So if some spammer spams me, I can legally send a bazillion emails to them since their initial spamming of me would have set up a "business realtionship", right? (even though, their initial contact was prior to any business relationship between us)
However at what point would I be considered a "spammer" by those who own the data lines and servers and not be able to send out email? an email every minute surely wouldn't generate obscene amounts of traffic. what about every second? 10 every second? 100? Having record of the spammer contacting me, and my messages simply being replies to that spammer should be enough to get my account unsuspended if that's what the ISP did, or atleast I would hope.
Would I be considered as sending spam if I had a program automatically generating responses for that spammer?
I think you're right about this being a potentially good thing to give a headache to a spammer, but it would be nice to do it well within the legal realms.
Even worse, propogating the idea that copyright violation is a criminal offense of stealing and theft. The marketting drone of "Don't Steal Music" pasted on t.v. commercials, inside iPod packaging and elsewhere is sickening.
(P.S. Someone correct me if I am wrong on the civil offense thing for U.S. copyright violations)
I havn't seen any of these in a while (popups turned off) but if I remember correctly, most I have seen in the past were images's of error screens inside a popup browser window. How exactly, without turning off popups, would you filter that in an efficient manner? The best solution I had was having my desktop colors set to something other than default. This makes it clear that the image is not really a window. It was interesting seeing a faked "blue screen of death" inside a popup window. That's one thing that might catch someone off guard.
Is this listed as a "worst" or a "best"? I'll assume "worst" in the context of slashdot, but it is irrelevant, so assume "best" if you want. Either way...
Even though I'll be marked Troll, I have to say this is the dumbest thing I've read in the past week. Longhorn is nonexistant as a operating system. It is a concept in the minds of project managers, designers, and a few MS fanboys/girls. They have some work done, maybe some betas that do fandangly something-somethings, but imagine all the cancelling of features and unintended feature creep that will occur between now and it's released date of 2006(?). Anything that exists as "Longhorn" today, will bare only slight resemblance to the "Longhorn" that will be released "whenever". So if you are calling it a "best" then hold your guns, it could diminish into a pile of steaming poo in 2 years and not ever be released. if you are calling it a "worst", then also hold your guns. It could improve into a top-notch computer operating system by learning from mistakes of the past.
Simply mentioning such a premature thing as the best/worst of 2003 it idiotic. Longhorn has not had any significant impact on anyone at all.
"Then XP came out and turned their world upside down. Sure you can revert the theme and menus back to win2k, but I don't know anyone that has done that."
I did exactly that on my parents machine. It wasn't hard. Most people who have used a previous version of windows to a moderate (daily) extent would be able to find information on how to go about doing so.
"Longhorn is going to come out, and users buying a new Dell or Gateway will get it automatically"
Have people you know buy locally. You'll get better support, better hardware and you can probably have them install whatever OS you want or do it yourself. "If it aint broke, don't fix it"
My only response to your respected view of the movies is that the movies are an excellent gateway for a large audience into Tolkien's books. Hundred of thousands of people perhaps would never pick them up, simply because they use to be hidden away in the back with the rest of the Sci-Fi and Fantasy books at your popular bookstores. Now those same bookstores have several central displays dedicated to all of Tolkien's works. Jackson, if nothing else, succeeded in bringing a rebirth to Tolkien's vast world through an accesible representation.
Hopefully ignoring SCO like we all should be. SCO is the 8 year old hyperspaz, needy, bastard of a child who has been put on too much medication and gets too many of his demands fulfilled.
ignore them and eventually they wind up in jail anyway.
as far as i know, the QT developer license is only if you want to use QT in non open sourced, commercial ways. however, i havn't read the actual licensing, only read "reviews" of it so you might want to read it yourself.
Magnifying glasses and Ant-eaters are all too proactive. They should just use a honeypot and let the ants come to them, letting them get stuck in a gooey sweet heaven.
Apple keyboards only have one key. You'll take what letter comes out and like it.
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However, you and everyone else understood me through context. I see no problem. In any case, thanks for the clarification of what "begging the question" truly means.
Your rash judgements could have been left out, they only make you sound childish.
Which begs the question, how high off the ground does one's property extend if they own the land? 10cm? 1m? 100m? 1km? Sounds like a fun target practice with those guns the U.S. Constitution allows me to own.
Crap, I wonder if using metrics implicitly renounces my rights covered by the Law of the Land.
that's almost as bad as "don't run servers". not quite, but almost. why should they care if i make a buck selling things i make, through a web server i run, using bandwidth i pay for?
f---ing corporate bulls--t. For a second, I almost thought I had found an ISP I can tolerate doing business with.
Having actual cdroms on a shelf for people to "check out", as it were, is likely a bad idea for a number of reasons. The large volume of cds occupying shelves would be a copy of the old library system, so it would likely be their default method, but it's incorrect, imho; it's a waste of space; it goes against the mighty electronic way. Burning on demand is the way to go because the open source community could ensure that the most recent versions of software are available, and that fresh new content would flow into libraries everywhere, rather than fill up shelves until the place has no more room.
However this just puts the "clutter" of old cd's into the users domain instead of the library's domain, and multiplies the clutter. So instead of the library having, say 4 old copies of some software, you have X amount of users with 4 old copies of some software with a grand total of 4*X useless old copies instead of the library having 4 old copies.
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#0.A: The Internet is starting to suck. Stop touching it!
So if some spammer spams me, I can legally send a bazillion emails to them since their initial spamming of me would have set up a "business realtionship", right? (even though, their initial contact was prior to any business relationship between us)
However at what point would I be considered a "spammer" by those who own the data lines and servers and not be able to send out email? an email every minute surely wouldn't generate obscene amounts of traffic. what about every second? 10 every second? 100? Having record of the spammer contacting me, and my messages simply being replies to that spammer should be enough to get my account unsuspended if that's what the ISP did, or atleast I would hope.
Would I be considered as sending spam if I had a program automatically generating responses for that spammer?
I think you're right about this being a potentially good thing to give a headache to a spammer, but it would be nice to do it well within the legal realms.
Even worse, propogating the idea that copyright violation is a criminal offense of stealing and theft. The marketting drone of "Don't Steal Music" pasted on t.v. commercials, inside iPod packaging and elsewhere is sickening.
(P.S. Someone correct me if I am wrong on the civil offense thing for U.S. copyright violations)
57: Filter fake error messages
I havn't seen any of these in a while (popups turned off) but if I remember correctly, most I have seen in the past were images's of error screens inside a popup browser window. How exactly, without turning off popups, would you filter that in an efficient manner? The best solution I had was having my desktop colors set to something other than default. This makes it clear that the image is not really a window. It was interesting seeing a faked "blue screen of death" inside a popup window. That's one thing that might catch someone off guard.
Is this listed as a "worst" or a "best"? I'll assume "worst" in the context of slashdot, but it is irrelevant, so assume "best" if you want. Either way...
Even though I'll be marked Troll, I have to say this is the dumbest thing I've read in the past week. Longhorn is nonexistant as a operating system. It is a concept in the minds of project managers, designers, and a few MS fanboys/girls. They have some work done, maybe some betas that do fandangly something-somethings, but imagine all the cancelling of features and unintended feature creep that will occur between now and it's released date of 2006(?). Anything that exists as "Longhorn" today, will bare only slight resemblance to the "Longhorn" that will be released "whenever". So if you are calling it a "best" then hold your guns, it could diminish into a pile of steaming poo in 2 years and not ever be released. if you are calling it a "worst", then also hold your guns. It could improve into a top-notch computer operating system by learning from mistakes of the past.
Simply mentioning such a premature thing as the best/worst of 2003 it idiotic. Longhorn has not had any significant impact on anyone at all.
"Then XP came out and turned their world upside down. Sure you can revert the theme and menus back to win2k, but I don't know anyone that has done that."
I did exactly that on my parents machine. It wasn't hard. Most people who have used a previous version of windows to a moderate (daily) extent would be able to find information on how to go about doing so.
"Longhorn is going to come out, and users buying a new Dell or Gateway will get it automatically"
Have people you know buy locally. You'll get better support, better hardware and you can probably have them install whatever OS you want or do it yourself. "If it aint broke, don't fix it"
good actors do their own stunts. like Aragorn, whatever the actors real name is... He did all his stunts they say.
My only response to your respected view of the movies is that the movies are an excellent gateway for a large audience into Tolkien's books. Hundred of thousands of people perhaps would never pick them up, simply because they use to be hidden away in the back with the rest of the Sci-Fi and Fantasy books at your popular bookstores. Now those same bookstores have several central displays dedicated to all of Tolkien's works. Jackson, if nothing else, succeeded in bringing a rebirth to Tolkien's vast world through an accesible representation.
Hopefully ignoring SCO like we all should be. SCO is the 8 year old hyperspaz, needy, bastard of a child who has been put on too much medication and gets too many of his demands fulfilled.
ignore them and eventually they wind up in jail anyway.
as far as i know, the QT developer license is only if you want to use QT in non open sourced, commercial ways. however, i havn't read the actual licensing, only read "reviews" of it so you might want to read it yourself.
Magnifying glasses and Ant-eaters are all too proactive. They should just use a honeypot and let the ants come to them, letting them get stuck in a gooey sweet heaven.
oh my, step back and take a deep breath. it was just a dumb joke.
sheesh. i give up.
And he's started having 9 bowls a day.
I think you're confusing this with the Tomacco Cereal (only available in Springfield, um... I don't know which state that is.)
Apple keyboards only have one key. You'll take what letter comes out and like it.
However, you and everyone else understood me through context. I see no problem. In any case, thanks for the clarification of what "begging the question" truly means.
Your rash judgements could have been left out, they only make you sound childish.
Which begs the question, how high off the ground does one's property extend if they own the land? 10cm? 1m? 100m? 1km? Sounds like a fun target practice with those guns the U.S. Constitution allows me to own.
Crap, I wonder if using metrics implicitly renounces my rights covered by the Law of the Land.
so don't visit the site. what is so hard about that?
<obscene gesture>I got your 7 inch thick rear projection right here</obscene gesture>
Then that stuffy looking Hi-Fi salesman would have riped off his button down shirt and tie and revealed his cape and BSD insignia lycra tights.
I didn't see this BSD lycra tights item on thinkgeek! link please!
just kiddin
no, i think what we want is the freedom to use our hardware and software resources the way we want to. Will MS ever allow that?
my guess is yahoo... and they will have the right to modify the list without notifying you at any time in the future.
Speakeasy just asks that you don't make money.
that's almost as bad as "don't run servers". not quite, but almost. why should they care if i make a buck selling things i make, through a web server i run, using bandwidth i pay for?
f---ing corporate bulls--t. For a second, I almost thought I had found an ISP I can tolerate doing business with.
I have no ISP at home. I don't agree with any broadband providers "terms of service"... you insensitive clod.
I guess it's time to add some trojans to CD's and give them to the library.
for that kinky library sex, i assume?
my point being that even though you save shelf space, you are wasting real world material.
Having actual cdroms on a shelf for people to "check out", as it were, is likely a bad idea for a number of reasons. The large volume of cds occupying shelves would be a copy of the old library system, so it would likely be their default method, but it's incorrect, imho; it's a waste of space; it goes against the mighty electronic way. Burning on demand is the way to go because the open source community could ensure that the most recent versions of software are available, and that fresh new content would flow into libraries everywhere, rather than fill up shelves until the place has no more room.
However this just puts the "clutter" of old cd's into the users domain instead of the library's domain, and multiplies the clutter. So instead of the library having, say 4 old copies of some software, you have X amount of users with 4 old copies of some software with a grand total of 4*X useless old copies instead of the library having 4 old copies.