Becaused they sued a small midwest ISP called Synet who applied for the trademark.
They will probably sue XBox in similar fashion.
And NOT ZBOX!. my opensource Palm file manager is called ZBoxZ (palmboxer.sourceforge.net), and I would consider ZBox an infringement (I've applied to register the trademark).
www.machack.com - you can even order a CD and I think this hack was included.
Actually I think it also browsed everyone's iBook or PowerBook who were in the Machine room or the Atrium where they had AirPort everywhere, and collected GIFs.
They basically said people should turn ON the encryption option for AirPort, as well as take the normal precautions for sharing.
I wasn't wireless, but even I used ssh to my home system to check mail.
It's BSD based, but uses the Mach kernel and their own VFS and driver APIs.
The latter are probably better, but C++ based and not easy for someone to use even if they are familiar with BSD or Linux. There are some ioctl() shims but not everything (at least not a 1:1 to the current Linux/BSD set). It also needs dlopen (shared library or even ELF binary) support but that looks like it is coming. And Netinfo. Great from the GUI, not nice from the CLI, and the manpages were wrong (and this overrides all the familiar, standard/etc/host/etc/resolv.conf). Better but strange and confusing until you figure out what is going on (sort of like NIS - try playing with the config if that is running and you don't know it).
So I don't know if I love or hate it. Maybe when I figure out how to copy audio CD streams to a file via IOKit calls I'll start loving it. Or when there are a large number of opensource examples so I can figure it out myself. Where is the O'Reilly "Darwin/OS X for BSD users" and the companion Quartz for X11 users?
Then everyone could smoke cigarettes and not worry.
For all the expenses of marketing, if it worked as well as assumed, the disease would be prevented.
AIDS would not be an epidemic if people had self-control. Anyone who can see people dying around them and not take precautions, much less abstain, is going to die of something rather quickly. If not AIDS, then something else.
If we had to subsidize the repair of every self-inflicted wound, the world would be bankrupt, at least the responsible and prudent portion would be bankrupted at the expense of the debauched.
OTOH, I think it would be an interesting experiment for some countries to reject the western idea of Patent protection. Remember that they were necessary to do trade (East India Co., South Seas).
But before you get to easy with the idea, you end up with a might-makes-right in the IP world. Whoever can bribe or buy the largest DNS service could usurp slashdot.com or any other domain name. You could have a competing DNS server with duplicate entries, but there would be chaos.
Conversely, if some drugs are that important, maybe Emminent domain should be used on IP (I wonder how many patents the NSA violates without compensation). Basically have government pay a one time fee based on the projected value of the patent to create a public-domain drug.
They probably won't. I wonder how many slashdot readers approve of the "endangered species" act basically taking property WITHOUT compensation. This is convienient because the government kills any value of the land and it doesn't put a hole in the budget, Everyone is happy except the landowners and the endangered species that are burned out as people turn their plots into desert before anything is discovered.
And vice versa - lest I forget to mention Mac On Linux.
It will take some time to grok Apple's artistic expression done to the BSD base (things like Netinfo that takes over, well, everything for net administration, and their driver, module, and filesystem templates).
They need things like ext2 to be ported, but eventually both sides should talk to each other (except for the apple proprietary stuff...)
Eventually,./configure will detect MacOSX and/or Darwin and build whatever it is across platforms for the applications.
Or a linux compatibility box will be created (which should consume an order of magnitude less resources than Classic).
And, conversely, if enough is documented and hacked, a BSD box for Linux might be doable (loading modules from the BSD side) and we might get Aqua coming up after the console screen with a Penguin on it.
For all the worry about forking and competetion, and the BSD v.s. Linux religious wars, neat things tend to be backported, so I see things converging instead of one killing the other. Actually I see things cooperating. Both OSX and Linux will get more neat things on each than if OSX were closed or not a UNIX derivative.
The newer iMacs work well (iMac DV or above - $999 most places), but you will need an extra 128Mb stick of PC 100 memory - and maybe more. I'd say 192k is minimum since there are few OSX native apps yet, so a lot of things start up classic and slow down OSX.
You can get to the console, and OSXnews and the darwin sites have all the tips to get things going. There are a number of differences - you need to use NetInfo which configures in the Mac environment. And the GUI is innovative - not just the annoying eye-candy (Windows has the wait for the popup to fade out, OSX has a very quick, I'm minimizing to this position on the dock).
You need to get the public beta (or better yet, join the developer's program - some of the things you will want are on the devtools disk) - Darwin is free, but the beta is a nominal charge.
And you can run Xdarwin if you grow tired of OSX or nostalgic for plain X.
netatalk lets me mount my Linux system on my Mac, OSX/Darwin has NFS. Linux afpfs is one of those abandoned things and hasn't been updated to the 2.4 kernel (I did a little work and it could recognize my mac from linux but it wouldn't get the dirents/inodes right).
And I can use my iMac as my non hacked computer (ok, I've opened it up and it is running an ATAPI DVD hanging outside instead of the stock CD-ROM - I needed it until I got a firewire-scsi converter, but I do most of my surfing on the iMac, and even use it to log in to my Linux box to check email).
In today's world it only works with flex-time. If an employer doesn't have it, then workers will be taking an hour here and there of vacation time to take care of some problem. With flex-time, if I run late, I simply arrive and work later. Without it both I and the company lose an hour.
And usually the fixed times are such that you must drive during the worst periods of heavy traffic so are more likely to have accidents, and you come to work frazzled.
Having ships that could do trade all over the world was hi-tech circa 1720 and precipitated two famous bubbles (overvalued equities/bond markets).
The South Seas company had a patent, i.e. royal monopoly, to conduct business with South America. Of course the Spanish and Portugese were there first, but that was no more a problem than profits are today to many dot-com startups.
This wasn't IP, but was the same kind of thing - a license for a monopoly in a given trade. Geographical instead of intellectual.
The US Citizens may have heard of the Boston Tea Party. That was another government in bed with business. The East India company had a monopoly on Tea, and HRH taxed it. And there were many things which it was illegal to do, make, or grow here "in the colonies" since mercantilism was in vogue as economic policy - Ma England needed to be the industrial producer (value added in today's lingo).
This might all sound silly today. Having to get a license to trade in an area? A monopoly grant at that? My point is that Copyright and Patent are like these things were 250 years ago. And may go the same way.
But I would also note we still have a lot of similar trade laws today. Taxi "badges" are a way of limiting the number of taxis creating an oligopoly if not a monopoly - it isn't safety or they woudn't restrict the number. Same with things like Barbers, many states have complex and irrelevant requirements simply to reduce the number going into the profession. Then there are Doctors and Lawyers.
One final note. What happens when the Library of Congress goes fully online and anyone can view any work on the web? When there aren't a finite number of physical books to check out? Copyright then becomes moot.
Though I think the IP supporters will hate this, a Copyright (and Patent) tax (percentage of licensing fees) might be best. Don't pay, and your work is effectively in the Public Domain. You pay for access and governement gets a cut.
But there is still the problem of more than one person looking at a screen.
I don't know anything except that the situation is unstable, and the DMCA to the MPAA now is what the King was to the East India company then. It is more like a last gasp at protecting something economically untenable. Laws that throw people in jail for doing something easy and simple are economically inefficient.
Personally I would prefer that most sites stop using all this extra JUNK. Probably less than one out of 50 sites actually use things like javascript for something that can't be done with plain HTML.
I just want information, not a multimedia extravaganza everytime I click something. I keep opening the document source window to try to get to see something normally instead of in a tiny peephole surrounded by various pieces of cybercrud.
Somewhere I read about the three phases of systems, the first is lean and fast and does most of the jobs. The second is bloatware where everything gets added and is cumbersome to use.
Finally a third system comes out that doesn't include all the junk is created, but it is impossible to get to phase 3 without going through phase 2. The Net is in phase 2.
If I want to know what you are selling a Palm m100 for, I just need the dollars-and-cents field, but not buried in an antialiased gif placed with a CSS popped up with javascript after baking a dozen cookies and redirecting you 20 times all this taking 15 minutes to download on DSL or cable modem.
No store in the mall puts the merchandise in the back room and spends 15 minutes entertaining you instead of selling.
Maybe it would be better to release a broken Netscape if what is broken are things that shouldn't be encouraged.
As the register notes at http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/14523.html
WMP and MSN instant messenger are integrated. No choice.
Which doesn't matter to me, since I use Linux, and IE won't be availble for it.
I guess everyone will have to pay a Microsoft tax to browse the web not - oh, IE is free, but you have to buy a Windows box.
I really hate all the javascript popups, and the first thing I am going to do when the OS Mozilla comes out is disable them. There are other features, and I won't be locked in to whatever MS wants to shove down my throat.
Or maybe the originator thinks Windows 2000 and whatever Microsoft ever does *IS* the standard, even well into the extend/extinguish phase.
IE is the only thing out for Mac OS X and I hate it. I really need to get Lynx running under Darwin - at least I'll be able to browse and download easily.
Blame yourselves / The 3rd party of your choice
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Until there is a binding "None of the Above", I don't approve of abstainence here. OTOH, that is what the primaries are for. We could have had a Bradley v.s. Keyes or McCain.
Browne and the Libertarians are probably the 2nd best choice, since if they get 5%, they don't have to go through the ballot access fight next time around.
Nader wants to tell you what kind of car you can drive. Although I think he is on the right side of many issues, his solutions (more huge government bureaucracy - register your OS with the government? A National InfoSuperHighway traffic saftey administration?
Since Nader was mentioned, Buchanan is better if only in that he believes in nationalism - if you don't like the US dictating to europe what their infopolicies should be, you would like Brussels dictating to us less.
And then there's Haeglin of the Natural Law party, who I also have trouble with, but might be the choice of other SlashDotters.
Voting for any of them will send a message that Gush and Bore (I get them confused - no less than they seem confused themselves) aren't your choices and you won't vote for the lesser evil. (The A/B choice: Asmodeus v.s. Beelzebubba).
If you don't vote, you simply get counted as someone too apathetic to care who is going to screw you.
The numbers are way out of whack though. It is *possible*, but it sounds like one of those tests where they take a SCSI card that has an early driver for Linux that doesn't even support disconnect/reconnect and compare the "same" performance with IIS. Where if you simply compared the highest peformance configurations (especially if they are the same cost including software), Apache should be VERY competetive.
Do you want MSW2K+IIS, or a few more processors and/or gigabytes of main memory?
So, why aren't they going after Amazon and nearly every other online bookseller that has basically the same kind of info online?
(Or is this another "we don't like your site, but won't tell you why" letter from K&K who apparently have an entire staff of ugly lawyers and a FedEx account).
During the last annular eclipse, a teenage girl went partially blind, but her sight returned.
Maybe it is UV (I always wear my sunglasses out of doors, even on bright cloudy days, and my vision seems to be staying intact over the years better than my peers).
But as another old addage says, the dose makes the poison - too much water can kill you, or a little hemlock - I would suspect a glance won't hurt, but staring directly for several minutes (even with UV protection) might cook something (IR?). And it might not show up for a while.
Though I think there should be more warnings about rock concerts and hearings - several monitors have some real problems and I can't even stand to be in the room, but no one else can hear them. (Oh, it's time for my bone - on the internet no one knows you're a dog).
I suppose it would then make it easier for virus writers to encapsulate their payloads in the proprietary sections. That way Outlook Transmitted Diseases have an easier time not bothering with clients they can't infect.
But to the topic - the problem is the default behavior. I think Netscape's internal client defaults (or used to default) to HTML, and users would get flamed the first message or two.
If Outlook's client results in unreadable mail on the internet, then their users will be getting flamed too. "What, the entire world doesn't use Windows, Outlook, and Exchange?".
As far as I know, anyone is free to create a private library and lend books on these terms, so I really don't understand the problem.
The moment you want to have a government paid for propaganda distribution building, don't expect them to stock everything. To expect me to pay to promote ideas, positions, philosophies, or religous beliefs I don't hold is a form of tyranny antithetical to the first ammendment. I would hold them credible if the first thing they did was to end their taxpayer, i.e. government funding.
Further, there have been cases past and present where the librarians censor things in violation of II above. Usually these are by people on the right (e.g. books with a Christian religous theme, or by Rush Limbaugh) that even when DONATED are not placed up for circulation.
Re:GPG features - can't be both...
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The following "features" are mutually exclusive:
Full replacement of PGP.
Does not use any patented algorithms.
Full OpenPGP implementation.
Any full replacement or open PGP implmentation must implement IDEA and RSA, and the former is still covered by patent. So any pre-PGP5 message cannot be handled by GnuPG. You can have a "Full" openpgp implementation that just implements the required algorithms, but that is not what most people mean by the term.
Also, there are severe security problems with *SOME* ElGamal (GPG uses that term for both DH encryption and ElG signing) signatures. Specifically PGP generated keys (using a DH base of 2) are really bad. I don't know if GPG has properly prevented weak signatures. In PGP and opgp (openssl/ssleay based minimal reference implementation - www.cryptography.com's archives have a copy) this was disabled by default.
Their HTML is bad so Netscape doesn't show anything. Lynx works.
And using their search on cuecat, nothing shows up.
Wired should recall CueCat (assuming they haven't already), or get a "the scanner is yours" license, or refund the cover price.
From that wired article:
In addition, Tandy has invested in us. Other companies that have made investments in us include Young & Rubicam, Inc., Belo Corp., The Coca-Cola Company, The E.W. Scripps Company and Spielberg/Katz Associates, LLC.
They should countersue Radio Shack and DC for violation of 1st ammendment rights. What is bothersome to me is that the letter in each case was so vague - violated "The intellectual property". That has to be a patent, copyright, trade secret or something. You can't enforce a deed to property that doesn't state where the boundaries of that property is. I can see a trademark problem since cuecat and a few other things were used unacknowledged. But if the sites (like lineo) are going to give in this quickly, what about when they get a letter "your entire site violates something we aren't going to clarify - please take it down immediately"?
They can have the CueCat reader back (perhaps minus a few screws) - if they send me a prepaid shipping container.
(They are probably tracking everyone who uses the software. Anyone for integrating hustler magazine UPC barcodes into kiddie comics?).
Isn't this the "extend" phase of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish? bash will have trouble with "g#" - since it will think the rest of the line is commentary.
See my page at http://www.execpc.com/~tz - For about $10 you can play any midi file from your Palm (V or III or even VII, or old Pilots) to any MIDI synth with a standard MIDI port. I wrote this two years ago. The file is: playmidi45.zip
The README inside gives instuctions on building the interface and there are three jpegs showing images of the basic interface.
FYI - Swivel systems expects the interface to cost around $200, but it isn't determined and they aren't shipping.
The program plays anything, but has very limited record capability (I haven't had time to work on it nor has there been interest expressed). And the seek-to SMPTE time or beat needs work.
The original PCMCIA by David Hinds has continually improved since support was introduced for Linux (and FreeBSD). Bu this was nominated elsewhere.
As a second nominee, BTTV support specifically, or more generally Video for Linux - things like radio and tuners and G200 overlays are now working a lot better. So I can watch both TV and DVD now.
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Becaused they sued a small midwest ISP called Synet who applied for the trademark.
They will probably sue XBox in similar fashion.
And NOT ZBOX!. my opensource Palm file manager is called ZBoxZ (palmboxer.sourceforge.net), and I would consider ZBox an infringement (I've applied to register the trademark).
www.machack.com - you can even order a CD and I think this hack was included.
Actually I think it also browsed everyone's iBook or PowerBook who were in the Machine room or the Atrium where they had AirPort everywhere, and collected GIFs.
They basically said people should turn ON the encryption option for AirPort, as well as take the normal precautions for sharing.
I wasn't wireless, but even I used ssh to my home system to check mail.
It's BSD based, but uses the Mach kernel and their own VFS and driver APIs.
/etc/host /etc/resolv.conf). Better but strange and confusing until you figure out what is going on (sort of like NIS - try playing with the config if that is running and you don't know it).
The latter are probably better, but C++ based and not easy for someone to use even if they are familiar with BSD or Linux. There are some ioctl() shims but not everything (at least not a 1:1 to the current Linux/BSD set). It also needs dlopen (shared library or even ELF binary) support but that looks like it is coming. And Netinfo. Great from the GUI, not nice from the CLI, and the manpages were wrong (and this overrides all the familiar, standard
So I don't know if I love or hate it. Maybe when I figure out how to copy audio CD streams to a file via IOKit calls I'll start loving it. Or when there are a large number of opensource examples so I can figure it out myself. Where is the O'Reilly "Darwin/OS X for BSD users" and the companion Quartz for X11 users?
It's almost not completely unlike BSD.
Then everyone could smoke cigarettes and not worry.
For all the expenses of marketing, if it worked as well as assumed, the disease would be prevented.
AIDS would not be an epidemic if people had self-control. Anyone who can see people dying around them and not take precautions, much less abstain, is going to die of something rather quickly. If not AIDS, then something else.
If we had to subsidize the repair of every self-inflicted wound, the world would be bankrupt, at least the responsible and prudent portion would be bankrupted at the expense of the debauched.
OTOH, I think it would be an interesting experiment for some countries to reject the western idea of Patent protection. Remember that they were necessary to do trade (East India Co., South Seas).
But before you get to easy with the idea, you end up with a might-makes-right in the IP world. Whoever can bribe or buy the largest DNS service could usurp slashdot.com or any other domain name. You could have a competing DNS server with duplicate entries, but there would be chaos.
Conversely, if some drugs are that important, maybe Emminent domain should be used on IP (I wonder how many patents the NSA violates without compensation). Basically have government pay a one time fee based on the projected value of the patent to create a public-domain drug.
They probably won't. I wonder how many slashdot readers approve of the "endangered species" act basically taking property WITHOUT compensation. This is convienient because the government kills any value of the land and it doesn't put a hole in the budget, Everyone is happy except the landowners and the endangered species that are burned out as people turn their plots into desert before anything is discovered.
And vice versa - lest I forget to mention Mac On Linux.
./configure will detect MacOSX and/or Darwin and build whatever it is across platforms for the applications.
It will take some time to grok Apple's artistic expression done to the BSD base (things like Netinfo that takes over, well, everything for net administration, and their driver, module, and filesystem templates).
They need things like ext2 to be ported, but eventually both sides should talk to each other (except for the apple proprietary stuff...)
Eventually,
Or a linux compatibility box will be created (which should consume an order of magnitude less resources than Classic).
And, conversely, if enough is documented and hacked, a BSD box for Linux might be doable (loading modules from the BSD side) and we might get Aqua coming up after the console screen with a Penguin on it.
For all the worry about forking and competetion, and the BSD v.s. Linux religious wars, neat things tend to be backported, so I see things converging instead of one killing the other. Actually I see things cooperating. Both OSX and Linux will get more neat things on each than if OSX were closed or not a UNIX derivative.
Or some other Tex.
The original power of HTML was that it could render properly on text and graphical browsers and was universal.
But now they wan't to format things for a specific screen size and run subprograms so all kinds of extra junk was added to force fit things.
Which Tex had all along. At this point you might be able to convert using a sufficiently advanced awk or perl script.
This is one of the reasons I bought my iMac.
The newer iMacs work well (iMac DV or above - $999 most places), but you will need an extra 128Mb stick of PC 100 memory - and maybe more. I'd say 192k is minimum since there are few OSX native apps yet, so a lot of things start up classic and slow down OSX.
You can get to the console, and OSXnews and the darwin sites have all the tips to get things going. There are a number of differences - you need to use NetInfo which configures in the Mac environment. And the GUI is innovative - not just the annoying eye-candy (Windows has the wait for the popup to fade out, OSX has a very quick, I'm minimizing to this position on the dock).
You need to get the public beta (or better yet, join the developer's program - some of the things you will want are on the devtools disk) - Darwin is free, but the beta is a nominal charge.
And you can run Xdarwin if you grow tired of OSX or nostalgic for plain X.
netatalk lets me mount my Linux system on my Mac, OSX/Darwin has NFS. Linux afpfs is one of those abandoned things and hasn't been updated to the 2.4 kernel (I did a little work and it could recognize my mac from linux but it wouldn't get the dirents/inodes right).
And I can use my iMac as my non hacked computer (ok, I've opened it up and it is running an ATAPI DVD hanging outside instead of the stock CD-ROM - I needed it until I got a firewire-scsi converter, but I do most of my surfing on the iMac, and even use it to log in to my Linux box to check email).
In today's world it only works with flex-time. If an employer doesn't have it, then workers will be taking an hour here and there of vacation time to take care of some problem. With flex-time, if I run late, I simply arrive and work later. Without it both I and the company lose an hour.
And usually the fixed times are such that you must drive during the worst periods of heavy traffic so are more likely to have accidents, and you come to work frazzled.
Having ships that could do trade all over the world was hi-tech circa 1720 and precipitated two famous bubbles (overvalued equities/bond markets).
The South Seas company had a patent, i.e. royal monopoly, to conduct business with South America. Of course the Spanish and Portugese were there first, but that was no more a problem than profits are today to many dot-com startups.
This wasn't IP, but was the same kind of thing - a license for a monopoly in a given trade. Geographical instead of intellectual.
The US Citizens may have heard of the Boston Tea Party. That was another government in bed with business. The East India company had a monopoly on Tea, and HRH taxed it. And there were many things which it was illegal to do, make, or grow here "in the colonies" since mercantilism was in vogue as economic policy - Ma England needed to be the industrial producer (value added in today's lingo).
This might all sound silly today. Having to get a license to trade in an area? A monopoly grant at that? My point is that Copyright and Patent are like these things were 250 years ago. And may go the same way.
But I would also note we still have a lot of similar trade laws today. Taxi "badges" are a way of limiting the number of taxis creating an oligopoly if not a monopoly - it isn't safety or they woudn't restrict the number. Same with things like Barbers, many states have complex and irrelevant requirements simply to reduce the number going into the profession. Then there are Doctors and Lawyers.
One final note. What happens when the Library of Congress goes fully online and anyone can view any work on the web? When there aren't a finite number of physical books to check out? Copyright then becomes moot.
Though I think the IP supporters will hate this, a Copyright (and Patent) tax (percentage of licensing fees) might be best. Don't pay, and your work is effectively in the Public Domain. You pay for access and governement gets a cut.
But there is still the problem of more than one person looking at a screen.
I don't know anything except that the situation is unstable, and the DMCA to the MPAA now is what the King was to the East India company then. It is more like a last gasp at protecting something economically untenable. Laws that throw people in jail for doing something easy and simple are economically inefficient.
Personally I would prefer that most sites stop using all this extra JUNK. Probably less than one out of 50 sites actually use things like javascript for something that can't be done with plain HTML.
I just want information, not a multimedia extravaganza everytime I click something. I keep opening the document source window to try to get to see something normally instead of in a tiny peephole surrounded by various pieces of cybercrud.
Somewhere I read about the three phases of systems, the first is lean and fast and does most of the jobs. The second is bloatware where everything gets added and is cumbersome to use.
Finally a third system comes out that doesn't include all the junk is created, but it is impossible to get to phase 3 without going through phase 2. The Net is in phase 2.
If I want to know what you are selling a Palm m100 for, I just need the dollars-and-cents field, but not buried in an antialiased gif placed with a CSS popped up with javascript after baking a dozen cookies and redirecting you 20 times all this taking 15 minutes to download on DSL or cable modem.
No store in the mall puts the merchandise in the back room and spends 15 minutes entertaining you instead of selling.
Maybe it would be better to release a broken Netscape if what is broken are things that shouldn't be encouraged.
As the register notes at http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/14523.html WMP and MSN instant messenger are integrated. No choice. Which doesn't matter to me, since I use Linux, and IE won't be availble for it. I guess everyone will have to pay a Microsoft tax to browse the web not - oh, IE is free, but you have to buy a Windows box. I really hate all the javascript popups, and the first thing I am going to do when the OS Mozilla comes out is disable them. There are other features, and I won't be locked in to whatever MS wants to shove down my throat. Or maybe the originator thinks Windows 2000 and whatever Microsoft ever does *IS* the standard, even well into the extend/extinguish phase. IE is the only thing out for Mac OS X and I hate it. I really need to get Lynx running under Darwin - at least I'll be able to browse and download easily.
Until there is a binding "None of the Above", I don't approve of abstainence here. OTOH, that is what the primaries are for. We could have had a Bradley v.s. Keyes or McCain.
Browne and the Libertarians are probably the 2nd best choice, since if they get 5%, they don't have to go through the ballot access fight next time around.
Nader wants to tell you what kind of car you can drive. Although I think he is on the right side of many issues, his solutions (more huge government bureaucracy - register your OS with the government? A National InfoSuperHighway traffic saftey administration?
Since Nader was mentioned, Buchanan is better if only in that he believes in nationalism - if you don't like the US dictating to europe what their infopolicies should be, you would like Brussels dictating to us less.
And then there's Haeglin of the Natural Law party, who I also have trouble with, but might be the choice of other SlashDotters.
Voting for any of them will send a message that Gush and Bore (I get them confused - no less than they seem confused themselves) aren't your choices and you won't vote for the lesser evil. (The A/B choice: Asmodeus v.s. Beelzebubba).
If you don't vote, you simply get counted as someone too apathetic to care who is going to screw you.
You now have at least some redundancy.
The numbers are way out of whack though. It is *possible*, but it sounds like one of those tests where they take a SCSI card that has an early driver for Linux that doesn't even support disconnect/reconnect and compare the "same" performance with IIS. Where if you simply compared the highest peformance configurations (especially if they are the same cost including software), Apache should be VERY competetive.
Do you want MSW2K+IIS, or a few more processors and/or gigabytes of main memory?
So, why aren't they going after Amazon and nearly every other online bookseller that has basically the same kind of info online? (Or is this another "we don't like your site, but won't tell you why" letter from K&K who apparently have an entire staff of ugly lawyers and a FedEx account).
During the last annular eclipse, a teenage girl went partially blind, but her sight returned.
Maybe it is UV (I always wear my sunglasses out of doors, even on bright cloudy days, and my vision seems to be staying intact over the years better than my peers).
But as another old addage says, the dose makes the poison - too much water can kill you, or a little hemlock - I would suspect a glance won't hurt, but staring directly for several minutes (even with UV protection) might cook something (IR?). And it might not show up for a while.
Though I think there should be more warnings about rock concerts and hearings - several monitors have some real problems and I can't even stand to be in the room, but no one else can hear them. (Oh, it's time for my bone - on the internet no one knows you're a dog).
I suppose it would then make it easier for virus writers to encapsulate their payloads in the proprietary sections. That way Outlook Transmitted Diseases have an easier time not bothering with clients they can't infect.
But to the topic - the problem is the default behavior. I think Netscape's internal client defaults (or used to default) to HTML, and users would get flamed the first message or two.
If Outlook's client results in unreadable mail on the internet, then their users will be getting flamed too. "What, the entire world doesn't use Windows, Outlook, and Exchange?".
As far as I know, anyone is free to create a private library and lend books on these terms, so I really don't understand the problem.
The moment you want to have a government paid for propaganda distribution building, don't expect them to stock everything. To expect me to pay to promote ideas, positions, philosophies, or religous beliefs I don't hold is a form of tyranny antithetical to the first ammendment. I would hold them credible if the first thing they did was to end their taxpayer, i.e. government funding.
Further, there have been cases past and present where the librarians censor things in violation of II above. Usually these are by people on the right (e.g. books with a Christian religous theme, or by Rush Limbaugh) that even when DONATED are not placed up for circulation.
The following "features" are mutually exclusive:
Full replacement of PGP.
Does not use any patented algorithms.
Full OpenPGP implementation.
Any full replacement or open PGP implmentation must implement IDEA and RSA, and the former is still covered by patent. So any pre-PGP5 message cannot be handled by GnuPG. You can have a "Full" openpgp implementation that just implements the required algorithms, but that is not what most people mean by the term.
Also, there are severe security problems with *SOME* ElGamal (GPG uses that term for both DH encryption and ElG signing) signatures. Specifically PGP generated keys (using a DH base of 2) are really bad. I don't know if GPG has properly prevented weak signatures. In PGP and opgp (openssl/ssleay based minimal reference implementation - www.cryptography.com's archives have a copy) this was disabled by default.
I get a blank page.
Their HTML is bad so Netscape doesn't show anything. Lynx works.
And using their search on cuecat, nothing shows up.
Wired should recall CueCat (assuming they haven't already), or get a "the scanner is yours" license, or refund the cover price.
From that wired article:
In addition, Tandy has invested in us. Other companies that have made investments in us include Young & Rubicam, Inc., Belo Corp., The Coca-Cola Company, The E.W. Scripps Company and Spielberg/Katz Associates, LLC.
And I used to enjoy Coke...
They should countersue Radio Shack and DC for violation of 1st ammendment rights. What is bothersome to me is that the letter in each case was so vague - violated "The intellectual property". That has to be a patent, copyright, trade secret or something. You can't enforce a deed to property that doesn't state where the boundaries of that property is. I can see a trademark problem since cuecat and a few other things were used unacknowledged. But if the sites (like lineo) are going to give in this quickly, what about when they get a letter "your entire site violates something we aren't going to clarify - please take it down immediately"?
They can have the CueCat reader back (perhaps minus a few screws) - if they send me a prepaid shipping container.
(They are probably tracking everyone who uses the software. Anyone for integrating hustler magazine UPC barcodes into kiddie comics?).
What does Radio Shack have to say about this?
Isn't this the "extend" phase of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish? bash will have trouble with "g#" - since it will think the rest of the line is commentary.
See my page at http://www.execpc.com/~tz - For about $10 you can play any midi file from your Palm (V or III or even VII, or old Pilots) to any MIDI synth with a standard MIDI port. I wrote this two years ago. The file is: playmidi45.zip
The README inside gives instuctions on building the interface and there are three jpegs showing images of the basic interface.
FYI - Swivel systems expects the interface to cost around $200, but it isn't determined and they aren't shipping.
The program plays anything, but has very limited record capability (I haven't had time to work on it nor has there been interest expressed). And the seek-to SMPTE time or beat needs work.
The original PCMCIA by David Hinds has continually improved since support was introduced for Linux (and FreeBSD). Bu this was nominated elsewhere.
As a second nominee, BTTV support specifically, or more generally Video for Linux - things like radio and tuners and G200 overlays are now working a lot better. So I can watch both TV and DVD now.