How about this? If you prevail in a suit against you, you win the amount sued for!;)
So the RIAA comes after you for billions like they did here (IIRC?), you have a huge incentive to fight back and get justice. Then again, the RIAA wouldn't be suing folks for billions if they had that much to lose.
America isn't a democracy - it's a republic - huge difference. On top of that, the US representatives more often than not serve the corporate interests (investors) rather than the individual constituencies.
There's no way to give a performance appraisal, since so much of the votes that go on in Congress are done anonymously (such as in the case of the DMCA).
You can protest, but you can also be shot with rubber bullets for doing so (see Seattle), as well as arrested (also see Seattle).
It sounds like the guy had several phone lines in use for this autodialer. That's a somewhat significant investment above and beyond just buying an auto-dialing program. Perhaps the timing wasn't, but the rest of it was quite deliberate.
Anyways, sometimes, lessons are hard-learned. $500 isn't going to put anyone out of business, but it's enough to make the law worth its while.
If it has 1 line, certainly. If it has 4 or so like the author states, you'd probably have to coordinate the "defensive attack" Operation Telephony Freedom.
Yeah, but since they've had a poor history of backwards compatibility, I can't afford to upgrade (customers have scripts which depend on perl, if they broke, they'd be out thousands, potentially more.)
Btw, I checked the FAQ for CPAN, I don't see anything about install Bundle::CPAN ?
Ah yes, those innocent times of the past, when you received strange packages from unfamiliar places and all you had to worry about was what video game was inside.
This story has been posted about probably a dozen times now without any evidence included. Do you suppose you could hold off on posting new stories until either the evidence is made available or the suit is dismissed/won/settled? As it is now we're just seeing the same responses posted over and over again.
How is the catsuit "degrading"? How can clothing ever be degrading, for that matter?
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As far as I know there's not a whole lot of precedent for companies performing drug testing on contracted companies/vendors, so at least, in the forseeable future, you ought to be able to start your own business if you can't get a job due to refusing a drug test.
It'll be when the govt requires that they only do business with companies that perform mandatory/regular drug testing that it'll become a really severe problem. For now, there are plenty of jobs out there that don't require drug testing.
The way to measure if a blinking/flashing/flickering ad will truly be successful is to show it to a bunch of epileptics. Tune the blink/flash rate to the point of seizure, and then back 1%. That ensures maximum quality with minimum deaths! And, of course, 3. Profit!
I agree here. I picked up a HP LaserJet IIIp at Boeing Surplus for a few bucks ($20 I think). It had a problem with the spinning mirror, had to replace that, but since then it's purring beautifully.
The best part is there are several sources for toner (not just HP) AND the printer is ancient enough that there's no way in hell it'd support anything like this "ink expiration date" nonsense.
Um, the police in many urban towns are already completely useless. They're nothing more than revenue streams for the cities - for example, in Seattle they're going to enforce jaywalking law by writing tickets, but they can't be bothered to investigate a home burglary!
The problem isn't that you want to know exactly who is sending - you merely want to be able to trace where the e-mail came from. If some anonymous joe sends you a key for joebob@hotmail.com, and that key is later used for spamming, you revoke it from your "I accept mail from these guys" keyring. Easy peasy.
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"if they could lose that much"
How about this? If you prevail in a suit against you, you win the amount sued for! ;)
So the RIAA comes after you for billions like they did here (IIRC?), you have a huge incentive to fight back and get justice. Then again, the RIAA wouldn't be suing folks for billions if they had that much to lose.
America isn't a democracy - it's a republic - huge difference. On top of that, the US representatives more often than not serve the corporate interests (investors) rather than the individual constituencies.
There's no way to give a performance appraisal, since so much of the votes that go on in Congress are done anonymously (such as in the case of the DMCA).
You can protest, but you can also be shot with rubber bullets for doing so (see Seattle), as well as arrested (also see Seattle).
It sounds like the guy had several phone lines in use for this autodialer. That's a somewhat significant investment above and beyond just buying an auto-dialing program. Perhaps the timing wasn't, but the rest of it was quite deliberate.
Anyways, sometimes, lessons are hard-learned. $500 isn't going to put anyone out of business, but it's enough to make the law worth its while.
If it has 1 line, certainly. If it has 4 or so like the author states, you'd probably have to coordinate the "defensive attack" Operation Telephony Freedom.
Yeah, but since they've had a poor history of backwards compatibility, I can't afford to upgrade (customers have scripts which depend on perl, if they broke, they'd be out thousands, potentially more.)
Btw, I checked the FAQ for CPAN, I don't see anything about install Bundle::CPAN ?
Ah yes, those innocent times of the past, when you received strange packages from unfamiliar places and all you had to worry about was what video game was inside.
Regarding CPAN, doing that, will it try to install perl 5.8.1 like it's been trying whenever I attempt to install anything?
CPAN is worthless to most folks (IMO) as long as that "feature" is in place, but if it's not necessary for SA, that'd be great.
American culture isn't about exploiting just about everything for profit? I'd say it's pretty accurate myself.
Sorry, didn't read all the posts on 'em. Is this what one would call irony? I'm sure an english professer will correct me.
This story has been posted about probably a dozen times now without any evidence included. Do you suppose you could hold off on posting new stories until either the evidence is made available or the suit is dismissed/won/settled? As it is now we're just seeing the same responses posted over and over again.
Sweet. Thanks. That bug bites me almost every day. I tried their async DNS patch they have listed, with no joy.
Fine, don't pay for it. It's no big deal. You can still download the demo. It's not like they're restricting you.
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However, you do have the choice to pay what amounts to VERY little money to get better service.
Damn, I can't believe how many people missed that basic point.
They don't *force* you to pay to download it, sheesh. I did, I got great service from it, no waiting, etc. But I didn't have to do that.
Well, then you surely aren't paying for broadband, so you would have to wait a long time for the download anyways. So ya. Go eat. :)
The Fileplanet subscription servers aren't so bad, and only $6/mo. I'm getting the file at 75KB/s.
The site works fine with Mozilla, too.
I'm obviously not over-sensitive about what people wear.
How is the catsuit "degrading"? How can clothing ever be degrading, for that matter?
As far as I know there's not a whole lot of precedent for companies performing drug testing on contracted companies/vendors, so at least, in the forseeable future, you ought to be able to start your own business if you can't get a job due to refusing a drug test.
It'll be when the govt requires that they only do business with companies that perform mandatory/regular drug testing that it'll become a really severe problem. For now, there are plenty of jobs out there that don't require drug testing.
frisbee?
Er, maybe not.
The way to measure if a blinking/flashing/flickering ad will truly be successful is to show it to a bunch of epileptics. Tune the blink/flash rate to the point of seizure, and then back 1%. That ensures maximum quality with minimum deaths! And, of course, 3. Profit!
I agree here. I picked up a HP LaserJet IIIp at Boeing Surplus for a few bucks ($20 I think). It had a problem with the spinning mirror, had to replace that, but since then it's purring beautifully.
The best part is there are several sources for toner (not just HP) AND the printer is ancient enough that there's no way in hell it'd support anything like this "ink expiration date" nonsense.
I'm never going back to inkjets.
Or a football field.
Um, the police in many urban towns are already completely useless. They're nothing more than revenue streams for the cities - for example, in Seattle they're going to enforce jaywalking law by writing tickets, but they can't be bothered to investigate a home burglary!
You can accept PGP keys from anonymous people.
The problem isn't that you want to know exactly who is sending - you merely want to be able to trace where the e-mail came from. If some anonymous joe sends you a key for joebob@hotmail.com, and that key is later used for spamming, you revoke it from your "I accept mail from these guys" keyring. Easy peasy.