I do. As a reward for that behavior, comcast has decided to suspend my access (450 too many connects from (ip address), try again later). I've been blocked for 55 hours at this point. Support is worthless. Thay have no info on the error, can't tell me what limit I went over, can't explain why no warning was provided, and can't tell me when my outbound SMTP service will be restored.
I decided to go the route of using their server because so many sites have blacklisted my netblock. I really can't send email any other way. I can still access a few servers directly (clients, mainly), so I can also tell that comcast isn't blocking port 25 access in the Philadelphia area.
Any time I've needed Vonage tech support, I had no problem reaching them. I'm operating a business out of the home, so I opted for the business plan. This included a separate fax number. I have been unable to get a fax modem to work in this setup, and Vonage doesn't support fax modems, only fax machines. Service quality has been spotty about 10% of the time over Comcast: dropped packets, broken conversations, occasional disconnect. The broken conversations are usually what I'm hearing as opposed to the caller hearing me which I find strange, since its almost 3Mbps download on my line. My Vonage quality is about as good as the cell phone quality I was trying to replace, which is not a compliment.
This is an odd place to settle it, though. If I read the complaint correctly, this is a copyright dispute. Copyrights are federal law. Copyright suits are normally brought in a federal court. Why is this in state court? The SCO v IBM suit is in Federal court. Bizarre.
ditto. Also, they have a stretchable bottom to the computer area that is shock-absorbing. The bag may hit the ground, but the computer won't (presuming the bag lands bottom-first. There are two of them (nested), but I had to remove one in order to fit my Inspiron 7500.
6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to this License.
They have annouced they are selling/requiring licenses to GPL covered code.
Additionally, SCO can't have a binary-only runtime license, under the GPL:
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
(...etc...)
Bullshit. Its working in Pennsylvania. The only telemarketing calls I get are the local PBS station (because I gave in the past). That's it. The sequential auto-dialers seem to check the DNC list. None of them since I signed up.
So we should all call the FCC and tell them to take over the list, then right?
In his ruling, West noted that the FCC was given express authority under the 1991 Telephone Consumer Protection Act to promulgate a "do-not-call" registry, but has opted not to do so.
Why hasn't the FCC done this, if 50M people want it done?
How in the world does using a PO box protect you from identity theft? They can't steal your incoming mail? Not to worry, the post office will probably put it in the wrong box. Happened to me on a bi-weekly basis.
You're protecting your address? If someone finds your SSN, they can easily obtain your address. Since your PO box is probably in the same zipcode you live in (it is the closes post office, right?), they'll have the zipcode correct when trying to do a search.
If you use your PO box as your address for everything, then what are you protecting? Won't everything (credit cards, credit bureaus) be updated to use the PO box? Its just data sitting in an address field? How does the prefix 'PO Box' protect you?
His friends told him that Tata only interviewed Americans to be in compliance with the equal opportunity employment commission, and that no Americans were ever hired.
If this is true, its discrimination. You can't discriminate in hiring because of age, race, sex, etc. There was a story similar to this recently (that I can't find), and the person that brought the suit didn't even apply for a job. The rumor was the restaurant didn't hire women. Not legal my friends.
If there range is long enough to be activated in a warehouse, then the range is at least 30 feet (floor to ceiling). Even at a range of 10 feet, that will be enough to cover the entrances of most public places (airports, train stations, etc). I easily see these becoming as ubiquitous as video surveillance is today.
The quick answer is "of course it does". This is OT, but relates to how the politicos share info.
I sent a snail-mail letter to my congress-critter regarding malpractice reform (he just happens to head the committee) back in the winter (I differed with his opinion). A couple of weeks ago, I received a letter (personally addressed to me, not junkmail) from the congressman in an adjacent district (and the other party!). The content of the letter jibed with my letter, although he never referred to my letter. When I asked my wife if she had any thoughts on why he sent it, she offerred that he's running for senate this fall.
I hope TicketMaster is the first target, since the government never bothers to deal with them as a monopoly. I can't seem to find anyone interested in the fact that they routinely charge more than 10% above the ticket price which is a violation of Pennsylvania state statutes. Oh, silly me: they're just part of the entertainment cabal.
If you cast aside the potential issues with the variations of wireless and just compare the line speed, 54 Mbit (which is offered by the best wireless) cannot hold a candle to the 100-Mbit speed offered by Ethernet. If you compare this to the more widely available 11-Mbit 802.11b products, 11 Mbit many not even seem practical in terms of performance.
Raise your hand if you have more than an 11Mbps pipe to the Internet (at your house). Hmmm, I thought so. About the only thing 11Mbps is not practical for is backups.
Section 505: In any civil action under this title, the court in its discretion may allow the recovery of full costs by or against any party other than the United States or an officer thereof. Except as otherwise provided by this title, the court may also award a reasonable attorney's fee to the prevailing party as part of the costs
I have no doubt the judge would award costs when the defendant loses. Unless you have nothing (literally) to lose, fighting it is probably a mistake.
The only problem with this is if you wish to watch a series of DVDs. I tried to watch the entire 3 seasons of the Sopranos. I finished them a month ago, but never got Season 2, #1. It was first listed as 'short wait', three weeks later, it went to 'very long wait.' I'm still waiting, and its still 'very long'. The same seems to be true with '24'. Disc 1 has always been 'very long wait', but 2-6 are available 'now'. I wish they'd fix that.
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If there's packaging. Most clothing I purchase doesn't have any packaging.
Disregarding 3-letter agencies for the moment, I still reminded of Minority Report, where the machine welcomes the returning customer...
The bugtraq post has lots of links: >To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
>Subject: Citibank tries to gag crypto bug disclosure
>Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 09:57:34 +0000
>From: Ross Anderson
>
>
>Citibank is trying to get an order in the High Court today gagging
>public disclosure of crypto vulnerabilities:
>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/users/rja14/citibank_g ag.pdf
>
>I have written to the judge opposing the order:
>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/users/rja14/citibank_r esponse.pdf
>
>The background is that my student Mike Bond has discovered some really
>horrendous vulnerabilities in the cryptographic equipment commonly
>used to protect the PINs used to identify customers to cash machines:
>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/TechReports/UCAM-CL-TR-560.pdf
>
>These vulnerabilities mean that bank insiders can almost trivially
>find out the PINs of any or all customers. The discoveries happened
>while Mike and I were working as expert witnesses on a `phantom
>withdrawal' case.
>
>The vulnerabilities are also scientifically interesting:
>
> http://cryptome.org/pacc.htm
>
>For the last couple of years or so there has been a rising tide of
>phantoms. I get emails with increasing frequency from people all over
>the world whose banks have debited them for ATM withdrawals that they
>deny making. Banks in many countries simply claim that their systems
>are secure and so the customers must be responsible. It now looks like
>some of these vulnerabilities have also been discovered by the bad
>guys. Our courts and regulators should make the banks fix their
>systems, rather than just lying about security and dumping the costs
>on the customers.
>
>Curiously enough, Citi was also the bank in the case that set US law
>on phantom withdrawals from ATMs (Judd v Citibank). They lost. I hope
>that's an omen, if not a precedent...
>
>Ross Anderson
But the regional telephone giants also have warned that as long as they are required to lease those fiber networks to competitors, they will be unwilling to spend significant sums to build them.
But its OK for Verizon to
net $2.3B in one quarter? I don't care, Comcast already laid fiber at my doorstep. Now if their movie selection were a little better...
Over the life-time of the ship, the far biggest cost is salaries to the people on board.
The math doesn't work here. If there's 300 people on a destroyer and the average cost per person is $80K per year, then that's ~$500M over 20 years. The boat costs ~$1B . How much does this refit cost? If they're talking about automating/monitoring existing systems, they probably need a substantial update. The only costs they're saving by going wireless are the costs of running the cables.
Declan McCullagh has a column on this on CNet. How long will it take Poindexter to merge this database with the supermarkets' databases of purchases, so you can be tracked electronically, all the time?
I think preventing these people from boarding the planes is the wrong approach. Schneier is correct that this is a system that fails badly. Why hasn't more progress been made in securing the cockpits? What's the point of penalizing 100% of the people (millions of travelers) for the potential actions of a couple of hundred? Why empty a terminal, because some idiot took a nap on the job? This is not the solution.
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I decided to go the route of using their server because so many sites have blacklisted my netblock. I really can't send email any other way. I can still access a few servers directly (clients, mainly), so I can also tell that comcast isn't blocking port 25 access in the Philadelphia area.
Comcast Sucks.
Any time I've needed Vonage tech support, I had no problem reaching them. I'm operating a business out of the home, so I opted for the business plan. This included a separate fax number. I have been unable to get a fax modem to work in this setup, and Vonage doesn't support fax modems, only fax machines. Service quality has been spotty about 10% of the time over Comcast: dropped packets, broken conversations, occasional disconnect. The broken conversations are usually what I'm hearing as opposed to the caller hearing me which I find strange, since its almost 3Mbps download on my line. My Vonage quality is about as good as the cell phone quality I was trying to replace, which is not a compliment.
This is an odd place to settle it, though. If I read the complaint correctly, this is a copyright dispute. Copyrights are federal law. Copyright suits are normally brought in a federal court. Why is this in state court? The SCO v IBM suit is in Federal court. Bizarre.
ditto. Also, they have a stretchable bottom to the computer area that is shock-absorbing. The bag may hit the ground, but the computer won't (presuming the bag lands bottom-first. There are two of them (nested), but I had to remove one in order to fit my Inspiron 7500.
Having recenltly graduated two first-graders, I can assure you that the Pedge is not presented as a voluntary act.
They have annouced they are selling/requiring licenses to GPL covered code.
Additionally, SCO can't have a binary-only runtime license, under the GPL:
Bullshit. Its working in Pennsylvania. The only telemarketing calls I get are the local PBS station (because I gave in the past). That's it. The sequential auto-dialers seem to check the DNC list. None of them since I signed up.
How in the world does using a PO box protect you from identity theft? They can't steal your incoming mail? Not to worry, the post office will probably put it in the wrong box. Happened to me on a bi-weekly basis.
You're protecting your address? If someone finds your SSN, they can easily obtain your address. Since your PO box is probably in the same zipcode you live in (it is the closes post office, right?), they'll have the zipcode correct when trying to do a search.
If you use your PO box as your address for everything, then what are you protecting? Won't everything (credit cards, credit bureaus) be updated to use the PO box? Its just data sitting in an address field? How does the prefix 'PO Box' protect you?
If this is true, its discrimination. You can't discriminate in hiring because of age, race, sex, etc. There was a story similar to this recently (that I can't find), and the person that brought the suit didn't even apply for a job. The rumor was the restaurant didn't hire women. Not legal my friends.
If all the people that flew American flags from their cars on 10/1/01 voted, we wouldn't be in this mess.
If there range is long enough to be activated in a warehouse, then the range is at least 30 feet (floor to ceiling). Even at a range of 10 feet, that will be enough to cover the entrances of most public places (airports, train stations, etc). I easily see these becoming as ubiquitous as video surveillance is today.
I sent a snail-mail letter to my congress-critter regarding malpractice reform (he just happens to head the committee) back in the winter (I differed with his opinion). A couple of weeks ago, I received a letter (personally addressed to me, not junkmail) from the congressman in an adjacent district (and the other party!). The content of the letter jibed with my letter, although he never referred to my letter. When I asked my wife if she had any thoughts on why he sent it, she offerred that he's running for senate this fall.
My point is, they definitely share info.
I hope TicketMaster is the first target, since the government never bothers to deal with them as a monopoly. I can't seem to find anyone interested in the fact that they routinely charge more than 10% above the ticket price which is a violation of Pennsylvania state statutes. Oh, silly me: they're just part of the entertainment cabal.
The traditional way on Bugtraq seems to be mailto:secure@microsoft.com.
The only problem with this is if you wish to watch a series of DVDs. I tried to watch the entire 3 seasons of the Sopranos. I finished them a month ago, but never got Season 2, #1. It was first listed as 'short wait', three weeks later, it went to 'very long wait.' I'm still waiting, and its still 'very long'. The same seems to be true with '24'. Disc 1 has always been 'very long wait', but 2-6 are available 'now'. I wish they'd fix that.
If there's packaging. Most clothing I purchase doesn't have any packaging.
Disregarding 3-letter agencies for the moment, I still reminded of Minority Report, where the machine welcomes the returning customer...
The bugtraq post has lots of links:
g ag.pdf r esponse.pdf 0 .pdf ...
>To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
>Subject: Citibank tries to gag crypto bug disclosure
>Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 09:57:34 +0000
>From: Ross Anderson
>
>
>Citibank is trying to get an order in the High Court today gagging
>public disclosure of crypto vulnerabilities:
>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/users/rja14/citibank_
>
>I have written to the judge opposing the order:
>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/users/rja14/citibank_
>
>The background is that my student Mike Bond has discovered some really
>horrendous vulnerabilities in the cryptographic equipment commonly
>used to protect the PINs used to identify customers to cash machines:
>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/TechReports/UCAM-CL-TR-56
>
>These vulnerabilities mean that bank insiders can almost trivially
>find out the PINs of any or all customers. The discoveries happened
>while Mike and I were working as expert witnesses on a `phantom
>withdrawal' case.
>
>The vulnerabilities are also scientifically interesting:
>
> http://cryptome.org/pacc.htm
>
>For the last couple of years or so there has been a rising tide of
>phantoms. I get emails with increasing frequency from people all over
>the world whose banks have debited them for ATM withdrawals that they
>deny making. Banks in many countries simply claim that their systems
>are secure and so the customers must be responsible. It now looks like
>some of these vulnerabilities have also been discovered by the bad
>guys. Our courts and regulators should make the banks fix their
>systems, rather than just lying about security and dumping the costs
>on the customers.
>
>Curiously enough, Citi was also the bank in the case that set US law
>on phantom withdrawals from ATMs (Judd v Citibank). They lost. I hope
>that's an omen, if not a precedent
>
>Ross Anderson
Over the life-time of the ship, the far biggest cost is salaries to the people on board.
The math doesn't work here. If there's 300 people on a destroyer and the average cost per person is $80K per year, then that's ~$500M over 20 years. The boat costs ~$1B . How much does this refit cost? If they're talking about automating/monitoring existing systems, they probably need a substantial update. The only costs they're saving by going wireless are the costs of running the cables.
Declan McCullagh has a column on this on CNet. How long will it take Poindexter to merge this database with the supermarkets' databases of purchases, so you can be tracked electronically, all the time?
I think preventing these people from boarding the planes is the wrong approach. Schneier is correct that this is a system that fails badly. Why hasn't more progress been made in securing the cockpits? What's the point of penalizing 100% of the people (millions of travelers) for the potential actions of a couple of hundred? Why empty a terminal, because some idiot took a nap on the job? This is not the solution.
I'll bet they argue that 'defend' means 'you pay our legal bills if you sue us'.