contract law has interesting provisions. one is 'consideration'-- at the time you agree to the new contract/eula money has to be exchanged (prior contract exchanges like when you first pay money and set up for the monthly charge, are prior exchanges for a prior contract, since they are modifying a prior contract, they have to pay you 1 cent or more to have a new contract).
two is: in order to form a binding contract with them, you have to be an adult (not a minor below age 18-- minors cannot form binding contracts and should apply for all the magazines, CD clubs, etc that they can [this is why to purchase a car, a minor needs an adult cosigner])-- unfortuantly a credit card is legal proof of being an adult (i.e. an adult cosigned for you).
To form a contract, you also cannot be drunk or inebriated, not forced to do so under duress (a gun to the head), and be of sound mind (not insane).
I was drunk when I first installed the game, and I tend to grab a beer while waiting for any new patch to download (and have finished a couple by the time the EULA pops up). And my work 'forces' me to install windows, so their EULA's don't count either. hoody-hoo.
so in inetd, what does need to be left enabled before I start disabling everything I don't recognize? what services should be disabled? for an X-Box workstation? for a mandrake'd laptop? for a intranet server running domino and no X?
I look at the list of services and running processes, and I'm not sure that I want to willy nilly disable anything I don't know exactly what it will break, or what it will do for me if I leave it in?
I guess what I'm looking for is a securing a new system checklist. anyone?
consider what an ISP, or a search engine provide. Oversimpliphied, it is access and search capability to find information from a huge database called the internet. Each page your browser finds has and automatic copyright granted (as a written work), and the first thing you do to view it is to download a copy. Only after opening and viewing the 'copy' can you know for sure that you have been given the authority to view the page (it's implied that you have been given this right by the nature of it being posted on the internet, but consider a webpage that once you downloaded and opened to view in your browser, specifically states that copying of the page is infringement, etc blah bleh). Maybe the judge if right, maybe if we bury our heads in the sand and newfangled technology will just go away-- it worked for the guilds fighting against the industrial revolution, it worked during alcohol prohibition, it currently works for the 1929 Marijuana tax (not a prohibition, cause that was repealed;--). We can fight against progress. We can continue to live our lives not making the world a better place and giving investment clubs (corporations) their fair (fair or all the market will bear?) compensation. Consumers must want to shell out big bucks for things that could as easily be free (or pennies). And cars need to get bad gas milage and break down alot so we dont hurt texaco investors pocket books, or drive the repair industry out of business.
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a lot of poster's here wanting a notes client too! I have the domino server on a linux box, but am still lacking the 'client' the 'designer' and the 'administrator,' which is just plain annoying, Iris. But an IBM project may have a 3rd party solution for me (IBM didn't buy Lotus or something, right?). Anyway, hoody-hoo!
I just noticed, at the bottom of the page it says that all comments are owned by the poster, and I just made a copy of every single persons post-- violating copywrite as I didn't get everyone permission first (these damn web browsers are nothing but digital photocopiers after all-- first you make a copy and then the browser views it for you).... OMG that means the internet is nothing but a giant coping machine designed to do nothing but copy other peoples copywritten (but publicly available?) work!
boy I wish there was a site that listed companies that haven't tried to stab their customers for their money, as I do not do business with mobsters and thugs
"It is unfortunate that we have built a society where security through obscurity is so vital to the status quo that disseminating knowledge is punishable as a crime."
however, this is an anti-trust violation. price fixing always happens, however if you engage in price fixing while having monopoly power, it is no longer legal. On a related note, anti-trust law also has a small provision that if you abuse your monopoly power by doing something like price fixing, you loose your copyright. Thus the Record Label's Copywrited work (they own not the artist) will enter the public domain. You can have a monopoly, you are just held to a much higher standard of fair play than a competetive market (where if you price fix, your competitor will undercut you). In this case the 5 named companies engaged in collusion to fix prices while a monopoly. Bad bad record companies must not have been listening when Orrin Hatch threatened to spank them.
most people dont like the product because it is a huge slogging hog... as a webserver, the domino component is quite nice however (once you figure out how to install it into your distro that is)
that means i 1)keep it simple stupid, 2) write to the specification, 3) when i get a complaint that something isn't working, I tell them to get a web browser capabable of browsing the internet, not one that can only browse parts of it-- IE therefore isn't a web browser its only a MSWWW browser, 4) what is a web browser (that works well)? Opera. the linux version doesn't seem to have the 30 non consecutive days crippleware. For windoze there's lotus notes.
I will not spend my time doing extra work just to get more functionallity out of slipshod browsers. If the browser can read a standards compliant site, tough, go get a browser that can-- its not my job to fix MS's browser with tweeked code (ditto for netscape).
and any review that I do happen to ready which doesn't even attempt to provide some cons is immediately moderated down in my mind (not that it would have as much weight as 3+ user reviews anyway)
On call time: my ex-city webmaster job required alternating weekends for me and my partner, on call 8-5 sat and sunday = 16 hours minimum that im not out having fun, getting drunk, etc; i could spend all day on the computer playing a game as long as i was accessable. After 32 on-call hours we were paid for one additional hour. The Lan team at my new job is oncall 24/7 for no pay. I came into this job intentionally not wanting a pager, or a cellphone, or a job that didn't quit when i went home. luckily this particular division values the same things, and i am the only member of the lan team sans pager and cellphone. sometimes maybe its not fighting for what you want (and not getting the job), it more making your employer understand exactly what they are getting for their buck. sometimes your boss has pointy hair and you spend a portion of your day shopping for a new job
actually i just remembered from contract law, you also can't enter a binding contract under duress, if insane, or if intoxicated. So either install drunk or stoned, or if you like me, have to install stuff at work (sober) its still no problem. I don't want to, but work makes me, so it's duress (actually it's probably not be duress since I can quit the job) and its driven me mad:--)
the gpl does NOT require Costco or CompUSA to provide the source for the boxed copy of RedHat that they sell-- the source is to be obtained from RedHat (the distributor) not the value added reseller. Say I buy a 2 disk source and install debian distro for 2 bucks off linux mall. I can sell the binary cd to Joe Sixpack and the source cd to Dick Weed for 5 bucks each, unbundled. If Joe wants the source, he doesn't come to me according to the gpl, i'm just a reseller, Joe goes to the distributor, debian (who makes the source to the distro available). Imagine walking into Costo and trying to get them to give you for free the source CD for Corel Linux. Basically the distinction is that I'm selling the physical CD with what ever is on it. It is an entirely separate copywrite issue if I were selling copies of the CD, as then i am a distributor. And by this German ruling, the OEMs still can't make copies of windoze to sell, but they can sell the OEM disks as a reseller.
when you download off napster, it has links to similar sounding artists, while not good enough to be considered a google style search engine, and taste being extremely subjective, with high bandwidth, this will lead to downloading playlists much like a newsgroup puller and blocking prior downloads, then you delete the chaff and wah-lah personal radio. Then like radio, the good stuff promotes sales... what i really like i search heavily for, and if not gouged on price beyond what i consider fair for how much i want it (and whether or not the house payment will bounce)... And low quality mp3s will keep me buying CDs from the bands i really am a fan of (not just a radio listener).
And to face facts, i'm pretty lazy. If i find 3 songs by hole (example) on napster, am i going to search napster for every song by hole and download them all, or am i going to pop over to courtney's web site and pay her a fair price if i can (for me its the second option, as I am more sure that release quality stuff is on the bands website... my 2 cents anyway
Real fans WONT steal from the bands they love. exactly the point. say only 1 person in 20 buys a CD after downloading the mp3 off napster (etc), bands haven't lost 19 sales (despite the RIAA's claims), its just that only 1 person liked it enough to buy the cd. the rest will delete them in time, or keep them around to see if they grow on you, or they're too poor to have bought the CD but are still a fan (its just not played on the radio), or they're just greedy. Somepeople like buying hardback, some wait for the cheaper paperback, others check it out from a library and never buy it-- and yes my library has a fairly good sized CD collection for the community to 'share.' Lot of authors must loose huge amounts of money to librarys-- they should sue
encryption still seems to suffer the first buyer problem... irregardless of whether i purchase the cd or download the encrypted and purchased mp3 set, as soon as i have it, i could remove the encryption and release on napster. As a poster above pointed out:
The person who figures out how to make money from recordings without selling the music will be very very wealthy. There is already a great distribution infrastructure (the net) in place, but I believe that the key is filtering the crap.
"If there is hope it lies in the proles." -George Orwell, 1984
i was thinking maybe a streaming pay system (which would suck and annoy me) but as timmy points out:
The problem with micropayements (I know this is obvious, bear with me;) )is implementation.so how do artists make an amount of money from their listeners that the listeners don't find annoying to use or price gouged?...
i agree, but to continue the metaphor... the guy jiggling the doornob cannot tell which houses hes allowed to go in and browse and which he cant until after he jiggles the doornob
your comment seems to reinforce the claim of abuse of monopoly power; that the method used by the big recording companies specifically stifles and prevents competition from an independent artist. Much like a big company selling undercost to drive out competition in one area, and selling at markup where they're market is controlled; the record companies are loosing a lot on advertising in order to make a lot on physical sales of media. I'm not sure what my point is tho. Maybe that the better advertising system of word of mouth on the internet plus the ease of delivery is driving them out of business like the factories drove the guilds out of business?
This thread is making me all warm and fuzzy, like a little kitten turned inside out:--) It like a community where the communication is friendly. Try to imagine reporterA (cause i dont know any dead tree reporter names) of USAToday writting about the wonderful NYTimes or the like. It would never happen in a competitive corporate world, only in a cooperative communal network:--)
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two is: in order to form a binding contract with them, you have to be an adult (not a minor below age 18-- minors cannot form binding contracts and should apply for all the magazines, CD clubs, etc that they can [this is why to purchase a car, a minor needs an adult cosigner])-- unfortuantly a credit card is legal proof of being an adult (i.e. an adult cosigned for you).
To form a contract, you also cannot be drunk or inebriated, not forced to do so under duress (a gun to the head), and be of sound mind (not insane).
I was drunk when I first installed the game, and I tend to grab a beer while waiting for any new patch to download (and have finished a couple by the time the EULA pops up). And my work 'forces' me to install windows, so their EULA's don't count either. hoody-hoo.
I look at the list of services and running processes, and I'm not sure that I want to willy nilly disable anything I don't know exactly what it will break, or what it will do for me if I leave it in?
I guess what I'm looking for is a securing a new system checklist. anyone?
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a lot of poster's here wanting a notes client too! I have the domino server on a linux box, but am still lacking the 'client' the 'designer' and the 'administrator,' which is just plain annoying, Iris. But an IBM project may have a 3rd party solution for me (IBM didn't buy Lotus or something, right?). Anyway, hoody-hoo!
boy I wish there was a site that listed companies that haven't tried to stab their customers for their money, as I do not do business with mobsters and thugs
I just liked this line:--)
correct... IF they are not a monopoly. the rules are different for monopoly's because they'res no competitor to undercut their prices
however, this is an anti-trust violation. price fixing always happens, however if you engage in price fixing while having monopoly power, it is no longer legal. On a related note, anti-trust law also has a small provision that if you abuse your monopoly power by doing something like price fixing, you loose your copyright. Thus the Record Label's Copywrited work (they own not the artist) will enter the public domain. You can have a monopoly, you are just held to a much higher standard of fair play than a competetive market (where if you price fix, your competitor will undercut you). In this case the 5 named companies engaged in collusion to fix prices while a monopoly. Bad bad record companies must not have been listening when Orrin Hatch threatened to spank them.
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i dont buy my stereo components from ex-cons
i dont buy my pizza from dominos
i dont buy my toys from mattel
i dont buy anything microsoft says, let alone make
and, im just not interested in paying big media to help them fight against the rights i used to have
i wonder if a inverse-bair plugin can be made for junkbuster so that it will block images except for porn?
I will not spend my time doing extra work just to get more functionallity out of slipshod browsers. If the browser can read a standards compliant site, tough, go get a browser that can-- its not my job to fix MS's browser with tweeked code (ditto for netscape).
and any review that I do happen to ready which doesn't even attempt to provide some cons is immediately moderated down in my mind (not that it would have as much weight as 3+ user reviews anyway)
actually i just remembered from contract law, you also can't enter a binding contract under duress, if insane, or if intoxicated. So either install drunk or stoned, or if you like me, have to install stuff at work (sober) its still no problem. I don't want to, but work makes me, so it's duress (actually it's probably not be duress since I can quit the job) and its driven me mad:--)
the gpl does NOT require Costco or CompUSA to provide the source for the boxed copy of RedHat that they sell-- the source is to be obtained from RedHat (the distributor) not the value added reseller. Say I buy a 2 disk source and install debian distro for 2 bucks off linux mall. I can sell the binary cd to Joe Sixpack and the source cd to Dick Weed for 5 bucks each, unbundled. If Joe wants the source, he doesn't come to me according to the gpl, i'm just a reseller, Joe goes to the distributor, debian (who makes the source to the distro available). Imagine walking into Costo and trying to get them to give you for free the source CD for Corel Linux. Basically the distinction is that I'm selling the physical CD with what ever is on it. It is an entirely separate copywrite issue if I were selling copies of the CD, as then i am a distributor. And by this German ruling, the OEMs still can't make copies of windoze to sell, but they can sell the OEM disks as a reseller.
any child under 18 cannot legally form a binding contract in the US...
And to face facts, i'm pretty lazy. If i find 3 songs by hole (example) on napster, am i going to search napster for every song by hole and download them all, or am i going to pop over to courtney's web site and pay her a fair price if i can (for me its the second option, as I am more sure that release quality stuff is on the bands website... my 2 cents anyway
Real fans WONT steal from the bands they love. exactly the point. say only 1 person in 20 buys a CD after downloading the mp3 off napster (etc), bands haven't lost 19 sales (despite the RIAA's claims), its just that only 1 person liked it enough to buy the cd. the rest will delete them in time, or keep them around to see if they grow on you, or they're too poor to have bought the CD but are still a fan (its just not played on the radio), or they're just greedy. Somepeople like buying hardback, some wait for the cheaper paperback, others check it out from a library and never buy it-- and yes my library has a fairly good sized CD collection for the community to 'share.' Lot of authors must loose huge amounts of money to librarys-- they should sue
The person who figures out how to make money from recordings without selling the music will be very very wealthy. There is already a great distribution infrastructure (the net) in place, but I believe that the key is filtering the crap.
"If there is hope it lies in the proles." -George Orwell, 1984
i was thinking maybe a streaming pay system (which would suck and annoy me) but as timmy points out:
The problem with micropayements (I know this is obvious, bear with me ;) )is implementation.so how do artists make an amount of money from their listeners that the listeners don't find annoying to use or price gouged?...
your comment seems to reinforce the claim of abuse of monopoly power; that the method used by the big recording companies specifically stifles and prevents competition from an independent artist. Much like a big company selling undercost to drive out competition in one area, and selling at markup where they're market is controlled; the record companies are loosing a lot on advertising in order to make a lot on physical sales of media. I'm not sure what my point is tho. Maybe that the better advertising system of word of mouth on the internet plus the ease of delivery is driving them out of business like the factories drove the guilds out of business?
"because they cannot abide slavery any more than we can abide them"-- Abraham Lincoln on what to do with the freed slaves. IANAR (I am not a racisist) but I'm not so sure about Lincoln.