Use of the network (which is made of computers, and routers, which are, in esscene, computers) beyond authorization is illegal.
In your examples, the ISP and the employer could have criminal charges pressed against the user.
You are accessing every computer between yours and the final destination, inclusively, both from a technical and legal standpoint.
Making the law state otherwise would be unjustified. It would make using someone's network without their permission legal as long as you accessed only sites that allowed you to access them.
So if you forget to lock your front door, and I waltz in your living room, but don't take or damage anything, just look around, take a few pictures and leave quietly while you are out, I'm legally in the clear?
I think not. (unless I work for Homeland Security:)
I am not saying that is what IBM did, but that is something that SCO will try to make it seem like IBM did.
The extreme left likes to censor and restrict anything they consider "bad" for you, or the children. They want the whole world to be a kindergarden.
No violent videogames. No Christmas holiday celebration. No Easter either. No public celebration of any Christmas holiday. Heck, make it a Federal felony to enter a Federal building, or heck, perhaps any public place, with any Christian symbol or anything associated with a Christian holiday. No prayer in school (if a kid is caught praying, expel him and permanently ban him from public education - or perhaps permanently exile him to gulag style "opportunity schools".) No sugary or fatty foods. No meat. No alcohol. No leather. No fur. No cars except for the most utilitarian, stripped down ones possible. No gun ownership. No allowing English speaking to be a job requirement. If your customers can't buy something in your store because they can't communicate - too bad. Ordering women to get abortions if they have any politically incorrect health habits. Pro-choice only goes one-way for a true liberal - the choice to HAVE a kid is not a respected choice. Not allowing stay at home moms. Make it economically infeasible, but if someone still manages, claim that home mothering and not putting kids in daycare will result in them being unsocialized, loners who aren't given the politically correct indoctrination that society wants - so put those mothers in prison for "abuse" (they aren't "getting a proper environment", being raised at home instead of outside the home) and put their kids up for adoption.
It's crap to even think Bush will nuke a country without us getting nuked first.
We aren't that way. World War 2 was an exception - and the rest of the world didn't even seem to mind what we did.
We aren't going to nuke North Korea, etc, unless they nuke us first.
In which case, I'd hope you'd all support a full counter attack - to make sure that the threat from them is neutralized and to strongly dissuade any others from doing that to us.
WORLD citizen, "better off the planet is in the long run"...
Well with talk like that we don't need or want you here in the US.
Go to the Third World and get dysentry or malaria or sleeping sickness. Forget about having Internet access, unless you want to pay half your salary for a 2400 baud connection. Speak out like you are doing now, and get shot or beheaded. Work 12 hours a day and make $2000 a year. Worry about bandits shooting you in the night.
And we did actually liberate Iraq and Afghanistan. Their people are better off. No more torture, no more oppression.
Oh by the way, did you know having an Internet capable computer under Saddam was punished by beheading?
Did you know women have no rights in many of these countries? Why is discrimination against women seen as such a bad thing (which it is) when it is done in the USA, but FAR WORSE discrimination against women in these other countries is tolerated and respected as "part of their culture"???
Why is it so fashionable to hate the USA? Why is it so hip to hate freedom, and to resent success?
I'll take right over wrong, morality over moral relativism, freedom over oppression, health over disease, education over ignorance, having a job over unemployment, and prosperity over poverty any day.
Many people agree with me.
People immigrate to the USA in huge numbers, many risking (some losing) their lives to do so.
Not many people voluntarily leave the USA.
I wonder why? Is it because we suck? No, that wouldn't make any sense. It is because we have something people all around the world want.
The USA does have one major problem, it is getting too crowded. Do your part to help us out.
Likely, such an extreme action would only be taken if we went to "Red" (never has happened, the days of and right after September 11 would've been Red if the system was in place then).
At that level, many people would be getting sent home from their jobs, many others would be called into work, public transport would go into emergency operations, etc.
The proprietary hardware, lack of open source software (even worse than on Windows), lawsuit-happy Apple, and dumbed down straight jacket like Mac OS operating system (before they used a BSD core) are reasons.
How do you get a Windows user and a Linux user to stop fighting?
Say you think Macs are better, then run like hell.:)
Crashing is bad, but the fact the browser loses all state information (what pages you are on, etc) makes it far worse.
Here is what the browser should do:
1. Have the history file have an "actively viewed" flag for the page. Have the history file updated with the new page as soon as it is displayed. 2. When you leave a page, the browser unsets the "actively viewed" flag. 3. When the browser crashes, see if any pages were actively being viewed and display those, instead of the default page.
Notice the nice average speed of 45 MPH Northbound - this is a logical failure mode for GPS where some of the intermediate positions are scrambled. Please, no one tell me the kid could actually be doing that, unless his car can stop and reverse at over 9G's.
Of course you can filter the data to eliminate this, but how to do avoid false negatives. Such as the kid ripping up and down the freeway at 105 and then driving off at the speed limit.
GPS positioning needs to be made better. Joggers using it to track their speed are very annoyed by the inaccuracies.
Maybe we need an urban positioning system based of triangulation of signal strengths and time delays of transmitters (such as cell towers). That might have made a better decision than GPS or a good backup for it for the E911 cell phone location system.
Have your site immediately block a spamming IP at the firewall and THEN kill the connection on the MTA, but don't let the sending site get anything back at all.
Make it wait for its TCP/IP connection to time out.
This will essentially result in a form of distributed denial of service on the spammer, as it waits for replies to TCP packets which will never come through.
True about protention customers (I didn't buy a $400 UPS from a site because it was down and a competitor's site wasn't).
I'm not so sure about losing current customers.
People (including those in business) are just too used to the Internet being very unreliable. So many sites often give "Connection Timed Out", "Connection Refused" or "Server Error" (such as Slashdot!), "404 Not Found " errors are everywhere, including links from a site to itself, etc.
If I were a company I'd rather have my email down for a week than my phone down for a day.
Of course, with Voice Over IP - we can have phones going down for a week at a time just as easily as one can have their net connection down for that long.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm really wondering if I made the best choice in procreating.
Well if your kid becomes a lawyer, then you'll know the answer was "no". :)
Use of the network (which is made of computers, and routers, which are, in esscene, computers) beyond authorization is illegal.
In your examples, the ISP and the employer could have criminal charges pressed against the user.
You are accessing every computer between yours and the final destination, inclusively, both from a technical and legal standpoint.
Making the law state otherwise would be unjustified. It would make using someone's network without their permission legal as long as you accessed only sites that allowed you to access them.
So if you forget to lock your front door, and I waltz in your living room, but don't take or damage anything, just look around, take a few pictures and leave quietly while you are out, I'm legally in the clear?
:)
I think not. (unless I work for Homeland Security
I am not saying that is what IBM did, but that is something that SCO will try to make it seem like IBM did.
Let's not worry about how to spell "dioxin" either I guess.
A gamer died from exhaustion in South Korea. Another gamer died from exhaustion in Taiwan.
Video games can cause seizures.
I'm against censorship, but unforunately your argument doesn't hold.
People will find the strangest ways to die and to get sick.
Well if you rear your kids right, that won't be a problem.
We don't stop kids from being able to cross the street even though some of them might be stupid when doing so.
We count on the parents to teach the kids and tell them what they can and can't do.
Kids don't need government to be a third parent.
Some states that is true with alcohol. In New Jersey, though, a parent giving a child under 21 even a sip of wine is illegal.
The extreme left likes to censor and restrict anything they consider "bad" for you, or the children. They want the whole world to be a kindergarden.
No violent videogames.
No Christmas holiday celebration.
No Easter either.
No public celebration of any Christmas holiday. Heck, make it a Federal felony to enter a Federal building, or heck, perhaps any public place, with any Christian symbol or anything associated with a Christian holiday.
No prayer in school (if a kid is caught praying, expel him and permanently ban him from public education - or perhaps permanently exile him to gulag style "opportunity schools".)
No sugary or fatty foods.
No meat.
No alcohol.
No leather.
No fur.
No cars except for the most utilitarian, stripped down ones possible.
No gun ownership.
No allowing English speaking to be a job requirement. If your customers can't buy something in your store because they can't communicate - too bad.
Ordering women to get abortions if they have any politically incorrect health habits. Pro-choice only goes one-way for a true liberal - the choice to HAVE a kid is not a respected choice.
Not allowing stay at home moms. Make it economically infeasible, but if someone still manages, claim that home mothering and not putting kids in daycare will result in them being unsocialized, loners who aren't given the politically correct indoctrination that society wants - so put those mothers in prison for "abuse" (they aren't "getting a proper environment", being raised at home instead of outside the home) and put their kids up for adoption.
Extreme left is just as bad as extreme right.
It's crap to even think Bush will nuke a country without us getting nuked first.
We aren't that way. World War 2 was an exception - and the rest of the world didn't even seem to mind what we did.
We aren't going to nuke North Korea, etc, unless they nuke us first.
In which case, I'd hope you'd all support a full counter attack - to make sure that the threat from them is neutralized and to strongly dissuade any others from doing that to us.
WORLD citizen, "better off the planet is in the long run"...
Well with talk like that we don't need or want you here in the US.
Go to the Third World and get dysentry or malaria or sleeping sickness. Forget about having Internet access, unless you want to pay half your salary for a 2400 baud connection. Speak out like you are doing now, and get shot or beheaded. Work 12 hours a day and make $2000 a year. Worry about bandits shooting you in the night.
And we did actually liberate Iraq and Afghanistan. Their people are better off. No more torture, no more oppression.
Oh by the way, did you know having an Internet capable computer under Saddam was punished by beheading?
Did you know women have no rights in many of these countries? Why is discrimination against women seen as such a bad thing (which it is) when it is done in the USA, but FAR WORSE discrimination against women in these other countries is tolerated and respected as "part of their culture"???
Why is it so fashionable to hate the USA? Why is it so hip to hate freedom, and to resent success?
I'll take right over wrong, morality over moral relativism, freedom over oppression, health over disease, education over ignorance, having a job over unemployment, and prosperity over poverty any day.
Many people agree with me.
People immigrate to the USA in huge numbers, many risking (some losing) their lives to do so.
Not many people voluntarily leave the USA.
I wonder why? Is it because we suck? No, that wouldn't make any sense. It is because we have something people all around the world want.
The USA does have one major problem, it is getting too crowded. Do your part to help us out.
Likely, such an extreme action would only be taken if we went to "Red" (never has happened, the days of and right after September 11 would've been Red if the system was in place then).
At that level, many people would be getting sent home from their jobs, many others would be called into work, public transport would go into emergency operations, etc.
Well I know the people on this site would never stand for such an invasion.
Unless it was for the next Half Life game or something.
Such as mailing the kids to Alaska? :)
In Soviet Russia, KIOSK photographs YOU!
:)
actually that should read:
In USA, KIOSK photographs YOU!
Well, the way things are going, we might be able to reuse all the Soview Russia jokes.
someone can sue successfully for libel only if the defamatory information is proven to be false.
That should read as follows:
"someone can sue successfully for libel only if they can trick, bamboozle or bribe a court into ruling that the defamatory information is false."
Linux users don't like Macs either.
:)
The proprietary hardware, lack of open source software (even worse than on Windows), lawsuit-happy Apple, and dumbed down straight jacket like Mac OS operating system (before they used a BSD core) are reasons.
How do you get a Windows user and a Linux user to stop fighting?
Say you think Macs are better, then run like hell.
Learn Visual Basic. It is at the same level of sophistication.
Crashing is bad, but the fact the browser loses all state information (what pages you are on, etc) makes it far worse.
Here is what the browser should do:
1. Have the history file have an "actively viewed" flag for the page. Have the history file updated with the new page as soon as it is displayed.
2. When you leave a page, the browser unsets the "actively viewed" flag.
3. When the browser crashes, see if any pages were actively being viewed and display those, instead of the default page.
Send them an RTF but name it .doc
They won't even know the difference.
Microsoft Word will open it up.
I tested it, and bold and italics still worked. Probably anything RTF supports will work.
Hasn't their been lots of problems with GPS reliability. Positions chaning wildly, especially right after someone goes in a tunnel, etc, etc.
The kid could be doing 45 in a 45 and the system comes up with the following:
13:00:01: 45 MPH Northbound
13:00:02: 105 MPH Northbound
13:00:03: 103 MPH Southbound
13:00:04: 90 MPH Northbound
13:00:05: 88 MPH Northbound
13:00:06: 45 MPH Northbound
Notice the nice average speed of 45 MPH Northbound - this is a logical failure mode for GPS where some of the intermediate positions are scrambled. Please, no one tell me the kid could actually be doing that, unless his car can stop and reverse at over 9G's.
Of course you can filter the data to eliminate this, but how to do avoid false negatives. Such as the kid ripping up and down the freeway at 105 and then driving off at the speed limit.
GPS positioning needs to be made better. Joggers using it to track their speed are very annoyed by the inaccuracies.
Maybe we need an urban positioning system based of triangulation of signal strengths and time delays of transmitters (such as cell towers). That might have made a better decision than GPS or a good backup for it for the E911 cell phone location system.
These people will likely beat the US gov't to it. :)
That "logic" is actually pretty good compared to most medical studies.
;)
You'd have a great career in that field.
Causation vs correlation is totally lost on those people.
Have your site immediately block a spamming IP at the firewall and THEN kill the connection on the MTA, but don't let the sending site get anything back at all.
Make it wait for its TCP/IP connection to time out.
This will essentially result in a form of distributed denial of service on the spammer, as it waits for replies to TCP packets which will never come through.
True about protention customers (I didn't buy a $400 UPS from a site because it was down and a competitor's site wasn't).
I'm not so sure about losing current customers.
People (including those in business) are just too used to the Internet being very unreliable. So many sites often give "Connection Timed Out", "Connection Refused" or "Server Error" (such as Slashdot!), "404 Not Found " errors are everywhere, including links from a site to itself, etc.
If I were a company I'd rather have my email down for a week than my phone down for a day.
Of course, with Voice Over IP - we can have phones going down for a week at a time just as easily as one can have their net connection down for that long.
Their systems sounds like Greylisting + Spam Filtering.
Nothing so special about it, but that page makes it seem as though it is.