Wouldn't this kill any paragraph longer than 50 characters, as long as it only contained dots, word characters and *gasp*, spaces...
And wouldn't it be too easy to work around by including non-word characters into the page widening posts (underscores, hyphens)?
I guess, the best solution would still be to use a real browser. Indeed, what kind of dick would surf Slashdot with IE? That's worse than a bespectacled geek going to a football match. Or a jock coming to the chess club. IE is just not in its place on Slashdot... don't ya people know this is supposed to be a Linux hangout?;-)
Usually, when that happens, it's not only one mail, but hundreds or thousands. And in that case, you can rig your sendmail to mass-forward them back to source (i.e. assorted addresses at the originating ISP), and preferably via the same open relays that the spammer used himself. Start with abuse@, the also add support@, sales@, etc. If that doesn't help, add CEO and other employees, if you can find their e-mail addies. Then, finally, customers.
This technique worked wonders last time I had that problem at Bellsouth. N.B. When you do this, it is important that you don't forward the mail directly, or else they'll just firewall you off. If you use the spammer's own open relays, either:
The spammer only used one relay, and the fact that the ISP firewalls it off works both ways: spam problem solved!
Or he hops relays, so you relay-hop too. The ISP will need adding more and more addresses to their firewall, and eventually they'll figure that it is easyer to just boot the joe-jobbing spammer off.
My only worry is this: As a teacher, I am going to have to deal with a generation of students who cannot spell "segue".
Or worse: twenty segways clogging up the back of the classroom. Just look at what mobiles have done to school. At least segways don't ring.
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Indeed. In most banks it is a firing offense to even think about installing non-approved software on your workstation... Needless to say, at certain banks, many more employees (future ex drones?) leave on their own, rather than endure such a draconian regime for too long...
Darwin (Mac OS X) is still a micro-kernel, it just depends on how you define "micro-kernel".;-)
In Darwin almost everything is a module but when they are loaded, they are loaded into kernel space rather than user space.
Errm, with this definition, Linux (and many other modern Unices) would be a micro-kernel too. Modules run in the same "protection domain" as the kernel itself, and hence can really be considered to be part of the kernel (even though they are loaded later). With a real micro-kernel, the different system services (filesystem, virtual memory,...) run in a different protection domain.
The advantage of a real microkernel is that bugs in one system service don't endanger the stability of the whole system, whereas in Linux, a buggy module may scribble all over the kernel code, and cause failures anywhere.
The downside of a real microkernel is of course lower performance (although, it doesn't necessarily need to be as abysmal as Mach...), because of the numerous context switches.
This is a little bit less funny if you happen to botch a subsystem whose maintainer has gone into "low activity" mode. (This is common for legacy hardware drivers which don't really evolve that much any more, and the maintainer has taken up other projects).
In such a case, nobody might notice that the patch is really botched for several months. It might be more productive, and better for Linux's stability/reputation if you contacted the maintainer directly about the problem, rather than deliberately botching his code.
And if that doesn't work, he can always puruse an Office Space type remedy:).
Please do! You'll be applauded by the zillions of Bellsouth spam victims worldwide. It's burning time!
Forger's wonder tool
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...admissable evidence that helps the court...
IMHO, this technology would rather do the contrary. It makes photo forgeries so damn easy: no afternoon-long sessions with the gimp to get exact contours of people to delete from or insert into picutres: just use the ZCAM's distance keying and you get instant masks. The example given was scary: a business meeting, from which they could edit out people at will. The ideal tool for anybody that wants to rewrite history. So, forget about photos staying admissible as evidence in court.
Look, when it comes to getting your ice cream, or filing your taxes, or whatever, I could give a flying fuck if you do it in your Lexus, or you have to walk cause you have no money.
But when it comes to voting, don't you think that the means by which we vote should be independant of our social position? Otherwise you defeat the purpose of a democracy - by 'tipping' the accessability of representation in favour of a particular class.
Yeah, so let's make a law that you have to walk to your polling station, in order not to put those at a disadvantage who can't afford a car...
Having been to law school myself, I am shocked and ashamed that you are still awake in cipro. Of course, now you kids all have your wireless internet and your laptops in class.
Which explains why he was not asleep. He was surfing instead;-)
But what if their own company is destroyed first (due to mismanagement, burst of dot-com bubble, arabs playing around with planes, whatever). Repo man comes, and auctions off assets to the highest bidder, in order to pay off creditors. And among these assets is... you guessed it, your logfiles. And even the TOS won't protect you at that point: you had an agreement with a now-defunct company, not with its creditors.
The problem here is that some biotech labs do indeed intend to patent the underlying sequences themselves, rather than some modified versions thereof. Also, cutting a diamond, and cutting an excerpt out of a book is not really the same thing. If you quote a largish excerpt of a book, the original author (i.e. in our case the metaphorical "God") still retains copyright.
As anybody who runs an online forum knows, intellectual property is a two-edged sword. Either the author holds the copyright to his comments, in which case only the author is responsible for its contents, and any law that it infringes (libel, slander), but the board owner may not use those comments in a different context.
Or the editor (board owner) holds the copyrights, in which case he may do whatever he wants with the contributions, but he is also responsible for any laws that may get violated.
Shouldn't it be the same in biotech: if a company is stoopid enough to patent the genetic sequence of AIDS, shouldn't it be then forced to also accept legal responsibility for AIDS. I.e. face "wrongful death" lawsuits from each and every victim of AIDS. And if the company maliciously withheld treatment, or sold that treatment too expensively, add blackmail and murder to the list of accusations...
wait, I have that gene, every cell of me is prior art," no, you don't have that exact gene, yours contains different randomness.
Shouldn't that actually cut both ways? What if a compteting company based a therapy not on that exact gene, but a slight variation thereof? If those patent lawyers were in any way consisten with themselves, they should grant the comptetitor that permission, as he would actually not be using that exact gene that was patented, but one containing "different randomness" instead. Oh, and while we're at it, why not extend this to other kinds of intellectual property? Just flip one bit in Windows XP (for instance, in an error message), and presto, you'd have a copy free of copyright!
Basically, being too picky about what is, and what is not prior art will (or rather: should) actually make their patent much weaker, because the same arguments could be turned against them by any infringer...
A further wrinkle is that they patent the transcriptase necessary to make the cleaned-up gene, not the gene itself, though I had a sufficient buzz by that point in the conversation that I was ready to talk about football.:)
If they patented the transcriptase, wouldn't competitors still be able to use konwledge of the gene itself, if they gained it without using that transcriptase?
To take a computer analogy: let's consider a company specialized in forensic data recovery (reading back data from crasshed disks). They may very well have some patented tools to read data from disks in such bad condition. But that doesn't automatically give them intellectual property rights to data that they recover using their patented tools.
But what about non-novelness? Those genes have been in existence for millions, if not billions of years, and have not be created by the self-proclaimed "inventor". If anybody could get a patent on it, it would be God;-)
It's akin to some "inventive" software company disassembling the code of XP, and try to get patents on any functions that they disassembled in such a way. Obviously , nobody is doing this, as Micro$oft would sue the shit out of them, and rightfully so...
Or it's as if Amazon disassembled Netscape and IE, and tried to patent the functions and methods that manage cookies. Oh wait...
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And wouldn't it be too easy to work around by including non-word characters into the page widening posts (underscores, hyphens)?
I guess, the best solution would still be to use a real browser. Indeed, what kind of dick would surf Slashdot with IE? That's worse than a bespectacled geek going to a football match. Or a jock coming to the chess club. IE is just not in its place on Slashdot... don't ya people know this is supposed to be a Linux hangout? ;-)
How do you shoot somebody with a pillow? By throwing it at them? ;-)
These doodads are essentially memory cards, and on the right market places, memory is just a commodity.
If I'd gotten such a letter, I'd report NOA for attempted theft by trickery.
This technique worked wonders last time I had that problem at Bellsouth. N.B. When you do this, it is important that you don't forward the mail directly, or else they'll just firewall you off. If you use the spammer's own open relays, either:
Or worse: twenty segways clogging up the back of the classroom. Just look at what mobiles have done to school. At least segways don't ring.
Indeed. In most banks it is a firing offense to even think about installing non-approved software on your workstation... Needless to say, at certain banks, many more employees (future ex drones?) leave on their own, rather than endure such a draconian regime for too long...
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Careful there! If you lose too much sleep, you might still be alive when this happens!
In Darwin almost everything is a module but when they are loaded, they are loaded into kernel space rather than user space.
Errm, with this definition, Linux (and many other modern Unices) would be a micro-kernel too. Modules run in the same "protection domain" as the kernel itself, and hence can really be considered to be part of the kernel (even though they are loaded later). With a real micro-kernel, the different system services (filesystem, virtual memory, ...) run in a different protection domain.
The advantage of a real microkernel is that bugs in one system service don't endanger the stability of the whole system, whereas in Linux, a buggy module may scribble all over the kernel code, and cause failures anywhere.
The downside of a real microkernel is of course lower performance (although, it doesn't necessarily need to be as abysmal as Mach...), because of the numerous context switches.
In such a case, nobody might notice that the patch is really botched for several months. It might be more productive, and better for Linux's stability/reputation if you contacted the maintainer directly about the problem, rather than deliberately botching his code.
Yeah. In Italy, there are lots of security firms that help restaurant and shop owners stay alert to relevent threats to their physical security...
If you don't want to pay those companies, you can do routine searches of your own on the PTO web site.
If you don't want to pay those companies, you can repair the baseball bat damage and put out the fires on your own.
Most businesses prefer to pay, though.
Please do! You'll be applauded by the zillions of Bellsouth spam victims worldwide. It's burning time!
IMHO, this technology would rather do the contrary. It makes photo forgeries so damn easy: no afternoon-long sessions with the gimp to get exact contours of people to delete from or insert into picutres: just use the ZCAM's distance keying and you get instant masks. The example given was scary: a business meeting, from which they could edit out people at will. The ideal tool for anybody that wants to rewrite history. So, forget about photos staying admissible as evidence in court.
Wouldn't this still need a locally running klogd to forward the messages to the remote syslogger?
...run it unplugged! Now who will succeed to break into that?
But when it comes to voting, don't you think that the means by which we vote should be independant of our social position? Otherwise you defeat the purpose of a democracy - by 'tipping' the accessability of representation in favour of a particular class.
Yeah, so let's make a law that you have to walk to your polling station, in order not to put those at a disadvantage who can't afford a car...
Which explains why he was not asleep. He was surfing instead ;-)
But what if their own company is destroyed first (due to mismanagement, burst of dot-com bubble, arabs playing around with planes, whatever). Repo man comes, and auctions off assets to the highest bidder, in order to pay off creditors. And among these assets is... you guessed it, your logfiles. And even the TOS won't protect you at that point: you had an agreement with a now-defunct company, not with its creditors.
The problem here is that some biotech labs do indeed intend to patent the underlying sequences themselves, rather than some modified versions thereof. Also, cutting a diamond, and cutting an excerpt out of a book is not really the same thing. If you quote a largish excerpt of a book, the original author (i.e. in our case the metaphorical "God") still retains copyright.
No, you could sue the copyright owner because their property (the Malaria virus) damaged your body.
Or the editor (board owner) holds the copyrights, in which case he may do whatever he wants with the contributions, but he is also responsible for any laws that may get violated.
Shouldn't it be the same in biotech: if a company is stoopid enough to patent the genetic sequence of AIDS, shouldn't it be then forced to also accept legal responsibility for AIDS. I.e. face "wrongful death" lawsuits from each and every victim of AIDS. And if the company maliciously withheld treatment, or sold that treatment too expensively, add blackmail and murder to the list of accusations...
Shouldn't that actually cut both ways? What if a compteting company based a therapy not on that exact gene, but a slight variation thereof? If those patent lawyers were in any way consisten with themselves, they should grant the comptetitor that permission, as he would actually not be using that exact gene that was patented, but one containing "different randomness" instead. Oh, and while we're at it, why not extend this to other kinds of intellectual property? Just flip one bit in Windows XP (for instance, in an error message), and presto, you'd have a copy free of copyright!
Basically, being too picky about what is, and what is not prior art will (or rather: should) actually make their patent much weaker, because the same arguments could be turned against them by any infringer...
A further wrinkle is that they patent the transcriptase necessary to make the cleaned-up gene, not the gene itself, though I had a sufficient buzz by that point in the conversation that I was ready to talk about football. :)
If they patented the transcriptase, wouldn't competitors still be able to use konwledge of the gene itself, if they gained it without using that transcriptase?
To take a computer analogy: let's consider a company specialized in forensic data recovery (reading back data from crasshed disks). They may very well have some patented tools to read data from disks in such bad condition. But that doesn't automatically give them intellectual property rights to data that they recover using their patented tools.
But what about non-novelness? Those genes have been in existence for millions, if not billions of years, and have not be created by the self-proclaimed "inventor". If anybody could get a patent on it, it would be God ;-)
It's akin to some "inventive" software company disassembling the code of XP, and try to get patents on any functions that they disassembled in such a way. Obviously , nobody is doing this, as Micro$oft would sue the shit out of them, and rightfully so...
Or it's as if Amazon disassembled Netscape and IE, and tried to patent the functions and methods that manage cookies. Oh wait...
Yeah, but Microsoft security fixes may well be a minority. Especially if we restrict ourselves to only count those fixes that work as expected...
Yeah, such as April...