it's a nice assumption that Yahoo would remove the email address. However, the reality is that after repeated requests to Yahoo to do exactly that, Yahoo has done NOTHING.
It gets better. I uncovered a phishing site, specifically targetted at stealing Yahoo accounts, hosted on a Yahoo business server, I've reported it multiple times, and Yahoo won't do a thing. It has been there for MONTHS, and now the phishers use it to redirect to other temporary phishing sites. So a posted AUP/TOS apparently means nothing... whether it deals with what an archive site will remove, or what a host will consider against their policy. Don't believe it? Http://www.goodyseth.com is the site. That index page is innocuous enough. If you are quick with your browser's stop button, visit http://yahoo.abuse.dept.goodyseth.com/ and look at the source code. It has been edited YET AGAIN, and points to a NEW temp phishing site (Which I'm gonna have to get shut down). Do a WHOIS on goodyseth.com. See where it is hosted. Then report it to Yahoo and watch how nothing happens.
Now, I already admitted that I have no idea how moderating an archiving site could be done, only that it SHOULD be done. However, it seems to me that a complete archive of the internet should be kept under lock and key. Should all those records of illegal activity stored in there be freely available to everyone?
Also how can I get archive.org to remove my stolen, posted, and archived personal information, if I don't know all of the places it has been posted? I don't know if you realize this, but while I can search for old websites I have had in the past by their domain names, and I find them archived... I can't search by information ON those websites. I've tried. Nothing comes up. Yet, there those sites are, when I search by domain. SO their promise to remove archived material is a toothless guard dog. It might look nice from a distance, but it doesn't fit in practical application.
And obviously they AREN'T going to remove Kiddie porn from their archives, just like they aren't going to remove other illegal material... because you can search there NOW, and the illegal material is there. So, when I say they won't, it is because they HAVEN'T.
it didn't occur to me until VERY late... or rather early this morning, that really, there is no reason to provide internet access to every laptop in the classroom. Kids don't have internet access in their current textbooks.
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1732638&n av=0Ra7Lk8k There's a little story about a grade school in Texas already replacing textbooks with laptops... and saving money in the process. From the article... "Folks at Vital Source say they can outfit each student with a laptop for under $1,000. The same textbooks would cost 13-hundred each. The real savings comes each following year.. When the only cost is a c-d-rom to upgrade the electronic text books...and the computer gets reused."
So, even if all that was available on the laptop were the school ETextbooks, an Office suite, and a calculator, it would be an improvement over any current situation. Without internet access.
if the issue is that Myspace should be restricted to adults aged 18 and over, then that is something that has to be fixed at Myspace. There are plenty of Adult web sites that effectively block kids (unless that kid steals a credit card).
If the issue is that Myspace should not be viewed at school, but age is not a factor, then that is an issue to be solved at the school. A whitelist should be created and used, with an appeal process in place to allow students to suggest sites that need to be added to the whitelist. Sure the information available from the internet will be limited. But the ENTIRE internet should not be available to the students while they are at school. They are there to learn specific things in specific subjects. Using a whitelist and appeal process just means that initially, the information is very limited. Over time, it will open up. Someone else posted that kids should be encouraged to try to bypass the security and report it for rewards. Then those holes can be plugged. That should be combined with monitoring the traffic, so that those who DON'T report holes in security can face sanctions.
Myspace has no place in a school setting. Not in any of the classrooms, anyway. My point about it being visited when kids weren't in class, was simply to point out that as long as when the kids are IN the class they are restricted to a small portion of the internet. Before Laptops or internet in the classroom, kids were essentially limited to their textbooks, and what they got out of the school library.... while they were in class. Why does that have to change dramatically, just because they are now using Etextbooks instead of traditional ones?
If kids are using etextbooks and laptops with limited internet access, they still have access to far more information than they did before. It doesn't have to be a choice between the entire internet, or none at all.
I agree that archives can be used for good purposes. we are in fact going to depend on a few archives when presenting this package of information to the FBI tomorrow in our meeting at the local office.
But blanket archiving without moderation is just wrong. It's similar to going through your house and archiving everything. Trash, dead pets, dirty laundry, old food, etc. I'm not proposing that I know how to moderate such an undertaking, ut there are plenty of good things that because they can easily be turned around and used for bad ends, are now restricted. If necesary, Vodka can be used to keep a wound from getting infected. That's good. Should it be available to 6 year olds for consumption? Hell no. Matches are used to ignite combustibles. Mmmmm. Fire Good. Should we give those matches to the 6 year old to play with? Hell no. Go ahead and argue about how using a 6 year old is a bad example. But there are good examples too, right? And in the case of this 6 year old, there are restrictions because somethings have good and bad uses.
What is getting archived is as important as the archiving itself. Restricting access to all-encompassing archives is important too. I've seen mention of information terrorists could make use of, kiddie porn, etc. Hell, if a Kiddie porn site gets taken down, do we really want the people who frequented it, to just go to the archive site to get their kiddie porn?
Come on. It's not just all or nothing; black and white. The fact that it is all shades of grey means that we have to apply a certain amount of intelligence to the entire picture. Not just rush blindly forward and grab everything in sight. I don't want to see archive.org go byebye. I also don't want to be able to search through archive.org for http://www.anyboard.net/comp/www/hostwatch to browse through people selling trojans, exploits, credit cards and more. WHere is the moderation? Where is the middle ground?
Phishers do not deal with security. Phishers deal with unsuspecting and uneducated internet users. I'm sorry you are so scared to do it, but really.. go ahead and visit http://paypal-protect.org./ It is a phishing site that we are attempting to take down. Go ahead and login with a bogus email and garbage password. It doesn't check anything before hand. It simply takes you into a site that aside from the URL, does look like Paypal. You are then asked to provide everything. Name, address, social security, even your PIN number for your credit card. It won't even allow you to proceed without your PIN. Then, after you submit your information (which is then sent to whomever is running the scam), you are redirected to the actual paypal site.
Now, if a poor sap fell for it, anything that sap could have done online that involved money, the phisher can do.
You want to try to make the distinction about "If you reveal your info".. well, what if I worked at the gas station you frequent, and I copied your cred card info and ccv2 number from the back, when you made a purchase? OOPS, it was YOUR fault for actually buying something. According to you, the only way to be safe is to isolate yourself from the world, and make everything you need from scratch. Noone should be responsible for protecting your interests.
If I grabbed your info from your trash, it's your fault, right? because you didn't incinerate your trash, right?
You are wrong, in that everything posted on the internet is public domain. That is an assumption you are attempting to back up with obfuscation. What is posted on the internet is no different than what is on the shelf in a library, what is on TV, and what is on the radio. You have the right to enjoy it. You do not have the right to rebroadcast it without permission.
what you are saying, is that the person who puts the information on the internet, is the one who decides if it is public domain. As opposed to the person to whom the information belongs.
You know the current standard the US follows, for copyright of printed works, is LIFE+70 years? That means that once the author copyrights their work, the copyright is good for 70 years after they die. Only after the copyright expires and it is not renewed, the work becomes public domain. http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/okbooks.html there are some specific exceptions based on when the work was copywritten, when the work was published, what country it was published, whether or not the copyright notice was properly added to the work, and more.
To continue the library analogy I started earlier, the internet is a library. websites are the books. each must be treated as an individual entity. If someone steals your identity through a phishing scam, and uses that info immediately, then sure you might be able to get out of liability by appealing to your bank. DOes that mean that phishers should be allowed to run their scams freely and uncontested, because they can just pot your info and declare it public domain, which would then in turn give them license to use that info however they wanted?
What if YOU didn;t put those photos on the internet? What if your Ex Girlfriend stole them by using your spare key when you were at work? Sorry charlie, they are on the net now and are public domain? I don't think so.
here's a little story... it deals with archiving and the like.
My friend's hosting service got hacked. we caught it right away, before a site had been put into place, but the individuals attempted to put up the site http://paypal-protect.org./ We shut them down quick. They went on to hack another hoster, and currently have their little phishing site up and running. I suggest you go to the site, and without using ANY real information, login with a bogus email and password, and check it out. If you take a look at the WHOIS entry for paypal-protect.org, you will see a name and address of an actual individual. We called this guy and told him that it was likely his name, info and credit card were used illegally to register the domain.
THe important thing to notice, is the EMAIL contact in the WHOIS entry. GO ahead, and do a google search for that email address. You will turn up two forum posts this guy made, where he is selling credit card info, bank info, Ccvv2 numbers and more. Now, the first result in your google search is a post at paypalsucks.com. You would not BELIEVE what it took to get the admin there to remove the post. And his policy wasn't to remove posts normally, but to just move them to a "garbage" thread, which would still be publically available. The second and third result in your google search, were a post left on a free board that was created at anyboard.net. I was able to get that board taken down within 12 hours of notifying the host, netbula. THe board was being used for lots of CC resellers, for at least 5 years before I got it shut down. How do I know? Three of those years are archived at archive.org.
However... EACH OF THOSE POSTS is still there in the google cache. Go ahead and see. Why is this important? Because all you need to see, if you are in the market to buy stolen Identities and credit cards, is the contact information. It does not matter if it is in an archive, or if it is in an active forum. Archiving it has made it virtually impossible to remove from the net, because now there is no way of knowing exactly who has archived this information.
Now, I've not provided clickable links for a reason. I've provided enough information here, that if you want to check my facts, you can do so.
A library might be public domain, but the books within are not. There are some books that ARE considered public domain, but that does not mean that EVERY book is public domain.
so if my content is behind a protected "members area" then it is still public domain and should be freely available? If I am a photographer, and my site clearly states that all images are copyright of a certain date and that use of them without my permission is forbidden, that means nothing? If someone uses images of me without my permission, that they got from a website or protected members area, how is it that I can get them removed by complaining? If they are public domain, then it should be my tough luck, right?
If I post your credit card and bank information on a forum site, does that mean it is now public domain and you have no protection?
If I post on a forum site that I am selling stolen credit card info and bank info, my post should not be touched, because it is public domain and it should be freely available?
ok smart guy... in the context of my post, I stated clearly that passing notes was akin to using Instant Messaging. I said that bringing skin magazines to school was akin to surfing porn sites. The contxt of the conversation is such that these are the things that are being done in the CLASSROOM that is disruptive to learning anything. Students are surfing Myspace and this is disrupting class. what is the equivalent CLASSROOM activity that the teacher would not be aware of and would disrupt learning? I don't remember any group social activities that were going on between multiple students in class, while the teacher was clueless. Unless it was passing notes... BUZZ covered that with instant messaging.
The whole pictures and viceo and music and social networking combination of Myspace is relatively new for a classroom disruption. I agree that outside of class in the lunchroom and study halls, and in the hallways, and in classes where a substitute teacher isn't doing anything of substance, as well as before and after school, that kids are talking, networking, passing stuff back and forth, etc... in groups. SOcial networking. However, if kids are hitting Myspace AT THOSE SAME TIMES (lunch, between classes, study hall, before and after school... essentially outside the classroom) then who gives a flying truck.
the things that kids are doing with laptops are similar to what they were doing before the laptops. Ok, so they sent notes instead of Instant Messaging. Ok, so they brought skin magazines to school instead of browsing the sites online. The Myspace thing... ok, that's new.
However, several school have already changed over from textbooks to computers and ebooks. It seems that it is actually cheaper for the ebooks AND the computers AND the extended warranties AND the tech support, than it is for the textbooks.
As far as everything you brought up, all of those problems have solutions that have nothing to do with the computers or the kids using them. They have to do with teachers being properly educated and brought up to speed in the newest technologies. Getting teachers to stay updated within their own fields was always a problem. Proper administration is also the key. Just like some students can actually be trusted with responsibility, maybe some students should be brought in on the network administration end. Same with the network hardware management.
So the schools are definately to blame for not being prepared. The concept of laptops instead of textbooks is NOT to blame.
I agree that you have to hear it, but that is what samples are for. You can also hear the music on the radio.
Plenty of people buy books based on the cover. Most also read the dust jackets. Some rely on reviews. And yes, there are indeed people who will read the entire book before they buy it. Some will sit in Borders or a library to do this.
However.
As I said, if you get a copy of a book from a friend, you don't run to the photocopier to make yourself another book. You don;t scan it into your computer so you can print it out. Currently, I would assume that this is because it is time and cost prohibitive to do this. It would end up costing you to reproduce the book, than it would to just purchase another. Now, in the case of a $100 engineering manual, I suppose that the time and cost involved in reproducing it might make the effort worth the result.
So yes, you have to hear it, before you buy it. You don't have to hear the song from beginning to end, nor do you have to hear it at CD quality.
ANd my generation also taped albums. However, the reproduction was never as good as the original. Also, it was closer to archiving, as opposed to piracy, since every time you put needle to vinyl, you were taking a lot of life away from the original album. Taping off the radio would involve lowered quality as well. You also had to deal with DJs and other records stepping over the intros and outtros.
So if you want to make MP3's off radio broadcasts, you are welcome to. If you want to rip CD's you already own, you are welcome to. If you want to download music that is full length and at CD quality, that is piracy if you did not pay for the download from a legitimate source.
it is important to note that all the services that publishers provide to authors... are essentially provided to musical artists by record companies. I'll argue any day that just about everything you can say about an author, you can say about a musician... with very little editing to make it fit properly...
It was already stated in the comments here that concert tours actually barely break even.... they are not fountains of money like the mistaken public seems to believe. However, the equivalent for an author, namely a speaking engagement, does not end up having the same kind of overhead. THe fee the author charges for that public appearance, goes just about completely to the author.
Both the publishing house and the recording company are responsible for editing, marketing, advertising, etc... which is why books AND CD's must be sold. Sure, some authors must beg to get their works published. No different than some bands begging for a record contract. Then again, some authors get courted by publishing houses, just as some bands will be pursued by record companies.
One of the big differences was briefly mentioned though. While free versions of a book online will actually encourage some to go out and purchase the actual book, this is not really seen when dealing with music downloads. It is more likely that a person will download the music, then make a CD themselves if they want it in that format. People rarely download a book, then turn around and print it.
So although both publishing houses and record companies should be treated the same in that they both deserve to be compensated for the amounts of work they put into their charges, free books online and pirated music online should not be viewed as the same... since the consumer doesn't treat them equally.
and yet it is commonly acceptable by those who did and do play with Legos to refer to them in the plural.
Nobody asked a friend "wanna play with my Lego brand building blocks?"
Parents stepping on pieces in their livingrooms often scream "Pick up these damn legos!!!" or just "OW!!!!! Steven Thomas Jackson GET DOWN HERE NOW!!!!"
Looks like quite the kit. the 9 year old here was just talking about wanting to build a robot. Hmmm...
now, if he was giving a talk at your college, wasn't he there to Inform the Uninformed? Wasn't he there to spread the word? To bring those not in the know, up to speed? Seems like he was instead acting like everyone should have already known everything he was going to say. The reputation I see surrounding him is one of elitism and snobbishness. He might have once been great at what he did, but he doesn't appear to be very good at what he is doing now... giving talks and interviews.
you can install your OS to a smaller format CD or even one of the business card shaped CD's as well.
What he said was he wanted to be able to install his OS to a flash drive AND (that AND is the key word there and should not be ignored, for it makes his point) not worry about data integrity. See how that works? See how Installing your OS to a flash drive you are completely confident with, is different from installing your OS to a flash drive you do NOT have confidence in?
It seems that there are people who have had horrible things done to their flash drives with no loss of data integrity, and there are those who have had little luck getting dependable performance out of their Dongle. I can completely understand why someone would be wary of putting all of their OS eggs in one basket and gamble on whether or not they would be able to use the system they were depending on working from that flash drive.
So it wasn't a comment on whether or not an os COULD be put on a flash drive. That's already been discussed and beaten with a wet noodle. It was a comment more on whether or not HIS working oprating system SHOULD be put on a flash drive. Very different things.
something about backing up your harddrive, to another harddrive just seems... wrong.
I'd just clone the system to CD or DVD. Ok, so it's not the nicest way to back up, but it does allow for a reinstall, and they can be opened to extract specific data.
"Legacy" in the context of a college fraternity, which is the context I clearly used it in, referrs to an individual who does not need to go through any initiation or decision process before that individual is allowed to join that fraternity. Typically that individual had a blood relative in the fraternity previously, who was in good standing.
People still use a bevy of Sony products. All of the ones I mentioned, and more. That does not appear to be changing any time soon.
I am actually more partial to the disaster that involved the moon in the Cowboy Bebop series..., otherwise, I'm not really such a cynic to think we would utterly destroy the moon if we were to attempt to make good use of it.
Anyone who DOES actually think that if we went to the moon for commercial purposes, we would end up removing it completely from the sky... well, I don't like your opinion of the Human race, and I think you should just Exit the ride now, and stop breathing my air. I and the rest like me that have a bit more faith in humanity have a future to get to. You are in the way.
the sooner we stop thinking about the moon as some mystical magical pixie home where ancient one-eyed green cheese eating creatures hide from our attempts to photograph them, and start thinking about in terms of real estate with a long-ass trip to the beach....... the sooner we will advance off the planet and into our own solar system with any kind of manned progress.
The moon is not a rainforest we have to save so that we can continue to breathe. We should avoid blowing it up, but other than that, it's a big hunk of rock we just haven't put to good use yet.
Indirectly, I have bought CD's based on what conglomerate owned the record label. Because the artist I was interested in listening to, was only on a specific label.
Also, I have found that certain labels tend to have artists I like, even if I had never heard of them. Tekito Records, a small company out of New Orleans, had some wild, fantastic original stuff. I was a large A&M fan because of the Police and Squeeze, and I discovered that a lot of other great artists had also signed with A&M.
Have you ever AVOIDED buying a particular artist's CD because you had issues with the conglomerate that owned the label? That's pretty much the same thing in reverse.
I never said that the PS3 can't fail because of the success of the PS2.
I said the PS3 won't fail because at some point or another, people will buy a PS3. I said that the PS3 won't fail because Sony is entrenched in the gaming console market, the electronics market, and the entertainment media market. Ok, Sega made mistakes. However, regardless of how popular Sega had gotten, people weren't playing their Sega console on their Sega Televisions, listening to the game through a Sega sound system.
It is possible that some Sony console users are also Sony Television owners, Sony Viao owners, have a lot of Sony music in their CD collection that they listen to on their Sony home audio and portable music music players and taking pictures and video of their friends and family with their Sony cameras and camcorders.
If the gaming console market was a fraternity, Sony would be a legacy. Do you understand now why the PS3 won't fail? Maybe the PS6 will fail, after Sony gets cocky and totally screws up the PS4 and the PS5, but Sony has to destroy a LOT of product recognition (well, a lot more than they already have).
Sorry you didn't understand what I was saying. But it's ok. You are fixated on the success of the PS2.
no, you won't plunk down $600 and try to be one of the first ones in the door to purchase a PS3, but you will buy one. However, just like there are people buying top of the line Graphic cards as soon as they hit the market, and top of the line computers to power them... even if they don't need all that hardware muscle... there will be plenty of people that will buy the PS3 at $600 just so they can get in on the gaming at the beginning.
That is the important point to make. You will buy a sony PS3 eventually. The PS3 isn't going to fail based on the first week of sales. It isn't going to fail based on the first month or year of sales. Sony is entrenched in the gaming market, the electronics market, and the entertainment media market. A comparison cannot be made between Sega and Sony, for example, assuming that game companies are going to back out leaving Sony titleless, because every PS2 owner did not run out and buy a PS3 on that first day. The price on a unit will drop, and more people will buy them as it falls.
Very good authors just have the choice to put their name on what they like. In case you did not know, Richard Bachman is Stephen King. The better the author, the less concerned they are with popularity. Popularity does not decide how good an author is. Just how well his books sell.
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it's a nice assumption that Yahoo would remove the email address. However, the reality is that after repeated requests to Yahoo to do exactly that, Yahoo has done NOTHING.
It gets better. I uncovered a phishing site, specifically targetted at stealing Yahoo accounts, hosted on a Yahoo business server, I've reported it multiple times, and Yahoo won't do a thing. It has been there for MONTHS, and now the phishers use it to redirect to other temporary phishing sites. So a posted AUP/TOS apparently means nothing... whether it deals with what an archive site will remove, or what a host will consider against their policy. Don't believe it? Http://www.goodyseth.com is the site. That index page is innocuous enough. If you are quick with your browser's stop button, visit http://yahoo.abuse.dept.goodyseth.com/ and look at the source code. It has been edited YET AGAIN, and points to a NEW temp phishing site (Which I'm gonna have to get shut down). Do a WHOIS on goodyseth.com. See where it is hosted. Then report it to Yahoo and watch how nothing happens.
Now, I already admitted that I have no idea how moderating an archiving site could be done, only that it SHOULD be done. However, it seems to me that a complete archive of the internet should be kept under lock and key. Should all those records of illegal activity stored in there be freely available to everyone?
Also how can I get archive.org to remove my stolen, posted, and archived personal information, if I don't know all of the places it has been posted? I don't know if you realize this, but while I can search for old websites I have had in the past by their domain names, and I find them archived... I can't search by information ON those websites. I've tried. Nothing comes up. Yet, there those sites are, when I search by domain. SO their promise to remove archived material is a toothless guard dog. It might look nice from a distance, but it doesn't fit in practical application.
And obviously they AREN'T going to remove Kiddie porn from their archives, just like they aren't going to remove other illegal material... because you can search there NOW, and the illegal material is there. So, when I say they won't, it is because they HAVEN'T.
it didn't occur to me until VERY late... or rather early this morning, that really, there is no reason to provide internet access to every laptop in the classroom. Kids don't have internet access in their current textbooks.
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There's a little story about a grade school in Texas already replacing textbooks with laptops... and saving money in the process. From the article...
"Folks at Vital Source say they can outfit each student with a laptop for under $1,000. The same textbooks would cost 13-hundred each. The real savings comes each following year.. When the only cost is a c-d-rom to upgrade the electronic text books...and the computer gets reused."
So, even if all that was available on the laptop were the school ETextbooks, an Office suite, and a calculator, it would be an improvement over any current situation. Without internet access.
if the issue is that Myspace should be restricted to adults aged 18 and over, then that is something that has to be fixed at Myspace. There are plenty of Adult web sites that effectively block kids (unless that kid steals a credit card).
If the issue is that Myspace should not be viewed at school, but age is not a factor, then that is an issue to be solved at the school. A whitelist should be created and used, with an appeal process in place to allow students to suggest sites that need to be added to the whitelist. Sure the information available from the internet will be limited. But the ENTIRE internet should not be available to the students while they are at school. They are there to learn specific things in specific subjects. Using a whitelist and appeal process just means that initially, the information is very limited. Over time, it will open up. Someone else posted that kids should be encouraged to try to bypass the security and report it for rewards. Then those holes can be plugged. That should be combined with monitoring the traffic, so that those who DON'T report holes in security can face sanctions.
Myspace has no place in a school setting. Not in any of the classrooms, anyway. My point about it being visited when kids weren't in class, was simply to point out that as long as when the kids are IN the class they are restricted to a small portion of the internet. Before Laptops or internet in the classroom, kids were essentially limited to their textbooks, and what they got out of the school library.... while they were in class. Why does that have to change dramatically, just because they are now using Etextbooks instead of traditional ones?
If kids are using etextbooks and laptops with limited internet access, they still have access to far more information than they did before. It doesn't have to be a choice between the entire internet, or none at all.
I agree that archives can be used for good purposes. we are in fact going to depend on a few archives when presenting this package of information to the FBI tomorrow in our meeting at the local office.
But blanket archiving without moderation is just wrong. It's similar to going through your house and archiving everything. Trash, dead pets, dirty laundry, old food, etc. I'm not proposing that I know how to moderate such an undertaking, ut there are plenty of good things that because they can easily be turned around and used for bad ends, are now restricted. If necesary, Vodka can be used to keep a wound from getting infected. That's good. Should it be available to 6 year olds for consumption? Hell no. Matches are used to ignite combustibles. Mmmmm. Fire Good. Should we give those matches to the 6 year old to play with? Hell no. Go ahead and argue about how using a 6 year old is a bad example. But there are good examples too, right? And in the case of this 6 year old, there are restrictions because somethings have good and bad uses.
What is getting archived is as important as the archiving itself. Restricting access to all-encompassing archives is important too. I've seen mention of information terrorists could make use of, kiddie porn, etc. Hell, if a Kiddie porn site gets taken down, do we really want the people who frequented it, to just go to the archive site to get their kiddie porn?
Come on. It's not just all or nothing; black and white. The fact that it is all shades of grey means that we have to apply a certain amount of intelligence to the entire picture. Not just rush blindly forward and grab everything in sight. I don't want to see archive.org go byebye. I also don't want to be able to search through archive.org for http://www.anyboard.net/comp/www/hostwatch to browse through people selling trojans, exploits, credit cards and more. WHere is the moderation? Where is the middle ground?
Phishers do not deal with security. Phishers deal with unsuspecting and uneducated internet users. I'm sorry you are so scared to do it, but really.. go ahead and visit http://paypal-protect.org./ It is a phishing site that we are attempting to take down. Go ahead and login with a bogus email and garbage password. It doesn't check anything before hand. It simply takes you into a site that aside from the URL, does look like Paypal. You are then asked to provide everything. Name, address, social security, even your PIN number for your credit card. It won't even allow you to proceed without your PIN. Then, after you submit your information (which is then sent to whomever is running the scam), you are redirected to the actual paypal site.
Now, if a poor sap fell for it, anything that sap could have done online that involved money, the phisher can do.
You want to try to make the distinction about "If you reveal your info".. well, what if I worked at the gas station you frequent, and I copied your cred card info and ccv2 number from the back, when you made a purchase? OOPS, it was YOUR fault for actually buying something. According to you, the only way to be safe is to isolate yourself from the world, and make everything you need from scratch. Noone should be responsible for protecting your interests.
If I grabbed your info from your trash, it's your fault, right? because you didn't incinerate your trash, right?
You are wrong, in that everything posted on the internet is public domain. That is an assumption you are attempting to back up with obfuscation. What is posted on the internet is no different than what is on the shelf in a library, what is on TV, and what is on the radio. You have the right to enjoy it. You do not have the right to rebroadcast it without permission.
what you are saying, is that the person who puts the information on the internet, is the one who decides if it is public domain. As opposed to the person to whom the information belongs.
You know the current standard the US follows, for copyright of printed works, is LIFE+70 years? That means that once the author copyrights their work, the copyright is good for 70 years after they die. Only after the copyright expires and it is not renewed, the work becomes public domain.
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/okbooks.html
there are some specific exceptions based on when the work was copywritten, when the work was published, what country it was published, whether or not the copyright notice was properly added to the work, and more.
To continue the library analogy I started earlier, the internet is a library. websites are the books. each must be treated as an individual entity. If someone steals your identity through a phishing scam, and uses that info immediately, then sure you might be able to get out of liability by appealing to your bank. DOes that mean that phishers should be allowed to run their scams freely and uncontested, because they can just pot your info and declare it public domain, which would then in turn give them license to use that info however they wanted?
What if YOU didn;t put those photos on the internet? What if your Ex Girlfriend stole them by using your spare key when you were at work? Sorry charlie, they are on the net now and are public domain? I don't think so.
here's a little story... it deals with archiving and the like.
My friend's hosting service got hacked. we caught it right away, before a site had been put into place, but the individuals attempted to put up the site http://paypal-protect.org./ We shut them down quick. They went on to hack another hoster, and currently have their little phishing site up and running. I suggest you go to the site, and without using ANY real information, login with a bogus email and password, and check it out. If you take a look at the WHOIS entry for paypal-protect.org, you will see a name and address of an actual individual. We called this guy and told him that it was likely his name, info and credit card were used illegally to register the domain.
THe important thing to notice, is the EMAIL contact in the WHOIS entry. GO ahead, and do a google search for that email address. You will turn up two forum posts this guy made, where he is selling credit card info, bank info, Ccvv2 numbers and more. Now, the first result in your google search is a post at paypalsucks.com. You would not BELIEVE what it took to get the admin there to remove the post. And his policy wasn't to remove posts normally, but to just move them to a "garbage" thread, which would still be publically available. The second and third result in your google search, were a post left on a free board that was created at anyboard.net. I was able to get that board taken down within 12 hours of notifying the host, netbula. THe board was being used for lots of CC resellers, for at least 5 years before I got it shut down. How do I know? Three of those years are archived at archive.org.
However... EACH OF THOSE POSTS is still there in the google cache. Go ahead and see. Why is this important? Because all you need to see, if you are in the market to buy stolen Identities and credit cards, is the contact information. It does not matter if it is in an archive, or if it is in an active forum. Archiving it has made it virtually impossible to remove from the net, because now there is no way of knowing exactly who has archived this information.
Now, I've not provided clickable links for a reason. I've provided enough information here, that if you want to check my facts, you can do so.
A library might be public domain, but the books within are not. There are some books that ARE considered public domain, but that does not mean that EVERY book is public domain.
so if my content is behind a protected "members area" then it is still public domain and should be freely available? If I am a photographer, and my site clearly states that all images are copyright of a certain date and that use of them without my permission is forbidden, that means nothing? If someone uses images of me without my permission, that they got from a website or protected members area, how is it that I can get them removed by complaining? If they are public domain, then it should be my tough luck, right?
If I post your credit card and bank information on a forum site, does that mean it is now public domain and you have no protection?
If I post on a forum site that I am selling stolen credit card info and bank info, my post should not be touched, because it is public domain and it should be freely available?
ok smart guy... in the context of my post, I stated clearly that passing notes was akin to using Instant Messaging. I said that bringing skin magazines to school was akin to surfing porn sites. The contxt of the conversation is such that these are the things that are being done in the CLASSROOM that is disruptive to learning anything. Students are surfing Myspace and this is disrupting class. what is the equivalent CLASSROOM activity that the teacher would not be aware of and would disrupt learning? I don't remember any group social activities that were going on between multiple students in class, while the teacher was clueless. Unless it was passing notes... BUZZ covered that with instant messaging.
The whole pictures and viceo and music and social networking combination of Myspace is relatively new for a classroom disruption. I agree that outside of class in the lunchroom and study halls, and in the hallways, and in classes where a substitute teacher isn't doing anything of substance, as well as before and after school, that kids are talking, networking, passing stuff back and forth, etc... in groups. SOcial networking. However, if kids are hitting Myspace AT THOSE SAME TIMES (lunch, between classes, study hall, before and after school... essentially outside the classroom) then who gives a flying truck.
the things that kids are doing with laptops are similar to what they were doing before the laptops. Ok, so they sent notes instead of Instant Messaging. Ok, so they brought skin magazines to school instead of browsing the sites online. The Myspace thing... ok, that's new.
However, several school have already changed over from textbooks to computers and ebooks. It seems that it is actually cheaper for the ebooks AND the computers AND the extended warranties AND the tech support, than it is for the textbooks.
As far as everything you brought up, all of those problems have solutions that have nothing to do with the computers or the kids using them. They have to do with teachers being properly educated and brought up to speed in the newest technologies. Getting teachers to stay updated within their own fields was always a problem. Proper administration is also the key. Just like some students can actually be trusted with responsibility, maybe some students should be brought in on the network administration end. Same with the network hardware management.
So the schools are definately to blame for not being prepared. The concept of laptops instead of textbooks is NOT to blame.
I agree that you have to hear it, but that is what samples are for. You can also hear the music on the radio.
Plenty of people buy books based on the cover. Most also read the dust jackets. Some rely on reviews. And yes, there are indeed people who will read the entire book before they buy it. Some will sit in Borders or a library to do this.
However.
As I said, if you get a copy of a book from a friend, you don't run to the photocopier to make yourself another book. You don;t scan it into your computer so you can print it out. Currently, I would assume that this is because it is time and cost prohibitive to do this. It would end up costing you to reproduce the book, than it would to just purchase another. Now, in the case of a $100 engineering manual, I suppose that the time and cost involved in reproducing it might make the effort worth the result.
So yes, you have to hear it, before you buy it. You don't have to hear the song from beginning to end, nor do you have to hear it at CD quality.
ANd my generation also taped albums. However, the reproduction was never as good as the original. Also, it was closer to archiving, as opposed to piracy, since every time you put needle to vinyl, you were taking a lot of life away from the original album. Taping off the radio would involve lowered quality as well. You also had to deal with DJs and other records stepping over the intros and outtros.
So if you want to make MP3's off radio broadcasts, you are welcome to. If you want to rip CD's you already own, you are welcome to. If you want to download music that is full length and at CD quality, that is piracy if you did not pay for the download from a legitimate source.
it is important to note that all the services that publishers provide to authors... are essentially provided to musical artists by record companies. I'll argue any day that just about everything you can say about an author, you can say about a musician... with very little editing to make it fit properly...
It was already stated in the comments here that concert tours actually barely break even.... they are not fountains of money like the mistaken public seems to believe. However, the equivalent for an author, namely a speaking engagement, does not end up having the same kind of overhead. THe fee the author charges for that public appearance, goes just about completely to the author.
Both the publishing house and the recording company are responsible for editing, marketing, advertising, etc... which is why books AND CD's must be sold. Sure, some authors must beg to get their works published. No different than some bands begging for a record contract. Then again, some authors get courted by publishing houses, just as some bands will be pursued by record companies.
One of the big differences was briefly mentioned though. While free versions of a book online will actually encourage some to go out and purchase the actual book, this is not really seen when dealing with music downloads. It is more likely that a person will download the music, then make a CD themselves if they want it in that format. People rarely download a book, then turn around and print it.
So although both publishing houses and record companies should be treated the same in that they both deserve to be compensated for the amounts of work they put into their charges, free books online and pirated music online should not be viewed as the same... since the consumer doesn't treat them equally.
and yet it is commonly acceptable by those who did and do play with Legos to refer to them in the plural.
Nobody asked a friend "wanna play with my Lego brand building blocks?"
Parents stepping on pieces in their livingrooms often scream "Pick up these damn legos!!!" or just "OW!!!!! Steven Thomas Jackson GET DOWN HERE NOW!!!!"
Looks like quite the kit. the 9 year old here was just talking about wanting to build a robot. Hmmm...
now, if he was giving a talk at your college, wasn't he there to Inform the Uninformed? Wasn't he there to spread the word? To bring those not in the know, up to speed? Seems like he was instead acting like everyone should have already known everything he was going to say. The reputation I see surrounding him is one of elitism and snobbishness. He might have once been great at what he did, but he doesn't appear to be very good at what he is doing now... giving talks and interviews.
you can install your OS to a smaller format CD or even one of the business card shaped CD's as well.
What he said was he wanted to be able to install his OS to a flash drive AND (that AND is the key word there and should not be ignored, for it makes his point) not worry about data integrity. See how that works? See how Installing your OS to a flash drive you are completely confident with, is different from installing your OS to a flash drive you do NOT have confidence in?
It seems that there are people who have had horrible things done to their flash drives with no loss of data integrity, and there are those who have had little luck getting dependable performance out of their Dongle. I can completely understand why someone would be wary of putting all of their OS eggs in one basket and gamble on whether or not they would be able to use the system they were depending on working from that flash drive.
So it wasn't a comment on whether or not an os COULD be put on a flash drive. That's already been discussed and beaten with a wet noodle. It was a comment more on whether or not HIS working oprating system SHOULD be put on a flash drive. Very different things.
something about backing up your harddrive, to another harddrive just seems... wrong.
I'd just clone the system to CD or DVD. Ok, so it's not the nicest way to back up, but it does allow for a reinstall, and they can be opened to extract specific data.
"Legacy" in the context of a college fraternity, which is the context I clearly used it in, referrs to an individual who does not need to go through any initiation or decision process before that individual is allowed to join that fraternity. Typically that individual had a blood relative in the fraternity previously, who was in good standing.
People still use a bevy of Sony products. All of the ones I mentioned, and more. That does not appear to be changing any time soon.
What's the difference?
Religious nuts use Windows. They follow the masses without understanding, but still need an interface.
Cultist nuts use Linux. They need to be outside the mainstream, but still need an interface.
Agnostics either read a book, or dev their own OS. They don't need an interface, but enjoy keeping in contact with the first two groups.
Athiests don't believe interfaces exist.
I am actually more partial to the disaster that involved the moon in the Cowboy Bebop series..., otherwise, I'm not really such a cynic to think we would utterly destroy the moon if we were to attempt to make good use of it.
Anyone who DOES actually think that if we went to the moon for commercial purposes, we would end up removing it completely from the sky... well, I don't like your opinion of the Human race, and I think you should just Exit the ride now, and stop breathing my air. I and the rest like me that have a bit more faith in humanity have a future to get to. You are in the way.
You realize that I said we should avoid blowing it up, right? Really avoid blowing it up.
the sooner we stop thinking about the moon as some mystical magical pixie home where ancient one-eyed green cheese eating creatures hide from our attempts to photograph them, and start thinking about in terms of real estate with a long-ass trip to the beach.... ... the sooner we will advance off the planet and into our own solar system with any kind of manned progress.
The moon is not a rainforest we have to save so that we can continue to breathe. We should avoid blowing it up, but other than that, it's a big hunk of rock we just haven't put to good use yet.
Indirectly, I have bought CD's based on what conglomerate owned the record label. Because the artist I was interested in listening to, was only on a specific label.
Also, I have found that certain labels tend to have artists I like, even if I had never heard of them. Tekito Records, a small company out of New Orleans, had some wild, fantastic original stuff. I was a large A&M fan because of the Police and Squeeze, and I discovered that a lot of other great artists had also signed with A&M.
Have you ever AVOIDED buying a particular artist's CD because you had issues with the conglomerate that owned the label? That's pretty much the same thing in reverse.
I never said that the PS3 can't fail because of the success of the PS2.
I said the PS3 won't fail because at some point or another, people will buy a PS3. I said that the PS3 won't fail because Sony is entrenched in the gaming console market, the electronics market, and the entertainment media market. Ok, Sega made mistakes. However, regardless of how popular Sega had gotten, people weren't playing their Sega console on their Sega Televisions, listening to the game through a Sega sound system.
It is possible that some Sony console users are also Sony Television owners, Sony Viao owners, have a lot of Sony music in their CD collection that they listen to on their Sony home audio and portable music music players and taking pictures and video of their friends and family with their Sony cameras and camcorders.
If the gaming console market was a fraternity, Sony would be a legacy. Do you understand now why the PS3 won't fail? Maybe the PS6 will fail, after Sony gets cocky and totally screws up the PS4 and the PS5, but Sony has to destroy a LOT of product recognition (well, a lot more than they already have).
Sorry you didn't understand what I was saying. But it's ok. You are fixated on the success of the PS2.
no, you won't plunk down $600 and try to be one of the first ones in the door to purchase a PS3, but you will buy one. However, just like there are people buying top of the line Graphic cards as soon as they hit the market, and top of the line computers to power them... even if they don't need all that hardware muscle... there will be plenty of people that will buy the PS3 at $600 just so they can get in on the gaming at the beginning.
That is the important point to make. You will buy a sony PS3 eventually. The PS3 isn't going to fail based on the first week of sales. It isn't going to fail based on the first month or year of sales. Sony is entrenched in the gaming market, the electronics market, and the entertainment media market. A comparison cannot be made between Sega and Sony, for example, assuming that game companies are going to back out leaving Sony titleless, because every PS2 owner did not run out and buy a PS3 on that first day. The price on a unit will drop, and more people will buy them as it falls.
Not true.
Very good authors just have the choice to put their name on what they like. In case you did not know, Richard Bachman is Stephen King. The better the author, the less concerned they are with popularity. Popularity does not decide how good an author is. Just how well his books sell.