Yes, it would be legal, but it would also be begging for someone to mail abuse at the poster's provider. The legal system is crowded enough without this silly stuff.
This is why there are moderated groups
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Usenet Gag Order
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If the group isn't moderated, freedom reigns.
Spam is unappreciated, but anything else in the ballpark is permissible.
The judge should have ordered that only moderated groups can be held to this kind of standard.
Yeah - hacks ruined Diablo. So many damn "trainers" were around it became no fun at all. Security is better in BattleZone, but that is now hacked too (the settings for the Capitan ship can be altered ad nauseum). BZ is still highly playable tho. People are respected for skill, not hacks.
Hopefully DII will have better security than Diablo.
Diablo was my first foray into online gaming and I would have paid a lot for add-ons. Look at how many Doom packages were offered. The marketing team should have jumped all over Blizzard management to scrape up whatever resources were necessary to release additional packages, especially new levels.
I will run screaming to the store the second they release Diablo II. They could have made me run there sooner and more frequently...
This feels like piling on the man with the ball at this point, but here goes.
/. is a *forum* for discussion. If you expect to like everything you read, stick your head back in the sand, e.g. don't read it. A prior response makes an excellent point - know thy enemy. The point of this article is not to get JP press, but to "Grill" him as his peers. This is how others in the know will determine how the guy responds (or doesn't) to incisive questioning.
I for one look forward to reading his answers. Note: I did not say *believing* his answers, just reading them.
Just great. Some nitwit with control over their corner of the world is going to use this to pigeon-hole someone. Weak-minded people rely on tools like this to analyze people they don't understand and exert whatever control they have over the undeserving subject.
People do, and increasingly will do, unexpected things that might frighten those in authority. Psychological examination will reveal that these people had a reason for whatever outlet they chose to express themselves.
The average person has control of their faculties, but has the potential to do great harm when provoked.
We should be taking the opposite approach to the one that this tool uses. Instead of using some canned set of criteria to determine what someone is thinking or is capable of, we should be encouraging people to express and exhaust their naturally occuring frustrations in healthy ways.
but, people are creatures of habit. What we do we tend to continue doing. How might we instill our children with the desire to succeed (financially, personally, socially, artistically, whatever) without trying to give them an achievement-ended view?
We might be breeding a materialistic, competitive race, but that beats the alternative of a society based on just getting by - achieving the minimum necessary level of comfort and settling for it. I would rather that people work hard and set goals high when young and find their comfort level when they have already achieved it.
I have to hand it to Apple for (eventually) sticking by quality even at the expense of deadlines.
I am no Mac user - my experience with apples ended with the IIe in high school. However, Apples have nearly always provided a performance edge for graphics and sound production environments. Their attention to quality hardware (not so much the OS) is appreciated.
I would rather see a company apologize for its mistake and take a blow to PR than to release a product which they knew required a fix (ex. every release of Windows or NT to date.)
Given that definition, bad faith domain name "squatting" would have to intentionally defraud someone - presumably the company claiming rights to the name; or be intended to mislead someone - presumably the customers of said company.
Domain name registration is an honest capitalistic venture in that a private citizen can forsee an existing or (even better) soon-to-be-created entity's desire to use the Internet to conduct business and/or advertise. If that company is so blind to the Internet's potential for commerce that they have not already registered the domain, they deserve to pay the person who forsaw that potential.
Unless the registrant claims to be the entity which owns the servicemark or trademark, how could they be guilty of misleading someone?
I hope this doesn't pass, because the legitimate business of domain anticipation will be lost.
What I want to know is how they can in one breath say they took all reasonable security procedures that any sys admin worth his/her salt would take and the next say they are going to add the 21 security patches and test again,,,
About a month after the march on Redmond to get the license rebates for computers not running pre-installed 98, I purchased a PIII 500 through Dell and inquired about the rebate for the 98 license.
The sales rep was very polite, but had no idea what I was talking about. I was told there was no way to get a computer without an operating system installed, and consequently, there was no way not to be charged for the OS.
Now Dell will pre-install Linux! That is what I call progress.
Here it is: In co-operation with members of the Essener Linux user Group and full-time Linux specialist take place starting from November Linux seminars, evening classes and Workshops. Completely in the sense of the non-profit beginning of Linux many of the meetings and training courses are free. The mansion bird-sang by Linux computers is administered, and a Ethernet network with central Internet and EMail Router all guest rooms supply 100 MB. Notebook computer is available under Linux for the guests (DM 100 per day) and for training courses. In the evening we offer the possibility of non-standard single training courses (DM 170 per time hour) to interested business traveler in the room of the guest - a often welcome alternative to the television or bar program (those are naturally also available). Topic of the training (either Linux questions and/or general training courses to Internet, eMail etc.), point in time and duration
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Spam is unappreciated, but anything else in the ballpark is permissible.
The judge should have ordered that only moderated groups can be held to this kind of standard.
Hopefully DII will have better security than Diablo.
Diablo was my first foray into online gaming and I would have paid a lot for add-ons. Look at how many Doom packages were offered. The marketing team should have jumped all over Blizzard management to scrape up whatever resources were necessary to release additional packages, especially new levels.
I will run screaming to the store the second they release Diablo II. They could have made me run there sooner and more frequently ...
This feels like piling on the man with the ball at this point, but here goes.
/. is a *forum* for discussion. If you expect to like everything you read, stick your head back in the sand, e.g. don't read it. A prior response makes an excellent point - know thy enemy. The point of this article is not to get JP press, but to "Grill" him as his peers. This is how others in the know will determine how the guy responds (or doesn't) to incisive questioning.
I for one look forward to reading his answers. Note: I did not say *believing* his answers, just reading them.
How about tux with a transparent skull and code inside - maybe colums of digits like that effect from the Matrix.
That whole site rocks. Been on it for the last hour. (Loves sig.s)
Moderate this, please.
What do you call a pile of rats in a bowl of milk?
One gross breakfast cereal.
Maybe this will give Hollywood types a more realistic perspective so productions like Hackers and that MTV portrayal are more accurate in the future.
They needed a clue and got one they will definitely listen to this time.
Teacher say:
"First you must unlearn what you have learned."
Yeah, and it said Caldera was the only distro with partitioning software - Mandrake 6.5 also ships with Partition magic.
Just great. Some nitwit with control over their corner of the world is going to use this to pigeon-hole someone. Weak-minded people rely on tools like this to analyze people they don't understand and exert whatever control they have over the undeserving subject.
People do, and increasingly will do, unexpected things that might frighten those in authority. Psychological examination will reveal that these people had a reason for whatever outlet they chose to express themselves.
The average person has control of their faculties, but has the potential to do great harm when provoked.
We should be taking the opposite approach to the one that this tool uses. Instead of using some canned set of criteria to determine what someone is thinking or is capable of, we should be encouraging people to express and exhaust their naturally occuring frustrations in healthy ways.
Up for a game of Quake3 or Battlezone , anyone?
They should set an IQ limit for attendance - say around 120 minimum. Oh, but then the Comdex organizers couldn't get in ,,,
"It's from the article, stupid."
End of the first page, duh?
Yep - both of you make excellent points,
but, people are creatures of habit. What we do we tend to continue doing. How might we instill our children with the desire to succeed (financially, personally, socially, artistically, whatever) without trying to give them an achievement-ended view?
We might be breeding a materialistic, competitive race, but that beats the alternative of a society based on just getting by - achieving the minimum necessary level of comfort and settling for it. I would rather that people work hard and set goals high when young and find their comfort level when they have already achieved it.
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Just my $0.02
I have to hand it to Apple for (eventually) sticking by quality even at the expense of deadlines.
I am no Mac user - my experience with apples ended with the IIe in high school. However, Apples have nearly always provided a performance edge for graphics and sound production environments. Their attention to quality hardware (not so much the OS) is appreciated.
I would rather see a company apologize for its mistake and take a blow to PR than to release a product which they knew required a fix (ex. every release of Windows or NT to date.)
So you both are right - it wasn't working for free and Activision got a hell of a bargain - pretty smart on Acti's part, eh?
The point is that all gained from the experience and the programmers had a helluva lota fun, which was compensation enough for them -- this time.
Thanks for that.
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Given that definition, bad faith domain name "squatting" would have to intentionally defraud someone - presumably the company claiming rights to the name; or be intended to mislead someone - presumably the customers of said company.
Domain name registration is an honest capitalistic venture in that a private citizen can forsee an existing or (even better) soon-to-be-created entity's desire to use the Internet to conduct business and/or advertise. If that company is so blind to the Internet's potential for commerce that they have not already registered the domain, they deserve to pay the person who forsaw that potential.
Unless the registrant claims to be the entity which owns the servicemark or trademark, how could they be guilty of misleading someone?
I hope this doesn't pass, because the legitimate business of domain anticipation will be lost.
-- Kickin it in Irene
Saying only Microsoft has your credit card number is like saying only the mafia will be collecting your gambling debt.
What I want to know is how they can in one breath say they took all reasonable security procedures that any sys admin worth his/her salt would take and the next say they are going to add the 21 security patches and test again ,,,
What is your favorite kind of pie? ;-)
I stand corrected
About a month after the march on Redmond to get the license rebates for computers not running pre-installed 98, I purchased a PIII 500 through Dell and inquired about the rebate for the 98 license.
The sales rep was very polite, but had no idea what I was talking about. I was told there was no way to get a computer without an operating system installed, and consequently, there was no way not to be charged for the OS.
Now Dell will pre-install Linux! That is what I call progress.
Here it is: In co-operation with members of the Essener Linux user Group and full-time Linux specialist take place starting from November Linux seminars, evening classes and Workshops. Completely in the sense of the non-profit beginning of Linux many of the meetings and training courses are free. The mansion bird-sang by Linux computers is administered, and a Ethernet network with central Internet and EMail Router all guest rooms supply 100 MB. Notebook computer is available under Linux for the guests (DM 100 per day) and for training courses. In the evening we offer the possibility of non-standard single training courses (DM 170 per time hour) to interested business traveler in the room of the guest - a often welcome alternative to the television or bar program (those are naturally also available). Topic of the training (either Linux questions and/or general training courses to Internet, eMail etc.), point in time and duration