> Or use a whitelist of servers which are run by > reputable ISPs.
Are you aware just how many reputable ISPs there are? How many spring into existence or fade into the night every week? How often they move their servers from one address to another?
The small - and reputable - ISP I use will, no doubt, be one that you and most other ISPs and network operators have never even heard of. Your scheme would result in two users of small ISPs being unable to exchange mail unless they were to move to a bigger, shit ISP. That is unacceptable.
> At the same time, I really think that kids these
> days are just too safe - all they seem to learn
> is how to be good little consumers...
Of course. In the US/WIPO/12ft Swedish Lizard Overlords/Corporate New World Order that's all they'll be allowed to be anyway. Might as well indoctrinate them from an early age.
I do not believe it for one moment. Or at least, I don't believe that it only goes one way. You should see how your compatriots gush at the goods available here which aren't available in the US.
What is this 'first amendment' of which you speak? I am not aware of any EU law with that name. If you are referring to a law in some foreign land then it is of precisely zero importance when it comes to doing business in countries which do not have it.
I think the point is that whilst the encoding may be highly structured (such as ASCII) the data that is encoded (such as a posting on/.) is not. Your computer can not understand this post.
This is a big difference between the US and the
UK, it seems. From what I can tell, in the US it
is possible to sign away your rights. In the UK
it is not in the vast majority of cases. For
example, European law permits reverse-engineering
for the purposes of inter-operability, so software
license clauses prohibiting it can be ignored. It
is *not possible* for a contract to override
statute. Similarly, a worker can not sign away
his employment rights, and so regardless of what
the employment contract says, "at will" firings
are illegal.
Of course, none of that would apply in this case,
it seems.
You show an utter lack of knowledge about the electornic payment systems we have. In the UK - for example - the phone company does not tell my bank what calls I made, they just tell them how much it cost. The bank then pays. The scheme has a guarantee built in that if there is an error I get a refund. In something like six years, there has been *one* error, and I got the refund promptly. Oh, and the service is free. And is used by a lot more than just utilities. Many of my club and association memberships go through it, as do a couple of magazine subscriptions, my pension fund, and so on.
Unfortunately, 'standard of living' is not something which can easily be compared numerically. I can produce just as many statistics showing that you're better off in.uk.
Just compare living standards in.uk and.us (approximately the same) with power consumption per head in the two countries..uk used 331.482 billion kWh in 1998;.us used 3.365 trillion kWh - as near as damnit ten times as much..uk population is approx 60 million;.us population is apprx 276 million - 4.6 times as much. Therefore power consumption per head is a shade over twice as much in.us as in.uk.
Yep, I'd say that explains why London doesn't have rolling blackouts. Well, that and the fact that it is possible to have sensible regulations, something which many.us commentators fail to realise when they voice their kneejerk reaction that regulation is doomed to failure.
All figures from http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
This is all old news. Any half way competent CGI scripter will have been aware of this for *years* and have already taken counter-measures on his server. The client issues are also well-known and obvious. I really can't understand why CERT bothered with this.
Re incorporating the XML DOM, I am working on a set of perl modules which present a.swf file as an object hierarchy. Eventually, it'll be possible to edit, create and parse swf files - so far it just parses a small subset of Flash features - and programmers will be able to use my modules to convert back n' forth between Flash and XML.
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Now will my friends please stop emailing me about this!
> Or use a whitelist of servers which are run by
> reputable ISPs.
Are you aware just how many reputable ISPs there are? How many spring into existence or fade into the night every week? How often they move their servers from one address to another?
The small - and reputable - ISP I use will, no doubt, be one that you and most other ISPs and network operators have never even heard of. Your scheme would result in two users of small ISPs being unable to exchange mail unless they were to move to a bigger, shit ISP. That is unacceptable.
> so I hope the next Linux Beer Wanderung will come to Czech Republic
You volunteering to organise it then?
The problem with carrying adverts is that you lose editorial independence.
> Much of England statistically has income levels below that of Portugal
So does much of Portugal.
> At the same time, I really think that kids these
> days are just too safe - all they seem to learn
> is how to be good little consumers...
Of course. In the US/WIPO/12ft Swedish Lizard Overlords/Corporate New World Order that's all they'll be allowed to be anyway. Might as well indoctrinate them from an early age.
> US Trademark law was on Adobe's side ...
... and utterly irrelevant. Why oh why do merkans labour under the apprehension that their laws apply elsewhere? HINT: this happened in Germany.
I do not believe it for one moment. Or at least, I don't believe that it only goes one way. You should see how your compatriots gush at the goods available here which aren't available in the US.
What is this 'first amendment' of which you speak? I am not aware of any EU law with that name. If you are referring to a law in some foreign land then it is of precisely zero importance when it comes to doing business in countries which do not have it.
I think the point is that whilst the encoding may be highly structured (such as ASCII) the data that is encoded (such as a posting on /.) is not. Your computer can not understand this post.
This is a big difference between the US and the
UK, it seems. From what I can tell, in the US it
is possible to sign away your rights. In the UK
it is not in the vast majority of cases. For
example, European law permits reverse-engineering
for the purposes of inter-operability, so software
license clauses prohibiting it can be ignored. It
is *not possible* for a contract to override
statute. Similarly, a worker can not sign away
his employment rights, and so regardless of what
the employment contract says, "at will" firings
are illegal.
Of course, none of that would apply in this case,
it seems.
You show an utter lack of knowledge about the electornic payment systems we have. In the UK - for example - the phone company does not tell my bank what calls I made, they just tell them how much it cost. The bank then pays. The scheme has a guarantee built in that if there is an error I get a refund. In something like six years, there has been *one* error, and I got the refund promptly. Oh, and the service is free. And is used by a lot more than just utilities. Many of my club and association memberships go through it, as do a couple of magazine subscriptions, my pension fund, and so on.
Unfortunately, 'standard of living' is not something which can easily be compared numerically. I can produce just as many statistics showing that you're better off in .uk.
Just compare living standards in .uk and .us (approximately the same) with power consumption per head in the two countries. .uk used 331.482 billion kWh in 1998; .us used 3.365 trillion kWh - as near as damnit ten times as much. .uk population is approx 60 million; .us population is apprx 276 million - 4.6 times as much. Therefore power consumption per head is a shade over twice as much in .us as in .uk.
.us commentators fail to realise when they voice their kneejerk reaction that regulation is doomed to failure.
Yep, I'd say that explains why London doesn't have rolling blackouts. Well, that and the fact that it is possible to have sensible regulations, something which many
All figures from http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
And further complicated again by the fact that I (david@cantrell.org.uk) am a Slack advocate. Oh dear.
Hi Brian!
This is all old news. Any half way competent CGI scripter will have been aware of this for *years* and have already taken counter-measures on his server. The client issues are also well-known and obvious. I really can't understand why CERT bothered with this.
Re incorporating the XML DOM, I am working on a set of perl modules which present a .swf file as an object hierarchy. Eventually, it'll be possible to edit, create and parse swf files - so far it just parses a small subset of Flash features - and programmers will be able to use my modules to convert back n' forth between Flash and XML.