You forget something -- he still sent out spam! Though he got some gullible victims to buy the stock, you still have other victims of the spam and having to deal with the spam and the infected botnets.
Lets see, the blacks in the USA claimed that they are due reparations for 250 years of slavery. Then us Jews want reparations for 4000 years of slavery plus interest for 3000 years.
Of course as slaves we were not free to turn over our copyright rights, therefore us Jews still hold on to those rights. Us Jews welcome the Egyptians collecting our royalties for us, as long as it is distributed to us Jews.
If instead ICANN had some cajones, they could take the bad registrars out, clean up the registration mess that currently exists, and they could make it economically unfeasible for the spammers to continue their game as currently played. A good start would be to enforce an exponentially increasing fee structure for domains - I know of very few people who have a legitimate need for more than about 4 domains. Furthermore, if the bad registrars were to actually lose their accreditation after willingly doing business with these criminals (easy to prove), that would also help.
AMEN to the first part!
ICANN needs to get rid of the AGP (grace periods) for domain name registration which allows domain tasting. This allows people to register a domain name for up to 5 days and then get a refund on the fees.
I have had this discussion with ICANN staff. The liaison claims that since there is no partial penalties for registrars that violate their agreements that the only punishment available is to terminate the registration status. Bull! They can always terminate the ability to register new domain names to get the registrar to behave. Then the domain name registrars that don't bother terminating domain names with false whois information.
It is obvious. If companies don't/can't make money from spammers, they won't pay spammers.
That is what I have been doing. I don't file lawsuits against the people pressing the send button, but the people who are advertised and making money as a result of the spam. A sex dating site I sued years ago, took a strong anti-spam policy after I sued them.
Spammers spam to make money. If people don't pay them to send the spam, they won't do. If a company will not make money from spam, they won't pay the spammer. The same thing happened with junk fax.
The good is that allows people to fix, and distribute the fixes as part of the package instead of as a bunch of patches.
The bad is the security of the result. One of the hallmarks of the DJB software is that it is secure and he backs it up with a $500 (it may be $1000 now) bounty for security holes in the software. Many people referred to him as arrogant because of his refusal, but when you are good, you sometimes develop an attitude that people mistake for arrogance. Even so, it is HIS code, so he gets to do what he wants with it.
Maybe they are going to get the names and e-mail addresses of the people who 'donated' to the OLPC and send them an e-mail telling them how one of their distant relatives died in Nigeria and their assistance is needed to settle the estate.
When you teach, do you tell your student everything you know? More important, when you learn, do you know afterwards as much as your teacher does?
I find, or at least going for my CS degree, that I knew more than my professors. While going to school part time, I commonly experienced the "so that's what you call what I have been doing." Or, "5 steps to normalization? I thought it was one step...look at it and the schema pops up into your head."
Law school teaches the theory of law, not the practice of law.
Forget tire wear. What about the uneven coefficient of friction? That can get you killed. Predictability of your vehicle's reaction in all situations -- especial in emergencies -- is important.
I had the same type of agreement when I was at MSI. When the workers comp. insurance turned me down -- claiming that the injury was not solely from work, I used that agreement to argue that all computer related work belongs to my employer, therefore work related.
Barack Obama, Chris Dodd and Joe Biden are all communists^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^hterrorists! They are supporting communists^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^hterrorists by not allowing the US government to search all of our records when they please so that they can find the communists^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^hterrorists. That is so un-American. We must find and lock up all the communists^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^hterrorists.
If they use the district's money to file the lawsuit with the individuals as plaintiff will make the statements that they use district funds for personal gain a true statement.
Shame on everyone else here. You all forgot the part about CDA immunity.
I don't usually see much on real software development and design here (outside of book reviews).
While some of the things are "Duh!!" people don't think of it. Many of the metrics programmer skill is based on LOC and bugs per LOC. This type of metric is counterproductive. Articles on the subject correctly reward low bug count more than LOC. But none of this takes into account the efficiency of the code, therefore encourages slow code with no bugs, and lots of lines. He is right, I think some developers (including myself) have the tendency to microoptimize the interesting code.
20/20 Hindsight is always better. Some attorneys have a tendency to throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks. -- I think that destroys credibility. On the other hand, some attorneys do not introduce theories that make sense because they do not quite understand it.
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They should start with assembly language and circuits. One should have understanding of the low level.
Though you may not use assembly language much, it helps to better understand what is going on under the hood.
You forget something -- he still sent out spam! Though he got some gullible victims to buy the stock, you still have other victims of the spam and having to deal with the spam and the infected botnets.
You thought you were just being paranoid when this happened. Other people told you were being paranoid.
Just remember, even if you are paranoid, they may still be out to get you too.
Lets see, the blacks in the USA claimed that they are due reparations for 250 years of slavery. Then us Jews want reparations for 4000 years of slavery plus interest for 3000 years.
Of course as slaves we were not free to turn over our copyright rights, therefore us Jews still hold on to those rights. Us Jews welcome the Egyptians collecting our royalties for us, as long as it is distributed to us Jews.
That was already done in the first episode. Eject the car thiefs onto a police car -- beats the hell out of LoJack.
If the planes can morph into basketball shoes, then I can wear it and play Like Mike. Oh, never mind, they already did that movie.
AMEN to the first part!
ICANN needs to get rid of the AGP (grace periods) for domain name registration which allows domain tasting. This allows people to register a domain name for up to 5 days and then get a refund on the fees.
I have had this discussion with ICANN staff. The liaison claims that since there is no partial penalties for registrars that violate their agreements that the only punishment available is to terminate the registration status. Bull! They can always terminate the ability to register new domain names to get the registrar to behave. Then the domain name registrars that don't bother terminating domain names with false whois information.
It is obvious. If companies don't/can't make money from spammers, they won't pay spammers.
That is what I have been doing. I don't file lawsuits against the people pressing the send button, but the people who are advertised and making money as a result of the spam. A sex dating site I sued years ago, took a strong anti-spam policy after I sued them.
Spammers spam to make money. If people don't pay them to send the spam, they won't do. If a company will not make money from spam, they won't pay the spammer. The same thing happened with junk fax.
Even if he donates it to public domain, he still wrote it. It may not be 'his' in the sense of exclusive control, but it is still his 'child'.
I like qmail. This is both good and bad.
The good is that allows people to fix, and distribute the fixes as part of the package instead of as a bunch of patches.
The bad is the security of the result. One of the hallmarks of the DJB software is that it is secure and he backs it up with a $500 (it may be $1000 now) bounty for security holes in the software. Many people referred to him as arrogant because of his refusal, but when you are good, you sometimes develop an attitude that people mistake for arrogance. Even so, it is HIS code, so he gets to do what he wants with it.
Maybe they are going to get the names and e-mail addresses of the people who 'donated' to the OLPC and send them an e-mail telling them how one of their distant relatives died in Nigeria and their assistance is needed to settle the estate.
I find, or at least going for my CS degree, that I knew more than my professors. While going to school part time, I commonly experienced the "so that's what you call what I have been doing." Or, "5 steps to normalization? I thought it was one step...look at it and the schema pops up into your head."
Law school teaches the theory of law, not the practice of law.
It is cheap to add another 1GB of ram. Most users want to be able to run a word processor, look at pictures, and surf the internet.
Most of the stores just keep pushing faster and faster machines on people, more than what they need. Vista helps with that being such a pig.
Have you been wearing a blindfold???? The drivers there are as bad as in Boston.
Forget tire wear. What about the uneven coefficient of friction? That can get you killed. Predictability of your vehicle's reaction in all situations -- especial in emergencies -- is important.
Hell, there are several OS text books the examine Multics. I think I left my Pascal algorithm book.
or at least when a Real Programmer (http://www.sorehands.com/humor/real1.htm) says it. Real Programmers speak in uppercase.
I had the same type of agreement when I was at MSI. When the workers comp. insurance turned me down -- claiming that the injury was not solely from work, I used that agreement to argue that all computer related work belongs to my employer, therefore work related.
Barack Obama, Chris Dodd and Joe Biden are all communists^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^hterrorists! They are supporting
communists^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^hterrorists by not allowing the US government to search all of our records when they please so that they can find the communists^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^hterrorists. That is so un-American. We must find and lock up all the communists^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^hterrorists.
George Orwell was not wrong, just early.
They are not defending. They would be the plaintiff and asking for MONEY! Unless this money is going to the school district, then they are gaining.
If they use the district's money to file the lawsuit with the individuals as plaintiff will make the statements that they use district funds for personal gain a true statement.
Shame on everyone else here. You all forgot the part about CDA immunity.
I don't usually see much on real software development and design here (outside of book reviews).
While some of the things are "Duh!!" people don't think of it. Many of the metrics programmer skill is based on LOC and bugs per LOC. This type of metric is counterproductive. Articles on the subject correctly reward low bug count more than LOC. But none of this takes into account the efficiency of the code, therefore encourages slow code with no bugs, and lots of lines. He is right, I think some developers (including myself) have the tendency to microoptimize the interesting code.
There is no trojan on my site. I did go to the link, but since I am running OS/2 on that system, I am not worried.
You forget we are talking about AOL users.
20/20 Hindsight is always better. Some attorneys have a tendency to throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks. -- I think that destroys credibility. On the other hand, some attorneys do not introduce theories that make sense because they do not quite understand it.