What do you mean when you say "ole' boys network"?
The currently operating franchise practice that pumps out the pockets of the average user outside the US via intentional artificial regionalization.
Actually, the US is quite similar. If you recall how many millions did PaperView make out of subscribtions for the early Tyson fights in the beginning of the 90's. It was the only channel to show the fights in 90-91 (excuse me for my bad memory) and was not on the base subscriber list almost everywhere. So lusers hastily subscribed over one week.
This is one big informal and sometimes formal monopoly. What they are afraid of is a new kid on the block breaking the monopoly agreement.
Sorry. You saw the gig. You did not see the reasons for the gig. As well as why the gig generates so high revenue.
Actually all the copying crap presented on both injunctions is wrong. As a result all the injunctions are on false basis and false premises and based on lies, lies and again damn lies.
Reread the article. What they are afraid of is not that it will be copied. What they are afraid of is that someone will start broadcasting it from a place they cannot control and hence undermine their whole revenue stream, estableshed policies and ole' boys networks (reread the stuff about site in Afganistan).
I appload the Salon reporter that made Valenti spit what he actaully is afraid of. And what he actually wants.
Lots of companies have jumped on the Internet bandwagon without understanding what they deal with
Lots of companies who have been around for a while have grown to the point of "let's make exclusive agreements, long live marketing"
As a result of both of these there is a lot of sites whose security is at best "relaxed". Worst of all some companies who used to deploy high quality equipment and personnel are dropping to inferior stuff due to the inability to maintain the quality in sight of quantity or even worse due to "exclusive marketing agreements". So the result is lots of dots (in guess which domain).
Phone jacks are totally different, but it might just be a plug shape problem. you can buy converters, but these are prohibited for connection to the telephone network.
Prohibited unless authorized. Same stands for all EU countries.
Buy a convertor from Blackbox or someone else who sells authorized ones (grin). Or do it yourself (it is just a different plug).
It managed to stay out of the war altogether, and at the time was still a feudal nation. Nobody wanted what Russia had, so Germany never bothered fighting them.
Go read your histoy books again.
Russia was in the war from day 1. For your info Germans have used almost equal quantities of people and armament on both fronst. The mere difference is that Russians also fought the Austrians and Turkey.
I could continue but I will restrain. No point to answer to an ignorant prat.
BSD can be repackaged as close source. Linux cannot. If the patent usage licence resembles GPL there is no such problem. The question is that... Yes... Yet Another License...
Would you state your assumption regarding internet users world wide as well? Or is this just a prejudice regarding Ford employee's or lower/middle class workers?
I think I expressed myslef properly. Do not search whatever is not there.
To repeat: I do not believe in computers not put to use even if the use is simply a reading and searching machine to have any educational value. Clicking mindlessly on solitare does not educate. Playing Duke nuke'm does not educate either. Used in this fashion computers are same as TV - opium for the masses. A distractive factor so the people do not read and think.
It is the same like books. They educate if you read them. If they sit on the shelves and are used as doorstoops their educational value approaches nil.
The main and primary outcome from this will not be an educated middle/lower class. Computers not put to actual productive use do not educate. Just the opposite.
The immediate and primary outcome will be the fact that the employer will have all the rights necessary to search and desist when it comes to all employee data, including personal. See the NW airlines case today on slashdot.
And offtopic to commander Taco. GET THE BLOODY JAVA BANNER OUT. I do understand that you worry about user security but increasing the security on most slashdot user machines by making sure that they have turned tha jabba off is deinitely not my idea of advertising.
Use debian. Besides its master boot record being a major pain it can do most of lilo's casual jobs. And it does not show aything meaningful while running. So unless you actually check the boot sector and partitions on the machhine you have no idea what's going on. That is besides using encrypted filesystems.
Sorry boy, check your terms of employment again. Unless your HR needs a clue stick you should have clause on that you are not supposed to say anything potentially harmfull to your company
Microsoft has major research facilities in at least some EU countries and is expanding them now. The sum of all of them is getting close to the size of Redmond Campus
What have you been smoking?
bogus claims about GM foods. It is likely you had too much GM food lately. Two things:
As a person who have been in this business the procedure accepted for GM modification in plants is more than questionable. It is basically infecting the plants with a virus. It has been proven tro work on a single plant and a single gene (tomatos not going bad fast). This is the same like approving a medicine for all diseases based on the fact that according to rumors it has cured a mild flu in Joe Smith once. Any health authority will forbid this without even thinking till there is at least some statistical evidence at hand. Problem here is that statistical evidence is hard to obtain. Read below.
In EU you are allowed to discuss the possibility to discuss the fact that GM food can have problems. In US you cannot. 32 states have legislations that disallow you to publically discuss possible health dangers in any agricultural produce. So in US you eat any hormonal and GM shit with no objections. Check Florida, Texas, Arkansas and so on state laws.
The more interssting subject is will Win2K be forbidden in Germany and France or not. These countries have very strict regulations on the scientology sect. There, you may not buy any product or use any product in any government or gorvernment contracted/subsidized environment if it has been produced by any company owned by the scientologists.
At the same time MS has employed a scientology owned company to develop the disk checking and diagnostic utilities for W2k. So what happened to this investigation (it has been on slashdot in the past).
If we follow the logic pronounced in this editorial the german CT magazine is supposed to speicialize in the anal interfacing techinques to the almighty vend'a (brownnose the vendors) as much any other magazine does. Oh well it does not. And this is the reason for it to stay alive. And it keeps getting advertisments from all big vendors though it bashes tham on regular basis.
Same shall be true for Slashdot across its mergers and acquisitions. The moment it will go brownnosing it shall die.
So it either:
1. Goes the CT way. It may even increase advertisemnents (if they are not double-click I personally do not mind).
2. Goes the "countless number of owned sites and magazines way" and dies mizerably beeing read by nobody.
An intersting side note. So far the CT business scenario has been successful only in Europe...
I think it'd be very interesting to see what could happen if some of the universities got together and created a University Distro - designed to handle their security needs, and a shared resource site for help on running and learning Linux - what do you folks think?
It is least likely to happen. This means decreasing the spendings on Iron and Software and most Computer Science Departments are very non-interested(at best). This means decreasing their budget. Forget it, they will shoot anyone that suggests it if they can. Note that the department to do it is the Engineering, not CS.
If it will grow large enough in non-CS departments the moment it will try to go Cross-University it will be taken into the CS Dep domain and happily drowned there for same reasons.
So do not expect it to grow. Unless someone funds it with an amount of money to compensate for the losses of budget due to less software and hardware purchases.
Dell could have been right here. There were some problems with Irongate boards initially. For example most of the first FIC batches had to be recalled. I would also avoid calling VIA the best chipset in the world;-)
While Intel used to beat everyone because of their chipsets. Unfortunetly sinse the venerable BX they have not produced anything as stable as they used to...
No, the Internet?s most central ideology has been promoting a certain kind of information. freedom != information.
Out of context - Partially right. Assuming the context used - plain wrong. The actual relationship is: information is a prerequisite to freedom. no information = no freedom
Ok, but lets review principles of governtment Mr. Katz. For a democracy to exist, there must be a leader. As it stands, the net is far far far from a democracy. It is, at best, anarchy in action.
Three points:
Who told you that democracy requires a leader in first place.
In second place I will quote the founder of anarchy: "Anarchy is the best form of government, though hardly achievable". So what is so bad about the presumed anarchy (it is only presumed, see below)?
Who told you that the net is anarchy at all. It looks like anarchy from a "clueless luser" point of view. From a designer/engineer/mathematician point of view:
Wherever there is no assigned top yerarchy it is always designed according to the self-organizing system principles (see routing protos like BGP). Anarchy is eliminated during operation. This is the way it is designed.
Non-yearchical peer structures are actually an exemption. Most of the net is strictly yerarchical in almost any aspect (ip addressing, domain names, protocols). Read the RFCs. RTFM.
Simple, VA wants to develop server platforms and other hardware. This costs a lot of money. Let us be fair, they are too small to get that money from hardware sales and services only if they remain with the current size. See SGI (who actually owns a stake in VA) example with Visual Workstation. So their only chance to achieve their objective is to get bigger.
In order to do that they need investor's money. In order to get it they need a portfolio that will attract investors. So no cutting slashdot and freshmeat loose. Forget it.
This is a very interesting precedent because as per current FSB regulations:
1. No government institution may by any means interface its computer system to the internet
Anybody seen any email of anybody in the Russia state administration;-) I have not...
This FSB action basically will lead ssoner or later to the abolishment of 1 because FSB istelf will have to be interfaced actively (not passively like now) in order to follow traffic. And considering that similar wiretapping regulations exist in almost any other country in the world and will have to be enforced in the US in the nearest future this comes to be an overall positive sign. FSB has finally acknowledged that there is a worthy flow of information over the internet. And 7 other govermnent divisions have followed it. From there to interfacing themselves is just one step...
Download gated code from ftp.merit.net. And try to read it. It was not written by me so I cannot submit it but I would indeed suggest the gated-people to submit it in the contest. Especially the BGP part.
The problem here is that we have to cope with it for at least a few more months until zebra matures completely...
What financial burden are you talking about? Compare the current space exploration budget with the "Agencies (let's not trigger Eshelon)" budget for christ's sake.
I understand that the days of Kennedy and Chrushov are long gone. I understand that those space projects were riducolously overfunded in order to get ICBM technology and military applications a good polishing along with good PR.
It happened not only to space but to ocean exploration as well. It was funded almost with a comparable amount of money. And now what? The ocean bottom is mapped, all magnetic anomalies are mapped as well. Sumbarines are no longer as invisible as they were. The psychological aspects of human behaviour in hostile environment (read space) have been researched. So nobody cares any longer. Anyone heard of Alvin missions lately? What happened to the US manned underwater stations? What happened to the French ones? Custo had a city under water in the Red Sea at one point?
Overall, especially compared to budgets some "Agencies" the funds for space exploration and ocean exploration are simply riduculous. So do not talk about funding as above please. Better bug your congressman to transfer budget from... to NASA (who in btw handled some of the underwater research in the old days as well).
Linux has very low overhead of floating point ops. Windows does not.
As a result at same frequency, on equivalent mainboards it usually runs better with AMD than with Intel. I mean casual apps, not something like Seti@Home of course;-)
So asking the question of AMD as long as they preload something different from Win is a valid question.
Well this just means that you will have to do some additional research and design a solution.
Otherwise you are likely to expect the emergence of napster proxies or running napster over tunnels very soon. It is a question of demand. The demand is high.
So in order to control it you will have to use some resources. And it is likely to be more expensive than simply banning it. The difference being that it will last longer.
Overall:
Napster protocol is published and reverse engineered successfully.
So you can actually control it.
Just two words and after that if you indeed have the qualification you claim to have you should go figure it for yourself. The word number one is "divert socket". The word number two is "dynamically change filters/classes".
Ah, almost forgot, you have to be able to speak perl or C as well...
Actually - My expertise expands beyond that, but wasn't relevant for this comment.
Well, if it does why the hell you are not using it? Highly problematic to limit napster to 2400 bits/s and let it use anything more than 2400 bits/s only if noone else wants the bandwidth?
I doubt it...
RTFM (linux kernel docs); RTFM (FreeBSD kernel docs); RTFM (Xedia docs); RTFM (Cisco IOS 12+ docs- there it is actually far from complete); RTFM... RTFM... RTFM...
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Uniform rules for internet sales...That would be great if applied to vinyards.
Just a deja vu:
Wasn't Virjinia the state that tried to push sales tax on Internet goods?
The currently operating franchise practice that pumps out the pockets of the average user outside the US via intentional artificial regionalization.
Actually, the US is quite similar. If you recall how many millions did PaperView make out of subscribtions for the early Tyson fights in the beginning of the 90's. It was the only channel to show the fights in 90-91 (excuse me for my bad memory) and was not on the base subscriber list almost everywhere. So lusers hastily subscribed over one week.
This is one big informal and sometimes formal monopoly. What they are afraid of is a new kid on the block breaking the monopoly agreement.
Sorry. You saw the gig. You did not see the reasons for the gig. As well as why the gig generates so high revenue.
Sorry, you read wrong.
Actually all the copying crap presented on both injunctions is wrong. As a result all the injunctions are on false basis and false premises and based on lies, lies and again damn lies.
Reread the article. What they are afraid of is not that it will be copied. What they are afraid of is that someone will start broadcasting it from a place they cannot control and hence undermine their whole revenue stream, estableshed policies and ole' boys networks (reread the stuff about site in Afganistan).
I appload the Salon reporter that made Valenti spit what he actaully is afraid of. And what he actually wants.
Round of applause to Salon for this one.
Yes, they are related by the fact that:
- Lots of companies have jumped on the Internet bandwagon without understanding what they deal with
- Lots of companies who have been around for a while have grown to the point of "let's make exclusive agreements, long live marketing"
As a result of both of these there is a lot of sites whose security is at best "relaxed". Worst of all some companies who used to deploy high quality equipment and personnel are dropping to inferior stuff due to the inability to maintain the quality in sight of quantity or even worse due to "exclusive marketing agreements". So the result is lots of dots (in guess which domain).converters, but these are prohibited for connection to the telephone network.
Prohibited unless authorized. Same stands for all EU countries.
Buy a convertor from Blackbox or someone else who sells authorized ones (grin). Or do it yourself (it is just a different plug).
Go read your histoy books again.
Russia was in the war from day 1. For your info Germans have used almost equal quantities of people and armament on both fronst. The mere difference is that Russians also fought the Austrians and Turkey.
I could continue but I will restrain. No point to answer to an ignorant prat.
BSD can be repackaged as close source. Linux cannot. If the patent usage licence resembles GPL there is no such problem. The question is that... Yes... Yet Another License...
I think I expressed myslef properly. Do not search whatever is not there.
To repeat: I do not believe in computers not put to use even if the use is simply a reading and searching machine to have any educational value. Clicking mindlessly on solitare does not educate. Playing Duke nuke'm does not educate either. Used in this fashion computers are same as TV - opium for the masses. A distractive factor so the people do not read and think.
It is the same like books. They educate if you read them. If they sit on the shelves and are used as doorstoops their educational value approaches nil.
The main and primary outcome from this will not be an educated middle/lower class. Computers not put to actual productive use do not educate. Just the opposite.
The immediate and primary outcome will be the fact that the employer will have all the rights necessary to search and desist when it comes to all employee data, including personal. See the NW airlines case today on slashdot.
And offtopic to commander Taco. GET THE BLOODY JAVA BANNER OUT . I do understand that you worry about user security but increasing the security on most slashdot user machines by making sure that they have turned tha jabba off is deinitely not my idea of advertising.
Store your data on DVD's. Encrypted with the MPA keys. And lose them regularly.
Use debian. Besides its master boot record being a major pain it can do most of lilo's casual jobs. And it does not show aything meaningful while running. So unless you actually check the boot sector and partitions on the machhine you have no idea what's going on. That is besides using encrypted filesystems.
Sorry boy, check your terms of employment again. Unless your HR needs a clue stick you should have clause on that you are not supposed to say anything potentially harmfull to your company
This is merely trade protectionism
.- What is the eu product that is being protected.
- Microsoft has major research facilities in at least some EU countries and is expanding them now. The sum of all of them is getting close to the size of Redmond Campus
What have you been smoking?bogus claims about GM foods. It is likely you had too much GM food lately. Two things:
The more interssting subject is will Win2K be forbidden in Germany and France or not. These countries have very strict regulations on the scientology sect. There, you may not buy any product or use any product in any government or gorvernment contracted/subsidized environment if it has been produced by any company owned by the scientologists.
At the same time MS has employed a scientology owned company to develop the disk checking and diagnostic utilities for W2k. So what happened to this investigation (it has been on slashdot in the past).
If we follow the logic pronounced in this editorial the german CT magazine is supposed to speicialize in the anal interfacing techinques to the almighty vend'a (brownnose the vendors) as much any other magazine does. Oh well it does not. And this is the reason for it to stay alive. And it keeps getting advertisments from all big vendors though it bashes tham on regular basis.
Same shall be true for Slashdot across its mergers and acquisitions. The moment it will go brownnosing it shall die.
So it either:
1. Goes the CT way. It may even increase advertisemnents (if they are not double-click I personally do not mind).
2. Goes the "countless number of owned sites and magazines way" and dies mizerably beeing read by nobody.
An intersting side note. So far the CT business scenario has been successful only in Europe...
- It is least likely to happen. This means decreasing the spendings on Iron and Software and most Computer Science Departments are very non-interested(at best). This means decreasing their budget. Forget it, they will shoot anyone that suggests it if they can. Note that the department to do it is the Engineering, not CS.
- If it will grow large enough in non-CS departments the moment it will try to go Cross-University it will be taken into the CS Dep domain and happily drowned there for same reasons.
So do not expect it to grow. Unless someone funds it with an amount of money to compensate for the losses of budget due to less software and hardware purchases.Dell could have been right here. There were some problems with Irongate boards initially. For example most of the first FIC batches had to be recalled. I would also avoid calling VIA the best chipset in the world ;-)
While Intel used to beat everyone because of their chipsets. Unfortunetly sinse the venerable BX they have not produced anything as stable as they used to...
Out of context - Partially right. Assuming the context used - plain wrong. The actual relationship is: information is a prerequisite to freedom. no information = no freedom
Ok, but lets review principles of governtment Mr. Katz. For a democracy to exist, there must be a leader. As it stands, the net is far far far from a democracy. It is, at best, anarchy in action.
Three points:
Who told you that democracy requires a leader in first place.
In second place I will quote the founder of anarchy: "Anarchy is the best form of government, though hardly achievable". So what is so bad about the presumed anarchy (it is only presumed, see below)?
Who told you that the net is anarchy at all. It looks like anarchy from a "clueless luser" point of view. From a designer/engineer/mathematician point of view:
Simple,
;-)
VA wants to develop server platforms and other hardware. This costs a lot of money. Let us be fair, they are too small to get that money from hardware sales and services only if they remain with the current size. See SGI (who actually owns a stake in VA) example with Visual Workstation. So their only chance to achieve their objective is to get bigger.
In order to do that they need investor's money. In order to get it they need a portfolio that will attract investors. So no cutting slashdot and freshmeat loose. Forget it.
Why don't they do this? You tell me.
Told ya
This is a very interesting precedent because as per current FSB regulations:
;-) I have not...
1. No government institution may by any means interface its computer system to the internet
Anybody seen any email of anybody in the Russia state administration
This FSB action basically will lead ssoner or later to the abolishment of 1 because FSB istelf will have to be interfaced actively (not passively like now) in order to follow traffic. And considering that similar wiretapping regulations exist in almost any other country in the world and will have to be enforced in the US in the nearest future this comes to be an overall positive sign. FSB has finally acknowledged that there is a worthy flow of information over the internet. And 7 other govermnent divisions have followed it. From there to interfacing themselves is just one step...
Download gated code from ftp.merit.net. And try to read it. It was not written by me so I cannot submit it but I would indeed suggest the gated-people to submit it in the contest. Especially the BGP part.
The problem here is that we have to cope with it for at least a few more months until zebra matures completely...
Who sais that many people that hang on IRC 24h round the clock will for that matter?
What financial burden are you talking about? Compare the current space exploration budget with the "Agencies (let's not trigger Eshelon)" budget for christ's sake.
... to NASA (who in btw handled some of the underwater research in the old days as well).
I understand that the days of Kennedy and Chrushov are long gone. I understand that those space projects were riducolously overfunded in order to get ICBM technology and military applications a good polishing along with good PR.
It happened not only to space but to ocean exploration as well. It was funded almost with a comparable amount of money. And now what? The ocean bottom is mapped, all magnetic anomalies are mapped as well. Sumbarines are no longer as invisible as they were. The psychological aspects of human behaviour in hostile environment (read space) have been researched. So nobody cares any longer. Anyone heard of Alvin missions lately? What happened to the US manned underwater stations? What happened to the French ones? Custo had a city under water in the Red Sea at one point?
Overall, especially compared to budgets some "Agencies" the funds for space exploration and ocean exploration are simply riduculous. So do not talk about funding as above please. Better bug your congressman to transfer budget from
Yes and no.
;-)
Linux has very low overhead of floating point ops. Windows does not.
As a result at same frequency, on equivalent mainboards it usually runs better with AMD than with Intel. I mean casual apps, not something like Seti@Home of course
So asking the question of AMD as long as they preload something different from Win is a valid question.
It is only slightly OT.
Well this just means that you will have to do some additional research and design a solution.
Otherwise you are likely to expect the emergence of napster proxies or running napster over tunnels very soon. It is a question of demand. The demand is high.
So in order to control it you will have to use some resources. And it is likely to be more expensive than simply banning it. The difference being that it will last longer.
Overall:
Napster protocol is published and reverse engineered successfully.
So you can actually control it.
Just two words and after that if you indeed have the qualification you claim to have you should go figure it for yourself. The word number one is "divert socket". The word number two is "dynamically change filters/classes".
Ah, almost forgot, you have to be able to speak perl or C as well...
Well, if it does why the hell you are not using it? Highly problematic to limit napster to 2400 bits/s and let it use anything more than 2400 bits/s only if noone else wants the bandwidth?
I doubt it...
RTFM (linux kernel docs);
RTFM (FreeBSD kernel docs);
RTFM (Xedia docs);
RTFM (Cisco IOS 12+ docs- there it is actually far from complete);
RTFM... RTFM... RTFM...