In other news, thier little kids test asks if it is ok to use Curious George (TM) in a mural without permission. I wonder if that had permission to use Curious George (TM) as an example, or are they infringing on copyright by using Curious George (TM). Just a thought.
Fair use, fair use!:)
Curious George's authors have been dead for almost ten years. The likeness and copyrights to the works no doubt are in the hands publishers, the same folks who fund the comic in the first place.
Or the provider, whose board of directors has a preponderance of individuals with strong religous beliefs, suddenly deciding that they can't in all conscience operate a company that provides access to 'immoral' content and implements blocking for any site that serves porn, nudity, excessive violence, abortion-rights views, or any other opinion they disapprove of?
Loss of their common carrier status, and responsibility for all traffic that crosses their network?
Interesting! So maybe we could apply the same concept to QoS. If you shape bandwidth based on either source or destination, you lose your common carrier status and take responsibility for the content!
You might not even have to pass any new laws. Can they really argue that a common carrier can even use QoS to begin with? A common carrier is just that. Everybody is treated the same.
Now, I have an auto playing song on my myspace page, but it's expressly there to annoy the hell out of people. It's embedded, not using their little convenient flash thing, and i've hidden the controls so you can't stop it. And, what's better, it's Johnny Cash singing cocaine blues! Which...basically makes most people like it, but it used to be a song about grotesque things to do with fetuses! And Jesus dances to it!
Microsoft has pretty much done all that they can do with an OS, so why bother, apart from keeping business users on the upgrade train. Don't agree? Then tell me what apps run on XP that don't run on Win2K. I can't think of any.
You think MS can rewrite the API with each release? ISVs want a consistent platform. If MS releases an OS that can't run software for previous OS versions, no one would buy it. The only reason for new OS releases is to keep siphoning money in exchange for "current version support". The whole idea is bogus and designed to maximize profit. The last thing MS considers is what is good for their customers.
Nope, but it's still case law. Precident is precidnt whether it's one case or a thousand.
Yes, you are correct, but I believe the case could be reversed at some point. Also, not all jurisdictions follow precedent from others. I'd love to see this EULA bunk get thrown out as the utter BS it is. Then again, with the bargain rates politicos are selling for these days, I'd hate to see the courts actually confirm the legality of EULAs...
Meanwhile, i just have my dog/child/parakeet hit "I Accept" for me...:)
The site, StorageMojo, looks pretty bogus to me as well. I just ran through every article they have. They're all from the same person, average six or so per year, and maybe go three pages for all of them. The comments for this/. article will be bigger than the entire site...
If you think that a Linux advocate cannot make an objective analysis of desktop operating systems, then you need to read this report. You may find yourself surprised with some brutal honesty that leaves out the free software philosophy. Now we might see which fans are philosophically challenged."
A link would be useless as it's on the front page and the links are the same, ninth item down as of this moment. Hate to say it, but you obviously didn't look very closely.
Yes, I have a (relatively) low UID. I've been here for many years./. is my home page. It has a/etc/hosts entry so when DNS is screwed up, I still have a place to go. I like it here, but I'm sick of./ being polluted with trash from other sites.
Have I ever gamed the karma system? Sure, it's fun! But when I submit a link, its original and not ripped from the front page of a competing site. That is just totally lame, in my opinion.
I've made my point. I won't post anymore "Don't post Digg stories!" complaints. Maybe the editors will scan Digg before posting submissions? Perhaps they can scan/. while they're at it?:)
As was pointed out by an AC, one person submits the same story to two different tech blogs. No harm, no foul. I just seeth when some punk snatches a previously posted story on Digg and submits it to/. Heck, your submission didn't even make it out of the queue at Digg. Seems to have done much better over here. My apologies if I have offended you in any way. I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.
I wrote this article after seeing a couple of examples of ugly websites that were unbelievably successful, including one site that makes over $10,000/day in Adsense! I realized that there are qualities to ugly websites which help make them successful."
So is nywanna daoustmark? Or just copying other posts from digg?
All this guy did was cut and paste his own joke back into the thread. It was just an experiment, actually. My first joke post was modded to 0, and while I don't consider my joke to be the funniest ever, it certainly wasn't worth a zero, so I posted it back into the thread. Funny thing, the zero post was then modded up, and the second was (correctly) modded to -1, redundant. I guess the moderation (sorta) works! Now if clueless AC's want to trash my (not so) good name, at least get the facts straight...
As for Kluttz, I guess if you want to hire a 27 year old twinkie with pink nail polish with a myspace blog about how hardy she parties, she's the girl for you! My advise would be, when you are no longer a child, you put away your childish things. She just thinks she's still seventeen. She is kinda cute, though. I'd take her home, but not before 2am... Unless she had some killer. That might move her up to about 10pm.
Note that no amount of Googling will connect my true identity with this post, for I, while many things, am not an idiot. Maybe that's the true test. (If your dumb enough to use your real identity online....)
>A Contract is a license that applies to anything at all and allows the two parties to agree to >anything at all, but requires legally-binding proof that both parties agree (such as a signature, >witnesses, etc).
>>A contract requires no such thing. It may be orders of magnitude easier to sue someone for breaching >>a contract if you've got unassailable proof of what they agreed to, but an oral contract made >>between two people with no one else around is still a contract.
That's why an oral contract isn't worth the paper it's (not) printed on. A EULA, however, isn't a contract to begin with. There is no law stating that, in spite of the text of the EULA, by opening and using the software product, I have agreed to restrict the rights granted to me by obtaining a legally purchased copy. EULAs are bunk. Software vendors want you to think they are valid, but they are not.
I'd say somebody at Checkpoint didn't pay the rent. You can't have corruption with just a corrupt government. You gotta have corrupt influence-buyers as well. Being Israeli, you'd think Checkpoint would have been familiar with the concept.
Besides, their firewall is targeted to lazy admins. That's why they sell so many. Snort doesn't fit their target audience.
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In other news, thier little kids test asks if it is ok to use Curious George (TM) in a mural without permission. I wonder if that had permission to use Curious George (TM) as an example, or are they infringing on copyright by using Curious George (TM). Just a thought.
:)
Fair use, fair use!
Curious George's authors have been dead for almost ten years. The likeness and copyrights to the works no doubt are in the hands publishers, the same folks who fund the comic in the first place.
Or the provider, whose board of directors has a preponderance of individuals with strong religous beliefs, suddenly deciding that they can't in all conscience operate a company that provides access to 'immoral' content and implements blocking for any site that serves porn, nudity, excessive violence, abortion-rights views, or any other opinion they disapprove of?
Loss of their common carrier status, and responsibility for all traffic that crosses their network?
Interesting! So maybe we could apply the same concept to QoS. If you shape bandwidth based on either source or destination, you lose your common carrier status and take responsibility for the content!
You might not even have to pass any new laws. Can they really argue that a common carrier can even use QoS to begin with? A common carrier is just that. Everybody is treated the same.
Now, I have an auto playing song on my myspace page, but it's expressly there to annoy the hell out of people. It's embedded, not using their little convenient flash thing, and i've hidden the controls so you can't stop it. And, what's better, it's Johnny Cash singing cocaine blues! Which...basically makes most people like it, but it used to be a song about grotesque things to do with fetuses! And Jesus dances to it!
Link?
Why the hell would anyone other than a dial-up user need to have a firewall enabled under Windows?
Oh, I don't know, because 85% of all system intrusions are inside jobs? Heck with the Internet, protect me from my company's network...
No troll... How about holding off all H1B visas until the IT umemployment rate is zero?
Because that would not force the price of IT workers down as big business wants...
Microsoft has pretty much done all that they can do with an OS, so why bother, apart from keeping business users on the upgrade train. Don't agree? Then tell me what apps run on XP that don't run on Win2K. I can't think of any.
You think MS can rewrite the API with each release? ISVs want a consistent platform. If MS releases an OS that can't run software for previous OS versions, no one would buy it. The only reason for new OS releases is to keep siphoning money in exchange for "current version support". The whole idea is bogus and designed to maximize profit. The last thing MS considers is what is good for their customers.
Nope, but it's still case law. Precident is precidnt whether it's one case or a thousand.
:)
Yes, you are correct, but I believe the case could be reversed at some point. Also, not all jurisdictions follow precedent from others. I'd love to see this EULA bunk get thrown out as the utter BS it is. Then again, with the bargain rates politicos are selling for these days, I'd hate to see the courts actually confirm the legality of EULAs...
Meanwhile, i just have my dog/child/parakeet hit "I Accept" for me...
In one adjudicated case, one EULA was found to be enforcable against one party (prohibition of reverse engineering). See for yourself.
One case is not many...
First sale doctrine... fair use... Unless it has my signature on it, why read anything else?
If getting a blow job is illegal, put me on trial now, I look forward to the testimony.
The question would now be if Bush also lied to Congress, or reported the information he had, which later turned out to be fallacious.
Damn, that's funny...
The site, StorageMojo, looks pretty bogus to me as well. I just ran through every article they have. They're all from the same person, average six or so per year, and maybe go three pages for all of them. The comments for this /. article will be bigger than the entire site...
sn't snort open source? What am I missing?
Well, Snort could always pull a nessus and close the source...
Experiments are continuing with *shaved* cats.
Step one: Shave Shrodinger's cat with Occam's razor...
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/. is my home page. It has a /etc/hosts entry so when DNS is screwed up, I still have a place to go. I like it here, but I'm sick of ./ being polluted with trash from other sites.
/. while they're at it? :)
" Ubuntu, Macintosh and Windows XP
tadelste submitted by tadelste 21 hours 22 minutes ago (via http://lxer.com/module/newswir...)
If you think that a Linux advocate cannot make an objective analysis of desktop operating systems, then you need to read this report. You may find yourself surprised with some brutal honesty that leaves out the free software philosophy. Now we might see which fans are philosophically challenged."
A link would be useless as it's on the front page and the links are the same, ninth item down as of this moment. Hate to say it, but you obviously didn't look very closely.
Yes, I have a (relatively) low UID. I've been here for many years.
Have I ever gamed the karma system? Sure, it's fun! But when I submit a link, its original and not ripped from the front page of a competing site. That is just totally lame, in my opinion.
I've made my point. I won't post anymore "Don't post Digg stories!" complaints. Maybe the editors will scan Digg before posting submissions? Perhaps they can scan
Boy, what a red banner day...
As was pointed out by an AC, one person submits the same story to two different tech blogs. No harm, no foul. I just seeth when some punk snatches a previously posted story on Digg and submits it to /. Heck, your submission didn't even make it out of the queue at Digg. Seems to have done much better over here. My apologies if I have offended you in any way. I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.
Third page in the Digg review cue:
"The Surprising Truth About Ugly Websites
daoustmark submitted by daoustmark 57 minutes ago (via http://www.site-reference.com/...)
I wrote this article after seeing a couple of examples of ugly websites that were unbelievably successful, including one site that makes over $10,000/day in Adsense! I realized that there are qualities to ugly websites which help make them successful."
So is nywanna daoustmark? Or just copying other posts from digg?
/. ain't digg...
All this guy did was cut and paste his own joke back into the thread. It was just an experiment, actually. My first joke post was modded to 0, and while I don't consider my joke to be the funniest ever, it certainly wasn't worth a zero, so I posted it back into the thread. Funny thing, the zero post was then modded up, and the second was (correctly) modded to -1, redundant. I guess the moderation (sorta) works! Now if clueless AC's want to trash my (not so) good name, at least get the facts straight...
As for Kluttz, I guess if you want to hire a 27 year old twinkie with pink nail polish with a myspace blog about how hardy she parties, she's the girl for you! My advise would be, when you are no longer a child, you put away your childish things. She just thinks she's still seventeen. She is kinda cute, though. I'd take her home, but not before 2am... Unless she had some killer. That might move her up to about 10pm.
Note that no amount of Googling will connect my true identity with this post, for I, while many things, am not an idiot. Maybe that's the true test. (If your dumb enough to use your real identity online....)
Yup, there it is (scroll down).
http://www.myspace.com/comeoncolleen
Would you hire a guy named "Kluttz"??
Would you hire a guy named "Kluttz"?
>A Contract is a license that applies to anything at all and allows the two parties to agree to
>anything at all, but requires legally-binding proof that both parties agree (such as a signature,
>witnesses, etc).
>>A contract requires no such thing. It may be orders of magnitude easier to sue someone for breaching
>>a contract if you've got unassailable proof of what they agreed to, but an oral contract made
>>between two people with no one else around is still a contract.
That's why an oral contract isn't worth the paper it's (not) printed on. A EULA, however, isn't a contract to begin with. There is no law stating that, in spite of the text of the EULA, by opening and using the software product, I have agreed to restrict the rights granted to me by obtaining a legally purchased copy. EULAs are bunk. Software vendors want you to think they are valid, but they are not.
Quantum cryptography is neat, to be sure, but what happens if the cat dies?
As long as you don't look, no problem!
I'd say somebody at Checkpoint didn't pay the rent. You can't have corruption with just a corrupt government. You gotta have corrupt influence-buyers as well. Being Israeli, you'd think Checkpoint would have been familiar with the concept.
Besides, their firewall is targeted to lazy admins. That's why they sell so many. Snort doesn't fit their target audience.