Nice theory, but I don't know about that. Considering what these automated planes cost, and knowing that there's no one on board, there's no incentive *not* to shoot at them. I don't know enough about the Chinese military (or any military, frankly) to know how difficult it'd be to hit the thing when it's cruising around at 65,000 feet but it doesn't strike me as terribly practical.
That's a great way to keep from having to see and/or manually delete spam in your personal box, sure.
Another problem that spam gets attributed to -- bogging down servers as they work on trying to process massive amounts of e-mail -- won't be solved by scripts like this... the script might even contribute to this sort of thing, heh.
Having said that, I do the same thing, so...
No. If you buy a padlock, take it apart and learn how it works, fine. If you then put this knowledge to use to take other people's padlocked stuff, you're clearly committing a crime.
The problem with legislation like the DMCA seems to be that if you use your lockpicking skills to open up the shed in your backyard, you may be committing a crime... *shrug*
Either it's deisgned to operate without a pilot, or the plan has the untimely death of the pilot factored in, since the vehicle will "plunge into the pacific" to end its flight...
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Yeah, because when the Scientologist lawyers see that, they'll stop their legal wrangling and play nice, right?
Nice theory, but I don't know about that. Considering what these automated planes cost, and knowing that there's no one on board, there's no incentive *not* to shoot at them. I don't know enough about the Chinese military (or any military, frankly) to know how difficult it'd be to hit the thing when it's cruising around at 65,000 feet but it doesn't strike me as terribly practical.
That's a great way to keep from having to see and/or manually delete spam in your personal box, sure. Another problem that spam gets attributed to -- bogging down servers as they work on trying to process massive amounts of e-mail -- won't be solved by scripts like this... the script might even contribute to this sort of thing, heh. Having said that, I do the same thing, so...
No. If you buy a padlock, take it apart and learn how it works, fine. If you then put this knowledge to use to take other people's padlocked stuff, you're clearly committing a crime. The problem with legislation like the DMCA seems to be that if you use your lockpicking skills to open up the shed in your backyard, you may be committing a crime... *shrug*
Either it's deisgned to operate without a pilot, or the plan has the untimely death of the pilot factored in, since the vehicle will "plunge into the pacific" to end its flight...