This whole plan of sueing VCs is a perfectly logical step for the music industry. Lets see... Napster provided illegal music file sharing services and was funded by company X. If they win, then the generic case if illegal music file sharing service has company X for funding then they can be sued will be viable. And hencely, then the VCs can be sued for their investment in Kazaa, and Kazaa will crumble and die, because VCs will be pulling out right and left. Its so obvious even I can see it.
Yeah, well thats just how technology works, isn't it. If you know how to do it, you can reap the benefits cheaply and easily (also I have these two pieces of software running on my ONLY windows box). Others have to depend on services provided by third parties because SMTP aint going away any time soon. The only viable universal solution would be too:
a) Apply global outbound recipient list length limits (with exceptions if need be)
b) Don't relay mail from non-accounts
c) Set up aliased account names for all accounts
d) Only allow smtp to send if:
1) Sender is from a registered MX and is trusted
or if..
2) Sender has recently authorized him/herself to send, using POP before SMTP or ESMTP AUTH Extensions
I find these changes interesting as proposals for the avoidance of spam. The way I always avoid spam is to have an smtp/pop3 server running on my computer (using Hermes), having MX records point to my dynamic dns address (using DirectUpdate), and then signing up to new services using a temp email address on my server until I know they are trustworthy and if they are changing my service email address to my permanent one, simple!! And it takes very little time to set up, because of the simplicity of the software. Also, I never post my email address, and keep it out of all online registries.
In the future, businesses will learn that slashdot is a good advertising medium, by submitting pseudo-stories to boost their sales. Oh wait, the future is now!!
If they are going to implement alphablended windows, I just wish there would be some sort of way to select which windows are to be blended. Also, I proposed the idea of using OpenGL as a general purpose graphics driver a long time ago. I think developing a seperate x driver is useless. Just developing an OpenGL driver should make it far simpler for video card manufacturers to port to linux. I hope this becomes standard practice.
So, why are they even talking about this 1.5 Gig 1" disk, when at the bottom of the friggin' article they're linking to, they talk about a 1" 2.4Gig disk?
Or you can standardize around SOAP, and have it send the data back in a negotiated compressed format. All I want though is a keyed, querieable, relational file system, with a pluggable architecture to provide whatever remoting interface I need.
Have you even gone to college? Menus and shit pop up because they are useful. Like having the ability to draw on a page. Virus warnings have nothing to do with the system and is completely irrelevant, same with screen savers, and speakers beeping. And I've seen many X terminals freeze just as easily as Windows sessions. And OpenOffice runs on Windows and would exhibit the same kind of behavior. And using nor in your statement implies a double negative. Get it together man!!
I think the only thing this crap would accomplish is invasion of privacy issues becoming rampant. You can say this document was made in Helsinki if you want, but that does not necessarily imply its relevancy. I find very little interesting about where I live (Oklahoma). I guess this could be kind of good then, maybe I can filter out everything coming from here.
Damnit, you can't just casually mention quasi-invisibility cloaks without posting a link. Don't leave me hangin' here. Also, you will go to slashdot, it is completely crappy for anything other than a fun discussion area.
I just don't understand why they paradoxically claim the quality to be quite good like basic multimedia speakers??!? Last I checked basic multimedia speakers sucked a donkeys ass. But oh well, I guess this is targetted at the L-top market. As far as I'm concerned I mute my laptop unless I have headphones plugged in. Because it always sounds like sh!t.
Well, it would weaken the species' survivability, thats for sure. But so does every drug out on the market. Any artificial workaround to basic darwinian evolution will usurp the species' capacity for natural progression in that area. It allows weak people to survive. This is why I think we should make educational enforcement our highest priority. The evolution we have going for us now is the rapid progression of scientific study. And if we let people be ignorant, then we are dooming ourselves to a very bismal future. Of course, that is just my oppinion.
Best Language = English. By the time they grow up, the IT sector will be so friggin' saturated with plain jane programmers that he'd probably wanna be flippin' burgers instead because it pays better. Thats probably what I'll be forced to do anyways. And I've been doing this junk since I was 8 (I'm 23 now in case your wondering).
Well, frankly I don't believe he was doing anything wrong to the owner of the service, i.e. He's not pressing charges and its more than likely that it did not disrupt him in any ways or render his service unusable. But the poster may have violated the service agreement that the unintentional host agreed to, and that would be wrong.
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This whole plan of sueing VCs is a perfectly logical step for the music industry. Lets see... Napster provided illegal music file sharing services and was funded by company X. If they win, then the generic case if illegal music file sharing service has company X for funding then they can be sued will be viable. And hencely, then the VCs can be sued for their investment in Kazaa, and Kazaa will crumble and die, because VCs will be pulling out right and left. Its so obvious even I can see it.
Yeah, well thats just how technology works, isn't it. If you know how to do it, you can reap the benefits cheaply and easily (also I have these two pieces of software running on my ONLY windows box). Others have to depend on services provided by third parties because SMTP aint going away any time soon. The only viable universal solution would be too:
a) Apply global outbound recipient list length limits (with exceptions if need be)
b) Don't relay mail from non-accounts
c) Set up aliased account names for all accounts
d) Only allow smtp to send if:
1) Sender is from a registered MX and is trusted
or if..
2) Sender has recently authorized him/herself to send, using POP before SMTP or ESMTP AUTH Extensions
I find these changes interesting as proposals for the avoidance of spam. The way I always avoid spam is to have an smtp/pop3 server running on my computer (using Hermes), having MX records point to my dynamic dns address (using DirectUpdate), and then signing up to new services using a temp email address on my server until I know they are trustworthy and if they are changing my service email address to my permanent one, simple!! And it takes very little time to set up, because of the simplicity of the software. Also, I never post my email address, and keep it out of all online registries.
Excuse me, I meant to say: Not gonna be saving much space all that soon.
Not as long as you have that hulk of an ATX tower under each employees desk. Not gonna be saving much power all that soon.
In the future, businesses will learn that slashdot is a good advertising medium, by submitting pseudo-stories to boost their sales. Oh wait, the future is now!!
If they are going to implement alphablended windows, I just wish there would be some sort of way to select which windows are to be blended. Also, I proposed the idea of using OpenGL as a general purpose graphics driver a long time ago. I think developing a seperate x driver is useless. Just developing an OpenGL driver should make it far simpler for video card manufacturers to port to linux. I hope this becomes standard practice.
Best AC comment I've read in a while. Mod parent up.
So, why are they even talking about this 1.5 Gig 1" disk, when at the bottom of the friggin' article they're linking to, they talk about a 1" 2.4Gig disk?
Or you can standardize around SOAP, and have it send the data back in a negotiated compressed format. All I want though is a keyed, querieable, relational file system, with a pluggable architecture to provide whatever remoting interface I need.
In more relevant news, it is predicted that by 2010 the number of computer scientists pumped out of major universities will sextuple. Beat that!!!
This posting is bullsh!t. Yeah, lets fight this violation of the RFCs with MORE VIOLATIONS??!! How stupid can the poster be.
Yeah, in ten years, maybe.
Have you even gone to college? Menus and shit pop up because they are useful. Like having the ability to draw on a page. Virus warnings have nothing to do with the system and is completely irrelevant, same with screen savers, and speakers beeping. And I've seen many X terminals freeze just as easily as Windows sessions. And OpenOffice runs on Windows and would exhibit the same kind of behavior. And using nor in your statement implies a double negative. Get it together man!!
I suppse it is. Hey I'm a computer programmer. I ain't learned no propah' english!
I think programmers should be called Executive Order Translators. I'm an EOT myself. How about you?
I think the only thing this crap would accomplish is invasion of privacy issues becoming rampant. You can say this document was made in Helsinki if you want, but that does not necessarily imply its relevancy. I find very little interesting about where I live (Oklahoma). I guess this could be kind of good then, maybe I can filter out everything coming from here.
Damnit, you can't just casually mention quasi-invisibility cloaks without posting a link. Don't leave me hangin' here. Also, you will go to slashdot, it is completely crappy for anything other than a fun discussion area.
I just don't understand why they paradoxically claim the quality to be quite good like basic multimedia speakers??!? Last I checked basic multimedia speakers sucked a donkeys ass. But oh well, I guess this is targetted at the L-top market. As far as I'm concerned I mute my laptop unless I have headphones plugged in. Because it always sounds like sh!t.
Well, it would weaken the species' survivability, thats for sure. But so does every drug out on the market. Any artificial workaround to basic darwinian evolution will usurp the species' capacity for natural progression in that area. It allows weak people to survive. This is why I think we should make educational enforcement our highest priority. The evolution we have going for us now is the rapid progression of scientific study. And if we let people be ignorant, then we are dooming ourselves to a very bismal future. Of course, that is just my oppinion.
Best Language = English. By the time they grow up, the IT sector will be so friggin' saturated with plain jane programmers that he'd probably wanna be flippin' burgers instead because it pays better. Thats probably what I'll be forced to do anyways. And I've been doing this junk since I was 8 (I'm 23 now in case your wondering).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I recall hearing on NPR that al-Jazeera was bombed, not 0wned. Again, correct me if I'm wrong.
Well, frankly I don't believe he was doing anything wrong to the owner of the service, i.e. He's not pressing charges and its more than likely that it did not disrupt him in any ways or render his service unusable. But the poster may have violated the service agreement that the unintentional host agreed to, and that would be wrong.
I don't see how this is any better than a cell phone with SMS.
I'm still wondering what the hell this is used for, and why it requires a pager backbone.