Heh, except unless the chain mail in quesiton explicity allows you to forward as much as you like, eh? (or did that have to be in writing outside the email?)
Heh, I was going to (and still am) make a comment about this as well. Think it was in Jurassic Park (novel, not movie) where one of the characters said something to the effect that it was arrogant for humans to worry about 'destroying the planet'.
The planet was here for a long time before us and will continue to adapt and thrive in some form or another long after we have ceased to exist as a species (well, until the sun starts to die and expands to envelop us, right?).
Funny how the tone is 'save the planet' when in reality it is 'stop screwing it up for ourselves'. Poor mother earth, we are destroying her. Hah! If anything, we are temporarily coating it with crap that over time may make it unable to support nearly all forms of life, including our own.
When that happens, we will all die off or leave. Earth's systems (atmosphere, ocean, etc) would likely adapt over time (much like after the dinosaur mass-extinction meteor or whatever) and yet another era of abundant life will arise.
Similar experience. Ten minutes after the @home guy was done 'installing' the software on my supposed desktop machine (I had pulled a p166 out of the closet and installed 'doze and pointed the technician at it "where's yer 'puter?"), I had my masq box up and connected to my cable modem and to my internal network. Moments later I had my Debian box pointing to my masq box and I was happily surfing and downloading.
Meanwhile, I was getting ready to wipe the drive from that p166 and was checking out the setup and I noticed that the C drive had been opened up as an unprotected share. I know I didn't do that, I had installed windows only the day before and I hadn't even bothered to install networking, let alone enable file and print sharing and do something as dumb as sharing the whole damn C drive with no password! Scratching my head, I proceeded to put Linux back on the machine and install bind and to go happily about setting up a local name server. I didn't give it another thought. I was in bandwidth/home LAN heaven.
A few weeks later I got an e-mail from @Home screetching at me about 'modifying' my @Home setup, and notifying me that a technician was scheduled to return to my home to restore my setup to the required @Home configuration (read: windows).
Sh*t. Well, what was I going to do? I decided to just let the chips fall where they may. The guy showed up and was atually pretty cool about it. He mumbled something to the effect that it was a stupid policy they had since all you really needed was TCP/IP and DHCP to use their service and giving people a hard time for changing the setup was bullsh*t. He looked at my setup, made a couple notes and then half-smiled as he left.
I never heard another word about it. I have a feeling my paperwork just ended up getting 'lost'.
I'm surpried this is the first one to mention this, I was thinking the same thing. How about comparing dpkg/dselect to rpm? If apt has a peer, I can't think of one.
I love apt-get. I was using RH distros up until a year ago. RPMFIND is a nice way to locate packages, but I found that going out and grabbing packages, downloading them, finding out missing deps and then repeating the process to be a chore.
Then I started trying out debian for a machine I wanted to build for a samba file server in my house. Once I was able to grok dpkg + dselect + apt, I was thoroughly impressed and comfortable in switching my main box to Debian.
Of course YMMV and choice is a good thing. But I agree that apt and rpm are apples and oranges.
I didn't expect an serious answer. I know perfectly well why they do that. What I was doing was posting a link to the actual downloadable file and then making some tongue-in-cheek moaning about javascript popups. (that little winky ';-)' thing should have given this away) But thanks for clearing that up anyway. =)
I hate it when they use those annoying javascript popup windows for these things. Why the hell don't they just provide a link so you can download the damn thing!?;-)
4. The AC who submitted this confused the Supreme Court with the United States Circuit
Court for Ninth Circuit, District of California, which is what the RIAA's email mentions.
yeah, thought so - so no, he wasn't the real Slugworth. Wonka got his pal Wilkensen to pose as Slugworth and try to determine if Charley and the others were corrupt (Charley retuns the Gob-Stopper, proving he was worthy of being Wonka's successor)
From what I remember, the whole thing was a set-up to test the children anyway. Slugworth was the guy whispering in the ear of each golden-ticket winner who promised them $$ if they ripped off an EG from Wonka and gave it to him.
Turned out that they guy was working for Wonka and the whole thing was a test to see of Charley was honest or not.
Sheesh, don't know which is worse - that I remembered that or that I took the time to post it.
D. radiodurans may be effective at reducing contaminants such as chromium and uranium in place, thus preventing their migration through soils and into ground water.
So the idea is to immobilize the contaminants? I'm guessing 'reduce' doesn't mean what I would normally expect in this context. These bugs aren't going to metabolize the radioactive waste and make it dissapear or render it inert. There must be some benefit in having them 'eat' the stuff though. So when they excrete their waste, it isn't going to continue to spread into groundwater, or something. You still have to clean it up eventually, this just keeps it from getting away?
>all the people connecting to your Quake server at a not-so-blazing-anymore-128kbps connection total.
>Meanwhile everyone else in the neighborhood can still *download* up to 512k, 640k, or whatever is promised.
But doesn't a quake game server pretty much use bandwidth in both directions?
Sure, the thing sends up packets to everyone connected to send info on player locations and such, but doesn't each player connected send about as much info down to the server with their movements and such?
I ran a Q2 server on my cable for a while. I didn't get booted off or anything, but I did get a friendly warning asking me to limit players. Turns out this was a guy at the cable company who likes playing quake during his shift.
He came onto my server a couple of times and played for a little while and was one of those guys that liked to chat more than play. At one point he said something to the effect of 'hey, you know you're not really supposed to run servers on your cable, right? mediaone doesn't really enforce this all the time unless they get complaints that service is slow and they find you. you might want to limit the game server to like 6 players so they don't notice you.'
I'm in the middle of a series of books with/to my son that deals with Obi-Wan's early trining that kind of answers that.
Apparently, Jedi training begins with identification of potential knights at a very early age (months old). These very young children are taken to the 'Jedi Temple' where they are indeed trained by Yoda.
When a Jedi pupil reaches a certain age (10 or so) they become eligible to become an apprentice to a knight/master. In the story about Obi-Wan, he is nearing the age of 13 and has not yet been chosen by anyone as a 'padawan learner' and so is in danger of being ejected from the temple and never becoming a knight.
As it happens, Qui Gon ends up taking Obi-Wan as his apprentice. So there is a distinction made between the general training that Yoda gives to all Jedi students, and the one on one master/apprentice training that occurs on the road to becoming a 'Jedi Knight'.
As for the rest of the problems you mention, I agree - they are glaring, but there are always plausable explnations.
3PO does seem to hold information back, he might not readily volunteer that "skywalker?! why my first master was named Anakin Skywalker!" In ANH, he quite obviously knows who Leia is, but plays dumb when Luke asks him ("a person of some importance...")
Who the hell knows who "uncle" Owen is? He might be a relation a couple times removed. Anakin's ma had to come from somewhere, maybe she had a brother who had kids? I've seen families where 2nd and 3rd cousins are referred to as 'uncle' or 'aunt'.
K, I saw that linked from bluesnews this morning... what's the joke? I'm assuming this has something to do with some poorly translated console game or something?
>asking an intermediary access provider to block a section of the internet forever
Ok, yes this is a different matter entirely... and wasn't clear to me at all from reading the press release. This is bullshit. If the newsgroup isn't under their control, I don't get how they are expected to block passthru traffic.
So, did they really break the law then? Or, did they just cop a plea to make it stop?
well, dunno if this is the one to get all upset about...
Beginning in 1998, the Attorney General's Office and the State Police began an investigation of a group that called itself "Pedo University," whose members used the newsgroup to possess and exchange child pornography. After a series of successful prosecutions that helped to dismantle "Pedo U," the investigation turned its focus from the users of the newsgroup to the ISPs that provided access to the newsgroup. One of these was Buffnet. When Buffnet was made aware of the content of the newsgroup, it took no action.
...unless 'took no action' means something other than what I'm assuming it means. Does this mean they didn't roll over fast enough for the cop's liking in turning over account records and logs and such? Or did they just leave the 'illegal' conent stay up on their servers for weeks after they were notified?
They plead guilty, does that mean they conceded that they broke the law or did they bargain for a lesser charge to avoid the hassle of a trial? There aren't enough details in this press release for me to judge for myself if the ISP was really guilty of 'looking the other way'. I'm left with the impression that BuffNet was asked to cooperate and refused.
>the plane is from USA, even if you are over China, legally, you are in Area 1.
Yeah, except the ISS supposedly isn't from one specific country.
You know, that's an interesting idea, in general. What if an ISS crew member commited some serious crime while in space, like killing someone? Where would he/she be tried and under whose laws? Wonder if they'd go to all the trouble of convening an international tribunal in The Hague for somthing like that, or they'd be extradited to the country of origin of the victim to stand trial?
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The planet was here for a long time before us and will continue to adapt and thrive in some form or another long after we have ceased to exist as a species (well, until the sun starts to die and expands to envelop us, right?).
Funny how the tone is 'save the planet' when in reality it is 'stop screwing it up for ourselves'. Poor mother earth, we are destroying her. Hah! If anything, we are temporarily coating it with crap that over time may make it unable to support nearly all forms of life, including our own.
When that happens, we will all die off or leave. Earth's systems (atmosphere, ocean, etc) would likely adapt over time (much like after the dinosaur mass-extinction meteor or whatever) and yet another era of abundant life will arise.
At least I think so!
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Meanwhile, I was getting ready to wipe the drive from that p166 and was checking out the setup and I noticed that the C drive had been opened up as an unprotected share. I know I didn't do that, I had installed windows only the day before and I hadn't even bothered to install networking, let alone enable file and print sharing and do something as dumb as sharing the whole damn C drive with no password! Scratching my head, I proceeded to put Linux back on the machine and install bind and to go happily about setting up a local name server. I didn't give it another thought. I was in bandwidth/home LAN heaven.
A few weeks later I got an e-mail from @Home screetching at me about 'modifying' my @Home setup, and notifying me that a technician was scheduled to return to my home to restore my setup to the required @Home configuration (read: windows).
Sh*t. Well, what was I going to do? I decided to just let the chips fall where they may. The guy showed up and was atually pretty cool about it. He mumbled something to the effect that it was a stupid policy they had since all you really needed was TCP/IP and DHCP to use their service and giving people a hard time for changing the setup was bullsh*t. He looked at my setup, made a couple notes and then half-smiled as he left.
I never heard another word about it. I have a feeling my paperwork just ended up getting 'lost'.
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I love apt-get. I was using RH distros up until a year ago. RPMFIND is a nice way to locate packages, but I found that going out and grabbing packages, downloading them, finding out missing deps and then repeating the process to be a chore.
Then I started trying out debian for a machine I wanted to build for a samba file server in my house. Once I was able to grok dpkg + dselect + apt, I was thoroughly impressed and comfortable in switching my main box to Debian.
Of course YMMV and choice is a good thing. But I agree that apt and rpm are apples and oranges.
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I didn't expect an serious answer. I know perfectly well why they do that. What I was doing was posting a link to the actual downloadable file and then making some tongue-in-cheek moaning about javascript popups. (that little winky ';-)' thing should have given this away) But thanks for clearing that up anyway. =)
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Cool site, tells you when TV shows started to go downhill. (happy days started to suck right around the time fonz jumped a shark tank with his bike)
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what are _you_ talking about (...and no need to get personal)?
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Court for Ninth Circuit, District of California, which is what the RIAA's email mentions.
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Turned out that the guy was working for Wonka
yeah, thought so - so no, he wasn't the real Slugworth. Wonka got his pal Wilkensen to pose as Slugworth and try to determine if Charley and the others were corrupt (Charley retuns the Gob-Stopper, proving he was worthy of being Wonka's successor)
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From what I remember, the whole thing was a set-up to test the children anyway. Slugworth was the guy whispering in the ear of each golden-ticket winner who promised them $$ if they ripped off an EG from Wonka and gave it to him.
Turned out that they guy was working for Wonka and the whole thing was a test to see of Charley was honest or not.
Sheesh, don't know which is worse - that I remembered that or that I took the time to post it.
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"what do you mean they're 'made of meat'!?"
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So the idea is to immobilize the contaminants? I'm guessing 'reduce' doesn't mean what I would normally expect in this context. These bugs aren't going to metabolize the radioactive waste and make it dissapear or render it inert. There must be some benefit in having them 'eat' the stuff though. So when they excrete their waste, it isn't going to continue to spread into groundwater, or something. You still have to clean it up eventually, this just keeps it from getting away?
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>Meanwhile everyone else in the neighborhood can still *download* up to 512k, 640k, or whatever is promised.
But doesn't a quake game server pretty much use bandwidth in both directions?
Sure, the thing sends up packets to everyone connected to send info on player locations and such, but doesn't each player connected send about as much info down to the server with their movements and such?
I ran a Q2 server on my cable for a while. I didn't get booted off or anything, but I did get a friendly warning asking me to limit players. Turns out this was a guy at the cable company who likes playing quake during his shift.
He came onto my server a couple of times and played for a little while and was one of those guys that liked to chat more than play. At one point he said something to the effect of 'hey, you know you're not really supposed to run servers on your cable, right? mediaone doesn't really enforce this all the time unless they get complaints that service is slow and they find you. you might want to limit the game server to like 6 players so they don't notice you.'
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I'm in the middle of a series of books with/to my son that deals with Obi-Wan's early trining that kind of answers that.
Apparently, Jedi training begins with identification of potential knights at a very early age (months old). These very young children are taken to the 'Jedi Temple' where they are indeed trained by Yoda.
When a Jedi pupil reaches a certain age (10 or so) they become eligible to become an apprentice to a knight/master. In the story about Obi-Wan, he is nearing the age of 13 and has not yet been chosen by anyone as a 'padawan learner' and so is in danger of being ejected from the temple and never becoming a knight.
As it happens, Qui Gon ends up taking Obi-Wan as his apprentice. So there is a distinction made between the general training that Yoda gives to all Jedi students, and the one on one master/apprentice training that occurs on the road to becoming a 'Jedi Knight'.
As for the rest of the problems you mention, I agree - they are glaring, but there are always plausable explnations.
3PO does seem to hold information back, he might not readily volunteer that "skywalker?! why my first master was named Anakin Skywalker!" In ANH, he quite obviously knows who Leia is, but plays dumb when Luke asks him ("a person of some importance...")
Who the hell knows who "uncle" Owen is? He might be a relation a couple times removed. Anakin's ma had to come from somewhere, maybe she had a brother who had kids? I've seen families where 2nd and 3rd cousins are referred to as 'uncle' or 'aunt'.
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Apparently a line of games from SNK have been bad enough in translating english to lead to the term SNK-glish being coined. This was all news to me.
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Ok, yes this is a different matter entirely... and wasn't clear to me at all from reading the press release. This is bullshit. If the newsgroup isn't under their control, I don't get how they are expected to block passthru traffic.
So, did they really break the law then? Or, did they just cop a plea to make it stop?
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Beginning in 1998, the Attorney General's Office and the State Police began an investigation of a group that called itself "Pedo University," whose members used the newsgroup to possess and exchange child pornography. After a series of successful prosecutions that helped to dismantle "Pedo U," the investigation turned its focus from the users of the newsgroup to the ISPs that provided access to the newsgroup. One of these was Buffnet. When Buffnet was made aware of the content of the newsgroup, it took no action.
They plead guilty, does that mean they conceded that they broke the law or did they bargain for a lesser charge to avoid the hassle of a trial? There aren't enough details in this press release for me to judge for myself if the ISP was really guilty of 'looking the other way'. I'm left with the impression that BuffNet was asked to cooperate and refused.
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What, no Resevoir Dogs? The Matrix? Police Academy XII!? those poor slobs!
>the plane is from USA, even if you are over China, legally, you are in Area 1.
Yeah, except the ISS supposedly isn't from one specific country.
You know, that's an interesting idea, in general. What if an ISS crew member commited some serious crime while in space, like killing someone? Where would he/she be tried and under whose laws? Wonder if they'd go to all the trouble of convening an international tribunal in The Hague for somthing like that, or they'd be extradited to the country of origin of the victim to stand trial?