6. How does "unconditional copyright" create these problems?
Under our traditional system of conditional copyright, the overwhelming majority (as much as 90%) of published works were neither registered nor noticed, and thus passed immediately into the public domain, where they were freely usable by others without the need to ask permission.
Challenging the perpetual extension of copyright is one thing. Going back to the old "no copyright until you register" system is something else, and pretty radical. (Note that GPL stuff very definitely uses copyright as its base. Do you want to have to register every little release to have a valid GPL on it?)
Shows how much the Lisa sucked too. But the Mac still sucked until it got a larger screen and colour. Of course, Every OS Sucks! (needs QuickTime, which sucks too.)
First I've heard of "CHUI", and I've got the Babirusa/Celebes pig deer book and used Vermont Views. TurboVision from Borland had to be the ultimate of that lost art.
Tish! I wasn't talking about a refund. NS are notoriously vogon-like about people transfering their domain to anyone else. Heaven help you if it expires with them while you're trying to transfer it to the people you have paid.
100 years should allow a comfortable margin as well as remove the greed factor of trying to get you to pay for another year while you're waiting.
I'm sure they've encountered these obvious tricks before over the years. And since it was bound to come out during the trial, I bet they got as many details as possible from this guy and ran it past their technical people before they called the police.
It wasn't accidental. Every year or so someone says that only paranoids keep it turned off and that it's safe to go back into the water. I nod and wait for the body parts to wash up on the beach. Again.
As I said, click-through spam is old news from a few years ago. I'm sure anyone could find examples in news.admin.net-abuse.sightings if they search through GoogleGroups.. um.. or maybe not.:^P
That's why the article mentions spammers. The (old) trick works by sending out spam that generates a click-through when someone opens the email. (Or previews it in LookOut.) That way it comes from a whole bunch of IP addresses of people dumb enough to allow HTML script to run in their email.
I received spam that tried to generate fake click-throughs a couple years ago. I could dig out a copy of the LART I sent with the code used to the company that was being defrauded by the fakes. (I'm sure they were real impressed with the spammer.) Nothing new here.
Or is this like the "on the Internet" patents? "I have a spam scam that really works--on Google!"
Electronic Arts opens Montreal studio REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. (CP) - Electronic Arts Inc. has opened a Montreal studio with 40 video game developers and plans to hire 30 more by summer, the video game maker said Wednesday.
Now developers will have to compete with people who will live on poutine!
I notice that the CBC's Quirks and Quarks radio show supports Ogg. Figures that a science program would be clued-in on latest developments. Hopefully the rest of the CBC will catch up--they still only offer the Big Ugly Three (and sometimes only Real).
Or through shared documents and email software like Network Courier. That must be why Microsoft bought them and turned it into Microsoft Mail--to block that route for viruses to spread!:^)
That lame Stoned virus was spreading fine without the Internet, why did they think macro viruses would be different?
You think.zip is vicious? Next they'll be sending source code packages with instructions on how to compile the virus! Some destructive ones will just tell you to hit your computer with a hammer "because of abuse".
Can darwinism work on software bugs ?
Can it work on users? Anyone dumb enough to click on a.zip attachment, give it the password, then run the code inside deserves to be removed from the net, and perhaps the gene pool.
And that's why I've always had the Preview pain switched off. And switched on View as Plain Text as soon as it was available. And use CTRL-F3 to view the "source" of email from people I don't know. If you have to use MS products, you've got to be on your toes because they are out to get you!
They should never have out-sourced Tetris to Russia, what a mistake that was!:)
But seriously, out-sourcing is nothing new to the gaming industry. When it used to be possible for a small team to make a game, who cared where their physical location was? It's only with games that require a cast of thousands to develop that it matters.
No--it just didn't really fit properly with everything else. In much the same way, Dr. Who and the Daleks with Peter Cushing really isn't part of the canon. No fault of the actors, of course.
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Shows how much the Lisa sucked too. But the Mac still sucked until it got a larger screen and colour. Of course, Every OS Sucks! (needs QuickTime, which sucks too.)
Doesn't someone make a mouse with a vibrating pin finger-pad area? (As you move the mouse, the pins allow you to feel what's under the mouse pointer.)
Got a problem with that? :^P
First I've heard of "CHUI", and I've got the Babirusa/Celebes pig deer book and used Vermont Views. TurboVision from Borland had to be the ultimate of that lost art.
Ironic .. I wrote a program to copy the TOS 1.0 ROMs to floppy so I could burn my own set, and called the program suckrom.
100 years should allow a comfortable margin as well as remove the greed factor of trying to get you to pay for another year while you're waiting.
What they really mean is that if you get a domain registration with Network Solutions, it'll take 100 years of hassles to transfer it to anyone else.
Strange. Do they go after products with easy in the name like EasyOffice?
I'm sure they've encountered these obvious tricks before over the years. And since it was bound to come out during the trial, I bet they got as many details as possible from this guy and ran it past their technical people before they called the police.
Where's the sense in any eXtreme sport? Anyone could remain uninfected with a safe email client. With MS products, it's challenging!
It wasn't accidental. Every year or so someone says that only paranoids keep it turned off and that it's safe to go back into the water. I nod and wait for the body parts to wash up on the beach. Again.
And the extremely bad Laserdisc coin-op video game.
Yep, too late--some damned fool already posted about that trick to news.admin.net-abuse.email back in May of 2001. D'OH! :^)
As I said, click-through spam is old news from a few years ago. I'm sure anyone could find examples in news.admin.net-abuse.sightings if they search through GoogleGroups .. um .. or maybe not. :^P
That's why the article mentions spammers. The (old) trick works by sending out spam that generates a click-through when someone opens the email. (Or previews it in LookOut.) That way it comes from a whole bunch of IP addresses of people dumb enough to allow HTML script to run in their email.
Or is this like the "on the Internet" patents? "I have a spam scam that really works--on Google!"
Now developers will have to compete with people who will live on poutine!
From the movie Penguin Run: "They're organized, I know it. Linus, he's their leader, I reckon,"
I notice that the CBC's Quirks and Quarks radio show supports Ogg. Figures that a science program would be clued-in on latest developments. Hopefully the rest of the CBC will catch up--they still only offer the Big Ugly Three (and sometimes only Real).
That lame Stoned virus was spreading fine without the Internet, why did they think macro viruses would be different?
Can darwinism work on software bugs ?
Can it work on users? Anyone dumb enough to click on a .zip attachment, give it the password, then run the code inside deserves to be removed from the net, and perhaps the gene pool.
And that's why I've always had the Preview pain switched off. And switched on View as Plain Text as soon as it was available. And use CTRL-F3 to view the "source" of email from people I don't know. If you have to use MS products, you've got to be on your toes because they are out to get you!
But seriously, out-sourcing is nothing new to the gaming industry. When it used to be possible for a small team to make a game, who cared where their physical location was? It's only with games that require a cast of thousands to develop that it matters.
No--it just didn't really fit properly with everything else. In much the same way, Dr. Who and the Daleks with Peter Cushing really isn't part of the canon. No fault of the actors, of course.