As many times as you want until the Jury is convinced that you did it intentionally to break the service.
Laws are no technical specs. Thre is no X until which reloads are legal. If you boasted to friends to bring down a server and do 5 reloads, it might already convince a jury of you malicious intent. If, on the other side, another witness heard you about complaining that you had to reload the site 100 times until your transaction came through, you will probably get away with it.
There is not algorithm to be executed to determine the legality of an action. It is a common mistake by technician to think of laws as "hard limits". Judgements are made by humans and it is designed to be this way.
Or to say it shorter: You are guilty of an offence if a jury/judge says so.
I neither like Paypal nor the credit card companies much. But participating willingly in a DDOS attack is a criminal act in my book.
On the other hands, they probably have only the ip addresses of cat's paws. So punishing them hard would not be clever. Setting an example always works both ways....
Has already been done. It was the petition with the most signatories in german history. The politicians didn't get it anyway.
It is possibe in Germany to have an online petition that is an official petition to the parliament. They wer confused (for about 5s), smiled and dismissed it. But due to the number of petitioners, they at least had to do it in public.
The headline should be "Terror paranoia shuts down british town", geocaching was only involved by random chance. If you write about it, name the real culprit.
This has nothing to do with facebook parties. There is an ongoing conflict between the current political caste and the internet community. Since the politicians managed to antagonize nearly all net activists with a law about net blocks (which never went into effect), the net has now become a dangerous mine field for politicians.
A net initiative toppled lately several high ranking politicians who have been discovered to have cut&pasted their PHD thesis. Among them was the secretary of defense who was a media darling and earmarked to become the next conservative chancellor (candidate).
Facebook parties are no real problem (i heard about 4 instances which became problematic in the last 24 months, about half of them have been unintentionally). So such a law will have no effect, especially since current laws already cover the area.
But it is a great opportunity for politicians to designate the internet as source of evil and to demonstrate their boldness by stepping forward and putting an end to it.
I realized that colors, hyperlinks, inline images, and weighted fonts of varying sizes are helpful in communicating clearly and getting one's message across.
True, but those are usually longer texts which are attachments but not mails. But i have to confess that i can use underline and boldface without using HTML is something i use....
it's time to leave the people using mutt and Outlook Express 5.5 behind.
What's with the users of pine and elm? I know some of them;-).
Valid example, but rarely used. I expected to see it more often when Netscape first announced HTML mail. They even showed off examples like the ones you mentioned...
Not really, that search lets me create relatively simple querys. But you are right in so far, that my example is covered.
It can "and" or "or" all sub-searches but not mix both.
A typical problem is: I know the sending company but it has changed name and domain (in some cases several times). So i want to include several from-searches by "or". Then i want to nail down the content of the email by applying several keywords and "and"ing them.
I don't want a GUI but a query language. The GUI doesn't hurt me, so it can be left in the code;-).
Also i would like to nail down the attachment type in the search, e.g. i know it was a PDF.
Another thing that would help would be regular expressions as search terms.
After having read the release notes, the improvement to the ordinary user still remains unclear. Sounds more like a patch than a new version...
The greatest change seems to be the gecko engine. But anyone who sends me HTML mail gets a reprimand anyway. Does anyone really uses HTML in emails? I mean seriously? I get and read about 100 mails per day and write 30-50. Percentage of HTML mail is, once you throw out the marketing spam, well below 1%.
What i really miss from Thunderbird is a better search interface. I want search terms like "from contains dummy.com and body contains upgrade and to is not me". For more complex searches, i currently create virtual folders (based on one search result) and then search within that folder. But even this method has its limits.
I have most of my emails (now 18 years) archived. Saved my ass on at least half a dozen occasions. But this means 12.000 mails archived per year (much less in 1993, but always growing). So searching becomes the main problem now.
There would be an easy solution for Firefox: They have a forefront version that changes as often as the dev team likes and a stable version that will be supported for a long time. But no, everyone has to switch to the version compiled last night in a hurry....
I honestly don't understand that insane schedule the Firefox is taking. Patches for a softwareare fine, even if they occur often as long as they don't impact handling or functionality.
But it is my impression, that the new Firefox versions come out just for the sake of new versions. With the speed webmasters are adopting new technology, a one version every year would be fine.
You don't update any software in the enterprise twice a year (or more often). This is just too expensive. It may be the right choice for the Firefox team ego, but it is 100% wong for an enterprise.
there seems to be a campaign against used games in progress. In a press release yesterday, a game company called the sale of used games "legalized theft" and decried the moral of such actions.
Another company accused sellers of used games that they would be leeching their intelectual property by keeping all sales profits (from the sale of used games) for themselves and giving none to the devs.
I sit here and watch in wonder, how the gaming industrie is alienating it's main source of income. There must be a real clever strategy behind this...
Well, concerning the judgement of his guilt (wether or not he has done the deed accused), this should have no influence. When deciding about the amount of punishment required, this has to be taken into account. But this SOP for every court. Asperger is far from being incapable of distinguishing right from wrong.
But i also think, that if he was in Britain while comitting those alleged crimes, he should be tried there. I think this is, what is troublesome with this case. The rest is pure window dressing.
I was deeply saddened by the news last year when i heard of his illness. Terry Pratchett is still one of my favorite authors and i wish him a lot of time left.
But i have to confess that i understand his reactions 100%. Rotting away with Alzheimer is my personal worst nightmare. Though i am not allowed to vote in the UK, i will give his initiative my full support whereever i can.
I believe that, if you have don't have the right to end your own life, you are not free at all. My life belongs to me, but to no goverment, to no society and to no god.
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As many times as you want until the Jury is convinced that you did it intentionally to break the service.
Laws are no technical specs. Thre is no X until which reloads are legal. If you boasted to friends to bring down a server and do 5 reloads, it might already convince a jury of you malicious intent. If, on the other side, another witness heard you about complaining that you had to reload the site 100 times until your transaction came through, you will probably get away with it.
There is not algorithm to be executed to determine the legality of an action. It is a common mistake by technician to think of laws as "hard limits". Judgements are made by humans and it is designed to be this way.
Or to say it shorter: You are guilty of an offence if a jury/judge says so.
Yours, Martin
I neither like Paypal nor the credit card companies much. But participating willingly in a DDOS attack is a criminal act in my book.
On the other hands, they probably have only the ip addresses of cat's paws. So punishing them hard would not be clever. Setting an example always works both ways....
Has already been done. It was the petition with the most signatories in german history. The politicians didn't get it anyway.
It is possibe in Germany to have an online petition that is an official petition to the parliament. They wer confused (for about 5s), smiled and dismissed it. But due to the number of petitioners, they at least had to do it in public.
The headline should be "Terror paranoia shuts down british town", geocaching was only involved by random chance. If you write about it, name the real culprit.
This has nothing to do with facebook parties. There is an ongoing conflict between the current political caste and the internet community. Since the politicians managed to antagonize nearly all net activists with a law about net blocks (which never went into effect), the net has now become a dangerous mine field for politicians.
A net initiative toppled lately several high ranking politicians who have been discovered to have cut&pasted their PHD thesis. Among them was the secretary of defense who was a media darling and earmarked to become the next conservative chancellor (candidate).
Facebook parties are no real problem (i heard about 4 instances which became problematic in the last 24 months, about half of them have been unintentionally). So such a law will have no effect, especially since current laws already cover the area.
But it is a great opportunity for politicians to designate the internet as source of evil and to demonstrate their boldness by stepping forward and putting an end to it.
CU, Martin
I realized that colors, hyperlinks, inline images, and weighted fonts of varying sizes are helpful in communicating clearly and getting one's message across.
True, but those are usually longer texts which are attachments but not mails. But i have to confess that i can use underline and boldface without using HTML is something i use....
it's time to leave the people using mutt and Outlook Express 5.5 behind.
What's with the users of pine and elm? I know some of them ;-).
Valid example, but rarely used. I expected to see it more often when Netscape first announced HTML mail. They even showed off examples like the ones you mentioned...
My example is covered, yes, for a more detailed reply see http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2281452&threshold=-1&commentsort=3&mode=thread&pid=36615116#36615412
I never noticed a performance problem with the GUI, but you may be right there for people with less powerfull machines....
Not really, that search lets me create relatively simple querys. But you are right in so far, that my example is covered.
It can "and" or "or" all sub-searches but not mix both.
A typical problem is: I know the sending company but it has changed name and domain (in some cases several times). So i want to include several from-searches by "or". Then i want to nail down the content of the email by applying several keywords and "and"ing them.
I don't want a GUI but a query language. The GUI doesn't hurt me, so it can be left in the code ;-).
Also i would like to nail down the attachment type in the search, e.g. i know it was a PDF.
Another thing that would help would be regular expressions as search terms.
You see, i am always complaining :-).
CU, Martin
Well, if you attach Images to a non HTML mail, they get shown by default too.... So even spammers could do without HTML mails, can't they?
After having read the release notes, the improvement to the ordinary user still remains unclear. Sounds more like a patch than a new version...
The greatest change seems to be the gecko engine. But anyone who sends me HTML mail gets a reprimand anyway. Does anyone really uses HTML in emails? I mean seriously? I get and read about 100 mails per day and write 30-50. Percentage of HTML mail is, once you throw out the marketing spam, well below 1%.
What i really miss from Thunderbird is a better search interface. I want search terms like "from contains dummy.com and body contains upgrade and to is not me". For more complex searches, i currently create virtual folders (based on one search result) and then search within that folder. But even this method has its limits.
I have most of my emails (now 18 years) archived. Saved my ass on at least half a dozen occasions. But this means 12.000 mails archived per year (much less in 1993, but always growing). So searching becomes the main problem now.
CU, Martin
The problem is not in version numbers but R&D ressources.....
Looks like:
Chrome is winning market share, so let's take their greatest weakness and mimic it. But let's do it with a fraction of their ressources.
There would be an easy solution for Firefox: They have a forefront version that changes as often as the dev team likes and a stable version that will be supported for a long time. But no, everyone has to switch to the version compiled last night in a hurry....
I honestly don't understand that insane schedule the Firefox is taking. Patches for a softwareare fine, even if they occur often as long as they don't impact handling or functionality.
But it is my impression, that the new Firefox versions come out just for the sake of new versions. With the speed webmasters are adopting new technology, a one version every year would be fine.
You don't update any software in the enterprise twice a year (or more often). This is just too expensive. It may be the right choice for the Firefox team ego, but it is 100% wong for an enterprise.
Yours, Martin
My condolences ;-)
I didn't say, that they were right. But they hope to talk loud and fast enough, to make the waters murky....
Most probably in a foreign language (to you):
German:
http://www.gamestar.de/spiele/the-darkness-2/news/digital_extremes,46721,2323827.html
http://www.gamesaktuell.de/Fear-3-PS3-234579/News/Fear-3-Online-Pass-nicht-im-PlayStation-Store-erhaeltlich-Gebrauchtkaeufer-ausgesperrt-831504/
http://www.c-kn.de/spielkonsolen/capcom-will-den-markt-fur-gebrauchte-videospiele-austrocknen/
The first article is the most revealing...
English:
http://gamrfeed.vgchartz.com/story/86590/florida-sheriffs-treat-gamers-like-criminals-for-trading-in-used-games/
This would be fair, if i get a refund of 50% if i only finished 50% of the game (and have the save game as proof).
The current deal is: i (or someone else) can play the game again, but you get 100% of the money even if i don't finish the game.
They want to cancel this deal, fine with me. But then i want my money back on games which don't hold up to my expectations and don't get played.
CU, Martin
Hi,
there seems to be a campaign against used games in progress. In a press release yesterday, a game company called the sale of used games "legalized theft" and decried the moral of such actions.
Another company accused sellers of used games that they would be leeching their intelectual property by keeping all sales profits (from the sale of used games) for themselves and giving none to the devs.
I sit here and watch in wonder, how the gaming industrie is alienating it's main source of income. There must be a real clever strategy behind this...
CU, Martin
Well, concerning the judgement of his guilt (wether or not he has done the deed accused), this should have no influence. When deciding about the amount of punishment required, this has to be taken into account. But this SOP for every court. Asperger is far from being incapable of distinguishing right from wrong.
But i also think, that if he was in Britain while comitting those alleged crimes, he should be tried there. I think this is, what is troublesome with this case. The rest is pure window dressing.
CU, Martin
What comes next? Weapon grade Lego?
I was deeply saddened by the news last year when i heard of his illness. Terry Pratchett is still one of my favorite authors and i wish him a lot of time left.
But i have to confess that i understand his reactions 100%. Rotting away with Alzheimer is my personal worst nightmare. Though i am not allowed to vote in the UK, i will give his initiative my full support whereever i can.
I believe that, if you have don't have the right to end your own life, you are not free at all. My life belongs to me, but to no goverment, to no society and to no god.
Yours, Martin
Idiots on both sides.... But we can say: the police started it...
Taking down the central server of political party just 2 days ahead of elections is not nice.
CU, Martin