I'd really like to, but unfortunately, I can't get the script past that lame lameness filter... Yes, I know, I shouldn't have used Perl... If any of the editors are reading this, please consider making that filter less strict. Thanks!
Indeed, some dates are rather funny, most importantly the date of discovery:
The discovery was made on 1 April by a joint team of divers from the Indian National Institute of Oceanography and the Scientific Exploration Society based in Dorset.
I don't think blind people would be -that- interested in a skating club...
Dunno about skating, but blind people do ski. They are preceded by a guide who shouts them directions (or uses a wireless intercom, in order to not disturb the other skiers). Have seen such pairs several times at 2 Alpes. It must still be a helluva difficult, but they manage to do it anyways.
- for every random (non-existent) domain that you generate, a root DNS server will be queried when an email is sent to this address, which increases the load on the root servers, which is generally a bad thing.
Why is this a bad thing? They are owned by Verisign.
How about instead, returning pages with the email address abuse@domain-that-spambot-is-coming-from all over them...
This is also a good idea. In fact, I have a script which does a traceroute to the IP of the bot, and then looks up the admin contact using whois for the last couple of hops, and returns these. Oh, and for additional fun, throw in a couple of addresses of especially loved "friends"...
At first glance this might be a good idea but this will be resource burden on your system.
Add a couple of sleep(20); into the cgi script that generates the bot fodder. The bot will still stay busy waiting for your webserver's response, but your script will exactly consume zero resources.
... two month after such a stunt, you hire a new guy whose name happens to be Feynman. The poor rookie will get all those cranky telemarketers' calls...
Not sure about that one. Lacoste would certainly disagree. Except maybe if you have the crocodile look the wrong way;-)
I'm no longer paying for those services, no matter how many times I wear this shirt or to how many people I lend it or how many times I'm photographed in it.
I've heard a story about a promotional T-Shirt that HP distributed to its employees. The slogan said "Just do it with Brio" (Brio being a new PC that they were launching). Nike was not amused.
In the end, HP had to forbid their employees to wear these shirts in public. (I only wonder why Nike didn't insist that HP should collect them back... probably they figured that most employees would just pretend to have lost the shirt...)
So, even though a T-shirt is a tangible good, it's still not free of intellectual property.
What if the neighbors turn up their stereo so loud that the whole appartment block can hear it? Can tenants who want some sleep now get revenge by sicking the RIAA on to the disturbers;-)
I have had people tell me that KDE3 looks just like KDE2.
Well that's the point. The purpose of KDE3 is not to have sth radically different, but only to adapt the existing KDE to Qt3 (former versions were running on Qt2). As far as the changes to KDE itself goes, this could as well have been named 2.3
Hell have a friend agree to the terms, read it, then TELL you how they do what they do, at that point there is no tactic agreement between you and microsoft, oyu recived the knowledge second hand and you partner had of course "no idea" that the information would be implemented in a GPL app.
Or even easyer: Have a friend agree to the terms, read it, then strip the terms of the file, and post it anonymously to a public forum (for example: Slashdot).
Heck, I'd volunteer to be that "friend", I live in Luxembourg, and usually bullying companies think that Luxembourg is not worthwhile (country to small to bother to learn the legalities, just to use in one case. In larger countries, suing is more worthwhile, because the legal knowledge researched for that case may be leveraged in further cases from the same country).
Well, then maybe the RIAA has something to say about it!
First we clone just the music, then we clone the performers themselves! If a musician has a contract with the RIAA, is that contract also binding for all his clones?
Consider that most local news stations pick up their regional/national/international news from a wire service and feed it to a talking head, so that news is pretty much the same wherever you go.
Now consider that if your local news station can't compete in its market against some station from New York, you aren't going to get local news.
We get "local" programs from all over Europe. This hasn't killed the smaller country's stations even in places where people readily understand the neighbors' language. On the contrary: you can get Radio Luxembourg all from the South of France to the East of Germany, and it fares pretty well (... and in the process tarnishes the reputation of Luxembourg, but that's another question altogether...). Basically, RTL has programs in French, German, English for their various markets, while the local market is still being served by a program in Luxembourgish language (which still does include coverage of local events, so you won't miss neither the news about the recent battue hunt, and its impact on the local wildlife & economy, nor the news about the whereabouts of the postmen's Union's president and "his" money, etc....).
For international news, it's interesting to get different viewpoints: indeed, in many conflicts (Yougoslavia, Iraq vs. US, etc.), the French have a slightly different point of view that the rest of Europe. Being able to compare French and German news reporting gives you the ability to hear both sides of the story (don't worry: since September 11th, even the French side with the US, though...)
Moreover, being able to check the local weather of your skiing resort before going there is also interesting. And before we had Eurosport, many people watched RAI for its excellent sport coverage, even though they didn't understand Italian (but understanding the language is not really needed in order to follow a soccer match...).
So, being able to get local programming that is not local to you is a definite plus (except of course if you live at a place whose "local" programs become popular all over Europe for the wrong reasons...)
You left out 'IANAL' when it comes to interpreting the law -and- proof that that spare capacity has value upto or exceding $5,000 (which when you get down to it can be a bit tricky to really establish a value on)
Does this $5000 threshold apply to each individual computer, or does it apply as an aggregate for the damages on all? trojaned computers. If the latter, it would be trivially reached. Oh, and btw, people have been indicted for similar offenses in the past.
Do you believe that when we combust oil or coal in a power plant that we somehow obtain more energy in electrical form than we put in as chemical energy?
No, but over its lifetime, the plant will be able to convert far more energy from chemical to electrical than it took to build the plant.
The problem with classical solar cells is the amount of energy it takes to build (manufacture) them, which is more than it will ever be able to convert from solar to electric during its entire expected lifetime.
In the case of the "new" solar cells, this energy needed for building them will be more reasonabe. However, the electrical energy that is output by the cells would of course come from the sun (as it should...), thus the laws of thermodynamics would still be preserved. Energy cost of building a machine has nothing whatsoever to do with thermodynamics, only operating (using) a machine does.
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I'd really like to, but unfortunately, I can't get the script past that lame lameness filter... Yes, I know, I shouldn't have used Perl... If any of the editors are reading this, please consider making that filter less strict. Thanks!
Dunno about skating, but blind people do ski. They are preceded by a guide who shouts them directions (or uses a wireless intercom, in order to not disturb the other skiers). Have seen such pairs several times at 2 Alpes. It must still be a helluva difficult, but they manage to do it anyways.
Why is this a bad thing? They are owned by Verisign.
How about instead, returning pages with the email address abuse@domain-that-spambot-is-coming-from all over them...
This is also a good idea. In fact, I have a script which does a traceroute to the IP of the bot, and then looks up the admin contact using whois for the last couple of hops, and returns these. Oh, and for additional fun, throw in a couple of addresses of especially loved "friends"...
Add a couple of sleep(20); into the cgi script that generates the bot fodder. The bot will still stay busy waiting for your webserver's response, but your script will exactly consume zero resources.
For additional kicks, set up a DNS teergrube.
Doesn't sound so bad to me.
Then, read on. It does not send anything back for local searches. But it sure does for searches on the Internet.
... two month after such a stunt, you hire a new guy whose name happens to be Feynman. The poor rookie will get all those cranky telemarketers' calls...
Yeah, work from home by just picking up telemarketers' calls, and then collect the loot...
Not sure about that one. Lacoste would certainly disagree. Except maybe if you have the crocodile look the wrong way ;-)
I'm no longer paying for those services, no matter how many times I wear this shirt or to how many people I lend it or how many times I'm photographed in it.
I've heard a story about a promotional T-Shirt that HP distributed to its employees. The slogan said "Just do it with Brio" (Brio being a new PC that they were launching). Nike was not amused.
In the end, HP had to forbid their employees to wear these shirts in public. (I only wonder why Nike didn't insist that HP should collect them back... probably they figured that most employees would just pretend to have lost the shirt...)
So, even though a T-shirt is a tangible good, it's still not free of intellectual property.
What if the neighbors turn up their stereo so loud that the whole appartment block can hear it? Can tenants who want some sleep now get revenge by sicking the RIAA on to the disturbers ;-)
Well that's the point. The purpose of KDE3 is not to have sth radically different, but only to adapt the existing KDE to Qt3 (former versions were running on Qt2). As far as the changes to KDE itself goes, this could as well have been named 2.3
For an extra laugh, read the last line of this page. Apparently, BonzoESC didn't heed that advice...
But what if the person cannot see the ads due to some disability? Does your rule make a blind surfer a criminal?
Their encouraging pirating of the RIAA's intellectual property after all, aren't they?
so it would still have been interesting for them to sponsor the trip, even if it didn't use film.
People, if you want to participate, do the search yourself instead, or strip the session id first.
Or even easyer: Have a friend agree to the terms, read it, then strip the terms of the file, and post it anonymously to a public forum (for example: Slashdot).
Heck, I'd volunteer to be that "friend", I live in Luxembourg, and usually bullying companies think that Luxembourg is not worthwhile (country to small to bother to learn the legalities, just to use in one case. In larger countries, suing is more worthwhile, because the legal knowledge researched for that case may be leveraged in further cases from the same country).
First we clone just the music, then we clone the performers themselves! If a musician has a contract with the RIAA, is that contract also binding for all his clones?
Yes, but it'll create such noise only once... :-)
Now consider that if your local news station can't compete in its market against some station from New York, you aren't going to get local news.
We get "local" programs from all over Europe. This hasn't killed the smaller country's stations even in places where people readily understand the neighbors' language. On the contrary: you can get Radio Luxembourg all from the South of France to the East of Germany, and it fares pretty well (... and in the process tarnishes the reputation of Luxembourg, but that's another question altogether...). Basically, RTL has programs in French, German, English for their various markets, while the local market is still being served by a program in Luxembourgish language (which still does include coverage of local events, so you won't miss neither the news about the recent battue hunt, and its impact on the local wildlife & economy, nor the news about the whereabouts of the postmen's Union's president and "his" money, etc. ...).
For international news, it's interesting to get different viewpoints: indeed, in many conflicts (Yougoslavia, Iraq vs. US, etc.), the French have a slightly different point of view that the rest of Europe. Being able to compare French and German news reporting gives you the ability to hear both sides of the story (don't worry: since September 11th, even the French side with the US, though...)
Moreover, being able to check the local weather of your skiing resort before going there is also interesting. And before we had Eurosport, many people watched RAI for its excellent sport coverage, even though they didn't understand Italian (but understanding the language is not really needed in order to follow a soccer match...).
So, being able to get local programming that is not local to you is a definite plus (except of course if you live at a place whose "local" programs become popular all over Europe for the wrong reasons...)
Does this $5000 threshold apply to each individual computer, or does it apply as an aggregate for the damages on all? trojaned computers. If the latter, it would be trivially reached. Oh, and btw, people have been indicted for similar offenses in the past.
No, but over its lifetime, the plant will be able to convert far more energy from chemical to electrical than it took to build the plant.
The problem with classical solar cells is the amount of energy it takes to build (manufacture) them, which is more than it will ever be able to convert from solar to electric during its entire expected lifetime.
In the case of the "new" solar cells, this energy needed for building them will be more reasonabe. However, the electrical energy that is output by the cells would of course come from the sun (as it should...), thus the laws of thermodynamics would still be preserved. Energy cost of building a machine has nothing whatsoever to do with thermodynamics, only operating (using) a machine does.
Now, who's the idiot?
Seems such an aptly named organization does indeed exist: see this comment
Funny, I tried lynx, and had no such problem...