AOLSearch.com is the name for African-American Online Search because #1: African-American is a hyphenated word..Not words, word....One word...#2: AAOLSearch.com seems like it'd be for Alcoholics Anonymous Online Search. #3: AAOLSearch.com would be a tongue tripper....My oldest domain site WebmasterFX is not easy to understand when spoken and I've learned the hard way not to confuse people with the domain names I create now..
Well, I think you missed part of my post. Online is one word. Not words, word....One word.;^)
AAOL = Alcoholics Anon Online? Nah, I doubt it. People should be getting there by hearing what it is first and getting the URL after that, not vice versa. Who is going to pull up "aolsearch" out of the air thinking its about African-Americans. You KNOW 99% of the people will hear "aolsearch" and think American Online! You've already got a confusing name.
As far as being a tonguetwister, well I don't doubt that. But I don't expect people to remember URLs unless they're written on paper or on the web somewhere anyway.
All that said, I don't like big companies trying to strongarm little companies (or anyone else) around. I also hate domain name squatting, but that's obviously not what you are doing. So I wish you luck. Oh, and you might want to post your message as a reply to the main article rather than as a reply to my reply. More people might see it that would just skip my thread.
I really don't understand. Shouldn't it be aaolsearch? I mean, if you're going to use "O" and "L" in a word like "online", it makes no sense to use only one "a".
Granted, I think if she registered for it first and had a legitimate interest in it (rather than domain name squatting), she should keep it.
Geez, this story is blown way out of proportion. You'd think this was a new policy statement by Demon or something. Instead, it's about one case in particular and only on Demon's newsserver. It also sounds as if the suspension is only temporary.
In fact, if you read the press release, it appears that Demon is strongly opposed to having to regulate content and would much prefer if the law was clarified to view them as a "common carrier". Read the press release in the link and you will see this.
Also, where did the claim that "if another customer follows- up the original article and has the same URL in the quoted text, they also get their access pulled." come from? They never addressed this in the article. It sounds like sheer speculation.
Pull your head out of your ass. There are several writers on slashdot. One is Katz. Another is Rob. Different people have different opinions. You're basically complaining because slashdot allows articles by people who don't all share the same opinion. Idiot.
Yes, I too have been a bit annoyed by Lucas. Most recently, I was saddened to see he plans to not release Star Wars on DVD until all 3 prequels were done. This is just ridiculous. The fans are what made Lucas, yet he is incredibly selfish when it comes to meeting the requests of the fans.
DESCRIPTION The kill utility sends the TERM signal to the processes specified by the pid operand(s).
Only the super-user may send signals to other users' processes.
The options are as follows:
-l List the signal names.
-signal_name A symbolic signal name specifying the signal to be sent instead of the default TERM. The -l option displays the signal names.
-signal_number A non-negative decimal integer, specifying the signal to be sent instead of the default TERM.
Some of the more commonly used signals:
-1 -1 (super-user broadcast to all processes, or user broadcast to user's processes) 0 0 (sh(1) only, signals all members of process group) 2 INT (interrupt) 3 QUIT (quit) 6 ABRT (abort) 9 KILL (non-catchable, non-ignorable kill) 14 ALRM (alarm clock) 15 TERM (software termination signal)
I think there are some important differences here.
A document describing top-secret military plans would be disclosing proprietary govt information. You would either have to be a person with top-secret access to get it, or you would have to get such a person to get it for you. Either way, they would be violating laws against stealing govt documents.
On the other hand, a program that you've either written from scratch or based on code/algorithms in the public domain would not involve such theft.
I do agree, though, that "free speech" is a wacky way to approach these laws.
Of course, I get this already and I don't even have a PDA. I just type so much that my writing skills are vestigial. He talks about anxiety over signing a check - I got that. Well, maybe not the anxiety bit, but I take a long time to remember what the heck my hand is supposed to be doing.
It's pretty spiffy, but I don't know if I'd actually want to use it. Grafitti is pretty intuitive because the letters are very close to the real thing. Quickwriting is a whole new writing system.
I think people are making far too much of the issue of Turing's sexuality.
I think the attitude here is probably the same at a lot of software companies - what good is a statue?
Why pour tons of money to put up some big hunk of metal in the guy's image? Why not set up a scholarship fund or something? Even if it only helped on kid a year go to college, it would be a lot more useful than a statue.
How is this any different than calling up all the employees at their office phone #s?
Sure, there are a lot of implications to this case, but I don't see how it's really new territory.
I think they should have used their own resources first. They should set their mail filters to junk mail coming from his known addresses. If he kept switching them to avoid this, I would think legal action would be justified. Take the exact same situation and apply it to telephones. It just makes sense.
Actually, I'm wondering how long it will be before my cable provider tries to bill me for a second IP address.
The thing is, I only have one computer. But I've been messing with VMWare using the bridged networking, so it can wind up pulling two IPs off the DHCP server at one time.
I do not look forward to trying to explain this...
You're obviously not putting in any serious effort here. If so, you'd see that Croc was a (gasp) crocodile, not a dragon. Kroc is basically Croc with wings and longer claws.
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Well, I think you missed part of my post. Online is one word. Not words, word....One word.
AAOL = Alcoholics Anon Online? Nah, I doubt it. People should be getting there by hearing what it is first and getting the URL after that, not vice versa. Who is going to pull up "aolsearch" out of the air thinking its about African-Americans. You KNOW 99% of the people will hear "aolsearch" and think American Online! You've already got a confusing name.
As far as being a tonguetwister, well I don't doubt that. But I don't expect people to remember URLs unless they're written on paper or on the web somewhere anyway.
All that said, I don't like big companies trying to strongarm little companies (or anyone else) around. I also hate domain name squatting, but that's obviously not what you are doing. So I wish you luck. Oh, and you might want to post your message as a reply to the main article rather than as a reply to my reply. More people might see it that would just skip my thread.
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Granted, I think if she registered for it first and had a legitimate interest in it (rather than domain name squatting), she should keep it.
Still, this never should have happened.
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In fact, if you read the press release, it appears that Demon is strongly opposed to having to regulate content and would much prefer if the law was clarified to view them as a "common carrier". Read the press release in the link and you will see this.
Also, where did the claim that "if another customer follows- up the original article and has the same URL in the quoted text, they also get their access pulled." come from? They never addressed this in the article. It sounds like sheer speculation.
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I enjoyed it. The person with me enjoyed it. My other friends who saw it all enjoyed it.
I wouldn't have paid $7 to see it, but it was well worth $4.
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I hate to interrupt your blustering, but I was speaking of Star Wars, as in the original movie entitled "Star Wars", i.e. Episode 4.
He doesn't want to release any of the Star Wars (4-6) movies on DVD until all the Star Wars prequels (1-3) are done.
In any case, I never claimed any rights. I simply said Lucas was being selfish. I stand by this assertion.
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NAME
kill - terminate or signal a process
SYNOPSIS
kill [-signal_name] pid
kill [-signal_number] pid
kill [-l]
DESCRIPTION
The kill utility sends the TERM signal to the processes specified by the
pid operand(s).
Only the super-user may send signals to other users' processes.
The options are as follows:
-l List the signal names.
-signal_name
A symbolic signal name specifying the signal to be sent instead
of the default TERM. The -l option displays the signal names.
-signal_number
A non-negative decimal integer, specifying the signal to be sent
instead of the default TERM.
Some of the more commonly used signals:
-1 -1 (super-user broadcast to all processes, or user
broadcast to user's processes)
0 0 (sh(1) only, signals all members of process group)
2 INT (interrupt)
3 QUIT (quit)
6 ABRT (abort)
9 KILL (non-catchable, non-ignorable kill)
14 ALRM (alarm clock)
15 TERM (software termination signal)
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It was a rhetorical question.
Basically, you can compile out binaries to assembly and ship that + an assembler as part of your program installer.
Hence, non-opensource encryption code can be shipped under the "free speech" precedent.
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Wouldn't assembly language be "source"?
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I think there are some important differences here.
A document describing top-secret military plans would be disclosing proprietary govt information. You would either have to be a person with top-secret access to get it, or you would have to get such a person to get it for you. Either way, they would be violating laws against stealing govt documents.
On the other hand, a program that you've either written from scratch or based on code/algorithms in the public domain would not involve such theft.
I do agree, though, that "free speech" is a wacky way to approach these laws.
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If "source code" is speech and you can't restrict that, what about binaries?
Someone mentioned that netscape would be able to exports their strong crypto version if this was upheld - but it's not distributed as source.
Methinks this is a big gray area.
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Hmmmm, now I'm thinking back and my reply seems a bit harsh. Don't take it too seriously.
I did make me think, though, that it might actually be related to a current hypothesis about CTS. Some researchers think its all in the mind.
But since this isn't the popular belief about CTS, I imagine that's not what you were referring to.
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Of course, I get this already and I don't even have a PDA. I just type so much that my writing skills are vestigial. He talks about anxiety over signing a check - I got that. Well, maybe not the anxiety bit, but I take a long time to remember what the heck my hand is supposed to be doing.
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Read the article.
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I think the attitude here is probably the same at a lot of software companies - what good is a statue?
Why pour tons of money to put up some big hunk of metal in the guy's image? Why not set up a scholarship fund or something? Even if it only helped on kid a year go to college, it would be a lot more useful than a statue.
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How is this any different than calling up all the employees at their office phone #s?
Sure, there are a lot of implications to this case, but I don't see how it's really new territory.
I think they should have used their own resources first. They should set their mail filters to junk mail coming from his known addresses. If he kept switching them to avoid this, I would think legal action would be justified. Take the exact same situation and apply it to telephones. It just makes sense.
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"And test results like these help explain why Windows NT Server 4.0 has so much support."
Ah, they speak the truth...
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Actually, I'm wondering how long it will be before my cable provider tries to bill me for a second IP address.
The thing is, I only have one computer. But I've been messing with VMWare using the bridged networking, so it can wind up pulling two IPs off the DHCP server at one time.
I do not look forward to trying to explain this...
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You're obviously not putting in any serious effort here. If so, you'd see that Croc was a (gasp) crocodile, not a dragon. Kroc is basically Croc with wings and longer claws.
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