graycat

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1. 3481.▲
   by graycat 13y ago

   I believe that the situation of the Internet and what I mentioned are simpler than your remarks. First, for my remarks, I concentrated on asking lawyers -- legislators, prosecutors, judges, and litigators -- to quit hurting harmless people.
2. 3482.▲
   by graycat 13y ago

   Yes, nicely put. Since the only tool they have is a hammer, they see everything as a nail. And, as legislators, judges, prosecutors, and litigators, they like to see 'problems' everywhere; like some English major, and many lawyer
3. 3483.▲
   by graycat 13y ago

   Yes, like the sun coming up in the morning, now that the Internet is important, the lawyers and lawyer legislators have goals. The candidates are, make the Internet faster, make it more secure, improve the quality of the content, lower the
4. 3484.▲
   by graycat 13y ago

   Thanks! I needed that!
5. 3485.▲
   by graycat 13y ago

   Yes, you have a point. But, the standards have long been that easily a PoWs life can be so bad that maybe usually there will be little difference. Consider what the USSR did to German prisoners -- marched off to Siberia or some such and ne
6. 3486.▲
   by graycat 13y ago

   I meant teenage boys . Okay, you have a really nice daughter, cute, sweet, pretty, darling, adorable, precious, a girl you have never been able to say "No" to, who has had you wrapped around her little finger since she was six
7. 3487.▲
   by graycat 13y ago

   Because maybe a lot of women know some things the OP does not! Before we ask women to charge into programming, we should be quite clear on why there are so few women in programming now and just what will happen to the women who go into prog
8. 3488.▲
   by graycat 13y ago

   One view of the military recruiting teenagers is that the military exploits the fact that a large fraction of teenagers are really eager to belong to something.
9. 3489.▲
   by graycat 13y ago

   Poor guy; I take his statement at face value. But, he's misled: In simplest terms, "War is hell.", and this is not news. Germany bombed London and killed mostly civilians. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, and civilians were a la
10. 3490.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    My terminology is likely not correct! AFAIK, a pull-down is a menu that usually starts near the top of a Web page and 'pulls down' so that its items cover much of the page and let the user click to pick one of the menu option
11. 3491.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    No. Take it literally, at face value. E.g., I have essentially no idea what MVC is, what it's for, why one should use it, etc. Similarly for WebForms. Then similarly for Nancy, etc. So far, my Web pages work fine.
12. 3492.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    I don't think I'm using WebForms. If so, then so far I'm not doing anything clunky. E.g., I'm not using anything like a calendar control . > presenting me with hundreds of different knobs about which I don't wa
13. 3493.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    Thanks. As I wrote above, as far as I know, I'm not using WebForms and am just using basic IIS and ASP.NET. From what I understand, what I'm using is lighter weight than MVC or anything else being discussed here. So far, I see
14. 3494.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    Thanks for the overview of Dreamweaver: I didn't know anything about it and wondered. Right, if it takes me very far from HTML, then I wouldn't like it. E.g., right, sometimes when something's not working, I will just have
15. 3495.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    I don't 'get it': I'm developing a Web site, my first serious one, and using the standard Microsoft software tools Windows, IIS, Visual Basic .NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, SQL Server, and some of the rest of .NET, e.g., TCP&
16. 3496.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    > be faked Be careful: The purpose of the agent string is to tell the server how to treat the client. That is, different Web browsers do different things with the same HTML, JS, CSS, etc. So, the agent string tells the Web site how the
17. 3497.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    Lesson: Just do not leave your home, where the Fourth Amendment still applies, with anything you don't want the police to have. For digital data, make sure any mobile device you have outside your home has all its data on your home s
18. 3498.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    > your User-Agent string Sure, my software sends a nice, simple, vanilla pure, good looking string for the user agent string. I agree with you about essentially all the details of this specific case. As seemingly hinted in the OP, my con
19. 3499.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    > So you're saying that business networks typically have completely random IPs setup by their ISP? No. If 3taps was using a static IP address to access Craigslist, then IP address is at least somewhat meaningful as evidence, but mo
20. 3500.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    For screen scraping, it appears that some people want to say that, because some software in effect provided the browser keystrokes or mouse clicks, something was wrong. Once I wrote a little program that gets Web pages from a Web site; if I
21. 3501.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    This case is stupidity piled higher and deeper! > Does the IP address actually change when this happens? Some ISPs have their DHCP server assign IPs according to the MAC address of the cable modem, which of course won't change if po
22. 3502.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    No, your argument is mixed up and confused. IP is irrelevant and not good evidence of anything. The IP address used by 3taps can be changed by the 3taps ISP at any time for any reason. IP can't be used for authentication . With publ
23. 3503.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    Right. Now are beginning to make a little sense -- a big change from the OP. So, the problem was not getting the data from Craigslist but publishing it elsewhere. But your point still will not make Craigslist at all happy: Craigslist has
24. 3504.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    I did read the article. The article and the legal thinking are badly confused and, really, nonsense. Why? The main reason why and my point in my post is that blocking the IP address is just silly talk since an IP address can't be u
25. 3505.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    Sure, but what the heck is the proof that 3taps continued to abuse the Web site? That the Web site got traffic on the IP address they banned is not solid proof that 3taps was using their Web site.
26. 3506.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    Quite broadly, that the Web site got traffic from the banned IP address is not solid evidence that the person who got the C&D letter accessed the Web site. The Web site will need better evidence than traffic from the banned IP address
27. 3507.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    Not really: For whatever reason, my electric company commonly drops power for a second or so about once a week. How do I know? Because then the clock on my microwave oven just blinks not knowing what time it is. Well, that one second powe
28. 3508.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    The Web site sent a Web page to a user. What was sent was essentially just simple text although maybe with some JPG or PNG files. That's the way HTTP, HTML, and CSS work -- mostly just simple text. The Web site voluntarily sent this
29. 3509.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    Yes, but when that Web site gets traffic from the banned IP address, what is the evidence that the person who got the C&D letter was the one responsible for the traffic? The traffic could have been from any customer of the ISP used by
30. 3510.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    An IP address does not for long accurately identify a computer or a person. E.g., Internet service providers (ISP) make heavy use of dynamic host connection protocol (DHCP) which assigns a new IP address for each new connection from a u