As biotech firms are abusing the patent process to make genetic sequences their intellectual property, this violated DMCA by facilitating the unauthorized reproduction of copyrighted material.
This falls into "News for Nerds" because now it is just a matter of time before fent.net joins osdn.
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PINs won't go over with gift givers. The benefit of a gift card is you can buy it, mail it to the nephew you never see and forget about it. Having to call your snot-nosed nephew to tell him the PIN would defeat the purpose.
The article says nothing about the possible impact this will have on rain patterns in the area.
I've read that airliner jet streams appear to change weather patterns in the US, but jet streams seem minor compaired to 20 square kilometers worth of heat creating a permanent cloud in one location.
Won't this draw humidity that would otherwise fall in other nearby areas?
The big difference between this and TEMPTEST is the hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment a TEMPTEST attack takes.
I couldn't link to the article, but I'll bet that the Logitech wireless attack can be done on a much smaller budget.
Because of its nature, TEMPEST attacks are limited to those who have vast resources and a strong desire to get specific information. If the Logitech attack can be carried out with $200 worth of equipment, it is much more likely that a small time cracker will use it to sniff passwords.
Another key difference is the price of defending against a TEMPEST attack. It generally costs more than the computer system to shield it against TEMPEST attacks. With this attack, it only costs $20 for a cheap keyboard and mouse to defend against it.
I'm still using my TiVo for TV and my laptop for everything else. I'm more interested in using the TV for computing than using my PC for entertainment. I know that webtv and others have sucked, but it is just a matter of time before there is a good TV based interface. Then I will ditch my TiVo in a heartbeat.
The only I see that TiVo can keep TiVos from being ditched by the thousands when a good alternative arrives is to beat the alternative to the punch. They can do this by opening the source code to allow hackers to build a web interface for them or by hiring hundreds of engineers to develop a closed-source interface that will probably do about as well as webtv.
The web is an astounding success. It was designed to facilitate communication, and it has done that. Don't let the fact that a few mba types are upset that they can't make money off of it detract from its success.
When a company goes broke because its business plan is based on the notion that people will buy products because they are sold on the web, that is not a failing of the web; it is a failing of the business.
There may be management tools that I am not aware of, but it has been my experience that PGP is hard to impliment when you are sending a message to a large mailing list. You have to know everybody on the list and encrypt the message to each of their public keys.
Don't get me wrong. I am all for PGP, but this is one problem that I haven't found an elegant solution for.
I currently use PGP only for sensitive email, but I would like to be able to use it for all internal email.
While you're waiting for Dark Millenium, you can play Blacknova Traders an open source html tradewars at blacknova.net. When DM comes out, you will probably want to stick with the open source version.
"defer to the next highest bidder" wouldn't work. Most people will bid on a second auction for a similar if they don't win the first auction they bid on. If the seller in the first auction was able to hold them to a losing bid, then they would have to wait until the first auction ends before bidding on a second auction or risk having to buy two of the same item.
So who is to be held liable for all this? Microsoft? The creaters of the search engine? Maybe the college for "allowing" this to happen?
The painfully obvious answer is that the people who actually download the MP3s are liable for their own actions. At worst, Napster is an accessory to copywright violation.
It is very telling that RIAA is going after Napster for enabling a crime while letting those who actually commit the crime off the hook.
Run Tetris on a Gameboy emulator running in a Windows Palm emulator running under wine running on a Linux machine running in a vmware window on a Windows box that you are accessing via VNC from a Sun server that you are accessing from a dumb terminal.
> Wouldnt work, cat cable can be a max of 100m, 300 miles is definately out!
This isn't exactly true. 10/100baseT over cat5 is limited to 100m, but 802.2 isn't the only protocol that can be run over cat5. In a lab where I work, we have ADSL running over 30,000 feet of twisted pair.
While no current flavor of DSL (that I know of) will reach 300 miles, I bet that there is a data protocol that will.
You can probably get dial tone over 300 miles of cat5. If that is the case, then a modem will do.
How can they do a Mac vs. Linux article and not mention BSD-based Mac OS X?
I don't follow Apple very closely, so I don't know if OS X is officially released yet, but I would think that either way it would factor heavily into this comparison.
If those of us who have our own domains were to request that babelfish not be allowed to retransmit our copyrighted material, I bet that we could coax AltaVista into a law suit. Of course, we want AltaVista to win, so our legal bills will not be very expensive. Once AltaVista wins, there will be case law in Dialectizer's favor.
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As biotech firms are abusing the patent process to make genetic sequences their intellectual property, this violated DMCA by facilitating the unauthorized reproduction of copyrighted material.
This falls into "News for Nerds" because now it is just a matter of time before fent.net joins osdn.
PINs won't go over with gift givers. The benefit of a gift card is you can buy it, mail it to the nephew you never see and forget about it. Having to call your snot-nosed nephew to tell him the PIN would defeat the purpose.
I know what the Jet Sream is, but I couldn't think of "vapor trail" at the time I posted. When I was a kid, we called vapor trails jet streams.
The article says nothing about the possible impact this will have on rain patterns in the area.
I've read that airliner jet streams appear to change weather patterns in the US, but jet streams seem minor compaired to 20 square kilometers worth of heat creating a permanent cloud in one location.
Won't this draw humidity that would otherwise fall in other nearby areas?
If you and enough of your neighbors sign up for DSL service, they'll be turning a profit in no time.
The big difference between this and TEMPTEST is the hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment a TEMPTEST attack takes.
I couldn't link to the article, but I'll bet that the Logitech wireless attack can be done on a much smaller budget.
Because of its nature, TEMPEST attacks are limited to those who have vast resources and a strong desire to get specific information. If the Logitech attack can be carried out with $200 worth of equipment, it is much more likely that a small time cracker will use it to sniff passwords.
Another key difference is the price of defending against a TEMPEST attack. It generally costs more than the computer system to shield it against TEMPEST attacks. With this attack, it only costs $20 for a cheap keyboard and mouse to defend against it.
You can hear everything I hear for a swatch.
For a Seiko you can see everything I see, and for a Citizen I'll throw in touch, taste and smell.
I'm still using my TiVo for TV and my laptop for everything else. I'm more interested in using the TV for computing than using my PC for entertainment. I know that webtv and others have sucked, but it is just a matter of time before there is a good TV based interface. Then I will ditch my TiVo in a heartbeat.
The only I see that TiVo can keep TiVos from being ditched by the thousands when a good alternative arrives is to beat the alternative to the punch. They can do this by opening the source code to allow hackers to build a web interface for them or by hiring hundreds of engineers to develop a closed-source interface that will probably do about as well as webtv.
The web was not designed as a business platform.
The web is an astounding success. It was designed to facilitate communication, and it has done that. Don't let the fact that a few mba types are upset that they can't make money off of it detract from its success.
When a company goes broke because its business plan is based on the notion that people will buy products because they are sold on the web, that is not a failing of the web; it is a failing of the business.
There may be management tools that I am not aware of, but it has been my experience that PGP is hard to impliment when you are sending a message to a large mailing list. You have to know everybody on the list and encrypt the message to each of their public keys.
Don't get me wrong. I am all for PGP, but this is one problem that I haven't found an elegant solution for.
I currently use PGP only for sensitive email, but I would like to be able to use it for all internal email.
While you're waiting for Dark Millenium, you can play Blacknova Traders an open source html tradewars at blacknova.net. When DM comes out, you will probably want to stick with the open source version.
You said it. There needs to be a CPA-styled organization for sysadmins that can provide vendor-neutral standards.
Does this mean ebay can prosicute the guy who keeps offering to sell me 25 karma points?
"defer to the next highest bidder" wouldn't work. Most people will bid on a second auction for a similar if they don't win the first auction they bid on. If the seller in the first auction was able to hold them to a losing bid, then they would have to wait until the first auction ends before bidding on a second auction or risk having to buy two of the same item.
I'm trying to remember back to my college days. Does that come before or after the softmore year?
The painfully obvious answer is that the people who actually download the MP3s are liable for their own actions. At worst, Napster is an accessory to copywright violation.
It is very telling that RIAA is going after Napster for enabling a crime while letting those who actually commit the crime off the hook.
Run Tetris on a Gameboy emulator running in a Windows Palm emulator running under wine running on a Linux machine running in a vmware window on a Windows box that you are accessing via VNC from a Sun server that you are accessing from a dumb terminal.
> Wouldnt work, cat cable can be a max of 100m, 300 miles is definately out!
This isn't exactly true. 10/100baseT over cat5 is limited to 100m, but 802.2 isn't the only protocol that can be run over cat5. In a lab where I work, we have ADSL running over 30,000 feet of twisted pair.
While no current flavor of DSL (that I know of) will reach 300 miles, I bet that there is a data protocol that will.
You can probably get dial tone over 300 miles of cat5. If that is the case, then a modem will do.
How can they do a Mac vs. Linux article and not mention BSD-based Mac OS X?
I don't follow Apple very closely, so I don't know if OS X is officially released yet, but I would think that either way it would factor heavily into this comparison.
If those of us who have our own domains were to request that babelfish not be allowed to retransmit our copyrighted material, I bet that we could coax AltaVista into a law suit. Of course, we want AltaVista to win, so our legal bills will not be very expensive. Once AltaVista wins, there will be case law in Dialectizer's favor.