Hmm... I agree in your case, but... I know from personal experience (being on the receiving end) that running over a pedestrian in a crosswalk is somehow considered a "no-fault" accident by ICBC.
Well, if the pedestrian decides to dart out in front of an oncoming car without looking and there is not enough time for the car to stop, then it's clearly not the driver's fault. "Yield to pedestrians" does not mean "Use your magic brakes with instant stopping power in case of insane pedestrians."
The one loophole I can think of in this argument though is, if an ISP blocks email from an address in the block list, a customer of that ISP might them complain that he or she is not receiving legitimate mail from that address.
Then the ISP can manually add the good address to a whitelist. Not really a problem. I use SpamCop and have it set to use some aggressive blacklists. Occasionally it blocks a legitimate message (usually from the Simpsons mailing list I'm on). All I have to do is whitelist the sender, and the problem is solved.
This is no worse that the traditional UDP Echo service; but in this day and age protocol designers should know better. Microsoft should be held accountable for their negligent design.
I agree; Microsoft should be held accountable for the egregious security flaws in its software. However, how do we decide when (and how) to punish them? GPL software is distributed with no warrantly whatsoever. If all software was forced to have a warranty of some kind, I'm sure developers would be up in arms. It's an interesting issue, and one with no easy answer that I can see.
However, my original point was that people complain about Microsoft not fixing bugs, when in fact they often do fix them.
As someone mentioned, Dave Matthews Band already did this with "Busted Stuff," and even included a bonus DVD with live footage, for a very low price ($9.99 on sale!) The problem is that to register on their website for the exclusive content, you are forced to join RCA's (their label's) mailing list. Close but no thanks.
Don't use Style Sheets - it makes web pages unreadable.
Um, what? CSS is designed to make pages MORE readable and save bandwidth. And when you are familiar with them, you'll find that CSS is much nicer to use than the old <font> tags and other such nonsense.
It's the DMCA, but this would have been illegal even without it. However, if you ask me, the dolts who didn't bother to implement any real security measure (like a PIN) are just as guilty as the officials who "hacked" into the data. Not that the law sees it that way, of course. Negligence doesn't seem to be a crime in the computer world.
I really like Absolut Vodka's web advertisements. They aren't popups, just tiny banner-type ads, but they're interactive! You can make music on one of them, it's fun.
I find it unlikely that such a newsletter would be unsolicited. I find it more likely that the person receiving it had signed up for the newsletter because he is a Mandrake user.
I think his point is that Beijing News must have known the Capitol story was a joke because other stories on the front page were clearly jokes as well.
Obviously you didn't read either of the next two Myst novels, The Book of Ti'ana and The Book of D'ni. The D'ni did not create the worlds they wrote; they merely linked to a worlds that matched the ones they described. And other D'ni DID appear in the Book of D'ni, where they started to rebuild the society.
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Hmm... I agree in your case, but... I know from personal experience (being on the receiving end) that running over a pedestrian in a crosswalk is somehow considered a "no-fault" accident by ICBC.
Well, if the pedestrian decides to dart out in front of an oncoming car without looking and there is not enough time for the car to stop, then it's clearly not the driver's fault. "Yield to pedestrians" does not mean "Use your magic brakes with instant stopping power in case of insane pedestrians."
BSD is built on the Linux kernel too?
No. It's not.
The one loophole I can think of in this argument though is, if an ISP blocks email from an address in the block list, a customer of that ISP might them complain that he or she is not receiving legitimate mail from that address.
Then the ISP can manually add the good address to a whitelist. Not really a problem. I use SpamCop and have it set to use some aggressive blacklists. Occasionally it blocks a legitimate message (usually from the Simpsons mailing list I'm on). All I have to do is whitelist the sender, and the problem is solved.
This is no worse that the traditional UDP Echo service; but in this day and age protocol designers should know better. Microsoft should be held accountable for their negligent design.
I agree; Microsoft should be held accountable for the egregious security flaws in its software. However, how do we decide when (and how) to punish them? GPL software is distributed with no warrantly whatsoever. If all software was forced to have a warranty of some kind, I'm sure developers would be up in arms. It's an interesting issue, and one with no easy answer that I can see.
However, my original point was that people complain about Microsoft not fixing bugs, when in fact they often do fix them.
Microsoft released a patch. Incompetent admins did not install it.
Nah, send in Jimmy Carter!
He's history's greatest monster.
Yes. LinNeighborhood.
As someone mentioned, Dave Matthews Band already did this with "Busted Stuff," and even included a bonus DVD with live footage, for a very low price ($9.99 on sale!) The problem is that to register on their website for the exclusive content, you are forced to join RCA's (their label's) mailing list. Close but no thanks.
Don't use Style Sheets - it makes web pages unreadable.
Um, what? CSS is designed to make pages MORE readable and save bandwidth. And when you are familiar with them, you'll find that CSS is much nicer to use than the old <font> tags and other such nonsense.
What he was asking is if it's possible to do something with the effect of an EMP. I would have to say that it is possible - it's called DDOS.
They are not blocking access to RIAA.org
Read the article, fool. They absolutely are blocking access to RIAA.org.
It's the DMCA, but this would have been illegal even without it. However, if you ask me, the dolts who didn't bother to implement any real security measure (like a PIN) are just as guilty as the officials who "hacked" into the data. Not that the law sees it that way, of course. Negligence doesn't seem to be a crime in the computer world.
I really like Absolut Vodka's web advertisements. They aren't popups, just tiny banner-type ads, but they're interactive! You can make music on one of them, it's fun.
Other than that, web ads suck.
I find it unlikely that such a newsletter would be unsolicited. I find it more likely that the person receiving it had signed up for the newsletter because he is a Mandrake user.
"You don't have to yell, Michael. I'm all around you!"
"Oh, every week there's a canal. Or an inlet. Or a fjord."
I think his point is that Beijing News must have known the Capitol story was a joke because other stories on the front page were clearly jokes as well.
You need to get your shift key under control.
What are you talking about?
Actually, I can't remember what the game was, but I remember hearing that some Japanese people were killing each other in cybercafes over some MMORPG.
Obviously you didn't read either of the next two Myst novels, The Book of Ti'ana and The Book of D'ni. The D'ni did not create the worlds they wrote; they merely linked to a worlds that matched the ones they described. And other D'ni DID appear in the Book of D'ni, where they started to rebuild the society.
Clippy is included with Office XP. It's just turned off by default. Maybe YOU should start thinking about accuracy.
I take it you have never heard of the Linux Documentation Project?
Um, no, it's MCSE: Microsoft Certified System Engineer.
Too bad your friend didn't actually come up with that quote. That line is probably older than I am.
Nowhere Man was an original UPN series, and it kicked ass. They canned it after only one season, unfortunately.