Back in early 1995 a company called Vocaltec released a program called "Iphone" for Windows 3.1 that allowed PC to PC voice calls. It used EFnet IRC channels for the handshake which pissed off a lot of server administrators because the program couldn't function as a standard IRC client. The only thing an iphone user could do was connect to an IRC server, join #iphone channels and initiate calls with other iphone clients.
Pardon my ignorance here but just how does an RIAA snoop bot on Kazaa or another similar P2P network know that someone using IP address 4.153.221.19 downloaded "Who let the dogs out" from ip address 131.96.1.6.? I can see how it might determine he searched for the song but how does RIAA prove he actually downloaded it? (or is this a point that the granny or the 12 year old could bring up in court?)
Why is it necessary to imbed media in browser windows anyway? Why can't webmasters just provide a link to the ram/smil file (or whatever) and let the media player handle it?
IE is not free because the cost of developing IE is included in the cost of Windows. Just because you can download IE for Windows without paying anything extra is irrelevent, because you have already payed for it.
But whatcha wannna bet that a copy of Windows would still cost the same if it didn't have IE.
In a Federal District Court case involving the famous trademark STAR WARS owned by Lucasfilm Ltd., the Court ruled that the slang term used to refer to the Strategic Defense Initiative did not weaken the trademark and the Court refused to stop its use as a slang term.
And just how could a court stop the use of a trademark as a "slang term" if they wanted to, send a C&D to everybody in the country?
The way I see it, the purpose of the SPEWS approach is not to intentionally punish a spam friendly ISP's non spamming customers but to encourage them to find another ISP that isn't spam friendly. Something the "innocents" probably wouldn't do unless they also "felt the pain".
Once the spam lenient ISP loses enough "normal" customers so that the extra money they are getting from the spammers (or from not financing a good abuse desk) no longer becomes worth it, then perhaps they will change. They are certainly not going to disconnect their spammers just because someone tells them they should.
My brother was arrested once because someone accused him of something which he didn't do, he spent a year in jail waiting for his trial and then the plaintiff didn't even show up.
In a criminal case, the state is the plaintiff. Are you saying that the prosecutor didn't show show up on your brother's court date?
Point taken and it's good that us lowly lusers have a way to give direct feedback to developers about what we like and don't like about a program. That's what I like about Mozilla.
However, users still should be educated about the difference between what's a bug and what's not a bug.
>Bugzilla is a "Defect Tracking System" >or "Bug-Tracking System". Defect Tracking >Systems allow individual or groups of >developers to keep track of outstanding >bugs in their product effectively.
This might be considered a little OT but one thing that confuses me about how Mozilla itself implements this for their own products (Firefox etc.) is that it's used to report and discuss things that I wouldn't think are "bugs" such as feature requests, functions that don't work the way end users think they should, and complaints about "antifeatures". Some of them can be damn annoying but the software in these cases is working as designed.
A good example of this is Thunderbird "bugs" filed about its non compliance with "good netkeeping seal of approval" standards.
I meant I dismissed the javascript popup. Since the site wasn't in my whitelist there was no prompt, just the notice that the install was blocked.
And the more I think about it, the more I think that it was really aimed at versions of Netscape based on Mozilla releases without the whitelist features.
Yea, but some sites try anyway. I guess they think that a few idiots will be so hard up to see where Scarlet the Harlot is going to stick that banana that they will add their site to the white list and click "yes".
It now happens with Firefox too. One site I visited tried to force me to install an xpi extension complete with a "you must click yes" pop up box. Dismissing it still let me access the link however.
However, when this happens with IE, you have to terminate the browser process to get out of the "you must click yes" mousetrap.
What if the post office were to start a service where an advertiser could give them one copy of a piece of junk mail along with a list of recipients. The post office would then duplicate the mail, stuff them in envelopes and then send them out to the recipients postage due. Eventually you would need a wheel barrel to get your mail everyday.
That's how spam works and that's why people complain.
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Back in early 1995 a company called Vocaltec released a program called "Iphone" for Windows 3.1 that allowed PC to PC voice calls. It used EFnet IRC channels for the handshake which pissed off a lot of server administrators because the program couldn't function as a standard IRC client. The only thing an iphone user could do was connect to an IRC server, join #iphone channels and initiate calls with other iphone clients.
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Pardon my ignorance here but just how does an RIAA snoop bot on Kazaa or another similar P2P network know that someone using IP address 4.153.221.19 downloaded "Who let the dogs out" from ip address 131.96.1.6.? I can see how it might determine he searched for the song but how does RIAA prove he actually downloaded it? (or is this a point that the granny or the 12 year old could bring up in court?)
Why is it necessary to imbed media in browser windows anyway? Why can't webmasters just provide a link to the ram/smil file (or whatever) and let the media player handle it?
IE is not free because the cost of developing IE is included in the cost of Windows. Just because you can download IE for Windows without paying anything extra is irrelevent, because you have already payed for it.
But whatcha wannna bet that a copy of Windows would still cost the same if it didn't have IE.
In a Federal District Court case involving the famous trademark STAR WARS owned by Lucasfilm Ltd., the Court ruled that the slang term used to refer to the Strategic Defense Initiative did not weaken the trademark and the Court refused to stop its use as a slang term.
And just how could a court stop the use of a trademark as a "slang term" if they wanted to, send a C&D to everybody in the country?
SPAM(tm) is the "Baywatch" of foods. Nobody admits to liking it but Hormell has been selling a metric assload of it for 60 years.
Actually, "turkey spam" isn't that bad.
Setting a low TTL is not abuse; it's good administration. You need a short TTL in case of outages or other emergency actions.
It's also the way that services like dyndns.org work. If your dialup or DSL IP is changing all the time, you need very short TTLs.
The way I see it, the purpose of the SPEWS approach is not to intentionally punish a spam friendly ISP's non spamming customers but to encourage them to find another ISP that isn't spam friendly. Something the "innocents" probably wouldn't do unless they also "felt the pain".
Once the spam lenient ISP loses enough "normal" customers so that the extra money they are getting from the spammers (or from not financing a good abuse desk) no longer becomes worth it, then perhaps they will change. They are certainly not going to disconnect their spammers just because someone tells them they should.
Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't trademark holders required to defend their trademarks or risk losing them? (like what happened with "Aspirin")
Judging from his website he's from Bloomington Indiana.
My brother was arrested once because someone accused him of something which he didn't do, he spent a year in jail waiting for his trial and then the plaintiff didn't even show up.
In a criminal case, the state is the plaintiff. Are you saying that the prosecutor didn't show show up on your brother's court date?
Point taken and it's good that us lowly lusers have a way to give direct feedback to developers about what we like and don't like about a program. That's what I like about Mozilla.
However, users still should be educated about the difference between what's a bug and what's not a bug.
>Bugzilla is a "Defect Tracking System"
>or "Bug-Tracking System". Defect Tracking
>Systems allow individual or groups of
>developers to keep track of outstanding
>bugs in their product effectively.
This might be considered a little OT but one thing that confuses me about how Mozilla itself implements this for their own products (Firefox etc.) is that it's used to report and discuss things that I wouldn't think are "bugs" such as feature requests, functions that don't work the way end users think they should, and complaints about "antifeatures". Some of them can be damn annoying but the software in these cases is working as designed.
A good example of this is Thunderbird "bugs" filed about its non compliance with "good netkeeping seal of approval" standards.
I meant I dismissed the javascript popup. Since the site wasn't in my whitelist there was no prompt, just the notice that the install was blocked.
And the more I think about it, the more I think that it was really aimed at versions of Netscape based on Mozilla releases without the whitelist features.
Well, early (pre 4) versions of IE did label their desktop icon "The Internet".
Yea, but some sites try anyway. I guess they think that a few idiots will be so hard up to see where Scarlet the Harlot is going to stick that banana that they will add their site to the white list and click "yes".
It now happens with Firefox too. One site I visited tried to force me to install an xpi extension complete with a "you must click yes" pop up box. Dismissing it still let me access the link however.
However, when this happens with IE, you have to terminate the browser process to get out of the "you must click yes" mousetrap.
What if the post office were to start a service where an advertiser could give them one copy of a piece of junk mail along with a list of recipients. The post office would then duplicate the mail, stuff them in envelopes and then send them out to the recipients postage due. Eventually you would need a wheel barrel to get your mail everyday.
That's how spam works and that's why people complain.