Soon, A lot of refactoring has taken place and I've been trying to iron out the bugs outside of winecvs so that I can send in clean, reasonably well tested patches. Some work has already made it to mainline, and I've got some more work implementing stateblocks that should be going in tomorow.
a: It's because of your inability to cope with them. b: It means that they have already done something you disagree with.
In the case of a you should look at yourself, in the case of b it's too late, you should have tried to prevent the thing happening in the first place or learn to accept that it is going to happen, will keep on happening and will keep on annoying you until the day you die.
Also, I think Microsoft is going to sue the spammer, that is a civil offence so no Jail term, better luck next time.
What if you can't catch me, then your the one that has to deal with it. It's only a problem when you make it a problem, spam is your problem because you choose it to be and you cannot deal with it the spammers can.
You use the word rules like it's a game, but if there were only one rule it would be that there are no rules.
I don't want you to abide by my rules, I have none. I'm only reacting to tell you the kind of rules you want to make, and why making rules like that is a form Censorship, if it upsets you that I think your rules are wrong, then maybe I'm correct. You wouldn't like it if something you done was considered unruley by others. I have no rules, everyone and everything is equal without prejudice.
'I have the right to determine who enters my house.'
Squatters rights.
The Land Registration Act 2002 (which follows recommendations in Law Commission Report 254 Land Registration for the Twenty-First Century) provides a new scheme for adverse possession of registered land. Adverse possession of itself, for however long, will not bar the owner's title to a registered estate in land (s96).
Right to apply - 10 years adverse possession
However a squatter will be entitled to apply to the Land Registry to be registered as proprietor after ten years' adverse possession (s97 and Sched 6). The Land Registration Rules 2003 set out the procedure to be followed. Applications will have to be in Form ADV1 and accompanied, among other things, by a statutory declaration. The registered proprietor, any registered chargee, and certain other persons interested in the land will be notified of the application.
'you are trading some copyrighted work that you already own.'
You don't 'own' the work, you only own the copy of it.
Phishers you the information that you willing supply them, file traders distribute a copy of a file that was willingly supplied to them.
'Well, I just put up this site that looked like a bank, sent some people a few emails asking them to play around with my site and they gave me all their details. Who would have thought that.'
If anything Phishers just point out how poor security on the Internet and in general life is, phishers shouldn't ever be able to get your personal information.
I wonder how many viruses are written to take peoples private SSL keys.
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Section 3: Content
Make your subject a relevant one. Posting "Star Trek Sucks" into hk.forsale is not going to work very well and is liable to utterly destroy your hard earned reputation as a troller overnight.
You do not have to make the subject clear. Trolls are aimed at two audiences, the respondees and the lurkers.
The best trolls reveal their true subject only to the lurkers. In every sense those who reply to your troll are your tools. So choose a theme for your troll and stick to it.
Outwardly you need to appear sincere, but at the same time you have to tell your *real* audience that this is blatant flamebait. Your skill is shown in the easy way that you manipulate large areas of the Usenet community into making public fools of themselves.
The problem is that spam is advertising, advertising is designed to get in your way.
I don't have anything against advertising, and I don't have anything against spam. I think the internet should be free and open, and if they means you get a bit of spam once in a while just think yourself lucky that the internet is so free an open.
try browsing with a 56k modem, banner adds are usually bigger than SPAM mails and are everywhere you'll end up hating them more than you have spam.
There are lots of annoying things in life, that's the price you pay for freedom. I'm sure some people find you annoying from time to time.
It's an example, does you PC have a Intel or AMD cpu? does it come with Windows, do you have anything that uses dolby pro-logic? Do you eat Newzealand lamb? Sure I can avoid them all, but I can also keep a private email address, no one forced you to give your email address out did they?
' the anti-spam laws make it easier to go after them in both civil court and criminal because what they do annoys and frustrates soooooo many people'
Why not make the laws affect all forms of advertising, not just spam? Maybe spams a bit too much like freedom.
Computer programming can be more like computer programming than mathematics. Programming is based more on virtual models than many types of mathematics, so it's possible even more visual, and when you add the OSS component you remove even more soft communications skills.
Mathematics doesn't have to be the pinical of things that Women aren't good at thinking about, so why should the women OSS -> women mathamaticians ration be at the very least the same?
'You have a choice of watching TV (with it's ads) or not. Those ads are delivered with a product that has at least some nominal value.'
I have no choice in not paying for advertising when I buy a can of coke.
Coke costs less than 15p for two litres to produce, but cost about £2.00 to purchase.
If you work out those kind of margins of the average, shop, phone call, drug costs etc... I think it adds up to a whole lot more piggybacking on the back of your normal daily activities than SPAM does.
'If you take a look at most anti-spam laws, they don't attack the method. They attack things like misleading subject lines, fraudlent headers, lack of a meaningful response method, hijacking innocent machines'
misleading subject lines, there are trading and advertising standards laws to cover this.
fraudlent headers, there are already laws to cover this.
Hijacking innocent machines, there are already laws to cover this.
Take out a class action against spamers turning Windows boxes into Zombies (or against Microsoft for making buggy software) yes. Take out a law suit against spamers for the amount of junk mail, no.
Computer programming requires no language skills what so ever, or maybe you under estimate language skills are.
Computer programming is essentially mathematics and as with mathematics after a while programming becomes a reflex action of writing out visualisation of algorithms and processes that exist inside you head. It is a visual process (all be it an imaginary one).
Language on the other hand has a large about of feed back and emotional content, when I'm talking to you or sending or replying to a message I have to work out what you are thinking, what you emotional response will be etc....
Now I try to judge how you will react to any user interfaces I write, but I do it in a purely mechanical way, when I write a user interface I'm programming you, not having a conversation. Chances are my user interfaces are colder and more functional than ones designed by a woman.
It's hardly surprising that only a few percent of FOSS participants are Woman when:
Most of the communication is in a 'technical' form, not an emotional form.
Everyone always complains that OS UI's are designed to techies and not for real people(written by technical Men for technical Men)
Mathematics uses symbols and letters just like programming or physics, but doesn't make it language based. Why I program I see the code and execute it in my head.
nonsense, just because I call someone black doesn't mean I'm being raciest.
There's a distinct right-brain left-brain difference between men and Women, this makes it easier for Woman to process languages and Men to process visual abstractions like programming.
' I don't know how much more MS can really do to enforce it.'
only allow admin rights if you running in 640x480 8 bit colour mode, with a forced desktop image of the word WARNING in big red letters. Applications could also be started at a lower priories unless expressly requested at normal or higher priorities. I don't think it would cause anyone administering the machine any problems, but it would stop general user applications from running in a usable fashion as a admin without a some degree of effort.
Aborigines don't distinguish between work and play, in fact they use exactly the same work to describe both activities. It could be argued that both activities are in themselves creative and artistic. Many other more 'primitive' cultures have the same kind of practices, practices that have been going on for thousands of years without a single penny changing hands. That's a full time job, for many cultures for thousands of years with everyone making a living from it.
I still don't see how spam is any different from fliers, in terms of damage caused fliers or junk mail are worse.
To take it to an extreme, whenever I purchase something from the store I am paying for the advertising that appears on TV, even if I don't watch TV. This is a moderate cost to me (probably more than the amount I would be paid for 15 minutes work). No one is shouting for advertising to be banned, so picking out spam is censoring a form of advertising that is not directly linked to any of the RIAA, MPAA, payola type companies.
I think people need to take spam into perspective of other arguable worse forms of advertising, and then look at what needs to be stopped/censored.
I have never spent 10-15 minutes a day dealing with spam, infact I spend more time taking the extra crap that comes with my bank statement down to be recycled, and that's not counting the time it takes to recycle or dispose of the junk.
Land fill isn't cheep, and is a bitch to reclaim, (far harder than cleaning out you inbox, filtering your email, or using friend/foe email addresses) but there aren't any laws preventing stuffing, or people handing out fliers so why should there be laws preventing spam? Hacking into someones computer and making it do anything is already illegal.
I'm trying to get everyone to send me signed email, but it's hard telling the bank what pgp is over the phone, it's even harder telling the tax man.
I think you should go read your history. Copyright hasn't been around for ever, and I don't see to many people complaining that their great grand parents died before they could have any children.
I don't think 'standards' such as the English language came about because of copyright, an I see plenty of creativity in languages everyday, how does this fit into "Worse yet, you can count on this"
Also, how does Microsoft (a strong proponent of copyright) not support standards when 'free' versions of software manage to?
Do you see third world countries thanking everyone for the cheep drugs that copyright is giving them?
Though you may 'think' that from copyright and patents creativity will blossom, I think you've been browsing www.microsoft.propaganda.com too long. just look at any country that doesn't have strong copyright laws and see how much farther the dollar goes.
I was thinking more along the lines of the Redhat and IBM diaries, but Stallman sill do too. (didn't Apple use some funny BSD os, and that odd KHtml component?)
"If copyright didn't exist then the GPL (and pretty much any other use or distribution license) would be unenforceable. That is, the limitations imposed by the GPL in terms of distribution would not stand. So anyone could anything with your code. That "plenty of people" can give software away and still eat is because of copyright enforcement."
And I could do anything with there's. You could take my code, make The Bungi rocket v5, but because there is no copyright I could take your Bungi rocket v5 and give it away for free. Ok, so it may be a little harder to get the source from you, but once I do I can give that away for free too, sounds like GPL+ to me.
Slashdot Mirror
WMP for Mac
AKA
DRM for Mac
WMP is free, and so is the DRM that they then sell to companies who you purchase crippleware from.
wondering when these would make it in mainline
Soon, A lot of refactoring has taken place and I've been trying to iron out the bugs outside of winecvs so that I can send in clean, reasonably well tested patches. Some work has already made it to mainline, and I've got some more work implementing stateblocks that should be going in tomorow.
but I am not a spammer.
When you throw someone in Jail
a: It's because of your inability to cope with them.
b: It means that they have already done something you disagree with.
In the case of a you should look at yourself, in the case of b it's too late, you should have tried to prevent the thing happening in the first place or learn to accept that it is going to happen, will keep on happening and will keep on annoying you until the day you die.
Also, I think Microsoft is going to sue the spammer, that is a civil offence so no Jail term, better luck next time.
What if you can't catch me, then your the one that has to deal with it.
It's only a problem when you make it a problem, spam is your problem because you choose it to be and you cannot deal with it the spammers can.
You use the word rules like it's a game, but if there were only one rule it would be that there are no rules.
I don't want you to abide by my rules, I have none. I'm only reacting to tell you the kind of rules you want to make, and why making rules like that is a form Censorship, if it upsets you that I think your rules are wrong, then maybe I'm correct. You wouldn't like it if something you done was considered unruley by others. I have no rules, everyone and everything is equal without prejudice.
'I have the right to determine who enters my house.'
Squatters rights.
The Land Registration Act 2002 (which follows recommendations in Law Commission Report 254 Land Registration for the Twenty-First Century) provides a new scheme for adverse possession of registered land. Adverse possession of itself, for however long, will not bar the owner's title to a registered estate in land (s96).
Right to apply - 10 years adverse possession
However a squatter will be entitled to apply to the Land Registry to be registered as proprietor after ten years' adverse possession (s97 and Sched 6). The Land Registration Rules 2003 set out the procedure to be followed. Applications will have to be in Form ADV1 and accompanied, among other things, by a statutory declaration. The registered proprietor, any registered chargee, and certain other persons interested in the land will be notified of the application.
'you are trading some copyrighted work that you already own.'
You don't 'own' the work, you only own the copy of it.
Phishers you the information that you willing supply them, file traders distribute a copy of a file that was willingly supplied to them.
'Well, I just put up this site that looked like a bank, sent some people a few emails asking them to play around with my site and they gave me all their details. Who would have thought that.'
If anything Phishers just point out how poor security on the Internet and in general life is, phishers shouldn't ever be able to get your personal information.
I wonder how many viruses are written to take peoples private SSL keys.
Maybe the ./ edds should read this
Section 3: Content
Make your subject a relevant one. Posting "Star Trek Sucks" into hk.forsale is not going to work very well and is liable to utterly destroy your hard earned reputation as a troller overnight.
You do not have to make the subject clear. Trolls are aimed at two audiences, the respondees and the lurkers.
The best trolls reveal their true subject only to the lurkers. In every sense those who reply to your troll are your tools. So choose a theme for your troll and stick to it.
Outwardly you need to appear sincere, but at the same time you have to tell your *real* audience that this is blatant flamebait. Your skill is shown in the easy way that you manipulate large areas of the Usenet community into making public fools of themselves.
The problem is that spam is advertising, advertising is designed to get in your way.
I don't have anything against advertising, and I don't have anything against spam. I think the internet should be free and open, and if they means you get a bit of spam once in a while just think yourself lucky that the internet is so free an open.
try browsing with a 56k modem, banner adds are usually bigger than SPAM mails and are everywhere you'll end up hating them more than you have spam.
There are lots of annoying things in life, that's the price you pay for freedom. I'm sure some people find you annoying from time to time.
Oh how I with there was a GPL for standards.
I hope this isn't another, 'people use translators to talk to each other' so lets patent people use 'electronic' translators to talk to each other.
So who's forcing you to buy Coke?
It's an example, does you PC have a Intel or AMD cpu? does it come with Windows, do you have anything that uses dolby pro-logic? Do you eat Newzealand lamb? Sure I can avoid them all, but I can also keep a private email address, no one forced you to give your email address out did they?
' the anti-spam laws make it easier to go after them in both civil court and criminal because what they do annoys and frustrates soooooo many people'
Why not make the laws affect all forms of advertising, not just spam? Maybe spams a bit too much like freedom.
I fail to see your reasoning.
Computer programming can be more like computer programming than mathematics. Programming is based more on virtual models than many types of mathematics, so it's possible even more visual, and when you add the OSS component you remove even more soft communications skills.
Mathematics doesn't have to be the pinical of things that Women aren't good at thinking about, so why should the women OSS -> women mathamaticians ration be at the very least the same?
'You have a choice of watching TV (with it's ads) or not. Those ads are delivered with a product that has at least some nominal value.'
I have no choice in not paying for advertising when I buy a can of coke.
Coke costs less than 15p for two litres to produce, but cost about £2.00 to purchase.
If you work out those kind of margins of the average, shop, phone call, drug costs etc... I think it adds up to a whole lot more piggybacking on the back of your normal daily activities than SPAM does.
'If you take a look at most anti-spam laws, they don't attack the method. They attack things like misleading subject lines, fraudlent headers, lack of a meaningful response method, hijacking innocent machines'
misleading subject lines, there are trading and advertising standards laws to cover this.
fraudlent headers, there are already laws to cover this.
Hijacking innocent machines, there are already laws to cover this.
Take out a class action against spamers turning Windows boxes into Zombies (or against Microsoft for making buggy software) yes. Take out a law suit against spamers for the amount of junk mail, no.
Computer programming requires no language skills what so ever, or maybe you under estimate language skills are.
Computer programming is essentially mathematics and as with mathematics after a while programming becomes a reflex action of writing out visualisation of algorithms and processes that exist inside you head. It is a visual process (all be it an imaginary one).
Language on the other hand has a large about of feed back and emotional content, when I'm talking to you or sending or replying to a message I have to work out what you are thinking, what you emotional response will be etc....
Now I try to judge how you will react to any user interfaces I write, but I do it in a purely mechanical way, when I write a user interface I'm programming you, not having a conversation. Chances are my user interfaces are colder and more functional than ones designed by a woman.
It's hardly surprising that only a few percent of FOSS participants are Woman when:
Most of the communication is in a 'technical' form, not an emotional form.
Everyone always complains that OS UI's are designed to techies and not for real people(written by technical Men for technical Men)
Mathematics uses symbols and letters just like programming or physics, but doesn't make it language based. Why I program I see the code and execute it in my head.
nonsense, just because I call someone black doesn't mean I'm being raciest.
There's a distinct right-brain left-brain difference between men and Women, this makes it easier for Woman to process languages and Men to process visual abstractions like programming.
This show up as:
9 time more men are affected with Dyslexia than women.
Gay men read maps like women
Male-Female Brain Differences.
' I don't know how much more MS can really do to enforce it.'
only allow admin rights if you running in 640x480 8 bit colour mode, with a forced desktop image of the word WARNING in big red letters. Applications could also be started at a lower priories unless expressly requested at normal or higher priorities. I don't think it would cause anyone administering the machine any problems, but it would stop general user applications from running in a usable fashion as a admin without a some degree of effort.
Aborigines don't distinguish between work and play, in fact they use exactly the same work to describe both activities. It could be argued that both activities are in themselves creative and artistic. Many other more 'primitive' cultures have the same kind of practices, practices that have been going on for thousands of years without a single penny changing hands. That's a full time job, for many cultures for thousands of years with everyone making a living from it.
almost....
maybe the 'reason why' they setup the project has more to do with this lack of enthusiasm.
Why are Debian holding an election, is it a x annual thing, or did it all get a little to XF86 and they think it's time for a shake up?
'straight from the horses mouth' ...point hex edit at any windows exe (or dll) and you'll see.
MZ.....
this is the dos part of the header,, a0 (or 80) is the length of the header...
The the PE bit is the PE header from windows.
That comparison tell us nothing except they are looking at a windows exe or dll file.
I still don't see how spam is any different from fliers, in terms of damage caused fliers or junk mail are worse.
To take it to an extreme, whenever I purchase something from the store I am paying for the advertising that appears on TV, even if I don't watch TV. This is a moderate cost to me (probably more than the amount I would be paid for 15 minutes work). No one is shouting for advertising to be banned, so picking out spam is censoring a form of advertising that is not directly linked to any of the RIAA, MPAA, payola type companies.
I think people need to take spam into perspective of other arguable worse forms of advertising, and then look at what needs to be stopped/censored.
I have never spent 10-15 minutes a day dealing with spam, infact I spend more time taking the extra crap that comes with my bank statement down to be recycled, and that's not counting the time it takes to recycle or dispose of the junk.
Land fill isn't cheep, and is a bitch to reclaim, (far harder than cleaning out you inbox, filtering your email, or using friend/foe email addresses) but there aren't any laws preventing stuffing, or people handing out fliers so why should there be laws preventing spam? Hacking into someones computer and making it do anything is already illegal.
I'm trying to get everyone to send me signed email, but it's hard telling the bank what pgp is over the phone, it's even harder telling the tax man.
I think MySql should stick at what it's good at and not try to do something it isn't good at.
Joe sixpack isn't going to use Oracle 9i for his blog, and your bank will never use MySQL for financial transactions.
If anything MySQL should be cutting 'junk' so that it leans more on the SQLLite side of things instead of the PostGreSql side.
I think you should go read your history. Copyright hasn't been around for ever, and I don't see to many people complaining that their great grand parents died before they could have any children.
I don't think 'standards' such as the English language came about because of copyright, an I see plenty of creativity in languages everyday, how does this fit into "Worse yet, you can count on this"
Also, how does Microsoft (a strong proponent of copyright) not support standards when 'free' versions of software manage to?
Do you see third world countries thanking everyone for the cheep drugs that copyright is giving them?
Though you may 'think' that from copyright and patents creativity will blossom, I think you've been browsing www.microsoft.propaganda.com too long. just look at any country that doesn't have strong copyright laws and see how much farther the dollar goes.
I was thinking more along the lines of the Redhat and IBM diaries, but Stallman sill do too. (didn't Apple use some funny BSD os, and that odd KHtml component?)
"If copyright didn't exist then the GPL (and pretty much any other use or distribution license) would be unenforceable. That is, the limitations imposed by the GPL in terms of distribution would not stand. So anyone could anything with your code. That "plenty of people" can give software away and still eat is because of copyright enforcement."
And I could do anything with there's. You could take my code, make The Bungi rocket v5, but because there is no copyright I could take your Bungi rocket v5 and give it away for free. Ok, so it may be a little harder to get the source from you, but once I do I can give that away for free too, sounds like GPL+ to me.
If there were no copyright then I could give away copies Cherry OS all day long.
Last time I checked CherryOS costs $99.99.