Actually, I'm worried that this might be the case. I've collected viri before, and looked through their source code, but only because I'm fascinated. I want to see how they work, and maybe find a better way to protect myself from them. But I never released one on the internet before. I hope they find more proof than just one person seeing him debug/testing it (granted that is suspicious, but not illegal). IANAL, but without evidence of him distributing this worm, or at least a lot that would show intent, I don't think they have much of a case.
They also have a mini CD version available that I have used a lot. (google for "trinux-80rc2-2.4.5.iso") The site also mentions that it is being activly maintained again, it was dead for about a year, but now seems to be back again.
I dropped out of high school (yes, I went back for my GED), and I can remember 2 distinct teachers that pulled me aside from the rest of the class to talk to me about class activities and participation, and they were worried that I would drop out. But why didn't the others do it? Did I do anything different in there classes? No. The reason these two pulled my aside, was that they were good teachers, and they cared. Now that doesn't show that the others were bad teachers, but most of them were overworked, or didn't have time. Maybe if we had a higher teacher/student ratio, or increased the class time so they could manage better, we wouldn't need databases of behavior profiles on students. A good teacher doesn't/shouldn't need a database to find a troubled student.
Apple's distribution rights are obviously limited to the US by the contracts they signed with the music companies. Or do you think Apple insisted on this themselves?
How was that modded insightful? Moving around something you bought is not distribution.What Apple is doing here is theft. They are clearly stealing the products that you bought and destroying them. We usually can call such practice vandalism or burglary, but apparently not when a giant soulless corporation does that, especially if it is done in an electronic way.
I think you misunderstood that. Apple signed a deal with the RIAA to only distribute in the US. And I'm sure part of that deal involved Apple being able to inforce that limited distribution area on their customers. It doesn't mean that you leaving the US is considered unlawfull distrobution, but to cover their ass, they added it to their license. So by leaving the US, they claim that you broke the license agreement, and therefore forefited your ownership of the files that were purchased from their service. As much as this does suck, it is unfortunately business as usual.
As the article points out, there are a lot of issues that need to be addressed. Not all spamers are in the US. A large amount of spam is forged. And the Colorado law sounds like it will draw in fakes that are just out for money, and thus, waist the courts time. And whats in place to protect those lists? What if they get hacked? Now we have illegal spam from forged addresses comming from outside our jurisdiction causing conjestion in our courts from gready people out to make a buck.
I think they need a new plan... Untill someone gets an international plan set, it will be difficult to crack down on any spam. I'll stick to my filters, thanks.
I'm sure this sounds good, but what is it really doing? Isn't this the same as a smoker simply smoking less in a day? insted of 2 packs, I'll smoke a pack and a half, then keep reducing it each week/2 weeks/month/etc.. till I'm down to nothing. This is usualy the first thing a smoker tries, and the first thing that fails. The scarry part of this product is that someone out there is going to think to themselves "Hey, I've had a hard day/week/month/life/whatever, so I'll just smoke an extra pack of these lower nicotine cigs, and it won't be like cheating as much, since I still have less nicotine", then this will become a habbit. And they will end up doing more damage to themselves, all with the mindset that it will still be easier to quit later.
I see this product causing much more problems in the long run. And I think others (like the patch/gum) are a much safer way to quit. I really don't see these as being an improvement to anything, and if people are going to rely on these to quit, they should have a buddy system with someone else to control how much they can have.
"Of course that just my opinion, I could be wrong."
Debuggers causing errors is a mojor problem that thankfully I havn't run into yet. Unfortunatly, I get the opposite, the debugger fixes the problem. First you set a break point and find your variable empty (confirming the problem), then you add a watch to the variable and find out that it never empties (confirming that it's going to be one of those days). The only way I've found to get around this is to create a dummy varaible and set it equal to the variable that seems to lose it's value. The down side to this is it looks like outragously poor code (and is), and reflects bad on the developer and the company. I'm terified of a coustomer looking through our code someday and having to explain it. What do you say to that? "Hehe, well... I was smokin sumthin goood man..."
There's a reason the experienced coders use printfs and couts for debugging, they always work.
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'I don't want to be the guy that creates any kind of chilling effect on research'
s/chilling/laughing/
Why do companies think using autoplay for DRM is acceptable? Thats like encrypting all their content with XOR, it will work just as good.
Actually, I'm worried that this might be the case. I've collected viri before, and looked through their source code, but only because I'm fascinated. I want to see how they work, and maybe find a better way to protect myself from them. But I never released one on the internet before. I hope they find more proof than just one person seeing him debug/testing it (granted that is suspicious, but not illegal). IANAL, but without evidence of him distributing this worm, or at least a lot that would show intent, I don't think they have much of a case.
They also have a mini CD version available that I have used a lot. (google for "trinux-80rc2-2.4.5.iso") The site also mentions that it is being activly maintained again, it was dead for about a year, but now seems to be back again.
Just my $0.02
I think you misunderstood that. Apple signed a deal with the RIAA to only distribute in the US. And I'm sure part of that deal involved Apple being able to inforce that limited distribution area on their customers. It doesn't mean that you leaving the US is considered unlawfull distrobution, but to cover their ass, they added it to their license. So by leaving the US, they claim that you broke the license agreement, and therefore forefited your ownership of the files that were purchased from their service. As much as this does suck, it is unfortunately business as usual.
I believe that this post requires a new type of mod point. (-1/+1) Frightening
I have a win2k server on a P-pro/166 with 256M of ram and it screams too. Wait a minute... I think I can hear it now...
"Kill me! Kill me now!!!"
Posting an announcement of an announcement about an up comming announcement.
;-)
"This just in! More news will come in later, story at 11"
Select * from employees where clue > 0;
0 rows effected
Seems pretty clear to me.
Not 100% on-topic, but still very relevant to the parent post, is this picture
Please, think of the domo-kuns.
As the article points out, there are a lot of issues that need to be addressed. Not all spamers are in the US. A large amount of spam is forged. And the Colorado law sounds like it will draw in fakes that are just out for money, and thus, waist the courts time. And whats in place to protect those lists? What if they get hacked? Now we have illegal spam from forged addresses comming from outside our jurisdiction causing conjestion in our courts from gready people out to make a buck.
I think they need a new plan... Untill someone gets an international plan set, it will be difficult to crack down on any spam. I'll stick to my filters, thanks.
I'm sure this sounds good, but what is it really doing? Isn't this the same as a smoker simply smoking less in a day? insted of 2 packs, I'll smoke a pack and a half, then keep reducing it each week/2 weeks/month/etc.. till I'm down to nothing. This is usualy the first thing a smoker tries, and the first thing that fails. The scarry part of this product is that someone out there is going to think to themselves "Hey, I've had a hard day/week/month/life/whatever, so I'll just smoke an extra pack of these lower nicotine cigs, and it won't be like cheating as much, since I still have less nicotine", then this will become a habbit. And they will end up doing more damage to themselves, all with the mindset that it will still be easier to quit later.
I see this product causing much more problems in the long run. And I think others (like the patch/gum) are a much safer way to quit. I really don't see these as being an improvement to anything, and if people are going to rely on these to quit, they should have a buddy system with someone else to control how much they can have.
"Of course that just my opinion, I could be wrong."
Debuggers causing errors is a mojor problem that thankfully I havn't run into yet. Unfortunatly, I get the opposite, the debugger fixes the problem. First you set a break point and find your variable empty (confirming the problem), then you add a watch to the variable and find out that it never empties (confirming that it's going to be one of those days). The only way I've found to get around this is to create a dummy varaible and set it equal to the variable that seems to lose it's value. The down side to this is it looks like outragously poor code (and is), and reflects bad on the developer and the company. I'm terified of a coustomer looking through our code someday and having to explain it. What do you say to that? "Hehe, well... I was smokin sumthin goood man..."
There's a reason the experienced coders use printfs and couts for debugging, they always work.