LeMENAGER DID NOT HAVE THE APPLICANTS' PERMISSION TO USE THEIR PERSONAL INFORMATION TO TEST THE YALE SITE'S SECURITY.
Whatever his intent was, he was misusing confidential data that was provided to Princeton's admissions department for purposes clearly and entirely unrelated to Yale's website.
NONE of the accesses (save for the one by a visiting applicant to see if she had been accepted at Yale) are justifiable. Period.
Your analogy might work if CNN broke down your fence or peeked in your windows to see your "widget," but you can hardly complain if you built it in your front yard so everyone walking down the street could see it.
Like hell you can't.
If I put my widget in the front yard on a quiet side-street and only a handful of people check it out while walking by my house, that's fine, that's great.
If my widget turns out to be far more popular than I could have predicted, and throngs of thousands of people are mobbing the entire street to take a look at it, damn right I'll complain. I'll complain because the police are going to give ME a ticket for causing the street to become impassable.
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Maintaining backwards-compatibility at all costs has its own disadvantages... I wonder how much of the disk bloat of modern Windows installations is due to code written to ensure that 10-year-old Win3.x apps, or 20-year old DOS apps, will still work?
How did THEY get information on the remote PLMS server that allows them to reaffirm your licenses? Does WMP send out license data from your machine when you first encode a file through it?
How hard would it be to build a 'black box' with an SPDIF input and and SPDIF output that strips the copyright bit from a digital audio stream as it passes through?
The GigaLaw article does not suggest that pop-up ads might be illegal, but only that using another party's content for the purposes of targetting ads (as Gator is doing) might be illegal.
If I run a webpage, I have every right to launch as many pop-up ads from it as I want ('course, if I'm smart, that number will be = 1...).
DOS 1.0 did not require an installation -- in fact having a hard drive was optional back then.
I believe the first edition of DOS that could not be run directly off the floppies was 5.0, and that was what, 1989? In those terms, Microsoft doesn't have much of a lead with installers at all.
Perhaps the CFO would like to go back to the days of hiring a room full of clerks with mechanical calculators and handwritten ledgers to balance the books?
The only people who think they don't need to invest in an IT infrastructure these days are idiots who take for granted all the positive influences computing has had on business in the past 50 years.
It may be a victory for the Digital Broadcast TV future, but that doesn't address the fact that there is very little consumer demand for Digital Broadcast TV.
As far as I can tell, any FCC mandate to switch television signals from analog digital has little, if any, appreciable benefit for the People.
Why? It's not like 15 years ago, where anybody with an @-sign was likely to be adminning their own mail server.
Maybe my ISP is blocking spam for me, but I really AM interesting in buying snake oil to make my penis 1-3" longer. I am the customer these spammers are trying to circumvent the spam filters to get to...
1) If you apply an e-mail to an officially sanctioned opt-out list, it is illegal and subject to fines to e-mail an unsolicited e-mail to that address.
But how do you prove that your address is on the opt-out list?
2) Make it illegal to send solicitations for age-restricted products to minors.
There are already laws for this.
3) Make it illegal for any business to solicit without providing as part of the solicitation a valid contact[...]
Ditto.
4) Finally, and here's your free speech, make it illegal for ISPs to dump any spammer that complies with these laws, but also illegal to knowingly serve any spammer that does not.
No thank you. I'd rather than ISPs retain the right to offer service to whomever they want, at their discretion (so long as they don't discriminate based on race, gender, religion, disability, etc.)
Bottom line is, no new laws need to be made against spamming. Perhaps existing laws need to be reworded so that it's more clear they apply to transmissions over data lines as well, but there are no new legal concepts that require the drafting of new laws.
If the artists you listen to are content to put only 1 or 2 good songs on an album, then I suggest you start listening to better artists, ones who care about music more than profit.
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The flaw in your argument is that governments don't only keep public data -- they keep private data as well, for many justifiable reasons.
There is no benefit to mandating that a government must use open technologies for storing sensitive data, and several good reasons not to.
The people have the right to know exactly what source code the government is using to protect
them.
Oh? Which part of the Constitution states this?
Or are you just talking about an idealized government which may or may not have anything in common with the one that actually exists?
LeMENAGER DID NOT HAVE THE APPLICANTS' PERMISSION TO USE THEIR PERSONAL INFORMATION TO TEST THE YALE SITE'S SECURITY.
Whatever his intent was, he was misusing confidential data that was provided to Princeton's admissions department for purposes clearly and entirely unrelated to Yale's website.
NONE of the accesses (save for the one by a visiting applicant to see if she had been accepted at Yale) are justifiable. Period.
Your analogy might work if CNN broke down your fence or peeked in your windows to see your
"widget," but you can hardly complain if you built it in your front yard so everyone walking down
the street could see it.
Like hell you can't.
If I put my widget in the front yard on a quiet side-street and only a handful of people check it out while walking by my house, that's fine, that's great.
If my widget turns out to be far more popular than I could have predicted, and throngs of thousands of people are mobbing the entire street to take a look at it, damn right I'll complain. I'll complain because the police are going to give ME a ticket for causing the street to become impassable.
Maintaining backwards-compatibility at all costs has its own disadvantages... I wonder how much of the disk bloat of modern Windows installations is due to code written to ensure that 10-year-old Win3.x apps, or 20-year old DOS apps, will still work?
How did THEY get information on the remote PLMS server that allows them to reaffirm your licenses? Does WMP send out license data from your machine when you first encode a file through it?
How hard would it be to build a 'black box' with an SPDIF input and and SPDIF output that strips the copyright bit from a digital audio stream as it passes through?
So, how long until I can get a talking dog?
I don't knooow, Daaavey...
The GigaLaw article does not suggest that pop-up ads might be illegal, but only that using another party's content for the purposes of targetting ads (as Gator is doing) might be illegal.
If I run a webpage, I have every right to launch as many pop-up ads from it as I want ('course, if I'm smart, that number will be = 1...).
m0nkyman seems to have fallen for the fallacy that politicians are evil, and they are natural enemies of coders.
DOS 1.0 did not require an installation -- in fact having a hard drive was optional back then.
I believe the first edition of DOS that could not be run directly off the floppies was 5.0, and that was what, 1989? In those terms, Microsoft doesn't have much of a lead with installers at all.
Oh come on. We're all anti-MS zealots here, right? Everyone knows that you have to RE-install Windows once or twice every week!
Perhaps the CFO would like to go back to the days of hiring a room full of clerks with mechanical calculators and handwritten ledgers to balance the books?
The only people who think they don't need to invest in an IT infrastructure these days are idiots who take for granted all the positive influences computing has had on business in the past 50 years.
You've got a syntax error in your lyrics.
It may be a victory for the Digital Broadcast TV future, but that doesn't address the fact that there is very little consumer demand for Digital Broadcast TV.
As far as I can tell, any FCC mandate to switch television signals from analog digital has little, if any, appreciable benefit for the People.
Have you heard about that Richard Stallman guy...? He's working on a full-featured text editor for Unix! We won't have to use ed anymore!
Why? It's not like 15 years ago, where anybody with an @-sign was likely to be adminning their own mail server.
Maybe my ISP is blocking spam for me, but I really AM interesting in buying snake oil to make my penis 1-3" longer. I am the customer these spammers are trying to circumvent the spam filters to get to...
1) If you apply an e-mail to an officially sanctioned opt-out list, it is illegal and subject to fines to e-mail an unsolicited e-mail to that address.
But how do you prove that your address is on the opt-out list?
2) Make it illegal to send solicitations for age-restricted products to minors.
There are already laws for this.
3) Make it illegal for any business to solicit without providing as part of the solicitation a
valid contact[...]
Ditto.
4) Finally, and here's your free speech, make it illegal for ISPs to dump any spammer that complies with these laws, but also illegal to knowingly serve any spammer that does not.
No thank you. I'd rather than ISPs retain the right to offer service to whomever they want, at their discretion (so long as they don't discriminate based on race, gender, religion, disability, etc.)
Bottom line is, no new laws need to be made against spamming. Perhaps existing laws need to be reworded so that it's more clear they apply to transmissions over data lines as well, but there are no new legal concepts that require the drafting of new laws.
Who is this GNU you speak of? Where are there offices located?
If the artists you listen to are content to put only 1 or 2 good songs on an album, then I suggest you start listening to better artists, ones who care about music more than profit.
There are billions of clumsy humans who run into people, too. Why do you expect an AI robot to OUTperform a human?
The only ANSi GR00P I remember is CLaP!...
Yes, but they weren't trying to sell the shopping carts TO you, were they?
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Or maybe he could decide for himself whether or not there's any major reason for him to switch, rather than have you preach at him...?