He wasn't saying that child porn shouldn't be censored. The point he was trying to make is that you shoudn't destroy/outlaw a tool just because ONE purpose is illegal. You can break a window with a hammer, should hammers be illegal?
This is not a hammer with which you can break a window. This is a hammer with which it's impossible not to break a window. If you run a Freenet node, you will distribute child pornography. There is no way to prevent it.
So a Mac pperson might load up thier copy of IE for Mac whereas the Linux person changes thier UserAgent string and forgets to change it back.
Point there (provided the site in question accepts MacIE... there are those that insist on WinIE only). Then again, the Mac person in question might refuse to load up his Macro$oft bugware just to placate that site and change his UA string anyway. I know I would.
Do you think it might be just a little bit possible that IE for Mac identifies itself as IE?
Yes, as IE for Mac, that is - which plenty of sites do not accept (e.g. online banking). The point here was users changing their UA string due to sites not accepting anything but WinIE.
IE on mac is a completely different program from IE on win, you anonymous retard. It doesn't have a line of code in common. The incompatibilities are even worse than with Mozilla and Safari. Besides, it's dead.
Probably because most Linux users change their user agent string to report as a windoze variant...
Nonsense. There's no reason why Linux users would do that and Mac users wouldn't. Since both systems encounter the same WinIE non-compatibility problems, you'd expect them to do that to the same degree.
If Google says there are three times as many Mac users visiting them as Linux users, I'd say that's a good indication that Linux is not anywhere near overtaking the Mac on the desktop, in spite of what some analiar predicts in BusinessWeek.
I mean, it's not as if people run "Chicago" OS on their Intel "Yamhill" CPUs, while Apple enthusiasts crow about how superior their "Butt-Head Astronomer" systems are...
Actually, we've been bragging about the superiority of Jaguar, and now Panther, for a while...
The Macintosh doesn't have the extensive game library that Windows does and it has a very refined and integrated desktop. Their only problem is that their systems are extremely expensive.
Linux's true downfall has far less to do with MS's market dominance than it does with basic marketing. It's nice to have a product, but it's useless if no one knows about it.
The annoying thing about bottom posting is that when you are reading an archived discussion on google groups. You have this annoying "Read More" link to click on whenever you want to see the actual content of a post.
The problem here is not the "bottom-posting" but the failure to snip the quotes down to the relevant parts only. Quoting the entire post is another bad habit, and one bad reason why top-posting is a bad habit is that it encourages this. In fact, bottom/middle-posters who don't trim are even worse than top-posters, for exactly the kind of reasons you illustrate.
In addition to living in their own criminally delusional world, spammers often don't spam for themselves but work for others. They get paid by their, er, client for each message sent, it doesn't matter to them whether it's wanted or not.
Plus, there's always that.001% of suckers to keep the biz going if the cost of sending is close to zero.
With this background fact, you won't wonder that OGG was turned down. The encryption shemes will make sure that the song only play on certificated players. However a player which supports formats which can be used to illegal copies will never get such a certification.
Jesus Fucking Christ. How many times are people going to trot this shit out?
About as many times as they are going to repeat the mantra that replacing SMTP will somehow automagically solve the spam problem. It's part of the Slashdot liturgy. If you don't bleat along, you're not part of the incrowd.
Wouldn't it be more profitable for Wiki to call a spade a spade, call itself a collective, and get on with raising money from its community and providing them with the service?
What in the freak do you think they are doing right now? Who cares what they call themselves?
With respect to the ability of a democratic process to determine truth, consider the now classic case study of Al Gore's alleged claim to have invented the internet. Widely accepted and unquestioned by most people as a fact, Mr. Gore in truth made no such claim,
Actually, the biggest problem with SMTP is that there is no way to assure whom the mail is coming from, and thus there is no accountability.
Yet again the same "SMTP has no authentication" canard. Explain to me what this is.
If anonymity was not possible, then spammers would disapper because they'd be found and subjected to their own treatment back on them.
More cluelessness. Spammers are not anonymous and never have been anonymous. We know who they are and have known all along, the only reason they continue is that law enforcement doesn't give a shit about spam. In fact, now that the US has legalized spam with the you-can-spam act, we can expect it to increase further still.
The way to stop spam is to throw the spammers in jail. As long as the political will to do that is lacking, spam will continue to get worse.
Since "window" is a common English word, the word "Windows" might be seen as generic and non-trademarkable in English-speaking countries. In other countries such as Sweden and Finland that obviously wouldn't apply, since the words for "window" in Swedish and Finnish are quite different.
Yes, the root account is not actually "disabled." That would be impossible on a *NIX based system. Root is more than just a top level account. What Apple has done is disabled the ability to log in to the root account from anywhere, allowing only sudo connections. You cannot even su. This means any user in the admin group can run applications as root, as they get added to the sudo wheel. That's a risk. I'd rather see Apple create a difference between admin accounts. Something more like NTs Power User where you can do most things on the computer, but you cannot sudo to root.
To achieve that you could edit the/etc/sudoers file with the command sudo visudo. Of course that is not exactly user friendly.
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IE on mac is a completely different program from IE on win, you anonymous retard. It doesn't have a line of code in common. The incompatibilities are even worse than with Mozilla and Safari. Besides, it's dead.
Nonsense. There's no reason why Linux users would do that and Mac users wouldn't. Since both systems encounter the same WinIE non-compatibility problems, you'd expect them to do that to the same degree.
If Google says there are three times as many Mac users visiting them as Linux users, I'd say that's a good indication that Linux is not anywhere near overtaking the Mac on the desktop, in spite of what some analiar predicts in BusinessWeek.
Actually, we've been bragging about the superiority of Jaguar, and now Panther, for a while...
I'm runnig dosbox just fine on my iBook, so evidently it's platform-independent.
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Thankfully, Microsoft is fixing that now.
He's concerned with not helping Microsoft. I don't see how that's got anything to do with hurting Microsoft.
The problem here is not the "bottom-posting" but the failure to snip the quotes down to the relevant parts only. Quoting the entire post is another bad habit, and one bad reason why top-posting is a bad habit is that it encourages this. In fact, bottom/middle-posters who don't trim are even worse than top-posters, for exactly the kind of reasons you illustrate.
In addition to living in their own criminally delusional world, spammers often don't spam for themselves but work for others. They get paid by their, er, client for each message sent, it doesn't matter to them whether it's wanted or not.
Plus, there's always that .001% of suckers to keep the biz going if the cost of sending is close to zero.
Formats like MP3, you mean?
About as many times as they are going to repeat the mantra that replacing SMTP will somehow automagically solve the spam problem. It's part of the Slashdot liturgy. If you don't bleat along, you're not part of the incrowd.
So I'm sure you have better alternatives to suggest?
Well, Wikipedia does report on that issue accurately.
Yet again the same "SMTP has no authentication" canard. Explain to me what this is.
More cluelessness. Spammers are not anonymous and never have been anonymous. We know who they are and have known all along, the only reason they continue is that law enforcement doesn't give a shit about spam. In fact, now that the US has legalized spam with the you-can-spam act, we can expect it to increase further still.
The way to stop spam is to throw the spammers in jail. As long as the political will to do that is lacking, spam will continue to get worse.
Since "window" is a common English word, the word "Windows" might be seen as generic and non-trademarkable in English-speaking countries. In other countries such as Sweden and Finland that obviously wouldn't apply, since the words for "window" in Swedish and Finnish are quite different.