It may not be all that new, but people trying to sell such things commercially have been few and far between. Yours and most of the "me too" posts have been homegrown efforts.
And how many times have/.'ers complained about somebody who had great credentials but didn't actually know anything.
The difference here is that the candidate was approached by the prospective company, rather than the other way around. How often does that resulting in an unqualified hire?
Of course, I said they were flawed, but perhaps not as deeply as you seem to think.
(a) If I was in the wrong house, the absebce of my friend or the presence of the stranger would clue me in that I was in the wrong place. (b) Didn't notice until I went to print something and found I was on network "MSHOME". Fixed problem by changing the SSID's for my friends, but if I hadn't tried to print, I would never have even noticed.
(a) and (b) don't appear to be significantly different. You (and your computer) didn't notice until an obvious discrepancy showed itself, at which point you've already gone far enough for the [obviously flawed] law to be actionable, depending on the jurisdiction.
Yes, APs with identical SSIDs and security configurations look like the same AP.
This adds another dimension to the situation, and another analogy, imperfect as all in this discussion are:
Imagine someone coming upon a house that has the exact same design, coloration, address, and open door as that person's friend's house, one block over. Is it deliberate trespassing if they unknowingly enter the identical-looking house when they had explicitly been granted access to their friends house?
Am I the only one who's found himself accidentally using his neighbors signal instead of his own?
Windows XP will detect the networks automatically, but it won't connect without an action by the user. Granted, once you've connected to a particular AP the first time, it assumes you want to connect to it later on.
Q: If you're broadcasting wifi access onto my property, why shouldn't I be free to use it? Especially if you haven't bothered to protect it in any way?
A: Because you're broadcasting your 802.11 signal back onto their, property and using their equipment.
So? The frequencies being used are unlicensed and free to use within power limits, so it's not an issue with the FCC.
If their AP is broadcasting its presence and happily accepting incoming connections, that looks like permission to use. How is the user supposed to know the difference?
When Cartoon Network wanted to show its kids more Big O, what did it do?
It wasn't kids that drove Cartoon Network to get the second season of Big O made. The fact that they aired it late night during their Adult Swim block should be an indication of the show's real fanbase.
Mods really need to learn the definition of "Insightful". "Interesting" possibly, definitely "Informative", but there's little insight in just quoting something.
Of the open source products SCO is distributing I'm pretty sure only MySQL is GPL'd.
Quoth the TFA, "Among the included open-source packages are Samba and MySQL, which are released under the GPL [...]"
If "the General Public License ('GPL') is unenforceable, void and/or voidable" is true, then it follows that SCO does not have license to use those products under the GPL. Either the GPL is not void and is in effect, or they don't have license to use those products.
MSIE UserAgent strings are already full of extra garbage.
Mozilla/4.0 [...]
Yeah, like continuing to pretend to be a competitor YEARS after trying to kludge their browser into detection scripts. You'd think they would have managed to get an identity of their own now.
If you take User-Agent strings at their word, Mozilla owns the browser world.
Agreed. This same kind of argument against anti-spam blacklists has been used for years, and have caused plenty of thousand-message flamewars, but never really produced any effective alternatives.
I also imagine Gentoo would be more like here's an axe, a saw, a hammer, and here is a sample floor plan. There are some good sized trees over there have fun.
I would have thought the Gentoo house would have been a house kit that builds itself when you unpack it.
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But the sexual content in question needs a game mod to enable it, no? How was the ESRB supposed to know about it?
Using <, >, and &, along with consistent use of the Preview button, you can quote what you need to get it to work.
Know thy tools.
It may not be all that new, but people trying to sell such things commercially have been few and far between. Yours and most of the "me too" posts have been homegrown efforts.
And how many times have /.'ers complained about somebody who had great credentials but didn't actually know anything.
The difference here is that the candidate was approached by the prospective company, rather than the other way around. How often does that resulting in an unqualified hire?
No guessing, actual instances please.
These house analogies don't work.
Of course, I said they were flawed, but perhaps not as deeply as you seem to think.
(a) If I was in the wrong house, the absebce of my friend or the presence of the stranger would clue me in that I was in the wrong place.
(b) Didn't notice until I went to print something and found I was on network "MSHOME". Fixed problem by changing the SSID's for my friends, but if I hadn't tried to print, I would never have even noticed.
(a) and (b) don't appear to be significantly different. You (and your computer) didn't notice until an obvious discrepancy showed itself, at which point you've already gone far enough for the [obviously flawed] law to be actionable, depending on the jurisdiction.
Yes, APs with identical SSIDs and security configurations look like the same AP.
This adds another dimension to the situation, and another analogy, imperfect as all in this discussion are:
Imagine someone coming upon a house that has the exact same design, coloration, address, and open door as that person's friend's house, one block over. Is it deliberate trespassing if they unknowingly enter the identical-looking house when they had explicitly been granted access to their friends house?
Am I the only one who's found himself accidentally using his neighbors signal instead of his own?
Windows XP will detect the networks automatically, but it won't connect without an action by the user. Granted, once you've connected to a particular AP the first time, it assumes you want to connect to it later on.
Q: If you're broadcasting wifi access onto my property, why shouldn't I be free to use it? Especially if you haven't bothered to protect it in any way?
A: Because you're broadcasting your 802.11 signal back onto their, property and using their equipment.
So? The frequencies being used are unlicensed and free to use within power limits, so it's not an issue with the FCC.
If their AP is broadcasting its presence and happily accepting incoming connections, that looks like permission to use. How is the user supposed to know the difference?
Be careful ... there may be a politician reading this stuff!!
Surely you mean that someone must be reading it to them.
I wonder if sending a bunch of porn spam to the wife, might get her to do some of the kinky stuff that gets sent in them?
Since I get tasked with trying to block it, I've seen the kind of spam my wife gets.
Nope, doesn't work.
When Cartoon Network wanted to show its kids more Big O, what did it do?
It wasn't kids that drove Cartoon Network to get the second season of Big O made. The fact that they aired it late night during their Adult Swim block should be an indication of the show's real fanbase.
Mods really need to learn the definition of "Insightful". "Interesting" possibly, definitely "Informative", but there's little insight in just quoting something.
No no no. The plural of "Lego engineer" is "Lego engineer".
"Lego Engineer, I choose you!"
"LEGO, LEGO!"
"Flying brick attack, now!"
Dammit, now I have to clean Coke off my desk and monitor.
s/at the core of the moon/buried in a crater on the moon's surface/
Of the open source products SCO is distributing I'm pretty sure only MySQL is GPL'd.
Quoth the TFA, "Among the included open-source packages are Samba and MySQL, which are released under the GPL [...]"
If "the General Public License ('GPL') is unenforceable, void and/or voidable" is true, then it follows that SCO does not have license to use those products under the GPL. Either the GPL is not void and is in effect, or they don't have license to use those products.
MSIE UserAgent strings are already full of extra garbage.
Mozilla/4.0 [...]
Yeah, like continuing to pretend to be a competitor YEARS after trying to kludge their browser into detection scripts. You'd think they would have managed to get an identity of their own now.
If you take User-Agent strings at their word, Mozilla owns the browser world.
mmmm, slashdot, news for what DIDNT happen.
In that case, in related news, I did not win the lottery. (Although I wouldn't mind being proven wrong.)
Contiki already runs on the C-64. It's not Linux, but it does VNC.
My girl is just impressed with my mounting skills. It's her favorite part.
"Mount and fsck me, baby!"
I can't even get TW cable in my area. But my neighbors and I use google every day.
So you're a regular customer, but you pay them nothing. You wouldn't [legally] do the same for Time Warner if you were one of their cable customers.
Agreed. This same kind of argument against anti-spam blacklists has been used for years, and have caused plenty of thousand-message flamewars, but never really produced any effective alternatives.
Otherwise, change the first line to "is this different".
Meanwhile, we wait for software that can read words from photos and turn them into links.
Software that can do that could conceivably be used as anti-CAPTCHA tools, and vice versa.
I also imagine Gentoo would be more like here's an axe, a saw, a hammer, and here is a sample floor plan. There are some good sized trees over there have fun.
I would have thought the Gentoo house would have been a house kit that builds itself when you unpack it.