Note the caveat: Jhon did the extra work for a startup. His (I presume) work was appreciated. he recieved freedom, promotions and benefits from his work...
The poster, on the other hand, seems to have done such extra work, but has been 'rewarded' by being asked to pay for the equipment he uses to provide that extra service to the company. This doesn't look like it's going to go as well.....
I'm all for the 'give a bit more' camp, but when the employer responds by sucking you dry on the backside, I'd say you should at least keep your ear to the ground for better opportunities. Either that, or have a quick talk with the CIO and make sure that (s)he understands the implications of such stupidity.
On the more practical end: If you use broadband at home anyways, then don't sweat it. On the other hand, if the primary use of broadband at home is to service work, I'd cut it and let the employer deal with it. Similarly with cell phones and pagers. If they aren't paying for it, I'd say they have no right to demand it.
They're the ones getting the benefits of you having those 'toys' If it's not worth it to the company, then why should you be footing the bill for something that doesn't pay it's way??
Oh, and by the way: Does the CIO still get his car expensed?
1979, Amdahl V7. 32Megabytes of RAM, running MTS (Michigan Terminal System) ran at a bit less than 2MIPS. Maxed out at about 700 simultaneous logins, but it was slow as molases at that point. It could handle about 500 users with good response time.
Granted, it wasn't quite a PC. That monster cost a few million dollars (cheap in it's day for what it could do). Along with it's hard disks, and other peripherals, it took up about 1/3 of a floor of the General Services Building at the University of Alberta.
Then there was the Xerox 9700 laser printer that could print 2 pages per second (as long as you paid attention to complexity limits). Proportional fonts and all sorts of other things... Ooh, what a toy!
I think people would know the difference between a sky marshall taking control of a situation and a well terrorist/hijacker disguissed as a sky marshall....
You won't get those hints until after the armed person goes into action. At that point it might be you that gets the first slit throat.
Life and death situations don't always leave a lot if time to sit and contemplate. If somebody sitting next to me pulls a gun, I'm not gonna wait until the barrel is to my temple to decide "Hey, he's not a sky marshall". On the other hand, if sky marshall offers identification before pulling the gun, then (s)he is the one who might end up with a gun to the head.
Pretty much a classic catch-22 situation.
Thankfully (for me) this is probably a purely theroetical conversation, since the chances of my being on a hijacked plane are somewhere in the range of a million to one.
Not a big problem... They're in different markes --- I doubt that there will ever be a 'gold' release of Linux but if there ever is, expect the lawyers to come out swinging.
:->
There have been no publically known hijackings since 9/11/01.
The biggest change in air security since 9/11/01 hasn't come from the (sometimes asinine) so-called security rules. It's been from a change in passenger attitude. Passengers are now being responsible for the safety of their aircraft and crew. Before the Twin Tower Trashing, passengers considered stewardess bashing a spectator sport. When the hijackers slit the throats of the cabin crew, the passengers just ummed and awwwed all the way into the other side of the building. No more.
Nowadays, if somebody slaps a stewardess, he'll have half a dozen passengers on his back with another 20 standing by as backup. The shoe bomber was tackeled by fellow passengers not a sky marshall.
Speaking of sky marshalls: I wouldn't want to be one, because if anybody sitting near me pulled a gun in the middle of a fracas on an aircraft, I'd be looking for limbs to dislocate and break long before (s)he had much of a chance to identify him/her self.
As for smuggling weapons: I'd presumed, when I first heard of the Sept 11 hijackings, that they'd smuggled the weapons in as parts of a modified laptp or something similar. Something like that is still mind-numbingly easy to do. The only way you're going to prevent a determined hijacker from finding a way to smuggle a weapon onto an aircraft would be to force passengers to strip and wear those disposable paper suits on board -- even then, you'd need to do cavity searches.
But it really doesn't matter because, even if you did manage to pull a gun out of your ass, the passenger next to you would just as likely toss you out the emergency exit as sit by with big eyes watching things unfold.
.... the only Vipers immune to the Cylon override of their control codes were the ones that had been sitting down in the Galactica museum next to the gift shop.
many years ago, I read that the Swiss Civil Defence communication system depended on (even then,) ancient pulse-dial phone switching equipment. Why?? Because any EMP strong enough to disable those mechanical switches would pretty much crispy-fry the whole base, anyways.
Then, of course, there are the NT-powered cruisers with wifi networking. (( oh-- but it's secure wifi! )) Talk about cruising for a bruising.
Can we just sue the PTO on the basis of unconstitutionality?? The granting of patents and copyrights is supposed to promote the growth of the arts and sciences, but the current regime is doing precisely the opposite. By allowing such stupid and obvious patents on a regular basis, they're creating an innovation minefield and discouraging investment in anything other than patent squatting.
Talk to the person who wrote the module, and ask him/her where they got the idea for the module... There may be prior art there yet! The module may just be the formalization of an old idea.
Perhaps they're running off of the ADSL link at Rutan's home.
If I manage to get any images before I head to the beach, I'll look at putting up a mirror of my own.
(but don't hold your breath).
There are a couple of things to consider: The first is that Titan is far too coold for most life as we know it to survive... On the other hand, there's life in some of the most inhospitibale places found on earth, so that's no promise.
The other thint is that, because Huygens was being built for insertion on Titan I believe that some special effort was taken to minimize the possibility of contamination. This is the main reason why Galileo was ordered to deep-6 itself... it wasn't constructed with the possibility of crash-landing onto a life-capable moon, and NASA didn't want to risk it crashing someplace livable 500 years from now and accidently terraforming the place.
Of course, the xenphile's wet dream is that Huygens never makes it to the surface proper because it gets stuck in the branches of a methane-based forest.
As the article points out, Macedonia has a small user community so far. (~90K), and the vast majority of those users are probably going to have modem connections. This means that a small handful of spammers with a dedicated connection are going to be able to generate way more traffic than the rest of the country combined.
All that a service provider on the other end of the net is going to see is that >>90% of the connections from Macedonia are fraud related. The small percentage of legitimate connection attempts just aren't worth the agrivation of allowing connections from that netblock.
Even though the US is the source of more fraud (in an absolute sense), there's a bigger baby in the bathwater. Although cutting off UUNET might stop more fraudlent connections than cutting off Bulgaria, it would also cause more complaints, so that's just not going to happen.
Rather than just blocking the IP, redirect it to a page that says:
Hello. You're using an IP address that belongs to <ISP-NAme>. <ISP-NAme> allows so many fraudsters and spammers to use it's resources that, frankly, we've gotten fed up and started to ban all of their IPs. If you're a legitimate user, we're sorry this impacts you. Please contact your ISP and get them to clean up their act, or find a new ISP.
(links for spanish, french, bulgarian, chinese, etc).
Fraudsters don't care that 75% of the 'net has blocked them... They work off the stats, so they're happy to have 'bullet-proof' hosting and access to the other 25% that still lets them connect. For them, the lack of connectivity is just part of the job of doing business.
The 90% of telefonica's customers who are legitimate are the ones who end up paying the tab -- but they're also the ones who haven't the slightest idea why they cant get to many sites.
Once they know that the problem is that their ISP is more interested in getting money from fraud artists than giving the rest of their customers open access to the net, then they'll place pressure on the owners to clean up their act. (( either that, or they'll just lynch them and hope the new owners don't want to be lynched too )).
Read the article about the 'broadcast flag'. What the hell good is 500 channels going to be if you can't record any of the other 499. It's going to be a complete waste of bandwidth.
No more recording Gomer Pyle while watching the football game, but they'll be screaming "Surprise, surprise, surprise" when the TV industry tanks on the 'broadcast bit'.
Windows 2000 was also in development for years, and promised all sorts of stuff that was cut out at the last minute.
Yes, Longhorn has been in development for years, it's original release date was (If I Recall correctly) sometime ago, and it's now scheduled for more than a year in the future. I think that this would qualify for classification as vaporware.
Unlike some vaporware, this vaporware has a high liklihood of being released sometime but precisely when that sometime will actually be is in serious doubt as is the actual contents of the eventual product .
This is yet another tactic that Microsoft learned from the IBM monopoly of the '70s -- have a heavens - and - earth product promising to ship sometime in the (not too) near future... then move that not too near future repeatedly until a far less capable product is released some years later. Rinse, lather, repeat.
This has the effect of pushing customers to hold off on the installation of competetors' (superior) products in hopes that the soon to be released (honest!) monopoly product will provide what it promises to.
I try not to hold grudges unless it's really necessary. I'd rather judge the post than the person. In this case the post was funny.
If he starts to take himself seriously again, and posts something truly problematic, then feel free to slag him then. I won't get in your way.
That's what Microsoft actually means by 'total cost of ownership' when they're talking about Wintendos -- but they'll never admit to it in polite company.
According to MS's EULA (as I remember it) the license is non-transferrable in any way shape or form either acroos CPUs or across people. If you blow your nose, change your CPU, sell your computer, or get hit by a truck and suffer amnesia, chances are you'll have to buy another license from them. (( OK, you don't have to do it if you blow your nose, but if you get amnesia and can't remember where the certificate of authenticity is, chances are they'll ask you to buy another license -- even if they're not selling win'98 any more )).
In any case, if you load Linux onto the machine, you'll be pretty sure that you're in the legal clear (given that this is a non- commercial distribution, you'd simply have to give them a pointer to the source code -- but giving them a copy of the source on CD would be polite, even if they'd have to find another computer to read it).
The other advantage of Linux is that they'd be all but imune to most viruses and trojans, and the process of user separation is a lot more sane on Linux than it is on Windows. A 5-10GB hard drive (pretty common in '2000) should be enough to load a pretty complete distribution and still have room for user files.
Most Linux distributions can install over the 'net, so as long as you have high-speed (or lots of dial-up time) all you need to do an install is a floppy disk (although Fedora core 2 doesn't come with floppy based installation tools, it's possible to beat it into submission by writing the net-install CD partition to disk and creating a grub descriptor for it.).
.... trying to dupe people into thinking he's someone important.
"Get yourself a funnybone, dude."
Perhaps I should give you the benefit of the doubt and presume that you don't know who Marx, The Marx Brothers, or Deng Xiaoping are, but you're the one putting on airs right now, so you should make sure you know what you're criticizing.
If you actually understand what he said, then it's pretty clear that he wasn't pretending to be a Nintendo mucky-muck, other than to the extent to which it was necessary to create a joke.
Sometimes, even trolls can be funny. I'm taking this posting by itself. (Now, how in the H*ll it got rated 'interesting' is another question. I think that somebody didn't pay close attention to the posting.
((
That's not Super Mario brothers, you idiots, it's super MARX brothers! sheeh. ))
Between the Plaintif case (affidavit) and the restraining order it would appear that NAC is being ordered to do stuf that they would normally do in the process of an orderly customer migration move away.
This includes that during the migrateion, NAI should:
Not arbitrarily cutting off their service.
Not unreasonably raising their rate (at least, not more unreasonably than they already have)
Not messing with their BGP
Not downgrading their service
No suddenly assign their IP's to somebody else.
Not physically prevent the move from taking place (i.e. not prevent the movement of customer equipment).
The allegations of the plaintifs appears to be that NAI:
Has jacked the prices unreasonably in the last year.
Has held the customer's service levels at randsom.
Has (repeatedly) threatened to downgrade and cut off service
Has unreasonably demanded customer lists
Has bargained in bad faith WRT the details of Pegasus' move
etc. etc. etc.
This is essentialy a contracts case, not an internet case. There's nothing that I can see in the order that wouldn't be done by an isp acting in good faith during a customer's move... except for the fact hat NAI is accused of not acting in good faith.
It should also be noted here that, although a customer doesn't own the IP allocations of it's service provider, neither does the service provider. It's really a public trust, and the service provider is generally expected to act in good faith with respect to providing these services. If Pegasus wasn't accusing NAI of acting in bad faith, I doubt that the court would have issued the injunction in question.
If these guys are really trying (they seem to be), and somebody can cook up a recipe to provide the same functionality on mozilla/firefox, then they might install it.
Slashdot Mirror
In other words, they were shopping for a patent examiner who wasn't watching what his rubber stamp was hitting???
The poster, on the other hand, seems to have done such extra work, but has been 'rewarded' by being asked to pay for the equipment he uses to provide that extra service to the company. This doesn't look like it's going to go as well.....
I'm all for the 'give a bit more' camp, but when the employer responds by sucking you dry on the backside, I'd say you should at least keep your ear to the ground for better opportunities. Either that, or have a quick talk with the CIO and make sure that (s)he understands the implications of such stupidity.
On the more practical end: If you use broadband at home anyways, then don't sweat it. On the other hand, if the primary use of broadband at home is to service work, I'd cut it and let the employer deal with it. Similarly with cell phones and pagers. If they aren't paying for it, I'd say they have no right to demand it.
They're the ones getting the benefits of you having those 'toys' If it's not worth it to the company, then why should you be footing the bill for something that doesn't pay it's way??
Oh, and by the way: Does the CIO still get his car expensed?
1979, Amdahl V7. 32Megabytes of RAM, running MTS (Michigan Terminal System) ran at a bit less than 2MIPS. Maxed out at about 700 simultaneous logins, but it was slow as molases at that point. It could handle about 500 users with good response time.
Granted, it wasn't quite a PC. That monster cost a few million dollars (cheap in it's day for what it could do). Along with it's hard disks, and other peripherals, it took up about 1/3 of a floor of the General Services Building at the University of Alberta.
Then there was the Xerox 9700 laser printer that could print 2 pages per second (as long as you paid attention to complexity limits). Proportional fonts and all sorts of other things... Ooh, what a toy!
You won't get those hints until after the armed person goes into action. At that point it might be you that gets the first slit throat.
Life and death situations don't always leave a lot if time to sit and contemplate. If somebody sitting next to me pulls a gun, I'm not gonna wait until the barrel is to my temple to decide "Hey, he's not a sky marshall". On the other hand, if sky marshall offers identification before pulling the gun, then (s)he is the one who might end up with a gun to the head.
Pretty much a classic catch-22 situation.
Thankfully (for me) this is probably a purely theroetical conversation, since the chances of my being on a hijacked plane are somewhere in the range of a million to one.
Not a big problem... They're in different markes --- I doubt that there will ever be a 'gold' release of Linux but if there ever is, expect the lawyers to come out swinging.
:->
The biggest change in air security since 9/11/01 hasn't come from the (sometimes asinine) so-called security rules. It's been from a change in passenger attitude. Passengers are now being responsible for the safety of their aircraft and crew. Before the Twin Tower Trashing, passengers considered stewardess bashing a spectator sport. When the hijackers slit the throats of the cabin crew, the passengers just ummed and awwwed all the way into the other side of the building. No more.
Nowadays, if somebody slaps a stewardess, he'll have half a dozen passengers on his back with another 20 standing by as backup. The shoe bomber was tackeled by fellow passengers not a sky marshall.
Speaking of sky marshalls: I wouldn't want to be one, because if anybody sitting near me pulled a gun in the middle of a fracas on an aircraft, I'd be looking for limbs to dislocate and break long before (s)he had much of a chance to identify him/her self.
As for smuggling weapons: I'd presumed, when I first heard of the Sept 11 hijackings, that they'd smuggled the weapons in as parts of a modified laptp or something similar. Something like that is still mind-numbingly easy to do. The only way you're going to prevent a determined hijacker from finding a way to smuggle a weapon onto an aircraft would be to force passengers to strip and wear those disposable paper suits on board -- even then, you'd need to do cavity searches.
But it really doesn't matter because, even if you did manage to pull a gun out of your ass, the passenger next to you would just as likely toss you out the emergency exit as sit by with big eyes watching things unfold.
many years ago, I read that the Swiss Civil Defence communication system depended on (even then,) ancient pulse-dial phone switching equipment. Why?? Because any EMP strong enough to disable those mechanical switches would pretty much crispy-fry the whole base, anyways.
Then, of course, there are the NT-powered cruisers with wifi networking. (( oh-- but it's secure wifi! )) Talk about cruising for a bruising.
Can we just sue the PTO on the basis of unconstitutionality?? The granting of patents and copyrights is supposed to promote the growth of the arts and sciences, but the current regime is doing precisely the opposite. By allowing such stupid and obvious patents on a regular basis, they're creating an innovation minefield and discouraging investment in anything other than patent squatting.
Talk to the person who wrote the module, and ask him/her where they got the idea for the module... There may be prior art there yet! The module may just be the formalization of an old idea.
(sigh)...
Thenks for the mirror, anyways.
Perhaps they're running off of the ADSL link at Rutan's home.
If I manage to get any images before I head to the beach, I'll look at putting up a mirror of my own. (but don't hold your breath).
The other thint is that, because Huygens was being built for insertion on Titan I believe that some special effort was taken to minimize the possibility of contamination. This is the main reason why Galileo was ordered to deep-6 itself... it wasn't constructed with the possibility of crash-landing onto a life-capable moon, and NASA didn't want to risk it crashing someplace livable 500 years from now and accidently terraforming the place.
Of course, the xenphile's wet dream is that Huygens never makes it to the surface proper because it gets stuck in the branches of a methane-based forest.
All that a service provider on the other end of the net is going to see is that >>90% of the connections from Macedonia are fraud related. The small percentage of legitimate connection attempts just aren't worth the agrivation of allowing connections from that netblock.
Even though the US is the source of more fraud (in an absolute sense), there's a bigger baby in the bathwater. Although cutting off UUNET might stop more fraudlent connections than cutting off Bulgaria, it would also cause more complaints, so that's just not going to happen.
The 90% of telefonica's customers who are legitimate are the ones who end up paying the tab -- but they're also the ones who haven't the slightest idea why they cant get to many sites.
Once they know that the problem is that their ISP is more interested in getting money from fraud artists than giving the rest of their customers open access to the net, then they'll place pressure on the owners to clean up their act. (( either that, or they'll just lynch them and hope the new owners don't want to be lynched too )).
Communication is always better than supression.
No more recording Gomer Pyle while watching the football game, but they'll be screaming "Surprise, surprise, surprise" when the TV industry tanks on the 'broadcast bit'.
Yes, Longhorn has been in development for years, it's original release date was (If I Recall correctly) sometime ago, and it's now scheduled for more than a year in the future. I think that this would qualify for classification as vaporware.
Unlike some vaporware, this vaporware has a high liklihood of being released sometime but precisely when that sometime will actually be is in serious doubt as is the actual contents of the eventual product .
This is yet another tactic that Microsoft learned from the IBM monopoly of the '70s -- have a heavens - and - earth product promising to ship sometime in the (not too) near future... then move that not too near future repeatedly until a far less capable product is released some years later. Rinse, lather, repeat.
This has the effect of pushing customers to hold off on the installation of competetors' (superior) products in hopes that the soon to be released (honest!) monopoly product will provide what it promises to.
I try not to hold grudges unless it's really necessary. I'd rather judge the post than the person. In this case the post was funny.
If he starts to take himself seriously again, and posts something truly problematic, then feel free to slag him then. I won't get in your way.
That's what Microsoft actually means by 'total cost of ownership' when they're talking about Wintendos -- but they'll never admit to it in polite company.
In any case, if you load Linux onto the machine, you'll be pretty sure that you're in the legal clear (given that this is a non- commercial distribution, you'd simply have to give them a pointer to the source code -- but giving them a copy of the source on CD would be polite, even if they'd have to find another computer to read it).
The other advantage of Linux is that they'd be all but imune to most viruses and trojans, and the process of user separation is a lot more sane on Linux than it is on Windows. A 5-10GB hard drive (pretty common in '2000) should be enough to load a pretty complete distribution and still have room for user files.
Most Linux distributions can install over the 'net, so as long as you have high-speed (or lots of dial-up time) all you need to do an install is a floppy disk (although Fedora core 2 doesn't come with floppy based installation tools, it's possible to beat it into submission by writing the net-install CD partition to disk and creating a grub descriptor for it.).
"Get yourself a funnybone, dude."
Perhaps I should give you the benefit of the doubt and presume that you don't know who Marx, The Marx Brothers, or Deng Xiaoping are, but you're the one putting on airs right now, so you should make sure you know what you're criticizing.
If you actually understand what he said, then it's pretty clear that he wasn't pretending to be a Nintendo mucky-muck, other than to the extent to which it was necessary to create a joke.
(( That's not Super Mario brothers, you idiots, it's super MARX brothers! sheeh. ))
Between the Plaintif case (affidavit) and the restraining order it would appear that NAC is being ordered to do stuf that they would normally do in the process of an orderly customer migration move away.
This includes that during the migrateion, NAI should:
The allegations of the plaintifs appears to be that NAI:
- Has jacked the prices unreasonably in the last year.
- Has held the customer's service levels at randsom.
- Has (repeatedly) threatened to downgrade and cut off service
- Has unreasonably demanded customer lists
- Has bargained in bad faith WRT the details of Pegasus' move
etc. etc. etc.This is essentialy a contracts case, not an internet case. There's nothing that I can see in the order that wouldn't be done by an isp acting in good faith during a customer's move... except for the fact hat NAI is accused of not acting in good faith.
It should also be noted here that, although a customer doesn't own the IP allocations of it's service provider, neither does the service provider. It's really a public trust, and the service provider is generally expected to act in good faith with respect to providing these services. If Pegasus wasn't accusing NAI of acting in bad faith, I doubt that the court would have issued the injunction in question.
If it wasn't for the fact that genocide and ethnic cleansing wasn't a war crime a century ago, we'd have had a lot of ancient aristocrats in jail.
If these guys are really trying (they seem to be), and somebody can cook up a recipe to provide the same functionality on mozilla/firefox, then they might install it.
that's local time. Date stamp is October 06, @20:37. Pacific time. That would be (I think) 3AM GMT on .Oct. 7. Everything in UNIX occurs in GMT.