So someone takes my code I have put on my webpage and described as capable of virus activity, and that person spreads it, and now I am guilty of 2nd-degree something or another.
So this means if I am a chemist, and I describe in detail how to create dynamite, and someone makes the dynamite and blows something up, I am 2nd-degree guilty for that as well?
I believe ultimately that information should not be restricted in any way whatsoever, so I disagree with this idea completely.
I have never seen a PC laptop that does not allow you to turn off 'speedstep' technology and run at full speed while on batteries. You'll just get less battery life.
Interesting attempt at making the powermac's inability to step down in speed while on batteries seem like a feature though. Bravo.;-)
I have high hopes for PalmOS 6. Combine guys that created a great OS with some of the minds that created a great handheld, and... my fingers are crossed. Does anyone have any details on v6.0? Screenshots? Technical specs?
I envision a white device with yellow borders... ummm.
I agree with the person you're responding to... I know many very social people that are 'geeks' -- they like science/technology and that kind of thing.
As a geek myself, I can verify that I get laid precisely because I am a geek, and not a "nerd."
That connotation is reserved for geeks that are so geeky that they don't realize (or usually care) how outside of the social circle they really are.
As, God knows, with Reichsminister Ashcroft and Admiral Poindexter, the current government is I'm sure is getting very good at doing only the best spying on you, Citizen.
I'll settle for beatings over more taxation under Democrats any day of the week. At least I get to keep my guns so the beatings are guaranteed not to get too out of hand...
Let's see... you obviously own a playstation 1, or you would not have games for that system that you want to play. So why does the playstation 3 need to play those games? Play them on your playstation 1. Let the ps3 break some new ground and avoid the layer of old code necessary to keep old games running on it.
Wrong. The reason we have spam is because spammers have convinced an infinitely large group of slimy/ignorant companies that stupid people are buying crap the spammers are selling.
However, for every voter who votes against software patents, there are 1000 more logic-impaired voters who will pick whichever candidate who says they'll simultaneously cut taxes and increase government handouts.
No, it's even worse than that... the lower income folks that want handouts will vote for whichever candidate says they want to tax the wealthy and give it back to the poor through "tax credits."
Class warfare... ain't it lovely. (There's nothing wrong with earning a lot of money through good decision-making and hard work... someone please tell the republicrats.)
Its not like the patent office don't deserve a good slashdotting.
I think this is an interesting thought... One problem with these assinine patents is there are so many, the USPTO has no way to know which ones should be re-examined. However, I have thought of a clever way (and will not even patent it): slashdotted patents.
I would imagine that just about every incredibly stupid patent out there has received much more traffic from enraged folks like us than the more valid patents. How about the USPTO coordinating with their web department, and if a patent webpage reaches a certain threshhold of hits, they thoroughly re-examine it or open it up for public debate and commentary?
Bullshit! The right way is to pay of DEBT in boom cycles, and at least make sure there is no defecit in all other cycles. In down cycles you borrow, but you don't borrow beyond your means. If the United States had a Master Card, it would be cut in half by now.
And what would happen if we demanded all money paid to us from all companies that owe it? Or stopped giving money away to other countries?
Not that I don't agree our debt and defecit is out of control thanks to the republicrats, but honestly... it's not because we are a "bad" country.
I agree that Michael is often the source of irrationally biased comments in the story introductions, and Slashdot would improve if he were not permitted to do that.
Having said that, I've been here a while (yes I had another account with a number in the low 5 digits), and I have never considered slashdot a "respectable news source."
Not only are you wrong about the government making up for that reduction in tax revenue from everyone else, but you mistakenly believe that companies actually pay taxes to the government all on their own. This is an idea liberals like to project so that the mASSES will be OK with higher taxes on businesses.
But follow the trail of money. When a business has to pay more in taxes, they will pass that burden on to YOU. They will raise prices on their products, pay their employees less (or fire employees), stick it to the shareholders, etc. In the end taxes on corporations are just another way to indirectly tax on people.
The solution is to reduce government spending, not play shell games with taxes.
Apparently you should stick to being a "businessman" and stay away from network engineering. If you've got to move your entire server farm from one colo to another simply to cause e-mail to be sent from a different IP block, you have no business running a network.
BTW, when your entire business is legitimate email-based, and you are co-located, it is not an easy task to just arrange to have all your email sent from another source.
So, before you made your millions-of-dollars investment in internet connectivity through one backbone or another, shouldn't someone have done a little research? And shouldn't the attitude of a backbone towards network abuse be a part of that research?
Are you unable to grasp the concept of a service provider that has so-far not done anything stupid with spammers, only to fall under the foot of the SPEWS MOB after you've signed a contract with them? And what if the company has been bad in the past, but has shown over the course of the past year or so to have changed their ways. But this colo facility is unbelievably awesome in the services it provides, and they are your very top choice. They are currently not listed with SPEWS. But you have to sign a contract with them. It causes much hand-wringing, only due to the fact that a mob is out there that could cast your network block as a spamhaven at some future point.
Uhhh...SPEWS? That's the freaking point of SPEWS, for about the millionth time.
Unlike you, I do not believe SPEWS is a good judge of which companies are spam-friendly.
But that's only because I've had first-hand experience of how the SPEWS MOB works...
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For the clueless... yes, it is illegal to print falsehoods about a non-celebrity (and in most cases, a celebrity).
But the world just isn't ready for a l1B3r+4r1@n pRe5I|)3nT...
I'm confused. Why are you having sex with animals?
So someone takes my code I have put on my webpage and described as capable of virus activity, and that person spreads it, and now I am guilty of 2nd-degree something or another.
So this means if I am a chemist, and I describe in detail how to create dynamite, and someone makes the dynamite and blows something up, I am 2nd-degree guilty for that as well?
I believe ultimately that information should not be restricted in any way whatsoever, so I disagree with this idea completely.
It is a perfectly cromulent word. Let me give you an example of usage:
I just heard that Lennox Lewis retired and is no longer boxen!
I have never seen a PC laptop that does not allow you to turn off 'speedstep' technology and run at full speed while on batteries. You'll just get less battery life.
;-)
Interesting attempt at making the powermac's inability to step down in speed while on batteries seem like a feature though. Bravo.
I often look to Anonymous Cowards for respected peer review.
I have high hopes for PalmOS 6. Combine guys that created a great OS with some of the minds that created a great handheld, and ... my fingers are crossed. Does anyone have any details on v6.0? Screenshots? Technical specs?
I envision a white device with yellow borders... ummm.
I agree with the person you're responding to... I know many very social people that are 'geeks' -- they like science/technology and that kind of thing.
As a geek myself, I can verify that I get laid precisely because I am a geek, and not a "nerd."
That connotation is reserved for geeks that are so geeky that they don't realize (or usually care) how outside of the social circle they really are.
As, God knows, with Reichsminister Ashcroft and Admiral Poindexter, the current government is I'm sure is getting very good at doing only the best spying on you, Citizen.
I'll settle for beatings over more taxation under Democrats any day of the week. At least I get to keep my guns so the beatings are guaranteed not to get too out of hand...
Let's see ... you obviously own a playstation 1, or you would not have games for that system that you want to play. So why does the playstation 3 need to play those games? Play them on your playstation 1. Let the ps3 break some new ground and avoid the layer of old code necessary to keep old games running on it.
Clearly you need to use their last release date estimate ("April 2004") to arrive at Summer 2004.
Don't worry, there's a separate arm of the government specifically in charge of wasting our money.
Wrong. The reason we have spam is because spammers have convinced an infinitely large group of slimy/ignorant companies that stupid people are buying crap the spammers are selling.
A subtle difference.
...by an easter egg in Windows that prompts you to violenty throw down your oppressors.
I think you need to try firebird again, since none of these has been a problem for a long time now.
Actually I think you will find that he just copied the viruses into the Syria directory right before the war started.
However, for every voter who votes against software patents, there are 1000 more logic-impaired voters who will pick whichever candidate who says they'll simultaneously cut taxes and increase government handouts.
... ain't it lovely. (There's nothing wrong with earning a lot of money through good decision-making and hard work... someone please tell the republicrats.)
No, it's even worse than that... the lower income folks that want handouts will vote for whichever candidate says they want to tax the wealthy and give it back to the poor through "tax credits."
Class warfare
Link to patent text
Its not like the patent office don't deserve a good slashdotting.
I think this is an interesting thought... One problem with these assinine patents is there are so many, the USPTO has no way to know which ones should be re-examined. However, I have thought of a clever way (and will not even patent it): slashdotted patents.
I would imagine that just about every incredibly stupid patent out there has received much more traffic from enraged folks like us than the more valid patents. How about the USPTO coordinating with their web department, and if a patent webpage reaches a certain threshhold of hits, they thoroughly re-examine it or open it up for public debate and commentary?
Is it a mere coincidence that Senator Lieberman looks like Senator Palpatine?
Those are the type of people I hope to run into in the afterlife. Those that died doing something, not of something.
Chances are good that those skeptical, scientific people you mentioned would laugh at you for believing in an afterlife.
Bullshit! The right way is to pay of DEBT in boom cycles, and at least make sure there is no defecit in all other cycles. In down cycles you borrow, but you don't borrow beyond your means. If the United States had a Master Card, it would be cut in half by now.
And what would happen if we demanded all money paid to us from all companies that owe it? Or stopped giving money away to other countries?
Not that I don't agree our debt and defecit is out of control thanks to the republicrats, but honestly... it's not because we are a "bad" country.
I agree that Michael is often the source of irrationally biased comments in the story introductions, and Slashdot would improve if he were not permitted to do that.
;-)
Having said that, I've been here a while (yes I had another account with a number in the low 5 digits), and I have never considered slashdot a "respectable news source."
However, they do occasionally link to those.
Not only are you wrong about the government making up for that reduction in tax revenue from everyone else, but you mistakenly believe that companies actually pay taxes to the government all on their own. This is an idea liberals like to project so that the mASSES will be OK with higher taxes on businesses.
But follow the trail of money. When a business has to pay more in taxes, they will pass that burden on to YOU. They will raise prices on their products, pay their employees less (or fire employees), stick it to the shareholders, etc. In the end taxes on corporations are just another way to indirectly tax on people.
The solution is to reduce government spending, not play shell games with taxes.
Apparently you should stick to being a "businessman" and stay away from network engineering. If you've got to move your entire server farm from one colo to another simply to cause e-mail to be sent from a different IP block, you have no business running a network.
BTW, when your entire business is legitimate email-based, and you are co-located, it is not an easy task to just arrange to have all your email sent from another source.
So, before you made your millions-of-dollars investment in internet connectivity through one backbone or another, shouldn't someone have done a little research? And shouldn't the attitude of a backbone towards network abuse be a part of that research?
Are you unable to grasp the concept of a service provider that has so-far not done anything stupid with spammers, only to fall under the foot of the SPEWS MOB after you've signed a contract with them? And what if the company has been bad in the past, but has shown over the course of the past year or so to have changed their ways. But this colo facility is unbelievably awesome in the services it provides, and they are your very top choice. They are currently not listed with SPEWS. But you have to sign a contract with them. It causes much hand-wringing, only due to the fact that a mob is out there that could cast your network block as a spamhaven at some future point.
Uhhh...SPEWS? That's the freaking point of SPEWS, for about the millionth time.
Unlike you, I do not believe SPEWS is a good judge of which companies are spam-friendly.
But that's only because I've had first-hand experience of how the SPEWS MOB works...