In "Time Enough for Love" (by Heinlein), the protagonist has sex with both his mother (there is time travel) and with his X-duplicated, female clone. Lots of his stuff would be fine, but not really all of it.
Obviously Toyota is working hard to saddle themselves with the same contract structure that GM and Ford have been dealing with for the last 30 years, rather than looking at how that worked out and coming up with something a good bit saner.
I don't see any reasonable parallel to email from the early radio era (asynchronous, global, dirt cheap).
(and really, you stated your interpretation of facts, not just facts. I was somewhat aware that radio started small and rapidly became commercialized (I fail to see why it wouldn't); perhaps you were talking about something else?)
How does what I said illustrate your point? Maybe spell out what wondrous potential you think radio had and then we can have a real conversation, rather than you snidely implying that I am an idiot.
Maybe. Linux and Mac were much more viable competitors to XP than they were to 95 (Linux was not even near ready for end users in 1996, and outside of graphics, application support was better [read that as broader] on Windows than on mac).
People have receive only radios because they have little desire to transmit. Oddly enough, most people who want a transmitter can just go buy one (they may have to fiddle about a little to legally use it).
I doubt Myspace made any effort at verification of her identity, so I personally have trouble pretending that they thought the access was unauthorized up until the point it became a convenient interpretation for them. The TOS aren't something that they are intent on enforcing as well as possible, they are something that they are intent on using as industrial grade ass-cover.
I will go ahead and say it this way: That she can be prosecuted under this law (with the context being that she provided a free service a fake name) demonstrates that the law was poorly written. She didn't circumvent anything, or obtain information under false pretenses, etc.
Sure it makes sense. I'm not arguing that there is no way she should be prosecuted for the harassment, just that prosecuting her for using a pseudonym is bad (I'm not real sure I think it should be illegal to supply false information to a free service. There is no good reason for the state to bear the burden of making sure information is true in such an interaction).
By your logic, it would be okay to go after someone for driving a car, as long as they drove the car over a few living bodies (whereas the crime is not in driving the car, but in driving the car over the bodies).
If you prosecute one person for the use of a pseudonym, you really need to prosecute everybody for the use of a pseudonym.
(see, I'm comfortable with prosecuting all tax evasion, I'm not comfortable with prosecuting all use of a pseudonym)
I actually meant that customers would have abandoned XP when it first came out if they were concerned about security, as the defaults were really bad. That people didn't move quickly suggests that they are entrenched to an extent that they aren't worried about security (XPSP2 was certainly the best platform for most legacy Windows software, perhaps it still is).
Personally, I'm entrenched on Window; I don't care that much about $100 every three or four years when I replace my laptop, but I do consider platform agnosticism when I consider what software to use, as it makes a hypothetical move a good deal easier if the OS is the only thing being replaced.
Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista aren't particularly flaky. Some drivers are (but moving to a model where Microsoft approves drivers has been *extremely* controversial, see 64-bit versions of Windows).
Besides, I'm pretty sure that backwards compatibility is worth more to their customer base than out of the box security (or they would have moved away from (especially early) XP asap...).
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In "Time Enough for Love" (by Heinlein), the protagonist has sex with both his mother (there is time travel) and with his X-duplicated, female clone. Lots of his stuff would be fine, but not really all of it.
You have awakened a mummy.
Or methanol or ethanol or butanol.
Cellulose->butanol would probably actually effect gasoline prices if someone got it working at a reasonable cost.
Obviously Toyota is working hard to saddle themselves with the same contract structure that GM and Ford have been dealing with for the last 30 years, rather than looking at how that worked out and coming up with something a good bit saner.
You are drunk on fear.
Nobody cares about the semantic web.
Of course, that isn't entirely true, but it is a lot more true than the statement that we all want the semantic web.
http://brad.livejournal.com/2387105.html
Except that there have been hijackings:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_notable_aircraft_hijackings#2000.27s
None of them were real successful, but there ya go.
I don't see any reasonable parallel to email from the early radio era (asynchronous, global, dirt cheap).
(and really, you stated your interpretation of facts, not just facts. I was somewhat aware that radio started small and rapidly became commercialized (I fail to see why it wouldn't); perhaps you were talking about something else?)
In the jungle, the mighty jungle, blah blah blah blah blaaaah.
Just get on you knees for Mickey, you'll be singing free in no time.
How does what I said illustrate your point? Maybe spell out what wondrous potential you think radio had and then we can have a real conversation, rather than you snidely implying that I am an idiot.
Maybe. Linux and Mac were much more viable competitors to XP than they were to 95 (Linux was not even near ready for end users in 1996, and outside of graphics, application support was better [read that as broader] on Windows than on mac).
People have receive only radios because they have little desire to transmit. Oddly enough, most people who want a transmitter can just go buy one (they may have to fiddle about a little to legally use it).
I doubt Myspace made any effort at verification of her identity, so I personally have trouble pretending that they thought the access was unauthorized up until the point it became a convenient interpretation for them. The TOS aren't something that they are intent on enforcing as well as possible, they are something that they are intent on using as industrial grade ass-cover.
I will go ahead and say it this way: That she can be prosecuted under this law (with the context being that she provided a free service a fake name) demonstrates that the law was poorly written. She didn't circumvent anything, or obtain information under false pretenses, etc.
Sure it makes sense. I'm not arguing that there is no way she should be prosecuted for the harassment, just that prosecuting her for using a pseudonym is bad (I'm not real sure I think it should be illegal to supply false information to a free service. There is no good reason for the state to bear the burden of making sure information is true in such an interaction).
It's 150 miles southwest of Dallas. You can use a car.
By your logic, it would be okay to go after someone for driving a car, as long as they drove the car over a few living bodies (whereas the crime is not in driving the car, but in driving the car over the bodies).
If you prosecute one person for the use of a pseudonym, you really need to prosecute everybody for the use of a pseudonym.
(see, I'm comfortable with prosecuting all tax evasion, I'm not comfortable with prosecuting all use of a pseudonym)
I actually meant that customers would have abandoned XP when it first came out if they were concerned about security, as the defaults were really bad. That people didn't move quickly suggests that they are entrenched to an extent that they aren't worried about security (XPSP2 was certainly the best platform for most legacy Windows software, perhaps it still is).
Personally, I'm entrenched on Window; I don't care that much about $100 every three or four years when I replace my laptop, but I do consider platform agnosticism when I consider what software to use, as it makes a hypothetical move a good deal easier if the OS is the only thing being replaced.
Customers moved away from XP?
Or I am missing a joke or something?
Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista aren't particularly flaky. Some drivers are (but moving to a model where Microsoft approves drivers has been *extremely* controversial, see 64-bit versions of Windows).
Besides, I'm pretty sure that backwards compatibility is worth more to their customer base than out of the box security (or they would have moved away from (especially early) XP asap...).
Certainly the client could check multiple locations for updates, and there could be some mechanism for adding those locations.
What idiot modded this crap insightful?
Uncheck "Gremlins" on the advanced options tab.
Does your computer smack you upside the head when you call it a "lappy"?
I mean, are you trying to save on syllables over laptop or something?
Your skin literally seethes with bacteria. You are covered in the stuff.
Have they been a problem?