Man, some of these lawsuits get handed down through the generations (computer time). I bet 3Com/Palm/palmOne is glad to see the end of this. In each year's company report, they had to keeping listing it in the Oh Yeah, We're Being Sued section.
You can get RoboCode which is decended from it and uses Java for robot programming. (Covered on Slashdot at least once.)
I'm not sure that the Unix robots was the first such game. Wasn't there an Apple II commercial game that sparked it all off? After that, there were variants everywhere. (There was even an HP3000 version that used a RPN Forth-like language.)
They tried having them eat mushrooms, but after a few, the results became unpredictable. Some started playing some nonsense tune about badgers, others just quietly exploded.
There was no Linux news group so all the discussions were on the Minix news group.
With various progress reports cross-posted into other newsgroups like comp.os.coherent to mixed reception as I recall.:) (Note that the Google archives seem pretty spotty for that period.)
Mmm, that's good enough for most purposes, but not quite right. Here's my IANAL understanding of it: Slander is transitory. Libel is in an enduring format. Until the last century or so, spoken vs print was good enough without audio/video recordings, broadcasts, network TV coverage, Usenet archives, IRC logs, etc to confuse the issue.
And besides Ken, you really work for the Tomás de Torquemada Institute who had connections to the Monastery of Santa Cruz! I bet you weren't expecting that!
He says that if people continue to block him, he'll start spamming again. My question: when did he ever stop?
The usual evidence of Rule #1 (spammers always lie): Scelson, who said he had to move his family and business after receiving threats last year, said he was trying to play by the rules.
Didn't he file for bankruptcy in March 2003 or so? He moved out because he couldn't pay the mortgage. Remember that the next time the Spam King du jour brags about his Huge Enormous Spam Palace.
A lot of those messages are actually from the virus. For the real ones, Symantec is aquiring some clue and making their auto-responder smarter. I don't know if they can make the admins who change the default-off setting any smarter.
It was on their method of mapping email addresses to domains for web pages. e.g. joesixpack.example.com and joesixpack@example.com. Trivial, obvious and loads of prior art, but at least they dressed it up a little bit.
I know that, you know that. But when Joe registers joesixpack.com, and the guy asked him "You'll want a web site, so do you want to register www.joesixpack.com as well?", does Joe know that?
Don't laugh. There are people dumb enough to buy domains on alternate DNS scams.
From their methods of attempting to obtain a confession, I'm surprise that they called it the Alexis de Tocqueville Institute. Obviously they really meant the Tomás de Torquemada Institute.
According to the story, they managed to get their papertape of BASIC to run on the second try after a couple of tweaks. Since they didn't have access to an 8080 processor until then, they must have either had an 8080 simulator for testing or used a fairly mechanical translation of a working BASIC from another processor.
You should come up to Canada for a visit. I'd like to see the expression on your face as, after drinking a lot of it, you fall asleep due to lack of caffeine. (And our air doesn't have any oxygen which also surprises a lot of visitors.;)
There are TLDs where that has happened for a while. Try anything in.pw for example..biz too, I think. But who cares about armpit domains like those anyway?
Did they really use L.L. Bean's trademark, or did they just detect "www.llbean.com"? If it was the domain name, can I be sued for trademark violation if I add www.llbean.com to a list of places to be dropped at the firewall? If I toss www.llbean.com into hosts, directing it to 127.0.0.1 and the Bozo the Clown page on my own server, can I be sued?
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I wonder if that car was inspired by the game that was inspired by the cars in James Bond movies .. recursion overflow!
Man, some of these lawsuits get handed down through the generations (computer time). I bet 3Com/Palm/palmOne is glad to see the end of this. In each year's company report, they had to keeping listing it in the Oh Yeah, We're Being Sued section.
I'm not sure that the Unix robots was the first such game. Wasn't there an Apple II commercial game that sparked it all off? After that, there were variants everywhere. (There was even an HP3000 version that used a RPN Forth-like language.)
They tried having them eat mushrooms, but after a few, the results became unpredictable. Some started playing some nonsense tune about badgers, others just quietly exploded.
Ah yes, paintings and statues and such, doh. I wonder how skywriting or writing statements in snow would be classified?
With various progress reports cross-posted into other newsgroups like comp.os.coherent to mixed reception as I recall. :) (Note that the Google archives seem pretty spotty for that period.)
And besides Ken, you really work for the Tomás de Torquemada Institute who had connections to the Monastery of Santa Cruz! I bet you weren't expecting that!
The first browser was Telnet. You just had to use your imagination back in those days...
You might have to wait a little while for a HTML to RIPTerm conversion program.
Ron Scelson claims he spams from an underground nuclear-fallout shelter. Hmm... Pitchforks, check. Torches, check. Cement truck, check. Good to go!
The usual evidence of Rule #1 (spammers always lie):
Scelson, who said he had to move his family and business after receiving threats last year, said he was trying to play by the rules.
Didn't he file for bankruptcy in March 2003 or so? He moved out because he couldn't pay the mortgage. Remember that the next time the Spam King du jour brags about his Huge Enormous Spam Palace.
A lot of those messages are actually from the virus. For the real ones, Symantec is aquiring some clue and making their auto-responder smarter. I don't know if they can make the admins who change the default-off setting any smarter.
It was on their method of mapping email addresses to domains for web pages. e.g. joesixpack.example.com and joesixpack@example.com. Trivial, obvious and loads of prior art, but at least they dressed it up a little bit.
Don't laugh. There are people dumb enough to buy domains on alternate DNS scams.
I wonder if some registrar is making a killing "registering" sub-domains?
No problem. "Anything". Enjoy the weekend and glad to be of help.
It's okay--just before they pass out, they see snow. And in most of Canada in July, that's about the only way they'll see it.
Dartmouth BASIC was compiled. And your "blip" was just one peak of a cycle that has repeated several times.
From their methods of attempting to obtain a confession, I'm surprise that they called it the Alexis de Tocqueville Institute. Obviously they really meant the Tomás de Torquemada Institute.
According to the story, they managed to get their papertape of BASIC to run on the second try after a couple of tweaks. Since they didn't have access to an 8080 processor until then, they must have either had an 8080 simulator for testing or used a fairly mechanical translation of a working BASIC from another processor.
You should come up to Canada for a visit. I'd like to see the expression on your face as, after drinking a lot of it, you fall asleep due to lack of caffeine. (And our air doesn't have any oxygen which also surprises a lot of visitors. ;)
And experise at playing twitch games probably doesn't encourage a careful sensitive approach.
There are TLDs where that has happened for a while. Try anything in .pw for example. .biz too, I think. But who cares about armpit domains like those anyway?
That so-called evidence is actually goatse. I request that remark be modded down.
Did they really use L.L. Bean's trademark, or did they just detect "www.llbean.com"? If it was the domain name, can I be sued for trademark violation if I add www.llbean.com to a list of places to be dropped at the firewall? If I toss www.llbean.com into hosts, directing it to 127.0.0.1 and the Bozo the Clown page on my own server, can I be sued?