Very rarely, does bullying involve spreading only 100% truthful information. Kids do not simply state "someone is fat", they embellish on it, and twist it into half-truth rumours to spread.
Slander is not a protected form of free speech. You have every right to voice your complaint about someone or some company, but if you start posting lies in a public forum, intending to harm a third-party, then you are opening yourself up to a libel suit.
I don't think he meant the architecture instructions and specifications. Most likely, the grandparent poster was refering to Sun's SPARC engineering department putting their efforts behind AMD's chip.
Yeah, this guy is worse than Scott McNealy. He rants on Microsoft destroying innovation in the technology industry. But when's the last time Oracle actually came out with a new innovative product? The most forward thinking thing they have done was port Oracle to run on Linux early on.
Then he rants about IBM's software and hardware business dying and them only selling services. Guess what Larry, the hardware and software businesses for 20-year old concepts like operating systems and relational databases is dying. And Linux is leading that trend, by commoditizing the software, and creating value in the support and services sector. People are willing to pay IBM for building new systems for them, but they don't want to continue spending ridiculous amounts of money on licenses ever year for your database software.
The internet is a function of entertainment, and there is alot of private sector investment.
What are you talking about? The Internet is a telecommunications infrastructure, entertainment is a subset of what kind of services the Internet provides.
Just in case you weren't aware, all of the various US government departments use the Internet, as do various research and education institutions.
Universities often have the biggest fiber pipes of them all, right next to major telecommuncations/technology companies.
But yes, there are a limited number of Tier-1 ISPs (think WorldCom, Level3) who peer with each other and they are essentially responsible for the backbone of the Internet. Everyone else, pays those Tier-1's for access to the Internet.
But it is a fixed cost once it is installed. Once it is installed, you may have raised the value of the property. I know if they offered fiber for $28/month in the town 1/2 hour away, I'd move there and gladly pay whatever extra property taxes neccessary to cover the cost.
Yup, and as soon as we get some good anti-spam laws passed, they will be right in the cross-hairs of two dozen civil attorneys to sue them for helping the spammers.
MSN prevents this. In order to send messages to someone, you need to be on their list. Otherwise you have to send a request to them, asking permission to do so. I used to get lots of Icq 'spim', but have never had a problem on MSN.
Your analogy is flawed. In the situation of the pool, some 'innocent victim' has to come by your pool and fall in.
In the case of the computer, it is a malicious virus writer who is essentially indirectly using your computer, to hurt others. No one is being harmed by your property directly. Someone else is *using* your property to hurt others. The closest analogy I think of in real life, is your car. By leaving your car unlocked (with the keys in it? maybe that is stretching the analogy), some may argue you should be responsible for when someone uses your car to kill someone on a joy drive. I don't personally accept that argument either thouygh.
I agree. As I was reading the article, the last thing on my mind was "oh, yeah I can store my music on that!".
If the recording device is cheap enough, it would be feasible for you to use this as a way of safely archiving all your data. Imagine being to store 27 Terabytes of data in a box that was only 30x30x30cm.
IPv6 will fix this. Because of the hierarchy in the addressing methodology, ISPs will be able to drop any packets coming from source IPs that do not match the network they are directly responsible for.
Wouldn't it be ironic, if the MPAA and RIAA end up being on our side, spending money to lobby against this initiative because it might restrict their ability to export their content over the Internet.
I wasn't the AC, but if you want proof of this just do a search for agricultural subsidies in industrialized nations. The US and the EU preach free trade and dropping barriers to trade, but they are just as guiltly of not doing this as are the less developed nations. They put up numerous obstacles so that developing nations cannot sell their agricultural products in the industrialized world. Yet this is the one product that those poorer nations are actually capable of competing with the richer nations on.
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Very rarely, does bullying involve spreading only 100% truthful information. Kids do not simply state "someone is fat", they embellish on it, and twist it into half-truth rumours to spread.
Slander is not a protected form of free speech. You have every right to voice your complaint about someone or some company, but if you start posting lies in a public forum, intending to harm a third-party, then you are opening yourself up to a libel suit.
Bullying is not protected by the First Amendment.
Put 106 AMD chips in one box, and you will be giving new meaning to the product line SunFire!
I don't think he meant the architecture instructions and specifications. Most likely, the grandparent poster was refering to Sun's SPARC engineering department putting their efforts behind AMD's chip.
Yeah, this guy is worse than Scott McNealy. He rants on Microsoft destroying innovation in the technology industry. But when's the last time Oracle actually came out with a new innovative product? The most forward thinking thing they have done was port Oracle to run on Linux early on.
Then he rants about IBM's software and hardware business dying and them only selling services. Guess what Larry, the hardware and software businesses for 20-year old concepts like operating systems and relational databases is dying. And Linux is leading that trend, by commoditizing the software, and creating value in the support and services sector. People are willing to pay IBM for building new systems for them, but they don't want to continue spending ridiculous amounts of money on licenses ever year for your database software.
The internet is a function of entertainment, and there is alot of private sector investment.
What are you talking about? The Internet is a telecommunications infrastructure, entertainment is a subset of what kind of services the Internet provides.
Just in case you weren't aware, all of the various US government departments use the Internet, as do various research and education institutions.
Universities often have the biggest fiber pipes of them all, right next to major telecommuncations/technology companies.
But yes, there are a limited number of Tier-1 ISPs (think WorldCom, Level3) who peer with each other and they are essentially responsible for the backbone of the Internet. Everyone else, pays those Tier-1's for access to the Internet.
But it is a fixed cost once it is installed. Once it is installed, you may have raised the value of the property. I know if they offered fiber for $28/month in the town 1/2 hour away, I'd move there and gladly pay whatever extra property taxes neccessary to cover the cost.
As opposed to .. "Utah Taxpayers Paying Telcos/CableCos To Provide High-Speed Access".
Move to Utah so I can get my hands on one of these nice fiber pipes :)
I think it is more a result of MSN having such a smaller index to search from. Search for 'Windows' on MSN, and you only get 2373 results.
Also note the date of the application: December 16, 1999. I don't think spammers were using such techniques back then.
Yup, and as soon as we get some good anti-spam laws passed, they will be right in the cross-hairs of two dozen civil attorneys to sue them for helping the spammers.
MSN prevents this. In order to send messages to someone, you need to be on their list. Otherwise you have to send a request to them, asking permission to do so. I used to get lots of Icq 'spim', but have never had a problem on MSN.
Yep. According to the Fortune 500, only one other company makes more sales than they do. Exxon Mobil.
Personally, I think the five year old's parents who let the kid go snooping in stranger's cars should take the heat.
Your analogy is flawed. In the situation of the pool, some 'innocent victim' has to come by your pool and fall in.
In the case of the computer, it is a malicious virus writer who is essentially indirectly using your computer, to hurt others. No one is being harmed by your property directly. Someone else is *using* your property to hurt others. The closest analogy I think of in real life, is your car. By leaving your car unlocked (with the keys in it? maybe that is stretching the analogy), some may argue you should be responsible for when someone uses your car to kill someone on a joy drive. I don't personally accept that argument either thouygh.
And you should not be held responsible in that case either. The person who wrote the virus should.
But if they were this small, concievably you could have a player that stored several of these disks.
I agree. As I was reading the article, the last thing on my mind was "oh, yeah I can store my music on that!".
If the recording device is cheap enough, it would be feasible for you to use this as a way of safely archiving all your data. Imagine being to store 27 Terabytes of data in a box that was only 30x30x30cm.
Maybe they just skip the palantir and IM him instead.
Instant message him? Quick, Frodo, logon to Icq and let him know we are coming!
ps. I have no idea what I am talking about.
IPv6 will fix this. Because of the hierarchy in the addressing methodology, ISPs will be able to drop any packets coming from source IPs that do not match the network they are directly responsible for.
Wouldn't it be ironic, if the MPAA and RIAA end up being on our side, spending money to lobby against this initiative because it might restrict their ability to export their content over the Internet.
Root for ICANN. As bad as they are, at least the people on that board have a reasonable sense of what they are doing.
If you put control of the Internet under the umbrella of the UN, we will see situations like what happened with South Africa.
I wasn't the AC, but if you want proof of this just do a search for agricultural subsidies in industrialized nations. The US and the EU preach free trade and dropping barriers to trade, but they are just as guiltly of not doing this as are the less developed nations. They put up numerous obstacles so that developing nations cannot sell their agricultural products in the industrialized world. Yet this is the one product that those poorer nations are actually capable of competing with the richer nations on.