It is illegal when it is an attempt to defraud, which this is.
Interesting... By this logic, it is illegal for a person getting mugged to fight back -- because his actions would certainly qualify as an attempt to harm the attacker. And harming others (intentionally!) is quite illegal, is not it?
Heck, these people, fighting the scammers for fun and profit are, probably, in the wrong too, in your opinion. They are wasting the scammers' time with transactions (downloads?) "that never finishe" and denying them access to people, they want to access.
HBO is using large numbers of IP addresses in the scheme to deny Bittorrent users access to files that they wish to download.
Distributing these files is illegal. Can I not leave fake jewelry in my house to distract the thieves?
Are you saying that you think that the false posting promising a free motorcycle is legal?
First, it would probably be legal -- if against CraigList's rules. But this is not about a "free motorcycle" -- this is about a free stolen motorcycle. The downloaders are well aware, the stuff they are after, can not be offered legally.
If CraigsList becomes used to trade/give away stolen property, child porn, unlicensed weaponry, than yes, "poisoning" its database with baits would be not only acceptable, but a good thing...
One thing is obvious -- you simply don't feel that there is anything wrong with what HBO is fighting. You are smart enough to not attempt to defend these people's actions directly, so -- like a good attorney -- you attack the prosecution instead. "Your honor, the officer was not wearing the standard issue uniform belt that day, therefore the items he collected on the scene can not be used as evidence."
How dare anyone criticize HBO for taking the law into its own hands?
Which law?
Booby traps are (usually) illegal. Posting false information online is not. I'm unsure, what you mean by "corporate bullying", but it, most likely, is not illegal either.
By the time a man reacts, the sniper could have fled, or worse, fired another shot at him.
The sniper is a human too (biologically anyway). He will have some head-start advantage over her targets, but certainly not enough to flee. Firing another shot -- maybe. Still, this technology is going to make the sniper's life harder.
What about all of those foreign meddlers, who helped bring the country to standstill this spring? Do these well-meaning organization switch too, or will they continue using Windows?
It's nothing like Ukraine where a fishy election had the population massing in the streets
Let a pro-Bush Ukrainian tell you: "You have no idea":
Was the opposition candidate in US poisoned two month before elections?
No
Which of the candidates were openly backed and promoted by a major foreign power?
The Government candidate in Ukraine (by Russia), the opposition candidate in US (by Canada and a bunch of others);
Which candidate's TV-supporters got banned from the air in each country?
The opposition's in Ukraine, the government's in US (remember Sinclair?);
Where were the elections declared flawed by all foreign observers (including, in some cases, by representatives of the country backing the winner)?
In Ukraine, where even Russian observers described major flaws and discrepancies.
So stop it already and try harder next time. The article talks about "authorities using the feature in Maryland" -- not even in Ohio.
This would've been such a great country, if, what the Commie propaganda of the former Soviet Union was telling us, was actually true...
Automatic camera is just an efficiency-boosting device -- it is cheaper than putting a live officer there.
These cameras are not installed anywhere, a live policemen (or, in the case of private enterprise, a security guard) could not stand and watch in person.
OpenOffice is targeted at people like my mother writing documents for their work.
Your mother will not be able to build from source anyway. She would have to use pre-built binaries -- in the form of RPMs or BSD packages. Such packaging (whichever it is) allows to automatically install dependencies. Done.
I'm talking about building from source.
Wasting a little bit of space or bandwidth is simply not a problem any more these days.
So, you'd rather they package their own Java too? I mean, if the license allowed them to?
But you clearly don't even have a clue, of how much waste I'm talking about. The OOo_1.1.4_source.tar.gz is 219743Kb. Extracting it make 712218Kb. Of that at least 77044Kb is redundant right of the bat (and I'm sure, I missed something besides apache_java berkeleydb bitstream_vera_fonts boost curl dmake expat freetype icu jpeg libxml2 moz nas neon np_sdk openssl python regexp sablot sane sax stlport unixODBC unzip zlib.
Now, of those 712218Kb extracted, 34472Kb are BMP (!), PDF, HTML, PNG, JPG, and dictionary files. Plus 20723Kb of pre-built JARs. Even assuming that everything else is source, the redundancy is already at over 30% (219743 out of 712218-34472-20723=657023). JARs and.tar.gz-s don't compress well either, which explain the poor compression ratio of their releases -- the redundant crap accounts for even more bandwidth waste than for storage waste (less valuable resource, BTW).
Now, there is source and there is source. OOo bundles STLPort -- and several versions of it. Do you realize, what kind of a beast that is? And not so much in size as in time it takes to build it and the effort it takes to port it to a new platform (OOo does not build on FreeBSD/amd64, for example, one has to port it manually). Other packages they ship similarly require porting effort, which is already being spent on maintaining their own ports. Besides STLPort with its dozen of patches, for example, there is ICU, with its own 6 plus, JPEG with 7, etc.
Now, I may be FreeBSD-centric, but even on Linux, where OOo themselves build, there are different distros with different packaging strategies and their own teams of capable people working on adding improvements, security and other bug-fixes (both their distro-specific and general purpose) to the ported software. Does OOo's version of ICU support KOI8-U? How many security bugs where found in OpenSSL since the last release of OOo?
OOo should be using these people's efforts, not fighting them. And your mother has nothing to do with it.
Can anyone point OOo at that? The OOo tarballs are so huge, because they include everything -- expat, jpeg, BerkeleyDB, dmake, you name it.
I'm glad, Sun's license is restrictive, or else they would've bundled their own Java too.
Such bundling is wasteful of not only the memory/storage/bandwidth resources, but also the development efforts of people, who maintain all of those "3rd-party" software packages.
Last time this came up, FCC took some serious beating on/. for "pandering to big business" at the expense of HAM radios and the few emergency crews that, supposedly, still use them.
Some (high-moderated) remarks about Michael Powell (the then-FCC chairman) were rather unkind...
Complex data-structures involve a lot of pointers -- all of which are twice bigger on 64-bit machines. Sometimes, this makes the pointers bigger (or comparable) to the structures themselves.
Most obvious are char * fields. If the string is 8 characters or less, it is cheaper to just store in the structure (and pass by value, where possible).
Considering, that most such strings (and substructures) are malloc-ed (with a couple of pointers worth of malloc's overhead), the case for embedding them becomes even stronger...
The point of good education is not so much to learn stuff, but to learn how to learn stuff.
In the decades of your career you'll work on totally different subjects and will have to learn new programming languages and techniques. Knowing how to learn these "new tricks" is what distinguishes an educated person from a trained one.
Learning theory while using "academic" languages, which nobody uses in "real life" will be very useful... You will be able to pick practical things up quicker and there will be no shortage of that later in life.
Unlike New York City and New York State, the City of New Orleans and the State of Lousiana are run by the Democrats -- and have been ever since the Whigs Party vanished.
So the usual choice of people to blame for authoritarianship does not apply...
New Orleans sure is a peculiar city -- in the worst sence of the word. Shooting at the evucation helicopters? Compared to that, some amount of red tape is truly a non-issue...
Thank you! However, according to the page, it was last updated in 2000 and:
xpcom standalone differs from the xpcom built with mozilla. Hence cannot be used with the mozilla browser.
I'd like to be able to build and test a modern xpcom independently, so that various mozilla-based browsers and e-mail programs can be built using it instead of each using its own with its own unique set of bugs...
Finally, there is no release of XPCOM standalone -- nothing on the FTP site and the download instructions on the page advise on how to use CVS to get it...
Xpcom should, really, be available in a standalone tarball, so that it can be built, tested and deployed independently. Does anyone know, whether such a thing exists somewhere?
Mozilla is quite infamous for bundling everything (and the kitchen sink) into one. Only OpenOffice is worse...
Oops, it is, actually, the Tradestation he is using.
And one of the "killer features" is the ability to "back-test" an algorigthm with the historical data -- whether or not it would've made money in the past.
A friend of mine is using eTrade (Windows only) because of the API they provide (their own language, in fact). He paid programmers to implement automated trading software for him -- it can buy and sell depending on a variety of data all of which is available from the eTrade's stream(s).
Can something like this be done with your broker's software?
My one-word countering was intentional. An illustration of how empty your "arguments" were: "Capitalism is bad" -- "Wrong". And it sure did whip you up and caused you to expose yourself. "Raping of Iraq", "boiled babies", "orgy", mixed with obscenities, and, of course, ad hominems a-plenty. You are not at your club's meeting, sweetie. Behave yourself if you wish to convince someone, who does not agree with you already.
You sound like the type for whom "Socialism" is one of your dirty words, so what are you doing about corporations socializing their costs upon the public?
You sound like you'd like to change the subject...
One needs only to compare [...]
That's the usual fallacy performed by capitalist zombies like yourself. You compare regimes under overt killers (capitalist autocracies) with regimes run by covert ones (capitalist republics).
So, South Korea and Finland are "covert killers"?
And Jordan are overt? Or is it the other way around? And which one is India now -- and what was it under Gandhis? I'd say you are "owned" except nobody wants you -- not even a commune, I suspect.
So, you suck. Your system sucks. And I'm going to kill it off if it's the last thing I do. Of course, I'd better fucking hurry, since your beloved Western Capitalism is crashing itself (in that orgy I spoke of) pretty damned quickly. War + Executives + Bankruptcies = NO SOCIETY WHATSOEVER. The united States is becoming the newest Third World country.
Gee, some arithmetic:-) Please, do start holding your breath now. Just be careful with those "I'm going to kill" pronouncements...
Monetizing a population and privatizing all property are surefire ways of creating poverty where none existed before
Wrong.
It is highly immoral and completely vicious.
It is based on the rights of the individual. Right to own property being the chief one of them.
Besides being moral, the alternative -- communal ownership does not work. 12 strangers will trash a time-share house on the beach in 3 months. You want things to belong to thousands of people at once?
And the more you support it, the more you support those evil behaviors.
Yeah, sure. Evil behaviors. One needs only to compare Finland with Estonia (15 years ago), South Korea with North, Taiwan with China, Israel with Jordan, or India today with its own self under Ghandis to see the "evils" of Capitalism and/or the merits of collective ownership.
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Heck, these people, fighting the scammers for fun and profit are, probably, in the wrong too, in your opinion. They are wasting the scammers' time with transactions (downloads?) "that never finishe" and denying them access to people, they want to access.
Distributing these files is illegal. Can I not leave fake jewelry in my house to distract the thieves? First, it would probably be legal -- if against CraigList's rules. But this is not about a "free motorcycle" -- this is about a free stolen motorcycle. The downloaders are well aware, the stuff they are after, can not be offered legally.If CraigsList becomes used to trade/give away stolen property, child porn, unlicensed weaponry, than yes, "poisoning" its database with baits would be not only acceptable, but a good thing...
One thing is obvious -- you simply don't feel that there is anything wrong with what HBO is fighting. You are smart enough to not attempt to defend these people's actions directly, so -- like a good attorney -- you attack the prosecution instead. "Your honor, the officer was not wearing the standard issue uniform belt that day, therefore the items he collected on the scene can not be used as evidence."
Which law?
Booby traps are (usually) illegal. Posting false information online is not. I'm unsure, what you mean by "corporate bullying", but it, most likely, is not illegal either.
Outrage!
What about all of those foreign meddlers, who helped bring the country to standstill this spring? Do these well-meaning organization switch too, or will they continue using Windows?
Gebyy zl oruvaq...
Sounds familiar...
Not to say, Mozilla is wrong, but the point they are bringing up would've been better left "understated".
Their client libraries. So that I can build them on anything "exotic" like OpenBSD/i386 or FreeBSD/amd64...
BPAA -- Book-Publishing Association of America... ...suing a book-downloader near you.
This would've been such a great country, if, what the Commie propaganda of the former Soviet Union was telling us, was actually true...
These cameras are not installed anywhere, a live policemen (or, in the case of private enterprise, a security guard) could not stand and watch in person.
Then they became Engineers, who made things practical.
And now they are turning into Artists, to make them beautiful.
Oh, well...
Your mother will not be able to build from source anyway. She would have to use pre-built binaries -- in the form of RPMs or BSD packages. Such packaging (whichever it is) allows to automatically install dependencies. Done.
I'm talking about building from source.
So, you'd rather they package their own Java too? I mean, if the license allowed them to?
But you clearly don't even have a clue, of how much waste I'm talking about. The OOo_1.1.4_source.tar.gz is 219743Kb. Extracting it make 712218Kb. Of that at least 77044Kb is redundant right of the bat (and I'm sure, I missed something besides apache_java berkeleydb bitstream_vera_fonts boost curl dmake expat freetype icu jpeg libxml2 moz nas neon np_sdk openssl python regexp sablot sane sax stlport unixODBC unzip zlib.
Now, of those 712218Kb extracted, 34472Kb are BMP (!), PDF, HTML, PNG, JPG, and dictionary files. Plus 20723Kb of pre-built JARs. Even assuming that everything else is source, the redundancy is already at over 30% (219743 out of 712218-34472-20723=657023). JARs and .tar.gz-s don't compress well either, which explain the poor compression ratio of their releases -- the redundant crap accounts for even more bandwidth waste than for storage waste (less valuable resource, BTW).
Now, there is source and there is source. OOo bundles STLPort -- and several versions of it. Do you realize, what kind of a beast that is? And not so much in size as in time it takes to build it and the effort it takes to port it to a new platform (OOo does not build on FreeBSD/amd64, for example, one has to port it manually). Other packages they ship similarly require porting effort, which is already being spent on maintaining their own ports. Besides STLPort with its dozen of patches, for example, there is ICU, with its own 6 plus, JPEG with 7, etc.
Now, I may be FreeBSD-centric, but even on Linux, where OOo themselves build, there are different distros with different packaging strategies and their own teams of capable people working on adding improvements, security and other bug-fixes (both their distro-specific and general purpose) to the ported software. Does OOo's version of ICU support KOI8-U? How many security bugs where found in OpenSSL since the last release of OOo?
OOo should be using these people's efforts, not fighting them. And your mother has nothing to do with it.
I'm glad, Sun's license is restrictive, or else they would've bundled their own Java too.
Such bundling is wasteful of not only the memory/storage/bandwidth resources, but also the development efforts of people, who maintain all of those "3rd-party" software packages.
Last time this came up, FCC took some serious beating on /. for "pandering to big business" at the expense of HAM radios and the few emergency crews that, supposedly, still use them.
Some (high-moderated) remarks about Michael Powell (the then-FCC chairman) were rather unkind...
Most obvious are char * fields. If the string is 8 characters or less, it is cheaper to just store in the structure (and pass by value, where possible).
Considering, that most such strings (and substructures) are malloc-ed (with a couple of pointers worth of malloc's overhead), the case for embedding them becomes even stronger...
In the decades of your career you'll work on totally different subjects and will have to learn new programming languages and techniques. Knowing how to learn these "new tricks" is what distinguishes an educated person from a trained one.
Learning theory while using "academic" languages, which nobody uses in "real life" will be very useful... You will be able to pick practical things up quicker and there will be no shortage of that later in life.
So the usual choice of people to blame for authoritarianship does not apply...
New Orleans sure is a peculiar city -- in the worst sence of the word. Shooting at the evucation helicopters? Compared to that, some amount of red tape is truly a non-issue...
I'd like to be able to build and test a modern xpcom independently, so that various mozilla-based browsers and e-mail programs can be built using it instead of each using its own with its own unique set of bugs...
Finally, there is no release of XPCOM standalone -- nothing on the FTP site and the download instructions on the page advise on how to use CVS to get it...
Mozilla is quite infamous for bundling everything (and the kitchen sink) into one. Only OpenOffice is worse...
And one of the "killer features" is the ability to "back-test" an algorigthm with the historical data -- whether or not it would've made money in the past.
Can something like this be done with your broker's software?
Besides being moral, the alternative -- communal ownership does not work. 12 strangers will trash a time-share house on the beach in 3 months. You want things to belong to thousands of people at once?
Yeah, sure. Evil behaviors. One needs only to compare Finland with Estonia (15 years ago), South Korea with North, Taiwan with China, Israel with Jordan, or India today with its own self under Ghandis to see the "evils" of Capitalism and/or the merits of collective ownership.