Huh. Must suck where you are. I was once asked to take my cellphone out and leave it in a bucket at the front of the class, but they didn't check beyond 'voluntary' compliance.
Jesus, try HDTV. They have a full 22Mbps bandwidth over broadcast for a super sexy HD picture (that they can fill to the max) but over cable it's much less (don't know where to look it up).
So that means that they have to compress the hell out of HD Cable... if you ever get a chance to watch a sports game over antenna vs. cable, you'll notice a huge difference.
To be fair, I don't know how they handle the HD OTA channels over cable (234 is Fox DTV in my area) - it might be the original compression, but I doubt it.
Depends. If the reason is because some drunkard ran them down, I'd rip his head from his neck. If it was because they took cocaine and drove through town at 100MPH... well I don't think I'd let that happen.
I have a rather... unique take on this. In my line of work, I necessarily see awful things - a 7 year old girl who died from a neck wound after running through a plate-glass window, and a 9 year old boy who died of a heart attack while playing basketball. Bloody car crashes (though nothing this gruesome) and a woman who was underwater for a few days before anyone realized...
But I digress. Yes, I looked at these pictures and - though they are gruesome - I was not ill affected. It's because I see this stuff all the time, in real life.
As a society, we are too sheltered. When our ancestors were ripped apart by a mountain lion, their friends didn't go and bitch about it... this is life and it sucks.
I'm just happy she didn't injure anyone else on her way down. It seems like it's always the drunk/high ones who walk away, and the sober family of 5 coming home from dinner who doesn't...
I have stolen your car if I take it from your driveway, even if I give it back later. Why do you care? Because then you don't have a car.
What if there was a way to get your car, but with you still having it, and use both simultaneously? That's a copy - and unless you're some kind of prick, it doesn't bother you. You get your car, with no changes, and so do I.
It's infringing because I don't have a legal right to make that copy.
These people may or may not be infringing, but as there is no deprivation (except of maybe-money) there is no theft. It's not theft if you don't lose something, and it's not theft if you make less money than you maybe could.
This, and the canvas/video tag (if implemented widely) and fast Javascript (V8/Spidermonkey) will kill flash.
Flat out kill it. It might take a little while, but before long it will die out as soon as comparable dev tools pop up (and they will, because it's open).
I have a feeling this will be big - not XMLHttpRequest big, but not too far off. Need proof that this will succeed? Look at the hacky ways this has been done - Javascript raytracers, animated GIFs, writing software renderers in Flash - and tell me that people won't utilize a proper alternative when it arises.
It's worse. If the company goes bankrupt, at least there will be some market for those parts, so they will be made, and you still have the car. Plus, cars are similar enough that many mechanics will be able to puzzle it out, even if it costs a little bit more.
With DRM you get none of that. Actually, what I described sounds a little bit like open-source and its advantages...
Either they did it and aren't telling (would we?) or these are simple hackers like in Russia, the Ukraine, or even here. Or they're part of the mob.
This assumption that it must have been committed by the government is unfounded; though I would not be surprised at all. Wouldn't we if we got the shot?
that maybe somebody else would come in and use the powers already established. Everybody has said it since the beginning of elected governance - don't give yourself powers that you don't want 'the other guy to have', because he will.
I happened to support Obama, and still tenuously do, but I am greatly saddened by this, the RIAA appointments, and many other things. But even Obama is only extending, minimally, what the Bush administration gave him.
Even though I am very unhappy with this, it'll still be funny to see Fox News hop on this with their usual cognitive dissonance, forgetting that Bush started this mess.
for this to be an issue. I tether and pull about 5GB/mo from my non-tether-plan iPhone, mostly web but some video, music, etc. I know several people who do this as well. None of us have ever run into any trouble from this...
My view is that they don't care that much, and they include the clause so that if somebody is using it as their primary internet connection, or otherwise fucking around (hosting Slingbox or something through it) they can cut them off.
IMHO, the person using Skype - even a few times a day - has nothing to worry about.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks (x) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it (x) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers (x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once (x) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email (x) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses (x) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money (x) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email (x) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes (x) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches (x) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians (x) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers (x) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves (x) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering (x) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation (x) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks (x) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free (x) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
Anything with that 'U3' thing, which is at least all sandisk drives. For anyone who doesn't know, it's basically PortableApps, but done in a shitty way.
It's a pain in the ass because it tells windows it's a CD drive, so you can't delete it using diskmgmt.msc. It autoruns whenever you put it in, and starts its manager software - which leaves all kinds of files around your profile.
First thing I do when I get a new drive is remove it. You need their special downloaded tool for that, though.
Jesus. I was pretty sure you weren't being serious. Good to know I was right;) Guess you're too smart for me...
But the problem is, I've literally met people who think that way and don't see any problem with it. Unfortunately, that kind of batshit 'it makes me sad so the world has to pretend it doesn't exist' mentality isn't laughed away, and it's not even a minority viewpoint anymore.
People literally think that the world will be all better if we stick our fingers in our ears and pretend everything is all cool.
I hope to hell you're being ironic/joking, and I just got wooshed.
Otherwise, fuck off. It's irrelevant what 'decent people' think. It doesn't affect them, unless they want it to.
Sharia law is moral to Muslims... but we don't like when it's legislated. So stop being hypocrites and stop trying to legislate morality. How do you know that your morality is right? What if somebody did it to you? A muslim is every bit as convinced of their correctness as you are. Perhaps more relevantly, I am every bit as convinced as you are that my morality (who cares if it doesn't affect me) is correct, nay more correct.
Since we can't know either way, law has no business being involved.
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Huh. Must suck where you are. I was once asked to take my cellphone out and leave it in a bucket at the front of the class, but they didn't check beyond 'voluntary' compliance.
Jesus, try HDTV. They have a full 22Mbps bandwidth over broadcast for a super sexy HD picture (that they can fill to the max) but over cable it's much less (don't know where to look it up).
So that means that they have to compress the hell out of HD Cable... if you ever get a chance to watch a sports game over antenna vs. cable, you'll notice a huge difference.
To be fair, I don't know how they handle the HD OTA channels over cable (234 is Fox DTV in my area) - it might be the original compression, but I doubt it.
Depends. If the reason is because some drunkard ran them down, I'd rip his head from his neck. If it was because they took cocaine and drove through town at 100MPH... well I don't think I'd let that happen.
And who, exactly, would there be to bitch to?
Well "I don't use any of these sites!" you said.
For those of you who didn't go to the website, one of them is Slashdot.
One of the sites is slashdot.
I have a rather... unique take on this. In my line of work, I necessarily see awful things - a 7 year old girl who died from a neck wound after running through a plate-glass window, and a 9 year old boy who died of a heart attack while playing basketball. Bloody car crashes (though nothing this gruesome) and a woman who was underwater for a few days before anyone realized...
But I digress. Yes, I looked at these pictures and - though they are gruesome - I was not ill affected. It's because I see this stuff all the time, in real life.
As a society, we are too sheltered. When our ancestors were ripped apart by a mountain lion, their friends didn't go and bitch about it... this is life and it sucks.
I'm just happy she didn't injure anyone else on her way down. It seems like it's always the drunk/high ones who walk away, and the sober family of 5 coming home from dinner who doesn't...
I guess you're trolling.
I have stolen your car if I take it from your driveway, even if I give it back later. Why do you care? Because then you don't have a car.
What if there was a way to get your car, but with you still having it, and use both simultaneously? That's a copy - and unless you're some kind of prick, it doesn't bother you. You get your car, with no changes, and so do I.
It's infringing because I don't have a legal right to make that copy.
These people may or may not be infringing, but as there is no deprivation (except of maybe-money) there is no theft. It's not theft if you don't lose something, and it's not theft if you make less money than you maybe could.
This, and the canvas/video tag (if implemented widely) and fast Javascript (V8/Spidermonkey) will kill flash.
Flat out kill it. It might take a little while, but before long it will die out as soon as comparable dev tools pop up (and they will, because it's open).
I have a feeling this will be big - not XMLHttpRequest big, but not too far off. Need proof that this will succeed? Look at the hacky ways this has been done - Javascript raytracers, animated GIFs, writing software renderers in Flash - and tell me that people won't utilize a proper alternative when it arises.
The sound of space?
"Hello darkness, my old friend"
It's worse. If the company goes bankrupt, at least there will be some market for those parts, so they will be made, and you still have the car. Plus, cars are similar enough that many mechanics will be able to puzzle it out, even if it costs a little bit more.
With DRM you get none of that. Actually, what I described sounds a little bit like open-source and its advantages...
True that. When the Yankees won the series, like all twenty times, nobody went absolutely nuts (at least, not in public).
But look, the Red Sox win one lousy time and they're out flipping cars over.
(Yankees fan, but wondering about the choice...)
Either they did it and aren't telling (would we?) or these are simple hackers like in Russia, the Ukraine, or even here. Or they're part of the mob.
This assumption that it must have been committed by the government is unfounded; though I would not be surprised at all. Wouldn't we if we got the shot?
that maybe somebody else would come in and use the powers already established. Everybody has said it since the beginning of elected governance - don't give yourself powers that you don't want 'the other guy to have', because he will.
I happened to support Obama, and still tenuously do, but I am greatly saddened by this, the RIAA appointments, and many other things. But even Obama is only extending, minimally, what the Bush administration gave him.
Even though I am very unhappy with this, it'll still be funny to see Fox News hop on this with their usual cognitive dissonance, forgetting that Bush started this mess.
So there was a problem where the Text Mode Interface showed Too Much Information at Three Mile Island??
The TMI showed TMI at TMI
for this to be an issue. I tether and pull about 5GB/mo from my non-tether-plan iPhone, mostly web but some video, music, etc. I know several people who do this as well. None of us have ever run into any trouble from this...
My view is that they don't care that much, and they include the clause so that if somebody is using it as their primary internet connection, or otherwise fucking around (hosting Slingbox or something through it) they can cut them off.
IMHO, the person using Skype - even a few times a day - has nothing to worry about.
Bah. Hopefully the devs will write something shutting this down, and force useful comments.
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This is serious; it's a published paper. The SciAm article is from the 31st.
Elaborate or STFU.
Your post advocates a
(x) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
(x) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(x) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
(x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
(x) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
(x) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
(x) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
(x) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
(x) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
(x) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
(x) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
(x) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
(x) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
(x) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
(x) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
(x) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
(x) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
(x) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
I've tried their tool in the manager a grand total of 4 times... never got it working. The download works fine, though.
Anything with that 'U3' thing, which is at least all sandisk drives. For anyone who doesn't know, it's basically PortableApps, but done in a shitty way.
It's a pain in the ass because it tells windows it's a CD drive, so you can't delete it using diskmgmt.msc. It autoruns whenever you put it in, and starts its manager software - which leaves all kinds of files around your profile.
First thing I do when I get a new drive is remove it. You need their special downloaded tool for that, though.
Jesus. I was pretty sure you weren't being serious. Good to know I was right ;) Guess you're too smart for me...
But the problem is, I've literally met people who think that way and don't see any problem with it. Unfortunately, that kind of batshit 'it makes me sad so the world has to pretend it doesn't exist' mentality isn't laughed away, and it's not even a minority viewpoint anymore.
People literally think that the world will be all better if we stick our fingers in our ears and pretend everything is all cool.
I hope to hell you're being ironic/joking, and I just got wooshed.
Otherwise, fuck off. It's irrelevant what 'decent people' think. It doesn't affect them, unless they want it to.
Sharia law is moral to Muslims... but we don't like when it's legislated. So stop being hypocrites and stop trying to legislate morality. How do you know that your morality is right? What if somebody did it to you? A muslim is every bit as convinced of their correctness as you are. Perhaps more relevantly, I am every bit as convinced as you are that my morality (who cares if it doesn't affect me) is correct, nay more correct.
Since we can't know either way, law has no business being involved.
Don't ask, and just use OpenOffice. I send in all my stuff as PDF anyways.
ssh -X