GSM operators would not give a half portion fart for the solution, as long as the problem does not put their infrastructure in danger. Otherwise we are talking about lots of phones, each sending SMSs to other phones, without knowledge or intervention of the subscriber. It is a dream that come true for operators....
It might be just in case if RMS or his legions of doom start to comment on this minor naming mistake(!) in the FA. Or it might be for the benefit of SCO lawyers, as it would took more time for them to process a name that is four letters longer... Although I do not know how would they take the payment from SCO for extra hours spent...
Most (All, before Dias discovered Cape in 1488) of the goods carried from India and China to Europe. How did you think Chinese sold lowest quality (according to their standards) of earth-ware to your ancestors as "finest in the world" for centuries?
Unfortunately what you are missing there is that, from the perspective of a computer center manager in an academic institution there are "users" and there are "low level life forms, with some ability to press squarish plastic thingies on human-computer interface devices. Users are usually members of computer center staff and some (as in "not all of them") CS faculty, as they are instructors of most CC staff in their past and present courses. Only thing that is to be acknowledged would be the existence of either a new potential system manager for CC or a new addition to the background noise of problems...
I did that, I would do it again if necessary. Basic reasons: behind such policies are:
1) You do not have a big enough staff
2) You definitely do not have a big enough budget for "daily use IT systems and network"
3) You have some thousands of young and irresponsible users divided into three main classes:
a) 80% or more who does not know fsck about computers aside from playing some games, browsing chatting, and think that "formatting" is a magical solution for each and every computer problem.
b) 15% with various degrees of passable technical knowledge, who thinks only about various mischief forms...
c) 5% potential future members of/.
Given this scenario, every solution will end up as a limitation of services. And most CC managers, would love to see a few guys who is successfully breaking thru these limitations, in order to recruit them as, half time, small payment, assistant students.
As a personal note; My CV is five pages long. One of these pages covers my activities in my old school's CC, and I still keep some of contacts made during my time there as business contacts. So somebody asking question on/. before college might wish consider his/her chances to hang around guys behind the firewall.
At a certain point of this topic, somebody will mention that application programmers blame OS coders whenever they have a problem even a twelve years old can solve.
On another point nearby somebody else, will mention that an OS is nothing without proper applications.
And somebody else in an attempt to consolidate ideas from both sides will mention that if everybody do their jobs properly that there would be no problem.
Unfortunately somebody will pick from there and people will start compare OS X and Linux. We all know the result of this particular argument...
If it is a bad day some poor M$ programmer/user/whatever will try to tell something, probably irrelevant, about M$ craps sold as OS, and everybody will smash poor guy, even before reading his full post. Strangely, they would be right; even if that post was something interesting to read, M$ OSs suckiness factor is above the strongest Black Holes...
If it is really a bad day we also see BSD kernel mentioned...
That is more money spent by IT buyers. Thus, we need to tell them even external power supply of notebooks are hard drive.
True story: Our accounting manager needed some time, to be convinced to the fact that; Yes, HDD's are circular structures, packaged in box shaped containers. That is after I showed him disk plates of a former postgresql database. His reasoning was sound however, he said that "most of your jargon does not match the plain meanings of words used." Like BASIC is not a simple language:)
Not that I'm interested in defending Quayle, but I always found the spelling bit a red herring. Lots of *very* smart people can't spell. The ability to memorize a large list of words (or the unwillingness to do so) doesn't convey intelligence one way or the other. I always find it strange that people want to equate knowing lots of little bits of information with intelligence.
I might have an answer for that. Intelligence can be measured thru methods, those basically depend on communication skills of individuals. So it does not matter how fast/efficient/creative/clear/clever a person thinks, if s/he cannot tell people what is happening between his/her ears, then there is a problem. Surely the verbal communication is not the only form of communication. There is music, performing arts, mathematical expressions, programming etc. However a politician's main, if not only, mode off communication is with people thru written and spoken human basic languages. So if a person (Quayle or George the second) cannot use this method it doesn't matter how intelligent this person is (lets say in mathematics...) He does not have necessary skills to perform his chosen (probably, preferably by himself) profession. And if this person does not know his own limitations, then his intelligence in general can be questioned.
I was under the impression, that it was mandatory to be a pig or donkey, in order to be accepted for the membership of some Houses. Of course these are only mammalian options, there should be some quota for snakes etc. You know, I had an English teacher from whom I learned that there are three institutions insist on calling themselves "House". One contains not so sane people, another employs ladies with looser than average moral values, and the third contains people who should rather be in the other two House types.
Police would not even blink for this "style" here, in Istanbul, as long as you do not use emergency lane... I assume that 80+ is in mph BTW. If it is in km/h you would listen horns blown at you for slowing down regular traffic...
Is there a copy protection in XP? Although I am using legitimate XP(you know, game producers, they would newer learn...) at home and Linux at work, from what I see in the market I was not aware there was a copy protection aside from crappy product code control and crappier MS Update tricks they pull. I do not think neither of these "methods" deserve a Patent. So, although I cannot believe what I am writing but, if this is the whole matter, then the following claim by M$ is right.
We believe that we do not infringe, that the patent is invalid and that this award of damages is legally and factually unsupported
Umm, I saw some old "supposedly" dead Cisco 25xx memories return to life after some months in a paper tray. This is not a direct answer to your question, obviously. But, yes, RAM's change their state while stored away...
I can understand 3G connection, that might have real applications, like real time traffic update. (Which we have in my city but it is not safe to use on a smart phone while driving)
On the other hand, lack of start button, what the hell? Who would want to use a computer that you cannot turn it on and off at will. Oops, we were talking about a car, well...
You probably would not see this post as it is hugging the bottom of a long pile of messages, but here are my two cents:
In small scale networks, as few as five to ten over utilizing customers can bring the whole structure to its knees. From ethical perspective, it is your duty to keep network as operational as possible for the whole customer base. So that it is OK in my book to shape traffic as long as you keep it as fair as possible for your customers' benefit. Also it is important to back your traffic shaping with a solid mathematical model, as some (usually below 1%) of your customers can complain, and even can claim that you are stealing their capacity...
FAP (Fair Access Policy) is a rolling average, leaky bucket traffic shaping algorithm. We are using HNS (Hughes Network Systems) implementation with great success for five years. As you are a cable operator HNS solution would not work for you, however it is well documented (by public, in public domain. HNS' own documentation sucks). If you ignore customer complaints about HNS services in USA (problem there is not FAP mechanism, but very tight parameters set by HNS operations team) and concentrate on the system you would learn a great deal about traffic shaping that is adapted to real life conditions.
As you would need an implementation to use, a single layer FAP (HNS implementation permits three layers) can be put in place by using basic traffic shaping parameters in Cisco. For multi layered approach, you can use a Linux firewall. If you have money to spend on this, Allot traffic shapers are very good Linux based devices.
And what, exactly, did the BSA give as a reason to perform these scans, I wonder?
The usual tactic here is to have some officers from related department (some kind of office related to business mal-practice, including intellectual rights protection...) of security forces in the visiting party. Frankly, state officers are acting objectively as far as I know. But their existence makes people to accept computer scanning easier than they really are required by law. They usually target small companies, which do not have lawyers on the payroll.
When they found FOS apps, were they acting on behalf of the free software's "owners" when they said you can't have a license if it's not printed? These BSA goons are insanely ballsy in my experience.
Printed license issue is complete BS, and as far as I see they stopped pulling that string nowadays. Their rational was the wording of a law and/or regulation, that is stating "you need to have a licensed software", instead of stating "you cannot have a software illegally obtained". We are fortunate that the language was not in the form of "you must keep a copy of official invoice for the programs you use". If this was the case then we would be at the receiving end of a long line of sanitary pipelines:) as you would end up behind the bars for printing an "official" invoice without authorization -if you try to use a soft invoice by printing it, as it is as forbidden as printing money here.
Are you kidding, a non-paying customer moving -successfully- to OSS is more than just one lost sale. That is because, usual MS claim is that you cannot replace MS products with free software that is not reliable and with no backing of a commercial entity. If you put enough number of (around 4% according to marketing theory, as this is not wikipedia I will not give a reference , do your own research-) successful sample cases of MS->OSS transitions in a big population, you would lose that population as a market.
Mr. Chair Thrower, probably because of the hidden macho inside him, turned tables around and made it possible for guys like RMS to declare it is a war against commercial software. Thus OSS supporters would only need to use negative samples against incumbent commercial software, instead of positive samples of their own. If they were trying to get into a market, just only by benefits and positive aspects of OSS products, they would need positive samples of those. Again theory says that you would need (I might need a correction here, but...) from 10%-30% positive samples for a stronghold in the market.
This is what they try to hammer in business schools to people: If you do no have a competition, market is naturally yours. If there is competition, every small gain made by new competitor(s) are bigger losses for the incumbent.
In my country BSA tried to claim, as a scare tactic, you can not have a license free software for office usage, and if you do not have a printed license then there is no license. They performed extensive computer scans in license free offices etc. This of course is complete BullCrap(tm). However as people (especially in rural areas) bought the idea for a while, MS hold the market in that sector of economy. But then one or two small companies started giving printed licenses with their OSS based products. They just sold licenses for one tenth or so prices of MS Office. You can guess the outcome. Competitor(s) made a small gain, MS lost ten folds of money.
Additionally:
If they kept you on payroll for seven years, it would be difficult to explain why they did so while evaluating your performance badly. I suggest in the current economical situation, you should keep your relations with anybody in the sector warm, but this does not mean that you would need to roll over and play dead. Our practice here, is similar to the one described above,
Would you be willing, and would your current employer be willing, to stay on a few weeks longer as a contractor at a higher pay rate? Would your new employer allow you to change your start date?
which I think you might offer to your, soon to be ex, employers. Good luck with the new job...
My phone (and my phones in the past as well) asks lots of questions and basically disturbs me (user...) a lot before switching operators. Is there a different approach in bricks sold in USA??
Why are Apple's updater and Perl's CPAN shell both trying to update the same file?
Probably this is the real point, as mentioned in the TFA:
"This is another reason why you shouldn't use Perl that comes from vendors," Miyagawa says. "Apple isn't any different from Fedora on this!"
I might add Mandriva, SuSe and most others. Distribution managers want it just run and be stable for users who do not want to know what is going on inside. If there is a need for messing with details, originally packaged software by developer is the best alternative...
Yeah, "elitist pricks" was the definition I was looking for a very long time for Wikipedia admins, thanks for the tip. Aside from possible political/social analysis of the situation, the way less than popular articles treated there is just disgusting. It reminds me the way teenagers act in the high school, for gaining peer approval, thus popularity. The article, either its subject, or the way it is handled, needs to be conforming some standards. Unfortunately these standards are not just academic quality or essay's quality. They must conform to personal taste of whichever admin passes by.
You are both right and wrong. Your computer's security should be at a level that is designed agains a punched thru firewall anyway. So while you are right that it is more secure when you keep people out of your home network, the security of your home computers should not rely on the assumption that there is no foreign objects on the network.
I guess the most dangerous thing that can happen that, if somebody has unauthorized access to your network and that they can do something illegal like child porn and leave logs with your IP address as the source.
I wish you were right. Unfortunately, non-standards-conforming software has strong benefits for the developer. While being unable to name the names, I have worked/consulted in several big companies in my country that started small. While on the small scale, MSSQL seems to be a more popular startup alternative. However when the data gets bigger (and bigger(and bigger(and bigger...))) the cost of migrating existing software developed on MS wenvironment to a real SQL platform, all associated downtime possibilities and operational risks become prohibitive. So that there are big (I mean BIG WITH CAPITAL LETTERS) companies here, that still keep their data on MS crap, and has interesting clauses in their agreements that prevents MS from using their names in advertisements etc. for obvious reasons.
I would not want for myself, monetary rewards for editing Wikipedia. Also "paid for contributors" might be willing to compromise in order to keep money coming, by making their contributions more "attractive" than more "correct". On the other hand I would not object to see one or two ads per day in Wikipedia, if it would help the finances of Foundation. They can use extra money for hiring more editors, instead of only relying on contributors.
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Is there a T-Mobile service in SF land???
GSM operators would not give a half portion fart for the solution, as long as the problem does not put their infrastructure in danger. Otherwise we are talking about lots of phones, each sending SMSs to other phones, without knowledge or intervention of the subscriber. It is a dream that come true for operators....
It might be just in case if RMS or his legions of doom start to comment on this minor naming mistake(!) in the FA. Or it might be for the benefit of SCO lawyers, as it would took more time for them to process a name that is four letters longer... Although I do not know how would they take the payment from SCO for extra hours spent...
... an explicit content provider. I guess soon Linux related content would be served by nasty.bing.net, just in case...
Most (All, before Dias discovered Cape in 1488) of the goods carried from India and China to Europe. How did you think Chinese sold lowest quality (according to their standards) of earth-ware to your ancestors as "finest in the world" for centuries?
I did that, I would do it again if necessary. Basic reasons: behind such policies are:
1) You do not have a big enough staff
2) You definitely do not have a big enough budget for "daily use IT systems and network"
3) You have some thousands of young and irresponsible users divided into three main classes:
a) 80% or more who does not know fsck about computers aside from playing some games, browsing chatting, and think that "formatting" is a magical solution for each and every computer problem.
b) 15% with various degrees of passable technical knowledge, who thinks only about various mischief forms...
c) 5% potential future members of /.
Given this scenario, every solution will end up as a limitation of services. And most CC managers, would love to see a few guys who is successfully breaking thru these limitations, in order to recruit them as, half time, small payment, assistant students.
As a personal note; My CV is five pages long. One of these pages covers my activities in my old school's CC, and I still keep some of contacts made during my time there as business contacts. So somebody asking question on /. before college might wish consider his/her chances to hang around guys behind the firewall.
On another point nearby somebody else, will mention that an OS is nothing without proper applications.
And somebody else in an attempt to consolidate ideas from both sides will mention that if everybody do their jobs properly that there would be no problem.
Unfortunately somebody will pick from there and people will start compare OS X and Linux. We all know the result of this particular argument...
If it is a bad day some poor M$ programmer/user/whatever will try to tell something, probably irrelevant, about M$ craps sold as OS, and everybody will smash poor guy, even before reading his full post. Strangely, they would be right; even if that post was something interesting to read, M$ OSs suckiness factor is above the strongest Black Holes...
If it is really a bad day we also see BSD kernel mentioned...
Well another day in Slahsdot...
True story: Our accounting manager needed some time, to be convinced to the fact that; Yes, HDD's are circular structures, packaged in box shaped containers. That is after I showed him disk plates of a former postgresql database. His reasoning was sound however, he said that "most of your jargon does not match the plain meanings of words used." Like BASIC is not a simple language :)
Not that I'm interested in defending Quayle, but I always found the spelling bit a red herring. Lots of *very* smart people can't spell. The ability to memorize a large list of words (or the unwillingness to do so) doesn't convey intelligence one way or the other. I always find it strange that people want to equate knowing lots of little bits of information with intelligence.
I might have an answer for that. Intelligence can be measured thru methods, those basically depend on communication skills of individuals. So it does not matter how fast/efficient/creative/clear/clever a person thinks, if s/he cannot tell people what is happening between his/her ears, then there is a problem. Surely the verbal communication is not the only form of communication. There is music, performing arts, mathematical expressions, programming etc. However a politician's main, if not only, mode off communication is with people thru written and spoken human basic languages. So if a person (Quayle or George the second) cannot use this method it doesn't matter how intelligent this person is (lets say in mathematics...) He does not have necessary skills to perform his chosen (probably, preferably by himself) profession. And if this person does not know his own limitations, then his intelligence in general can be questioned.
I was under the impression, that it was mandatory to be a pig or donkey, in order to be accepted for the membership of some Houses. Of course these are only mammalian options, there should be some quota for snakes etc. You know, I had an English teacher from whom I learned that there are three institutions insist on calling themselves "House". One contains not so sane people, another employs ladies with looser than average moral values, and the third contains people who should rather be in the other two House types.
They do 80+ and change lanes without signaling.
Police would not even blink for this "style" here, in Istanbul, as long as you do not use emergency lane... I assume that 80+ is in mph BTW. If it is in km/h you would listen horns blown at you for slowing down regular traffic...
Man all these lame expensive 'thinker' solutions, hwo about something cheap and practical.
Print 50000 bluray copies, and send 5 copies to each university in the world.
Yes, then cross your fingers and hope that there would be a single reader in working condition, lets say in twenty years....
We believe that we do not infringe, that the patent is invalid and that this award of damages is legally and factually unsupported
Umm, I saw some old "supposedly" dead Cisco 25xx memories return to life after some months in a paper tray. This is not a direct answer to your question, obviously. But, yes, RAM's change their state while stored away...
On the other hand, lack of start button, what the hell? Who would want to use a computer that you cannot turn it on and off at will. Oops, we were talking about a car, well...
You probably would not see this post as it is hugging the bottom of a long pile of messages, but here are my two cents:
In small scale networks, as few as five to ten over utilizing customers can bring the whole structure to its knees. From ethical perspective, it is your duty to keep network as operational as possible for the whole customer base. So that it is OK in my book to shape traffic as long as you keep it as fair as possible for your customers' benefit. Also it is important to back your traffic shaping with a solid mathematical model, as some (usually below 1%) of your customers can complain, and even can claim that you are stealing their capacity...
FAP (Fair Access Policy) is a rolling average, leaky bucket traffic shaping algorithm. We are using HNS (Hughes Network Systems) implementation with great success for five years. As you are a cable operator HNS solution would not work for you, however it is well documented (by public, in public domain. HNS' own documentation sucks). If you ignore customer complaints about HNS services in USA (problem there is not FAP mechanism, but very tight parameters set by HNS operations team) and concentrate on the system you would learn a great deal about traffic shaping that is adapted to real life conditions.
As you would need an implementation to use, a single layer FAP (HNS implementation permits three layers) can be put in place by using basic traffic shaping parameters in Cisco. For multi layered approach, you can use a Linux firewall. If you have money to spend on this, Allot traffic shapers are very good Linux based devices.
Regards
And what, exactly, did the BSA give as a reason to perform these scans, I wonder?
The usual tactic here is to have some officers from related department (some kind of office related to business mal-practice, including intellectual rights protection...) of security forces in the visiting party. Frankly, state officers are acting objectively as far as I know. But their existence makes people to accept computer scanning easier than they really are required by law. They usually target small companies, which do not have lawyers on the payroll.
When they found FOS apps, were they acting on behalf of the free software's "owners" when they said you can't have a license if it's not printed? These BSA goons are insanely ballsy in my experience.
Printed license issue is complete BS, and as far as I see they stopped pulling that string nowadays. Their rational was the wording of a law and/or regulation, that is stating "you need to have a licensed software", instead of stating "you cannot have a software illegally obtained". We are fortunate that the language was not in the form of "you must keep a copy of official invoice for the programs you use". If this was the case then we would be at the receiving end of a long line of sanitary pipelines :) as you would end up behind the bars for printing an "official" invoice without authorization -if you try to use a soft invoice by printing it, as it is as forbidden as printing money here.
Mr. Chair Thrower, probably because of the hidden macho inside him, turned tables around and made it possible for guys like RMS to declare it is a war against commercial software. Thus OSS supporters would only need to use negative samples against incumbent commercial software, instead of positive samples of their own. If they were trying to get into a market, just only by benefits and positive aspects of OSS products, they would need positive samples of those. Again theory says that you would need (I might need a correction here, but...) from 10%-30% positive samples for a stronghold in the market. This is what they try to hammer in business schools to people: If you do no have a competition, market is naturally yours. If there is competition, every small gain made by new competitor(s) are bigger losses for the incumbent.
In my country BSA tried to claim, as a scare tactic, you can not have a license free software for office usage, and if you do not have a printed license then there is no license. They performed extensive computer scans in license free offices etc. This of course is complete BullCrap(tm). However as people (especially in rural areas) bought the idea for a while, MS hold the market in that sector of economy. But then one or two small companies started giving printed licenses with their OSS based products. They just sold licenses for one tenth or so prices of MS Office. You can guess the outcome. Competitor(s) made a small gain, MS lost ten folds of money.
Would you be willing, and would your current employer be willing, to stay on a few weeks longer as a contractor at a higher pay rate? Would your new employer allow you to change your start date?
which I think you might offer to your, soon to be ex, employers. Good luck with the new job...
My phone (and my phones in the past as well) asks lots of questions and basically disturbs me (user...) a lot before switching operators. Is there a different approach in bricks sold in USA??
Why are Apple's updater and Perl's CPAN shell both trying to update the same file?
Probably this is the real point, as mentioned in the TFA:
"This is another reason why you shouldn't use Perl that comes from vendors," Miyagawa says. "Apple isn't any different from Fedora on this!"
I might add Mandriva, SuSe and most others. Distribution managers want it just run and be stable for users who do not want to know what is going on inside. If there is a need for messing with details, originally packaged software by developer is the best alternative...
Yeah, "elitist pricks" was the definition I was looking for a very long time for Wikipedia admins, thanks for the tip. Aside from possible political/social analysis of the situation, the way less than popular articles treated there is just disgusting. It reminds me the way teenagers act in the high school, for gaining peer approval, thus popularity. The article, either its subject, or the way it is handled, needs to be conforming some standards. Unfortunately these standards are not just academic quality or essay's quality. They must conform to personal taste of whichever admin passes by.
You are both right and wrong. Your computer's security should be at a level that is designed agains a punched thru firewall anyway. So while you are right that it is more secure when you keep people out of your home network, the security of your home computers should not rely on the assumption that there is no foreign objects on the network.
I guess the most dangerous thing that can happen that, if somebody has unauthorized access to your network and that they can do something illegal like child porn and leave logs with your IP address as the source.
I wish you were right. Unfortunately, non-standards-conforming software has strong benefits for the developer. While being unable to name the names, I have worked/consulted in several big companies in my country that started small. While on the small scale, MSSQL seems to be a more popular startup alternative. However when the data gets bigger (and bigger(and bigger(and bigger...))) the cost of migrating existing software developed on MS wenvironment to a real SQL platform, all associated downtime possibilities and operational risks become prohibitive. So that there are big (I mean BIG WITH CAPITAL LETTERS) companies here, that still keep their data on MS crap, and has interesting clauses in their agreements that prevents MS from using their names in advertisements etc. for obvious reasons.
I would not want for myself, monetary rewards for editing Wikipedia. Also "paid for contributors" might be willing to compromise in order to keep money coming, by making their contributions more "attractive" than more "correct". On the other hand I would not object to see one or two ads per day in Wikipedia, if it would help the finances of Foundation. They can use extra money for hiring more editors, instead of only relying on contributors.