I work for a company that routinely trashes old equipment. Just this year I've watched at least 20 Pentium computers go through the trash, including a number of inkjet printers, scanners, and even a LaserJet.
The problem is that it takes a lot of employee time to clean up these old computers for donation; time to check that everything is functional, to do the install, etc. - perhaps two hours of time each. It turns into a costly process that there aren't any resources to put to (any IS department is always plenty busy).
In a nutshell, if you really want to help out your local schools, give your name to companies in your area and start arranging the setup of this equipment yourself.
The litigation on this one is extremely long, starting with the wrongful firing by Varian Medical Systems (as ruled in court) of Michelangelo Delfino. Michelangelo's site regarding the case is at geocities. It's long, really silly (includes "harassment" claims of Michelangelo making funny faces and "phone gestures" - one Varian manager complains in a deposition that Delfino holds up his hand to his ear like he's talking on the phone when he passes her office), and continually goes back and forth with wins on Delfino's part and Varian's part.
Basically, it looks like this is what you get when you take a group of kids and let them run around in the court system. IMHO, Delfino should have grown up and just walked away - when you get fired from a job, for whatever reason, it's really stupid to sue for your job back. Sue for damages, sure, but for crying out loud don't work for people that you know hate you!
The relevance to the internet is extremely minor. Most of the activity regarding this case occurred on the job, and simply dragged on in various message boards on the internet.
Patent number 6192407, which Tumbleweed is claiming:
PURLs are temporary, dynamically generated uniform resource locators which uniquely identify the intended recipient of a document and the document itself, as well attributes associated with the delivery of a document. PURLs avoid attaching information to e-mail messages to send documents, but rather attach a general reference to a document to be sent, and then enable the recipient to access a document via the reference.
Really, any user-specific link sent via e-mail is covered by this patent.
Several months ago I was offering the general public a free copy of the popular OS called Linux 8.0. This is a freely distributable
program under the general license agreement. The customer only had to pay for shipping. ($5.00 US dollars)
I had hundreds of people that responded to the offer and I delivered the program as offered and according to the law. PayPal sent me
an e-mail saying that they were going to suspend my account unless I could provide proof that I had permission to distribute this
software.
Well, I e-mailed them back several times and explained to them that I did programming on my own and would never consider
distributing software that was against any law. PayPal said that I had to prove that I had permission from Microsoft to distribute the
software. Microsoft has nothing to do with Linux. Linux has always been to my knowledge, a free OS.
...or I suppose they could provide some sort of mechanism where attack reports could be sent (so we could let them sort out contacting the correct admin. Hell, they are the law after all).
Another slashdot poster has noted the real problem with network security -- being able to contact the administrator of a network when you see malicious attacks coming from it.
I'd hate to see something like this being legislated, but it certainly wouldn't hurt if the goverment would try to spearhead an effort to provide a canonical location to get contact information.
I think the point of view that you're looking at this from is incorrect. You need to assess the risks of what happens when someone finds an open switch port and plugs their laptop into it -- in addition to worrying about remote DOS or intrusions via the internet.
By bringing the apps into your Windows PC you are not getting any proof of anything. You are just getting a better Windows machine. Why would anyone be fool enough to switch from Windows if they can have it all there?
Probably because Windows isn't free, and with the pricing going up, stricter licensing, and pirating difficulties (WinXP), many users will be looking for an alternative.
If, when creating the siganture, you make sure to only use words that are common to spam or dictionary words you'd be able to avoid the majority of any personalization present.
I think the "pneumatic expulsion" is a fairly generous description of the plane/rocket seperation. The rocket comes out of the plane tail first and flies in the direction of the plane. Logically, you wouldn't want the rocket expelled at a high speed as it would just reduce its forward momentum and put too much stress on the carrying aircraft.
The entire description of the system sounds like a lot of marketspeak. The only advantage I see over the Pegasus system is that it doesn't require a fixed launch system underneath the plane, but somehow the developers of this system seem to think that this will cut launch costs five times? (Pegasus is $33K per kilogram; this system hopes to be $6.6K)
Section 9.2.c:
"child pornography shall include pornographic material that visually depicts... realistic images representing a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct."
Rendered images will be deemed illegal. (Also note that section 9.2.b says you can't take pronographic pictures of someone that "appears" to be a minor)
And no, I am not a fan of child pornography, but section 9.2.c seems to be making new clarifications to current pornography law, and 9.2.b is just very poorly worded.
Take a second look at the screenshot of the Microsoft desktop -- even they get bitten by their own stupid extensions to the Latin-1 character set ("can?t", "they?re", "don?t").
I said nothing about your server, or any other specific server being used for any specific task. I referred to the operating system itself which, in this context, is more than enough for a literate reader to understand my usage of the word "uptime".
You have to take notice of the PC itself - you can see that the box has been jolted so hard that the disk drive bay ripped itself from the main chassis and bent his PCI cards. Perhaps packing the inside of the case would have prevented this, but I just don't see how you can blame this on faulty packaging - everything is internal to the chassis.
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Wow. You're going to need quite a few satellite dishes just to load the homepage of that site.
Has the concept of text not reached New Zealand yet?
The problem is that it takes a lot of employee time to clean up these old computers for donation; time to check that everything is functional, to do the install, etc. - perhaps two hours of time each. It turns into a costly process that there aren't any resources to put to (any IS department is always plenty busy).
In a nutshell, if you really want to help out your local schools, give your name to companies in your area and start arranging the setup of this equipment yourself.
The page has been updated and now links to their "investigative" story.
Basically, it looks like this is what you get when you take a group of kids and let them run around in the court system. IMHO, Delfino should have grown up and just walked away - when you get fired from a job, for whatever reason, it's really stupid to sue for your job back. Sue for damages, sure, but for crying out loud don't work for people that you know hate you!
The relevance to the internet is extremely minor. Most of the activity regarding this case occurred on the job, and simply dragged on in various message boards on the internet.
Perhaps these arpagan.com people should consider bidding on a better web server.
- PURLs are temporary, dynamically generated uniform resource locators which uniquely identify the intended recipient of a document and the document itself, as well attributes associated with the delivery of a document. PURLs avoid attaching information to e-mail messages to send documents, but rather attach a general reference to a document to be sent, and then enable the recipient to access a document via the reference.
Really, any user-specific link sent via e-mail is covered by this patent.I think the previous poster's point was to avoid rolling your own billing program, and finding a payment service that already supported subscriptions.
Customs agent Allan Doody said each computer has between one to two terabytes of stolen software.
I had hundreds of people that responded to the offer and I delivered the program as offered and according to the law. PayPal sent me an e-mail saying that they were going to suspend my account unless I could provide proof that I had permission to distribute this software.
Well, I e-mailed them back several times and explained to them that I did programming on my own and would never consider distributing software that was against any law. PayPal said that I had to prove that I had permission from Microsoft to distribute the software. Microsoft has nothing to do with Linux. Linux has always been to my knowledge, a free OS.
Hmm, noting that I don't have many pictures that need sharks removed from them, it appears that the P-III would be the better processor for my needs.
...or I suppose they could provide some sort of mechanism where attack reports could be sent (so we could let them sort out contacting the correct admin. Hell, they are the law after all).
Another slashdot poster has noted the real problem with network security -- being able to contact the administrator of a network when you see malicious attacks coming from it.
I'd hate to see something like this being legislated, but it certainly wouldn't hurt if the goverment would try to spearhead an effort to provide a canonical location to get contact information.
The pictures on HP's site show that only 8 blades fit into a chassis, and only 3 chassis fit into a standard rack. It's not that small.
I think the point of view that you're looking at this from is incorrect. You need to assess the risks of what happens when someone finds an open switch port and plugs their laptop into it -- in addition to worrying about remote DOS or intrusions via the internet.
- By bringing the apps into your Windows PC you are not getting any proof of anything. You are just getting a better Windows machine. Why would anyone be fool enough to switch from Windows if they can have it all there?
Probably because Windows isn't free, and with the pricing going up, stricter licensing, and pirating difficulties (WinXP), many users will be looking for an alternative.The Ximian Connector is priced at $69 ($599 for 10 pack, $1499 for 25 pack) and comes with 90 days of web-based installation support.
Note that the 10 pack ($59.90 per license) is cheaper than the 25 pack ($59.96 per license).
If, when creating the siganture, you make sure to only use words that are common to spam or dictionary words you'd be able to avoid the majority of any personalization present.
North Carolina performed such a study. A take on it can be found on the Libertarian Party web site.
I'm not a Libertarian, but if they use PHP they can't be all bad.
..well, ok, they could use some help from the Demoronizer though.
I think the "pneumatic expulsion" is a fairly generous description of the plane/rocket seperation. The rocket comes out of the plane tail first and flies in the direction of the plane. Logically, you wouldn't want the rocket expelled at a high speed as it would just reduce its forward momentum and put too much stress on the carrying aircraft.
The entire description of the system sounds like a lot of marketspeak. The only advantage I see over the Pegasus system is that it doesn't require a fixed launch system underneath the plane, but somehow the developers of this system seem to think that this will cut launch costs five times? (Pegasus is $33K per kilogram; this system hopes to be $6.6K)
With the X1 you don't get the smart card reader.
...well, you won't get drivers for the smart card reader anyway, but that's not the point.
Section 9.2.c: ... realistic images representing a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct."
"child pornography shall include pornographic material that visually depicts
Rendered images will be deemed illegal. (Also note that section 9.2.b says you can't take pronographic pictures of someone that "appears" to be a minor)
And no, I am not a fan of child pornography, but section 9.2.c seems to be making new clarifications to current pornography law, and 9.2.b is just very poorly worded.
Take a second look at the screenshot of the Microsoft desktop -- even they get bitten by their own stupid extensions to the Latin-1 character set ("can?t", "they?re", "don?t").
"Smart quotes". Not.
I said nothing about your server, or any other specific server being used for any specific task. I referred to the operating system itself which, in this context, is more than enough for a literate reader to understand my usage of the word "uptime".
You have to take notice of the PC itself - you can see that the box has been jolted so hard that the disk drive bay ripped itself from the main chassis and bent his PCI cards. Perhaps packing the inside of the case would have prevented this, but I just don't see how you can blame this on faulty packaging - everything is internal to the chassis.
MHz is a measure of cycles per second. You need to multiply this by the about of data sent in each cycle to determine the throughput.
I believe the PCI bus is 32 bits (4 bytes), so 4bytes * 33MHz = 132Mb/s