Much higher bandwidth (means more money) and no complaints from those pesky ham operators (of which I am one).
As I recall, every time it's been tried, there have been bandwith/error problems, and you have to bypass all transformers with high voltage capacitors. And you know where the priority will lie when the ice storms take it all out...restoring power, not repairing the data network.
You haven't been taking your medication, have you?
Listen carefully. *Any* RFID tag can be neutralized , when subjected to a strong enough field. Take your tires down to your neighborhood welder & have him strike a few arcs next to them.
The "feds" can't find Whitey Bulger, they're not tracking you through your tires. Your cell phone is much easier.
Well, here in MA [ob Boston driver ref], on limited access highways, the rule seems to be to pull as far right as you can, but NOT into the breakdown lane (which is used for emergency vehicles if the other lanes are jammed). In downtown traffic, there are seldom breakdown lanes, so the rule is to pull right if you can, but sometimes, like if you're in a line of traffic at a light, it's better to freeze, and let them use the wrong side of the road.
The traffic laws say to pull right always, but in practice it's not always possible.
In regard to the "light changer" box, some towns have them, IMHO, you'd be a fool to buy one of these things, because the cops hang around at the lights, waiting to ticket cars that run reds. You get caught with one of these on your dash, and you'll be walking home (if you're lucky).
...it's an optical scan machine. We use them in my town. You mark a paper ballot, just like in school (make your marks heavy and black...). Then slide it into the "Accu-Vote" machine [love that name...like something out of The Simpsons]
Anyway. What's wrong with this? Paper ballots, machine & humanly readable, electronically counted. And very similar to those used throughout history, where the voter made a mark next to the name of the candidate of his or her choice. Disabled voters are allowed poll workers to assist them in the booth. The paper ballots can be removed and hand counted if necessary.
Folks, this isn't rocket science. Touch screens, color and WinCE do *not* always improve things! Boy, I sure wish people would calm down and remember the KISS principle...
Oh, and by the way...the printers will *never* last. Touch screens are a bad idea from beginning to end.
We use OCR in my town. Sure, it may miss a mark every now and then, or the totals may have been "adjusted", but *you can always go back and hand-count each ballot*!
And, every ballot is hand-marked by an individual. So, some color outside the lines, and some don't fill the circles completely. It's not a signature, but it is a personalized way of doing things.
I'd scream bloody murder if they tried to put touch screen voting in my town. At "X" times the cost of op-scan, what does it get you? Much more complicated software, a vendor lock-in and *no* traceability! (Never mind all the malicious possibilities).
Haven't you ever done something just because you wanted to? bunnie is interested in computers. He bought one, and decided to figure out what made it behave the way it did, and whether he could make it do something different, and, in his opinion, more useful. Then, he was generous enough to share most of what he learned. If you're not interested, or feel he wasted his time, you're entirely free to move along and read something else.
Folks, this is not a crime. This is called "learning". If he wants to do it, he's entitled to. He bought the box. It's his to do with as he wishes. He has given away no "big" (as in DMCA) secrets. He has simply shown that one can turn an Xbox into a linux machine. This may be useful to someone when Xboxen start showing up at yard sales in a few years.
"Microsoft deserves credit for having reduced the proportion of successful on-line hacker attacks perpetrated against Windows servers."
Clever, those Microsoft folks...reducing the number of attacks against their servers by the unconventional method of not having as many servers out there!
(somewhere I read that Apache has the largest server market share):-)
So, how come nobody has made the point that an MP3 file is NOT a duplicate copy of a CD track. Compression effects, artifacts, etc. It's like a spotty xerox of a book. You'll eventually go out and buy the album (unless it's unavailable).
$500+ per song for distributing distorted copies of the original? Give me a break!
Like others have said elsewhere, the problem is NOT MP3s, the problem is mass-produced counterfeit Brittney Spears albums and Disney DVDs, created by professionals.
And how! I remember installing Slackware on a 486/33 at work and blowing people away, running Linux with X11, logging into the Unix system and running the schematic capture tool remotely from an xterm:-)
I was *supposed* to be running it under Win3.1 on the 486/33. Guess which was faster? Yup, Linux/X11. And guess which didn't crash or hang? Yup. That sold me. Unfortunately, my boss was less understanding (both technically and manager-wise) and was not at all amused with what I'd done. He left shortly thereafter.
BTW, found a CD of Infomagic Linux dated 12/1993. Must have been one of the early dumps of TSX-11 or Sunsite, because I remember distinctly, loading 11 3.5" floppies to install that system.
Thanks for the memories, Linus! We've come a long way since 1993.
Like I said, it's probably off, but not by more than a factor of 3.
BTW, telemarketing to cell phones is federally prohibited now. I have never gotten a telemarketing call to my cell, and I believe there is a bit in the number assignment record that defines pay/hotel/business/cell/residence/etc, so that list is apparently already being checked.
But yes, I signed up my cell, too, simply because the web site says you can. Nevertheless, 40+ million phone numbers is enough to make a very clear point!
(from the US census) Now, I realize that's probably not a valid comparison, there are probably many more phones than "households", but it's got to be close (within an order of magnitude?).
That means 50% of the households don't want junk phone calls. I'd say that's a pretty big "get stuffed" to the telemarketing industry.
And those are only the ones that cared/figured out/remembered to sign up!
Actually, doesn't the DMCA require only that a copyright owner merely notify the ISP by letter, affirming that he is the legal owner of the copyrighted material, and demanding that it be taken down? No court documents required. Wonder why they haven't done that?
...call an electrician. You don't want to mess with something like that. It cost me $500 to have my whole service entrance replaced, from the pole into the basement, and the fusebox replaced with breakers. The guy did an extremely professional job and I can sleep at night, because I watched him do it. It was money well spent.
So...where did you get it, and does it work? What a neat unit. I didn't know they existed. I have a mil-surplus 5-level typing reperforator. (I used to repair Teletype model 33s in college)
I find it hard to believe that anyone's still using Token Ring in this day and age. As the vendors dry up, does it still make sense to pay 3 times as much for 1/8th the BW of 100 megabit Ethernet? All for the sake of "deterministic networking"?
Anyway, it looks like the client got what they deserved in the end.
By the way, as others have suggested, you need to spend some quality time with a good IP lawyer, reading *and undertanding* the GPL.
Back in the early 80s, IBM was selling Token Ring. Surely, you remember Token Ring? (even after years of trying to forget it?)
Well, anyway, along comes a guy named Olaf Soderblom, who works for an IP law firm in Sweden (?), and says he has a patent on token passing rings. Well, not him, but his patent holding company, which bought it from someone who claims to have invented the technology. They're clearly trying to make some money off a technology whose time has come.
IBM up and buys the first $1M license and continues selling Token Ring. Point here is, that, when IBM lawyers look at something, they make a decision: license or fight. They can go either way, and, in this case, they chose to fight. Interesting that Microsoft has made the opposite choice.
Hah! If true, this would be the first time that Microsoft hasn't attempted to bludgeon the small company into a greasy stain on the sidewalk and walk off with the desired trademark.
I don't mind euphemisms, but they should at least be plausible. Or, maybe some Microsoft writer of press releases decided to try to sneak a bit of humor past his boss, and succeeded brilliantly!
Besides, Palladium is the recognized generic name for a chemical element. I don't believe you can trademark it.
Master keys in good systems are physically LONGER than user keys. Often by more than one tumbler. Keys to remove cylinders are even longer than masters. I know this to be the case with the institutional system that was used at my school.
So cracking your local master keyed building may not be that easy. No easy way to make a short key blank (the only kind you can buy) longer.
That's the big problem. I doubt the PCI people would care if he used the three letters "P" "C" and "I", to refer to equipment. Thousands of websites do it every day. They also complain about "confusion" between his website and the official one. So, a possible solution would be for him to stop using the PCI logo, to which he has no right, and to post a disclaimer that he has no affiliation with the official PCI group, and is merely using the letters to designate the equipment for which he maintains the database.
Just because the lawyers ask for something, doesn't mean he has to give it to them. A reasonable attempt at compromise may be all that's necessary.
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Much higher bandwidth (means more money) and no complaints from those pesky ham operators (of which I am one).
As I recall, every time it's been tried, there have been bandwith/error problems, and you have to bypass all transformers with high voltage capacitors. And you know where the priority will lie when the ice storms take it all out...restoring power, not repairing the data network.
The immediately obvious list of bogus names would be those in the "from" field of the spam you receive.
Poetic justice, huh?
You haven't been taking your medication, have you?
Listen carefully. *Any* RFID tag can be neutralized , when subjected to a strong enough field. Take your tires down to your neighborhood welder & have him strike a few arcs next to them.
The "feds" can't find Whitey Bulger, they're not tracking you through your tires. Your cell phone is much easier.
Their 2002 annual report says around 350 people work there. They have announced 30 or so RIFs since then.
Well, here in MA [ob Boston driver ref], on limited access highways, the rule seems to be to pull as far right as you can, but NOT into the breakdown lane (which is used for emergency vehicles if the other lanes are jammed). In downtown traffic, there are seldom breakdown lanes, so the rule is to pull right if you can, but sometimes, like if you're in a line of traffic at a light, it's better to freeze, and let them use the wrong side of the road.
The traffic laws say to pull right always, but in practice it's not always possible.
In regard to the "light changer" box, some towns have them, IMHO, you'd be a fool to buy one of these things, because the cops hang around at the lights, waiting to ticket cars that run reds. You get caught with one of these on your dash, and you'll be walking home (if you're lucky).
You haven't been taking your medication, have you?
For sure the median age is lower :-)
...it's an optical scan machine. We use them in my town. You mark a paper ballot, just like in school (make your marks heavy and black...). Then slide it into the "Accu-Vote" machine [love that name...like something out of The Simpsons]
Anyway. What's wrong with this? Paper ballots, machine & humanly readable, electronically counted. And very similar to those used throughout history, where the voter made a mark next to the name of the candidate of his or her choice. Disabled voters are allowed poll workers to assist them in the booth. The paper ballots can be removed and hand counted if necessary.
Folks, this isn't rocket science. Touch screens, color and WinCE do *not* always improve things! Boy, I sure wish people would calm down and remember the KISS principle...
Oh, and by the way...the printers will *never* last. Touch screens are a bad idea from beginning to end.
We use OCR in my town. Sure, it may miss a mark every now and then, or the totals may have been "adjusted", but *you can always go back and hand-count each ballot*!
And, every ballot is hand-marked by an individual. So, some color outside the lines, and some don't fill the circles completely. It's not a signature, but it is a personalized way of doing things.
I'd scream bloody murder if they tried to put touch screen voting in my town. At "X" times the cost of op-scan, what does it get you? Much more complicated software, a vendor lock-in and *no* traceability! (Never mind all the malicious possibilities).
>They just see the word "Nuclear"
:-)
That's a common error. Even our President knows that it's pronounced "NEW-ku-lar"
Haven't you ever done something just because you wanted to? bunnie is interested in computers. He bought one, and decided to figure out what made it behave the way it did, and whether he could make it do something different, and, in his opinion, more useful. Then, he was generous enough to share most of what he learned. If you're not interested, or feel he wasted his time, you're entirely free to move along and read something else.
Folks, this is not a crime. This is called "learning". If he wants to do it, he's entitled to. He bought the box. It's his to do with as he wishes. He has given away no "big" (as in DMCA) secrets. He has simply shown that one can turn an Xbox into a linux machine. This may be useful to someone when Xboxen start showing up at yard sales in a few years.
Sheesh!
"Microsoft deserves credit for having reduced the proportion of successful on-line hacker attacks perpetrated against Windows servers."
:-)
Clever, those Microsoft folks...reducing the number of attacks against their servers by the unconventional method of not having as many servers out there!
(somewhere I read that Apache has the largest server market share)
So, how come nobody has made the point that an MP3 file is NOT a duplicate copy of a CD track. Compression effects, artifacts, etc. It's like a spotty xerox of a book. You'll eventually go out and buy the album (unless it's unavailable).
$500+ per song for distributing distorted copies of the original? Give me a break!
Like others have said elsewhere, the problem is NOT MP3s, the problem is mass-produced counterfeit Brittney Spears albums and Disney DVDs, created by professionals.
... it could already do things ...
:-)
And how! I remember installing Slackware on a 486/33 at work and blowing people away, running Linux with X11, logging into the Unix system and running the schematic capture tool remotely from an xterm
I was *supposed* to be running it under Win3.1 on the 486/33. Guess which was faster? Yup, Linux/X11. And guess which didn't crash or hang? Yup. That sold me. Unfortunately, my boss was less understanding (both technically and manager-wise) and was not at all amused with what I'd done. He left shortly thereafter.
BTW, found a CD of Infomagic Linux dated 12/1993. Must have been one of the early dumps of TSX-11 or Sunsite, because I remember distinctly, loading 11 3.5" floppies to install that system.
Thanks for the memories, Linus! We've come a long way since 1993.
Like I said, it's probably off, but not by more than a factor of 3.
BTW, telemarketing to cell phones is federally prohibited now. I have never gotten a telemarketing call to my cell, and I believe there is a bit in the number assignment record that defines pay/hotel/business/cell/residence/etc, so that list is apparently already being checked.
But yes, I signed up my cell, too, simply because the web site says you can. Nevertheless, 40+ million phone numbers is enough to make a very clear point!
(from the US census) Now, I realize that's probably not a valid comparison, there are probably many more phones than "households", but it's got to be close (within an order of magnitude?).
That means 50% of the households don't want junk phone calls. I'd say that's a pretty big "get stuffed" to the telemarketing industry.
And those are only the ones that cared/figured out/remembered to sign up!
Congress & FTC...are you listening?
Actually, doesn't the DMCA require only that a copyright owner merely notify the ISP by letter, affirming that he is the legal owner of the copyrighted material, and demanding that it be taken down? No court documents required. Wonder why they haven't done that?
...call an electrician. You don't want to mess with something like that. It cost me $500 to have my whole service entrance replaced, from the pole into the basement, and the fusebox replaced with breakers. The guy did an extremely professional job and I can sleep at night, because I watched him do it. It was money well spent.
So...where did you get it, and does it work?
What a neat unit. I didn't know they existed.
I have a mil-surplus 5-level typing reperforator.
(I used to repair Teletype model 33s in college)
Linux's lack of Token Ring support?
:-)
You say that like it's a *bad* thing
I find it hard to believe that anyone's still using Token Ring in this day and age. As the vendors dry up, does it still make sense to pay 3 times as much for 1/8th the BW of 100 megabit Ethernet? All for the sake of "deterministic networking"?
Anyway, it looks like the client got what they deserved in the end.
By the way, as others have suggested, you need to spend some quality time with a good IP lawyer, reading *and undertanding* the GPL.
Back in the early 80s, IBM was selling Token Ring. Surely, you remember Token Ring? (even after years of trying to forget it?)
Well, anyway, along comes a guy named Olaf Soderblom, who works for an IP law firm in Sweden (?), and says he has a patent on token passing rings. Well, not him, but his patent holding company, which bought it from someone who claims to have invented the technology. They're clearly trying to make some money off a technology whose time has come.
IBM up and buys the first $1M license and continues selling Token Ring. Point here is, that, when IBM lawyers look at something, they make a decision: license or fight. They can go either way, and, in this case, they chose to fight. Interesting that Microsoft has made the opposite choice.
This will be an interesting trial.
Hah! If true, this would be the first time that Microsoft hasn't attempted to bludgeon the small company into a greasy stain on the sidewalk and walk off with the desired trademark.
I don't mind euphemisms, but they should at least be plausible. Or, maybe some Microsoft writer of press releases decided to try to sneak a bit of humor past his boss, and succeeded brilliantly!
Besides, Palladium is the recognized generic name for a chemical element. I don't believe you can trademark it.
Master keys in good systems are physically LONGER than user keys. Often by more than one tumbler. Keys to remove cylinders are even longer than masters. I know this to be the case with the institutional system that was used at my school.
So cracking your local master keyed building may not be that easy. No easy way to make a short key blank (the only kind you can buy) longer.
That's the big problem. I doubt the PCI people would care if he used the three letters "P" "C" and "I", to refer to equipment. Thousands of websites do it every day. They also complain about "confusion" between his website and the official one. So, a possible solution would be for him to stop using the PCI logo, to which he has no right, and to post a disclaimer that he has no affiliation with the official PCI group, and is merely using the letters to designate the equipment for which he maintains the database.
Just because the lawyers ask for something, doesn't mean he has to give it to them. A reasonable attempt at compromise may be all that's necessary.
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