If the author of TFA had bothered to do any of his own independent research, he would have found that ISOhunt is *NOT* a cyberlocker, but a specialized search engine. Torrents != file storage.
The only reason us Canadians made the list is because of the previously mentioned reasons of our lack of DMCA-style legislation, and our "copyright" levy on digital media, which allows us far more fair-use of our purchased digital wares than the country that purports to allow fair use.
The U.S. can "Special 301" us all they want, but with our current government (what with Minister Tony Clement siding with consumers on denying Usage-Based Billing for wholesale accounts, and examining the larger UBB issue for consumer accounts), and the many public hearings on our "DMCA" legislation, I don't think the US FTR is going to hold much sway over our internal priorities.
"With a Free Tier License, you agree to place a line of Javascript on each web page on your Web Sites that Uses or accesses Web Font Software which will enable the Web Font Services. This also gives Monotype Imaging the right to invoke an ad unit to be placed on each web page that uses our Web Font Software, with the formatting and content of such ad unit to be determined by Monotype Imaging in its sole discretion."
Nothing for free in this world, son, nothing for free.
women are easily swayed by what they read in fashion magazines. Not married to a "fashionista", I guess? Not any more, fortunately. She was *so* yesterday.;-P
Women are inundated with astrological nonsense from fashion magazines, so it is normative for them to believe it even if they are otherwise highly logical. By your line of reasoning (if I can call it that), women are easily swayed by what they read in fashion magazines.
If this submission was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, it's trying a bit too hard.
A woman needs horoscopes like a fish needs a bicycle.;-)
This would explain the statistically high number of old ladies with numerous cats..... it's a feline cabal designed to keep grannies alive perpetually, for the betterment of society! Feline society, that is!
After all, who else feeds kitties all the time, but old grannies?;-)
I find it rather interesting that this article's replies have all assumed that this is an American university.
Ryerson University is located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
And what's getting this student in trouble is the invitation to the Facebook group where it requests the posting of final full solutions, rather than warning against it. If he had just asked for solution techniques and advice, and stated without ambiguity that posting of final solutions is a no-no, he would have been fine.
RTFA, and also please don't assume that we only have igloos and polar bears up here.;-)
A bit more seriously, I think that something that has grown as important as this, should be in the hands of the UN, as any strange move can have significant effects worldwide.
As the conference drew to a close, the Russian representative, Konstantin Novoderejhkin, called on the United Nations secretary-general to create a working group to develop ''practical steps'' for moving Internet governance ''under the control of the international community.'' So a conference calling on the Secretary-General to create a working group to develop practical steps for moving governance to the international community, doesn't sound like a whole bunch of strange moves?
The UN is no more adept at managing the Internet than it is managing Walmart or Airbus. It is a political organization, not a technical or commercial one.
As other posters have already mentioned, ICANN is well on its way to "international"-izing its focus. Without compelling and well-thought-out reasons why as to this control should shift (with the infrastructure and experience and dollars to match), why should it change?
Rats are abundant, cheap and easily transported. At three pounds, they are too light to detonate mines accidentally. They can sift the bouquet of land-mine aromas far better than any machine. Unlike even the best mine-detecting dog or human, they are relentlessly single-minded.
"Throw a stick for a dog to fetch, and after 10 times the dog will say, `Get it yourself, buddy,' " Mr. Weetjens said. "Rats will keep working as long as they want food."
The RBL's might, but having worked for some ISP's (*koff*@home*koff*), I know that they only scan for the open port on 25, they don't actually bother to check the SMTP functionality of the relay.
You would think that Exchange server administrators would be smart enough to at least start filtering attachments or running a virus scan on incoming traffic. I guess not, since M$ themselves were offline yesterday...
It's interesting that other collaboration/e-mail packages such as Lotus Notes and Eudora are unaffected by these problems....
Why are M$ products *designed* to be so blatantly insecure? I'm sure the basic principles of program security have been around for ages... why motivates M$ to deliberately ignore them?
It's not coincidence that issues like the GUID are troubling us now... these technologies were created for specific purposes... and look how easy it was for two non-M$ people to track down the creator of the Melissa docs.
Conspiracy theories, my ass. More than enough evidence to go on here.
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If the author of TFA had bothered to do any of his own independent research, he would have found that ISOhunt is *NOT* a cyberlocker, but a specialized search engine. Torrents != file storage.
The only reason us Canadians made the list is because of the previously mentioned reasons of our lack of DMCA-style legislation, and our "copyright" levy on digital media, which allows us far more fair-use of our purchased digital wares than the country that purports to allow fair use.
The U.S. can "Special 301" us all they want, but with our current government (what with Minister Tony Clement siding with consumers on denying Usage-Based Billing for wholesale accounts, and examining the larger UBB issue for consumer accounts), and the many public hearings on our "DMCA" legislation, I don't think the US FTR is going to hold much sway over our internal priorities.
Professor Michael Geist and Openmedia.CA FTW! :-)
"With a Free Tier License, you agree to place a line of Javascript on each web page on your Web Sites that Uses or accesses Web Font Software which will enable the Web Font Services. This also gives Monotype Imaging the right to invoke an ad unit to be placed on each web page that uses our Web Font Software, with the formatting and content of such ad unit to be determined by Monotype Imaging in its sole discretion."
Nothing for free in this world, son, nothing for free.
If this submission was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, it's trying a bit too hard.
A woman needs horoscopes like a fish needs a bicycle.
This would explain the statistically high number of old ladies with numerous cats..... it's a feline cabal designed to keep grannies alive perpetually, for the betterment of society! Feline society, that is!
;-)
After all, who else feeds kitties all the time, but old grannies?
I find it rather interesting that this article's replies have all assumed that this is an American university.
;-)
Ryerson University is located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
And what's getting this student in trouble is the invitation to the Facebook group where it requests the posting of final full solutions, rather than warning against it. If he had just asked for solution techniques and advice, and stated without ambiguity that posting of final solutions is a no-no, he would have been fine.
RTFA, and also please don't assume that we only have igloos and polar bears up here.
The UN is no more adept at managing the Internet than it is managing Walmart or Airbus. It is a political organization, not a technical or commercial one.
As other posters have already mentioned, ICANN is well on its way to "international"-izing its focus. Without compelling and well-thought-out reasons why as to this control should shift (with the infrastructure and experience and dollars to match), why should it change?
(And I'm Canadian, for the record.)
I think he meant Red Hat's "offering" of Linux, not necessarily implying that they were the only one, just the only contender at that level.
From the article:
Rats are abundant, cheap and easily transported. At three pounds, they are too light to detonate mines accidentally. They can sift the bouquet of land-mine aromas far better than any machine. Unlike even the best mine-detecting dog or human, they are relentlessly single-minded.
"Throw a stick for a dog to fetch, and after 10 times the dog will say, `Get it yourself, buddy,' " Mr. Weetjens said. "Rats will keep working as long as they want food."
Better than dogs, in this case.
Has anyone considered ducks?
The RBL's might, but having worked for some ISP's (*koff*@home*koff*), I know that they only scan for the open port on 25, they don't actually bother to check the SMTP functionality of the relay.
Just watch the RBL's and ISP's shut down your IP block for having an open relay...
How are they supposed to know the difference between a spamhole and a real open relay?
I was wondering why my spell checker was having such a hard time with the absence of punctuation and plethora of acronyms.
When will they come out with M$ w3Rd 31337 ?
This Slashdot article details the start of the Hotmail migration to Win2K..... anyone know if they successfully finished it? Rolled it back?
MS *is* trying to convert their big sites to Win2k, they're just being very mum about their successes/failures.
And besides, the main MS site does run entirely on MS product. What's the news here?
You would think that Exchange server administrators would be smart enough to at least start filtering attachments or running a virus scan on incoming traffic. I guess not, since M$ themselves were offline yesterday...
It's interesting that other collaboration/e-mail packages such as Lotus Notes and Eudora are unaffected by these problems....
Why are M$ products *designed* to be so blatantly insecure? I'm sure the basic principles of program security have been around for ages... why motivates M$ to deliberately ignore them?
It's not coincidence that issues like the GUID are troubling us now... these technologies were created for specific purposes... and look how easy it was for two non-M$ people to track down the creator of the Melissa docs.
Conspiracy theories, my ass. More than enough evidence to go on here.
Aight, Commander, since when did you become a Choosey One?
And since when did you start drinking Diet CoQo?
;P