Federal courts have held that web spiders must obey the established ROBOTS.TXT mechanism by which web site owners limit automated access, and that a failure to obey ROBOTS.TXT constitutes trespass.
I musta missed this case.
At that time, the accepted strategy for getting around such blocks was to obtain multiple web hosting accounts to act as proxies for HMS's harvesting systems. I did not then realize that knowingly bypassing blocks placed by web server operators was illegal.
Must have missed this one too.
hijacking thousands of vulnerable machines all over the Internet, using them and their network bandwidth without the knowledge or permission of their owners as unwitting accomplices in HMS's data harvesting operation.
one could argue by allowing all connections the owners are implicitly granting permission
Under PSC 3933, every instance - every single instance - of hijacking an open proxy is a misdemeanor of the first degree.
Again they're not hijacking them they're just using them.
Slashdot Mirror
automagically add cache links.
AllOfMP3 with many [MP3 (LAME/Blade), WMA (7/8/9), OGG (CBR/VBR), AAC (vbr/cbr), MPC, Lossless (Monkey's, OptimFROG, FLAC, PCM, WMA 9 Lossless)] encoding options
Pretty much 1/2 the content on this guys page is Google Ads and/or ads for something else, I'm not surprised.
erm wtf are you smoking.
What attacks on freenet/tor/etc? Care to prove some stats there?
yea, but how many people when writing most software use md5/etc use salts?
not very many.
*points to sig*
:)
If they wanted the passwords, they could get 'em
There already are Cache directives in the HTTP specs
Considering IndyMedia is a cesspool of leftwing batshit crazy idealists, I dont blame them for yanking the server.
And a "Special" shutdown is any better?
Much less dragging a CD to the trash to eject it?
Linkeh.
Information about tuning in to NASA TV can be found here as well.
Not only did you beat me to this joke, your ID is also 3 lower than mine. I'm constantly on your coattails, Ossifer!
(726625) - (703813) != 3
I must be out of the loop, cuz I've honestly neither heard of it, nor heard of anybody using it.
The authors still gotta get credit with the GPL to you know.
yea but uh . . i didnt' see a link to download said software so again . . how does this help?
It needs a fix, it leaves the readmore link in.
Oh so now Date is better then Quality? I'll be sure to forward that to Hollywood.
"Give us movies! We dont care about if they're good or not! We just want new movies!"
I seriously neither get your problem nor your sarcasm, Adult Swim licensed a good series . . who cares that it's old, it's new to America.
Even better speakers.
Yes because NAT sucks.
IIRC: Yes, I'm pretty sure they do.
(I am not a stock broker but I did work at a financial advisor and yay my NDA period expired).
I musta missed this case.
Must have missed this one too.
one could argue by allowing all connections the owners are implicitly granting permission
Again they're not hijacking them they're just using them.
Anyways here's a mirror of his original letter.
How do you know it's false? Wait till you get all the sides of the story and not just he 'victim'
Friends have set up GeeksUnite.net, an informational web site and Legal Defense Fund.
and slashdot has blasted it off the web.
Hey! Somebody send an email off to IBM to get them in the game for some Giant v Giant v Big Ass Gorilla action.
What market they're for is beside the point. The point is they're both protected by copyright, but Slashdotters have no problem violating the former.