Did you read his post at all? He said that people are doing this so that they can sell the items to get real-world money. This means that the net cost is not $15 a month, instaed they are doing it to make money. And it means they're not playing for fabulous fun, they're playing for money.
Yes, that's right. Anything that doesn't have the NX flag set works just like memory does today on a system wher the NX flag doesn't exist. Having the flag off doesn't make the memory special "executable memory" that isn't allowed to contain data, it just means that the no-execute restriction doesn't apply.
FWIW, the firewall in windows xp sp2 does seem to block icmp by default. The first time I tried to ping an sp2 machine and got no response, I assumed the machine was dead, but then it turned out that it was because of the firewall (which is on by default).
Depends on the school, I think. I got a BA in computer science at Harvard (actually, we call it an "AB" since we insist on doing everything differently). Basically all undergrads there get a BA. The only major ("concentration" for us) we had where a BS ("SB" for us) even exists is engineering, as far as I know. So really, for us a BA just signifies "an undergraduate degree". But there also exist schools where they would call your cs degree a BS, or where both degrees exist and you can pick which one you want. So I wouldn't read to much into it without knowing the school.
Paypal does have a habit of scamming its customers
The writeup clearly says "Paypal is sending them a check for their remaining balance." So how is anybody being scammed? They are getting the money that is rightfully theres, and after that paypal no longer wishes to do business with them. I don't see the big deal.
UNIX/Linux/*BSD - Stuff written 30 years back still runs
At least for linux, this doesn't seem to be true. I think all of the people in the thread below who are "tired of trying to play matchup with GLIBC versions" would disagree. As would Jeremy White who talks about the "pain" of having Wine, his linux app, broken by constantly by various distros. And these are programs that are far less than 30 years old. You may find it difficult to acknowledge that Windows does something better (gasp!), but it's backward compatibility is actually quite good.
A flea market at which each seller could simultaneouly pitch their wares to millions of people at low cost would prosper and receive national attention.
He's also trying to sell his book. Books that claim that things are world-changing and hugely significant are more likley to sell than those that discuss small but significant shifts in how things are done.
Why was the parent modded up? It doesn't even make sense. I'm a bit bothered by the people here (probably including these moderators) who seem to be in denial and refuse to believe that people buy things from spammers. Well guess what: they do. You may want to believe that we live in a world where no one would do such a thing and come up with crazy alternate explanations as to why spam exists, but sadly the simple explanation sometimes really is the correct one, even if it makes you feel superior to write it off as "naive" or "knee-jerk".
The link insurance companies show between speeding and accidents is tenuous at best
Then we should work to change the existing laws rather than keeping them on the books and fighting efforts to enforce them. That just results in them being enforced arbitrarily and unevenly. Too many people today (this doesn't necessarily include you) disagree with the current speed limits, but accept their existence as long as they don't get many tickets. Laws that everyone ignores or knows are bogus only serve to erode our respect for the law in general (that's certainly the effect it's had on me).
You mean to tell me you see no difference in organized crime pressing counterfeit copies of cds, replicating them right down to the artwork and jewel cases, and a 12 year old sharing a lossy compressed version of the songs online?
No, I don't mean to tell you that. I didn't say anything similar to that. You have only constructed that by taking a quote from my post way, way out of context. As a general rule, if someone says something like "I don't think it matters", you need to take into consideration what the "it" is that's being discussed.
If the story was about them going after a twelve year old the same way they go after organized crime, and the twelve year old getting similar penalties, then everything you say would be legitimate. But that's not the story we're discussing. Did you look at the story? What happened is that the RIAA apparently gave misleading figures about how much piracy as an aggregate costs them. And I said that how much piracy as an aggregate costs should not be the deciding factor in what laws we pass. Instead, we should only consider whether people should have the right to copy things or not, and in what circumstances. If that results in certain people gaining or losing money, then so be it.
To interpret that statement as profit not mattering when considering individual crimes (or non-crimes) is truly impressive. It's as if you ignored the story, ignored the headline, ignored every other post and just read mine.
Oops, I accidentally used "they're". I guess I should be glad all the pedants are busy quibbling over the differences between "theft" and "copyright infringement".
If they have the moral and legal right to seek action against people who pirate music in the case where piracy is costing them lots of sales, then they have that same right in the case where it doesn't hurt them much or at all (or even helps them). Whether you have the right to copy music should not be decided based on how it affects the profits of the companies who make it. Either it belongs to them and these restrictions are permissible, or they are not.
Would you care to explain why? This sounds like a reasonable clause for the contract. You are paying them to provide you support for the software they provide, not software you write (or break) yourself. Otherwise you could "modify" it by adding massive new functionality and then say that they had to support your new code.
You could right a similar rant about lots of things. This only sounds compelling to you because you work with or particularly care about software. It's hard to run computers (or do lots of things) without electiricty. Should I write you a rant about how we must beware of the electric companies or they will RULE THE WORLD? I can't function without food. I eat food every day. So do lots of people. Does this mean that farmers are all-powerful and must be feared becuase they can user their power to *control society*? Just because you care about software, doesn't mean it needs to be such an important issue to everyone. I know my parents don't care much about software, but would tell you that education and the medical profession are super-important, and in a sense they would be right. Outside of slashdot, software is not the most pressing issue the world faces.
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Did you read his post at all? He said that people are doing this so that they can sell the items to get real-world money. This means that the net cost is not $15 a month, instaed they are doing it to make money. And it means they're not playing for fabulous fun, they're playing for money.
Yes, that's right. Anything that doesn't have the NX flag set works just like memory does today on a system wher the NX flag doesn't exist. Having the flag off doesn't make the memory special "executable memory" that isn't allowed to contain data, it just means that the no-execute restriction doesn't apply.
FWIW, the firewall in windows xp sp2 does seem to block icmp by default. The first time I tried to ping an sp2 machine and got no response, I assumed the machine was dead, but then it turned out that it was because of the firewall (which is on by default).
Depends on the school, I think. I got a BA in computer science at Harvard (actually, we call it an "AB" since we insist on doing everything differently). Basically all undergrads there get a BA. The only major ("concentration" for us) we had where a BS ("SB" for us) even exists is engineering, as far as I know. So really, for us a BA just signifies "an undergraduate degree". But there also exist schools where they would call your cs degree a BS, or where both degrees exist and you can pick which one you want. So I wouldn't read to much into it without knowing the school.
The FBI has little power against people in countries other than the US, including those who perpetrate these scams.
The writeup clearly says "Paypal is sending them a check for their remaining balance." So how is anybody being scammed? They are getting the money that is rightfully theres, and after that paypal no longer wishes to do business with them. I don't see the big deal.
What about printing it to paper and then scanning it in as postscript? Would that work?
At least for linux, this doesn't seem to be true. I think all of the people in the thread below who are "tired of trying to play matchup with GLIBC versions" would disagree. As would Jeremy White who talks about the "pain" of having Wine, his linux app, broken by constantly by various distros. And these are programs that are far less than 30 years old. You may find it difficult to acknowledge that Windows does something better (gasp!), but it's backward compatibility is actually quite good.
A flea market at which each seller could simultaneouly pitch their wares to millions of people at low cost would prosper and receive national attention.
He's also trying to sell his book. Books that claim that things are world-changing and hugely significant are more likley to sell than those that discuss small but significant shifts in how things are done.
Why was the parent modded up? It doesn't even make sense. I'm a bit bothered by the people here (probably including these moderators) who seem to be in denial and refuse to believe that people buy things from spammers. Well guess what: they do. You may want to believe that we live in a world where no one would do such a thing and come up with crazy alternate explanations as to why spam exists, but sadly the simple explanation sometimes really is the correct one, even if it makes you feel superior to write it off as "naive" or "knee-jerk".
If a troll is a post carefully designed to attract flames, than what is flamebait?
Then we should work to change the existing laws rather than keeping them on the books and fighting efforts to enforce them. That just results in them being enforced arbitrarily and unevenly. Too many people today (this doesn't necessarily include you) disagree with the current speed limits, but accept their existence as long as they don't get many tickets. Laws that everyone ignores or knows are bogus only serve to erode our respect for the law in general (that's certainly the effect it's had on me).
Especially not in Detroit. Certainly no groups of people have every shot at each other there.
ISR, slashdot preemptively takes care of YOU!
No, I don't mean to tell you that. I didn't say anything similar to that. You have only constructed that by taking a quote from my post way, way out of context. As a general rule, if someone says something like "I don't think it matters", you need to take into consideration what the "it" is that's being discussed.
If the story was about them going after a twelve year old the same way they go after organized crime, and the twelve year old getting similar penalties, then everything you say would be legitimate. But that's not the story we're discussing. Did you look at the story? What happened is that the RIAA apparently gave misleading figures about how much piracy as an aggregate costs them. And I said that how much piracy as an aggregate costs should not be the deciding factor in what laws we pass. Instead, we should only consider whether people should have the right to copy things or not, and in what circumstances. If that results in certain people gaining or losing money, then so be it.
To interpret that statement as profit not mattering when considering individual crimes (or non-crimes) is truly impressive. It's as if you ignored the story, ignored the headline, ignored every other post and just read mine.
Yes, those words appear in that order. No, that doesn't make your quote "accurate".
Oops, I accidentally used "they're". I guess I should be glad all the pedants are busy quibbling over the differences between "theft" and "copyright infringement".
You're they're all-time best seller.
If they have the moral and legal right to seek action against people who pirate music in the case where piracy is costing them lots of sales, then they have that same right in the case where it doesn't hurt them much or at all (or even helps them). Whether you have the right to copy music should not be decided based on how it affects the profits of the companies who make it. Either it belongs to them and these restrictions are permissible, or they are not.
Would you care to explain why? This sounds like a reasonable clause for the contract. You are paying them to provide you support for the software they provide, not software you write (or break) yourself. Otherwise you could "modify" it by adding massive new functionality and then say that they had to support your new code.
You could right a similar rant about lots of things. This only sounds compelling to you because you work with or particularly care about software. It's hard to run computers (or do lots of things) without electiricty. Should I write you a rant about how we must beware of the electric companies or they will RULE THE WORLD? I can't function without food. I eat food every day. So do lots of people. Does this mean that farmers are all-powerful and must be feared becuase they can user their power to *control society*? Just because you care about software, doesn't mean it needs to be such an important issue to everyone. I know my parents don't care much about software, but would tell you that education and the medical profession are super-important, and in a sense they would be right. Outside of slashdot, software is not the most pressing issue the world faces.
And server 2003 is NT 5.2
You really got him there. Good job refuting his claim that it just rips off someone elses appearance.
Out of curiousity, is the tobacco imported from the US?