my specific situation wont apply to everyone, but...
I was using trillian until I figured out that all my contacts were on all the four major instant messagers... then I consolidated all my contacts into just one IM client.
Back when I was still clueless about spoofing, I sent an abuse complaint to Hotmail about some spam I had received that looked like it came from a hotmail account...
They replied with an explanation of what spoofing was.
Then again, maybe the spoofed hotmail address didnt exist in the first place, so they couldnt shut it down sight unseen as they seem to be doing now.
So when does their 'right to free speech' end and my right to be left alone on my personal computer, in my private residence, begin?
The boundaries need a little proactive adjustment...
I say we install a few spyware of our own into WhenU's servers and see how WhenU likes it.
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Ok, so where are all you proud Canadians? Come on you chicken-shit motherfuckers, stand up and take your medicine.
Dont you find irony in calling others "chicken-shit" far away from a computer?
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Percy Schmeiser vs. Monsanto
By Percy Schmeiser
I've been farming since 1947 when I took over from my father. My wife and I are known on the Prairies as seed developers in canola and as seed savers. Hundreds of thousands of farmers save their seed from year to year.
I was also a member of the provincial legislature. I was on many agricultural committees, both on the provincial level and representing the province on the federal level. I was mayor of my community and a councillor for over 25 years. So, all my life I've worked for the betterment of farmers and rules, laws and regulations that would benefit them and make their farming operations viable.
The whole issue of GMOs can be divided into three main categories: the first category is the issue of the property rights of farmers versus the intellectual property rights of multinationals like Monsanto. The second issue is the health and danger to our food with the introduction of GMOs. The third issue is the environment.
Over this last year there have been other very important issues. The GM wheat issue, and what I think is one of the worst things: the pharmaceutical issue of GM plants producing prescription-type drugs, which I'll touch on later. I want to concentrate on the issue I'm involved with: Property rights of farmers vs. the intellectual property rights of multinationals.
In August 1998 I received a lawsuit document from Monsanto. Up to that time I never had anything to do with Monsanto's GM canola. I'd never bought their seed or gone to a Monsanto meeting. I didn't even know a Monsanto rep.
There were a number of items in the lawsuit. First of all, they said I had somehow acquired Monsanto's GM canola seed without a licence, planted it, grew it and therefore infringed on their patent. They went on to say that it was 80 or 90 percent contamination that I had in a roadside ditch and so on.
When we were sued my wife and I immediately realized that 50 years of research and development on our pure canola seed that was suitable and adaptable to certain conditions on the Prairies, climatic and soil conditions and especially diseases that we had in canola, could now be contaminated. We said to Monsanto at the time, "Look, if you have any of your GMOs in our pure canola seed you are liable for the destruction of our property and our pure seed." So, we stood up to them.
I think at that time there were two main issues. We lost 50 years of research and development and we felt that if farmers ever lose the right to use their own seed the future development of new seeds and plants suitable to their local climatic and soil conditions would be stopped. Those are the two main reasons we stood up to Monsanto.
It took two years of pre-trial and in those two years Monsanto withdrew all allegations that I had ever obtained seed illegally. They even went so far as to admit the allegations were false.
But, they still found that the fact that they had found some of Monsanto's GM canola plants in the ditch along my field, not even in the field, meant I violated the patent. So, it became a patent infringement case. I had no choice where it would be heard. Patent laws are federal, so it was before the federal court of Canada immediately, with one judge. It went to trial in June 2000 and lasted two and a half weeks.
That ruling is what brought my case to international attention. These are some of the main points:
1. It does not matter how Monsanto's GM canola or soybeans or any GM plant gets into a farmer's field. The judge went on to specify how this could happen: cross-pollination and direct seed movement. Believe me that's a primary cause - wind, birds and bees, because we have a lot of wind on the prairies. The judge said it doesn't matter how it gets into a farmer's field, destroying or contaminating your crop, it all becomes Monsanto's property. You no longer own your crop. That's what startled people all over the world; how an organic or conventional farmer can lose a crop and
but then the same kind of clueless user that allows his/her box to fester with viruses will switch to another ISP which wont cut the service off... because the clueless user might not understand the root cause of being cut off.
one example of bad spammer behavior I've seen, which is totally new from the usual types is spammers sending email pretending to be my ISP, complete with legit-looking special offers from said ISP...
but with a suspicious attachment or a spurious "click here if you don't want to receive such notices anymore".
I shudder to think how many people will fall for those evil tricks.
I understand your point, but if that is the case, why put any overclocking mechanism in the first place?
If the people who don't care about it don't overclock and buy upgrades, is Intel trying to force the small minority of OCers to buy upgrades as well, instead of squeezing in extra speed/mileage from older chips?
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3829489.stm Th ey quote Rutan: "The fact that our back-up system worked and we made a beautiful landing makes me feel very good."
I find it quite insightful of Rutan to have designed a backup system into his space-plane. And it did work as designed... a clear demonstration that should win even more future safety-weary customers/passengers.
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maybe later we can have him fight this other kid, Richard Sandrak...
I dont think Richard is a genetic anomaly though... IIRC his parents are just martial arts and bodybuilding nuts.
but is he going to forgive the lesbians AND get rid of the vampires?
(see the 0-budget movie Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter)
If you don't mind crabs, that is...
:P
Punk girls in your area didnt shave it all off?
my specific situation wont apply to everyone, but...
I was using trillian until I figured out that all my contacts were on all the four major instant messagers... then I consolidated all my contacts into just one IM client.
pfeh, that's not punk.
all my DK is on 2nd or 3rd generation live bootleg cassette tape.
there's also the T-Rex, made near my hometown, which isnt electric, but looks bloody noice nonetheless (www.go-t-rex.com/)
Back when I was still clueless about spoofing, I sent an abuse complaint to Hotmail about some spam I had received that looked like it came from a hotmail account...
They replied with an explanation of what spoofing was.
Then again, maybe the spoofed hotmail address didnt exist in the first place, so they couldnt shut it down sight unseen as they seem to be doing now.
Wouldnt it be cool if they modelled an Armadillo Aerospace rocket crashed somewhere on a Doom 3 map? ;)
I'm not upset... I'm just pointing out that when ISPs offer more speed, they also increase the price, something the article poster didnt mention.
I'm quite satisfied with my current service... download times are satisfactory, and my ping is also good for online games.
Besides, I mostly only download big files while I'm at the office, so it doesnt interfere with my other needs.
My cable ISP is offering me an upgrade from 3 to 5mbps for a 50% increase of my bill...
And bring new meaning to the words "male and female connectors".
So when does their 'right to free speech' end and my right to be left alone on my personal computer, in my private residence, begin?
The boundaries need a little proactive adjustment...
I say we install a few spyware of our own into WhenU's servers and see how WhenU likes it.
Ok, so where are all you proud Canadians? Come on you chicken-shit motherfuckers, stand up and take your medicine.
Dont you find irony in calling others "chicken-shit" far away from a computer?
Percy Schmeiser vs. Monsanto
By Percy Schmeiser
I've been farming since 1947 when I took over from my father. My wife and I are known on the Prairies as seed developers in canola and as seed savers. Hundreds of thousands of farmers save their seed from year to year.
I was also a member of the provincial legislature. I was on many agricultural committees, both on the provincial level and representing the province on the federal level. I was mayor of my community and a councillor for over 25 years. So, all my life I've worked for the betterment of farmers and rules, laws and regulations that would benefit them and make their farming operations viable.
The whole issue of GMOs can be divided into three main categories: the first category is the issue of the property rights of farmers versus the intellectual property rights of multinationals like Monsanto. The second issue is the health and danger to our food with the introduction of GMOs. The third issue is the environment.
Over this last year there have been other very important issues. The GM wheat issue, and what I think is one of the worst things: the pharmaceutical issue of GM plants producing prescription-type drugs, which I'll touch on later. I want to concentrate on the issue I'm involved with: Property rights of farmers vs. the intellectual property rights of multinationals.
In August 1998 I received a lawsuit document from Monsanto. Up to that time I never had anything to do with Monsanto's GM canola. I'd never bought their seed or gone to a Monsanto meeting. I didn't even know a Monsanto rep.
There were a number of items in the lawsuit. First of all, they said I had somehow acquired Monsanto's GM canola seed without a licence, planted it, grew it and therefore infringed on their patent. They went on to say that it was 80 or 90 percent contamination that I had in a roadside ditch and so on.
When we were sued my wife and I immediately realized that 50 years of research and development on our pure canola seed that was suitable and adaptable to certain conditions on the Prairies, climatic and soil conditions and especially diseases that we had in canola, could now be contaminated. We said to Monsanto at the time, "Look, if you have any of your GMOs in our pure canola seed you are liable for the destruction of our property and our pure seed." So, we stood up to them.
I think at that time there were two main issues. We lost 50 years of research and development and we felt that if farmers ever lose the right to use their own seed the future development of new seeds and plants suitable to their local climatic and soil conditions would be stopped. Those are the two main reasons we stood up to Monsanto.
It took two years of pre-trial and in those two years Monsanto withdrew all allegations that I had ever obtained seed illegally. They even went so far as to admit the allegations were false.
But, they still found that the fact that they had found some of Monsanto's GM canola plants in the ditch along my field, not even in the field, meant I violated the patent. So, it became a patent infringement case. I had no choice where it would be heard. Patent laws are federal, so it was before the federal court of Canada immediately, with one judge. It went to trial in June 2000 and lasted two and a half weeks.
That ruling is what brought my case to international attention. These are some of the main points:
1. It does not matter how Monsanto's GM canola or soybeans or any GM plant gets into a farmer's field. The judge went on to specify how this could happen: cross-pollination and direct seed movement. Believe me that's a primary cause - wind, birds and bees, because we have a lot of wind on the prairies.
The judge said it doesn't matter how it gets into a farmer's field, destroying or contaminating your crop, it all becomes Monsanto's property. You no longer own your crop. That's what startled people all over the world; how an organic or conventional farmer can lose a crop and
but then the same kind of clueless user that allows his/her box to fester with viruses will switch to another ISP which wont cut the service off... because the clueless user might not understand the root cause of being cut off.
why dont ISPs just block internet access to the zombie PCs they detect, for violation of the terms of use?
when the user calls up customer service, they can then follow the instructions on how to clear the malware.
Have you ever seen any GOOD spammer behavior?
As a matter of fact, yes.
Some of them retire.
Or die.
The guys forgot to put some kind of floating device inside the baggies...
Their PDA maybe protected from splashes, but if they drop it in the water, they'll need to do some war-scubadiving to get it back.
one example of bad spammer behavior I've seen, which is totally new from the usual types is spammers sending email pretending to be my ISP, complete with legit-looking special offers from said ISP...
but with a suspicious attachment or a spurious "click here if you don't want to receive such notices anymore".
I shudder to think how many people will fall for those evil tricks.
I understand your point, but if that is the case, why put any overclocking mechanism in the first place?
If the people who don't care about it don't overclock and buy upgrades, is Intel trying to force the small minority of OCers to buy upgrades as well, instead of squeezing in extra speed/mileage from older chips?
In the beginning, air travel and aircrafts were almost exclusively used by the very rich too...
Granted, some very poor people will never be able to afford a plane ticket, but them's the breaks.
the nn key of my keyboard is slightly defective...
You think the spam zombie/pwned newbie PCs will be upgraded?
regardless of who wins the X-prize... we win. everyone of us.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3829489.stmh ey quote Rutan:
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"The fact that our back-up system worked and we made a beautiful landing makes me feel very good."
I find it quite insightful of Rutan to have designed a backup system into his space-plane. And it did work as designed... a clear demonstration that should win even more future safety-weary customers/passengers.