> This is more akin to a policeman on the night watch who parks his squad car and takes an illicit nap, finding on waking that somebody stole his tires. There is a certain poetic justice that's less "an eye for an eye" than "what goes around, comes around".
Or, more appropriately, to find a "no parking" ticket on his windshield...
> The administration in this case is relying to the advice of a lawer who says teh school can be held accountable for something on pages with links to our site, or even for mentioning the district.
Do I get that right? Say, if somebody links to your site, you can be hold accountable for what is on their site? Even though both the site and the link are beyond your control? Are you sure it isn't the other way round? (I.e. if you link to some other site, you may be held responsible for that site's content). This is absolutely ridiculous! It just calls for a shoot the hostage strategy: tell us the name of your school, and we'll make sure we'll mention and link to it from our DeCSS pages, from our hacking tool collection pages, our police satire pages and whatever other questionable pages we come up. I'm sure that administration will have that law repealed in a minute.
Moreover, any sane person would understand that "authorized" in this context means "authorized by the owner of the computer where the data was altered", which in this case was the guy's own computer. If he had hacked into the police computer, and defaced their website at its original location, they would have a case. But, as he just made a parody of their site on his own site, all that they could possibly invoke would be copyright or obscenity, but certainly not computer misuse. This is a hacking/cracking/trespass statute, not a copyright statute.
And even parody/obscenity charges are not obvious:
parodies are specifically exempt from copyright,
charging him with obscenity would reek of selective enforcement: even if he did indeed paste some goatse ass onto some officer's picture, there are far worse sites out there, and they don't get any problems.
Shouldn't that be the other way round? The "up" link doesn't have anything up, whereas the "already" link has... Moreover, the "up" link is already quite sore from posing for that photo.
Re:HP48 supports BOTH rpn and infix notation !
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> The best part about RPN is that when someone borrows your calculator, they stare at it for a few mins, then hand it back;-)
Reminds me about that guy from INT that I found sitting at my desk after getting back from a meeting. The converstation went roughly as follows:
Hi, I'm from INT, and I'm here to take inventory of your computer.
Sure, just go ahead.
Hmm, I'm having some problems with your desktop. Could you leave some applications, to make it somewhat less cluttered?
Sure. [and I proceed to close my various windows one by one, and just leave the desktop]
Thanks. [In a low voice, to himself] Oh, that toolbar looks odd... Err... Where's the explorer... Ah, I understand. This "house" icon means home directory... Oh gee, indeed a browser window opens up... But where is the network neighborhood? And where is the control Panel? [To me] Errm, sorry, I'm having some trouble with your toolbar, where can I find the network neighborhood? Or, could you simply tell me your IP address?
Sure. mumble.mumble.37.143
That doesn't look like one of ours. It should be mumble.mumble.95.something.
Btw, are you on the company network at all?
Well, actually in engineering, we have our own network. Oh, and btw, all offices in this part of the building are the same...
Err... Thanks... I'm only responsible for surveying machines connected to the INT network. [flees the office in a hurry]
[re-starts my konsoles, konqueror and other KDE applications and get back to work]
For this ridiculous project to be shot down, to things need to happen:
G.W. Bush successfully shuts down the antitrust action against Microsoft.
A couple of month from now, private recounts (which are possible under Florida's sunshine laws) prove beyond doubt that Gore was the actual winner.
International outcry is big enough that Bush has to step down, and Gore immediately resurrects the antitrust actions.
This series of events will have shown unambiguously what far greater mess will happen if you allow an entity which has a vested interest in the outcome of an election, to design a voting system. And remember, with Microsoft's machine, there will be no manual recounts, all is electronic. So we wouldn't even know if any cheating went on.
> - why not go with a system like Canada's? Simple X in a box, hand counted, done in a few hours, no ambiguities, no problems
Not just Canada's. Actually, everywhere else in the world, they do it like that too. It's actually the US that is the exception, not the other way round.
You may need to restart your browser. No own DNS needed; this is your local/etc/hosts file. Doesn't work if you use a proxy (unless you change the/etc/hosts file on the proxy computer, and even then some proxies solely use DNS and not the local hosts file).
Also make sure that your/etc/host.conf file is set up to check/etc/hostsbefore DNS. I.e., you should have the following in it:
order hosts,bind rather than order bind,hosts
Don't click on the link. It's a nasty maze of pop-up windows. Yes, one of them even contains picture of 2 guys 69'ing, but the worst problem are the pop-ups.
> So if you are a homeless black man you will generate different search results than a wealthy chinese doctor.
And this is supposed to be a good thing how exactly? Maybe for Yahoo as a business, but certainly not for the customer. I want my search results to be consistent, and not depend on the location where I happen to be at the moment, or on what skin color Yahoo thinks I have. Targetting banner ads may be acceptable, but please leave the actual data alone. Oh, well, but then I use Google anyways.
People want to start doing wild and crazy things immediately, when the reality is that for a few months we just need to take it calm and make sure that everything is in its place. I don't even want to plan 2.5.x or 3.0 at this point yet.
I understand this to mean that he doesn't yet intend to plan about the specifics about the next release. He prefers to let things settle down a bit, rather than rushing towards the next target immediately. Don't worry, there will be a next release, it will just take a while before that 2.5 branch will be started.
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> Companies like Redhat and VALinux do have business plans and probably will make money in the future, just not overnight.
Not overnight, and neither in a large enough quantity to justify last year's sky high valuations. People have to remember that this is an open system, so no company can get a Microsoft-like lock-in on the market. Products will have to be sold just barely above cost, or else a new company just springs up, selling basically the same product for a slightly lower price. In the Open Source world, ubiquity unfortunately does not automatically translate to financial success. Linux is a good OS for the consumer, but unfortunately not for the investor...
The aim of justice is not merely to be corrective (i.e. stop MS from doing any further damage). Indeed, that would mean that they can get off scott-free with what they already did to the economy, to their competitors and to the consumer. Letting them off this way would send the wrong message to future, would-be monopolists: "it's ok to do predatory trade practices, until the anti-trust division wakes up. And when they finally wake up, you only have to stop doing further harm, you won't be made accountable for what you will already have done". This is not the goal of justice. Justice should also be a deterrent. Microsoft is neither the first monopolist nor probably the last. In this case we must think as much about what signals we send to future would-be monopolists than about merely "corrective" action.
At my former employer, people would do just the opposite. Rather than resign any old time of the year, they waited til end of January, took their bonus, and then resign. Given the high yearly turnover, the effect was quite noticable...
> here's a difference between sending spam out from your own computer and forging it to make it look like someone else did it.
Actually, most spam these days is forged one way or another. Which stoopid spammer would put his own address on his tripe? Now, if he really hacked that machine, rather than just noticing that it was an open relay, that would be a different matter. But it's somewhat hard to tell what really happened from this rather non-technical article.
> I could go to jail if I stole someone elses car and got caught speeding
Hmm, but in that case, you'd go to jail for the theft, rather than for the speeding. Unless the US judicial system is really screwed up.
> could go to jail by jay-walking if I was running away with someone elses purse.
And most importantly, any open source programmer worth his salt will call the new patch a different name/version that the older, in order to avoid those confusions. You may get daily patches, but you can tell them easily apart by their name alone, no secrecy nor sneakyness involved.
Guess what? The defendants did raise the issue. However, oddly enough, the rules stipulate that the judge himself has the ultimate say in these matters, and in our case, he just refused to recuse himself...
N.B. This link was not hard to find either, just go to www.free-dvd.org.lu and click on the cute furry Kangaroo...
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Or, more appropriately, to find a "no parking" ticket on his windshield...
Do I get that right? Say, if somebody links to your site, you can be hold accountable for what is on their site? Even though both the site and the link are beyond your control? Are you sure it isn't the other way round? (I.e. if you link to some other site, you may be held responsible for that site's content). This is absolutely ridiculous! It just calls for a shoot the hostage strategy: tell us the name of your school, and we'll make sure we'll mention and link to it from our DeCSS pages, from our hacking tool collection pages, our police satire pages and whatever other questionable pages we come up. I'm sure that administration will have that law repealed in a minute.
Yes. Turkey is a democracy.
And even parody/obscenity charges are not obvious:
Shouldn't that be the other way round? The "up" link doesn't have anything up, whereas the "already" link has... Moreover, the "up" link is already quite sore from posing for that photo.
Reminds me about that guy from INT that I found sitting at my desk after getting back from a meeting. The converstation went roughly as follows:
- G.W. Bush successfully shuts down the antitrust action against Microsoft.
- A couple of month from now, private recounts (which are possible under Florida's sunshine laws) prove beyond doubt that Gore was the actual winner.
- International outcry is big enough that Bush has to step down, and Gore immediately resurrects the antitrust actions.
This series of events will have shown unambiguously what far greater mess will happen if you allow an entity which has a vested interest in the outcome of an election, to design a voting system. And remember, with Microsoft's machine, there will be no manual recounts, all is electronic. So we wouldn't even know if any cheating went on.Not just Canada's. Actually, everywhere else in the world, they do it like that too. It's actually the US that is the exception, not the other way round.
Also make sure that your /etc/host.conf file is set up to check /etc/hosts before DNS. I.e., you should have the following in it:
order hosts,bind rather than order bind,hosts
Don't click on the link. It's a nasty maze of pop-up windows. Yes, one of them even contains picture of 2 guys 69'ing, but the worst problem are the pop-ups.
And this is supposed to be a good thing how exactly? Maybe for Yahoo as a business, but certainly not for the customer. I want my search results to be consistent, and not depend on the location where I happen to be at the moment, or on what skin color Yahoo thinks I have. Targetting banner ads may be acceptable, but please leave the actual data alone. Oh, well, but then I use Google anyways.
And I though the robot would not eat meat...
People want to start doing wild and crazy things immediately, when the reality is that for a few months we just need to take it calm and make sure that everything is in its place. I don't even want to plan 2.5.x or 3.0 at this point yet.
I understand this to mean that he doesn't yet intend to plan about the specifics about the next release. He prefers to let things settle down a bit, rather than rushing towards the next target immediately. Don't worry, there will be a next release, it will just take a while before that 2.5 branch will be started.
Not overnight, and neither in a large enough quantity to justify last year's sky high valuations. People have to remember that this is an open system, so no company can get a Microsoft-like lock-in on the market. Products will have to be sold just barely above cost, or else a new company just springs up, selling basically the same product for a slightly lower price. In the Open Source world, ubiquity unfortunately does not automatically translate to financial success. Linux is a good OS for the consumer, but unfortunately not for the investor...
The aim of justice is not merely to be corrective (i.e. stop MS from doing any further damage). Indeed, that would mean that they can get off scott-free with what they already did to the economy, to their competitors and to the consumer. Letting them off this way would send the wrong message to future, would-be monopolists: "it's ok to do predatory trade practices, until the anti-trust division wakes up. And when they finally wake up, you only have to stop doing further harm, you won't be made accountable for what you will already have done". This is not the goal of justice. Justice should also be a deterrent. Microsoft is neither the first monopolist nor probably the last. In this case we must think as much about what signals we send to future would-be monopolists than about merely "corrective" action.
At my former employer, people would do just the opposite. Rather than resign any old time of the year, they waited til end of January, took their bonus, and then resign. Given the high yearly turnover, the effect was quite noticable...
Nope, I prefer them blue.
... but unfortunately. he was not allowed to doublecheck the "printer"...
But what if the seller has kept a number of similar items for himself, which he is selling independantly?
Actually, most spam these days is forged one way or another. Which stoopid spammer would put his own address on his tripe? Now, if he really hacked that machine, rather than just noticing that it was an open relay, that would be a different matter. But it's somewhat hard to tell what really happened from this rather non-technical article.
> I could go to jail if I stole someone elses car and got caught speeding
Hmm, but in that case, you'd go to jail for the theft, rather than for the speeding. Unless the US judicial system is really screwed up.
> could go to jail by jay-walking if I was running away with someone elses purse.
Same point as above.
Or simply embed it into your homepage as a web bug.
And most importantly, any open source programmer worth his salt will call the new patch a different name/version that the older, in order to avoid those confusions. You may get daily patches, but you can tell them easily apart by their name alone, no secrecy nor sneakyness involved.
Great, so now the MPAA can sick the WIPO on phuck.the.mpaa.org.lu too!
...I-love-you infected floppy disk into the stash...
N.B. This link was not hard to find either, just go to www.free-dvd.org.lu and click on the cute furry Kangaroo...