I've been thinking along those lines, too. Presumably, certain parts of many EULAs would be similar to one another. So, one aspect of such a website might be to break up a new EULAs and compare paragraphs/sections to other submitted EULAs. Then, one could separate out the unique parts and have the lawyers analyze just those parts. Even sections that are not quite alike shouldn't require too much additional work to distinquish them.
Running the above will generate different output from the original, due to the extra spaces in the strings (near the top), apparently added by Slashdot. The original is at 2004/gavare.c (relative to one of the IOCCC mirrors).
It's a great program; one that has been distracting me since March 1st!
I read a related article at Scientific American.com, (found linked from a Slashbox, no less) about an hour ago, and wondered, "Why haven't I seen this on Slashdot referencing Hobbits yet?" I guess I was just a bit ahead of the curve.:-)
In fact, I still use the free/ad-supported version of NetZero. I'm an American currently living in Europe. I use a cable modem here, but when I take trips back to the US (usually for 2 weeks at a time) I use NetZero to connect my laptop and check e-mail, etc.
It's pretty slow, even for a modem (I think they limit the bandwidth), but works OK for e-mail.
I find it funny that about 99% of the ads are for the paid version of NetZero!!
There is a difference. They're not disabling something.ch, foobar.uk, etc. but addresses with unicode characters in them.
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It seems like you could mark yourself "Away: Concentrating" while focusing on a complex task where you can't be interrupted. Hopefully, as long as you didn't stay "Away" all the time, people would respect that and wait to talk later. Of course some messages would still come in, so I guess it depends on how well you can ignore those messages when you're busy on something else.
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I've been thinking along those lines, too. Presumably, certain parts of many EULAs would be similar to one another. So, one aspect of such a website might be to break up a new EULAs and compare paragraphs/sections to other submitted EULAs. Then, one could separate out the unique parts and have the lawyers analyze just those parts. Even sections that are not quite alike shouldn't require too much additional work to distinquish them.
Just a thought.
Running the above will generate different output from the original, due to the extra spaces in the strings (near the top), apparently added by Slashdot. The original is at 2004/gavare.c (relative to one of the IOCCC mirrors).
It's a great program; one that has been distracting me since March 1st!
I read a related article at Scientific American.com, (found linked from a Slashbox, no less) about an hour ago, and wondered, "Why haven't I seen this on Slashdot referencing Hobbits yet?" I guess I was just a bit ahead of the curve. :-)
In fact, I still use the free/ad-supported version of NetZero. I'm an American currently living in Europe. I use a cable modem here, but when I take trips back to the US (usually for 2 weeks at a time) I use NetZero to connect my laptop and check e-mail, etc.
It's pretty slow, even for a modem (I think they limit the bandwidth), but works OK for e-mail.
I find it funny that about 99% of the ads are for the paid version of NetZero!!
Yes, I know it's redundant. But I promise, when I started writing my comment, no one had said it yet!
You have to be lightning fast around here...
Maybe I shouldn't preview?
There is a difference. They're not disabling something.ch, foobar.uk, etc. but addresses with unicode characters in them.
It seems like you could mark yourself "Away: Concentrating" while focusing on a complex task where you can't be interrupted. Hopefully, as long as you didn't stay "Away" all the time, people would respect that and wait to talk later. Of course some messages would still come in, so I guess it depends on how well you can ignore those messages when you're busy on something else.
Just my 2 cents.
I guess I'm totally out of the loop. I thought Mozilla was somehow the older version, and was split up into Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.
Apparently they are seperate projects??
I guess I should go look for some FAQ lists...
That's cool because it also contains one of the shapes from Tetris. How many hackers ever played Tetris?