We've had a right of reply in the printed press for years, and it definitely did not chill down the work of the press. In how far would the so-called "freedom of speech" be affected? D'oh.
Because when your life is on the line complex systems fail more often than simple systems and they can also get in the way.
Having been a soldier for a number of years I can tell you this is all too true. The German MG-42 isn't still in use just for fun but because it's a good, simple and battle field proven design.
I am looking forward to soldiers in wired combat suits jammed by high-power microwave or EMP transmitters, grinding them to a sudden halt.
All this is good for is breastfeeding an industry that lost sales after the end of the cold war.
Keep cool, folks. The final decision is going to take place tomorrow May 28. I've seen too many changes in the decision process lately to cheer to soon.
It is utter crap to patent these seeds at these conditions to begin with. You have to deal with the causes not the symptoms. The US judicial systems has begun to first and foremost feed the lawyers, which is why such cases can come up at all.
every legitimate mailing list on the planet will get challenges from all the Earthlink subscribers...
Not me. I put earthlink.net in my blacklist ages ago. Too much Spam from this domain.
I had such a challenge/response system for a while, based on procmail and some handy Perl scripts around it. It basically worked - incoming mail was quarantined until the response came, then delivered. Was pretty smart - the challenge included an MD5 checksum of the original message, making bypassing the system next to impossible. Fake responds with no corresponding pending messages were dumped. But - it pissed off many people who wrote me legitimate e-mail for the first time, and I got all the bounces from the poor open mail relays. No big win. I dumped it and moved on to Spamassassin. I'm now down from 40-60 visible spams per day to one or two which Spamassassin doesn't yet know about. I report them and don't see them any more.
this is obviously a hoax, because he would have *known* that he was going to get caught!
Poor logic. Maybe he did know he was going to be caught, and maybe he knows he will be free again? Maybe he could not know he would be caught because this event would no longer be known in 200+ years? Will WWN still exist?
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The CDs don't abuse their infrastructure. But so what - as long as somebody goes after the Bad Guys [TM] that's okay.
According to this law you are not allowed to possess, sell, or advertise normal computers because they qualify as "telecommunication devices" capable of decrypting arbitrary stuff. Strange.
Even then - a law which is there but is not enforced is a major tool for suppression and arbitrariness. When I see what stupid and stoneaged laws are sometimes pulled to annoy people or get rid of someone - well, you get the idea. No, I am not paranoid, just seeing what happen(s|ed).
I'm afraid that as long as presidential candidates need to fund their own campaigns with the help of industry sponsors, this is not going to change a lot. The US one-and-a-third party system just adds to it. Good grief.
That's right, the world isn't just black and white (even if some Western governments like us to believe that). But some are evil, and some are more evil. M$ belongs to the latter, trying to "embrace" and modify everything they can put their hands on.
I consider this an artificial null discussion. I consider myself a systems administrator, short sysadmin, doing most of the jobs that Rob outlined. Everybody identifies a sysadmin as a sysadmin, and we sure don't need to use a certain amount of brainpower for that while there are truly more important fish to fry. Duh. Does Rob have a PR problem?
The big nonsense in the RIAA/MPAA argumentation is that the figures how much money was allegedly lost are utterly fictuous, and I would hope that the courts won't be dazzled by them. These numbers would be reliable if all the pirates had bought the stuff to begin with, which isn't so for obvious reasons. On the other hand the "loss" is at least partially compensated by those people who sucked MP3s and videos over the net and weren't too happy with the quality, and bought the real product. I for one tried to pull some King Crimson stuff from the net longer ago, and I was totally frustrated by the quality (I really wonder what crappy MP3 encoders people use) and by the lack of some interesting tracks. I ended up buying the entire collection, which I never had if I hadn't had the teasers.
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We've had a right of reply in the printed press for years, and it definitely did not chill down the work of the press. In how far would the so-called "freedom of speech" be affected? D'oh.
Having been a soldier for a number of years I can tell you this is all too true. The German MG-42 isn't still in use just for fun but because it's a good, simple and battle field proven design.
I am looking forward to soldiers in wired combat suits jammed by high-power microwave or EMP transmitters, grinding them to a sudden halt.
All this is good for is breastfeeding an industry that lost sales after the end of the cold war.
[] You understood the Open Source development process.
I have, and it is lying in front of me. I love my Treo. NO idea why they weren't more successful.
Now if someone had a CF2 sized mobile phone card and the docs to write a driver, I could actually trash my Treo... any hints are appreciated :-))
Well if the stock drops low enough every Linuxer is going to buy a LOT, performing a hostile takeover, ultimately :-))
The US, having about 4% of the world population, also owns (claims) 70% of all other resources. Why should IP be any different?
Well if it's just the east coast that's fine with me. Or am I missing some irony here?
Keep cool, folks. The final decision is going to take place tomorrow May 28. I've seen too many changes in the decision process lately to cheer to soon.
It goes like
va_start(args, fmt);
vsprintf(buf, fmt, args);
va_end(args);
in kernel/panic.c
Or so.
It is utter crap to patent these seeds at these conditions to begin with. You have to deal with the causes not the symptoms. The US judicial systems has begun to first and foremost feed the lawyers, which is why such cases can come up at all.
Not me. I put earthlink.net in my blacklist ages ago. Too much Spam from this domain.
I had such a challenge/response system for a while, based on procmail and some handy Perl scripts around it. It basically worked - incoming mail was quarantined until the response came, then delivered. Was pretty smart - the challenge included an MD5 checksum of the original message, making bypassing the system next to impossible. Fake responds with no corresponding pending messages were dumped. But - it pissed off many people who wrote me legitimate e-mail for the first time, and I got all the bounces from the poor open mail relays. No big win. I dumped it and moved on to Spamassassin. I'm now down from 40-60 visible spams per day to one or two which Spamassassin doesn't yet know about. I report them and don't see them any more.
duh - reinvented, actually.
Charging the battery from vibration energy powered by the very same battery? Get a life, dude.
Poor logic. Maybe he did know he was going to be caught, and maybe he knows he will be free again? Maybe he could not know he would be caught because this event would no longer be known in 200+ years? Will WWN still exist?
The CDs don't abuse their infrastructure. But so what - as long as somebody goes after the Bad Guys [TM] that's okay.
According to this law you are not allowed to possess, sell, or advertise normal computers because they qualify as "telecommunication devices" capable of decrypting arbitrary stuff. Strange.
Even then - a law which is there but is not enforced is a major tool for suppression and arbitrariness. When I see what stupid and stoneaged laws are sometimes pulled to annoy people or get rid of someone - well, you get the idea. No, I am not paranoid, just seeing what happen(s|ed).
And young women and children, for chrissake. Much more efficient to smuggle and much less dangerous too!
I'm afraid that as long as presidential candidates need to fund their own campaigns with the help of industry sponsors, this is not going to change a lot. The US one-and-a-third party system just adds to it. Good grief.
You will need to explain in how far Linux enthusiasts are warez kiddies.
That's right, the world isn't just black and white (even if some Western governments like us to believe that). But some are evil, and some are more evil. M$ belongs to the latter, trying to "embrace" and modify everything they can put their hands on.
I consider this an artificial null discussion. I consider myself a systems administrator, short sysadmin, doing most of the jobs that Rob outlined. Everybody identifies a sysadmin as a sysadmin, and we sure don't need to use a certain amount of brainpower for that while there are truly more important fish to fry. Duh. Does Rob have a PR problem?
The big nonsense in the RIAA/MPAA argumentation is that the figures how much money was allegedly lost are utterly fictuous, and I would hope that the courts won't be dazzled by them. These numbers would be reliable if all the pirates had bought the stuff to begin with, which isn't so for obvious reasons. On the other hand the "loss" is at least partially compensated by those people who sucked MP3s and videos over the net and weren't too happy with the quality, and bought the real product. I for one tried to pull some King Crimson stuff from the net longer ago, and I was totally frustrated by the quality (I really wonder what crappy MP3 encoders people use) and by the lack of some interesting tracks. I ended up buying the entire collection, which I never had if I hadn't had the teasers.
Can I have some of the stuff too? ;-)