Note that Orrin Hatch wanted to give these people rights to blow up people's computers. And how do you think the RIAA got her name from an IP in the first place? My guess is through a DMCA subpoena. This is Not Nice(TM).
Actually, given that the Terms of Use on the sitefinder service have you indemnify Verisign against any IP claim whatsoever, I'd say they're just trying to take over the world. Otherwise I can't think of a convincing reason for it to be there.
Please read this comment. You've just given Verisign and a whole bunch of other companies license to use any intellectual property you've ever created.
Please, read the "Terms Of Use" before you keep playing with their site. Go and do it now.
Not done yet? Uh huh, keep reading.
Fine, I'll snip out the relevant parts for you:
You agree to
release, indemnify, defend and hold harmless VeriSign, and any of our contractors, subcontractors, members, agents, employees, officers, directors, shareholders, affiliates and assigns from all liabilities, claims, damages, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses, relating to or arising out of (a) these Terms of Use, (b) the VeriSign Services or your use of such services, including without limitation infringement or dilution by you, or someone else using our service(s) from your computer, (c) any intellectual property or other proprietary right of any person or entity, or (d) a violation of any of our operating rules or policies relating to the service(s) provided. When we are threatened with suit or sued by a third party, we may seek written assurances from you concerning your promise to indemnify us; your failure to provide those assurances may be considered by us to be a material breach of these Terms of Use.
Congratulations! You've just given up your rights to anything you've ever written! Block this service, now, and you have a good chance of convincing the court you didn't agree to the terms. Otherwise, I wouldn't bet my entire life history's worth of recorded works on it.
This is one of the most evil things I've ever seen done.
... and so the response I replied to went completely in the opposite direction. This is called the "excluded middle" fallacy. I was merely pointing out that some parts of what the government does should always be open source. Responding to what I said in the context of the thread starter is silly.
Not when public accountability is a prime concern. It doesn't matter how much better the closed-source voting systems are. I can't audit them; I can't see what's going on.
There is a vast difference between using some proprietary math program down at NASA and using a closed-source voting system. One of them results in a spacecraft that doesn't work; the other results in a government that doesn't work. You pick.:-)
And I bet you've seen how Comcast defines "abuse", right? @Home used to shut people off for complaining about the service on the newsgroups (and posting documents revealing their ineptness), claiming they "cross-posted to too many groups" - something they had never done. AT&T even shut down someone's home phone service for this. It's too bad the old @Home newsgroups are gone - there was some really scary shit going on then.
They're not as nice as you think they are. They can and will shut people down arbitrarily.
Download capping might cut off some of the abusers of the service, but it hurts one very real and legitimate use of the service: downloading Linux ISOs! Under the guise of "illegal music downloading", the ISPs can shut off Microsoft's worst enemy: the free spread of Linux.
Complain and protest about this action, and suggest that broadband ISPs consider mirroring some of the more popular Linux downloads within their networks (Speakeasy DSL already does this). Of course, Comcast will have no interest in this, but they're already in Microsoft's back pocket anyway...
Again, no further comment, except to note that no one, I mean
no one in business computing considers using Lisp.
Your ignorance is astounding. No, I'm not going to cite some obscure example. Instead I'm going to point you at the Franz "Success Stories" site at http://www.franz.com/success/. Read through all the categories. Then realize these are just the people who thought it worth $10k to use Franz's Allegro Common Lisp. Also see all the applications that Xanalys develops with their LispWorks product.
AMD also uses GNU Common Lisp and ACL2 internally, though they can't reveal any specifics - this is of course the problem with a language that's suited well for the research and development part of the product phase. Who wants to give away what they're doing just to advertise that they're using Lisp?
Of course, if you wanted pretty pictures and "yet another database web interface", try the Stargreen site. But you won't find a lot of people using Lisp on those, for the simple reason that most of that work is cut and paste from a previous project.
OK, to sum up the differences between this and the existing cases:
.museum is a limited-access domain and domains in this area don't really have commercial value. Thus, it's not unfair to "squat" on all the unused domains to provide this index. It might break DNS within the.museum TLD, but nobody really cares because nobody really visits the.museum domain.
WRT the other toplevel registries: all of those that have been mentioned so far are breaking DNS anyway. You don't think that all those people with.tv domains actually live in Tuvalu, do you? DNS has been under attack for some time now.
Go to your local township and ask them about obtaining a voter registration card. Sign your name. I think they give you a temporary before the real one shows up, but just in case, ask them and write down where your polling place is. (They'll need to know where you live.)
On election day, take your card and show up. How the machines work varies between districts but they're usually pretty simple (yes, even the butterfly ballot doesn't take more than a minute to figure out for a citizen of good mental capacity). See? It's kind of simple.
Congratulations - you've effectively negated a third, very real possibility: that the poing of sending humans into space is neither about science or millitarization, but rather to drive humanity into colonization of the solar system. The best way to do that is to start - making a huge effort to try to terraform or otherwise prepare a potential colony site before humans even land will be a/huge/ disaster simply due to the number of unforseen contingencies that will happen.
Please don't exclude this possibility. People who advocate dropping manned space travel because of its lack of scientific need annoy me due to their shortsightedness.
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I'll bite on the first one. Those people were using graphics taken directly from OS X, which is pretty much copyright violation. You don't do that. Notice that Red Hat, GNOME, et al put copyright on their logos et al.
After the incident most of the themes were regenerated from scratch, and there hasn't been an issue since.
A lot of Japanese historians actually agree with our decision to drop the bomb - that the military would have simply continued on inertia as long as it could, and this gave the Emperor a chance for a reasonable surrender.
It's only here in the US that we have such guilt about it.
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It's obvious - this makes dumpster diving illegal.
How did his surgery go?
It happened a few years ago, and some parts of video were carried on the news.
Have you considered mirroring the new Slackware 9.1 ISOs?
Aaah, minions! I've waited so long for this. Thank you Slashdot!
Note that Orrin Hatch wanted to give these people rights to blow up people's computers. And how do you think the RIAA got her name from an IP in the first place? My guess is through a DMCA subpoena. This is Not Nice(TM).
Adding 64.94.110.11 to your hosts.deny should work.
The recall code was OPE :-)
I think you wanted to title your post "OPE".
Actually, given that the Terms of Use on the sitefinder service have you indemnify Verisign against any IP claim whatsoever, I'd say they're just trying to take over the world. Otherwise I can't think of a convincing reason for it to be there.
Please read this comment. You've just given Verisign and a whole bunch of other companies license to use any intellectual property you've ever created.
Not done yet? Uh huh, keep reading.
Fine, I'll snip out the relevant parts for you:
Congratulations! You've just given up your rights to anything you've ever written! Block this service, now, and you have a good chance of convincing the court you didn't agree to the terms. Otherwise, I wouldn't bet my entire life history's worth of recorded works on it.This is one of the most evil things I've ever seen done.
... and so the response I replied to went completely in the opposite direction. This is called the "excluded middle" fallacy. I was merely pointing out that some parts of what the government does should always be open source. Responding to what I said in the context of the thread starter is silly.
There is a vast difference between using some proprietary math program down at NASA and using a closed-source voting system. One of them results in a spacecraft that doesn't work; the other results in a government that doesn't work. You pick. :-)
Odd; I don't think your page would render right in Konqueror - at least it doesn't in OmniWeb, which uses the WebCore engine, which is based on KHTML.
They're not as nice as you think they are. They can and will shut people down arbitrarily.
Complain and protest about this action, and suggest that broadband ISPs consider mirroring some of the more popular Linux downloads within their networks (Speakeasy DSL already does this). Of course, Comcast will have no interest in this, but they're already in Microsoft's back pocket anyway...
AMD also uses GNU Common Lisp and ACL2 internally, though they can't reveal any specifics - this is of course the problem with a language that's suited well for the research and development part of the product phase. Who wants to give away what they're doing just to advertise that they're using Lisp?
Of course, if you wanted pretty pictures and "yet another database web interface", try the Stargreen site. But you won't find a lot of people using Lisp on those, for the simple reason that most of that work is cut and paste from a previous project.
WRT the other toplevel registries: all of those that have been mentioned so far are breaking DNS anyway. You don't think that all those people with .tv domains actually live in Tuvalu, do you? DNS has been under attack for some time now.
(Any porn vendor should know there are more things to size than weight.)
On election day, take your card and show up. How the machines work varies between districts but they're usually pretty simple (yes, even the butterfly ballot doesn't take more than a minute to figure out for a citizen of good mental capacity). See? It's kind of simple.
Well, perhaps they were back then.
Please don't exclude this possibility. People who advocate dropping manned space travel because of its lack of scientific need annoy me due to their shortsightedness.
I'll bite on the first one. Those people were using graphics taken directly from OS X, which is pretty much copyright violation. You don't do that. Notice that Red Hat, GNOME, et al put copyright on their logos et al.
After the incident most of the themes were regenerated from scratch, and there hasn't been an issue since.
The DVD thing is bad, yeah.
It's only here in the US that we have such guilt about it.