Way back when, around 1993 if I recall correctly, Number Nine (remember them?) was guilty of hardcoding the text strings that the Ziff Davis benchmarks used in their WinBench test. Now THAT was cheating.
You've never walked down 5th Avenue in NYC, have you? Many stores named "Going Out Of Business" or "Lost Our Lease"; they aren't looking for repeat customers. They only want to fleece tourists.
I used to sell merchant banking services for a large (no longer extant) NY money center bank. For a small, first time account (like many paypal users) the fees were as much as 4% of the amount charged, and you also had to have a business checking account with them (which had monthly fees as well). AMEX used to charge 6% for small shops; I don't know what their number is now.
And that was assuming that you qualified (monthly minimums again).
Actually, you don't have to be an employee to get group health insurance. There are many instances of "Association" based health plans: Blue Cross/Blue Shield do this often. It lets lawyers, accountants and other self-employeed professionals get group rates by being members of the Bar Association or something similar.
Comcast has been working on their own network for a while, but many of their networking staff have left recently, leaving the development in the hands of the "cable guys". They aren't planning on having anything available for subscribers until the end of January at the earliest.
However, we're still up in NJ, so I'm not complaining yet.
This seems quite similar to what music publishers do with radio. In this case large providers will probably cut their own deals, but smaller sites will have to band together to get their piece of the pie.
Good or evil?
Inevitable.
...and require that the winner of the election get at least 50% +1 of the vote. It's time to take back our government from the 25% of the population that elects the president.
They couldn't have filmed two (or more) different endings? That would also keep the contestants from giving up the results now, since they wouldn't know them.
PS I'm glad to say that I haven't watched a moment of the referenced show...
Libraries and schools I do not think should be censored ever. Make parents sign agreements before letting their kids use public internet if liability is the problem.
Last time I was in my local public library I don't recall seeing Hustler in the periodical section. Is this censorship? I don't think so.
There is a difference between a right and an entitlement. You can look at your own porn all you want; I am not required to provide it for you. What the F$%%# is wrong with a PUBLIC library trying to keep 12 year olds from viewing hard-core pornography??
Obviously the methods being used for this are imperfect. OK, then we can work to improve them; but to claim that this is censorship is missing the point, and degrading to those who are fighting real censorship in places like China and North Korea.
ebay is providing a publically-accessible database; why should a search of that database (by robot or not) be considered an abuse of their servers?
I agree, a search of their database should not be considered abuse. But what about re-publishing the contents of that database? I think that this is the problem; Bidders Edge presents the ebay results on its own pages, in its own format. The NYTimes wouldn't allow this; hell, slashdot probably wouldn't allow it.
Why leave just one company in control of any of the Microsoft products? How about creating 2 new companies, each with ownership of the Microsoft Intellectual Property as of a particular date (say, right now?). That could potentially create competition in the Windows OS market, as well as foster a more open development of the Windows API (open as in not reserved for internal developers, not open as in Open Source).
Could this perhaps create a fork in Windows development? Yes. Who cares? Buy the one that works for you. Or don't buy either one.
I *was* waiting for PS2 in lieu of buying a DVD player, but the wait just became too long. I'll buy that Toshiba SD2200 now, and use the PS2 (God, I wish they called it something else. I keep having visions of an IBM Model 90-0J9) in the basement game room when it comes out.
Back in my youth you could get a service called "Play Cable" from Cablevision (at least on Long Island). You got an Intellivision with a cartridge that plugged into your cable TV line, and had a menu of maybe 10 games you could choose to play. As far as I recall they were full versions of the games (of course, back then a full game was probably 8k).
Don't remember what it cost, and it wasn't around for too long, but I still think it was a great idea.
Can you accuse someone walking into a bank waving a gun? Before he has time to say anything?
Yes. I'm sure that waving a gun in a bank is a crime in and of itself. Not a good analogy.
Couldn't our hypothetical pedophile's response be, "I could tell by your messages that you were a cop pretending to be a 14 year old girl, and I really have a jones for guys who pretend to be little girls"??
Actually, this is analagous to a fairly common police activity, that of a cop pretending to be a 14 year old girl to entice a pedophile into a meeting, and then busting him.
Which prompts the question, in my mind anway, if the alleged victim doesn't really exist has a crime been committed?
Or in this case, if there are no illegal pictures to download, how can someone be accused of downloading illegal pictures?
If I have an album on cassette/vinyl, and "upgrade" it to mp3 via Napster, it's completely legal.
I believe that you are mistaken. You have the right to record your own copy of the song for your personal use, but not to record someone else's. If my vinyl copy of Excitable Boy sounds like shit I can't legally record a friend's copy onto tape to listen to in my car. If I want better sound quality I have to buy the cd.
Misconfigured @home user proxy servers have been the conduit for a great deal of Internet "mischief". Proxy servers everywhere are sources of security holes, but I'd be willing to bet that there are more proxy servers on @home's network than anywhere else. Give people a persistent Internet connection and they want to maximize their use of it. I've used @home for 2 years now, and their official policy regarding proxy software has been "don't ask, don't tell". At least now they're going to try to help users with some basic configuration. Will this stop ALL the spam coming from @home's network? No. It will help. The other piece of the solution is for @home to enforce its own AUP, and slam its subscribers who violate it. I do have to say that @home's response to the UDP was much than their response to any other issue they've had to deal with.
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Way back when, around 1993 if I recall correctly, Number Nine (remember them?) was guilty of hardcoding the text strings that the Ziff Davis benchmarks used in their WinBench test. Now THAT was cheating.
You've never walked down 5th Avenue in NYC, have you? Many stores named "Going Out Of Business" or "Lost Our Lease"; they aren't looking for repeat customers. They only want to fleece tourists.
"This is gambling - a zero sum game where only the best of the best make any real money."
No, this is gambling, where only the house makes any real money.
"you'll note perhaps that Woodward & Bernstein's takedown of Nixon was initially based entirely on one man's tip in a Beltway parking garage. "
INCORRECT. They used Deep throat as confirmation of others' information.
So is anyone here working for a subscriber than can verify that this alert even went out and was received by someone?
Didn't anyone else have a BASIC cart for their Atari 2600?
I used to sell merchant banking services for a large (no longer extant) NY money center bank. For a small, first time account (like many paypal users) the fees were as much as 4% of the amount charged, and you also had to have a business checking account with them (which had monthly fees as well). AMEX used to charge 6% for small shops; I don't know what their number is now.
And that was assuming that you qualified (monthly minimums again).
Actually, you don't have to be an employee to get group health insurance. There are many instances of "Association" based health plans: Blue Cross/Blue Shield do this often. It lets lawyers, accountants and other self-employeed professionals get group rates by being members of the Bar Association or something similar.
Comcast has been working on their own network for a while, but many of their networking staff have left recently, leaving the development in the hands of the "cable guys". They aren't planning on having anything available for subscribers until the end of January at the earliest.
However, we're still up in NJ, so I'm not complaining yet.
so Yoyo Ma and Itzhak Perlman suck because they don't write their own stuff??
This seems quite similar to what music publishers do with radio. In this case large providers will probably cut their own deals, but smaller sites will have to band together to get their piece of the pie. Good or evil? Inevitable.
...and require that the winner of the election get at least 50% +1 of the vote. It's time to take back our government from the 25% of the population that elects the president.
PS I'm glad to say that I haven't watched a moment of the referenced show...
Last time I was in my local public library I don't recall seeing Hustler in the periodical section. Is this censorship? I don't think so.
There is a difference between a right and an entitlement. You can look at your own porn all you want; I am not required to provide it for you. What the F$%%# is wrong with a PUBLIC library trying to keep 12 year olds from viewing hard-core pornography??
Obviously the methods being used for this are imperfect. OK, then we can work to improve them; but to claim that this is censorship is missing the point, and degrading to those who are fighting real censorship in places like China and North Korea.
attribution should go to Monty Python for the original of this post.
I agree, a search of their database should not be considered abuse. But what about re-publishing the contents of that database? I think that this is the problem; Bidders Edge presents the ebay results on its own pages, in its own format. The NYTimes wouldn't allow this; hell, slashdot probably wouldn't allow it.
Could this perhaps create a fork in Windows development? Yes. Who cares? Buy the one that works for you. Or don't buy either one.
I *was* waiting for PS2 in lieu of buying a DVD player, but the wait just became too long. I'll buy that Toshiba SD2200 now, and use the PS2 (God, I wish they called it something else. I keep having visions of an IBM Model 90-0J9) in the basement game room when it comes out.
Back in my youth you could get a service called "Play Cable" from Cablevision (at least on Long Island). You got an Intellivision with a cartridge that plugged into your cable TV line, and had a menu of maybe 10 games you could choose to play. As far as I recall they were full versions of the games (of course, back then a full game was probably 8k).
Don't remember what it cost, and it wasn't around for too long, but I still think it was a great idea.
Yes. I'm sure that waving a gun in a bank is a crime in and of itself. Not a good analogy.
Couldn't our hypothetical pedophile's response be, "I could tell by your messages that you were a cop pretending to be a 14 year old girl, and I really have a jones for guys who pretend to be little girls"??
Which prompts the question, in my mind anway, if the alleged victim doesn't really exist has a crime been committed?
Or in this case, if there are no illegal pictures to download, how can someone be accused of downloading illegal pictures?
I believe that you are mistaken. You have the right to record your own copy of the song for your personal use, but not to record someone else's. If my vinyl copy of Excitable Boy sounds like shit I can't legally record a friend's copy onto tape to listen to in my car. If I want better sound quality I have to buy the cd.
Misconfigured @home user proxy servers have been the conduit for a great deal of Internet "mischief". Proxy servers everywhere are sources of security holes, but I'd be willing to bet that there are more proxy servers on @home's network than anywhere else. Give people a persistent Internet connection and they want to maximize their use of it. I've used @home for 2 years now, and their official policy regarding proxy software has been "don't ask, don't tell". At least now they're going to try to help users with some basic configuration. Will this stop ALL the spam coming from @home's network? No. It will help. The other piece of the solution is for @home to enforce its own AUP, and slam its subscribers who violate it. I do have to say that @home's response to the UDP was much than their response to any other issue they've had to deal with.