The reason why the war on drugs has not and will never end is that too many people profit from its continuation
You mean, like the ISPs who sell bandwidth (and hosting)to the SPAM transmitters, the companies who sell anti-spam software, the spammers and themselves and even companies like Pfizer who make money just by keeping their products on the tips of everybodys tongues (both literally and figuratively)??
Like daveschroeder said: BitTorrent is neither legal nor illegal. It is the sharing of specific files in violation of copyright which are illegal, and that would be illegal whether it was done on a website, ftp site or bittorrent.
The file you have is legal and legally distributed. Period. If they wish to limit your free speech rights on legal speech, that is a first ammendment issue and should be dealt with in a separate court battle.
If you can find a lawyer to write a letter to that effect for you, it might get their attention. I'm sure you could find a classmate whose parent relative or family friend is a lawyer willing to put a note like that under his/her firm's name. No explict threats -- just a letter from a lawyer.
Yep. Found a reference.. apparently from Heinlein himslf. Looks like both the patent and the free (un-assembled) water bed occured -- but as unrelated incidents. (and, yes -- the other response is from my alter-ego).
All you have to do is buy 'inappropriate' gifts for your friends and it'll keep suggesting more of them!
As long as your credit card isn't declined, they'll still be happy. They don't care why you're buying more just as long as they do. Either way the new system is doing it's job (getting the money from yours).
It may be less than the original development, but porting a large software product from VB6 to any other language could easily cost upwards of a million dollars. Given a choice between that and losing all support for your code base in the near future, many CTO's will bite the bullet, sign the cheque and then go weak-kneed into the CFO/CEO's office to explain the very unkind expenditure.
From the comments of the VB group, transition from VB6 to VB.net is not likely to be easy -- you might as well port it to java, or Python. At least with Python you'll never have to worry about an enforced EOL ever again.
I expect that MS will let these people sweat it out for a couple of months, then extend something that will pass for support -- but they've now put the fear of god (aka Bill Gates) into the hearts of these developers and end-users.
So what does it mean if they no longer support it. Does it mean that you can't develop in VB6 anymore? Of course not.
Sure, you're free to continue to develop in VB6 -- as long as you're happy that the codebase underlying your product will never, ever, ever have official support on LongHorn -- and if you ever find a serious security violation, then you'll have to go begging on bended knee with hat (and blank cheque) in hand to pray to your redmond masters for a fix (which you may, or may not have gotten even last year!).
This is where Open Source is superior to Microsoft. The Open Source equivalent may (or may not) have superior support compared to what Microsoft is providing (sorry -- was providing, as of last month!), but nobody can EOL a FLOSS code base that is important enough to you. You always have the option of grabbing the most recent code base, and continuing the support -- either by yourself or in concert with your friends -- even your (otherwise) competition who share the same need.
Hold on. Before they run into trouble, I'd better go inform the Physics department.. and Google, and Yahoo and NASA, and -- oh, hold on. NASA's already in trouble.. but it's got nothing to do with Linux.
Id say that a hurricane is more like a strap -- mostly annoying and bruising, but if it catches you edge-on it can cause some real damage (( nastist part of a hurri cane is usually related ocean activity)) -- but it's very widespread, and you can
usually see it coming.
A tornado, on the other hand, uses less total force, but it's concentrated into a single point of contact -- not unlike a stiletto. Like the previous poster said -- if it hits you, you're toast. Also (rather like a stiletto), you don't usually realize what's in store for you until the last second.
I've experienced near-hurricane force winds... it was more annoying than anything... It hit a tent city, and tents that weren't properly anchored went flying (including a hard-shell cook tent and two people trying to hold it down)
I've also seen the aftermath of a force-5 tornado (Edmonton). With a force-5 tornado, stuff that gets a glancing blow is badly damaged. Even the best-bult buildings are essentially destroyed by a direct hit.
I admit, though, that huge parts of Florida are caught between a rock and a hard place. Below ground you have a near-surface water table. Above ground you risk Hurricane damage. On the other hand, it sounds like Verizon hasn't been completely responsible for the fact that they're doing massive work in a difficult area.
A dish is a telescope. Ever see a picture of Aricebo?
In this context (s)he meant to distinguish an optical telescope fromm a radio 'scope. If (s)he were writing for a computer I'd expect a bit more precision in writing. For humans (especially humans who understand the vagraties of English) the distinction should have been clear.
In other words, even if you're human, you've just failed the turing test.
Congratulations. I presume that this was your intent.
I certainly see that he believes God approves of his actions.
It's really easy to say 'god is on our side'... the real question, from a religious point of view should be 'Are we on god's side'.
(( shades of Kennedy's famous quote ))
Ask not what your {god,country} can do for you. Ask, rather, what you can do for your {god,country}.
For me, blowing people up because their neighbour pissed you off doesn't work with Jesus's "Turn the other cheek" admonition.
BTW: If he'd been telling it today, the parable of the good Samaratan would have been the parable of the good Iraqi. (From what I can tell Summeria is somewhere in Iraq).
Considering the comment I replied to was scored Insightful with a 5 rating, I'm not the only one.
yeah. I've had more than one post that I considered hilarous, that got moded insightful or informative. I even considered filing a retort. (I think I even did, once). On the other hand, I've also had it happen the other way 'round, too.
Part of the problem is that some humor really is also insightful... It just imparts the insight in the guise of humor. Moderating those kinds of posts is pretty much a crap-shoot. You may get complaints no matter *how* you moderate it -- but don't let that stop you from moderating.
The main reason why a bounty would be good is that it would make it worthwhile for some peole to spend the time and energy it takes to collect the evidence needed for a conviction.
If they only had $1Million dollars to spend on this, I think that they'd be far better off to give 100 people a $10K bounty than giving 10 people a $1K bounty.
The one thing that I'd do, however, is allow multiple people to get bounties of up to $10K on one person up to a maximum of $100K.. it'd be a real bitch doing 2 months of work and finding out you're only getting $500 becsuse 20 people nailed the same bastard.
Let us all take out a moment to consider how to best 'repay' the spammers who followed for the 100 years of 'joy' they have given us.
Give them a free ticket on Cunard's most famous ship -- The Titanic. (No lifeboat, of course, just like for most of it's passengers). Of course, they'd have to swim to the deck themselves....
Whenever a new particle accelerator is built, whenever a new probe is sent into space, whenever someone builds a bigger telescope, whenever they bury some sophisticated particle detector deep, they'll conveniently tell you exactly which part of the unknown they're trying to probe.
Ah, Now I understand: They actually do know everything, but if they admitted that, their funding supply would get cut off!
Do they have low expectations or why is the project named after a fictional character who was rather bonkers and fought windmills?
This makes perfect sense to me. now that I've actually read a summary of the story
written by a Spaniard,
The mission has two main players: Hidalgo and Sancho. Hidalgo is the (fictional) title of Don Quixote (the lowest rank of nobility).
Sancho is his squire and, at a critical point in the story, the source of the
narrative switches to him.
Don Quixote tilts at imaginary enemies... The enemy that Hidalgo 'attacks' will also be imaginary in that the asteroid that gets 'attacked' will probably *not* be a threat to earth.
Hidalgo Don Quixote mistakes the windmill for a giant. The relative sizes fit here.
Don Quixote was pretty much trashed by his first encounter with such a giant. We can expect much the same here.
In the original, it would appear that Sancho is the brains of the outfit, and the scribe of the adventure
In the modern version of the tale, Hidalgo, will have just enough brains to fly head-first into his imaginary enemy. Meanwhile, Sancho will stand back at a safe distance chronicling the setup and the aftermath.
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You mean, like the ISPs who sell bandwidth (and hosting)to the SPAM transmitters, the companies who sell anti-spam software, the spammers and themselves and even companies like Pfizer who make money just by keeping their products on the tips of everybodys tongues (both literally and figuratively)??
The file you have is legal and legally distributed. Period. If they wish to limit your free speech rights on legal speech, that is a first ammendment issue and should be dealt with in a separate court battle.
If you can find a lawyer to write a letter to that effect for you, it might get their attention. I'm sure you could find a classmate whose parent relative or family friend is a lawyer willing to put a note like that under his/her firm's name. No explict threats -- just a letter from a lawyer.
Yep. Found a reference.. apparently from Heinlein himslf. Looks like both the patent and the free (un-assembled) water bed occured -- but as unrelated incidents.
(and, yes -- the other response is from my alter-ego).
From: Myself
Subject: Meet with auditing team 10:30
Something about stupid passwords.
Don't miss it!
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Can you be fired from the IRS for brazen stupidity?
(although I could have Taco's spelling audited for the next 3 years!)
Are you talking about building a C compiler to fit the CPU, or writing the boot image to today's storage mediums?
Yep you have a point ("But, as he so quickly pointed out, 'A point in every direction is the same as .. no point at all.'")
As long as your credit card isn't declined, they'll still be happy. They don't care why you're buying more just as long as they do. Either way the new system is doing it's job (getting the money from yours).
Does a story count as prior art? Arthur C. Clarke did it with waterbeds and geosynchronous satellites.
From the comments of the VB group, transition from VB6 to VB.net is not likely to be easy -- you might as well port it to java, or Python. At least with Python you'll never have to worry about an enforced EOL ever again.
I expect that MS will let these people sweat it out for a couple of months, then extend something that will pass for support -- but they've now put the fear of god (aka Bill Gates) into the hearts of these developers and end-users.
Sure, you're free to continue to develop in VB6 -- as long as you're happy that the codebase underlying your product will never, ever, ever have official support on LongHorn -- and if you ever find a serious security violation, then you'll have to go begging on bended knee with hat (and blank cheque) in hand to pray to your redmond masters for a fix (which you may, or may not have gotten even last year!).
This is where Open Source is superior to Microsoft. The Open Source equivalent may (or may not) have superior support compared to what Microsoft is providing (sorry -- was providing, as of last month!), but nobody can EOL a FLOSS code base that is important enough to you. You always have the option of grabbing the most recent code base, and continuing the support -- either by yourself or in concert with your friends -- even your (otherwise) competition who share the same need.
(( we need better moderation for "what the hell do you mean troll? than just 'underrated'.))
Hold on. Before they run into trouble, I'd better go inform the Physics department .. and Google, and Yahoo and NASA, and -- oh, hold on. NASA's already in trouble .. but it's got nothing to do with Linux.
I can be googled too, but I'm just an AI program attempting to pass the turing test.
A tornado, on the other hand, uses less total force, but it's concentrated into a single point of contact -- not unlike a stiletto. Like the previous poster said -- if it hits you, you're toast. Also (rather like a stiletto), you don't usually realize what's in store for you until the last second.
I've experienced near-hurricane force winds... it was more annoying than anything... It hit a tent city, and tents that weren't properly anchored went flying (including a hard-shell cook tent and two people trying to hold it down)
I've also seen the aftermath of a force-5 tornado (Edmonton). With a force-5 tornado, stuff that gets a glancing blow is badly damaged. Even the best-bult buildings are essentially destroyed by a direct hit.
I admit, though, that huge parts of Florida are caught between a rock and a hard place. Below ground you have a near-surface water table. Above ground you risk Hurricane damage. On the other hand, it sounds like Verizon hasn't been completely responsible for the fact that they're doing massive work in a difficult area.
In this context (s)he meant to distinguish an optical telescope fromm a radio 'scope. If (s)he were writing for a computer I'd expect a bit more precision in writing. For humans (especially humans who understand the vagraties of English) the distinction should have been clear.
In other words, even if you're human, you've just failed the turing test.
Congratulations. I presume that this was your intent.
It's really easy to say 'god is on our side'... the real question, from a religious point of view should be 'Are we on god's side'.
(( shades of Kennedy's famous quote ))
For me, blowing people up because their neighbour pissed you off doesn't work with Jesus's "Turn the other cheek" admonition.BTW: If he'd been telling it today, the parable of the good Samaratan would have been the parable of the good Iraqi. (From what I can tell Summeria is somewhere in Iraq).
yeah. I've had more than one post that I considered hilarous, that got moded insightful or informative. I even considered filing a retort. (I think I even did, once). On the other hand, I've also had it happen the other way 'round, too.
Part of the problem is that some humor really is also insightful... It just imparts the insight in the guise of humor. Moderating those kinds of posts is pretty much a crap-shoot. You may get complaints no matter *how* you moderate it -- but don't let that stop you from moderating.
Well, if we did, it would be proof positive that they never went to the Moon!!
If they only had $1Million dollars to spend on this, I think that they'd be far better off to give 100 people a $10K bounty than giving 10 people a $1K bounty.
The one thing that I'd do, however, is allow multiple people to get bounties of up to $10K on one person up to a maximum of $100K.. it'd be a real bitch doing 2 months of work and finding out you're only getting $500 becsuse 20 people nailed the same bastard.
Give them a free ticket on Cunard's most famous ship -- The Titanic. (No lifeboat, of course, just like for most of it's passengers). Of course, they'd have to swim to the deck themselves....
Ah, Now I understand: They actually do know everything, but if they admitted that, their funding supply would get cut off!
This presumes, of course that you're running Windows)
This makes perfect sense to me. now that I've actually read a summary of the story written by a Spaniard,
The enemy that Hidalgo 'attacks' will also be imaginary in that the asteroid that gets 'attacked' will probably *not* be a threat to earth.
The relative sizes fit here.
We can expect much the same here.
Meanwhile, Sancho will stand back at a safe distance chronicling the setup and the aftermath.
We use SPARC, he said disARMingly.