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Comment Re:You are a spammer (Score 2) 345

Now it could be that there is a better way of doing this, but it seems to me that no matter how this game is played, constant updates to users should be the norm...

Now that I think of it, perhaps a Firefox extension could do the trick. Signed extensions can be updated automatically. The extension could have obfuscated URLs that are decrypted with something like this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/domcrypt/ and then wired in to automatically select an available proxy from the current batch. Not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but it solves the "spam" problem. Also, it maybe easier for users and harder for censors? Crap... now I'm not going to get any work done...

There are multiple benefits of email delivery that aren't present in the Firefox Addon model:

  • It's push notification - the updates only go out once. Firefox Addons are a pull - a server has to handle all the clients requesting updates (and sending the appropriate subset!).
  • It's more difficult for the people that this list is supposed to enable to bypassing of to automate the immediate blocking of the new set of domains.
  • It natively enables two-way communication at a human level.

If I were the OP, I'd consider moving to an encrypted blog method of delivery (still via email), but doing it while being very conscious of the level of technical know-how of the target recipients.

Comment Re:Torrenting? (Score 1) 442

The MarkMonitor company that is referenced has a service called "Brand Protection" which:

Efficiently detects piracy across the Internet by simultaneously monitoring millions of P2P users across all major networks, streaming sites, auction sites, blogs, exchanges, websites and online forums

reference.

Given sufficient demand, someone will do a lot of work.

Comment Re:isn't this ... (Score 2) 442

No.

  1. MarkMonitor goes to The Pirate Bay and grabs the .torrent files for today's top illegal content.
  2. MarkMonitor has a farm of BT clients, all of which connect to the swarms as normal clients would, but that also log the IPs of all other members of the swarms.
  3. MarkMonitor sends those IPs to the appropriate ISPs.

By participating in a swarm, you've made your information available to anyone else who joins that swarm.

There may be something that can be done with regards to "illegal to record my calls" in some jurisdictions, but it'd be a stretch.

Comment DO NOT BUY WINDOWS 7 (Score 1) 503

You can buy Windows 7 now for ~200$. Or you can buy Windows 8 now for ~70$. Or you can buy Windows 8 as digital download in a less than a week for $40.

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/html/pbpage.Windows_8_Pro

It's up to you, but if you've got a few *NIX machines on your LAN, and know enough to as Slashdot, you can deal with burning a DVD.

Comment Re:Or, is someone patenting it (Score 4, Interesting) 315

It gets implemented one of two ways:
  1. It's a patent to prevent anyone else from implementing DRM in their 3D printers. This may be everyone who makes 3D printers.
  2. It's a patent to generate revenue from everyone who licenses the technology for their 3D printers.

Either way, the set of 3D printers that do not receive license for this technology wouldn't implement DRM, which would be good for consumers - provided that no legislation goes into effect requiring some form of DRM on 3D printers...

Comment "He said, she said"? (Score 2) 308

Ed Bott says that Sarah Downey (Privacy Advocate) says that the IAB says that the IAB membership "will continue to monetize data".

Except that to become an IAB member, a company must comply to the IAB code of conduct, which includes the self-regulatory program for online behavioral targeting. This includes the requirement of providing a consumer choice mechanism, which has been implemented for the industry at www.aboutads.info.

I guess fact checking was too much for Ed...

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