It seems unlikely any of this software doesn't allow you to turn this "feature" off. If nothing else you could disable the ports it's using to send the messages.
That all depends on how many address books you are in and web pages you are on. In extreme case you have addresses like the generic tech support email address that dumps in my mailbox. Because it only receives and is never sent from all bounces are due to forgeries.
IBM is also fully lawyered up. Great quote from a VP to that point:
"On the "trap" of the GPL: an IBM vice president, said, "If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you know, we have a lot of lawyers." "
None of that stuff is going to help the RIAA or your ISP who is just sniffing the wire. Yes the alphabet soup guys will be able to get a warrant and break your system but think about the cost involved. Until copyright infringement becomes a asset forfiture crime there is no incentive for the goverment.
The point of the article is that there are now enough users (even if only a small percentage) that want the encryption. Therefor the developers as including it as the the default. And as you stated users don't change the defaults. Encryption is just there.
The thing I liked about webcrawler was that scrolling app they had that showed you what other people were searching for in real time. It was both educational and little bit... disturbing.
Me too. and that was an upgrade from my friend's 150. Geez was that thing glacial. 'Course my original modem was hooked to a CoCo2 thru acustical couplers. I think my ethernet card has more RAM than that thing.
Most average people were still getting their net connection thru work or school. Not all schools were quite so liberal as to carry a full feed and most businesses didn't carry _any_ alt groups. One of the reasons r.a.e was so popular, it slipped in under the radar.
I think IBM was a bit ahead of Amiga on this one, just IBM wanted you to use their modular hardware. Anyone here still grab for their wallet anytime they hear "microchannel"?
How reliable is your phone service? Cable? In most cases you'll find phone service is at least twice as reliable as dsl/cable service. Not too important until you have to dial 911 in a black out.
So you presumably build and maintain your own car, fridge, cooker, TV, etc. No. But I know how to start my car, boil water for KD, and record programs with my VCR. Compiling a program isn't any harder than parallel parking. If you can't do it maybe you shouldn't be operating a motor vehicle/program.
Elitists should bugger off back to the medieval monasteries, where they belong! You do realise your on slashdot? Did you post on "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters" by accident thinking it was Fox News or something?
China already does this to a limited extent. If you are executed for your crime they charge the family for the price of the bullet.
From http://www.boycottmadeinchina.org/en/why_boycott/r ationale/additional_reasons/part3.shtml "The immediate families of the victims were, formerly, required to be present at the execution and to make a denouncement of the victim. This is no longer mandatory. However, the victim's family is still required to pay the cost of the bullet used in the execution."
It seems that most police lack any impartiality and that everyone is guilty and it is simply a matter of collecting enough evidence. That's because most people they deal with are victims or guilty of something. People who don't fall into one of those two categories almost never talk to police officers.
Same deal with help desks. A year of working a help desk will get you thinking everyone on the planet is a complete moron if you don't make an effort to realise you're only seeing the people with problems who couldn't figure it out for themselves.
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You don't have to give them your information. I always give the President Bush's 411.
It seems unlikely any of this software doesn't allow you to turn this "feature" off. If nothing else you could disable the ports it's using to send the messages.
That all depends on how many address books you are in and web pages you are on. In extreme case you have addresses like the generic tech support email address that dumps in my mailbox. Because it only receives and is never sent from all bounces are due to forgeries.
IBM is also fully lawyered up. Great quote from a VP to that point:
"On the "trap" of the GPL: an IBM vice president, said, "If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you know, we have a lot of lawyers." "
Your aware of course that Mozilla is resident in Memory. And it ain't no small footprint either.
Those people left a looonnngggg time ago.
None of that stuff is going to help the RIAA or your ISP who is just sniffing the wire. Yes the alphabet soup guys will be able to get a warrant and break your system but think about the cost involved. Until copyright infringement becomes a asset forfiture crime there is no incentive for the goverment.
The point of the article is that there are now enough users (even if only a small percentage) that want the encryption. Therefor the developers as including it as the the default. And as you stated users don't change the defaults. Encryption is just there.
The article has been updated now
Actually Bryan Adams is not a canadian for the purpose of this discussion. http://bryanadams.nu/news/news_110903_bluecollarro cker.html
My 486DX4/100 has one.
But that was after the september that never ended. You should have seen Usenet before that, S:N ratio was much better.
The thing I liked about webcrawler was that scrolling app they had that showed you what other people were searching for in real time. It was both educational and little bit ... disturbing.
Not all that old. For the logest time you didn't even need an ID to post. I didn't sign up for an ID until slashboxes were available.
Me too. and that was an upgrade from my friend's 150. Geez was that thing glacial. 'Course my original modem was hooked to a CoCo2 thru acustical couplers. I think my ethernet card has more RAM than that thing.
Most average people were still getting their net connection thru work or school. Not all schools were quite so liberal as to carry a full feed and most businesses didn't carry _any_ alt groups. One of the reasons r.a.e was so popular, it slipped in under the radar.
Support. Now Joe user needs to figure out how to format his USB flash drive before it will work.
Geez is this frickin support nightmare. Before you could just plug them in now we'll have devices that have to be formatted. Ya, that's user friendly.
I get the feeling that a right mouse click on a mac is going to generate something that looks just a little different than it does in Windows
I think IBM was a bit ahead of Amiga on this one, just IBM wanted you to use their modular hardware. Anyone here still grab for their wallet anytime they hear "microchannel"?
How reliable is your phone service? Cable? In most cases you'll find phone service is at least twice as reliable as dsl/cable service. Not too important until you have to dial 911 in a black out.
TelCos are the acronym gods. The need is the same as in computing but they've been at it twice as long.
So you presumably build and maintain your own car, fridge, cooker, TV, etc.
No. But I know how to start my car, boil water for KD, and record programs with my VCR. Compiling a program isn't any harder than parallel parking. If you can't do it maybe you shouldn't be operating a motor vehicle/program.
Elitists should bugger off back to the medieval monasteries, where they belong!
You do realise your on slashdot? Did you post on "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters" by accident thinking it was Fox News or something?
China already does this to a limited extent. If you are executed for your crime they charge the family for the price of the bullet.
r ationale/additional_reasons/part3.shtml
From http://www.boycottmadeinchina.org/en/why_boycott/
"The immediate families of the victims were, formerly, required to be present at the execution and to make a denouncement of the victim. This is no longer mandatory. However, the victim's family is still required to pay the cost of the bullet used in the execution."
It seems that most police lack any impartiality and that everyone is guilty and it is simply a matter of collecting enough evidence.
That's because most people they deal with are victims or guilty of something. People who don't fall into one of those two categories almost never talk to police officers.
Same deal with help desks. A year of working a help desk will get you thinking everyone on the planet is a complete moron if you don't make an effort to realise you're only seeing the people with problems who couldn't figure it out for themselves.