I wonder what Touretzky would do if I printed up t-shirt's with all his credit card numbers, addresses, social security numbers and then sold them. By his argument it would be legal
Really?? Where's the speech? where's the expression? All you're doing is regurgitating data. That may have been adequate for college tests, but it isn't speech, it isn't an expression. Now, if you did something creative with all that data (make Yet Another ASCII Tux, for instance) that would be protected.
If the censors can see that there is encrypted data flowing between you and them, that may be enough to be suspicion of comitting a crime against the state which may be enough to warrant arrest.
No, it would be proof. Honest citizens wouldn't need to encrypt their messages. Aren't the Brits contemplating enacting a law that makes it a crime to refuse to give up the decryption key??
Note the key word...businesses. There's no law saying you have to use it (yet at least). If you don't like it then make your own.
Talk about missing the point.
The point being if there is enough I tried to use your website, but it laughed at my browser, so I trundled over to your competitor who writes web pages readable by everyone and I've been quite happy spending money there, money you would have gotten had your web team done a proper design since this is the WWW not the MWW. HTH. HAND.
And yes, voting with your $$$'s -- and letting the victims know -- works.
Have you considered that there are people working for the government who care about our country as much, if not more than, we do?
I enjoy comments such as yours, as it gives me an opportunity to trot out one of my favorite qoutes:
Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -- C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
According to you, we in the USA no longer need the 1st, 2nd, 4th or 5th amendments. Why should the FBI (or any LEO) be burdened by having to go to a court for a search warrant? surely, if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear if they show up and ask to inspect your residence. And why shouldn't criminals be made to testify against themselves???
Oh, yeah, I'm sure I'm gonna trust 'em to be honest. They wouldn't break any laws, like allowing the White House access to background check files of potential political foes. They wouldn't plant evidence, or give false testimony (hey to the L.A. PD!), nor do anything unjust!
Perhaps the legitimate owners of the domain you're forging, if you're not using a blatantly invalid email address (something@somewhere.invalid).
As for the user+whatever@legit.address notation, not all address verifiers on web pages accept the +whatever part. Seems that some programmers feel they can regex out valid and invalid addresses. snicker
They said that when someone performs a benchmark in the future and it shows Linux outperforming Windows NT or 2000 by a sizeable margin, the Linux zealots will claim that THIS benchmark is the correct one and Mindcraft will be PROVEN wrong.
Yes, and? Thems that live by the benchmark (Mindcraft and Microsoft) deserve to die by the benchmark. Let them eat crow.
The specifications (i.e. processor speed, memory) seem pretty similar to that of intel PCs - what exactly is in a SPARC that justifies its price?
Hmmm?? I just picked up a pair of Ultra 5's on an educational discount for ~US$1250. IIRC, that's with 9gb drive, 128mb ram, and Solaris 8 Right-To-Use-License.
um, WRONG./. IS a public company. It was bought by Andover.net which was public, then was bought by VA Linux which is a publicly owned company. Nice try tho.
Yes, and? you own how many stocks?
1. bias could get them sued because their only protection is that they are an unbiased reporting agency that itself does not editorialize. Only its editors editorialize.
Oh, right, like editorial commentary doesn't slip into "mainstream media coverage".
2. if I was a majority shareholder, I could put pressure to have all of them fired if they didn't post favorable stories about M$ and then have all the people that talked crap about M$ moderated down. how you like DEM apples?
Oh, sure, you could. Then a new slash-dot.org would rise up, and you'd devalue your own holdings. Typical shortsighted business management. But you don't own any stocks, do you?
3. this is no longer a bunch of guys running an underground news service from their garage. This is a public company that has to report its earnings, its page hits, server stats, ad banner revenues, etc. face it,/. is part of corporate america whether they want to admit it or not.
Yes, and? It's Slashdot for crying out loud, not the Wall Street Journal.
But offer a CHOICE. Or do you Debian folks PH33R to facilitate free decisions and free thinking by the Linux user?
Well, maybe if you had read some of the refered to documents, you might have noticed this:
The fact that our users can easily install KDE, by simply adding a line to their/etc/apt/sources.list, like this:
deb http://kde.tdyc.com slink kde contrib should go some way to prove that this is not some sort of anti-KDE vendetta.
If you're going to write a virus to advertise your stupid porn website, at least have some originality and write a nice, new virus from scratch instead of stealing someone else's idea.
These are spammers you're talking about:
1. Spammers are dumb as a post. 2. Spammers lie. 3. If in doubt, refer to 1. or 2.
When is the last time you saw an original spam? 1996??
Evolution will: crash, lose your mail, leave stray processes running, consume 100% CPU, race, lock, send HTML mail to random mailing lists, and embarass you in front of your friends and co-workers.
Wow. I'm in awe. 100% compatibility with Outlook, and it's only at version 0.0!!!!
Is this really the right place to be asking this? Maybe you could just read the license instead.
Ok, let's take a look-see, shall we?
Netscape Communications Corporation (`Netscape') owns the copyright to the compilation of the different contributions, and makes the Open Directory available to you to use under the following license agreement terms and conditions (`Open Directory License').[emphasis mine]
Ok, so what will prevent AOL from changing the license tomorrow to "and you will pay us tribute yearly, and you will volunteer for Steve Case's favorite charity 3 times a year"?
Answer: not a damn thing, except maybe public opinion.
The device is very interesting, but what gives SmartData the right to patent it?
I have seen several querys about this. Is quite simple:
"his company has applied for a patent on 'technology that enables the production of cost effective credit card sized modular pocket internet appliances'." [emphasis mine]
It is a manufacturing process patent. It isn't look, it isn't size, it isn't feel. This is the sort of thing patents are supposed to protect.
[The anti-Christ] also forced everyone, small and great... to receive a mark [smart card?] on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark -Revelation 13:16
Go look at the currency in your pocket. Does it not have a mark upon it? can you buy or sell with out it?
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You wouldn't be advocating government sponsored censorship, would you?
James
Really?? Where's the speech? where's the expression? All you're doing is regurgitating data. That may have been adequate for college tests, but it isn't speech, it isn't an expression. Now, if you did something creative with all that data (make Yet Another ASCII Tux, for instance) that would be protected.
James
Sure it is. Have you never seen one festooned with BumperSnickers?
Evolutionists probably find the darwin fish to be offensive, and I'm sure the Redmondians find the Linux|Linus fish offensive as well...
James
No, it would be proof. Honest citizens wouldn't need to encrypt their messages. Aren't the Brits contemplating enacting a law that makes it a crime to refuse to give up the decryption key??
James
Of course it would. It's already happened. Duh.
The irony is that the "opressive regieme" which you rebelled from in 1776 is more free today than you are now. Tsk, tsk.
Really? are you sure that a nation that permits the constabulary to forcibly extract your DNA is really free?
James
He should have recused himself as soon as he found out what the subject of the trial was.
James
Talk about missing the point.
The point being if there is enough I tried to use your website, but it laughed at my browser, so I trundled over to your competitor who writes web pages readable by everyone and I've been quite happy spending money there, money you would have gotten had your web team done a proper design since this is the WWW not the MWW. HTH. HAND.
And yes, voting with your $$$'s -- and letting the victims know -- works.
James
While that's so, the Romans had an applicable phrase: caveat emptor.
James
I enjoy comments such as yours, as it gives me an opportunity to trot out one of my favorite qoutes:
According to you, we in the USA no longer need the 1st, 2nd, 4th or 5th amendments. Why should the FBI (or any LEO) be burdened by having to go to a court for a search warrant? surely, if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear if they show up and ask to inspect your residence. And why shouldn't criminals be made to testify against themselves???
Oh, yeah, I'm sure I'm gonna trust 'em to be honest. They wouldn't break any laws, like allowing the White House access to background check files of potential political foes. They wouldn't plant evidence, or give false testimony (hey to the L.A. PD!), nor do anything unjust!No, never!
James
Perhaps the legitimate owners of the domain you're forging, if you're not using a blatantly invalid email address (something@somewhere.invalid).
As for the user+whatever@legit.address notation, not all address verifiers on web pages accept the +whatever part. Seems that some programmers feel they can regex out valid and invalid addresses. snicker
James
Yes, and? Thems that live by the benchmark (Mindcraft and Microsoft) deserve to die by the benchmark. Let them eat crow.
James
Hmmm?? I just picked up a pair of Ultra 5's on an educational discount for ~US$1250. IIRC, that's with 9gb drive, 128mb ram, and Solaris 8 Right-To-Use-License.
Curse their cheap-ass IDE drives, tho.
James - I generally curse most IDE drives, tho...
Yes, and? you own how many stocks?
1. bias could get them sued because their only protection is that they are an unbiased reporting agency that itself does not editorialize. Only its editors editorialize.
Oh, right, like editorial commentary doesn't slip into "mainstream media coverage".
2. if I was a majority shareholder, I could put pressure to have all of them fired if they didn't post favorable stories about M$ and then have all the people that talked crap about M$ moderated down. how you like DEM apples?
Oh, sure, you could. Then a new slash-dot.org would rise up, and you'd devalue your own holdings. Typical shortsighted business management. But you don't own any stocks, do you?
3. this is no longer a bunch of guys running an underground news service from their garage. This is a public company that has to report its earnings, its page hits, server stats, ad banner revenues, etc. face it, /. is part of corporate america whether they want to admit it or not.
Yes, and? It's Slashdot for crying out loud, not the Wall Street Journal.
James
Been there, done that. flowers.com (a bakery) was forged in a spam run. They sued the spammer, and won.
James
Hey! What have those lions ever done to you to deserve such a hideous fate???
James
Well, maybe if you had read some of the refered to documents, you might have noticed this:
Now, you where saying?James
These are spammers you're talking about:
1. Spammers are dumb as a post.
2. Spammers lie.
3. If in doubt, refer to 1. or 2.
When is the last time you saw an original spam? 1996??
James
Yeah, instead of destroying files, why not do something useful, like installing Linux on the "infected" machine? ;)
I'm adequately cynical to occasionally believe that the virus writers are in the employ of the anti-virus companies...
James
You just need to support a law making it legal to hurt spammers...
James - me? violent? never...
Ummm...perhaps because one should judge the message upon the message, not the messanger? That is the point of the web: content is king.
James
And a new canal across Nicaragua. Crazy stuff, they must not have appreciated how bad surface blasts are.
James
Evolution will: crash, lose your mail, leave stray processes running, consume 100% CPU, race, lock, send HTML mail to random mailing lists, and embarass you in front of your friends and co-workers.
Wow. I'm in awe. 100% compatibility with Outlook, and it's only at version 0.0!!!!
James
Ok, let's take a look-see, shall we?
Netscape Communications Corporation (`Netscape') owns the copyright to the compilation of the different contributions, and makes the Open Directory available to you to use under the following license agreement terms and conditions (`Open Directory License').[emphasis mine]
Ok, so what will prevent AOL from changing the license tomorrow to "and you will pay us tribute yearly, and you will volunteer for Steve Case's favorite charity 3 times a year"?
Answer: not a damn thing, except maybe public opinion.
James
I have seen several querys about this. Is quite simple:
"his company has applied for a patent on 'technology that enables the production of cost effective credit card sized modular pocket internet appliances'." [emphasis mine]
It is a manufacturing process patent. It isn't look, it isn't size, it isn't feel. This is the sort of thing patents are supposed to protect.
James
Go look at the currency in your pocket. Does it not have a mark upon it? can you buy or sell with out it?
James