The problem here is with TPMs (technological prevention measures). If anything you do requires bypassing a TPM (eg. transferring a copy-protected CD to an iPod, or using deCSS to watch a DVD under Linux), then you could be breaking the law. Regardless of whether or not the activity (transferring your music to your iPod) is legal.
Because we're signatories to the FTA, we need to pass a law banning the circumvention of TPMs. The idea with this petition is to get a sensible law passed - something that bans things that actually breach copyright, rather than any 'unauthorised use'.
Have a look at the 'owner' match extension to iptables:
--cmd-owner
name
Matches if the packet was created by a process with the given command name. (this option is present only if iptables was compiled under a kernel supporting this feature)
Does this undermine the standardisation efforts going into Linux? (think UL, LSB).
In biological terms, a diverse gene pool is required to prevent a single, effective threat from having adverse effects on an entire population. By standardising Linux, are we removing this diversity?
Not to say that I'm at all against standardisation, just a thought.
I recently bought a laptop called an "ITC Ultraport R1000', which is actually a rebadged Twinhead N1400. The people at the shop (Arrow Computers, Perth, Australia) were kind enough to remove the WinXP licence from the package, and take a bit off the price.
(One of the main reasons I bought this computer was because the retailer gave me a brochure which listed Linux as a supported operating system. At the very least, this allows you to take it back if Linux doesn't go)
Linux runs well on it, after a bit of a play with the drivers (support from the company hasn't been great, but it's easy enough to get everything working). It's a P4 1.7GHz (1.2 on batteries), VGA & SVideo out, a firewire port, 14.1" screen at 1024x768, 3 USB2.0 ports, CDR/DVD drive, onboard ethernet & modem, 1 PCMCIA slot and optional internal 802.11b. It's small, light, and it looks cool.
Best of all, it was one of the cheapest Notebooks I was looking at, $2800 AUD:)
These have been at my university (UWA) a couple of months now. The machine is right outside the photocopying place, which sells blank CDs.
It seems to be intended more for backing up data - it'd be a right pain to have lost your thesis because the CD it was burnt on was lost/unreadable/etc
redleon and I were working for the earier version of this company, and I left in December 2000 after not being paid for three weeks (including a couple of bounced paycheques). I'm still chasing the matter through the courts (they haven't replied to any summons, nor turned up in court), to try to get them to pay - since I'm still a student I don't have the time to persue this to the extent I should be, but it will happen one day.:)
This seems to be the modus operandi for T3 - wait until a debtor gets bored with chasing it up through court.
Since us two programmers have left, they seem to have shifted their business model to the 'direct marketing' plan. It'll be interesting to see what happens once the sysdamins in Perth who read/. begin blocking their IP range.
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There's absolutely no reason not to refuse mail if the SPF check fails.
How about mailing lists?
The problem here is with TPMs (technological prevention measures). If anything you do requires bypassing a TPM (eg. transferring a copy-protected CD to an iPod, or using deCSS to watch a DVD under Linux), then you could be breaking the law. Regardless of whether or not the activity (transferring your music to your iPod) is legal.
Because we're signatories to the FTA, we need to pass a law banning the circumvention of TPMs. The idea with this petition is to get a sensible law passed - something that bans things that actually breach copyright, rather than any 'unauthorised use'.
Have a look at the 'owner' match extension to iptables:
Does this undermine the standardisation efforts going into Linux? (think UL, LSB).
In biological terms, a diverse gene pool is required to prevent a single, effective threat from having adverse effects on an entire population. By standardising Linux, are we removing this diversity?
Not to say that I'm at all against standardisation, just a thought.
What if someone you know simply mistypes your email address? are they (/their provider's SMTP server) blacklisted forever?
(One of the main reasons I bought this computer was because the retailer gave me a brochure which listed Linux as a supported operating system. At the very least, this allows you to take it back if Linux doesn't go)
Linux runs well on it, after a bit of a play with the drivers (support from the company hasn't been great, but it's easy enough to get everything working). It's a P4 1.7GHz (1.2 on batteries), VGA & SVideo out, a firewire port, 14.1" screen at 1024x768, 3 USB2.0 ports, CDR/DVD drive, onboard ethernet & modem, 1 PCMCIA slot and optional internal 802.11b. It's small, light, and it looks cool.
Best of all, it was one of the cheapest Notebooks I was looking at, $2800 AUD :)
Now we know the second step:
1) DDOS
2) Fun
3) Profit!
These have been at my university (UWA) a couple of months now. The machine is right outside the photocopying place, which sells blank CDs.
It seems to be intended more for backing up data - it'd be a right pain to have lost your thesis because the CD it was burnt on was lost/unreadable/etc
I'll second that.
:)
/. begin blocking their IP range.
redleon and I were working for the earier version of this company, and I left in December 2000 after not being paid for three weeks (including a couple of bounced paycheques). I'm still chasing the matter through the courts (they haven't replied to any summons, nor turned up in court), to try to get them to pay - since I'm still a student I don't have the time to persue this to the extent I should be, but it will happen one day.
This seems to be the modus operandi for T3 - wait until a debtor gets bored with chasing it up through court.
Since us two programmers have left, they seem to have shifted their business model to the 'direct marketing' plan. It'll be interesting to see what happens once the sysdamins in Perth who read