This may be a program recommended by Junkbusters (not sure)... ENIGMA. This baby guides you through the relevant questions to ask when those annoying scum-of-the-earth telemarketers call. It allows YOU to take control of the call and ultimately ends up having them add your number to their official Do Not Call list, which they are required to maintain by law. It also keeps a log of the calls and allows you to document persistent offenders in cases where you might have the opportunity to sue the bastards for violating the law.
When I first got Enigma, I was being bombarded by TM calls. One round of calls with Enigma and now I am virtually telemarketing free! Yay! I actually wanted the bastards to call back so I could sue them and/or make documented complaints to the proper authorities. Unfortunately they haven't been calling so I haven't had the ultimate joy yet, but some day I know they will call back. I'll be waiting.
We think the USDOJ should stop Microsoft from undermining dual boot PCs.
This point has been all but neglected in the government's case against MS. There was a good Be View in the August Byte Magazine that talked about this subtle topic. No matter what the outcome is with the current DOJ vs. MS Harmful Monopoly case, this dual-boot concern should form the base of the next case against Microsoft. Perhaps it would be helpful to start lobbying officials in the states that are poised to press their own cases against MS once the current federal action is complete.
Yes, they are the same. I took a class many years ago and half the course was on audio and the other half was video. We went through the rigourous math etc. The most interesting potential application I remember was that a 2D FFT of an image could be used for pattern matching. You take the FFT of the image and correlate it with an FFT of the image you want to match. The de-correlated output result had highlighted "points" whose brightness corresponded to the "goodness" of the match.
It was really very cool. One image was a bunch of letters on a page, arranged randomly. The thing we were matching was the letter 'h'. The brightest points in the result were indeed the letters 'h' on the page. Some 'n's also correlated to a degree and they also showed up in the result, although they were not as bright as the 'h's. Most fascinating - it didn't matter what rotation the individual letters had. An upside-down 'h' or a 90-degree rotated 'h' were equally recognized. If anything, this optical processing is probably purer than current digital methods which are only approximations.
There are some good links to finding names, addresses and phone numbers for your reps/senators in D.C.
THIS LINK has Senate information.
THIS ONE leads to House of Representatives information.
AND THIS ONE at Project VoteSmart is about the only central repository for FAX numbers.
We need a database of all this information in some easy-to-use format like MySQL or Access (shudder) so that popping off letters and faxes is as easy to do as possible. Email is easy. Snail mail is most effective. If we can't get rid of paper entirely - and this would appear to be the case for effective communication with congresscritters - we need to make it as painless as possible. I have found that the biggest pain in snail mail is NOT the cost of the stamp or the tedious activity of putting folded paper in envelopes. Instead, it's collecting all the relevant addresses and/or FAX numbers in one place. I can't believe no one has done this yet. I've made a small database for maybe a dozen people in Washington, but to do it for every elected rep. and senator would take more than a week. If we could agree on a common format (or formats) then one person per state could get it done in no time at all.
Special interest groups and political action committees have these tools. It's basically targeted spam, but it gets the best results.
Once again we have MS telling its "customers" that older versions are no longer supported. IOW, Bill says: Fuck You
They refuse to address the problems associated with older versions of PowerPoint and Excel. They are saying: "If you don't pay us money to upgrade then it's your fault if you get burned."
At some point someone should investigate whether this is a pre-meditated strategy on Bill's part. They know there are security holes - they may actually put them in there on purpose - and they refuse to fix them unless they are paid. Unacceptable.
Damn straight. That's why we use *gasp* sealed envelopes for snail mail. It's also a major crime to open someone else's mail. If nobody had anything to hide there would be no foul if everyone could just open anyone else's mail.
Great Britain is perhaps our closest ally today. We should not lose sight of the fact that their attitudes and practices engendered the American Revolution some 225 years ago.
"The public statements about the efficacy of the Newham facial-recognition system bear little relationship to its actual operational capabilities, which are rather weak and poor," says Clive Norris of the University of Hull. "They want everyone to believe that they are potentially under scrutiny. Its effectiveness, perhaps, is based on a lie."
This is from an academician no less! They admit the purpose of this is mind control and that's pretty damn scary. Sic Semper Tyrranus and I'm not talking about Abraham Lincoln.
This should be "NASA Would Like to Bring Back Martian Rocks". NASA would like to do a lot of things. Draconian budget cuts in recent years have put a major crimp in their style, however. They are currently not "planning" to do anything of the sort. They are simply groping about for a project that will let some of them keep their jobs by hitting on something that will engender public and Congressional support (and dollars). That's about as far in advance as their "planning" allows these days.
It seems like every 6 months now they some out with some new "discovery" that turns out to be just a rehash of old science with a new twist. Truth is, if you think along the lines of timothy here, you could also say that:
NASA Plans on Sending Astronauts Back to the Moon
NASA Plans on Sending Satellite Fleet to Jupiter
NASA Plans on Searching For Life on Titan's Oceans
NASA Plans on Tripling Space Station Size
NASA Plans on New Hubble Replacement
The list goes on and on. I love NASA, don't get me wrong, but the only serious stories worth looking at are the ones that start with NASA Receives Budgetary Committment From Congress For [insert project here]. That's the point where any serious planning really starts.
A tad long, perhaps. I always draft 2 different letters. The long version I send/FAX only to my immediate U.S. Senators and Representative. If a key committeeman is from my state then I send them the long version as well. Everyone else gets the short version. 1 page. Concise and to-the-point with maybe 3 or 4 bulleted items to focus on.
Something we/.ers could really use: a Congressional database complete with names, mailing addresses, phone and FAX numbers, committee memberships and in ready-to-use form for mailing labels, FAX and email address-book entries, etc.
But David Roberts, CEO of the British trade group Infrastructure Forum, expects average increases of 94%. The Forum, which represents 98 firms, has asked the British government to investigate the increases.
We all have let them get away with this for too long. Say what you will about IBM 20 years ago, but they actually supported their software products *gasp*! There was no "It's fixed in the next version" or "We don't support that anymore (even tho it's only 3 years old)" garbage.
The gubmint investigating is not going to do anything but waste more money. We have allowed MS to get away with this monopolistic abuse for far too long. We need to rediscover the customer mindset that insists on getting what we pay for, and that includes support. We need to re-think the reasons for making software purchases and no longer accept being treated like second-hand citizens.
The only real solution - outside of a breakup which seems more and more unlikely - is to vote with our feet. Individual and business customers who buy Microshaft products need to make a statement that the old MS way of doing business is no longer acceptable. We need a big company or two to REFUSE to upgrade and INSIST on getting support for products we've already bought. Either that or switch platforms:-)
The last hope may be the continuing states' lawsuits against the evil empire. And other nations' efforts as well. A nice big lawsuit or two by some major players wouldn't hurt. As long as the Fed's findings of fact stand we may yet get some satisfaction.
On a side note, the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans came out yesterday. Billy Boy still ranks #1, although last year he was listed as having $63 billion and this year he's down to $54 billion. That means Emperor Gates lost $9 billion in the last year. Oh, how my heart bleeds for him.
I don't own any firearms. I've never had the need nor desire to own one. But I've never had a problem with those that do. I live near the ocean. What if next week, or next month, or even next year the next wave of attacks comes in the form of armed terr0rists rowing dinghies ashore and shooting up civilians after commandeering their SUVs at the beach? My state makes it next-to-impossible for anyone to purchase or transport firearms. That leaves me and my family in a potentially vulnerable situation.
We would be a lot better off if the gubmint would see to it that we are free to exercise the rights we already (theoretically) have rather than attempting to chip away at even more of our liberties. This is a very disturbing trend. I salute the NRA for their determination. Hell, I may even join even though I probably won't be allowed to adequately defend myself in the near future.
Here's my problem with face-recognition in public places: The basic premise of these systems is that there are bad guys out there who need to be caught. That premise is undoubtedly true. However, the task of facial-recognition systems is to point the camera indiscriminately at everybody all the time and ask the question "Is this the guy?"
The effect of this is that we are thus subject to suspicion hour-after-hour, day-after-day. We will be forced to prove we are innocent by submitting to inspection on a routine basis. There is findamentally no difference between this and having legions of police on every corner asking to see everyone's "papers" each and every day. The only difference is that now we have cold technology to carry out this dirty work instead of live people. Were real people tasked in this effort, eventually many would realize that such tactics were unnecessary and question both their effectiveness and necessity. Computer systems and software will have no qualms, and those behind these systems can surely NOT be trusted to do the right thing.
This is wrong. This is tyrrany. This is EXACTLY what our country has fought AGAINST in the past. It goes against EVERYTHING that we stand for. Such a scenario would be an insult to members of my family from past generations that have given their lives to prevent this sort of thing.
Fuck That and Anybody Who Dares Try to Pull it Off.
I don't have a problem with these systems being used in airports. The only reservation I have about this is that it becomes soooo much easier to deploy these tyrranical systems against the public at large once they have been given a trial run at airports around the world. Especially if they are effective. I am very, very afraid - and it's not fear of terrorists.
Too late to get noticed, but not too late to fuck for some karma. I just meta-moderated a whole lot of fucking losers down to hell for "Insightful" garbage mods on bullshit comments.
I abhor and reject and am fucking pissed at what happened yesterday. By the same token, I detest what a bunch of assholes our politicians are turning out to be. When its a fucking Hollywood movie, everything's AOK , right? But when it's for-fucking-real they're telling parents to TURN OFF THE TV SO THE KIDS DONT SEEIT?
Now we have hundreds of pussy mealy mouth politicians who (a) ran for office to get rich and who (b) lost themselves and have friends who lost BIG $$$ in the stock market and (c) have been bought and sold by corporate lobbyists - let's see what the fuck they can do about this situation...
I love this country but make no mistake about it - if the entire US congress were in the wtc today we'd be better off. God help us.
That's not a bug, it's a feature! Seriously, though, having to download all that extra stuff put me off as well. I just know that at least 3 of those things will require me to download and install something else besides. No thanks. I just don't have the time or inclination right now.
As you said, if it was just one tarball to deal with then I'd have it running already!
... on about a dozen systems I administer. These boxen are RH7.1+ with 2.4.3 kernels. I haven't taken the ultimate step of moving root partitions onto JFS yet, but for everything else there hasn't been one problem in 6 weeks.
Another poster commented that the source code was rough around the edges and therefore didn't merit kernel status. I disagree. The reason I don't move some of the boxes to using JFS for the root partition is precisely because it's not yet in the kernel. Thus, kernel upgrades become dicey if you can't smoothly apply the patches. Also if something goes wrong you're basically up the creek. Of course, there are backups, but that's an amazingly tedious exercise.
As for the code, well, isn't that part of the beauty of open source? At least you know what you're getting. And I've seen plenty of code - albeit not necessarily in the kernel - that looks like complete garbage but works great.
I'm going to agree with this. I've been a Mozilla basher for almost 2 years now, happily using Konqueror and, before that, an older Netscape.
But even though I gave the Lizard below-average marks up until now - and deservedly so, I think - since I downloaded 0.93 I couldn't be happier. On my RH 7.1+ boxes it runs much faster than Konqueror. The ability to kill off unwanted banner advertisements and the fine-grained control over cookies is a godsend.
So, after 2 years I now recant everything bad I said about Mozilla. More importantly I can now recommend it to everyone I do business with! It's about time!
Whether or not state lines were crossed is immaterial. The mere possibility that the computer could be accessed from another state is enough to trigger the statute. Even if the activity originated and terminated completely inside one state's boundary, the federal statute still applies.
But the poster has identified a way we can help raise the level of awareness on this issue. It's a good read, not too long, and no registration is required! What more could you ask for?
Please mod the parent UP!
Ugh... Netcenter
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I mistakenly signed up for NetCenter years ago. Never thought too much about it until AOL bought them out. At that point, I wanted OUT by the most direct route possible. Heh.
Every month they sent me stuff I didn't want. Mostly drivel, but hardly unsolicited - I mean, I did sign up for it, right? Opt-out time. Yeah, right. I basically sent them 4 or 5 emails a week asking to be taken off their "membership" list. They ignored each and every one. Not to mention that the "Unsubscribe" link on the NutCenter page absolutely never worked, either. I resorted to flaming away at them. I cursed them out and called them every filthy name in the book. I harvested emai addresses from their site and cc'ed every name I had. Multiple times a week!
No response. Then after a couple of "warnings" that my account had expired, it all finally ceased. And that, my friends, is about the closest I ever want to be to *anything* even remotely connected to AOL.
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Apple won't be happy about this! They'll claim their trademarked logo is being violated by running software not meant to be used on Apple hardware. The casual observer will associate that software with Apple, and as a result their good name will have suffered.
I just went through this not long ago. If you browse the contents of the postscript file and see strings like "BitmapFont" then you're SOL. There's no way to alter a postscript file if the bitmapped Type 3 fonts have already been embedded in it. Typically, these files will convert to {DF and look fine when printed but really crappy if you look at them on-screen.
I have downloaded numerous postscript files over the years and it always amazed me that even though I had a substantial installed base of Type 1 fonts, they were not being used whenever I converted a.ps file to.pdf.
The.ps file must be generated so as to call explicitly for Type 1 fonts. The way I do this on Linux is to start with the raw tex files. If you have documentation you are trying to convert ultimately to a PDF, it sometimes helps to put a line like
\usepackage{ae}
in the top-level tex file. Perhaps one of the strangest things I have ever seen is that this line:
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
paradoxically is an instruction to NOT use T1 fonts when creating the postscript doc! The "ae" package includes the so-called "almost European" font set which is freely available. In contrast, there is quite a bit of tex documentation coming from Eurpope where the "ECM" fonts are used. As far as I can tell, there are no freely available Type 1 fonts for ECM. Most linux systems will have ecm fonts, but as Type 3 only (thus the crappy on-screen quality). The "ae" fonts are a reasonable facsimile of the ecm fonts and they are freely available.
HTH
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This may be a program recommended by Junkbusters (not sure) ... ENIGMA . This baby guides you through the relevant questions to ask when those annoying scum-of-the-earth telemarketers call. It allows YOU to take control of the call and ultimately ends up having them add your number to their official Do Not Call list, which they are required to maintain by law. It also keeps a log of the calls and allows you to document persistent offenders in cases where you might have the opportunity to sue the bastards for violating the law.
When I first got Enigma, I was being bombarded by TM calls. One round of calls with Enigma and now I am virtually telemarketing free! Yay! I actually wanted the bastards to call back so I could sue them and/or make documented complaints to the proper authorities. Unfortunately they haven't been calling so I haven't had the ultimate joy yet, but some day I know they will call back. I'll be waiting.
This point has been all but neglected in the government's case against MS. There was a good Be View in the August Byte Magazine that talked about this subtle topic. No matter what the outcome is with the current DOJ vs. MS Harmful Monopoly case, this dual-boot concern should form the base of the next case against Microsoft. Perhaps it would be helpful to start lobbying officials in the states that are poised to press their own cases against MS once the current federal action is complete.
Yes, they are the same. I took a class many years ago and half the course was on audio and the other half was video. We went through the rigourous math etc. The most interesting potential application I remember was that a 2D FFT of an image could be used for pattern matching. You take the FFT of the image and correlate it with an FFT of the image you want to match. The de-correlated output result had highlighted "points" whose brightness corresponded to the "goodness" of the match.
It was really very cool. One image was a bunch of letters on a page, arranged randomly. The thing we were matching was the letter 'h'. The brightest points in the result were indeed the letters 'h' on the page. Some 'n's also correlated to a degree and they also showed up in the result, although they were not as bright as the 'h's. Most fascinating - it didn't matter what rotation the individual letters had. An upside-down 'h' or a 90-degree rotated 'h' were equally recognized. If anything, this optical processing is probably purer than current digital methods which are only approximations.
Must .... resist .... urge ..... AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?
Run/Duck/Hide
There are some good links to finding names, addresses and phone numbers for your reps/senators in D.C.
THIS LINK has Senate information.
THIS ONE leads to House of Representatives information.
AND THIS ONE at Project VoteSmart is about the only central repository for FAX numbers.
We need a database of all this information in some easy-to-use format like MySQL or Access (shudder) so that popping off letters and faxes is as easy to do as possible. Email is easy. Snail mail is most effective. If we can't get rid of paper entirely - and this would appear to be the case for effective communication with congresscritters - we need to make it as painless as possible. I have found that the biggest pain in snail mail is NOT the cost of the stamp or the tedious activity of putting folded paper in envelopes. Instead, it's collecting all the relevant addresses and/or FAX numbers in one place. I can't believe no one has done this yet. I've made a small database for maybe a dozen people in Washington, but to do it for every elected rep. and senator would take more than a week. If we could agree on a common format (or formats) then one person per state could get it done in no time at all.
Special interest groups and political action committees have these tools. It's basically targeted spam, but it gets the best results.
You obviously haven't read the article.
Mod points! Mod points! My Knigdom for some mod points!
Can somebody please knock this down a point or 2? TIA.
Once again we have MS telling its "customers" that older versions are no longer supported. IOW, Bill says: Fuck You
They refuse to address the problems associated with older versions of PowerPoint and Excel. They are saying: "If you don't pay us money to upgrade then it's your fault if you get burned."
At some point someone should investigate whether this is a pre-meditated strategy on Bill's part. They know there are security holes - they may actually put them in there on purpose - and they refuse to fix them unless they are paid. Unacceptable.
(and now an attempt to avoid the lameness filter. yeah, yeah, i could figure out how to do it exactly but i'm too lazy to read the code)
Damn straight. That's why we use *gasp* sealed envelopes for snail mail. It's also a major crime to open someone else's mail. If nobody had anything to hide there would be no foul if everyone could just open anyone else's mail.
This is from an academician no less! They admit the purpose of this is mind control and that's pretty damn scary. Sic Semper Tyrranus and I'm not talking about Abraham Lincoln.
It seems like every 6 months now they some out with some new "discovery" that turns out to be just a rehash of old science with a new twist. Truth is, if you think along the lines of timothy here, you could also say that:
- NASA Plans on Sending Astronauts Back to the Moon
- NASA Plans on Sending Satellite Fleet to Jupiter
- NASA Plans on Searching For Life on Titan's Oceans
- NASA Plans on Tripling Space Station Size
- NASA Plans on New Hubble Replacement
The list goes on and on. I love NASA, don't get me wrong, but the only serious stories worth looking at are the ones that start with NASA Receives Budgetary Committment From Congress For [insert project here]. That's the point where any serious planning really starts.A tad long, perhaps. I always draft 2 different letters. The long version I send/FAX only to my immediate U.S. Senators and Representative. If a key committeeman is from my state then I send them the long version as well. Everyone else gets the short version. 1 page. Concise and to-the-point with maybe 3 or 4 bulleted items to focus on.
/.ers could really use: a Congressional database complete with names, mailing addresses, phone and FAX numbers, committee memberships and in ready-to-use form for mailing labels, FAX and email address-book entries, etc.
Something we
We all have let them get away with this for too long. Say what you will about IBM 20 years ago, but they actually supported their software products *gasp*! There was no "It's fixed in the next version" or "We don't support that anymore (even tho it's only 3 years old)" garbage.
The gubmint investigating is not going to do anything but waste more money. We have allowed MS to get away with this monopolistic abuse for far too long. We need to rediscover the customer mindset that insists on getting what we pay for, and that includes support. We need to re-think the reasons for making software purchases and no longer accept being treated like second-hand citizens.
The only real solution - outside of a breakup which seems more and more unlikely - is to vote with our feet. Individual and business customers who buy Microshaft products need to make a statement that the old MS way of doing business is no longer acceptable. We need a big company or two to REFUSE to upgrade and INSIST on getting support for products we've already bought. Either that or switch platforms
The last hope may be the continuing states' lawsuits against the evil empire. And other nations' efforts as well. A nice big lawsuit or two by some major players wouldn't hurt. As long as the Fed's findings of fact stand we may yet get some satisfaction.
On a side note, the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans came out yesterday. Billy Boy still ranks #1, although last year he was listed as having $63 billion and this year he's down to $54 billion. That means Emperor Gates lost $9 billion in the last year. Oh, how my heart bleeds for him.
I don't own any firearms. I've never had the need nor desire to own one. But I've never had a problem with those that do. I live near the ocean. What if next week, or next month, or even next year the next wave of attacks comes in the form of armed terr0rists rowing dinghies ashore and shooting up civilians after commandeering their SUVs at the beach? My state makes it next-to-impossible for anyone to purchase or transport firearms. That leaves me and my family in a potentially vulnerable situation.
We would be a lot better off if the gubmint would see to it that we are free to exercise the rights we already (theoretically) have rather than attempting to chip away at even more of our liberties. This is a very disturbing trend. I salute the NRA for their determination. Hell, I may even join even though I probably won't be allowed to adequately defend myself in the near future.
I never knew about that. I went to the page and it really did look cool. Unfortunately, I don't use MSIE. Oh well.
Here's my problem with face-recognition in public places: The basic premise of these systems is that there are bad guys out there who need to be caught. That premise is undoubtedly true. However, the task of facial-recognition systems is to point the camera indiscriminately at everybody all the time and ask the question "Is this the guy?"
The effect of this is that we are thus subject to suspicion hour-after-hour, day-after-day. We will be forced to prove we are innocent by submitting to inspection on a routine basis. There is findamentally no difference between this and having legions of police on every corner asking to see everyone's "papers" each and every day. The only difference is that now we have cold technology to carry out this dirty work instead of live people. Were real people tasked in this effort, eventually many would realize that such tactics were unnecessary and question both their effectiveness and necessity. Computer systems and software will have no qualms, and those behind these systems can surely NOT be trusted to do the right thing.
This is wrong. This is tyrrany. This is EXACTLY what our country has fought AGAINST in the past. It goes against EVERYTHING that we stand for. Such a scenario would be an insult to members of my family from past generations that have given their lives to prevent this sort of thing.
Fuck That and Anybody Who Dares Try to Pull it Off.
I don't have a problem with these systems being used in airports. The only reservation I have about this is that it becomes soooo much easier to deploy these tyrranical systems against the public at large once they have been given a trial run at airports around the world. Especially if they are effective. I am very, very afraid - and it's not fear of terrorists.
Too late to get noticed, but not too late to fuck for some karma. I just meta-moderated a whole lot of fucking losers down to hell for "Insightful" garbage mods on bullshit comments.
I abhor and reject and am fucking pissed at what happened yesterday. By the same token, I detest what a bunch of assholes our politicians are turning out to be. When its a fucking Hollywood movie, everything's AOK , right? But when it's for-fucking-real they're telling parents to TURN OFF THE TV SO THE KIDS DONT SEEIT?
Now we have hundreds of pussy mealy mouth politicians who (a) ran for office to get rich and who (b) lost themselves and have friends who lost BIG $$$ in the stock market and (c) have been bought and sold by corporate lobbyists - let's see what the fuck they can do about this situation...
I love this country but make no mistake about it - if the entire US congress were in the wtc today we'd be better off. God help us.
That's not a bug, it's a feature! Seriously, though, having to download all that extra stuff put me off as well. I just know that at least 3 of those things will require me to download and install something else besides. No thanks. I just don't have the time or inclination right now.
As you said, if it was just one tarball to deal with then I'd have it running already!
... on about a dozen systems I administer. These boxen are RH7.1+ with 2.4.3 kernels. I haven't taken the ultimate step of moving root partitions onto JFS yet, but for everything else there hasn't been one problem in 6 weeks.
Another poster commented that the source code was rough around the edges and therefore didn't merit kernel status. I disagree. The reason I don't move some of the boxes to using JFS for the root partition is precisely because it's not yet in the kernel. Thus, kernel upgrades become dicey if you can't smoothly apply the patches. Also if something goes wrong you're basically up the creek. Of course, there are backups, but that's an amazingly tedious exercise.
As for the code, well, isn't that part of the beauty of open source? At least you know what you're getting. And I've seen plenty of code - albeit not necessarily in the kernel - that looks like complete garbage but works great.
I'm going to agree with this. I've been a Mozilla basher for almost 2 years now, happily using Konqueror and, before that, an older Netscape.
But even though I gave the Lizard below-average marks up until now - and deservedly so, I think - since I downloaded 0.93 I couldn't be happier. On my RH 7.1+ boxes it runs much faster than Konqueror. The ability to kill off unwanted banner advertisements and the fine-grained control over cookies is a godsend.
So, after 2 years I now recant everything bad I said about Mozilla. More importantly I can now recommend it to everyone I do business with! It's about time!
Whether or not state lines were crossed is immaterial. The mere possibility that the computer could be accessed from another state is enough to trigger the statute. Even if the activity originated and terminated completely inside one state's boundary, the federal statute still applies.
Umm, the highest rating is a 7.
But the poster has identified a way we can help raise the level of awareness on this issue. It's a good read, not too long, and no registration is required! What more could you ask for?
Please mod the parent UP!
I mistakenly signed up for NetCenter years ago. Never thought too much about it until AOL bought them out. At that point, I wanted OUT by the most direct route possible. Heh.
Every month they sent me stuff I didn't want. Mostly drivel, but hardly unsolicited - I mean, I did sign up for it, right? Opt-out time. Yeah, right. I basically sent them 4 or 5 emails a week asking to be taken off their "membership" list. They ignored each and every one. Not to mention that the "Unsubscribe" link on the NutCenter page absolutely never worked, either. I resorted to flaming away at them. I cursed them out and called them every filthy name in the book. I harvested emai addresses from their site and cc'ed every name I had. Multiple times a week!
No response. Then after a couple of "warnings" that my account had expired, it all finally ceased. And that, my friends, is about the closest I ever want to be to *anything* even remotely connected to AOL.
Apple won't be happy about this! They'll claim their trademarked logo is being violated by running software not meant to be used on Apple hardware. The casual observer will associate that software with Apple, and as a result their good name will have suffered.
SOMEBODY CALL THE POLICE!
I just went through this not long ago. If you browse the contents of the postscript file and see strings like "BitmapFont" then you're SOL. There's no way to alter a postscript file if the bitmapped Type 3 fonts have already been embedded in it. Typically, these files will convert to {DF and look fine when printed but really crappy if you look at them on-screen.
.ps file to .pdf.
.ps file must be generated so as to call explicitly for Type 1 fonts. The way I do this on Linux is to start with the raw tex files. If you have documentation you are trying to convert ultimately to a PDF, it sometimes helps to put a line like
I have downloaded numerous postscript files over the years and it always amazed me that even though I had a substantial installed base of Type 1 fonts, they were not being used whenever I converted a
The
\usepackage{ae}
in the top-level tex file. Perhaps one of the strangest things I have ever seen is that this line:
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
paradoxically is an instruction to NOT use T1 fonts when creating the postscript doc! The "ae" package includes the so-called "almost European" font set which is freely available. In contrast, there is quite a bit of tex documentation coming from Eurpope where the "ECM" fonts are used. As far as I can tell, there are no freely available Type 1 fonts for ECM. Most linux systems will have ecm fonts, but as Type 3 only (thus the crappy on-screen quality). The "ae" fonts are a reasonable facsimile of the ecm fonts and they are freely available. HTH