Well, you're the one in Law school, IIRC, so I bow to your superior knowledge. But to expand upon my line of thought, in civil court, say in a breach of contract case in which the parties have a difference of opinion about the interpretation of the contract, it's not clear if anyone has committed an illegal act (insofar as contracts are legal instruments that carry the force of law), so at best one would allege that the other party was acting unlawfully.
As I type this, I realize I'm over-thinking and perhaps putting too fine a point on it.
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Even if it took only 5 seconds per message, it would take over 13 hours for a spammer to send 10,000 emails. I guess then a spammer could buy 13 computers, and crank it out in an hour.
They'll find ways around it. However, anything that can be done to slow them down or make it more expensive for them is worth exploring and trying, even if it's not a long term solution. Part of the appeal of being a spammer is the idea of making big money for very little work. The more that we make them work for their money the better.
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Listen to your compiler's warnings; you ignore them at your peril.
I felt a disturbance in the source. It was as if a million lines of code cried out and then suddenly were silenced.
Actually, when anything bad happens to the US (think 9/11), these fundamentalist will blame those here in the US that "have turned their backs on God", i.e., the devil worshipping secular humanists aka normal people.
One thing that the GP makes me wonder. Did baby Jesus ever say to any of His childhood playmates, "My Dad can beat up your dad!"?
Thank you for that bit of spin, Ms. Courney Love, but the truth is that the "loan" for studio time comes out of your future cut of the profits, and if none exist you simply walk away.
George Clinton even managed to sucker exclusive deals out of two different labels by forming two different "bands" using almost the exact same musicians (Parliament and Funkadelic.)
George Clinton got away with it because he made lots of money for both labels.
I think you're a little too flip about just breaking up a band. A band can be a lot of time and effort to form and keep together.
And what's a solo performer to do? He or she doesn't have the same loop hole. She's tied to the contract, and can't even record promotional CDs to sell while touring bars, clubs, and minor venues without the labels permission. If another label becomes interested, that debt is almost always the deal killer. The second label will have to invest a considerable sum to buy out the contract.
Unless they are "discovered" by a major label and/or distributor, and become part of the machine.
Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar. ..
or, my personal favorite,
People seemed to like our song They got up 'n' danced 'n' made a lotta noise An' it wasn't 'fore very long A guy from a company we can't name Said we oughta take his pen 'N' sign on the line for a real good time But he didn't tell us when These "good times" would be somethin' That was really happenin' So the band broke up An' it looks like We will never play again...
While I do think there should be an ongoing debate over DRM, and I personally think in the long term it's a waste of time and effort by the content holders, I must say. . . you crack me up, sometimes!
Eventually and hopefully, the people making the decisions will realize that they're shooting themselves in the foot, and adapt to changing circumstances. In the meantime, I'll accept FairPlay DRM as being the least onerous.
(BTW: I bought a Hank Williams version of "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" off of iTunes. I owe you one!)
I prefer to use the terms "illegal" and "unlawful" to make the distinction between criminal acts covered by the criminal justice system and behavior that would be only covered by the civil courts, such as breach of contract.
CNN (and by extension, slashdot, surprise!) got this completely wrong. It's challenge and response sender identity technique, which is way different. See the IBM webpage about fairuce.
Well, in terms of market share and ideological purity, all distros other than Comrade Penguin are evil, especially those that are supported by evil capitalist pig running dog companies (i.e., all companies that aren't owned by The People). To think otherwise is typical of your revisionist hegemonic society.
How fast is the G3 you're looking at? It's probably a better deal to go with a G4, and at least the Gigabit Ethernet model, if you ever plan to upgrade the CPU (Avoid at all costs the Yikes motherboard).
At that point, you might as well go for the mini. Another good thing about the mini is that if you don't like it after 6 months or a year or so, you can recoup much of your original costs. (How do you think it's possible for someone to sell a 5+ year old computer for $250?)
You just need to search for one of the older macs, one of which was compared to a wind tunnel. I ran a gigabit G4 Power Mac 24/7 as a webserver for a while. I think you'd have found the noise comforting. (I got used to it, but my girlfriend at the time couldn't sleep. No wonder I got rid of her.)
Just curious, but is one of your computers your main computer, i.e., contains "your life"? If that computer has recently become a Mac, then you qualify as a switcher.
Of course, given your set up, you might keep "your life" on a server in a shared directory, and use whichever computer is most convenient at any given moment.
Give me just 1 OSX virus, i mean virus like it replicates and spreads itself, as powerful and widespread as the Sasser virus, and I will believe that Mac OSX is vulnerable.
This is actually the one place where the market share argument works. The more widespread a vulnerable computing platform is, the faster the virus will spread. It's the same for human viruses. It's just the nature of viruses. This is not the "security through obscurity" argument!
This is one of the arguments for mixed computing environments, and why the (hopefully) eventual increase in market share of Mac and Linux and other OSes actually benefits Windows users. If your network has a mixed environment, it is far less likely that any single virus will bring it to it's knees.
So, the upshot is, unless OS X had the same market share as Windows, there is no way a virus could be as powerful and widespread as the Sasser virus.
How easy it would be to write such a virus is another matter, given that OS X is more secure by design.
I haven't seen anyone mention that as far as viruses and worms are concerned, a more heterogeneous network environment composed of multiple platforms will slow down propagation. And even if half the computers on a network are disabled by a virus, you still have the other half which can continue to work.
Viruses can spread like wildfire because of the overwhelming majority held by the target platform. If the world at large was more heterogeneous in terms of computing platforms, viruses would be much slower in spreading, and it would be easier to counter them before they brought too many networks down.
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Curses! Foiled again.
Your code breaking abilities are most impressive, Internet Communist. I'll grant you that.
[Pets Persian cat with diamond encrusted collar]
We'll see who comes out on top next time. And there will be a next time, most assuredly.
Mua-Hahahahahahahaha!
[Disappears thru secret trap door as laughter trails off]
Well, you're the one in Law school, IIRC, so I bow to your superior knowledge. But to expand upon my line of thought, in civil court, say in a breach of contract case in which the parties have a difference of opinion about the interpretation of the contract, it's not clear if anyone has committed an illegal act (insofar as contracts are legal instruments that carry the force of law), so at best one would allege that the other party was acting unlawfully.
As I type this, I realize I'm over-thinking and perhaps putting too fine a point on it.
[x] I am a total retard
[x] I deserve to be taken behind the barn and shot
[x] I have an inflated sense of my own sense of humor
Your post contains to many:
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[ ] the ASPCA
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[ ] repenting before God
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[x] forty lashes to be administered to the backs of your legs with a hot wheel track
[ ] a free hot fudge sundae with purchase of a sundae of equal or greater value
[ ] Thank you for your attention to this matter,
[ ] Fuck off and die,
[ ] Praise God,
[ ] Intellectual property is theft (as in beer),
[x] Catch you on the flip side,
[x] Dude
[ ] Brother
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Even if it took only 5 seconds per message, it would take over 13 hours for a spammer to send 10,000 emails. I guess then a spammer could buy 13 computers, and crank it out in an hour.
They'll find ways around it. However, anything that can be done to slow them down or make it more expensive for them is worth exploring and trying, even if it's not a long term solution. Part of the appeal of being a spammer is the idea of making big money for very little work. The more that we make them work for their money the better.
Listen to your compiler's warnings; you ignore them at your peril.
I felt a disturbance in the source. It was as if a million lines of code cried out and then suddenly were silenced.
Sorry if I didn't get the quote exactly right.
I take it you've never had any one "pray at" you.
=) What was funniest about the Church Lady was how much Dana Carvey was completely on target.
Actually, when anything bad happens to the US (think 9/11), these fundamentalist will blame those here in the US that "have turned their backs on God", i.e., the devil worshipping secular humanists aka normal people.
One thing that the GP makes me wonder. Did baby Jesus ever say to any of His childhood playmates, "My Dad can beat up your dad!"?
Thank you for that bit of spin, Ms. Courney Love, but the truth is that the "loan" for studio time comes out of your future cut of the profits, and if none exist you simply walk away.
.
George Clinton even managed to sucker exclusive deals out of two different labels by forming two different "bands" using almost the exact same musicians (Parliament and Funkadelic.)
George Clinton got away with it because he made lots of money for both labels.
I think you're a little too flip about just breaking up a band. A band can be a lot of time and effort to form and keep together.
And what's a solo performer to do? He or she doesn't have the same loop hole. She's tied to the contract, and can't even record promotional CDs to sell while touring bars, clubs, and minor venues without the labels permission. If another label becomes interested, that debt is almost always the deal killer. The second label will have to invest a considerable sum to buy out the contract.
Unless they are "discovered" by a major label and/or distributor, and become part of the machine.
Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar. .
or, my personal favorite,
People seemed to like our song
They got up 'n' danced 'n' made a lotta noise
An' it wasn't 'fore very long
A guy from a company we can't name
Said we oughta take his pen
'N' sign on the line for a real good time
But he didn't tell us when
These "good times" would be somethin'
That was really happenin'
So the band broke up
An' it looks like
We will never play again...
While I do think there should be an ongoing debate over DRM, and I personally think in the long term it's a waste of time and effort by the content holders, I must say. . . you crack me up, sometimes!
Eventually and hopefully, the people making the decisions will realize that they're shooting themselves in the foot, and adapt to changing circumstances. In the meantime, I'll accept FairPlay DRM as being the least onerous.
(BTW: I bought a Hank Williams version of "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" off of iTunes. I owe you one!)
I prefer to use the terms "illegal" and "unlawful" to make the distinction between criminal acts covered by the criminal justice system and behavior that would be only covered by the civil courts, such as breach of contract.
(I know you were joking... or I hope you were joking....)
.I was just kissing Internet Communist's ass so he'd send me money the money I requested. Don't tell anyone, okay?)
(psst. .
CNN (and by extension, slashdot, surprise!) got this completely wrong. It's challenge and response sender identity technique, which is way different. See the IBM webpage about fairuce.
If enough people use it, it will act effectively as a DoS attack. Spammers send out tens of thousands of emails at a time.
If the machine at the receiving end is an "innocent" open relay, well, maybe this will motivate the owner to close the relay.
I prefer a 7% solution myself.
Have you thought about photographing a rape kit and entitling it,"Everything a Slashdotter Needs on His First Date"?
Oh, shit. I didn't just type that. It was my evil hands that did it!
Well, in terms of market share and ideological purity, all distros other than Comrade Penguin are evil, especially those that are supported by evil capitalist pig running dog companies (i.e., all companies that aren't owned by The People). To think otherwise is typical of your revisionist hegemonic society.
Dear Mr. Internet Communist,
I need a bunch of cash. Please send me as much as you are able.
Thanks, comrade!
How fast is the G3 you're looking at? It's probably a better deal to go with a G4, and at least the Gigabit Ethernet model, if you ever plan to upgrade the CPU (Avoid at all costs the Yikes motherboard).
At that point, you might as well go for the mini. Another good thing about the mini is that if you don't like it after 6 months or a year or so, you can recoup much of your original costs. (How do you think it's possible for someone to sell a 5+ year old computer for $250?)
You just need to search for one of the older macs, one of which was compared to a wind tunnel. I ran a gigabit G4 Power Mac 24/7 as a webserver for a while. I think you'd have found the noise comforting. (I got used to it, but my girlfriend at the time couldn't sleep. No wonder I got rid of her.)
Just curious, but is one of your computers your main computer, i.e., contains "your life"? If that computer has recently become a Mac, then you qualify as a switcher.
Of course, given your set up, you might keep "your life" on a server in a shared directory, and use whichever computer is most convenient at any given moment.
Man, that would have been funny if you hadn't totally blown it.
Give me just 1 OSX virus, i mean virus like it replicates and spreads itself, as powerful and widespread as the Sasser virus, and I will believe that Mac OSX is vulnerable.
This is actually the one place where the market share argument works. The more widespread a vulnerable computing platform is, the faster the virus will spread. It's the same for human viruses. It's just the nature of viruses. This is not the "security through obscurity" argument!
This is one of the arguments for mixed computing environments, and why the (hopefully) eventual increase in market share of Mac and Linux and other OSes actually benefits Windows users. If your network has a mixed environment, it is far less likely that any single virus will bring it to it's knees.
So, the upshot is, unless OS X had the same market share as Windows, there is no way a virus could be as powerful and widespread as the Sasser virus.
How easy it would be to write such a virus is another matter, given that OS X is more secure by design.
I would have modded you up, but I didn't want to compromise your security. Seriously funny, man.
I haven't seen anyone mention that as far as viruses and worms are concerned, a more heterogeneous network environment composed of multiple platforms will slow down propagation. And even if half the computers on a network are disabled by a virus, you still have the other half which can continue to work.
Viruses can spread like wildfire because of the overwhelming majority held by the target platform. If the world at large was more heterogeneous in terms of computing platforms, viruses would be much slower in spreading, and it would be easier to counter them before they brought too many networks down.
If you want to get kinky, try to order a mini on a PSP. =)