Do you have any reference of that working anywhere in the world? At least around here you'd be thrown out of court -- you could have had a chicken peck the enter key and still end up in contract if you intentionally set everything up so that the chicken/child pushes the button.
Well, it's exactly like police who surf to a pr0n website, then have a 17 year old kid click on the "DOWNLOAD" button, then charge the website operator with distributing pr0n to children.
Rambam is nothing more than a lying scumbag. The moron sued Joe Jared over his spam blocklist back in 2003, and the Court basically told him to suck it.
Once when providing ISP tech support, an out-of-control caller said he wanted to come over and kick my ass. So I gave him the HQ address and invited him to stop in. Oh, I forgot to mention that we were outsourced and in another city. Hope he had a nice visit!
Too bad this was before outsourcing to India, though...
My computer reboots. This is a true story that happened to a customer who lived in a rural area when I worked for a dialup ISP several years ago. Living in a rural area, the customer got their water from a well, and whenever the toilet would flush, their water reserve would suddenly drop low enough to kick on their water pump, and cause a temporary brown out.
(Note: the french railroad slang has been translated in american railroad slang)
Back in 1989, when the french railroads put in service their new TGV Atlantique silver screamer 190 mph trains, there was one trainset that would, once in a while, big-hole it (do an emergency stop).
So they pull it out of service, check everything, and everything checked fine. So they put back in service, and, eventually, big-hole again.
This happenned at least ten times; they wouldn't find anything wrong with the train, and it would only fail when it was in regular service with passengers on board.
One day, a maintenance boss was riding the train while it was in regular service, and as soon as he went to the can, the train big-holed it as soon as he locked the toilet door.
He had a hint, and called the engineer on the intercom: "What were you doing when it big-holed"?
-- Well, I was cutting the power and putting it in electric braking...
Turns out that one of the wiring harness in the car had an intermittent short where the toilet doorlock indicator light shorted against the emergency braking signal wire, but it was only energized when the train was in dynamic braking... So whenever someone went to the toilet while the train was in dynamic braking, it caused the train to stop.
Oh, that's the usual spin from the intentionally misinformed P.R. flacks (they can't tell what they don't know, eh?). Who can trust a convicted monopolist anyways???
I hang on the USENET news.admin.net-abuse.email newsgroup, where we deal with spammers.
The most effective spam fighting effort is totally anonymous; they have to be, because that's the only way they can avoid being sued into oblivion by deep-pocketed croporations (it's outright ironic that in order to protect their freedom of speech - saying that so-and-so is a spammer, they have to register their domain in Siberia, of all places!!!)
Spammers are outright criminals and will stop at nothing to damage antispammers.
For example, the author of this page (a page denouncing the spammer) had the spammer complain to the police which launched a criminal investigation that found nothing. After this failed, he barrages everyone who mirrors the page with complaints to their ISPs (this page get 5 DMCA takedown notices PER DAY).
Finally, seeing that the takedown notice make the mirrorers rotating the hosting of the relevant parts complained about, thus rendering it totally ineffective, he started to try to DDOs the sites hosting the pages.
Many of the mirrorers would never had been able to denounce that particular spammer if they had been doing so under their real identities; anonymity is particularly vital when dealing with criminals, or lawsuit-happy individuals.
Another example is this well-known spammer, threatening legal action against antispam fighters. If you follow the thread, you will find a frothing lunatic that demands the identity of several spamfighters who have to work anonymously in order to avoid the hassle of lawsuits from spammers.
In 2003, the same antispam outfit was sued by spammers. Even though the lawsuit was thrown out of court, it was not without considerable annoyance and expense to the antispammers involved.
Only absolutely positive anonymity can help protect antispammers against the spammers.
Apple will have it's little tantrum, and pull all it's marbles from the game. Now hear the big sucking sound of the vacuum eagerly filled by other music sellers...
The system is deeply flawed if it is possible to steal someone's identity with a mere handful of private information.
What is needed is a far more positive identification system. Granted, it might be a piss-off to not be able to get instant credit to purchase that new thingamabob, but as things reach unmanageable proportions, something has to be done.
I'm bothered. I'd be making a call to Bell to cancel my sympatico account (which I've had since 2000) and move over to Videotron but I don't think Videotron will be any better at protecting their customers' data. I do remember Bell refusing to turn over ISP records to the CRIA, which I really respected; IIRC Videotron capitulated and said they would do it without a warrant.
Move to your very own ISP. Become a member of a telecom coop.
It's always funny to see that the americans, those parangons of free market and free entreprise, steadfastly refuse the notion of private toll highways. They always insist on having socialist roads built with public money.
What is funnier is to see that the french, hardly parangons of free market and private entreprise (they have zillions of State-owned businesses) don't think twice at having private roads and bridges, including the highest highway bridge in the world (higher than the Eiffel tower!)...
I think there are parts of the PA Turnpike in its original form (engineering wise anyways) that predates the Interstate system by 20 years!
The Pennsyvania Turnpike was built on the roadbed of a nearly completed totally new rail line between New-York and Chicago that was built by the New-York Central to compete directly with the Pennsylvania Railroad's direct route (the NYC detoured through Albany and Buffalo) in the 1880's. Following intense backroom negociations aboard J.P. Morgan's yatch (who, as a major bankroller, hated to see such money poured into competition), and eventually, the Baltimore & Ohio (which was then controlled by the PRR) purchased the roadbed to make sure it would never be opened.
In 1937, the unused roadbed was purchased by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the Pennsylvania turnpike.
I learned it from my father's Penthouses (my parents made sure not to make a fuss whenever I read those), or my uncle's Hara-Kiris and Swank (those I could read when I was really nice).
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Are you sure it's not "Trinity", instead????
Back in 1989, when the french railroads put in service their new TGV Atlantique silver screamer 190 mph trains, there was one trainset that would, once in a while, big-hole it (do an emergency stop).
So they pull it out of service, check everything, and everything checked fine. So they put back in service, and, eventually, big-hole again.
This happenned at least ten times; they wouldn't find anything wrong with the train, and it would only fail when it was in regular service with passengers on board.
One day, a maintenance boss was riding the train while it was in regular service, and as soon as he went to the can, the train big-holed it as soon as he locked the toilet door.
He had a hint, and called the engineer on the intercom: "What were you doing when it big-holed"?
-- Well, I was cutting the power and putting it in electric braking...
Turns out that one of the wiring harness in the car had an intermittent short where the toilet doorlock indicator light shorted against the emergency braking signal wire, but it was only energized when the train was in dynamic braking... So whenever someone went to the toilet while the train was in dynamic braking, it caused the train to stop.
We can always hope that Microsoft will tell Europe to stuff it, and it will pull all it's marbles out of Europe, and people will switch to OSS...
But who's playing Sancho Panza? Tony Blair?
What good is a glut of information when the majority of the people don't have the brains to handle it???
Oh, that's the usual spin from the intentionally misinformed P.R. flacks (they can't tell what they don't know, eh?). Who can trust a convicted monopolist anyways???
The most effective spam fighting effort is totally anonymous; they have to be, because that's the only way they can avoid being sued into oblivion by deep-pocketed croporations (it's outright ironic that in order to protect their freedom of speech - saying that so-and-so is a spammer, they have to register their domain in Siberia, of all places!!!)
Spammers are outright criminals and will stop at nothing to damage antispammers.
Plenty of people had a load of trouble from a spectacularly inept spammer.
For example, the author of this page (a page denouncing the spammer) had the spammer complain to the police which launched a criminal investigation that found nothing. After this failed, he barrages everyone who mirrors the page with complaints to their ISPs (this page get 5 DMCA takedown notices PER DAY).
When the police complaints did lead nowhere, he simply harassed various police departments.
Finally, seeing that the takedown notice make the mirrorers rotating the hosting of the relevant parts complained about, thus rendering it totally ineffective, he started to try to DDOs the sites hosting the pages.
Many of the mirrorers would never had been able to denounce that particular spammer if they had been doing so under their real identities; anonymity is particularly vital when dealing with criminals, or lawsuit-happy individuals.
Another example is this well-known spammer, threatening legal action against antispam fighters. If you follow the thread, you will find a frothing lunatic that demands the identity of several spamfighters who have to work anonymously in order to avoid the hassle of lawsuits from spammers.
In 2003, the same antispam outfit was sued by spammers. Even though the lawsuit was thrown out of court, it was not without considerable annoyance and expense to the antispammers involved.
Only absolutely positive anonymity can help protect antispammers against the spammers.
Apple will have it's little tantrum, and pull all it's marbles from the game. Now hear the big sucking sound of the vacuum eagerly filled by other music sellers...
What is needed is a far more positive identification system. Granted, it might be a piss-off to not be able to get instant credit to purchase that new thingamabob, but as things reach unmanageable proportions, something has to be done.
The preview button is useless for first posts...
Stupidico would be a more appropriate name...
What is funnier is to see that the french, hardly parangons of free market and private entreprise (they have zillions of State-owned businesses) don't think twice at having private roads and bridges, including the highest highway bridge in the world (higher than the Eiffel tower!)...
In 1937, the unused roadbed was purchased by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the Pennsylvania turnpike.
Spanish sex is raw, animal. French sex is elaborate and refined.
Er, the american definition of sex is a tiny subset of the french one...
Hara-Kiri, a french magazine that lots of gross nudity often in the form of fake advertisements (for real products).
When you look at it, you wonder why the US designers are so retarted to design ugly stuff like the KSR-33.
That Olivetti unit looks like it was made 20 years later...
Bullshit yourself. I'm not anglo-saxon. I'm french. We have sex like you eat crumpets. We don't make a big deal of it (sex, not the crumpets).
I learned it from my father's Penthouses (my parents made sure not to make a fuss whenever I read those), or my uncle's Hara-Kiris and Swank (those I could read when I was really nice).