How are you going to use ground-based systems to tell you how far your continent has moved? If you put it on the same continent as the receiver, it will move in perfect relation to the receiver, so the receiver will always show zero movement. If you put it on another continent, does it have the range, especially dealing with earth curvature and line-of-sight issues? It seems to me a satellite system would be much better for this purpose.
Survey grade GPS can require sub-centimeter accuracy that is only available with post-processing at present.
What is the point of surveyors knowing the latitude and longitude to sub-centimeter accuracy? Continental drift, measured in centimeters per year, will invalidate the reading in only a few months.
One hypothetical case:
On My 26, 2003, at 10:55pm EDT, this "x" on this marker was located with super-accurate GPS to be at precisely XX.xxxxx North and YY.yyyyy West. Continental drift at this location is estimated to be 2.7503 cm/year toward 289.57 degrees (approximately WNW) from true north. Calculation of the current location of this marker is left as an exercise to the reader.
Another hypothetical case:
Your honor, when I bought my house ten years ago, I had the property lines surveyed to sub-centimeter accuracy with super-accurate GPS. I had it re-surveyed last month and discovered that my neighbor has moved his fence 45 cm (or 18.5 inches) onto my property. I can't figure out how he did it; he covered up all signs of the move very well. However, I have had both surveys validated and authenticated, and I want you to order him to move his fence back where it belongs.
When selecting a house, I had three items at the top of the priority list: a good sized yard (for kids and dogs), within a 30 minute drive to work, and within my bank-defined price range. Well, after two weeks of 12-hour days searching the area (and searching the web and house-hunting books at night), I settled on a place that's a 25 minute drive, right on the upper limit of my bank-defined price range (higher than I really wanted to go), and has a 1/2 acre lot. By the end of those two weeks, I had expanded my drive time to 45 minutes, reduced the land requirement to 1/3 acre, and increased my self-imposed price limit. I stumbled on this house at the last minute, as I was heading over to the realtor to sign papers to make an offer for another house. I am really happy I found this one.
Now, to respond to some of your points:
Just as with my previous job, anything within a 15 minute drive to the office was so far out of my price range, the realtors would have thrown me out of the office.
I want a good sized yard. Yes, I do spend a considerable amount of time taking care of it. I want it so my kids have a safe place to play. Furthermore, my yard is more natural than any park I have seen. Parks are typically clear-cut, then planned and planted. Huge playgrounds and pavillions mar the view. My yard is fully wooded with a few cleared areas; in the winter I can actually see the houses across the street through the leafless branches of all the bushes and trees. I have a small blackberry patch in the front yard, and a small garden in the back yard. I enjoy sitting in the dining room or outside and watching the squirrels, rabbits, and birds.
The older neighborhoods around here generally have the wooded yards, and larger yards. The newer neighborhoods are generally postage-stamp-sized lots that have been clear-cut, flattened, graded, and planted with perfect grass and a few small fast-growing, fragile, short-lived trees for decoration.
Nearby parks are good for taking the kids to play as a treat. I have to go to take them there, watch them, and bring them home. With a good yard, I can let them go out the door, work on things that need to get done, and call them in when I need them back in.
I am not all that old, but I still remember being able to run down to the park about half a mile from my grandmother's house. Now, I can't even imagine any parent allowing that, even if there was a park that close. The nearest park to my house is almost three miles away by road, probably 1.5 to 2 miles by cutting through other people's yards.
One thing I didn't count on, mainly because I didn't know the area at that time and wasn't really paying attention, is that I am only 1 mile away from a major mall to the north, and 1 mile away from a major shopping center to the south. There are only two exits from my neighborhood, both onto the road connecting the mall and shopping center. This damned five lane road has only a few controlled intersections and NO crosswalks. The road has heavy traffic from about 5am to 11pm, and the traffic lights are timed so there is never a complete stoppage of traffic. It is almost impossible to cross that street on foot or on a bicycle. Couple that with an abysmal lack of sidewalks, and the area is very pedestrian-unfriendly. (As a side note, there is a law here that prohibits one from installing a sidewalk unless it can connect to an already-existing sidewalk.) I enjoy long walks through my neighborhood, but to go to the grocery store only a 1/2 mile away, I get in the car every time.
Okay, it's late, and I'm rambling. I guess I'll end this now while it's still partially coherent.
The fees are set to account for the need to survive the spammers' abuses. They are higher than they would be if the spammers were not abusing the ISPs. The ISPs do not charge a separate fee titled "due to spammers", it is charged under "operating costs" such as more and large hard drives to store the spam, more bandwidth to transmit/receive the spam, better CPUs to process the spam, administrative time to deal with the spam, etc.
If it costs the ISP money, then it will end up costing the ISP's customers money.
But my mail server does not accept all mail. If the FROM header matches a rejection list (or a blacklist site, such as ORBS, RBL, etc.) then the email is rejected without the body ever being received and the connection is closed.
If a forged email address is used, then then email sender is providing "false identification" which automatically makes the access unauthorized. It does not matter whether the false or real address would have been allowed, it still used false identification.
One more clarification: There are multiple points of access. The initial connection to the mail server is authorized to everybody. The point at which the access becomes unauthorized is after the sender provides false identification and causes the mailserver to run code to process, store, and deliver the email.
I used the broadest interpretation of access, as the article suggested: connection to my computer.
It is true that my filters are not public info. That does not change anything. If the spam uses a forged header, then it is using false identification, which automatically makes the access unauthorized. (using the recommendations in the article)
This would have no force on spam that uses the correct identification in the headers. That spam would be accepted or rejected by my filters as determined by the identification. By using correct identification and still being allowed in, that accesses becomes authorized. I may then update my filters to prevent future authorization for that ID.
If this guys recommendations are followed and made into law, it sounds to me like spam would finally be made into a criminal offense. Spam hitting my mailserver would be "access", and using a forged header to circumvent my filters would be "without authorization" because of "false identification". I wonder how much money the spammer lobby will be sending to legislators to keep this guys recommendations off the books.
Dre took someone else's copyrighted "property" and added to it or modified it and then sold it for financial gain. People pay him for his work, but he does not pay the other artists for their work which he used. His intention is to make money off of other people's work without acknowledging or compensating those other people.
The file-sharing public is downloading songs to listen to and enjoy for themselves. No money changes hands; nobody profits financially; whether somebody loses money is arguable. Their intention is to enjoy some music without absurdly high costs.
No, it's a lot more ridiculous than saying that. Earthlink won a judgement. To do so, earthlink spent a lot of the customers' money on lawyers. To actually collect the money awarded in the judgement, Earthlink will have to spend more of the customers' money on lawyers, collectors, etc. If they get more money back than was spent on the process, I will be surprised.
So, spam does cost the recipient money, not only in terms of bandwidth, CPU time, storage, download time, frustration, irritation, etc., but also in all the unrecovered costs of prosecuting, persuing, and attempting to collect on the judgement. Customers may not directly pay for all of that, but their monthly rates reflect all those costs.
By the way, as for how you figure out "which one in a big room" - you document your network!
If they had documented their network, they wouldn't have had any trouble finding the machine. Either that, or someone made some changes without updating the documentation. Or someone made a mistake on the documentation. Anyway, the issue was how to find a machine when all you know is the hostname/address. I don't really deal with routers or large networks much, so I didn't think about using snmp to query the routers. I do have to wonder how smnpwalk will tell you what port of a switch the traffic is using if the switch is a dumb switch (or even worse, a hub) that doesn't know anything about snmp.
They had to get the networking people to identify which CAT5 wire to follow. If you have a whole bunch of switches and routers in your network, how do you physically find a machine? You have to track packets down the wire. What IP or MAC address are you looking for? Pick a starting point, then figure out if it is on this side or that side the first router you come to. That much can be done with tracerouter and arp. But, when you narrow it down to a large room with a few dumb switches and a lot of computers, what then? The easy answer would be to hook up a line sniffer. Figure out which wire the traffic of interest is flowing down. Okay, now the local guys can follow the wire to see where it leads!
I guess another way to identify the wire would be to start unplugging wires until the connection broke. It's not nearly as nice, but it would probably be faster and easier than using a line sniffer. Of course, you may have users and managers looking for you by the time you're done.:)
So what happens if I am visiting a friend in another state but want to watch a home game? TV may not be an option unless the friend subscribes to the proper channel. So, use the internet. When the customer service reps call my house to discuss the discrepancy between my IP address and my credit card, they will only get an answering machine. So, I am automatically fined $100 and terminated even though it was perfectly legitimate usage?
I suppose it says somewhere in the contract that you are only allowed to access it from you home computer? Ridiculous!
We want what was advertised when we signed up and paid. If they can't provide "unlimited bandwidth" for the advertised price, the shouldn't advertise it. Instead, they should advertise "limited bandwidth shared with 20 other people, so play nice". Either adjust the advertising or the price, but don't kick someone off for using what was promised.
For my next purchase, I am very interested in fuel efficiency. However, the higher prices of the HEVs far outweigh the apparent savings of being more fuel-efficient.
I would have to drive the car 10 years to break even. And I have yet to find any good numbers on general maintenance and repair costs of HEVs.
Are the batteries even good for ten years, or will they have to be replaced every few years, and at what cost?
Financially, I have been unable to justify purchasing a HEV instead of a regular car.
This is the same reason I haven't had solar cells installed on my house. It would take 30 years for the savings to balance the cost, and the cells are rated for only 20 years before they need to be replaced.
Fax the log file in? Better tell them to have someone standing by to replace paper and toner every hour for a few weeks.
Print it out and mail it in? Are they going to reimburse you for the reams and reams of paper, toner, and wear-and-tear on your printer? Oh, you're using an ink jet, not a laser printer? How many weeks will they allow for you to finish printing? Are they going to reimburse you for the wages of the person sitting there feeding paper to the printer?
Oh wait, they want it on disk? Do they want it in Word or PDF format?:)
What you say would be true if "supply and demand" were the only force operating there. Competition has a huge effect, too.
For your example about gasoline prices, the prices are directly affected by supply at the origin, but not much by demand at the end consumer. Most gas stations in an area are within a few cents of each other, because they are all maintaining prices as low as they can while still making a slight profit. Why? Competition. They don't get a lot of choice in the price, because (1) they do not determine the price they buy at, and (2) they have lots of competition.
For drugs, the street dealers also generally do not determine the price they buy it at, but they do determine the competition (or lack thereof). In an area with a large organized group of dealers, how long does an upstart independent competitive dealer survive? What happens when two competitive dealers (or organizations of dealers) lay claim to an area? Lower prices or physical violence?
Legalizing drugs may not be the complete solution, but it would go a long way towards lowering prices. When every gas station and grocrey store and drug store has a recreational drug counter, the competition will drive prices down to the point that the retailers are just barely making a profit. Also, a minimum quality of product will be assured. Taxes will be collected. The economy will benefit. (OK, so maybe I'm going a bit overboard there.)
The people who can't handle their addiction will at least be able to get more for a lower price, and maybe overdose themselves out of existence. In the long term, that should cut down on the theft needed to maintain habits.
Philips owns the Compact Disc format, the copyright to the which is about to run out.
Copyright is forever, effectively, in the US.
Trademarks are forever, as long as the company
protects the trademark.
A patent is the only thing with a reasonable time limit, and that is probably what you meant is going to run out.
Still, Philips should be able to fight BMG based on copyright of the CD icon and trademarks which they own. BMG putting the CD icon on their works would violate copyright (of the icon image itself) and trademark (associating the broken disk with Philips's reputation).
My phone wasn't off; I was using it. Why didn't you leave voicemail? My phone wasn't off; I left it in the car so as not to disturb other theater/restaurant patrons. My phone wasn't off; I just couldn't hear it ring / feel it vibrate at the heavy metal concert I was at.
I would not put up with someone chewing me out for not answering my cellphone any more than I would for not answering my home landline phone. It's my phone and my time; I choose when to or not to answer it.
If it is a work-related issue, then the company can pay for the cell phone, and pay a good bonus for placing me on-call. If the company is not willing to do that, then designated work hours are their time and all other hours are my time to do with as I please, which includes choosing to not answer hte phone if I don't want to.
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How are you going to use ground-based systems to tell you how far your continent has moved? If you put it on the same continent as the receiver, it will move in perfect relation to the receiver, so the receiver will always show zero movement. If you put it on another continent, does it have the range, especially dealing with earth curvature and line-of-sight issues? It seems to me a satellite system would be much better for this purpose.
That is what the Reply-To header is for. Most mail programs recognize the Reply-To header and use it instead of the From header when sending a reply.
What is the point of surveyors knowing the latitude and longitude to sub-centimeter accuracy? Continental drift, measured in centimeters per year, will invalidate the reading in only a few months.
One hypothetical case: On My 26, 2003, at 10:55pm EDT, this "x" on this marker was located with super-accurate GPS to be at precisely XX.xxxxx North and YY.yyyyy West. Continental drift at this location is estimated to be 2.7503 cm/year toward 289.57 degrees (approximately WNW) from true north. Calculation of the current location of this marker is left as an exercise to the reader.
Another hypothetical case: Your honor, when I bought my house ten years ago, I had the property lines surveyed to sub-centimeter accuracy with super-accurate GPS. I had it re-surveyed last month and discovered that my neighbor has moved his fence 45 cm (or 18.5 inches) onto my property. I can't figure out how he did it; he covered up all signs of the move very well. However, I have had both surveys validated and authenticated, and I want you to order him to move his fence back where it belongs.
Now, to respond to some of your points:
Just as with my previous job, anything within a 15 minute drive to the office was so far out of my price range, the realtors would have thrown me out of the office.
I want a good sized yard. Yes, I do spend a considerable amount of time taking care of it. I want it so my kids have a safe place to play. Furthermore, my yard is more natural than any park I have seen. Parks are typically clear-cut, then planned and planted. Huge playgrounds and pavillions mar the view. My yard is fully wooded with a few cleared areas; in the winter I can actually see the houses across the street through the leafless branches of all the bushes and trees. I have a small blackberry patch in the front yard, and a small garden in the back yard. I enjoy sitting in the dining room or outside and watching the squirrels, rabbits, and birds.
The older neighborhoods around here generally have the wooded yards, and larger yards. The newer neighborhoods are generally postage-stamp-sized lots that have been clear-cut, flattened, graded, and planted with perfect grass and a few small fast-growing, fragile, short-lived trees for decoration.
Nearby parks are good for taking the kids to play as a treat. I have to go to take them there, watch them, and bring them home. With a good yard, I can let them go out the door, work on things that need to get done, and call them in when I need them back in.
I am not all that old, but I still remember being able to run down to the park about half a mile from my grandmother's house. Now, I can't even imagine any parent allowing that, even if there was a park that close. The nearest park to my house is almost three miles away by road, probably 1.5 to 2 miles by cutting through other people's yards.
One thing I didn't count on, mainly because I didn't know the area at that time and wasn't really paying attention, is that I am only 1 mile away from a major mall to the north, and 1 mile away from a major shopping center to the south. There are only two exits from my neighborhood, both onto the road connecting the mall and shopping center. This damned five lane road has only a few controlled intersections and NO crosswalks. The road has heavy traffic from about 5am to 11pm, and the traffic lights are timed so there is never a complete stoppage of traffic. It is almost impossible to cross that street on foot or on a bicycle. Couple that with an abysmal lack of sidewalks, and the area is very pedestrian-unfriendly. (As a side note, there is a law here that prohibits one from installing a sidewalk unless it can connect to an already-existing sidewalk.) I enjoy long walks through my neighborhood, but to go to the grocery store only a 1/2 mile away, I get in the car every time.
Okay, it's late, and I'm rambling. I guess I'll end this now while it's still partially coherent.
If it costs the ISP money, then it will end up costing the ISP's customers money.
If a forged email address is used, then then email sender is providing "false identification" which automatically makes the access unauthorized. It does not matter whether the false or real address would have been allowed, it still used false identification.
Otherwise, as you point out, what you describe is no different than accessing the hard disk to collect data.
One more clarification: There are multiple points of access. The initial connection to the mail server is authorized to everybody. The point at which the access becomes unauthorized is after the sender provides false identification and causes the mailserver to run code to process, store, and deliver the email.
It is true that my filters are not public info. That does not change anything. If the spam uses a forged header, then it is using false identification, which automatically makes the access unauthorized. (using the recommendations in the article)
This would have no force on spam that uses the correct identification in the headers. That spam would be accepted or rejected by my filters as determined by the identification. By using correct identification and still being allowed in, that accesses becomes authorized. I may then update my filters to prevent future authorization for that ID.
If this guys recommendations are followed and made into law, it sounds to me like spam would finally be made into a criminal offense.
Spam hitting my mailserver would be "access", and using a forged header to circumvent my filters would be "without authorization" because of "false identification".
I wonder how much money the spammer lobby will be sending to legislators to keep this guys recommendations off the books.
Dre took someone else's copyrighted "property" and added to it or modified it and then sold it for financial gain. People pay him for his work, but he does not pay the other artists for their work which he used. His intention is to make money off of other people's work without acknowledging or compensating those other people.
The file-sharing public is downloading songs to listen to and enjoy for themselves. No money changes hands; nobody profits financially; whether somebody loses money is arguable. Their intention is to enjoy some music without absurdly high costs.
So, spam does cost the recipient money, not only in terms of bandwidth, CPU time, storage, download time, frustration, irritation, etc., but also in all the unrecovered costs of prosecuting, persuing, and attempting to collect on the judgement. Customers may not directly pay for all of that, but their monthly rates reflect all those costs.
If they had documented their network, they wouldn't have had any trouble finding the machine. Either that, or someone made some changes without updating the documentation. Or someone made a mistake on the documentation. Anyway, the issue was how to find a machine when all you know is the hostname/address. I don't really deal with routers or large networks much, so I didn't think about using snmp to query the routers. I do have to wonder how smnpwalk will tell you what port of a switch the traffic is using if the switch is a dumb switch (or even worse, a hub) that doesn't know anything about snmp.
I guess another way to identify the wire would be to start unplugging wires until the connection broke. It's not nearly as nice, but it would probably be faster and easier than using a line sniffer. Of course, you may have users and managers looking for you by the time you're done. :)
I suppose it says somewhere in the contract that you are only allowed to access it from you home computer? Ridiculous!
We want what was advertised when we signed up and paid. If they can't provide "unlimited bandwidth" for the advertised price, the shouldn't advertise it. Instead, they should advertise "limited bandwidth shared with 20 other people, so play nice". Either adjust the advertising or the price, but don't kick someone off for using what was promised.
Can I reprogram my $1 bill to be a $20?
This is the same reason I haven't had solar cells installed on my house. It would take 30 years for the savings to balance the cost, and the cells are rated for only 20 years before they need to be replaced.
To avoid the porn and other spam. Hopefully.
So, how can I register my phone as permanently under 18?
Print it out and mail it in? Are they going to reimburse you for the reams and reams of paper, toner, and wear-and-tear on your printer? Oh, you're using an ink jet, not a laser printer? How many weeks will they allow for you to finish printing? Are they going to reimburse you for the wages of the person sitting there feeding paper to the printer?
Oh wait, they want it on disk? Do they want it in Word or PDF format? :)
For your example about gasoline prices, the prices are directly affected by supply at the origin, but not much by demand at the end consumer. Most gas stations in an area are within a few cents of each other, because they are all maintaining prices as low as they can while still making a slight profit. Why? Competition. They don't get a lot of choice in the price, because (1) they do not determine the price they buy at, and (2) they have lots of competition.
For drugs, the street dealers also generally do not determine the price they buy it at, but they do determine the competition (or lack thereof). In an area with a large organized group of dealers, how long does an upstart independent competitive dealer survive? What happens when two competitive dealers (or organizations of dealers) lay claim to an area? Lower prices or physical violence?
Legalizing drugs may not be the complete solution, but it would go a long way towards lowering prices. When every gas station and grocrey store and drug store has a recreational drug counter, the competition will drive prices down to the point that the retailers are just barely making a profit. Also, a minimum quality of product will be assured. Taxes will be collected. The economy will benefit. (OK, so maybe I'm going a bit overboard there.)
The people who can't handle their addiction will at least be able to get more for a lower price, and maybe overdose themselves out of existence. In the long term, that should cut down on the theft needed to maintain habits.
Copyright is forever, effectively, in the US. Trademarks are forever, as long as the company protects the trademark. A patent is the only thing with a reasonable time limit, and that is probably what you meant is going to run out.
Still, Philips should be able to fight BMG based on copyright of the CD icon and trademarks which they own. BMG putting the CD icon on their works would violate copyright (of the icon image itself) and trademark (associating the broken disk with Philips's reputation).
I got the impression MS didn't even have to clean up the garbage. Guthrie wasn't so lucky.
I would not put up with someone chewing me out for not answering my cellphone any more than I would for not answering my home landline phone. It's my phone and my time; I choose when to or not to answer it.
If it is a work-related issue, then the company can pay for the cell phone, and pay a good bonus for placing me on-call. If the company is not willing to do that, then designated work hours are their time and all other hours are my time to do with as I please, which includes choosing to not answer hte phone if I don't want to.