How do YOU know what their intent is? Are you psychic or something?
When you watch 999 lemmings jump off a cliff you don't have to be psychic to predict that the reason that 1000th lemming is climbing the mountain, is to jump off a cliff.
The vast majority of people do things because, on some level, they believe those are the most correct things to do -- their reasoning may be as simple as "they're bastards, so I'll be a bastard too", but even that, in a way, is acting out of some sense of fairness and justice.
And those are called civilized people.
Encouraging the masses to inflict harm on a law firm however, is hardly civil. What about the people who depend on that law firm to eat, who had nothing at all to do with the trial ?
Yes, they're weaseling around with the legal system. Then again, the legal, and corporate, system is weaseling around with fair use, the human right to share and create, etc. Backlashes should be expected.
Using that sort of logic with fair use, it would also be true that every one of us here have a human right to pimp your mom out on the corner. That's everyones' pussy, we all have a right to share it. The shit getting slapped out of her should be expected when she doesn't want to act right.
It seems like it could be argued that monitoring a persons location would fall under the same set of rules as monitoring a persons telephone conversations though.
Not only has the progress of an upload been easily obtainable for years now, but now you can screen files BEFORE sending them to the server based on filetype and filesize.
I looked at each spam message and made a call if I could trust the opt out, and I I went through her whole inbox. Result? Smap mail dropped from 100ish/day to less than 10 on average. And it stayed that way for near a year with a small trickle increase.
I routinely do the same thing.
Mr. Anonymous Coward is spot on and telling the truth, this really works and you will not recieve any more spam email if you try it yourself.
Sincerely,
John Q. Public
CEO - Anonymous Marketing Inc.
Sounds like a damn fine idea to me, with one possible caveat;
You forgot the part where advertising companies start holding earnings for 90 days to make sure none of these requests come in against the publishers funds.
The article I'm guessing doesn't bring that part up, but you know it's bound to happen.
Take a look around the "blackhat" forums some time, scrapers are looking specificly for overseas hosting and there's companies popping up whos main selling point is that they ignore DMCA complaints.
If there were ever a sign that Jesus was back I would think that sign would be water vanishing all over the world.
How many people do you know who wouldn't be asking Jesus to turn water into wine within the first 5 minutes of meeting him ?
Install (rework?) tracking devices and software that remembers all of the routes the taxi takes to transport passengers, then have software constantly analyze that data and predict where cabs should be and when.
I live in Florida, so if this already exists, well, you know.
Let me know when you catch the Downadup/conficker authors.
The point is that something has to get to that point before anything is done to the people involved.
It didn't take long for the people who broke into Sarah Palins email account to get tracked down and brought to justice, but only because of her status.
The current state of how things are handled in this basically like only going after criminals who commit crimes against rich people.
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No.
Maybe I would have if they'd put it where they usually put advertisements.
When you watch 999 lemmings jump off a cliff you don't have to be psychic to predict that the reason that 1000th lemming is climbing the mountain, is to jump off a cliff.
And those are called civilized people.
Encouraging the masses to inflict harm on a law firm however, is hardly civil. What about the people who depend on that law firm to eat, who had nothing at all to do with the trial ?
Using that sort of logic with fair use, it would also be true that every one of us here have a human right to pimp your mom out on the corner. That's everyones' pussy, we all have a right to share it. The shit getting slapped out of her should be expected when she doesn't want to act right.
Source ?
Sounds interesting to me, never heard anything remotely like that before.
Makes sense to me as far as search/seizure goes.
It seems like it could be argued that monitoring a persons location would fall under the same set of rules as monitoring a persons telephone conversations though.
Actually, Flash hasn't been a work around as much as it's been a source of ideas to be implemented in browsers.
I wouldn't call Flash a workaround.
I just use Flash uploaders when I can now.
Not only has the progress of an upload been easily obtainable for years now, but now you can screen files BEFORE sending them to the server based on filetype and filesize.
Where do I apply ?
And before you flamebait me, if dropouts sued the schoolsystem, they would be forced to get rid of shitty teachers.
Does this mean that if I dropped out of school because the teachers sucked, I should sue the school system ?
I routinely do the same thing.
Mr. Anonymous Coward is spot on and telling the truth, this really works and you will not recieve any more spam email if you try it yourself.
Sincerely,
John Q. Public
CEO - Anonymous Marketing Inc.
Well then we better get out there with extra large cups and start collecting change for our future!
Oh wait, that's right.
My rule of thumb is that any group which can not survive without the other is adding cost instead of value.
Content providers can survive without aggreators, but aggregators can not survive without content providers.
You forgot the part where advertising companies start holding earnings for 90 days to make sure none of these requests come in against the publishers funds.
The article I'm guessing doesn't bring that part up, but you know it's bound to happen.
Take a look around the "blackhat" forums some time, scrapers are looking specificly for overseas hosting and there's companies popping up whos main selling point is that they ignore DMCA complaints.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that it's because they're too stupid to know better ?
There's bound to be at least one person who will argue that the cat rose from the dead and left the box.
I can't wait to put a badge on my computer that says "Powered by Jesus Juice"
Have you ever taken a ride in a NY cab ?
If there were ever a sign that Jesus was back I would think that sign would be water vanishing all over the world.
How many people do you know who wouldn't be asking Jesus to turn water into wine within the first 5 minutes of meeting him ?
Hey, my girlfriend READS Slashdot !
The fact that I haven't met her yet is irrelevant.
I don't really think ignorance spreads, everyone is ignorant from the get-go and some people eventually learn.
Install (rework?) tracking devices and software that remembers all of the routes the taxi takes to transport passengers, then have software constantly analyze that data and predict where cabs should be and when.
I live in Florida, so if this already exists, well, you know.
The point is that something has to get to that point before anything is done to the people involved.
It didn't take long for the people who broke into Sarah Palins email account to get tracked down and brought to justice, but only because of her status.
The current state of how things are handled in this basically like only going after criminals who commit crimes against rich people.
The reason is simple, people aren't even getting a slap on the wrist.