1. Can you produce a quote of ANY modern day Republican complaining about "blacks getting special privalages"?
I didn't think so, please keep your political cheap-shots and ignorance to yourself.
2. Every consumer product can kill people, the cigarette companies are NOT negligent when everyone on the planet knows that smoking kills people. Since the 1950s cigarettes have had the nick name "Cancer Sticks".
Bad idea. This will discourage legitimate complaints from being brought before a court.
If Caldera was afraid that they'd have to pay M$'s legal bills do you think that they'd dare even speak the words "Microsoft" & "Court" in the same breath?
Not at all. The banks could encode a language preference on the card itself. If you prefer english, poof you get english, or spanish or german, or french, or sanscrit.
I guess the banks think it would be too expansive or something like that.
>It's called *capitalism*. This system can't exist without an overwhelming apparatus of lawyers, courts, prisons, police, and so on, all of which function to protect the rich crooks from getting challenged by the little guys/gals.
Um, no. Capitalism means that companies compete with one another to get ahead in a market.
>How many rich people do you know who are in prison?
That's the way the world works. Rich people don't have the motivation of starvation to push them to rob liquor stores. When rich people become addicted to drugs they can afford expensive rehab or they can afford to keep buying drugs so they are not subjected to the mental condition that occurs when you are going through withdrawal. So they don't have to rob banks to get their next fix.
Maybe I'm just naive and old fashioned but I've always thought that the best product *should* win.
Legal systems exist to provide persons with an official way to address problems.
This is NOT the type of thing that should be clogging the courts.
This isn't like having the FBI bust up Vinny Bagadonuts' DVD piracy ring.
This is simple bullying. If I independantly developed a recipe for cookies that tasted EXACTLY Wally Amos' cookies, AND if that recipe is different from the "Famous" recipe I'd win in court.
If, I'm selling cookies for $3.00 per dozen at the PTA bake sale and I get hauled into court for "reverse engineering" someones cookie recipe, that's idiotic.
This is NOT about redress of legitimate concerns. It IS about big money corporations throwing their weight around. When has selling out ever been successful as a vehicle of enacting change?
The 1960's long haired, pot smoking radicals, have cut their hair and joined the "establishment" and sold out what they believed in because they all of a sudden wanted the nice jobs and nice houses, and 2.3 kids....Now those former revolutionaries are in control of the same system that they railed against 30-40 years ago and it's "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
Every monolithic organization uses the legal system of the country that they're in to bully people when their profits are threatened.
Look at the RIAA they made Diamond spend tons of money to fight their claim in court when the RIAA knew all along that they'd lose.
They wanted to scare other companies into not making MP3 players. Had Diamond not been as successful in the past they wouldn't have been able ot beat the RIAA in court.
Because these programmers are most likely not multi-millionaires and can't afford 60k(US) in lawyer fees the hope is for them to just disappear.
Like the guys who wrote HLE, like the guys who cracked NT SP4's "security", the DeCSS guys are going to be pounded until they are forced to disappear or by some miracle are cleared.
It wouldn't fly here if a bank had english/spanish prompts on the ATMs. Perhaps in places like New York where there is a greater Spanish-speaking population than we have in Pittsburgh it is done (I don't know for sure). Bad things would happen if a bank did that.
I have a friend whose mother is totally blind and when he was a kid he'd get "loans" from her by switching a $1.00 bill for a $20.00 bill and then switching them back te next day before she noticed.
Let's just forget for one moment that blind people can ride as PASSENGERS in automobiles. If a blind person is in the rear driver's side seat s/he can use the drive up ATM and how else do you expect them to do this?
Secondly, it's cheaper to design and build as few different types of machine as possible. It's cheaper to design a generic ATM and adapt it to fit each individual scenario than it is to design and build 4-5 different types of ATM.
At the Carnegie science center in Pittsburgh they have a transparant ATM. That probably cost a pretty penny to make.
Or I'd be doing fucking life! When I was in Jr High I didn't write a single story where someone didn't die or get maimed.
I remember that bitch of a teacher (Yes, Ms. Kresovich I mean YOU) had letters sent to my parents, and the whole 9 yards.
I had the "parent-teacher" double team for the rest of the school year "What's wrong with you? Why can't you just act like everybody else? Why do you have to be different?" and I guess you can imagine what it was like.
It's my belief that "wierd" kids are produced by the educational system, I was wierd because I didn't fit in with the school sanctioned cliques.
I wasn't a Jock, I wasn't a preppy, I was smart, but I was an underachiever so I didn't get good grades, I was fat, I wore THICK glasses, and being black didn't help either.
Now that I'm older I see myself in so many young guys that it saddens me. I do my best to help them out with guidance and insight but I know that the hard lessons must be learned through experience.
Since people like us don't tend to work well with others I don't think that there is much we can do as a group to change things for the future "wierd" kids.
Why can't there be a one page list that individual "hacks" are liked to?
This Click here for page one, then click here for page two, and so on is annoying. Is this just a bullshit way to increase the number of hits they get per day and drive up advertsing prices?
>>Even better, engage your friends in realistic email exchanges about (fake) subversive plans.
If you're in the US that might have BAD results. Remember you don't have to atually do anything to be convicted of Conspiracy to (insert scarry sounding word here). If they are listening and you're making plans (faux or otherwise) can get the feds interested in you. That is not something you want. There's nothing that can make my butt pucker the way it did when I had two armed federal agents on my front porch asking me "Is your name 'Lord Kano*' ? " .
I'd say a signature designed to randomly thrown in Echelon key words shoould get the desired effect without raising too much attention.
Just like all other laws it's subject to interpretation. Perfect example Nina Hartley has registered www.nina.com for her own use. Some purse company Nina Bags or somesuch claims that since they hold a copyright including the word Nina the right to use www.nina.com belongs to them as well.
If a judge with an axe to grind against pornography or porn stars had heard the case it Nina Hartley could have lost. As things stand now, she can legally use that domain.
This is exactly the type of thing that I'm worried about. After all who copyrights their name?
Jane's has just gained LOTS of respect from me. This is the responsible thing to do. Instead of allowing some "Journalist" write about what he *thinks* about computer security they are going with people who KNOW what they're talking about.
How many of us have taken part in "Crack this Machine" contests? Granted most of us didn't win, but we all had good ideas about security that needed to be tested.
Why is it greedy to want to be compensated for your hard work?
Many of todays doctors have gone through a LOT of shit to get where they are. Getting 4 hours of sleep a night for months on ent while they finish their residencies and all. After doing that much work, they should get well paid, it's not greed it's fairness.
You're correct, I should have said "Best Picture Oscar" winners.
There's a good change that these rumors are just that and have no substance behind them. However the conspiracy theory says that the oil companies have kept these things buried.
I'd bet that this technology gets BURIED. The SPA, the BSA, and the RIAA will no doubtedly oppose such high storage density devices. After all you could store EVERY M$ product ever made, The last 10 years Oscar Winners, The last 20 years Grammy Winners, and all of the pr0n on the net on such a device.
Remember the rumors abour carberators (sp?) that can get your car 100+ Miles to the gallon? How about the pill that you put in your gas tank that when mixed with water will overnight ferment into a mixture that can be used as fuel.
Let's not forget Tesla's wireless energy transmission technology. That was buried because JP Morgan didn't see a way to bilk the masses with it.
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Several points.
1. Can you produce a quote of ANY modern day Republican complaining about "blacks getting special privalages"?
I didn't think so, please keep your political cheap-shots and ignorance to yourself.
2. Every consumer product can kill people, the cigarette companies are NOT negligent when everyone on the planet knows that smoking kills people. Since the 1950s cigarettes have had the nick name "Cancer Sticks".
LK
Bad idea. This will discourage legitimate complaints from being brought before a court.
If Caldera was afraid that they'd have to pay M$'s legal bills do you think that they'd dare even speak the words "Microsoft" & "Court" in the same breath?
LK
Not at all. The banks could encode a language preference on the card itself. If you prefer english, poof you get english, or spanish or german, or french, or sanscrit.
I guess the banks think it would be too expansive or something like that.
LK
>It's called *capitalism*. This system can't exist without an overwhelming apparatus of lawyers, courts, prisons, police, and so on, all of which function to protect the rich crooks from getting challenged by the little guys/gals.
Um, no. Capitalism means that companies compete with one another to get ahead in a market.
>How many rich people do you know who are in prison?
That's the way the world works. Rich people don't have the motivation of starvation to push them to rob liquor stores. When rich people become addicted to drugs they can afford expensive rehab or they can afford to keep buying drugs so they are not subjected to the mental condition that occurs when you are going through withdrawal. So they don't have to rob banks to get their next fix.
Maybe I'm just naive and old fashioned but I've always thought that the best product *should* win.
LK
Legal systems exist to provide persons with an official way to address problems.
This is NOT the type of thing that should be clogging the courts.
This isn't like having the FBI bust up Vinny Bagadonuts' DVD piracy ring.
This is simple bullying. If I independantly developed a recipe for cookies that tasted EXACTLY Wally Amos' cookies, AND if that recipe is different from the "Famous" recipe I'd win in court.
If, I'm selling cookies for $3.00 per dozen at the PTA bake sale and I get hauled into court for "reverse engineering" someones cookie recipe, that's idiotic.
This is NOT about redress of legitimate concerns. It IS about big money corporations throwing their weight around. When has selling out ever been successful as a vehicle of enacting change?
The 1960's long haired, pot smoking radicals, have cut their hair and joined the "establishment" and sold out what they believed in because they all of a sudden wanted the nice jobs and nice houses, and 2.3 kids....Now those former revolutionaries are in control of the same system that they railed against 30-40 years ago and it's "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
LK
A Globe labeled "The Internet" sitting on top of a pillar labeled "Linux".
1s and 0s swirling around the surface of the globe and streams of 1s and 0s on bolts of lightning streaming from the globe to the pillar.
LK
Every monolithic organization uses the legal system of the country that they're in to bully people when their profits are threatened.
Look at the RIAA they made Diamond spend tons of money to fight their claim in court when the RIAA knew all along that they'd lose.
They wanted to scare other companies into not making MP3 players. Had Diamond not been as successful in the past they wouldn't have been able ot beat the RIAA in court.
Because these programmers are most likely not multi-millionaires and can't afford 60k(US) in lawyer fees the hope is for them to just disappear.
Like the guys who wrote HLE, like the guys who cracked NT SP4's "security", the DeCSS guys are going to be pounded until they are forced to disappear or by some miracle are cleared.
LK
It wouldn't fly here if a bank had english/spanish prompts on the ATMs. Perhaps in places like New York where there is a greater Spanish-speaking population than we have in Pittsburgh it is done (I don't know for sure). Bad things would happen if a bank did that.
LK
I have a friend whose mother is totally blind and when he was a kid he'd get "loans" from her by switching a $1.00 bill for a $20.00 bill and then switching them back te next day before she noticed.
LK
Maybe the banking industry has recently changed their practices but I've used ATMs in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Texas and they've all been the same.
On the right side of the screen there are buttons. The bottom one cancels, one button up confirms.
LK
Will Real or Xing be financially responsible for damaged "due to lost revenue from piracy"?
That would be interesting to see the DVD people go after them.
If someone is addicted to cocaine can they sue a company for not hiring them?
After all addiction is now defined as a disease in the US. Diseases are disabilities.
How about suing the state of California to allow smoking in public bars again, after all they're discriminating againse addicted people under the ADA.
Is stupidity a disability? Can morons sue companies that make products where are "too hard" to use?
This can go on FOREVER! What we need is a supreme court decision that says that the ADA is unconstitutional.
LK
ATMs (at least in the US) use a standard menu structure and the same configuration of buttons.
If you learn once, you've learned for all of them.
You're just SOL if the guy who stocked the ATM puts 5's in the 20's bin.
LK
Let's just forget for one moment that blind people can ride as PASSENGERS in automobiles. If a blind person is in the rear driver's side seat s/he can use the drive up ATM and how else do you expect them to do this?
Secondly, it's cheaper to design and build as few different types of machine as possible. It's cheaper to design a generic ATM and adapt it to fit each individual scenario than it is to design and build 4-5 different types of ATM.
At the Carnegie science center in Pittsburgh they have a transparant ATM. That probably cost a pretty penny to make.
LK
Or I'd be doing fucking life! When I was in Jr High I didn't write a single story where someone didn't die or get maimed.
I remember that bitch of a teacher (Yes, Ms. Kresovich I mean YOU) had letters sent to my parents, and the whole 9 yards.
I had the "parent-teacher" double team for the rest of the school year "What's wrong with you? Why can't you just act like everybody else? Why do you have to be different?" and I guess you can imagine what it was like.
It's my belief that "wierd" kids are produced by the educational system, I was wierd because I didn't fit in with the school sanctioned cliques.
I wasn't a Jock, I wasn't a preppy, I was smart, but I was an underachiever so I didn't get good grades, I was fat, I wore THICK glasses, and being black didn't help either.
Now that I'm older I see myself in so many young guys that it saddens me. I do my best to help them out with guidance and insight but I know that the hard lessons must be learned through experience.
Since people like us don't tend to work well with others I don't think that there is much we can do as a group to change things for the future "wierd" kids.
LK
Why can't there be a one page list that individual "hacks" are liked to?
This Click here for page one, then click here for page two, and so on is annoying. Is this just a bullshit way to increase the number of hits they get per day and drive up advertsing prices?
LK
>>Even better, engage your friends in realistic email exchanges about (fake) subversive plans.
If you're in the US that might have BAD results. Remember you don't have to atually do anything to be convicted of Conspiracy to (insert scarry sounding word here). If they are listening and you're making plans (faux or otherwise) can get the feds interested in you. That is not something you want. There's nothing that can make my butt pucker the way it did when I had two armed federal agents on my front porch asking me "Is your name 'Lord Kano*' ? " .
I'd say a signature designed to randomly thrown in Echelon key words shoould get the desired effect without raising too much attention.
*-My real name replaced here
LK
Just like all other laws it's subject to interpretation. Perfect example Nina Hartley has registered www.nina.com for her own use. Some purse company Nina Bags or somesuch claims that since they hold a copyright including the word Nina the right to use www.nina.com belongs to them as well.
If a judge with an axe to grind against pornography or porn stars had heard the case it Nina Hartley could have lost. As things stand now, she can legally use that domain.
This is exactly the type of thing that I'm worried about. After all who copyrights their name?
LK
THis is FAR too open to abuse. A trademark/copyright owner can quash any criticism by invoking this.
Imaging if I ran the web site, www.microsoft.sucks.fat.pps.com.
If MS got a sympathetic judge then could shut me down AND have my financially ruined through this. This can't be allowed to happen.
LK
DoS attacks just slow the machine down so it takes longer to portscan, check for weak passwords, and cgi exploits. Most unproductive.
LK
Jane's has just gained LOTS of respect from me. This is the responsible thing to do. Instead of allowing some "Journalist" write about what he *thinks* about computer security they are going with people who KNOW what they're talking about.
How many of us have taken part in "Crack this Machine" contests? Granted most of us didn't win, but we all had good ideas about security that needed to be tested.
LK
Now that we may have found Alvin how long do you think it'l be before we find Dave?
LK
Why is it greedy to want to be compensated for your hard work?
Many of todays doctors have gone through a LOT of shit to get where they are. Getting 4 hours of sleep a night for months on ent while they finish their residencies and all. After doing that much work, they should get well paid, it's not greed it's fairness.
LK
You're correct, I should have said "Best Picture Oscar" winners.
There's a good change that these rumors are just that and have no substance behind them. However the conspiracy theory says that the oil companies have kept these things buried.
LK
I'd bet that this technology gets BURIED. The SPA, the BSA, and the RIAA will no doubtedly oppose such high storage density devices. After all you could store EVERY M$ product ever made, The last 10 years Oscar Winners, The last 20 years Grammy Winners, and all of the pr0n on the net on such a device.
Remember the rumors abour carberators (sp?) that can get your car 100+ Miles to the gallon? How about the pill that you put in your gas tank that when mixed with water will overnight ferment into a mixture that can be used as fuel.
Let's not forget Tesla's wireless energy transmission technology. That was buried because JP Morgan didn't see a way to bilk the masses with it.
LK