The cluelessness of that judge is frightening. Of course, this is precisely why you have appeal courts, to slap down foolish and clueless decisions by lower courts.
Yes, and sometimes water does get vapourised by forest fires... but if someone were to describe a kettle as "generating a level of heat that would not have otherwise occured", everyone would understand that the point is not that it doesn't occur in nature, but that it would not occur without our human intervention in this particular kettle.
The reverse is strictly true, however. If a license is compatible with the GPL then it is also automatically compatible with the (advertising-clause-free) BSD license. Technically. However, this is totally misleading because if a BSDL project were to incorporate GPLed code into their core codebase, they'd have to release the whole code under the GPL, which they would be unlikely to do for ideological reasons. It's not impossible, and it's not legally problematic, but it's unlikely.
Responsible blacklists will always perform a relay test on any host that is alleged to be an open relay. Therefore, if you are blacklisted by these blacklists, this means that you were either incompetent, hacked into, or possibly both.
Similarly, responsible blacklists will demand credible evidence before listing a domain as a spam source.
Could you name names, i.e. the blacklists that you have encountered that are not being responsible?
Spammers will respond to a auto-confirmation with their own automated reply engine. After that, they pummel the crap out of your server with free & clear spam that's never checked again.
In my personal experience (one of my addresses receives several hundred spams a month), this hardly even happens. All the spammers who spam me (and whose email never reaches my inbox because I use Bluebottle.com's free challenge/response service) are cowards who are too afraid to use real From addresses. This has been the case for many years, and anti-spam experts acknowledge it as a general principle ("Spammers Lie") - it's only recently that I've realised I could capitalise on that fact by using C/R.
Whatever problems there are with C/R, "it doesn't stop spam" is not one of them, in my experience!
As for automated systems, most automated systems will send you an email immediately after signup. All you then have to do is fish out that email and approve it for whitelisting. It's normally fine if you have basic computer literacy.
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It would seem, if the abuses are so rampant and flagrant, that it would be easy to compete and win.
"Easy"??
Have you ever heard of this thing called "Barriers to market entry"?
A lot of people on Slashdot seem to miss the point of pointing out that Galileo was right and the Church were wrong.
It's not a particularly good example because it's about fighting religious dogma rather than scientific dogma (a better example would be Charles Fort's example of the "learned men on Paris" who pronounced that "rocks do not fall from the sky because there are no rocks from the sky", and were proved wrong).
But the point of it is to show that receieved wisom can be dramatically wrong, not to show that received wisdom is always dramatically wrong, of course.
Or were you just using the term 'multinational' as a cheap way to appeal to the hard-core lefties in the audience?
Either way, history has already shown the inherient flaw in socialism: Whenever economic decision making is centralized in the name of "efficiency" the decisions that are made eventually wind up benefiting those in power the most.
Yes. Exactly. Which is exactly what's wrong with multinational corporations!
It is not our job to workaround bugs in gcj etc. If our code fails due to a bug in gcj, it is the responsibility of users/developers of gcj to fix that, not ours. I have contributed bug reports to gcj but I don't see it as a major priority. I get paid to write code that works on the official Java platforms.
However, a lot of people (myself included) feel that the large number (huge actually, in an international context) of liability lawsuits in the USA have established a body of case law which has 'dumbed down' this level of "common sense" to unreasonable extents.
Oh, in an ideal world, absolutely, I'd agree with you.
However, given that over 40 millions USians are functionally illiterate... I'd hazard a guess that maybe you need to improve your education system so that it actually, you know, educates everyone in the basic things you need to know and learn in life.
I suspect the reason why this does not happen very often - except when companies go bust and their assets have to be sold - is that is very difficult to agree on a fair price for a patent.
Of course, employers can sidestep that by not paying their employees anything like the value of the patent to them (potentially massive expropriation of surplus value, Marx-fans!) - which is another reason why the patent system is unjust.
Of course the most unjust patenting of all is stealing centuries-old native knowledge and patenting it - biopiracy.
That's why it's better to create functions or classes than to copy and paste code, where possible (except when you're writing code that you're definitely, without a doubt going to throw away after a short space of time, I suppose).
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That is absolutely false. We don't have nearly enough teachers in this country. And the reason we don't have enough of them is that we can't pay even the ones we have decent salaries.
Not can't - won't. Milk the rich, and put a squeeze on the so-called "Defense" Department, and you'll be able to!
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Well, that makes sense. In Europe any private enterprise is effectively competing with the government in terms of pay.
That's why the government should institute non-means-tested Basic Incomes to replace unemployment benefits and state pensions - paid for by progressivizing the tax system: taxing the rich more and taxing resource use more.
Then all pay would be on top of the Basic Income, not instead of it.
No, I think it's good. It proves that the editors aren't forced by their management to avoid starting political discussions which might lead to conclusions that are detrimental to the parent company. That's a good thing, and rather unusual in media companies generally.
In other words, it proves that there is still some degree of editorial independence at Slashdot.
Many people dislike BIND and have come out with arguably better alternatives.
Could you recommend any open source ones? (I.e. not djbdns.) Let's say I want to do just basic things like add subdomains, aliases and MXs - and add SPF records or whatever is the fashionable anti-joe-job measure of the day. And I want it to be rock-solid secure, obviously. What open source DNS server would you recommend for that?
Libertarianism? Libertarianism if taken to its logical conclusion means that if you are an adult and you don't like the social contract, you should move to another country.
You can't afford to move to another country? Guess what? Some property renters can't afford to move either. Hence, that argument that "people are not free when they cannot afford to do something" should be applied consistently. Which leads to socialism, not libertarianism. QED.
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Sorry if I didn't get that word-perfect.
The reverse is strictly true, however. If a license is compatible with the GPL then it is also automatically compatible with the (advertising-clause-free) BSD license. Technically. However, this is totally misleading because if a BSDL project were to incorporate GPLed code into their core codebase, they'd have to release the whole code under the GPL, which they would be unlikely to do for ideological reasons. It's not impossible, and it's not legally problematic, but it's unlikely.
Similarly, responsible blacklists will demand credible evidence before listing a domain as a spam source.
Could you name names, i.e. the blacklists that you have encountered that are not being responsible?
In my personal experience (one of my addresses receives several hundred spams a month), this hardly even happens. All the spammers who spam me (and whose email never reaches my inbox because I use Bluebottle.com's free challenge/response service) are cowards who are too afraid to use real From addresses. This has been the case for many years, and anti-spam experts acknowledge it as a general principle ("Spammers Lie") - it's only recently that I've realised I could capitalise on that fact by using C/R.
Whatever problems there are with C/R, "it doesn't stop spam" is not one of them, in my experience!
As for automated systems, most automated systems will send you an email immediately after signup. All you then have to do is fish out that email and approve it for whitelisting. It's normally fine if you have basic computer literacy.
"Easy"??
Have you ever heard of this thing called "Barriers to market entry"?
It's not a particularly good example because it's about fighting religious dogma rather than scientific dogma (a better example would be Charles Fort's example of the "learned men on Paris" who pronounced that "rocks do not fall from the sky because there are no rocks from the sky", and were proved wrong).
But the point of it is to show that receieved wisom can be dramatically wrong, not to show that received wisdom is always dramatically wrong, of course.
Either way, history has already shown the inherient flaw in socialism: Whenever economic decision making is centralized in the name of "efficiency" the decisions that are made eventually wind up benefiting those in power the most.
Yes. Exactly. Which is exactly what's wrong with multinational corporations!
Which proves that your voting system is fatally flawed.
That's not correct.
Java can do this too. All you have to do is do it the statically-typed way, viz:
public <T extends SomeInterface> void foo (T o) { o.someMethod (); }
Oh, in an ideal world, absolutely, I'd agree with you.
However, given that over 40 millions USians are functionally illiterate... I'd hazard a guess that maybe you need to improve your education system so that it actually, you know, educates everyone in the basic things you need to know and learn in life.
Of course, employers can sidestep that by not paying their employees anything like the value of the patent to them (potentially massive expropriation of surplus value, Marx-fans!) - which is another reason why the patent system is unjust.
Of course the most unjust patenting of all is stealing centuries-old native knowledge and patenting it - biopiracy.
Not can't - won't. Milk the rich, and put a squeeze on the so-called "Defense" Department, and you'll be able to!
That's why the government should institute non-means-tested Basic Incomes to replace unemployment benefits and state pensions - paid for by progressivizing the tax system: taxing the rich more and taxing resource use more.
Then all pay would be on top of the Basic Income, not instead of it.
In other words, it proves that there is still some degree of editorial independence at Slashdot.
Could you recommend any open source ones? (I.e. not djbdns.) Let's say I want to do just basic things like add subdomains, aliases and MXs - and add SPF records or whatever is the fashionable anti-joe-job measure of the day. And I want it to be rock-solid secure, obviously. What open source DNS server would you recommend for that?
Tyranny of the minority? Even less just.
Libertarianism? Libertarianism if taken to its logical conclusion means that if you are an adult and you don't like the social contract, you should move to another country.
You can't afford to move to another country? Guess what? Some property renters can't afford to move either. Hence, that argument that "people are not free when they cannot afford to do something" should be applied consistently. Which leads to socialism, not libertarianism. QED.