Since CS is (or at least should be) learning how to apply known algorithms to problems and the development of new algorithms to solve problems, CS should be very similar to math, and computer scientists ought to seem fairly similar to mathematicians. Most early CS people, as I understand it, were math people with an interest in computers.
Well, he started writing in the 1960's, so it was pretty non-trivial to fire up your computer and peck away at a keyboard in some very primitive text editor with (if one were lucky) a tiny amber monochrome display. At the point he started writing his JOURNAL (sorry, i just fucking hate the word "blog"), pen and paper was the easiest, most reliable, and most expediant option (also remember that at that time, mathematicians and engineers were still using slide rules). By the time word processing became a more viable option, he was entrenched in the habit of keeping a paper journal. Furthermore, until the advent of the portable computer, if you wanted to write in your journal regardless of where you were, pen and paper was the only option. Personally, I'd like to see more people keep pen and paper journals; one can tell a lot about people from their handwriting.
Had this information got free the satallite providers could have lost a *lot* of money.
Did the information get free? Did the [sarcasm]poor corporations[/sarcasm] lose a lot of money? You don't put people to death if they don't actually kill someone. similarly, you ought not be fined for money that could have been lost, but wasn't.
food for thought: cable descramblers aren't that hard to come by, yet cable companies, cable networks, etc. seem to be doing just fine. I doubt that had this information gotten out that it would have spelled the end of DirecTV, or even cost them that much.
As far as abuse goes, the article states the law is satisfied with just linking to the reply, you could insist that the firm you criticized host it on their own servers, and link to their page.
alternately, if they won't host the file, and you are forced to host it (but that doesn't seem to be what the law says), you could convert it to some other format to make it easier (e.g., instead of hosting the 100 page pdf they give you, host 100 plain text files).
My girlfriend doesn't understand tech, but she would be just fine with one of these Lindows PC's. she writes papers and checks her e-mail on her computer, and that's pretty much it. She doesn't need to understand tech, nor should she have to. She doesn't understand how an internal combustion engine works, nor do most Americans, but she can drive a car just fine (in fact, she's a better driver than most people I know, myself included).
Your attitude is not simply just why Linux hasn't caught on, it's also why people at large hold geeks up to ridicule and scorn.
That's the parents's point, though. SCO are going to try to fool a judge into ruiling that GPL = public domain. We know it doesn't, but if it is ruled that legally it is PD, then SCO can take control of the code, since the GPL no longer has the power of copyright to back it up. Of course, anyone with half a brain will see the GPL as PD argument as BS, and will judge accordingly.
YellowTAB are a German group, completely separate from the original Be, Inc. Before Be went belly up, but after it had become obvious that they had put all their eggs in the Internet Appliance basket, yellowTAB approached them about licensing BeOS so they (YT) could distribute it. The nature of the contract between the two apparently made it still valid, even after Be, Inc.'s sale to Palm.
why should anyone that found a way to compromise security for a game be prosecuted in real life?! if that will happen, then WHO will take responsibility for all the holes in Windows?! well, not exactly. they're not going after the people for breaking into a game, but for breaking into a server. Nor are they going after the people responsible for the lousy security on their servers (as your windows comment might suggest), but rather the ones responsible for exploiting that lousy security. This is pretty much standard in the real world. I break into a system, I get caught, I get prosecuted.
The good thing about Atari in the day was one of the basic requirements: A new game had to look like nothing else that had come before it.
Yeah, just like Ms. Pac-Man... uh, nevermind.
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All the more reason to make spam (unsolicited commercial e-mails, especially fraudulent ones) illegal. Then you don't have to futz around with filters trying to avoid the false positives.
As far as free speech is concerned, yes you have a right to say what you like, but I have the right to not have to listen. If I am sitting in my house, minding my own business, you don't get to come in and start shouting in my face about enlarging my penis, all the hot hrony houswives you of whom you have pictures, or the great deals you can offer to me on herbal viagra. Similarly, I shouldn't have to deal with that crap in my mailbox. If you don't want to make spam illegal, thats fine. Just make it illegal to circumvent filters. Then, if someone spams you, it's either because A)you opened the door and invited them in, or B)you had the door locked and the broke in.
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I think that here, "right" is a very subjective word.
He's doing wrong very efficiently, perhaps it might be better to say.
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Then why didn't AOL flat out deny the accusation?
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I would rather trust a spammer than a lazy computer programmer to get a job done, that's for sure. It's not about being nice, it's about being a hard worker. Stupid isn't forever, but lazy is.
How, exactly, is writing a few scripts to send out a huge batch of e-mail every 12 hours or so, with minimal input from the user, hard work?
Sounds to me like the spammer is the lazy one, but, maybe I'm missing something. Please enlighten me.
One could say that the grocery store itself is object oriented. The different aisles are the different objects, like merchandise being arranged with other like merchandise and such. Of course, a grocery store metaphor doesn't really work in this situation. Going shopping is more like running queries on a database, to my mind.
I think the correct response is just tell him to delete it from the office computer and do his jerking off at home!
Except then he continues to be a consumer of child pornography, thus he continues to pay for it, and someone else (an even bigger sicko) continues to get paid to exploit children in disgusting ways.
How, exactly, is the parent off-topic. Redundant perhaps, but not off-topic.
Anyway, I'm glad to hear this. In the last 12 months or so, my e-mail has gone from at most 4 or 5 spam messages a day to at least 25 each day, without my changing my online habits (w/ regard to who gets my e-mail address) in any significant way.
So, the mozilla developers slapped the linux community in the face when they wrote the MPL.
Would you react this way if NASA had decided to release all of the code under a BSD-type license, creating essentially the same situation, but without quite as much benefit to NASA? Before you answer, please keep in mind that most gov't projects that release source code do so under a BSD-type license. Some would argue that such a license makes the most sense for gov't projects, since it is the most "free" (i.e., puts the least amount of restrictions upon others) license available.
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Since CS is (or at least should be) learning how to apply known algorithms to problems and the development of new algorithms to solve problems, CS should be very similar to math, and computer scientists ought to seem fairly similar to mathematicians. Most early CS people, as I understand it, were math people with an interest in computers.
Well, he started writing in the 1960's, so it was pretty non-trivial to fire up your computer and peck away at a keyboard in some very primitive text editor with (if one were lucky) a tiny amber monochrome display. At the point he started writing his JOURNAL (sorry, i just fucking hate the word "blog"), pen and paper was the easiest, most reliable, and most expediant option (also remember that at that time, mathematicians and engineers were still using slide rules). By the time word processing became a more viable option, he was entrenched in the habit of keeping a paper journal. Furthermore, until the advent of the portable computer, if you wanted to write in your journal regardless of where you were, pen and paper was the only option. Personally, I'd like to see more people keep pen and paper journals; one can tell a lot about people from their handwriting.
They're not basing this on any actual evidence because the evidence has not been made available to the public yet.
Probably b/c there is no actual evidence.
Actually, I think yours is the first post that makes that joke. So, allow me to be redundant: :P
New hubble images of Uranus
Had this information got free the satallite providers could have lost a *lot* of money.
Did the information get free? Did the [sarcasm]poor corporations[/sarcasm] lose a lot of money? You don't put people to death if they don't actually kill someone. similarly, you ought not be fined for money that could have been lost, but wasn't.
food for thought: cable descramblers aren't that hard to come by, yet cable companies, cable networks, etc. seem to be doing just fine. I doubt that had this information gotten out that it would have spelled the end of DirecTV, or even cost them that much.
[I don't see why] Microsoft would do anything with mp3 more than is necessary. They'd much rather have people using their WMA format.
exactly.
anything that makes MP3 less convenient for people in M$'s mind is a good thing. time to start pushing ogg to your friends and neighbors.
How, exactly, is their claim against IBM, et al. more substantial?
As far as abuse goes, the article states the law is satisfied with just linking to the reply, you could insist that the firm you criticized host it on their own servers, and link to their page.
alternately, if they won't host the file, and you are forced to host it (but that doesn't seem to be what the law says), you could convert it to some other format to make it easier (e.g., instead of hosting the 100 page pdf they give you, host 100 plain text files).
Who exactly is joe service pack?
My girlfriend doesn't understand tech, but she would be just fine with one of these Lindows PC's. she writes papers and checks her e-mail on her computer, and that's pretty much it. She doesn't need to understand tech, nor should she have to. She doesn't understand how an internal combustion engine works, nor do most Americans, but she can drive a car just fine (in fact, she's a better driver than most people I know, myself included).
Your attitude is not simply just why Linux hasn't caught on, it's also why people at large hold geeks up to ridicule and scorn.
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that's so gay!
*ducks*
Worst. Ask Slashdot. Ever.
That's the parents's point, though. SCO are going to try to fool a judge into ruiling that GPL = public domain. We know it doesn't, but if it is ruled that legally it is PD, then SCO can take control of the code, since the GPL no longer has the power of copyright to back it up. Of course, anyone with half a brain will see the GPL as PD argument as BS, and will judge accordingly.
YellowTAB are a German group, completely separate from the original Be, Inc. Before Be went belly up, but after it had become obvious that they had put all their eggs in the Internet Appliance basket, yellowTAB approached them about licensing BeOS so they (YT) could distribute it. The nature of the contract between the two apparently made it still valid, even after Be, Inc.'s sale to Palm.
By your logic, if I have a rusty lock on my door...hell, if my front door is ajar, and you break into my house, I should be prosecuted?
How exactly does that follow from my logic? The logic in my post states that if I were to break in somewhere, I would (and should) be prosecuted.
Just because there is a hole doesn't mean you have the responsibility to exploit it and break in.
Just where the fuck in my post did I say that?
Indeed, it's illegal to do so
That what I was saying.
But that does NOT give you carte blanche to break in, nor does it protect you from prosecution.
Uhh, yeah, I know. That's why I posted what I did.
Why exactly are you flaming me?
why should anyone that found a way to compromise security for a game be prosecuted in real life?!
if that will happen, then WHO will take responsibility for all the holes in Windows?!
well, not exactly. they're not going after the people for breaking into a game, but for breaking into a server. Nor are they going after the people responsible for the lousy security on their servers (as your windows comment might suggest), but rather the ones responsible for exploiting that lousy security. This is pretty much standard in the real world. I break into a system, I get caught, I get prosecuted.
The good thing about Atari in the day was one of the basic requirements: A new game had to look like nothing else that had come before it.
Yeah, just like Ms. Pac-Man...
uh, nevermind.
All the more reason to make spam (unsolicited commercial e-mails, especially fraudulent ones) illegal. Then you don't have to futz around with filters trying to avoid the false positives.
As far as free speech is concerned, yes you have a right to say what you like, but I have the right to not have to listen. If I am sitting in my house, minding my own business, you don't get to come in and start shouting in my face about enlarging my penis, all the hot hrony houswives you of whom you have pictures, or the great deals you can offer to me on herbal viagra. Similarly, I shouldn't have to deal with that crap in my mailbox. If you don't want to make spam illegal, thats fine. Just make it illegal to circumvent filters. Then, if someone spams you, it's either because A)you opened the door and invited them in, or B)you had the door locked and the broke in.
I think that here, "right" is a very subjective word.
He's doing wrong very efficiently, perhaps it might be better to say.
Then why didn't AOL flat out deny the accusation?
I would rather trust a spammer than a lazy computer programmer to get a job done, that's for sure. It's not about being nice, it's about being a hard worker. Stupid isn't forever, but lazy is.
How, exactly, is writing a few scripts to send out a huge batch of e-mail every 12 hours or so, with minimal input from the user, hard work?
Sounds to me like the spammer is the lazy one, but, maybe I'm missing something. Please enlighten me.
One could say that the grocery store itself is object oriented. The different aisles are the different objects, like merchandise being arranged with other like merchandise and such.
Of course, a grocery store metaphor doesn't really work in this situation. Going shopping is more like running queries on a database, to my mind.
*shrug*
I think the correct response is just tell him to delete it from the office computer and do his jerking off at home!
Except then he continues to be a consumer of child pornography, thus he continues to pay for it, and someone else (an even bigger sicko) continues to get paid to exploit children in disgusting ways.
In an issues that has gained increasing notority
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George W. Bush has started submitting articles to
That's an interesting strategery for the upcoming presidential race.
How, exactly, is the parent off-topic. Redundant perhaps, but not off-topic.
Anyway, I'm glad to hear this. In the last 12 months or so, my e-mail has gone from at most 4 or 5 spam messages a day to at least 25 each day, without my changing my online habits (w/ regard to who gets my e-mail address) in any significant way.
So, the mozilla developers slapped the linux community in the face when they wrote the MPL.
Would you react this way if NASA had decided to release all of the code under a BSD-type license, creating essentially the same situation, but without quite as much benefit to NASA? Before you answer, please keep in mind that most gov't projects that release source code do so under a BSD-type license. Some would argue that such a license makes the most sense for gov't projects, since it is the most "free" (i.e., puts the least amount of restrictions upon others) license available.