But what laws keep my web host from searching my home directory? The insertion of ads based on such a search is secondary, and less important. That's where all my email is, for a while anyway. Or does some standard contract cover this?
Here's the full quote: Bullshit. If it's on my hard drive, which is a physical platter that I purchased at retail, then it's a physical thing that exists in the real world and it's mine.
My editing was fair and did not substantially change the sense of the sentence, which doesn't mention legality, though it does use the word retail, applying it to the physical disk. Some are easlily confused.
If only it were sugar water. In actuality, it's high fructose corn syrup water, which is much, much worse.
[Anti ADM / farm-subsidies rant ommited for the sake of staying on topic]
Oh, I can't help myself. They're spending tax dollars to subsidize giant agracorps to grow too much corn that they have to turn into sweetners and corn-fed beef to rot your teeth and give you mad cow disease!
I was fascinated by the zombifying worms, spreading across the internet making unsuspecting hosts into proxy spam servers, but now I'm beginning to wonder if worm harvesters will have to be written and (by mutual agreement) released onto the net. I still get code red droping by all the time (it can have my default.ida, for all I care; I'm through with it), and new kiddies write them at such an increasing pace that one New York Times article about worms recently needed two slashdot articles by the time it was posted. Might they start (at some point in the future) to actually start to "clog" the internet? Hell, they already do; the network where I work was brought to a crawl more than once over the last year because of them (and the idiots who administer the network, but that's another rant). Anyway, when worms constitute more than 50% of the traffic more than 50% of the time, some regulatory body is going to propose spidering worm-eaters. It'll be like "core wars" all over again (everything comes full circle sooner or later).
I think you're getting at the crux of the biscuit here, but you are going to have to unpack what you mean by "valid yet wrong" (intensifiers removed for safety's sake).
Marxism constitutes a pretty accurate description of the mechanisms of Capitalism, but I sure as hell don't want to live in any socialist utopia! The theory is exactly what's left over after you remove the descriptive aspects. It is designed to explain what is described.
A theory's explanatory efficacy says precious little about its validity.
When your house has absorbed all the noxious gasses it can handle, simply declare the neighborhood low-rent and move to a new subdivision painted with a fresh coat of Ecopaint!
The elevator shaft will be useful as those wireless packets will need some way to get from one floor to another and packets are far too small to negotiate the 4" riser on a common apartment stair. They can easily shimmy up and down those cables, though.
Seriously, though, that's interesting, because I've got Sarge right here and Xandros is based on that, right? Hmmm. Is it an NForce2? What's the ethernet controller chipset?
To NVidia's credit, they seem to be somewhat serious about supporting Linux in a somewhat timely manner.
Unless we're talking about motherboard chipset drivers. I've gotten NForce's on-board sound working , but the I've given up on the ethernet until they release an official driver. Fortunately I have spare NIC's out the wazoo, but it drives me nuts to have non-working hardware in there!
For the altruistic, a tool for finding kidnapped kids. For the paranoid, one more way the man keeps us down. For the clueless, such as me, an invaluable tool: ring, ring Hello, is this the FBI? Yes.... Um,....where am I?
A) The only reason to do this is to get past Beysian filters. B) It's not worth doing if it doesn't work. C) For it to work, the recipients bust buy. D) Only geeks use Beysian filters.
JPL-Jeff: see that little drop-down called "threshhold" in the bar at the top of the postings? Select 4. People constantly complain about it, but I think moderation works amazingly well, considering the volume of rubbish that has to be filtered. The moderation system is arguably slashdot's one killer app.
...and they are way late in releasing compilable source (never mind a binary) for Mandrake 9.2 for their nForce2 chipsets. While they were busy worsening their video drivers, I had to go out and buy a new NIC to replace the onboard ethernet! Is this complaint worth tossing out my moderation rights on this topic? Oh, who gives a fuck. Someone else can modify the damn GNA posts.
Gallery is an amazingly easy to use photo-site management tool that even has a java drag-n-drop front end available (haven't actually used that yet, tho). My sister was uploading her own photos in one afternoon, and she calls IE "The Internet"
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But what laws keep my web host from searching my home directory? The insertion of ads based on such a search is secondary, and less important. That's where all my email is, for a while anyway. Or does some standard contract cover this?
Jesus I have to go read that thing!
Here's the full quote:
Bullshit. If it's on my hard drive, which is a physical platter that I purchased at retail, then it's a physical thing that exists in the real world and it's mine.
My editing was fair and did not substantially change the sense of the sentence, which doesn't mention legality, though it does use the word retail, applying it to the physical disk. Some are easlily confused.
Bullshit. If it's on my hard drive [...] it's mine.
So that stolen copy of photoshop magically becomes legit once you install it? Amazing!
Don't mind that. These two sentences are automatically prepended to every NYPress story before publication to augment "street-cred."
If only it were sugar water.
In actuality, it's high fructose corn syrup water, which is much, much worse.
[Anti ADM / farm-subsidies rant ommited for the sake of staying on topic]
Oh, I can't help myself. They're spending tax dollars to subsidize giant agracorps to grow too much corn that they have to turn into sweetners and corn-fed beef to rot your teeth and give you mad cow disease!
ahem.....
I was fascinated by the zombifying worms, spreading across the internet making unsuspecting hosts into proxy spam servers, but now I'm beginning to wonder if worm harvesters will have to be written and (by mutual agreement) released onto the net. I still get code red droping by all the time (it can have my default.ida, for all I care; I'm through with it), and new kiddies write them at such an increasing pace that one New York Times article about worms recently needed two slashdot articles by the time it was posted. Might they start (at some point in the future) to actually start to "clog" the internet? Hell, they already do; the network where I work was brought to a crawl more than once over the last year because of them (and the idiots who administer the network, but that's another rant). Anyway, when worms constitute more than 50% of the traffic more than 50% of the time, some regulatory body is going to propose spidering worm-eaters. It'll be like "core wars" all over again (everything comes full circle sooner or later).
I think you're getting at the crux of the biscuit here, but you are going to have to unpack what you mean by "valid yet wrong" (intensifiers removed for safety's sake).
Hmmm...
Marxism constitutes a pretty accurate description of the mechanisms of Capitalism, but I sure as hell don't want to live in any socialist utopia! The theory is exactly what's left over after you remove the descriptive aspects. It is designed to explain what is described.
A theory's explanatory efficacy says precious little about its validity.
When your house has absorbed all the noxious gasses it can handle, simply declare the neighborhood low-rent and move to a new subdivision painted with a fresh coat of Ecopaint!
"Geek and proud!" As proof, I offer not merely the fact that I prefer digital watches, but that I set them to 24-hour time.
Ha! I have mine programmed to a decimal division of the day which I devised for greater accuracy and elegance.
The elevator shaft will be useful as those wireless packets will need some way to get from one floor to another and packets are far too small to negotiate the 4" riser on a common apartment stair. They can easily shimmy up and down those cables, though.
But the NIC was $15, and Xandros is $89.
Seriously, though, that's interesting, because I've got Sarge right here and Xandros is based on that, right? Hmmm. Is it an NForce2? What's the ethernet controller chipset?
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Worried about browsing-bots harvesting your URL?
To NVidia's credit, they seem to be somewhat serious about supporting Linux in a somewhat timely manner.
Unless we're talking about motherboard chipset drivers. I've gotten NForce's on-board sound working , but the I've given up on the ethernet until they release an official driver. Fortunately I have spare NIC's out the wazoo, but it drives me nuts to have non-working hardware in there!
Wow. There were viruses, spyware apps, and unpatchable IE exploits on the desktop?
I guess that would make them easy to delete, anyway.
Or exploit, in the case of the exploits.
For the altruistic, a tool for finding kidnapped kids. For the paranoid, one more way the man keeps us down. For the clueless, such as me, an invaluable tool:
ring, ring
Hello, is this the FBI?
Yes....
Um,....where am I?
A) The only reason to do this is to get past Beysian filters.
B) It's not worth doing if it doesn't work.
C) For it to work, the recipients bust buy.
D) Only geeks use Beysian filters.
Ergo, geeks are buying from spammners
Q E D
JPL-Jeff: see that little drop-down called "threshhold" in the bar at the top of the postings? Select 4. People constantly complain about it, but I think moderation works amazingly well, considering the volume of rubbish that has to be filtered. The moderation system is arguably slashdot's one killer app.
Scary thing, DoomIII was written to be run on this stuff. Game today? Screw that. Engine tomorrow.
Slashdot user? yes? That's good. Then there's little chance of any body cavity being, as you put it, "bumped."
...and they are way late in releasing compilable source (never mind a binary) for Mandrake 9.2 for their nForce2 chipsets. While they were busy worsening their video drivers, I had to go out and buy a new NIC to replace the onboard ethernet! Is this complaint worth tossing out my moderation rights on this topic? Oh, who gives a fuck. Someone else can modify the damn GNA posts.
Gallery is an amazingly easy to use photo-site management tool that even has a java drag-n-drop front end available (haven't actually used that yet, tho). My sister was uploading her own photos in one afternoon, and she calls IE "The Internet"
You had to pick Citibank.
*punch* (in mouth!)
It's still not enough.
If I had points, I'd mod ou up.