Ooooh, does that mean the EULA practice is going to be challenged in court? This should be interesting.
Are you thinking this is a win-win situation? Like if KaZaA wins that means RIAA MPAA will be unable to sue users without infringing on the network, and if otherwise then EULAs will be ruled invalid?
Personally I think it would be better to invalidate EULAs, at least excessive ones but hmmmmm is there a way we can eat our cake and have it too?
(Random Posting through Meta-Moderation) (I still need to read the article and other comments.)
Given today's news stories, both of our nations need to take a long, hard look at how the rest of the world (no pun intended) must look at us.
Well, not everyone in the USA is so ignorant of the rest of the world. Unfortunately, those people are few and far between. When they travel abroad and are in a dangerous situation, they become temporary Canadians. Some also do it when there is a potential for just being treated rudely.
I mentioned this to a Canadian friend the other day, and he said that he wished we would stop the practice because now Canadians are starting to be treated like yanks. Seems this tip has been passed down to some of the less clueful US tourists, and now Canadians are being seen as just as bad as the "Ugly Americans."
Back to the question of Americans, I've been told that people in Mexico and Latin America do indeed think of themselves as Americans, and they refer to the residents of the USA as "Norte Americanos."
it doesn't need very many ISPs to cooperate... just the ones that operates the trans-continental links that are between where you are and where the scammer is.
Then can they re-direct it to a page that says "You are an idiot. Never trust anything in an unsolicited email." ?
In a recent issue of Lenor by Roman Dirge he has another of his short segments called "Things Involving Me." In this particular one he describes going to a bar themed like Hell while visiting his brother in Japan. He discovers the Urinal is themed too:
It was a grinning creepy 6 armed samurai thing. Which was apparently sensor activated because this happened.... (The head looks back and forth and then screams) Oh yea! I was a drunk captive audience that was not expecting the urinal to yell at me. And then it got worse. One arm suddenly had a camera and it was rapidly taking pictures. And it was laughing at me. And then the whole thing started swishing back and forth, laughing, yelling, rocking, flashing.
I think the only way people are going to get clued in on how bad microsoft software is is if we put the equivilant of the Evil Toilet out there to demonstrate to IE users just how vulnerable they really are.
Create an executable that will take over the entire screen. It will display as text, as well as have a voice come on the speakers taunting the users that they are 0wned. Pull up fake progress bars that say stuff like "Searching for Credit Card numbers.... Transfering credit card numbers to 3l3t3 h2k0r5.... Searching for pr0n visited.... emailing everyone in address book a list of pr0n sites visited.... deleting everything on harddrive."
While all this is going on it just has a sample of Mandark from Dexter's Laboritory playing over and over "Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha!"
And finally, a message saying that it is just a hoax, but it is just as easy for 3v1l h@x0rs to do all those things as long as they continue to use IE. It will then pull up the websites for Mozila and Opera.
This technology would be good for getting rid of land-mines that are already out there, but wouldn't it be better to simply stop making the darn things?
The propaganda says that there are landmines that were planted 30+ years ago that are still blowing up innocent children and such a generation after the war is over.
If anything, I'm worried that the politicians and arms industry will use this as an excuse to keep producing land mines. "Don't worry about the children. We can just plant these pretty flowers after the fact."
Elton John will write a song about it, too.
No!!!!! Gawd No!!!!!! (Sorry, I'm not an Elton John fan.)
a fitting end for a company that flagrantly disregards federal law and pisses people off. I'm surprised they lasted this long.
From the article: At its peak, the company boasted of a database containing 16 million fax numbers and 30 million "untouched" fax numbers, and that it could blast out as many as 3 million faxes a day.... On the other hand, Fax.com didn't exactly help its cause when it sent 1,634 junk faxes in one week in 2001 to the Washington, D.C., law firm of Covington & Burling....
They sent over a thousand faxes to a single company within a week. I'm more suprised that someone hasn't gone postal on them.
Hey, I have a brilliant idea! I'll do a random search through the U.S. Code, pick a section, and build a business around disobeying that law!
Don't forget, just breaking the law isn't enough. You have use breaking the law as a method of advertising. If you are not making money on the deal then Forbes will not write an article decrying the injustist of them actually enforcing the law when you are just trying to advertise.
How about spray painting advertisements on Junk Faxerss' homes? Or beat the crap out of them and then give them a flyer. Remember, you are a respectible businessman and as long as you are trying to make money you can do no wrong.
A lot of spammers are not selling anything besides their spamming services.
They say they will "send your message to 10 million gazillion users" but do they really care that a lot of the addresses they send to are dead, abandoned or obfuscated?
No, they just have a bunch of addresses, and as long as it is in the form of foo@bar.com they don't care if it bounces back, it is still valid enough for their customers.
The download client worked until they announced that they would no longer be offering "unlimited downloading" after October. After that point everyone on the system started downloading like crazy, trying to get as much out of the system before the end. My account got canceled on the very last day, which meant they gave me my $9.95 back for the month of October. I don't know how the service has been since then.
I think they got taken over by another company. To be honest, 40 downloads a month for $9.95 isn't that bad. I just wish it was a little better. Especially because I listen to weird music and some albums have a lot more tracks than others. So I'm holding off on re-joining for a while to see if they will offer a better deal. I'm hoping others are doing the same, and that the company does not go bankrupt. I like the idea, it is just 40 songs per month is a bit disappointing after getting practically unlimited downloads.
Also, nearly all the music they provide is indepenedent music that I usually cannot find on KaZaA.
They took down their message boards at the same time they announced the forthcoming changes. However, maybe someone out there has an listserv or independent bulleton board for users past and present?
They did have a lot of good music and I would very much like to re-join.
We can keep the 'feed the world' t-shirts, USA for Africa videos, etc, and generations of the 'future' can reconstruct your tedious "I'm such a virtous wanker" pomposity through virtual reality whenever they feel the need.
My SMTP server gets email from joeblow@123.com. I finger joeblow@123.com. If 123.com says joeblow is a real user I then accept the email, other wise I can it.
It would help, but it wouldn't prevent joe-jobs. Still, if every spammer was operating via joe-jobs we could prosecute them for fraud.
If the server not only told you that joeblow@123.com existed, but there was a digital signature confirming he is the one sending the email then it would work.
If we put the public key to a digital signatuer in our.plan would that work? Or have we gotten to the point where most people on the internet would not understand a.plan even if we tried to explain it to them. Still, I imagine there are some people who would only want to receive email from other unix/linux users.
I was going to say something like "Oh great, now a hundred freaking slashdotters will want to modify her home page to say 'Beverly Sweeney is the computer teacher for Richland Middle School. How a moron like this got to be teaching a computer class is beyond us because she doesn't know a thing about computers beyond using MS Applications. She prohibits any actions that might lead to real learning and is a prime example of what is wrong with out educational system.'"
But then you posted this on Wednesday so if someone were going to do that they would have done it by now. And besides, it is on an MS server and probably written in Frontpage. Who would want to even touch that.
I think that teachers should be required to learn and demonstrait use of vi before they should be allowed to teach a class. Then again, I think people should be required to learn vi before they get on the internet. Do emacs people have similar feelings?
Take a kid with a bit of curiosity using a command that the school made available to him and saying nothing more than "Hey" and expelling him for being curious and experimenting with things.
Maybe when his suspension is over he will do a net send "Principal whatshisface is a fscking moron!" or "I fscking hate this school!"
Or he could teach all his classmates how to do net send and have everyone send rude messages at the same time.
numbers. We need to make it clear that the sales of the Big Five are declining while others are increasing. Maybe the government will notice the signifigance of that.
Then again, maybe not.
Probably not. The Gob'ment, and especially the politicians don't care about small business anymore. They just care about the big companies who bribe^w make campaign contributions.
Do the RIAA cops have guns hidden somewhere on their person? Probably not, especially not legally. Could some of those involved in the underground CD market have guns? Almost certainly.
As if there aren't enough gang violence problems already. Imagine the RIAA becoming yet another gang, and gunfights becoming a regular occurance on city streets over bootlegers and RIAA gangsters. Then again, it might get all the other gangs to unite against the RIAA:)
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What's next, Sleeping Beauty 1.666666666... ?
If they did, we could just call it Sleeping Beauty 666 for short.
(Damn, I've been waiting forever for a flimsy excuse to link to that page.)
At least you didn't post any Buffy, err Willow quotes like:
"Why would anyone want to kiss rocks?"
Ooooh, does that mean the EULA practice is going to be challenged in court? This should be interesting.
Are you thinking this is a win-win situation?
Like if KaZaA wins that means RIAA MPAA will be unable to sue users without infringing on the network, and if otherwise then EULAs will be ruled invalid?
Personally I think it would be better to invalidate EULAs, at least excessive ones but hmmmmm is there a way we can eat our cake and have it too?
(Random Posting through Meta-Moderation)
(I still need to read the article and other comments.)
Given today's news stories, both of our nations need to take a long, hard look at how the rest of the world (no pun intended) must look at us.
Well, not everyone in the USA is so ignorant of the rest of the world. Unfortunately, those people are few and far between. When they travel abroad and are in a dangerous situation, they become temporary Canadians. Some also do it when there is a potential for just being treated rudely.
I mentioned this to a Canadian friend the other day, and he said that he wished we would stop the practice because now Canadians are starting to be treated like yanks. Seems this tip has been passed down to some of the less clueful US tourists, and now Canadians are being seen as just as bad as the "Ugly Americans."
Back to the question of Americans, I've been told that people in Mexico and Latin America do indeed think of themselves as Americans, and they refer to the residents of the USA as "Norte Americanos."
it doesn't need very many ISPs to cooperate... just the ones that operates the trans-continental links that are between where you are and where the scammer is.
Then can they re-direct it to a page that says "You are an idiot. Never trust anything in an unsolicited email." ?
I think the only way people are going to get clued in on how bad microsoft software is is if we put the equivilant of the Evil Toilet out there to demonstrate to IE users just how vulnerable they really are.
Create an executable that will take over the entire screen. It will display as text, as well as have a voice come on the speakers taunting the users that they are 0wned. Pull up fake progress bars that say stuff like "Searching for Credit Card numbers.... Transfering credit card numbers to 3l3t3 h2k0r5.... Searching for pr0n visited.... emailing everyone in address book a list of pr0n sites visited.... deleting everything on harddrive."
While all this is going on it just has a sample of Mandark from Dexter's Laboritory playing over and over "Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha!"
And finally, a message saying that it is just a hoax, but it is just as easy for 3v1l h@x0rs to do all those things as long as they continue to use IE. It will then pull up the websites for Mozila and Opera.
(Actually, this probably wouldn't be a good idea because it would give some people a heart attack.)
File this under "If the thought of something makes me giggle for longer than 15 seconds, I am to assume that I am not allowed to do it."
I was so sure that Thursday is Microsoft Hate Day.
That is so kewl I'm making it my homepage.
(Well, I didn't have anything for "my homepage" before but whatever.)
This technology would be good for getting rid of land-mines that are already out there, but wouldn't it be better to simply stop making the darn things?
The propaganda says that there are landmines that were planted 30+ years ago that are still blowing up innocent children and such a generation after the war is over.
If anything, I'm worried that the politicians and arms industry will use this as an excuse to keep producing land mines. "Don't worry about the children. We can just plant these pretty flowers after the fact."
Elton John will write a song about it, too.
No!!!!! Gawd No!!!!!!
(Sorry, I'm not an Elton John fan.)
Get your phone number removed here.
:)
Does anyone know if this actually works?
Put in Forbes' fax numbers and lets find out
I get calls in the middle of the night from fax machines. I guess now I know why.
They sent over a thousand faxes to a single company within a week. I'm more suprised that someone hasn't gone postal on them.
Hey, I have a brilliant idea! I'll do a random search through the U.S. Code, pick a section, and build a business around disobeying that law!
Don't forget, just breaking the law isn't enough. You have use breaking the law as a method of advertising. If you are not making money on the deal then Forbes will not write an article decrying the injustist of them actually enforcing the law when you are just trying to advertise.
How about spray painting advertisements on Junk Faxerss' homes? Or beat the crap out of them and then give them a flyer. Remember, you are a respectible businessman and as long as you are trying to make money you can do no wrong.
A lot of spammers are not selling anything besides their spamming services.
They say they will "send your message to 10 million gazillion users" but do they really care that a lot of the addresses they send to are dead, abandoned or obfuscated?
No, they just have a bunch of addresses, and as long as it is in the form of foo@bar.com they don't care if it bounces back, it is still valid enough for their customers.
Remember, it is spammers that we are talking about here.
A very interesting post.
.... "
Now, can someone tell me how living on Mars would affect the lyrics to Put on a Happy Face.
"Grey skies are gonna clear up
Put on a happy face
Brush off the clouds and cheer up
Put on a happy face
On second thought, I hate that song.
Never mind.
I'll just go back to listening to c93.
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No, it should be more like this:
i8237: Before I'll transfer data for thee, answer me these riddles three.
i8237: What is the bus cycle time of an i8080 in minimum mode?
User: An African or a European i8080?
i8237: I don't know that. AAAAaaaaaaaaaaa.....!
(What was this discussion about anyway?)
Maybe I should go back to reading friend's journals.
The download client worked until they announced that they would no longer be offering "unlimited downloading" after October. After that point everyone on the system started downloading like crazy, trying to get as much out of the system before the end. My account got canceled on the very last day, which meant they gave me my $9.95 back for the month of October. I don't know how the service has been since then.
I think they got taken over by another company. To be honest, 40 downloads a month for $9.95 isn't that bad. I just wish it was a little better. Especially because I listen to weird music and some albums have a lot more tracks than others. So I'm holding off on re-joining for a while to see if they will offer a better deal. I'm hoping others are doing the same, and that the company does not go bankrupt. I like the idea, it is just 40 songs per month is a bit disappointing after getting practically unlimited downloads.
Also, nearly all the music they provide is indepenedent music that I usually cannot find on KaZaA.
They took down their message boards at the same time they announced the forthcoming changes. However, maybe someone out there has an listserv or independent bulleton board for users past and present?
They did have a lot of good music and I would very much like to re-join.
We can keep the 'feed the world' t-shirts, USA for Africa videos, etc, and generations of the 'future' can reconstruct your tedious "I'm such a virtous wanker" pomposity through virtual reality whenever they feel the need.
Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records.
Does this mean you got around to setting up the "replace ads with cute cat pictures" server?
Have you considered writing a FAQ or a howto for setting up such a server?
My SMTP server gets email from joeblow@123.com. I finger joeblow@123.com. If 123.com says joeblow is a real user I then accept the email, other wise I can it.
.plan would that work? Or have we gotten to the point where most people on the internet would not understand a .plan even if we tried to explain it to them. Still, I imagine there are some people who would only want to receive email from other unix/linux users.
It would help, but it wouldn't prevent joe-jobs.
Still, if every spammer was operating via joe-jobs we could prosecute them for fraud.
If the server not only told you that joeblow@123.com existed, but there was a digital signature confirming he is the one sending the email then it would work.
If we put the public key to a digital signatuer in our
Just look at her CompLit/TechApp webpage.
I was going to say something like "Oh great, now a hundred freaking slashdotters will want to modify her home page to say 'Beverly Sweeney is the computer teacher for Richland Middle School. How a moron like this got to be teaching a computer class is beyond us because she doesn't know a thing about computers beyond using MS Applications. She prohibits any actions that might lead to real learning and is a prime example of what is wrong with out educational system.'"
But then you posted this on Wednesday so if someone were going to do that they would have done it by now. And besides, it is on an MS server and probably written in Frontpage. Who would want to even touch that.
I think that teachers should be required to learn and demonstrait use of vi before they should be allowed to teach a class. Then again, I think people should be required to learn vi before they get on the internet. Do emacs people have similar feelings?
Take a kid with a bit of curiosity using a command that the school made available to him and saying nothing more than "Hey" and expelling him for being curious and experimenting with things.
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Maybe when his suspension is over he will do a net send "Principal whatshisface is a fscking moron!" or "I fscking hate this school!"
Or he could teach all his classmates how to do net send and have everyone send rude messages at the same time.
I wonder if any of them read
Why use cdparanoia when you can just go online and download it from your favorite P2P service? :)
The people hosting the files on your favorite p2p service might not be using cdparanoia.
The people hosting the files on your favorite p2p service don't listen to the obscure music that I like to listen to.
You look at your "flour" sack and find out -- oops -- it's actually rat poison, not flour.
:)
YM "Anthrax" HTH.
(Or is rat poison also a white powdery substance?)
(I'm just thinking inappropriate-post-anthrax-scare-humor.)
numbers. We need to make it clear that the sales of the Big Five are declining while others are increasing. Maybe the government will notice the signifigance of that.
Then again, maybe not.
Probably not. The Gob'ment, and especially the politicians don't care about small business anymore. They just care about the big companies who bribe^w make campaign contributions.
This is even more funny because I was just reading an article about Grand Theft Auto.
Do the RIAA cops have guns hidden somewhere on their person? Probably not, especially not legally. Could some of those involved in the underground CD market have guns? Almost certainly.
:)
As if there aren't enough gang violence problems already. Imagine the RIAA becoming yet another gang, and gunfights becoming a regular occurance on city streets over bootlegers and RIAA gangsters. Then again, it might get all the other gangs to unite against the RIAA