Does Bush *really* want to lose the "porn lover" vote? Especially since a great deal of these voters are closeted conservatives? Who won't this administration piss off this year in its reelection bid?
If it takes me a week to wind my way through the legal system because you chose to make it difficult for me to contact you, you can bet that I'm holding you partially responsible for the damages that extra week caused.
Where's the IANAL? This is pure assertion without basis.
If you can't agree to the rules, then don't register domains.
My right to privacy supercedes the so-called rules of an anti-democratic organization. And my right to privacy doesn't stop when I register domains. And I'm not paying for the "privilege of privacy" either. My privacy is my privacy, Period!
You have to provide this valid information when you register a business, and take out insurance, apply for credit, the list goes on, and to varying levels its all public to those who want to look. Owning a domain is no different, and is closer to owning a business then it is credit information.
Ease of harvesting said information is the issue. Harvesting data from Whois is about as easy as it can get.
Play by them, advocate for them to change, do what ever you want.
Since ICANN destroyed any semblance of democracy amongst Internet stakeholders, I fail to see your point.
But if you break them, realize that you risk losing your domain.
Draconian.
Contact your phone company and see if they can set up a phone number that just goes to a mailbox.
I will if you pay for it. Seriously, I don't want extraneous phone calls, so my phone # on my domains is going to stay fake (that is, 555-5555). All the other data is real--I have good email filtering and I use a PO Box. And that's no matter what your opinion on "ICANN Law" is, buster!
Exactly. Pro-nuclear people seem to keep forgetting that the worst-case scenario of nuclear power is the central reason for opposition to it. And given that the nuclear power systems are designed by fallible human beings provides all the more reason to oppose them, as long as there is the faintest probability for nuclear disaster. Further, opposing nuclear doesn't necessarily mean supporting coal-burning, except in the practical near-term before clean energy alternatives are more fully developed.
I suppose corollaries to 4 is "Open source is good for small business" and "Open source deflates the power of large software corporations". Strangely enough, this could be where a new boon in American programming jobs could come from.
This perhaps expands on one of the reasons already stated, but also consider that open source adheres a lot more to standards, computer science discipline and the actual needs of business rather than the imagined ones dreamed up by tools industry marketeers.
There was a time, say a year ago, when I would have said "Shame on you!". With the Reckless Resident currently in power, I can no longer see the need to do that. And I feel sad.
I recently decided to stop worrying about giving out my email addresses and no longer do any obfuscations. Instead, I concern myself with establishing good filters at the email servers that deliver mail to me. Whenever I get a spam that beats the filter, I forward it to uce@ftc.gov and spamrecycle@chooseyourmail.com. Then, I write a new filter that blocks "emails like that".
In a way, I've turned myself into a spam honeypot. But the spams I receive are but a trickle now, and I never worry about giving out my real email addresses. That is, they are proudly displayed as-is on all my sites as well as boards I participate in.
Well, I hope that Sourceforge can handle the big burst of new requests for projects to be setup. They're gonna be busy for a while separating the rare wheat from all that chaff that's gonna hit them.
Anyone who says "the US is a republic, not a democracy" and thinks it proves something is an idiot.
Correct. It's those who think they "learned" that in their high school civics class who are the problem. The Constitution clearly lays out a republic, but with democratic mechanisms. And several of the Amendments extended the democratic aspects of those mechanisms. And on top of that, roughly half the states have implemented citizen-sponsored ballot initiatives, further expanding democracy. You can even add the recent ability for ordinary citizens to comment on federal regulations as a recent democratic expansion, amongst other e-democracy initiatives.
Democracy has yet to stop expanding in the USA.
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"...because Delphi's VCL is based on the MFC."
Bzzzt! The VCL was/is an original OO/component framework built on top of the Win32 API, using nothing from MFC.
...a sort of middle-ground between 3D17 and your suggestion
This alludes to what is really needed, that is, a tiered editing system. The first step is a single author (or small intimate group) coming up with a first draft. Secondly, the draft is posted to the collaborative weblication to accept comments from various interested parties, but they can't vote on them for inclusion--only the authors can decide what they incorporate. Last, a close-to-final refined document is posted to go through what 3d17.org has set up. This is a basic representation of such a tiered series of edits, but I think everyone should get the gist.
But what if the participants had to be verified by the controlling author first? This could even be done with semi-technical means, where the participant provides a mailing address, and the author snail-mails them a password that the participant then plugs into the collaboration environment before they can fully participate. Or this could all be bypassed if the author knows and trusts the participant already.
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Let's not split hairs. A MySQL product provides for stored procedures and triggers.
I guess the lead developers didn't do their research.
Does Bush *really* want to lose the "porn lover" vote? Especially since a great deal of these voters are closeted conservatives? Who won't this administration piss off this year in its reelection bid?
Where's the IANAL? This is pure assertion without basis.
My right to privacy supercedes the so-called rules of an anti-democratic organization. And my right to privacy doesn't stop when I register domains. And I'm not paying for the "privilege of privacy" either. My privacy is my privacy, Period!
Ease of harvesting said information is the issue. Harvesting data from Whois is about as easy as it can get.
Since ICANN destroyed any semblance of democracy amongst Internet stakeholders, I fail to see your point.
Draconian.
I will if you pay for it. Seriously, I don't want extraneous phone calls, so my phone # on my domains is going to stay fake (that is, 555-5555). All the other data is real--I have good email filtering and I use a PO Box. And that's no matter what your opinion on "ICANN Law" is, buster!
I guess you don't understand the concept of sarcasm, eh?
As if isn't already difficult getting people to volunteer their time and efforts. Geez!
Exactly. Pro-nuclear people seem to keep forgetting that the worst-case scenario of nuclear power is the central reason for opposition to it. And given that the nuclear power systems are designed by fallible human beings provides all the more reason to oppose them, as long as there is the faintest probability for nuclear disaster. Further, opposing nuclear doesn't necessarily mean supporting coal-burning, except in the practical near-term before clean energy alternatives are more fully developed.
They should. I never met anyone who used Objective-C in my entire career. But I have used REXX myself and known many others who've used it.
REXX is ranked #36 amongst programming languages! How is that strong? Further, other languages considered dead by many are ranked higher than REXX.
I suppose corollaries to 4 is "Open source is good for small business" and "Open source deflates the power of large software corporations". Strangely enough, this could be where a new boon in American programming jobs could come from.
By the way, great job on your list!
And Microsoft would want to create boatloads of legal exposure for itself? I don't get it.
This perhaps expands on one of the reasons already stated, but also consider that open source adheres a lot more to standards, computer science discipline and the actual needs of business rather than the imagined ones dreamed up by tools industry marketeers.
There was a time, say a year ago, when I would have said "Shame on you!". With the Reckless Resident currently in power, I can no longer see the need to do that. And I feel sad.
I recently decided to stop worrying about giving out my email addresses and no longer do any obfuscations. Instead, I concern myself with establishing good filters at the email servers that deliver mail to me. Whenever I get a spam that beats the filter, I forward it to uce@ftc.gov and spamrecycle@chooseyourmail.com. Then, I write a new filter that blocks "emails like that".
In a way, I've turned myself into a spam honeypot. But the spams I receive are but a trickle now, and I never worry about giving out my real email addresses. That is, they are proudly displayed as-is on all my sites as well as boards I participate in.
I'll tell you who I don't take seriously any longer: People who either defend or praise Microsoft.
Well, I hope that Sourceforge can handle the big burst of new requests for projects to be setup. They're gonna be busy for a while separating the rare wheat from all that chaff that's gonna hit them.
Here's the solution for them:
Poof! Easy.
reason for programmers to go independent and reject "permanent" positions.
Anyone who says "the US is a republic, not a democracy" and thinks it proves something is an idiot.
Correct. It's those who think they "learned" that in their high school civics class who are the problem. The Constitution clearly lays out a republic, but with democratic mechanisms. And several of the Amendments extended the democratic aspects of those mechanisms. And on top of that, roughly half the states have implemented citizen-sponsored ballot initiatives, further expanding democracy. You can even add the recent ability for ordinary citizens to comment on federal regulations as a recent democratic expansion, amongst other e-democracy initiatives.
Democracy has yet to stop expanding in the USA.
"...because Delphi's VCL is based on the MFC."
Bzzzt! The VCL was/is an original OO/component framework built on top of the Win32 API, using nothing from MFC.
This alludes to what is really needed, that is, a tiered editing system. The first step is a single author (or small intimate group) coming up with a first draft. Secondly, the draft is posted to the collaborative weblication to accept comments from various interested parties, but they can't vote on them for inclusion--only the authors can decide what they incorporate. Last, a close-to-final refined document is posted to go through what 3d17.org has set up. This is a basic representation of such a tiered series of edits, but I think everyone should get the gist.
But what if the participants had to be verified by the controlling author first? This could even be done with semi-technical means, where the participant provides a mailing address, and the author snail-mails them a password that the participant then plugs into the collaboration environment before they can fully participate. Or this could all be bypassed if the author knows and trusts the participant already.