True, but most computer users probably know a geek or two willing to help.
My grandmother wouldn't know what a Mozilla is if it bit her.
You could install it for her and show her how to use it. It's at least as user-friendly to the ordinary person as IE (more so, if you like tabbed browsing.)
Oh. That's a lot worse than my hypothesis. If someone is just using false From and Return-Path headers, there's nothing you can do about it, although people who don't know how to read the other e-mail headers might think the spam is coming from your domain.
But if the spam is actually coming from your server, it could get you in SpamCop and other blacklists, so that's a serious problem.
Even if Malaysia doesn't contribute OSS to the community in return, the world is better off with the Malaysian government using OSS and not handing its taxpayers' money to Microsoft.
Exactly: copyright is not a right but a privilege granted by the state in order to encourage authors to create more stuff that will in the long term enrich the public domain.
But please don't use the term "intellectual property"---it's a misleading phrase that the media companies use in order to delude the public into believing that there is some kind of property right involved.
I believe many people with "low vision" (i.e. significantly impaired vision but not total blindness) are unable to use crappy web-sites (that don't work with screen-readers or user-adjustable font sizes) but able to enjoy the cinema (where the screen is bigger and farther away and sound is part of the experience).
On the other hand, I would be furious if someone chose to replicate my website, for any reason, be it good or bad.
You're probably a good designer who produces browser-independent work. Bad designers deserve to have their work fixed for them.
Copyrights are not rights at all: they (like patents) are privileges granted by the state in order to obtain some public good. Sensible copyright law would take that into account and allow this type of bad design to be rectified.
A "friend" of mine worked for a software company that has no problems with taking OSS and changing a few things in the source and calling it their own and shipping it as apart of the end product license NOT intact (or insight for that matter) AND for a handsome PROFIT mind you!
If copyright expired on the author's death, then bumping the author off to stop paying royalties would backfire: the copyright would be terminated and anyone could redistribute the work without paying the publisher.
You must be lucky enough to have several good ISPs competing for your business. Here I have one broadband supplier which refuses to guarantee its e-mail service works. Most of the time it does, but sometimes outgoing e-mail gets queued for long periods of time with no warnings to the senders.
Only if you don't send them through your job email server
You can't do this if your ISP is blocking port 25 out and forcing you to go through its own mailrouters. And that's just the sort of ISP that would not be interested in helping you out with SPF.
I work from home a lot, so some of my e-mails sent from home have my personal address (which happens to be with my ISP) but some of them have my work from-address. Wouldn't this system obstruct that?
Also, many people use a different e-mail address from their ISP but are forced to route their mail through their ISP's SMTP server. How would they get around SPF?
I think the blacklists you mentioned are all based on evidence of wrongdoing (spamming, zombies, open relays). Wisely, you are not using dynip blacklists to stop responsible broadband customers from routing their own mail.
Blocking port 25 for everyone, like using dynip blacklists, is condeming all users of a certain class as guilty without evidence and with no way for them to get unblocked.
Here's another brilliant one: a amazingly stupid patent for a data compression algorithm that successfully compresses anything, even random data. I think you could convince someone without a lot of mathematical expertise that this is mathematically nonsense.
I see no reason why the government should have to buy out the patent. Patents are not rights but privileges granted by the state in order to promote the public good.
If a patent works against the public good (e.g. Monsanto's Terminator gene), the government should simply cancel it and say "Tough."
I think a better analogy would be that a hostname (what you type in a URL, for example) is equivalent to a phone number (what you dial to call someone), whereas the IP address and other routing information is more like the internal workings of the phone network to connect to the hostname.
Just as a hostmaster can move a hostname to a different IP address, you can carry your mobile phone between different antennas: the DNS routing and telephone switching connect the caller to the desired endpoint.
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Barcodes are scanned only where and when you buy something. But RFIDs can be read without your knowledge by anyone with a suitable scanner.
Where can one buy the recommended "ACG Multi-Tag Reader, in a CF-Flash Socket or PCMCIA Adapter"? How expensive?
True, but most computer users probably know a geek or two willing to help.
My grandmother wouldn't know what a Mozilla is if it bit her.
You could install it for her and show her how to use it. It's at least as user-friendly to the ordinary person as IE (more so, if you like tabbed browsing.)
I know it's a bit late for this discussion but I've just seen on the Register a reference to a command line Odeon schedule browser written in Perl.
But if the spam is actually coming from your server, it could get you in SpamCop and other blacklists, so that's a serious problem.
Even if Malaysia doesn't contribute OSS to the community in return, the world is better off with the Malaysian government using OSS and not handing its taxpayers' money to Microsoft.
Even good Americans don't use Internet Explorer!
Not necessarily using your server---just using From and Return-Path headers with the nonexistent address in your domain.
But please don't use the term "intellectual property"---it's a misleading phrase that the media companies use in order to delude the public into believing that there is some kind of property right involved.
I believe many people with "low vision" (i.e. significantly impaired vision but not total blindness) are unable to use crappy web-sites (that don't work with screen-readers or user-adjustable font sizes) but able to enjoy the cinema (where the screen is bigger and farther away and sound is part of the experience).
You're probably a good designer who produces browser-independent work. Bad designers deserve to have their work fixed for them.
Copyrights are not rights at all: they (like patents) are privileges granted by the state in order to obtain some public good. Sensible copyright law would take that into account and allow this type of bad design to be rectified.
Good point. It's too bad the user-agent string was ever invented: the web would be a better place without it.
You should report this to the FSF.
Violations of the GPL, LGPL, and GFDL
I agree with him in the domain he was talking about. Most people in the US with computers know the two-letter abbreviation for their own state.
You can lead a horse to water...
If copyright expired on the author's death, then bumping the author off to stop paying royalties would backfire: the copyright would be terminated and anyone could redistribute the work without paying the publisher.
You must be lucky enough to have several good ISPs competing for your business. Here I have one broadband supplier which refuses to guarantee its e-mail service works. Most of the time it does, but sometimes outgoing e-mail gets queued for long periods of time with no warnings to the senders.
You can't do this if your ISP is blocking port 25 out and forcing you to go through its own mailrouters. And that's just the sort of ISP that would not be interested in helping you out with SPF.
Also, many people use a different e-mail address from their ISP but are forced to route their mail through their ISP's SMTP server. How would they get around SPF?
Blocking port 25 for everyone, like using dynip blacklists, is condeming all users of a certain class as guilty without evidence and with no way for them to get unblocked.
Web "designers" who make you use it to navigate a site or to get information, however, should be flogged.
Here's another brilliant one: a amazingly stupid patent for a data compression algorithm that successfully compresses anything, even random data. I think you could convince someone without a lot of mathematical expertise that this is mathematically nonsense.
If a patent works against the public good (e.g. Monsanto's Terminator gene), the government should simply cancel it and say "Tough."
Just as a hostmaster can move a hostname to a different IP address, you can carry your mobile phone between different antennas: the DNS routing and telephone switching connect the caller to the desired endpoint.
You mean *.iq.colony.gov?