Only 2 out of 5? My experience has been different. But it depends greatly on the culture inside the company in question; and some bosses don't really have a choice but to break their promises. A lie higher up in the hierachy will result in a multitude of broken promises further down.
I am serious: If any politican would seek to introduce the death penalty for spammers, he'd have my vote. I have lived with this nonsense now for ten years, and my patience is wearing thin.
I agree that spam email is about 90% of traffic. In my case the ratio is probably even higher. I get a lot of spam. Most of it gets filtered out by spamcop.
If RBLs suddenly became unavailable, the only - and I do mean only - option for me would be to reject any email that doesn't come with correct sender verification of some sort, say, SPF. Then, once spammers start using those systems too I'd have to start whitelisting senders.
I really can't believe that the US is putting up with that. I think only judges who have no email account could even agree to hear such a case.
GW does have a 3d engine, it's just not used much for real 3d things. Since GW focuesses on PvP, the not-jumping could be considered a feature (nothing more annoying that the guy you're fighting jumping around you in circles; it's just silly).
Actually WoW already looks really old. Other games have managed to keep upw ith the graphics much better (guild Wars comes to mind). The death of WoW will be when people realize that they cannot beat WoW. The current level 60 constant grind for better and better gear is going to cause a lot of causalities. The Expansion will remedy this a bit (actual new material), but WoW's decline is going to follow soon afterwards.
The exploit is the first of its kind for Vista. Give this a few years and add the high motivation of criminals who make millions by exploiting PCs and you can be sure we'll eventually see some quite nasty stuff.
Just because these things can be formed inorganically doesn't mean they were. Still the burden of proof definitely rests on those who says it is organic in origin. Especially now.
Luckily, just because the meteor may not have signs of former life, doesn't mean mars never had any. It would be really sad if our solar system turned out to be sterile.
"Distrust authority." It has never been more true, or more necessary. History is repeating itself. We've had a couple decades of relative peace, quiet, and freedom; it's now time for the next wave of faschism. people forget too quickly, and they take too much shit. I'll blog the revolution when it comes.
All political institutions are corrupt. Of course, it's called "lobbyism". It's just that MS hasn't opened their wallet wide enough... And, as I said, now it may be too late for the comission to backpedal.
Flamebait huh? Well, all Americans without any idea about EU politics I assume.
No, professionals wiring a house don't consult a book, they know what they are doing.
And they do make mistakes. Like all humans. Such mistakes just rarely make slashdot.
Using several sources - or specialists - would lower the risk of mistakes happening, and yet it will still happen. You might not realize this, but there is no such thing as eleminating the chance of failure.
Using a single source that you yourself cannot at least check for plausbility is inviting such problems at an unnecessarily high rate.
Bottom line of TFA: If you publish text in a language you do not understand - have a proof reader.
Good luck trying to "reason" with the EU comission. Better men than you have tried. But don't worry: The EU comission is as corrupt as your next favorite politician. Although it might be too late now. The EU is also money-hungry, a sentiment you should know, and with European countries' budgets being what they are, such a fine is something they might not willingly forgoe.
You may or may not be right in a legal sense. I can not judge that. But many laws - especially when it comes to hightech - simply do not make sense. That's because a lot of people do not "get it". You seem to be one of them (or rather, your friend turned you over, it seems you originally had the right idea.)
They did not arrest him for trespassing (entering someone else's property), if I understand correctly they had him arrested for using the WLAN. And that is just simply nonsense. By running an open, unsecured AP they implcitely agree to let anybody within range use that WLAN. If not, they should secure it by some means. If he then breaks in, yes, that should be punishable.
A better comparison than yours would be this:
Imagine I stand in front of your store and read a book by the light that is coming out of your shopping window. You tell me to go away, because I am using your light. I return the next day and again read in the light that is coming out of your shop. You call the cops and have me thrown in jail.
Surely, any sane person would agree that this is nonsense. You may be paying for the light generated by the electricity that you pay for; but as soon as it leaks out, you can hardly tell people to not see this light. You could put a curtain in your window; but you cannot expect people to wear blindfolds.
Now, if you owned the street in front of your shop, and forbid me to enter this private street, then you would be within your rights and if I did so anyway, that is trespassing.
Note that it is also not theft of service, because the service is offered publically and free to all anyway (no restrictions, remember). And it's not like he is taking any finite ressource and denying the owner the use of the same. Connectivity is dirt cheap. The financial loss to this company is probably in the single digits.
The way I read this story: Instead of fixing a problem, Brewed Awakening is covering up for its own incompetence by having a disliked person jailed by the police. Their major complaint is: "He doesn't buy anything". The rest is just an excuse.
If their WLAN is just for paying customers, they need to make this clear somehow. They should secure their AP and then give customers an access code as part of their bill or put it on the daily menu or something. Easy, no? Took me 30 seconds to come up with this, should take about half an hour to implement.
And if he then comes in, gets the code off the menu, leaves and then just sits in the parking lot to use the WLAN - THEN I'd say it's okay to have him removed by the cops eventually.
"I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do."
"What are you talking about?"
"This service is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it. I know you were planning to disconnect, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen."
While it'd be great to have the D&D stuff in electronic form (for searching and for protability), I am surely not going to pay full price for something that is DRM protected on top! If I could save half the money, okay, but like this? No, no, no.
I have been playing WoW since January, and I do have to say, it gets exceedingly boring after a while. The geek in me really wants to get at least one character to level 60, and I will check the expansion out. However, you quickly notice that the game was designed to keep you occupied for months to maximize subscription fees. And while I don't have a problem to work for my Lv 60 character, I really, really find it annoying that Blizzard made levelling in the mid game so tedious. ymmv.
The sooner people realize that we're sliding down into an age of oppression worse than anything Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia have ever done, the better we are off. Sure, we don't set up gas chambers anymore. That was so bad for PR. But don't think you'll have ANY freedoms left in a few years.
Tony Blair can pry my private key from my cold, dead fingers.
Thank you for disqualifying yourself. Your inability to take part in civilized society has been noted. I'd reply to your attempt at making a point but I don't feed trolls.
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Only 2 out of 5? My experience has been different. But it depends greatly on the culture inside the company in question; and some bosses don't really have a choice but to break their promises. A lie higher up in the hierachy will result in a multitude of broken promises further down.
...and I just lost my mod points :( But, you exactly nailed it.
I am serious: If any politican would seek to introduce the death penalty for spammers, he'd have my vote. I have lived with this nonsense now for ten years, and my patience is wearing thin.
I agree that spam email is about 90% of traffic. In my case the ratio is probably even higher. I get a lot of spam. Most of it gets filtered out by spamcop.
If RBLs suddenly became unavailable, the only - and I do mean only - option for me would be to reject any email that doesn't come with correct sender verification of some sort, say, SPF. Then, once spammers start using those systems too I'd have to start whitelisting senders.
I really can't believe that the US is putting up with that. I think only judges who have no email account could even agree to hear such a case.
Heh. Good one :-)
"Ehrlich" is German for "Honest". Nomen est omen.
Someone's got to clean up the mess.
GW does have a 3d engine, it's just not used much for real 3d things. Since GW focuesses on PvP, the not-jumping could be considered a feature (nothing more annoying that the guy you're fighting jumping around you in circles; it's just silly).
Actually WoW already looks really old. Other games have managed to keep upw ith the graphics much better (guild Wars comes to mind). The death of WoW will be when people realize that they cannot beat WoW. The current level 60 constant grind for better and better gear is going to cause a lot of causalities. The Expansion will remedy this a bit (actual new material), but WoW's decline is going to follow soon afterwards.
I am a really peaceful person but if they'd subject me to that sort of treatment, the "hostile intent" might be created in me afterall.
Fuck them. I want my freedom back.
The exploit is the first of its kind for Vista. Give this a few years and add the high motivation of criminals who make millions by exploiting PCs and you can be sure we'll eventually see some quite nasty stuff.
Just because these things can be formed inorganically doesn't mean they were. Still the burden of proof definitely rests on those who says it is organic in origin. Especially now.
Luckily, just because the meteor may not have signs of former life, doesn't mean mars never had any. It would be really sad if our solar system turned out to be sterile.
"Distrust authority." It has never been more true, or more necessary. History is repeating itself. We've had a couple decades of relative peace, quiet, and freedom; it's now time for the next wave of faschism. people forget too quickly, and they take too much shit. I'll blog the revolution when it comes.
I wonder if they're afraid that people would try to use the opendarwin kernel with mac os x for intel to run the whole thing on any machine.
I said that some random bribes are too late now. I never said it would fix the budget. Did I?
They wouldn't forgo the fine for some small changes settlement / bribe now. Trust me; the EU comission knows the smell of money quite well.
All political institutions are corrupt. Of course, it's called "lobbyism". It's just that MS hasn't opened their wallet wide enough... And, as I said, now it may be too late for the comission to backpedal.
Flamebait huh? Well, all Americans without any idea about EU politics I assume.
No, professionals wiring a house don't consult a book, they know what they are doing.
And they do make mistakes. Like all humans. Such mistakes just rarely make slashdot.
Using several sources - or specialists - would lower the risk of mistakes happening, and yet it will still happen. You might not realize this, but there is no such thing as eleminating the chance of failure.
Using a single source that you yourself cannot at least check for plausbility is inviting such problems at an unnecessarily high rate.
Bottom line of TFA: If you publish text in a language you do not understand - have a proof reader.
Good luck trying to "reason" with the EU comission. Better men than you have tried. But don't worry: The EU comission is as corrupt as your next favorite politician. Although it might be too late now. The EU is also money-hungry, a sentiment you should know, and with European countries' budgets being what they are, such a fine is something they might not willingly forgoe.
You may or may not be right in a legal sense. I can not judge that. But many laws - especially when it comes to hightech - simply do not make sense. That's because a lot of people do not "get it". You seem to be one of them (or rather, your friend turned you over, it seems you originally had the right idea.)
They did not arrest him for trespassing (entering someone else's property), if I understand correctly they had him arrested for using the WLAN. And that is just simply nonsense. By running an open, unsecured AP they implcitely agree to let anybody within range use that WLAN. If not, they should secure it by some means. If he then breaks in, yes, that should be punishable.
A better comparison than yours would be this:
Imagine I stand in front of your store and read a book by the light that is coming out of your shopping window. You tell me to go away, because I am using your light. I return the next day and again read in the light that is coming out of your shop. You call the cops and have me thrown in jail.
Surely, any sane person would agree that this is nonsense. You may be paying for the light generated by the electricity that you pay for; but as soon as it leaks out, you can hardly tell people to not see this light. You could put a curtain in your window; but you cannot expect people to wear blindfolds.
Now, if you owned the street in front of your shop, and forbid me to enter this private street, then you would be within your rights and if I did so anyway, that is trespassing.
Note that it is also not theft of service, because the service is offered publically and free to all anyway (no restrictions, remember). And it's not like he is taking any finite ressource and denying the owner the use of the same. Connectivity is dirt cheap. The financial loss to this company is probably in the single digits.
The way I read this story: Instead of fixing a problem, Brewed Awakening is covering up for its own incompetence by having a disliked person jailed by the police. Their major complaint is: "He doesn't buy anything". The rest is just an excuse.
If their WLAN is just for paying customers, they need to make this clear somehow. They should secure their AP and then give customers an access code as part of their bill or put it on the daily menu or something. Easy, no? Took me 30 seconds to come up with this, should take about half an hour to implement.
And if he then comes in, gets the code off the menu, leaves and then just sits in the parking lot to use the WLAN - THEN I'd say it's okay to have him removed by the cops eventually.
"Yeah, hello, please cancel my AOL account."
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
"What's the problem?"
"I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do."
"What are you talking about?"
"This service is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it. I know you were planning to disconnect, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen."
While it'd be great to have the D&D stuff in electronic form (for searching and for protability), I am surely not going to pay full price for something that is DRM protected on top! If I could save half the money, okay, but like this? No, no, no.
Nice try, bette rluck next time.
I have been playing WoW since January, and I do have to say, it gets exceedingly boring after a while. The geek in me really wants to get at least one character to level 60, and I will check the expansion out. However, you quickly notice that the game was designed to keep you occupied for months to maximize subscription fees. And while I don't have a problem to work for my Lv 60 character, I really, really find it annoying that Blizzard made levelling in the mid game so tedious. ymmv.
The sooner people realize that we're sliding down into an age of oppression worse than anything Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia have ever done, the better we are off. Sure, we don't set up gas chambers anymore. That was so bad for PR. But don't think you'll have ANY freedoms left in a few years.
Tony Blair can pry my private key from my cold, dead fingers.
Dear Asshat,
Thank you for disqualifying yourself. Your inability to take part in civilized society has been noted. I'd reply to your attempt at making a point but I don't feed trolls.
Thank you for playing. Better luck next time.
Case closed.
if you run an open service, expect people to use it. Whining about it just makes you look sad.