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Incidentally, it's the same with Apple. Have you tried buying an Apple without an OS? You can't, but no-one ever moans about Apple tax...
One of the reasons people don't want to pay for Windows is, they hate Microsoft and don't want to give them money. If you hate Apple, buying a Mac sans OS doesn't really have the same effect.
The other common reason is, Windows sucks and they don't want to use it. Mac OS X doesn't suck in the same way, and most people who want to run a different OS will choose x86 hardware instead.
I saw this movie once where a woman bent over and let a dog do her doggy style. It did'nt look very cruel to the dog, in fact several times during the movie, i wished i was that dog!
If it were an underage boy instead of a dog, it would still be considered child abuse, even if the boy enjoyed it.
Didn't I hear something about a law they were trying to pass that would make it illegal to portray minors having sex on film, even if 1) the actors were over 18 or 2) the film was animated rather than live-action?
Napster
------- 1. Set up music system with unrealistic price structure due to being the RIAA's gimp 2. ??? 3. Loss!
Apple ----- 1. Set up music system with unrealistic price structure due to being the RIAA's gimp but wear black turtleneck and pretend to be 'the good guy' 2. Sell a crapload of iPods 3. Profit!
"In May 2003 U.S. officials announced a radical new design for the $20 bill that includes several new, confidential counterfeit-deterrence features. These measures include adding light shades of blue, peach and green to the $20 bill as an anti-counterfeiting measure. (Note: The peach bills premiered in October 2003)."
Include, but are not limited to. HP hasn't disclosed the other features. Not that they're actually confidential, since if they were, people couldn't use them to ideitify counterfit bills....
OK, so, where's a good place (online) to buy a set of extra screws? They tend to disappear like ball-point pens (especially case screws), but I know where to buy pens.
Ideally, I'd like a set that includes all the common screws; I'd also like to be able to buy a package of each type separately. It'd be really cool if each type was a different color or something, making it easier to tell them apart at a glance, but this is probably silly.
These are the spams I've gotten since last night that were not blocked by SpamCop (most of my mail is forwarded through SpamCop, but not all, and SpamCop doesn't always catch all spam). This also doesn't count what gets blocked by my DNS RBL filters. Anyway, notice how many of them came from different countries than the e-mail address used. There's really no correlation.
Humour aside, if that was the intention of the virus, it should bring down the SCO email server (mail.sco.com) as well as www.sco.com. This would hurt sales and cause a major inconvenience.
Wait a second, hurt sales? Are you suggesting that people actually buy things from SCO? Even still?
Actually I heard someone say they saw Jobs' office at Pixar and he had a Dell PC on his desk, but then I heard somebody else say that was true but it was running OpenStep, and he has since switched to Mac OS X.
If John Doe's I.P. resolves to California, shouldn't you be filing the suit against him/er in California and subpoening the CA division of XYZ ISP?
News flash: IP addresses do not resolve to geographical locations.
Some large ISPs may indicate which POP a particular IP address is routed through by setting the reverse DNS for that IP to something helpful, if you can decipher the naming convention their admins cooked up. However, this is not always accurate, since IP blocks sometimes get reassigned without DNS being updated.
Yes, it is legal - it's called a "John Doe" lawsuit, and you file it just like you'd file any other lawsuit, except you don't know who you're suing when you file it. The court then does what they can to identify the defendant, and if they're able to do so, the lawsuit can proceed.
In this case, the court would issue a subpoena to the ISP including the IP address and timestamp and require the ISP to provide information about the customer who was assigned that IP address at that time. The customer is then notified of the lawsuit.
In your case, you might need a little more connection between the owner of the shoe and the pile of crap to convince a judge that the former was responsible for the latter, but if you are able to do so (and if the judge determines that filing a lawsuit over a pile of crap isn't stupid)... well, then it's up to the court to figure out who's shoe it is. IANAL, and I'm not sure how this part works.
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Heh, in about 1996 or so I got a hit on my home page from gatekeeper.eop.gov. I have no idea what that was about.
English language tip: learn when to use articles (a/an/the).
Incidentally, it's the same with Apple. Have you tried buying an Apple without an OS? You can't, but no-one ever moans about Apple tax...
One of the reasons people don't want to pay for Windows is, they hate Microsoft and don't want to give them money. If you hate Apple, buying a Mac sans OS doesn't really have the same effect.
The other common reason is, Windows sucks and they don't want to use it. Mac OS X doesn't suck in the same way, and most people who want to run a different OS will choose x86 hardware instead.
I saw this movie once where a woman bent over and let a dog do her doggy style. It did'nt look very cruel to the dog, in fact several times during the movie, i wished i was that dog!
If it were an underage boy instead of a dog, it would still be considered child abuse, even if the boy enjoyed it.
Remember this?
Didn't I hear something about a law they were trying to pass that would make it illegal to portray minors having sex on film, even if 1) the actors were over 18 or 2) the film was animated rather than live-action?
well duh, they're lesbians.
we can solve problems of violence in youth only by changing economics of behaviour so that non-violence works better.
Now there's a topic you don't hear every day - the economics of behavior. Too bad more people don't realize how this works.
Very insightful comment, thanks.
C'mon. If you're a gamer, Linux is the last platform you look to, right after Windows, consoles, handhelds, cards, dice, and watching paint dry.
But right before Mac OS. See? Linux isn't last after all!
(posted from my new iBook G4, which I absolutely love)
Columbine anyone?
That wasn't caused by video games...
"In May 2003 U.S. officials announced a radical new design for the $20 bill that includes several new, confidential counterfeit-deterrence features. These measures include adding light shades of blue, peach and green to the $20 bill as an anti-counterfeiting measure. (Note: The peach bills premiered in October 2003)."
Include, but are not limited to. HP hasn't disclosed the other features. Not that they're actually confidential, since if they were, people couldn't use them to ideitify counterfit bills....
I use the official AOL version of AIM in Linux (for reasons I won't get into.)
;-)
Let me guess - because it's more stable and less of a pain in the ass than Gaim? Is that part of the reason?
Any self-respecting geek has a jar filled with hundreds of them on their desk.
;-)
That's exactly why I asked - I currently have no such jar.
OK, so, where's a good place (online) to buy a set of extra screws? They tend to disappear like ball-point pens (especially case screws), but I know where to buy pens.
Ideally, I'd like a set that includes all the common screws; I'd also like to be able to buy a package of each type separately. It'd be really cool if each type was a different color or something, making it easier to tell them apart at a glance, but this is probably silly.
Recommendations?
What you say? Microsoft would get huge bills because of the abusers of it's Hotmail service? That would be a pity, wouldn't it?
Most spam from @hotmail.com addresses doesn't come from Hotmail. A list of what's currently in my inbox:
From: mail.com
Really from: hispeed.ch
From: mail.com
Really from: hispeed.ch
From: osn.de
Really from: adsl.tpnet.pl
From: tiscali.co.uk
Really from: t-dialin.net
From: artnet.com.br
Really from: ny325.east.verizon.net
From: siba.fi
Really from: dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net
From: cellularpia.co.kr
Really from: cypresscom.net
From: wanadoo.fr
Really from: btcentralplus.com
From: hotmail.com
Really from: megared.net.mx
From: xcelco.on.ca
Really from: bb.netvision.net.il
From: onlinehome.de
Really from: interbusiness.it
From: el-nacional.com
Really from: (IP address)
From: tiscali.co.uk
Really from: cable.ntl.com
From: web.de
Really from: (IP address)
From: sasquatch.com
Really from: dyn.optonline.net
From: julian.uwo.ca
Really from: dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net
These are the spams I've gotten since last night that were not blocked by SpamCop (most of my mail is forwarded through SpamCop, but not all, and SpamCop doesn't always catch all spam). This also doesn't count what gets blocked by my DNS RBL filters. Anyway, notice how many of them came from different countries than the e-mail address used. There's really no correlation.
Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. I highly recommend it. :-)
Is it anything like SCMODS?
Humour aside, if that was the intention of the virus, it should bring down the SCO email server (mail.sco.com) as well as www.sco.com. This would hurt sales and cause a major inconvenience.
Wait a second, hurt sales? Are you suggesting that people actually buy things from SCO? Even still?
...which is why Mac OS X has an option to hide file extensions, and I think it does so by default. Bleh.
Actually I heard someone say they saw Jobs' office at Pixar and he had a Dell PC on his desk, but then I heard somebody else say that was true but it was running OpenStep, and he has since switched to Mac OS X.
If he put an LCD display in, he could make it run vMac. That'd be neat.
That server is in Phoenix, but I bet you don't know where in Phoenix. Try webwizardry.net.
You're wrong.
If John Doe's I.P. resolves to California, shouldn't you be filing the suit against him/er in California and subpoening the CA division of XYZ ISP?
News flash: IP addresses do not resolve to geographical locations.
Some large ISPs may indicate which POP a particular IP address is routed through by setting the reverse DNS for that IP to something helpful, if you can decipher the naming convention their admins cooked up. However, this is not always accurate, since IP blocks sometimes get reassigned without DNS being updated.
Yes, it is legal - it's called a "John Doe" lawsuit, and you file it just like you'd file any other lawsuit, except you don't know who you're suing when you file it. The court then does what they can to identify the defendant, and if they're able to do so, the lawsuit can proceed.
In this case, the court would issue a subpoena to the ISP including the IP address and timestamp and require the ISP to provide information about the customer who was assigned that IP address at that time. The customer is then notified of the lawsuit.
In your case, you might need a little more connection between the owner of the shoe and the pile of crap to convince a judge that the former was responsible for the latter, but if you are able to do so (and if the judge determines that filing a lawsuit over a pile of crap isn't stupid)... well, then it's up to the court to figure out who's shoe it is. IANAL, and I'm not sure how this part works.