Yes, but the same also applies to Telstra. If you're a business in Australia and you're doing business with a company in the US that uses AOL for email (and many do), you're going to bitch and moan that you can't contact a client of yours or contact a supplier of yours. The object of your bitching and moaning will be Telstra.
Email blacklists serve one real purpose: to pressure ISPs to drop spammers. They accomplish this by making enough collateral damage that the customers of said ISP make noise.
They repealed the must-carry laws a few years ago (because the laws also prohibited the broadcasters from demanding payment from cable companies). What happened in that flap was that a few places (LA and NY, IIRC) where TW had the main cable franchise and the ABC affiliate was actually owned by ABC saw TW pull those affiliates from the cable lineup because the affiliates were demanding too much per subscriber.
Of course, I couldn't give a shit about cable... I've had DirecTV for two years (and DSL for the past year)!
Civil law, so it's a much more lax rule... IIRC it's called "preponderance of probabilities". They can also effectively claim that you and your roommates were operating as a partnership and are thus jointly and severally liable.
You are ignorant, plain and simple. The USPS has not received one cent in tax dollars for at least 20 years. The only significant regulatory break they get is that post offices are exempt from state and local taxes.
The problem with KaZaa, Gnutella and the various decentralized (apart from any authentication) P2P services is that they were designed by people who have no business nor knowledge when it comes to actually designing a network protocol.
Bittorrent, being much more centralized (and hence less ideal for warezing...) is a much better design, from a raping the net perspective.
I expect that it will be the bandwidth and QoS issues of those services that drives ISPs to put in more draconian bandwidth caps (as many universities are already doing), not action by the *AA.
I can tell from your username that you are a fellow Rush fan, so I will use this example:
In one of Neil Peart's frequent letter-answering columns for a fanclub publication, he got a letter from a fan in Israel who asked why they hadn't stopped there in the past several tours. He answered by saying that, looking at the royalty statements, no one was buying their CDs there, indicating that there wasn't enough interest in the band to justify a tour stop (especially since, for a band like Rush, each concert is hugely expensive, especially when transport and labor are taken into account).
For each tour, they figure out the cost of putting on a show. Dividing the cost by what they figure they can get for tickets yields the number of people they need to have show up to make money on the tour. Thus the question of whether they hit a particular city is dependent on whether it seems they can sell that many tickets. If that required number is 10,000 per night, but the sales figures indicate that only 100 copies of the CD were sold in that area, then the band isn't going to do a show in that area.
I suspect that you're a fan of a type of music (presumably rock of some form) that isn't that popular in your area, especially relative to areas where that/those genre(s) are more popular. So it is likely a consequence of your neighbors' tastes in music.
Exactly. Most of the stuff in WWN is probably true, if for no other reason that you'd have to be really fscked up (even by the lax standards of tabloid journalism) to dream up that stuff.
The prominent stories, however, are blatantly false (obviously).
I've often wondered about how much fun it must be to work at the WWN...
We have conclusive proof that lower UIDs do not correspond with higher intelligence, as abcxyz has just shown that (s)he is stupider than a lobotomized squirrel.
FYI, European convention is to use decimal points where US convention uses a comma and a vice versa.
AOL is not initiating force. If these requests are initiation of force, then it is simply AOL asking the government to initiate force (that's what a subpoena is). Of course, the argument can be made that the spammers are initiating force against AOL by stealing their service.
According to the article, the Bush administration (presumably Attorney-General Ashcroft) supports Dastar, the company being sued by Fox. Probably means that the Justice Department has filed an amicus brief saying (in legalese), "Fox is out of their minds if they think this illegal".
IINM, they're doing what Earthlink does, which is subscribe to one of those RBLs. This one just lists dynamic IPs (submitted by the ISPs which own those blocks).
Also, when it becamme apparent that Rupert wanted DirecTV (at the height of the media bubble), there was talk of him buying General Motors outright and selling off the non-DTV assets, because it would be cheaper to buy all of GM than to just buy DirecTV.
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Yes, but the same also applies to Telstra. If you're a business in Australia and you're doing business with a company in the US that uses AOL for email (and many do), you're going to bitch and moan that you can't contact a client of yours or contact a supplier of yours. The object of your bitching and moaning will be Telstra.
Email blacklists serve one real purpose: to pressure ISPs to drop spammers. They accomplish this by making enough collateral damage that the customers of said ISP make noise.
RTFA. The main reason they're pushing for this is because their customers are telling them that the spam is decreasing the value of their offerings.
They repealed the must-carry laws a few years ago (because the laws also prohibited the broadcasters from demanding payment from cable companies). What happened in that flap was that a few places (LA and NY, IIRC) where TW had the main cable franchise and the ABC affiliate was actually owned by ABC saw TW pull those affiliates from the cable lineup because the affiliates were demanding too much per subscriber.
Of course, I couldn't give a shit about cable... I've had DirecTV for two years (and DSL for the past year)!
Civil law, so it's a much more lax rule... IIRC it's called "preponderance of probabilities". They can also effectively claim that you and your roommates were operating as a partnership and are thus jointly and severally liable.
So if I decide not to steal $1000 from you, Ive given you a thousand bucks?
You are ignorant, plain and simple. The USPS has not received one cent in tax dollars for at least 20 years. The only significant regulatory break they get is that post offices are exempt from state and local taxes.
The problem with KaZaa, Gnutella and the various decentralized (apart from any authentication) P2P services is that they were designed by people who have no business nor knowledge when it comes to actually designing a network protocol.
Bittorrent, being much more centralized (and hence less ideal for warezing...) is a much better design, from a raping the net perspective.
I expect that it will be the bandwidth and QoS issues of those services that drives ISPs to put in more draconian bandwidth caps (as many universities are already doing), not action by the *AA.
I can tell from your username that you are a fellow Rush fan, so I will use this example:
In one of Neil Peart's frequent letter-answering columns for a fanclub publication, he got a letter from a fan in Israel who asked why they hadn't stopped there in the past several tours. He answered by saying that, looking at the royalty statements, no one was buying their CDs there, indicating that there wasn't enough interest in the band to justify a tour stop (especially since, for a band like Rush, each concert is hugely expensive, especially when transport and labor are taken into account).
For each tour, they figure out the cost of putting on a show. Dividing the cost by what they figure they can get for tickets yields the number of people they need to have show up to make money on the tour. Thus the question of whether they hit a particular city is dependent on whether it seems they can sell that many tickets. If that required number is 10,000 per night, but the sales figures indicate that only 100 copies of the CD were sold in that area, then the band isn't going to do a show in that area.
I suspect that you're a fan of a type of music (presumably rock of some form) that isn't that popular in your area, especially relative to areas where that/those genre(s) are more popular. So it is likely a consequence of your neighbors' tastes in music.
With references to RFC 3514!
Exactly. Most of the stuff in WWN is probably true, if for no other reason that you'd have to be really fscked up (even by the lax standards of tabloid journalism) to dream up that stuff.
The prominent stories, however, are blatantly false (obviously).
I've often wondered about how much fun it must be to work at the WWN...
The problem with wind power is that the animal rights activists hate it because it will still kill a non-zero number of (possibly retarded) birds.
I still doubt that wind will ever approach the cheapness that is nuclear power...
We have conclusive proof that lower UIDs do not correspond with higher intelligence, as abcxyz has just shown that (s)he is stupider than a lobotomized squirrel.
FYI, European convention is to use decimal points where US convention uses a comma and a vice versa.
Retard.
You idiot. European convention is to use the comma where US convention dictates a decimal point and vice versa.
Retard.
...Choose ZIF!
AOL is not initiating force. If these requests are initiation of force, then it is simply AOL asking the government to initiate force (that's what a subpoena is). Of course, the argument can be made that the spammers are initiating force against AOL by stealing their service.
Not to mention Barracuda...
"Hey, that thing got a Hemi?"
I'm psychic like that...
Slash finally supports multiple topics for stories. This is a feature I've been longing for for a long time. Bravo, slashteam!
According to the article, the Bush administration (presumably Attorney-General Ashcroft) supports Dastar, the company being sued by Fox. Probably means that the Justice Department has filed an amicus brief saying (in legalese), "Fox is out of their minds if they think this illegal".
IINM, they're doing what Earthlink does, which is subscribe to one of those RBLs. This one just lists dynamic IPs (submitted by the ISPs which own those blocks).
Also, when it becamme apparent that Rupert wanted DirecTV (at the height of the media bubble), there was talk of him buying General Motors outright and selling off the non-DTV assets, because it would be cheaper to buy all of GM than to just buy DirecTV.
No, it's a poorly implemented unholy hybrid of UNIX, DOS, OS/2, and VMS that has processor-specific cruft buried deep under the skin.
The GPL doesn't necessarily require you to release modifications; it only requires such release if you distribute modified binaries.
And it's not even like one is on a subsite and the other's on the main page... they're both apple.slashdot.org stories...
Has anyone heard of that new RFC to add an evil bit to IPv4?
The problem with that is the "C" in "DMCA". That's right: "Copyright". The DMCA only applies if you hold the copyright on the (unencrypted) data.