I wish that this would be auctioned up amongst spam fighters:/
I just lost an important email to spam (saw it in with the junk email *just* as I deleted it all). I have thus been taking it out on the next few spammers.
I sure wish someone would give us a free car for hunting down these scumbags:]
I doubt this will be very common, though. The last spammer I heard about was living in a double-wide trailer in Florida. I'm not sure they'd care to auction that...:]
The best thing anyone can do (ICANN included) is leave the internet the hell alone.
The last thing we need is an international body trying to make us subject to all the laws in the world, in spite of the contradictions in law everywhere...
For example, I wonder how many sites discussing the history of WW II would be allowed? Germany has some pretty strict laws about anything relating to the Nazis. It's not particularly clear to me that you could even, say, cite Hitler's writings or show pictures of historical artifacts without running afoul of it, even should you (rightfully!) condemn the horrible things that happened during that war.
Besides, we already have countries fencing in their own little bits of the internet (first China, now France as I understand it... probably others, soon)... the irony is that the internet is already too international for some countries.
That said, DNS probably could be a bit smarter about, say, using unicode instead of ASCII for URLs... Though I have to wonder just how confusing that might make things if there are now who knows how many glyphs that all look too similar (new avenues for typosquatters, no doubt)...
Anyhow, yes, card counting might as well be illegal. At least in NV, you can be detained if they *suspect* you of cheating, and they throw you out of casinos for counting. They won't let you go around to find a 'hot' table, either--at least the tables I went to forced you to join in at the start of the deck or not at all.
So it may not be wrong, but you won't get away with it.
Errr, just what good would a hidden camera do you at a chess tournament? You do remember that all the pieces in chess are visible to everyone, I hope?
Moreover, they have problems even with you using nothing but your own brain to improve your odds (indeed, they don't care to have you improve your odds at all). Perhaps you've heard of their distaste for 'card counting'?
It can, theoretically, get you only the tiniest of an advantage vs. the house. Assuming you don't screw up in all that time playing you'd have to do to get anywhere (which is by no means a small task). And they still don't like or allow it...
Unless I have to type something really convoluted or an odd key combination (fsck is strange to type, with that unnatural key combination, it lends itself to mischevious typos... unless you alias the typo to the command) or perhaps browsing a complex man page (even the sendmail man page beats having to deal with Clippy *shudder*), there are some things that a CLI is just better suited to.
Not to mention that you can pipe multiple commands into each other without having to wait for the intermediate processes to finish in a CLI (something I'm not quite sure how to do in a GUI, even if you can drag & drop a mass of files into certain apps)...
I'm using the Optimoz mouse gestures in Mozilla now, not to mention the convenient password manager. The password manager is the only one that really saves me typing instead of just making clicking more efficient, but they're still nice...:]
I don't know about others, by my left hand rests on the keyboard.
What I wish is that there was a one-handed keyboard so I could type with one hand and mouse with the other.
Traversing back & forth between using the keyboard and the mouse causes noticable slowdown when you use the computer all day.
Maybe that's why I like CLIs so much? *shrug*
Don't get me wrong, I use GUIs all the time, too, but you can't type in data with a mouse... (at least, not with any program I have)
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And thus I see that you have not studied this:]
I don't wish to pretend to understand all the issues, but I have suffered through enough physics that I believe myself to be capable of giving a simplified and reasonably correct overview (bearing in mind that I haven't had a physics class for a while now) --
Yes, we all like Relativity... on a large scale.
Just as we all like the Standard Model... at the very small scales.
The problem is that the two models are inconsistant. In fact, they outright contradict each other in what they say about the universe--space cannot be both smooth and discrete at the same time!
Thus, we need to harmonize the two, and this is why we have not one but several theories of quantum gravity. The problem has been that we simply do not have the observations to tell which theory is correct.
So some of the real issues here concern very fundamental issues of what matter is composed of and how it behaves and things of that nature. That's a bit more than, say, giving a better model of the spring by adding one more polynomial term to our approximation of Hooke's law.
I know that this is slashdot, but I would like to substantiate my statements. Otherwise, I would be doing nothing but rumormongering, and I do have evidence to back my claims.
I believe that it's common knowledge that SCO's disputes with IBM and Novell both hinge largely upon the various contracts between the parties. In fact, you can read the claims and counter claims in both cases at Groklaw. What many don't seem to realize that both DaimlerChrystler and Autozone had contractual relations with SCO. This only goes to show you that SCO apparently is unwilling to try any case at this juncture which rests only upon the merits of their IP claims...
Speaking of which, you can find corroboration here on Groklaw, because I do not expect you to just take my word for it.
The irony is that people who have done business with SCO seem to be in more danger, not less, from SCO.
Thus far, SCO doesn't seem comfortable suing anyone for copyright issues alone; they have only sued people who they could complain were breaching some contract with them.
For all the sound & fury, the wisest course of action these days seems to be not to do any business whatsoever with SCO.
True. SCO has been known to sink pretty low (read my sig/journal...). This only reinforces the fact that being one of SCO's customers puts you at more risk than anything else.
If you read the lawsuits, thus far, they have only sued people they had business deals with, and even then their main causes of action stem from the contracts they've had with these other businesses. I'm sure that that's not the message SCO intends to send, but they're very good at shooting themselves in the foot...
In the mean time, here's this same story at Groklaw.
Heh, it could be worse. Almost all other DRM schemes I've heard of are worse than Apple's.
Then again, I would much prefer no DRM at all, and, ironically, the more draconian the DRM, the more likely people will refuse to use such products, and the more likely it is that we won't have to put up with it at all...
I may be a tad overly optimistic, but I think we all know that DRM is futile so long as we have full control over our own computers. The problem is in the corrollary of that is that the DRM folks have to control our computers to make their schemes work. I don't find that to be a pleasant thought at all... Effectively unenforceable laws tend to get applied in discriminatory manners, after all...:/
Bah, why is every troll these days suddenly a teaching fellow at Harvard?:P
It just goes to show why it's useless to correct the trolls--this fellow has taken advantage of having been corrected last time. You see, someone told them that they knew they weren't a TA at Harvard, because TAs are called TFs there...
What that probably means is that the author released it originally via a few places with high-bandwidth which were preselected. The article mentions an initial infection of 110 hosts, which is obviously not natural.
By doing this, you speed up the onset phase by starting with a larger base of infected machines, thus propagating *much* faster that you would otherwise if you only started with a few low-bandwidth hosts which would take time to get the infection spread very far.
Take a look at the graph they put on the site to see the rate of infection if you like, by the way.
They offered the guy a job afterwards (when it was made public)... of course, he wound up leaving not long after that little PR stunt...
I don't remember any other compromises, offhand, but I find it unlikely that any institution that large (particularly one with Microsoft's security record) could not have had at least a few breaches of various severities...
Be careful about taking that "during good behavior" bit too far. I just read some rant on the internet (no doubt about that bill to remove the power of judicial review from the courts) wherein they thought that they could somehow use that clause to say that by exercising judicial review, they were violating their oath of office.
That said, I believe it normally only applies to specific criminal violations (e.g. yeah, they would have to commit a felony or something).
I wish I could remember better what I learned in my class on the supreme court, but it's been a few years, even though I remember that we addressed the meaning of that specifically (in fact, we went over the entire article of the constitution relating to the judiciary...)
I fear that they will not listen or do anything with respect to it unless it wins at whatever appelate court is just below the SCOTUS for this case.
My guess is that they will say that crafting these exemptions is the responsibility of the Librarian of Congress, and for that reason they need not listen to this case, so they'll probably deny cert unless they have to reverse a lower court decision or something.
That's not to say I wouldn't like to see this succeed. I mean, if you cannot be bothered to register your copyright (and it's NOT hard, you fill out this little form and you can aggregate your works, so as to make the most use of it), there's no reason to believe that your work is actually worth protecting under copyright...
And before you ask, note two things: 1) This would only apply to the work of US citizens. 2) Yes, those of us in the US would have to register our works to GPL them, but pretty much all the important programs and things are already registered as copyrighted.
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I wish that this would be auctioned up amongst spam fighters :/
:]
... :]
I just lost an important email to spam (saw it in with the junk email *just* as I deleted it all). I have thus been taking it out on the next few spammers.
I sure wish someone would give us a free car for hunting down these scumbags
I doubt this will be very common, though. The last spammer I heard about was living in a double-wide trailer in Florida. I'm not sure they'd care to auction that
All of a sudden, I have this punny feeling that someone will make a comment about this technique being used to grow ricin...
The best thing anyone can do (ICANN included) is leave the internet the hell alone.
... the irony is that the internet is already too international for some countries.
...
The last thing we need is an international body trying to make us subject to all the laws in the world, in spite of the contradictions in law everywhere...
For example, I wonder how many sites discussing the history of WW II would be allowed? Germany has some pretty strict laws about anything relating to the Nazis. It's not particularly clear to me that you could even, say, cite Hitler's writings or show pictures of historical artifacts without running afoul of it, even should you (rightfully!) condemn the horrible things that happened during that war.
Besides, we already have countries fencing in their own little bits of the internet (first China, now France as I understand it... probably others, soon)
That said, DNS probably could be a bit smarter about, say, using unicode instead of ASCII for URLs... Though I have to wonder just how confusing that might make things if there are now who knows how many glyphs that all look too similar (new avenues for typosquatters, no doubt)
I love games that tell the future
:]
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Crystalis was the best in that regard!
1997, October 1,
The END DAY
I remember playing that game on that very day... it's one of my all-time favorites
Okay, I shouldn't post while I had a headache :]
Yes, a hidden computer would be cheating.
Anyhow, yes, card counting might as well be illegal. At least in NV, you can be detained if they *suspect* you of cheating, and they throw you out of casinos for counting. They won't let you go around to find a 'hot' table, either--at least the tables I went to forced you to join in at the start of the deck or not at all.
So it may not be wrong, but you won't get away with it.
Errr, just what good would a hidden camera do you at a chess tournament? You do remember that all the pieces in chess are visible to everyone, I hope?
Moreover, they have problems even with you using nothing but your own brain to improve your odds (indeed, they don't care to have you improve your odds at all). Perhaps you've heard of their distaste for 'card counting'?
It can, theoretically, get you only the tiniest of an advantage vs. the house. Assuming you don't screw up in all that time playing you'd have to do to get anywhere (which is by no means a small task). And they still don't like or allow it...
Out of curiousity, do you work for SCO? ;]
I'm a touch typist.
:]
Unless I have to type something really convoluted or an odd key combination (fsck is strange to type, with that unnatural key combination, it lends itself to mischevious typos... unless you alias the typo to the command) or perhaps browsing a complex man page (even the sendmail man page beats having to deal with Clippy *shudder*), there are some things that a CLI is just better suited to.
Not to mention that you can pipe multiple commands into each other without having to wait for the intermediate processes to finish in a CLI (something I'm not quite sure how to do in a GUI, even if you can drag & drop a mass of files into certain apps)...
But it could just be me
I'm using the Optimoz mouse gestures in Mozilla now, not to mention the convenient password manager. The password manager is the only one that really saves me typing instead of just making clicking more efficient, but they're still nice... :]
I don't know about others, by my left hand rests on the keyboard.
What I wish is that there was a one-handed keyboard so I could type with one hand and mouse with the other.
Traversing back & forth between using the keyboard and the mouse causes noticable slowdown when you use the computer all day.
Maybe that's why I like CLIs so much? *shrug*
Don't get me wrong, I use GUIs all the time, too, but you can't type in data with a mouse... (at least, not with any program I have)
And thus I see that you have not studied this :]
I don't wish to pretend to understand all the issues, but I have suffered through enough physics that I believe myself to be capable of giving a simplified and reasonably correct overview (bearing in mind that I haven't had a physics class for a while now) --
Yes, we all like Relativity... on a large scale.
Just as we all like the Standard Model... at the very small scales.
The problem is that the two models are inconsistant. In fact, they outright contradict each other in what they say about the universe--space cannot be both smooth and discrete at the same time!
Thus, we need to harmonize the two, and this is why we have not one but several theories of quantum gravity. The problem has been that we simply do not have the observations to tell which theory is correct.
So some of the real issues here concern very fundamental issues of what matter is composed of and how it behaves and things of that nature. That's a bit more than, say, giving a better model of the spring by adding one more polynomial term to our approximation of Hooke's law.
I know that this is slashdot, but I would like to substantiate my statements. Otherwise, I would be doing nothing but rumormongering, and I do have evidence to back my claims.
I believe that it's common knowledge that SCO's disputes with IBM and Novell both hinge largely upon the various contracts between the parties. In fact, you can read the claims and counter claims in both cases at Groklaw. What many don't seem to realize that both DaimlerChrystler and Autozone had contractual relations with SCO. This only goes to show you that SCO apparently is unwilling to try any case at this juncture which rests only upon the merits of their IP claims...
Speaking of which, you can find corroboration here on Groklaw, because I do not expect you to just take my word for it.
The irony is that people who have done business with SCO seem to be in more danger, not less, from SCO.
Thus far, SCO doesn't seem comfortable suing anyone for copyright issues alone; they have only sued people who they could complain were breaching some contract with them.
For all the sound & fury, the wisest course of action these days seems to be not to do any business whatsoever with SCO.
Of course, I am not a lawyer...
True. SCO has been known to sink pretty low (read my sig/journal...). This only reinforces the fact that being one of SCO's customers puts you at more risk than anything else.
If you read the lawsuits, thus far, they have only sued people they had business deals with, and even then their main causes of action stem from the contracts they've had with these other businesses. I'm sure that that's not the message SCO intends to send, but they're very good at shooting themselves in the foot...
In the mean time, here's this same story at Groklaw.
Heh, it could be worse. Almost all other DRM schemes I've heard of are worse than Apple's.
:/
Then again, I would much prefer no DRM at all, and, ironically, the more draconian the DRM, the more likely people will refuse to use such products, and the more likely it is that we won't have to put up with it at all...
I may be a tad overly optimistic, but I think we all know that DRM is futile so long as we have full control over our own computers. The problem is in the corrollary of that is that the DRM folks have to control our computers to make their schemes work. I don't find that to be a pleasant thought at all... Effectively unenforceable laws tend to get applied in discriminatory manners, after all...
He's not the only one ;]
:P
Bah, silly mods, they don't know that we know each other
Probably best to post without the bonus though, so people won't complain so much...
Bah, why is every troll these days suddenly a teaching fellow at Harvard? :P
It just goes to show why it's useless to correct the trolls--this fellow has taken advantage of having been corrected last time. You see, someone told them that they knew they weren't a TA at Harvard, because TAs are called TFs there...
What that probably means is that the author released it originally via a few places with high-bandwidth which were preselected. The article mentions an initial infection of 110 hosts, which is obviously not natural.
By doing this, you speed up the onset phase by starting with a larger base of infected machines, thus propagating *much* faster that you would otherwise if you only started with a few low-bandwidth hosts which would take time to get the infection spread very far.
Take a look at the graph they put on the site to see the rate of infection if you like, by the way.
Hmm, if that happened, it appears to have been reversed. They are, in fact, quite scummy.
D ot Net.html
Speaking of which, here is how to remove that piece of crap should you have the misfortune to have it on your computer:
http://www.spyany.com/program/article_ad_rm_New
I hate to repeat myself, but we know that Microsoft has been compromised.
Doesn't anyone else remember that guy who trojaned a bunch of their developers' machines or something and broke into their internal network?
They turned it into a PR stunt and hired the guy instead of prosecuting him, as a matter of fact (though I also remember that he left soon after...)
Moreover, they have been compromised!
... of course, he wound up leaving not long after that little PR stunt...
They offered the guy a job afterwards (when it was made public)
I don't remember any other compromises, offhand, but I find it unlikely that any institution that large (particularly one with Microsoft's security record) could not have had at least a few breaches of various severities...
They should.
And if they take one of my computer basics classes, I will teach them about such things, as best I can, in the time allowed.
Be careful about taking that "during good behavior" bit too far. I just read some rant on the internet (no doubt about that bill to remove the power of judicial review from the courts) wherein they thought that they could somehow use that clause to say that by exercising judicial review, they were violating their oath of office.
That said, I believe it normally only applies to specific criminal violations (e.g. yeah, they would have to commit a felony or something).
I wish I could remember better what I learned in my class on the supreme court, but it's been a few years, even though I remember that we addressed the meaning of that specifically (in fact, we went over the entire article of the constitution relating to the judiciary...)
I fear that they will not listen or do anything with respect to it unless it wins at whatever appelate court is just below the SCOTUS for this case.
My guess is that they will say that crafting these exemptions is the responsibility of the Librarian of Congress, and for that reason they need not listen to this case, so they'll probably deny cert unless they have to reverse a lower court decision or something.
That's not to say I wouldn't like to see this succeed. I mean, if you cannot be bothered to register your copyright (and it's NOT hard, you fill out this little form and you can aggregate your works, so as to make the most use of it), there's no reason to believe that your work is actually worth protecting under copyright...
And before you ask, note two things:
1) This would only apply to the work of US citizens.
2) Yes, those of us in the US would have to register our works to GPL them, but pretty much all the important programs and things are already registered as copyrighted.
Rumor has it they caught him because of a VERY suspicious charge:
;]
He ordered several boxed Linux distros