The referenced article is dated December 1, 1998, and is out of date; ORBS has since found a new home. You might want to check here if you're not sure.
BS. You need to submit traced spam, send it to the RBL folks who contact (by phone) the maintainers of the submitted server and then they MAY enter it in the RBL if there's no hope of the mail server operator getting a clue.
If this post here is correct, that's not entirely the case.
There's no specific federal law against spamming, and very very few state laws; so individual Usenet users, NNTP server admins, etc. CANNOT "go after THEM". Ultimately, the only organization that can stop an individual spammer is the one that provides access to the spammer. In this case, the organization is @Home, and they have refused to go after their spammers. The UDP is nothing more or less than an organized boycott to prod @Home into going after the spammers.
If you wish to comment on Usenet-related issues, it behooves you to learn a little bit about what Usenet is and how it works.
I'm not him, but my guess is there isn't anyone else. Many regions of the US and Canada have no broadband whatsoever, after all, and I expect many of the rest have only one provider (cable or DSL, depending). It could be that the original poster's only alternative is to go back to analog dialup; and cablemodem (or DSL) service has to be pretty d*mn crappy before it gets to be worse than 56Kbps.
It's not at all clear to me that a different alphabet is quite enough to save 3Com here. My personal intuition is that the Graffiti alphabet, because of the "at least vaguely reminiscent of latin alphabet" feature, is superior to the Unistroke alphabet; and that this difference is significant enough to be a unique invention in its own right. However, I also think the principle of one-stroke symbols for easier computer recognition is also genuinely innovative, and that it's not quite clear to me that the improved alphabet is enough additional innovation to toss it out of the bounds of the patent.
This issue is definitely one for the lawyers to decide. Although my intuition favors 3Com's side, I wouldn't consider it a miscarriage of justice if either side were to win, not without more information on the legal issues of the case.
Even that isn't quite true, these days. The most you can say is that a female teacher is less likely to be suspected of being a child molester than a male teacher is.
Actually, the riots were because the peasants were being paid wages by the day but charged rent by the month. Bad enough in February, when you're a couple of days short, but 11 days...
Hear hear! I, for one, would definitely contribute to a etoy.com legal defense fund. The general consensus I'm seeing about this case is that eToys doesn't have a particularly good legal case, and that their likelihood of winning at this point is mostly based on having more money. A legal defense fund, if large enough, could tip the scales just enough...
News.com's article was updated at 12:40 PM PST. The article now quotes one of the defendants stating that the intention was to enable a Linux DVD player, includes some statements from the EFF, and just generally looks rather more balanced than it must have been before. (I didn't see the original article myself, mind you.)
Kindly explain, sir, how copying a publicly available data stream and storing it for later viewing, in any form, differs from recording a television program on your VCR.
This is a bit offtopic now, but d*mn, I'd love to be able to retrieve Slashdot comments via XML. Then I could reformat them to taste, and e.g. lose those horrible ugly colors they're now using for Your Rights Online stories...
It seems to me that nearly all the book review lately have included a link to fatbrain.com. Maybe non-book-review book links are still pointing to Amazon, mind. It may just be a matter of them getting around to fixing it.
So, pardon my ignorance, but what would happen if you took the image thus produced and recorded your own steganographic message on top of it? Hey, two nose-thumbs at the Man for the price of one!:-) Seriously, though, it'd be easy to remove a "watermark" of that sort - just zero out the low bits. Ultimately, it's the paper copies that are worrisome anyway.
There is some competition in the automobile insurance industry, enough so that there's pressure to keep the profit margin fairly small lest the other guy undercut your rates. When you get television and radio ads for Allstate, GEICO, etc., that should tend to indicate that the competition for auto insurance is tolerably stiff.
When you hit Preview, it translates the HTML tags and suchlike; and when you hit the Submit from the preview page, it translates them again. (I discovered this while trying to explain HTML to another poster, including tips like < to put in < signs.) Thus, if you want to post with HTML in, hit Preview, make sure everything's okay, hit Back, and hit Submit from the original page.
Still, I'd have to consider this a bug. CmdrTaaaaaaaco?
As far as I've seen, the free software movement took the analysts completely by surprise, and they're even now scrambling to catch up. But I wouldn't say the era of the analysis firm is a bad thing for the free software movement - it's more the other way around.
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The referenced article is dated December 1, 1998, and is out of date; ORBS has since found a new home. You might want to check here if you're not sure.
If you wish to comment on Usenet-related issues, it behooves you to learn a little bit about what Usenet is and how it works.
I can only imagine he means the outgoing transfer rate. You still get the higher incoming transfer rates; you just can't run any practical servers.
I'm not him, but my guess is there isn't anyone else. Many regions of the US and Canada have no broadband whatsoever, after all, and I expect many of the rest have only one provider (cable or DSL, depending). It could be that the original poster's only alternative is to go back to analog dialup; and cablemodem (or DSL) service has to be pretty d*mn crappy before it gets to be worse than 56Kbps.
This issue is definitely one for the lawyers to decide. Although my intuition favors 3Com's side, I wouldn't consider it a miscarriage of justice if either side were to win, not without more information on the legal issues of the case.
Even that isn't quite true, these days. The most you can say is that a female teacher is less likely to be suspected of being a child molester than a male teacher is.
Waaaait a minute. If responding to that troll makes you become a troll, then you must be...
Ooops. I Have Been Trolled.
Actually, the riots were because the peasants were being paid wages by the day but charged rent by the month. Bad enough in February, when you're a couple of days short, but 11 days...
Hear hear! I, for one, would definitely contribute to a etoy.com legal defense fund. The general consensus I'm seeing about this case is that eToys doesn't have a particularly good legal case, and that their likelihood of winning at this point is mostly based on having more money. A legal defense fund, if large enough, could tip the scales just enough...
News.com's article was updated at 12:40 PM PST. The article now quotes one of the defendants stating that the intention was to enable a Linux DVD player, includes some statements from the EFF, and just generally looks rather more balanced than it must have been before. (I didn't see the original article myself, mind you.)
Rather than flaming you, I will merely suggest that you continue reading to page 2 of the article.
Kindly explain, sir, how copying a publicly available data stream and storing it for later viewing, in any form, differs from recording a television program on your VCR.
Blinking cursor? I feel certain that the Apple II represents prior art in that department... now Ethernet, that might be a different story.
This is a bit offtopic now, but d*mn, I'd love to be able to retrieve Slashdot comments via XML. Then I could reformat them to taste, and e.g. lose those horrible ugly colors they're now using for Your Rights Online stories...
Of course, one of the effects of this indexing technique is to encode rather interesting ideas about who is, say, more evil than Satan...
No kidding. What if it turns out that woolly mammoths eat people? Not that that'd stop some foolish megacorps from making lots of them...
It seems to me that nearly all the book review lately have included a link to fatbrain.com. Maybe non-book-review book links are still pointing to Amazon, mind. It may just be a matter of them getting around to fixing it.
So, pardon my ignorance, but what would happen if you took the image thus produced and recorded your own steganographic message on top of it? Hey, two nose-thumbs at the Man for the price of one! :-)
Seriously, though, it'd be easy to remove a "watermark" of that sort - just zero out the low bits. Ultimately, it's the paper copies that are worrisome anyway.
Sorry about the off-topic post, but can I ask exactly what the firearms industry did that asked to be slapped down?
There is some competition in the automobile insurance industry, enough so that there's pressure to keep the profit margin fairly small lest the other guy undercut your rates. When you get television and radio ads for Allstate, GEICO, etc., that should tend to indicate that the competition for auto insurance is tolerably stiff.
Still, I'd have to consider this a bug. CmdrTaaaaaaaco?
Looks like this story will have a home game: How many copies of the new "secret message" are going to be posted before the story's archived? :-)
As far as I've seen, the free software movement took the analysts completely by surprise, and they're even now scrambling to catch up. But I wouldn't say the era of the analysis firm is a bad thing for the free software movement - it's more the other way around.
"Visor" from the Creators of the Palm
Handspring Having Troubles Delivering Visors (this story's probably out of date, they prolly have the pipeline clear by now)
More details on the Visor/Handspring (Update)