As much as everybody hates DMCA takedown notices around here, it seems like that would be the proper avenue for this sort of thing. It's certainly not an abuse of the DMCA in this case. Apple would likely respond relatively quickly so they don't lose their safe harbor.
By your logic, were I to acquire your credit card and purchase items, I am not committing theft because i never actually took anything from you and never intended to permanently deprive you of the use of any property.
That's correct... unless you had physically stolen my credit card (versus just getting a hold of my number somehow) then it's not theft. It's fraud.
Crime is much more complicated than whether or not the citizenry is armed. There are many countries with near prohibitions on guns that have high crime, and many countries with lots of guns that have low crime, and vice versa. Allowing responsible citizens to be armed, however, never really increases gun crime, so there is little reason to prevent it. As the saying goes, if you put a bunch of guns in the middle of a town with low crime, you will get low crime. Guns don't magically make people into criminals. They do, however, put law-abiding citizens on a level playing field with criminals. And that, I think, is the best we can expect to do.
The real secret to fighting crime is to catch criminals and make sure that they stay in jail until they are no longer a threat to society. This novel concept appears to be diminishing as time goes on. I recall that Britain just passed a law that allows burgulars to essentially get the first one free. That makes utterly no sense and will serve only to increase the rate of burglary in the UK.
About Kerry not standing a chance: I think that points out yet another weakness of the US political system; you only have 2 realistic choices, what if you don't like either?
Vote for someone else! Seriously, it is possible. It's only because the vast majority of people think like you that we only have two realistic choices.
This works especially well if the party of your "least bad" choice among the two major players also controls congress. If nobody receives 50% of the electoral vote, the choice will go to the House and they will vote for your backup candidate.
Voting for a third party also has the benefit to influence the policies of the major parties. They don't want to lose your vote, so if the percieve that a lot of their vote is going elsewhere, they may adjust their platforms to accomodate you. This happened to some extent with the Greens and Democrats due to Nader's strong showing in the 2000 elections.
Actually, less than 1% of guns are used in crime. More may be used against "people", but I'm going to assume that if a gun is used against a person to prevent a crime (by the police or private citizens), you don't think it's "bad".
You can argue about their legitmate use and bad rap 'till you're blue in the face, but the legitmate uses are statistically outweighed by bad ones. The same applies to Bittorrent.
Actually, the courts generally hold that if there is any significant non-infringing use, then the technology is legal. I would agree with you that there are plenty of people who use BitTorrent illegitimately, but that doesn't mean that we should ban it entirely. We live in a free (relatively) society. This is a cost of freedom. If we allow all technologies that can be used for an illegal purpose to be banned, we will soon be living in a totalitarian state without any freedom whatsoever.
Edit the file "com.apple.mail.plist" in ~/Library/Preferences. There is a key in the XML called DeliveryAccounts (just search for it in your favorite text editor). Immediately beneath it, there is an array with tags. Just remove the whole ... </dict> section that corresponds to the SMTP server and you should be all set. Probably should close Mail before doing this. Maybe make a backup of your preference file too, just in case.;)
According to the kbase doc, this update "Provides a foundation for the journalling filesystem (JFS), which may currently be enabled via Disk Utility on Mac OS X Server systems."
Does this mean that us common folk without a $500 - $1000 hole in our pocket aren't going to be able to use the journalized fs? If so, I expect a hack to be out within the hour.;)
Here is a large listing of success rates dealing with CD-R/RW/VCDs on various DVD players. It was posted earlier, but never got modded up so I decided to post it again.;) http://www.vcdhelp.com/dvdplayers.htm
Just as a helpful hint, you can order Starband satellite internet access directly from Starband. It costs $600 for the equipment, requires Windows 98 or 2000 because it is USB, not ethernet, and is $70 a month. They also say that they will install it within four weeks.
May I correctly assume that this is strictly military-based, with no hope of ever reaching civilian hands? This seems far too neeto and spiffy for there to be any hope of the federal government letting it fall into the irresponsible hands of those who pay them...
Professor Zoller showed us images of the radioactive goo at the bottom of the reacter. He told us that 3 people died to get the picture. The government just kept sending people down with cameras until someone went down, took a picture, and survived the trip back up, and then died.
As interesting as this story is, there is one MAJOR flaw in it. If there were enough radiation present to kill the photographers in a matter of minutes, it would expose the film in the camera used to take the pictures! Normal photographic film is sensitive to ionizing radiation just like the film used to take X-Rays. So either this Zoller character is mislead or he is full of shit.
I'm not sure I completely understand why Apple has chosen this particular instance to sue over themes. I seem to remember that a Mac OS Platinum theme was built into my X Windows a couple years ago.
Also, has Microsoft ever sued anybody over the numerous amounts of X themes that strongly resemble Windows? If they have, it hasn't done much good. Why anbody would want their linux box to resemble Windows is beyond me, but it seems that there are plenty of these themes.
I read somewhere recently that flashing your Palm more than once can have disastrous consequences, such as complete memory failure. If this is your second or greater flash, you might want to look into that possibility.
I don't understand how the French government has any control over a website hosted on US soil. It would seem to me that, unless there is some physical presence of Yahoo in France, they can't force Yahoo to modify their content. I'm not up on my international law, but how can they force Yahoo to do anything? The United States certainly won't allow the French FBI to come over and shut Yahoo down by force, and if somebody sues Yahoo from France, how do they enforce collection?
Slashdot Mirror
As much as everybody hates DMCA takedown notices around here, it seems like that would be the proper avenue for this sort of thing. It's certainly not an abuse of the DMCA in this case. Apple would likely respond relatively quickly so they don't lose their safe harbor.
By your logic, were I to acquire your credit card and purchase items, I am not committing theft because i never actually
took anything from you and never intended to permanently deprive you of the use of any property.
That's correct... unless you had physically stolen my credit card (versus just getting a hold of my number somehow) then it's not theft. It's fraud.
I made an Inkling prediction market for the probability of Hans being convicted. No real money involved, just the pride from knowing you were right. ;)
Radmind is also a great tool for managing installs on OS X and UNIX/Linux machines. It might be worth a look.
Crime is much more complicated than whether or not the citizenry is armed. There are many countries with near prohibitions on guns that have high crime, and many countries with lots of guns that have low crime, and vice versa. Allowing responsible citizens to be armed, however, never really increases gun crime, so there is little reason to prevent it. As the saying goes, if you put a bunch of guns in the middle of a town with low crime, you will get low crime. Guns don't magically make people into criminals. They do, however, put law-abiding citizens on a level playing field with criminals. And that, I think, is the best we can expect to do.
The real secret to fighting crime is to catch criminals and make sure that they stay in jail until they are no longer a threat to society. This novel concept appears to be diminishing as time goes on. I recall that Britain just passed a law that allows burgulars to essentially get the first one free. That makes utterly no sense and will serve only to increase the rate of burglary in the UK.
About Kerry not standing a chance: I think that points out yet another weakness of the US political system; you only have 2 realistic choices, what if you don't like either?
Vote for someone else! Seriously, it is possible. It's only because the vast majority of people think like you that we only have two realistic choices.
This works especially well if the party of your "least bad" choice among the two major players also controls congress. If nobody receives 50% of the electoral vote, the choice will go to the House and they will vote for your backup candidate.
Voting for a third party also has the benefit to influence the policies of the major parties. They don't want to lose your vote, so if the percieve that a lot of their vote is going elsewhere, they may adjust their platforms to accomodate you. This happened to some extent with the Greens and Democrats due to Nader's strong showing in the 2000 elections.
99% of gun use is against people.
Actually, less than 1% of guns are used in crime. More may be used against "people", but I'm going to assume that if a gun is used against a person to prevent a crime (by the police or private citizens), you don't think it's "bad".
You can argue about their legitmate use and bad rap 'till you're blue in the face, but the legitmate uses are statistically outweighed by bad ones. The same applies to Bittorrent.
Actually, the courts generally hold that if there is any significant non-infringing use, then the technology is legal. I would agree with you that there are plenty of people who use BitTorrent illegitimately, but that doesn't mean that we should ban it entirely. We live in a free (relatively) society. This is a cost of freedom. If we allow all technologies that can be used for an illegal purpose to be banned, we will soon be living in a totalitarian state without any freedom whatsoever.
Edit the file "com.apple.mail.plist" in ~/Library/Preferences. There is a key in the XML called DeliveryAccounts (just search for it in your favorite text editor). Immediately beneath it, there is an array with tags. Just remove the whole ... </dict> section that corresponds to the SMTP server and you should be all set. Probably should close Mail before doing this. Maybe make a backup of your preference file too, just in case. ;)
Does this mean that us common folk without a $500 - $1000 hole in our pocket aren't going to be able to use the journalized fs? If so, I expect a hack to be out within the hour. ;)
Here is a large listing of success rates dealing with CD-R/RW/VCDs on various DVD players. It was posted earlier, but never got modded up so I decided to post it again. ;) http://www.vcdhelp.com/dvdplayers.htm
Just as a helpful hint, you can order Starband satellite internet access directly from Starband. It costs $600 for the equipment, requires Windows 98 or 2000 because it is USB, not ethernet, and is $70 a month. They also say that they will install it within four weeks.
May I correctly assume that this is strictly military-based, with no hope of ever reaching civilian hands? This seems far too neeto and spiffy for there to be any hope of the federal government letting it fall into the irresponsible hands of those who pay them...
As interesting as this story is, there is one MAJOR flaw in it. If there were enough radiation present to kill the photographers in a matter of minutes, it would expose the film in the camera used to take the pictures! Normal photographic film is sensitive to ionizing radiation just like the film used to take X-Rays. So either this Zoller character is mislead or he is full of shit.
Also, has Microsoft ever sued anybody over the numerous amounts of X themes that strongly resemble Windows? If they have, it hasn't done much good. Why anbody would want their linux box to resemble Windows is beyond me, but it seems that there are plenty of these themes.
Maybe if Hormel started suing people for using their patent... ;)
I read somewhere recently that flashing your Palm more than once can have disastrous consequences, such as complete memory failure. If this is your second or greater flash, you might want to look into that possibility.
~moofbong