There's no way they'd be able to organise a legally binding contract with you (such that they really could base a lawsuit on it in the case of you violating it) without revealing their identity - and they're anonymous specifically so they don't have to worry about time-wasting lawsuits against them.
I guess that's the problem of an anonymous organization. There's no one to sue, but conversely, there is no one who can sue, in order to collect damages from organization. In my plan, users who would be blocked would have the opportunity to sign a contract, legally binding, that they wouldn't spam. Thus, if they failed to abide by the rules of that contract, they could be sued for many dollars.
Besides, for most ISPs, switching is not just a matter of saying "oh, we're blocked, let's find a new ISP". Switching ISPs costs money. Whether it be manpower in researching a new ISP, or the task of uploading files over, or even the task of having some amount of overlap time, it costs real dollars when you switch ISPs for what are minimal benefits.
Additionally, the effectiveness of SPEWS is limited, and even spam fighters will admit it. Many spammers have switched from sending out from their netblocks to open proxies and the like in order to send out their mass emails. It's my opinion that an alternative approach to fighting spam, through means such as baysian filtering, and improved firewall rules could perform just as good a job of preventing spam without a shadowy organization such as SPEWS.
I don't have a dog in this fight. I don't know anyone with connections to the SPEWS list, either as being listed, or as being a lister; I dislike spam, and would not purchase a product from a spammer. On the same token, I feel that some of SPEWS' tactics are overly broad and draconian.
On a tangental note, I'd like your opinion on a hypothetical situation involving spam. What would you do in such a situation? How would you fight the possibility of someone using the ill-will of spam against a company?
Once again, what's so hard about whitelisting good persons in "bad" netblocks that have promised, under threat of lawsuit, to be a good netizen? Or does admitting that it's possible to have a good person in a bad network neighborhood somehow destroy the war on spam? If it's possible to blacklist, then it's possible to whitelist, unless of course the owner of the list is a zealot, in which case all bets are off.
No, blanket blacklisting without impunity isn't the only way to handle a situation with a company such as CogentCo. I've read both sides here, and the unresponsive, holier-than-thou assholes who run SPEWS are doing the anti-spam side more harm than good by clinging to the notion that a scortched earth campaign is the only way to fight the spam war. For example, what's so hard about allowing folks in a blacklisted netblock to send an afadavit stating that they will not spam from their alotted IP addresses, and to notify SPEWS if their IP block changes? There are solutions here, solutions which don't require indiscriminate usage of netblocks
Was there a fucking formal declaration of war? No. Was there a fucking ammendment to the constitution stating that certain kinds of speech are now unprotected? No. Thus, the rules didn't fucking change, except for narrow-minded halfwits such as yourself who are wetting yourselves in fear over the Eeeevil terrorists. If you were a real American, you'd be saying fuck the terrorists, period. Not mewling for unconstitutional laws such as the laughably named "PATRIOT" act. I believe in liberty, and have qualms against the left as well. I just think that acts such like this are wrong.
As far as your support of racial profiling, did you even bother reading the paper I linked to? Taking a simple statistical analysis shows that racial profiling is statistically more dangerous than not profiling. What's to stop a terrorist cell from recruiting a caucasian person to commit the acts?
Quit sucking Dubya's dick on these matters. Was 9/11 horrific? Absolutely. Have certain parties gone overboard in their measures? Absolutely as well. Use your brain for once for something other than keeping your skull from caving in.
Prosecutions in cases like the enron situation take time. Got to make sure all the ducks are in a row before trial happens. Otherwise, you get situations where defendants are let off on technicalities, etc. The wheels of justice grind slowly, but grind those under them to dust. I have no doubt that enron execs are going to spend a good amount of time in federal pound me in the ass prison.
No, asshole, 9/11 didn't change the fucking rules. The fucking rules still say that freedom of speech shall not be infringed unless it poses a clear and present danger. Period. Some kid in his bedroom is hardly a fucking clear and present danger to the country, thus the prosecution is a farce. I happen to disagree with what this kid says, but I realise that quashing speech I happen to disagree with is much, much more dangerous than some infinitessimal increase, if any, in security the arrest of this kid has provided.
As for your support of racial profiling, what's your response to the paper that shows that it doesn't work?
It's pseudofascist morons like you that are ruining this country, not the kid in his basement. So, I must ask you, if you don't like the laws of this country, such as the first ammendment, why don't you move to a country that has a legal system more to your liking? I hear that Iran doesn't allow any of that pesky questioning of authority, I'm sure you'd fit right in.
RTFA. By supporting efforts to improve Photoshop's quality running under Wine, Disney's saving $35000/year in licensing and support costs. Thus, they are doing the financially wise thing by supporting efforts to improve running windows binaries under Linux.
Obviously you haven't used Linux for several years if you're still using that tired line that Linux's font support is bad. Yeah, if you're using GTK 1 apps written 4 years ago, the fonts are going to be ugly, but if you use a modern distro, with a modern X server, the fonts look pretty damn good. Hell, even die-hard mac users admit now that X has real good font support now that Freetype2 and Xft are well supported.
As far as package management goes, once again you need to get out of the abyss of ignorance you're living in. Modern Linux distros have tools such as urpmi and apt to make package management and installation easier in an enterprise environment than windows' solution. Apt and urpmi enable one to install and update programs from multiple sources. Yes, the learning curve is a bit more steep than in the windows world, but once that curve is mastered, Linux offers a much nicer environment for installing software. Yes, installing home software's more difficult in Linux, but this isn't about the home market, this is about the business world, where the rules are different.
But they've already got case mods and overclocking for cars. And if you count the tuning boards, adding a chip to a car for faster performance is already available, and those chips usually have a tiny amount of RAM. So really, the car market and the computer market are already quite similar.
Yep. Hospitals and police departments have rape kits they use to document and examine a rape victim, photographing items like cuts and bruises. Also, in rape cases, the cuts and bruises are different from in consentual sex, as the victim struggles. Thus in a situation like the grandparent poster described, the case against the guy would be dropped pretty quickly.
standard HTML forms may be Good Enough for most uses on a machine with a relatively large display, etc, but it begins to break down when porting XHTML to embedded platforms, mobile platforms, etc. XForms' separation of content and markup means that it'll be easier and more usable to port to new platforms and areas.
To consider your analogy, Perl, C and company are great for scripting and application building, but at the same time, sometimes you need to roll your own language to perform operations that just weren't needed 10 years ago. Progress is good; sometimes it's beneficial to throw everything out, and start from scratch. See what's broken and fix it permanently. At least, until the next new technology comes around;3. But such is life in the tech world. Get used to it, or you'll be sweeping floors with all the old PL/I and Flowmatic programmers who didn't want to adapt either.
I disagree. How much software is commercially viable after 10 years? Besides, any law such as the one Lessig proposes would be consitutional as the constitution states:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
Thus, as long as it could be proven that their requirements promotes progress, they can change the copyright laws, as long as it's for a limited time. Copyright's an unnatural right, designed soley to help society as a whole by promoting people to get out and market their works. If it's decided to put additional burdens on someone before they receive the benefits of copyright protection, then so be it.
Besides, most software is not commercially viable after a decade, so I fail to see how Lessig's proposal is unreasonable. Care to enlighten me?
Uh, you misspelled "elitist asshole". Dude, you need to get off your high horse here and realise that sometimes a good general reference book like the "for dummies" series is what someone needs. They're not books for experts -- that's the job of the thousand page flyswatters -- but they're perfect for someone just getting their feet wet in a complex subject such as an operating environment they've never used before.
It depends. The "For Dummies" series is intended to be a primer, something you can flip through to see if you want/need to learn more about the subject. Something like World War 2, where you've got a lot of players, and a lot of intricate negotiations going on, a "For Dummies" book can be useful so you can skim through and get some idea of what's going on as you read the larger, dry history book you picked up. Many times, these books have suggestions on other books to read through to get a full understanding on what can be complex topics.
Depends on what you need. Windows, Linux, etc, are all sometimes too big for an application, or otherwise just get in your way. DOS is useful if you just need a small set of system calls, but otherwise, want nothing. Yeah, clocks are cheap these days, but at the same time, a wasted clock is still a wasted clock. I've got a feeling that there are still going to be a few DOS-based apps developed for the next few decades; DOS is just too entrenched to think otherwise.
Conservatives would not want cyborgs and AI robots running around with rights. They would be stronger than us, they would be smarter than us, they wouldn't be God's creatures, etc.
Depends on your definition of conservative, I guess. I know gay hedonistic conservatives who would have no problem with cybernetic technologies. I also know of liberals who have ethical problems with cybernetic technologies due to inequality issues. It's a complex issue, and playing it down conservative/liberal lines is just silly.
It depends on how TCPA is implented. If it's implemented through BIOS calls, then it's simply a matter of hooking into those calls and going about your merry way. Interrupt remapping has been done by years, so it's not a big deal at all. Now, if they do it as a CPU instruction, on the other hand, then it becomes much more complicated. I guess, though, it could probably be handled in very much the same way the FDIV and F00F bugs were handled, through a few lines of kernel-level code.
Of course, even if you're unable to work with the code through either of these functions, there's always emulation. Yeah, it would take a bit longer to get the process working, but eventually, it would be very possible to just emulate a TCPA processor with the "security" features disabled. Of course certain interests wouldn't like such disabling, but fuck them for creating such a waste of money, brains, and time as "trusted" computing
They're drawing on experience here. The first widespread use of almost any new technology is pr0n, thus the first real successful cyborgs are obviously going to be porn stars. I mean, think about it, whilst you're in there getting your memory enhanced, and giving yourself night vision a cat can only dream of, might as well get yourself hung like Ron Jeremy.
Of course, eventually, this will branch out to more "disturbing" fields as well. Given enough money, and a willing surgeon, we'll have the inevitable cyborggoatse.cx guy, which makes our current stretched anus guy look small.
Sorry. The US already has enough sunny areas that if solar power were to gain widespread feasability, there would be little to no need to import any energy. There are huge parts of Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, etc that would be perfect for solar generation as they're sunny locations pretty much year round, and would be perfect for generatint power.
So quit your US baaaad sheepspeak and get your head out of your ass, mmmmkay?
Eventually, yes. All the functionality of the current mozilla suite is going to be migrated over to the quicker, less bloated framework that firebird, thunderbird and sunbird(calendaring) are currently using.
Actually, wifi is excellent for being anti-convergent. More wifi devices mean that each device only has to do two things well. Handle information, and send information. This device is a great example of this. With it, one doesn't need a 1GB CF card to shoot a decent amount of pics, you can simply shoot away, and have your info being dumped directly to your laptop sitting in its bag, or to the server in the news van, or directly onto your website. No fuss, no muss.
In the bigger picture, a good wifi setup means every device does its thing, and nothing else, not even storage. One simply has a wifi personal server that all your other devices, such as your MP3 player and your digital camera download to; this is advantageous over both current "standalone" devices and all-in-one devices in that you get the convenience in transfer of the all in one, yet the convenience in upgrading of the standalones.
STFU already. You made the same goddamn point several times on thisfuckingthread. Give it a rest. Are you critical of apple's use of i-everything, or of MS's overuse of -XP? Or are you just bitching for the sake of bitching?
Let me offer a counterpoint here, going over the places the parent poster missed on any trip through the Southwest.
We'll start in LA, as it's probably where the plane lands and where the fun begins. You gotta head up for the first one. Up to the top of Mount Wilson, about a mile up, great view of the expanse of The Valley. Hell, you can see all the way to Long Beach on a good day.
Next, you gotta head into the Santa Monica Mountains, and do Mulholland Highway. Preferably in a nice fast car with no regard for the speed limit. Head down PCH to Decker Canyon road, and head down an insanely windy, yet insanely fun canyon road. Keep going past the stop sign to where Mulholland tees off going east, and follow that road until you reach Stunt Canyon road. Take that to the summit, and you've got yourself one hell of a view. Culminate the trip with a drive down Tuna Canyon Road; it's one way, narrow and windy as hell, not for the faint of heart, but absolutely gorgeous.
After that, head into Arizona, preferably in a restored muscle car from the early 70s. The Southwest is where the Land Sharks live; sleek, large machines with insanely big engines. Cruise across I-40, that road that ate up route 66 through this gorgeous countryside. Stop in the little towns like Kingman and Williams, taking in the local color. Stop in at the Petrified Forest and Painted Desert; this is the land of god. Spend the night at Gallup, the town that was twisted and pulled like taffy by a combination of the mountains, the rivers, and the fabled Mother Road until it became a few miles long, but only a few blocks wide.
Swing through Albuquerque, checking out the Atomic Museum, The Frontier coffee shop, taking pictures of that wonderful bit of kitzch called the Aztec Motel. Spend some good geek time at Surplus City. Stop at the corner of Central and Juan Tabo, where Bill Gates was once arrested. Enjoy a thunderstorm if it's the right time of the year, maybe a trip down to Trinity Site or up the Tramway.
Get back on the modern version of the Mother Road, swing through the little towns that were devoured by the Interstate Highway System. Towns like Shamrock, Texas, where once gorgeous hotels are now choked in weeds. Take pictures of the roadside attractions, the people, the landscape. Chat up a waitress in a little coffee shop in Texas, and enjoy the mutual marvelling over the wonderful accents. Head up into Chicago, which others have covered better than I ever could, and from there, onto the rest of the East Coast.
Dude, Apple's EULA expressly prohibits running their OS on non-apple hardware, and knowing Jobs, that's unlikely to change any time soon. And as I pointed out earlier in this very thread, Linux is already better than OS X in certain tasks, and probably more, due to the fact that Apple has the overhead from its Mach microkernel to deal with.
Why are you so defensive of Apple here? Apple's using the chip, and so is IBM. Big deal. Apple seems to be leaning towards one part of the market, that of the "creative" pro, while IBM seems to be leaning more towards the small server/professional workstation market. Let the market decide who has the better product. If Apple's use of the 970 sucks comparatively, then too bad, so sad. The marketplace is a harsh mistress.
Uh, sorry to piss on your cornflakes, but Linux is already faster than OS X. Besides, I think that IBM knows a thing or two about systems optimization, I think that if they can't get performance-related PPC patches into the kernel proper, they'll just fork and release their own sets of patches. Remember, you're dealing with IBM here, and they don't fuck around when they release a system.
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Additionally, the effectiveness of SPEWS is limited, and even spam fighters will admit it. Many spammers have switched from sending out from their netblocks to open proxies and the like in order to send out their mass emails. It's my opinion that an alternative approach to fighting spam, through means such as baysian filtering, and improved firewall rules could perform just as good a job of preventing spam without a shadowy organization such as SPEWS.
I don't have a dog in this fight. I don't know anyone with connections to the SPEWS list, either as being listed, or as being a lister; I dislike spam, and would not purchase a product from a spammer. On the same token, I feel that some of SPEWS' tactics are overly broad and draconian.
On a tangental note, I'd like your opinion on a hypothetical situation involving spam. What would you do in such a situation? How would you fight the possibility of someone using the ill-will of spam against a company?
Once again, what's so hard about whitelisting good persons in "bad" netblocks that have promised, under threat of lawsuit, to be a good netizen? Or does admitting that it's possible to have a good person in a bad network neighborhood somehow destroy the war on spam? If it's possible to blacklist, then it's possible to whitelist, unless of course the owner of the list is a zealot, in which case all bets are off.
No, blanket blacklisting without impunity isn't the only way to handle a situation with a company such as CogentCo. I've read both sides here, and the unresponsive, holier-than-thou assholes who run SPEWS are doing the anti-spam side more harm than good by clinging to the notion that a scortched earth campaign is the only way to fight the spam war. For example, what's so hard about allowing folks in a blacklisted netblock to send an afadavit stating that they will not spam from their alotted IP addresses, and to notify SPEWS if their IP block changes? There are solutions here, solutions which don't require indiscriminate usage of netblocks
As far as your support of racial profiling, did you even bother reading the paper I linked to? Taking a simple statistical analysis shows that racial profiling is statistically more dangerous than not profiling. What's to stop a terrorist cell from recruiting a caucasian person to commit the acts?
Quit sucking Dubya's dick on these matters. Was 9/11 horrific? Absolutely. Have certain parties gone overboard in their measures? Absolutely as well. Use your brain for once for something other than keeping your skull from caving in.
Prosecutions in cases like the enron situation take time. Got to make sure all the ducks are in a row before trial happens. Otherwise, you get situations where defendants are let off on technicalities, etc. The wheels of justice grind slowly, but grind those under them to dust. I have no doubt that enron execs are going to spend a good amount of time in federal pound me in the ass prison.
It's pseudofascist morons like you that are ruining this country, not the kid in his basement. So, I must ask you, if you don't like the laws of this country, such as the first ammendment, why don't you move to a country that has a legal system more to your liking? I hear that Iran doesn't allow any of that pesky questioning of authority, I'm sure you'd fit right in.
RTFA. By supporting efforts to improve Photoshop's quality running under Wine, Disney's saving $35000/year in licensing and support costs. Thus, they are doing the financially wise thing by supporting efforts to improve running windows binaries under Linux.
As far as package management goes, once again you need to get out of the abyss of ignorance you're living in. Modern Linux distros have tools such as urpmi and apt to make package management and installation easier in an enterprise environment than windows' solution. Apt and urpmi enable one to install and update programs from multiple sources. Yes, the learning curve is a bit more steep than in the windows world, but once that curve is mastered, Linux offers a much nicer environment for installing software. Yes, installing home software's more difficult in Linux, but this isn't about the home market, this is about the business world, where the rules are different.
But they've already got case mods and overclocking for cars. And if you count the tuning boards, adding a chip to a car for faster performance is already available, and those chips usually have a tiny amount of RAM. So really, the car market and the computer market are already quite similar.
Yep. Hospitals and police departments have rape kits they use to document and examine a rape victim, photographing items like cuts and bruises. Also, in rape cases, the cuts and bruises are different from in consentual sex, as the victim struggles. Thus in a situation like the grandparent poster described, the case against the guy would be dropped pretty quickly.
To consider your analogy, Perl, C and company are great for scripting and application building, but at the same time, sometimes you need to roll your own language to perform operations that just weren't needed 10 years ago. Progress is good; sometimes it's beneficial to throw everything out, and start from scratch. See what's broken and fix it permanently. At least, until the next new technology comes around ;3. But such is life in the tech world. Get used to it, or you'll be sweeping floors with all the old PL/I and Flowmatic programmers who didn't want to adapt either.
Thus, as long as it could be proven that their requirements promotes progress, they can change the copyright laws, as long as it's for a limited time. Copyright's an unnatural right, designed soley to help society as a whole by promoting people to get out and market their works. If it's decided to put additional burdens on someone before they receive the benefits of copyright protection, then so be it.
Besides, most software is not commercially viable after a decade, so I fail to see how Lessig's proposal is unreasonable. Care to enlighten me?
Uh, you misspelled "elitist asshole". Dude, you need to get off your high horse here and realise that sometimes a good general reference book like the "for dummies" series is what someone needs. They're not books for experts -- that's the job of the thousand page flyswatters -- but they're perfect for someone just getting their feet wet in a complex subject such as an operating environment they've never used before.
It depends. The "For Dummies" series is intended to be a primer, something you can flip through to see if you want/need to learn more about the subject. Something like World War 2, where you've got a lot of players, and a lot of intricate negotiations going on, a "For Dummies" book can be useful so you can skim through and get some idea of what's going on as you read the larger, dry history book you picked up. Many times, these books have suggestions on other books to read through to get a full understanding on what can be complex topics.
Depends on what you need. Windows, Linux, etc, are all sometimes too big for an application, or otherwise just get in your way. DOS is useful if you just need a small set of system calls, but otherwise, want nothing. Yeah, clocks are cheap these days, but at the same time, a wasted clock is still a wasted clock. I've got a feeling that there are still going to be a few DOS-based apps developed for the next few decades; DOS is just too entrenched to think otherwise.
Depends on your definition of conservative, I guess. I know gay hedonistic conservatives who would have no problem with cybernetic technologies. I also know of liberals who have ethical problems with cybernetic technologies due to inequality issues. It's a complex issue, and playing it down conservative/liberal lines is just silly.
Of course, even if you're unable to work with the code through either of these functions, there's always emulation. Yeah, it would take a bit longer to get the process working, but eventually, it would be very possible to just emulate a TCPA processor with the "security" features disabled. Of course certain interests wouldn't like such disabling, but fuck them for creating such a waste of money, brains, and time as "trusted" computing
Of course, eventually, this will branch out to more "disturbing" fields as well. Given enough money, and a willing surgeon, we'll have the inevitable cyborggoatse.cx guy, which makes our current stretched anus guy look small.
So quit your US baaaad sheepspeak and get your head out of your ass, mmmmkay?
Eventually, yes. All the functionality of the current mozilla suite is going to be migrated over to the quicker, less bloated framework that firebird, thunderbird and sunbird(calendaring) are currently using.
In the bigger picture, a good wifi setup means every device does its thing, and nothing else, not even storage. One simply has a wifi personal server that all your other devices, such as your MP3 player and your digital camera download to; this is advantageous over both current "standalone" devices and all-in-one devices in that you get the convenience in transfer of the all in one, yet the convenience in upgrading of the standalones.
STFU already. You made the same goddamn point several times on this fucking thread. Give it a rest. Are you critical of apple's use of i-everything, or of MS's overuse of -XP? Or are you just bitching for the sake of bitching?
We'll start in LA, as it's probably where the plane lands and where the fun begins. You gotta head up for the first one. Up to the top of Mount Wilson, about a mile up, great view of the expanse of The Valley. Hell, you can see all the way to Long Beach on a good day.
Next, you gotta head into the Santa Monica Mountains, and do Mulholland Highway. Preferably in a nice fast car with no regard for the speed limit. Head down PCH to Decker Canyon road, and head down an insanely windy, yet insanely fun canyon road. Keep going past the stop sign to where Mulholland tees off going east, and follow that road until you reach Stunt Canyon road. Take that to the summit, and you've got yourself one hell of a view. Culminate the trip with a drive down Tuna Canyon Road; it's one way, narrow and windy as hell, not for the faint of heart, but absolutely gorgeous.
After that, head into Arizona, preferably in a restored muscle car from the early 70s. The Southwest is where the Land Sharks live; sleek, large machines with insanely big engines. Cruise across I-40, that road that ate up route 66 through this gorgeous countryside. Stop in the little towns like Kingman and Williams, taking in the local color. Stop in at the Petrified Forest and Painted Desert; this is the land of god. Spend the night at Gallup, the town that was twisted and pulled like taffy by a combination of the mountains, the rivers, and the fabled Mother Road until it became a few miles long, but only a few blocks wide.
Swing through Albuquerque, checking out the Atomic Museum, The Frontier coffee shop, taking pictures of that wonderful bit of kitzch called the Aztec Motel. Spend some good geek time at Surplus City. Stop at the corner of Central and Juan Tabo, where Bill Gates was once arrested. Enjoy a thunderstorm if it's the right time of the year, maybe a trip down to Trinity Site or up the Tramway.
Get back on the modern version of the Mother Road, swing through the little towns that were devoured by the Interstate Highway System. Towns like Shamrock, Texas, where once gorgeous hotels are now choked in weeds. Take pictures of the roadside attractions, the people, the landscape. Chat up a waitress in a little coffee shop in Texas, and enjoy the mutual marvelling over the wonderful accents. Head up into Chicago, which others have covered better than I ever could, and from there, onto the rest of the East Coast.
Why are you so defensive of Apple here? Apple's using the chip, and so is IBM. Big deal. Apple seems to be leaning towards one part of the market, that of the "creative" pro, while IBM seems to be leaning more towards the small server/professional workstation market. Let the market decide who has the better product. If Apple's use of the 970 sucks comparatively, then too bad, so sad. The marketplace is a harsh mistress.
Uh, sorry to piss on your cornflakes, but Linux is already faster than OS X. Besides, I think that IBM knows a thing or two about systems optimization, I think that if they can't get performance-related PPC patches into the kernel proper, they'll just fork and release their own sets of patches. Remember, you're dealing with IBM here, and they don't fuck around when they release a system.