Mosaic WAS NOT the first WWW browser. Mosaic was the WWW browser that got the whole WWW revolution started. The first WWW browser I recall using was a command line thing at CERN. You had to telnet there to use it.
There is a FAQ that might shed some light on the subject.
My understanding is that when someone is sentenced to perform community services, they are supposed to serve the community which they diminished by their criminal actions. Unless your crime was to deface a website or otherwise disrupt or damage computer systems, then open-source programming probably wouldn't be seen as valid communit service.
I fear that if you had defaced a website or disrupted some computer services, that a 'merikan judge wouldn't see it as vandalism or mischeif but would label an act of "cyber-terrorism".
Hmmm, according to this Microsoft Press book in front of me the WWW was a brilliant personal innovation of Bill Gates. The first WWW page was written in the superior MS-Help format and apparently the idea was pirated by people at Netscape, whoe degraded everything into HTML. The whole thing would have resulted in everyone have "Really great software, for a really great price" if the government hadn't come along and passed laws forbidding innovation. The long term plan was to make all web pages in MS Word format which would have resulted in tremendous ease of use and increase productivity and security for all!
It wouldn't be the W3C or any of their pages. It would probably something at CERN. I wish for the life of me I could remember the DNS name for the server at CERN people used to telnet to, in the beginning, to use the WWW. That command line browser was interesting (no I'm not refering to Lynx): the links had numbers next to them, and you had to remember the number of the link you wanted to follow until you paged through to the end of the document and could then enter the link number.
I was really happy when Mosaic and Lynx became available to me.
Monsanto has been hunting seed pirates as early as 1998. In the aforementioned article, monsanto specifically went after farmers who were hording monsanto seeds they purchased. I'm guessing that purchasing the seed 'media' isn't the same as purchasing the license, just like with software. I recall hearing about this as early as 1993 however, it the context of African farms suffering from Monsanto, however what I heard at that time might have been speculation that this would happen, or it might have been rumors of real incidents.
Monsanto's activities could easily be a threat to the continued existence of humanity (though not as great a threat as overpopulation!).
I'm all for mucking with nature to improve the survival chances of our civilization, but I think Monsanto is reckless and therefore dangerous. Maybe someday layers will find that they are willfully reckless and send the police to ask them to stop.
The first anti-profiling law we need is one that states that no company or govenment can make submitting a profile a condition of employment or contract. There are two many jobs now where you must submit to a personality, financial, or even a LIFESTYLE profile (security jobs often require you to submit to a lifestyle profile to ensure you a good upperclass christian gentleman). Just about any time you do so much as request information from a company these days you have to submit to a minor financial or employment profile.
Submitting to profiling should not be a precondition to engaging in any activity common in our society.
Finally, someone appearing on a "streamed" event has had clue enough to say, "Um, can the people interested in me actually see this?" I can't count the number of times I heard about an interesting streaming event and couldn't watch it because it was in some evolutionarly-dead-ended data format. I kinda like RealVideo as applications go, but it doesn't DO ME ANY FAVORS. Gimme, some streaming media I can see or hear on any platform.
The incidents.org website is new, but the GIAC has been around for a while. It used to be just the "current.html" page but they are now expanding to include a whole website. Obviously the web site is nothing much yet. I have a lot of faith in both GIAC and SecurityFocus but I tend to think that GIAC will do a better job by virtue of the experience of their handlers and especially because of the quality of the people already submitting incidents to GIAC.
GIAC has a similar system already at incidents.org. They assign a "handler" to be on duty at any given time, and all incident reports are filtered through the handler. Someone might submit falsified logs, but unless a lot of sources report the same incidents they problably won't get much mention.
Incidents.org is run by the Global Incidents Analysis Center which is associated with the SANS institute. It's be operating for a while and the "current detects" section is very valueable for those of us who have to address day-to-day security issues.
GIAC assigns a "handler" to be on-duty at any given time. All the reported incidents are filtered through the handler.
Digital Cable receivers also transmit data back to the Cable Company. On the plus side it helps the customer order PPV events in a trivial fashion. On the minus side... er... um... that's only known to the Cable Company.
Well all the amusing quips that/.ers are coming up with are just swell, but I'd like to seriously know if they were required to fill this form our, or did they do it as their own form of humor?
If your doing Apache-related work and feel you must attend, perhaps the best way to get the costs down is to apply as a presenter. Presenters don't pay admission do they?
The Embedded Microprocessors section of the MicroDesign Resources website has much of the information your looking for... but in reverse. The website will tell you about all the popular chips for embedded applications. You might be able to find what your looking for by examining the information about each microprocessor. I suppose it is the hard way to go about it.
Geekcorps is a non-profit (501c3) organization committed to
expanding the Internet revolution internationally by pairing
skilled volunteers from the high-tech world with small
businesses in emerging nations.
Microsoft files a lot of patents. Microsoft is better known for being sued for infringing on the partner's patents than for suing over patents. Microsoft has sued other companies over patents. Microsoft has been accused many times of using patents as leverage against competitors. I recall a story from over five years ago of Microsoft slipping a clause into its site licensing agreements saying that licenees agreed not to sue Microsoft for using their patents: buy our software, give up your patents to us. I can't find a link though, so you can just take it as a rumor.
One might observe that Microsoft decreased the number of lawsuits it launched as publicity over their illegal and allegedly illegal activiates increased(the several DOJ trials, and the IRS trial.
There are also many more cases of Microsoft being sued for Patent infringment. But I won't bother to list them; typically they involve a small company who pitched their product to Microsoft only to be rejected and find that MS released a similar product a year later.
FOX has done this sort of thing many times before. They've tried to shut down all fan sites for The Simpsons, The X-Files, Millenium, and other shows they air. In many cases they go after sites that contain no infringing materials; sites that contain the name of a TV program, a list of characters, and an episode guide! While the government purports to offer it's citizens freedom of expression, corporate america is clearly of the opinion that no discussion can occur on any topic without their express permission.
When I said, "to compare current versions of the APT and RPM package systems", I actually meant to DEB and not APT. I was refering to the package system, not the update tool. My apolgoies for any confusion.
Another thing is that RPM doesn't
inherently guaranty that the package is legitimate, whereas.deb does (in the form of pgp signatures).
You are misinformed. RPM does support PGP signatures. This is not a new feature of RPM. To verify my claim, please see the man page for "rpm(8)". Perhaps your complaint is that Redhat's automatic update tool, or some third party automatic update tool doesn't use the RPM PGP signature?
I would like to comment that only a small amount of resarch is required to compare current versions of the APT and RPM package systems and discover that they are remarkably similar and each has a few features that the other could benefit from.
Comparying apt-get to RPM is inappropriate. Comparing Redhat's, or a third party's, RPM-based autoupdate tool to apt-get would be more appropriate.
What you did is probably some form of fraud based on the fact that you had potentially conflicting interests that you did not disclose to your employer/customer. The company that employed you and license your solution/product might say that you misrepresented yourself to gain financial benefit.
To clarify, you had two interests which the company, who was your employer via your employment contract and your client via the license agreement, may have felt were in conflict. The first interest was via your employment, where you had the responsibility and/or authority to suggest a solution to meet their needs. The company would assume that you'd look out for their interests because your employed by them. The second interest was via your software product/solution. You had a financial interest in "Brand X" and you didn't disclose this to the company and thus they didn't know there was a potential conflict of interest.
Online content providers have skipped over a "known good" revenue generation model; that of subscription services. I won't participate as a consumer in micropayment systems. Its too risky. I can't afford to pay $0.05 several hundred, or thousand times a month for content whose value is only known after I've paid. Refund systems layered on top of micropayment just waste my time.
I feel subscriptions are well worth my money. If I find an online resource that has a mandate and reputation for delivering detailed, accurate information with a specific focus, I'd be happy to pay a larger sum of money (larger than a micropayment) under the assumption that they'll continue producing similar information.
For example, I'd probably be willing to pay CA$3/month for access to slashdot discussions. I'd be willing to pay $5 or $10 per month for Access to FirstMonday. I already pay over US$100/year for access to the IEEE Computer Society's Online Library (it's worth every penny!).
I don't bother with "free" information presented by CNN and other "news magazines". The accuracy of the information they present is questionable, and the cover is shallow.
Perhaps if web sites generated revenue from subscriptions instead of banner-ad sales we could be rid of these ridiculous three column layouts that impede understanding of the core content they contain.
While your interview with the priest seems to shed light on the Catholic view of creation, I don't think it has bearning on scientfic creationism. Catholic's put less faith in the literal word of their Holy Bible than do other sects of christianity.
Only a few years ago the Catholic Pope officially acknowledged Darwinian evolution, roughly the same year that the scientific community began to adopt Prioginian evolution over Darwinian ironically. If you talked to a fundamentalist christian I believe you'd find little sympathy for a viewpoint that the book of Genesis should be taken as "folklore".
While I don't dispute the anacdotes you have related, I do disagree with your statement that privacy is a "dead horse". Consumer Privacy is a critical issue. We have not beaten this "horse" to death.
Corporations would like to facilitate a sense of hopelessness in consumers to prevent those consumers from challenging and curtailing the actions of corporations.
I agree wholeheartedly with your conclusion that we have to act together to defend our privacy. Don't give out your information, ask what is going to be done with it, and track those that violate it. While not everyone is motivated to sue privacy theives, everyone can complain to their friends when it happens. That alone makes a big difference in combatting the culture of hopelessness that the privacy violators have cultivated.
You asked, "Where is the BottleNeck?" Clearly this kid is trying to be the bottleneck. What antisocial technohuckstering! Gobbling up all the available bandwidth is just plain irresponsible. Why should other people suffer because this kid wants to download his pr0n/mp3s/vcds a little faster.
Its clear that this kid can't figure out how to load balance network devices on his own, can't understand why it doesn't make any difference when done on ethernet, and doesn't care to consider the impact he'll have on those who share his bandwidth if he is succesful. I believe the correct answer to a question of the type the kid posed is, "Sorry, can't help you. Maybe you should think a little more before go ahead with that."
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Mosaic WAS NOT the first WWW browser. Mosaic was the WWW browser that got the whole WWW revolution started. The first WWW browser I recall using was a command line thing at CERN. You had to telnet there to use it.
There is a FAQ that might shed some light on the subject.
My understanding is that when someone is sentenced to perform community services, they are supposed to serve the community which they diminished by their criminal actions. Unless your crime was to deface a website or otherwise disrupt or damage computer systems, then open-source programming probably wouldn't be seen as valid communit service.
I fear that if you had defaced a website or disrupted some computer services, that a 'merikan judge wouldn't see it as vandalism or mischeif but would label an act of "cyber-terrorism".
Hmmm, according to this Microsoft Press book in front of me the WWW was a brilliant personal innovation of Bill Gates. The first WWW page was written in the superior MS-Help format and apparently the idea was pirated by people at Netscape, whoe degraded everything into HTML. The whole thing would have resulted in everyone have "Really great software, for a really great price" if the government hadn't come along and passed laws forbidding innovation. The long term plan was to make all web pages in MS Word format which would have resulted in tremendous ease of use and increase productivity and security for all!
It wouldn't be the W3C or any of their pages. It would probably something at CERN. I wish for the life of me I could remember the DNS name for the server at CERN people used to telnet to, in the beginning, to use the WWW. That command line browser was interesting (no I'm not refering to Lynx): the links had numbers next to them, and you had to remember the number of the link you wanted to follow until you paged through to the end of the document and could then enter the link number.
I was really happy when Mosaic and Lynx became available to me.
Monsanto has been hunting seed pirates as early as 1998. In the aforementioned article, monsanto specifically went after farmers who were hording monsanto seeds they purchased. I'm guessing that purchasing the seed 'media' isn't the same as purchasing the license, just like with software. I recall hearing about this as early as 1993 however, it the context of African farms suffering from Monsanto, however what I heard at that time might have been speculation that this would happen, or it might have been rumors of real incidents.
Monsanto's activities could easily be a threat to the continued existence of humanity (though not as great a threat as overpopulation!).
Try a google search for the keywords "Monsanto" and "Deaths" to find a lot of articles discussing Monsanto's activities for better or worse.
I'm all for mucking with nature to improve the survival chances of our civilization, but I think Monsanto is reckless and therefore dangerous. Maybe someday layers will find that they are willfully reckless and send the police to ask them to stop.
The first anti-profiling law we need is one that states that no company or govenment can make submitting a profile a condition of employment or contract. There are two many jobs now where you must submit to a personality, financial, or even a LIFESTYLE profile (security jobs often require you to submit to a lifestyle profile to ensure you a good upperclass christian gentleman). Just about any time you do so much as request information from a company these days you have to submit to a minor financial or employment profile.
Submitting to profiling should not be a precondition to engaging in any activity common in our society.
Finally, someone appearing on a "streamed" event has had clue enough to say, "Um, can the people interested in me actually see this?" I can't count the number of times I heard about an interesting streaming event and couldn't watch it because it was in some evolutionarly-dead-ended data format. I kinda like RealVideo as applications go, but it doesn't DO ME ANY FAVORS. Gimme, some streaming media I can see or hear on any platform.
Shoutcast comes to mind for audio.
The incidents.org website is new, but the GIAC has been around for a while. It used to be just the "current.html" page but they are now expanding to include a whole website. Obviously the web site is nothing much yet. I have a lot of faith in both GIAC and SecurityFocus but I tend to think that GIAC will do a better job by virtue of the experience of their handlers and especially because of the quality of the people already submitting incidents to GIAC.
GIAC has a similar system already at incidents.org. They assign a "handler" to be on duty at any given time, and all incident reports are filtered through the handler. Someone might submit falsified logs, but unless a lot of sources report the same incidents they problably won't get much mention.
Incidents.org is run by the Global Incidents Analysis Center which is associated with the SANS institute. It's be operating for a while and the "current detects" section is very valueable for those of us who have to address day-to-day security issues.
GIAC assigns a "handler" to be on-duty at any given time. All the reported incidents are filtered through the handler.
Digital Cable receivers also transmit data back to the Cable Company. On the plus side it helps the customer order PPV events in a trivial fashion. On the minus side... er... um... that's only known to the Cable Company.
Well all the amusing quips that /.ers are coming up with are just swell, but I'd like to seriously know if they were required to fill this form our, or did they do it as their own form of humor?
If your doing Apache-related work and feel you must attend, perhaps the best way to get the costs down is to apply as a presenter. Presenters don't pay admission do they?
The Embedded Microprocessors section of the MicroDesign Resources website has much of the information your looking for... but in reverse. The website will tell you about all the popular chips for embedded applications. You might be able to find what your looking for by examining the information about each microprocessor. I suppose it is the hard way to go about it.
The geekcorps: currently their doing work in Ghana.
Geekcorps is a non-profit (501c3) organization committed to expanding the Internet revolution internationally by pairing skilled volunteers from the high-tech world with small businesses in emerging nations.
Microsoft files a lot of patents. Microsoft is better known for being sued for infringing on the partner's patents than for suing over patents. Microsoft has sued other companies over patents. Microsoft has been accused many times of using patents as leverage against competitors. I recall a story from over five years ago of Microsoft slipping a clause into its site licensing agreements saying that licenees agreed not to sue Microsoft for using their patents: buy our software, give up your patents to us. I can't find a link though, so you can just take it as a rumor.
One might observe that Microsoft decreased the number of lawsuits it launched as publicity over their illegal and allegedly illegal activiates increased(the several DOJ trials, and the IRS trial.
Microsoft sues over the name of the Python language Microsoft sues over Compression Patent
Microsoft sues over mouse cable patent
FTC investigate Intel
Microsoft sues for access to patent
Microsoft fails to disclose CSS patent to W3C
Let's not forget Microsoft threatening to not release software for Apple's platform and the whole question of patents that Apple brought up. This is a really interesting story, but I don't have time to post more links. A quick google search should get you lots of background on the Apple vs. Microsoft thing.
Microsoft has so many patents they developed an in-house application to search and manage them.
Microsoft doesn't like look-alike mouse, claims infringment
There are also many more cases of Microsoft being sued for Patent infringment. But I won't bother to list them; typically they involve a small company who pitched their product to Microsoft only to be rejected and find that MS released a similar product a year later.
FOX has done this sort of thing many times before. They've tried to shut down all fan sites for The Simpsons, The X-Files, Millenium, and other shows they air. In many cases they go after sites that contain no infringing materials; sites that contain the name of a TV program, a list of characters, and an episode guide! While the government purports to offer it's citizens freedom of expression, corporate america is clearly of the opinion that no discussion can occur on any topic without their express permission.
When I said, "to compare current versions of the APT and RPM package systems", I actually meant to DEB and not APT. I was refering to the package system, not the update tool. My apolgoies for any confusion.
Another thing is that RPM doesn't inherently guaranty that the package is legitimate, whereas .deb does (in the form of pgp signatures).
You are misinformed. RPM does support PGP signatures. This is not a new feature of RPM. To verify my claim, please see the man page for "rpm(8)". Perhaps your complaint is that Redhat's automatic update tool, or some third party automatic update tool doesn't use the RPM PGP signature?
I would like to comment that only a small amount of resarch is required to compare current versions of the APT and RPM package systems and discover that they are remarkably similar and each has a few features that the other could benefit from.
Comparying apt-get to RPM is inappropriate. Comparing Redhat's, or a third party's, RPM-based autoupdate tool to apt-get would be more appropriate.
What you did is probably some form of fraud based on the fact that you had potentially conflicting interests that you did not disclose to your employer/customer. The company that employed you and license your solution/product might say that you misrepresented yourself to gain financial benefit.
To clarify, you had two interests which the company, who was your employer via your employment contract and your client via the license agreement, may have felt were in conflict. The first interest was via your employment, where you had the responsibility and/or authority to suggest a solution to meet their needs. The company would assume that you'd look out for their interests because your employed by them. The second interest was via your software product/solution. You had a financial interest in "Brand X" and you didn't disclose this to the company and thus they didn't know there was a potential conflict of interest.
Online content providers have skipped over a "known good" revenue generation model; that of subscription services. I won't participate as a consumer in micropayment systems. Its too risky. I can't afford to pay $0.05 several hundred, or thousand times a month for content whose value is only known after I've paid. Refund systems layered on top of micropayment just waste my time.
I feel subscriptions are well worth my money. If I find an online resource that has a mandate and reputation for delivering detailed, accurate information with a specific focus, I'd be happy to pay a larger sum of money (larger than a micropayment) under the assumption that they'll continue producing similar information.
For example, I'd probably be willing to pay CA$3/month for access to slashdot discussions. I'd be willing to pay $5 or $10 per month for Access to FirstMonday. I already pay over US$100/year for access to the IEEE Computer Society's Online Library (it's worth every penny!).
I don't bother with "free" information presented by CNN and other "news magazines". The accuracy of the information they present is questionable, and the cover is shallow.
Perhaps if web sites generated revenue from subscriptions instead of banner-ad sales we could be rid of these ridiculous three column layouts that impede understanding of the core content they contain.
While your interview with the priest seems to shed light on the Catholic view of creation, I don't think it has bearning on scientfic creationism. Catholic's put less faith in the literal word of their Holy Bible than do other sects of christianity.
Only a few years ago the Catholic Pope officially acknowledged Darwinian evolution, roughly the same year that the scientific community began to adopt Prioginian evolution over Darwinian ironically. If you talked to a fundamentalist christian I believe you'd find little sympathy for a viewpoint that the book of Genesis should be taken as "folklore".
While I don't dispute the anacdotes you have related, I do disagree with your statement that privacy is a "dead horse". Consumer Privacy is a critical issue. We have not beaten this "horse" to death.
Corporations would like to facilitate a sense of hopelessness in consumers to prevent those consumers from challenging and curtailing the actions of corporations.
I agree wholeheartedly with your conclusion that we have to act together to defend our privacy. Don't give out your information, ask what is going to be done with it, and track those that violate it. While not everyone is motivated to sue privacy theives, everyone can complain to their friends when it happens. That alone makes a big difference in combatting the culture of hopelessness that the privacy violators have cultivated.
You asked, "Where is the BottleNeck?" Clearly this kid is trying to be the bottleneck. What antisocial technohuckstering! Gobbling up all the available bandwidth is just plain irresponsible. Why should other people suffer because this kid wants to download his pr0n/mp3s/vcds a little faster.
Its clear that this kid can't figure out how to load balance network devices on his own, can't understand why it doesn't make any difference when done on ethernet, and doesn't care to consider the impact he'll have on those who share his bandwidth if he is succesful. I believe the correct answer to a question of the type the kid posed is, "Sorry, can't help you. Maybe you should think a little more before go ahead with that."
You can get pilot link from this website http://www.gnu-designs.com/pilot-link/