The only reason it took thigns down was because a timing loop was messed up, and it was spreading something like 1000 times too fast. It was supposed to spread everywhere, yes, but by crawling slowly.. it was not intended to eat up all connections on all machines.
Had that been the case, it would have been much more widespread and caused much less damage.
That doesn't matter; their cooperation is necessary to track down the culprint. If I leave a blank check in my house, and someone steals it and cashes it, it's still fraud, and the bank still has to turn over whatever evidence they have in order to find out who did it.
- Banks are federally insured in most countries. That means that the funds you have on deposit are insured by the government up to a certain point. Even if the bank goes bankrupt, they will pay you.
- Credit cards offer fraud protection, often by contract, more often by law, usually by both.
- Paypal is not a bank. Paypal is just a company. They have contracts with you, but ultimately they are an unregulated clearinghouse. The service they provide is easy financial transactions at a higher than average price.
- It follows that if you leave any significant amount of money in your paypal account, you are asking for trouble.
- There are other methods of payment; anyone working with more than a small amount of money should look into getting a visa merchant account, and other business banking tools. Banks WILL help you with this.
Unfortunately, no company "owes" you customer service the way you want it.
Paypal doesn't have great customer service because they don't need it: they are still #1, even without if. If there was more competition for them, things would be different...
Having never met me, you must know exactly what I do for a living, where I live, and how cheap I am.
I'm not some guy living a block from the virgin megastore where I can get all the music I want, with a good selection. I wish.
I'm also not saying that this is why all people pirate music.. but until the music industry does something to compete on a convenience level, they will be behind no matter what.
I sit behind a computer for about 50 hours a week.
Why should I force myself to drive downtown on what little time I have off to go hunting for a cd or two that I like when I can sit at my desk and grab whatever I want whenever I want, on my computer.
It's not because I'm cheap.
It's because the recording industry is NOT offering me anything near this level of convenience.
A screenshot would work fine for your screen.
why not just stick it on your website? I'll do the same.
The problem I see is that I'm using Cleartype on a 1600x1200 LCD.. and if I take a screenshot, you won't really see what I see unless you are using an LCD with the exact same physical structure as mine... it will actually look fuzzy on your screen. What I see has absolutely no fuzz whatsoever, it looks razor sharp.
I will dig up the highest resolution camera I can find here and take a shot of a portion of the screen.. that should get the point across.
I'll send a screenshot too.. but you'll really want to view it on a 1600x1200 LCD with a digital interface to get the effect (and preferably the same model LCD as I have.. as the settings are tuned to it)
I'm using a Toshiba Satellite 5100 (The Canadian model)
Screenshot is at http://www.tesla.cx/screenshots/screenshot_fonts.T IF
I remember a guy built a computer to play tic-tac-toe out of tinkertoys... it's still on display in a museum somewhere.
Pneumatics would work (compressed gas based)
Light is the obvious one that might actually be really useful.
mechanics can do it.. gears and switches.
Conceptually, something like rod logic in neal stephenson's The Diamond Age is neat to think about. (mechanical logic, but on a nanotech scale) good book if you haven't read it, though more for the concepts than the story itself.
Yeah.. because this time the #1 thing that shows up on the eula, in plain english, not even lawyerspeak, without even scrolling down, is that IT IS GOING TO MAIL EVERYONE IN YOUR CONTACT LIST.
I mean, fine print is one thing.. but the #1 clause in the contract? That's hardly the "fine print"
A disclaimer is not an EULA. A disclaimer can be just that, a disclaimer... something you are forced to read so that you can't later claim "I didn't know."
There are some rights, like tenants rights, that you can't supersede just by putting them in a contract. Certianly, the details vary from place to place, but in most places, the landlord being able to come in other than for purposes of being a landlord, with proper notice, is not permitted.
Just like labor law: You can't 'agree' in your employment contract to work for a dollar an hour when the minimum wage is $7.00 an hour.
The consideration is: You can use our software (that's what you get) if you agree to not do these things that we see as detremental to our business model (that's what we get)
But that's just it. You don't violate the GPL. You can't violate something you never agreed to.
If you take a GPL work and distribute it without agreeing to the GPL (abiding by its terms), then you are breaking copyright law, plain and simple, because you have no license to distribute (or whatever you are doing). You are not in violation of a contract.
Picture it the other way around: Someone sues you for distributin gtheir software. You turn around and point out that they shipped a version of the GPL with it, and that you followed it's terms exactly. What will a court do? They will clearly decide that the author granted you permission to distribute under certain terms.
The GPL is not an EULA in the common sense of the word because you don't have to agree to it to use the software, plain and simple, it has nothing to do with what rights it grants or not.
An EULA could grant you tons of rights, and still be an eula. It's not about what rights they grant/take away; it's about how and when they come into play. A license stating copyright terms like the GPL could take away tons of rights, and still not be an EULA.
Nothing requires you to accept the GPL until you want to start modifying and distributing someone elses copyrighted work. You are not required to accept it in order to simply use the software. THAT is why we don't call it an EULA.
but that's NOT why it's not an EULA. An EULA could grant you tons of rights, and still be an EULA.
It's not an EULA because nothing makes you agree to it before using the software. You are not bound by it BY using the software. It's not a license to use the software.
You only have to accept the terms of the GPL if you want to do things that you would not normally have the right to do under copyright law, like distribute derived works.
You are absolutely not obliged to accept the terms of the GPL when someone gives you a copy of a GPL work. If you don't, you can't distribute it or distributed derived works. Nothing at all prevents you from using it and making copies.
What if I want my antivirus software to detect this. Just because there is an EULA doesn't mean some idiot in the company won't install it anyway, and the results will be much the same.
If people are ignorant enough to click on unknown attachments despite repeated warnings, they are ignorant enough to install this regardless of what the eula says.
Symantec should provide a signature and leave it as a choice to the administrator whether or not to detect it.
I was doing the math based on the individual elements, not claiming anything about the final structure, or where those electrons happen to exist in relation to the elements in the molecule.
Though I don't for one second doubt you... I'm willing to bet your desktop and mine are a close battle. Mac OSX doesn't hold a candle to what I see here.
If you have something that looks better than this... I'm all for it.
So.. how are we going to compare? The only thing I can think of is ultra high resolution photographs.
What kind of screen are you using?
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Define acceptance? Some of us click "Agree" knowing full well we don't agree to anything, and that we will do what we want in spite of those alleged terms.
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The only reason it took thigns down was because a timing loop was messed up, and it was spreading something like 1000 times too fast. It was supposed to spread everywhere, yes, but by crawling slowly.. it was not intended to eat up all connections on all machines.
Had that been the case, it would have been much more widespread and caused much less damage.
That doesn't matter; their cooperation is necessary to track down the culprint. If I leave a blank check in my house, and someone steals it and cashes it, it's still fraud, and the bank still has to turn over whatever evidence they have in order to find out who did it.
A few facts (more or less) for the uninitiated:
- Banks are federally insured in most countries. That means that the funds you have on deposit are insured by the government up to a certain point. Even if the bank goes bankrupt, they will pay you.
- Credit cards offer fraud protection, often by contract, more often by law, usually by both.
- Paypal is not a bank. Paypal is just a company. They have contracts with you, but ultimately they are an unregulated clearinghouse. The service they provide is easy financial transactions at a higher than average price.
- It follows that if you leave any significant amount of money in your paypal account, you are asking for trouble.
- There are other methods of payment; anyone working with more than a small amount of money should look into getting a visa merchant account, and other business banking tools. Banks WILL help you with this.
Unfortunately, no company "owes" you customer service the way you want it.
Paypal doesn't have great customer service because they don't need it: they are still #1, even without if. If there was more competition for them, things would be different...
Yeah.. amazon was an example.
I don't live in the US; the point was, it's far form convenient for me to order up music.
Having never met me, you must know exactly what I do for a living, where I live, and how cheap I am.
I'm not some guy living a block from the virgin megastore where I can get all the music I want, with a good selection. I wish.
I'm also not saying that this is why all people pirate music.. but until the music industry does something to compete on a convenience level, they will be behind no matter what.
Really? 2 days?
If you know how I can ship stuff through customs that fast, please, let me know.
I'm looking at more like 1-2 weeks for a delivery from amazon.
And even if it was 2 days for me... 2 days is a LONG way off of instant gratification from online downloads.
I sit behind a computer for about 50 hours a week.
Why should I force myself to drive downtown on what little time I have off to go hunting for a cd or two that I like when I can sit at my desk and grab whatever I want whenever I want, on my computer.
It's not because I'm cheap.
It's because the recording industry is NOT offering me anything near this level of convenience.
A screenshot would work fine for your screen.
T IF
why not just stick it on your website? I'll do the same.
The problem I see is that I'm using Cleartype on a 1600x1200 LCD.. and if I take a screenshot, you won't really see what I see unless you are using an LCD with the exact same physical structure as mine... it will actually look fuzzy on your screen. What I see has absolutely no fuzz whatsoever, it looks razor sharp.
I will dig up the highest resolution camera I can find here and take a shot of a portion of the screen.. that should get the point across.
I'll send a screenshot too.. but you'll really want to view it on a 1600x1200 LCD with a digital interface to get the effect (and preferably the same model LCD as I have.. as the settings are tuned to it)
I'm using a Toshiba Satellite 5100 (The Canadian model)
Screenshot is at http://www.tesla.cx/screenshots/screenshot_fonts.
Working on a photo...
I remember a guy built a computer to play tic-tac-toe out of tinkertoys... it's still on display in a museum somewhere.
Pneumatics would work (compressed gas based)
Light is the obvious one that might actually be really useful.
mechanics can do it.. gears and switches.
Conceptually, something like rod logic in neal stephenson's The Diamond Age is neat to think about. (mechanical logic, but on a nanotech scale) good book if you haven't read it, though more for the concepts than the story itself.
Yeah.. because this time the #1 thing that shows up on the eula, in plain english, not even lawyerspeak, without even scrolling down, is that IT IS GOING TO MAIL EVERYONE IN YOUR CONTACT LIST.
I mean, fine print is one thing.. but the #1 clause in the contract? That's hardly the "fine print"
A disclaimer is not an EULA. A disclaimer can be just that, a disclaimer... something you are forced to read so that you can't later claim "I didn't know."
There are some rights, like tenants rights, that you can't supersede just by putting them in a contract. Certianly, the details vary from place to place, but in most places, the landlord being able to come in other than for purposes of being a landlord, with proper notice, is not permitted.
Just like labor law: You can't 'agree' in your employment contract to work for a dollar an hour when the minimum wage is $7.00 an hour.
The consideration is:
You can use our software (that's what you get) if you agree to not do these things that we see as detremental to our business model (that's what we get)
But that's just it. You don't violate the GPL. You can't violate something you never agreed to.
If you take a GPL work and distribute it without agreeing to the GPL (abiding by its terms), then you are breaking copyright law, plain and simple, because you have no license to distribute (or whatever you are doing). You are not in violation of a contract.
Picture it the other way around: Someone sues you for distributin gtheir software. You turn around and point out that they shipped a version of the GPL with it, and that you followed it's terms exactly. What will a court do? They will clearly decide that the author granted you permission to distribute under certain terms.
The GPL is not an EULA in the common sense of the word because you don't have to agree to it to use the software, plain and simple, it has nothing to do with what rights it grants or not.
An EULA could grant you tons of rights, and still be an eula. It's not about what rights they grant/take away; it's about how and when they come into play. A license stating copyright terms like the GPL could take away tons of rights, and still not be an EULA.
Nothing requires you to accept the GPL until you want to start modifying and distributing someone elses copyrighted work. You are not required to accept it in order to simply use the software. THAT is why we don't call it an EULA.
but that's NOT why it's not an EULA. An EULA could grant you tons of rights, and still be an EULA.
It's not an EULA because nothing makes you agree to it before using the software. You are not bound by it BY using the software. It's not a license to use the software.
You only have to accept the terms of the GPL if you want to do things that you would not normally have the right to do under copyright law, like distribute derived works.
If you feel that this isn't true, consider this:
You are absolutely not obliged to accept the terms of the GPL when someone gives you a copy of a GPL work. If you don't, you can't distribute it or distributed derived works. Nothing at all prevents you from using it and making copies.
What if I want my antivirus software to detect this. Just because there is an EULA doesn't mean some idiot in the company won't install it anyway, and the results will be much the same.
If people are ignorant enough to click on unknown attachments despite repeated warnings, they are ignorant enough to install this regardless of what the eula says.
Symantec should provide a signature and leave it as a choice to the administrator whether or not to detect it.
I was doing the math based on the individual elements, not claiming anything about the final structure, or where those electrons happen to exist in relation to the elements in the molecule.
is an article I would expect to see in a tabloid like Cnet.. or soemthing equally for the nongeek masses.
Any nerd that's worth his salt knows that logic gates can be built out of all kinds of things, and that using water is nothing new.
Seriously, what is new or interesting about this at all?
Hydrogen has 1 electron
Oxygen has 8
that means h2o has 10.
Though I don't for one second doubt you... I'm willing to bet your desktop and mine are a close battle.
Mac OSX doesn't hold a candle to what I see here.
If you have something that looks better than this... I'm all for it.
So.. how are we going to compare? The only thing I can think of is ultra high resolution photographs.
What kind of screen are you using?
Define acceptance? Some of us click "Agree" knowing full well we don't agree to anything, and that we will do what we want in spite of those alleged terms.
I guarantee that if you sat down in front of my windows laptop, you would fall instantly in love with programming on it, simply because of the fonts.
I know what you are saying about AA fonts giving you headaches.. but that's because they aren't properly antialiased.
Proper antialiasing yields fonts that look solid and smooth, and are easier on the eyes, not harder.