Yeah, what I meant by artist rights (& IANAL, in the UK or anywhere else) is more model rights I guess. Specifically, that you can't use someone's image or likeness to imply that they endorse your product/service without their permission.
I don't know any place where it is not legal to simply take someone's picture and put it online. However, it can certainly fall on the other side of the ethical thing to do. For example, at protests and demos (actually, in almost all situations) it is polite to ask someone if you can take their picture, and don't do it if the person would rather you didn't. Moreover, if you are taking pictures at protests and demos, it is quite impolite to post a picture online without first blurring faces. But then again, that's something that relates to specific subcultures and milieu, and is because of potential negative consequences for the people attending those events.
Revolution; and then true socialism (where goods and resources are distributed according to need, and people work as little or as much as they want, in the areas that they want).
Actually, in this case you can. Because in the majority of places (including, afaik, the UK), there are things called artist rights. Your image can't be used to sell or promote something without your permission. (Make sure to never sign a model release allowing the photographer to use the image for any purpose.)
Well, when I say you can stop it, you can't. But after the fact you can spend loads of money to sue the corporation (and in the UK, if you win, you might even get all that money back!).
Yeah, I was going to post that if I was using this service, I wouldn't be bothered, as everyone gets something different: 1) A different email address for every service and company (advantages of owning my own domain - no Gmail + plus is not enough, come on, a domain can be less than $10 a year, and just forward a catch-all to Gmail if you insist on using it). 2) A different password for every website. 3) A different DOB for every website that insists on asking. 4) Sometimes even a different name, depending on the reason for asking for the name. 5) Fake residential addresses etc. in certain cases.
All this information then gets saved together, along with the the information about the website or company, and the date I signed up. I then have proof (enough for me), if someone sells my email address (or otherwise loses it), and I don't have to worry about any other services or websites being compromised.
Yes, this is one of the reasons that I support and encourage the use of Bitcoins as an alternative currency. I can't be stopped from donating to Wikileaks by a third party, unless they use force (i.e. are the government or another group of thugs). In fact I have donated bitcoins to Wikileaks. I hope they made good use of them.
But the damage is already largely done. When the service was terminated, there was a lot of publicity around Wikileaks, and a lot of people wanting to donate. By preventing them from donating at that time, Visa & Mastercard (etc.) basically prevented this money from ever reaching Wikileaks. Even if now, Valitor will process Visa donations, most of the people who were going to donate, probably won't. Without the media, people won't think about Wikileaks. They won't realize that they can now donate (because this court decision will not be widely publicized). Etc.
The article says that 95% of Wikileaks' income was cut by the actions of Visa, Mastercard, Paypal etc. Maybe Wikileaks should also sue for lost income, arguing that the percentage of Visa donations would have remained at the same level from 2010 through to now. They probably wouldn't win, but it would be funny.
For many of the country TLDs (e.g..ch and.in) you are meant to have an address in that country. For some of them you even have to actually live there. But for many, e.g..tv,.me,.be and other European and Pacific Island ones, you can register whatever, and however many you want, so long as you have the cash.
Regarding Debian vs Ubuntu. Ubuntu automatically worked with no issues with wifi, with my touchscreen, with my sound, and a couple of other things I can't just recall. The only thing that worked better on Debian on a fresh install was hibernate. So, fiddling for Debian = getting basic stuff to work. Fiddling for Ubuntu = installing and configuring Gnome to my liking (Unity worked with no issues, except I don't like it as much).
So, yes I'm lazy. But when I don't have easy access* to a wired network, I'll take Ubuntu over Debian thanks.
The apt-get comment was comparing Ubuntu to the RedHat derivations.
The last number was a troll... I used to use Mandrake (dates me a little), so am used to RPM (sort of).
* Easy access being: in a warm room where I don't have to worry about people tripping over the cord, or getting in my way, or trying to speak foreign languages to me. The same thing happened in 2007 with Debian vs Ubuntu. To access a wired network required a half-hour bike ride (in the snow as well), as at the place I was staying, I didn't have access to the network equipment. So, Ubuntu won out then as well.
Let me list the ways: 1) Debian was too much work (Ubuntu, an African word meaning "I couldn't get Debian to work properly"). 2) I really like apt-get. 3) Ubuntu works (mostly, after some fiddling). 4) The LTS won't change much and so is going to be stable. 5) Fuck RPM. Also, Emacs sucks, and so does your haircut.
I for one don't like a lot of change. Esp. when I have to change every nine months, and accept whatever change comes up. I got 10.04 running really nicely on an old computer, and I was happy. Esp. when I read about Unity (and now that I've tried Unity, I have to say I'll stick with Gnome).
And now 12.04 is almost setup perfectly (a few issues I'm working on, I'll get there), and I'm not aiming on changing for years.
One reason is that once something is working, I know it is working. But, if I have to update, it's likely to break something. Whether I do a fresh install or not.
You know you can limit the number of peers you connect to as well? E.g. I have it set to a maximum of ten torrents active at any one time. Each torrent can have no more than 60 peers. So, total, 600 peers maximum at any one time. Except, I also have it set so that I do not connect to more than 275 peers, ever. So that 600 number, irrelevant.
Regarding your first complaint, you do realize you can limit and throttle the connection? E.g. where I am, my Internet connection is rubbish, so, during the day I throttle bittorrent to 10KB/s up & down. But, then, during the night, I let it run a little faster. It takes forever to actually download something large, but it works. And for some material, I'm one of only two or three seeders, so people downloading from me can damn well be grateful for what they get (and not complain about the horrendous speeds).
But then again, I'm probably just feeding a troll, seeing as you have a lot of similarly stupid complaints in your post.
I might switch to Git (from Bzr) if this sort of thing existed. I would love for a way to anonymously (pseudo-anonymously) host and distribute my software, including changes as I make them. I'm not interested in signing up for Github or similar though, and so I'll continue to use Bzr because it's what I use...
Because the 'best before' date has been known since it was first sold? It's like buying a packet of chips, and then complaining that you can't stick them in the cupboard for a month because they go stale. Maybe have a look at the best before date, before you buy the chips?
You can easily find the EOL date for support for MS Windows XP. Moreover, any software that has been sold for 8 years should be considered near EOL unless otherwise indicated. So people buying XP even five years ago, well, they should have known that the EOL was coming up.
I can't see how you are going to force a software company to continue to support something for seven years after it was last sold, without some nasty regulation. (What happens if the company goes out of business?)
But if something is at -1, it won't show up in the search rankings at all I don't think.
Here's something a friend told me. They posted a horrid post, and included a pretty unique string. It got modded -1 of course. They then tried to search for it again, and got no results.
There are two ways that I can think of. The first is to just list all the titles, and then provide a link to the Pirate Bay. You could even save them time and torrent the titles yourself first. The second is to provide your password (e.g. in an encrypted container, with the password to that in your will) and hope that the companies will not realize you are dead. I know, maybe a better idea would be to stop licensing stuff and actually outright buy it. Buy DRM free, and you can make a copy yourself. Don't purchase anything that requires DRM or whatever. The third way (which doesn't do what you ask) is to just forget it. Just set it to die when you do.
Also, just delete all the porn. I'm sure your kids don't want to know what sort of weird stuff you are into.
If for some reason you think they are, maybe you should provide some documentation. The IA does work with the LoC, and also other national libraries, but are an independent organization.
Yes. SpamAssassin is one way to do it. The main point is, it doesn't matter how you do it, just don't ever trust a public blacklist 100%, because you'll block legitimate users. Perhaps they are at an ISP that has hosted spammers. Perhaps they are currently in a country (like the USA, I personally block all email from the USA as most of it is spam*) that spams a lot. Perhaps they pissed off the blacklist maintainers. Whatever the reason is, a blacklist is not 100% reliable.
Also, use a whitelist. If an email is from someone in your address book, or that you have emailed, then it's probably not spam. You can deduct 80 points (or whatever). The trouble is, that I don't know how to hook up a whitelist like this to my hosting company's system...
* That's a joke. But considering people used to say the same about China and Russia...
And while we're at it, some hints on using a public blacklist with regards spam. The correct way is not to trust the blacklist 100%. Instead, you use it as one part of a comprehensive scheme (part of this complete breakfast). So, you may use a dictionary, and for every word in the dictionary you add 10 points (viagra, v1agra, v14gr4, etc.). You can use SPF and if it doesn't match, then that's worth 50 points, and if it's not there, maybe 20 points. And if the domain or IP address is on a blacklist, maybe 40 points. You assign the points as you like. Then, if you hit 100 points, you mark the email as "probably spam".
But you never reject or mark an email spam just because it's on some blacklist. That's just stupid. Now I'm off to RTFA.
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OK if you have your own blacklist (perhaps a list of domains or IP addresses that have sent email to a catch-all, or that have fallen into a honeytrap), then you do what you want. But you probably should date entries and remove old ones (if they do not misbehave again), in case a legitimate user is now at that location.
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Yeah, I'm not a Marxist, let alone a Leninist... But thanks for playing!
Yeah, what I meant by artist rights (& IANAL, in the UK or anywhere else) is more model rights I guess. Specifically, that you can't use someone's image or likeness to imply that they endorse your product/service without their permission.
I don't know any place where it is not legal to simply take someone's picture and put it online. However, it can certainly fall on the other side of the ethical thing to do. For example, at protests and demos (actually, in almost all situations) it is polite to ask someone if you can take their picture, and don't do it if the person would rather you didn't. Moreover, if you are taking pictures at protests and demos, it is quite impolite to post a picture online without first blurring faces. But then again, that's something that relates to specific subcultures and milieu, and is because of potential negative consequences for the people attending those events.
Revolution; and then true socialism (where goods and resources are distributed according to need, and people work as little or as much as they want, in the areas that they want).
Did you write this for /. ? 'cause if so, that's awesome. If not, where'd you get it from?
Actually, in this case you can. Because in the majority of places (including, afaik, the UK), there are things called artist rights. Your image can't be used to sell or promote something without your permission. (Make sure to never sign a model release allowing the photographer to use the image for any purpose.)
Well, when I say you can stop it, you can't. But after the fact you can spend loads of money to sue the corporation (and in the UK, if you win, you might even get all that money back!).
Sure it'll be reliable. Just make sure to lift the gun owner's fingerprints and transfer to a gummy bear before trying to shoot this weapon.
I doubt that the fingerprint reader will be able to recognize gummy fingerprints...
Yeah, I was going to post that if I was using this service, I wouldn't be bothered, as everyone gets something different:
1) A different email address for every service and company (advantages of owning my own domain - no Gmail + plus is not enough, come on, a domain can be less than $10 a year, and just forward a catch-all to Gmail if you insist on using it).
2) A different password for every website.
3) A different DOB for every website that insists on asking.
4) Sometimes even a different name, depending on the reason for asking for the name.
5) Fake residential addresses etc. in certain cases.
All this information then gets saved together, along with the the information about the website or company, and the date I signed up. I then have proof (enough for me), if someone sells my email address (or otherwise loses it), and I don't have to worry about any other services or websites being compromised.
Yes, this is one of the reasons that I support and encourage the use of Bitcoins as an alternative currency. I can't be stopped from donating to Wikileaks by a third party, unless they use force (i.e. are the government or another group of thugs). In fact I have donated bitcoins to Wikileaks. I hope they made good use of them.
But the damage is already largely done. When the service was terminated, there was a lot of publicity around Wikileaks, and a lot of people wanting to donate. By preventing them from donating at that time, Visa & Mastercard (etc.) basically prevented this money from ever reaching Wikileaks. Even if now, Valitor will process Visa donations, most of the people who were going to donate, probably won't. Without the media, people won't think about Wikileaks. They won't realize that they can now donate (because this court decision will not be widely publicized). Etc.
The article says that 95% of Wikileaks' income was cut by the actions of Visa, Mastercard, Paypal etc. Maybe Wikileaks should also sue for lost income, arguing that the percentage of Visa donations would have remained at the same level from 2010 through to now. They probably wouldn't win, but it would be funny.
For many of the country TLDs (e.g. .ch and .in) you are meant to have an address in that country. For some of them you even have to actually live there. But for many, e.g. .tv, .me, .be and other European and Pacific Island ones, you can register whatever, and however many you want, so long as you have the cash.
The system is fucked. Who would have thought it.
All the fucking time. Considering that my own website is on a .info and that I manage websites on country TLDs.
That doesn't mean that the new GTLDs are not scams by ICANN, but still.
I've said it before, I think the best bet is a distributed trust based system of domain management. PGP-like Web of Trust. Internet, make it happen!
Regarding Debian vs Ubuntu.
Ubuntu automatically worked with no issues with wifi, with my touchscreen, with my sound, and a couple of other things I can't just recall. The only thing that worked better on Debian on a fresh install was hibernate. So, fiddling for Debian = getting basic stuff to work. Fiddling for Ubuntu = installing and configuring Gnome to my liking (Unity worked with no issues, except I don't like it as much).
So, yes I'm lazy. But when I don't have easy access* to a wired network, I'll take Ubuntu over Debian thanks.
The apt-get comment was comparing Ubuntu to the RedHat derivations.
The last number was a troll... I used to use Mandrake (dates me a little), so am used to RPM (sort of).
* Easy access being: in a warm room where I don't have to worry about people tripping over the cord, or getting in my way, or trying to speak foreign languages to me.
The same thing happened in 2007 with Debian vs Ubuntu. To access a wired network required a half-hour bike ride (in the snow as well), as at the place I was staying, I didn't have access to the network equipment. So, Ubuntu won out then as well.
Let me list the ways:
1) Debian was too much work (Ubuntu, an African word meaning "I couldn't get Debian to work properly").
2) I really like apt-get.
3) Ubuntu works (mostly, after some fiddling).
4) The LTS won't change much and so is going to be stable.
5) Fuck RPM. Also, Emacs sucks, and so does your haircut.
I for one don't like a lot of change. Esp. when I have to change every nine months, and accept whatever change comes up. I got 10.04 running really nicely on an old computer, and I was happy. Esp. when I read about Unity (and now that I've tried Unity, I have to say I'll stick with Gnome).
And now 12.04 is almost setup perfectly (a few issues I'm working on, I'll get there), and I'm not aiming on changing for years.
One reason is that once something is working, I know it is working. But, if I have to update, it's likely to break something. Whether I do a fresh install or not.
Cheers.
You know you can limit the number of peers you connect to as well?
E.g. I have it set to a maximum of ten torrents active at any one time. Each torrent can have no more than 60 peers. So, total, 600 peers maximum at any one time. Except, I also have it set so that I do not connect to more than 275 peers, ever. So that 600 number, irrelevant.
I.e. these are all problems that, well, aren't.
Regarding your first complaint, you do realize you can limit and throttle the connection?
E.g. where I am, my Internet connection is rubbish, so, during the day I throttle bittorrent to 10KB/s up & down. But, then, during the night, I let it run a little faster. It takes forever to actually download something large, but it works. And for some material, I'm one of only two or three seeders, so people downloading from me can damn well be grateful for what they get (and not complain about the horrendous speeds).
But then again, I'm probably just feeding a troll, seeing as you have a lot of similarly stupid complaints in your post.
I might switch to Git (from Bzr) if this sort of thing existed. I would love for a way to anonymously (pseudo-anonymously) host and distribute my software, including changes as I make them. I'm not interested in signing up for Github or similar though, and so I'll continue to use Bzr because it's what I use...
Because the 'best before' date has been known since it was first sold? It's like buying a packet of chips, and then complaining that you can't stick them in the cupboard for a month because they go stale. Maybe have a look at the best before date, before you buy the chips?
You can easily find the EOL date for support for MS Windows XP. Moreover, any software that has been sold for 8 years should be considered near EOL unless otherwise indicated. So people buying XP even five years ago, well, they should have known that the EOL was coming up.
I can't see how you are going to force a software company to continue to support something for seven years after it was last sold, without some nasty regulation. (What happens if the company goes out of business?)
So, what do you think of the awful format? How is it better than zipped HTML+CSS+images (PNG or JPEG)+an index file?
Cheers.
Except for the currency printed on plastic.
But if something is at -1, it won't show up in the search rankings at all I don't think.
Here's something a friend told me. They posted a horrid post, and included a pretty unique string. It got modded -1 of course. They then tried to search for it again, and got no results.
Try it and see.
There are two ways that I can think of. The first is to just list all the titles, and then provide a link to the Pirate Bay. You could even save them time and torrent the titles yourself first.
The second is to provide your password (e.g. in an encrypted container, with the password to that in your will) and hope that the companies will not realize you are dead. I know, maybe a better idea would be to stop licensing stuff and actually outright buy it. Buy DRM free, and you can make a copy yourself. Don't purchase anything that requires DRM or whatever.
The third way (which doesn't do what you ask) is to just forget it. Just set it to die when you do.
Also, just delete all the porn. I'm sure your kids don't want to know what sort of weird stuff you are into.
"1 IA is not a part of the LOC"
FTFY
If for some reason you think they are, maybe you should provide some documentation. The IA does work with the LoC, and also other national libraries, but are an independent organization.
Yes. SpamAssassin is one way to do it. The main point is, it doesn't matter how you do it, just don't ever trust a public blacklist 100%, because you'll block legitimate users. Perhaps they are at an ISP that has hosted spammers. Perhaps they are currently in a country (like the USA, I personally block all email from the USA as most of it is spam*) that spams a lot. Perhaps they pissed off the blacklist maintainers. Whatever the reason is, a blacklist is not 100% reliable.
Also, use a whitelist. If an email is from someone in your address book, or that you have emailed, then it's probably not spam. You can deduct 80 points (or whatever). The trouble is, that I don't know how to hook up a whitelist like this to my hosting company's system...
* That's a joke. But considering people used to say the same about China and Russia...
And while we're at it, some hints on using a public blacklist with regards spam. The correct way is not to trust the blacklist 100%. Instead, you use it as one part of a comprehensive scheme (part of this complete breakfast). So, you may use a dictionary, and for every word in the dictionary you add 10 points (viagra, v1agra, v14gr4, etc.). You can use SPF and if it doesn't match, then that's worth 50 points, and if it's not there, maybe 20 points. And if the domain or IP address is on a blacklist, maybe 40 points. You assign the points as you like. Then, if you hit 100 points, you mark the email as "probably spam".
But you never reject or mark an email spam just because it's on some blacklist. That's just stupid. Now I'm off to RTFA.
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OK if you have your own blacklist (perhaps a list of domains or IP addresses that have sent email to a catch-all, or that have fallen into a honeytrap), then you do what you want. But you probably should date entries and remove old ones (if they do not misbehave again), in case a legitimate user is now at that location.