I know people that "drive dirty" (i.e. no insurance or expired tags or license), without exception they all also has a chemical or alcohol abuse problem... and that's the last people you want on the same road as you. I also know some very poor people that manage to maintain their insurance, paying by the month. So I have to agree with you, bad as I hate paying that insurance bill, I want the people that can do me damage to also be insured... and I'm OK with automatically checking that. In the end, freedom only works if free people act in a responsible manner. If you don't like a law or the way it is enforced, change the people running the show... don't expect wonderful advances in information handling to be disregarded by governments, they are just people that work for you, make new rules for them to follow... or they will.
Well, if a slashdot posting garners the band some sales then yes, the manager earned his cut today... otherwise he should have to pay torrentfreak and reuters for the bandwidth that we used following the story... personally, this story is not going to cause me to buy anything.
But soon the paper will analyze the cocaine as you snort it and if it really good maybe make a phone call or two. Hundred dollar bills phoning home when they are in large stacks... Faraday cage wallets will really be needed then...
Two twenty's meet in a bar, first twenty says to the second one "I'm from a bank heist last week... waiting for a good signal so I can report myself"
Oh, Naomi Campbell is gonna be pissed. All that money spent on defense attorneys and she could have just claimed she was demonstrating a future user interface...
I have a buddy that flips them upside down and turns them into gazebos. He plants vine type foliage and allows them to get overrun so you have an overgrown dome with three or four vine covered posts holding it up... looks cool and is a nice shady spot in the summer.
How about we SHOOT the supplies at them http://www.islandone.org/Propulsion/GeraldBullInfo.html. Also, as someone will have to CATCH the payloads, I recommend that Wile E. Coyote be drafted into service and given a large (Acme brand) catchers mitt for velocity equalization.
Yup. Then we stick in the breathing and feeding tubes and dump you in a bathtub, do it to a few million others and... aww crap, Keanu Reeves is here and he looks pissed...
OK, if some of my DNA is "owned" by someone, then I want payment for storage services I have been providing. Seven dollars per day, per copy of each gene they claim rights to... Starting at the first day of storage.
One days rent should break them, no matter who they are.
Even if the player is not needed for playing web content, the one click save to hard drive option is very nice and seems to work with most media types. The player does not need to play a video in the browser to allow saving a copy, and it does not use the browser cache either. Saving music does have the disadvantage of getting it in the RealAudio format, but everything else is saving as flash, and replayed on The Real Player. Avoid the default install and it is not nearly as bad as it used to be...
My moto charger works on my Creative Zen Micro mp3 player. There is no pulsing blue glow, but the charging indicator is working and the device takes the charge. The MP3 audio jack to FM transmitter device (with USB port) that I use in the cars lighter plug also charges the moto phone with no apparent problem.
I had this same thought. Imagine, though, if Apple agreed to run i[music player/phone name]s on the VIA Nano processor. I think the universe might implode!
We could end up with NanoNano, at which point Robin Williams would want royalties each time the product name was spoken. That should effectively date me...
1. Only works for obvious spam. For non-obvious spam it means the user has to download it - which notifies the spammer of a known-good address. That means more spam. (Right now images do this, but images can be disabled while preserving the text.)
2. They'll just advertise in the subject line. Perhaps easier to filter, but seems like a losing battle to me.
3. How do you authenticate?
4. Allows people to associate an email address with an IP even if that IP/address never sends them email.
5. Completely fails to account for offline/IMAP use.
Some of this can be mitigated by having the receiving server fetch the mail when the client requests it, but that adds more problems.
1. I'm pretty much whitelisting by hand now, If I don't know you, I don't care what you put in the subject line, your stuff is gone.
2. Set a size limit on all the headers, no hex or encoding, plain text and straight IP addresses for the server holding the mail.
3. Their server sends me a key to pick up the message (a header I forgot), if a server sees the same key a thousand times in a minute or two... hmmmm...
4. Works both ways: Gmail Warning, The message you are about to retrieve is located on a server KNOWN to send spam... Continue?
5. If your offline you are pretty much working with the mail you already downloaded, right?
I'm not saying I have a perfect answer, but there are plenty of people that can figure it out, just like other ideas have been brought to fruition on the web, by cooperation of parties that have a mutual interest... and on this topic, it a BIG group and they have the brain power and bucks to make it work without rattling to many cages.
The point is to reverse it so that the abusers are left holding the bag, botted machines are quickly identified (and hopefully cleaned), and the free ride stops with the death of standard SMTP servers.
How about we change the delivery method. Instead of an email being sent to me and sitting on my server or service waiting for me to sort it, you send me the headers for the sender, subject, size, date, and attachment status while the message and attachments sit on YOUR server until I chose to pick it up or it expires. The reduction in bandwidth should pay for the increase in storage, and the spammers would have to leave their message sitting on a machine somewhere waiting for me to pick it up (hint, not gonna happen).
1. No servers flooding the net with messages.
2. Easily identifiable spam sources, making bot-nets less useful.
3. Reduced bandwidth as the system replaces the old one.
4. Allow email clients and webmail services to be configured retrieve every message for the few numb nuts that don't/won't get it.
5. Profit (via reduced long term cost).
Just spitballing...
Isn't EA gonna crap a kitten over the name? They spent a good chunk of change buying the Pogo.com game website, and I just can't see them letting this slide.
LED's might not burn out but you can bet that the base that holds the transformer and diodes will be as cheaply made as possible... we really can't expect them to forget 100 years of planned obsolescence, can we? So, next we learn to hack our light bulb power supplies to beef them up... and of course the circuit board will have to be protected by law from being tampered with by modders... and some sort of alliance of manufacturers...
I for one welcome our new LIAA overlords...
This is exactly the story they've been looking for to justify increasing the penalties for violating copyright to capital punishment.
With organ harvesting. Might as well get everything while we're at it... I think I know a guy that can advertise the used organs cheap via email.
"Dear Sir, My husband was the Minister of Health in Nigeria. After his death I am overwhelmed with a verity of transplant organs that I can not access from my country. I am writing because with your help these organs (worth 32 million dollars at least) can go to worthy recipients in your country. Please send banking particulars ASAP that we may begin a profitable relationship. I await your responce at givetheschmuckyourmoney@gmail.com"
Come on, no matter how you rank people, this just ends in a lawsuit when someone does not like their ranking, especially if the ranking does track errors and poor performance somehow.... It's sure not going to help build community or aid actual development... unless someone is developing a giant pissing contest.
Slashdot Mirror
I know people that "drive dirty" (i.e. no insurance or expired tags or license), without exception they all also has a chemical or alcohol abuse problem... and that's the last people you want on the same road as you. I also know some very poor people that manage to maintain their insurance, paying by the month. So I have to agree with you, bad as I hate paying that insurance bill, I want the people that can do me damage to also be insured... and I'm OK with automatically checking that. In the end, freedom only works if free people act in a responsible manner. If you don't like a law or the way it is enforced, change the people running the show... don't expect wonderful advances in information handling to be disregarded by governments, they are just people that work for you, make new rules for them to follow... or they will.
Well, if a slashdot posting garners the band some sales then yes, the manager earned his cut today... otherwise he should have to pay torrentfreak and reuters for the bandwidth that we used following the story... personally, this story is not going to cause me to buy anything.
We can watch all we want, the Electoral College will do it's thing and decide who rules...
But soon the paper will analyze the cocaine as you snort it and if it really good maybe make a phone call or two. Hundred dollar bills phoning home when they are in large stacks... Faraday cage wallets will really be needed then...
Two twenty's meet in a bar, first twenty says to the second one "I'm from a bank heist last week... waiting for a good signal so I can report myself"
Oh, Naomi Campbell is gonna be pissed. All that money spent on defense attorneys and she could have just claimed she was demonstrating a future user interface...
That's kind of like being the best ice hockey player in all of Ecuador...
I have a buddy that flips them upside down and turns them into gazebos. He plants vine type foliage and allows them to get overrun so you have an overgrown dome with three or four vine covered posts holding it up... looks cool and is a nice shady spot in the summer.
How about we SHOOT the supplies at them http://www.islandone.org/Propulsion/GeraldBullInfo.html. Also, as someone will have to CATCH the payloads, I recommend that Wile E. Coyote be drafted into service and given a large (Acme brand) catchers mitt for velocity equalization.
Well, that WOULD explain how Reeves got into my place so fast...
Yup. Then we stick in the breathing and feeding tubes and dump you in a bathtub, do it to a few million others and... aww crap, Keanu Reeves is here and he looks pissed...
Profanity is the last recourse of desperately inarticulate motherfuckers...
OK, if some of my DNA is "owned" by someone, then I want payment for storage services I have been providing. Seven dollars per day, per copy of each gene they claim rights to... Starting at the first day of storage.
One days rent should break them, no matter who they are.
Even if the player is not needed for playing web content, the one click save to hard drive option is very nice and seems to work with most media types. The player does not need to play a video in the browser to allow saving a copy, and it does not use the browser cache either. Saving music does have the disadvantage of getting it in the RealAudio format, but everything else is saving as flash, and replayed on The Real Player. Avoid the default install and it is not nearly as bad as it used to be...
My moto charger works on my Creative Zen Micro mp3 player. There is no pulsing blue glow, but the charging indicator is working and the device takes the charge. The MP3 audio jack to FM transmitter device (with USB port) that I use in the cars lighter plug also charges the moto phone with no apparent problem.
Making and Breaking
What is, was, is not, was not?
There is no free lunch...
I had this same thought. Imagine, though, if Apple agreed to run i[music player/phone name]s on the VIA Nano processor. I think the universe might implode!
We could end up with NanoNano, at which point Robin Williams would want royalties each time the product name was spoken. That should effectively date me...
1. Only works for obvious spam. For non-obvious spam it means the user has to download it - which notifies the spammer of a known-good address. That means more spam. (Right now images do this, but images can be disabled while preserving the text.)
2. They'll just advertise in the subject line. Perhaps easier to filter, but seems like a losing battle to me.
3. How do you authenticate?
4. Allows people to associate an email address with an IP even if that IP/address never sends them email.
5. Completely fails to account for offline/IMAP use.
Some of this can be mitigated by having the receiving server fetch the mail when the client requests it, but that adds more problems.
1. I'm pretty much whitelisting by hand now, If I don't know you, I don't care what you put in the subject line, your stuff is gone.
2. Set a size limit on all the headers, no hex or encoding, plain text and straight IP addresses for the server holding the mail.
3. Their server sends me a key to pick up the message (a header I forgot), if a server sees the same key a thousand times in a minute or two... hmmmm...
4. Works both ways: Gmail Warning, The message you are about to retrieve is located on a server KNOWN to send spam... Continue?
5. If your offline you are pretty much working with the mail you already downloaded, right?
I'm not saying I have a perfect answer, but there are plenty of people that can figure it out, just like other ideas have been brought to fruition on the web, by cooperation of parties that have a mutual interest... and on this topic, it a BIG group and they have the brain power and bucks to make it work without rattling to many cages.
The point is to reverse it so that the abusers are left holding the bag, botted machines are quickly identified (and hopefully cleaned), and the free ride stops with the death of standard SMTP servers.
All I can offer is my idea of a starting point...
How about we change the delivery method. Instead of an email being sent to me and sitting on my server or service waiting for me to sort it, you send me the headers for the sender, subject, size, date, and attachment status while the message and attachments sit on YOUR server until I chose to pick it up or it expires. The reduction in bandwidth should pay for the increase in storage, and the spammers would have to leave their message sitting on a machine somewhere waiting for me to pick it up (hint, not gonna happen).
1. No servers flooding the net with messages.
2. Easily identifiable spam sources, making bot-nets less useful.
3. Reduced bandwidth as the system replaces the old one.
4. Allow email clients and webmail services to be configured retrieve every message for the few numb nuts that don't/won't get it.
5. Profit (via reduced long term cost).
Just spitballing...
And we must eliminate ALL extremists! ...oh, wait a sec...
Isn't EA gonna crap a kitten over the name? They spent a good chunk of change buying the Pogo.com game website, and I just can't see them letting this slide.
Here it is from the source. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IfHm6R5le0
LED's might not burn out but you can bet that the base that holds the transformer and diodes will be as cheaply made as possible... we really can't expect them to forget 100 years of planned obsolescence, can we? So, next we learn to hack our light bulb power supplies to beef them up... and of course the circuit board will have to be protected by law from being tampered with by modders... and some sort of alliance of manufacturers... I for one welcome our new LIAA overlords...
This is exactly the story they've been looking for to justify increasing the penalties for violating copyright to capital punishment.
With organ harvesting. Might as well get everything while we're at it...
I think I know a guy that can advertise the used organs cheap via email.
"Dear Sir, My husband was the Minister of Health in Nigeria. After his death I am overwhelmed with a verity of transplant organs that I can not access from my country. I am writing because with your help these organs (worth 32 million dollars at least) can go to worthy recipients in your country. Please send banking particulars ASAP that we may begin a profitable relationship. I await your responce at givetheschmuckyourmoney@gmail.com"
Because controlling the press is the best way to prevent an authoritarian government?
Damn that made me laugh, I wish I had mod points.
Come on, no matter how you rank people, this just ends in a lawsuit when someone does not like their ranking, especially if the ranking does track errors and poor performance somehow.... It's sure not going to help build community or aid actual development... unless someone is developing a giant pissing contest.