Firstly, refering to "/. pirates" is no more calling all Slashdot readers pirates than saying "Italian mafia" is calling all Italians criminals. Its not a "nice flame"... its just that you don't know how to read, or at least understand what you read.
Secondly, your web browser analogy is meaningless because the Kazaa people knew exactly what they were dealing with when they started, and they figured they could be like Napster and make a quick buck piggybacking off pirates.
I think its amusing how Slashdotters bellyache about how getting sued by the RIAA/MPAA and getting large fines is unconscionable and how the punishment is excessive, but when it comes to spammers they're calling for the death penalty and lose all sense of proportion.
You can use a randomly generated pronouncable "word" that is a basically a pronouncable mixture of consonants and vowels. You'll need to use, say, twice the length to get the security of a purely random password, but its much easier to remember.
Chase keeps mailing checks that sign you up for stuff if you cash them... usually with a 30 day free trial. I got three of them... $20 for fraud monitoring, $15 for "home protection", $10 for disability insurance.... I cashed them and called a couple of weeks later and cancelled them. For three 2-minute phonecalls, it was the easiest $45 I ever made.
The kernel developers switched to calling it/proc/sys/vm/swappiness after the originial proposal:/proc_the_filesystem_that_historically_had_info_ab out_processes_but_under_linux_has_much_more/system _parameters/virtual_memory_manager_parameters/aggr essiveness_with_which_the_vm_should_swap_out_pages
Unfortunately the university network is a private network, and they can set nearly any policy they like. If that policy is that no applications that have explicitly been ruled legal are allowed, they can do that.
In my opinion the best you can do is to to publicise the fact in your school and/or community papers. It might help if you got it in writing that the school has a policy of banning all new applications till courts rule that they are legal. It ought to warn prospective students that far from encouraging creativity, the school has a policy of stifling it, and they ought to stay away.
I totally agree with you... after all this is clearly targetted at real-time 3D modelling (what else would you use a portable battery-operated device for?), so we do need something with quad 3.7GHz Xeons.
Scrabble is not their only product, and I'm sure Hasbro employess have other things to do besides scour the web day in and day out on the chance that someone chooses to put out a game that immitates one of their many games. And if they did find one early, I guess you'd complain about them bullying some poor website that gets 1 or 2 visitors a day.
www.thepixelpit.co.uk/scrabble.htm
Firstly, you don't know that they didn't ask for permission, and secondly:
On behalf of Hasbro, we therefore demand that you provide us with prompt written assurance that you will dismantle the e-Scrabble website and not publish or distribute the game referenced above, or any other game using elements of the SCRABBLE crossword game, in the United States and Canada without Hasbros permission.
Yes you're right. I'm sure their lawyers are aware of every single website out there and are instantly aware anytime anyone anywhere put out an infringing product... especially while the product is small and hasn't attracted a lot of attention yet. After all, "Scrabble" only returns 2,370,000 hits on Google.
You could at least write the obligatory "IANAL" before sprouting wild legal theories. The 5th amendment only covers testimony. Taking a DNA sample can at best be considered a "search or seizure" and is covered by the 4th amendment, not the 5th. Forcing arbitrary people to give DNA samples would violate the 4th, but not if you've been arrested for a felony. This has been ruled on several times in courts at all levels.
IANALE,BIHDMR (IANAL either, but I have done my research)
Picking on the ocassional typo is one thing, but soem peeple cant seam too speel on dam theng wright, too teh pint off makeing there psots imposible too reed
Based on the way you act and think (and I apply that term loosely), I'd guess about 8. Shouldn't you be doing your homework and getting to bed early instead of posting on Slashdot?
You're making it sound as it the EU arbitrarily decided to start fining MS. There are laws that have been passed through democratic process. MS was tried in a court of law and found guilty of violating those laws. Now they're guilty of failing to abide by the court's ruling. If they want to do business in the EU they need to comply with the law, or they can stop doing business there.
Slashdot Mirror
Firstly, refering to "/. pirates" is no more calling all Slashdot readers pirates than saying "Italian mafia" is calling all Italians criminals. Its not a "nice flame"... its just that you don't know how to read, or at least understand what you read.
Secondly, your web browser analogy is meaningless because the Kazaa people knew exactly what they were dealing with when they started, and they figured they could be like Napster and make a quick buck piggybacking off pirates.
I think its amusing how Slashdotters bellyache about how getting sued by the RIAA/MPAA and getting large fines is unconscionable and how the punishment is excessive, but when it comes to spammers they're calling for the death penalty and lose all sense of proportion.
AFAIK, he's running an incorporated company, so he himself won't lose a dime
You can use a randomly generated pronouncable "word" that is a basically a pronouncable mixture of consonants and vowels. You'll need to use, say, twice the length to get the security of a purely random password, but its much easier to remember.
Chase keeps mailing checks that sign you up for stuff if you cash them... usually with a 30 day free trial. I got three of them... $20 for fraud monitoring, $15 for "home protection", $10 for disability insurance.... I cashed them and called a couple of weeks later and cancelled them. For three 2-minute phonecalls, it was the easiest $45 I ever made.
The kernel developers switched to calling it /proc/sys/vm/swappiness after the originial proposal: /proc_the_filesystem_that_historically_had_info_ab out_processes_but_under_linux_has_much_more/system _parameters/virtual_memory_manager_parameters/aggr essiveness_with_which_the_vm_should_swap_out_pages
proved rather unpopular
What the hell are you talking about?
Unfortunately the university network is a private network, and they can set nearly any policy they like. If that policy is that no applications that have explicitly been ruled legal are allowed, they can do that.
In my opinion the best you can do is to to publicise the fact in your school and/or community papers. It might help if you got it in writing that the school has a policy of banning all new applications till courts rule that they are legal. It ought to warn prospective students that far from encouraging creativity, the school has a policy of stifling it, and they ought to stay away.
Its prints a running total like:
1. Based on optimal actions your frags would have been: 1348
2. Your actual frags: 2
3. You suck
Great! No need to muck around with extracting blood from mosquitoes in amber and what not.
I totally agree with you... after all this is clearly targetted at real-time 3D modelling (what else would you use a portable battery-operated device for?), so we do need something with quad 3.7GHz Xeons.
Scrabble is not their only product, and I'm sure Hasbro employess have other things to do besides scour the web day in and day out on the chance that someone chooses to put out a game that immitates one of their many games. And if they did find one early, I guess you'd complain about them bullying some poor website that gets 1 or 2 visitors a day.
www.thepixelpit.co.uk/scrabble.htm
Firstly, you don't know that they didn't ask for permission, and secondly:
On behalf of Hasbro, we therefore demand that you provide us with prompt written assurance that you will dismantle the e-Scrabble website and not publish or distribute the game referenced above, or any other game using elements of the SCRABBLE crossword game, in the United States and Canada without Hasbros permission.
Yes you're right. I'm sure their lawyers are aware of every single website out there and are instantly aware anytime anyone anywhere put out an infringing product... especially while the product is small and hasn't attracted a lot of attention yet. After all, "Scrabble" only returns 2,370,000 hits on Google.
You mean the heat that you get from converting a volkswagon to energy (E=mc2), right?
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You could at least write the obligatory "IANAL" before sprouting wild legal theories. The 5th amendment only covers testimony. Taking a DNA sample can at best be considered a "search or seizure" and is covered by the 4th amendment, not the 5th. Forcing arbitrary people to give DNA samples would violate the 4th, but not if you've been arrested for a felony. This has been ruled on several times in courts at all levels.
IANALE,BIHDMR (IANAL either, but I have done my research)
Picking on the ocassional typo is one thing, but soem peeple cant seam too speel on dam theng wright, too teh pint off makeing there psots imposible too reed
Look up the word "curb", then look up the word "eliminate", then go kill yourself.
Based on the way you act and think (and I apply that term loosely), I'd guess about 8. Shouldn't you be doing your homework and getting to bed early instead of posting on Slashdot?
That guy's just asking for a Darwin award if he really is taking pills he ordered from spammers
Its the price of assuming the risk that you'll probably go to jail or worse if you get caught
...a basic linear line...
As opposed to circular lines?
You're making it sound as it the EU arbitrarily decided to start fining MS. There are laws that have been passed through democratic process. MS was tried in a court of law and found guilty of violating those laws. Now they're guilty of failing to abide by the court's ruling. If they want to do business in the EU they need to comply with the law, or they can stop doing business there.
Its the law of the land. No one is forcing MS to do business in the EU
You most certainly can. I'm using gnome 2.8 from Debian Unstable