More astroturfing - send enough bloggers a link marked as "interesting", and someone's bound to bite. As soon as it hits critical mass, people start posting about it because "Hey, this posted about this, I'd better too!".
Walk around with a laptop and check to see if there are any virgin wireless connections sitting out there. If you can id them, a knock and a "hey, did you know anyone can connect to your internet?" is going to be enough.
Answer is yes? Well, a load off the owner's mind.
Answer is no? Toss them a packet on securing wireless connections. Load off the owner's mind.
When you find yourself in danger, When you're threatened by a stranger, When it looks like you will take a lickin', (puk, puk, puk, puk) There is someone waiting, Who will hurry up and rescue you, just Call for Super Chicken!
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While the government can't destroy this sort of technology, It could, if it set its mind about it, make thinks rather difficult. For example:
*They could make all filesharing _programs_ illegal, then attempting to shut down distrobution of those programs (shutdown bittorrent.com, azereus, etc). *They could shut down proxy sites. *Really attempt to track down people in other countries who use this technology and provide outlets for it (piratebay, etc). *Require ISPs to keep logs on traffic for much longer than they do now.
It's Amazon's CTO. Who cares what he says on his personal blog? It's not like he runs the company or anything like that. Him getting in an argument with a blogger isn't even newsworthy!
The terrible summary isn't helping this "article" along, either.
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Plus, I've walked down the strip at legal age, but with a group of highschoolers - they don't even approach anyone who looks under 21.
More astroturfing - send enough bloggers a link marked as "interesting", and someone's bound to bite. As soon as it hits critical mass, people start posting about it because "Hey, this posted about this, I'd better too!".
When I subscribed to the general helpline over on Wikipedia, we got buckets and buckets of these sort of things.
This story is not news to ANYONE who's ever been a part of any sort of organization that maintained a public email address. I don't get it.
Not new by any stretch of the imagination, at all. This sort of software has existed in english for years:
http://www.renaigames.net/index.html
There's even a NaNoWriMo riff for these games. Python-based editor, everything. Blade's late to the party.
Walk around with a laptop and check to see if there are any virgin wireless connections sitting out there. If you can id them, a knock and a "hey, did you know anyone can connect to your internet?" is going to be enough.
Answer is yes? Well, a load off the owner's mind.
Answer is no? Toss them a packet on securing wireless connections. Load off the owner's mind.
Are you sure about that? What makes you feel this way?
When you find yourself in danger,
When you're threatened by a stranger,
When it looks like you will take a lickin',
(puk, puk, puk, puk)
There is someone waiting,
Who will hurry up and rescue you,
just Call for Super Chicken!
Sure, people are quite a bit more complex, and they get made all the time!
How the heck did that get modded informative?
BZZTM, I believe.
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Are the publishers actually saying that?
Get them to talk to the RIAA, man! *We've* been saying that for years about music and movies.
I think we tried that with the bubble already. Ask the pets.com guys; they're the gurus of this special kind of zen.
Just plain "Whore"?
Hey, looks like they are:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/this-is-tes t-this-is-only-test.html The Googleblog shows that they have a cookie-based "block this site from results" feature in general beta test to random people on the site.
Looks like they already did.
All those poor dollar bills in Google's accounts! Why, they're not getting out and seeing the world like I would show them if they were mine!
Methinks the term is: "Whoever wins, we pay more."
Uh, nice try Z, but it's still wrong...
While the government can't destroy this sort of technology, It could, if it set its mind about it, make thinks rather difficult. For example:
*They could make all filesharing _programs_ illegal, then attempting to shut down distrobution of those programs (shutdown bittorrent.com, azereus, etc).
*They could shut down proxy sites.
*Really attempt to track down people in other countries who use this technology and provide outlets for it (piratebay, etc).
*Require ISPs to keep logs on traffic for much longer than they do now.
Yeah, I dislike google news' link creating bit, too...
It's Amazon's CTO. Who cares what he says on his personal blog? It's not like he runs the company or anything like that. Him getting in an argument with a blogger isn't even newsworthy! The terrible summary isn't helping this "article" along, either.
Now the real question is this: Does this invoke Godwin's Rule?