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Any pay-for-email scheme will be abused by the con artists currently profiting on spam. If the recipient gets the money, then all of those bots will start sending mail to 'victims'. If the ISP gets the money, then they will set up fake ISPs to collect email tax. Pay-for-email is a stupid idea.
Perhaps they could come up with a game where a well-armed combatant attempts to penetrate a heavily guarded enemy installation in search of a poorly defined objective. After surmounting incredible odds, there would be a final encounter with a superior enemy. Winning this fight would conclude the game.
Six months seems fair as long as it is a penalty equally applied to all lawbreakers. The warrantless FBI recordings of private phone conversations seem to be of about equal criminal value, for example. Not sure about the quality of the recordings, but the FBI ought to be able to buy decent equipment.
1) Closed software can just block out restricted frequencies or power levels. If the software was open and changeable, it would be trivial to get around any software restrictions.
2) If you can adjust the workings in software, then there is a danger of operating in a way that causes harmful interference even when on lawful frequencies and power levels. Closed software doesn't provide the adjustments.
You can use the same name that I use when I have to fill out a form to return something or get a "loyalty" card: Moe Delaun. The funniest part is that since I use my actual address, I now get junk mail addressed to Mr. Delaun. I should try checking my credit score.
Suppose that when you request the page with the form on it from the legit site it encrypts your IP address and includes it on the page as a hidden field. Hitting submit returns the token which matches your IP address.
The malicious page has a submit button that they trick you into hitting which sends a request to the legit site in your name from your browser but it can't get the same token, even though it knows your IP address, unless it can break the encryption or is behind the same NAT firewall as you. So watch out for your little brother.
HP used to be very competent in a small set of areas: the Alpha chip, Tru64 Unix, etc. Realizing that, they killed off those products. Now they are equally competent in all areas.
No. Its not a phish address. The malicious webpage has elements that will be downloaded by your browser automatically, like images, javascript and styles. One of these could actually be a link to Slashdot (for example) that requests an action there. If you are still logged into Slashdot it will perform the action because the request really came from your browser, which knows the session and your Slashdot cookies.
"Everything boils down to native x86 instructions"
bytecode on Sparc gets compiled to Sparc, on PowerPC it gets compiled to PowerPC. The point is that you can distribute one binary bytecode, not source, that runs on the JVM on any of those platforms.
"What language you write in doesn't matter" How do I write in VB, C# or Objective C and distribute binaries that run on any of those platforms?
Over half the programming being done is not x86-specific. It's either for Sun, IBM, embedded or in a machine-independent language like Java or perl. The main thing preventing use on the desktop of non-x86 CPUs is Windows. And the only reason that x86 is cheaper is the volume due to desktop use.
Note that the lobes appear to be tilted away from us by about 40 degrees or so. That's a good thing. When stars like Eta Carinae explode, they tend to shoot of beams of energy and matter that, at its distance of 7500 light years, could kill every living thing on Earth. But since it's pointed away from us, all we'll get is a spectacular light show.
Matter won't get here for quite a while, but the X-Rays, etc. will get here at the same time as the pretty light. For the energy to be enough to kill us at 7500 light years, and the inverse square law to be in effect, that means the energy density at the star's surface would be... hmmm... fairly large.
Not possible. The only useful documentation the intent of the code, which can't be learned from looking at the source. An example is this brilliant piece of software by Brian Kernighan. If you hadn't seen it before, how long would it take you to figure out what it does and why its better than the more obvious way to do it?
unsigned int c; for (c=0; v; c++) { v &= v - 1; } return (c);
I would have sided with National Geo. if it had just been publishing the exact magazine contents, because that's what the Supreme Court decided in its case. However:
Sixty-four of Greenberg's photos had appeared in issues of the National Geographic. One of those published photos also was included in an animated photo montage designed exclusively for the CD-ROM.
Greenberg sued over the new use, which NG had no rights to. The Supremes said that including an unchanged work in a different context was infringing (putting it in a database). So creating a brand new work - the photo montage - should have counted as infringing.
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is
allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
received the program in object code or executable form with such
an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
Now explain how putting up a link on a webpage counts as commercial distribution.
2) Title of the GPL v2:
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
Note that the title is not, CONTRACT TO FORCE YOU OUT OF BUSINESS TOMORROW, or SNEAKY AGREEMENT TO STEAL YOUR PATENTS.
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Any pay-for-email scheme will be abused by the con artists currently profiting on spam. If the recipient gets the money, then all of those bots will start sending mail to 'victims'. If the ISP gets the money, then they will set up fake ISPs to collect email tax. Pay-for-email is a stupid idea.
If you have nothing to hide, why do you mind registering?
Ask any judge in criminal court whether he minds his name, address, home telephone and picture being posted online.
Perhaps they could come up with a game where a well-armed combatant attempts to penetrate a heavily guarded enemy installation in search of a poorly defined objective. After surmounting incredible odds, there would be a final encounter with a superior enemy. Winning this fight would conclude the game.
Thank you, I will await my royalty check.
Oh sure. Throw in a toally unproven technique. When I tried asking that with spotted owls, all that any of them said was "Who?"
The internet survived AOL, it can survive millions of uneducated Indian and Chinese.
Most users object to the eartags.
Six months seems fair as long as it is a penalty equally applied to all lawbreakers. The warrantless FBI recordings of private phone conversations seem to be of about equal criminal value, for example. Not sure about the quality of the recordings, but the FBI ought to be able to buy decent equipment.
No. They pretty much spell out two concerns:
1) Closed software can just block out restricted frequencies or power levels. If the software was open and changeable, it would be trivial to get around any software restrictions.
2) If you can adjust the workings in software, then there is a danger of operating in a way that causes harmful interference even when on lawful frequencies and power levels. Closed software doesn't provide the adjustments.
Unless you want to take the course at some unknown school like MIT which provides all the course material on the internet for free.
It's because they are standing on that slippery slope that they are unbalanced. Maybe find them a level place and their balance will improve.
Your argument would be better except that Word used to allow embedded postscript (I think it was Word 4) and took that feature out.
Wouldn't want to get confused with that other large supercomputer customer.
You can use the same name that I use when I have to fill out a form to return something or get a "loyalty" card: Moe Delaun. The funniest part is that since I use my actual address, I now get junk mail addressed to Mr. Delaun. I should try checking my credit score.
Suppose that when you request the page with the form on it from the legit site it encrypts your IP address and includes it on the page as a hidden field. Hitting submit returns the token which matches your IP address.
The malicious page has a submit button that they trick you into hitting which sends a request to the legit site in your name from your browser but it can't get the same token, even though it knows your IP address, unless it can break the encryption or is behind the same NAT firewall as you. So watch out for your little brother.
HP used to be very competent in a small set of areas: the Alpha chip, Tru64 Unix, etc. Realizing that, they killed off those products. Now they are equally competent in all areas.
No. Its not a phish address. The malicious webpage has elements that will be downloaded by your browser automatically, like images, javascript and styles. One of these could actually be a link to Slashdot (for example) that requests an action there. If you are still logged into Slashdot it will perform the action because the request really came from your browser, which knows the session and your Slashdot cookies.
"Everything boils down to native x86 instructions"
bytecode on Sparc gets compiled to Sparc, on PowerPC it gets compiled to PowerPC. The point is that you can distribute one binary bytecode, not source, that runs on the JVM on any of those platforms.
"What language you write in doesn't matter"
How do I write in VB, C# or Objective C and distribute binaries that run on any of those platforms?
Over half the programming being done is not x86-specific. It's either for Sun, IBM, embedded or in a machine-independent language like Java or perl. The main thing preventing use on the desktop of non-x86 CPUs is Windows. And the only reason that x86 is cheaper is the volume due to desktop use.
Why x86? You write a lot of code in machine language? Ever hear of Java?
I'm hoping for public execution of the authors of KDE sound system (motto: making Linux a quieter place), but so far no luck.
Greenberg sued over the new use, which NG had no rights to. The Supremes said that including an unchanged work in a different context was infringing (putting it in a database). So creating a brand new work - the photo montage - should have counted as infringing.
You should read the thing before you post.
1) From the GPL v2 on source distribution:
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is
allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
received the program in object code or executable form with such
an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
Now explain how putting up a link on a webpage counts as commercial
distribution.
2) Title of the GPL v2:
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
Note that the title is not, CONTRACT TO FORCE YOU OUT OF BUSINESS
TOMORROW, or SNEAKY AGREEMENT TO STEAL YOUR PATENTS.