I just want to require programmatically that spammers have permission to send from whatever domain they're sending from. At least then there is some contact info for them and a domain that you can deny. (OK. so it is fake contact info and they'll register a bunch of domains)
If everyone subscribed to my plan (outlined in the link in my signature) spammers would be forced to send mail only from their own domains. If only yahoo.com and I subscribed to my plan at least all the spam forging yahoo.com's domain would be rejected.
A couple of weeks ago a spam went out with one of my domains forged as the sender. That annoys me severely and this would prevent that.
Time travel stories, holodeck stories. The show was unique.
I didn't watch much of the other shows so my comments center on Star Trek: TNG. The character development (for the main characters anyway) was fairly good. You got to know them and they had distinct personalities.
Picard "I can talk my way out of anything", Riker "I like to flirt with alien women", Troi "I want Will Riker but I don't date co-workers", Beverly Crusher "I want Picard but he doesn't date co-workers" Worf "Humans call it domestic violence, Klingons call it making out", Data/Pinochio "I want to be a real boy", Geordi "I can fix the warp coil but I can't get a date", O'Brien "No one else in Star Fleet is married. I want to be different." Wesley "I took the ship over twice, once with nanites, once by stealing computer control, and they still let me stay."
Napster created a system for exchanging music files. They didn't regulate what files you put on their system. In my opinion their operation was every bit as "legitimate" as the whole of the internet.
Exchanging files is quite a bit different than exchanging money. Having your Napster account frozen does not affect your ability to spend money. I see a big difference here.
Actually if you want speed you can also buy additional drives and set up a nice raid array.
Now if they built hard drives with multiple independant heads and embedded striping in firmware we wouldn't need faster spindle speed.
Or maybe stick a couple gig of SDRAM in the drive and cache the most often accessed files (including that annoying swap file/partition) for really fast access.
What does it matter what the Bible calls it? It is pretty obviously a mutation if the entire human race suddenly gets has something change. There is no scientific way of proving people did not speak in a different manner prior to the mutation. Scientists assume they didn't because prior to the mutation humans did not have the current speech patterns and after the mutation they did.
God doesn't belong to me. I haven't seen God and Biblical science sufficiently disproven to believe it to be false. I believe there was a big bang, some types of evolution, etc. But I haven't seen enough evidence to disprove creation, worldwide flood, Babel, etc.
But they still can't gain a cross-cultural understanding good enough to keep them from flying airplanes into those buildings.
there is no way of guaranteeing that our measurements of historical time are accurate, 6000 years, a billion years (I can accept you telling me this thing happened before or after this other thing but I can't accept that you can tell me exactly how long ago it happened when we're talking about something that long ago.),
and this article could be related to the Biblically documented mutation from the tower of Babel (of course then you'd have to accept the existence and interference of God)
They're probably members of of the Microsoft MVP program or Microsoft evangelists. I've spotted some users who only post to defend Microsoft and completely ignore all other issues.
I have yet to meet (in person) a technical person that pushes Microsoft that isn't being paid or rewarded in some way to do it.
I did not know that about Office 97 through XP. I jumped ship at Office 97.
Web browsers, arguably very similar to what a word processor needs, are forwards compatible. With varying levels of quality an old web browser can view modern web pages.
There is a reason we as a country and as states allow corporations. Corporations are there to encourage business and to protect those who start businesses and create jobs. It is the job of every officer at any corporation to take the trust and benefits we extend them and use that to provide benefits to their community, state(s), and country.
If they do not provide any value as a corporate entity then we should revoke their corporate charter. Being a corporation is a privilege granted by the people and by the government. It is not a right.
Sure, corporations are there to make money. But if they aren't providing any benefits and are simply sucking blood then there is no reason we should let them continue.
If the corporate safety net is being overly abused then we need to return to the old system of making the owners liable for the company debts. You can bet they'll be a little more respectful if they know their personal wealth can be taken away if they deserve it.
hope that you can look yourself in the mirror after ten years has turned you into that which you railed against as a young turk
If you have to cheat to get ahead then you aren't really ahead.
In other words, each new version of Office breaks compatibility by reinventing the file formats.
There is a path from many word processing programs and versions to the latest Microsoft version so people are encouraged to upgrade.
These people that upgrade then send out files they saved using the default settings and find that no one can read them. Now everyone else has to upgrade also to read these formats.
Come on. There is absolutely no need to break compatibility with each advancing version of a word processor. There is no grand new feature that requires a new file format. 99%* of all word processor users could still use Word 4.3 or some other product if not for incompatible file formats.
* 98% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
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Yes. I can't tell you how tired I got hearing "oh, but we're a Microsoft shop here"
And poets, musicians, and other artists think they're responsible for our advanced culture.
However, I didn't see poets, musicians, or other artists except for computer programmers writing the programs that sent us to the moon, handle our bank accounts, route our telephone calls, or make it possible for those other artists to be seen by more than just a couple of folks around their home town.
You want any further proof that musicians and other artistic types have over-rated themselves look at the changes they had made to copyrights so they control copyrights to their works for 70 years after their death. How many people do you know who have been dead for 50 years but still need those checks coming in for another 20?
Down in the basement the coder worked late at night while the coffee perked his creation controlled the house from tv to phone he could call in and change channels when not home finally he managed to complete it but was issued an order to delete it congress said "you can't play DVDs that way" "you're in violation of the DMCA"
So we can get thinking about the Y2038 problem before it is too late. Or at least put checks in our code to start spitting warning messages to the console in 2037.
Well studies have shown that a lot of the stuff sold as food is pretty crappy. A lot of "food" is designed with profit margins and titillating taste buds in mind rather than creating a great food product.
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The big difference being, when you get done composing a program someone representing someone that composed music will come after you and try to suppress your creation. But boy, try to suppress theirs and they'll scream to high heaven and send out the lawyers.
(For the record, I don't support censorship of programs, movies, music, books or whatever.)
It's just like cross-polinating plants except it's done by splicing in DNA instead of doing it with pollen and hoping for the best
That makes sense. It's just like cross-polinating plants except for the fact that it is different.
Yea. Food turning into aliens and eating us all would be an absurd argument. That's a little too far removed from my comment to be relevent though. But it does give me a movie idea.
Give a man a genetically engineered fish, he eats for a day. Teach him how to grow genetically engineered fish and then sue him for "stealing" your "intellectual property".
Seriously, the jury is certainly not in yet on genetically engineered foods. It could be found to affect intelligence, safe reproduction, or cause cancer. Calling it "food" may be a bit optimistic.
Yes. It is too bad. Since we're aware of it let us make it our mission to change it whenever possible. Let's look for candidates that support term limits and freedom to communicate, innovate, and educate.
If you can, write an article or editorial yourself and submit it to your local newspaper. I'm nearly inspired to write an article about the changes in copyright law in the last century, the erosion of freedoms, and the hijacking and holding for ransom of creative works that would have entered the public domain long ago under our original copyright laws.
The difference is that closed caption is actually for the good of mankind. Digital receivers don't add enough value and they give Fritz too many chances to regulate what I can watch in my own home.
a public that seems pretty satisfied with traditional analog TVs.
If we're satisfied with analog TVs (I am. It is show quality I care about. Picture quality of analog is sufficient.) then why are "we" pushing for digital TV?
("we" refers to the fact that the FCC is part of a government by and for the people so it should be an extension of our wishes)
I'm pretty convinced that the industry will do everything in their power to screw digital television up and over-regulate it and I don't need hassles trying to record from TV so I'll stick with analog TV and a VCR thank you.
I agree with your first argument. an "su" exploit does not circumvent copyright protection and has no protection under the DMCA. It is simply a baseless threat. However, IANAL, and I cannot predict what drugs the judge might have taken the day this could show up in court.
As far as making copyright circumvention devices illegal, I think we should be thorough. Photocopiers should be destroyed, pencils and pens should be destroyed. Persons with photographic or phonographic memory must be put to death lest they memorize and perform copyrighted works. Anyone caught singing a copyrighted work without proper license should have their tongue cut out and anyone caught performing a copyrighted work on an instrument should have their hands cut off. Any computer, cassette deck, VCR, DVD player, CD player, or any other device used to playback pre-recorded copyrighted works should be destroyed.
Only when we have eliminated the threats to intellectual property can we truely be free.
I'm all for this idea. If I can boot from CompactFlash and USB/Firewire drives I'm good and I can ditch the floppy. (One of those USB keychains would make a good "repair disk")
If every computer supported CF the price would drop and more cards would be designed (and they'd work on my PDA too.)
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I just want to require programmatically that spammers have permission to send from whatever domain they're sending from. At least then there is some contact info for them and a domain that you can deny. (OK. so it is fake contact info and they'll register a bunch of domains)
If everyone subscribed to my plan (outlined in the link in my signature) spammers would be forced to send mail only from their own domains. If only yahoo.com and I subscribed to my plan at least all the spam forging yahoo.com's domain would be rejected.
A couple of weeks ago a spam went out with one of my domains forged as the sender. That annoys me severely and this would prevent that.
Time travel stories, holodeck stories. The show was unique.
I didn't watch much of the other shows so my comments center on Star Trek: TNG.
The character development (for the main characters anyway) was fairly good. You got to know them and they had distinct personalities.
Picard "I can talk my way out of anything",
Riker "I like to flirt with alien women",
Troi "I want Will Riker but I don't date co-workers",
Beverly Crusher "I want Picard but he doesn't date co-workers"
Worf "Humans call it domestic violence, Klingons call it making out",
Data/Pinochio "I want to be a real boy",
Geordi "I can fix the warp coil but I can't get a date",
O'Brien "No one else in Star Fleet is married. I want to be different."
Wesley "I took the ship over twice, once with nanites, once by stealing computer control, and they still let me stay."
Napster created a system for exchanging music files. They didn't regulate what files you put on their system. In my opinion their operation was every bit as "legitimate" as the whole of the internet.
Exchanging files is quite a bit different than exchanging money. Having your Napster account frozen does not affect your ability to spend money. I see a big difference here.
Actually if you want speed you can also buy additional drives and set up a nice raid array.
Now if they built hard drives with multiple independant heads and embedded striping in firmware we wouldn't need faster spindle speed.
Or maybe stick a couple gig of SDRAM in the drive and cache the most often accessed files (including that annoying swap file/partition) for really fast access.
What does it matter what the Bible calls it? It is pretty obviously a mutation if the entire human race suddenly gets has something change.
There is no scientific way of proving people did not speak in a different manner prior to the mutation. Scientists assume they didn't because prior to the mutation humans did not have the current speech patterns and after the mutation they did.
God doesn't belong to me. I haven't seen God and Biblical science sufficiently disproven to believe it to be false. I believe there was a big bang, some types of evolution, etc. But I haven't seen enough evidence to disprove creation, worldwide flood, Babel, etc.
But they still can't gain a cross-cultural understanding good enough to keep them from flying airplanes into those buildings.
They're probably members of of the Microsoft MVP program or Microsoft evangelists. I've spotted some users who only post to defend Microsoft and completely ignore all other issues.
I have yet to meet (in person) a technical person that pushes Microsoft that isn't being paid or rewarded in some way to do it.
Sure. I was not unhappy before.
I'd rather be the engineer than the technician. The engineer gets a lot more creative control.
Technicians get stuff done. Engineers just think up the stuff that needs doing.
I did not know that about Office 97 through XP. I jumped ship at Office 97.
Web browsers, arguably very similar to what a word processor needs, are forwards compatible. With varying levels of quality an old web browser can view modern web pages.
There is a reason we as a country and as states allow corporations. Corporations are there to encourage business and to protect those who start businesses and create jobs. It is the job of every officer at any corporation to take the trust and benefits we extend them and use that to provide benefits to their community, state(s), and country.
If they do not provide any value as a corporate entity then we should revoke their corporate charter. Being a corporation is a privilege granted by the people and by the government. It is not a right.
Sure, corporations are there to make money. But if they aren't providing any benefits and are simply sucking blood then there is no reason we should let them continue.
If the corporate safety net is being overly abused then we need to return to the old system of making the owners liable for the company debts. You can bet they'll be a little more respectful if they know their personal wealth can be taken away if they deserve it.
hope that you can look yourself in the mirror after ten years has turned you into that which you railed against as a young turk
If you have to cheat to get ahead then you aren't really ahead.
In other words, each new version of Office breaks compatibility by reinventing the file formats.
There is a path from many word processing programs and versions to the latest Microsoft version so people are encouraged to upgrade.
These people that upgrade then send out files they saved using the default settings and find that no one can read them. Now everyone else has to upgrade also to read these formats.
Come on. There is absolutely no need to break compatibility with each advancing version of a word processor. There is no grand new feature that requires a new file format. 99%* of all word processor users could still use Word 4.3 or some other product if not for incompatible file formats.
* 98% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Yes. I can't tell you how tired I got hearing "oh, but we're a Microsoft shop here"
And poets, musicians, and other artists think they're responsible for our advanced culture.
However, I didn't see poets, musicians, or other artists except for computer programmers writing the programs that sent us to the moon, handle our bank accounts, route our telephone calls, or make it possible for those other artists to be seen by more than just a couple of folks around their home town.
You want any further proof that musicians and other artistic types have over-rated themselves look at the changes they had made to copyrights so they control copyrights to their works for 70 years after their death. How many people do you know who have been dead for 50 years but still need those checks coming in for another 20?
Down in the basement the coder worked
late at night while the coffee perked
his creation controlled the house from tv to phone
he could call in and change channels when not home
finally he managed to complete it
but was issued an order to delete it
congress said "you can't play DVDs that way"
"you're in violation of the DMCA"
So we can get thinking about the Y2038 problem before it is too late. Or at least put checks in our code to start spitting warning messages to the console in 2037.
Well studies have shown that a lot of the stuff sold as food is pretty crappy. A lot of "food" is designed with profit margins and titillating taste buds in mind rather than creating a great food product.
The big difference being, when you get done composing a program someone representing someone that composed music will come after you and try to suppress your creation. But boy, try to suppress theirs and they'll scream to high heaven and send out the lawyers.
(For the record, I don't support censorship of programs, movies, music, books or whatever.)
It's just like cross-polinating plants except it's done by splicing in DNA instead of doing it with pollen and hoping for the best
That makes sense. It's just like cross-polinating plants except for the fact that it is different.
Yea. Food turning into aliens and eating us all would be an absurd argument. That's a little too far removed from my comment to be relevent though. But it does give me a movie idea.
Give a man a genetically engineered fish, he eats for a day. Teach him how to grow genetically engineered fish and then sue him for "stealing" your "intellectual property".
Seriously, the jury is certainly not in yet on genetically engineered foods. It could be found to affect intelligence, safe reproduction, or cause cancer. Calling it "food" may be a bit optimistic.
I would like to see a wrapper or shell or something that prevents internet connections from its children and logs any attempts.
This would be great for a build environment and for other executables that don't need network access.
Yes. It is too bad. Since we're aware of it let us make it our mission to change it whenever possible. Let's look for candidates that support term limits and freedom to communicate, innovate, and educate.
If you can, write an article or editorial yourself and submit it to your local newspaper. I'm nearly inspired to write an article about the changes in copyright law in the last century, the erosion of freedoms, and the hijacking and holding for ransom of creative works that would have entered the public domain long ago under our original copyright laws.
The difference is that closed caption is actually for the good of mankind. Digital receivers don't add enough value and they give Fritz too many chances to regulate what I can watch in my own home.
a public that seems pretty satisfied with traditional analog TVs.
If we're satisfied with analog TVs (I am. It is show quality I care about. Picture quality of analog is sufficient.) then why are "we" pushing for digital TV?
("we" refers to the fact that the FCC is part of a government by and for the people so it should be an extension of our wishes)
I'm pretty convinced that the industry will do everything in their power to screw digital television up and over-regulate it and I don't need hassles trying to record from TV so I'll stick with analog TV and a VCR thank you.
I agree with your first argument. an "su" exploit does not circumvent copyright protection and has no protection under the DMCA. It is simply a baseless threat. However, IANAL, and I cannot predict what drugs the judge might have taken the day this could show up in court.
As far as making copyright circumvention devices illegal, I think we should be thorough. Photocopiers should be destroyed, pencils and pens should be destroyed. Persons with photographic or phonographic memory must be put to death lest they memorize and perform copyrighted works. Anyone caught singing a copyrighted work without proper license should have their tongue cut out and anyone caught performing a copyrighted work on an instrument should have their hands cut off. Any computer, cassette deck, VCR, DVD player, CD player, or any other device used to playback pre-recorded copyrighted works should be destroyed.
Only when we have eliminated the threats to intellectual property can we truely be free.
I'm all for this idea. If I can boot from CompactFlash and USB/Firewire drives I'm good and I can ditch the floppy. (One of those USB keychains would make a good "repair disk")
If every computer supported CF the price would drop and more cards would be designed (and they'd work on my PDA too.)