> Now, any site you go to will automatically allow JavaScript from that domain (I mean, if > you didn't want its JavaScript running on your machine, what are you going there for?).
While most sites I visit push JavaScript at me, almost all of them work fine without it. Same goes for cookies.
> I think some part of me must be sick or something, because when I read about this I > almost hope the worm will get bigger, become unstoppable, and reveal windows for the > insecure piece of crap that it is.
> Also I thought you could use up to 30 seconds of a video/commercial/show etc. with out > getting in trouble or does that just apply to educational use?
Google "fair use". There is no specific threshold. Under some circumstance you can use the entire work. Under others 30 seconds would infringe.
> Really, vendors should be forced to ask the consumer which operating system their client > wants and give prices for them to their customer for every new PC sale. That would > promote fair market better than "banning bundling".
That _would_ be unbundling. Bundling is "This computer comes with Microsoft Windows factory installed. It is included in the price".
> It's like suing FedEx because some thief stole your credit card and used it to buy > something online, and FedEx delivered the package.
No it isn't. In your example FedEx handled the item and received some money (they still would not be liable, of course). Creative Commons got no money and had absolutely nothing to do with the affair. All they did was publish a model license.
> Those who hammer their swords into plows, will plow for those who do not.
It's plowshares, not plows. And anyone who knows what a plowshare is will realize how similar a sword and a plowshare are and how quickly a plowshare could be hammered back into a sword.
My browser requests a page from your server. Your server evaluates the request and sends the page (or not). Don't want me to see the page? Don't send it.
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> Now, any site you go to will automatically allow JavaScript from that domain (I mean, if
> you didn't want its JavaScript running on your machine, what are you going there for?).
While most sites I visit push JavaScript at me, almost all of them work fine without it. Same goes for cookies.
> It's damn nice swag, of course, but at what point is it too much? A DailyTech writer
> talks about his experiences with swag.
If you are a reviewer nothing is too much. If you are a consumer anything at all is a bribe.
They are dealing with the Federal government. It may cost $990 to do the papaerwork.
> I think some part of me must be sick or something, because when I read about this I
> almost hope the worm will get bigger, become unstoppable, and reveal windows for the
> insecure piece of crap that it is.
Already been done. Nobody cares.
In any case, there should have been a destruct switch.
> Apparently its just a problem with this antivirus program running in Vista.
You are claiming that the antivirus program patches the Vista kernel? The copy utility?
That works for that minority of sites that exist for some purpose other than achieving pagerank.
...a site that works for your customers.
Oh. Wait. That assumes that you have some customers.
How are they going to handle fair use? MY guess: they won't. Your Steamboat Willie parody is not going to be allowed on Youtube.
I wonder how long it will take for the first software to come out that alters vidoes just enough to evade detection...
> Also I thought you could use up to 30 seconds of a video/commercial/show etc. with out
> getting in trouble or does that just apply to educational use?
Google "fair use". There is no specific threshold. Under some circumstance you can use the entire work. Under others 30 seconds would infringe.
> The problem is that Congress has created a safe harbor in the DMCA.
That's not a problem. It's a solution. It just happens to be a solution that the studios don't like.
Well, it can be cured by surgery.
...even an X-wing can fly.
> I know you are trying to be funny, but how can google index a site without collapsing its
> wave function?
The Googlebot is not an "observer".
> That would go against all quantum theory, wouldn't it?
It would "go against" the Copenhagen interpretation.
My ISP uses it. It frequently bounces my Debian mail. I'm moving my mail to Newsguy where I can turn the damn RBLs off and filter my mail myself.
> The final comment (at this writing), from madcoder, says 'The package sits in volatile
> for months. Please take your troll elsewhere.'"
He's right. That is exactly what volatile is for.
> that's 868 billion kilowatt-hours per year
That's simply 99 gigawatts. "kilowatt-hours per year" is silly.
> Really, vendors should be forced to ask the consumer which operating system their client
> wants and give prices for them to their customer for every new PC sale. That would
> promote fair market better than "banning bundling".
That _would_ be unbundling. Bundling is "This computer comes with Microsoft Windows factory installed. It is included in the price".
> It's like suing FedEx because some thief stole your credit card and used it to buy
> something online, and FedEx delivered the package.
No it isn't. In your example FedEx handled the item and received some money (they still would not be liable, of course). Creative Commons got no money and had absolutely nothing to do with the affair. All they did was publish a model license.
> Those who hammer their swords into plows, will plow for those who do not.
It's plowshares, not plows. And anyone who knows what a plowshare is will realize how similar a sword and a plowshare are and how quickly a plowshare could be hammered back into a sword.
> Let's say someone sues. They win. They don't charge any money in first place. Wouldn't
> the damages be zero?
Look up statutory damages.
> Much of Guild Wiki's content falls under Creative Commons by-nc-sa license, which denies
> the commercial use of licensed material.
I suppose that might qualify as "copyleft" under some definitions but it isn't Libre.
"The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!"
Your car is burning 63 gallons every eighth of a mile. And you like it. Ok...
Yes, it probably is. The copies get handled much more, after all. They are much more likely to have picked up contaminants.
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