> When you pick up the phone to call ATA, what you are doing is harassment. You have nothing to sell them.
The issue is: (A) The ATA says they have a constitutional right to free speech that extends to their right to call me. The constitutional right has nothing to do with sales.
(B) If the ATA were to prosecute someone for not having a constitutional right to free speech that extends to my right to call them, they would be validating the do-not-call list.
(C) When someone _asks_ not to be called, as in registering with the ATA (through whatever agent, even the U.S. Government), and then the ATA calls, _that_ is harassment.
> I am, however, very much opposed to the legislation of said list.
(D) It's a last-resort effort. My home is my sanctuary. Who is welcome to enter, electronically or otherwise, is up to me, not to the ATA.
(E) People don't have a right to a job that harasses other people.
> If you called the ATA you weren't really trying to give them any > information or state an opinion, you just wanted to inconvenience > them. You were just happy for an opportunity to retaliate.
Some people just don't get it. Being happy for an opportunity to retaliate is an opinion. The question is, is calling the ATA as protected as the right they claim to call others.
Trials against Opera, Mozilla, etc, haven't even been filed yet. And if the prior art holds, these others will have a defense that was not available to Microsoft.
Wouldn't it be ironic if _Only_ Microsoft had to pay damages?
> the greatest horrible-excuse-for-an-editor known to man.
I remember when we were happy to have vi! Overjoyed;p). We used to debug 1st-year programmers' programs for them just to get an hour in the terminal room where we could use the Fox terminals to run vi.
In the meantime, we had to use Hollerith cards on the 029 keypunch, which couldn't delete or insert characters (unless you hold down the card so that the rubber wheel couldn't advance it through the reader). And we had to butter up and beg to the grad students to let us run the final draft of our roff-encoded term papers through their daisywheel printer that they kept under guard in the far corner of their inner sanctum.
vi? We were lucky to have it.
EDLIN, that's an editor from hell. Only thing worse than ed (except for the 029).
I've read halfway through the book so far, and I'm certain I'll finish it.
An important message I've taken away is that attacks are very rare. Schneier mentions several times how physically safe we are in open, democratic countries, and contrasts this safety to totalitarian (my word) regimes.
He also drives home that you can't spend all of your resources on a plethora of one-in-a-million or once-per-century events. Risk analysis is essential.
Read the book! An interview doesn't nearly do it justice.
A bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives last month would create an Office of Global Internet Freedom that would have up to a $50 million annual budget to help citizens of
foreign repressive governments skirt Internet censorship.
It amuses me that, while anonymizers would likely be condemned as a tool of terrorism by the National Security State in the US, the same spooks use anonymizers as a weapon against their counterparts of old Iraq.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, when the Newton Chair at Cambridge is vacated by Stephen Hawking, maybe Issac could get an in on that position.
All this in a country where it's illegal to carry a gun.
> When you pick up the phone to call ATA, what you are doing is harassment. You have nothing to sell them.
The issue is:
(A) The ATA says they have a constitutional right to free speech that extends to their right to call me. The constitutional right has nothing to do with sales.
(B) If the ATA were to prosecute someone for not having a constitutional right to free speech that extends to my right to call them, they would be validating the do-not-call list.
(C) When someone _asks_ not to be called, as in registering with the ATA (through whatever agent, even the U.S. Government), and then the ATA calls, _that_ is harassment.
> I am, however, very much opposed to the legislation of said list.
(D) It's a last-resort effort. My home is my sanctuary. Who is welcome to enter, electronically or otherwise, is up to me, not to the ATA.
(E) People don't have a right to a job that harasses other people.
> If you called the ATA you weren't really trying to give them any
> information or state an opinion, you just wanted to inconvenience
> them. You were just happy for an opportunity to retaliate.
Some people just don't get it. Being happy for an opportunity to retaliate is an opinion. The question is, is calling the ATA as protected as the right they claim to call others.
Say, SharpFang, did you leave your workstation unattended for a few minutes?
> I'm not certain why the London Taxi Driver study received an Ig Nobel. It was a beautifully done study.
Read the organization's explanation of the qualifications for the prize.
Their criteria is "cannot or should not be repeated." They go to some lengths to explain that they don't mean "bad research."
I read the book, and I wished over and over that my representatives would read it to.
Next best thing: quote it in letters to my representatives.
Yes, the first application of technology is often to wage war.
Peacetime use of hurricane control might be to keep the hurricanes over the oceans, without disrupting the overall thermal equilibrium of the planet.
Being able to measure and predict is the first step to being able to influence nature in planned ways.
What happens when drums stop?
TCP/IP over bass fiddle.
AHEM, the DOS attack you envision would be an attack on DNS, and would threaten DNS service for everyone.
Unassigned DNS names don't have unassigned addresses.
If you attack SiteFinder, you'll find that they have an owner, one who can afford expensive owners.
I used to lubricate my Digi-Comp to overclock it above 1 Hz.
But the oil would get gummy and had to be washed off and replaced periodically.
"Keyboard not present,
Press F1 to continue."
Zen engineering?
> Microsoft is officially Found On Road Dead
"Fix Or Repair Daily" is more like it.
The _Microsoft_ trial is over.
Trials against Opera, Mozilla, etc, haven't even been filed yet. And if the prior art holds, these others will have a defense that was not available to Microsoft.
Wouldn't it be ironic if _Only_ Microsoft had to pay damages?
> I hope Mandrake excercies a certain degree of moral judgement in their decision making.
Like not accepting ads for MSN?
> > This guy [Darl McBride] really is in his own world.
> > And it's obvious that there is no oxygen on it.
> It's the necktie. No, really.
You don't get it. He wears the necktie to keep the foreskin pulled back from his face.
> the greatest horrible-excuse-for-an-editor known to man.
;p). We used to debug 1st-year programmers' programs for them just to get an hour in the terminal room where we could use the Fox terminals to run vi.
I remember when we were happy to have vi! Overjoyed
In the meantime, we had to use Hollerith cards on the 029 keypunch, which couldn't delete or insert characters (unless you hold down the card so that the rubber wheel couldn't advance it through the reader). And we had to butter up and beg to the grad students to let us run the final draft of our roff-encoded term papers through their daisywheel printer that they kept under guard in the far corner of their inner sanctum.
vi? We were lucky to have it.
EDLIN, that's an editor from hell. Only thing worse than ed (except for the 029).
I've read halfway through the book so far, and I'm certain I'll finish it.
An important message I've taken away is that attacks are very rare. Schneier mentions several times how physically safe we are in open, democratic countries, and contrasts this safety to totalitarian (my word) regimes.
He also drives home that you can't spend all of your resources on a plethora of one-in-a-million or once-per-century events. Risk analysis is essential.
Read the book! An interview doesn't nearly do it justice.
> at least working in the pr0n industry I'll only go blind.
Now, in that industry, considering the constant occupational exposures, is blindness an asset or a handicap?
Heard on NPR:
"The stars are a long, long way away. But that's good, because they're _really_ hot."
Actually, God has written several user guides, but they all conflict, and the users constantly fight over which one to go with.
They say foreign repressive governments.
Interesting how they qualify that.
It amuses me that, while anonymizers would likely be condemned as a tool of terrorism by the National Security State in the US, the same spooks use anonymizers as a weapon against their counterparts of old Iraq.
On second thought, it depresses me.
> Was it Thomas Edison that said, "I haven't failed.
> I just found 10,000 ways that didn't work."?
Fourteen lives to find two ways that don't work.
Pretty expensive research.
> the perpetrator is probably just some sysadmin running a legitimate,
> secure server that found its way onto some blacklists
Perhaps this hypothetical server was legit, but the hypothetical SA stopped being legit when they started slinging zombies around the net.
A crime is not a legitimate remedy.
> Then MS marketing got involved.
"Hey, it looks like you're trying to innovate.
Would you like some help?"