This is the crux of the spam problem - it is a major case of externalizing costs. The question I have is: Since most businesses externalize costs as much as possible (remember this the next time an illegally parked FedEx truck blocks your way) what will happen if this kind of behavior is more actively prohibited? Could a spammer defend themselves against resource theft prosecution on the basis of selective enforcement? And conversely, would successful prosecution of a spammer on these gounds open the way for prosecution of other less hated businesses on similar grounds?
I hate spam as much as anyone, but I am wondering what sorts of legal minefields may be opened by going about it in particular ways.
Because I need to know how they treat downloaded files - which is quite different. Mozilla and Netscape honor the user's IC settings, but Camino and Safari do not.
Yeah, I had actually noticed the difference, but I am somewhat loathe to depend on punctuation. But I could do that. Actually, I detect Safari by finding the string 'Safari'.
And Mozilla, Netscape and Camino are not identical for my application because they treat various classes of links quite differently (e.g Mozilla honors IC settings for downloaded files but Camino does not).
But thanks for the link - I may check it out one of these days.
And so does Safari, and so does Netscape and so does Camino. In other words, 4 of the 8 OSX native browsers contain this string. Not very useful, I'm afraid...
I bet that 50% would pay the infrastructure the government would need to collect the tax, 30% for "open source" projects created for the sole purpose of benefiting from the funding and 10% for corruption.
Say what? Got any actual statistics to back that up?
OK, I'll go first: Medicare overhead is 4% of revenue. Most of Microsoft's products lose money. Enron executives probably bilked shareholders out of over 10% of their investment.
Why is it starting to go around that it is hard to program for Mac OS X?
Maybe because after three years Apple developers are getting tired of the complete lack of documentation and are leaving in disgust?
Don't believe me/think I'm a troll? Try reading the carbon development list sometime - there are weekly threads bitching about this problem. Almost every time I go to the web site to look up an API, all I get is the API signature and a note that it is implemented in Carbon.
I've been writing Mac software since 1984 and I am finally sick of it. I love using my Mac (simply for ergonomic reasons) but writing software for it has become a royal PITA. I can't even rely on the Finder to behave predictably (10.2.6). Give me a command line and BBEdit and let me write server code. Sheesh!
I think browser spoofing is a very bad thing. Yes it lets you load your page correctly, but it will never let the "powers that be" know that people use something other than IE.
I recently had to write some code to identify OSX browsers from their UserAgent strings, and IE is not the problem - it is Mozilla! Everything claims to be Mozilla, and the only way to know if you have Mozilla is by process of elimination using the later parts of the string - i.e. if it is not something you know, then it must be Mozilla.
A short story called "They're assimilating our culture, that's what they're doing".
As has been pointed out, the water thing was a ruse (and a pretty darn obvious one too). Objections to the food angle, though, require more thought. Yes, they could breed farm animals, but think of the markup they could make for imported human meat? For all you know, the economics could make sense.
(Spoiler for Larry Niven: The aliens actually just stole human DNA and used it to grow the meat in tanks. Which shows how dumb the V premise really is.)
I have been getting solicitations recently at my now defunct contracting company asking if I want to outsource our nonexistent work to India. It has been very tempting to write back and ask why I should go with them rather than "this nice Vietnamese company I have been talking to."
"I feel like I am being pecked apart by one of those earth creatures...large bill...webbed feet...goes quack....ahhh...what are they called?" "cats?"....."CATS...yes.....CATS"
or do people who are already happy become Buddhists?
While this is a legitimate question (and should be answered), consider that the vast majority of Buddhists were probably reared that way, I think we can presume causation for the time being.
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What we should do is have a way to automatize the slashdotting of these sites.
Spamfire has some stuff like this built in. One feature is called "Bug the web bugs" and it will hit a web bug address every 2 seconds with junk in place of the personal information.
Wave/particle duality is another way of saying that we have evidence of many worlds, but don't want to admit it.
It could also just be that people are uncomfortable with the idea that the Schrodinger equation actually defines reality and seek to shoehorn it into macroscopic intuitions about things not being able to be in two places at once.
David Deutsch says that if (when) quantum computers get above a few hundred qubits (they're at seven? now), that will also constitute proof, as the calculations that they will do will require more steps than there are atoms in the visible universe.
Same thing here. If the only way you accept that "calculations" can be made is by classic type machinery, then you would tend to accept this interpretation. But if the universe really is massively parallel, then this proves nothing.
Everett-Wheeler has a lot of problems. For a good discussion of various QM interpretations, have a look at this.
Umberto Eco once wrote an essay on how to recognize pornography. He argues that any movie where you find the plot interfering with your enjoyment is porn. He also observes that the plot is necessary or the whole thing just becomes "intolerable". Now I know that there are movies like that out there;-) but I think that most people agree with Eco on the subject.
Diminishing faith in the objectivity of the coverage could be a reason also.
This sort of statement frustrates the hell out of me. The whole idea that there is such a thing as "objective" reporting is nonsense - the simple act of deciding what to report on introduces bias. And the only industrialized nation where this idea has any traction is the US of A (Fox News being only the most cynical exploitation of the idea).
By contrast in Europe, most news outlets are quite up front about their bias (e.g. the Manchester Guardian), an attitude which encourages readers to consult multiple new sources.
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Old Soviet proverb:
Nyet pravda v Izvestye i nyet izvestia v Pravdye. (There is no truth in Izvestia and no news in Pravda.)
This is the crux of the spam problem - it is a major case of externalizing costs. The question I have is: Since most businesses externalize costs as much as possible (remember this the next time an illegally parked FedEx truck blocks your way) what will happen if this kind of behavior is more actively prohibited? Could a spammer defend themselves against resource theft prosecution on the basis of selective enforcement? And conversely, would successful prosecution of a spammer on these gounds open the way for prosecution of other less hated businesses on similar grounds?
I hate spam as much as anyone, but I am wondering what sorts of legal minefields may be opened by going about it in particular ways.
Because I need to know how they treat downloaded files - which is quite different. Mozilla and Netscape honor the user's IC settings, but Camino and Safari do not.
Yeah, I had actually noticed the difference, but I am somewhat loathe to depend on punctuation. But I could do that. Actually, I detect Safari by finding the string 'Safari'.
And Mozilla, Netscape and Camino are not identical for my application because they treat various classes of links quite differently (e.g Mozilla honors IC settings for downloaded files but Camino does not).
But thanks for the link - I may check it out one of these days.
It's not. When I said the "problem", I meant the problem I had to solve. Sorry for any confusion.
Except that 3 other OSX browsers (Netscape, Camino and Safari) contain this string...
And so does Safari, and so does Netscape and so does Camino. In other words, 4 of the 8 OSX native browsers contain this string. Not very useful, I'm afraid...
Before you get too enamoured of your armchair theories, have a look at this book.
OK, I'll go first: Medicare overhead is 4% of revenue. Most of Microsoft's products lose money. Enron executives probably bilked shareholders out of over 10% of their investment.
Looks like the public sector is a winner here.
Yes, Netscape. And you left out the links for iCab and Opera (not that they re that hard to find...).
Don't believe me/think I'm a troll? Try reading the carbon development list sometime - there are weekly threads bitching about this problem. Almost every time I go to the web site to look up an API, all I get is the API signature and a note that it is implemented in Carbon.
I've been writing Mac software since 1984 and I am finally sick of it. I love using my Mac (simply for ergonomic reasons) but writing software for it has become a royal PITA. I can't even rely on the Finder to behave predictably (10.2.6). Give me a command line and BBEdit and let me write server code. Sheesh!
A short story called "They're assimilating our culture, that's what they're doing".
As has been pointed out, the water thing was a ruse (and a pretty darn obvious one too). Objections to the food angle, though, require more thought. Yes, they could breed farm animals, but think of the markup they could make for imported human meat? For all you know, the economics could make sense.
(Spoiler for Larry Niven: The aliens actually just stole human DNA and used it to grow the meat in tanks. Which shows how dumb the V premise really is.)
Hmm, ever hear of carbonaceous chondrite asteroids?
As opposed to: Learn how to speak, English you fuck.
the most viscous slashdotting imaginable
Viscous is certainly one way to describe what happens to a slashdotted server...
I have been getting solicitations recently at my now defunct contracting company asking if I want to outsource our nonexistent work to India. It has been very tempting to write back and ask why I should go with them rather than "this nice Vietnamese company I have been talking to."
"I feel like I am being pecked apart by one of those earth creatures...large bill...webbed feet...goes quack....ahhh...what are they called?" "cats?"....."CATS ...yes.....CATS"
Which is even funnier.
Same thing here. If the only way you accept that "calculations" can be made is by classic type machinery, then you would tend to accept this interpretation. But if the universe really is massively parallel, then this proves nothing.
Everett-Wheeler has a lot of problems. For a good discussion of various QM interpretations, have a look at this.
For a rebuttal to Mr. Dennett and a really cool online course try here.
Umberto Eco once wrote an essay on how to recognize pornography. He argues that any movie where you find the plot interfering with your enjoyment is porn. He also observes that the plot is necessary or the whole thing just becomes "intolerable". Now I know that there are movies like that out there ;-) but I think that most people agree with Eco on the subject.
By contrast in Europe, most news outlets are quite up front about their bias (e.g. the Manchester Guardian), an attitude which encourages readers to consult multiple new sources.