Wonderful idea - until a filter rule that "accidently" blocks all access to AOL is distributed.
If you want to allow MS to take over the internet just let them give everybody a packet filter (as in XP) and then provide automated patches to be applied without user intervention. On that day MS controls access to the internet for 90% of PC users.
What I still don't understand Holmes is, why on earth did the music publisher buy such a flawed scheme for use with their new CD?
Elementary my dear Watson. The media company lacked even a modicum of technical knowledge and failed to obtain an expert opinion before buying the SunnComm product. Just as magpies are attracted to shiny objects, business executives are attracted to technical bullshit.
It's a sad business Holmes.
Indeed Watson, a sad business. Yet I see no end in sight while the law protects the criminally stupid.
you don't solve the spam problem by punishing those who are behaving correctly.
spam exists purely because the cost per _response_ to the spammer is extremely low. You fight spam by making it uneconomical not by making life difficult for all by means of schemes that will certainly be worked around by the professional spammers.
because verislimes silly prank breaks a number of default behaviours within IE and various search options within Windows.
In addition ISPs in non-English countries sometimes catch requests for unknown domains and put up a web page in the appropriate language - this is now also broken.
Simple, for exactly the same reasons as people wanted to set up virtual companies on the internet during the dot.con times.
Gov.uk wants to put all it's services in the net so it can close down bricks&morter offices.
But they are discovering exactly the same problems as the dot.con companies discovered. People just give up when presented with overly complex and unreliable web services.
Suppose a macro virus spits out email to every address in your list, some of the addresses no longer exist so now will be be bounced by Verisign's little helper.
But sobig.f and similar _fake_ envelope and header information. So Verisign ends up spamming people with virus infected email.
But what do you do when they call you using the terminally broken "predictive dialing hardware"
You answer and there's nobody in the call centre available so you get a silent call. I've had 5 of these in one day. As the caller id is blocked I can't even discover which set of brain dead idiots it is calling.
The real reasons the media companies are seeing a slump in revenue are a/ really crap music being published and b/ the large illegal pressing plants that exist around the world.
In some markets 40% of CD sales are illegally pressed but are packaged up to be near indistinquishable from the official product.
given the described conditions the assumed contract cannot be enforced as Dell are asking for impossible terms to be agreed with (it occurs to me that having taken your money AND delivered the goods they cannot then enforce any further license restrictions UNLESS you were informed before purchase -- this is the law in the UK and I expect there are similar restructions in the US.)
The authors really should report Dell to their local business standards organisation.
Give 'em hell, 'cus they deserve it for being such prats!
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will be unsurprised by the failure.
Equally, the solution described by Bova may be the only way to get ebooks made generally available.
Wonderful idea - until a filter rule that "accidently" blocks all access to AOL is distributed.
If you want to allow MS to take over the internet just let them give everybody a packet filter (as in XP) and then provide automated patches to be applied without user intervention. On that day MS controls access to the internet for 90% of PC users.
It's worrying to note that the book Writing Secure Code published by Microsoft Press is out of print.
Elementary my dear Watson. The media company lacked even a modicum of technical knowledge and failed to obtain an expert opinion before buying the SunnComm product. Just as magpies are attracted to shiny objects, business executives are attracted to technical bullshit.
It's a sad business Holmes.
Indeed Watson, a sad business. Yet I see no end in sight while the law protects the criminally stupid.
First you give it comms, then unlimited CPU and now distributed memory.
Can Skynet be far behind...
you don't solve the spam problem by punishing those who are behaving correctly.
spam exists purely because the cost per _response_ to the spammer is extremely low. You fight spam by making it uneconomical not by making life difficult for all by means of schemes that will certainly be worked around by the professional spammers.
It just thinks about it for a few minutes and then prints out page 2 and only page 2.
because verislimes silly prank breaks a number of default behaviours within IE and various search options within Windows.
In addition ISPs in non-English countries sometimes catch requests for unknown domains and put up a web page in the appropriate language - this is now also broken.
Simple, for exactly the same reasons as people wanted to set up virtual companies on the internet during the dot.con times.
Gov.uk wants to put all it's services in the net so it can close down bricks&morter offices.
But they are discovering exactly the same problems as the dot.con companies discovered. People just give up when presented with overly complex and unreliable web services.
"We don't care. We don't have to. We are Verisign"
as terrorists are likely to be using fake data themselves!
Suppose a macro virus spits out email to every address in your list, some of the addresses no longer exist so now will be be bounced by Verisign's little helper.
But sobig.f and similar _fake_ envelope and header information. So Verisign ends up spamming people with virus infected email.
yes/no?
But what do you do when they call you using the terminally broken "predictive dialing hardware"
You answer and there's nobody in the call centre available so you get a silent call. I've had 5 of these in one day. As the caller id is blocked I can't even discover which set of brain dead idiots it is calling.
Didn't MS always want to destroy the web so everybody would have to use their MSN BBS?
Now they have an excuse.
If the media companies are so hard up as to need to extort $2K from a kid, perhaps we should start up a new charity to help them out?
The beeb is reporting that another victim of the RIAA sue-a-matic is a 71 year old man, "The grandkids must have done it!"
3 09 2854.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/
Rather than the school yard bullies.
The real reasons the media companies are seeing a slump in revenue are a/ really crap music being published and b/ the large illegal pressing plants that exist around the world.
In some markets 40% of CD sales are illegally pressed but are packaged up to be near indistinquishable from the official product.
"email harvesting or list-generating software"
So greping for email addresses in netnews is now going to be illegal?
Surely that should be Pirate 2 Pirate
I bet they spend hours trying to get "terrorist" in there somewhere...
on copyprotected discs that were not to the published CD standards?
:-)
In which case, if EMI or their distributers are still selling defective disks as CDs Phillips will soon be setting their attack lawyers on them
What about flying elephants?
Or are these reports written by a bunch of dumbos?
given the described conditions the assumed contract cannot be enforced as Dell are asking for impossible terms to be agreed with (it occurs to me that having taken your money AND delivered the goods they cannot then enforce any further license restrictions UNLESS you were informed before purchase -- this is the law in the UK and I expect there are similar restructions in the US.)
The authors really should report Dell to their local business standards organisation.
Give 'em hell, 'cus they deserve it for being such prats!
Judging from the netcraft uptime stats, SCO are using a solar powered web server.
A remarkable technical achievement but it does mean that nobody outside the US can access the site during working hours...
"without which you're bound to get stopped and fined (or worse) eventually"
An estimated 10% of vehicles on UK roads are running without MOT/insurance/tax disc.
I don't see how a specific size spec (credit card sized) in a patent spec can be taken to mean anything 5 or 6 times the size.
If the author had intended to indicate a range of sizes surely a range would have been specified.