I really can't understand the LOGIC of a spammer who prechecks their spam against spamassassin..
Spamassassin isn't set up be default in any distro that I know of. At the very least it's an extra package to install, and in my case it took me a few hours to get it working.
So they're going to all that trouble to reach people who are 100% AGAINST spam. What kind of response rate do they think they'll get? I'm starting to think that this kind of spam is sent JUST to piss people off, because it sure as hell can't be good for anything else!
1) Microsoft cries "uncle" when their source is plastered all over the net. They start lawyers and a few bots looking through thousands of lines of GPLed code looking for similarities. They then sue the writers of the code for stealing MS code and using it in GPL software (which would be very, very clearly against the law).
They don't have to even find similar code; just compatable code. If Microsoft's code is 'easily available' for viewing, interoperability projects like wine, openoffice, samba and mono have a much harder time proving that none of their programmers have ever viewed MS code, and that their own code is a 'cleanroom' reimplimentation rather than just a rewrite of MS's code.
No technical details, not even an 'open' demo so we can see it's not rigged.
The usual excuse; this is such advanced, groundbreaking stuff and he doesn't want anyone to steal his ideas until after he's been given some development capital.
Nope. Even if you have a site licence, and buy 20 new machines with an OEM copy of windows, neither the OEM licence or the site licence covers reinstalling them to whatever configuration you use. You need to buy a THIRD licence on top of the two you already have.
IANAL, but that's from reading up MS's material.
MS have confirmed at various times that site licences don't cover naked PC's, even if they're replacing an already covered PC. (Free BBQ and lawn furnature if you catch someone doing this, remember?)
And that OEM licences don't apply if you reinstall the OS (using ghost or otherwise) from anywhere other than the CD supplied with your PC. Even if it's a new copy of the exact same OS.
Draw your own conlusions.
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Funny but true; My wife who is really computerphobic used to use my Gnome desktop quite regularly for games and web browsing, although she mostly prefers windows98.
She refuses to use XP at all because it's 'too different' from what she's used to.
WTF?!! The difference between Gnome and 98 is less than the difference between 98 and XP? Well, that's what Sue seems to think!
Amongst other things, XP keeps shifting things around on the start menu and hides stuff if you haven't used it for a while. Sue HATES that!!
I agree. That's why I changed the analogy and compared it with a fee on gardening tools;
Copying music; User ends up with music for very little cost. Copyright owner still has everything they originally had, but is possibly out a sale.
Growing own vegetables; Grower ends up with food for very little cost. Commercial grower, corner store, supermarket, etc. still has everything they originally had, but is possibly out a sale.
I know this analogy is still slightly flawed; it's more like growing your own Monsanto roundup-ready-canola without paying Monsanto for the seeds. But it is nothing like stealing actual vegetables from a store.
Incidentally, you might want to do a web search and read up on roundup-ready-canola. Monsanto is just the kind of company that might propose a tax on farming equipment to cover their 'seed piracy'
That was my first thought too.. curse you, now I'll get modded down as redundant!!
Someone please find me ONE page on the web where frames are actually used for something helpful. Because whenever I see them used they're either fuxoring up the page width or wasting half the available reading area with unscrollable menus and/or ads. Or both.
I don't normally agree with stupid patent abuse, but this one is almost a good thing!
But you -always- had the right to make copies for personal use, including a limited amount of 'copying for friends'. This was decided YEARS ago. Personal copying is part of fair use, which is a RIGHT you have always had. You don't owe the RIAA squat for it!
The RIAA are trying to prevent you from being able to make home copies, and persuade consumers that they don't have this right, which is bullshit. On top of that they're trying to be fully compensated for 'losses' they incur from consumers who manage to excercise their fair use rights despite the RIAA's legal posturing and technical measures. Which is double bullshit.
Fuck you RIAA. Fuck you Hillary. Stop messing with our rights.
it's like saying "grocery prices are outrageous... to show my malcontent i'll go rob a grocery store". the legal way to show malcontent is to not purchase the product. if enough ppl do this, things change.
Brilliant example. If grocery prices were being artificially jacked up by a marketing cartel, farmers were being paid shit wages, and there was a 'tax' on gardening tools and fertiliser that went to the same cartel to cover loss of profits due to home gardening. even if you were only using the tools and fertiliser to grow roses and not vegetables. That's about where we're at.
Be cautious of using a loopback address. It's not as simple as you think. Some of the loopback domains have a valid MX record, which means the mail WILL get delivered and probably end up bothering the postmaster at that domain.
When the loopback address doesn't have a valid domain, sendmail will try to deliver it to the A-record address, and fail with an error something like "SYSERR(root): warez.slash dot.org. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?".. sometimes it'll get stuck in a loop for hours. That's fine if you're dealing with real.com and only a little annoying if the address is picked up by relay-abusers (because the postmaster it annoys then is running an open relay and probably deserves to be annoyed. It's not so good if you're using a loopback address as spam-armouring in your postings and inobservant users try to mail that address, thus annoying their own postmasters..
Crap. I used to have TWO; one was standard AT PSU size with a pair of fairly heavy duty 12v leads out of it, the other was the size of those old XT PSU's and wouldn't fit in a desktop case, but was OK in most towers.
Both would run for 10 or 15 minutes from a 6.5AH sealed battery. At one point I had the smaller one running from a car battery and it kept my machine running for the first six hours of what was supposed to be a two hour scheduled outage.
Sony has the RIGHT to bury their entire stock of PS2's and Aibo's in a 50 foot deep trench if they wanted to. They have an obligation to their shareholders not to do that, because it doesn't maximise profit.
They also have the RIGHT to prevent copying and/or reverse engineering, but in some cases excercising this right doesn't maxamise profit either.
Latency.. if you spread the bits out, you have to have a delay in the audio so you can collect them all together again. GSM already has a small (about 100ms I think) delay, which is hardly noticable, but anything longer gets to be quite distracting.
..I much prefer analog. You need tome rather fancy equipment to eavesdrop on digital cellphones, but I can listen in on analog cellphones using just a very old Motorola and a small strip of tinfoil.
Duh! If only signed content can be run, the virus will simply sign itself using -your- key before it forwards itself to everyone on your address book.
And yes; this will work. Automated signing will be an enabled-by-default feature of Outlook for the same reason blindly-running-untrusted-code was and still is..
Re:Not necessarily unenforceable (with commentary)
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Duh; referer can be used much more effectively to just break the damn link! Check the referer and if it's not yourself or an 'authorised' site, return a page saying deep linking isn't allowed. Or a 404. Or redirect them to goatse.cx. Sure, referer is easily dissabled, but not by the person doing the linking. 99% of web surfers will return the correct referer so for all practical purposes this approach completely kills deep linking.
To preventing framing there's a little javascript I've seen (somewhere; I didn't bookmark it) which checks if your're framed and reloads the page. I think you have to use javascript to open someone else's page in a frame anyhow; so either way you win.
You can tell all of the major search sites to not cache and/or not index your page in robots.txt. I'm not sure why any commercial site would want to be NOT indexed by search engines, but wtf.. if you want it you only have to ask!
It is utterly utterly STUPID to involve lawyers for something like this when there are such trivial technical solutions.
I think you missed the point.
Stealing them is still easy.
Using them (or selling them) is a bit harder, since they have a left-handed thread and won't fit in a regular socket. Outside of the subway system these bulbs are effectively worthless.
In America you check your watch, in Soviet Russia your watch checks you...
It could be handy if you were living near Chernoble I guess. Then again if you had that kind of money you'd probably better spend it moving to a safer place. I assume this watch is for Nuclear Scientists, Radiotherapists, etc. Traditionally these people wore badges containing photographic film, which get developed and checked at the end of each day.
Re:If it's dead, how can there be an organization?
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I can't speak for netBSD, but this is my main machine. I do basically all of everything I do on this, web design, some coding, experimenting with assorted packages. Plus it serves http, pop3, smb, dhcp and does NAT for the kids windows machines.
It's a little behind Linux in some areas, but it's a long way from 'dead'.
We've solved the problem by writing everything to HTML4.01 and using CSS for the layout.
It renders very nicely in IE. It looks almost exactly the same in Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, Amaya, dillo. It probably looks good for things like WebTV too. And it's perfectly useable in links or lynx.
I know you're going to say "But it looks like shit". Fuck you. the web is about content. You think Slashdot got to be popular because it's loaded with flash animations and background midi music?!!
It looks OK, it's got 'content' that people obviously want to read, and it works with practically any browser.
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So what IS Dow's position on the original chemical spill? I couldn't find an official press release from them but clearly they don't want to take responsibility, and it's likely for much the same reasons that the 'dowethics' document says.
I don't think The Yes Men have misrepresented Dow Chemical's position at all. They've just expressed it a little more bluntly than Dow's lawyers are comfortable with..
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I really can't understand the LOGIC of a spammer who prechecks their spam against spamassassin..
Spamassassin isn't set up be default in any distro that I know of. At the very least it's an extra package to install, and in my case it took me a few hours to get it working.
So they're going to all that trouble to reach people who are 100% AGAINST spam. What kind of response rate do they think they'll get? I'm starting to think that this kind of spam is sent JUST to piss people off, because it sure as hell can't be good for anything else!
So if I started charging you an 'air levy' and then told you I was granting you the right to breathe air in return, you'd be happy with that?
1) Microsoft cries "uncle" when their source is plastered all over the net. They start lawyers and a few bots looking through thousands of lines of GPLed code looking for similarities. They then sue the writers of the code for stealing MS code and using it in GPL software (which would be very, very clearly against the law).
They don't have to even find similar code; just compatable code. If Microsoft's code is 'easily available' for viewing, interoperability projects like wine, openoffice, samba and mono have a much harder time proving that none of their programmers have ever viewed MS code, and that their own code is a 'cleanroom' reimplimentation rather than just a rewrite of MS's code.
No technical details, not even an 'open' demo so we can see it's not rigged.
The usual excuse; this is such advanced, groundbreaking stuff and he doesn't want anyone to steal his ideas until after he's been given some development capital.
Scam. Scam. Scam...
Nope. Even if you have a site licence, and buy 20 new machines with an OEM copy of windows, neither the OEM licence or the site licence covers reinstalling them to whatever configuration you use. You need to buy a THIRD licence on top of the two you already have.
IANAL, but that's from reading up MS's material.
MS have confirmed at various times that site licences don't cover naked PC's, even if they're replacing an already covered PC. (Free BBQ and lawn furnature if you catch someone doing this, remember?)
And that OEM licences don't apply if you reinstall the OS (using ghost or otherwise) from anywhere other than the CD supplied with your PC. Even if it's a new copy of the exact same OS.
Draw your own conlusions.
Funny but true; My wife who is really computerphobic used to use my Gnome desktop quite regularly for games and web browsing, although she mostly prefers windows98.
She refuses to use XP at all because it's 'too different' from what she's used to.
WTF?!! The difference between Gnome and 98 is less than the difference between 98 and XP? Well, that's what Sue seems to think!
Amongst other things, XP keeps shifting things around on the start menu and hides stuff if you haven't used it for a while. Sue HATES that!!
I know this analogy is still slightly flawed; it's more like growing your own Monsanto roundup-ready-canola without paying Monsanto for the seeds. But it is nothing like stealing actual vegetables from a store.
Incidentally, you might want to do a web search and read up on roundup-ready-canola. Monsanto is just the kind of company that might propose a tax on farming equipment to cover their 'seed piracy'
That was my first thought too.. curse you, now I'll get modded down as redundant!!
Someone please find me ONE page on the web where frames are actually used for something helpful. Because whenever I see them used they're either fuxoring up the page width or wasting half the available reading area with unscrollable menus and/or ads. Or both.
I don't normally agree with stupid patent abuse, but this one is almost a good thing!
Probably not air just yet, but we're only one step away from a levy on 3.5mm plugs, RCA connectors and shielded copper wire.
Damn. I posted this to be funny and it's not, because it's just far too close to reality.
Linux stability doesn't need ruining. the plethora of shit that comes with your average distribution does more than a good enough job.
so don't run redhat then.. sheesh!
But you -always- had the right to make copies for personal use, including a limited amount of 'copying for friends'. This was decided YEARS ago. Personal copying is part of fair use, which is a RIGHT you have always had. You don't owe the RIAA squat for it!
The RIAA are trying to prevent you from being able to make home copies, and persuade consumers that they don't have this right, which is bullshit. On top of that they're trying to be fully compensated for 'losses' they incur from consumers who manage to excercise their fair use rights despite the RIAA's legal posturing and technical measures. Which is double bullshit.
Fuck you RIAA. Fuck you Hillary. Stop messing with our rights.
it's like saying "grocery prices are outrageous... to show my malcontent i'll go rob a grocery store". the legal way to show malcontent is to not purchase the product. if enough ppl do this, things change.
Brilliant example. If grocery prices were being artificially jacked up by a marketing cartel, farmers were being paid shit wages, and there was a 'tax' on gardening tools and fertiliser that went to the same cartel to cover loss of profits due to home gardening. even if you were only using the tools and fertiliser to grow roses and not vegetables. That's about where we're at.
Be cautious of using a loopback address. It's not as simple as you think. Some of the loopback domains have a valid MX record, which means the mail WILL get delivered and probably end up bothering the postmaster at that domain.
.. sometimes it'll get stuck in a loop for hours. That's fine if you're dealing with real.com and only a little annoying if the address is picked up by relay-abusers (because the postmaster it annoys then is running an open relay and probably deserves to be annoyed. It's not so good if you're using a loopback address as spam-armouring in your postings and inobservant users try to mail that address, thus annoying their own postmasters..
When the loopback address doesn't have a valid domain, sendmail will try to deliver it to the A-record address, and fail with an error something like "SYSERR(root): warez.slash
dot.org. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?"
Crap. I used to have TWO; one was standard AT PSU size with a pair of fairly heavy duty 12v leads out of it, the other was the size of those old XT PSU's and wouldn't fit in a desktop case, but was OK in most towers.
Both would run for 10 or 15 minutes from a 6.5AH sealed battery. At one point I had the smaller one running from a car battery and it kept my machine running for the first six hours of what was supposed to be a two hour scheduled outage.
Sony has the RIGHT to bury their entire stock of PS2's and Aibo's in a 50 foot deep trench if they wanted to. They have an obligation to their shareholders not to do that, because it doesn't maximise profit.
They also have the RIGHT to prevent copying and/or reverse engineering, but in some cases excercising this right doesn't maxamise profit either.
Latency.. if you spread the bits out, you have to have a delay in the audio so you can collect them all together again. GSM already has a small (about 100ms I think) delay, which is hardly noticable, but anything longer gets to be quite distracting.
..I much prefer analog. You need tome rather fancy equipment to eavesdrop on digital cellphones, but I can listen in on analog cellphones using just a very old Motorola and a small strip of tinfoil.
Duh! If only signed content can be run, the virus will simply sign itself using -your- key before it forwards itself to everyone on your address book.
And yes; this will work. Automated signing will be an enabled-by-default feature of Outlook for the same reason blindly-running-untrusted-code was and still is..
Duh; referer can be used much more effectively to just break the damn link! Check the referer and if it's not yourself or an 'authorised' site, return a page saying deep linking isn't allowed. Or a 404. Or redirect them to goatse.cx. Sure, referer is easily dissabled, but not by the person doing the linking. 99% of web surfers will return the correct referer so for all practical purposes this approach completely kills deep linking.
To preventing framing there's a little javascript I've seen (somewhere; I didn't bookmark it) which checks if your're framed and reloads the page. I think you have to use javascript to open someone else's page in a frame anyhow; so either way you win.
You can tell all of the major search sites to not cache and/or not index your page in robots.txt. I'm not sure why any commercial site would want to be NOT indexed by search engines, but wtf.. if you want it you only have to ask!
It is utterly utterly STUPID to involve lawyers for something like this when there are such trivial technical solutions.
If it gets to be a problem, I suggest ANSA's Not Spam Assassin.
Another suggestion; we get to keep the name for the GPL's *NIX version as long as we continue to not release a free (GPL or beer) windows port.
I think you missed the point. Stealing them is still easy. Using them (or selling them) is a bit harder, since they have a left-handed thread and won't fit in a regular socket. Outside of the subway system these bulbs are effectively worthless.
Duh! That was really lame.
In America you check your watch,
in Soviet Russia your watch checks you...
It could be handy if you were living near Chernoble I guess. Then again if you had that kind of money you'd probably better spend it moving to a safer place. I assume this watch is for Nuclear Scientists, Radiotherapists, etc. Traditionally these people wore badges containing photographic film, which get developed and checked at the end of each day.
"FreeBSD herbert.oaco.tla 4.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #12: Wed Dec 25 18:05:10 NZDT 2002 root@herbert.oaco.tla:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386"
I can't speak for netBSD, but this is my main machine. I do basically all of everything I do on this, web design, some coding, experimenting with assorted packages. Plus it serves http, pop3, smb, dhcp and does NAT for the kids windows machines.
It's a little behind Linux in some areas, but it's a long way from 'dead'.
We've solved the problem by writing everything to HTML4.01 and using CSS for the layout.
It renders very nicely in IE. It looks almost exactly the same in Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, Amaya, dillo. It probably looks good for things like WebTV too. And it's perfectly useable in links or lynx.
I know you're going to say "But it looks like shit". Fuck you. the web is about content. You think Slashdot got to be popular because it's loaded with flash animations and background midi music?!!
It looks OK, it's got 'content' that people obviously want to read, and it works with practically any browser.
So what IS Dow's position on the original chemical spill? I couldn't find an official press release from them but clearly they don't want to take responsibility, and it's likely for much the same reasons that the 'dowethics' document says.
I don't think The Yes Men have misrepresented Dow Chemical's position at all. They've just expressed it a little more bluntly than Dow's lawyers are comfortable with..