If you're an American, and want to dispute the various Civil Rights Acts, you can, but I think from your URL that you're from the UK, and thus are not aware it's already illegal to discriminate based on those things in the US. Yes, I think that's somewhat stupid, too, but it's felt it's needed to fix existing problems.
Do you know that email is the majority of traffic on the internet, and that spam is the majority of email?
This 'it doesn't really cost anything' is simply not true. It roughly doubles the cost of running the internet, when you add up wasted bandwidth and manpower to deal with the problem.
And while there's no 'Spam: $10.23' on your ISP's bill, the cost still exists. Think, roughly, that there was no law against throwing trash in post offices. If there wasn't, yes, that would raise the price of postage, due to workers having to deal with the trash, extra land for people to move around on, post offices hiring people to patrol the fences and hopefully eject trash dumpers...
Crap spewn on the net costs money. It's not easy to see money, but it's a lot of it.
Not to mention the fact spam has almost completely destroyed Usenet.
Of course, there's still a larger chance of a cosmic ray flipping a bit in the processor or memory then the math being wrong, anyway.;)
This may seem like a strange question, but isn't a non-prime that passes the 99.99999999999% check just as good as a prime in encryption? I mean, seriously, is anyone really going to notice it's not prime? Sure, they could accidently stumble on the 'wrong' factors while trying decode it, but, seriously, halving the time to decode your message isn't a huge mistake, considering we're talking on the order of centuries at least.;)
Dude, why would they give out the modifications you've made to their source? What kind of silly logic is that, they want an advantage but might give the source away?
Or are they worried you might give the source away? If so, how is a BSD license stopping you?
Admit, you've made a few modifications yourself, give them out to all your clients in binary form only, and are glad you can do that under PostgreSQL's license. And, of course, you're selfish, and haven't given them back to the community.
That's the only logical reason I can think of. It's not for the benefit of your clients at all, it's just for you.
While MySQL leaves the root password blank, the important part is that by default you have to be root on the box to log into said password-less account.
First of all, stop using the word 'license' to refer to copyright law. It makes you sound like a moron. Music is not licensed. Copies of music are sold. What you can do with these copies is controlled by copyright law, not by some hypothetical 'license'.
Second, and this makes you sound even more like a moron, a CD ripper does not give you copies of music you don't already have the medium for. If you want to complain about people ripping music and sharing it, that might have made sense, but pretending that people use CD rippers to somehow magically gain copies of music they don't have the medium for is crazy.
In my book, all sleazy businesses are illegitimate. I don't care if they're 'legal'.
This is exactly the same as selling people swampland in Florida. They are 'selling', with adware, something that is designed to be free. It's rather like those 'get ordained for $25' spams I get.
You are completely incorrect. Not only is 'all right reserved' not a license and doesn't mean what you think it does, but it's not even in half the books out there. It appears to simply be a HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster thing. All 'all rights reserved' means is that they haven't give up any rights they have under copyright law, despite any implications to the contrary. It doesn't stop you from doing anything you could otherwise do. It's rather obvious they already have the right to dictate who copies the book, or they couldn't reserve that right, could they?
It's a statement of fact, not a license. It's like signs in hotel rooms that say you cannot take the towels. It merely keeps people from pleading ignorance of the law when caught.
Why do people keep talking like all copyright materials are 'licensed'. The only field in which that is commonly claimed by companies is software, and that still hasn't been decided in court. Books, movies, magazines, play scripts, ballet markings, none of those are 'licenced'.
And when did ICANN become a big corperation? ICANN is supposed to be the 'legal authority' of the internet, a place to set policies about IP assignment and other random crap that Jon Postal used to do. While 99% of the net works fine randomly, 1% of it needs to follow some set rules, and these rules need to be able to change, and that's what ICANN is for. It's not a fucking 'company'.
And, um...regardless of whether or not you think it should be allowed to do whatever it wants, this guy was elected director of it, and has the perfect right to complain when he can't get access that the by-laws say he should.
That's why you tell everyone how to do it. While your neighbor may, indeed, do that, the odds of you being the only target are pretty low, and they'll soon figure it out.
Plus, if you're the person telling people, don't tell people who hate you. Duh.
He was actively searching for *net connections*, that what people usually do when wardriving.
While you can argue that's illegal, and it probably is, it's not anywhere near the same as breaking into a computer. Illegally sucking bandwidth just means whoever has to buy more bandwidth, and wifi connections don't allow much in the first place. And some of those networks are public on purpose, and have no encryption. We don't really know which this one was.
About twenty second ago I was about to suggest this to someone else, but, you know what? I think, at this point, all companies and government have proven themselves guilt until proven innocent, and I'm not reporting security flaws to them unless they have a stated policy of some sort about this. It's not worth my time to jump though hoops to help you so you won't hurt me for helping you.
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I was posting a way to tell them without worrying about it, but, you know what? Fuck them, you're right. It's not worth it. I'll just tell everyone anonymously how to do it, it should get fixed soon then.
Are you listening, government and businesses? Shoot the messanger enough time, and people stop sending you messages.
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Hey, dumbass, he did it in front of a court official. I think they would have noticed him placing backdoors.
Now, granted, he could have placed them eariler, but so could have anyone else.
And, seriously. Two women is enough at once. Then go out and take a break while you buy another damned condom. Sheesh, what is this, some sort of endurance test?
It's a bit more than a 'potentially' bad thing, it will completely destroy the usefulness of any variables. To be useful, a variable has to to be set at some point, and read at another, otherwise there was really no point, was there?
The problem is that he's making assumptions about how a program is written, and other people are making other assumptions, and he's decided his way is the 'correct' way, except the question is implying the other way is in use (after all, the other way is the only way you'd need to worry about existing variable names conflicting.), so he's more 'clever' than people, because they follow the assumption of the question.
Which is actually what a few of the 'harder' logic problems really are, someone making up insane circumstances so they're 'more clever' than other people.
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Yeah, what the hell is up with those time traveller spams?
Heheh! I'm stealing from this ATM which got my card and pin number! I'm so clever! And there's no way to trace me!
If you're an American, and want to dispute the various Civil Rights Acts, you can, but I think from your URL that you're from the UK, and thus are not aware it's already illegal to discriminate based on those things in the US. Yes, I think that's somewhat stupid, too, but it's felt it's needed to fix existing problems.
This 'it doesn't really cost anything' is simply not true. It roughly doubles the cost of running the internet, when you add up wasted bandwidth and manpower to deal with the problem.
And while there's no 'Spam: $10.23' on your ISP's bill, the cost still exists. Think, roughly, that there was no law against throwing trash in post offices. If there wasn't, yes, that would raise the price of postage, due to workers having to deal with the trash, extra land for people to move around on, post offices hiring people to patrol the fences and hopefully eject trash dumpers...
Crap spewn on the net costs money. It's not easy to see money, but it's a lot of it.
Not to mention the fact spam has almost completely destroyed Usenet.
3. One of the factors contain less than or exactly 100 digits.
Now wouldn't you feel silly if they both were exactly 100 digits prime and you spent all that time look at 99 digit primes and below? ;)
This may seem like a strange question, but isn't a non-prime that passes the 99.99999999999% check just as good as a prime in encryption? I mean, seriously, is anyone really going to notice it's not prime? Sure, they could accidently stumble on the 'wrong' factors while trying decode it, but, seriously, halving the time to decode your message isn't a huge mistake, considering we're talking on the order of centuries at least. ;)
Or are they worried you might give the source away? If so, how is a BSD license stopping you?
Admit, you've made a few modifications yourself, give them out to all your clients in binary form only, and are glad you can do that under PostgreSQL's license. And, of course, you're selfish, and haven't given them back to the community.
That's the only logical reason I can think of. It's not for the benefit of your clients at all, it's just for you.
While MySQL leaves the root password blank, the important part is that by default you have to be root on the box to log into said password-less account.
Dude, have you ever heard of a library and a photocopier?
Second, and this makes you sound even more like a moron, a CD ripper does not give you copies of music you don't already have the medium for. If you want to complain about people ripping music and sharing it, that might have made sense, but pretending that people use CD rippers to somehow magically gain copies of music they don't have the medium for is crazy.
In my book, all sleazy businesses are illegitimate. I don't care if they're 'legal'.
This is exactly the same as selling people swampland in Florida. They are 'selling', with adware, something that is designed to be free. It's rather like those 'get ordained for $25' spams I get.
It's a statement of fact, not a license. It's like signs in hotel rooms that say you cannot take the towels. It merely keeps people from pleading ignorance of the law when caught.
Why do people keep talking like all copyright materials are 'licensed'. The only field in which that is commonly claimed by companies is software, and that still hasn't been decided in court. Books, movies, magazines, play scripts, ballet markings, none of those are 'licenced'.
Huh? Howso?
Extortion/blackmail is against the law, you don't even need to sue over it, you can just notify the police.
And, um...regardless of whether or not you think it should be allowed to do whatever it wants, this guy was elected director of it, and has the perfect right to complain when he can't get access that the by-laws say he should.
All you have to do is not distribute or modify the software, then you don't have to accept the GPL anyway.
Plus, if you're the person telling people, don't tell people who hate you. Duh.
While you can argue that's illegal, and it probably is, it's not anywhere near the same as breaking into a computer. Illegally sucking bandwidth just means whoever has to buy more bandwidth, and wifi connections don't allow much in the first place. And some of those networks are public on purpose, and have no encryption. We don't really know which this one was.
About twenty second ago I was about to suggest this to someone else, but, you know what? I think, at this point, all companies and government have proven themselves guilt until proven innocent, and I'm not reporting security flaws to them unless they have a stated policy of some sort about this. It's not worth my time to jump though hoops to help you so you won't hurt me for helping you.
Are you listening, government and businesses? Shoot the messanger enough time, and people stop sending you messages.
Now, granted, he could have placed them eariler, but so could have anyone else.
And, seriously. Two women is enough at once. Then go out and take a break while you buy another damned condom. Sheesh, what is this, some sort of endurance test?
The problem is that he's making assumptions about how a program is written, and other people are making other assumptions, and he's decided his way is the 'correct' way, except the question is implying the other way is in use (after all, the other way is the only way you'd need to worry about existing variable names conflicting.), so he's more 'clever' than people, because they follow the assumption of the question.
Which is actually what a few of the 'harder' logic problems really are, someone making up insane circumstances so they're 'more clever' than other people.
I'm just been training myself to delete the text first. But, yeah, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V work there.