I completely fail to see how on earth it could possibly be legal to not only set up the domain to receive mail for all (nonexisting) addresses (knowing you are going to receive far more than just *your* email) but also to publish said email on a website.
Ignoring the ethics of posting the emails to their website, how could domains possibly be transferred between owners without this issue cropping up? I mean, would you have them spam the world, announcing the domain transfer and asking people not to send sensitive information that they don't want read by someone else? By the time an autoresponder responds, the email has already been received, and a domain holder has no indication whether the inbound email was intended for them or the previous holders of the domain.
You have to remember two general differences between machines and organics: organics like to reproduce and organics benefit from an imperfect replication system. When you have a lifeform that can create millions of copies of itself within hours, even a 0.001% error rate makes for dozens of imperfect but potentially viable copies.
True, it is likely that they would evolve to do things their creators' didn't expect.
However, they would also be built using the same biological framework as all the life on this planet. The possibilities for negative reactions to existing biologic matter on this planet is staggering.
Perhaps we should stick to totally separate engineered constructs rather than DNA-based ones.
That, and Microsoft should be absolutely banned from tinkering in this area.
and if you read enough Frijtof Capra, youll find out about the zen-tastic yin and yang of the particle known as the "waxon", and its complement - the anti-waxon.
But when law enforcement wants data about someone who we can see has sent hundreds of threatening emails to another user, who has posted in our message boards about how they're going to kill their ex- , or who we've had to ban from chat or message boards for repeated abuse... sure, we'll hand it over, no court order needed. And our privacy policy says so.
I think you meant, "when who someone claims to be law enforcement [...] claims that someone has [done bad things]".
This is why court orders should be necessary. It neatly proves that the requestor is who they say they are, that someone in authority believes they have a right to that information, and is entirely verifiable.
In case you didn't realize it, the Finder is supposed to be the computer, in a user-centric model. So the physical device the Finder emulates... is your computer:)
So why not indicate that through a more appropriate name than "Finder".
Now that would be a deliciuos irony, wouldn't it. America and the West taking away the freedom of all computer users, and the Chinese coming to the rescue and restoring our freedom.
Well, I was going to make a joke using Chinese characters, but the Post Comment interface apparently won't allow Unicode characters to be pasted in and the post display code seems to strip out the characters when inserted as HTML entities.
Pirates have brought linux to Malaysia! Pirates aren't that bad after all;)
Pirates have also brought all sorts of Microsoft products to Malaysia. All Microsoft has to do now is to somehow convert their market penetration there into paying customers and they're set...
The thing is, is it truly blackmail that's being described here? Blackmail implicitly involves secrecy between the two parties, because it is the threat of breaking that secrecy which constitutes blackmail.
Call me naive, but isn't the fact that physical fuel disappears once it is used make it attractive for planes, because it decreases the weight as fuel is used? Why did anyone think that putting big fat heavy batteries (albiet hydrogen-based) would be a good idea for planes?
Because conventional fuels aren't renewable in-flight.
How is a vehicle that renews its own fuel by solar power, enabling 24x7 flight without refueling, not better than a plane that has to be land or be refueled every so often?
That's a very reckless and naive belief. When you move into a house, do you trash it and ruin it and then simply flee to the next available house? Our maturity as a species depends on our ability to gain wisdom through maintaining our own home and then work on expanding to new homes, not burning our current home to the ground and spreading on to the next suitable habitat for us to exploit and ruin.
The real answer is somewhere in the middle. You don't settle down in one house and assume you will never leave it. If you can't escape your home when it burns or floods over the roof, you will die.
Greg Bear also explored this kind of idea as background tech in Eon and Eternity. Consciousness could be hosted on machines, and individuals, within certain sets of rules, could become incarnate with bodies of their chosing. Very nice exploration of man/machine interfaces and the like.
I'm certain there are other authors who have explored these ideas over the years, as well.
...is that they don't tie up port 8080, which you may need while doing web development locally. This isn't a huge problem (the defaults can be changed), but I wind up having to shut down Popfile when playing with Zope, for example.
ISTR you could configure Popfile to use whatever port you want. There's nothing magical about port 8080.
I know this is mod as funny but, this scenario would be highly doubtful as they would most likely have wanted some level of support to go along with the software.
I hear RedHat might have some kind of support or something...
Keep in mind that there are two generally accepted sources of law, those generated by behavior that is inherently criminal, and those generated for other societal reasons (check here for the definitions of mala in se and mala prohibita) and that we're talking about the second kind when we are talking about copyright law. Clearly, a large chunk (I don't know if it's a majority or not) of society doesn't agree with the law on the books. So, by that reasoning, maybe it should not be a law, Congress just hasn't caught up with society yet.
Congress isn't listening to "society" or even their constituency, they're listening to lobbyists with money. Until people in general begin to actually hold their elected representation to the will of their constituency, this and similar problems will continue.
For a while as an undergrad I pursued a Physics major, but lost interest as it seemed that pursuits like this are basically the modern-day version of cavemen smashing rocks together and ogling over the results.
Could many cavemen determine the underlying makeup of the smashed rocks by observing the size and trajectory of the collision products?
Perhaps some recent parts of windows are written in C#, but do you really think they ported N-million lines of C, C++, (and a handful of Prolog I believe) to C# ?
Prolog? Why in Hades would Microsoft implement part of Windows in Prolog?
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I completely fail to see how on earth it could possibly be legal to not only set up the domain to receive mail for all (nonexisting) addresses (knowing you are going to receive far more than just *your* email) but also to publish said email on a website.
Ignoring the ethics of posting the emails to their website, how could domains possibly be transferred between owners without this issue cropping up? I mean, would you have them spam the world, announcing the domain transfer and asking people not to send sensitive information that they don't want read by someone else? By the time an autoresponder responds, the email has already been received, and a domain holder has no indication whether the inbound email was intended for them or the previous holders of the domain.
You have to remember two general differences between machines and organics: organics like to reproduce and organics benefit from an imperfect replication system. When you have a lifeform that can create millions of copies of itself within hours, even a 0.001% error rate makes for dozens of imperfect but potentially viable copies.
True, it is likely that they would evolve to do things their creators' didn't expect.
However, they would also be built using the same biological framework as all the life on this planet. The possibilities for negative reactions to existing biologic matter on this planet is staggering.
Perhaps we should stick to totally separate engineered constructs rather than DNA-based ones.
That, and Microsoft should be absolutely banned from tinkering in this area.
I was promised a flying car! Will nanotubes deliver?
Maybe they could be used to improve the Moller Skycar in some way.
Smart skins would have been nice this morning when some jerk backed into my car and didn't bother to leave a note...
Too bad reactive armor isn't legal(?) on cars.
and if you read enough Frijtof Capra, youll find out about the zen-tastic yin and yang of the particle known as the "waxon", and its complement - the anti-waxon.
...also colloquially known as a "waxoff".
So are they going to go after Monty Python as well? :)
Why? That skit was talking about the same meat product, it wasn't trying to market something using the name.
Millionaires represent humanity?
To the extent that the world revolves around them...
But when law enforcement wants data about someone who we can see has sent hundreds of threatening emails to another user, who has posted in our message boards about how they're going to kill their ex- , or who we've had to ban from chat or message boards for repeated abuse... sure, we'll hand it over, no court order needed. And our privacy policy says so.
I think you meant, "when who someone claims to be law enforcement [...] claims that someone has [done bad things]".
This is why court orders should be necessary. It neatly proves that the requestor is who they say they are, that someone in authority believes they have a right to that information, and is entirely verifiable.
In case you didn't realize it, the Finder is supposed to be the computer, in a user-centric model. So the physical device the Finder emulates... is your computer :)
So why not indicate that through a more appropriate name than "Finder".
How about, say, "My Computer"...
(ducks and runs)
Now that would be a deliciuos irony, wouldn't it. America and the West taking away the freedom of all computer users, and the Chinese coming to the rescue and restoring our freedom.
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Well, I was going to make a joke using Chinese characters, but the Post Comment interface apparently won't allow Unicode characters to be pasted in and the post display code seems to strip out the characters when inserted as HTML entities.
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Put this in an HTML document, view the characters, translate them at Babelfish to see what I was trying to do.
Sheesh.
Pirates have brought linux to Malaysia! Pirates aren't that bad after all ;)
Pirates have also brought all sorts of Microsoft products to Malaysia. All Microsoft has to do now is to somehow convert their market penetration there into paying customers and they're set...
Well, yes. Blackmail is illegal.
On that note, here's an interesting paper on the subject of blackmail and its illegality:
The Crime of Blackmail: A Libertarian Critique
The thing is, is it truly blackmail that's being described here? Blackmail implicitly involves secrecy between the two parties, because it is the threat of breaking that secrecy which constitutes blackmail.
Call me naive, but isn't the fact that physical fuel disappears once it is used make it attractive for planes, because it decreases the weight as fuel is used? Why did anyone think that putting big fat heavy batteries (albiet hydrogen-based) would be a good idea for planes?
Because conventional fuels aren't renewable in-flight.
How is a vehicle that renews its own fuel by solar power, enabling 24x7 flight without refueling, not better than a plane that has to be land or be refueled every so often?
That's a very reckless and naive belief. When you move into a house, do you trash it and ruin it and then simply flee to the next available house? Our maturity as a species depends on our ability to gain wisdom through maintaining our own home and then work on expanding to new homes, not burning our current home to the ground and spreading on to the next suitable habitat for us to exploit and ruin.
The real answer is somewhere in the middle. You don't settle down in one house and assume you will never leave it. If you can't escape your home when it burns or floods over the roof, you will die.
By taking advantage of friction with the air, the Orbiter can slow down, and not be travelling at Mach 20 or so when it lands
Is it friction or ram pressure?
Greg Bear also explored this kind of idea as background tech in Eon and Eternity. Consciousness could be hosted on machines, and individuals, within certain sets of rules, could become incarnate with bodies of their chosing. Very nice exploration of man/machine interfaces and the like.
I'm certain there are other authors who have explored these ideas over the years, as well.
...is that they don't tie up port 8080, which you may need while doing web development locally. This isn't a huge problem (the defaults can be changed), but I wind up having to shut down Popfile when playing with Zope, for example.
ISTR you could configure Popfile to use whatever port you want. There's nothing magical about port 8080.
I know this is mod as funny but, this scenario would be highly doubtful as they would most likely have wanted some level of support to go along with the software.
I hear RedHat might have some kind of support or something...
1) Write an article how SCO is evil.
2) get it posted on slashdot.
3) get slashdotted, ad banners get zillions of hits
4) PROFIT!!!
Keep in mind that there are two generally accepted sources of law, those generated by behavior that is inherently criminal, and those generated for other societal reasons (check here for the definitions of mala in se and mala prohibita) and that we're talking about the second kind when we are talking about copyright law. Clearly, a large chunk (I don't know if it's a majority or not) of society doesn't agree with the law on the books. So, by that reasoning, maybe it should not be a law, Congress just hasn't caught up with society yet.
Congress isn't listening to "society" or even their constituency, they're listening to lobbyists with money. Until people in general begin to actually hold their elected representation to the will of their constituency, this and similar problems will continue.
Only if you're Dan Quayle.
Um, because this has nothing to do with Linux or Unix?
For a while as an undergrad I pursued a Physics major, but lost interest as it seemed that pursuits like this are basically the modern-day version of cavemen smashing rocks together and ogling over the results.
Could many cavemen determine the underlying makeup of the smashed rocks by observing the size and trajectory of the collision products?
20/4 != 4
Do you normally eat the rind?
Perhaps some recent parts of windows are written in C#, but do you really think they ported N-million lines of C, C++, (and a handful of Prolog I believe) to C# ?
Prolog? Why in Hades would Microsoft implement part of Windows in Prolog?