Having an account on a system is a lot like being a tenant.
Once you sign the lease (agree to the ToS), you have the privilege of being in the unit, much like you have access privilege to the site.
If you break the rules, you get written up or worse evicted, but until you get kicked to the curb you have the privilege of residing there. Similarly, you have access privileges until such time as they are revoked.
Only by breaking and entering AFTER getting tossed does it count as trespassing. Similarly, you have to defy an express revocation of access to be considered hacking.
The standard is actually "Flickr does what it damn well pleases with its own site and reserves the right to censor anything it wants to"
Flickr could very well have believed it was a copyvio, and then once their itchy trigger finger fired, they got lazy and decided not to follow through with counter notice procedures.
DMCA doesn't void the property rights of the site that hosts the content.
Imposing a cost on sending of email is not going to work.
You forget that many times spammers are criminals using botnets composed of hijacked machines, whose innocent owners would wind up paying the price while the spammer cheerfully pays his chump change to the botnet operator.
My favorite solution consists of the following:
1. Widespread adoption of SPF/DomainKeys to 2. Allow anyone to sue a spammer and not just an ISP 3. Make it illegal for credit card companies to process payments for spammed products.
On the whole, politics will probably make 3 the steepest uphill battle. I'm sure the credit card companies are well represented at DC.
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Actually, ignoring the Sun as a source of energy really is stupid.
Big oil is laughing all the way to the bank every time we burn gas instead of burn sun.
The other stuff you mentioned, maybe.
But you need to see the light.
I would run whichever test had the highest profit margin.
I dunno, breathalyzers with a hit rate lower than that get you arrested for DUI...
Yeah, sure. Detect a hard to cure disease in the early stages and cut out the lucrative treatment market.
These guys are either altruistic, or they're looking to put a big dent in Big Pharma's cancer pain pill sales.
Expect big medicine to throw their weight against this if it hits their bottom line.
Having an account on a system is a lot like being a tenant.
Once you sign the lease (agree to the ToS), you have the privilege of being in the unit, much like you have access privilege to the site.
If you break the rules, you get written up or worse evicted, but until you get kicked to the curb you have the privilege of residing there. Similarly, you have access privileges until such time as they are revoked.
Only by breaking and entering AFTER getting tossed does it count as trespassing. Similarly, you have to defy an express revocation of access to be considered hacking.
...fail!
It would only be hacking if she was banned and then evaded.
If that were the case I'd be more inclined to go after her for unauthorized access.
Hey, leave the lady in flannel alone!
Actually, mimicking government incompetence is a necessary step to enhancing its value as a forgery.
The King Can Do No Wrong.
Thing is you do not have an expectation of privacy in the air around you.
In fact, you could say that your emanation of pot fumes puts you in potential hot water with the EPA.
So what?
In my book, evil doesn't get a grandfather clause.
On the other hand, why should we let microsoft get away with being evil even if it's the status quo?
Would you let a polluter who has polluted for years get a break when you catch them doing something?
In short, what I'm saying is, that evil shouldn't be protected by a grandfather clause.
The standard is actually "Flickr does what it damn well pleases with its own site and reserves the right to censor anything it wants to"
Flickr could very well have believed it was a copyvio, and then once their itchy trigger finger fired, they got lazy and decided not to follow through with counter notice procedures.
DMCA doesn't void the property rights of the site that hosts the content.
We had an article about it IIRC.
Out but not in.
MS only released it because they got caught violating the GPL.
Not to mention that tampering with hardware like that by swapping out drives WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION is probably a terminable offense right there.
He's not even an IT monkey, so he has no business mucking about with drives anyway.
In other words, Windows is bona fide crippleware.
...SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!
No, this cannot be!
Now we're at the mercy of a twelve-pack of idiots who hold linux's future in their palms?
I would rather trust engineers with my life, and that's saying something.
I blame the credit card companies for knowingly benefitting from spam by processing payments.
Imposing a cost on sending of email is not going to work.
You forget that many times spammers are criminals using botnets composed of hijacked machines, whose innocent owners would wind up paying the price while the spammer cheerfully pays his chump change to the botnet operator.
My favorite solution consists of the following:
1. Widespread adoption of SPF/DomainKeys to
2. Allow anyone to sue a spammer and not just an ISP
3. Make it illegal for credit card companies to process payments for spammed products.
On the whole, politics will probably make 3 the steepest uphill battle. I'm sure the credit card companies are well represented at DC.
...malicious prosecution?
Not to mention they've already used gene therapy to cure a case of blindness.
Considering how tightly they use a hypervisor to lock down the Cell, I'm not surprised.