As an American living Europe, I see quite a bit of this type of reaction, coming mostly from 16-20 year old males with Mohawk haircuts, and clothespins through their noses and other various body parts. Their knee-jerk reactions are pretty much synonymous with your hero's actions -- they too, have an utter disdain for the property of others. If breaking a few windows in the local Mickey D's can somehow make a political statement about corporatism, globalization, anti-ecologism and any other -isms you care to through in, I sure don't see how. Jose in no way embodies American values.
I also noticed when checking out the articles that CNet uses doubleclick so you may want to browse the articles with cookies off.
Or use the Internet Junkbuster and selectively filter who you send cookies to. As a general rule, I don't visit sites that require me to accept a cookie unless 1) I really need something there, or 2) it's in my own best interests to accept the cookie. DoubleClick's cookies fall into neither of those two categories.
The date, 21 Jan 2000, is probably accurate. A quick AltaVista search for that particular article title shows matches at the Microsoft TechNet site as early as 10 Feb. A more likely explanation is that M$'s search engine didn't get updated in a timely fashion. Or M$ paid off AltaVista to pre-date their index (which isn't very likely at all).
Sure the implications of allowing a larger voice from a community are there, when considering the amount of ppl using the internet, but what about all the trolls, (l)users, and other moronic types..
Actually, I'd be more worried about people who have no internet access at all. There is still a considerable percentage of the population that has no internet access (hard to believe, but it's true), and there's the danger that movements that exist only "on-line" would disenfranchise these people. You could also include in this category those who are not technically saavy enough to digitally sign a document.
I think electronic petitions are a good idea, but for the future. We're not quite there yet.
The article fails to mention that President Clinton has been one of the most prolific supporters of the Human Genome Project. The "dress stains" alone probably cut 2-3 months off of the total time to completion, and hence it is only fitting that he be allowed to make the announcement.
What would automatically disqualify a movie from being considered for an Academy Award at the turn of the century?
Uh, I hate to mention this, but the new rules actually don't change anything. Made-for-TV and made-for-cable movies have never been eligible for Oscars. They may be trying to hold on to a historical format, but the fact is, this isn't news.
A quick check of the Network Security Technologies website has a bit more info than the CNN article. Read their advisory here. Apparently, the Serbian Badman Trojan (as they're calling it) is using an IRC channel to report the compromised IP address, and then starts listening on a port -- this is why they think it could presumably be used for a DDoS attack.
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Still I think that the Post Anonymously option should be kept for those who are logged in.
Absolutely. To post, you should be logged in, but have the option of hiding your info from the world. If your login ID abuses the system too much (judged by downward moderations), then it should be disabled, or automagically adjusted to -1 for a day or so.
While I agree that the Divas have been wronged here, would this story have been posted if it didn't involve MS? Somehow I doubt it.
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Why is it that when the Big Guy (tm) steals or takes advantage of the little guy's (or gal's in this case) copyright/trademark/domain/etc that/. gets all rush to their defense. But when the little guy (Napster/Gnutella/etc) steals the big guy's property, suddenly copyrights and trademarks mean nothing. You can't have it both ways.
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OK - I suppose it's wishful thinking to hope that users would realize by now not to open e-mail attachments they know nothing about...
Personally, I loved the quote from the journalist who said that she was suspicious when she received 5 copies of it, but since the last one was from Dow Jones, she opened it anyway...:-)
In the USA, I believe that many states make criminal and court records to be public records. In the state of Texas, you can look up criminal records (for a small fee) or sex offender information (for free). There is a disclaimer on the site warning about trying to use information based solely upon a person's name. Personally, I believe that court records should be a matter of public record.
... at least according to this FAQ. It appears that it is an ISO-only distribution, and that source code is available in/REDHAT/RPMS/. Whether it's the complete source to everything (doubtful), or just to the kernel, or just to the things they have modified, I don't know. Has anyone actually pulled down an ISO and burned a CD?
Drunk men waste far more than $15.00 just ordering drinks. Ever been sitting at a bar and go to pay for that one last drink and sit there intently trying to count those one dollar bills in your pocket, hoping not to get it wrong, then just say "fuck it" and pile the entire mess on the table and ask the bartender to keep em coming until you run out? Just losing $15.00 on a binge should be considered a fortunate fate!
Actually, drunk men used to end up enlisted in the Army. I'd just take the $15, write it off, and remember that far worse things can happen...
After a quick read through the license, one thing jumped out at me. Section 4(d):
(d) make reasonable efforts to discontinue distribution of the Covered Code upon Eclipse's release of an update, upgrade or new version of the Covered Code and to make reasonable efforts to distribute such updates, upgrades or new versions to your customers who have received the Covered Code herein;
If you make significant modifications to the engine for use in your game, and they release a new version, then you're bound to distribute those changes. The question lies in what is considered "reasonable efforts". Considering the size of most 3-d games, this provision ranges from unenforcable to severely limiting open usage of the engine. If you use a highly modified version of their engine and distribute with source, you're covered until they release a new version. If your changes aren't compatible with theirs, it becomes a question of who defines what reasonable efforts are. Of course, one always has the option of actually buying a license to the code -- which, if you're selling a product that uses the library, makes sense and is even the right thing to do. This provision gives them a pretty big stick in getting commercial users of the engine to cough up some cash, but depending on their benevolence, may allow non-commercial developers some leeway.
There's another huge reason why you wouldn't want to download anything other than illegal stuff via gnaptella -- downloading precompiled drivers, programs, etc. from other than the manufacturer or other established sites is just begging to have your computer hit with a trojan or virus.
In my opinion, it pretty much already *has* forked. But the question should read, "Does it really matter?" As long as the vast majority of software comes with source code, and the OS has a standard compiler, then fragmentation is not a problem. Unixes have been fragmented for years. But since you simply downloaded the source code, did a "make config; install", it didn't really matter. And for the same reason, it won't be a problem with Linux as long as two things happen. Source code to major components must always be available to be rebuilt on "non-standard" systems, and software must be written with portability in mind.
Enough with overclocking already. This isn't your $70 Celeron toy. When you get to work +$5.000 chips , you are free to overclock them but I doubt it even occurred to anyone to overclock their $9000 UltraSparc cpu or similar. Yep, overclocking is stupid. flame on..
Acutally, when I used to work in Ross (used to manufacture CPUs for Suns) in their modules lab, one of the things that we routinely did was to overclock the CPUs (not to mention other nasty little tricks involving soldering, cutting traces on the MB with an exacto knife, etc.). Mostly it's just a matter of providing proper heat sinks and air circulation. So it did actually occur to at least someone.:-) But you're right in that no serious business customer is going to overclock their high-end workstations and risk invalidating the warranty.
(iv) by using the domain name, you have intentionally attempted to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to your web site or other on-line location, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the complainant's mark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of your web site or location or of a product or service on your web site or location.
Actually, based on this and the other criteria for applicability, it sounds like Jackie Franck (author of AudioGrabber) has a pretty good case for getting the AudioGrabber.com domain. This is definitely one instance that I'd like to see happen.
he bad thing about how this company does it is you have no way to shut it off. With cookies, you do. That makes me sad.
I suspect that it shouldn't be too hard to add the ability to "unpoison" URLs to the Internet JunkBuster. The author of Unpoison himself suggests that it should be rewritten in C or some other non-interpreted language for performance reasons.
This is great news, but the fact is, that it can be stopped already. The Internet Junkbuster does a fantastic job of filtering out banner ads, and can be used to filter cookies as well. DoubleClick (and others) can try to track me as much as they like, but since I have the IJB set up to reject all cookies that I haven't explicitly allowed, they're going to have a hard time doing so.
Given that the entire list has been decoded, you could have really produced a valid statistic by taking an actual random sample of 50 working.edu sites from the whole list. Merely using the first 50 is not a random sample. Actually, I just went through all of the "geocities.com/SiliconValley/*" sites listed as a quick test. Most didn't exist, and of those that did, only 4 (out of 20 or so) actually had pr0n on them. I might put together a quick test utility to pull down 1000 pages and look them over. That would probably give a more accurate percentage of invalid blocks. Keep selecting random URLs from the list until I've got 1000.
"$3 a track = $36 for an album!!! Will people actually pay that when they can just rip from a CD?" Actually, they probably will. If you want the whole CD, it's cheaper to get the CD, but if you only want 1-2 songs, then it's cheaper to get just the 1-2 songs. I personally have stopped buying more than about 2-3 CDs a year -- something about paying $20 for about $1 (if even that much) in raw materials.
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As an American living Europe, I see quite a bit of this type of reaction, coming mostly from 16-20 year old males with Mohawk haircuts, and clothespins through their noses and other various body parts. Their knee-jerk reactions are pretty much synonymous with your hero's actions -- they too, have an utter disdain for the property of others. If breaking a few windows in the local Mickey D's can somehow make a political statement about corporatism, globalization, anti-ecologism and any other -isms you care to through in, I sure don't see how. Jose in no way embodies American values.
Happy Fourth to you, too.
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I also noticed when checking out the articles that CNet uses doubleclick so you may want to browse the articles with cookies off.
Or use the Internet Junkbuster and selectively filter who you send cookies to. As a general rule, I don't visit sites that require me to accept a cookie unless 1) I really need something there, or 2) it's in my own best interests to accept the cookie. DoubleClick's cookies fall into neither of those two categories.
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The date, 21 Jan 2000, is probably accurate. A quick AltaVista search for that particular article title shows matches at the Microsoft TechNet site as early as 10 Feb. A more likely explanation is that M$'s search engine didn't get updated in a timely fashion. Or M$ paid off AltaVista to pre-date their index (which isn't very likely at all).
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Sure the implications of allowing a larger voice from a community are there, when considering the amount of ppl using the internet, but what about all the trolls, (l)users, and other moronic types..
Actually, I'd be more worried about people who have no internet access at all. There is still a considerable percentage of the population that has no internet access (hard to believe, but it's true), and there's the danger that movements that exist only "on-line" would disenfranchise these people. You could also include in this category those who are not technically saavy enough to digitally sign a document.
I think electronic petitions are a good idea, but for the future. We're not quite there yet.
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The article fails to mention that President Clinton has been one of the most prolific supporters of the Human Genome Project. The "dress stains" alone probably cut 2-3 months off of the total time to completion, and hence it is only fitting that he be allowed to make the announcement.
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What would automatically disqualify a movie from being considered for an Academy Award at the turn of the century?
Uh, I hate to mention this, but the new rules actually don't change anything. Made-for-TV and made-for-cable movies have never been eligible for Oscars. They may be trying to hold on to a historical format, but the fact is, this isn't news.
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A quick check of the Network Security Technologies website has a bit more info than the CNN article. Read their advisory here. Apparently, the Serbian Badman Trojan (as they're calling it) is using an IRC channel to report the compromised IP address, and then starts listening on a port -- this is why they think it could presumably be used for a DDoS attack.
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Not really.
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Still I think that the Post Anonymously option should be kept for those who are logged in.
Absolutely. To post, you should be logged in, but have the option of hiding your info from the world. If your login ID abuses the system too much (judged by downward moderations), then it should be disabled, or automagically adjusted to -1 for a day or so.
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While I agree that the Divas have been wronged here, would this story have been posted if it didn't involve MS? Somehow I doubt it.
/. gets all rush to their defense. But when the little guy (Napster/Gnutella/etc) steals the big guy's property, suddenly copyrights and trademarks mean nothing. You can't have it both ways.
<RANT>
Why is it that when the Big Guy (tm) steals or takes advantage of the little guy's (or gal's in this case) copyright/trademark/domain/etc that
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/ME waits for the karma to take a diva
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The poison brought from Redman will be extracted from my equipment.
Uh, you probably meant Redmond. Unless your computer was poisoned by a native American.
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OK - I suppose it's wishful thinking to hope that users would realize by now not to open e-mail attachments they know nothing about...
:-)
Personally, I loved the quote from the journalist who said that she was suspicious when she received 5 copies of it, but since the last one was from Dow Jones, she opened it anyway...
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In the USA, I believe that many states make criminal and court records to be public records. In the state of Texas, you can look up criminal records (for a small fee) or sex offender information (for free). There is a disclaimer on the site warning about trying to use information based solely upon a person's name. Personally, I believe that court records should be a matter of public record.
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... at least according to this FAQ. It appears that it is an ISO-only distribution, and that source code is available in /REDHAT/RPMS/. Whether it's the complete source to everything (doubtful), or just to the kernel, or just to the things they have modified, I don't know. Has anyone actually pulled down an ISO and burned a CD?
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Drunk men waste far more than $15.00 just ordering drinks. Ever been sitting at a bar and go to pay for that one last drink and sit there intently trying to count those one dollar bills in your pocket, hoping not to get it wrong, then just say "fuck it" and pile the entire mess on the table and ask the bartender to keep em coming until you run out? Just losing $15.00 on a binge should be considered a fortunate fate!
Actually, drunk men used to end up enlisted in the Army. I'd just take the $15, write it off, and remember that far worse things can happen...
Anybody remember the nuns in the TV ads?
The Czech nuns with the beeper?
If you use a highly modified version of their engine and distribute with source, you're covered until they release a new version. If your changes aren't compatible with theirs, it becomes a question of who defines what reasonable efforts are. Of course, one always has the option of actually buying a license to the code -- which, if you're selling a product that uses the library, makes sense and is even the right thing to do.
This provision gives them a pretty big stick in getting commercial users of the engine to cough up some cash, but depending on their benevolence, may allow non-commercial developers some leeway.
There's another huge reason why you wouldn't want to download anything other than illegal stuff via gnaptella -- downloading precompiled drivers, programs, etc. from other than the manufacturer or other established sites is just begging to have your computer hit with a trojan or virus.
In my opinion, it pretty much already *has* forked. But the question should read, "Does it really matter?" As long as the vast majority of software comes with source code, and the OS has a standard compiler, then fragmentation is not a problem. Unixes have been fragmented for years. But since you simply downloaded the source code, did a "make config; install", it didn't really matter. And for the same reason, it won't be a problem with Linux as long as two things happen. Source code to major components must always be available to be rebuilt on "non-standard" systems, and software must be written with portability in mind.
Enough with overclocking already. This isn't your $70 Celeron toy. When you get to work +$5.000 chips , you are free to overclock them but I doubt it even occurred to anyone to overclock their $9000 UltraSparc cpu or similar. Yep, overclocking is stupid. flame on ..
:-) But you're right in that no serious business customer is going to overclock their high-end workstations and risk invalidating the warranty.
Acutally, when I used to work in Ross (used to manufacture CPUs for Suns) in their modules lab, one of the things that we routinely did was to overclock the CPUs (not to mention other nasty little tricks involving soldering, cutting traces on the MB with an exacto knife, etc.). Mostly it's just a matter of providing proper heat sinks and air circulation. So it did actually occur to at least someone.
(iv) by using the domain name, you have intentionally attempted to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to your web site or other on-line location, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the complainant's mark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of your web site or location or of a product or service on your web site or location.
Actually, based on this and the other criteria for applicability, it sounds like Jackie Franck (author of AudioGrabber) has a pretty good case for getting the AudioGrabber.com domain. This is definitely one instance that I'd like to see happen.
he bad thing about how this company does it is you have no way to shut it off. With cookies, you do. That makes me sad.
I suspect that it shouldn't be too hard to add the ability to "unpoison" URLs to the Internet JunkBuster. The author of Unpoison himself suggests that it should be rewritten in C or some other non-interpreted language for performance reasons.
This is great news, but the fact is, that it can be stopped already. The Internet Junkbuster does a fantastic job of filtering out banner ads, and can be used to filter cookies as well. DoubleClick (and others) can try to track me as much as they like, but since I have the IJB set up to reject all cookies that I haven't explicitly allowed, they're going to have a hard time doing so.
Given that the entire list has been decoded, you could have really produced a valid statistic by taking an actual random sample of 50 working .edu sites from the whole list. Merely using the first 50 is not a random sample.
Actually, I just went through all of the "geocities.com/SiliconValley/*" sites listed as a quick test. Most didn't exist, and of those that did, only 4 (out of 20 or so) actually had pr0n on them. I might put together a quick test utility to pull down 1000 pages and look them over. That would probably give a more accurate percentage of invalid blocks. Keep selecting random URLs from the list until I've got 1000.
"$3 a track = $36 for an album!!! Will people actually pay that when they can just rip from a CD?"
Actually, they probably will. If you want the whole CD, it's cheaper to get the CD, but if you only want 1-2 songs, then it's cheaper to get just the 1-2 songs. I personally have stopped buying more than about 2-3 CDs a year -- something about paying $20 for about $1 (if even that much) in raw materials.