The moment you do this, the government will ensure that every school, library, or other government nstallation filters on that tag.
So, therefore, the porn merchants have a significant economic interest in not identifying their wares, similar to spammers, who also rely on that lack of identification.
The porn is hiding in the shadow of the legitimate Free Speech right. There's no way to get rid of it, and as we've seen from the last two attempts to write a law that dances around the First Amendment and outlaws internet smut...
Instead of going this route, you could also figure out what privilege that Age of Mythology is looking for and assign it manually to the game-player's account. (or modify NTFS permissions as needed on the hd) Check out the local security policy for privilege adjustment.
Very handy if you want to give someone terminal access without giving them root (administrator).
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Do you name your computers also? What are they called?
What kind of IT are you using to write nowadays? I remember you were using a 8080 CP/M box like Pournelle's back in the 80's, with Electric Pencil...any advances?
These morons will use anything that allows them to avoid making judgements/decisions about anything.
Offering up a predictive tool like this, however flawed, is guaranteed to impress the pointy-haired management at nearly all firms, not just record companies.
2) Over 90% of the serving members of the 3 branches of government were lawyers. Lawyers and old-money own the government(now more than ever). Do you think they will regulate themselves?
Where did that come from? Even *appointed* officials aren't 90% lawyers, and rank and file government employees sure as hell even aren't *mostly* lawyers. It's a tiny, tiny fraction of the total government work force.
I won't play anything else. God, that game rocked. I have my Gygax-autographed 1st Edition DMG and I will never let it leave my hands till they are cold and dead.
2nd Ed. was a moneymaking tool by the team that stole the company from Gary.
(though, frankly, the guy needs HTML help, his site doesn't render on Mozilla - maybe someone can volunteer, given that Gary gave us a lot over the years)
Agreed 100% - this patch was a mess. I wrote a little installer for the thing but even then it wasn't something I was wanting to go to every desktop with data access components and apply.
MS got out SP3 for SQL 2000 just before this - that was much better and that's when the global patching happened. At least it had an adequate installer.
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You have analized Kazaa packets, you know how kazaa's headers look like. You are netadmin, don't you?
Listen, I am NOT sticking any Kazaa up my ass! Yeah, i'm a net admin but for pete's sake, that wasn't in the job description!
I used to run a BBS in the early '90's. I had a door set up as "chat with the sysop". I found a Turbo Pascal implementation of Eliza and hacked it up a bit to look like the BBS sysop chat, and inserted some "me-isms" into the database of replies.
I watched a user talk with this for nearly a half hour at one point (very funny), but I doubt the user himself would have passed any Turing Test.
Most people figured it out by the time they got reply #3.
FYI I know the original poster was kidding somewhat but for all I know people might believe that beating up on this server might be considered a terrorist act. Hard to tell nowadays.
The site is NIPRnet (unclass military network) or internet-only - sensitive but unclassified max or it wouldn't be out there, judging by the lack of authentication and encryption.
Slashdotting it would be considered a normal network incident subject to someone having to come in over the weekend and fix (reboot). I don't think we need worry about our doors being broken in over this.
Paranoia sucks.
Btw, I work for the military: I know what i am talking about here.
Jury awards are not taxable in the US. They aren't income.
I doubt whether it is legal for the lawyers to arbitrarily donate the funds to charity however. If it's a class action they are bound to distribute the proceeds, minus the contingency. This seems strange unless there was some existing contractual agreement when you signed up for the class action.
AFAIK every version of OS/2 after 2.0 required a 386 processor. I had 2.0 and it was fairly clear that it required one.
Regards 286 protected mode - it had some big issues with interrupts and instruction clock cycles, which was one reason why there was never a DOS/286 or anything much else.
However, there was a 286 version of Xenix, and Windows 3.x Standard Mode was a 286 protected mode version of said operating system.
Too bad I have to get back to work, reminiscing is kinda fun.
In this case, I do not believe the law was retroactive. It would have been nightmarish to apply copyright to such recordings, I suspect. Finding the proper owners would have been difficult in many cases.
Defining "public performance" is a funny business though. I mean, it's never really been legal to take your record player out on the street and play tunes for everyone to hear. At least, royalties have always applied. But for personal use...it's always been ok to listen to the recordings yourself. Where is the dividing line though?
I submit "public performance" does not equate to "use of a sound recording".
Someone who knows something about these issues would have to comment I suppose.
Hmm. Now, if i'm reading this right, the actual sound recordings of pre-1972 music aren't even covered by copyright and probably are freely redistributable, right? Which means...who cares about the Euro copyrights from a US perspective?
Why wouldn't providing internet access give some inspiration and guidance to budding third-world entrepreneurs. It is only through the stimulus of local commercial activity that living standards will ultimately be increased in these locales.
Remember that standard of living is not really defined by dollars, but by what the currency will buy you in necessities and comforts. The reason Laos has such a low standard of living is more complicated than simple lack of production, but providing internet access and free flow of ideas (even porn spam) cannot help but to improve things.
Perhaps better, more representative government will result from exposure to new ideas. Enterpreneurial spirit. Greater literacy.
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The moment you do this, the government will ensure that every school, library, or other government nstallation filters on that tag.
So, therefore, the porn merchants have a significant economic interest in not identifying their wares, similar to spammers, who also rely on that lack of identification.
The porn is hiding in the shadow of the legitimate Free Speech right. There's no way to get rid of it, and as we've seen from the last two attempts to write a law that dances around the First Amendment and outlaws internet smut...
It's hard to write a horseshoe-shaped law.
Yes, he did.
Watch what you are calling polluted, that's a worker's paradise there!
*hums a few bars of the Internationale for effect*
Say a lie enough times and it becomes fact according to Stallan.
Did you mean Stallman?
In any event, the original quote was from Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister 33-45. It was his 'Big Lie' theory.
I should say 'fact' because we all know it works.
Instead of going this route, you could also figure out what privilege that Age of Mythology is looking for and assign it manually to the game-player's account. (or modify NTFS permissions as needed on the hd) Check out the local security policy for privilege adjustment.
Very handy if you want to give someone terminal access without giving them root (administrator).
Do you name your computers also? What are they called?
What kind of IT are you using to write nowadays? I remember you were using a 8080 CP/M box like Pournelle's back in the 80's, with Electric Pencil...any advances?
These morons will use anything that allows them to avoid making judgements/decisions about anything.
Offering up a predictive tool like this, however flawed, is guaranteed to impress the pointy-haired management at nearly all firms, not just record companies.
2) Over 90% of the serving members of the 3 branches of government were lawyers. Lawyers and old-money own the government(now more than ever). Do you think they will regulate themselves?
Where did that come from? Even *appointed* officials aren't 90% lawyers, and rank and file government employees sure as hell even aren't *mostly* lawyers. It's a tiny, tiny fraction of the total government work force.
USPTO sucks, but let's not get carried away here.
First edition.
I won't play anything else. God, that game rocked. I have my Gygax-autographed 1st Edition DMG and I will never let it leave my hands till they are cold and dead.
2nd Ed. was a moneymaking tool by the team that stole the company from Gary.
You can get more details from his site.
www.gygax.com(though, frankly, the guy needs HTML help, his site doesn't render on Mozilla - maybe someone can volunteer, given that Gary gave us a lot over the years)
P.J. O'Rourke has had me in tears since about 1986 when I discovered him.
Agreed 100% - this patch was a mess. I wrote a little installer for the thing but even then it wasn't something I was wanting to go to every desktop with data access components and apply.
MS got out SP3 for SQL 2000 just before this - that was much better and that's when the global patching happened. At least it had an adequate installer.
You have analized Kazaa packets, you know how kazaa's headers look like. You are netadmin, don't you?
Listen, I am NOT sticking any Kazaa up my ass! Yeah, i'm a net admin but for pete's sake, that wasn't in the job description!
I don't care what kind of lube you have.
I pity the person who has to support 40 systems with no floppy drives.
This will quickly be reversed - my view.
I wish some of the young people today were around for that speech. I wish GWB was as evocative as Reagan also.
Most of all I wish this hadn't happened.
If I had some mod points, you would certainly benefit. Thank you.
Eliza didn't pass any Turing tests.
I used to run a BBS in the early '90's. I had a door set up as "chat with the sysop". I found a Turbo Pascal implementation of Eliza and hacked it up a bit to look like the BBS sysop chat, and inserted some "me-isms" into the database of replies.
I watched a user talk with this for nearly a half hour at one point (very funny), but I doubt the user himself would have passed any Turing Test.
Most people figured it out by the time they got reply #3.
"Well-documented" by a link to Salon. There's no bias here, folks!
I would feel better with a link to an openly communist site.
Uh...Woops, Salon qualifies.
At least Salon has a soft porn section.
FYI I know the original poster was kidding somewhat but for all I know people might believe that beating up on this server might be considered a terrorist act. Hard to tell nowadays.
The site is NIPRnet (unclass military network) or internet-only - sensitive but unclassified max or it wouldn't be out there, judging by the lack of authentication and encryption.
Slashdotting it would be considered a normal network incident subject to someone having to come in over the weekend and fix (reboot). I don't think we need worry about our doors being broken in over this.
Paranoia sucks.
Btw, I work for the military: I know what i am talking about here.
Jury awards are not taxable in the US. They aren't income.
I doubt whether it is legal for the lawyers to arbitrarily donate the funds to charity however. If it's a class action they are bound to distribute the proceeds, minus the contingency. This seems strange unless there was some existing contractual agreement when you signed up for the class action.
AFAIK every version of OS/2 after 2.0 required a 386 processor. I had 2.0 and it was fairly clear that it required one.
Regards 286 protected mode - it had some big issues with interrupts and instruction clock cycles, which was one reason why there was never a DOS/286 or anything much else.
However, there was a 286 version of Xenix, and Windows 3.x Standard Mode was a 286 protected mode version of said operating system.
Too bad I have to get back to work, reminiscing is kinda fun.
In this case, I do not believe the law was retroactive. It would have been nightmarish to apply copyright to such recordings, I suspect. Finding the proper owners would have been difficult in many cases.
Defining "public performance" is a funny business though. I mean, it's never really been legal to take your record player out on the street and play tunes for everyone to hear. At least, royalties have always applied. But for personal use...it's always been ok to listen to the recordings yourself. Where is the dividing line though?
I submit "public performance" does not equate to "use of a sound recording".
Someone who knows something about these issues would have to comment I suppose.
My understanding was that recordings in the US weren't even covered by copyright until 1972 or so.
Now i'm going to do some googling...
February 15, 1972
Effective date of act extending limited copyright protection to sound recordings fixed and first published on or after this date.
For reference
Hmm. Now, if i'm reading this right, the actual sound recordings of pre-1972 music aren't even covered by copyright and probably are freely redistributable, right? Which means...who cares about the Euro copyrights from a US perspective?
Kindly correct me if i'm wrong.
Why wouldn't providing internet access give some inspiration and guidance to budding third-world entrepreneurs. It is only through the stimulus of local commercial activity that living standards will ultimately be increased in these locales.
Remember that standard of living is not really defined by dollars, but by what the currency will buy you in necessities and comforts. The reason Laos has such a low standard of living is more complicated than simple lack of production, but providing internet access and free flow of ideas (even porn spam) cannot help but to improve things.
Perhaps better, more representative government will result from exposure to new ideas. Enterpreneurial spirit. Greater literacy.
Why not, after all?