The real problem is proving that you even know the key to an encrypted file on your computer.
I remember seeing a web page that made an MP a criminal. The web site author claimed to have commited an unspecified crime, confessed to the crime, encrypted his confession (I think he even made a deal about having his confession notarized), and emailed the key to the MP. The MP then had evidence of a crime encrypted on his computer that, if he failed to decrypt, he would be liable for.
I've undoubtedly got some details wrong and would appreciate it if anyone knew the link to the site.
I feel a little silly getting in the middle of a 7-year-old flame war... I was able to read the discussions from the other poster, so I'd like to comment.
The issue did not seem to be whether or not lucid/xemacs was "better". Rather, the battle seemed to be over who was harder to work with. RMS accused lucid of not listening and causing delays while lucid accused RMS of not wanting to "let go" of development and making unreasonable demands.
So there's two camps:
RMS claimed that emacs 19 was delayed *because* of lucid. If lucid/xemacs was better, it may have been because of troubles they caused at the FSF.
---OR---
emacs 19 was going nowhere because RMS was difficult to work with and lucid/xemacs was better because they stopped working with RMS.
It's worth noting that they did attempt to work together to merge the two but, by that time, it was too late because of early design decisions made at lucid (specifically the use of an X toolkit).
Finally, RMS told everyone that it was OK by him if people continue to work and develop on lucid/xemacs because it was free software.
I just looked over your recent posting history and you seem to have some single-minded hatred of Stallman. You bring him up whenever you can just to flame him. I know if you respond to this it will only be to add one more insult to Stallman. I feel sorry for you.
Get over it, man! Seek professional help if you must, but don't let Stallman ruin you're life. It's not worth it. You accuse him of being obsessive about the GNU thing, but you appear far more obsessed with him. Maybe you should think of staying off line for a while and maybe getting a new hobby to keep your mind him.
Here's a couple of links that may help you on your way to recovery:
Yes! And I've customized my/. to filter him out. Now if there was only a way to avoid seeing his stories in metamod and, of course, stories ABOUT him. Today we get two. Yech.
Considering how long-winded he is when he rants on a single topic, I can't imagine how long his reply to 10 distinct questions will be.
Here's an obligatory question: John, have you ever heard of the word concise?
A buyout *is* a merger. It's virtually impossible for two companies to have identical valuations, so one company is always larger than another. Stock from one company is swapped with another and sometimes cash is paid as well.
This was not a *hostile* takeover and the board of both companies approved the merger. Board members from both companies will exist on the new company.
Why aren't you screaming everytime someone refers to the AOL/Time Warner merger? Or virtually every other merger reported on/.?
> From other posts on this subjet I have been reading today, it seems the problem is with reading and understanding english onthe part of the user.
No, the Enlgish problems are at AOL where they think "default" means "exclusive". If the prompt said "Do you want AOL to be your ONLY access to the internet?", users could be held responsible.
I have, for example, "default" colors set in Netscape. But I didn't select "override document colors", which means that some pages come up with colors other than the default.
If I say I want something to be my "default", that means I want to use that unless I ask for something else. If I make Netscape my "default" browser, I expect netscape will open any html page I click on. But I don't expect netscape to come up if I manually go over and start Opera. Furthermore, I expect to be able to change my default. With AOL, the only way to change the "default" is to uninstall. If it's your default and you later decide to add Erols, you can't. If I make Netscape my default browser, I don't want it to go and delete all competing browsers. Selecting AOL "default" completely disables other DUN.
> I said I've the AOL software has never caused any damage
That's not really relevant. The topic here is AOL 5.0, not older versions. If a year 2000 car has defective brakes, saying that you have '94 doesn't really add anything, does it?
> The prompt says what it'll do and does what it says.
Depends on the definition of "default", I guess. To me, "default" doesn't imply "only" or "exclusive".
In addition to monetary damages, the suit wants to force AOL to clearly document what it means by "default internet connection" and explicitly warn people that all other DUN will disappear.
> I would like to know exactly what the real problem is...
The problem is if you attempt to use any other ISP. You didn't say, but you seem to exclusively use AOL. In that case, you'll have no problem. Even if you do use other ISPs, AOL 5 is still not a problem *if you answer 'n' to a critical question*.
> he 19th century sort of made it hard to create all even dates
And if you think even harder, you'll see that it was also hard to have even days in the 18th century. And the 17th, 16th... and so on. The last one was in the 9th century.
PS: It was also difficult to have them in the 20th century.
> Because you can't have (literal quantity) none of something.
If I can't have "none" of something, I can't have a negative number of them either. If this is the reason that "0" is not a number, than -1 is not a number, either.
> But look around - there are AMD laptops out there...
Athlon? I got the machine because I needed one for running Dragon NaturallySpeaking which is optimized for a Pentium III or Athlon. I never saw an Athlon on a laptop.
Nope. And I looked. I needed a Pentium III or equivalent laptop and all I could find were PIIIs. The Latitude CPX was by far the cheapest. Not that there are that many laptops with Pentium IIIs at all.
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Sorry to follow up to my own post, but I found the link: http://www.stand.org.uk/
The real problem is proving that you even know the key to an encrypted file on your computer.
I remember seeing a web page that made an MP a criminal. The web site author claimed to have commited an unspecified crime, confessed to the crime, encrypted his confession (I think he even made a deal about having his confession notarized), and emailed the key to the MP. The MP then had evidence of a crime encrypted on his computer that, if he failed to decrypt, he would be liable for.
I've undoubtedly got some details wrong and would appreciate it if anyone knew the link to the site.
I feel a little silly getting in the middle of a 7-year-old flame war... I was able to read the discussions from the other poster, so I'd like to comment.
The issue did not seem to be whether or not lucid/xemacs was "better". Rather, the battle seemed to be over who was harder to work with. RMS accused lucid of not listening and causing delays while lucid accused RMS of not wanting to "let go" of development and making unreasonable demands.
So there's two camps:
RMS claimed that emacs 19 was delayed *because* of lucid. If lucid/xemacs was better, it may have been because of troubles they caused at the FSF.
---OR---
emacs 19 was going nowhere because RMS was difficult to work with and lucid/xemacs was better because they stopped working with RMS.
It's worth noting that they did attempt to work together to merge the two but, by that time, it was too late because of early design decisions made at lucid (specifically the use of an X toolkit).
Finally, RMS told everyone that it was OK by him if people continue to work and develop on lucid/xemacs because it was free software.
> I wonder who's going to portray jwz
If it's a documentary, I assume jwz will be himself. I don't believe it will be a dramatic recreation. Maybe you knew that.
Get over it, man! Seek professional help if you must, but don't let Stallman ruin you're life. It's not worth it. You accuse him of being obsessive about the GNU thing, but you appear far more obsessed with him. Maybe you should think of staying off line for a while and maybe getting a new hobby to keep your mind him.
Here's a couple of links that may help you on your way to recovery:
http://ocd.mentalhelp.net/
http://www.ocfoundation.org/ocf1030a.htm
Yes! And I've customized my /. to filter him out. Now if there was only a way to avoid seeing his stories in metamod and, of course, stories ABOUT him. Today we get two. Yech.
Considering how long-winded he is when he rants on a single topic, I can't imagine how long his reply to 10 distinct questions will be.
Here's an obligatory question: John, have you ever heard of the word concise?
3COM is splitting off the Palm division, who will be having their IPO real soon now.
A buyout *is* a merger. It's virtually impossible for two companies to have identical valuations, so one company is always larger than another. Stock from one company is swapped with another and sometimes cash is paid as well.
/.?
This was not a *hostile* takeover and the board of both companies approved the merger. Board members from both companies will exist on the new company.
Why aren't you screaming everytime someone refers to the AOL/Time Warner merger? Or virtually every other merger reported on
> something about cash payments?
$3.81/share, I believe.
> From other posts on this subjet I have been reading today, it seems the problem is with reading and understanding english onthe part of the user.
No, the Enlgish problems are at AOL where they think "default" means "exclusive". If the prompt said "Do you want AOL to be your ONLY access to the internet?", users could be held responsible.
I have, for example, "default" colors set in Netscape. But I didn't select "override document colors", which means that some pages come up with colors other than the default.
If I say I want something to be my "default", that means I want to use that unless I ask for something else. If I make Netscape my "default" browser, I expect netscape will open any html page I click on. But I don't expect netscape to come up if I manually go over and start Opera. Furthermore, I expect to be able to change my default. With AOL, the only way to change the "default" is to uninstall. If it's your default and you later decide to add Erols, you can't. If I make Netscape my default browser, I don't want it to go and delete all competing browsers. Selecting AOL "default" completely disables other DUN.
> I said I've the AOL software has never caused any damage
That's not really relevant. The topic here is AOL 5.0, not older versions. If a year 2000 car has defective brakes, saying that you have '94 doesn't really add anything, does it?
> The prompt says what it'll do and does what it says.
Depends on the definition of "default", I guess. To me, "default" doesn't imply "only" or "exclusive".
In addition to monetary damages, the suit wants to force AOL to clearly document what it means by "default internet connection" and explicitly warn people that all other DUN will disappear.
> I would like to know exactly what the real problem is...
The problem is if you attempt to use any other ISP. You didn't say, but you seem to exclusively use AOL. In that case, you'll have no problem. Even if you do use other ISPs, AOL 5 is still not a problem *if you answer 'n' to a critical question*.
> never caused any damage on any computer I've used in the 6 years
The suit is based soley on AOL 5.0, which is not anywhere near 6 years old.
It does ask if you want it to be your "default", but it really takes exclusive control of TCP/IP if you agree.
> asks whether AOL should be the default browser
I don't see how "default" browser equates to "only" browser, which appears to be what happens.
% tclsh8.0
% clock format 1000000000
Sat Sep 08 21:46:40 EDT 2001
You're off by a few seconds. I'm guessing it took you 25 seconds to enter that into bc...
> he 19th century sort of made it hard to create all even dates
And if you think even harder, you'll see that it was also hard to have even days in the 18th century. And the 17th, 16th... and so on. The last one was in the 9th century.
PS: It was also difficult to have them in the 20th century.
"News for Nerds", not "News of *real* significance".
> Whatever happened to the 30th of the month??????
They put an odd-looking "3" in it.
> Because you can't have (literal quantity) none of something.
If I can't have "none" of something, I can't have a negative number of them either. If this is the reason that "0" is not a number, than -1 is not a number, either.
> But look around - there are AMD laptops out there...
Athlon? I got the machine because I needed one for running Dragon NaturallySpeaking which is optimized for a Pentium III or Athlon. I never saw an Athlon on a laptop.
> Ever see a laptop with an AMD chip?
Nope. And I looked. I needed a Pentium III or equivalent laptop and all I could find were PIIIs. The Latitude CPX was by far the cheapest. Not that there are that many laptops with Pentium IIIs at all.
> Do those things come with real modems or Winmodems?
I just bought one in November and saved significant money by buying all the extras (ethernet card, modem, carrying case) from 3rd parties.
I bought a Latitude CPX in November. At that time, getting the machine with no OS was the same cost as Win 95 or 98. NT cost extra.
It uses "java", but requires Windows and Netscape or IE.