I figure that the law will be applied to used software as well. They judge has said that once you own it, you own it. Therefore you can sell it used. Just like a book. I can read a book and sell it.
Not that putting a router behind a UUNet administered one isn't a good idea, but if someone manages to get into the UUNet one, you will still be down if that's what they want.
Plain old DOS dosen't even know what TCP/IP is, never mind routing, or any other protocol. Unless you created specialized drivers, protocol stacks, routing protocols, etc on the router, DOS wouldn't be a good choice.
IANAL, but this one won't hold up in court for a number of reasons, mostly it's a violation against the 4th Amendment -illegal search and seizure of private property.
The feds cannot tell an ISP how and where to route it's traffic. That's an illegal seizure. Never mind the privacy violations.
I can see (but not agre with) the government getting a court order to tap someone's e-mail, web traffic, etc,. but that's an entirely different matter. It's not hijacking every citizens private communications. But a blatant spying on our citizens is a no no and has been shot down by the Congres and Supreme Court many times. It won't happen.
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'Microsoft's biggest underlying fear is that it will become like IBM - --a company that still has a strong business but no longer sets computing standards.'"
Good. I like MS much better in that sense. Leave the standards to committees such as IETF, IEEE, ITU, ANSI, and other similar bodies.
If Gecko goes non-MS, I can bet you Microsoft will start making new HTML in IE 7 and IE 8 (at what point do they start calling it IE 2003, IE XP or.Net passport client or something?) for IE that only MS browsers will be ale to read.
Sony had to do this because you know MS will merge the X-box and ReplayTV in the next few years. I'm suprised TiVo wasn't bought out completely by Sony. At what point does the web and/or and ethernet card get built in also, creating the ultimate All-in Wonder.
I agree also. The only way to test if something is secure is to try and break it, because usually a scientist, developer, etc,. can declare if something is secure only in theory. It's letting the peers test their theories and see if they can break it. The longer something stays "unbroken" the more secure it can be assumed to be.
If people aren't asked to try and break MS security, we never really know if it is secure. Imagine if only a few people knew about all the security flaws MS has had over the last 5-6 years, we be getting robbed blind and DDOS'ed with Ping of Death's and Syn attacks.
And our routers. I think this is better for optical networking (no conversion between optical and electrical) inside to make routing decisions. Now we just need a way to read the optical packets and manipulate them.
MS PPTP and Cisco's VPN 3000 and 5000 client can log in at the same time as the regular login. And, even the older Cisco client can log in automatically once the "target" network is contacted. The user never has to know.
Just for my own personal knowledge, what is the contention "breaking point" for a wereless lan, and is it any differnet than a regualr ethernet LAN, also a shared medium.
There's no reason to be using "land-line" LAN's anymore, unless you have some sort of privacy/security issues, and even then you could just VPN the wireless traffic.
Oh, and cost. But hopefully someday the cost of wiring a building will push past the cost of a traditional LAN versus a wireless.
A program/database is only only as good as the knowledge of the person who has input and wrote it. If a PC thinks that to wipe it's hard drive is the best way to fix itself, I'd blame the author who wrote the maintenance program. No expert would wipe a hard drive as a general fix for a PC, and would not write these instructions into the PC.
In my opinion, part of a autonomous PC is to be self-sufficient, not act like a lemming and follow other PC's just to follow.
Plus, just as human have a basic survial instinct to survive, I think you'd write this instinct into the PC as well and not have it destroy itself (unless it was doing major harm to its master, etc. Remember Asimov's rules for robots).
Finally, I agree humans will never be replaced as the final decision maker in fixing and running PC's, servers, networks, etc., but when I was a sys admin, I'd have killed for PC's to be smart enough to do some of the basic, mundane, man-hour, labourious tasks such as upgrading Service Packs if I told them all to do it, install programs, etc. Then I could have done more fun stuff. Plus when I had to fix a problem, people weren't glad to see me, because I was only there when something went wrong. Granted they were happy someone was there to fix the problem, but all would have preferred that there was no problem in the first place (PC fixed itself).
It's a PUBLIC internet and a PUBLIC web site. There is a "risk-analysis" companies make in doing business on and being connected to the Internet, whether it's virii, hackers and script kiddies, just plain web browses.
I admit there may be a huge glut bandwidth being used in the research, but it's just a fact of life on the internet.
If I am selling a Windows 2000 Pro CD online, but claim that I am only selling the phsical CD, is that illegal? Meaning, who's to stop me from selling the physical plastic disc, irregardless of the 1's and 0's pressed into it?
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I figure that the law will be applied to used software as well. They judge has said that once you own it, you own it. Therefore you can sell it used. Just like a book. I can read a book and sell it.
I agree. Reminds me of the german ruling a few months ago that someone brouht up stating that manufacturers cannnot control the sales channels.
Just view the medium version instead. They try to shake you down for the thirty buck just to watch the large version.
Just hit refresh. It worked for me.
Decent hardware, support contracts, human administrators, etc...
The OS is free, but that's it.
A cool killer robot right now that the Pentagon is using is the Predator with a hellfire missle.
If MIT can't figure out how to keep a site slashdotted, we're all in trouble.
That's what happens once you get a huge market share. Try trading in some equipment nowadays.
Not that putting a router behind a UUNet administered one isn't a good idea, but if someone manages to get into the UUNet one, you will still be down if that's what they want.
Plain old DOS dosen't even know what TCP/IP is, never mind routing, or any other protocol. Unless you created specialized drivers, protocol stacks, routing protocols, etc on the router, DOS wouldn't be a good choice.
EFF, ACLU and other alphabet soup organizations would challenge this in a minute (I hope).
IANAL, but this one won't hold up in court for a number of reasons, mostly it's a violation against the 4th Amendment -illegal search and seizure of private property.
The feds cannot tell an ISP how and where to route it's traffic. That's an illegal seizure. Never mind the privacy violations.
I can see (but not agre with) the government getting a court order to tap someone's e-mail, web traffic, etc,. but that's an entirely different matter. It's not hijacking every citizens private communications. But a blatant spying on our citizens is a no no and has been shot down by the Congres and Supreme Court many times. It won't happen.
'Microsoft's biggest underlying fear is that it will become like IBM - --a company that still has a strong business but no longer sets computing standards.'"
Good. I like MS much better in that sense. Leave the standards to committees such as IETF, IEEE, ITU, ANSI, and other similar bodies.
If Gecko goes non-MS, I can bet you Microsoft will start making new HTML in IE 7 and IE 8 (at what point do they start calling it IE 2003, IE XP or .Net passport client or something?) for IE that only MS browsers will be ale to read.
I got them mixed up. Oops.
Sony had to do this because you know MS will merge the X-box and ReplayTV in the next few years. I'm suprised TiVo wasn't bought out completely by Sony. At what point does the web and/or and ethernet card get built in also, creating the ultimate All-in Wonder.
I agree also. The only way to test if something is secure is to try and break it, because usually a scientist, developer, etc,. can declare if something is secure only in theory. It's letting the peers test their theories and see if they can break it. The longer something stays "unbroken" the more secure it can be assumed to be.
If people aren't asked to try and break MS security, we never really know if it is secure. Imagine if only a few people knew about all the security flaws MS has had over the last 5-6 years, we be getting robbed blind and DDOS'ed with Ping of Death's and Syn attacks.
If only it could transmit MPEG-4 video wirelessley, then you would have a relally good surveillance device.
And our routers. I think this is better for optical networking (no conversion between optical and electrical) inside to make routing decisions. Now we just need a way to read the optical packets and manipulate them.
The bigger bottleneck in the system is still the time it take to seek and retrieve data from the hard drive, even more so with fibre busses.
MS PPTP and Cisco's VPN 3000 and 5000 client can log in at the same time as the regular login. And, even the older Cisco client can log in automatically once the "target" network is contacted. The user never has to know.
Just for my own personal knowledge, what is the contention "breaking point" for a wereless lan, and is it any differnet than a regualr ethernet LAN, also a shared medium.
There's no reason to be using "land-line" LAN's anymore, unless you have some sort of privacy/security issues, and even then you could just VPN the wireless traffic.
Oh, and cost. But hopefully someday the cost of wiring a building will push past the cost of a traditional LAN versus a wireless.
A program/database is only only as good as the knowledge of the person who has input and wrote it. If a PC thinks that to wipe it's hard drive is the best way to fix itself, I'd blame the author who wrote the maintenance program. No expert would wipe a hard drive as a general fix for a PC, and would not write these instructions into the PC.
In my opinion, part of a autonomous PC is to be self-sufficient, not act like a lemming and follow other PC's just to follow.
Plus, just as human have a basic survial instinct to survive, I think you'd write this instinct into the PC as well and not have it destroy itself (unless it was doing major harm to its master, etc. Remember Asimov's rules for robots).
Finally, I agree humans will never be replaced as the final decision maker in fixing and running PC's, servers, networks, etc., but when I was a sys admin, I'd have killed for PC's to be smart enough to do some of the basic, mundane, man-hour, labourious tasks such as upgrading Service Packs if I told them all to do it, install programs, etc. Then I could have done more fun stuff. Plus when I had to fix a problem, people weren't glad to see me, because I was only there when something went wrong. Granted they were happy someone was there to fix the problem, but all would have preferred that there was no problem in the first place (PC fixed itself).
It's a PUBLIC internet and a PUBLIC web site. There is a "risk-analysis" companies make in doing business on and being connected to the Internet, whether it's virii, hackers and script kiddies, just plain web browses.
I admit there may be a huge glut bandwidth being used in the research, but it's just a fact of life on the internet.
Here's a hypothetical question I have:
If I am selling a Windows 2000 Pro CD online, but claim that I am only selling the phsical CD, is that illegal? Meaning, who's to stop me from selling the physical plastic disc, irregardless of the 1's and 0's pressed into it?