And if you leave your front door unlocked, are you inviting people to come in and steal your beer out of the fridge? Just because there isn't a lock on it doesn't mean you are giving permission to use it. It just means it's an easier target for a thief. Christ, how many times do we have to go over this?
If I leave my front door open, my fridge stocked with beer and advertise "FREE BEER!" onto public property, 10 times a second, then YES I am in fact inviting people to come in and take my beer.
If, on the other hand, I shut my door [note to idiots: used WPA encryption] and did not advertise "FREE BEER!" onto public property, 10 times a second [turned off SSID broadcast] then no, I wouldn't be inviting people to come in and take my beer [bandwidth].
This isn't that hard to grok and the law is way off on this matter. So are you.
I thought the OEM license "wed" that particular copy to particular hardware?
I mean it might make you feel more moral about the whole thing and I am not a lawyer (I refuse to say "IANAL") but that's always been my understanding of the OEM thing.
Not true. I'm "required" to have a windows OS to do my tax using software, particularly if I wish to do it online. sure there are workarounds. But they are workarounds.
It's racism in software! ...so you should be free to use the OS of your choice but developers should be forced to develop for that platform?
"This seems to have been timed to coincide with Microsoft's release of their own competitor, Silverlight, to Adobe's dominance of online video." In other words: squeal like a pig, boy! Our way or the MS-way...
Which is one of the reasons I don't get why ISPs are pushing this. I mean clearly they believe that the benefits outweigh the costs but gven tbhe (%)AA-tactics I can't see how this is right.
We are the greatest country precisely because of our tradition of limiting government intrusion on our privacy and our right to protest the actions of the government. I'm not even a minarchist or anything (left wing statist, actually) and I can see this.
Hack the planet, d00d!
I think the point is that by expecting only supermen (who are, by definition, uncommon) to attack us we ignore all the more common attacks. Death by a thousand pinpricks rather than by a golden bullet I guess...
But this isn't about actually accomplishing an effective block of myspace. This is about catching a few idiots, appearing to "be doing something" to the School Board/Teachers/Students/Parents and flexing his awesome administrative muscles.
Smart people will always find ways around stuff, that how we know that they're smart.
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The redundancy is right there, in your post, which was duplicated by earlier ones.
If I leave my front door open, my fridge stocked with beer and advertise "FREE BEER!" onto public property, 10 times a second, then YES I am in fact inviting people to come in and take my beer.
If, on the other hand, I shut my door [note to idiots: used WPA encryption] and did not advertise "FREE BEER!" onto public property, 10 times a second [turned off SSID broadcast] then no, I wouldn't be inviting people to come in and take my beer [bandwidth].
This isn't that hard to grok and the law is way off on this matter. So are you.
"Call the Fire Department."
/goes to lunch
Yummy yummy dog nuts! I take mine with sugar!
I thought the OEM license "wed" that particular copy to particular hardware? I mean it might make you feel more moral about the whole thing and I am not a lawyer (I refuse to say "IANAL") but that's always been my understanding of the OEM thing.
All-you-can-eat buffets rarely have top quality food.
Which is one of the reasons I don't get why ISPs are pushing this. I mean clearly they believe that the benefits outweigh the costs but gven tbhe (%)AA-tactics I can't see how this is right.
Who knew that widespread use of web applications was a symptom of our broken public discourse system?
The more you know, I guess...
Sure, the I/O speed is great but the retention? Not so good...
We are the greatest country precisely because of our tradition of limiting government intrusion on our privacy and our right to protest the actions of the government. I'm not even a minarchist or anything (left wing statist, actually) and I can see this.
They can have my blink tag when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!
Tell that to Admiral Motti...
AND THAT MAKES ME SOOOOO HOT!
This is the omega of bad jokes...
Hack the planet, d00d! I think the point is that by expecting only supermen (who are, by definition, uncommon) to attack us we ignore all the more common attacks. Death by a thousand pinpricks rather than by a golden bullet I guess...
In soviet Russia, the humorless lord over YOU!
...oh wait.
You are correct, sir. I guess I should RTFTOS more...
Legally appropriate? No doubt.
Better than bullying? No duh.
Still hugely insecure.
But this isn't about actually accomplishing an effective block of myspace. This is about catching a few idiots, appearing to "be doing something" to the School Board/Teachers/Students/Parents and flexing his awesome administrative muscles.
Smart people will always find ways around stuff, that how we know that they're smart.
Only if they lose.
(Hope hope hope...)
Court? El oh el...
I think you'll see that there's a binding arbitration clause, with an arbitrator of their choosing making the decision.
MMM > MMX The rounding error claims one more victim...