IANAL but I don't think they would allow anyone to revoke a license after you paid for it, since you could sue them for that.
A while ago, some games were removed from specific markets - for example, you can't buy Bioshock from within Brazil anymore - but before that happened, I bought some of those games.
They could have blocked me from playing them, but they're still available both for downloading and playing - a while ago my HD died and I downloaded all of them again with no problems.
Thanks for the DNS address. I removed the IP from the hosts file and changed my connection's DNS server, but it won't work anyway. The traffic seems to be blocked by Brasil Telecom. I wonder if anyone with a GVT connection (other telco here) can reach the server...
Thats what I did, but it didn't work, as you can see in my other post (sibling to yours). I can't even ping or telnet (port 80) to one of the IPs. Seems the traffic is blocked.
Ping statistics for 208.65.153.251:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc>telnet www.youtube.com 80 Connecting To www.youtube.com...Could not open connection to the host, on port 8 0: Connect failed
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc>telnet 208.65.153.251 80 Connecting To 208.65.153.251...Could not open connection to the host, on port 80 : Connect failed
I just finished reading the original article (in Portuguese) and I think I understand what he wants (tho I don't agree with them):
You see, when I registered with my ISP to get my account, I had to give them my identification for the purpose of billing. My name, my national ID number, my billing address, etc. But they didn't check this information at all, and I could have given anyone else's information or false information (as long as the national ID validates) and I would still get the account, until they find out that they can't bill me (and believe me, with their wacky billing systems, that could take a while). Only then they would cancel my account. Even today some people get headaches because of this and sue the ISPs.
One of the things that the senator wants is that, when someone register for an account, the ISP checks that information and keep proof of that, so that I can't give them false information or someone else's personal and/or billing information (used to happen years ago when I worked at an ISP, every now and then some kid whose parents didn't care about internet would try to register with their parent's information or stole someone else's information).
Also, that would help in those cases where they want to find someone's identity by tracing the IP address. Right now they depend on the ISP correlating the IP address, the customer account, and the actual phone number which dialed to the ISP/circuit/whatever. Back in the days of limited access, ISPs would keep all that information for billing purposes for some months. When they started offering unlimited access, some of them didn't bother to keep that (I don't know what the ISPs do nowadays). It seems he wants to make easier identifying the actual user by having real names on account, so if they can't get the phone/circuit number they still have a name.
With that comes the part about making a criminal offense the distribution of trojans and unauthorized access to home banking and etc. The article mentions that someone else, Jair Scalco, says that there is no point in trying to make laws about this if you can't even find out the identity of someone online because the ISP has false information to begin with and doesn't keep the IP/account/phone number information for enough time.
I'm not sure I understand what this digital certs thing is about tho. I'm still trying to find the bill text...
Just a point to keep in mind: that could be the case, until someone goes out there and kills a member of one of those minority groups, motivated by racist speech. Then it can't be repaired at all - can't bring them back.
If anyone needs a little help with the imagination part, I suggest checking out The CSS Zen Garden.
It's a bit tricky to get some tableless stuff right, but in the end it's way better: most of the stuff (not only the colors and fonts, but positioning and sizing too) can be easily changed, and things get real clean when generating pages dynamically.
I've talked about some unrelated stuff with some friends once and we came to the conclusion that when you observe something, you compare it to yourself.
Applying that idea to coding, it would mean that talking like that in relation to code (.. so I will ask the other component..) would be like understanding and agreeing with what the code is doing. Talking about the code in other ways (.. so it will ask the user..) may mean that you don't understand it (so you should observe it more as to understand it better) or that you don't agree with the way it works (in this case, if the responsability is yours, you should think about changing the code).
I always thought of it as an interesting idea - my own experiences working as a programmer and working with other people on a project seems to lead to this.
Although now that I think about, I would like a mouse that tracked my brain patters. Free up an extra hand and such.
That may be a bit off-topic, but I do remember seeing somewhere around 3DTop (that 3d desktop which should be here) about a company that built such a device. Unfortunately, a quick google doesn't return anything and I'm unable to open the site to check... I've seen it around year 2002, by the way.
About popping and bleeding internally - I once had pneumotorax (not sure if that's the correct name in english) and it sure felt like my lung "popped". Actually, I almost died at that time, because my parents didn't believe me. I had it "pop" a couple of times before I almost passed out - only then they brought me to a hospital. Basically, some "air bubble" (not to be confused with the alveoli (sp?)), which for some reason formed in the lung, "pop" and the air gets trapped outside the lung preventing it to fully expand. Pop a couple and you can't breathe. That's what the doctor told me at the time (1997?). Also, seems it happens more often with tall, low weight people.
(english is not my native language; any corrections are welcome)
São Luis, Brasil, 24 de Outubro (UPI) -- O Brasil lançou seu primeiro foguete para o espaço, uma façanha apenas 14 meses depois que o programa espacial foi devastado por um acidente fatal na plataforma de lançamento.
O VSV-30, também conhecido como o Veículo de Exploração Brasileiro, decolou sábado da base de Alcântara no estado do Maranhão e ficou apenas sete minutos em microgravidade, de acordo com o Ministro de Ciência e Tecnologia brasileiro.
Oficiais brasileiros esperam que o vôo de teste com sucesso do foguete vá ajudar o programa espacial nacional a se recuperar do acidente no ano passado quando vários dos maiores cientistas e membros da equipe do programa espacial foram mortos quando um foguete explodiu na base de Alcântara durante a decolagem.
Também ajudaria o Brasil a promover a base de Alcântara como uma via ideal para futuras missões internacionais, já que a proximidade da linha do equador -- dentro de alguns graus -- facilita lançamentos ao espaço.
A Terra se move mais rápido ao longo da linha do equador. Portanto, os veículos precisam de menos impulso para chegar no espaço, o que os permite carregar mais equipamento ao invés de combustível adicional.
Just before reading your comment I tought it would be more along the lines of SQL: it specifies what you want in the end, instead of the exact steps to implement it.
The exact "implementation" is, then, left for each individual cell to "decide" according to their own "state" when the time to do something comes (IANAB, but I think that the genome doesn't specify what to do if cell C is at place P instead of place X because the kid broke his arm when a child - it just says it needs n cells there when reaching a certain age)
Almost there. The interesting part about being vector-based or vrml instead of bitmaps is that when I finish drawing, if the other person want to change it, that person doesn't need to erase/redraw part of it - only drag a couple points and change what is already there.
Maybe the "next thing" won't be the way you represent yourself or the surroundings, but the way you represent the information you want to send.
I wouldn't waste another second on some 3d chat client with avatars that change according to mood, but I would take a look if they allowed me to quickly draw something, with arrows pointing to what I'm refering to, and send the image along with some text.
It can be done with today's IM clients (run your image editing tool of choice, save the file and send it) but it could be made easier if they included some basic vector-based image editing (draw some lines w/ different colors) or even basic vrml funcionality. Instead of typing a huge text description of something, just draw it.
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IANAL but I don't think they would allow anyone to revoke a license after you paid for it, since you could sue them for that.
A while ago, some games were removed from specific markets - for example, you can't buy Bioshock from within Brazil anymore - but before that happened, I bought some of those games.
They could have blocked me from playing them, but they're still available both for downloading and playing - a while ago my HD died and I downloaded all of them again with no problems.
It's not working here (RS). Which ISP do you use?
Thanks for the DNS address. I removed the IP from the hosts file and changed my connection's DNS server, but it won't work anyway. The traffic seems to be blocked by Brasil Telecom. I wonder if anyone with a GVT connection (other telco here) can reach the server...
Thats what I did, but it didn't work, as you can see in my other post (sibling to yours). I can't even ping or telnet (port 80) to one of the IPs. Seems the traffic is blocked.
Thanks!
The result:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc>ping www.youtube.com
Pinging www.youtube.com [208.65.153.251] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 208.65.153.251:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc>telnet www.youtube.com 80
Connecting To www.youtube.com...Could not open connection to the host, on port 8
0: Connect failed
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc>telnet 208.65.153.251 80
Connecting To 208.65.153.251...Could not open connection to the host, on port 80
: Connect failed
Dammit!
I'm trying to, but I don't remember any DNS server outside of Brazil - it's been years since I had a use for one...
Can anyone suggest a DNS server or IP address for www.youtube.com?
I just finished reading the original article (in Portuguese) and I think I understand what he wants (tho I don't agree with them):
You see, when I registered with my ISP to get my account, I had to give them my identification for the purpose of billing. My name, my national ID number, my billing address, etc. But they didn't check this information at all, and I could have given anyone else's information or false information (as long as the national ID validates) and I would still get the account, until they find out that they can't bill me (and believe me, with their wacky billing systems, that could take a while). Only then they would cancel my account. Even today some people get headaches because of this and sue the ISPs.
One of the things that the senator wants is that, when someone register for an account, the ISP checks that information and keep proof of that, so that I can't give them false information or someone else's personal and/or billing information (used to happen years ago when I worked at an ISP, every now and then some kid whose parents didn't care about internet would try to register with their parent's information or stole someone else's information).
Also, that would help in those cases where they want to find someone's identity by tracing the IP address. Right now they depend on the ISP correlating the IP address, the customer account, and the actual phone number which dialed to the ISP/circuit/whatever. Back in the days of limited access, ISPs would keep all that information for billing purposes for some months. When they started offering unlimited access, some of them didn't bother to keep that (I don't know what the ISPs do nowadays). It seems he wants to make easier identifying the actual user by having real names on account, so if they can't get the phone/circuit number they still have a name.
With that comes the part about making a criminal offense the distribution of trojans and unauthorized access to home banking and etc. The article mentions that someone else, Jair Scalco, says that there is no point in trying to make laws about this if you can't even find out the identity of someone online because the ISP has false information to begin with and doesn't keep the IP/account/phone number information for enough time.
I'm not sure I understand what this digital certs thing is about tho. I'm still trying to find the bill text...
Just a point to keep in mind: that could be the case, until someone goes out there and kills a member of one of those minority groups, motivated by racist speech. Then it can't be repaired at all - can't bring them back.
AFAIK Brazil ignores patents for AIDS drugs (or ignored in the past - not sure about what is being done now). Refer to Brazil to Ignore Patent on AIDS Drug, Brazil to Ignore Patent on AIDS Drug
I saw the movie, years ago. Can't remember the name, but I'm pretty sure it was Mars, not the moon.
If anyone needs a little help with the imagination part, I suggest checking out The CSS Zen Garden.
It's a bit tricky to get some tableless stuff right, but in the end it's way better: most of the stuff (not only the colors and fonts, but positioning and sizing too) can be easily changed, and things get real clean when generating pages dynamically.
oh, my bad, there was supposed to be some -like tags there.
So, BitC is based on LISP, cool!
Just for the counts, same here, FF1.0/w2k.
;P
I would try with Mozilla and IE6 too, but now it is already too late, can't open the url
I've talked about some unrelated stuff with some friends once and we came to the conclusion that when you observe something, you compare it to yourself.
..) would be like understanding and agreeing with what the code is doing. Talking about the code in other ways (.. so it will ask the user ..) may mean that you don't understand it (so you should observe it more as to understand it better) or that you don't agree with the way it works (in this case, if the responsability is yours, you should think about changing the code).
Applying that idea to coding, it would mean that talking like that in relation to code (.. so I will ask the other component
I always thought of it as an interesting idea - my own experiences working as a programmer and working with other people on a project seems to lead to this.
Although now that I think about, I would like a mouse that tracked my brain patters. Free up an extra hand and such.
That may be a bit off-topic, but I do remember seeing somewhere around 3DTop (that 3d desktop which should be here) about a company that built such a device. Unfortunately, a quick google doesn't return anything and I'm unable to open the site to check... I've seen it around year 2002, by the way.
About popping and bleeding internally - I once had pneumotorax (not sure if that's the correct name in english) and it sure felt like my lung "popped". Actually, I almost died at that time, because my parents didn't believe me. I had it "pop" a couple of times before I almost passed out - only then they brought me to a hospital. Basically, some "air bubble" (not to be confused with the alveoli (sp?)), which for some reason formed in the lung, "pop" and the air gets trapped outside the lung preventing it to fully expand. Pop a couple and you can't breathe. That's what the doctor told me at the time (1997?). Also, seems it happens more often with tall, low weight people.
(english is not my native language; any corrections are welcome)
Better translation:
São Luis, Brasil, 24 de Outubro (UPI) -- O Brasil lançou seu primeiro foguete para o espaço, uma façanha apenas 14 meses depois que o programa espacial foi devastado por um acidente fatal na plataforma de lançamento.
O VSV-30, também conhecido como o Veículo de Exploração Brasileiro, decolou sábado da base de Alcântara no estado do Maranhão e ficou apenas sete minutos em microgravidade, de acordo com o Ministro de Ciência e Tecnologia brasileiro.
Oficiais brasileiros esperam que o vôo de teste com sucesso do foguete vá ajudar o programa espacial nacional a se recuperar do acidente no ano passado quando vários dos maiores cientistas e membros da equipe do programa espacial foram mortos quando um foguete explodiu na base de Alcântara durante a decolagem.
Também ajudaria o Brasil a promover a base de Alcântara como uma via ideal para futuras missões internacionais, já que a proximidade da linha do equador -- dentro de alguns graus -- facilita lançamentos ao espaço.
A Terra se move mais rápido ao longo da linha do equador. Portanto, os veículos precisam de menos impulso para chegar no espaço, o que os permite carregar mais equipamento ao invés de combustível adicional.
Just before reading your comment I tought it would be more along the lines of SQL: it specifies what you want in the end, instead of the exact steps to implement it.
The exact "implementation" is, then, left for each individual cell to "decide" according to their own "state" when the time to do something comes (IANAB, but I think that the genome doesn't specify what to do if cell C is at place P instead of place X because the kid broke his arm when a child - it just says it needs n cells there when reaching a certain age)
I'm not sure I got that "bar of soap" idea right, but maybe you're talking about the Motorola A1000?
Count me in! -- Daniel
Better yet:
- I used my growser to google for that info and gmail it to my friend.
Thanks for pointing this one out
Almost there. The interesting part about being vector-based or vrml instead of bitmaps is that when I finish drawing, if the other person want to change it, that person doesn't need to erase/redraw part of it - only drag a couple points and change what is already there.
I'll google for similar ones..
Maybe the "next thing" won't be the way you represent yourself or the surroundings, but the way you represent the information you want to send.
I wouldn't waste another second on some 3d chat client with avatars that change according to mood, but I would take a look if they allowed me to quickly draw something, with arrows pointing to what I'm refering to, and send the image along with some text.
It can be done with today's IM clients (run your image editing tool of choice, save the file and send it) but it could be made easier if they included some basic vector-based image editing (draw some lines w/ different colors) or even basic vrml funcionality. Instead of typing a huge text description of something, just draw it.
Just to be more specific, broken as "only one corner appears to be round because that corner has an image instead of the CSS keyword".
I would think it is broken (to degrade nicely would require all 4 corners to use the same mechanism). But maybe it was intentional? Whatever...