Remember:
- Every program can be reduced by 1 line of code
- Every program has at least 1 bug in it.
Thus, by induction, every program can be reduced to 1 line of code that doesn't work.
I disagree. The end user purchased the book in good faith and had absolutely no reason to even suspect that Amazon didn't have the US rights. What would have happened if Amazon had shipped physical books? Same sort of thing should happen. The end user still keeps the book, Amazon pays the appropriate damages to the rights-holders.
Actually it is done by one entity. However, IANA turns around and allocated large blocks to ARIN, RIPE, etc. Same idea with the DNS..com,.edu,.ca,.nz are pointing at other DNSes.
IMHO, that's heading to a slippery slope. You seem to be arguing that it's OK, the person got it mostly right. As well as the assumption that the reader is fluent in the language. Which leads to two questions: How mostly is still OK? And what about the people who aren't perfectly fluent in the larguage? If the person got 80% of the context correct, is that enough? How about 70? 60? etc.
One should strive for 100% to maximize the clarity of the written information.
Among those seemingly aware of the existence of Mood Stamps is Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie...
Isn't it possible that (since he worked on the Lotus Notes project) Ray Ozzie is the originator of this idea and Lotus Notes did not have the foresight to patent this technology when he worked for them? Isn't it possible that he thought this idea patentable and in a better late than never fashion he patented it?
However his employment contact with Lotus likely had clauses about how Lotus owns the ideas since he came up with them in the context of being employed by Lotus.
That was the running joke a while ago... the next standard is C++0x where x will be the year that it's final. Hopefully we won't have to use a hex digit for the x. Well, it would now appear that we wil have to use a hex digit....
Of course! To not tell opens the company up to various potential lawsuits. That does however mean that as soon as we hear "GPL", that project gets dropped. LGPL gets consideration though.
But spam is sent almost purely via e-mail which comes from a centralized server and is not P2P plus they are sent in massive amounts, enough to use up a chunk of bandwidth, even more so when they embed images and such in there.
That probably hasn't been done in a long time. Spam frequently originates from a botnet, not from a centralized server. However, from your perspective it does come _to_ a centralized server. To a certain degree, spam is a DDoS attack.
I see that you are choosing to read more into people's statements than were actually said. Nobody said that all Macs had the power button where the PCs had the floppy eject button. Only that there were Macs which had that design. You even acknowledge that some series of Macs had them. Offhand I can't recall a Mac which actually had an eject button. Most of them only had the pinhole eject feature. The Apple IIGS has a 3.5" drive with an eject button, but that was electrical and not mechanical. And yes, I recall when the Lisa came out, so I was around for the entire Mac line. (OK, I can't say I've seen the stuff that actually came out of Xerox).
How do you figure it's not true? At the university I went to, there were both PC labs and Mac labs. You switched back and forth as necessary. I can't count the number of times (or the number of people) that had to play the game of: "I'll push the eject button and, crap! Mac. This is the power button. OK, I need to keep holding the power button while I use the other hand to save everything. OK, everything's saved. Now. Can I release and re-push the power button so I don't have to wait for the machine to reboot....".
Uh, isn't there scads of prior art, specifically Shareware? Happens to be time-limited until it demands money. Or Doom which let you have the first portion until you paid them, then you got the remaining portions. And there's not much really different between an OS and any other program (fundamentally speaking...). Cheat codes in games?
If I wanted to see ads... I wouldn't block them. This feature seems redundant.
The blog post, however, explains the rationale. In particular, adblock was intended to be a mechanism to 'restore balance' in online advertising. Not to necessarily block ALL ads, but to give users the power to block excessively annoying ads, so that webmasters would tone back ads to an acceptable level (for fear of users blocking them entirely).
And evidently the advertisers haven't toned back the ads to an acceptable level, and as the natural consequence users are blocking them entirely.
Although I like this proposal, I don't understand why it wouldn't be simpler to just have someone do the sorting for those "ad-server lists". What I want is a block-list that blocks the annoying ads (e.g. flash ads that cover the page) but doesn't block un-annoying ads (e.g. demure text-ads). A whole spectrum of lists, depending on people's tastes, could be constructed. Do these kind of "nice blocking" lists already exist?
Yep, don't subscribe to someone else's list, construct your own.
The new Galactica wasn't exactly "faithful in it's representation", yet it was overall a good series. I thought the new Star Trek, while had quite a few recognizable echos of the original Star Trek, has started plotting a new course for an alternate story of Star Trek.
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Remember: - Every program can be reduced by 1 line of code - Every program has at least 1 bug in it. Thus, by induction, every program can be reduced to 1 line of code that doesn't work.
Crunchy frog? Cockroach cluster? Spring Surprise?
Why? Just have DHCP hand out DNS servers that don't do the dns lying to those whom have opted out.
They can (or should be able to) take your IP and ask the DHCP server what your MAC is.
I disagree. The end user purchased the book in good faith and had absolutely no reason to even suspect that Amazon didn't have the US rights. What would have happened if Amazon had shipped physical books? Same sort of thing should happen. The end user still keeps the book, Amazon pays the appropriate damages to the rights-holders.
Isn't that why they charge huge amounts for the certs?
Actually it is done by one entity. However, IANA turns around and allocated large blocks to ARIN, RIPE, etc. Same idea with the DNS. .com, .edu, .ca, .nz are pointing at other DNSes.
IMHO, that's heading to a slippery slope. You seem to be arguing that it's OK, the person got it mostly right. As well as the assumption that the reader is fluent in the language. Which leads to two questions: How mostly is still OK? And what about the people who aren't perfectly fluent in the larguage? If the person got 80% of the context correct, is that enough? How about 70? 60? etc. One should strive for 100% to maximize the clarity of the written information.
Among those seemingly aware of the existence of Mood Stamps is Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie ...
Isn't it possible that (since he worked on the Lotus Notes project) Ray Ozzie is the originator of this idea and Lotus Notes did not have the foresight to patent this technology when he worked for them? Isn't it possible that he thought this idea patentable and in a better late than never fashion he patented it?
However his employment contact with Lotus likely had clauses about how Lotus owns the ideas since he came up with them in the context of being employed by Lotus.
That was the running joke a while ago... the next standard is C++0x where x will be the year that it's final. Hopefully we won't have to use a hex digit for the x. Well, it would now appear that we wil have to use a hex digit....
Or the method by which the main character was killed in Dead Like Me.
So where's the _criminal_ assault charge and conviction?
Not entirely obvious to who? That code invokes Undefined Behaviour. By dereferencing a NULL pointer value, that C code can do anytthing.
If you disassemble and reassemble a jar file, then it would no longer be correctly signed.
Of course! To not tell opens the company up to various potential lawsuits. That does however mean that as soon as we hear "GPL", that project gets dropped. LGPL gets consideration though.
Absolutely yes! I sorely miss the age of the space combat sims. X-Wing, Descent Freespace.... those were the days.
But spam is sent almost purely via e-mail which comes from a centralized server and is not P2P plus they are sent in massive amounts, enough to use up a chunk of bandwidth, even more so when they embed images and such in there.
That probably hasn't been done in a long time. Spam frequently originates from a botnet, not from a centralized server. However, from your perspective it does come _to_ a centralized server. To a certain degree, spam is a DDoS attack.
It could be encrypted as well. See Baseline Privacy Interface (BPI, or BPI+).
Ahem... never heard of RFC 3315? DHCPv6 still has a place in an IPv6 network.
I see that you are choosing to read more into people's statements than were actually said. Nobody said that all Macs had the power button where the PCs had the floppy eject button. Only that there were Macs which had that design. You even acknowledge that some series of Macs had them. Offhand I can't recall a Mac which actually had an eject button. Most of them only had the pinhole eject feature. The Apple IIGS has a 3.5" drive with an eject button, but that was electrical and not mechanical. And yes, I recall when the Lisa came out, so I was around for the entire Mac line. (OK, I can't say I've seen the stuff that actually came out of Xerox).
How do you figure it's not true? At the university I went to, there were both PC labs and Mac labs. You switched back and forth as necessary. I can't count the number of times (or the number of people) that had to play the game of: "I'll push the eject button and, crap! Mac. This is the power button. OK, I need to keep holding the power button while I use the other hand to save everything. OK, everything's saved. Now. Can I release and re-push the power button so I don't have to wait for the machine to reboot....".
Uh, isn't there scads of prior art, specifically Shareware? Happens to be time-limited until it demands money. Or Doom which let you have the first portion until you paid them, then you got the remaining portions. And there's not much really different between an OS and any other program (fundamentally speaking...). Cheat codes in games?
If I wanted to see ads... I wouldn't block them. This feature seems redundant.
The blog post, however, explains the rationale. In particular, adblock was intended to be a mechanism to 'restore balance' in online advertising. Not to necessarily block ALL ads, but to give users the power to block excessively annoying ads, so that webmasters would tone back ads to an acceptable level (for fear of users blocking them entirely).
And evidently the advertisers haven't toned back the ads to an acceptable level, and as the natural consequence users are blocking them entirely.
Although I like this proposal, I don't understand why it wouldn't be simpler to just have someone do the sorting for those "ad-server lists". What I want is a block-list that blocks the annoying ads (e.g. flash ads that cover the page) but doesn't block un-annoying ads (e.g. demure text-ads). A whole spectrum of lists, depending on people's tastes, could be constructed. Do these kind of "nice blocking" lists already exist?
Yep, don't subscribe to someone else's list, construct your own.
The new Galactica wasn't exactly "faithful in it's representation", yet it was overall a good series. I thought the new Star Trek, while had quite a few recognizable echos of the original Star Trek, has started plotting a new course for an alternate story of Star Trek.
x = x xor y y = x xor y x = x xor y Now you know!
Hmm (let's assume C++, or something close to it): int x = 4; int & y = x; x = x xor y; y = x xor y; x = x xor y;
Oops. x starts at 4, and ends up with 0. Bad swap algorithm.