The article pretty much reeks of whining to me. Not that I don't somewhat have sympathy for the guy, but when you go apply to a fast food place, they ask if you have any prior felonies. If they have something to do with the job that you are going to do (i.e. Stealing from a register) then they can deny you employment. I personally don't think that this is any different, for two reasons.
1)I don't want, as a corporation, to hire someone who is known to have done illegal things to break other people's security, if his job is to know all waeknesses of security we make. This guy could easily put an obscure back door into all of the security measures, and then exploit it at a later time.
2)I don't want someone who is known to be a cracker sitting on a computer behind my corporate firewall.
Now, as an individual, he may be a great, upstanding guy who's only crime was curiosity, but I don't think that a company should have to take a risk on the fact that he may be an idealist.
I think that the answer to this would be a deal somewhat like Gateway's upgade your computer plan. When your phon starts to get obsolete, they buy back your old phone, eating the price somewhat, and give you the latest phone with the spiffiest gadgets. Whoever does this first will get alot of new sales very quickly. I know that I have held off getting a new phone for quite a while. If I could upgrade without eating the whole cost, I probably would.
It's neat to know what the working title of it is, but it's no more likely to come out with this title than the G4 was likely to come out with the name PDQ. It's a workign title so they can talk about it amongst themselves without confusion, but I highly doubt that this is going to be even close to the end choice.
Ah, the PS is the first part against it... I am taking a technological step, rather than lobbying a congressman.
Your argument is very similar to an argument to ban all homeless people. I mean, why should the burden of proof be upon you to get up off of a bench when they sit next to you, and they smell bad? The burden of proof should be on the homeless person to take a shower! Mandatory Showering laws! Rid ourselves of the homeless!
I mean, really. Come on. Spammers keep you on your toes, and as broadband becomes a reality for more and more people, it becomes even more and more of a non-issue.
As far as those who have to wait for the Spam to download, they can use such methods as www.mailstart.com, and telnet sessions to get rid of mail before they download it. telnet pop.isp.com 110 user username pass password. Boy, that's hard.
I'm pro-Spam insofar as I don't want Spam legislation. Not in that I enjoy getting Spam.
My point still stands that if there is a precedent of any kind which restricts rights online, courts will allow them to get out of hand. It's been proven many times. If you want to restrict the freedoms of some, eventually you will restrict the freedoms of all.
Corporations are seen as individuals in the eyes of the law, I do believe. Even if they don't it makes no sense to limit the speech of someone simply because they are working for a company.
Your property? Let's make junk mail illegal, and while we're at it, we'll go ahead and do the same with cookies. They enter your cookies folder without you asking... Unless you use a technological solution, rather than a legal solution.
Spaminator, an earthlink service, works just fine to filter my spam before it ever hits the box. I don't think it needs to be made illegal. I think people need to find a solution to block it.
Jesus christ, come on... If you don't like spam, telnet into your mailbox, so you never have to have your bandwidth eaten.
And don't tell me that people aren't allowed to waste your time. Telemarketers are wasting your time as we speak, and they are perfectly within their rights. When people want you to change your long distance company, they are eating your time. Time isn't nearly as precious as people pretend it is anyway, now-a-days. It's squandered on unhappy jobs, and television, and computer games. Here's a fresh pot for ya...
I love it. Instead of the slashbots attacking you verbally, they actually mark you down for making a good point.
The parent is right. If you want freedom of speech online, and advertising is speech, then what the hell are you thinking? How can you think that Spammers should all be attacked, and made illegal, when you think that DeCSS should be free, because it is speech? I, personally, am for DeCSS. I am also 'pro-spam'. I think that spammers have the right to spam as much as you have the right to post a DeCSS mirror.
I saw someone make a joke a while back, but I truly think it was funny, and pertinant.
First they came for the Spammers, but I didn't speak up, because I was not a spammer.
Then they came for the Trolls, but I didn't not speak up, because I was not a Troll.
Then, when they came for the pale losers, there was no one left to speak for me.
I'm paraphrasing, but don't be happy about spammers losing rights. It just sets a precident that will fuck us all in the long run.
As to the fourth factor, plaintiffs have produced evidence that Napster use harms the market for the copyrighted work in at least two ways, and we've had a number of studies, and I will spell out in the order the problems with some of those studies. I don't think any of them are, you know, what you would call without flaw.
I think that this is good proof of the judge not paying ay attention to Napster in this case. Everything I have seen from this case has involved the judge being already prejudiced, and attacking napster. Every study that has shown that Napster depletes music sales has been paid for by the RIAA. Napster does increase music sales, and the RIAA is ust trying to obfuscate the facts with their pre-paid judge. Napster, until they get an honest, objective judge, doesn't stand a chance.
I think that the free question is a good one. Did Debian go completely free, and drop all proprietary software? f so, this makes for a huge advance in the world of free software, showing distro makers that what we all want is a completely free OS AND Software, and that we are loathe to accept any less. The only proprietary software we needed was Netscape, and now we have Mozila. Free our software!
Is the resolution like that because of the file format that is used to put it on the page, or are these pictures as good as the scientists have? There seems to be no indication in the article.
check out www.prop22.org... Plenty of info there about this 'innocent' proposition... It just shocks me that California of all places would pass a bill like this...
I have noticed alot lately that people who we always thought of as being in ignorant closed minded areas are surprising us all... The voters of Kansas deciding to try and keep evolution as being taught in schools... Vermont voting to accept Gay Marrages... While California, the state which is supposed to be the standard bearer of open-mindedness, passes the homophobic Prop 22... What's happening here? Any thoughts?
I can't believe that Microssoft continues to pull such crazy bullshit in the face of the suit that they have already lost... When they try to get it overturned upon appeal, it's going to be really hard to convince the judge they've gotten better, which is really their only arguement. Bullshit like this is going to eat MS alive.
...is the worst part of Apple. I love Apple, but their legal department has been responsable for trying to quash anything Apple related that they cannot control. Try going to www.adcritic.com, and doing a search for the word 'Apple'. You will find that all of their ads have been taken down, due to Apple's Legal department. In an era where advertising in the form of leaks has created much revenue, Apple's legal department is going to help them slide back into obscurity.
I'm glad to see that we are finaly doing something about getting to another planet. There's no possible way we can sustain the current way of life we have without colonization... I can't wait, sign me up!
Looks like we'll be seeing another anti-trust case in the near future. Intel is almost as bad as Microsoft. I wonder when they'll catch on to Cisco's monopoly...
Actually, with a call I once had with Technical Support for a major ISP, we had an issue where a man called in with an ISDN modem, and had been passed between us and the makers of his firewall software. He wasn't able to route, and we went back and forth over it... Finally, we had one of the NOC agents on the phone, and he had the man attempt to do an nslookup of a site, and then an nslookup of the page. Turned out that his reverse DNS wasn't working because of the firewall. Conference calling really can help you out. It's frustrating for the tech support reps, but tech support reps are easily frustrated anyway.
Fantasia was a rehash of the classic tale to warn us that power which is not earned is dangerous. Bambi is a typical, mindless, animals talking to each other in the woods type story. Toy story was stolen from the Nutcracker, as far as the 'originality'. And the Lion King is a real Myth from Africa.
Disney doesn't just steal myths and whitewash them. They destroy the myths. Watch Hercules, for instance. During the last five minutes, Hera picks Hercules up, cluthches him to her breast, and yells out 'My Son!' Don't tell me not to knock Disney. They are whores, who can't tell a story to save their fucking lives.
The average idiot is far too stupid to appreciate their sys admin... We just barely got people to recognize their Secrataries, and they have to look at those people every day. No one understands what a sys admin does, and no one will appreciate them.
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The article pretty much reeks of whining to me. Not that I don't somewhat have sympathy for the guy, but when you go apply to a fast food place, they ask if you have any prior felonies. If they have something to do with the job that you are going to do (i.e. Stealing from a register) then they can deny you employment. I personally don't think that this is any different, for two reasons.
1)I don't want, as a corporation, to hire someone who is known to have done illegal things to break other people's security, if his job is to know all waeknesses of security we make. This guy could easily put an obscure back door into all of the security measures, and then exploit it at a later time.
2)I don't want someone who is known to be a cracker sitting on a computer behind my corporate firewall.
Now, as an individual, he may be a great, upstanding guy who's only crime was curiosity, but I don't think that a company should have to take a risk on the fact that he may be an idealist.
I think that the answer to this would be a deal somewhat like Gateway's upgade your computer plan. When your phon starts to get obsolete, they buy back your old phone, eating the price somewhat, and give you the latest phone with the spiffiest gadgets. Whoever does this first will get alot of new sales very quickly. I know that I have held off getting a new phone for quite a while. If I could upgrade without eating the whole cost, I probably would.
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It's neat to know what the working title of it is, but it's no more likely to come out with this title than the G4 was likely to come out with the name PDQ. It's a workign title so they can talk about it amongst themselves without confusion, but I highly doubt that this is going to be even close to the end choice.
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Ah, the PS is the first part against it... I am taking a technological step, rather than lobbying a congressman.
Your argument is very similar to an argument to ban all homeless people. I mean, why should the burden of proof be upon you to get up off of a bench when they sit next to you, and they smell bad? The burden of proof should be on the homeless person to take a shower! Mandatory Showering laws! Rid ourselves of the homeless!
I mean, really. Come on. Spammers keep you on your toes, and as broadband becomes a reality for more and more people, it becomes even more and more of a non-issue.
As far as those who have to wait for the Spam to download, they can use such methods as www.mailstart.com, and telnet sessions to get rid of mail before they download it. telnet pop.isp.com 110 user username pass password. Boy, that's hard.
I'm pro-Spam insofar as I don't want Spam legislation. Not in that I enjoy getting Spam.
This, I suppose, is a viable arguement, but it still will help to restrict free speech in later cases. I think that much is fairly obvious.
My point still stands that if there is a precedent of any kind which restricts rights online, courts will allow them to get out of hand. It's been proven many times. If you want to restrict the freedoms of some, eventually you will restrict the freedoms of all.
Corporations are seen as individuals in the eyes of the law, I do believe. Even if they don't it makes no sense to limit the speech of someone simply because they are working for a company.
Your property? Let's make junk mail illegal, and while we're at it, we'll go ahead and do the same with cookies. They enter your cookies folder without you asking... Unless you use a technological solution, rather than a legal solution.
Spaminator, an earthlink service, works just fine to filter my spam before it ever hits the box. I don't think it needs to be made illegal. I think people need to find a solution to block it.
Jesus christ, come on... If you don't like spam, telnet into your mailbox, so you never have to have your bandwidth eaten.
And don't tell me that people aren't allowed to waste your time. Telemarketers are wasting your time as we speak, and they are perfectly within their rights. When people want you to change your long distance company, they are eating your time. Time isn't nearly as precious as people pretend it is anyway, now-a-days. It's squandered on unhappy jobs, and television, and computer games. Here's a fresh pot for ya...
I love it. Instead of the slashbots attacking you verbally, they actually mark you down for making a good point.
The parent is right. If you want freedom of speech online, and advertising is speech, then what the hell are you thinking? How can you think that Spammers should all be attacked, and made illegal, when you think that DeCSS should be free, because it is speech? I, personally, am for DeCSS. I am also 'pro-spam'. I think that spammers have the right to spam as much as you have the right to post a DeCSS mirror.
I saw someone make a joke a while back, but I truly think it was funny, and pertinant.
First they came for the Spammers, but I didn't speak up, because I was not a spammer.
Then they came for the Trolls, but I didn't not speak up, because I was not a Troll.
Then, when they came for the pale losers, there was no one left to speak for me.
I'm paraphrasing, but don't be happy about spammers losing rights. It just sets a precident that will fuck us all in the long run.
As to the fourth factor, plaintiffs have produced evidence that Napster use harms the market for the copyrighted work in at least two ways, and we've had a number of studies, and I will spell out in the order the problems with some of those studies. I don't think any of them are, you know, what you would call without flaw.
I think that this is good proof of the judge not paying ay attention to Napster in this case. Everything I have seen from this case has involved the judge being already prejudiced, and attacking napster. Every study that has shown that Napster depletes music sales has been paid for by the RIAA. Napster does increase music sales, and the RIAA is ust trying to obfuscate the facts with their pre-paid judge. Napster, until they get an honest, objective judge, doesn't stand a chance.
I think that the free question is a good one. Did Debian go completely free, and drop all proprietary software? f so, this makes for a huge advance in the world of free software, showing distro makers that what we all want is a completely free OS AND Software, and that we are loathe to accept any less. The only proprietary software we needed was Netscape, and now we have Mozila. Free our software!
-258.5 degrees F. Pretty damned cold. Then again, it's pretty far out there.
For those, by the way, who hate America, and all of it's systems, that's 111.7 K.
Is the resolution like that because of the file format that is used to put it on the page, or are these pictures as good as the scientists have? There seems to be no indication in the article.
check out www.prop22.org... Plenty of info there about this 'innocent' proposition... It just shocks me that California of all places would pass a bill like this...
I have noticed alot lately that people who we always thought of as being in ignorant closed minded areas are surprising us all... The voters of Kansas deciding to try and keep evolution as being taught in schools... Vermont voting to accept Gay Marrages... While California, the state which is supposed to be the standard bearer of open-mindedness, passes the homophobic Prop 22... What's happening here? Any thoughts?
I can't believe that Microssoft continues to pull such crazy bullshit in the face of the suit that they have already lost... When they try to get it overturned upon appeal, it's going to be really hard to convince the judge they've gotten better, which is really their only arguement. Bullshit like this is going to eat MS alive.
...is the worst part of Apple. I love Apple, but their legal department has been responsable for trying to quash anything Apple related that they cannot control. Try going to www.adcritic.com, and doing a search for the word 'Apple'. You will find that all of their ads have been taken down, due to Apple's Legal department. In an era where advertising in the form of leaks has created much revenue, Apple's legal department is going to help them slide back into obscurity.
I'm glad to see that we are finaly doing something about getting to another planet. There's no possible way we can sustain the current way of life we have without colonization... I can't wait, sign me up!
Looks like we'll be seeing another anti-trust case in the near future. Intel is almost as bad as Microsoft. I wonder when they'll catch on to Cisco's monopoly...
I meant, they had him do an nslookup of the site, and then an nslooup of the resulting IP. My mistake.
Actually, with a call I once had with Technical Support for a major ISP, we had an issue where a man called in with an ISDN modem, and had been passed between us and the makers of his firewall software. He wasn't able to route, and we went back and forth over it... Finally, we had one of the NOC agents on the phone, and he had the man attempt to do an nslookup of a site, and then an nslookup of the page. Turned out that his reverse DNS wasn't working because of the firewall. Conference calling really can help you out. It's frustrating for the tech support reps, but tech support reps are easily frustrated anyway.
Fantasia was a rehash of the classic tale to warn us that power which is not earned is dangerous. Bambi is a typical, mindless, animals talking to each other in the woods type story. Toy story was stolen from the Nutcracker, as far as the 'originality'. And the Lion King is a real Myth from Africa.
Disney doesn't just steal myths and whitewash them. They destroy the myths. Watch Hercules, for instance. During the last five minutes, Hera picks Hercules up, cluthches him to her breast, and yells out 'My Son!' Don't tell me not to knock Disney. They are whores, who can't tell a story to save their fucking lives.
The average idiot is far too stupid to appreciate their sys admin... We just barely got people to recognize their Secrataries, and they have to look at those people every day. No one understands what a sys admin does, and no one will appreciate them.