Well, we could always call the owner of the site and tell him how much we 'so' appreciate his exploit being used on ppl. ...
Registrant Phone Number: +603.27756842
That would be a good idea for a phone number in your own country (sorry if I'm wrongly assuming you're not in Malaysia), but who's willing to pay for overseas phone calls to complain about this?
I think the best example of this is where someone decides in a vindictive moment to register a domain "johnsmithsucks.com" and puts up pictures of John Smith and his family.
That's a very good point, but we also need to consider protecting someone who sets up foocompanyrippedmeoff.com. Foo Company has a lot of lawyers and it is very expensive and difficult to defend a libel action even if you're right---especially in the UK, for example, where "libel tourism" is popular.
I registered oleg.ws and now I am in a world of pain. Thanks for those yahoo filters. I think there should be an option for non-commercial (non-.com?) users to hide the info but disclose it to people who make a personal application with a legitamate concern.
Some registration and hosting companies will hold your details on file but put their own contact information in the whois records and forward and legitimate communications to you. Domains by Proxy specifically advertises such a service but some hosting companies will do it on request.
Very good point---it was not stolen but copied. The/. editorial policy should clearly distinguish between copyright infringement and theft, which are two completely different actions.
Two-knob TV Two knobs only - channel and volume. No buttons. The remote has the same two knobs. Turning volume all the way down turns it off. No visible delay on switching to a new channel (this takes extra electronics). Blank channels are automatically skipped, invisibly to the user.
One more knob: adjusting the vertical hold is part of the fun!
Come on. Let's lose this "gimme" hacker's mentality, and take the moral high ground. Let's do things because they are the right thing to do. I would like to think that the Open Source world is populated by gentlemen.
Like RMS I believe the "moral high ground" is the golden rule. We ought to help our neighbours by sharing source code because we would want them to help us.
The root of the problem is the fact that you're not (normally) allowed to return music after having listened to it. How are you supposed to know if it's any good if you can't listen to it beforehand?
Well, you're certainly not supposed to share files over teh interweb, because that would be piracy and evil!
I don't have this problem but I am sympathetic as if I had had in my dorm room as much junk as I now have in my house....
But what really annoys me is unnecessary beeping from appliances. For example, my microwave has an LED display but beeps every time I press a button. My digital kitchen timer does the same. Etc. I appreciate that the audio-feedback is useful to people with low vision, but I just wish the manufacturers would put a "quiet" switch on the back, so that (for example) microwave and timer beep only when the time runs out, not while setting the time.
Now why would the FBI have any reason to raid your company? Because you're doing something illegal maybe? If you're worried about FBI raids, you have bigger problems than off-site backups.
Remember Steve Jackson Games? Being a suspect != being guilty.
Isn't it great when governments make it easier for terrorists to target their own citizens?
If passports have RFIDs that can be read from more than a few cm away, terrorists will be able to build bombs triggered by the presence of citizens of specific countries. Politicians, thanks for looking after us!
All sophistry and rationalizations aside, what they did was stealing.
No, it was not stealing. It was nothing more or less than copyright infringement, which is an entirely different matter. The RIAA and its evil allies misuse terms like "stealing" for propaganda purposes, and you're helping them by repeating it.
If someone told you that an old mainframe serviceman actually got stuck inside an IBM mainframe for several days and survived by eating the spare tractor-feed paper thingies from the printer, that'd be an urban legend.
Hey, that really happened to a friend of a friend!
Which means...what? That registration is some kind of venal sin?
No. All I'm saying is that a library lending out physical material has a good reason in the public interest for requiring registration: to ensure that they can get it back.
Requiring registration to read a website is solely for private interests, not to protect other readers' rights.
Other than Slashdot paranoia, what's fueling this nutty opposition to reigstration?
There's also a handy BugMeNot extension to Firefox. You right-click on a registration page and the BugMeNot option opens another tab with the registration info for the site you want to look at.
You wanna borrow a book from your public library? Well, first you need to sign up with the library.
When you borrow a book from the library and don't return it on time, you are depriving other library users of the opportunity to use the book. If you lose or steal the book, it costs the library money.
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Registrant Phone Number: +603.27756842
That would be a good idea for a phone number in your own country (sorry if I'm wrongly assuming you're not in Malaysia), but who's willing to pay for overseas phone calls to complain about this?
wget in a loop in a shell script?
It translates as "We blame pirates on teh interweb for all our problems."
That's a very good point, but we also need to consider protecting someone who sets up foocompanyrippedmeoff.com. Foo Company has a lot of lawyers and it is very expensive and difficult to defend a libel action even if you're right---especially in the UK, for example, where "libel tourism" is popular.
The bigger the lemming, the harder for it to slow down or turn!
Some registration and hosting companies will hold your details on file but put their own contact information in the whois records and forward and legitimate communications to you. Domains by Proxy specifically advertises such a service but some hosting companies will do it on request.
Very good point---it was not stolen but copied. The /. editorial policy should clearly distinguish between copyright infringement and theft, which are two completely different actions.
One more knob: adjusting the vertical hold is part of the fun!
The official standard for words should include NaW (not a word).
Like RMS I believe the "moral high ground" is the golden rule. We ought to help our neighbours by sharing source code because we would want them to help us.
Well, you're certainly not supposed to share files over teh interweb, because that would be piracy and evil!
Did they get threatening phone calls with spoofed called ID?
You don't know how many of the IE hits are really from other browsers with spoofed user-agent strings.
Extortion. Intrusion by employers.
But what really annoys me is unnecessary beeping from appliances. For example, my microwave has an LED display but beeps every time I press a button. My digital kitchen timer does the same. Etc. I appreciate that the audio-feedback is useful to people with low vision, but I just wish the manufacturers would put a "quiet" switch on the back, so that (for example) microwave and timer beep only when the time runs out, not while setting the time.
That reminds me of this old gag about problems upgrading GirlFriend and conflicts with DrinkingBuddies 1.0.
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article09-002
Fortunately there's a Firefox extension called "Allow Right-Click" that disables this javascript weakness.
Remember Steve Jackson Games? Being a suspect != being guilty.
If passports have RFIDs that can be read from more than a few cm away, terrorists will be able to build bombs triggered by the presence of citizens of specific countries. Politicians, thanks for looking after us!
No, it was not stealing. It was nothing more or less than copyright infringement, which is an entirely different matter. The RIAA and its evil allies misuse terms like "stealing" for propaganda purposes, and you're helping them by repeating it.
Hey, that really happened to a friend of a friend!
Being barred from flying is not the same as being arrested; the former is apparently not subject to due process.
No. All I'm saying is that a library lending out physical material has a good reason in the public interest for requiring registration: to ensure that they can get it back.
Requiring registration to read a website is solely for private interests, not to protect other readers' rights.
Other than Slashdot paranoia, what's fueling this nutty opposition to reigstration?
Concerns about spam and loss of privacy.
There's also a handy BugMeNot extension to Firefox. You right-click on a registration page and the BugMeNot option opens another tab with the registration info for the site you want to look at.
When you borrow a book from the library and don't return it on time, you are depriving other library users of the opportunity to use the book. If you lose or steal the book, it costs the library money.
Viewing a web page is obviously quite different.