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From Judge Easterbrook's opinion:

In Wisconsin, as elsewhere, a contract includes only the terms on which the parties have agreed. One cannot agree to hidden terms, the [trial court] judge concluded. So far, so good--but one of the terms to which Zeidenberg agreed by purchasing the software is that the transaction was subject to a license. Zeidenberg's position therefore must be that the printed terms on the outside of a box are the parties' contract--except for printed terms that refer to or incorporate other terms. But why would Wisconsin fetter the parties' choice in this [*1451] way? Vendors can put the entire terms of a contract on the outside of a box only by using microscopic type, removing other information that buyers might find more useful (such as what the software does, and on which computers it works), or both. The "Read Me" file included with most software, describing system requirements and potential incompatibilities, may be equivalent to ten pages of type; warranties and license restrictions take still more space. Notice on the outside, terms on the inside, and a right to return the software for a refund if the terms are [**10] unacceptable (a right that the license expressly extends), may be a means of doing business valuable to buyers and sellers alike. See E. Allan Farnsworth, 1 Farnsworth on Contracts 4.26 (1990); Restatement (2d) of Contracts 211 comment a (1981) ("Standardization of agreements serves many of the same functions as standardization of goods and services; both are essential to a system of mass production and distribution. Scarce and costly time and skill can be devoted to a class of transactions rather than the details of individual transactions."). Doubtless a state could forbid the use of standard contracts in the software business, but we do not think that Wisconsin has done so.

Greets!

OK, up front, I work with Ted, I know him personally, I admire him a lot, so feel free to ignore this post if you want to continue your bigoted, uninformed opinions instead of learning something.

First up, Ted is NOT an uninformed old man - he is the reason, along with Bush and Englebart, that you are all sitting in front of interconnected computers.

Author of two of the most influential books of the computer age, Literary Machines and Computer Lib/Dream Machines (not available in print - I have a copy or two if people are interested), creator of Xanadu WHICH IS AVAILABLE as the Udanax project [site down - Google cache] in both Gold and Green versions.

Victim of a Wired hatchet job - see his reply here

You'll have to take his word for it, but he's pretty sure when asked how his ideas could be simplified, he answered "you could make links one way and use a back button". Familiar?

Everyone that talks about transclusion or linking is refering back to Ted's work.

So show some respect, inform yoursleves and then perhaps, just for once, an informed debate can occur on slashdot!

Wrong. You appear to be going on "what you've been told" rather than real facts. Your statements clearly indicate you have *NOT* read the ProCD v. Zeidenberg appeal.

Basically, what the appelate court says is that shrink wrap EULA's are enforceable if you can return the product after purchase, it doesn't matter if the buyer is not informed of the conditions prior to purchase because he has the opportunity to reject them at his leisure and return the product for a full refund.

When you buy an OEM PC, you are shown a screen with the terms when you boot up, and you must agree or decline. If you decline, then you can return the PC and the Software to the vendor you purchased it from within their return period. I don't know of any major vendor that doesn't do this.

http://www.law.uconn.edu/homes/swilf/ip/cases/proc d.htm

"Following the district court, we treat the licenses as ordinary contracts accompanying the sale of products, and therefore as governed by the common law of contracts and the Uniform Commercial Code." ...

"Transactions in which the exchange of money precedes the communication of detailed terms are common. Consider the purchase of insurance. ..." ...

"So although the district judge was right to say that a contract can be, and often is, formed simply by paying the price and walking out of the store, the UCC permits contracts to be formed in other ways. ProCD proposed such a different way, and without protest Zeidenberg agreed. Ours is not a case in which a consumer opens a package to find an insert saying "you owe us an extra $ 10,000" and the seller files suit to collect. Any buyer finding such a demand can prevent formation of the contract by returning the package, as can any consumer who concludes that the terms of the license make the software worth less than the purchase price. Nothing in the UCC requires a seller to maximize the buyer's net gains."

Your turn.

Widely held concerns that caffeine promotes dehydration during exercise, resulting in a negative effect on performance, have now been dismissed. A review paper by Ron Maughan, a professor of human physiology at Loughborough University, and Griffin, published in the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics two years ago, states that: "Any evidence that caffeine promotes the loss of water from the body has been overplayed. It makes no difference if people drink tea, cola, coffee or water when they exercise."

Ok -- a few replies came in about LDAP's strengths. LDAP is *very good* for AuthZ (authorization) -- handling roles, managing access, etc. The combo of Kerberos for AuthN (authentication) and LDAP for AuthZ is excellent.

For a loose collection of notes from the random ramblings of my mind, check out http://web.uconn.edu/dotmatt/SSO/

Isn't this just a swamp cooler? Aren't they rendered useless in humid environments?

The University of Connecticut has a rather impressively large research library (three million books, plus two and a half million more on microfilm, plus seventy-five thousand journal titles (plus seven thousand current subscriptions)), but if you can walk to the library, you can read to your heart's content. Photocopying costs more than it should, but it's still something like a dime a page.

When I was a student there, you could request a PDF coupy of a journal article and a scanned version would show up in a week or so, free for downloading and keeping. I suppose you'd need an account for that, but it's still really frickin' cool.

Now that I'm no longer a student, the privilege to borrow books from the library is twenty-five bucks a year, which is still really, really cheap for access to all of that. (Their missing-book fees, however, are positively draconian.)

There's a public library downtown, but it's tiny. I suppose I've been spoiled by being able to find everything I'm looking for actually on the shelves, and not waiting for ILL.

--grendel drago

The University of Connecticut has a rather impressively large research library (three million books, plus two and a half million more on microfilm, plus seventy-five thousand journal titles (plus seven thousand current subscriptions)), but if you can walk to the library, you can read to your heart's content. Photocopying costs more than it should, but it's still something like a dime a page.

When I was a student there, you could request a PDF coupy of a journal article and a scanned version would show up in a week or so, free for downloading and keeping. I suppose you'd need an account for that, but it's still really frickin' cool.

Now that I'm no longer a student, the privilege to borrow books from the library is twenty-five bucks a year, which is still really, really cheap for access to all of that. (Their missing-book fees, however, are positively draconian.)

There's a public library downtown, but it's tiny. I suppose I've been spoiled by being able to find everything I'm looking for actually on the shelves, and not waiting for ILL.

--grendel drago

The University of Connecticut has a rather impressively large research library (three million books, plus two and a half million more on microfilm, plus seventy-five thousand journal titles (plus seven thousand current subscriptions)), but if you can walk to the library, you can read to your heart's content. Photocopying costs more than it should, but it's still something like a dime a page.

When I was a student there, you could request a PDF coupy of a journal article and a scanned version would show up in a week or so, free for downloading and keeping. I suppose you'd need an account for that, but it's still really frickin' cool.

Now that I'm no longer a student, the privilege to borrow books from the library is twenty-five bucks a year, which is still really, really cheap for access to all of that. (Their missing-book fees, however, are positively draconian.)

There's a public library downtown, but it's tiny. I suppose I've been spoiled by being able to find everything I'm looking for actually on the shelves, and not waiting for ILL.

--grendel drago

The Boston U solution.

And the UConn approach.

Here are some links with some more info about the theory (by Ronald Mallet) I was talking about.
University Press Release
Ronald Mallet's Reasearch Summary

Here are some links with some more info about the theory (by Ronald Mallet) I was talking about.
University Press Release
Ronald Mallet's Reasearch Summary

For more background, look up Neutral theory of molecular evolution.

Leeches are useful because their saliva has a powerful anticoagulant, as well as a vasodialator, and they have an efficient (if unattractive) delivery system.

For more on the use of leeches in surgery, you can click here:

http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~mcbstaff/graf/AvHm/MedUse main.htm

but I do not recommend clicking it while eating: rather high on the gross-o-meter.

It's not a reasonable comparison to say "look what they did to SNET", because I seriously doubt SNET (being just another RBOC) was sitting on a huge pile of historical artifacts that SBC tossed in a dumpster.

"Even more egregiously, SBC fully admits that these layoffs are not due to SNET's operations, but rather blames overly burdensome regulations in other states. SBC is holding Connecticut workers and customers hostage in attempting to pressure federal and state regulators into relaxing regulations so that SBC can hike its rates in other states," Blumenthal added. "Connecticut workers and customers should not be forced to suffer for SBC's problems elsewhere."

You think you've got trouble. I was at this party, and the guy was telling me about Y!Q.

Fortunately, I was raised by a !Kung tribe, so I was able to understand it when this guy started talking about Y!Q.

Unfortunately, DNS (which was not invented by the !Kung), I couldn't even guess what the domain name for the Y!Q search engine was supposed to be.

So I thought I'd just google for it. Heh.

I really shoulda skipped that party.

I'm aware of what the "Final Solution" was.

This is from a review of IBM and the Holocaust.

As early as 1933, IBM's German subsidiary, Dehomag, contracted with the Hitler regime to conduct a census of Prussia, Germany's largest state. Jews could not escape the whirring "clickety-clack" of IBM's punch cards, cards that recorded and collated names from one generation to the next, address changes from one town to another, baptisms and religious conversions, and all manner of personal data. Hollerith cards inventoried slave labor resources to assure their most efficient deployment. Box cars and locomotives, scheduled through IBM technology, transported millions to their final destination.

Accurate enough?

It should be Gatherer-Hunter Societies; something like 90% of the !Kung people's diet comes from gathering roots and berries. Hunting is less efficient than gathering roots, berries, etc... Plants don't run off when you get close to them.

We put a lot of emphasis on the idea of "man the hunter," but originally we were more "man the scavenger."

From Judge Easterbrook's opinion:

In Wisconsin, as elsewhere, a contract includes only the terms on which the parties have agreed. One cannot agree to hidden terms, the judge concluded. So far, so good--but one of the terms to which Zeidenberg agreed by purchasing the software is that the transaction was subject to a license. Zeidenberg's position therefore must be that the printed terms on the outside of a box are the parties' contract--except for printed terms that refer to or incorporate other terms. But why would Wisconsin fetter the parties' choice in this [*1451] way? Vendors can put the entire terms of a contract on the outside of a box only by using microscopic type, removing other information that buyers might find more useful (such as what the software does, and on which computers it works), or both. The "Read Me" file included with most software, describing system requirements and potential incompatibilities, may be equivalent to ten pages of type; warranties and license restrictions take still more space. Notice on the outside, terms on the inside, and a right to return the software for a refund if the terms are [**10] unacceptable (a right that the license expressly extends), may be a means of doing business valuable to buyers and sellers alike. See E. Allan Farnsworth, 1 Farnsworth on Contracts 4.26 (1990); Restatement (2d) of Contracts 211 comment a (1981) ("Standardization of agreements serves many of the same functions as standardization of goods and services; both are essential to a system of mass production and distribution. Scarce and costly time and skill can be devoted to a class of transactions rather than the details of individual transactions."). Doubtless a state could forbid the use of standard contracts in the software business, but we do not think that Wisconsin has done so.

Plans for a 'thin constellation of three to six spacecraft' in orbit, which would target enemy missiles as they took off or landed, are planned, according to Hitchens.

Unfortunately the dimwittedness that permeates the article kicks in again before they even finish the sentence. Why on God's green earth would anyone "target enemy missiles as they . . . landed"?

"certainly some specices have formed partnerships with other, often larger species, and if you define "win" as something besides "just survive", they might be seen as subjugating themselves to the other creature, so that the partnership prospers, even if their life doesn't seem that swell."

To the extent that the prisoners' dilemma formalizations are adaptable to evolution theory, the superiority of Tit for Tat is still valid in this case. think about how many successive generations it must have taken for symbiosis to appear, evidently all cooperating.

Surely this is a troll, but I'll go anyway.

I'm always amazed by the sheer hubris that people display in assuming that their choice of car can affect anything so massive as a planet. Really, you are not that important.

Let's change that statement a bit to say "I'm always amazed by the sheer hubris that people display in assuming that their choice of candidate can affect anything so massive as a country. Really, you are not that important." That sounds pretty retarded, doesn't it.

Perhaps singly, you or I may not make much of a difference to the world. Between 1996 and 2001, there were an average of ~8.5 million new cars sold each year. And that is just in the US and only includes passenger cars! That means people made that inconsequential decision on low emission car or high consumption SUV about 42.5 million times over those five years, and once again that's just the US.

Assuming that because *I* am a single person I have no responsibility to the environment whatsoever because my choices couldn't possibly make a difference is selfish, delusional and part of the reason we have the problem we have now. Would you tell someone that their vote doesn't matter (carping about parties and electoral colleges aside), and therefore they might as well just skip it all together? It's about more than you, it's about everybody making responsible choices.

Despite a great deal of outlandish claims from many people, there's no particular evidence to suggest that humanity is having a significant impact on the planet. Claiming that we have the capability to make any kind of significant impression on something so huge and ancient is self-delusion in extremes. At most, we could wipe *ourselves* out, but the planet wouldn't care; extinction of a species is quite normal for it.

Well, to that I might remind you that homo sapiens are the only species that sets things on fire, on purpose. That fact alone should demonstrate that people have a slightly different impact in their environment than most other animals. If you don't want to listen to the "outlandish claims" of the majority of environmental scientists that the environment is changing due to our actions, let's reflect on some of the things we know we do. The fact is that we DO have signifigant impressions on the world. When it is a positive certainty that our SO2 and NOx emissions cause acid rain locally and regionally that can disrupt ecosystems and destroy forests, how much of a stretch is it to be concerned with the effects of other human sourced gas emissions.

Changing the environment, that's what we do, it's how we live. Since 1600, there have been 584 species presummed extinct just in the US, suggesting a 7,000 fold increasein the rate of extinctions since the industrial revolution. It's pretty hard to deny a connection to human activity with numbers like that, and I'd say that's a pretty signifigant impression on the world. I, for one, don't particularly care to join the other animals we have already pushed out of existence.

At present, only really careful archaeology would be able to find any trace of us in a few million years time; that's barely noticable on geological timescales. The dinosaurs were more obvious. The assumption in the past few years that humanity is responsible for any changes it doesn't understand is quite pathetic.

I'm not really concerned with a few million years down the road right now. I'm more concerned with the immediate (next 100-1000 years) well being of our species. While correlation does not necessarily imply causation, at some point you have to begin to wonder. I think it's pretty irresponsbile to write off our activity here on the planet as benign when we already have evidence that we

This little girl on the home page does seem to have some mischevious ideas.
Who knows, may be she turns out to be dennis' long lost sister

Amorphophallus Titanum 2004 Daily Progress

There's an orange Apple...

From Judge Easterbrook's opinion:

In Wisconsin, as elsewhere, a contract includes only the terms on which the parties have agreed. One cannot agree to hidden terms, the judge concluded. So far, so good--but one of the terms to which Zeidenberg agreed by purchasing the software is that the transaction was subject to a license. Zeidenberg's position therefore must be that the printed terms on the outside of a box are the parties' contract--except for printed terms that refer to or incorporate other terms. But why would Wisconsin fetter the parties' choice in this [*1451] way? Vendors can put the entire terms of a contract on the outside of a box only by using microscopic type, removing other information that buyers might find more useful (such as what the software does, and on which computers it works), or both. The "Read Me" file included with most software, describing system requirements and potential incompatibilities, may be equivalent to ten pages of type; warranties and license restrictions take still more space. Notice on the outside, terms on the inside, and a right to return the software for a refund if the terms are [**10] unacceptable (a right that the license expressly extends), may be a means of doing business valuable to buyers and sellers alike. See E. Allan Farnsworth, 1 Farnsworth on Contracts 4.26 (1990); Restatement (2d) of Contracts 211 comment a (1981) ("Standardization of agreements serves many of the same functions as standardization of goods and services; both are essential to a system of mass production and distribution. Scarce and costly time and skill can be devoted to a class of transactions rather than the details of individual transactions."). Doubtless a state could forbid the use of standard contracts in the software business, but we do not think that Wisconsin has done so.

The court injunction can be found here.

One example, and there are other studies with similar findings.
But the effects on bones and cardiovascular health are nonetheless worth careful consideration.

The English department at the University of Connecticut occasionally offers English 217, "Studies in Literature and Culture: Science Fiction". Neato, eh? (The link is to the course syllabus.)

--grendel drago

A quick google answered my own memory gap. Here is a short article on it. Yeah, bad karma for posting without researching better the first time, but I have an exam tomorrow. Back to the books. Cheers.

Agreed, but just as a curious side note, the US Atomic Energy Commision investigated using nukes to excavate a harbor in Alaska, along with other "peaceful" uses.

... had Edward Teller had his way. The Chariot Project would have terraformed part of the northern Alaska coast into a deep-sea base for submarines, using nuclear detonation as excavation tool.

Here at Denison University, we were lucky enough to catch wind of this perl script, written by Josh Richard of the University of Minnesota-Duluth and enhanced by Mike Lang of the University of Connecticut enhanced it. We modified our standard registration web page (unknown mac-addresses are handed a dummy ip and all traffic redirects to a registration page. Once they register, DHCP hands them a "real" ip) to scan for the DCOM vulnerability using the UCONN script. Users that fail the test are redirected to a page offering links to the patches. Users that pass are directed to the standard registration page, including virus scanning downloads. UConn also includes handy suggestions for using TCP dump to listen on port 135 and for ICMP, note it in a log, giving you a great list of IPs that need to be cleaned. Read UConn's entire summary page here. It saved us.

Here at Denison University, we were lucky enough to catch wind of this perl script, written by Josh Richard of the University of Minnesota-Duluth and enhanced by Mike Lang of the University of Connecticut enhanced it. We modified our standard registration web page (unknown mac-addresses are handed a dummy ip and all traffic redirects to a registration page. Once they register, DHCP hands them a "real" ip) to scan for the DCOM vulnerability using the UCONN script. Users that fail the test are redirected to a page offering links to the patches. Users that pass are directed to the standard registration page, including virus scanning downloads. UConn also includes handy suggestions for using TCP dump to listen on port 135 and for ICMP, note it in a log, giving you a great list of IPs that need to be cleaned. Read UConn's entire summary page here. It saved us.

Entourage IMAP configuration

And I've used IMAP on Outlook for years: Outlook IMAP Setup

And here is the graph of those hits, per 30 mins:

http://aster.uits.uconn.edu/~ipaudit/images/dcom-l arge.png

milspec

Good point. Somewhat more realisticaly, if this device had any sort of longevity, it could be used as an implantable glucose sensor. With that, one could make a closed loop insulin pump. There exist pumps now, of course, but their control is open loop, total crap compared to what one could do if they had a glucose sensor.

Your first step is to block NetBIOS from the Internet. For more information about the University of Connecticut's efforts to do so, check out this site: http://security.uconn.edu/windows_block.html. NetBIOS should not be allowed to traverse WAN links, and you need to work on the network managers at your school ASAP to convince them to block it. Once that block is in place you can move on to fancier methods (local policies, Nessus scans, IDS, etc), but until this is blocked everything else will have you chasing your own tail in circles cleaning up after a constant string of compromised hosts.

If you are serious about this and want help, email security@uconn.nospam.edu and I am sure they will be glad to give you some advice. :)

Actually thats what I've been looking into after I get out of the University of Connecticut's School of Engineering with a degree in Comp Sci & Engr doubled w/ Business and a minor in Math. I know of Digipen (which unfortunatly sounds like a geek playpen rather than a geek guildhouse -- more appealing imagry you see) as a potential place to study programming with specifics to game development, as well as The Laboratory for Recreational Computing which is def. more m1cr0s0ft centric.

Guess I have 1 more west coast place to check out.

Anyone else planning on doing something like this post graduation? Would it be better for me to just try and get a job in the industry asap? Comments and tips are welcome!

Can be found on this page

You might be looking for this. It's referenced elsewhere in this discussion, so this is technically redundant, but I thought it'd be useful to have the link handy to this particular post.

For those people wondering about what the 3n solution is, here is a page that describes it: Firing Squad Solution. A decent diagram as to the firing order is here. The page also links to a description about the 2N-2 solution, but claims that it is buggy and only works in certian Ns, not for all values of N.

For those people wondering about what the 3n solution is, here is a page that describes it: Firing Squad Solution. A decent diagram as to the firing order is here. The page also links to a description about the 2N-2 solution, but claims that it is buggy and only works in certian Ns, not for all values of N.

For those people wondering about what the 3n solution is, here is a page that describes it: Firing Squad Solution. A decent diagram as to the firing order is here. The page also links to a description about the 2N-2 solution, but claims that it is buggy and only works in certian Ns, not for all values of N.

http://xraysgi.ims.uconn.edu/fsquad/firing-solutio n.html

But what will be appearing in the classrooms of the future will most likely be heavily influenced by this stuff.

One URL is here

If you can mount antennas behind the walls, inside the buildings, and pointing to each other, you might be able to try a 24dBi directional antenna with 1 Watt amplifiers. You can find these antennas, cables, and the adaptors to connect to Cisco or Orinoco equipment. I wouldn't use the Apple Airport or Linksys consumer grade wireless equipment... I'd try to stick with the enterprise "survive anything" grade equipment such as Cisco's Aironet 350 bridges or Orinoco's ROR-1000s.

You can see what we're doing at the University of Connecticut where we're using a combination of Cisco Aironet 350 bridges and Hyperlink Antennas and amps to connect a Research Vessel steaming around Long Island Sound. We recently went out with the American School for the Deaf.

If you have some dry pairs (unused pairs of telephone wire going from one building to the next) you could also try PairGain equipment. We use those as well at UConn... they are point to point DSL modems... last I heard, they can push 5Mbs.

If you have any questions about the wireless stuff, you can e-mail me. Good luck!

If you can mount antennas behind the walls, inside the buildings, and pointing to each other, you might be able to try a 24dBi directional antenna with 1 Watt amplifiers. You can find these antennas, cables, and the adaptors to connect to Cisco or Orinoco equipment. I wouldn't use the Apple Airport or Linksys consumer grade wireless equipment... I'd try to stick with the enterprise "survive anything" grade equipment such as Cisco's Aironet 350 bridges or Orinoco's ROR-1000s.

You can see what we're doing at the University of Connecticut where we're using a combination of Cisco Aironet 350 bridges and Hyperlink Antennas and amps to connect a Research Vessel steaming around Long Island Sound. We recently went out with the American School for the Deaf.

If you have some dry pairs (unused pairs of telephone wire going from one building to the next) you could also try PairGain equipment. We use those as well at UConn... they are point to point DSL modems... last I heard, they can push 5Mbs.

If you have any questions about the wireless stuff, you can e-mail me. Good luck!

If you can mount antennas behind the walls, inside the buildings, and pointing to each other, you might be able to try a 24dBi directional antenna with 1 Watt amplifiers. You can find these antennas, cables, and the adaptors to connect to Cisco or Orinoco equipment. I wouldn't use the Apple Airport or Linksys consumer grade wireless equipment... I'd try to stick with the enterprise "survive anything" grade equipment such as Cisco's Aironet 350 bridges or Orinoco's ROR-1000s.

You can see what we're doing at the University of Connecticut where we're using a combination of Cisco Aironet 350 bridges and Hyperlink Antennas and amps to connect a Research Vessel steaming around Long Island Sound. We recently went out with the American School for the Deaf.

If you have some dry pairs (unused pairs of telephone wire going from one building to the next) you could also try PairGain equipment. We use those as well at UConn... they are point to point DSL modems... last I heard, they can push 5Mbs.

If you have any questions about the wireless stuff, you can e-mail me. Good luck!

I worked as a SysAdmin and programmer at the University of Connectuicut's Optical Fiber Research Manufacturing Labratory for two years. Our graduate students, some of which were programmers, wrote their numerical models exclusively in F77. Our reasons were:

* The base model had been written in F77 and the majority of relevant literature was also written for F77

* Easily understood by other researchers; increased chances of getting published

* Trivial to port and run on a Cray, Sun Workstation, or a Linux cluster [which we had].

* Variety of parallel programming packages available: HPF, MPI, PVM

* The professor said it was The Way To Do It. ;)

I personally spent almost a year writing F77 code with PVM. While F77 had some unpleasant limitations which have already been covered, I was glad to have the experience.

We used The Portland Group's compilers exclusively, and my benchmarks against g77 showed significant preformance gain.

As part of my continuing work with the lab I am developing a parallel version of an extremely long [5 days on a dual AMD 1900+ !] and CPU-intensive algorithm, using MPI and F77. I have no doubt that F77 and F90 will be around and it use for a long time.

Joshua Thomas
formerly University of Connecicut
email: jthomas at poweronemedia dot com