He violated the EULA on the letter (which I assume is copyrighted) by posting it to his website... the relevant part is:
Note: The information transmitted in this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, reproduction, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited.
Perhaps they will send him another cease and desist letter to get the numbers they report to their clients up?
Big fat dirty lawyer bonus check approaching! Ye haw!
A lot of the things here have been modded as funny, but it's a fairly serious point.
There is nothing wrong with using technology to lighten workload, but letting it take away actual decision making is definatly a step too far.
This trend has increased a lot over the last few years - every new iteration of a program seems to take information away from you and just give you a 'summary' to make your choices from, and now they want it to make the decision as well? Sod that for a game of soldiers.
What I want is _more_ information (and unbiased information too, no Fox for me thanks) presented in a clear format, so that I can make good decisions. _That_ would be a good application of technology, a thousand times more worthwhile than this.
I know this was modded funny, but since it's possible to write an email address in a form that stops Qmail delivering it, it may well be possible to generate one that causes a buffer overflow or other problem in sendmail/exchange/other mail app.
It would be rather amusing to r00t a bunch of dirty spammers via this technique. Use their boxes to grab kiddie pr0n from all over the net and then tip off the feds or something.
Well, they _could_ only publish their corporate website on Freenet, but it isn't really widespread enough to make it practical yet. It's currently very much in the state the internet was in before it was viewed just as another glossy brochure come marketing circle jerk, but that might change in another 5-10 years - just like the real internet did.
If you read 'The Cathedral and the Bazzar' by ESR he gives some very good reasons for Open Source development being better at bug finding:
1) With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow - someone will know the answer, or stimulate the person who does.
2) Users provide better bug reports including line numbers, decent config information, possibly even patches.
To which you can add number 3 and 4 of my own devising:
3) The kind of people who write and use OSS care about security and stability (often to an extreme) and so think that bug fixes are essential not a nice-to-have.
4) Closed source developes have to deal with management and merketing wienies - it's a wonder they even get buggy code out the door.
I already have the game, but need a CD key to play online (been waiting for a new video card to turn up, so haven't bothered buying a copy yet - just nabbed a windows installation off a friend for when I was ready).
You can be sure that I will pay for the Linux version to show up on the stats that way rather than the Windows version. Much appreciated.
...so we should just get the machines to play. Yeah, thats it, robots or something.*
*Disclaimer: I don't get sport on TV, or sport computer games. If you like it, get the heck out and play some. The same can't be said of computer games not based in reality (although I have some prime candidates to get with my BFG;o)).
Actually under the Berne convention everything you write is _automatically_ copyright. You would have to explicitly grant permission (by license or release into the public domain) for _everything_ you post to/., usenet and everywhere else for the Sweedes to be able to read it.
Ye Gods, how are they possibly going to deal with a 76% profit instead of a 86% profit on every copy* of Windows sold? It's a disaster I tell you.
Much more pertinent would be the public flogging of any person who deliberatly produced a broken implimentation of an existing standard - for example HTML (IE), Signatures (OE), Mail (Outlook)... {cont pg 2-100000}
No, it's because of the teachers - generally their skills were seriously eroded when Windows came along and it was standardised for staff rooms.
My mother used to be able to write BBC Basic (no major feat, i'll grant) with no real problems, and the BBC masters in her classroom were well used by the kids. All of them were perfectly happy with the command line and loved messing around with the things.
Now she is a WinXP user (after several versions) and has panick attacks over having to install stuff - years of experience have taught her that it can easly make stuff break. She thinks the Linux command line is scary and unusable. The kids in the class write the odd dcument in word and play a few shitty little games. No chance of them writing their own.
Windows degrades computing skill like nothing else - new users and kids should be made to use a fun, tweakable, stable platform which requires you to pick up a few things about programming (that are easy to learn for large returns, like BBC Basic) to get the most out of it.
I got my early education, like programmers most I suspect, hacking around with simple computers that could do little unless you wrote it yourself. How are this generation going to lean those skills with Microsoft dumbing down the computing experience at every opportunity?
Does this mean that finally the Windows file transfer counter will give sensible answers? Right now the only thing you can be sure of is that whatever it says, it's going to be something else.
This would be illegal. Thank god for the working time directive.
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Since it's actually possible to kill youself with a 9 volt battery (http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-50. html) pretty much any car battery will have the potential to be fatal.
Power at a safe current...
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Because P=IV quadrupling (well, 3.5x) the voltage gives you a four fold increase in power at your maximum safe current.
On the down side increased voltages require much thicker conductors (or better ones, like gold), and more/richer copper alloys means more expense and weight - not a thing the car industry will be keen on.
OTOH for electric cars and multistage ones (think hybrid fuel cell charging battery type) battery and capacitor efficiency increases as the voltage rises, and so does energy loss accross non-trivial transmission lengths (there are several miles of cable in a car) so once enough of these advantages come into play it's possible that you might see cars with a 42kV warning on the side, let alone 42V:o)
The spam messages in the UK usually give an opt out number, it just happens to be the same 09xx premuim rate (£1/$1.60 min) number as the sales line...
No one ever accused spammers of being ethical. It's possible that we may have found the only life form lower on the evolutionary scale than political lobyists.
Lets face it, if the g'ovt produced an alien and said 'this one turned up last week' the conspiracy theorists would assume that it was only as a distraction to hide something of even bigger importance.
We will never be rid of them - just like we will never be rid of Open Source naysayers, BSD is dead trolls and other assorted kooks.
Boeing itself is cross subsidised by military contracts, although this is winding down a little now - but so is subsidy of Airbus (for example launch aid for the A380 is being strictly limited by the US-EU agreement on such things).
Pilots may not have common ratings accross the line, but the training time to transfer can appropriatly be determined as 'non existant' - the rules however mean that you cannot be rated on more than a couple at once. The FBW system means that they all handle in the same way.
The A380 and the A3XX are the same thing - the A3XX was the name for the A3XX whilst in concept stage. Configuration is pretty much final now, and in max capacity configuration (A380-300 or -400, I forget) for the Japanese market it will actually have in excess of 900 seats - not that you would want such a thing for transatlantic flights!
With GPL software they have little choice - it makes sure that anyone who wants to use it has to be altuistic.
Sure they can build closed source stuff on top of a GPL environment (which isn't that big a deal, as it's likley to be country specific anyway) but contributions to the kernel and the like will get fed back into the pool for everyone to use.
Of course if they choose to make their userspace apps open source as well in 5 years there will be a significant code base for very poor countries like most of Africa to draw on for their government e-applications. Considering it would cost countries doing the bulk of development like the UK and the US nothing (code can be copied a billion times and yet everyone can still use it) compared to not handing it over it's shocking that this isn't already happening in the name of sustainable development and charity.
In case you didn't notice, a lot of companies about 10 years ago went Cobol on as/400, at the prompting of IBM...
Look what happened to them. A decent Cobol programmer costs significantly in excess of £50k/yr, and you need them because there is no support left for the as/400 worth a damn. Whichever solution you pick you will end up, in 10 years time, paying for skilled programmers of legacy languages/systems - so you might as well pick the one which is the most open so that they can do their job with the minimum of hassle.
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He violated the EULA on the letter (which I assume is copyrighted) by posting it to his website... the relevant part is:
Note: The information transmitted in this Notice is intended only for the
person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or
privileged material. Any review, reproduction, retransmission, dissemination
or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by
persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited.
Perhaps they will send him another cease and desist letter to get the numbers they report to their clients up?
Big fat dirty lawyer bonus check approaching! Ye haw!
...wrapping one around your cell phone antenna so it can't spend all your money.
A lot of the things here have been modded as funny, but it's a fairly serious point.
There is nothing wrong with using technology to lighten workload, but letting it take away actual decision making is definatly a step too far.
This trend has increased a lot over the last few years - every new iteration of a program seems to take information away from you and just give you a 'summary' to make your choices from, and now they want it to make the decision as well? Sod that for a game of soldiers.
What I want is _more_ information (and unbiased information too, no Fox for me thanks) presented in a clear format, so that I can make good decisions. _That_ would be a good application of technology, a thousand times more worthwhile than this.
I know this was modded funny, but since it's possible to write an email address in a form that stops Qmail delivering it, it may well be possible to generate one that causes a buffer overflow or other problem in sendmail/exchange/other mail app.
It would be rather amusing to r00t a bunch of dirty spammers via this technique. Use their boxes to grab kiddie pr0n from all over the net and then tip off the feds or something.
Well, they _could_ only publish their corporate website on Freenet, but it isn't really widespread enough to make it practical yet. It's currently very much in the state the internet was in before it was viewed just as another glossy brochure come marketing circle jerk, but that might change in another 5-10 years - just like the real internet did.
Tin foil hats are in, gentoo tshirts are in, microsoft tshirts are out.
;o)
At least Microsoft won't have to worry about running out at Comdex
If you read 'The Cathedral and the Bazzar' by ESR he gives some very good reasons for Open Source development being better at bug finding:
1) With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow - someone will know the answer, or stimulate the person who does.
2) Users provide better bug reports including line numbers, decent config information, possibly even patches.
To which you can add number 3 and 4 of my own devising:
3) The kind of people who write and use OSS care about security and stability (often to an extreme) and so think that bug fixes are essential not a nice-to-have.
4) Closed source developes have to deal with management and merketing wienies - it's a wonder they even get buggy code out the door.
I already have the game, but need a CD key to play online (been waiting for a new video card to turn up, so haven't bothered buying a copy yet - just nabbed a windows installation off a friend for when I was ready).
You can be sure that I will pay for the Linux version to show up on the stats that way rather than the Windows version. Much appreciated.
...so we should just get the machines to play. Yeah, thats it, robots or something.*
;o)).
*Disclaimer: I don't get sport on TV, or sport computer games. If you like it, get the heck out and play some. The same can't be said of computer games not based in reality (although I have some prime candidates to get with my BFG
Actually under the Berne convention everything you write is _automatically_ copyright. You would have to explicitly grant permission (by license or release into the public domain) for _everything_ you post to /., usenet and everywhere else for the Sweedes to be able to read it.
Ye Gods, how are they possibly going to deal with a 76% profit instead of a 86% profit on every copy* of Windows sold? It's a disaster I tell you.
Much more pertinent would be the public flogging of any person who deliberatly produced a broken implimentation of an existing standard - for example HTML (IE), Signatures (OE), Mail (Outlook)... {cont pg 2-100000}
*including the first BTW
No, it's because of the teachers - generally their skills were seriously eroded when Windows came along and it was standardised for staff rooms.
My mother used to be able to write BBC Basic (no major feat, i'll grant) with no real problems, and the BBC masters in her classroom were well used by the kids. All of them were perfectly happy with the command line and loved messing around with the things.
Now she is a WinXP user (after several versions) and has panick attacks over having to install stuff - years of experience have taught her that it can easly make stuff break. She thinks the Linux command line is scary and unusable. The kids in the class write the odd dcument in word and play a few shitty little games. No chance of them writing their own.
Windows degrades computing skill like nothing else - new users and kids should be made to use a fun, tweakable, stable platform which requires you to pick up a few things about programming (that are easy to learn for large returns, like BBC Basic) to get the most out of it.
I got my early education, like programmers most I suspect, hacking around with simple computers that could do little unless you wrote it yourself. How are this generation going to lean those skills with Microsoft dumbing down the computing experience at every opportunity?
Does this mean that finally the Windows file transfer counter will give sensible answers? Right now the only thing you can be sure of is that whatever it says, it's going to be something else.
What kind of sadist would name his son BO Hatch?
No wonder the poor deluded fool would try and take on IBM - his early years of torment must have warped his mind.
It is technology. It moves *forward*.
The hell it does - just look at Windows ME.
Mrs. Everitt said the hydrodemolition robot helps the DOT because it removes faulty concrete but leaves good concrete behind.
So it's a robot that plays God then? I cast you, bad concrete, into the abys from where you shall never return!
Just as long as it doesn't start running wild and judging humans, or there might be a significant oversupply of liquified lawyers.
This would be illegal. Thank god for the working time directive.
Since it's actually possible to kill youself with a 9 volt battery (http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-50. html) pretty much any car battery will have the potential to be fatal.
Because P=IV quadrupling (well, 3.5x) the voltage gives you a four fold increase in power at your maximum safe current.
:o)
On the down side increased voltages require much thicker conductors (or better ones, like gold), and more/richer copper alloys means more expense and weight - not a thing the car industry will be keen on.
OTOH for electric cars and multistage ones (think hybrid fuel cell charging battery type) battery and capacitor efficiency increases as the voltage rises, and so does energy loss accross non-trivial transmission lengths (there are several miles of cable in a car) so once enough of these advantages come into play it's possible that you might see cars with a 42kV warning on the side, let alone 42V
The code to block incoming SMS is *35*password*16*# SEND
To remove it use #35*password*16# SEND
This should work on all GSM networks. You will need to get the password from your cellular service provider.
No failure notification will be sent to anyone who tries to send you a text message when the block is enabled.
The spam messages in the UK usually give an opt out number, it just happens to be the same 09xx premuim rate (£1/$1.60 min) number as the sales line...
No one ever accused spammers of being ethical. It's possible that we may have found the only life form lower on the evolutionary scale than political lobyists.
Lets face it, if the g'ovt produced an alien and said 'this one turned up last week' the conspiracy theorists would assume that it was only as a distraction to hide something of even bigger importance.
We will never be rid of them - just like we will never be rid of Open Source naysayers, BSD is dead trolls and other assorted kooks.
Boeing itself is cross subsidised by military contracts, although this is winding down a little now - but so is subsidy of Airbus (for example launch aid for the A380 is being strictly limited by the US-EU agreement on such things).
Pilots may not have common ratings accross the line, but the training time to transfer can appropriatly be determined as 'non existant' - the rules however mean that you cannot be rated on more than a couple at once. The FBW system means that they all handle in the same way.
The A380 and the A3XX are the same thing - the A3XX was the name for the A3XX whilst in concept stage. Configuration is pretty much final now, and in max capacity configuration (A380-300 or -400, I forget) for the Japanese market it will actually have in excess of 900 seats - not that you would want such a thing for transatlantic flights!
With GPL software they have little choice - it makes sure that anyone who wants to use it has to be altuistic.
Sure they can build closed source stuff on top of a GPL environment (which isn't that big a deal, as it's likley to be country specific anyway) but contributions to the kernel and the like will get fed back into the pool for everyone to use.
Of course if they choose to make their userspace apps open source as well in 5 years there will be a significant code base for very poor countries like most of Africa to draw on for their government e-applications. Considering it would cost countries doing the bulk of development like the UK and the US nothing (code can be copied a billion times and yet everyone can still use it) compared to not handing it over it's shocking that this isn't already happening in the name of sustainable development and charity.
In case you didn't notice, a lot of companies about 10 years ago went Cobol on as/400, at the prompting of IBM...
Look what happened to them. A decent Cobol programmer costs significantly in excess of £50k/yr, and you need them because there is no support left for the as/400 worth a damn. Whichever solution you pick you will end up, in 10 years time, paying for skilled programmers of legacy languages/systems - so you might as well pick the one which is the most open so that they can do their job with the minimum of hassle.