We've had Solaris servers that people use daily come to require hardware upgrades or something and no one can remember where the stupid thing is. Everyone is so used to remotely logging onto the machine and performing software upgrades that no one has had to sit at the console for two/three years at a time and pretty soon, unless you keep good notes, no one who works there has ever been to the console at all, just remotely done whatever's necessary. Some of the Linux servers are starting to get into that camp as well lately. Primary router for our company is a RedHat box with a bunch of NICs and it's just been chugging along for two years now and no one's even had to remotely log into it for that time, so even the SysAdmins have quit doing it. The daily scripts run, send the mail saying everything's alright and everybody's happy.
Considering my wife is the librarian for an elementary school and my sister is a patent examiner at the Patent and Trademark Office, this happens to be literally a dinner topic conversation around my house.
If a teacher has reason to use copyrighted work for a class, not as a regular part of the classroom work but to show a single class a topic, that teacher can copy the whole document, one per student, without violating copyright law.
If it becomes a regular topic or there is time to contact the copyright holder, the area becomes much grayer, but if one day a student brings up a topic and the next day the teacher wants to have a discussion on that topic and there is a document directly pertaining to that topic, the teacher is well within the law to copy the document and hand those copies to the kids. Educational use.
You are confusing the legal aspects with legitimate research and paper writing. You are not breaking the copyright law by photocopying or by plagerizing, you are breaking the rules for research and paper writing.
I was not talking about the institution copying, I was talking about the individual. How much do you pay for a book you checked out of the library and used as part of your paper with references?
If Mastercard wants to start bringing suit about this, they need to really dig and if they win, every person on the Earth would end up in jail. Satire, discussion, educational uses, comedy, are all legitimate uses of anything copyrighted.
To achieve this without 1) the plane running out of gas before it hits mach 5 OR 2) the pilot passing out and/or dying due to the number of Gs pulled getting there.
This is going to be a long, drawn out legal battle with the telecos. People who do not have teleco connectivity on the 'net are going to start seeing the telecos fighting back on 'infringement of the telecos business.'
It doesn't really matter how long it takes or who eventually wins these cases. The telecos have more money than most of the ISPs and have lobbiests already pushing for a 'net tax for the voice over IP. Next we are probably going to find that you cannot connect VoIP to someone who uses a teleco as an ISP.
Should make for interesting case law if nothing else.
As I said when the original review (which also said that there are real stability problems etc.) I will wait for version 2 or 3 before buying one.
Still, I'm glad to see SOMETHING in the handheld in Linux, even if it wasn't ready for production. Now, when Debian comes out with one, I'll think about it.
This is what I've been fearing since the first time I've heard of a government attempting to take a site off the air that it disagrees with. This, if left unchecked, will mean the absolute end of the internet as a way to get all sides of the issues, all means of research and all ability to have honest and open discussion of any topic.
A government may have to limited right to decide what can/will be distributed within it's borders, but that does NOT mean it has the right to cross political boundries and attempt to tell the rest of the world what it can and cannot have out on it's pages.
The US is horrible with this and that is not helped by other countries who run hollering for the US to 'do something' about purely internal matters within a country.
Just because you do not like the message does not mean you have the right to silence the messenger. I wish all governments would understand that and allow honest discourse about all subjects.
Information is as marketable as any currency on the market today. Trading information you want (data) for the information the company wants (personal, marketable data) is a logical extension of the old horse-trader ideal.
If people really wanted this to stop, all they would have to do is not divulge any personal information at all. That will not happen though, as people will think, this site wants my address, that site wants my age, the other site wants my gender, but it will not occur to the typical surfer that those sites are all on the same database and will compile an entire background, shopping history and link through-click and target them for what the companies believe they will want.
People, do not give out personal information on the 'net, in person, or anywhere else if you do not want it to become public information by default.
From what little I've heard about actual facts in this case, it sounds like the whole RAMBUS fiasco is a pile of dung that is coming home to roost. It's a darn shame that those with the gold make the rules and can hire the lawyers who can show the rules do not apply to them.
Why don't we use freq hopping technology to transmit quite a bit? With Sincgars freqhopping a couple hundred times a second, the people on any of the fixed channels it's using have no idea the hoppers are using that freq. With a nearly unlimited number of frequencies to start on, using 100 freqs to hop for one channel and an almost unlimited salt, it would be a very, VERY long time before we ran out of possibilities before we ran out of broadcasters who wanted to put anything out there for the public.
.jpg files with hundreds of byte text messages within them. Top Secret documents over the open internet tunnelled within normal connections over the 'net. I'm not sure this is so new or newsworthy as to warrant the title of news.
Let's just stick with George Carlin's 7 dirty words. I'm tired of "I cannot define pornography but I know it when I see it" from the Supreme Court's decision.
Between the military and NASA you also get things like velcro, the internet, microwaves, ever decreasing size/capacity ratios for storage, and a hundred other things that you probably use every day.
The military also does minor things like maintain your right to the freedom of speech to badmouth the military.
I'm not saying you should alter your speech, just that you might consider giving the whole picture instead of just inflammatory comments about the same people who fight for your right to utter inflammatory comments.
Almost everything in the U.S. military is shielded. That's why avionics that civilian aircraft that weigh about 5 lbs tend to go somewhere near 20 lbs in a military aircraft. It's also why it costs a zillion times more.
We've been using SimNet for years. Flying an OH-58D from Ft Bragg, inside a flight of six, none of whom are on the same installation. Airforce assets, ground units, etc all there and if you look around in your unit, you see them accurately and in position where they are supposed to be (if they are where they are supposed to be.)
I'm glad that they are actually allowing civilians to see some of this stuff. It's neat as all hell. You think that streaming media eats bandwidth? Try SimNet with a whole division.
This may be expensive as hell, but all it does is proof of concept. Others will follow and when that happens it will become more 'normal' and more readily available to the common man and the common corporation.
Wonderful start, I wish they would look up the word teleportation, though.
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We've had Solaris servers that people use daily come to require hardware upgrades or something and no one can remember where the stupid thing is. Everyone is so used to remotely logging onto the machine and performing software upgrades that no one has had to sit at the console for two/three years at a time and pretty soon, unless you keep good notes, no one who works there has ever been to the console at all, just remotely done whatever's necessary. Some of the Linux servers are starting to get into that camp as well lately. Primary router for our company is a RedHat box with a bunch of NICs and it's just been chugging along for two years now and no one's even had to remotely log into it for that time, so even the SysAdmins have quit doing it. The daily scripts run, send the mail saying everything's alright and everybody's happy.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Considering my wife is the librarian for an elementary school and my sister is a patent examiner at the Patent and Trademark Office, this happens to be literally a dinner topic conversation around my house.
If a teacher has reason to use copyrighted work for a class, not as a regular part of the classroom work but to show a single class a topic, that teacher can copy the whole document, one per student, without violating copyright law.
If it becomes a regular topic or there is time to contact the copyright holder, the area becomes much grayer, but if one day a student brings up a topic and the next day the teacher wants to have a discussion on that topic and there is a document directly pertaining to that topic, the teacher is well within the law to copy the document and hand those copies to the kids. Educational use.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
User friendly and twisted humor.com are two places that have used this for a basis of a joke. I'm sure there are others.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
You are confusing the legal aspects with legitimate research and paper writing. You are not breaking the copyright law by photocopying or by plagerizing, you are breaking the rules for research and paper writing.
I was not talking about the institution copying, I was talking about the individual. How much do you pay for a book you checked out of the library and used as part of your paper with references?
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
If Mastercard wants to start bringing suit about this, they need to really dig and if they win, every person on the Earth would end up in jail. Satire, discussion, educational uses, comedy, are all legitimate uses of anything copyrighted.
What next, they're going to sue David Letterman?
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Don't take it skiing.
Oh, wrong Bono.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Oh yeah, Black is white, up is down, slavery is freedom. That's right George Orwell already wrote about this.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
To achieve this without 1) the plane running out of gas before it hits mach 5 OR 2) the pilot passing out and/or dying due to the number of Gs pulled getting there.
DanH
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With Raptor, the NSA, and other intelligence gathering organizations.
The trick will be recalling the data from those organizations.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
My ex-wife has not evolved, can I get one installed into her?
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
This is going to be a long, drawn out legal battle with the telecos. People who do not have teleco connectivity on the 'net are going to start seeing the telecos fighting back on 'infringement of the telecos business.'
It doesn't really matter how long it takes or who eventually wins these cases. The telecos have more money than most of the ISPs and have lobbiests already pushing for a 'net tax for the voice over IP. Next we are probably going to find that you cannot connect VoIP to someone who uses a teleco as an ISP.
Should make for interesting case law if nothing else.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
As I said when the original review (which also said that there are real stability problems etc.) I will wait for version 2 or 3 before buying one.
Still, I'm glad to see SOMETHING in the handheld in Linux, even if it wasn't ready for production. Now, when Debian comes out with one, I'll think about it.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Remote reboot for networks? WOOHOO, hey, that would be wonderful for a server that becomes unresponsive. Now, where was that soldering iron?
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
This is what I've been fearing since the first time I've heard of a government attempting to take a site off the air that it disagrees with. This, if left unchecked, will mean the absolute end of the internet as a way to get all sides of the issues, all means of research and all ability to have honest and open discussion of any topic.
A government may have to limited right to decide what can/will be distributed within it's borders, but that does NOT mean it has the right to cross political boundries and attempt to tell the rest of the world what it can and cannot have out on it's pages.
The US is horrible with this and that is not helped by other countries who run hollering for the US to 'do something' about purely internal matters within a country.
Just because you do not like the message does not mean you have the right to silence the messenger. I wish all governments would understand that and allow honest discourse about all subjects.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Information is as marketable as any currency on the market today. Trading information you want (data) for the information the company wants (personal, marketable data) is a logical extension of the old horse-trader ideal.
If people really wanted this to stop, all they would have to do is not divulge any personal information at all. That will not happen though, as people will think, this site wants my address, that site wants my age, the other site wants my gender, but it will not occur to the typical surfer that those sites are all on the same database and will compile an entire background, shopping history and link through-click and target them for what the companies believe they will want.
People, do not give out personal information on the 'net, in person, or anywhere else if you do not want it to become public information by default.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
From what little I've heard about actual facts in this case, it sounds like the whole RAMBUS fiasco is a pile of dung that is coming home to roost. It's a darn shame that those with the gold make the rules and can hire the lawyers who can show the rules do not apply to them.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Why don't we use freq hopping technology to transmit quite a bit? With Sincgars freqhopping a couple hundred times a second, the people on any of the fixed channels it's using have no idea the hoppers are using that freq. With a nearly unlimited number of frequencies to start on, using 100 freqs to hop for one channel and an almost unlimited salt, it would be a very, VERY long time before we ran out of possibilities before we ran out of broadcasters who wanted to put anything out there for the public.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
.jpg files with hundreds of byte text messages within them. Top Secret documents over the open internet tunnelled within normal connections over the 'net. I'm not sure this is so new or newsworthy as to warrant the title of news.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Did the aliens have the technology patented in the US? On Earth? Is the USAF using the technology on the planet of the aliens?
If the twain never meet, there is no juridiction for any court to find unlawful use. So there.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Let's just stick with George Carlin's 7 dirty words. I'm tired of "I cannot define pornography but I know it when I see it" from the Supreme Court's decision.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Between the military and NASA you also get things like velcro, the internet, microwaves, ever decreasing size/capacity ratios for storage, and a hundred other things that you probably use every day.
The military also does minor things like maintain your right to the freedom of speech to badmouth the military.
I'm not saying you should alter your speech, just that you might consider giving the whole picture instead of just inflammatory comments about the same people who fight for your right to utter inflammatory comments.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Whoops, how about civilian avionics (radios) that weigh about 5 lbs....
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Almost everything in the U.S. military is shielded. That's why avionics that civilian aircraft that weigh about 5 lbs tend to go somewhere near 20 lbs in a military aircraft. It's also why it costs a zillion times more.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
We've been using SimNet for years. Flying an OH-58D from Ft Bragg, inside a flight of six, none of whom are on the same installation. Airforce assets, ground units, etc all there and if you look around in your unit, you see them accurately and in position where they are supposed to be (if they are where they are supposed to be.)
I'm glad that they are actually allowing civilians to see some of this stuff. It's neat as all hell. You think that streaming media eats bandwidth? Try SimNet with a whole division.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
This may be expensive as hell, but all it does is proof of concept. Others will follow and when that happens it will become more 'normal' and more readily available to the common man and the common corporation.
Wonderful start, I wish they would look up the word teleportation, though.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page