From the 'No Military License': "... The Program and its derivative work will neither be modified or executed to harm any human being nor through inaction permit any human being to be harmed. This is Asimov's first law of Robotics."
Aside from the obvious direct military applications, would this restrict its use by people who create laws which allow harm to come to humans? The "harm" clause is quite subjective in its definition. How they perceive harm may be different from how others percieve harm. This may be struck down in the courts as being "too broad" and find it is not a valid license as has been done many times in the past in regards to laws (both state and federal laws).
-- The software industry is driven by wanting more while using less; which is why Microsoft products provide successively more options and features while leaving you with less free drive space, less free memory, less stability and less peace of mind. --me sTc
hi,
I've moved cross country twice, east-to-west and west-to-east.
the first move, the company hired the moving company directly, and that went rather well. the company offered to move my household, up to one car, travel expenses (if i chose to drive or to fly), and put me up in a hotel near the office until i found a new apartment. the moving company came and packed my items, and delivered them to my new apartment. the only lost one box and a vacuum cleaner and destroyed one vintage PC green screen monitor... all of which was reimbursed by the moving company in a reasonable time.
the second move, i was offered a flat fee to relocate. i hired a moving company which all-but commited fraud in their estimate. changed me for each box supplied, each box packed, and for each cubic foot of truck & storage space above their initial estimate. to make a long evil story short, they were evil and cost me a bunch of money.
other long moves i've done i packed myself, rented a u-haul, and towed my car. i called local moving companies to rent their muscle to load and unload the truck at the start and end of the move. this was, by far, the cheapest route to pursue. the disadvantage is that you have to have a place to move into before doing the move.
your best bet is to have the company hire the company and provide your complete relocation. let the company deal w/ the purchasing and legal nightmares potentially involved.
otherwise... i've found only use reputable, by referal, well known moving companies.
oh! and buy lots of boxes and packaging tape. and those hand or appliance dollies are sweet! sTc
hi,
Not only is IE not compliant, but neither is their usage of ISO9660 (CD-ROM), nor TCP/IP. None of these has been so since the early days of MS. Where has everyone been? sTc
hi,
I just finished reading the first part of the article linked in the original thread at space.com. They claim the object was between 40 and 80 meters (130-260 feet) in diameter, that it passed within 298,400 miles (480,200 km) (1.2x the distance to the moon) and that this occured on March 8th, 2004.
How did/. get the contents of the article so wrong? Are you turning into a sensationalist tabloid? Maybe we should fling/. out to moon if that's the case. sTc
hi,
i bought a new Mazda Protege in the end of 1993. it was a demo car and had 3502 miles on it when i bought it. when the insurance company totalled it for someone running a red light, it had 207,000+ miles on it. i had fastidiously kept records on mileage and gas prices.
the car had a 30/26 MPG sticker on it when i bought it. the lifetime average for the car (minus the initial 3502 miles) was 29.? MPG with a spike at 33 and a trough at 25. sTc
hi,
Why can't we just start keeping tabs on the as many official in the DoD that we can? Keep our own open databases and what-not? Have it open and published on the internet. If it's legal to obtain certain records, then we should obtain them and post them.
A similar event occured in California. The CA DMV did not restrict who was allowed access to its driver license database and did not restrict what could be done with the information. Well, some individuals obtained records on the entire state legislature and published it to the net. They changed the laws after that. sTc
hi,
Once again information is "required" to be submitted to a government agency under the authorization and protection of the Privacy Act of 1974 [and its ammendments]. However, the information being collected is done via a standard web form with the httpd protocol. No encryption. Thus, violating the Privacy Act of 1974 which requires government agencies which collect such information to protect it. Clear text transfer of information, last time I checked, is not considered protection. sTc
hi, I downloaded the Mandrake ISOs yesterday (twice! just to be sure), and neither time did the md5sum's of the files match those listed on their web site. Is it me? Or have others noticed this as well? sTc
hi,
isn't intercepting and monitoring communictions which were not intended to be sent to you illegal under current wiretap / monitoring statutes? i.e. is what big champagne doing illegal (unless, of course, the P2P networks are allowing them access to this information)? sTc
I worked with a guy who was in development and managing the IT end of things. he was always overworked and underfunded (not as much as what you're talking about, but...). his solution to the problem was to have someone else prioritize the workload on a project-by-project basis (NOT day-to-day or hour-to-hour).
basically he was leaving it up to the management to be the bad guy for whose work wasnt accomplished. let the guys who are dumping the work onto you be the bad guy for the customer.
hi,
Suppose this hijackers hacked in and added a few soft wall areas to the plane's database... say, perhaps, like all of the airports within the current range of the aircraft? sTc
hi,
I have had (and am still having) to contact Comcast's technical support for their customers' machines that are infected with Nimbda and are attacking my web server. Ideally, these systems are violating Comcast's (and any ISP's) Acceptable Use Policies.
So, I first was just sending an email for each day's activity to their typical complaint email (abuse [atsign] isp.net) and receiving the automatic response. I figured I could build up a history of reporting before up'ing the ante with my provider.
After a month, I started calling technical support. This basically got me up to tier two (since no one on tier one knew what I was talking about). Later, I got more long distance numbers for internal Comcast contacts, but which, in reality, went no where or to a pre-recorded message.
Next, after two months, I filed a better business bureau (bbb.org) report. _This_ got their attention (when it eventually found the right department). I now have one tech and the tech's boss assigned to my problem. So, now I send my daily (ok, so, I dont send one every day, just one for each day's activity) acitivity to the default abuse line and to the two other people.
Actually, this has been effective. I went from seeing from 500 to 1200 hits a day from Nimbda infected machines to less than 300 a day (on average). There was even a day when it was less than 50, but I found out later that one of their network nodes went down.... just my 2p... sTc
hi,
Doesn't the Privacy Act of 1974 (and its ammendments) require the government agency which holds the sensitive information (SSN, Credit Info, and all other personally identifying information) to protect the information from unautorized release? Couldn't the US Army (and any other Federal Agency) be liable under this Act for unautorized release of this information? sTc
hi,
I found out a few months ago that Comcast's customer service web GUI only works w/ IE for security. When I complained to customer service, they [naturally] claimed they didn't support any browsers besides IE. Of course, they dont support any OS besides M$ either. sTc
hi,
I have cingular wireless for my telephone and a friend sent me a short message which included the word "shit". it showed up as an "i" with an umlout (sp? double dots over it). I asked her what she sent and she told me. I dont know if it was my cingular service that censored it or her at&t service that censored it. anyone wanna do an experiment? sTc
I've always wondered why mass transit systems weren't heterogeneous. according to their maps, the monorail doesnt connect to either the airport or the college (UNLV). these would be the first two places to logically connect to a mass transit system. *sigh*
... and Comcast's wonderful new boradband wont even let you configure your account information unless youre running IE. it doesnt work with Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, Konqueror or any other browser anyone has up their sleeves.
seems to me that the industry is encouraging the monopoly. pretty cool. NOT!
hi,
so, let me get this straight.
1) DMCA says you cant publish information which will allow someone to violate a copyright.
2) Fair Use Act says you're allowed to copy copyrighted material for backup purposes. From what I understand, you are also allowed to copy the material to be used in another format. i.e. copy CD to MP3 (?), DVD to VHS (?), etc.
3) If it's legal to copy something from one format to another, and the company providing the original content prevents you from exercising your rights under Fair Use, shouldnt there be a large contingent of class action suits against the content providers for actively and intentionally limiting your legal rights?
4) perhaps there should be a suit against the media providers to force them to provide format exchangers as a courtesy to their customers?:) sTc
hi,
well, this sounds an aweful lot like the DoD's trusted operating systems. just substitude varying security levels with varying digital rights' owners.
perhaps MS will be able to expand its monopolistic empire further into the gov't's graces by supplying trusted infrastructure systems beyond the red-black buondaries. *sigh*
sTc
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From the 'No Military License':
"... The Program and its derivative work will neither be modified or executed to harm any human being nor through inaction permit any human being to be harmed. This is Asimov's first law of Robotics."
Aside from the obvious direct military applications, would this restrict its use by people who create laws which allow harm to come to humans? The "harm" clause is quite subjective in its definition. How they perceive harm may be different from how others percieve harm. This may be struck down in the courts as being "too broad" and find it is not a valid license as has been done many times in the past in regards to laws (both state and federal laws).
-- The software industry is driven by wanting more while using less; which is why Microsoft products provide successively more options and features while leaving you with less free drive space, less free memory, less stability and less peace of mind. --me
sTc
hi,
I've moved cross country twice, east-to-west and west-to-east.
the first move, the company hired the moving company directly, and that went rather well. the company offered to move my household, up to one car, travel expenses (if i chose to drive or to fly), and put me up in a hotel near the office until i found a new apartment. the moving company came and packed my items, and delivered them to my new apartment. the only lost one box and a vacuum cleaner and destroyed one vintage PC green screen monitor... all of which was reimbursed by the moving company in a reasonable time.
the second move, i was offered a flat fee to relocate. i hired a moving company which all-but commited fraud in their estimate. changed me for each box supplied, each box packed, and for each cubic foot of truck & storage space above their initial estimate. to make a long evil story short, they were evil and cost me a bunch of money.
other long moves i've done i packed myself, rented a u-haul, and towed my car. i called local moving companies to rent their muscle to load and unload the truck at the start and end of the move. this was, by far, the cheapest route to pursue. the disadvantage is that you have to have a place to move into before doing the move.
your best bet is to have the company hire the company and provide your complete relocation. let the company deal w/ the purchasing and legal nightmares potentially involved.
otherwise... i've found only use reputable, by referal, well known moving companies.
oh! and buy lots of boxes and packaging tape. and those hand or appliance dollies are sweet!
sTc
hi,
Not only is IE not compliant, but neither is their usage of ISO9660 (CD-ROM), nor TCP/IP. None of these has been so since the early days of MS. Where has everyone been?
sTc
hi, /. get the contents of the article so wrong? Are you turning into a sensationalist tabloid? Maybe we should fling /. out to moon if that's the case.
I just finished reading the first part of the article linked in the original thread at space.com. They claim the object was between 40 and 80 meters (130-260 feet) in diameter, that it passed within 298,400 miles (480,200 km) (1.2x the distance to the moon) and that this occured on March 8th, 2004.
How did
sTc
hi,
i bought a new Mazda Protege in the end of 1993. it was a demo car and had 3502 miles on it when i bought it. when the insurance company totalled it for someone running a red light, it had 207,000+ miles on it. i had fastidiously kept records on mileage and gas prices.
the car had a 30/26 MPG sticker on it when i bought it. the lifetime average for the car (minus the initial 3502 miles) was 29.? MPG with a spike at 33 and a trough at 25.
sTc
hi,
and yet, somehow, the people on site at DoD's CERT are forced to use IE. how does that work, exactly?
sTc
hi,
Why can't we just start keeping tabs on the as many official in the DoD that we can? Keep our own open databases and what-not? Have it open and published on the internet. If it's legal to obtain certain records, then we should obtain them and post them.
A similar event occured in California. The CA DMV did not restrict who was allowed access to its driver license database and did not restrict what could be done with the information. Well, some individuals obtained records on the entire state legislature and published it to the net. They changed the laws after that.
sTc
hi,
Once again information is "required" to be submitted to a government agency under the authorization and protection of the Privacy Act of 1974 [and its ammendments]. However, the information being collected is done via a standard web form with the httpd protocol. No encryption. Thus, violating the Privacy Act of 1974 which requires government agencies which collect such information to protect it. Clear text transfer of information, last time I checked, is not considered protection.
sTc
hi, I downloaded the Mandrake ISOs yesterday (twice! just to be sure), and neither time did the md5sum's of the files match those listed on their web site. Is it me? Or have others noticed this as well?
sTc
hi,
isn't intercepting and monitoring communictions which were not intended to be sent to you illegal under current wiretap / monitoring statutes? i.e. is what big champagne doing illegal (unless, of course, the P2P networks are allowing them access to this information)?
sTc
I worked with a guy who was in development and managing the IT end of things. he was always overworked and underfunded (not as much as what you're talking about, but...). his solution to the problem was to have someone else prioritize the workload on a project-by-project basis (NOT day-to-day or hour-to-hour).
basically he was leaving it up to the management to be the bad guy for whose work wasnt accomplished. let the guys who are dumping the work onto you be the bad guy for the customer.
sTc
hi,
Suppose this hijackers hacked in and added a few soft wall areas to the plane's database... say, perhaps, like all of the airports within the current range of the aircraft?
sTc
hi, ... just my 2p ...
I have had (and am still having) to contact Comcast's technical support for their customers' machines that are infected with Nimbda and are attacking my web server. Ideally, these systems are violating Comcast's (and any ISP's) Acceptable Use Policies.
So, I first was just sending an email for each day's activity to their typical complaint email (abuse [atsign] isp.net) and receiving the automatic response. I figured I could build up a history of reporting before up'ing the ante with my provider.
After a month, I started calling technical support. This basically got me up to tier two (since no one on tier one knew what I was talking about). Later, I got more long distance numbers for internal Comcast contacts, but which, in reality, went no where or to a pre-recorded message.
Next, after two months, I filed a better business bureau (bbb.org) report. _This_ got their attention (when it eventually found the right department). I now have one tech and the tech's boss assigned to my problem. So, now I send my daily (ok, so, I dont send one every day, just one for each day's activity) acitivity to the default abuse line and to the two other people.
Actually, this has been effective. I went from seeing from 500 to 1200 hits a day from Nimbda infected machines to less than 300 a day (on average). There was even a day when it was less than 50, but I found out later that one of their network nodes went down.
sTc
hi,
Doesn't the Privacy Act of 1974 (and its ammendments) require the government agency which holds the sensitive information (SSN, Credit Info, and all other personally identifying information) to protect the information from unautorized release? Couldn't the US Army (and any other Federal Agency) be liable under this Act for unautorized release of this information?
sTc
hi,
I found out a few months ago that Comcast's customer service web GUI only works w/ IE for security. When I complained to customer service, they [naturally] claimed they didn't support any browsers besides IE. Of course, they dont support any OS besides M$ either.
sTc
hi,
I have cingular wireless for my telephone and a friend sent me a short message which included the word "shit". it showed up as an "i" with an umlout (sp? double dots over it). I asked her what she sent and she told me. I dont know if it was my cingular service that censored it or her at&t service that censored it. anyone wanna do an experiment?
sTc
I've always wondered why mass transit systems weren't heterogeneous. according to their maps, the monorail doesnt connect to either the airport or the college (UNLV). these would be the first two places to logically connect to a mass transit system. *sigh*
...
and Comcast's wonderful new boradband wont even let you configure your account information unless youre running IE. it doesnt work with Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, Konqueror or any other browser anyone has up their sleeves.
seems to me that the industry is encouraging the monopoly. pretty cool. NOT!
hi, :)
so, let me get this straight.
1) DMCA says you cant publish information which will allow someone to violate a copyright.
2) Fair Use Act says you're allowed to copy copyrighted material for backup purposes. From what I understand, you are also allowed to copy the material to be used in another format. i.e. copy CD to MP3 (?), DVD to VHS (?), etc.
3) If it's legal to copy something from one format to another, and the company providing the original content prevents you from exercising your rights under Fair Use, shouldnt there be a large contingent of class action suits against the content providers for actively and intentionally limiting your legal rights?
4) perhaps there should be a suit against the media providers to force them to provide format exchangers as a courtesy to their customers?
sTc
hi,
well, this sounds an aweful lot like the DoD's trusted operating systems. just substitude varying security levels with varying digital rights' owners.
perhaps MS will be able to expand its monopolistic empire further into the gov't's graces by supplying trusted infrastructure systems beyond the red-black buondaries. *sigh*
sTc