The Attorney General's office never told BuffNET it suspected illegal activity, and never asked BuffNET to block the newsgroup that was targeted. If the AG had asked, BuffNET would have cut off the newsgroup.
What did happen was an undercover agent from the A.G.'s office, who did not identify himself as being from the A.G.'s office, made an INQUIRY (not a complaint) about the legality of one image he allegedly found on one specific newsgroup. He asked if it was legal, and could he get in trouble by downloading it. BuffNET turned the inquiry over to our attorney, Steven S. Fox who reviewed the newsgroup and found no illegal images. He answered the inquiry saying child pornography is illegal and that whenever BuffNET finds anything illegal on its system it removes it and whoever put it there.
"I've found child porn on alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.*".
"Very well, what are the message numbers/subject lines?"
"Gee, we want you to delete the whole newsgroup!"
"Sorry, that group also contains some lawful material protected by the first amendment. But again, just specify the actual problem material and we'll remove it."
"But what if someone posts some more there?"
"Sorry, if we become aware of any more we'll take care of that too. Thanks for spending the time scanning for these for us - it isn't something we can afford to spend time doing."
Eventually, though, people stop making 30-pin SIMMS, then decent 72-pin ones get so much more expensive that it becomes cheaper to scrap that motherboard and get one that uses SDRAM in DIMMS.
That's also the way it works, and a part of what everyone has to live with. There's an inherent limit to backwards compatability called "the point of diminishing returns".
Shrug. If someone wants to screw around with XML, let them. If it's unnecessary for someone's needs, though, it would be rather fascistic to force it down their throats as a standard.
Don't even start giving me that BS. about how you had to nest tables for browser compatability. My ass! You could have just written nice clean HTML and made a nice web page with some words, pictures and graphics, hell 98% of the web doesn't even TABLES much less cascading style sheets!
Hmm, how many print newspapers do you know that only print text in one column? There are reasons for logically dividing data and presenting it in a particular form.
Since you seem to disagree with this practice, I'ma assuming you are in favor of the proposal, since it will allow you to turn off CSS and eliminate much of that non-content dross, like text styles and colors and so on, that you find so unnecessary while you view web pages. Correct?
Umm, if you'd looked at the pages you might have seen that one of the reasons for the proposal was to allow the full use of CSS to seperate the style from the content, in order to help address accessability. You might take a look at the links
on the tips for developers page there, connecting to the W3C accessability guidelines and the Bobby accessability validator.
No, to give the devil its due, Microsoft hasn't done more than make fairly minor noises about this. IIRC they finally decided they were safer against prior-use claims by others if they treated "Windows" as a descriptive term, though they would rightly treat a clone marked "Windows 2002" as an infringement on something. The same goes for "Explorer".
"Only because of the electoral college"? Rather offtopic, but since you are obviously rather confused:
Bzzzt! I suppose they don't teach Civics in the schools anymore, so for your edification Doug:
The President of the United States is not elected by "popular vote" (versus the electoral college).
The President of the United States has never been elected based on a "popular vote".
There is absolutely nothing in the Constitution of the United States which refers to this so-called "popular vote", or which gives any legitimacy to a claim on the presidency by anyone claiming to have won this tally.
This "popular vote" fantasy is an invention of the media based on confusion due to the fact that in the majority of cases, those elected president happened to also have won the sum of the votes from the individual states, a fact that is otherwise irrelevant.
Clear now? BTW, the endorsement of GWB by his brother was not included in any of the vote tallies.
In May 1949, Maurice Wilkes' team at Cambridge University completed the "EDSAC" ("Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer"), closely based on the EDVAC design report from von Neumann's group.
Instead of fiber it used 16 mercury delay lines that yielded 256 35-bit words (or 512 17-bit words) of storage.
Ordinary glass strands do not a fiber optic make. Look into the edge of a piece of ordinary window glass. Green, huh? Not that clear, really. Unless you roll it thin.
Nor will the light stay confined to a simple glass strand. Not if it touches another piece of itself. glass optical fibers are a core of one type of glass surrounded by another of a different refractive index, and light never reaches the inside edge of the fiber.
And the current problem is that the answer to the question: "How do I do https (SSL) secure web connections using name-based virtual IP?" is "You can't." The SSL connections are negotiated before the "desired host name" is sent.
You can use a different port number for virtual servers, but many businesses do not like it being so obvious that they are sharing a server, and those behind firewalls may not be able to connect to those ports.
I was especially impressed by the following clause which requires you to let their software make outgoing modem calls - at your expense:
If your usage of the Service is infrequent, Juno's ability to obtain the results of completed computations may be impaired. Consequently, you expressly permit and authorize Juno to initiate a telephone connection from your computer to Juno's central computers using a dial-in telephone number you have previously selected for accessing the Service; Juno agrees that it shall exercise such right only to the extent necessary, as determined in Juno's sole discretion, to upload the results of completed computations to Juno in a timely fashion; and you agree that, as between you and Juno, you shall be responsible for any costs and expenses (including without limitation any applicable telephone charges) resulting from the foregoing.
-- "The installation program has located your credit card number and is ordering other software packages you need"
I'd argue retrieving and analyzing mirrors lists goes a metadata step beyond just using links to more information in the index file (FTP index or index.html) a server sends a client (or in these cases a spider).
Some of the stuff the patent claims are supposed to do were probably prior-arted by the first person to "ls -Ral|grep 'fileIamlookingfor'" on a network drive, or at least by going another step beyond that to actually grepping the files. Not that this will apply to all of them, AltaVista's no doubt innovated.
IMHO, "I can patent it because I do X on a network of computers" smells as bad as "I can patent X because I moved X to a computer" in the first place. IANAL but logically these precedents and patents are going to end up worth whatever the results of obvious challenges are.
RS-423 serial port are an alternative to the "standard" RS-232C spec, the main advantage of RS-423 is that the signals are driven in a way that allows longer serial cable runs.
If nuclear power is a "bill of goods foisted on the public by power companies", as you say, then so are the oil and coal-fired plants that will be the alternative. Hell, the ash alone from burning coal takes up more volume than the fuel originally did, is toxic and carcinogenic, and stays that way forever.
It's a tradeoff. People freezing, dying from heat, or expending so much of their personal resources for energy to lower their life expectancy versus a few more cooling pools with spent nuclear fuel. D'Oh!
Nah, no conscience over here. We just all turned off our servers and workstations to keep the hard drives from being scrogged and the shortage went away for some strange reason.
Not that simple. Add "hot water boils to make steam" and "steam exhaust from turbine is cooled to condense it to water" steps, or you cut the efficency down. Considerably.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmm, aren't they supposed to actually list the infringing files so that they may be removed? Sounds rather bogus to me...
Thanks... The original link now connects to a freaking advertising page, with freaking popups yet.
Schmucks.
From Buffnet's response:
The Attorney General's office never told BuffNET it suspected illegal activity, and never asked BuffNET to block the newsgroup that was targeted. If the AG had asked, BuffNET would have cut off the newsgroup.
What did happen was an undercover agent from the A.G.'s office, who did not identify himself as being from the A.G.'s office, made an INQUIRY (not a complaint) about the legality of one image he allegedly found on one specific newsgroup. He asked if it was legal, and could he get in trouble by downloading it. BuffNET turned the inquiry over to our attorney, Steven S. Fox who reviewed the newsgroup and found no illegal images. He answered the inquiry saying child pornography is illegal and that whenever BuffNET finds anything illegal on its system it removes it and whoever put it there.
Goes like this:
"I've found child porn on alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.*".
"Very well, what are the message numbers/subject lines?"
"Gee, we want you to delete the whole newsgroup!"
"Sorry, that group also contains some lawful material protected by the first amendment. But again, just specify the actual problem material and we'll remove it."
"But what if someone posts some more there?"
"Sorry, if we become aware of any more we'll take care of that too. Thanks for spending the time scanning for these for us - it isn't something we can afford to spend time doing."
Eventually, though, people stop making 30-pin SIMMS, then decent 72-pin ones get so much more expensive that it becomes cheaper to scrap that motherboard and get one that uses SDRAM in DIMMS.
That's also the way it works, and a part of what everyone has to live with. There's an inherent limit to backwards compatability called "the point of diminishing returns".
Shrug. If someone wants to screw around with XML, let them. If it's unnecessary for someone's needs, though, it would be rather fascistic to force it down their throats as a standard.
Don't even start giving me that BS. about how you had to nest tables for browser compatability. My ass! You could have just written nice clean HTML and made a nice web page with some words, pictures and graphics, hell 98% of the web doesn't even TABLES much less cascading style sheets!
Hmm, how many print newspapers do you know that only print text in one column? There are reasons for logically dividing data and presenting it in a particular form.
Since you seem to disagree with this practice, I'ma assuming you are in favor of the proposal, since it will allow you to turn off CSS and eliminate much of that non-content dross, like text styles and colors and so on, that you find so unnecessary while you view web pages. Correct?
Umm, if you'd looked at the pages you might have seen that one of the reasons for the proposal was to allow the full use of CSS to seperate the style from the content, in order to help address accessability. You might take a look at the links
on the tips for developers page there, connecting to the W3C accessability guidelines and the Bobby accessability validator.
No, to give the devil its due, Microsoft hasn't done more than make fairly minor noises about this. IIRC they finally decided they were safer against prior-use claims by others if they treated "Windows" as a descriptive term, though they would rightly treat a clone marked "Windows 2002" as an infringement on something. The same goes for "Explorer".
i am rather disappointed by the intelligence and maturity of some of the posters here.
Sturgeon's Law. 90% of everything is crap.
Wrong person, that would be the Secretary of State, not the Governor.
Who happened to be a Republican IIRC. Just as the officials in many of the states Gore won were members of the Democratic Party.
"Only because of the electoral college"? Rather offtopic, but since you are obviously rather confused:
Bzzzt! I suppose they don't teach Civics in the schools anymore, so for your edification Doug:
The President of the United States is not elected by "popular vote" (versus the electoral college).
The President of the United States has never been elected based on a "popular vote".
There is absolutely nothing in the Constitution of the United States which refers to this so-called "popular vote", or which gives any legitimacy to a claim on the presidency by anyone claiming to have won this tally.
This "popular vote" fantasy is an invention of the media based on confusion due to the fact that in the majority of cases, those elected president happened to also have won the sum of the votes from the individual states, a fact that is otherwise irrelevant.
Clear now? BTW, the endorsement of GWB by his brother was not included in any of the vote tallies.
In May 1949, Maurice Wilkes' team at Cambridge University completed the "EDSAC" ("Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer"), closely based on the EDVAC design report from von Neumann's group.
Instead of fiber it used 16 mercury delay lines that yielded 256 35-bit words (or 512 17-bit words) of storage.
Source: Chronology of Digital Computing Machines
Ordinary glass strands do not a fiber optic make. Look into the edge of a piece of ordinary window glass. Green, huh? Not that clear, really. Unless you roll it thin.
Nor will the light stay confined to a simple glass strand. Not if it touches another piece of itself. glass optical fibers are a core of one type of glass surrounded by another of a different refractive index, and light never reaches the inside edge of the fiber.
And the current problem is that the answer to the question: "How do I do https (SSL) secure web connections using name-based virtual IP?" is "You can't." The SSL connections are negotiated before the "desired host name" is sent.
You can use a different port number for virtual servers, but many businesses do not like it being so obvious that they are sharing a server, and those behind firewalls may not be able to connect to those ports.
I was especially impressed by the following clause which requires you to let their software make outgoing modem calls - at your expense:
If your usage of the Service is infrequent, Juno's ability to obtain the results of completed computations may be impaired. Consequently, you expressly permit and authorize Juno to initiate a telephone connection from your computer to Juno's central computers using a dial-in telephone number you have previously selected for accessing the Service; Juno agrees that it shall exercise such right only to the extent necessary, as determined in Juno's sole discretion, to upload the results of completed computations to Juno in a timely fashion; and you agree that, as between you and Juno, you shall be responsible for any costs and expenses (including without limitation any applicable telephone charges) resulting from the foregoing.
-- "The installation program has located your credit card number and is ordering other software packages you need"
Some FTP archive sites used to allow remote NFS mounts. I think some early linux distros mounted them by default, or at least as an option.
I'd argue retrieving and analyzing mirrors lists goes a metadata step beyond just using links to more information in the index file (FTP index or index.html) a server sends a client (or in these cases a spider).
Some of the stuff the patent claims are supposed to do were probably prior-arted by the first person to "ls -Ral|grep 'fileIamlookingfor'" on a network drive, or at least by going another step beyond that to actually grepping the files. Not that this will apply to all of them, AltaVista's no doubt innovated.
IMHO, "I can patent it because I do X on a network of computers" smells as bad as "I can patent X because I moved X to a computer" in the first place. IANAL but logically these precedents and patents are going to end up worth whatever the results of obvious challenges are.
It's a little small and simple for a good Deathmatch, isn't it?
20G 5400 RPM, that white paper notes under "Power Management". Something tells me disk I/O rates aren't going to be stellar.
RS-423 serial port are an alternative to the "standard" RS-232C spec, the main advantage of RS-423 is that the signals are driven in a way that allows longer serial cable runs.
If nuclear power is a "bill of goods foisted on the public by power companies", as you say, then so are the oil and coal-fired plants that will be the alternative. Hell, the ash alone from burning coal takes up more volume than the fuel originally did, is toxic and carcinogenic, and stays that way forever.
It's a tradeoff. People freezing, dying from heat, or expending so much of their personal resources for energy to lower their life expectancy versus a few more cooling pools with spent nuclear fuel. D'Oh!
Nah, no conscience over here. We just all turned off our servers and workstations to keep the hard drives from being scrogged and the shortage went away for some strange reason.
Not that simple. Add "hot water boils to make steam" and "steam exhaust from turbine is cooled to condense it to water" steps, or you cut the efficency down. Considerably.
Uh, lack of cooling water.
That's why the fuel for the bombs was made in reactors on major rivers or near the seacoast.