A website holder doesn't have to worry about being convicted by a jury. 99.999999% of these legal problems are by people (read: corporations) with a hair up their butt for what is being said or posted on the site, so they file a lawsuit in civil court (not criminal court). Unfortunately, for the site maintainer, it is a whole lot easier for a jury to order some damages be paid in a civil case because there's a good chance (i think its: based on a proponderance of the evidence (spelling?)) that some damage can be proven. In the 2600 case, the court was overwhelmingly against the site primary because they held views that the judge didn't agree with (calling them dirty hackers, or whatever), and that helped him determine that they needed to pay for their deeds.
Oh yeah, you've been here for a long time, Mr. User #233655.
Just slightly longer than Taco, right?
Please, go away.
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I already wrote a little proggy that dumps it into integers, and also will do characters. All it is is the sequence 169 19 186 82 168 138 77 repeated over and over again... I wish it were something more grand, thus justifying the half hour I spent translating it. Oh well, needed some practice with simple console apps.
Are these the coolest errors ever, or what?
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They may not be able to handle the traffic, but you gotta love those error messages:
HTTP Error 02931
Cannot complete requested action. There must be some reason, but who knows why.
Please try again
HTTP Error 834
This is the error that broke our servers back. We will now have to go back and
reboot everything.
(Thanks a lot)
HTTP Erro
Microsoftie OLE DB Provider for ODBC
Drivers error "80040e30"
[Microsoftie][ODBC SQEL Server
Driver][SQEL Server]What do you mean "hyperlink"?
/article.asp, line 19
Unknown
An unknowing error has unknowlingly
been accessed. Please go back and try
again.
The one where the sneeches with and without stars both paid the monkey to be a middle man between the two sides (converting star-bellies to non-star-bellies and back again). In the end, the monkey drove away with all of the money, and both types of sneeches were left high and dry with a blurring of the lines between the two types.
I just picture the SUV full of lawyers driving away with all of the money smiling and laughing and pumping their Dr. Dre mp3s through their brand new Bose system. Damn, this is a messed up world.
I agree with much of what has been said here. From my understanding, the library is supposed to be a place for a broad level of learning and resources. It's a community funded place that assures the public of an unbiased repository of information. We wouldn't let the conservatives (read: militant Christians) ban all books that weren't the King James bible (and then, only the non-raunchy parts).
Why would we let any group bring in their views and push it upon the PUBLIC library? I love the Minnesota idea shown earlier: no viewing pr0n in public. Excellant! Libraries may be free, but they still must adhere to the law.
I'm still a big fan of using shame. I didn't surf pr0n in high school because I knew that it was easy for my teachers to get a hold of the list of sites I was at. I didn't want to sit with them and explain why I was viewing the nekkid body. Perhaps software that didn't filter sites, but reported when folks visit sites on the lists, and put up a warning at the librarian's desk, and then they handle it as they must, would be a nice solution. It puts a lot of trust in the librarian... but, weren't we supposed to have that trust already?
Finally, did anybody think that the name Tish Fackler was a nick the first time they saw it?
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He's probably spinning in his grave right now.
What have I done? Now all of the kids are going to go shoot up their schools because of my mouse.
BTW: QuakeII, Halflife, Rogue Spear, SOF
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I've already solved that problem...
I only use the w,a,s,&d keys (plus r if I have to reload).
As far as I can tell, it wasn't an actual lawsuit, so much as it was a 'nasty' letter sent to the sites informing them of the possiblity of legal action... that's what I gleaned, at least.
Easy solution to that: 'Simply' rewrite the protocol to use a Gnutella-like system of non-centralized relaying. At that point, AOL is only using development resources, not physical resources.
Surprisingly, this has happened, to some effect. Back around Vis Studio (4? I have no idea when), the GUIDs were created the same way as they are now. The only difference was that if the computer didn't have a network card, they had a default value for you. So, if two computers happened to create a GUID at the same time that didn't have network cards, the GUIDs would come out the same. This did happen and it drove people nuts trying to figure it out. Luckily for all, this has been since fixed (random number, or something).
Is it bad that after looking at each Britney Spears picture for about 3 seconds each, I started reading the equations and trying to remember my Junior year semiconductors class?
I tend to agree with my peers on this one. In fact, I don't think they go far enough with this concept. I don't like that I have to be logged in on a server computer in order to run software. Some server side apps (especially multiple ones from different vendors) need to have Administrator access to run. I would rather that the computer could be started and these services were run without a login... since I hate leaving a computer running that is already logged in as Administrator (root, to most folks here).
Now, it would be easy to make the screen saver kick in and lock the computer, but what happens in the event of a reboot (malicious or power failure). The idea of this knocking out my Rational server until somebody walks into the room and types a password is rediculous. I can't have it automatically log in as Administrator, because in the minute before the screen saver kicks in, the malicious guest 0wnz me.
Maybe I'm just dumb. I'm a software developer, not a network administrator. But, in my limited experience, I haven't found a way to auto-run anything without a login.
Overall, the idea of locking a WinNT computer is that the user can't start altering settings/data easily. But, applications should certainly continue running. If Palm decided that they don't mind protecting their data when running on a "Locked" computer, I don't fault Microsoft.
As for your original post, it could almost be considered a flamebait. It certainly sounded like it was eliciting such a response, and it was tough to resist. You make a valid point, and it is valid to counter the general feel of the post with humor to make a point... plus, some people get to laugh at it.
On your sidenote, it would probably be more appropriate to take this conversation offline, but we have considered the social ramifications of the system.
Bit of history, this technology exists already, but it is a very cruddy system developed by another company. The software is DOS based, and the data is basically stored in a flat-file that probably isn't tough to get into. The business model they used was to sell numbers of boxes to people. The data was theirs to do as they see fit, and huge abuses occured. In Taiwon, one group was falsifying over 50% of their data.
We will be doing things differently, with the intent of data integrity build in from the start. We are building a data handling system similiar to the chain-of-custody involved in drug testing. We plan not to stand behind data that we don't process and verify ourselves.
Beyond abuse issues, we still our developing our stand on Big Brother issues. In the end, however, it becomes a convenience for the public, rather than travelling to a centralized facility and paying $10 to have their emissions tested before they get their tabs.
I guess a thoughtful response to a reasonable argument is a bit too much to ask from someone with an IQ that hovers just below room temperature.
Oh, come on. It was a joke (and partially funny, I might add)
I am personally (and professionally) excited about advances in digital imaging technology. It is a time honored passtime of taking pictures with film, taking it to the darkroom, and creating prints. I have spent a little bit of time in the darkroom. I, personally, would rather take my pictures, place them directly onto my computer (which can serve as an amazing archival/retrieval system), and chose those pictures I like most and either print them, or use some sort of special device that allows exposure from data to print paper.
From a professional standpoint, I am a developer on a system that does roadside vehicle emissions measurements, and we need a way to identify vehicles as they pass. The easiest way is to take a picture of the license plate of the car as it drives by at 60mph. What we are looking for is the ability to take a digital picture, and dump it onto a small computer quickly. We don't have the time (or the ability) to develop film, and NTSC is just too old of a standard for the resolution needs we have.
I am more excited about the future of imaging than I am about the past of photography. It may be a little bit sad to see old things relegated to the few hardcore fans, but the progress more than makes up for it in my mind.
It's the same feeling as when you are knelt to the Earth, plowing a field with the legbone of a deer that you brought down yourself with a pointy stick. Man, I miss the good old days of 10,000 BC. Me, and my newly domesticated wolf/dog Brageleouou, hiding in a cave until the nighttime predators stopped stalking.
Just a quick little tip on GUIDS on a Windows Compiler. When you first create the COM object using one of the wizards, it runs its GUID generator and places it into the IDL file in plaintext. You can change this GUID to anything you want to, as long as you change it in all the places it's found: the idl, and the rgs files. I believe these are the only places it is found.
Since the GUID is generated from your MAC address and the current time, you can change some of the low order numbers and some of the high order numbers, and suddenly, it looks like the component was created on someone elses machine sometime during the 60's. Pure Magic(TM).
I appologize to slashdot, I originally misplaced this reply. This is where it belongs.
I started working on a Windows version, but I got really lazy. The first step toward making one for Win was to translate the Perl code to C++. After about 2 hours (and 6 beers) of learning Perl from staring at it in notepad, I gave up and went to watch Gundam Wing. If anybody knows about a C++ or C version, I'll be happy to work on 2 versions for Windows (an ActiveX control, and a standalone).
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That Visor-phone looks like somebody duct-taped a visor to a cell phone. Bet the CAD work was really tough with that one.
A website holder doesn't have to worry about being convicted by a jury. 99.999999% of these legal problems are by people (read: corporations) with a hair up their butt for what is being said or posted on the site, so they file a lawsuit in civil court (not criminal court). Unfortunately, for the site maintainer, it is a whole lot easier for a jury to order some damages be paid in a civil case because there's a good chance (i think its: based on a proponderance of the evidence (spelling?)) that some damage can be proven. In the 2600 case, the court was overwhelmingly against the site primary because they held views that the judge didn't agree with (calling them dirty hackers, or whatever), and that helped him determine that they needed to pay for their deeds.
Warning, I've found that you can't daisy chain more than 4 of these CD dongles without losing control of your printer... playlists out the windows!
Could you imagine if Einstein was sent home after his 6 year H1B was up? WWII would have been a bit trickier to end, eh?
Just slightly longer than Taco, right?
Please, go away.
I already wrote a little proggy that dumps it into integers, and also will do characters. All it is is the sequence 169 19 186 82 168 138 77 repeated over and over again... I wish it were something more grand, thus justifying the half hour I spent translating it. Oh well, needed some practice with simple console apps.
HTTP Error 02931
Cannot complete requested action. There must be
some reason, but who knows why.
Please try again
HTTP Error 834
This is the error that broke our servers
back. We will now have to go back and
reboot everything.
(Thanks a lot)
HTTP Erro
Microsoftie OLE DB Provider for ODBC
Drivers error "80040e30"
[Microsoftie][ODBC SQEL Server
Driver][SQEL Server]What do you mean
"hyperlink"?
Unknown
An unknowing error has unknowlingly
been accessed. Please go back and try
again.
Is the link bad? or did we Whack-a-mole the site already?
The one where the sneeches with and without stars both paid the monkey to be a middle man between the two sides (converting star-bellies to non-star-bellies and back again). In the end, the monkey drove away with all of the money, and both types of sneeches were left high and dry with a blurring of the lines between the two types.
I just picture the SUV full of lawyers driving away with all of the money smiling and laughing and pumping their Dr. Dre mp3s through their brand new Bose system. Damn, this is a messed up world.
I never claimed to be all that bright... but the comment would have been a lot funnier if he was (God rest his living soul).
Why would we let any group bring in their views and push it upon the PUBLIC library? I love the Minnesota idea shown earlier: no viewing pr0n in public. Excellant! Libraries may be free, but they still must adhere to the law.
I'm still a big fan of using shame. I didn't surf pr0n in high school because I knew that it was easy for my teachers to get a hold of the list of sites I was at. I didn't want to sit with them and explain why I was viewing the nekkid body. Perhaps software that didn't filter sites, but reported when folks visit sites on the lists, and put up a warning at the librarian's desk, and then they handle it as they must, would be a nice solution. It puts a lot of trust in the librarian... but, weren't we supposed to have that trust already?
Finally, did anybody think that the name Tish Fackler was a nick the first time they saw it?
What have I done? Now all of the kids are going to go shoot up their schools because of my mouse.
BTW: QuakeII, Halflife, Rogue Spear, SOF
I only use the w,a,s,&d keys (plus r if I have to reload).
As far as I can tell, it wasn't an actual lawsuit, so much as it was a 'nasty' letter sent to the sites informing them of the possiblity of legal action... that's what I gleaned, at least.
Easy solution to that: 'Simply' rewrite the protocol to use a Gnutella-like system of non-centralized relaying. At that point, AOL is only using development resources, not physical resources.
Thank you, I'm getting to work on it right now.
Surprisingly, this has happened, to some effect. Back around Vis Studio (4? I have no idea when), the GUIDs were created the same way as they are now. The only difference was that if the computer didn't have a network card, they had a default value for you. So, if two computers happened to create a GUID at the same time that didn't have network cards, the GUIDs would come out the same. This did happen and it drove people nuts trying to figure it out. Luckily for all, this has been since fixed (random number, or something).
Is it bad that after looking at each Britney Spears picture for about 3 seconds each, I started reading the equations and trying to remember my Junior year semiconductors class?
Now, it would be easy to make the screen saver kick in and lock the computer, but what happens in the event of a reboot (malicious or power failure). The idea of this knocking out my Rational server until somebody walks into the room and types a password is rediculous. I can't have it automatically log in as Administrator, because in the minute before the screen saver kicks in, the malicious guest 0wnz me.
Maybe I'm just dumb. I'm a software developer, not a network administrator. But, in my limited experience, I haven't found a way to auto-run anything without a login.
Overall, the idea of locking a WinNT computer is that the user can't start altering settings/data easily. But, applications should certainly continue running. If Palm decided that they don't mind protecting their data when running on a "Locked" computer, I don't fault Microsoft.
On your sidenote, it would probably be more appropriate to take this conversation offline, but we have considered the social ramifications of the system.
Bit of history, this technology exists already, but it is a very cruddy system developed by another company. The software is DOS based, and the data is basically stored in a flat-file that probably isn't tough to get into. The business model they used was to sell numbers of boxes to people. The data was theirs to do as they see fit, and huge abuses occured. In Taiwon, one group was falsifying over 50% of their data.
We will be doing things differently, with the intent of data integrity build in from the start. We are building a data handling system similiar to the chain-of-custody involved in drug testing. We plan not to stand behind data that we don't process and verify ourselves.
Beyond abuse issues, we still our developing our stand on Big Brother issues. In the end, however, it becomes a convenience for the public, rather than travelling to a centralized facility and paying $10 to have their emissions tested before they get their tabs.
Oh, come on. It was a joke (and partially funny, I might add)
I am personally (and professionally) excited about advances in digital imaging technology. It is a time honored passtime of taking pictures with film, taking it to the darkroom, and creating prints. I have spent a little bit of time in the darkroom. I, personally, would rather take my pictures, place them directly onto my computer (which can serve as an amazing archival/retrieval system), and chose those pictures I like most and either print them, or use some sort of special device that allows exposure from data to print paper.
From a professional standpoint, I am a developer on a system that does roadside vehicle emissions measurements, and we need a way to identify vehicles as they pass. The easiest way is to take a picture of the license plate of the car as it drives by at 60mph. What we are looking for is the ability to take a digital picture, and dump it onto a small computer quickly. We don't have the time (or the ability) to develop film, and NTSC is just too old of a standard for the resolution needs we have.
I am more excited about the future of imaging than I am about the past of photography. It may be a little bit sad to see old things relegated to the few hardcore fans, but the progress more than makes up for it in my mind.
It's the same feeling as when you are knelt to the Earth, plowing a field with the legbone of a deer that you brought down yourself with a pointy stick. Man, I miss the good old days of 10,000 BC. Me, and my newly domesticated wolf/dog Brageleouou, hiding in a cave until the nighttime predators stopped stalking.
Since the GUID is generated from your MAC address and the current time, you can change some of the low order numbers and some of the high order numbers, and suddenly, it looks like the component was created on someone elses machine sometime during the 60's. Pure Magic(TM).
Sorry, I misreplied to the post. It belongs elsewhere.
I started working on a Windows version, but I got really lazy. The first step toward making one for Win was to translate the Perl code to C++. After about 2 hours (and 6 beers) of learning Perl from staring at it in notepad, I gave up and went to watch Gundam Wing. If anybody knows about a C++ or C version, I'll be happy to work on 2 versions for Windows (an ActiveX control, and a standalone).