You stand a much better chance of escaping from a knife or sword than a gun.
No . . . most victims do not realise that a knife is involved until after the attack is completed - it's very common for stab victims to say "I just thought he punched me until I saw the blood" (or similar)
Let the stupid bastards pass whatever laws they like - the legal system can't begin to keep up with the evolution of technology.
Any law they pass will be "worked around" within days. The only alternative is to be so draconian that the law will have too many detrimental side effects to be enforceable. When they start trying to bring in laws which effectively outlaw printing presses their position becomes untenable.
In addition Slashdotters aren't particularly valuable.
I try to control my expenditure on books but I'm still very bad about it and continually buy books - even to the extent that I have storage problems. A fair percentage of the books I buy are computing books but I also buy a lot of science fiction, history, linguistics, general fiction and classics.
I know from speaking to friends and acquaintances that the amount of money I spend on books is (at least) an order of magnitude greater than average.
I'm very untypical in comparison with the overall population, but am I as untypical of the slashdot crowd . . . it's difficult to know but I doubt it.
To clarify for you and others too simpleminded to work it out for themselves, there is confusion here between registration of trademarks and domain names (on DNS), hence:
> When the book was written, the domain "katie.com" was not registered.
[As a trade mark]
> not cybersquatting since the domain was there (long) before the book.
"Fraudulent" implies the intent to obtain a benefit as a result of dishonesty. Since NeoSkandranon was quite willing to pay for the ticket - there is no reason he cannot give false information. His behavious is entirely legal and unless there are some hidden circumstances, definitely NOT fraudulent. It IS your God given right to tell lies and society would cease to function if lying became illegal.
There are *many* people that believe that, unless something is expicitly illegal then it is legal
Me for one!
I don't know all that much about american law but certainly in the UK, if there isn't specifically some law that you're breaking then you can do whatever you like.
Perhaps most people can talk on the phone without compromising their driving - it may sound unlikely to anal retentive road safety "experts" but a lot of things are counter-intuitive (the Montana Paradox for example).
And why is it OK to talk to a passenger, smoke, eat, drink, read billboards, scratch your ass, etc, etc, but not to talk on a cellphone whilst driving . . . because it would be politically inexpedient to ban the former but you can get some tasty sweeteners from lobbyist for the latter.
I trust both my BIOS and my OS before I trust hard drive marketing and they say I'm getting a bit of the shaft. This is called deception. Lies. Widely agreed upon as immoral and harmful behavior.
Just like measuring the size of monitors diagonally . . . total bollocks.
Where the example guy puts 80m for/var, you can put 80m
But remember that the default for htdocs is under/var/www so if you have a graphics heavy website you could easily fill that and then you'll have to reconfigure apache.
There should be a flat charge for submitting a patent (or rather for having it examined) and an additional surcharge if the patent is then rejected (for wasting everyone's time). However if a patent is issued and later rejected in court the inventor should be entitled to a full refund on the grounds that the patent office did not do the job for which it was paid.
you CAN keep one of these "second-rate" email addresses indefinitely
Another solution is to get a shell account somewhere free (eg metawire) and forward email from that account to wherever you want. I've had a free shell account forwarding mail for over 5 years.
Lynx is vastly under-rated and under-utilized. Sure if I'm web browsing for fun I use Firefox but if I just want to research something and find information as quickly and simply as possible I'll quite often fire up lynx instead.
OK you're absolutely right that almost everyone who visits this site is immediately going to recognise microsoft fud. But what happens when Linuxtoday realise that a major part of their advertising revenue comes from Microsoft and they get a "request" to "reword" something on the site . . . oh silly me I forgot that MS would never behave in such an unethical way.
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Lying to the police might be illegal on a number of grounds (attempting to pervert justice, fraud, etc) but it isn't perjury or illegal per se.
No . . . most victims do not realise that a knife is involved until after the attack is completed - it's very common for stab victims to say "I just thought he punched me until I saw the blood" (or similar)
More murders are commited with edged weapons and higher percentage of knife attacks are fatal: see this.
King Canute Commands Tide Not To Come In!
Let the stupid bastards pass whatever laws they like - the legal system can't begin to keep up with the evolution of technology.
Any law they pass will be "worked around" within days. The only alternative is to be so draconian that the law will have too many detrimental side effects to be enforceable. When they start trying to bring in laws which effectively outlaw printing presses their position becomes untenable.
I try to control my expenditure on books but I'm still very bad about it and continually buy books - even to the extent that I have storage problems. A fair percentage of the books I buy are computing books but I also buy a lot of science fiction, history, linguistics, general fiction and classics.
I know from speaking to friends and acquaintances that the amount of money I spend on books is (at least) an order of magnitude greater than average.
I'm very untypical in comparison with the overall population, but am I as untypical of the slashdot crowd . . . it's difficult to know but I doubt it.
To clarify for you and others too simpleminded to work it out for themselves, there is confusion here between registration of trademarks and domain names (on DNS), hence:
> When the book was written, the domain "katie.com" was not registered.
[As a trade mark]
> not cybersquatting since the domain was there (long) before the book.
[i.e registered on DNS]
"Fraudulent" implies the intent to obtain a benefit as a result of dishonesty. Since NeoSkandranon was quite willing to pay for the ticket - there is no reason he cannot give false information. His behavious is entirely legal and unless there are some hidden circumstances, definitely NOT fraudulent. It IS your God given right to tell lies and society would cease to function if lying became illegal.
Whoosh!
Three different standards for tv recordings invented by John Logie Baird in 1783.
This may be true in America but I doubt it. UK law considers "recklessness" sufficient mens rea to convict for murder.
Me for one!
I don't know all that much about american law but certainly in the UK, if there isn't specifically some law that you're breaking then you can do whatever you like.
And why is it OK to talk to a passenger, smoke, eat, drink, read billboards, scratch your ass, etc, etc, but not to talk on a cellphone whilst driving . . . because it would be politically inexpedient to ban the former but you can get some tasty sweeteners from lobbyist for the latter.
Err - that's a rather rough approximation
Just like measuring the size of monitors diagonally . . . total bollocks.
But remember that the default for htdocs is under /var/www so if you have a graphics heavy website you could easily fill that and then you'll have to reconfigure apache.
Have you tried holding down control and alt and pressing the delete key twice?
So the flow of information would be:
Geek -> Pointy Haired Boss -> PR Bullshit Man -> Journalist
And the final result doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. Why does this come as a surprise?
There should be a flat charge for submitting a patent (or rather for having it examined) and an additional surcharge if the patent is then rejected (for wasting everyone's time). However if a patent is issued and later rejected in court the inventor should be entitled to a full refund on the grounds that the patent office did not do the job for which it was paid.
Another solution is to get a shell account somewhere free (eg metawire) and forward email from that account to wherever you want. I've had a free shell account forwarding mail for over 5 years.
Proxomitron can be configured to do exactly this (simulate clicking every link on a page), it's been possible for years.
Lynx is vastly under-rated and under-utilized. Sure if I'm web browsing for fun I use Firefox but if I just want to research something and find information as quickly and simply as possible I'll quite often fire up lynx instead.
I know some sites require you to enable cookies to "enjoy" the full content, or to set preferences.
Retaining preference settings is a legitimate use of cookies - or so it seems to me.
I find it hard to adjust the configuration for Privoxy, the Prox is much easier to mess with.
OK you're absolutely right that almost everyone who visits this site is immediately going to recognise microsoft fud. But what happens when Linuxtoday realise that a major part of their advertising revenue comes from Microsoft and they get a "request" to "reword" something on the site . . . oh silly me I forgot that MS would never behave in such an unethical way.
I like "scumware" better anyway.