You want checksumming? MIME provides a Content-MD5 (which is more reliable than CRC). yEnc could have just been registered as a new form of transfer-encoding (along with base64, quoted-printable, etc.) and happily merged into MIME.
Bad example. MADD works so well because it plays on fundamental concepts of American society it exhalts family values while condemning alcohol, something most Christians (and thus the majority of Americans) do in the first place. This issue is something most people havent heard about, less care about, and virtually no one would consider a fundamental part of society.
If Average Joe hears Senator Hollings wants to fight terrorism, or drugs, or create jobs for hard-working Americans, but he also hears Hollings wants to turn his computer (you know, Joes email-sending thingie) into the equivalent of a DVD player, Joes only going to listen to the first three things.
And, yes, I am cynical. If there were any hope to reverse this shit trend it wouldve happened when it was only the DMCA we were worrying about.
And free isnt ambiguous? Free means two things, free as in zero-cost (gratis) and free as in freedom (liber). And unfortunately most people^W consumers seem to have been trained to think of the former, too. Open may be ambiguous in that it doesnt sufficiently describe the concept of freedom, but free has two completely different meanings.
The more money he gets the more stupid peoples votes he can buy with political advertisements. Throw together some gobbledygook about fighting terrorists while creating jobs and thwarting evil Internet pornographers and hell get enough to votes to replace everyone here.
As much as I hate the mpaa and riaa does their rejection of the bill make them temporary allies?
Youre the kind of person who probably thought it was good when the U.S. Gov supported the Taleban ten years ago, and Saddam Hussein before that, right?
What if I own my own mailserver? You realize that logs are plain text, right? If you happen to know the mail traveled through various relaying servers, you could check those and confirm it almost made it, but thats about it.
What does your autoresponder do? Does it tell them that youve simply recieved a message, or does it tell them that it hasnt been received: and they need to resend in a particular way to make sure you receive it? This is a common spam-prevention tactic, bounce mail with something like Please resend with Jraxis in the subject for me to receive your mail.
If it does the former, then yes, in fact your autoresponder is providing exactly the kind of documentation necessary to say the mail reached you. In the second instance, common sense would indicate that you obviously did not receive the mail, but I would not be surprised if legally it was considered received the mail did reach you, even though it was tossed immediately.
My.procmailrc sits on the server my mail is sent to. I download (POP) my mail from there. Which means if I were to start aggressive filtering at that level, I would never download the mail as it would be devnulled before I ever downloaded it.
I do not filter much at the server level at the moment, right now only known spammers go in that file (specific hosts that are reluctant to deal with their spammers). But Ive been contemplating a system such as You must include $SPECIFIC_TEXT in the subject or your mail will be bounced or even ONLY known senders can send me mail here, or it will be silently deleted policies.
So a user posted some copyrighted material and the ISP refused to remove it at the request of the copyright holder, and youre ready to scream bloody murder over it. Am I still reading Slashdot? Last time I was here, everyone was getting their wads in a bunch over ISPs taking down users content at the request of copyright holders.
But why at conception? Are the cells that join together to create this life at that point not alive until then? Of course they are alive. So life begins earlier. But its not human life then, its only an egg or a sperm cell. The question, therefore, is when does it become a human life? I say it cannot be considered a human life until it is self-sustaining (Im not sure when this happens, but its usually at least 36 months after conception). Killing a small cluster of cells a couple days or a week or so after conception is no different than killing any other collection of cells (such as bacteria or a parasite, which we do every day).
And yes, I admit I use religion as a weapon against the people who argue based on religion, because most religions are so damned ridiculous. They may hold some moral values (thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, ) that I believe are good, but the rest of the dogma is so ridiculous and contradictory as to make the religion as a whole suspect. Ad hominem attacks dont belong in an argument based solely on logic, but theres a certain point after hearing the same, baseless arguments repeated (well, based only in something I already take as nonsense), that the only response is STFU.
Like I said, this is a difference of opinion that is really not resolvable. You offer an explanation based on Truth while saying anything else is arbitrary, yet you offer no evidence of why your Truth is not arbitrary itself. I offer my own statements of when I believe human life most likely begins, but you could probably consider that arbitrary also, if you reject the arguments I used to arrive at it. This goes nowhere.
What are they demonstrating about? They may not be oppressed in your opinion, or even in the opinion of everyone else, but they probably feel that they are oppressed. Or are they just going out and having a demonstration because theyre bored?
Anyway, that doesnt remove the fact that we have, very frequently, actual, meaningful protests in this country, by people who actually have actual grievances to protest about. Civil rights protests, anti-war protests, the anti-WTO demonstrations, labor strikes, just to name a few. If you can find a country that doesnt have most of these protests (but would allow them if they were to happen), I think you could easily say theyve found a country with a generally happier populace.
Gnu Privacy Guard is readily available in the USA... but downloaded from non-us.debian.org.
However ironic, that was irrelevant. The point the original poster was trying to make, I believe, is in Germany they have government-sanctioned encryption being distributed to the masses. In the U.S. we still have quirky export regulations, we have the government trying to pass various limiting laws (backdoors, key escrow, etc.), and we have no widely-available, widely-used encryption software, let alone coming from the government itself.
(By widely-available, widely-used I mean something available to and used by the masses; Im sure all us Linux users MD5 our passwords and use SSH, but we make up, what, 1% of the countrys population?)
Dont try to argue this with someone from the United States who has already taken an anti-abortion stance. Youll never convince them. Never. Weve had this debate raging, and these same arguments tossed about, since the Roe v. Wade court case back in the 1970s when abortion was made legal, and we still have a huge population that will not listen to you, no matter how realistic and obvious your claims are. All that matters to them is that when two cells come together suddenly you have a real, live, 100% human being, because they read it in some book somewhere and their god told them to.
I tend to just stay away from arguing shit like this (another topic you dont want to argue with us Americans is gun rights, youll get nowhere even faster), youll get nowhere and will probably all be modded down for flamebaiting anyway, like Im probably going to be for this comment.
Using number of demonstrations as a measure of a countrys standing makes sense, if youre only comparing countries where demonstrations are permitted. Clearly, if country A and country B both permit open demonstrations, and A only has one a month, and B has a hundred, A has a clearly less-aggrieved populace. So its completely acceptable to compare the U.S. and any other countries which allow demonstrations, and whoever comes out lowest, probably is the country with the least-upset people. If you mix in countries that outlaw public dissent, then youve just gone and messed everything up.:) Obviously theyll score lowest.
I think you could put countries in this order, from worst to best:
A country where no one is allowed to complain.
A country where everyone is allowed, and does so.
A country where everyone is allowed, but doesnt need to.
I think most of the germans (government officials included) understood that to prevent anything similar to the 3rd reich, they have to secure the peoples ability to communicate their ideas no matter if somebody likes them or not.
Youre right, the Germans do want to prevent a Third (Fourth?) Reich from happening again. But theyve tried to do this by, um, banning Nazi-related speech or expression (as has France and many other countries, remember the Yahoo case?). Therefore I doubt that they believe that they have to secure the peoples ability to communicate their ideas no matter if somebody likes them or not after all, encryption is only going to help spread Nazi literature, not hinder it. Maybe this will show them how rediculous censorship laws are; people can already freely get Nazi literature, laws or not, now theyll be able to do so and completely evade the government.
Wrong, they cache the images. Have you ever noticed that images will come up on the search results page but then break when you view the framed image? Thats because Google caches copies for the search results. (The image on the subsequent framed page breaks because maybe its 404ed, or the site checks referrers, or whatever.)
Slashdot Mirror
Pictures of the stuff.
Oops. :)
But I think open is ambiguous too, whether or not you said so.
Bad example. MADD works so well because it plays on fundamental concepts of American society it exhalts family values while condemning alcohol, something most Christians (and thus the majority of Americans) do in the first place. This issue is something most people havent heard about, less care about, and virtually no one would consider a fundamental part of society.
If Average Joe hears Senator Hollings wants to fight terrorism, or drugs, or create jobs for hard-working Americans, but he also hears Hollings wants to turn his computer (you know, Joes email-sending thingie) into the equivalent of a DVD player, Joes only going to listen to the first three things.
And, yes, I am cynical. If there were any hope to reverse this shit trend it wouldve happened when it was only the DMCA we were worrying about.
Long memories? Yeah, until the next (MPAA-produced) DVD comes out, then most Slashdotters will all be slavering over it like good little consumers.
And free isnt ambiguous? Free means two things, free as in zero-cost (gratis) and free as in freedom (liber). And unfortunately most people^W consumers seem to have been trained to think of the former, too. Open may be ambiguous in that it doesnt sufficiently describe the concept of freedom, but free has two completely different meanings.
The K is capitalized in kibi- (KiB) but not in kilo- (km, kg, kHz, ...).
The more money he gets the more stupid peoples votes he can buy with political advertisements. Throw together some gobbledygook about fighting terrorists while creating jobs and thwarting evil Internet pornographers and hell get enough to votes to replace everyone here.
Wait until the United States starts bullying your country into passing an analagous law. Think of all the copyright laws that are going on in Europe now to harmonize internal IP laws, or the trade sanctions the U.S. is imposing on the Ukraine for not passing laws protecting U.S. intellectual property interests. Do you live in a country that imports a lot of tech hardware into the U.S.? Youll be forced to produce hardware with all this crap in it if you want to keep selling it in the U.S.
No, next the SSSCA is quietly withdrawn from Congress when its revealed that Senator Hollings was just an animatronic robot planted by Disney Corp.
More or less, but obviously that page should mention Scientology (if that is the keyword you want it to appear under).
As much as I hate the mpaa and riaa does their rejection of the bill make them temporary allies?
Youre the kind of person who probably thought it was good when the U.S. Gov supported the Taleban ten years ago, and Saddam Hussein before that, right?
What if I own my own mailserver? You realize that logs are plain text, right? If you happen to know the mail traveled through various relaying servers, you could check those and confirm it almost made it, but thats about it.
What does your autoresponder do? Does it tell them that youve simply recieved a message, or does it tell them that it hasnt been received: and they need to resend in a particular way to make sure you receive it? This is a common spam-prevention tactic, bounce mail with something like Please resend with Jraxis in the subject for me to receive your mail.
If it does the former, then yes, in fact your autoresponder is providing exactly the kind of documentation necessary to say the mail reached you. In the second instance, common sense would indicate that you obviously did not receive the mail, but I would not be surprised if legally it was considered received the mail did reach you, even though it was tossed immediately.
My .procmailrc sits on the server my mail is sent to. I download (POP) my mail from there. Which means if I were to start aggressive filtering at that level, I would never download the mail as it would be devnulled before I ever downloaded it.
I do not filter much at the server level at the moment, right now only known spammers go in that file (specific hosts that are reluctant to deal with their spammers). But Ive been contemplating a system such as You must include $SPECIFIC_TEXT in the subject or your mail will be bounced or even ONLY known senders can send me mail here, or it will be silently deleted policies.
So a user posted some copyrighted material and the ISP refused to remove it at the request of the copyright holder, and youre ready to scream bloody murder over it. Am I still reading Slashdot? Last time I was here, everyone was getting their wads in a bunch over ISPs taking down users content at the request of copyright holders.
FUCKING HYPOCRITES.
But why at conception? Are the cells that join together to create this life at that point not alive until then? Of course they are alive. So life begins earlier. But its not human life then, its only an egg or a sperm cell. The question, therefore, is when does it become a human life? I say it cannot be considered a human life until it is self-sustaining (Im not sure when this happens, but its usually at least 36 months after conception). Killing a small cluster of cells a couple days or a week or so after conception is no different than killing any other collection of cells (such as bacteria or a parasite, which we do every day).
And yes, I admit I use religion as a weapon against the people who argue based on religion, because most religions are so damned ridiculous. They may hold some moral values (thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, ) that I believe are good, but the rest of the dogma is so ridiculous and contradictory as to make the religion as a whole suspect. Ad hominem attacks dont belong in an argument based solely on logic, but theres a certain point after hearing the same, baseless arguments repeated (well, based only in something I already take as nonsense), that the only response is STFU.
Like I said, this is a difference of opinion that is really not resolvable. You offer an explanation based on Truth while saying anything else is arbitrary, yet you offer no evidence of why your Truth is not arbitrary itself. I offer my own statements of when I believe human life most likely begins, but you could probably consider that arbitrary also, if you reject the arguments I used to arrive at it. This goes nowhere.
What are they demonstrating about? They may not be oppressed in your opinion, or even in the opinion of everyone else, but they probably feel that they are oppressed. Or are they just going out and having a demonstration because theyre bored?
Anyway, that doesnt remove the fact that we have, very frequently, actual, meaningful protests in this country, by people who actually have actual grievances to protest about. Civil rights protests, anti-war protests, the anti-WTO demonstrations, labor strikes, just to name a few. If you can find a country that doesnt have most of these protests (but would allow them if they were to happen), I think you could easily say theyve found a country with a generally happier populace.
Gnu Privacy Guard is readily available in the USA... but downloaded from non-us.debian.org.
However ironic, that was irrelevant. The point the original poster was trying to make, I believe, is in Germany they have government-sanctioned encryption being distributed to the masses. In the U.S. we still have quirky export regulations, we have the government trying to pass various limiting laws (backdoors, key escrow, etc.), and we have no widely-available, widely-used encryption software, let alone coming from the government itself.
(By widely-available, widely-used I mean something available to and used by the masses; Im sure all us Linux users MD5 our passwords and use SSH, but we make up, what, 1% of the countrys population?)
Legalized Abortion ...
Dont try to argue this with someone from the United States who has already taken an anti-abortion stance. Youll never convince them. Never. Weve had this debate raging, and these same arguments tossed about, since the Roe v. Wade court case back in the 1970s when abortion was made legal, and we still have a huge population that will not listen to you, no matter how realistic and obvious your claims are. All that matters to them is that when two cells come together suddenly you have a real, live, 100% human being, because they read it in some book somewhere and their god told them to.
I tend to just stay away from arguing shit like this (another topic you dont want to argue with us Americans is gun rights, youll get nowhere even faster), youll get nowhere and will probably all be modded down for flamebaiting anyway, like Im probably going to be for this comment.
I think you could put countries in this order, from worst to best:
I think most of the germans (government officials included) understood that to prevent anything similar to the 3rd reich, they have to secure the peoples ability to communicate their ideas no matter if somebody likes them or not.
Youre right, the Germans do want to prevent a Third (Fourth?) Reich from happening again. But theyve tried to do this by, um, banning Nazi-related speech or expression (as has France and many other countries, remember the Yahoo case?). Therefore I doubt that they believe that they have to secure the peoples ability to communicate their ideas no matter if somebody likes them or not after all, encryption is only going to help spread Nazi literature, not hinder it. Maybe this will show them how rediculous censorship laws are; people can already freely get Nazi literature, laws or not, now theyll be able to do so and completely evade the government.
Wrong, they cache the images. Have you ever noticed that images will come up on the search results page but then break when you view the framed image? Thats because Google caches copies for the search results. (The image on the subsequent framed page breaks because maybe its 404ed, or the site checks referrers, or whatever.)
An apropòs example.
Oh, how true. I make fun of Slashdot idiots and get modded... REDUNDANT!!
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Hmm, all alone...