Don't worry, if this thing (= TCPA) comes, they will have each and every loophole covered.
I've read the TCPA/Palladium proposals, and the owner of the machine can always turn the TPM/nexus on or off. Sure, applications that require the TPM won't run when the TPM is turned off, but there will always be a Free operating system and Free applications that don't require the TPM. Or do you claim that communication with the Internet of the future will require the TPM to be turned on?
What keeps a cracked Xbox console running GNU/Linux, connected to the Internet via a firewall to a cable or DSL modem, from communicating with sites not under Microsoft's control?
Why would you have to say no all these times? It's a single registry!
If the "single registry" doesn't let the owner of a domain add *@hisdomain.net to the registry, then spammers will continue to Rumpelstiltskin the domain's mail server until they get a hit. This is especially true of vanity domains, for which *@hisdomain.net forwards to a single address.
Was "Who has the right to sue the spammers?" a question for clarification, or were you pointing out a fault with the bill?
Looks like the former to me. Will ISPs be able to bring class action on behalf of their customers?
That they have the power to see it inserted in a bill that has absolutely NO relation to them whatsoever is the problem.
The U.S. Congress has managed to sneak other, seemingly even less related, statutes onto the books through riders such as this. For example, "technical correction" that briefly removed the right of a recording artist to own copyright in his recordings was attached as a rider to the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999, which in turn was a rider to a budget bill.
Sure, Germanic may have had five cases (nom, acc, dat, gen, and ins). But didn't Latin have six (nom, acc, dat, gen, voc, and abl) and Sanskrit eight (Latin's plus loc and ins)? Don't some Slavic languages still have seven cases? Aren't those all Indo-European? (I can't very well call it IE because in the context of a web standards discussion, IE refers to the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser.)
I typically send pages with the DTD claiming XHTML strict.
Do you send them with Content-type: application/xhtml+xml as the specs seem to recommend? IE seems to use an HTML 4 (not XHTML) parser for anything sent with Content-type: text/html. For XHTML documents sent as application/xml or text/xml, IE just displays a parse tree because it can't seem to pick up on <link rel="stylesheet"> in HTML space. For XHTML documents sent as application/xhtml+xml, IE FAILS IT!
No, I'm not yet far enough along in web development to know how to get my virtual host to sniff for whether a user agent can parse conforming XHTML.
It probably just depends on which style guide your editor uses. For example, both newspapers in my town (The News-Sentinel and The Journal Gazette) capitalize only the first word and the proper nouns in headlines, and they capitalize book titles the way their publishers said to in press releases.
As far as an ol starting at something other than 1--such as ten (and possibly counting down), I really don't know
This is a bug in the Strict specifications. W3C mistakenly deprecated the value attribute of the li element in HTML 4 and carried the mistake through to XHTML 1.0. That's why I'm sticking with Transitional DTDs, where the attribute is still present (though deprecated). I'm sending HTML 4+CSS rather than XHTML+CSS to the client because IE can't read XHTML, and HTML is different enough from XHTML to make writing a document that's valid in both languages nearly impossible, especially with the script/style escaping issue and the SGML SHORTTAG issue.
In English, schoolteachers recommend to capitalize significant words in titles of works. To determine whether a word is "significant," use the first rule that applies:
The first word of a title is significant.
An article or preposition of four or fewer letters is not significant.
All other words are significant.
In French, the rule is that proper names are capitalized, and everything up to the end of the first noun phrase or verb phrase is capitalized as well.
There is a bug in XHTML Strict. The value attribute of the li element was removed, leaving no way to start an ordered list at any value other than 1 (or A). Using CSS in this case doesn't count because all XHTML pages should still carry the same information without CSS.
Yes. Slashdot's anti-bot measure requires new users to read printed text out of a GIF image and type it in a box. If you want to make an audio version of Humanconf, the Slashcode maintainers have told me that such patches are welcome.
how about eliminating all of the completely wasteful, bandwidth and processor consuming, whitespace?
As you point out, XML, CSS, and ECMAScript, unlike Python, are not very sensitive to whitespace. Slashdot can mitigate whitespace's contribution to bandwidth in two ways: 1. mod_gzip (which Slashdot already uses), and 2. caching proxies that strip excess whitespace. But this article itself is intended to be read by developers, and clarity counts.
Many languages have two articles, which correspond to English "an" and "the". Many of those languages have multiple forms, called "allomorphs," for each article, determined by context; in English, "an" becomes "a" before a consonant and "some" before a mass or plural noun. Russian has no articles, their function having been replaced by sticking nouns before the verb (to imply "the"-itude) or after the verb (to imply "a"-ness).
Another meaning of "article" is any of the interesting pages linked to in the story at the top of a Slashdot article.pl page. In this case, Slashdot users would call this page "the article".
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Don't worry, if this thing (= TCPA) comes, they will have each and every loophole covered.
I've read the TCPA/Palladium proposals, and the owner of the machine can always turn the TPM/nexus on or off. Sure, applications that require the TPM won't run when the TPM is turned off, but there will always be a Free operating system and Free applications that don't require the TPM. Or do you claim that communication with the Internet of the future will require the TPM to be turned on?
What keeps a cracked Xbox console running GNU/Linux, connected to the Internet via a firewall to a cable or DSL modem, from communicating with sites not under Microsoft's control?
Why would you have to say no all these times? It's a single registry!
If the "single registry" doesn't let the owner of a domain add *@hisdomain.net to the registry, then spammers will continue to Rumpelstiltskin the domain's mail server until they get a hit. This is especially true of vanity domains, for which *@hisdomain.net forwards to a single address.
Was "Who has the right to sue the spammers?" a question for clarification, or were you pointing out a fault with the bill?
Looks like the former to me. Will ISPs be able to bring class action on behalf of their customers?
It ought to be up to the user, not the ISP as to what mail they receive, and not all ADV: email is undesireable.
If The User(tm) can opt in to your promotion by whitelisting your promotion company's domain, what free speech is being violated?
That they have the power to see it inserted in a bill that has absolutely NO relation to them whatsoever is the problem.
The U.S. Congress has managed to sneak other, seemingly even less related, statutes onto the books through riders such as this. For example, "technical correction" that briefly removed the right of a recording artist to own copyright in his recordings was attached as a rider to the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999, which in turn was a rider to a budget bill.
5 being the limit on Indo-European cases
Sure, Germanic may have had five cases (nom, acc, dat, gen, and ins). But didn't Latin have six (nom, acc, dat, gen, voc, and abl) and Sanskrit eight (Latin's plus loc and ins)? Don't some Slavic languages still have seven cases? Aren't those all Indo-European? (I can't very well call it IE because in the context of a web standards discussion, IE refers to the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser.)
I typically send pages with the DTD claiming XHTML strict.
Do you send them with Content-type: application/xhtml+xml as the specs seem to recommend? IE seems to use an HTML 4 (not XHTML) parser for anything sent with Content-type: text/html. For XHTML documents sent as application/xml or text/xml, IE just displays a parse tree because it can't seem to pick up on <link rel="stylesheet"> in HTML space. For XHTML documents sent as application/xhtml+xml, IE FAILS IT!
No, I'm not yet far enough along in web development to know how to get my virtual host to sniff for whether a user agent can parse conforming XHTML.
It probably just depends on which style guide your editor uses. For example, both newspapers in my town ( The News-Sentinel and The Journal Gazette ) capitalize only the first word and the proper nouns in headlines, and they capitalize book titles the way their publishers said to in press releases.
As far as an ol starting at something other than 1--such as ten (and possibly counting down), I really don't know
This is a bug in the Strict specifications. W3C mistakenly deprecated the value attribute of the li element in HTML 4 and carried the mistake through to XHTML 1.0. That's why I'm sticking with Transitional DTDs, where the attribute is still present (though deprecated). I'm sending HTML 4+CSS rather than XHTML+CSS to the client because IE can't read XHTML, and HTML is different enough from XHTML to make writing a document that's valid in both languages nearly impossible, especially with the script/style escaping issue and the SGML SHORTTAG issue.
I haven't seen anything on /. that I don't think could be done with intelligent use of CSS along side XHTML 1.1 strict--without the use of tables.
What about starting an ordered list at a value of something other than 1?
I've wondered about the Lian-Li aquarium PC case. It comes with five plastic regular fish, all shaped the same, and one plastic percula. Did they put in a percula just because of Disney/Pixar Finding Nemo?
Archive.org has made such an offer, but what evidence do you have that Vivendi has accepted this offer?
In most cases, one can replace tables with division tags, which work much better in general.
In CSS, how does one align a block element to the bottom edge of another block element?
In English, schoolteachers recommend to capitalize significant words in titles of works. To determine whether a word is "significant," use the first rule that applies:
In French, the rule is that proper names are capitalized, and everything up to the end of the first noun phrase or verb phrase is capitalized as well.
There's a pref for whether a particular moderation affects the comment's score by +1 or -1. What Anonymous Coward sees can be left up to the editors.
There is a bug in XHTML Strict. The value attribute of the li element was removed, leaving no way to start an ordered list at any value other than 1 (or A). Using CSS in this case doesn't count because all XHTML pages should still carry the same information without CSS.
Is the site unusable on JAWS or some such?
Yes. Slashdot's anti-bot measure requires new users to read printed text out of a GIF image and type it in a box. If you want to make an audio version of Humanconf, the Slashcode maintainers have told me that such patches are welcome.
article.pl? Does this mean it's in Polish?
No, that means its Perl. Perl has $, @, and %, which could be made out as articles.
But is it "free beer"?
The lightbulb hasn't changed for longer than that
Yes it has.
how about eliminating all of the completely wasteful, bandwidth and processor consuming, whitespace?
As you point out, XML, CSS, and ECMAScript, unlike Python, are not very sensitive to whitespace. Slashdot can mitigate whitespace's contribution to bandwidth in two ways: 1. mod_gzip (which Slashdot already uses), and 2. caching proxies that strip excess whitespace. But this article itself is intended to be read by developers, and clarity counts.
Many languages have two articles, which correspond to English "an" and "the". Many of those languages have multiple forms, called "allomorphs," for each article, determined by context; in English, "an" becomes "a" before a consonant and "some" before a mass or plural noun. Russian has no articles, their function having been replaced by sticking nouns before the verb (to imply "the"-itude) or after the verb (to imply "a"-ness).
Another meaning of "article" is any of the interesting pages linked to in the story at the top of a Slashdot article.pl page. In this case, Slashdot users would call this page "the article".
Do they have any monopoly on anything whatsoever?
Yes, a geographic monopoly in semi-isolated areas, where Wal-Mart is the only store for several miles.
so a Walmart-branded one might be an OK computer.
Where does Radiohead enter into this?
Here are your server software licenses, thank you very much. You can even get a license plate.