Kinda puts a damper on new business doesn't it, if you limit your decisions of whom to trust to just well-known, popular companies. Doesn't a certificate from Verisign or Thawte assign some accountability to that company, since the certifier has verified their identity, and therefore presumably a certified company has a street address or telephone number and not just whois information?
Has anyone ever had to use a certificate to find contact information for a company, or in some way hold a company accountable for its actions?
This is a wonderful tool that is being developed. However, I don't think any one tool will succeed in eliminating spam. From a spammer's point of view, if my income depends on messages making it through filters, by damn I will bypass those filters by whatever means I can. These assholes send penis enlargement advertisements to my mother -- If her gender doesn't stop them, neither will an email filter.
On a different subject, in a story about a week ago, someone posted a link to a peer-peer network of spam emails for MS Outlook available at http://www.cloudmark.com that will trap a significant amount of emails based on (and this is overly simplified, of course) users' votes. Does such a solution exist in the open source world?
Does anyone else miss the Net pre mid 90's when it didn't ever cross your mind you might need a lawyer to post a link on a webpage, and didn't have to defend yourself in a lawsuit if you flamed someone on a message board? This emerging huggy-feely Internet is really getting on my nerves -- it's a global public forum for free speech and expression of opinion, but don't piss anyone off, or violate anyone's space by deep linking. Overly intrusive advertising is OK though, because it doesn't piss anyone off. In another 8 - 10 years, are we going to miss the early new millenium when we didn't need a lawyer to click a link on a webpage?
But Huckaby and a few other users chased away many of the regular users with a mix of angry messages and racially charged exchanges, according to the lawsuit and regular visitors to the site. The suit says Huckaby's exchanges cut traffic to the Web site and as a result hurt advertising revenue and sopped up staff time required to bar him and his comments.
Is it possible that the website owners are not as much interested in winning a lawsuit as they are getting this guy to stop interfering with their business? I'd bet they're hoping to settle out of court. Apologize and leave us alone, and we'll drop the case against you.
Grow up. Courts are for real problems, not for settling your little Internet tiffs.
I mean, really. Why don't they just remove his posts and ban him? I can just see the owners of this web site frowning and twiddling their thumbs, saying, "Well, our website is ruined now. Will we have to close it, or do you think we could just put up a message asking people to ignore these trolls? If this keeps up we'll have to put a bigger hard drive on the server." etc.
It never occurred to me to sue someone when my IRC channels would get taken over back in the day.
$500 MILLION INVESTMENT
The PC layer, laid digitally on the same disc, can be modified by the content provider, so that they could prevent, for example, burning songs onto another CD, said David Fester, general manager, digital media entertainment for Microsoft.
Universal Music and EMI, two of the biggest record labels in the world, "are very excited about this because it enables the industry to build a CD with their own protections built in," he said, speaking at the Midem music conference in southern France.
I suppose Microsoft has $500 million lying around they can throw into the fireplace. Just seems like such a waste.
This is said in every copy protection related story on Slashdot, and I'll be the first to say it this time. Eventually music and video will be analog. How do they think it's possible that, one way or another, the people who want unauthorized copies of multimedia won't be able to make it?
Have a look at this page and it makes you wonder: Are there actually high school graduates who have a little sense working for the RIAA? Probably one fewer, since this posting disappeared from the RIAA page just a few hours after it was posted. I'd love to see more of this!
Incidentally, popular speculation is that the RIAA website was defaced, in which case. . . well, I'd love to see more of that, too.
The cool part about the Roombas is, once you have dissected it and put it back together, you have a handy vacuum cleaner to pick up all the left over screws. ..
"Honey, I don't think you were supposed to have all that left over."
"Nonsense! The company included those for demonstration. Watch."
*clack clack clack fzzzt!*
Umm, maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea to bookmark the Roomba anatomy site.
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whoa. I think IE5 might already be available for *nix. I remembered trying to find the download page for a customer needing to repair his own installation (they have to do that sometimes), and was horrified to see that it is available for HP-UX and Solaris. I'm guessing it's binaries, but I can't be too sure. As I went to Microsplat's downloads just now to try and download something, hoping it might be a source tarball, a funny thing happened. I completed step one of two, selecting the download of IE5 for Unix, and upon clicking Next, got an error message saying "Directory Listing Denied. This virtual directory does not allow contents to be listed."
I'm using Netscape 4.61, and if I were that bored, I'd go over to one of my roommates' Win98 computers and try again on IE, but I'm not that interested.
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Kinda puts a damper on new business doesn't it, if you limit your decisions of whom to trust to just well-known, popular companies. Doesn't a certificate from Verisign or Thawte assign some accountability to that company, since the certifier has verified their identity, and therefore presumably a certified company has a street address or telephone number and not just whois information?
Has anyone ever had to use a certificate to find contact information for a company, or in some way hold a company accountable for its actions?
Dad, go do something more productive. This isn't helping.
This is a wonderful tool that is being developed. However, I don't think any one tool will succeed in eliminating spam. From a spammer's point of view, if my income depends on messages making it through filters, by damn I will bypass those filters by whatever means I can. These assholes send penis enlargement advertisements to my mother -- If her gender doesn't stop them, neither will an email filter.
On a different subject, in a story about a week ago, someone posted a link to a peer-peer network of spam emails for MS Outlook available at http://www.cloudmark.com that will trap a significant amount of emails based on (and this is overly simplified, of course) users' votes. Does such a solution exist in the open source world?
What about a small joystick or that rubber nub thing they put in laptops? =)
Does anyone else miss the Net pre mid 90's when it didn't ever cross your mind you might need a lawyer to post a link on a webpage, and didn't have to defend yourself in a lawsuit if you flamed someone on a message board? This emerging huggy-feely Internet is really getting on my nerves -- it's a global public forum for free speech and expression of opinion, but don't piss anyone off, or violate anyone's space by deep linking. Overly intrusive advertising is OK though, because it doesn't piss anyone off. In another 8 - 10 years, are we going to miss the early new millenium when we didn't need a lawyer to click a link on a webpage?
Lol! From Conan O'Brien's sock puppet:
"Quite a turn-out as you can see! People have come from as far as exit tweeellve!
He most definately cost them money.
Is it possible that the website owners are not as much interested in winning a lawsuit as they are getting this guy to stop interfering with their business? I'd bet they're hoping to settle out of court. Apologize and leave us alone, and we'll drop the case against you.
Grow up. Courts are for real problems, not for settling your little Internet tiffs.
I mean, really. Why don't they just remove his posts and ban him? I can just see the owners of this web site frowning and twiddling their thumbs, saying, "Well, our website is ruined now. Will we have to close it, or do you think we could just put up a message asking people to ignore these trolls? If this keeps up we'll have to put a bigger hard drive on the server." etc.
It never occurred to me to sue someone when my IRC channels would get taken over back in the day.
In reality, the copy protection they are introducing will be more along the lines of a GPF or a BSOD everytime you try to click "burn."
I suppose Microsoft has $500 million lying around they can throw into the fireplace. Just seems like such a waste.
This is said in every copy protection related story on Slashdot, and I'll be the first to say it this time. Eventually music and video will be analog. How do they think it's possible that, one way or another, the people who want unauthorized copies of multimedia won't be able to make it?
LOL! Reminds me of Wayne's World:
Have a look at this page and it makes you wonder: Are there actually high school graduates who have a little sense working for the RIAA? Probably one fewer, since this posting disappeared from the RIAA page just a few hours after it was posted. I'd love to see more of this!
Incidentally, popular speculation is that the RIAA website was defaced, in which case. . . well, I'd love to see more of that, too.
I, for one, am interested in finding out if it can be changed from suck to blow.
=)
The cool part about the Roombas is, once you have dissected it and put it back together, you have a handy vacuum cleaner to pick up all the left over screws. . .
"Honey, I don't think you were supposed to have all that left over."
"Nonsense! The company included those for demonstration. Watch."
*clack clack clack fzzzt!*
Umm, maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea to bookmark the Roomba anatomy site.
Whoa, check out my sigfile :)~ Oh, and, umm, moooo, er umm, something.
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Klaatoooo. . . Verataaa. . . Mmmbhrimmmphmm!!@#$
whoa. I think IE5 might already be available for *nix. I remembered trying to find the download page for a customer needing to repair his own installation (they have to do that sometimes), and was horrified to see that it is available for HP-UX and Solaris. I'm guessing it's binaries, but I can't be too sure. As I went to Microsplat's downloads just now to try and download something, hoping it might be a source tarball, a funny thing happened. I completed step one of two, selecting the download of IE5 for Unix, and upon clicking Next, got an error message saying "Directory Listing Denied. This virtual directory does not allow contents to be listed."
I'm using Netscape 4.61, and if I were that bored, I'd go over to one of my roommates' Win98 computers and try again on IE, but I'm not that interested.
L8r, Rojo^