The same day that they found out that people would still buy their stuff no matter how badly you talked about them.
The problem is all about volume, when you are treated like shit you go on and tell all of your friends. Lets be optimistic here and say that you got your word to 100 people, now how many people have saw the commercial ads for this particular game? In how many magazines this particular game was reviewed? Your 100 friends, that might not even have heard you in the firt place, are like a fly.
The worst part is that most people will be able to convince at most a couple of closed friends not to buy something. And if the good in question has few (that probably are as bad as this one, see mobile carriers) or no competition at all this may be even harder.
Actually, it's not copyright which has created the situation you witness, but cartels of companies ripping off artists by demanding 90% of their profits.
Sure, but copyright laws is their tools of choice to explore and suck the most from the artists. Actually, I have thought on that and I do believe that some copyrights are necessary, but in my opinion, or may I say in my utopia (witch probably will never see the light) copyright should never, ever be transferable and exclusivity contracts should have at least a maximum number of year. Well, let's not forget that the copyright protection should last much less and it should have a much weaker protections, allowing people to create derivate work (fanfic for instance).
You ask why people can't create Harry Potter fanfic and rise to greateness? If they're such great authors, why can't they create their own characters? Copyright would then work for them, too.
I don't know, maybe we should ask that the Grimm brothers or La Fountain, or even Disney. They all got old tales, that every one knows and adapted. Many good authors have created great work based on other people's characters for instance see the great master of comics Will Eisner's "fagin the jew". Much of what we create is based on adapting and copying. A good example of this is when people say that some movie director have made a citation on another movie, were this author less known the same citation would probably be accounted as a copycat.
All of this and you're not even saw my other point where I stated that fanfic can be a good starting place, or tool for learning. By writing a fanfic and sharing with his friends a kid maybe starting to discover his abilities and training them, even from early ages. It is a good exercise and as he grows he may become great and even create his own characters.
As another point for future thoughts, may I ask how many time does Superman has to be recreated? How many times does 'gandalf' and other super mysterious and full of wisdom mages have to be rehashed? Does using a template, that people already know have value in it self? And if not why does people still watches movies and read comics about Spiderman and Batman?
No, copyright has an important place in the world. It's simply grown far too large.
There is nothing "hypocritical" with the point of view of the many people who disagree with copyrights. The main problem is that copyright is not to reward the authors, but to maintain an industry that has not adapted to the new era of the Internet. It is about Disney and others to be able to keep milking mickey and other "high valued" culture and at the same time keeping the reels of film that have the record of many of what our father saw when they were children rot, for they do not have immediate "market value".
Everyone believes that authors should get rewarded, but copyright does not help and indeed each day that passed it is making the lives of authors harder and harder. Why? Because there is a thought police, soon you will not be able to cite any trademarks or known character in a book without paying for it and at the same time that the policy on "fair use" gets harder and harder to defend, the expiring dates on copyright keep getting near the end of all known universe.
Sure some "big names", Stephen King, JK Rowling and Sidney Sheldon, for instance, get rewarded for their work, they get payed, and well payed even if they do not work. But I believe that this is all wrong, this does not give any incentive to JK Rowling to create a new Harry Potter, it is the reversed, while her old books are selling she could stop or hurry a poor one that is certainly going to sell. On the other hand, somewhere in the world there is, and I am certain of that, a new Shakespeare that is dying of hunger, and I am not talking about this author that you all know.
Copyrights are not healthy for the culture, for thousands of years people would create using as their base old tales and adding to stories that people are interested to hear. But nowadays the law protect a few while giving a burden to other thousands, why do you think I cannot create a fan-fiction Harry Potter book? It is only to protect miss JK Hollings, sure 99,99% of the fan fiction will suck big time, but what if there one or maybe two great book that would be created this way? And why does this should not be stimulated? The teen that starts writing poor fanfics in a backyard zine or to his blog can grow to became a great author. I bet that the first thing that all those best sellers written sucked hard, well many here would agree that many of the best selling do suck now, but this not the point.
So no, we are not being hypocritical when we say that copyright sucks and information want to be free, but this does not mean that authors should dye of hunger, alone and confined in their homes. If there is one thing that is allowing this to happen is this copyright way of thinking that rewards a few, should I say 10 at most, and keeps all of the rest hungry and this is the same in all areas, music, fine arts and even sports and while a few people get millions and millions of dollars many people, some even with talent, will not be able to get enough to get on with their lives from their work.
There is only so much you can do for your clueless users. If the user is willing to type a password to see "dancing pigs" then you might as well ask for his bank acount and password.:-)
The difference is of course that if you're stationg that you are paypl or a bnk or any other site that site that handles money and credit-cards people should be more careful with the warnings. I am not saying that they would be, but surely they should be. If you walk in the steet fanning your self with several 100$ bills don't you think sooner or latter someone will mug you? I believe that people can learn.
The "dancing pig" is another thing. Browser should block every kind of executable of being run directly from it. If you see a link "get here the dancing pigs" that is connected with a.exe,.pif,.scr or any other extension that MS think that it should be runned the browser should make it as hard as possible to be able to run it.
Sure they might get a hint. The hint that someone in thier organization done something that they shouldn't have. But what they won't get a hint on is that Joe Jihadist the 3rd is actualy a CIA informant working to gather information to destroy thier little terroist conection. But what i asked was if the they think we should be exposing these informants to trial lawers and exposing thier cover. So far the answer seems to be we shouldn't be using that information or they will figure it out on thier own eventualy. So with that in mind, I'm going to ask you- Do you think people basicaly giving thier lives because they will be found out sooner or later deserve the respect of the governments trying or attempting to try and conceal thier identity as long as possible?
They should simply not arrest anyone before they have colected enouth evidence and dryed the information pool that "Joe Jihadist the 3rd, actualy a CIA informant" could get, and then they should go on and arrest everyone involved and bust the hole terrorist cell. And then get every one on a fair trial, showing the evidence collected during the investigation if this cell that is already busted. Goverment have to be clear, if not you're already in a dictadure, you may have not noticed because you have your "MacDonalds and hollywood".
And every one said that about the clinton administration and almost every presidential administration that i can remember before that. This isn't anything that will stop because someone else is in office (republican or democrate). So that leads us to belive that we either didn't have the rights we thought we did or we are trying to extend them to too many situations.
I'm usually joke that the United States does not have a left party, it has a right and extreme-right wing. But this is not true, maybe what the USA needs is to start looking at other alternatives, there are other parties and maybe they are a good solution also.
No, it doesn't hurt anything. I posed two questions to see if a reply was thought out or just common readerick designed with the purpose to inflame peoples emotions. As it turns out, no one is willing to answer any of the questions that are possible and likley scenarios directly related to this situation. It is almost as if this is some sort of political astroturfing organized and executed with the intentions of getting democrates elected.
Actually, I don't really care, or at least in an Ideal world I shouldn't care, who is the american president (I am a Brasilian). But it is my believe that transparency is the most important thing while dealing with goverments and with any management in general. You see power corrupts people, and anyone, it dosen't matter who or witch ideal they are for, will be tempted to abuse power. So giving power to an administration to persecute people without probable cause or trials is asking for trouble. They say it is go after "terrorists" but how do you tell if "joe the Jihadist the 2nd" that has vanished the map and is thrown in some military prision and confesed under torture that he was planing to explode the holle world is really a "big bad terrorist" or is simply an inocent person in the wrong place at the wrong time?
And yet we have to make enough of a stink about thier rights for them that the passage of a bill like this has to happen. This isn't some idea someone dreemed up so we could take rigths away form american citizens and imprison political adversaries. This is a direct responce to people attempting to free prisoners caught in the middle of a warzone with weapons in hand screeming "die american die". They aren't trying to free these people because they feel an inborn sence of thier inocents either, it is directly related to giving the current administation a hard time.
Well let me asking you a question then, if a forenging power invaded your country (so you are in a war zone) and bombe
Well do the right thing is not always the easiest to go by...
And by the way, don't you think that "the big bad enemy", the incredible powerful and connected "terrorist" cell, will not get a hint if someone simply disapear? It's a known fact that if you want to use a leaked information for gathering more inteligence you must not acted on it.
What you are forgeting that is not the rights of the "terrorist" that are in danger, it's your rights that are vanishing, one by one, each day that this administration goes by. They are on sale for the highest bidder of the entretainemaint industry (bread and circus for the people) and for the dictator wanna be on washingthon. And there is morem, the "big bad terrorist" don't give a damn to this rights, he expects to be be tortured and be arrested with no judgement if he is ever caught, after all he is going after the "big bad americans".
I'm really sorry if this hurts your nationalistic pride, but the truth is not aways sweet. I believe that there are lots of americans that are either not seeing this happening or are activelly fighting against all of this, and let make my self clear that I have nothing against americans. I used to dream to travel to New York, but not anymore, in the future who knows, things can change.
The point is that if you're running in a public web site it is the closest you get to a distribution of a software that runs on the client side. If you get a GPL3 php script, change it to do a new bling and start your new blog service and do not cvontribute back to the original code you're being as bad as someone who get's the linux kernel change it a bit and create a new OS with it and keep it closed.
The point is that web application do not need to be distributed, so the GPL is quite useless to them, any unscrupled comercial sitecan get his hands in tones of GPL stuff and never donate a single line of code, because he is not distributing the altered code.
The eletronic ballot in brazil allows you to nullify your vote (this means that none of the options are good) or to blank it (means I don't care). The candidate have to be elected with the majority of the valid votes, so if you nullify or vote blank is much the same as a person who don't vote in a place where voting is optional.
I used to think that mandatory voting was bad, but as of today I am not sure. Voting don't hurt, it usually (in most voting places at least) quite quickly done, and usually you voting place is quite near of your home. If it were optional many people would not go for lazyness, many people who do care but are lazy.
In france, I don't know when, there was an election that all the polls were pointing to a certaing candidate to win in the first turn. The election day turned out to be a pretty day, and most people who would vote in this candidate did not showed up to vote, instead they thought "my candidate is elected, and the day is pretty I will go out and enjoy the day". The end result was that the candidate did not won, I don't remember the specifics but he may not have even got to the second term. This is the risk of the optional voting.
(If any french person care to clarify or correct my story be my guest.):-)
Brasilians do not use other social network sites because everyone is on orkut, a social network site is only good when your friends are on it. And I agree, orkut sucks, but all my friends, and even people who I thougth I would never heard again are there, so I am on orkut also.:P
The problem is that it is hard to decide what is risk if everyone discover you personal habits. Would you lost job if your boss find out about your habit of browsing slashdot in working hours? Would you get in trouble with the wife, if she found out about that porn site you browsed the other day? What about that group of crazy fanatic religious people that found out that you deserve to go strait to hell because you visited a pastafarian website, will they attempt to kill you to speed things up? You never know who will be offended, disgusted or simply harm you because you don't have the exact same opinion on something, and even though you have a free goverment now it dosen't mean that tomorrow it will still be free.
I would mod you up, but as much as I hate MS and windows, and I do, they are doing the right thing here. Suing the people who make business out of pirating makes sense, it is the same with people that want to bundle GPL stuff and hide their changes.
And not suing the users and give them a way to legalize their machines is the correct way to deal with this. If MS were the [R/MP]IAA they would already have pulled the plug on pirated copies, making a huge number of people furious and many people would loose a lot of money and due to a software glitch many people who did payed for their copies would also get bitten.
I was searching for one of these. I couldn't find it anywhere. It's damn stupid to buy a large 623in1 card reader, when all you need/want is a reader for a tiny card...:-P
This depends, if you have an open mind to accept when you see a beautiful black girl then it is not a problem, but if you are not open to see a black woman as beautiful, never, then it racism in my book. You see if you find a person beautiful, or not, is not only connected to physical attributes, there are many people who I find at first very attractive and when I meet them they suddenly seem very ugly and vice-versa.
We all have pre-conceptions in our heads, we see a person and with one look we already have classified her or him. The problem is that those can be wrong and a person with an open mind will be able to change those instant ideas, the person who lives by prejudice will not.
In fact there is an easier way to translate "é" to HTML, é this is 'e' with and acute accent and it works with other letters also :
á = á é = é í = í ó = ó ú = ú
In portuguese we use those, but they have the inverse function they make the letter sound in a higher tone so 'é' in portuguese sounds like 'bed' while in french it sounds likes "touché".
My credit card (Mastercard citi in Brasil) has sent me, not one but two emails warning me that they have changed their website address. I know that they were not fraudulent because they did used the correct email that I used only with them and they also used the correct name. The email had all kind of red-flags in it, web-bugs to different servers (*), html-only, several diferent links to the same page (it had different "GET" params). I was stupified by the stupidity of receiving this email, and I imagine how many people will fall into physhing after that, since this email does clearly says that the credicard company does use email with all those problems to comunicate with their users.
(*) images in a http server with a unique identifier so then check the log to see if you had opened the message.
My mail server is running sendmail with 4 DNSBLs, plus a locally-run internal. If a mail message hits those lists, it's rejected with a (very descriptive) 550 error before the connection completes. At that point, it's the sending mailserver's responsibility to generate the bounce (it should come from the sender's domain server, not the recipients. Configuring your mailserver to send bounces to remote addresses is Evil and Rude. Don't even get me started on virus notifications).
Sure, but how the poor guy that has a blacklisted servers as his provider should act. He will not be able to send his email, so if he does not have an alternative way of contacting this guy he is in big trouble. The receiver end will never know that he is losting a possibly important email. And even worst, if the blcked sender is not very literate in "internet" he will not know what the heck is spam or RTBL is, and if the interest part in reciving the email is the receiver he will simply give up.
There are many ways of blocking email, and the sooner you block it (in the connection) the better. But I don't believe that black lists are a good solution, unless you're usign it in addition to other meaning, like for instance as a point adder rule to spam-assassin or if your configuration if it uses 4 and only drops the email if two or more agree.
The only problem is that the customer never knows that his email is being droped. He things that the receiver got the email and choosed to ignore it, simply because it never got returned. And you know what? He is right to think like that, if an email has not returned it should be assumed as delivered.
The problem with those black lists is that is quite easy to get in one of those and is near impossible to get out. The number of false positives that those RBL produce is huge, and this means a huge number of people not receiving emails. I had a friend that almost could not get into an international congress because she did not got any replys from the congress email because it's university was in one of those black lists.
I do not advise anyone to use black lists. There are many good ways to get rid of spam that do not have false positives, like gray listing. Check this out , this guy has a very good analisys of the problem and the solutions he used.
Oh please... Our legal system is OK, on paper at least, and it does respect freedom of speech, religion and private property. But freedom of speech is not the same of being able to speak what you want without consequence. Hate speech, the one that incites hatred among people and humiliates a whole group for what they are is wrong and our law reflect that.
Our legal system is one of the most progressives of the world, the only problem is that it is not followed to letter. The main problem is that we 'import' too much, because almost everyone has this "our XXXX is inferior then the American or European". We import laws, we import customs and even costumes, why do you think people has to wear full suits during a 40C summer in Rio de Janeiro? And what is good to Americans or Europeans is not always good to us, so most of the people simply do as they think is right and simply manage to bypass the laws (o jeitinho Brasileiro). Well of course many bad people take advantage of this chaos and do some pretty bad stuff.
However, the nature of electronic communication means the data needs to be copied physically to the other country to be viewable. The idea of making it suddenly subject to any law in any country is ludicrous.
Just to clarify, I am not stating that. I believe that if google had not a branch in Brazil it could simply raise his middle finger to the brazilian govern, since it is not his business, in the same way that I believe that the american government should not be exporting his "let's make the big corporations happy" laws to other countries.
But this is not the case, google has an office in Brazil and by doing that he, or at least this branch, has to apply to brazilian law. The same happens to China censorship.
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Is an exercise to the reader to figure out what he was doing with his girlfriend. ;-)
The same day that they found out that people would still buy their stuff no matter how badly you talked about them.
The problem is all about volume, when you are treated like shit you go on and tell all of your friends. Lets be optimistic here and say that you got your word to 100 people, now how many people have saw the commercial ads for this particular game? In how many magazines this particular game was reviewed? Your 100 friends, that might not even have heard you in the firt place, are like a fly.
The worst part is that most people will be able to convince at most a couple of closed friends not to buy something. And if the good in question has few (that probably are as bad as this one, see mobile carriers) or no competition at all this may be even harder.
Sure, but copyright laws is their tools of choice to explore and suck the most from the artists. Actually, I have thought on that and I do believe that some copyrights are necessary, but in my opinion, or may I say in my utopia (witch probably will never see the light) copyright should never, ever be transferable and exclusivity contracts should have at least a maximum number of year. Well, let's not forget that the copyright protection should last much less and it should have a much weaker protections, allowing people to create derivate work (fanfic for instance).
I don't know, maybe we should ask that the Grimm brothers or La Fountain, or even Disney. They all got old tales, that every one knows and adapted. Many good authors have created great work based on other people's characters for instance see the great master of comics Will Eisner's "fagin the jew". Much of what we create is based on adapting and copying. A good example of this is when people say that some movie director have made a citation on another movie, were this author less known the same citation would probably be accounted as a copycat.
All of this and you're not even saw my other point where I stated that fanfic can be a good starting place, or tool for learning. By writing a fanfic and sharing with his friends a kid maybe starting to discover his abilities and training them, even from early ages. It is a good exercise and as he grows he may become great and even create his own characters.
As another point for future thoughts, may I ask how many time does Superman has to be recreated? How many times does 'gandalf' and other super mysterious and full of wisdom mages have to be rehashed? Does using a template, that people already know have value in it self? And if not why does people still watches movies and read comics about Spiderman and Batman?
There is nothing "hypocritical" with the point of view of the many people who disagree with copyrights. The main problem is that copyright is not to reward the authors, but to maintain an industry that has not adapted to the new era of the Internet. It is about Disney and others to be able to keep milking mickey and other "high valued" culture and at the same time keeping the reels of film that have the record of many of what our father saw when they were children rot, for they do not have immediate "market value".
Everyone believes that authors should get rewarded, but copyright does not help and indeed each day that passed it is making the lives of authors harder and harder. Why? Because there is a thought police, soon you will not be able to cite any trademarks or known character in a book without paying for it and at the same time that the policy on "fair use" gets harder and harder to defend, the expiring dates on copyright keep getting near the end of all known universe.
Sure some "big names", Stephen King, JK Rowling and Sidney Sheldon, for instance, get rewarded for their work, they get payed, and well payed even if they do not work. But I believe that this is all wrong, this does not give any incentive to JK Rowling to create a new Harry Potter, it is the reversed, while her old books are selling she could stop or hurry a poor one that is certainly going to sell. On the other hand, somewhere in the world there is, and I am certain of that, a new Shakespeare that is dying of hunger, and I am not talking about this author that you all know.
Copyrights are not healthy for the culture, for thousands of years people would create using as their base old tales and adding to stories that people are interested to hear. But nowadays the law protect a few while giving a burden to other thousands, why do you think I cannot create a fan-fiction Harry Potter book? It is only to protect miss JK Hollings, sure 99,99% of the fan fiction will suck big time, but what if there one or maybe two great book that would be created this way? And why does this should not be stimulated? The teen that starts writing poor fanfics in a backyard zine or to his blog can grow to became a great author. I bet that the first thing that all those best sellers written sucked hard, well many here would agree that many of the best selling do suck now, but this not the point.
So no, we are not being hypocritical when we say that copyright sucks and information want to be free, but this does not mean that authors should dye of hunger, alone and confined in their homes. If there is one thing that is allowing this to happen is this copyright way of thinking that rewards a few, should I say 10 at most, and keeps all of the rest hungry and this is the same in all areas, music, fine arts and even sports and while a few people get millions and millions of dollars many people, some even with talent, will not be able to get enough to get on with their lives from their work.
There is only so much you can do for your clueless users. If the user is willing to type a password to see "dancing pigs" then you might as well ask for his bank acount and password. :-)
In your rush to criticize other you forgot the the halfway between 4 and 6 is indeed 5.
The difference is of course that if you're stationg that you are paypl or a bnk or any other site that site that handles money and credit-cards people should be more careful with the warnings. I am not saying that they would be, but surely they should be. If you walk in the steet fanning your self with several 100$ bills don't you think sooner or latter someone will mug you? I believe that people can learn.
.exe, .pif, .scr or any other extension that MS think that it should be runned the browser should make it as hard as possible to be able to run it.
The "dancing pig" is another thing. Browser should block every kind of executable of being run directly from it. If you see a link "get here the dancing pigs" that is connected with a
They should simply not arrest anyone before they have colected enouth evidence and dryed the information pool that "Joe Jihadist the 3rd, actualy a CIA informant" could get, and then they should go on and arrest everyone involved and bust the hole terrorist cell. And then get every one on a fair trial, showing the evidence collected during the investigation if this cell that is already busted. Goverment have to be clear, if not you're already in a dictadure, you may have not noticed because you have your "MacDonalds and hollywood".
I'm usually joke that the United States does not have a left party, it has a right and extreme-right wing. But this is not true, maybe what the USA needs is to start looking at other alternatives, there are other parties and maybe they are a good solution also.
Actually, I don't really care, or at least in an Ideal world I shouldn't care, who is the american president (I am a Brasilian). But it is my believe that transparency is the most important thing while dealing with goverments and with any management in general. You see power corrupts people, and anyone, it dosen't matter who or witch ideal they are for, will be tempted to abuse power. So giving power to an administration to persecute people without probable cause or trials is asking for trouble. They say it is go after "terrorists" but how do you tell if "joe the Jihadist the 2nd" that has vanished the map and is thrown in some military prision and confesed under torture that he was planing to explode the holle world is really a "big bad terrorist" or is simply an inocent person in the wrong place at the wrong time?
Well let me asking you a question then, if a forenging power invaded your country (so you are in a war zone) and bombe
Well do the right thing is not always the easiest to go by...
And by the way, don't you think that "the big bad enemy", the incredible powerful and connected "terrorist" cell, will not get a hint if someone simply disapear? It's a known fact that if you want to use a leaked information for gathering more inteligence you must not acted on it.
What you are forgeting that is not the rights of the "terrorist" that are in danger, it's your rights that are vanishing, one by one, each day that this administration goes by. They are on sale for the highest bidder of the entretainemaint industry (bread and circus for the people) and for the dictator wanna be on washingthon. And there is morem, the "big bad terrorist" don't give a damn to this rights, he expects to be be tortured and be arrested with no judgement if he is ever caught, after all he is going after the "big bad americans".
I'm really sorry if this hurts your nationalistic pride, but the truth is not aways sweet. I believe that there are lots of americans that are either not seeing this happening or are activelly fighting against all of this, and let make my self clear that I have nothing against americans. I used to dream to travel to New York, but not anymore, in the future who knows, things can change.
The point is that if you're running in a public web site it is the closest you get to a distribution of a software that runs on the client side. If you get a GPL3 php script, change it to do a new bling and start your new blog service and do not cvontribute back to the original code you're being as bad as someone who get's the linux kernel change it a bit and create a new OS with it and keep it closed.
The point is that web application do not need to be distributed, so the GPL is quite useless to them, any unscrupled comercial sitecan get his hands in tones of GPL stuff and never donate a single line of code, because he is not distributing the altered code.
The eletronic ballot in brazil allows you to nullify your vote (this means that none of the options are good) or to blank it (means I don't care). The candidate have to be elected with the majority of the valid votes, so if you nullify or vote blank is much the same as a person who don't vote in a place where voting is optional.
:-)
I used to think that mandatory voting was bad, but as of today I am not sure. Voting don't hurt, it usually (in most voting places at least) quite quickly done, and usually you voting place is quite near of your home. If it were optional many people would not go for lazyness, many people who do care but are lazy.
In france, I don't know when, there was an election that all the polls were pointing to a certaing candidate to win in the first turn. The election day turned out to be a pretty day, and most people who would vote in this candidate did not showed up to vote, instead they thought "my candidate is elected, and the day is pretty I will go out and enjoy the day". The end result was that the candidate did not won, I don't remember the specifics but he may not have even got to the second term. This is the risk of the optional voting.
(If any french person care to clarify or correct my story be my guest.)
Brasilians do not use other social network sites because everyone is on orkut, a social network site is only good when your friends are on it. And I agree, orkut sucks, but all my friends, and even people who I thougth I would never heard again are there, so I am on orkut also. :P
The problem is that it is hard to decide what is risk if everyone discover you personal habits. Would you lost job if your boss find out about your habit of browsing slashdot in working hours? Would you get in trouble with the wife, if she found out about that porn site you browsed the other day? What about that group of crazy fanatic religious people that found out that you deserve to go strait to hell because you visited a pastafarian website, will they attempt to kill you to speed things up? You never know who will be offended, disgusted or simply harm you because you don't have the exact same opinion on something, and even though you have a free goverment now it dosen't mean that tomorrow it will still be free.
I would mod you up, but as much as I hate MS and windows, and I do, they are doing the right thing here. Suing the people who make business out of pirating makes sense, it is the same with people that want to bundle GPL stuff and hide their changes.
And not suing the users and give them a way to legalize their machines is the correct way to deal with this. If MS were the [R/MP]IAA they would already have pulled the plug on pirated copies, making a huge number of people furious and many people would loose a lot of money and due to a software glitch many people who did payed for their copies would also get bitten.
I was searching for one of these. I couldn't find it anywhere. It's damn stupid to buy a large 623in1 card reader, when all you need/want is a reader for a tiny card... :-P
This depends, if you have an open mind to accept when you see a beautiful black girl then it is not a problem, but if you are not open to see a black woman as beautiful, never, then it racism in my book. You see if you find a person beautiful, or not, is not only connected to physical attributes, there are many people who I find at first very attractive and when I meet them they suddenly seem very ugly and vice-versa.
We all have pre-conceptions in our heads, we see a person and with one look we already have classified her or him. The problem is that those can be wrong and a person with an open mind will be able to change those instant ideas, the person who lives by prejudice will not.
Where is the preview button when you need it... Those are :
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& eacute ; = é
& iacute ; = í
& oacute ; = ó
& uacute ; = ú
Without the space, obviously.
In fact there is an easier way to translate "é" to HTML, é this is 'e' with and acute accent and it works with other letters also :
á = á
é = é
í = í
ó = ó
ú = ú
In portuguese we use those, but they have the inverse function they make the letter sound in a higher tone so 'é' in portuguese sounds like 'bed' while in french it sounds likes "touché".
Well, then you must have typed 11111111111111111111111111111111 and not "11" as asked, please reboot and try again.
Down to the floor?
My credit card (Mastercard citi in Brasil) has sent me, not one but two emails warning me that they have changed their website address. I know that they were not fraudulent because they did used the correct email that I used only with them and they also used the correct name. The email had all kind of red-flags in it, web-bugs to different servers (*), html-only, several diferent links to the same page (it had different "GET" params). I was stupified by the stupidity of receiving this email, and I imagine how many people will fall into physhing after that, since this email does clearly says that the credicard company does use email with all those problems to comunicate with their users.
(*) images in a http server with a unique identifier so then check the log to see if you had opened the message.
Sure, but how the poor guy that has a blacklisted servers as his provider should act. He will not be able to send his email, so if he does not have an alternative way of contacting this guy he is in big trouble. The receiver end will never know that he is losting a possibly important email. And even worst, if the blcked sender is not very literate in "internet" he will not know what the heck is spam or RTBL is, and if the interest part in reciving the email is the receiver he will simply give up.
There are many ways of blocking email, and the sooner you block it (in the connection) the better. But I don't believe that black lists are a good solution, unless you're usign it in addition to other meaning, like for instance as a point adder rule to spam-assassin or if your configuration if it uses 4 and only drops the email if two or more agree.
The only problem is that the customer never knows that his email is being droped. He things that the receiver got the email and choosed to ignore it, simply because it never got returned. And you know what? He is right to think like that, if an email has not returned it should be assumed as delivered.
The problem with those black lists is that is quite easy to get in one of those and is near impossible to get out. The number of false positives that those RBL produce is huge, and this means a huge number of people not receiving emails. I had a friend that almost could not get into an international congress because she did not got any replys from the congress email because it's university was in one of those black lists.
I do not advise anyone to use black lists. There are many good ways to get rid of spam that do not have false positives, like gray listing. Check this out , this guy has a very good analisys of the problem and the solutions he used.
Oh please... Our legal system is OK, on paper at least, and it does respect freedom of speech, religion and private property. But freedom of speech is not the same of being able to speak what you want without consequence. Hate speech, the one that incites hatred among people and humiliates a whole group for what they are is wrong and our law reflect that.
Our legal system is one of the most progressives of the world, the only problem is that it is not followed to letter. The main problem is that we 'import' too much, because almost everyone has this "our XXXX is inferior then the American or European". We import laws, we import customs and even costumes, why do you think people has to wear full suits during a 40C summer in Rio de Janeiro? And what is good to Americans or Europeans is not always good to us, so most of the people simply do as they think is right and simply manage to bypass the laws (o jeitinho Brasileiro). Well of course many bad people take advantage of this chaos and do some pretty bad stuff.
Just to clarify, I am not stating that. I believe that if google had not a branch in Brazil it could simply raise his middle finger to the brazilian govern, since it is not his business, in the same way that I believe that the american government should not be exporting his "let's make the big corporations happy" laws to other countries.
But this is not the case, google has an office in Brazil and by doing that he, or at least this branch, has to apply to brazilian law. The same happens to China censorship.