We aren't talking about just 'visiting a public URL.' We are talking about taking a service you don't pay for.
You're talking about leaving a cardboard box full of merchandise in a public park with a signs saying "take one, leave a dollar" and a cease and desist to a person who posts a sign saying "hey there's stuff in the park".
See folks, whether its a hack or not doesn't change the fact that its just wrong.
No, what's wrong is the cease and desist. If your URL is publically accessable then it's up to you to secure it. It is NOT up to me to not access it and it's not up to me to not publically disclose it. If you don't want me at your URL then you should get it the hell off the internet.
If your technical skills are so poor that you can't secure it, then perhaps you're in the wrong line of work.
Also, our need to 'see what [they] are doing' does not necessarily extend to their personal life, in so far as their personal life does not affect their role as a government agent.
Then why do so many employers test for illegal drugs, but not legal drugs, and not for intoxication but use?
In my latest journal (don't bother reading it, it's a sucky one. The eclipse one was much better) I mention that my friend Linda spent sixty days in Dwight Correctional Center, a hellhole maximum security state prison here in Illinois for simple drug posession, while a former drinking buddy broke into a man's home and tried to kill him with a butcher knife (Lance claims he didn't actually try to kill the guy) and got fifteen days in the Sangamon County Jail.
When they pass respectable laws I'll respect the law.
With software, as you said, you can have copyright on the source ("blueprints") AND executables. With a new type gear you can only copyright the blueprint, not the gear itself.
Maybe, but maybe not. If you look at my submissions that were accepted last year you might think I worked for New Scientist, since more than half of those submissions link to it. But I don't work for them; I only surf their site often.
Perhaps the submitter genuinely likes Microsoft? I don't know why anyone would but that's just me.
-mcgrew
PS: haven't got a single story posted yet this year =(
They did in the early 1970s when I was in the Air Force. My normal job at Dover was towing Aerospace Ground Equipment (AGE; compressors, generators, air conditioners, etc) around the flight line. Note that Dover was a MAC base, it's where the dead soldiers were flown from Vietnam to. I didn't know that until long after I was discharged and had no idea that those alumanum boxes were full of corpses.
I was once volunteered to do a "security detal". The SPs (Same as MPs only the Air Force has to be different) drove me to the flight line and traded me an empty cardboard box for my security badge. My job was to put the box inside an aircraft, not wearing the badge.
I'm not goint to say what base or where it was, but in the early 1970s I was on a base with thousands of B52s loaded with nuclear warheads waiting for WWIII/Armageddon. There were several SR-71s and U2s as well.
Out of curiosity I looked at Google Maps, and although the bombers are gone, I saw SR71s and U2s still there.
But I wonder, are the planes I saw at Google Maps real, or were they fakes/decoys? Or were the Google photos themselves fake, with the B-5s photoshopped out? Hmmm, I should check Google Maps for Dover DE and look for C-5As and C-141s.
Yep, they're still there. Wonder what the AF did with all the old bombers? Send them to Iraq?
You're right, but not only would I have an incredibly hard time giving up coffee, what would be harder would be the fact that no way in hell would I WANT to.
If you read the link I gave you (that was my article BTW) you'll see that what surprised me the most about giving up cigarettes was that the habituation was worse than the actual addiction. Of course, I smoked the damned things for thirty years.
I'd worked in a no-smoking building for a year or two when I quit, and a year later when I didn't even want a cigarette (much) any more, when I'd go down the stairs to go home I'd grab my shirt pocket where the cigarettes had used to be kept.
steal/stil/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[steel] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation, verb, stole, stolen, stealing, noun -verb (used with object) 1. to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, esp. secretly or by force: A pickpocket stole his watch. 2. to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.) without right or acknowledgment. 3. to take, get, or win insidiously, surreptitiously, subtly, or by chance: He stole my girlfriend. 4. to move, bring, convey, or put secretly or quietly; smuggle (usually fol. by away, from, in, into, etc.): They stole the bicycle into the bedroom to surprise the child. 5. Baseball. (of a base runner) to gain (a base) without the help of a walk or batted ball, as by running to it during the delivery of a pitch. 6. Games. to gain (a point, advantage, etc.) by strategy, chance, or luck. 7. to gain or seize more than one's share of attention in, as by giving a superior performance: The comedian stole the show. -verb (used without object) 8. to commit or practice theft. 9. to move, go, or come secretly, quietly, or unobserved: She stole out of the house at midnight. 10. to pass, happen, etc., imperceptibly, gently, or gradually: The years steal by. 11. Baseball. (of a base runner) to advance a base without the help of a walk or batted ball. -noun 12. Informal. an act of stealing; theft. 13. Informal. the thing stolen; booty. 14. Informal. something acquired at a cost far below its real value; bargain: This dress is a steal at $40. 15. Baseball. the act of advancing a base by stealing. --Idiom16. steal someone's thunder, to appropriate or use another's idea, plan, words, etc.
[Origin: bef. 900; 1860-65 for def. 5; ME stelen, OE stelan; c. G stehlen, ON stela, Goth stilan]
The difference between stupid and ignorant is that ignorant is curable. No amount of education will make a stupid person less stupid. He'll simply be a more knowledgeable stupid person.
Plenty of intelligent people want corporate rights over civil rights, often to protect their profits
That's not stupid, that's dishonest. There's no cure AFAIK for dishonesty, either.
If it were up to me, only the original composer(s) could hold a copyright on a piece of music which would expire (and default to public domain) upon their death. No corps or estates allowed.
Then you would have people murdered just so their copyright would expire. Personally, I'd prefer a reasonable period - say, twenty years, like it was in the US before the 20th century.
I'd also like copyright to go back to its original purpose, which was to protect artists from publishers instead of the other way around.
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Yes, believe it or not, there was. I know because I was a beta tester for dirt.
They never did get all the bugs out.
your mom
You forgot to post a link.
WARNING: The linked article is about your mom. You poor guy...
We aren't talking about just 'visiting a public URL.' We are talking about taking a service you don't pay for.
You're talking about leaving a cardboard box full of merchandise in a public park with a signs saying "take one, leave a dollar" and a cease and desist to a person who posts a sign saying "hey there's stuff in the park".
In short, we're talking about incredible stupidity.
See folks, whether its a hack or not doesn't change the fact that its just wrong.
No, what's wrong is the cease and desist. If your URL is publically accessable then it's up to you to secure it. It is NOT up to me to not access it and it's not up to me to not publically disclose it. If you don't want me at your URL then you should get it the hell off the internet.
If your technical skills are so poor that you can't secure it, then perhaps you're in the wrong line of work.
Also, our need to 'see what [they] are doing' does not necessarily extend to their personal life, in so far as their personal life does not affect their role as a government agent.
Then why do so many employers test for illegal drugs, but not legal drugs, and not for intoxication but use?
In my latest journal (don't bother reading it, it's a sucky one. The eclipse one was much better) I mention that my friend Linda spent sixty days in Dwight Correctional Center, a hellhole maximum security state prison here in Illinois for simple drug posession, while a former drinking buddy broke into a man's home and tried to kill him with a butcher knife (Lance claims he didn't actually try to kill the guy) and got fifteen days in the Sangamon County Jail.
When they pass respectable laws I'll respect the law.
I could answer that for you, but then I'd have to kill you.
That does make sense, since they have the Stealth bombers now. The B-52's design is over half a century old, after all.
With software, as you said, you can have copyright on the source ("blueprints") AND executables. With a new type gear you can only copyright the blueprint, not the gear itself.
It isn't needed, AFAICT it offers nothing whatever that older stabler products (Flash) have.
The big news is that they ever sold (or even gave away) a single copy. Nobody but Microsoft would be able to.
Maybe, but maybe not. If you look at my submissions that were accepted last year you might think I worked for New Scientist, since more than half of those submissions link to it. But I don't work for them; I only surf their site often.
Perhaps the submitter genuinely likes Microsoft? I don't know why anyone would but that's just me.
-mcgrew
PS: haven't got a single story posted yet this year =(
This Dilbert cartoon and this Dilbert cartoon are the perfect illustrations for your post. Look at those links in order, one follows the other.
"Candidate must have an IQ of 300, two centuries of Unix experience and a track record of wining Nobel prizes."
What I'd like to know is why Google wanted to shoot military bases but they haven't gotten around to doing St Louis yet?
Doesn't the military have security?
They did in the early 1970s when I was in the Air Force. My normal job at Dover was towing Aerospace Ground Equipment (AGE; compressors, generators, air conditioners, etc) around the flight line. Note that Dover was a MAC base, it's where the dead soldiers were flown from Vietnam to. I didn't know that until long after I was discharged and had no idea that those alumanum boxes were full of corpses.
I was once volunteered to do a "security detal". The SPs (Same as MPs only the Air Force has to be different) drove me to the flight line and traded me an empty cardboard box for my security badge. My job was to put the box inside an aircraft, not wearing the badge.
That was actually fun!
I'm not goint to say what base or where it was, but in the early 1970s I was on a base with thousands of B52s loaded with nuclear warheads waiting for WWIII/Armageddon. There were several SR-71s and U2s as well.
Out of curiosity I looked at Google Maps, and although the bombers are gone, I saw SR71s and U2s still there.
But I wonder, are the planes I saw at Google Maps real, or were they fakes/decoys? Or were the Google photos themselves fake, with the B-5s photoshopped out? Hmmm, I should check Google Maps for Dover DE and look for C-5As and C-141s.
Yep, they're still there. Wonder what the AF did with all the old bombers? Send them to Iraq?
Those people belong in prison.
You're right, but not only would I have an incredibly hard time giving up coffee, what would be harder would be the fact that no way in hell would I WANT to.
If you read the link I gave you (that was my article BTW) you'll see that what surprised me the most about giving up cigarettes was that the habituation was worse than the actual addiction. Of course, I smoked the damned things for thirty years.
I'd worked in a no-smoking building for a year or two when I quit, and a year later when I didn't even want a cigarette (much) any more, when I'd go down the stairs to go home I'd grab my shirt pocket where the cigarettes had used to be kept.
Haven't had a butt for eight years now.
Yes.
Thank you, I'd never heard of the language "Linda" before.
John Lennon's "Nutopian National Anthem" is silence. Don't tell the RIAA lawyers, they'll dig him up and serve him a summons.
The difference between stupid and ignorant is that ignorant is curable. No amount of education will make a stupid person less stupid. He'll simply be a more knowledgeable stupid person.
Plenty of intelligent people want corporate rights over civil rights, often to protect their profits
That's not stupid, that's dishonest. There's no cure AFAIK for dishonesty, either.
If it were up to me, only the original composer(s) could hold a copyright on a piece of music which would expire (and default to public domain) upon their death. No corps or estates allowed.
Then you would have people murdered just so their copyright would expire. Personally, I'd prefer a reasonable period - say, twenty years, like it was in the US before the 20th century.
I'd also like copyright to go back to its original purpose, which was to protect artists from publishers instead of the other way around.
That's so. But the fact is, when I smoked cigarettes and didn't have one, I'd probably have committed a felony to obtain my fix.
The fact that you had zero difficulty quitting pot should tell you something.
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