The difference here is that you are not masquerading as something you are not, it's just your content doing that. Remember, we're talking websites and ftp sites here, not peer-to-peer networks. If you offer for download junk files that masquerade as copyrighted media, and say right up front that you are doing that, I fail to see any misrepresention.
But line 1 clearly does not contain a trailing semicolon, as line 2 does. You sir, are trying to extort me, your claims are baseless, and I will not pay you.
Running a website does not come under the provision of peaceable assembly, but rather that of free speech. Advocating overthrow of the government is free speech. Linking to bomb making instructions is also free speech. Hell, publishing bomb making instructions is free speech.
Fear colors perception, and is very insidious. The first ammendment must be protected, and at any cost.
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Perl 1.0?
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Blanket statements... Aaarghhh.
Don't base your choice of language on any arbitrary criteria such as file size. A language should be chosen based on the specific requirements of the application under development.
If your application needs to be able to parse many different kinds of documents, or you need to parse documents for many different types of data, the perl would probably be a nice fit. If you just want to enter and display data in a database, perhaps some other language might work better.
I have a script (perl 5.6 compatible) that is pushing 2000 lines, plus custom modules (3) that add up to an additional 1000 lines, plus CPAN modules that add up to lord knows how many lines. It gets accessed by as many as 50 clients simultaneously. It runs fine. By the time I finish porting it to mod_perl, it should handle many, many more simultaneous requests than that.
I chose perl for this project because no other language that I know of can match the text mangling features in perl. Perl can be (and often is) used successfully in an enterprise environment - in fact, you are looking at one. Slashdot runs perl.
I wonder how many other people did that. How many people thought that a vote for Nader was a wasted vote, and consequently wasted their vote completely by not voting at all? You know, if Nader had gotten just slightly more votes than he had, the Green Party would have been guaranteed a spot on the next ballot in many states. Now they'll have to start all over with petitions.
Every vote is important, even if your candidate doesn't stand a chance.
Hotmail uses a proprietary (extended, corrupted, whatever) IMAP protocol. Outlook Express is able to access Hotmail because it is privy to the extensions. To my knowledge, no other email client can do so. I'm guessing MS is either not willing to license the protocol, or is charging too much for it. Netscape, btw, uses a similar method to access AOL.
IMO, email clients have no business parsing web pages, even webmail sites. Email clients rely on stable, published standards in order to operate reliably. Websites can change too frequently for any email client to reliably interact with.
If you want Hotmail access in Thunderbird, then you should rely on third party applications or plugins that can do the work of parsing hotmail.com. If the applications are not up to the task, then pressure their authors to fix them. But don't pressure the Thunderbird folks, they have nothing to do with it, and rightly so.
Shit man, we can't handle that much cool information in one post. Now we're going to have to up the mod cap to six, just for you. All hell is going to break loose. If I were you, I'd start looking for falling frogs right about now.
The insurrection was put down but, according to this brief history at whiskeyrebellion.org, "It did publicize some of the problems the settlers were having with the government, gave the newly formed government a chance to flex its muscles and, in a sense, redefined the word treason to permit disagreement with the government without being considered treasonous."
Furthermore, the whiskey tax and other legislation unpopular with the farmers of western Pennsylvania (then the western frontier) was repealed or otherwise mitigated. So, in some sense, they also won. More importantly, it was a victory for the American public, and a loss for the would-be aristocracy.
This is the best advice I've seen. Bicyling is generally less stressful than other forms of exercise (unless you're a biking nut) and more fun to boot. And you don't have to live close to work, although I agree that it would help. I know I wish I lived closer to work and had that option. All it really takes is a couple of hours twice a week and you'll be losing weight like nobody's business.
One thing to remember, if you are out of shape, you aren't burning many calories if your muscles don't ache after exercizing, just don't over do it. Don't punk out, but when you get tired, stop. Continuing to exercise after you become tired strains your body excessively, effectively fighting against your goal of good health. Although you may drop a few pounds more quickly, the negative effects will eventually outweigh the positive.
Great, now I want to register a few domain names using false information before they make that illegal. Anonimity is a cornerstone of free speach. Bills like this one make me concerned about my right to anonimity.
But, then again, every time I hear about a certain type of weapon being restricted, I want to buy it before the regulation goes into effect. Not because I have a particular need for such a weapon (whatever it is) but because I fear that one day I might, and that it would then be unavailable.
Much in the same way that owning a fishing rod is not, technically, the same thing as fishing itself. It's possible to fish with your bare hands but you're likely end up without any fish.
In matters of self defense, a gun is much safer (for you) than trying to use your bare hands.
So, the lesson we should be teaching our kids is "Shoplifting is much better than copyright infringement if you are going to obtain music illegally. Steal it from the record store instead of downloading it from the internet." After all, the penalties are much less, even though shoplifting actually hurts more people.
Dude, if a container full of 486's washes up on my beach, I'm coming after *you*.
Seriously, we have a little box at work that measures about 4x4x2 inches and supports web browsing (including flash, etc). I'm not sure how much it costs, but if something like it were produced in enough numbers, $50 would not be inconceivable.
Unfortunately, we are experiencing a hurricane atm, so I'm not at work and can't find out what kind of box it is.
I like it. But we don't really need a whole story, just a "click here to annoy a spammer" link. Right at the top. And make it have a *really* long url string, with lots of backticks, backslashes and other illegal characters. See how badly we can screw with their logs.
I have heard that the Navy uses mostly NT networks. This from a friend of mine who spent time as a tech on a battleship.
The networks at an Air Force base I worked at (contractor) were almost entirely WinNT. Presumably, many of these are switching to XP.
Sadly, open source does not seem to be in the cards for the majority of U.S. military networks. I'm talking the networks of workstations and lighter-duty file and web servers - not the high power weapons systems, databases, and whatnot.
Heh, I thought it was bad enough when I found my mom still using Netscape Communicator for email. She likes the new version of Mozilla Mail/News I installed for her. She, at least, has known about the problems with OE for some time - now, if I could only convince my dad and my aunt (who also live with me).
(And check out the new sig I just stole;) Too bad/. wouldn't let me put in a link to his ID)
I'm all for hard walls. Like the kind you put between the cockpit and the passenger cabin. The kind without doors. Good strong ones, too - made of thick plate steel. Make the terrorists bring a big torch to cut through it, instead of just busting down a door.
The airlines are sure to hate this idea. For them, it would mean they'd have to install sealed external doors just for the cockpit. Not to mention the extra crew support items - like a bathroom, separate provisions for meals, etc. That gets pretty damned expensive.
For us, it would mean that there would be no way to reach the cockpit. That means that there would be little reason to be searched for minor items like nail files and pocket knives. No more long waits at overcrowded and intrusive checkpoints. I mean, yeah, a terrorists could still kill people, or even everyone on board, but they'd have a hell of a time getting through a steel partition and flying the plane into a building.
You could also change the keyboard setting Dvorak, but not the keyboard itself. Hours of entertainment! Don't forget your key map when you have to fix it though, unless you actually know how to type on a Dvorak.
Economic History Resources says, "$1250.93 in the year 2002 has the same "purchase power" as $100 in the year 1937." I think 1200 bucks would be kind of nice right now.
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Dragon Naturally Speaking by Scansoft has been winning awards since 1997. I first saw a demo of the product at the 1997 Comdex in Las Vegas and was suitably impressed. Microsoft, on the other hand, debued it's first speech recognition software in 2000 with the MiPad. And that was merely a prototype, not a working product.
Without arguing the merits of either technology, it does look like another case of MS jumping on the bandwagon long after it had gathered steam.
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The solution? We should all donate to WINE.
I would, but I'm heavily invested in BEER, which does not play nice with WINE.
The difference here is that you are not masquerading as something you are not, it's just your content doing that. Remember, we're talking websites and ftp sites here, not peer-to-peer networks. If you offer for download junk files that masquerade as copyrighted media, and say right up front that you are doing that, I fail to see any misrepresention.
Finally, do you really think that there is a 'wrong button' out there that will dl large numbers of images on to your machine?
Damn, I knew I forgot something! Hold on a sec, I gotta fix this...
"those with pictures are statistically likely to go on to physical acts..."
Do you have figures to back up this claim?
In other news...
Study Finds Jack Shit
But line 1 clearly does not contain a trailing semicolon, as line 2 does. You sir, are trying to extort me, your claims are baseless, and I will not pay you.
Now kindly fsck off.
Running a website does not come under the provision of peaceable assembly, but rather that of free speech. Advocating overthrow of the government is free speech. Linking to bomb making instructions is also free speech. Hell, publishing bomb making instructions is free speech.
Fear colors perception, and is very insidious. The first ammendment must be protected, and at any cost.
Blanket statements... Aaarghhh.
Don't base your choice of language on any arbitrary criteria such as file size. A language should be chosen based on the specific requirements of the application under development.
If your application needs to be able to parse many different kinds of documents, or you need to parse documents for many different types of data, the perl would probably be a nice fit. If you just want to enter and display data in a database, perhaps some other language might work better.
I have a script (perl 5.6 compatible) that is pushing 2000 lines, plus custom modules (3) that add up to an additional 1000 lines, plus CPAN modules that add up to lord knows how many lines. It gets accessed by as many as 50 clients simultaneously. It runs fine. By the time I finish porting it to mod_perl, it should handle many, many more simultaneous requests than that.
I chose perl for this project because no other language that I know of can match the text mangling features in perl. Perl can be (and often is) used successfully in an enterprise environment - in fact, you are looking at one. Slashdot runs perl.
I wonder how many other people did that. How many people thought that a vote for Nader was a wasted vote, and consequently wasted their vote completely by not voting at all? You know, if Nader had gotten just slightly more votes than he had, the Green Party would have been guaranteed a spot on the next ballot in many states. Now they'll have to start all over with petitions.
Every vote is important, even if your candidate doesn't stand a chance.
Hotmail uses a proprietary (extended, corrupted, whatever) IMAP protocol. Outlook Express is able to access Hotmail because it is privy to the extensions. To my knowledge, no other email client can do so. I'm guessing MS is either not willing to license the protocol, or is charging too much for it. Netscape, btw, uses a similar method to access AOL.
IMO, email clients have no business parsing web pages, even webmail sites. Email clients rely on stable, published standards in order to operate reliably. Websites can change too frequently for any email client to reliably interact with.
If you want Hotmail access in Thunderbird, then you should rely on third party applications or plugins that can do the work of parsing hotmail.com. If the applications are not up to the task, then pressure their authors to fix them. But don't pressure the Thunderbird folks, they have nothing to do with it, and rightly so.
Shit man, we can't handle that much cool information in one post. Now we're going to have to up the mod cap to six, just for you. All hell is going to break loose. If I were you, I'd start looking for falling frogs right about now.
The insurrection was put down but, according to this brief history at whiskeyrebellion.org, "It did publicize some of the problems the settlers were having with the government, gave the newly formed government a chance to flex its muscles and, in a sense, redefined the word treason to permit disagreement with the government without being considered treasonous."
Furthermore, the whiskey tax and other legislation unpopular with the farmers of western Pennsylvania (then the western frontier) was repealed or otherwise mitigated. So, in some sense, they also won. More importantly, it was a victory for the American public, and a loss for the would-be aristocracy.
This is the best advice I've seen. Bicyling is generally less stressful than other forms of exercise (unless you're a biking nut) and more fun to boot. And you don't have to live close to work, although I agree that it would help. I know I wish I lived closer to work and had that option. All it really takes is a couple of hours twice a week and you'll be losing weight like nobody's business.
One thing to remember, if you are out of shape, you aren't burning many calories if your muscles don't ache after exercizing, just don't over do it. Don't punk out, but when you get tired, stop. Continuing to exercise after you become tired strains your body excessively, effectively fighting against your goal of good health. Although you may drop a few pounds more quickly, the negative effects will eventually outweigh the positive.
It's a crisis for the people who implement the protocols: ISPs and so forth. So, yeah, it's a crisis - just not one of earth shattering proportions.
Just because an email provider happents to use UNIX/Linux servers doesn't mean that they are necessarily infested with unsavoury characters...
What does OSS have to do with any of this? Jeez man, every discussion is not a lead-in for zealotry.
Great, now I want to register a few domain names using false information before they make that illegal. Anonimity is a cornerstone of free speach. Bills like this one make me concerned about my right to anonimity.
But, then again, every time I hear about a certain type of weapon being restricted, I want to buy it before the regulation goes into effect. Not because I have a particular need for such a weapon (whatever it is) but because I fear that one day I might, and that it would then be unavailable.
Probably, I'm being too cynical. I sure hope so.
Much in the same way that owning a fishing rod is not, technically, the same thing as fishing itself. It's possible to fish with your bare hands but you're likely end up without any fish.
In matters of self defense, a gun is much safer (for you) than trying to use your bare hands.
So, the lesson we should be teaching our kids is "Shoplifting is much better than copyright infringement if you are going to obtain music illegally. Steal it from the record store instead of downloading it from the internet." After all, the penalties are much less, even though shoplifting actually hurts more people.
Dude, if a container full of 486's washes up on my beach, I'm coming after *you*.
Seriously, we have a little box at work that measures about 4x4x2 inches and supports web browsing (including flash, etc). I'm not sure how much it costs, but if something like it were produced in enough numbers, $50 would not be inconceivable.
Unfortunately, we are experiencing a hurricane atm, so I'm not at work and can't find out what kind of box it is.
I like it. But we don't really need a whole story, just a "click here to annoy a spammer" link. Right at the top. And make it have a *really* long url string, with lots of backticks, backslashes and other illegal characters. See how badly we can screw with their logs.
I have heard that the Navy uses mostly NT networks. This from a friend of mine who spent time as a tech on a battleship.
The networks at an Air Force base I worked at (contractor) were almost entirely WinNT. Presumably, many of these are switching to XP.
Sadly, open source does not seem to be in the cards for the majority of U.S. military networks. I'm talking the networks of workstations and lighter-duty file and web servers - not the high power weapons systems, databases, and whatnot.
Heh, I thought it was bad enough when I found my mom still using Netscape Communicator for email. She likes the new version of Mozilla Mail/News I installed for her. She, at least, has known about the problems with OE for some time - now, if I could only convince my dad and my aunt (who also live with me).
;) Too bad /. wouldn't let me put in a link to his ID)
(And check out the new sig I just stole
I'm all for hard walls. Like the kind you put between the cockpit and the passenger cabin. The kind without doors. Good strong ones, too - made of thick plate steel. Make the terrorists bring a big torch to cut through it, instead of just busting down a door.
The airlines are sure to hate this idea. For them, it would mean they'd have to install sealed external doors just for the cockpit. Not to mention the extra crew support items - like a bathroom, separate provisions for meals, etc. That gets pretty damned expensive.
For us, it would mean that there would be no way to reach the cockpit. That means that there would be little reason to be searched for minor items like nail files and pocket knives. No more long waits at overcrowded and intrusive checkpoints. I mean, yeah, a terrorists could still kill people, or even everyone on board, but they'd have a hell of a time getting through a steel partition and flying the plane into a building.
You could also change the keyboard setting Dvorak, but not the keyboard itself. Hours of entertainment! Don't forget your key map when you have to fix it though, unless you actually know how to type on a Dvorak.
Economic History Resources says, "$1250.93 in the year 2002 has the same "purchase power" as $100 in the year 1937." I think 1200 bucks would be kind of nice right now.
Dragon Naturally Speaking by Scansoft has been winning awards since 1997. I first saw a demo of the product at the 1997 Comdex in Las Vegas and was suitably impressed. Microsoft, on the other hand, debued it's first speech recognition software in 2000 with the MiPad. And that was merely a prototype, not a working product.
Without arguing the merits of either technology, it does look like another case of MS jumping on the bandwagon long after it had gathered steam.