If you own a hotel, but you force customers to give ALL their credit cards, drivers licenses, emails, and other revealing information before using the pool. Or the vibrating bed, for that matter.
This looks to me almost identical to spam! Think about it: they are using YOUR bandwidth, for something YOU don't want to send/receive. Now, if the RIAA plans on paying me every time they do this, that is fine with me, but otherwise, don't touch.
Just a thought as well, would it be possible to put something in the motd to the affect of: Owners of ANY disruptive automated clients agree to pay the amount of $9999999999999999 to the server owner. ? Just a thought, I'm not a legal expert by any means.
This has been probably be mentioned...but, how can they prove that all of them are trading Metallica music? Is it illegal to put 'Metallica' in a song name now? Did they download those thousands of user's mp3s? I suspect that they are going to have a fun time proving this, and that they'll find users will boycott them instead. I know I will.
I'm a freshmen at our local high school, however I consider myself rather skilled in Linux. I've been using it for about 2 years. This year I took CS1. I got to know the teacher rather well. He's a pretty down to earth guy, and when we were doing our OS lesson I suggested that we do a lab on Linux. Linux was already installed as a dual boot on the labs computers, so yes we were already a step ahead, but he had no idea how to teach the lab. So, I volunteered. In short I wowed some people, and even gave away some burned cds of Linux.
I managed to effect a class of students. That's not too much. The problem with Linux is that school administration/teachers don't understand it and (gasp) hence fear it. You're best bet is finding a teacher and suggesting it to them. If they seem rather close minded (like yours), you might want to try showing them what it can do, or some of the licenses. Describe the Linux community.
IMHO if you start small, you'll get your point across that CS without Linux is worthless. Perhaps after you convince your teacher with his/her help you could approach the super intendant or CS department head and get it added to the curiculum. You might have to tutor a teacher or two, but overall I think your goal is possible.
I'm no lawyer, so I'm curious if there ware any legal experts out there who would say if the claim was valid. My particular wonder was if warning them about adding AOL As their 'default' isp.
Websters defines default as: <u>Computer Science.</u> A particular value for a variable that is assigned automatically by an operating system and remains in effect unless canceled or overridden by the operator.
From what I know, this 'option' can't be "canceled or overridden" (at least easily), although I have not witnessed it first hand.
Again, I'm just curious as to the base of their claims, and I hope the people win the lawsuit. I'm sure AOL didn't just happen to make it that way. It's good someone stood up to them.
I don't see many reasons to take servers offline. The only advantage you have is that your server is not prone to attacks. Since your servers should be secure anyway, I don't see any reason to take them down.
If they aren't Y2k compatible (if you don't have a y2k server, you're in some deep shit...), booting them after Y2K will not work, duh.
I suppose the final decisions come from the bosses, the ones at the top of the company, who don't know that much about the technology. I'm not trying to make them look bad, because it's not their area of the business, so they should stay out, and let the sysadmin decide.
Why are we writing 'writing recognition' software? I thought the whole reason for using computers (typing) was because they were faster... I type 120 wpm, I write like 5. Just my thoughts on Christmas morning;p
Many people have posted that Amazon was in a sue, or be sued situation. Not quite. Just because you own a patent, doesn't mean you HAVE to exercise your rights to it.
Although I used to respect Amazon as a company, my respect was lost after they made some stupid decisions, and there stock became unstable. This is just another stupid decision they've made, and like the other ones, most likely won't fix.
Hi guys. I just wanted to put my few cents in. There's a 'mac' version for ppc machines that can run Mac Os. Well, you could run any other os you like. It's called mol (www.ibrium.se). It's open sourced, and works on just about every mac machine. Anyway, just thought I'd let you know:P
Someone's going to need to draw the line somewhere. If a blind doesn't get a truck driving job because they are blind, then do they have the right to sue the employer?
Of course not. I'm not against the blind, but I think they are being very stupid. If AOL doesn't support blind people, then boycott it.
I doubt this lawsuit will go through anyway as it was stupid to begin with.
I'm sorry. I read this, and I started laughing. Standards? Ha. Any operating system that runs (3rd party) programs is not going to be completely the same. I used to be a windows guy, and then a mac os guy, and now I'm a Linux guy. What they see as a "Lack of Standards", is a chance for me to customize my box more. The only reason Linux seems to be less standardized is because there are so many choices. And frankly, if everything were the same, it'd plain suck. Those are just my thoughts, I'm sure some of you would agree, and some don't. I just thought the perspectice of the article was not fair, since it's going to be that way for a lot of OS's.
I think the government should stop patenting things that are just plain stupid. Think of it. Someone can patent something someone else knows how to do already, and they have ALL rights to it. That's just plain dumb. Hopefully, the Supreme Court will start reversing some decisions, like in the AOL case. You can now legally use "You've got mail!". I wonder if someone could patent the letter a and charge people for using it. Probably, there's been stupider stuff. Well, there's my opinion.:)
I highly doubt the government could figure out what a file format is. A friend of mine was on a shell where an fbi agent also had an account. He had BitchX and eggdrop in his directory. The agent assumed these were hacking programs and proceeded to testing them themself. This person really must've wanted a raise, because he came to conclude eggdrop was a hacking utility and BitchX was an application to get root access. Um, yeah whatever. It just shows how clueless the government is when it comes to computers.
Is it just me, or is the government trying to tax something they don't own or support? I havn't seen the government offering any free stmp servers. Even if this bill was passed, how are they going to "bill" all emails? And if they did, someone would just make a new protocol (not to mention all the US's geeks waging a war..but besides that...).
Hi guys, I was thinking about a way to hack the Linux box. The stock linuxppc install comes with X running by default. Hopefully it's still on. If it is, is there a way we could run a remote application to connect to the server? I know you can do this, but I havn't tried it and don't know if you need to add privledges on the server side. Well, just an idea. -Ed
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tribes 2! Too bad it's not as good as tribes 1.
Can we say... postscript?
If you own a hotel, but you force customers to give ALL their credit cards, drivers licenses, emails, and other revealing information before using the pool. Or the vibrating bed, for that matter.
Just a thought as well, would it be possible to put something in the motd to the affect of: Owners of ANY disruptive automated clients agree to pay the amount of $9999999999999999 to the server owner. ? Just a thought, I'm not a legal expert by any means.
This has been probably be mentioned...but, how can they prove that all of them are trading Metallica music? Is it illegal to put 'Metallica' in a song name now? Did they download those thousands of user's mp3s? I suspect that they are going to have a fun time proving this, and that they'll find users will boycott them instead. I know I will.
I'm a freshmen at our local high school, however I consider myself rather skilled in Linux. I've been using it for about 2 years. This year I took CS1. I got to know the teacher rather well. He's a pretty down to earth guy, and when we were doing our OS lesson I suggested that we do a lab on Linux. Linux was already installed as a dual boot on the labs computers, so yes we were already a step ahead, but he had no idea how to teach the lab. So, I volunteered. In short I wowed some people, and even gave away some burned cds of Linux.
I managed to effect a class of students. That's not too much. The problem with Linux is that school administration/teachers don't understand it and (gasp) hence fear it. You're best bet is finding a teacher and suggesting it to them. If they seem rather close minded (like yours), you might want to try showing them what it can do, or some of the licenses. Describe the Linux community.
IMHO if you start small, you'll get your point across that CS without Linux is worthless. Perhaps after you convince your teacher with his/her help you could approach the super intendant or CS department head and get it added to the curiculum. You might have to tutor a teacher or two, but overall I think your goal is possible.
I'm no lawyer, so I'm curious if there ware any legal experts out there who would say if the claim was valid. My particular wonder was if warning them about adding AOL As their 'default' isp.
Websters defines default as:
<u>Computer Science.</u> A particular value for a variable that is assigned automatically by an operating system and remains in effect unless canceled or overridden by the operator.
From what I know, this 'option' can't be "canceled or overridden" (at least easily), although I have not witnessed it first hand.
Again, I'm just curious as to the base of their claims, and I hope the people win the lawsuit. I'm sure AOL didn't just happen to make it that way. It's good someone stood up to them.
So? They got a preliminary injunction. The judge himself said that they had very little chance of winning the case.
Actually, there is an aol tunneler so you can use the internet with AOL with Linux. Look for aol on freshmeat.
Why are all the postings for the law suit by Anonymous Coward? Probably some MPAA idiots think they are going to change our minds. Yeah...right....
I don't see many reasons to take servers offline. The only advantage you have is that your server is not prone to attacks. Since your servers should be secure anyway, I don't see any reason to take them down.
If they aren't Y2k compatible (if you don't have a y2k server, you're in some deep shit...), booting them after Y2K will not work, duh.
I suppose the final decisions come from the bosses, the ones at the top of the company, who don't know that much about the technology. I'm not trying to make them look bad, because it's not their area of the business, so they should stay out, and let the sysadmin decide.
Hm. All of the boxes seem to be unreachable. I just tried telnetting in from a few machines, and get no response.
NT writes to the disk a lot!
Error...Error...Error......
Why are we writing 'writing recognition' software? I thought the whole reason for using computers (typing) was because they were faster... ;p
I type 120 wpm, I write like 5. Just my thoughts on Christmas morning
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Many people have posted that Amazon was in a sue, or be sued situation. Not quite. Just because you own a patent, doesn't mean you HAVE to exercise your rights to it.
Although I used to respect Amazon as a company, my respect was lost after they made some stupid decisions, and there stock became unstable. This is just another stupid decision they've made, and like the other ones, most likely won't fix.
Brains are used in the process of distributing illegal mp3s - quick let's sue everyone with brains.
Hi guys. I just wanted to put my few cents in. There's a 'mac' version for ppc machines that can run Mac Os. Well, you could run any other os you like. It's called mol (www.ibrium.se). It's open sourced, and works on just about every mac machine. Anyway, just thought I'd let you know :P
Someone's going to need to draw the line somewhere. If a blind doesn't get a truck driving job because they are blind, then do they have the right to sue the employer?
Of course not. I'm not against the blind, but I think they are being very stupid. If AOL doesn't support blind people, then boycott it.
I doubt this lawsuit will go through anyway as it was stupid to begin with.
I'm sorry. I read this, and I started laughing. Standards? Ha. Any operating system that runs (3rd party) programs is not going to be completely the same. I used to be a windows guy, and then a mac os guy, and now I'm a Linux guy. What they see as a "Lack of Standards", is a chance for me to customize my box more. The only reason Linux seems to be less standardized is because there are so many choices. And frankly, if everything were the same, it'd plain suck. Those are just my thoughts, I'm sure some of you would agree, and some don't. I just thought the perspectice of the article was not fair, since it's going to be that way for a lot of OS's.
I think the government should stop patenting things that are just plain stupid. Think of it. Someone can patent something someone else knows how to do already, and they have ALL rights to it. That's just plain dumb. Hopefully, the Supreme Court will start reversing some decisions, like in the AOL case. You can now legally use "You've got mail!". I wonder if someone could patent the letter a and charge people for using it. Probably, there's been stupider stuff. Well, there's my opinion. :)
I highly doubt the government could figure out what a file format is. A friend of mine was on a shell where an fbi agent also had an account. He had BitchX and eggdrop in his directory. The agent assumed these were hacking programs and proceeded to testing them themself. This person really must've wanted a raise, because he came to conclude eggdrop was a hacking utility and BitchX was an application to get root access. Um, yeah whatever. It just shows how clueless the government is when it comes to computers.
Is it just me, or is the government trying to tax something they don't own or support? I havn't seen the government offering any free stmp servers. Even if this bill was passed, how are they going to "bill" all emails? And if they did, someone would just make a new protocol (not to mention all the US's geeks waging a war..but besides that...).
Hi guys, I was thinking about a way to hack the Linux box. The stock linuxppc install comes with X running by default. Hopefully it's still on. If it is, is there a way we could run a remote application to connect to the server? I know you can do this, but I havn't tried it and don't know if you need to add privledges on the server side. Well, just an idea.
-Ed
Odd, I can't seem to resolve the test server's name. Is my isp being stupid, or is the dns server on the test server? :P