In other, more sane times, some people decided that having a definable definition of what was legal and what wasn't was a good thing, so that people didn't have to spend thier entire lives in court, with thier fates up to the whims of whoever was on the jury that day.
Sadly, we don't seem to care about that so much anymore.
Christ, are you a fucking moron or do you just like arguing? There aren't any fucking good guys here. Israels war crimes are well known and well documented. That the illegally occupy territory is a provable fact. Their human rights abuses are numerous. The arab nations surrounding them aren't neccesarily any better, either, but they don't have a fucking fan club like Israel does either. Israel should be wiped off the planet, and replaced with an actual democracy and not the fanatical, religiously prejudiced, terrorism sponsoring country thats there now.
And sure, any other nation that meets that criteria should be too.
Simply put: if an IE user can click on your link and have it work as a mailto, then it's harvestable. This is the spammer equivilent of the analog hole - there's no 100% workaround.
And even if you could prevent automated harvesting, theres still people who'll do things like pay stay at home moms to harvest manually from mailing lists and archives.
If I were a spammer who was interested in doing that I'd use the IE engine as the base of my harverster, which means that anything you can click on and have work with be harvestable.
There was a period of a couple years where lots of companies were doing this, especially the various free webhosts. "Free hosting with your own domain name!" etc. I don't know anyone personally who got bit by it, but I did look at several hosters contracts and there was language to this effect in it.
How about the fact that SCO hasn't filed a lawsuit against SGI, and in fact never even mentioned them until it was revealed that SGI had donated the code snippet that was leaked? SCO hasn't shown any material evidence that a) there is any infringing code (You'd have a really hard time getting a court to award you ANY damages for 200 lines of redundant code). or b) That they know what the fuck they're doing.
Every single thing that SCO has done up to this point looks like a knee jerk, off the cuff flamebait comment to incite publicity. There's been not one, single, solitary firm claim supported by even the most tenuous evidence.
Making fun of them won't make them go away, but who gives a fuck? They aren't a threat. Theres no possible way they can be a threat until at least 2005, since thats when thier court dates start. There's no reason for anyone of us to even care until then.
And you sir, despite your whining, are certainly a troll who I'm feeding.
I guess it depends on what your ideology is. Defing, as a requirment for doing buisness, that all your vendors comply to open standards for things like document storage means that the government, and thus the people, won't ever have issues with single source suppliers for the systems that run our government.
That a perfectly reasonable vendor requirment. Even requiring an open source implementation is - because an OSS implementation is ipso facto an open standard.
Companies LOVE to be sole sources. It makes them very happy, because it's like money in the bank - your customer has a major hurdle ever moving away from you. I don't think we like that sort of crap in our goverment. It'd be worth it even if using Linux was inarguably more expensive.
Clever admins set up local mirrors of Windows Update. Sadly, this seems to be much less common that local apt or sources or portage or whatever mirrors.
No, the best reason is that the GPL is a distribution license, which is to say that it grants you powers that would normally be prohibited by law, whereas an EULA is a usage license and adds restrictions in addition to those set by law. If you never look at the souce and never read the GPL and, in fact, are unaware of its existence, then it has no effect on you as a user. None whatsoever. Are you familiar with the terms of the sales contracts that book vendors have?
The only time you need to care about the GPL is if you're distributing the code, which is something that is normally illegal. If you're doing THAT without reading the source code or the COPYING file or otherwise aquiring a license to do so, then you're in violation of the law.
I can't imagine a reasonable argument against the GPL that would convince a court without invalidating EULAs. If the conversion of the GPL to a BSD style license is the price of the death of the EULA and the reversion of all over the counter commercial software to standard copyright law... well, I don't know if I'd be _pleased_ per se, but it certainly wouldn't be a total loss.
I dunno, the open letters can be cooked up by one of the execs in a 4 hour bender, with time left over for golf. Legal documents involve obnoxious things like research.
The entire develpment and support cycle for the creation of the game, plus maintaining the servers, paying artists, EVERYTHING, is a tiny fraction of the cost of one (1) fighter jet. Or tank. It might be as much as 4 or 5 jeeps. It's probably a tiny fraction of the cost that the Army spends on maintaing and opening recruiting offices, and sending flyers to high school seniors. Get some perspective, here. If you're going to be bothered about what your tax dollars do, you've got alot more options. For example, far more of it goes to ACTUALLY killing people, rather than simulating killing people.
The problem with creationists is that they spend all thier time trying to debunk evolution rather than proving creation.
The reason, of course, is that creationism is inherently unprovable - it boils down to "and then a miracle happens", and it's inherent in the argument that you cannot (and shall not) probe any farther than that.
Which is why "creationism" isn't a theory in any meaningful sense of the word and certainly shouldn't be taught in a science class, although it might be interesting in some humanities course.
Creationism is a belief, and by definition, is in spite of and does not require proof.
It's all well and good to point to lack of labratory evidence about evolution of species, or to point to or claim flaws in specific experiments. Thats part of the scientific method. However, the lack of evolution (even were it to be proved false, although I can't think of any way to empirically prove it impossible), does not imply creationism!
Claiming that creationism should be taught in school would be like claiming that we should also teach the traditional model of the universe with crystal spheres and the sun orbiting the earth.
50 is nothing:P I managed to screw up my mail server once, and it was discovered and immediatly used for about 24 hours before I noticed and fixed it. In that 24 hours they managed to send out thousands of spams (I'm not sure exactly how much, but the logfile was hundreds of megabytes), and I continued to get bounces, annoying replies, and especially probes from other spammers for months afterward.
The probes were the most annoying - even after securing the server, I had at least 3 spam runs attempted.
You know that paragon of Open Source development methodology, sendmail? The one thats responsible for the massive proliferation of proxies on old and poorly administed mail servers all over the world? Remember what OS that runs on.
I've been playing Aardwolf pretty much constantly since it's creation. It's a great community that has managed to avoid most/all of the traps that every other MUD I ever got into fell into, like the coding staff just leaving, or the imm staff nuking everyone, or losing hosting because nobody cared anymore.
Theres a total of 12,663 possible levels - and there are (2 so far) people who actually meet that goal. Even after almost 7 years it's still being developed and expanded and worked on.
I'll add some clickable links since nobody else has so far;) aardmud.org
I had the disappearing font problem the other day. Confused the heck out of me - Courier "normal" just went away and everything was using Courier Italic instead. Browsing to the font folder & looking at the fonts seemed to fix it - probably some sort of corruption in the font cache. I know theres an option to rebuild your font cache in TweakUI, too, but I couldn't find it.
It's worth noting that this was the first time I'd ever run into the problem, and I've been using 2k and XP for... well, just about 4 years now (between them, of course).
I'll clarify, since you can't seem to read. It's a hardware interupt thats handled specially by the kernel. Of course it's OS dependent, fuckwit, we're talking about NT here. Userspace applications can NOT trap that sequence. It's possible that a kernel level keyboard driver could, and of course the kernel HAL can (and does).
Any userland program, yes. Ctrl-Alt-Delete is a special hardware interrupt that the kernel handles itself and won't pass on to userspace. I'm not even sure if a kernel mode driver can get it. At least under NT based Windows, I believe theres ways you can trap it under 95/98.
Sort of correct. The courts ruled that DeCSS didn't have signifigant non-infringing use, and that it's intented and main use was not compatibility, but copyright infringment. The DeCSS team argued otherwise, of course, but was not sufficently convincing.
If it's compiled into the kernel, it's part of the kernel. It wouldn't matter if it's a driver or not. Notice the section about the symbols - the driver is attempting to load symbols that are NOT in a stock kernel.
Well, I won't expect much from Fox News, but theres at least a few newspaper publishers and owners out there who'll just get pissed off when they hear this kind of thing. Hopefully some of them still have some juice left in them and there'll be some good court cases about this thing.
The NYT, obnoxious registration and silly racial policies aside, is a good candidate.
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Sadly, we don't seem to care about that so much anymore.
And sure, any other nation that meets that criteria should be too.
And even if you could prevent automated harvesting, theres still people who'll do things like pay stay at home moms to harvest manually from mailing lists and archives.
I'd be interested if you could up with definitions of "begging", "the", and "question" to support you hypothesis.
If I were a spammer who was interested in doing that I'd use the IE engine as the base of my harverster, which means that anything you can click on and have work with be harvestable.
There was a period of a couple years where lots of companies were doing this, especially the various free webhosts. "Free hosting with your own domain name!" etc. I don't know anyone personally who got bit by it, but I did look at several hosters contracts and there was language to this effect in it.
Every single thing that SCO has done up to this point looks like a knee jerk, off the cuff flamebait comment to incite publicity. There's been not one, single, solitary firm claim supported by even the most tenuous evidence.
Making fun of them won't make them go away, but who gives a fuck? They aren't a threat. Theres no possible way they can be a threat until at least 2005, since thats when thier court dates start. There's no reason for anyone of us to even care until then.
And you sir, despite your whining, are certainly a troll who I'm feeding.
Check out MITs OpenCourseWare if that's your thing.
That a perfectly reasonable vendor requirment. Even requiring an open source implementation is - because an OSS implementation is ipso facto an open standard.
Companies LOVE to be sole sources. It makes them very happy, because it's like money in the bank - your customer has a major hurdle ever moving away from you. I don't think we like that sort of crap in our goverment. It'd be worth it even if using Linux was inarguably more expensive.
Clever admins set up local mirrors of Windows Update. Sadly, this seems to be much less common that local apt or sources or portage or whatever mirrors.
The only time you need to care about the GPL is if you're distributing the code, which is something that is normally illegal. If you're doing THAT without reading the source code or the COPYING file or otherwise aquiring a license to do so, then you're in violation of the law.
I can't imagine a reasonable argument against the GPL that would convince a court without invalidating EULAs. If the conversion of the GPL to a BSD style license is the price of the death of the EULA and the reversion of all over the counter commercial software to standard copyright law... well, I don't know if I'd be _pleased_ per se, but it certainly wouldn't be a total loss.
I dunno, the open letters can be cooked up by one of the execs in a 4 hour bender, with time left over for golf. Legal documents involve obnoxious things like research.
The entire develpment and support cycle for the creation of the game, plus maintaining the servers, paying artists, EVERYTHING, is a tiny fraction of the cost of one (1) fighter jet. Or tank. It might be as much as 4 or 5 jeeps. It's probably a tiny fraction of the cost that the Army spends on maintaing and opening recruiting offices, and sending flyers to high school seniors. Get some perspective, here. If you're going to be bothered about what your tax dollars do, you've got alot more options. For example, far more of it goes to ACTUALLY killing people, rather than simulating killing people.
The reason, of course, is that creationism is inherently unprovable - it boils down to "and then a miracle happens", and it's inherent in the argument that you cannot (and shall not) probe any farther than that.
Which is why "creationism" isn't a theory in any meaningful sense of the word and certainly shouldn't be taught in a science class, although it might be interesting in some humanities course.
Creationism is a belief, and by definition, is in spite of and does not require proof.
It's all well and good to point to lack of labratory evidence about evolution of species, or to point to or claim flaws in specific experiments. Thats part of the scientific method. However, the lack of evolution (even were it to be proved false, although I can't think of any way to empirically prove it impossible), does not imply creationism!
Claiming that creationism should be taught in school would be like claiming that we should also teach the traditional model of the universe with crystal spheres and the sun orbiting the earth.
The probes were the most annoying - even after securing the server, I had at least 3 spam runs attempted.
You know that paragon of Open Source development methodology, sendmail? The one thats responsible for the massive proliferation of proxies on old and poorly administed mail servers all over the world? Remember what OS that runs on.
Theres a total of 12,663 possible levels - and there are (2 so far) people who actually meet that goal. Even after almost 7 years it's still being developed and expanded and worked on.
I'll add some clickable links since nobody else has so far ;)
aardmud.org
It's worth noting that this was the first time I'd ever run into the problem, and I've been using 2k and XP for... well, just about 4 years now (between them, of course).
I'll clarify, since you can't seem to read. It's a hardware interupt thats handled specially by the kernel. Of course it's OS dependent, fuckwit, we're talking about NT here. Userspace applications can NOT trap that sequence. It's possible that a kernel level keyboard driver could, and of course the kernel HAL can (and does).
Any userland program, yes. Ctrl-Alt-Delete is a special hardware interrupt that the kernel handles itself and won't pass on to userspace. I'm not even sure if a kernel mode driver can get it. At least under NT based Windows, I believe theres ways you can trap it under 95/98.
Sort of correct. The courts ruled that DeCSS didn't have signifigant non-infringing use, and that it's intented and main use was not compatibility, but copyright infringment. The DeCSS team argued otherwise, of course, but was not sufficently convincing.
If it's compiled into the kernel, it's part of the kernel. It wouldn't matter if it's a driver or not. Notice the section about the symbols - the driver is attempting to load symbols that are NOT in a stock kernel.
The NYT, obnoxious registration and silly racial policies aside, is a good candidate.
Yeah, but thats not too much of a problem since you can't legally remove that right anyway. Fuck EULAs.