There's another "legitimate" portal site called Go Hip! that also uses viral advertising.
If you use Outlook and Explorer, the virus will add another "toolbar" to your browser (which only contains banner ads), and attaches an advertisement for itself onto the end of every email you send out. The program does all of this without the users knowledge or permission.
I would normally call this just merely annoying except for the fact that it is impossible to uninstall it via any normal means. I removed it from my registry, but it just copied itself back. The only way to remove it is to dig deep in Go Hip!'s customer service page and run a "remove" utility.
It was an American company, no? Which means it was a legal entity incorporated within the US, and therefore subject to US (mostly state-level) authority.
If my "company" has no presence in the US, they can't really do anything.
2) Don't put stuff up in violation of copyright. It does not belong to you.
What is and is not legally copyrighted is subject to many differences of opinion. If I want to express my opinion, I think I may have to do it elsewhere.
I'm not suggesting that China is some great haven for free expression, but their government seems to take great pleasure in (what they percieve to be) anti-capitalist expression such as mp3 trading, linux, etc. The _massive_ HK warez scene operates above ground and unchallenged.
I just got a free webmail account on mol.mn (Mongolia online, in the Mongolian People's Republic), and I am going to try and see of I can get webspace there also specifically for DVCSS-type information.
I never wanted to be in the computer industry at all! I just wanted to start some internet company, IPO it in 6 months, and retire at 35 like everyone else I golf with has!
Waaah! Newsweek promised me the internet would make me stinkin' rich for free!
I'm no wizard at DNS, but IIRC, you specify who your top-level domain is in your configuration files.
Of course, that would almost certainly mean name reolution would only work for people using the same server...
But what the hell, I'm game. Let's start a second TLD based on principles of truth, justice, OSS, GNU, and the American Way. (by which I mean not the OSI way)
I'll make suckers who use OSI remember my raw IP address.
I've been standing on the sidelines here through the DMCA passage and through the DVD fiasco, but attacking Slashdot directly? That's an attack on where I live!
So if/. needs money, people to show up in court in ties, or someone to lob malotov cocktails, just tell me where you want me.
It could be said that "linux" excels at "tying it all together". ie, if there are two obscure systems or devices that need to talk to each other, Linux is the best way to tie them all together.
Someday I'll have to tell y'all the funny story of how my workstation accidentally started routing between our ethernet and token ring networks for our entire corporate WAN.
One of the crackpots who came in nearly every day always had a great idea for a game, but wanted us to write it. He called it Metal Detecting From Hell.
You were the metal detector, and things would pop out of the groubd and attack you.
For some reason the altaic languages (at least the ones I study, which are mostly the Eastern branch) acquire and lose vocabulary very very quickly.
Korean and Japanese, which are certainly related, have virtually no cognates aside from words that come from more recent borrowings from Chinese. Compare that with English and other low-Germanic languages (Dutch, Frisian) which have many cognates.
Likewise, Classical Japanese of only 400 years ago is completely incomprehensible to any Japanese who has not been instructed in it. The verb endings, cases, and personal pronouns of (for example) the 'Tsurezuregusa' are not even remotely similar to modern Japanese.
Again contrast that with English, or just about any other language. Shakespeare is difficult certainly, but it can still be parsed by most English speakers.
Contrarywise, *phonologically* Japanese (and Korean, etc.) remain very pure, where pronunciations of English vary quite a bit from place to place.
I have just accepted the fact that Japanese likes to completely replace its entire lexicon every 1000 years or so as a feature of the language.
When someone tells me Japanese has acquired a new vowel, or an additional sentence-final consonant, then I'll be alarmed.
Every time I start up the player, I get a dialog to the effect of:
REAL PLAYER IS NOT CURRENTLY YOUR DEFAULT VIEWER FOR FILES WITH THE.ARJ EXTENSION. DO YOU WANT TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE BY RIGHTING THIS HISTORIC INJUSTICE? [Y/Y]
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There's another "legitimate" portal site called Go Hip! that also uses viral advertising.
If you use Outlook and Explorer, the virus will add another "toolbar" to your browser (which only contains banner ads), and attaches an advertisement for itself onto the end of every email you send out. The program does all of this without the users knowledge or permission.
I would normally call this just merely annoying except for the fact that it is impossible to uninstall it via any normal means. I removed it from my registry, but it just copied itself back. The only way to remove it is to dig deep in Go Hip!'s customer service page and run a "remove" utility.
Well, if you want to criticize China, best to do it in the Us.
If you want to criticize the US...
It was an American company, no? Which means it was a legal entity incorporated within the US, and therefore subject to US (mostly state-level) authority.
If my "company" has no presence in the US, they can't really do anything.
What is and is not legally copyrighted is subject to many differences of opinion. If I want to express my opinion, I think I may have to do it elsewhere.
No, 'cause then USSpacecom would zap it with a giant "laser" from one of their killer sattelites.
Governments in S. America or Africa would probably cave to whatever the FBI wanted with just a phone call.
Better be a country where the US government can't intimidate. Malaysia or Singapore maybe. Or Cuba!
Why didn't I think of that before? Cuba'd be perfect.
I'm not suggesting that China is some great haven for free expression, but their government seems to take great pleasure in (what they percieve to be) anti-capitalist expression such as mp3 trading, linux, etc. The _massive_ HK warez scene operates above ground and unchallenged.
I just got a free webmail account on mol.mn (Mongolia online, in the Mongolian People's Republic), and I am going to try and see of I can get webspace there also specifically for DVCSS-type information.
I never wanted to be in the computer industry at all! I just wanted to start some internet company, IPO it in 6 months, and retire at 35 like everyone else I golf with has!
Waaah! Newsweek promised me the internet would make me stinkin' rich for free!
:)
Just kidding.
I'm no wizard at DNS, but IIRC, you specify who your top-level domain is in your configuration files.
Of course, that would almost certainly mean name reolution would only work for people using the same server...
But what the hell, I'm game. Let's start a second TLD based on principles of truth, justice, OSS, GNU, and the American Way. (by which I mean not the OSI way)
I'll make suckers who use OSI remember my raw IP address.
Later on in Katsuhiro Otomo's "Akira" series, lord Tetsuo blows a big chunk out of the moon to demonstrate his power.
It basically f*cked up the tides worldwide. Scary.
Not to nitpick, but RCF should be "Request For Comments", or "RFC".
Hope this helps
I've been standing on the sidelines here through the DMCA passage and through the DVD fiasco, but attacking Slashdot directly? That's an attack on where I live!
/. needs money, people to show up in court in ties, or someone to lob malotov cocktails, just tell me where you want me.
So if
This has me nail-spittin' mad.
It could be said that "linux" excels at "tying it all together". ie, if there are two obscure systems or devices that need to talk to each other, Linux is the best way to tie them all together.
Someday I'll have to tell y'all the funny story of how my workstation accidentally started routing between our ethernet and token ring networks for our entire corporate WAN.
And didn't to too crummy a job either.
I only want one if the guys from Tai Seng who subtitle Jet Li movies design it.
I just woke up, and I parsed the headline as "NSA Snakebots Slither Into Your Furniture".
That sure as heck woke me up.
Medicines are certainly a great advance, but I'm not sure I'd call them feats of engineering.
Horses?
Oh yeah, mounds of dead horses...
What, like a 50-horse pileup? Just don't take your horse above 25 on those foggy mornings.
That's all fine and good until the US:
a) builds its anti-missile defense system.
b) perfects its orbital weapons (check out the USSPACECOM websites).
Then we can "project our power" (IYKWIM-AITYD) all over the globe without fear of retaliation!
Borrowing great engineering achievments of the 19th century to pad our list, are we?
When I was 16 I worked briefly at an Amiga store.
One of the crackpots who came in nearly every day always had a great idea for a game, but wanted us to write it. He called it Metal Detecting From Hell.
You were the metal detector, and things would pop out of the groubd and attack you.
I agree. That's the lamest thing I ever posted.
Ironically however, that is the most karma I ever earned from a single post. My "insightful" and "informative" posts get at best a 2.
This is the second OS Card story on slashdot today!!
:p
Interestingly enough, he's a regular "columnist" on the Mormon section of the religious website www.belief.net.
For some reason the altaic languages (at least the ones I study, which are mostly the Eastern branch) acquire and lose vocabulary very very quickly.
Korean and Japanese, which are certainly related, have virtually no cognates aside from words that come from more recent borrowings from Chinese. Compare that with English and other low-Germanic languages (Dutch, Frisian) which have many cognates.
Likewise, Classical Japanese of only 400 years ago is completely incomprehensible to any Japanese who has not been instructed in it. The verb endings, cases, and personal pronouns of (for example) the 'Tsurezuregusa' are not even remotely similar to modern Japanese.
Again contrast that with English, or just about any other language. Shakespeare is difficult certainly, but it can still be parsed by most English speakers.
Contrarywise, *phonologically* Japanese (and Korean, etc.) remain very pure, where pronunciations of English vary quite a bit from place to place.
I have just accepted the fact that Japanese likes to completely replace its entire lexicon every 1000 years or so as a feature of the language.
When someone tells me Japanese has acquired a new vowel, or an additional sentence-final consonant, then I'll be alarmed.
Oh, I forgot about that.
.ARJ EXTENSION. DO YOU WANT TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE BY RIGHTING THIS HISTORIC INJUSTICE?
Every time I start up the player, I get a dialog to the effect of:
REAL PLAYER IS NOT CURRENTLY YOUR DEFAULT VIEWER FOR FILES WITH THE
[Y/Y]