It's in the Museum of American History. I saw McCracken's _FORTRAN IV Programming_ or whatever it is, in the IT section in the basement. I learned Fortran with that book! Dang, it's old, and so am I!
FORTRAN was one of the first languages that I learned and although I don't use it much now it still has a special place in my heart. I always found its simplicity and structure sort of comforting.
I always liked how I could define variables on the fly anywhere in the code. Really catered to my total lack of organization and self-discipline. I can do that in Perl, now, too!
This is going to fix things, because spammers always obey the law, right? The solution is not more laws; it's educated users and sysadmins. The last thing we need is government getting involved with technology problems.
The solution is a hard-core dedicated vigilante squad. Hang 'em high!
That one is simple. A (many) trusted third party may mantain the database and reply to inquires. The spammer is required to buy this service (the spammer pays for queries). Anyone can freely add his/her email to the database. We gain the added benefit of adding cost to the spam business.
Quandary: suppose Microsoft stepped forward and offered to do this. Oh, wait, you said trusted.
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Blacklists should work, and we should be working toward removing the obstacles that are keeping their effectiveness down. Someone shouldn't be able to dodge the effects of a blacklist just by switching ISPs. I wish there were some way of associating a mail with a real identity.
It's a cat-and-mouse game. Unfortunately the cat often seems to be like Tom, and the mouse like Jerry.
Most states have laws that if you are allowed to encroach on someone's land as if it were your own for X amount of years, it becomes yours.
I have a small strip of lawn separated from the rest of my front yard by the driveway. My neighbor mows, waters, fertilizes it, and keeps it looking better than the part of the yard I maintain. Should I make him stop?
See? Not everyone horribly abuses the DMCA. I don't think it was a good idea, but it's nice to see that not everyone is using it like a club.
Good going HP - my next printer will be from you.
I bet you hit yourself in the head with a hammer, because it feels good when you stop.
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In any of the countless stories about some cable or DSL provider or another, the same tired, predictable, and largely factless debates about cable versus DSL breaks out. The sad thing is that it's largely a verbatim recreation of the same argument that's played out about 2^16 times on here
Come now, you know it's like a car crash. Frightening, gruesome, but we want to look. That's why we keep coming back to the same tired old arguments and issues (and back to/.). We're old folks sitting on their rocking chairs, telling the same old stories and jokes, and laughing every time, except we're not all old yet.
People keep harping on about how open source software means that they can trust downloaded source code, but who actually reads through to source code for something before they actually compile?
I do. I am working my way through Linux 1.2.14 kernel code. Am about 60% of the way through.
Was there ever an article on "How the USPS almost owned a government-enforced monopoly on first class mail"? Oh, wait, they do!
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But for the past 20 years, the right-wing in America, funded by their deep pocketed friends in Big Business(TM), have mounted a legal, political and social assault against individuals' right to sue. Sometimes they use the moniker "tort reform." Othertimes, they talk about "greedy lawyers" and "runaway lawsuits" that inevitably hurt those poor, small business owners out there that can't afford to defend themselves against the tassel loafer set.
Dude, when Big Business gets involved, the Republicans jump. When Big Business goes crawling to the State, asking for help and State Growth, the Democrats jump. Both parties are in this together. Al Gore, Dubya, both Statist Interventionist Global Corporatists to the core.
Did you know that the man that authored the copyright clause in the U.S. Constitution was the same man who started this nation's first free book lending library?
Any lights going on out there?
Are you kidding? Original intent, in anything to do with this country's founding documents, is stone cold dead worthless rock. So we can now take what was intended and twist it to mean the exact opposite, if you can find the right judges.
IE has had more than it's share of security problems, but who says Mozilla won't?
I shudder to think what would happen if that Georgi Gunninski (sp?) fellow set his sights on Mozilla, instead of IE. That guy is an exploit-finding machine.
I've also noticed the browser go dead (after clicking a link, it stays on the page, as though it's loading, but never loads a new page until it's closed and then re-started
That is my main gripe. Plus no tabbed browsing. Plus that Russian guy showing us how many odd security holes there are in IE.
Not intended to be a flame, but how many folks actually access their site? Quite a few people condemn their actions, but when was the last time you clicked your way to www.riaa.com ?
I did a coupla months ago. See, at the church where I go, we have to pay a licensing fee to some company to sing certain songs (they're copyrighted, and mostly mediocre pop drivel, oh well). I think we just pay a flat rate, based on the number of people there (in general), to sing all the songs we want. I went and found out this company (whose name escapes me) is a member of RIAA. So I told a fellow, we should use Open Source/Public Domain music only! He didn't buy it (pun intended). So I go to church, and we're funneling money to the RIAA! Yes, the devil does sit in the front pew.
your response is like the British to the German invasion of Poland.
You mean, declare war in their defense, fight a long, draining war which essentially sounds the death knell of your storied Empire, then sell them out in the end anyway?
Congress, or those who fund the RIAA? (Both, actually.) A new movie comes out, ding! we start salivating like the faithful lapdogs that we are. We must have our amusement no matter what.
As a long time supporter of yours, I look forward to voting for you again this November.
It's always a pleasure voting for a man of your integrity and character.
Nice suck-up, there. Of course, politicians are very suck-uppable.
"an emerging general model of economic behavior that is neither market nor company based"
If you don't use the market, how can you make rational decisions about how to allocate resources? One of the major failures of communism is that it doesn't have a market, hence resources are totally misallocated (by supposedly "all-knowing" central planners).
FYI, I'm not too enamored of monster corporations, though.
However, what if we the people could sue the US gov't under the DMCA?
Because the State is a law unto Itself--it does things that, if regular citizens were to do them, violate the law. All in the name of law and order. Example: extortion/ protection rackets.
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It's in the Museum of American History. I saw McCracken's _FORTRAN IV Programming_ or whatever it is, in the IT section in the basement. I learned Fortran with that book! Dang, it's old, and so am I!
I always liked how I could define variables on the fly anywhere in the code. Really catered to my total lack of organization and self-discipline. I can do that in Perl, now, too!
The solution is a hard-core dedicated vigilante squad. Hang 'em high!
Quandary: suppose Microsoft stepped forward and offered to do this. Oh, wait, you said trusted.
It's a cat-and-mouse game. Unfortunately the cat often seems to be like Tom, and the mouse like Jerry.
Nice to know it's not for the _love_, baby.
I have a small strip of lawn separated from the rest of my front yard by the driveway. My neighbor mows, waters, fertilizes it, and keeps it looking better than the part of the yard I maintain. Should I make him stop?
Good going HP - my next printer will be from you.
I bet you hit yourself in the head with a hammer, because it feels good when you stop.
Come now, you know it's like a car crash. Frightening, gruesome, but we want to look. That's why we keep coming back to the same tired old arguments and issues (and back to /.). We're old folks sitting on their rocking chairs, telling the same old stories and jokes, and laughing every time, except we're not all old yet.
If anyone starts one, please hire me! I can't imagine doing anything else!
I do. I am working my way through Linux 1.2.14 kernel code. Am about 60% of the way through.
Was there ever an article on "How the USPS almost owned a government-enforced monopoly on first class mail"? Oh, wait, they do!
Dude, when Big Business gets involved, the Republicans jump. When Big Business goes crawling to the State, asking for help and State Growth, the Democrats jump. Both parties are in this together. Al Gore, Dubya, both Statist Interventionist Global Corporatists to the core.
Are you kidding? Original intent, in anything to do with this country's founding documents, is stone cold dead worthless rock. So we can now take what was intended and twist it to mean the exact opposite, if you can find the right judges.
I shudder to think what would happen if that Georgi Gunninski (sp?) fellow set his sights on Mozilla, instead of IE. That guy is an exploit-finding machine.
That is my main gripe. Plus no tabbed browsing. Plus that Russian guy showing us how many odd security holes there are in IE.
I did a coupla months ago. See, at the church where I go, we have to pay a licensing fee to some company to sing certain songs (they're copyrighted, and mostly mediocre pop drivel, oh well). I think we just pay a flat rate, based on the number of people there (in general), to sing all the songs we want. I went and found out this company (whose name escapes me) is a member of RIAA. So I told a fellow, we should use Open Source/Public Domain music only! He didn't buy it (pun intended). So I go to church, and we're funneling money to the RIAA! Yes, the devil does sit in the front pew.
Richard Nixon: "If two wrongs don't make a right, try three." I don't know that he _really_ said that...
You mean, declare war in their defense, fight a long, draining war which essentially sounds the death knell of your storied Empire, then sell them out in the end anyway?
where popups are necessary, I suppose.
Congress, or those who fund the RIAA? (Both, actually.) A new movie comes out, ding! we start salivating like the faithful lapdogs that we are. We must have our amusement no matter what.
Nice suck-up, there. Of course, politicians are very suck-uppable.
Try _War and Peace_. It should keep us busy until copyright expires.
If you don't use the market, how can you make rational decisions about how to allocate resources? One of the major failures of communism is that it doesn't have a market, hence resources are totally misallocated (by supposedly "all-knowing" central planners).
FYI, I'm not too enamored of monster corporations, though.
Because the State is a law unto Itself--it does things that, if regular citizens were to do them, violate the law. All in the name of law and order. Example: extortion/ protection rackets.