I'm neither a philosopher nor an atheist, but the most primitive justification of what is right and what is wrong for an atheist would be: "don't do to others what you would not like being done to you". [with author's correction]
This statement is only the negative way of restating the famous Golden Rule, spoken by that great atheist, Jesus.
Copy machines are legal because it is legal to 'copy' things which you own the rights to or under the fair use doctrine.
I haven't seen described the legal use of modchips. As the great-great-great...grandparent said: People put modchips in their consoles so they can play stolen (ie, burned) games. If people did NOT use modchips for that purpose, this law wouldn't be necessary.
The American ban on assault weapons is similar: though there is a Constitutional amendment stating that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed," since the only use of these weapons (killing many people quickly) is illegal, our lawmakers have seen fit to limit what kind of arms we may keep and bear.
Libraries allow this because of the "Fair Use" Doctrine of The Copyright Act of 1976:
Sec. 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include -
the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
the nature of the copyrighted work;
the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.
blinkx is just trying to head off Google, which is working on a utility that will apply Google's search power to your computer.
Story:
SAN FRANCISCO, May 18 - Edging closer to a direct confrontation with Microsoft, Google, the Web search engine, is preparing to introduce a powerful file and text software search tool for locating information stored on personal computers.
Google's software, which is expected to be introduced soon, according to several people with knowledge of the company's plans, is the clearest indication to date that the company, based in Mountain View, Calif., hopes to extend its search business to compete directly with Microsoft's control of desktop computing.
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"The Power Glove has to be one of the most innovative and least useful of all peripherals. R.O.B. may be more pointless from a gaming perspective, but there wasn't as much to R.O.B.
The Power Glove along with the sensors that were to be placed around your TV supposedly allowed you to control the game through virtual reality."
Check out FlashBlock, an extension for Firefox which "[a]dds an XBL binding to Shockwave Flash object tags that replaces them with a button you must click in order to play the animation. Quite nice for restoring sanity to your browsing session."
Our tech support firm uses a variant of VNC and we've had no problems with our connections being disrupted by spyware/malware.
I second the motion to use VNC. I suggested it to my boss 6 months ago (immediately after starting the new job) and got it implemented soon after. My service calls out to other locations got cut by 75%, and I am now able to take care of removing spyware/etc. myself, instead of taking hours and hours trying to walk end users through downloading and installing Spybot/Ad-aware, or resetting their home page in Control Panel | Internet Options.
Your friend may want to check out GovernmentForge.org, a website "dedicated to providing free and open source software to state and local governments."
"A computer worm is a self-replicating computer program, similar to a computer virus. A virus attaches itself to, and becomes part of, another executable program; a worm is self-contained and does not need to be part of another program to propagate itself."
In addition to BugTraq and NTBugTraq, Full-Disclosure is another excellent vulnerability list, and is always a week or two ahead of the "official" advisories.
For other lists, Fyodor's SecLists.org is the list of security mailing lists.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah! And not only AIM, but Viewpoint Media Player, and Winamp, and "FREE AOL!" icons for my desktop and my Start Menu...
I can't wait.
Uh, gmail.google.com?
Empathy is hardly a concept/emotion that requires divinity.
Yeah, but wouldn't it be a whole lot cooler if some regular atheistic non-deity-type guy had come up with it?
I'm neither a philosopher nor an atheist, but the most primitive justification of what is right and what is wrong for an atheist would be: "don't do to others what you would not like being done to you". [with author's correction]
This statement is only the negative way of restating the famous Golden Rule, spoken by that great atheist, Jesus.
Err... hmmm.
...it's trying to get into the sunscreen market as well?
Microsoft is just trying to protect its empire from the Sun.
Ballmer's been there...
/classic
http://www.crocuta.net/Dean/dancemonkeyboy.mpeg
Copy machines are legal because it is legal to 'copy' things which you own the rights to or under the fair use doctrine.
I haven't seen described the legal use of modchips. As the great-great-great...grandparent said:
People put modchips in their consoles so they can play stolen (ie, burned) games. If people did NOT use modchips for that purpose, this law wouldn't be necessary.
The American ban on assault weapons is similar: though there is a Constitutional amendment stating that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed," since the only use of these weapons (killing many people quickly) is illegal, our lawmakers have seen fit to limit what kind of arms we may keep and bear.
Libraries allow this because of the "Fair Use" Doctrine of The Copyright Act of 1976:
Sec. 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include - the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; the nature of the copyrighted work; the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.
Slashdot must have been farked...
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Read about Scandal@Gmail
blinkx is just trying to head off Google, which is working on a utility that will apply Google's search power to your computer.
...
Story:
SAN FRANCISCO, May 18 - Edging closer to a direct confrontation with Microsoft, Google, the Web search engine, is preparing to introduce a powerful file and text software search tool for locating information stored on personal computers.
Google's software, which is expected to be introduced soon, according to several people with knowledge of the company's plans, is the clearest indication to date that the company, based in Mountain View, Calif., hopes to extend its search business to compete directly with Microsoft's control of desktop computing.
The "graphical linking system" looks a lot like the Kartoo search engine...
So where do I get my invitation to blinkx?
"The Power Glove has to be one of the most innovative and least useful of all peripherals. R.O.B. may be more pointless from a gaming perspective, but there wasn't as much to R.O.B.
The Power Glove along with the sensors that were to be placed around your TV supposedly allowed you to control the game through virtual reality."
Check out FlashBlock, an extension for Firefox which "[a]dds an XBL binding to Shockwave Flash object tags that replaces them with a button you must click in order to play the animation. Quite nice for restoring sanity to your browsing session."
Indeed.
Our tech support firm uses a variant of VNC and we've had no problems with our connections being disrupted by spyware/malware.
I second the motion to use VNC. I suggested it to my boss 6 months ago (immediately after starting the new job) and got it implemented soon after. My service calls out to other locations got cut by 75%, and I am now able to take care of removing spyware/etc. myself, instead of taking hours and hours trying to walk end users through downloading and installing Spybot/Ad-aware, or resetting their home page in Control Panel | Internet Options.
Firefox...doesn't start rendering the page when it gets it's first byte
Can be modified in user.js -- see Speed up page rendering from Texturizer.net's Firefox Tips & Tricks.
IIRC, the loser had to buy the winner a copy of Penthouse.
This led me to Google "hot girls wheelchairs", which got me nothing. Apparently even teh intarweb has its limits...
Your friend may want to check out GovernmentForge.org, a website "dedicated to providing free and open source software to state and local governments."
Does that some from somewhere, or is that your personal philosophy?
"A computer worm is a self-replicating computer program, similar to a computer virus. A virus attaches itself to, and becomes part of, another executable program; a worm is self-contained and does not need to be part of another program to propagate itself."
Source: Wikipedia
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." --Verbal Kint
And the greatest trick this guy pulled is making himself look like an ID10T...
In addition to BugTraq and NTBugTraq, Full-Disclosure is another excellent vulnerability list, and is always a week or two ahead of the "official" advisories.
For other lists, Fyodor's SecLists.org is the list of security mailing lists.
Wikipedia?!
Just fucking Google it.
"This Snow Crash thing-- is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?"
First hit on Google:
/ black_tuesday.htm
http://mutualfunds.about.com/cs/1929marketcrash/a
"Black Tuesday is notorious for being the worst day in the U.S. stock market"...
You didn't even try, did you?