Truly, it's friggin' scooter, not a motorcycle. If it works and is cheap it'll be plenty popular with scooter riders.
As far as "safety" goes, scooters are already effectively silent to car drivers. Heck, inside a car with the windows rolled up you'd be hard-pressed to hear a street-legal 1000cc motorcycle with approaching. You might be able to hear it going away but by that point it's irrelevant. (How often does a car rear-end an accelerating motorcycle? (never)) Sure, lots of bikers use racing pipes, but those are just the ones you notice -- the majority of motorcycles have OEM exhaust pipes and are pretty quiet.
They pay whoever they owe money to. They owe money (actual and/or punitive damages) to whoever's code they distributed without license. Each line of code is owned by whoever wrote it, unless they assigned that ownership to somebody else. I don't know anything about PearPC but if it's run like most other GPL projects then most of the code was written by a few people, and bits and pieces were written by dozens or even hundreds of others, and none of those people assigned their copyrights to anybody else so they all still own what they wrote. The infringer has to make it right with all those people. If they pay damages it'll be small amounts to most of them and a lot to a few. Remember that most GPL projects include code from other GPL projects, so there could be a lot of people involved.
By far the easiest way to settle a mess like this is to stop distributing the product or to start distributing the source code under the GPL. That's all the authors care about, and nobody ever (AFAIK) pursues damages after forcing GPL compliance.
As a free software author I have no interest in trying to cash in on any infringement case, so I don't particular care where the damages go, as long as the guilty party is fairly punished. I'd be just as happy seeing an unrepentant infringer go to jail or pay fines to the government, or even throw their assets into a big bonfire. People who get my GPL code don't owe me any money, they owe me their improvements to the code; that's all I care about.
There can be great comfort in knowing that you really can check out any time you want. It's kind of exhilarating, a feeling of power, that if this stupid world pushes me too far I can just *click* switch it off. That alone can make another shitty day of life bearable.
Australians have the right to free speech as much as Americans do. The US constitution does not grant the right of free speech to American citizens, it merely recognizes that right as inherent in all human beings. If the right is not actually inherent then Americans don't have it either, as it is not specifically granted anywhere.
However, the US constitution does prohibit restrictions on speech and press by the legislature in amendment #1, regardless of whether there really is any inherent right to free speech. Presumably the Australian constitution has no such prohibition and the legislature is allowed to (attempt to) restrict speech as it sees fit.
Energy cost of extraction is ultimately much more important than dollar cost. How many barrels of oil do you have to consume to produce a barrel of oil out of the tar sands? If it's anywhere close to 1 that will never be a viable energy source.
I've been using various forms of per-correspondent addresses in my own domain since 1999, and I've seen no spam at all on the vast majority of them. The ones that get a lot of spam are the ones posted publicly, on Usenet or mailing lists (archived in searchable websites) or as my domain contact. The most notable exception was philips.com -- I sent mail to their tech support address and the only response I ever got was random MMF spam. Directron.com and emusic.com appear to have sold my address to spammers. None of my other single-use addresses have gotten spam, except directly from the companies I gave them to.
The insurance company will not roll over and pay a million dollars if they can win the case for less than that. The whole point of a frivolous lawsuit is to bankrupt the defendant with legal costs. You can't do that to an insurance company. If the suit isn't frivolous then the defendant deserves to pay anyway, insurance or no. It was only an extra $300 for the insurance anyway, no big loss compared to that million dollars it saved.
Maybe a bit of "email campaign" asking recipients to donate $5 and pass the email to 5 friends?
He's already being joe-jobbed by somebody spamming a corrupted version of his request for help all over Usenet. Most likely the aim is to make him look like bad, to generate confusion of who is really the spammer, but no doubt they'll eventually turn it into a scam with the wrong PayPal link.
Direct democracy with proxy voting is an extremely intriguing idea. There are some obvious difficulties that jump right out, like vote-purchasing or intimidation. Should people be allowed to sell their votes? If not, how do you stop them? Will people actually want to do that? What about intimidation (assign your vote to me or else)?
Perhaps proxy assignments could be handled anonymously and untraceably.... That is, each voter gets some kind of crypto-key ID (possibly a different key for each vote) and can either cast their vote directly or assign it to another voter (proxy) using that voter's ID. The voting could be done at something like existing polling stations, where voting is done in private. As long as there's no way for the proxy to determine whose votes were assigned to him, he can't verify for purposes of payoff or intimidation.
Are there any other problems with proxy voting? Maybe complexity and security: the system would have to be handled electronically, with computers and networks and databases, very large and sophisticated ones which could very likely be hacked.
Holy crap, I only got about halfway through it before the k00kiness overwhelmed me.
Until I saw that insane rant I thought we all must be missing something, that someone had gone off half-cocked and misreported the story, that Tegam had some good reason for suing (like maybe a violated NDA). But no, it's true, they are lunatics. What's still unclear is how far this got in court, and why (or whether) the court is taking it seriously. Jail time? 900,000 euros? Seems very unlikely.
Actually, the webserver id does not have the rights to "destroy the contents of the *nix web server" on any web servers which I have access to (admittedly mostly SUSE, and quite standard). The concept of "least privilege" is an example of the unix way of doing things, and mitigates the damage that can occur when 3rd party applications have security holes like this.
And that is exactly why local privilege escalation bugs (you know, what this entire discussion is really about) are so important! Remember how you pooh-poohed the issue, calling it a string of unlikely "what-ifs"?
Are the remarked chips really overclocked? Most consumers couldn't tell the difference and I can't see why the forgers would even care. Just mark it up and make the sale. Eventually someone will figure it out and trace backward in the supply chain but by then the operation will have shut down and moved on.
CPUs (all brands AFAIK) have been multiplier-locked for a long time already, and clock-rate enforcement isn't really practical, so overclockers don't have anything to worry about.
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Microsoft was created by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975 out of nothing. IBM was created as the merger of some corporations that were founded in the 1880s and 1890s.
Most (all?) Americans aren't afraid of "terrorists". The cognitive dissonance between the news media and the general zeitgeist on the street is staggering. You'd think from watching the news that we're all cowering in fear but everybody I've ever talked to about it is very reasonable and pragmatic. The typical attitude is belligerence toward Al Qaeda ("come get me, motherfuckers, I'll martyr ya") and annoyance toward the government's overreaction. Most people think other people must be afraid, because news suggests there's so much fear, and that e.g. all that stupid airport "security" is window-dressing to placate those poor other people.
I don't know, maybe people just talk tough but secretly wet their pants at the thought of another 9-11, but that's not the impression I get and it's certainly not how I feel. Widespread support for the "war on terrorism" seems mostly motivated by desire for revenge. I.e., "they" killed a few thousand of "us" so "we" had better go kill a few hundred thousand of "them" to teach "them" a lesson.
Do you believe things outside your perception can be real? There's a tree somewhere in Argentina of which you have no awareness; it exists anyway. There's a baby being born to your parents, somewhere off in the direction of space-time called "past". There's an old, gray drinkypoo, somewhere off in another direction we call "future", dying. This latter thing is out of your perception, but it is real nonetheless. (Obviously I make up some details, like the "old gray" part, since it's beyond my awareness too.)
Randomness, causality, those are just ways of describing tendencies in the structure of mass-energy in space-time. "Your time" is real regardless of the exact details of that morphology, whether it's "caused" or "willed" or "destined" or "random".
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As far as "safety" goes, scooters are already effectively silent to car drivers. Heck, inside a car with the windows rolled up you'd be hard-pressed to hear a street-legal 1000cc motorcycle with approaching. You might be able to hear it going away but by that point it's irrelevant. (How often does a car rear-end an accelerating motorcycle? (never)) Sure, lots of bikers use racing pipes, but those are just the ones you notice -- the majority of motorcycles have OEM exhaust pipes and are pretty quiet.
That is all!
By far the easiest way to settle a mess like this is to stop distributing the product or to start distributing the source code under the GPL. That's all the authors care about, and nobody ever (AFAIK) pursues damages after forcing GPL compliance.
As a free software author I have no interest in trying to cash in on any infringement case, so I don't particular care where the damages go, as long as the guilty party is fairly punished. I'd be just as happy seeing an unrepentant infringer go to jail or pay fines to the government, or even throw their assets into a big bonfire. People who get my GPL code don't owe me any money, they owe me their improvements to the code; that's all I care about.
There can be great comfort in knowing that you really can check out any time you want. It's kind of exhilarating, a feeling of power, that if this stupid world pushes me too far I can just *click* switch it off. That alone can make another shitty day of life bearable.
However, the US constitution does prohibit restrictions on speech and press by the legislature in amendment #1, regardless of whether there really is any inherent right to free speech. Presumably the Australian constitution has no such prohibition and the legislature is allowed to (attempt to) restrict speech as it sees fit.
Sometimes it's hard to find the verb in a headline.
Energy cost of extraction is ultimately much more important than dollar cost. How many barrels of oil do you have to consume to produce a barrel of oil out of the tar sands? If it's anywhere close to 1 that will never be a viable energy source.
I've been using various forms of per-correspondent addresses in my own domain since 1999, and I've seen no spam at all on the vast majority of them. The ones that get a lot of spam are the ones posted publicly, on Usenet or mailing lists (archived in searchable websites) or as my domain contact. The most notable exception was philips.com -- I sent mail to their tech support address and the only response I ever got was random MMF spam. Directron.com and emusic.com appear to have sold my address to spammers. None of my other single-use addresses have gotten spam, except directly from the companies I gave them to.
Truth is positive signal, gibberish is noise, falsehood is negative signal. Or something like that, maybe.
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The insurance company will not roll over and pay a million dollars if they can win the case for less than that. The whole point of a frivolous lawsuit is to bankrupt the defendant with legal costs. You can't do that to an insurance company. If the suit isn't frivolous then the defendant deserves to pay anyway, insurance or no. It was only an extra $300 for the insurance anyway, no big loss compared to that million dollars it saved.
Details on Jay's web site and Usenet discussions like this one
Perhaps proxy assignments could be handled anonymously and untraceably.... That is, each voter gets some kind of crypto-key ID (possibly a different key for each vote) and can either cast their vote directly or assign it to another voter (proxy) using that voter's ID. The voting could be done at something like existing polling stations, where voting is done in private. As long as there's no way for the proxy to determine whose votes were assigned to him, he can't verify for purposes of payoff or intimidation.
Are there any other problems with proxy voting? Maybe complexity and security: the system would have to be handled electronically, with computers and networks and databases, very large and sophisticated ones which could very likely be hacked.
Martyrs can be good for The Cause, but The Cause is never good for martyrs.
Until I saw that insane rant I thought we all must be missing something, that someone had gone off half-cocked and misreported the story, that Tegam had some good reason for suing (like maybe a violated NDA). But no, it's true, they are lunatics. What's still unclear is how far this got in court, and why (or whether) the court is taking it seriously. Jail time? 900,000 euros? Seems very unlikely.
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Just clip a privilege escallation exploit into a web server worm, and *voila* your box is fully-0wned even with httpd running as nobody!Those estimates are from 2001. Maybe the porn industry has grown since then?
He DESPERATELY NEEDS to be slapped around a bit IMMEDIATELY!
Yeah, it's grown a bit beyond three. #0 and #4 were added later. Didn't Asimov do something like that too?
CPUs (all brands AFAIK) have been multiplier-locked for a long time already, and clock-rate enforcement isn't really practical, so overclockers don't have anything to worry about.
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I don't know, maybe people just talk tough but secretly wet their pants at the thought of another 9-11, but that's not the impression I get and it's certainly not how I feel. Widespread support for the "war on terrorism" seems mostly motivated by desire for revenge. I.e., "they" killed a few thousand of "us" so "we" had better go kill a few hundred thousand of "them" to teach "them" a lesson.
Randomness, causality, those are just ways of describing tendencies in the structure of mass-energy in space-time. "Your time" is real regardless of the exact details of that morphology, whether it's "caused" or "willed" or "destined" or "random".
BTW, isn't it 500,000,000,000 or 500,000,000,000,000 tonnes, depending on whether they meant "real" billions or "US" billions?