In so doing, they block anyone with a dynamic IP. Anyone with AOL or someplace like that is totally dynamic. That would tick off a lot of people, which may or may not matter to the community. But if they are a relatively small community, and they have some of the their better seeders on dynamic IPs, they would be hesitant.
"Pay per order" is a model that redefines advertising. It isn't the job of an ad to make me buy something, it's to make me look at it. The store itself (be it online or otherwise) needs to close the sale. If I am interested in a product I see on a TV ad, I go to Target or wherever, and if it looks appealing, I'll buy it. If the price is too high, or the salespeople are idiots, I will either go somewhere else or not buy the product. In that instance, it is Target's fault, not the advertiser's fault.
Not to mention, how does PPO work when there is nothing to order? Let's say it is a political ad? Or an ad for a POV site, like the Christian fundamentalists mentioned elsewhere? What do I "order"?
Quantum Encryption is p2p. Which means when Bob and Alice trade IP addresses, Mallory would need to convince Bob that her IP is Alice, and Alice that her IP is Bob, which is tough. I mean, if you're trading sensitive info, you ought to be able to have each other's IPs.
Um, I hate to break it to you, but this is the twenty-first century. Buy a new computer. Buy whatever kind you want, and watch me not care in the slightest. But if you must waste our time with anecdotal crap tests, at least test two comparable computers from this decade. Oh, and this computer has been on for several days straight, and it hasn't crashed. The only windows involved in that streak is the one I dropped it out, and hey, it didn't freaking care (it was a first floor window).
Now let's get the feds to register every domain that the worm will check, and register it until it isn't used again. Game over for sober. If the domain for a day already exists, it gets investigated.
NoScript does a whitelist. So if I wanted javascript at ______.google.com, I'd add that to the whitelist, and all would be well. Takes 10 seconds, if that.
Here's how I'd do it if I were an ID thief (obviously I'm not).
1) Steal a hundred thousand IDs. 2) Hire a pile of cheap workers somewhere 3) Get them to mine the money for a 10-20% commission. 4) Move to Vegas and/or the Bahamas and, um, get to know the locals...
I mean, seriously, when you're dealing with a lot of money, when has manpower ever been an issue?
The problem is that the price that the supplier wants to sell matters just as much as the buyer's price.
Except for two basic facts:
1) People don't need this. It isn't vital and required for life, it's music they can live without. If you charged me $5 a song and that was the only choice, I wouldn't buy it. I'd just listen to the radio or something.
2) There is still a music piracy underground, and it's pretty big. Whatever anyone's feelings on the issue, we have to accept that stamping it out through force isn't looking too possible right now, or anytime in the foreseeable future, since there are thousands (at least) of tech savvy people to create new networks and forms of filesharing, and they can move faster than the music industry. Therefore, the way to beat piracy is to make the "official" files that cost money worth more than what is available over bittorrent or LimeWire or whatever.
Well said. Perhaps most importantly, editorial != news An editorial about something in a major paper from a respected author is important enough to merit coverage sometimes, because it reflects what the general public reads about technology issues, and also forms the public opinion. But this is just some guy's rantings, rantings which are crappy and rantings that/. just legitimized.
I'd like to point out that most of the Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien stuff is $1.99, which means it costs the same as 45 minutes of LOST. But they are selling two roughly hour-long specials from Conan for $9.99. This is a big example of non-standard pricing, and I wouldn't be suprised to see more of it in the future.
Odometers can be run back a bit (not recommended) if you want (between inspections). Also, they don't say where the driving took place. If I live in West Virginia and commute to DC, I'm using Virginia's roads, but West Virginia is the one charging me under your plan.
(I actually live in Virginia and have the roads clogged by the aforementioned commuters)
Every criminal is going to know how to jam it. And a smart criminal will figure out how to change it, and screw with the codes. That'd make it so easy to frame anyone you want. Cars with the devices disabled/reconfigured/removed will be available on the black market. I'm sure there are plenty of mechanics (not that I'm dissing the profession in any way) who'd prolly love to supplement their income with a few quick "house-call" repair jobs.
Didn't we pay taxes to build the roads in the first place? Will these fees be accompanied by the reduction of taxes, since they are getting transportation funding elsewhere?
This could be useful in figuring out which roads need expansion, and it could help with traffic routing. Imagine the effect on stoplights. They'll know which way has the biggest backup, etc. Of course, they could do most of this non-invasively.
Of course, this'll be touted as an anti-theft thing or something, and everyone will jump all over it.
valid email is required and therefore there is a semblance of control.
I have never understood this theory. With half an hour of work, I could make two "throwaway" email addresses (yahoo, hotmail, etc), using the first to register the second, then cancel the first. After a week, I bet they'd have forgotten all about it. then you have a disconnected email address you can use on wikipedia, or/. or any number of forums. Then all you have to do is hide your IP (my strategy is to get on the wireless network and move from router to router).
They just may well do that, since they did it with OS X. 10.0 (Cheetah) users got a free upgrade to 10.1 (Puma) when it came out. Presumably because of problems people had with 10.0. wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X#Mac_OS_X_v10.0_. 28Cheetah.29
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now-fiancee's new ring
Congratulations and good luck to the both of you.
Nice Freudian skip there.
Et tu, Brute.
authentication based on IP address
In so doing, they block anyone with a dynamic IP. Anyone with AOL or someplace like that is totally dynamic. That would tick off a lot of people, which may or may not matter to the community. But if they are a relatively small community, and they have some of the their better seeders on dynamic IPs, they would be hesitant.
Slashdot article that reads like total gibberish? You must be new here.
I could just wait for this article to come out each year instead. Anybody else see that the majority of those have been on slashdot before?
Flip that around. You're hearing about the great ideas of the year months before a New York Times reader is. A great reason to read.
"Pay per order" is a model that redefines advertising. It isn't the job of an ad to make me buy something, it's to make me look at it. The store itself (be it online or otherwise) needs to close the sale. If I am interested in a product I see on a TV ad, I go to Target or wherever, and if it looks appealing, I'll buy it. If the price is too high, or the salespeople are idiots, I will either go somewhere else or not buy the product. In that instance, it is Target's fault, not the advertiser's fault.
Not to mention, how does PPO work when there is nothing to order? Let's say it is a political ad? Or an ad for a POV site, like the Christian fundamentalists mentioned elsewhere? What do I "order"?
Quantum Encryption is p2p. Which means when Bob and Alice trade IP addresses, Mallory would need to convince Bob that her IP is Alice, and Alice that her IP is Bob, which is tough. I mean, if you're trading sensitive info, you ought to be able to have each other's IPs.
"I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google." -- Steve Jobs
Um, wasn't that Steve Ballmer? I mean, there's a bit of a difference.
It makes me puke
To tell the truth, I don't want that much honesty.
Um, I hate to break it to you, but this is the twenty-first century. Buy a new computer. Buy whatever kind you want, and watch me not care in the slightest. But if you must waste our time with anecdotal crap tests, at least test two comparable computers from this decade. Oh, and this computer has been on for several days straight, and it hasn't crashed. The only windows involved in that streak is the one I dropped it out, and hey, it didn't freaking care (it was a first floor window).
Now let's get the feds to register every domain that the worm will check, and register it until it isn't used again. Game over for sober. If the domain for a day already exists, it gets investigated.
This is truly good news.
NoScript does a whitelist. So if I wanted javascript at ______.google.com, I'd add that to the whitelist, and all would be well. Takes 10 seconds, if that.
Here's how I'd do it if I were an ID thief (obviously I'm not).
1) Steal a hundred thousand IDs.
2) Hire a pile of cheap workers somewhere
3) Get them to mine the money for a 10-20% commission.
4) Move to Vegas and/or the Bahamas and, um, get to know the locals...
I mean, seriously, when you're dealing with a lot of money, when has manpower ever been an issue?
In Soviet Russia, the Moon lands on You!
No, that's in Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
Here is an old school 5, troll comment, courtesy of wikipedia. It's about a year and half old, and unfortunately, doesn't show how it was moderated. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=107840&cid=917 5401
The problem is that the price that the supplier wants to sell matters just as much as the buyer's price.
Except for two basic facts:
1) People don't need this. It isn't vital and required for life, it's music they can live without. If you charged me $5 a song and that was the only choice, I wouldn't buy it. I'd just listen to the radio or something.
2) There is still a music piracy underground, and it's pretty big. Whatever anyone's feelings on the issue, we have to accept that stamping it out through force isn't looking too possible right now, or anytime in the foreseeable future, since there are thousands (at least) of tech savvy people to create new networks and forms of filesharing, and they can move faster than the music industry. Therefore, the way to beat piracy is to make the "official" files that cost money worth more than what is available over bittorrent or LimeWire or whatever.
Well said. Perhaps most importantly, editorial != news An editorial about something in a major paper from a respected author is important enough to merit coverage sometimes, because it reflects what the general public reads about technology issues, and also forms the public opinion. But this is just some guy's rantings, rantings which are crappy and rantings that /. just legitimized.
I'm still waiting for the Ipod Micro so I can watch the shows in High Definition. ...on my fingernail.
I'd like to point out that most of the Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien stuff is $1.99, which means it costs the same as 45 minutes of LOST.
The important part of that sentence is that the Leno and Conan stuff is 5-10 minutes long for the same price.
I'd like to point out that most of the Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien stuff is $1.99, which means it costs the same as 45 minutes of LOST. But they are selling two roughly hour-long specials from Conan for $9.99. This is a big example of non-standard pricing, and I wouldn't be suprised to see more of it in the future.
Odometers can be run back a bit (not recommended) if you want (between inspections). Also, they don't say where the driving took place. If I live in West Virginia and commute to DC, I'm using Virginia's roads, but West Virginia is the one charging me under your plan.
(I actually live in Virginia and have the roads clogged by the aforementioned commuters)
Every criminal is going to know how to jam it. And a smart criminal will figure out how to change it, and screw with the codes. That'd make it so easy to frame anyone you want. Cars with the devices disabled/reconfigured/removed will be available on the black market. I'm sure there are plenty of mechanics (not that I'm dissing the profession in any way) who'd prolly love to supplement their income with a few quick "house-call" repair jobs.
mileage-based road user fees.
Didn't we pay taxes to build the roads in the first place? Will these fees be accompanied by the reduction of taxes, since they are getting transportation funding elsewhere?
This could be useful in figuring out which roads need expansion, and it could help with traffic routing. Imagine the effect on stoplights. They'll know which way has the biggest backup, etc. Of course, they could do most of this non-invasively.
Of course, this'll be touted as an anti-theft thing or something, and everyone will jump all over it.
valid email is required and therefore there is a semblance of control.
/. or any number of forums. Then all you have to do is hide your IP (my strategy is to get on the wireless network and move from router to router).
I have never understood this theory. With half an hour of work, I could make two "throwaway" email addresses (yahoo, hotmail, etc), using the first to register the second, then cancel the first. After a week, I bet they'd have forgotten all about it. then you have a disconnected email address you can use on wikipedia, or
They just may well do that, since they did it with OS X. 10.0 (Cheetah) users got a free upgrade to 10.1 (Puma) when it came out. Presumably because of problems people had with 10.0. wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X#Mac_OS_X_v10.0_. 28Cheetah.29