Making 1st amendment go bye-bye
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Domain names aren't necessarily trademarks, so that analog doesn't apply. What does bother me is that only high-profile deep-pocket sites like slashdot.org could get away with the arbitration necassary to get rid of "typo" sites. While a smaller site or a personal site has to deal with the normal act of mistyping and ending up somewhere else.
Let's not get into the mess that would happen if I run doglovers.com and some other dog lover couldn't get that domain so they made their own legitimate dog site called dogloverz.com. Or maybe he's busy working on his site and has only some opening HTML and a few test ads. I'd rather not have brat netizens calling "typo" site and demaning pulled domains. Outlawing typo sites would be a great way for losers like GW Bush and Jack T. Chick to get rid of parody sites named after them. Go ahead and try to define "typo" site.
Typo sites should be kept alive and well and if you feel they're using your content without permission (framings) that doesn't mean all typo domains should be abolished it means you have a problem with one specific webmaster who is actively trying to fool people.
As far as linking to the "real" site, thats just as much bullshit as the rest. That could fool the user into thinking that slashbot.org has an association with slashdot.org. You're better off without them, eventually they should realize that hey this isn't the place I wanted to go.
What you should be doing is less whining and more hustling, inform the ad providers and the company that they're advertising that you saw their ad in an unfair fashion and will think twice before shopping there and prefer the honest admanship (this isn't a word or is it?) of their competitors.
Then again I don't see most ads, click my homepage to get a small but effective ad blocking hosts file.
Pegasus mail does this too, or at least something very, very similiar.
From their page on encryption:
Encryptor and security-related plugins for Pegasus Mail.
This page lists locations for add-ons you can use to add encryption capabilities to, or enhance the security of Pegasus Mail for Windows.
QDPGP Developed by Gerard Thomas, this is the premier 32-bit encryption plugin for Pegasus Mail, and the only one currently officially certified by the developer of Pegasus Mail itself. With support for all major versions of PGP and for a variety of other encryption and security concepts, QDPGP offers the most complete and well-integrated encryption component available for Pegasus Mail. Requires any 32-bit version of Pegasus Mail v3.0 or later.
PGP-JN Developed by John Navas, this module provides support for PGP v2.6 for the 16-bit version of Pegasus Mail.
PMPGP Created by Michael in der Wiesche, PMPGP provides an alternative to QDPGP for 32-bit versions of Pegasus Mail, with excellent support for the full gamut of PGP functions, and an optional interface and documentation in German.
Its really more about the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act than first amendment. I really don't see this as a free speech issue as much as a liability/accomplice issue. If they ever catch one of these murdering anti-abortion types and can prove they received private information from "The Numermberg Files" then these "God's children" will be in a very, very bad situation.
If prosecuters can provide a reasonable argument that these these people helped provide criminals with usually hard to get information and provoked them into illegal acts, they're going to go on trial for murder too.
I can't wait to see their upcoming web video of abortions, maybe I'll put up an at home coathanger style abortion and let people decide which one is best for "God's Children."
BTW, the decss comparison sucks and has nothing to do with this case, if computers are all you can relate to then you've got a problem.
I thought that little camera on its side was pointing at a decent flatscreen monitor that's connected to a computer actaully running heretic. Or its probably just an honest mistake, like that Jimi Hendrix compilation album where the cover photo shows him playing right-handed.
How about we keep kbs for kilobits/sec as its traditionally used and kbbs for kilobytes/sec. Its simple and crazy enough to work!
Re:It's still a democracy.....use it!
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Obviously this is nonsense, look at what Nader has done to upset the Democrats. Here in Illinois part of his 39,000+ petition was challened and may not make the 25,000 sigs needed to get on the ballot. The Dems know that there are a great deal of people with left progressive ideals ready to vote for Nader. These people, yes some of them are slashdotters, are not only going to build a stronger Green party after this election but are giving the dems the clear message of "Either embrace left ideals or your numbers will shrink and ours will rise." Whichever happens doesn't matter as long as prog lefties get some decent representation, or at least exposure.
The difference is that your penny-pinching cards are not secretive and you know exactly what you're going into. The secrecy of this situation is what really stinks, a careful consumer has to assume that by not advertising the discount they don't have to advertise the premium and eventually Amazon charges whatever Amazon feels it can without upsetting the herd. This has nothing to do with a little card that says "After 10 subs get one free!"
It warms my heart to see that even the nutty transhumanists who can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality don't take themselves seriously enough to login or even create a dummy account. Let me save this futurist bullshit on the mini-tapepunch machine in my flying car or I'll just have the robot butler/babysitter/security-guard do it for me.
Hit pause on your Star Trek marathon tape and try to join us in the real world, ok Spock? I like sci-fi too, but extrapolating one idea or two to their irrational end to produce some lame Star Trek-esque fantasy is simply not convincing. memepool recently posted a similiar rant.
The brain of the sperm whale weighs 7,800g, the elephant's weighs 7,500g, man's weighs 1,500g, the dolphin's 840g, and the brain of a mouse weighs 0,4g. If these figures are used to determine intelligence, then the sperm whale and the elephant are five times as intelligent as man, who in turn is twice as intelligent as the dolphin, which in turn is 2,000 times as intelligent as a mouse. Should we rank animals in order of how large their brains are in relation to their body weight, then the mouse would come out on top with its brain comprising 3.2%, the dolphin's 0.9% and the sperm whale's 0,021%. Neither absolute brain weight nor the relationship between brain weight and body size provide us with sensible criteria for comparing the intelligence of different species.
I saw Hemos's statement as the cost of leaving a PC on all night and running the client as opposed to shutting at down at night and long periods when no ones going to use it. My machine is off at least 10 hours a day, they'd have to be able to pay that extra ~300 hrs of power and wear and tear before I can see a profit.
Sorry I don't buy that the boycott is the fear that keeps corps in line. Its the fear of lawsuits from consumers or government action (expecially with the environment), which are based on *gasp* laws. Savvy consumers? Nope, savvy lawmakers and lawyers.
It also doesn't help that ArsTechnica is the most pretentious name on the net. Its just weblog-type name dropping, instead of giving credit to the authors (heaven forbid we list their names in the main page) who created these articles its a lot easier to thank some loser at Ars who can copy and paste links.
You have to pay local taxes, if you live in that state, with mail-order and whats "Internet Business" other than a mail order catalog thats updated really really often. Hopefully this loophole will be closed.
The funny thing these things will never go away as long as we have Joe and Mary Blow from any country getting patroitic that so-and-so lost by a fraction of a second and fall into obscurity because he/she was beated by someone else from a different country by that fraction of a second and now will be on every McDonalds cup for the next six months.
These are the same hands-off capitalist "facts" that failed to stop child labor, workplace abuse, environmental abuse, etc. Sorry Ms. Rand but boycotts seldom do anything but raise awareness which is useless without the resulting legislation.
This is the same country that won't give financial aid to anyone convicted of possesing or selling drugs. The debt is forever, its simply all about making an example out of one person to keep the rest of the herd in line.
Slashdot Mirror
Domain names aren't necessarily trademarks, so that analog doesn't apply. What does bother me is that only high-profile deep-pocket sites like slashdot.org could get away with the arbitration necassary to get rid of "typo" sites. While a smaller site or a personal site has to deal with the normal act of mistyping and ending up somewhere else.
Let's not get into the mess that would happen if I run doglovers.com and some other dog lover couldn't get that domain so they made their own legitimate dog site called dogloverz.com. Or maybe he's busy working on his site and has only some opening HTML and a few test ads. I'd rather not have brat netizens calling "typo" site and demaning pulled domains. Outlawing typo sites would be a great way for losers like GW Bush and Jack T. Chick to get rid of parody sites named after them. Go ahead and try to define "typo" site.
Typo sites should be kept alive and well and if you feel they're using your content without permission (framings) that doesn't mean all typo domains should be abolished it means you have a problem with one specific webmaster who is actively trying to fool people.
As far as linking to the "real" site, thats just as much bullshit as the rest. That could fool the user into thinking that slashbot.org has an association with slashdot.org. You're better off without them, eventually they should realize that hey this isn't the place I wanted to go.
What you should be doing is less whining and more hustling, inform the ad providers and the company that they're advertising that you saw their ad in an unfair fashion and will think twice before shopping there and prefer the honest admanship (this isn't a word or is it?) of their competitors.
Then again I don't see most ads, click my homepage to get a small but effective ad blocking hosts file.
Pegasus mail does this too, or at least something very, very similiar.
From their page on encryption:
Encryptor and security-related plugins for Pegasus Mail.
This page lists locations for add-ons you can use to add encryption capabilities to, or enhance the security of Pegasus Mail for Windows.
QDPGP Developed by Gerard Thomas, this is the premier 32-bit encryption plugin for Pegasus Mail, and the only one currently officially certified by the developer of Pegasus Mail itself. With support for all major versions of PGP and for a variety of other encryption and security concepts, QDPGP offers the most complete and well-integrated encryption component available for Pegasus Mail. Requires any 32-bit version of Pegasus Mail v3.0 or later.
PGP-JN Developed by John Navas, this module provides support for PGP v2.6 for the 16-bit version of Pegasus Mail.
PMPGP Created by Michael in der Wiesche, PMPGP provides an alternative to QDPGP for 32-bit versions of Pegasus Mail, with excellent support for the full gamut of PGP functions, and an optional interface and documentation in German.
When you're done with that, click on my homepage to get a small but effective ad-blocking host file.
Its really more about the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act than first amendment. I really don't see this as a free speech issue as much as a liability/accomplice issue. If they ever catch one of these murdering anti-abortion types and can prove they received private information from "The Numermberg Files" then these "God's children" will be in a very, very bad situation.
If prosecuters can provide a reasonable argument that these these people helped provide criminals with usually hard to get information and provoked them into illegal acts, they're going to go on trial for murder too.
I can't wait to see their upcoming web video of abortions, maybe I'll put up an at home coathanger style abortion and let people decide which one is best for "God's Children."
BTW, the decss comparison sucks and has nothing to do with this case, if computers are all you can relate to then you've got a problem.
I thought that little camera on its side was pointing at a decent flatscreen monitor that's connected to a computer actaully running heretic. Or its probably just an honest mistake, like that Jimi Hendrix compilation album where the cover photo shows him playing right-handed.
The porno applications of this device are staggering. Dirty Nurses isn't working for you, it'll know and pull up the SSK divx-cd for you.
http://www.somethingawful.co m/cartoons/lf-archives.htm
lifted from the ever pleasing www.memepool.com
How about we keep kbs for kilobits/sec as its traditionally used and kbbs for kilobytes/sec. Its simple and crazy enough to work!
Obviously this is nonsense, look at what Nader has done to upset the Democrats. Here in Illinois part of his 39,000+ petition was challened and may not make the 25,000 sigs needed to get on the ballot. The Dems know that there are a great deal of people with left progressive ideals ready to vote for Nader. These people, yes some of them are slashdotters, are not only going to build a stronger Green party after this election but are giving the dems the clear message of "Either embrace left ideals or your numbers will shrink and ours will rise." Whichever happens doesn't matter as long as prog lefties get some decent representation, or at least exposure.
The difference is that your penny-pinching cards are not secretive and you know exactly what you're going into. The secrecy of this situation is what really stinks, a careful consumer has to assume that by not advertising the discount they don't have to advertise the premium and eventually Amazon charges whatever Amazon feels it can without upsetting the herd. This has nothing to do with a little card that says "After 10 subs get one free!"
Funniest thing I've seen on slashdot in ages.
It warms my heart to see that even the nutty transhumanists who can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality don't take themselves seriously enough to login or even create a dummy account. Let me save this futurist bullshit on the mini-tapepunch machine in my flying car or I'll just have the robot butler/babysitter/security-guard do it for me.
Hit pause on your Star Trek marathon tape and try to join us in the real world, ok Spock? I like sci-fi too, but extrapolating one idea or two to their irrational end to produce some lame Star Trek-esque fantasy is simply not convincing. memepool recently posted a similiar rant.
Its really bad form to link to Stephenson's book but not to Vinge's. Interesting review here.
From the Marine Mammal Myths page:
The brain of the sperm whale weighs 7,800g, the elephant's weighs 7,500g, man's weighs 1,500g, the dolphin's 840g, and the brain of a mouse weighs 0,4g. If these figures are used to determine intelligence, then the sperm whale and the elephant are five times as intelligent as man, who in turn is twice as intelligent as the dolphin, which in turn is 2,000 times as intelligent as a mouse. Should we rank animals in order of how large their brains are in relation to their body weight, then the mouse would come out on top with its brain comprising 3.2%, the dolphin's 0.9% and the sperm whale's 0,021%. Neither absolute brain weight nor the relationship between brain weight and body size provide us with sensible criteria for comparing the intelligence of different species.
I saw Hemos's statement as the cost of leaving a PC on all night and running the client as opposed to shutting at down at night and long periods when no ones going to use it. My machine is off at least 10 hours a day, they'd have to be able to pay that extra ~300 hrs of power and wear and tear before I can see a profit.
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Interesting editorial here:
http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/93/109/03_1_m
Sorry I don't buy that the boycott is the fear that keeps corps in line. Its the fear of lawsuits from consumers or government action (expecially with the environment), which are based on *gasp* laws. Savvy consumers? Nope, savvy lawmakers and lawyers.
We all know how much of an "expert" Kaku is about catastrophes as he predicted that Cassini would bring about the end of the world.
The C|Net ad server as usual. This article is a whole lot of nothing. A skin vs. a browser, hold me back.
It also doesn't help that ArsTechnica is the most pretentious name on the net. Its just weblog-type name dropping, instead of giving credit to the authors (heaven forbid we list their names in the main page) who created these articles its a lot easier to thank some loser at Ars who can copy and paste links.
You have to pay local taxes, if you live in that state, with mail-order and whats "Internet Business" other than a mail order catalog thats updated really really often. Hopefully this loophole will be closed.
Even the word scam doesn't do these people justice. Lets hope these two do some jail time.
Lots more info at Olympicssuck.com
The funny thing these things will never go away as long as we have Joe and Mary Blow from any country getting patroitic that so-and-so lost by a fraction of a second and fall into obscurity because he/she was beated by someone else from a different country by that fraction of a second and now will be on every McDonalds cup for the next six months.
These are the same hands-off capitalist "facts" that failed to stop child labor, workplace abuse, environmental abuse, etc. Sorry Ms. Rand but boycotts seldom do anything but raise awareness which is useless without the resulting legislation.
This is the same country that won't give financial aid to anyone convicted of possesing or selling drugs. The debt is forever, its simply all about making an example out of one person to keep the rest of the herd in line.
Before I get flamed, this was supposed to be a reply for a battlebots post. My mistake.