For those who have access to it, I suggest a read of the Wall Street Journal "Business World" article by Homan Jenkins on page A27 entitled "Let's Give It Up for Metallica". Some interesting commentary on Gnutella, et al.
Somehow I don't think we will ever get the real story on this one, but the real culprits will remain unpunushed. Those persons are the corporate IS folk who blindly embraced the computer monoculture of Microsquish. By designing a corporate infostructure that allowed such a virus to spread like wildfire, they contributed almost as much as the person who did the origional deed. Proclamantions to the contrary are like that of the person who insists on not having safe sex and then becomes a vector for aids. A robust corporate operating enviroment these days must include a number of different machines, operating systems and application programs. To base ones corporate future (or national future even worse) on a single suite of stuff (be it Microsquish, Apple, Linux or whatever) is the equivalent of farming with only a certain strain of a certain crop. You may win, but if you get wiped out, please hold the whining down, the rest of us wish to get some constructive work done...
I do not think that the name of the distributor should become public until there is some dialog between them and the buyer. The folks who have re-canned the 750 may be quite a bit deeper in the distribution process, and the vendor may be a very reputable person. It may be that the source obtained chips from a reputable broker who in turn obtained them from someone who re-canned them. Supply channels for things like this are not always so simple and direct. Unless the vendor represented the chips as coming direct from AMD, they make have been as defrauded as the ultimate buyer.
The knee in the pricing curve occurs at 750. I am surprised that someone would have "jacked up" a 650. The spread between a 650 and a 700 is $46 at retail. The spread between a 700 and a 750 is $58 and d$/d(speed) goes up even faster after that.
There is nothing new with this. I remember getting a bunch of 266 PII chips re-canned to be 300s back when 300 Mhz was a fast speed. Usually the folks who used to recan chips were fairly sloppy and you could tell by the fact that the enclosure edges didn't meet well making the cartridge a bit thicker than is should have been. Have a high index of suspicion when the cartridge doesn't slip into the rails easily. Given the overclockability of AMD Athlons, I guess we will see more than a bit of this sort of stuff (unfortunately).
Unfortunately, this solution is a "trust me" solution. That is, we will allow access to those things that we (meaning Microsquash) deem worthy, and restrict access otherwise. Sorry, but I don't think that anyone in their right mind can trust them anymore. Saying "honor" and either "balmer" or "gates" in the same breath had better be accompanied by the phrase "they have no concept of".
I decomissioned my 4 headed Mac 7100 a long time ago (something like 6 years now I think). It is a comment on the Wintel platform that this stuff would even be remotely considered news. But who am I to stand in the way of Bill Gates and innovation (like using the control key instead of the alt key in the copy command...)
Information is a most fungible product. It knows no bounderies or nationalities. The US Congress, or the UK government or anyone else who thinks that laws passed in their own country will regulate the internet in other countries has been smoking the "Willy Weed" a bit longer than they should. Early governments and religious organizations went through this noise right after the invention of the printing press. You would think that folks would have learned by now, but I guess they never will. Really, its rather pathetic to see the responses that have been made...
The is much more to the MIT hacks than just getting something onto the dome. The firehose water-fountain, the fact that the campus police car that was assembled on the dome had a "Dunkin Donuts" box on the front seat (complete with crumbs) and the bumper sticker "I brake for Donuts" on its bumper, the fact that the Telephone Booth on the dome rang its phone when the campus police were up there, etc. It is the fine touch that makes a truely great hack versus just a mundane one. Gravitational modification is ok, but it has to be more than that...
Unfortunately, when you are a felon, you forfit a number of your rights. Felons cannot carry guns, in many places felons cannot vote. As much as I think this one is a vindictive and out of line penalty, it is not prohibited by the terms of his parole. The question becomes one of a general application of this penalty. Fer instance, if Billy Clinton becomes convicted of the felony offence of perjury in his testamony on the Paula Jones case, will he be prohibited from speaking on any lecture circuits? Somehow I doubt it. America should have only a single class of citizen, thus if you are not going to prohibit others, then Mitnick should also not be prohibited, in that I agree with you.
creating copies of copyright material by end users who are not authorized by fair use to do so is a violation of copyright and thus illegal
napster allows people to create these copies and thus should be illegal
Consider this argument:
cars transport people
some people commit armed robbery
cars allow people to commit armed robbery and thus should be illegal
While I feel that there has to be some degree of enhanced means copyright protection for artists to provent blatent copyright violations, this is shooting the messanger.
As someone who is also not a layer, I am afraid that I must disagree with you. I seriously doubt that you would be ever charged with perjury if you gave sworn testimony that differed in some fact from reality PROVIDED that this was your true belief and you did not invent this with malice. Neither is the case with the COS. Their effort here is to surpress things through knowingly false sworn notifications. As such, they should be persecuted under the laws. They (of course) will howl that they are a "church" and that this is religious persecution, but for once the governement should stop throwing tons of effort at marginal stuff and stop these folks from meddling in sectarian things.
If you desire to do a non-us registration, one central location for these is Oznic out of Australia.Overall a smooth process, including a setup at Domainhost for a month. Cost is $120 US.
His royal highness maintains registration of the TO domain at Tonic for those who desire to do a direct registration. You can even pay up for 100 years of your domain name for $2500.
Having put win2k up on some of my machines as an experiment, let me say that I am of the opinion that they should have their ad campaign say "This System really Rots" rather than "This System really Rocks". The only rocks are those in the heads of the folks that spend the absurd amount of money to convert to it. Usual gotta re-install everything and maybe it works and maybe it don't, etc. etc. Drivers are still wanting (even for some of the more obscure brands of hardware such as Intel and 3COM). Without their monopoly position acheived by squeezing other more inovative folks out of the market (remember Wingz?) this sort of crap would be laughed at. If they are broken up into a OS centric and non-OS centric areas, at least the non-OS products would have to stand on their own merits and might even become available for other platforms if they have any redeeming value of their own.
I do not know this to be the case in this instance, but a great many "actives" are self medicating depressives. This frequently goes had in hand with a degree of creativity if there is a bipolar component (as was discussed hear within recent memory). If this is someplace in your life, please recognize it and get some help. "Better living through chemistry" works a lot better these days than when the only thing available was mao inhibitors.
It always amazes me how repressive governments will attempt to control access to these things. Insane folks simply do not obey laws and non-repressive governments have no need to fear their populace. It is a symptom of a sick government when they try to legislate against information rather than actions. I presume that the Japaneze government will soon outlaw all libraries since the information contained in them can be used for these illegal purposes.
Unfortunately, the bottom line still stands. While it might be hard to exploit this hole, the fact that it exists continues to raise serious doubts about the Microsoft QC, and other, perhaps more intentional, inclusions.
Please remember that the demand for removal is a civil matter not a criminal one. Here in the US, it appears that it is only sufficient to consume oxygen and emit carbon dioxide for someone to file a lawsuit against you for something or other (like the sun came up or a stock went down). As such, the actions of most stateside ISPs would be the same as those in GB. The question, though, is weather or not you can file a counter suit for damages against the complaining party for the fact that your site was removed. If so, then the merits of any libel will have to be shown in a court of law for you not to recover damages. One would hope that the fact that somebody got their poor little feelings hurt would not be sufficient for the site removal to be enfourced and the counter-suit dismissed. Personally, I am very offended at the IRS site this time of year. Can someone point me to their ISP???
As of this morning, Circuit City website no longer knows from the I-Opener. Retail help still thinks they are back-ordered, taking no new orders. Could be, or could be that the tactic of "You gotta sign up with our ISP" is getting in conflict with the Circuit City ISP sales exclusivity agreements that they already have in place. If so, then NPLI has a hard choice, either let Circuit City sell them without the signup (I hear the sound of hacking now), or let some other retail vendor do it. The help at DUMPUSA would find the setup totally intimidating, and the last time I asked for wire-wrap wire at Tandy I got a totally blank stare. Without good retail, they are in a Catch 22. You gotta be on the web to order it, but if you are on the web you don't need it to get on the web...
btw, please do not underestimate the appetite for disk that you will have 9 min = 2 gigs of digital video. my capture/editing machine has over 100 gigs on it and things still get tight.
I do the video -> CD/WEB & the NLE for my company. I have tried a number of solutions on the Wintel platform and none of them work to my satisfaction. They drop frames/crash/don't work, etc. The eaiest/cheapest solution for me was a G3/G4 Mac (I use a Newertech 400 G3 in a 8500 chasis and a Powerlogix 350 G4 in a 7500 chasis). Adaptec UW scsi to an array of ibm 7,200 rpm wide drives. You should stripe the drive you are going to capture to for a extra bit of bandwidth. The Adaptec is nice since it allows you to throttle the pci when it is time to print to video. Otherwise, the pci overpowers the firewire and you drop frames on print. EditDV is a very good nle (better than Premier) and MediaCleaner with the Sorenson quicktime 2 codec an excellent media converter. Unlike some of the other products out there, these are stable and get the job done. There is nothing worse than processing a video for some large number of hours and having a freeze, blue screen of death or any of the other wintel crud that makes you have to start over against a hard deadline...
Unfortunately, your point is somewhat well taken. Bill Gates (if nothing else) does recognize that if you give someone something with the bundle, they won't bother to download even a superior product. There are some shops around that will not let other media players on the desktop (other than MS). My quibble with Windoze Media (ASF), is that they are slightly worse than either Real or Quicktime in rendering in greater than 100% size. A small point and probably one that does not matter for live play of streams (especially if its only audio). Personally, I prefer Quicktime streaming from the Mac OSX server, but again if you are in Spain, you better talk Spanish. Serbo-Croation probably won't get you where you want to go. The customer is always right and you will not get them off the dime.
Real offers some "dumbed" down freebe products on their site that work well. The free V7 server runs on Linux and has 25 seats. Add a basic RealProd ucer to that and you have either an audio or audio/video streamer that will serve 25 folks for 0 cost. InterVue uses Linux to server Real content and it works quite well. Not Open source, but then again, you can't beat the price
btw Did you realize the Hocus Pocus comes from "Hoc est corpus"?.
Touched by Fire is a interesting read about the famous creative folks who were bi-bolar. When in manic mode some of the most creative people become unbelieveably so until they get several days into the manic phase. At that point they often start to churn out trash. The "Black Dog", as Churchill described it, can be totally destructive to the point of suicide. We are indeed fortunate these days to have the understanding and the treatments available that can at least help to some degree the folks who suffer with uni-polar and bi-polar disease. My thanks to anyone who is able to come forward and help publicize this so that those who are in denial can perhaps come around and seek help.
This you are exempt stuff is a scotch plaid haerring. I am an internet retailer (www.bibleleaves.com and www.bibles.to) in Massachusetts. If I sell to a Massachusetts resident, I am required to collect sales tax and remit it to the state if the item is taxable. This is all the same as Wal Mart, KMart, Circuit Circus, DumpUsa, etc. etc. If as a purchaser, I purchase something from out of state (no matter how - phone, mmail, internet, carrier pigeon, etc.) I am obliged to pay to the state of Taxachusetts a Use Tax at the same rate as the Sales Tax when it arrives at my door, providing it is a taxable item. So as far as Massachusetts is concerned, they are collecting on all sales no matter where, no matter how. The fact that their citizens may not choose to observe the law is not my responsibility. If it is to be so, then please deputize me so I can get my machine gun license as a member of the law enforcement community.
Again, what this stuff is about is the various states wanting me to do their "dirty work" and collect their sales taxes for them and not compensate me for the effort. Sorry guys, but if you want me to work for you, you have to pay me. As citizen of Massachusetts, I have the oblighation to them to perform this duty for Massachusetts. I owe no such oblighation to the state of Northeast Gibbible, since the have not given me any consideration in return for my efforts. Again contracts 101 is that no contract exists where no consideration is rendered....
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For those who have access to it, I suggest a read of the Wall Street Journal "Business World" article by Homan Jenkins on page A27 entitled "Let's Give It Up for Metallica". Some interesting commentary on Gnutella, et al.
Somehow I don't think we will ever get the real story on this one, but the real culprits will remain unpunushed. Those persons are the corporate IS folk who blindly embraced the computer monoculture of Microsquish. By designing a corporate infostructure that allowed such a virus to spread like wildfire, they contributed almost as much as the person who did the origional deed. Proclamantions to the contrary are like that of the person who insists on not having safe sex and then becomes a vector for aids. A robust corporate operating enviroment these days must include a number of different machines, operating systems and application programs. To base ones corporate future (or national future even worse) on a single suite of stuff (be it Microsquish, Apple, Linux or whatever) is the equivalent of farming with only a certain strain of a certain crop. You may win, but if you get wiped out, please hold the whining down, the rest of us wish to get some constructive work done...
I do not think that the name of the distributor should become public until there is some dialog between them and the buyer. The folks who have re-canned the 750 may be quite a bit deeper in the distribution process, and the vendor may be a very reputable person. It may be that the source obtained chips from a reputable broker who in turn obtained them from someone who re-canned them. Supply channels for things like this are not always so simple and direct. Unless the vendor represented the chips as coming direct from AMD, they make have been as defrauded as the ultimate buyer.
There is nothing new with this. I remember getting a bunch of 266 PII chips re-canned to be 300s back when 300 Mhz was a fast speed. Usually the folks who used to recan chips were fairly sloppy and you could tell by the fact that the enclosure edges didn't meet well making the cartridge a bit thicker than is should have been. Have a high index of suspicion when the cartridge doesn't slip into the rails easily. Given the overclockability of AMD Athlons, I guess we will see more than a bit of this sort of stuff (unfortunately).
Unfortunately, this solution is a "trust me" solution. That is, we will allow access to those things that we (meaning Microsquash) deem worthy, and restrict access otherwise. Sorry, but I don't think that anyone in their right mind can trust them anymore. Saying "honor" and either "balmer" or "gates" in the same breath had better be accompanied by the phrase "they have no concept of".
I decomissioned my 4 headed Mac 7100 a long time ago (something like 6 years now I think). It is a comment on the Wintel platform that this stuff would even be remotely considered news. But who am I to stand in the way of Bill Gates and innovation (like using the control key instead of the alt key in the copy command...)
Information is a most fungible product. It knows no bounderies or nationalities. The US Congress, or the UK government or anyone else who thinks that laws passed in their own country will regulate the internet in other countries has been smoking the "Willy Weed" a bit longer than they should. Early governments and religious organizations went through this noise right after the invention of the printing press. You would think that folks would have learned by now, but I guess they never will. Really, its rather pathetic to see the responses that have been made...
The is much more to the MIT hacks than just getting something onto the dome. The firehose water-fountain, the fact that the campus police car that was assembled on the dome had a "Dunkin Donuts" box on the front seat (complete with crumbs) and the bumper sticker "I brake for Donuts" on its bumper, the fact that the Telephone Booth on the dome rang its phone when the campus police were up there, etc. It is the fine touch that makes a truely great hack versus just a mundane one. Gravitational modification is ok, but it has to be more than that...
Unfortunately, when you are a felon, you forfit a number of your rights. Felons cannot carry guns, in many places felons cannot vote. As much as I think this one is a vindictive and out of line penalty, it is not prohibited by the terms of his parole. The question becomes one of a general application of this penalty. Fer instance, if Billy Clinton becomes convicted of the felony offence of perjury in his testamony on the Paula Jones case, will he be prohibited from speaking on any lecture circuits? Somehow I doubt it. America should have only a single class of citizen, thus if you are not going to prohibit others, then Mitnick should also not be prohibited, in that I agree with you.
Consider this argument:
While I feel that there has to be some degree of enhanced means copyright protection for artists to provent blatent copyright violations, this is shooting the messanger.
As someone who is also not a layer, I am afraid that I must disagree with you. I seriously doubt that you would be ever charged with perjury if you gave sworn testimony that differed in some fact from reality PROVIDED that this was your true belief and you did not invent this with malice. Neither is the case with the COS. Their effort here is to surpress things through knowingly false sworn notifications. As such, they should be persecuted under the laws. They (of course) will howl that they are a "church" and that this is religious persecution, but for once the governement should stop throwing tons of effort at marginal stuff and stop these folks from meddling in sectarian things.
His royal highness maintains registration of the TO domain at Tonic for those who desire to do a direct registration. You can even pay up for 100 years of your domain name for $2500.
Having put win2k up on some of my machines as an experiment, let me say that I am of the opinion that they should have their ad campaign say "This System really Rots" rather than "This System really Rocks". The only rocks are those in the heads of the folks that spend the absurd amount of money to convert to it. Usual gotta re-install everything and maybe it works and maybe it don't, etc. etc. Drivers are still wanting (even for some of the more obscure brands of hardware such as Intel and 3COM). Without their monopoly position acheived by squeezing other more inovative folks out of the market (remember Wingz?) this sort of crap would be laughed at. If they are broken up into a OS centric and non-OS centric areas, at least the non-OS products would have to stand on their own merits and might even become available for other platforms if they have any redeeming value of their own.
I do not know this to be the case in this instance, but a great many "actives" are self medicating depressives. This frequently goes had in hand with a degree of creativity if there is a bipolar component (as was discussed hear within recent memory). If this is someplace in your life, please recognize it and get some help. "Better living through chemistry" works a lot better these days than when the only thing available was mao inhibitors.
It always amazes me how repressive governments will attempt to control access to these things. Insane folks simply do not obey laws and non-repressive governments have no need to fear their populace. It is a symptom of a sick government when they try to legislate against information rather than actions. I presume that the Japaneze government will soon outlaw all libraries since the information contained in them can be used for these illegal purposes.
Unfortunately, the bottom line still stands. While it might be hard to exploit this hole, the fact that it exists continues to raise serious doubts about the Microsoft QC, and other, perhaps more intentional, inclusions.
Please remember that the demand for removal is a civil matter not a criminal one. Here in the US, it appears that it is only sufficient to consume oxygen and emit carbon dioxide for someone to file a lawsuit against you for something or other (like the sun came up or a stock went down). As such, the actions of most stateside ISPs would be the same as those in GB. The question, though, is weather or not you can file a counter suit for damages against the complaining party for the fact that your site was removed. If so, then the merits of any libel will have to be shown in a court of law for you not to recover damages. One would hope that the fact that somebody got their poor little feelings hurt would not be sufficient for the site removal to be enfourced and the counter-suit dismissed. Personally, I am very offended at the IRS site this time of year. Can someone point me to their ISP???
Remind me not to get sick...
As of this morning, Circuit City website no longer knows from the I-Opener. Retail help still thinks they are back-ordered, taking no new orders. Could be, or could be that the tactic of "You gotta sign up with our ISP" is getting in conflict with the Circuit City ISP sales exclusivity agreements that they already have in place. If so, then NPLI has a hard choice, either let Circuit City sell them without the signup (I hear the sound of hacking now), or let some other retail vendor do it. The help at DUMPUSA would find the setup totally intimidating, and the last time I asked for wire-wrap wire at Tandy I got a totally blank stare. Without good retail, they are in a Catch 22. You gotta be on the web to order it, but if you are on the web you don't need it to get on the web...
btw, please do not underestimate the appetite for disk that you will have 9 min = 2 gigs of digital video. my capture/editing machine has over 100 gigs on it and things still get tight.
I do the video -> CD/WEB & the NLE for my company. I have tried a number of solutions on the Wintel platform and none of them work to my satisfaction. They drop frames/crash/don't work, etc. The eaiest/cheapest solution for me was a G3/G4 Mac (I use a Newertech 400 G3 in a 8500 chasis and a Powerlogix 350 G4 in a 7500 chasis). Adaptec UW scsi to an array of ibm 7,200 rpm wide drives. You should stripe the drive you are going to capture to for a extra bit of bandwidth. The Adaptec is nice since it allows you to throttle the pci when it is time to print to video. Otherwise, the pci overpowers the firewire and you drop frames on print. EditDV is a very good nle (better than Premier) and MediaCleaner with the Sorenson quicktime 2 codec an excellent media converter. Unlike some of the other products out there, these are stable and get the job done. There is nothing worse than processing a video for some large number of hours and having a freeze, blue screen of death or any of the other wintel crud that makes you have to start over against a hard deadline...
Unfortunately, your point is somewhat well taken. Bill Gates (if nothing else) does recognize that if you give someone something with the bundle, they won't bother to download even a superior product. There are some shops around that will not let other media players on the desktop (other than MS). My quibble with Windoze Media (ASF), is that they are slightly worse than either Real or Quicktime in rendering in greater than 100% size. A small point and probably one that does not matter for live play of streams (especially if its only audio). Personally, I prefer Quicktime streaming from the Mac OSX server, but again if you are in Spain, you better talk Spanish. Serbo-Croation probably won't get you where you want to go. The customer is always right and you will not get them off the dime.
btw Did you realize the Hocus Pocus comes from "Hoc est corpus"?.
Touched by Fire is a interesting read about the famous creative folks who were bi-bolar. When in manic mode some of the most creative people become unbelieveably so until they get several days into the manic phase. At that point they often start to churn out trash. The "Black Dog", as Churchill described it, can be totally destructive to the point of suicide. We are indeed fortunate these days to have the understanding and the treatments available that can at least help to some degree the folks who suffer with uni-polar and bi-polar disease. My thanks to anyone who is able to come forward and help publicize this so that those who are in denial can perhaps come around and seek help.
Again, what this stuff is about is the various states wanting me to do their "dirty work" and collect their sales taxes for them and not compensate me for the effort. Sorry guys, but if you want me to work for you, you have to pay me. As citizen of Massachusetts, I have the oblighation to them to perform this duty for Massachusetts. I owe no such oblighation to the state of Northeast Gibbible, since the have not given me any consideration in return for my efforts. Again contracts 101 is that no contract exists where no consideration is rendered....