The problem, though, is the matter of who is making the rules. This isn't an established governing body, it has no mandate to wield power. These are rules setup by an outside organization telling you how to run your business. This would be like if Microsoft decided that the next update to Exchange Server would block all e-mail originating from non-Microsoft e-mail servers, just with better intentions.
I think that the idea of RBL's are nice on paper, but in reality, they leave a lot to be desired, particularly as they are implemented now. Unfortunately, this is a direct result of the "Wild West" attitude governing the Internet - sometimes the vigilantes are about as harmful as the outlaws, and the "common good folk" are caught in the middle with little recourse against either.
So, you're saying an RBL only puts an IP address on their blacklist if it belongs to a customer of theirs? Nope, sorry, just ain't right.
Here's how it works, remedial version: Someone reports your IP (or a close neighbor) to a RBL, who then adds (usually) a block of IP's to their blacklist, which includes your IP. Now, ISP's who subscribe to this RBL have your IP in a blacklist, and they will often block all mail originating from your IP address. If your customers use any of the ISP's that subscribe to that list - well, guess what? You can't get through to them. Doesn't matter if you have ever dealt with that RBL or not.
They actually use several different sets for their data - which is very evident where they meet up, such as here. Zoom in some, you'll see how they come close to, but not quite, lining up...
Actually, I'm surprised that anyone's even looking at this in terms of property theft. The only property involved belongs to the game company. How this should have been looked at, and how the guy could have gotten legal compensation, is to view this as a matter of a breach of contract between the two players. Player 1 had an implied agreement with player 2 that player 1's in game character would lend... blah blah blah, you see how it goes. The idea is that player 2 had agreed to have his in game character return the item to the character of player 1.
In this scenario, when player 2 did not return the sword and sold it instead, this of course resulted in breach of contract. Now, not I'm not a lawyer in my home country, let alone any others, so I have no idea what he might recover through this route; maybe he can claim the entire 7200 Yuan, maybe only a portion, or maybe more than that.
Long story short (too late): not an issue for property law, maybe an issue for contract law.
The key is that they are using a 302 redirect, which is used to signify that the redirect is temporary only. In a completely honest and trustworthy Internet, this is used to indicate that for whatever reason (HW failure, slashdotting, etc), the requested pages were temporarily unavailable on the main site and were being hosted elsewhere until the issue can be resolved. This is telling Google et al that the content being redirected to (Sesame Street, for example) is normally hosted on the redirecting site (Asianhookers). From then on, whenever Google returns the result of the Sesame Street pae, it is listed with the URL pointing to the Asianhookers page. It does this under the assumption that once the issue requiring the redirect is resolved, people will want to go to the "original" page, and will still be redirected to the content in the meantime.
Aside from a filter on Google's end to resolve this, it would be nice if the practice of using 302 redirects also included a means of confirmation of the setup on the site being redirected to. If the site actually hosting the data does not in some way confirm the redirection, either through a tag in the header of the html, or perhaps in a third, predictably place file (much like a robots.txt file). Of course, this would first require te standard to be rewritten, and then would require people to actually abide by it.
I agree that in this instance, you should indeed come forward - however, I believe that as a matter of ethical principle, which I hold myself alone up to, noone else. I also feel that a person has his own right to privacy, and to protect him/herself against possible false accusation, and if that person in that situation doesn't want to volunteer info or DNA, that's his choice - though I feel it makes him a crap excuse for a human. And unfortunately, i can understand why one might - fear that they will then become the immediate suspect and taken to court on whatever circumstantial evidence available with the eyewitness testimony of a little old lady with glaucoma in her one good eye who just knows that you were the one that did it.
Of course, don't be surprised if the police find enough reason to get a warrant for your DNA and it happens anyways.
I write in "SEE ID" and then my signature next to it on my credit cars. I then say thank you to the cashiers who check my ID.
My GF's younger brother did this. He then spent a semester as an exchange student in Mexico. Went to purchase something from a shop where the clerk had absolutely no understanding of English, and despite his best explanations, the clerk couldn't understand that this wasn't his name on the back of the card. The only way the clerk let him pay for his merchandise was if he signed the slip by the name "See ID".
You know, there are times you just know you're gonna regret making a post long before you're finished writing it, but what the hell...
this is just bitching about... for the sake of bitching.
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Yeah, I mean, the water in that fountain's just as good as the water in this one, so what if they have to use a seperate one to drink from?
And they have no reason to complain about living in those ghettos, why can't they just be happy with the housing they've got?
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yeah, extreme, incendiary examples, I know, and I do feel shame for having used them. But, for some, all this DRM encroachment is a matter of principle. It wouldn't be bad if there was some sort of choice in the market - if some major labels were willing to sell w/o DRM encumbrance, but the way things are heading, we're looking at all major label electronic releases having some sort of DRM attached.
Even if the bitching and complaining doesn't give us DRM-free music, at least it might help ensure that future DRM is less of a pain in the ass.
MS MS MS MS.
Nope sorry Worked for me. I would say it is an issue of human interface
Actually, it is an issue with this specific keyboard - this is not the first and most likely not the last time the shift key has failed over more than one keystroke, or that it simply failed to register a keystroke at all. Issue doesn't occur on the other computers I use regularly. Of course, in addition to this being the only Microsoft keyboard I use, this is also the only wireless keyboard I use. In all fairness, it's probably more a reslt of the latter than te former, but then again, I didn't originally plan on using a paragraph to explain a typo, so there you go.
The only reason I keep IE around instead of using Firefox for everything is that, for various reasons, there are 3 or 4 pages that I use that MUST use IE to render properly. Because of those IE oddities and the fact that it's the most popular browser, web designers must code for IE, and when forced to choose between user their time to make a site IE compliant or standards compliant, that designer makes te site IE compliant if they don't want to lose their job most of the time. If IE was standards compliant, this would not be an issue - and I wouldn't have to use IE at all.
Of course, that may be Microsoft's biggest reason NOT to make IE standards compliant...
As I interpret it, IF the agreement between Daimaou and his employer are valid, then his employer can become the OWNER of all the GPL'ed code that he wrote, but the new employer must also respect the GPL. Just because ownership changed doesn't mean the license did.
I'd address this as two issues - one a matter of pure code ownership, the other as a potential GPL violation. As far as ownership goes, you did sign an agreement, but if you can enforce the verbal agreement you made upon entry into the company, you may be able to retain ownership, though probably not without some hassle. Aside from the ownership issue, though, it sounds like the company is attempting to violate the GPL, and you should really consider reporting it as such.
Area - land: 7,617,930 sq km
Area - comparative: Slightly smaller than the US contiguous 48 states
Population: 19,913,144 (July 2004 est.)
This tells us that there are only approximately 2.6 people per square km, and thus, unless these are really enormous people, Australia is most definitely not full.
You know, when I saw a link to an article that is to shed light on the dangers of a trip to Europa, and I saw that the linked domain contains the name "Bowman", I honestly expected the content to be vastly different than that.
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None... we dont use MS Exchange Server here.
How much did you pay to subscribe to the RBL?
Again, none. Don't use them.
I am interested in seeing where you intended to go with these comments. What is it, indeed, that you thought?
I think that the idea of RBL's are nice on paper, but in reality, they leave a lot to be desired, particularly as they are implemented now. Unfortunately, this is a direct result of the "Wild West" attitude governing the Internet - sometimes the vigilantes are about as harmful as the outlaws, and the "common good folk" are caught in the middle with little recourse against either.
Here's how it works, remedial version: Someone reports your IP (or a close neighbor) to a RBL, who then adds (usually) a block of IP's to their blacklist, which includes your IP. Now, ISP's who subscribe to this RBL have your IP in a blacklist, and they will often block all mail originating from your IP address. If your customers use any of the ISP's that subscribe to that list - well, guess what? You can't get through to them. Doesn't matter if you have ever dealt with that RBL or not.
They actually use several different sets for their data - which is very evident where they meet up, such as here. Zoom in some, you'll see how they come close to, but not quite, lining up...
Enjoy it... this is one of those few times where noone can yell at you to RTFA...
Sadly, that is the only chair big enough for some men's asses...
In this scenario, when player 2 did not return the sword and sold it instead, this of course resulted in breach of contract. Now, not I'm not a lawyer in my home country, let alone any others, so I have no idea what he might recover through this route; maybe he can claim the entire 7200 Yuan, maybe only a portion, or maybe more than that.
Long story short (too late): not an issue for property law, maybe an issue for contract law.
Aside from a filter on Google's end to resolve this, it would be nice if the practice of using 302 redirects also included a means of confirmation of the setup on the site being redirected to. If the site actually hosting the data does not in some way confirm the redirection, either through a tag in the header of the html, or perhaps in a third, predictably place file (much like a robots.txt file). Of course, this would first require te standard to be rewritten, and then would require people to actually abide by it.
Of course, don't be surprised if the police find enough reason to get a warrant for your DNA and it happens anyways.
The program is in a complex waveform of both running and non-running states.
Michael: Huh?
David: Maggots, Michael. You're eating maggots. How do they taste?
'Cause you know you were thinking about this quote anyways...
My GF's younger brother did this. He then spent a semester as an exchange student in Mexico. Went to purchase something from a shop where the clerk had absolutely no understanding of English, and despite his best explanations, the clerk couldn't understand that this wasn't his name on the back of the card. The only way the clerk let him pay for his merchandise was if he signed the slip by the name "See ID".
AKA "The picture set for those 5 readers who don't know how big a dollar bill is AND don't know what the Google logo looks like"
I hear he's been sitting on this sequel for Howard the Duck...
Four more: Slave Leia in 3D.
this is just bitching about ... for the sake of bitching.
Yeah, I mean, the water in that fountain's just as good as the water in this one, so what if they have to use a seperate one to drink from?And they have no reason to complain about living in those ghettos, why can't they just be happy with the housing they've got?
yeah, extreme, incendiary examples, I know, and I do feel shame for having used them. But, for some, all this DRM encroachment is a matter of principle. It wouldn't be bad if there was some sort of choice in the market - if some major labels were willing to sell w/o DRM encumbrance, but the way things are heading, we're looking at all major label electronic releases having some sort of DRM attached.
Even if the bitching and complaining doesn't give us DRM-free music, at least it might help ensure that future DRM is less of a pain in the ass.
Actually, it is an issue with this specific keyboard - this is not the first and most likely not the last time the shift key has failed over more than one keystroke, or that it simply failed to register a keystroke at all. Issue doesn't occur on the other computers I use regularly. Of course, in addition to this being the only Microsoft keyboard I use, this is also the only wireless keyboard I use. In all fairness, it's probably more a reslt of the latter than te former, but then again, I didn't originally plan on using a paragraph to explain a typo, so there you go.
Hell, it looks like Microsoft can't even make a keyboard that will register that the shift key is being held for more than one keystroke...
Is there a reliable count of the number of bugs found in Windows so far?
Of course, that may be Microsoft's biggest reason NOT to make IE standards compliant...
I'd address this as two issues - one a matter of pure code ownership, the other as a potential GPL violation. As far as ownership goes, you did sign an agreement, but if you can enforce the verbal agreement you made upon entry into the company, you may be able to retain ownership, though probably not without some hassle. Aside from the ownership issue, though, it sounds like the company is attempting to violate the GPL, and you should really consider reporting it as such.
Area - land: 7,617,930 sq km
Area - comparative: Slightly smaller than the US contiguous 48 states
Population: 19,913,144 (July 2004 est.)
This tells us that there are only approximately 2.6 people per square km, and thus, unless these are really enormous people, Australia is most definitely not full.
Therefore, you are proven wrong.
You know, when I saw a link to an article that is to shed light on the dangers of a trip to Europa, and I saw that the linked domain contains the name "Bowman", I honestly expected the content to be vastly different than that.
Grandparent poster: just pretend that you meant it a I described, and you're in the clear...