IANAL, but I think a script can act on behalf of it's owner, be it a company or person.
But there is still a massive difference between a *NOTICE* and suing. I don't think it's illegal to send notices even without any justification (other than perhaps slander/harassment).
I will also point out that homosexual behavior is extremely common in nature. Most animals simply do not chose male or female and take whatever chance given them, humans are just more picky. If the universe depended on it, I am sure gays and lesbians would be happy to reproduce, but right now we are in the OPPOSITE situation.
That gives me an interesting (though offtopic) idea. What if, somehow, total homosexuality (rather than the opportunistic type that is clearly natural) is a result of over-population? It clearly has been increasing as society gets more dense... donno, that's a big assumption, just interesting.
This exact thing happened to me in it. I got to one of the levels (I forget what one it was) that was almost impossible to beat. I don't know if I tired cheats, but I ended up passing it only with a slight hardware mod (gluing a stick onto the control stick).
I am hardly lame when it comes to gaming, and this type of thing happened to me in other situations as well. Some well designed games normally don't have walls, but they are in a lot of them (mainly console adventure games), normally unlikely places.
You seem to totally forget that these so called terrorists don't care about blowing themselves up. All the worrying about rocks and trash isn't going to help if someone walks by with a paper bag and blows the bridge up.
Repeat after me: You are never safe, ever. Fear mongering is a bad thing. There has only been one attack on us in our resent history.
Because while, despite the Daily Hate here on Slashdot, America isn't a police state and the innocent have little to fear from their governemt unless they are crimelords, terrorists or that most dreadful scourge, a kiddie porn fiend But that isn't much comfort for the billions of huddled masses yearning to breath free in the unfree parts of the world.
You are using the old "if you don't have anything to hide you need not hide anything" fallacy. I guess since you don't want watched in the bathroom we can assume you are producing kiddy porn or making meth in there...
Furthermore, from a market perspective, Novell doesn't care if a bunch of slashdot readers get upset. Slashdot readers don't pay for Linux support services. They're not losing any sales by pissing off the slashdot crowd.
But they are Linux developers. I forsee a major lack of suse packages if things keep up.
So, it's better that Mac fanbois tell everyone how they HAVE to get a Mac, and how Microsoft's ads tell them how vista is so great? Face it, it's not a nice world out there. If you don't fight, you die. People would never change if no one told or forced them to, regardless of how much it would help them in the end.
do the lawsuits start against every hardware maker in the world for not supporting every operating system? Unless they were guaranteeing it worked with Vista, I don't see how you can sue them for it not working.
Funny, see, no one ever asked ME about the DMCA, net neutrality, copyright extension ad nauseam, the PATRIOT Act... need I go on? Needless to say, medical marijuana is still "bad".
Democracy theater, that's all we have. Important issues are ALL left up to the "wise" ones in the senate.
Mod parent up. With all his power, Bill Gates has done less evil than Steve Jobs has with as little power as he has. I don't want to see the world where Apple is in Microsoft's place.
Floppy Disks are far from dead. While they are not needed by most people, there are a lot of cases where you need one for power-user reasons or fixing glitches ("X.dll not found"). I had to go out and buy a floppy drive just a few months ago so I could flash my video BIOS (curse Nvidia for turning off the temperature sensor!) because I needed to write a backup and CDs couldn't do that.
Floppys are not going to die until there is a cheap, writable , bootable replacement. Small hard drives could replace them in time, but not yet..
You have it backwards. Are you going to download 3 fedora CDs because you have 3 computers? Maybe if they are differing archs... but that's not normally the case. Thus, the number would be LARGER than the one they gave, because many people use the same CD for more than one install, give their CDs away after using them, etc.
Popups hardly come from only porn sites. I have only seen less than 10% that do. Most are stupid "you won!" ads, that this will not block at all (if that's your goal, support a.ads or.spy domain...).
A good question on the topic of porn is, why does it need blocked or moved? What is wrong with it? Do more people die from looking at porn than eating at McDonald's, fighting over religion and all other such things? No one has ever died of porn. I don't care what some loud-mouthed conservative says; porn hurts no one, kids or adults.
I personally find a lot of things "obscene", but unlike these people, I don't think my opinion is something the whole world should be forced to follow.
Find porn obscene? Find a way to block it yourself, it's not societies issue.
There are a lot of things you don't take into consideration when buying a pre-built computer. Having done so, and now regretting it, they are:
1. Cheap "low profile" parts. Most of the motherboards have crappy configuration options, cheapo power supplies, low end ram and crappy hard drives.
2. Somewhat related to the above, there are parts that are sometimes unsupported on non-windows OSes. I was lucky to get a chipset that worked right as far as sound and IO, but not everyone gets such.
3. Bad support. Everything you have to go to the OEM for, and they normally try to pass the buck telling you to update BIOSes/reinstall windows/send the whole computer back to them.
And it's worth saying, I could have built this computer for less and gotten better parts than I did pre-built. If you want a low end system without any work, sure, pre-built is the way to go. If you want something that works well and gives you control, there isn't any OEM that sells that.
I said nothing about free internet service, but I DID say something about not double dipping. Don't bend my words.
Not like I could build it even if I had all the money in the world, if there are non-free nodes, the whole system is as good as non-free. If ISPX is between me and google, we both still have to pay ISPX, regardless of what I do on my end. If you are saying to somehow get around that, you are delusional. Your argument is akin to telling someone to build their own bridge because they object to it being made a toll-bridge.
"Free market" can't solve anything, it can't even solve most things without destroying lives/culture/freewill/the environment. If it wasn't for government regulation, we would still have thick smog in most major cities, asbestos in buildings and probably would have had a large number of nuclear incidents by now. Free market doesn't account for things the customer doesn't understand.
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IANAL, but I think a script can act on behalf of it's owner, be it a company or person.
But there is still a massive difference between a *NOTICE* and suing. I don't think it's illegal to send notices even without any justification (other than perhaps slander/harassment).
I will also point out that homosexual behavior is extremely common in nature. Most animals simply do not chose male or female and take whatever chance given them, humans are just more picky. If the universe depended on it, I am sure gays and lesbians would be happy to reproduce, but right now we are in the OPPOSITE situation.
That gives me an interesting (though offtopic) idea. What if, somehow, total homosexuality (rather than the opportunistic type that is clearly natural) is a result of over-population? It clearly has been increasing as society gets more dense... donno, that's a big assumption, just interesting.
So you think IE is secure?
Enjoy your virii.
This exact thing happened to me in it. I got to one of the levels (I forget what one it was) that was almost impossible to beat. I don't know if I tired cheats, but I ended up passing it only with a slight hardware mod (gluing a stick onto the control stick).
I am hardly lame when it comes to gaming, and this type of thing happened to me in other situations as well. Some well designed games normally don't have walls, but they are in a lot of them (mainly console adventure games), normally unlikely places.
Just another example of lack of gameplay testing.
...Yet google gets blasted for starting Google China and censoring as they have to there. /. has quite the double standard when it comes to Apple.
You seem to totally forget that these so called terrorists don't care about blowing themselves up. All the worrying about rocks and trash isn't going to help if someone walks by with a paper bag and blows the bridge up.
Repeat after me: You are never safe, ever. Fear mongering is a bad thing. There has only been one attack on us in our resent history.
I'v got something umm... else in mind. People may stop stretching and yawning, but there is one thing they can't live without. ;)
So, it's better that Mac fanbois tell everyone how they HAVE to get a Mac, and how Microsoft's ads tell them how vista is so great? Face it, it's not a nice world out there. If you don't fight, you die. People would never change if no one told or forced them to, regardless of how much it would help them in the end.
do the lawsuits start against every hardware maker in the world for not supporting every operating system? Unless they were guaranteeing it worked with Vista, I don't see how you can sue them for it not working.
Funny, see, no one ever asked ME about the DMCA, net neutrality, copyright extension ad nauseam, the PATRIOT Act... need I go on? Needless to say, medical marijuana is still "bad".
Democracy theater, that's all we have. Important issues are ALL left up to the "wise" ones in the senate.
Mod parent up. With all his power, Bill Gates has done less evil than Steve Jobs has with as little power as he has. I don't want to see the world where Apple is in Microsoft's place.
Floppy Disks are far from dead. While they are not needed by most people, there are a lot of cases where you need one for power-user reasons or fixing glitches ("X.dll not found"). I had to go out and buy a floppy drive just a few months ago so I could flash my video BIOS (curse Nvidia for turning off the temperature sensor!) because I needed to write a backup and CDs couldn't do that. Floppys are not going to die until there is a cheap, writable , bootable replacement. Small hard drives could replace them in time, but not yet..
You have it backwards. Are you going to download 3 fedora CDs because you have 3 computers? Maybe if they are differing archs... but that's not normally the case. Thus, the number would be LARGER than the one they gave, because many people use the same CD for more than one install, give their CDs away after using them, etc.
Fair use is guaranteed by copyright, and I believe that is in the constitution.
or does "where you can follow the subject as deeply as you like through the numerous relevant links" sound like PR-speak for clicking ads?
Popups hardly come from only porn sites. I have only seen less than 10% that do. Most are stupid "you won!" ads, that this will not block at all (if that's your goal, support a .ads or .spy domain...).
A good question on the topic of porn is, why does it need blocked or moved? What is wrong with it? Do more people die from looking at porn than eating at McDonald's, fighting over religion and all other such things? No one has ever died of porn. I don't care what some loud-mouthed conservative says; porn hurts no one, kids or adults.
I personally find a lot of things "obscene", but unlike these people, I don't think my opinion is something the whole world should be forced to follow.
Find porn obscene? Find a way to block it yourself, it's not societies issue.
Nope, just robots.
It's wrong, anyway. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox- a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs= g6p&q=failure&btnG=Search see result 5, only one instance of the word on the page... yet somehow it is #5.
Kiefer Sutherland learned how to use the internet, and took the "post your own videos!" thing a bit overboard.
I'll list them for you:
Age of Empires
Rise of Nations (if you don't count it as a split of AOE)
Star Wars (Battlefront 2, KOTOR2...)
Caesar/Pharaoh
I know I am missing a lot, but I don't play many FPS games. I'd list Civ (3 was awful) but it seems they were able to get back on track with 4.
There are a lot of things you don't take into consideration when buying a pre-built computer. Having done so, and now regretting it, they are:
1. Cheap "low profile" parts. Most of the motherboards have crappy configuration options, cheapo power supplies, low end ram and crappy hard drives.
2. Somewhat related to the above, there are parts that are sometimes unsupported on non-windows OSes. I was lucky to get a chipset that worked right as far as sound and IO, but not everyone gets such.
3. Bad support. Everything you have to go to the OEM for, and they normally try to pass the buck telling you to update BIOSes/reinstall windows/send the whole computer back to them.
And it's worth saying, I could have built this computer for less and gotten better parts than I did pre-built. If you want a low end system without any work, sure, pre-built is the way to go. If you want something that works well and gives you control, there isn't any OEM that sells that.
Can't be, it would have to be about 70% higher in that case.
I said nothing about free internet service, but I DID say something about not double dipping. Don't bend my words.
Not like I could build it even if I had all the money in the world, if there are non-free nodes, the whole system is as good as non-free. If ISPX is between me and google, we both still have to pay ISPX, regardless of what I do on my end. If you are saying to somehow get around that, you are delusional. Your argument is akin to telling someone to build their own bridge because they object to it being made a toll-bridge.
"Free market" can't solve anything, it can't even solve most things without destroying lives/culture/freewill/the environment. If it wasn't for government regulation, we would still have thick smog in most major cities, asbestos in buildings and probably would have had a large number of nuclear incidents by now. Free market doesn't account for things the customer doesn't understand.