Yes, but (having worked on a help desk) there are several times that I'd wished for license requirements before someone can legally obtain a modem, network card, or network-connected computer.
Doesn't this call up jurisdictional issues again? I mean, is the judge actually clueless enough to try and issue a restraining order against the entire internet? The ruling as posted here seems to make it look that way. This is absurd! -- as someone said of DVD/CSS, "like a class-action lawsuit in reverse."
> Unix expert Malcom Beattie...vehemently denied the allegation.
Maybe it's just my overreacting, but I don't like the way that's phrased. Perhaps we should keep in mind that the allegations that the "experts" made are only allegations until backed up by something more solid.
That, and I don't like the way they cavalierly toss the word 'hacker' about. But that's common to all mainstream media.
Sorry - I'd had a bad day dealing with such stuff. My irony detectors were obviously turned off -- by the score of the post, I think the majority of people read it in the right way.
I believe that only one - or the last - moderation comment is displayed. It seems that someone might have moderated it down due to the blatant sexism of the post.
Yeah, that would be "prior art" again. As I recall I used to download tunes in SID format or get them on disk for my (standard-variety) C-64. Some of them actually sounded pretty good, especially considering that they were 5K-18K in size.
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Yes, but (having worked on a help desk) there are several times that I'd wished for license requirements before someone can legally obtain a modem, network card, or network-connected computer.
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So this is why the editors at Osborne haven't responded to my (polite) assertion that Schildt's statement
"Also, an object pointed to by a
is in error.
> Viola You are done
What does the musical instrument have to do with your program?
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Doesn't this call up jurisdictional issues again? I mean, is the judge actually clueless enough to try and issue a restraining order against the entire internet? The ruling as posted here seems to make it look that way. This is absurd! -- as someone said of DVD/CSS, "like a class-action lawsuit in reverse."
> Unix expert Malcom Beattie...vehemently denied the allegation.
Maybe it's just my overreacting, but I don't like the way that's phrased. Perhaps we should keep in mind that the allegations that the "experts" made are only allegations until backed up by something more solid.
That, and I don't like the way they cavalierly toss the word 'hacker' about. But that's common to all mainstream media.
Sorry - I'd had a bad day dealing with such stuff. My irony detectors were obviously turned off -- by the score of the post, I think the majority of people read it in the right way.
I believe that only one - or the last - moderation comment is displayed. It seems that someone might have moderated it down due to the blatant sexism of the post.
> I just wonder what a CURMBOX is...
curmbox=ACTIVE: looks like some kind of status flag. Maybe it stands for "Current Mailbox".
Yeah, that would be "prior art" again. As I recall I used to download tunes in SID format or get them on disk for my (standard-variety) C-64. Some of them actually sounded pretty good, especially considering that they were 5K-18K in size.