you opt into a "direct handoff" network? When you return a movie, instead of shipping it back to netflix, you print out a label for the next member and slap it on the mailer.
So, when I want to return a movie, I need to go to my computer and print out a label? With all of the troubleshooting and other boo-boos that occur with label printing; I suspect that such an approach would end up being MORE expensive.
He mocks everyone constantly, but there is a bit of a difference in how he does it that betrays his bias.
His mockery of republicans is usually along the lines of "what are those crazy people thinking?"
Whereas against democrats he tends to be more "come on, guys, I was counting on you and then you sucked."
He doesn't give anyone a free pass (which I greatly appreciate) but he does betray his bias a bit.
No one can be completely bias free. Frankly, I'd rather get my news from a source that clearly shows its bias then one that claims to be bias-free.
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I've said it before, I'll say it again: Bust a couple spam rings Sieze the customer list Send each customer a free sample of cyanide-- labeled "Viagra" The market dries up Less customers means less money flowing to scummy companies. Less money flowing to them means less money being given to spammers. No money in spamming means people stop spamming. And for the inevitable and snarky "here's why your idea won't work list" post to follow: I know that it isn't legal. That's why your hire a plausible deniability, like a merc company, to do it for you. Geez.
Facist! That reeks like something that would happen in Nazi Germany.
Send them LSD instead!
Look at the current banking crisis. Bankers, realtors, appraisers, all conspiring to convince some gullible idiot that he or she can afford to not only buy a house 3X their yearly income, but said house would become a magic money machine. The ARM mortgage would be no problem because the laws of conservation no longer existed, and the double digit growth in value would continue forever, and the house could be sold at a profit at any point. Then there were the gullible idiots who bought the magical risk free packaged investments based on the magical mortgages. These magical financial instruments were another guaranteed trove of never ending money generation. Of course, like spammers, the only people who made money were the criminals, and, like spammers, should be in jail. The flaw in your logic is easy money is that only thing that makes people stupid faster than easy sex. Tell people that a magic fairy will give them money, and most will believe it. That is why our presidential candidates primary sources of income, alcohol and gambling, are so lucrative.
A few years ago I got back in touch with an old friend from high school. He was selling mortgages. Needless to say, he was quite gullible. I even tried to point out to him that selling lots and lots and lots of mortgages without really caring if they could be paid back was somewhat odd. He was so gullible that he couldn't concieve of the damage that he was helping do to our economy.
Needless to say; salesmen selling scams are often decieved into believing that the scam is a good deal.
The FCC censors over-the-air television or radio in order to protect children. It makes sense they would do the same for over-the-air internet. If you don't want child-friendly service, then go purchase cable tv, satellite radio, or private internet. Those are not censored & offer lots of adult nudity or swearing or sex.
I don't like buying back my freedom. If I have to pay money to be free, then I'm not truly free.
We really should be saying something like this:
The FCC mandates that over-the-air television and radio is free and uncensored in order to protect our childrens' freedom. It makes sense they would do the same for over-the-air internet.
If you want child-friendly service, then go purchase $en$ornet cable tv, $atellite radio, or private internet. Those are censored & allow you to control what your children are exposed to.
It isn't hard to beat analogue TV, but most people ditched analogue TV many years ago
I Subscribe to Comcast in San Francisco, and recently subscribed in Silicon Valley. In both areas, Comcast's uplink to Comedy Central and FX is analog; even though they transmit digital. The snow plays games with MPEG's compression; and they also comress (aka loudness wars) the sound.
The difference is noticable when the high-def channels carry standard TV. For example, all of the broadcast stations have two channels. (FOX is 02 for SD, and 702 for HD.) When FOX shows the Simpsons, which is SD; 703 is MUCH better then 03, because 03's uplink is analog.
Another example can be seen by comparing the DVD of The Shield to Comcast. Again, Comcast delivers a horrible picture and distorted sound. It's because their uplink is analog.
and resolution aside, they don't come close to broadcast quality from the encoding point of view either
YouTube is leaps and bounds better quality video then what I used to see on the internet 10 years ago.
Also, have you ever watched full-length episodes on Hulu or Comedy Central? The picture and sound is better then what I get on analog cable TV; except in high-motion scenes.
Well, my iPhone certainly isn't slowing anything down!
About the only thing this is going to do is make troubleshooting problems with Ethereal or other packet sniffers a pain in the a$$. Thanks.
Which is the point! SSL is a pain to enable when using SOAP on a LAN, because the man-in-the-middle attack isn't as much of a risk as Ethereal being used to sniff a password.
The video starts out saying that increased encryption is needed thanks in part to warrantless government surveillance. It then goes on to describe a system that assumes no MITM attacks can exist. The fact is, however, that governments are entirely capable of performing MITM attacks, as can telecommunications companies; and if it becomes popular we may see more techniques that allow individuals to perform MITM attacks. While this algorithm has significant merit, care needs to be taken to avoid a false sense of security.
There is a commercial need for encrypted HTTP that doesn't need SSL's complicated certificate system. For example, when using SOAP on a LAN, encryption is a requirement to deter casual sniffing of passwords. The MITM issue just simply isn't a risk that justifies certificates.
I like Hulu enough to sit through 30 seconds of advertising which I think is a fair trade for the programming they offer. I just can't think of a reason why I should spend $199 for a device that will eliminate 2 minutes of commercials.
...I can think of a reason: When Tivo buys all the ads and fills up the 30 seconds with some guy sraping his nails on a chalk board saying "If you bought a Tivo you could skip this torture."
So have no fear, Fox will report all the dirty tricks the Democrats attempt to pull.
Fox News is a fascist-style propaganda system. I wish the "liberal media" would do more to call them out.
Oy vey - you really missed it. The problem with adding charging points at gas station is hanging out at one for four hours waiting for your car to charge.
Rapid-charging batteries are on the market; they are just immature. Did you see the article about Toshiba's new laptop that can charge to 90% capacity in 10 minutes?
Besides, there are alternatives to charging. Isreal is implementing a battery exchange program. Furthermore, Tesla estimates that driving range will double about every 5 years, which eventually leads to batteries that can go as many miles between charges as we currently go between oil changes.
Were it true. But unfortunately you can't make bad wine into good wine just by aging it. It just becomes older bad wine. Typically the 'age-worthy' wines are made with the choice fruit, and are designed to age by balancing the acid content with the fruit content. As the fruit mellows over time so do the acids (tannins). It is an art as much as as it is a science.
However, this dohicky eliminates the 2-3 year wait between buying a good bottle of wine and it being ready to drink!
I disagree. There were significant changes in the 60's that you aren't getting. First, airline travel was more widespread in the 60's. Second, there were people having unprotected sex with dozens or hundreds of partners. Sure that was going on in the 50's, but by the 70's there was a lot more possibilities for HIV infection to propagate. Finally, heroin use grew dramatically as the Vietnam War dragged on, providing a more reliable means for HIV infection via used needles.
Consider this: In Africa, in the out-of-the-way villages, people will often have 7-8 children. In such an isolated village, the entire village could live with a less deadly version of AIDS for many generations and evolve a tolerance. In theory, a village could live for many generations with a small percentage resilant enough to reproduce.
Thus, I think AIDS has been mutating in some out-of-the-way African villages for many generations without anyone knowing about it.
Actually, the cause of death wasn't unknown. They very clearly died of cholera/yellow fever/smallpox, and the patient had always been rather sickly. The doctors just didn't realize that there was a disease that caused the patient to be sickly all those years.
Somehow I suspect that AIDS has been around much longer then we realize... It's just that a more recent mutation made it more communicable and deadly. For example, perhaps there was an older version that had a 40-50 year incubation period and was harder to spread?
If you really think they care to check out the references of some 30-40K a year beginner, you're fooling yourself. They don't give a shit.
"They" checked my references for my low-pay entry-level job.
There are people of many Faiths that believe in Creation and a Creator, but that the Creation event was many (billions) of years ago, not 4004BC, and that the cosmos and the creatures therin have evolved over that (long) time.
It's important to understand the difference between philosophy and religion.
The concept, not belief, that God created everything; (including the Big Bang, Multiverse, and what came before and outside of them,) is so universally accepted that our Supreme Court allows us to put "In God We Trust" on our money, even though our Constitution expressly forbids Congress from endorsing any religion through law.
Philosohpy argues for the existance of God through the logic; there is no belief at all. Religion, or Faith, would state things like "God loves you", "creation is good", "man is the keeper of the world."
Many people approach God as a subject of philosophy, and not faith or belief.
I want just ONE box hooked up to my TV. It should meet the following requirements:
Is that too hard to ask? I called some silent HTPC manufacturer and they wanted to charge me $6000 for such a box.
Why not include a 24-bit 192 or 96 khz lossless format, and maybe something in 5.1 instead? DVD-Audio and SACD didn't take off because no one adopted the players, but it might take off if you made it easily playable. I might even pay a slight premium.
I own a lot of DVD-As and SACDs. All of them are excellent, and worth every penny... BUT:
Concert DVDs in 5.1 and DVDs with music videos trampled DVD-A and SACD in the marketplace. Frankly, now that I've purchased a fancy TV, if I'm going to go through the effort to listen to something in 5.1; I want to see a video of something as well. For example, when BT released "This Binary Universe", he released it with a DVD that contained the entire album in 5.1 DTS with increadible animations.
For all intents and purposes, DTS's highest bitrate is just as good as lossless. (Look up "noise shaping" and you'll understand why). This means that a concert DVD-V with 48khz or 96khz DTS is audiophile-grade; and much more likely to succeed in the marketplace when compared with the same concert without the video.
So... Even though I LOOOOOOOVE my DVD-A and SACDs; I find that the format is really only good for remasters of older recordings that didn't have video. Furthermore, the format is kind of useless because DVD-A supports the same audio quality with 96khz DTS.
The other thing with 5.1 is that it's really only a living room format. It doesn't work well with headphones, it's difficult in a car, and it requires a bit of obsessivness on the side of the consumer. For that reason, it's difficult to sell in an audio-only version; because most people want some kind of a video in their living room.
Hey, I grew up there! Unfortunately I lived on the other side of town, and ended up having to go uphill to school. Both ways.
At least your moderators have a sense of humor!
My solution is simple and 100% environmentaly sound! I eat a big bowl of beans every morning. When I'm ready to go to work, I hop into my radio flyer, pull down my pants, flick my lighter, and let off the largest fart you've ever seen.
It also helps that I live in an area where I can travel downhill both ways.
I like Grandma's LAMP. It's a full LAMP VM that runs completely out-of-the-box without any tinkering.
Before I got began my current career I worked for a number of telemarketing centres
Telemarking is essentially theft of other people's time. Stealing another person's time is the worst kind of theft that you can do.
Back in the 90s, my family's life would be disrupted every hour by people trying to make us listen to commercials at the ring of a bell. While we were polite to the other people on the line, these people truly did not understand the level of theft that they were performing on society. Our dinnertime was sacred to us, and the 3-4 interruptions of our time was theft. It was not a business opertunity; it was harrassment.
having to sit idley while the death threats poured through the lines
Death threats are inexcusable, but it was people's only percieved defense against the theft that your industry performed day after day. No one wants to listen to commercials every time a bell rings.
I hope that you now use better judgement in choosing an honest profession.
I have a perfect credit record
Have I got a deal for you! We can give you a great rate on a new loan so you can have a larger house, buy a nicer car, or fix up the den!
Would you like a new Credit Card?
Actually, how long before they offer a discount if you opt into a "direct handoff" network? When you return a movie, instead of shipping it back to netflix, you print out a label for the next member and slap it on the mailer.
So, when I want to return a movie, I need to go to my computer and print out a label? With all of the troubleshooting and other boo-boos that occur with label printing; I suspect that such an approach would end up being MORE expensive.
He mocks everyone constantly, but there is a bit of a difference in how he does it that betrays his bias. His mockery of republicans is usually along the lines of "what are those crazy people thinking?" Whereas against democrats he tends to be more "come on, guys, I was counting on you and then you sucked." He doesn't give anyone a free pass (which I greatly appreciate) but he does betray his bias a bit.
No one can be completely bias free. Frankly, I'd rather get my news from a source that clearly shows its bias then one that claims to be bias-free.