I doubt that this will be resolved by telstra if threatened with action; action will have to be taken.
Telstra have been losing money for a while now due to shoddy work in all of their services. Consumers just wont stand for it any longer, and this is strongly reflected by their dropping share price. I believe they are losing money at such a rate that they refuse to outlay any on ressurecting this current spam problem - that, or they really are ignorant of the problem (due to incompitance).
channel 7, here in oz censor virutally every movie they show. imagine seeing a movie like pulp fiction with all the swearing blanked out. it gets rather tedius when every second sentence has a gap in it. or how about lock stock and two smoking barrels where whole scenes have been cut because they are deemed too offensive. and this is when the movie is on after 9pm when they are actually _allowed_ to show the material. our other channels really dont care too much about censoring this stuff, but have other problems (ch10 cuts off a few seconds beofre each ad during the simpsons to get more ads in, cutting off the punchline to many jokes)
a toaster mac once got sloten from my old high school. it was chucked out of a moving car on the freeway. the next week it was back in the classroom hooked up and humming away, it just had a large crack down the side.
Advances in optical-fibre making at the Australian Photonics research centre could bring communications at the speed of light into Australian homes and businesses in the next few years
someone will come up with a way to do it. how bout this...
the cd's must be read by something in order for the data to be useful. reverse the software that reads the cds for its proper purpose and use that code to read off isos.
i have also experienced the same thing with hardware - it degrades over time. is this sort of thing done deliberately in order for u to upgrade to more recent stuff?
plus hte small fact that everywhere in the world cept america it is spelt with an s. once again i must state that the world does not revolve around america
Think if every Tom, Dick and Harry started disobeying laws he didn't like? We'd have complete anarchy.
er.. every Tom Dick & Harry does break the laws they don't like. Think about it, thats what the police are there to enforce.
We dont have complete anarchy because people are afraid of the consequences if they get caught. This doesnt stop everyone, but it stops most people from breaking the laws, except those that they [believe they] can get away with. And software piracy is one example of these laws. Individuals pirate software because they know they're never going to get caught, and its easier than not pirating.
We do have anarchy, and anarchy is a good thing. It comes down to that whole ying/yang, good/evil thing - you absolutely cannot have one without the other. There needs to be a balance, and it sorts itself out. Crappy laws that get disobeyed get changed - often because they are enforced heavily and there is much public outcry.
Expect that the DMCA will be abolished or amended, because thats what happens in societies.
Win2k's (or XPs?) splash always strikes me as strange.. "Powered by Windows NT Technology" or some such when NT stands for New Technology)
well, as far as im aware, ms have never actually said what the NT in winnt stood for. until someone said new technology to me a few years ago, i always thought it stood for networking somethingerutha.
It's actually rare for Windows to *crash* for real.
i agree here, but...
Windows seems to raise many "false alarms". ie, it blue screens for no aparent reason, often when the user is doing something as simple as browsing the web. does malicious javascript really have to blue screen me?
The people who run/. don't have the power to send people with guns to your house to arrest you
the thought of the australian gov. sending out people with guns to my house over censorship is absolutely laughable... all oz citizens will know what i mean when i say that. the situation here is not quite like in the US.
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they mutate into coathangars... just look in your wardrobe
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what about the birth of christ?
I doubt that this will be resolved by telstra if threatened with action; action will have to be taken.
Telstra have been losing money for a while now due to shoddy work in all of their services. Consumers just wont stand for it any longer, and this is strongly reflected by their dropping share price.
I believe they are losing money at such a rate that they refuse to outlay any on ressurecting this current spam problem - that, or they really are ignorant of the problem (due to incompitance).
channel 7, here in oz censor virutally every movie they show. imagine seeing a movie like pulp fiction with all the swearing blanked out. it gets rather tedius when every second sentence has a gap in it. or how about lock stock and two smoking barrels where whole scenes have been cut because they are deemed too offensive. and this is when the movie is on after 9pm when they are actually _allowed_ to show the material. our other channels really dont care too much about censoring this stuff, but have other problems (ch10 cuts off a few seconds beofre each ad during the simpsons to get more ads in, cutting off the punchline to many jokes)
a toaster mac once got sloten from my old high school. it was chucked out of a moving car on the freeway. the next week it was back in the classroom hooked up and humming away, it just had a large crack down the side.
telstra would never allow this
this seems typically un borg-like. its more akin to a species evolving... that, is the future of AI.
someone will come up with a way to do it.
how bout this...
the cd's must be read by something in order for the data to be useful. reverse the software that reads the cds for its proper purpose and use that code to read off isos.
anything wrong with this idea?
i have also experienced the same thing with hardware - it degrades over time.
is this sort of thing done deliberately in order for u to upgrade to more recent stuff?
The US Govt. wants to control everything. without exception.
You shall be assimilated, resistance is terrorism.
they can have my spare cycles that i should be spending listening during maths lectures...
on the wehavethewayin website, it mentions openvms under commercial unices. it was my understanding that vms was not unix based, is this wrong?
actually, im quite fond of the beastie. tux kinda pisses me off
hmmm... yeah... maybe... nah
when i see ads for web developers and it says frontpage experience required, and says nothing about HTML knowledge, i start to wonder.
and how difficult would it be to export an environment variable and restart the font renderer when i click on a purdy gtk widget?
plus hte small fact that everywhere in the world cept america it is spelt with an s. once again i must state that the world does not revolve around america
er.. every Tom Dick & Harry does break the laws they don't like. Think about it, thats what the police are there to enforce.
We dont have complete anarchy because people are afraid of the consequences if they get caught. This doesnt stop everyone, but it stops most people from breaking the laws, except those that they [believe they] can get away with. And software piracy is one example of these laws. Individuals pirate software because they know they're never going to get caught, and its easier than not pirating.
We do have anarchy, and anarchy is a good thing. It comes down to that whole ying/yang, good/evil thing - you absolutely cannot have one without the other. There needs to be a balance, and it sorts itself out. Crappy laws that get disobeyed get changed - often because they are enforced heavily and there is much public outcry.
Expect that the DMCA will be abolished or amended, because thats what happens in societies.
i think he's saying that anyone can just remove the authentication stuff from bnetd, as it would be GPLed. and thus the exact same problem occurs
wrong. it would make no difference.
you mean you dont think that directx is "the best programming kit in the world"? im horrified.
well, mozilla's future looks dull if its still "a little crashy" in the year 200202
Win2k's (or XPs?) splash always strikes me as strange.. "Powered by Windows NT Technology" or some such when NT stands for New Technology)
well, as far as im aware, ms have never actually said what the NT in winnt stood for. until someone said new technology to me a few years ago, i always thought it stood for networking somethingerutha.
who knows, maybe it is like ATM machine
It's actually rare for Windows to *crash* for real.
i agree here, but...
Windows seems to raise many "false alarms". ie, it blue screens for no aparent reason, often when the user is doing something as simple as browsing the web. does malicious javascript really have to blue screen me?
The people who run /. don't have the power to send people with guns to your house to arrest you
the thought of the australian gov. sending out people with guns to my house over censorship is absolutely laughable... all oz citizens will know what i mean when i say that. the situation here is not quite like in the US.
they mutate into coathangars... just look in your wardrobe
anyone got plans for porting SDL to the AtheOS?