...I won't even go into what I think of the Magic Eightball bit
Well, if this story hadn't been posted under the topic of humor, then yeah, I'd be bothered to see such an article. But alas, the topic exists, and has been utilized.
Simple way to fix that: ask. Pick up the phone and ask what their vote was on the bill. Mind you DMCA was probably a rider on a totally unrelated bill, probably a disaster-relief bill or Protection Of Children And Puppies act
Just how much do you trust that congressman? There is zero evidence that a vote was really placed one way or another, and the only witnesses are the congressmen who were seated next to him/her, if they heard one way or another over their own shouting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hvoting. This happens a lot when they vote for their own pay raises (I won't touch that one) or term limits for themselves.
Actually, there is water on the moon, and plenty of mineral resources to be mined (one could manufacture solid propellant w/out too much hassle), so that may not be entirely accurate (at least that theory should hold-up better than my spelling skills...)
The problem with that is the same as the X10 stuff, IIRC. The Power company's transformer will block that signal, and depending on how far apart the houses/busineses are, they might very well have their own transformer (That big cylinder on the pole for most people).
I thought all the Supreme Court really said was they were gonna let this case take the same path that almost all other cases would, instead of letting the DOJ skip a step in the procecution.
<FLAME>Maybe to let M$ hang themselves a little more?</FLAME>
I can see your point, but at the same time, I can also see their's. You were hacking at SMTP to understand what it's doing. You were curious, and they reacted like you were picking a door lock to see how it works (bad analogy, yes, but that sounds like how they took it).
The only problem I see with that is, out of politeness (for lack of a better work) you should have tryed poking around with an SMTP server of your own as opposed to one you didn't run.
First of all, I AM NOT A MICRO$OFT SUPPORTER, but they pretty much would HAVE to go after someone that created that, or M$'s own shareholders would most likely sue M$ for not trying to protect the coproration's interests.
I think most of us understand their argument (and for the most part, don't agree with them), but how do we convince/show them that it's a bogus point? Boycotting can only work so well. Example: Lets say for this argument that micro computers just came out. Their all the rage, and individuals are buying them up and everyone's happy. Now comes along the hackers (in a broad sense) and they want to (gasp) understand how these new gadgets work. One of them buys a machine from company A, and said company is happy to share a lot of documentation on the device EXCEPT for anything related to the BIOS because of the licensing agreement with company B (BIOS manufacturor). Now in this world, there are multiple BIOS manufacturors, but they all have the same agreements. So what do we do now? Boycott the new gadgets that the rest of the unwashed masses are buying in droves? Where does that leave us?
Huh? Our debt's been fixed? Cool! Maybe now we WILL pay our UN 'dues'...
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Cyberpatrol and its ilk? Aren't these programs doing essentially the same thing as MAPS.
Cyberpatrol hid their blacklist from the average user to see the contents thereof and sued the people that exposed the list (as long as the list was "privileged corporate info", it had the potential to be used to block anything Cyberpatrol or Hasbro didn't want people to see on the web that was negative to the corp or went against the corps officers, etc, etc, beyond the limit of porn and violence).
That is not to say that the MAPS list couldn't be used the same way (this is called devil's advocate, NOT flamebait), but they make no effort to obscure the list from the people who wish to use their (MAPS) system.
I believe that problem would occur if you wanted to use the Linux kernel as the MAIN kernel of the machine. This is talking about a bunch of VMs, which don't necesarily have access to ALL the RAM in the system.
But, I could be wrong...
How much carbon-ash do you
want to bury and that is compared to how much waste from nuclear fuels?!?!?
The problem with nuclear fuels is the coolant in the primary loop becomes so radioactive that it is unusable and has to be removed from the reactor (usually on a yearly basis). Sure the actual genereation of energy is some of the cleanest around, what do you do with all this contaminated coolant, wrenches, gloves, suits, screwdrivers, bolts, etc?
Overall, in the long run I've got to bet on fusion if I have to stick to Earth based resources only
Fusion is nice, but after we split the water of the world's oceans into hydrogen and oxygen, and turn all that hydrogen into helium, what are we going to do about the fact that we no longer have any water to drink (not to mention no more sea life, thousands of land species gone with their food supply)?
Is there ANYTHING in the DMCA that requires the recipient of this letter to carry out item #3 (Advise us (MPAA) of the name and physical address of the account holder)? Working for multiple ISP's in the US, I've never been asked for that when someone traces some "foul play" from one of my IP's, and I haven't asked someone else for the same.
That's no different than the way a CLEC in America has to operate. Sure, now you can get your phone service from someone other than one of the "Baby Bells". But the BBs have to cover THEIR cost of the copper they ran into the ground to every building in the area (but if you've seen what the CLEC has to PAY to use it, it's rediculous).
But I was under the impression that ANYONE could run a root server (certain qualifications withstanding, of course)... If that's the case, why can't some other registar fire-up their own root server and have it part of the mix, or am I massivly misunderstanding the top of the DNS tree? Oh, and just in case, IANANSIE, among other things...
I've had a couple of jobs now where in meetings the idea was discussed, and on top of the "Doh..." scenario, the idea was always reduced to having the help desk (or a new assistant in said department) taking calls and entering the info. The main issue was not to overwhelm the user having the problem with trying to figure out what category the problem is (the user enters it as a software issue, only to have the tech identify it as a hardware problem, etc). And, of course, what if it's a network issue (failed NIC, cable got cut, hub lost power, etc)? The biggest question before doing something like this is what is the quality of your user base that will be accessing it?
We don't want to give a power as dangerous as this to anyone,...
Oops. Congress already has that power (at least with their own records). Any member of congress can go an erase from the records what they said days ago or even append lengthy speeches about whatever that they never actually said.
Imagine being sent what you thought was just a GIF photograph, with an innocuous filename like james.GIF -- but which was actually a potent virus!
Not to be an ass, but that statement shows someone's lack of understanding of virii. A virus has to be executed (via a.COM or.EXE) or interpreted by something that can run system commands with little security (M$'s office Macro's). Not to mention that any rendering code checks for a set of bits that act as a signature of the graphical data and, if corrupt, will fail to render the image.
or a virtual anarchy in which the GIF name could be appended to any file at the creator's whim?
File extensions don't mean much anyways (See my first statement). This is also true for.COM and.EXE (in the case of the latter, there's the tell tail MZ as the first two characters, plus the code to configure/identify the namespaces of the program). All they really do now is make for a convenient filter for your Open File dialog boxes.
Probably for the same reason that the 486DX and SX were made the way they were in the beginning. Take the same chip, pop a link (ie, felt tip pen on a copy of the mask) and move three pins. That's a LOT cheaper than redo-ing the whole chip to leave the co-processor out completely. Same with the Celeron and the P II. They're the exact same core. If you want to make a couple of Celerons (Slot 1's) work on a dual processor motherboard, there's a resistor you have to solder in (as well as a couple of wires to get the pins from the chip to the card edge). It's also how that Asus board does it with the PPGA Celerons. If you can take the same core and make a new product (less functionality) to sell, you've just spent a Hell of a lot less in reasearch for that second product and can then, therefore, sell it cheaper.
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...I won't even go into what I think of the Magic Eightball bit
Well, if this story hadn't been posted under the topic of humor, then yeah, I'd be bothered to see such an article. But alas, the topic exists, and has been utilized.
And now for something completeley different...
Simple way to fix that: ask. Pick up the phone and ask what their vote was on the bill. Mind you DMCA was probably a rider on a totally unrelated bill, probably a disaster-relief bill or Protection Of Children And Puppies act
Just how much do you trust that congressman? There is zero evidence that a vote was really placed one way or another, and the only witnesses are the congressmen who were seated next to him/her, if they heard one way or another over their own shouting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hvoting. This happens a lot when they vote for their own pay raises (I won't touch that one) or term limits for themselves.
Actually, there is water on the moon, and plenty of mineral resources to be mined (one could manufacture solid propellant w/out too much hassle), so that may not be entirely accurate (at least that theory should hold-up better than my spelling skills...)
The problem with that is the same as the X10 stuff, IIRC. The Power company's transformer will block that signal, and depending on how far apart the houses/busineses are, they might very well have their own transformer (That big cylinder on the pole for most people).
I belive it was taken out as it was buggy for too many people to be part of the kernel tree.
I thought all the Supreme Court really said was they were gonna let this case take the same path that almost all other cases would, instead of letting the DOJ skip a step in the procecution.
<FLAME>Maybe to let M$ hang themselves a little more?</FLAME>
I can see your point, but at the same time, I can also see their's. You were hacking at SMTP to understand what it's doing. You were curious, and they reacted like you were picking a door lock to see how it works (bad analogy, yes, but that sounds like how they took it).
The only problem I see with that is, out of politeness (for lack of a better work) you should have tryed poking around with an SMTP server of your own as opposed to one you didn't run.
First of all, I AM NOT A MICRO$OFT SUPPORTER, but they pretty much would HAVE to go after someone that created that, or M$'s own shareholders would most likely sue M$ for not trying to protect the coproration's interests.
I think most of us understand their argument (and for the most part, don't agree with them), but how do we convince/show them that it's a bogus point? Boycotting can only work so well. Example:
Lets say for this argument that micro computers just came out. Their all the rage, and individuals are buying them up and everyone's happy. Now comes along the hackers (in a broad sense) and they want to (gasp) understand how these new gadgets work. One of them buys a machine from company A, and said company is happy to share a lot of documentation on the device EXCEPT for anything related to the BIOS because of the licensing agreement with company B (BIOS manufacturor). Now in this world, there are multiple BIOS manufacturors, but they all have the same agreements. So what do we do now? Boycott the new gadgets that the rest of the unwashed masses are buying in droves? Where does that leave us?
The American way: "We have all this money ...
Huh? Our debt's been fixed? Cool! Maybe now we WILL pay our UN 'dues'...
Cyberpatrol and its ilk? Aren't these programs doing essentially the same thing as MAPS.
Cyberpatrol hid their blacklist from the average user to see the contents thereof and sued the people that exposed the list (as long as the list was "privileged corporate info", it had the potential to be used to block anything Cyberpatrol or Hasbro didn't want people to see on the web that was negative to the corp or went against the corps officers, etc, etc, beyond the limit of porn and violence).
That is not to say that the MAPS list couldn't be used the same way (this is called devil's advocate, NOT flamebait), but they make no effort to obscure the list from the people who wish to use their (MAPS) system.
I think the opt-in reference was regarding ISP SPAM filtering services you have to "opt-in" to use.
I believe that problem would occur if you wanted to use the Linux kernel as the MAIN kernel of the machine. This is talking about a bunch of VMs, which don't necesarily have access to ALL the RAM in the system. But, I could be wrong...
Huh?
Apple is suing to be the sole source of information regarding their product (for right or wrong).
How much carbon-ash do you want to bury and that is compared to how much waste from nuclear fuels?!?!?
The problem with nuclear fuels is the coolant in the primary loop becomes so radioactive that it is unusable and has to be removed from the reactor (usually on a yearly basis). Sure the actual genereation of energy is some of the cleanest around, what do you do with all this contaminated coolant, wrenches, gloves, suits, screwdrivers, bolts, etc?
Overall, in the long run I've got to bet on fusion if I have to stick to Earth based resources only
Fusion is nice, but after we split the water of the world's oceans into hydrogen and oxygen, and turn all that hydrogen into helium, what are we going to do about the fact that we no longer have any water to drink (not to mention no more sea life, thousands of land species gone with their food supply)?
Is there ANYTHING in the DMCA that requires the recipient of this letter to carry out item #3 (Advise us (MPAA) of the name and physical address of the account holder)? Working for multiple ISP's in the US, I've never been asked for that when someone traces some "foul play" from one of my IP's, and I haven't asked someone else for the same.
Now someone's actually planning on paying $9,999,901 for this thing
That's no different than the way a CLEC in America has to operate. Sure, now you can get your phone service from someone other than one of the "Baby Bells". But the BBs have to cover THEIR cost of the copper they ran into the ground to every building in the area (but if you've seen what the CLEC has to PAY to use it, it's rediculous).
But I was under the impression that ANYONE could run a root server (certain qualifications withstanding, of course)... If that's the case, why can't some other registar fire-up their own root server and have it part of the mix, or am I massivly misunderstanding the top of the DNS tree?
Oh, and just in case, IANANSIE, among other things...
I've had a couple of jobs now where in meetings the idea was discussed, and on top of the "Doh..." scenario, the idea was always reduced to having the help desk (or a new assistant in said department) taking calls and entering the info. The main issue was not to overwhelm the user having the problem with trying to figure out what category the problem is (the user enters it as a software issue, only to have the tech identify it as a hardware problem, etc).
And, of course, what if it's a network issue (failed NIC, cable got cut, hub lost power, etc)? The biggest question before doing something like this is what is the quality of your user base that will be accessing it?
We don't want to give a power as dangerous as this to anyone, ...
Oops. Congress already has that power (at least with their own records). Any member of congress can go an erase from the records what they said days ago or even append lengthy speeches about whatever that they never actually said.
The hype for 2.4 has reached the level of which Microsoft once garnered
Debatable. At least it will not be pushed onto us like the aforementioned company has been known to do.
It's legal to have the MP3's if you own the album, right?
Actually, I believe one of our more recent "loves" (DMCA) will tell you otherwise.
Imagine being sent what you thought was just a GIF photograph, with an innocuous filename like james.GIF -- but which was actually a potent virus!
.COM or .EXE) or interpreted by something that can run system commands with little security (M$'s office Macro's). Not to mention that any rendering code checks for a set of bits that act as a signature of the graphical data and, if corrupt, will fail to render the image.
.COM and .EXE (in the case of the latter, there's the tell tail MZ as the first two characters, plus the code to configure/identify the namespaces of the program). All they really do now is make for a convenient filter for your Open File dialog boxes.
Not to be an ass, but that statement shows someone's lack of understanding of virii. A virus has to be executed (via a
or a virtual anarchy in which the GIF name could be appended to any file at the creator's whim?
File extensions don't mean much anyways (See my first statement). This is also true for
You'd have to know very little about robotics as well...
Probably for the same reason that the 486DX and SX were made the way they were in the beginning. Take the same chip, pop a link (ie, felt tip pen on a copy of the mask) and move three pins. That's a LOT cheaper than redo-ing the whole chip to leave the co-processor out completely. Same with the Celeron and the P II. They're the exact same core. If you want to make a couple of Celerons (Slot 1's) work on a dual processor motherboard, there's a resistor you have to solder in (as well as a couple of wires to get the pins from the chip to the card edge). It's also how that Asus board does it with the PPGA Celerons. If you can take the same core and make a new product (less functionality) to sell, you've just spent a Hell of a lot less in reasearch for that second product and can then, therefore, sell it cheaper.