Not really a hack when it's something you just put in as any other form of input field.
I know, picky, picky.
One thing that seems to cut down quite a bit of spam for me it so scan for my first name in the e-mail body. Not there and it gets sent to a HOLD area.
I've been able to get from about 50+ spams a day down to about 3 by vicious persual of the spammer. I once was able to track one back by looking at my firewall logs after a ping storm. Good thing too, because I had lost his trail until he got stupid and sent another e-mail saying he was going to do a "take down" on my line. HA!
Up until quite recently (the last few hundred years) libraries were pay-to-use entities.
They still are, and are supported by property taxes in most states. In Texas, it's part of the county and city tax. I think that's a fine idea.
Listen, no one here says that all IP should be free; don't be an ass. What I am saying is that copyright in this country is limited. First sale means the IP owner can't dictate terms of sale (or use) of the IP after the first purchaser. (For instance, the IP owner can't demand you only use Brand X light bulbs to read the work), Fair use means all sorts of things, like you can make a copy for archive as long as you own the original, you can media shift (copy a book from bound to xerographic copy, for instance, or use VHS to record a laser disk), you can quote it, you can make a joke of it, you can cretique it, use small portions in your own work. The home recording act means you can record programs and *give* them away (not sell), and many other things.
Traditionally, IP owners were not able to collect a fee after the first sale, EG, you didn't have to pay for each time you read the book, only for the purchase of it.
Times change. What needs to be determined is how access to IP is going to change, what's going to be free after first sale, and what isn't.
There is a move on to change text books from paper to DVD/CD-ROM. Fine and dandy. However, the IP owners are using encrypted text and time limited software. I still have many of my electronics engineering books from the 80's and 90's. If I took a course now, and my books were on DVD or CD, I couldn't use them past the year I purchased them. Not only does that kill my use of them after school, but others now cannot sell used books. Some of the books I needed were US$ 600 new. I don't know about you, but I couldn't have purchased them new, and didn't. By the bye, the books that are released on computer media haven't been reduced in cost.
Contrast that with www.baen.com, who sells 4 or 5 electronic book versions for $10.00. Purchased seperately, they would cost abount US$25.00 - $30.00 for paper back, over US$100.00 in hardbound. Yet everyone is happy! Why? Because the publisher and author make a ton more money on the electronic version vs. the paper version. (It's on the web site somewhere, but I'm too lazy to go find it.)
My biggest irk in the whole deal is that the people that scream the loudest about IP theft are the least creative. They are the distribution channel, the printers, and the conglomerate. They didn't create the work, frequently don't pay for it (Yep, they don't f'en PAY the guy that created the work in the first place.), and they don't even respect those that buy it, even as only a customer if nothing else.
Don't bother to flame my spelling, I don't give a rats ass anyway.
Some one correct me here, because IANAL. I thought findings of fact could not be vacated, even by the Supremeos?
In any case, I read about 2 weeks ago that 65%-80% of the appeals courts were Regan/Bush appointees. Thus giving the lie to the right wing nuts "LIBRAL COURTS! LIBRAL COURTS!" chant. I think that Jackson was a consertive appointee, too.
IMHO, I think the 'pubs are doing the "big lie / Bloody shirt / big lie" school of public relations. Seems like every time they have something they want to do it turns out to do the exact oppsite of what they say it will do.
I don't know. I do know that as of now, I'm not better off than I was six months ago, and I don't see that improving in six months.
That's pretty much what we do. The bigest problem is "experts" that load network killing software and wonder why the switch port doesn't work, and none of the unused ports work, then unplug some one that DOES still work to kill the segment again.
We need better control over the MDF's and IDF's, and we arn't likely to get it.
Many people get the idea that "their" pc is theirs, and thus are allowed to do anything they wish. MP3's? No problem. Lotto results in e-mail, SURE! p0rno? Why the heck not? Need to make sure you don't waste all that down load time? Go ahead and copy 10 gig of MP3's to the server. Not enough space on VOL1? Heck, map over to SYS and drop it there. Server crash? Not your problem! The lazy nazi sysadmins will take care of it! Hey, those ass holes don't do anything but tell us not to do stuff. (OK, I am bitter.)
At my employment, we have 9,000+ desktops with another 4,000 or so on the way. With this many pc's in to deal with and 14 full time techs, we have to have some ground rules. Part of those rules are what software is suppored and allowed, what is allowed, and what we will delete if we see it.
For example, we had one site (we have a total of 78 sites) that 80+% of the desktops had virii from marker to backoriface to hybris to you-name-it. One PC had 11 different virii.
Now, we have anti-virus software on the servers, on our smtp, and on the desk top. So how did this happen? It all started with public free web based e-mail, a verion of anti-virus that had a problem with auto-updates, and herd stupidity. (When it did find a virus, people thought that it just HAD to be wrong. So they turned off the anti-virus.)
We had to spend a great deal of time and effort, not to mention overtime rates, to deal with this problem.
Now, tell me again why you simply must be able to load what ever the hell it is you want to load from what ever depths of slime you get it?
Now, please, use your brain now and again. You can be the best power user since the woz. The problem is that the next guy/gal in line may be my grandmother, and I'm here to tell you that she can't deal with swapped mouse buttons, persistant tails, and a Degas/Seurot looking desk top. So leave it alone, ok? And no, I am NOT going to deal with unmanaged user accounts on a desk top, so don't even bring it up.
Bottom line: When you have a lot of people and a few techs, you must give up some flexability to be able to manage that many resources. It's a case of too many eggs, not enough basket, and some joker setting fire to your foot. It can be done, but only if they don't stick an exploding cigar in your face at the same time the throw rotten fruit at you.
You have some good points here. "Or the drinks would cost half as much." (Completing your quote from "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress")
However, I'd like to point to General Electric HomeGen. Published reports and stats on this show a very extremely low emmissions rate. How [sic] do that happen? I have to admit that I'm not up to the technology involved (my EE is twenty years out of date) but the specs on pollution show very low CO output.
I was going to put some stats here about the FC, but I just browsed the site and I don't see them anymore. (They were there about five months ago.) As I recall, the thing does 7KW full bore and costs about US$12,000, but I can't re-check those stats.
This is a re-badged device. I forget who the OEM is, but I'm sure a search would turn them up.
I'm actually looking at these generators to
extend operation of our computer center during power failure
reduce battery maintenence costs (we spent US$12K last year on new batteries, and will again this year
reduce our battery count to gain space. (With the generators, we will only need 1 hour of run time on batteries, vs. the 72 we have now.)
Vint Cerf is, IMO, the greatest de-stabilizing force facing the Internet today.
On 2001/02/08, he testified before the House committee on Energy and Commerce subcommittee of Telecommunications. He said:
I appreciate the opportunity to appear before this Committee to describe the efforts of ICANN to introduce additional competition into the Internet name space, while at the same time prudently protecting against possible disruption of this extremely important global resource for communications and commerce.
Just how is it introducing additional competition by giving Verisign a 10 year monopoly on.com.net I just don't know. Just how does he plan to protect against possible disruption of the internet by introducing a confilcting TLD (.biz) I don't know. He said further:
The basic message I would like to leave with you today is that ICANN is functioning well, especially for such a young organization with such a difficult job.
It functions so well, in fact, that the second largest ccTLD just left in disgust. Going a bit deeper:
The recent action to introduce seven new Top Level Domains (TLDs) into the DNS will double the number of global TLDs and at the same time will not, we believe, create serious risks of destabilizing the Internet -- something I know none of us wants to see. The fact that ICANN, in just over a year, has been able to generate global consensus on this issue -- which has been fiercely debated for most of the last decade -- is a testament to ICANN's potential to effectively administer the limited but important aspects of the DNS that are its only responsibility.
On destablize the DNS system by introducing a conflicting TLD? I want what he's smoking! As for creating a global consensus, another opium pipe dream. Do you seriously think that the people with.biz names agreeded to have them taken away? If you do, I want what YOU are smoking. As for the "effective administer" et seq. remark, only if you ignore those that disagree with you, Dr. Cerf.
To give him some of his due, Dr. Cerf's job isn't an easy one. Perhaps this IS the best that can be done in a very complex and contensious business. I can't help but feel that it COULD be better, and possibly WOULD be better with someone else at the helm. However, that isn't likely to happen.
"The old adage 'The only safe computer is locked in a room and unplugged from the Internet' proves false.
Actually, I think the qoute is "The only secure computer is one unplugged from the internet, power, monitor, keyboard & mouse, shoved into a crate, pour cement into the crate, nail it shut, wrap it in chains, place in a larger crate, pour more cement into that, then bury it 50' underground."
Personally, I think that's optimistic if you are running windows.
While I agree with your points on editing somewhat, I'd also like to point out that you can always cancel your subscription. Once those dollars for your subscription stop rolling in, and other do the same, I'm sure Taco will shell out a few buckeriniees for a technical editor. 'Course, once that happens, the speed of reporting will go way down, now that background checks on the submitter have to be checked for bias.
OK, you really do have a valid point, but the fact the/. doesn't have a great deal of money to do this sort of stuff. I guess it would be possible to break up the submission process. Say, one person filters out the goat sex crap, passes up what's left to a team of others, they filter out the crap and pass it to someone to do source checking.
Taco could ask the community to pitch in, were he so inclined. Personally, I take every thing I read with a grain of salt. If a story impacts my work directly, I will source check as much as I'm able, be it the New York Times, The Register, SlashDot, Live 5 News, or NEWS 4 U.
(gag).
It seems to me that the real innovations are getting farther & fewer between nowadays.
So why innovate if you can just evoloute (get a patent, evoloute, get a patent...)? Lots less money to come up with a better way to hyperlink than to come up with the next thing to surpass hyperlinking at all.
Someone invented sex, or had it, or did it or what ever you want to call it. The Karma Sutra extened it. I want to meet the guy working on what's better than sex.
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I've had my addy about the same time. I get maybe one e-mail a day that I want. The other 29-39 are spam.
Now, I *like* spam. I revel in it. I love tracing back to the open relay, getting that puppy shut down tight. I love it when I find those pink pushers, and get their lovely little T1 or frac T3 pulled. Or get them blacklisted (and yes, you can get someone blacklisted if you try hard enough) and they can't find ANYONE to give them dataline service, and have to go to throw away dial up.
I find it so relaxing to score a "kill". It's almost as good as sex, or loading Linux over a windows boxen.
To the worry that a non-expiring key would be broken: Make the standard software not be able to not expire. When and if the non-expiring key is required, issue a new.dll or patch that will accept a non-expiring key, issued with the key.
I think that software rental is pretty much a pipe dream anyway. Anyone who has managed large (5,000+ workstation) networks knows that it is simply impossable to manage that many desktops effectivly. When things start breaking because of no support available, or when IT budgets get so far out of hand because of the people required, rented software will find a niche in smaller, easier to manage workplaces. When that happens, profit margins for the software renter's will fall, and it will just fade away.
On the other hand, it is such a lovely looking possibility for continued revinue stream, no doubt there just won't be any other choice.
The point is that the communications are subject to FOIA requests. No, FOIA documents cannot be encrypted, otherwise what's the point of making them subject to FOIA?
Once worked at a place where I reported for work at 8:00 am and quit at 9:30 am. Guy came in with the pay agreement for me to sign and it was $$ lower than I was making at my previous employer, and $$$ below what he said I would make. Turns out he was talking commi$$ion. I don't do commi$$ion. I work for a pay check, not wet dreams, and not someone else's wet dream at that.
It turned out well, though, as I signed with another company for (just slightly) more than company A, and $$$ more than company B that I had just quit.
No, I didn't sue him, I did better. I lived well. He didn't, going out of business just six weeks later.
All your base belong to UCITA now.
AFAIK, (And I know because I help plitico's with their databases) real letters by snail mail work best. Keep it short, polite, and if at all possible, get your neighbors to sign too.
If you have the time and are willing to spend the effort, see if you can't schedule an appointment with the senator or congressmen (no more than 10 mins.) to give them your say in person. Take two or three others with if possible. That way they know you may be lunitic, but not fringe.
The point, I think, isn't children contaminated by their uncle or aunt, but the fact that after paying for the right to copy, we arn't allowed to copy. Forget the fact that the Home Recording Act allows it, the copyright act allows it, and so forth.
Corporations are forgetting one very important fact: We are citizens, and they are legal fictions. At any point, with enough people, their "rights" could suddenly change for the worse. Orrin Hatch very pointedly told them "Remember fair use, or we (congress) will be forced to remind you".
Corporate profits are great. Just how much of our freedoms are we expected to give to their profits?
Well, EFF seems to be covering us so far as real legal challanges goes, but we also have to start looking at the image that MS is slamming as well.
I mean to say that when MS starts spouting off about "EVIL OPEN SOURCE IP DESTROYING HACKERS", we as a group need to respond.
When MS has thier silly little ad about a server that hasen't been visited in eons, it needs to get challanged. When they say they run better, we need to get in thier face and ask "Better How?" When they say.NET is the future, ask future of what, your bank account?
How about a not-for-profit (non-profit would be better, but they are pretty closely regulated by the states and subject to MS pressure on our "elected/appointed" officials to close them) that is dedicated to fighing this crap with our point of view? That is to say, take MS to task over this kind of shit.
As long as the OS and Linux horse lies there for the whipping, expect to get whipped. It's only when we fight back with our own law suits for libel or slander that we can stymie MS.
What do you say? Too stupid to work?
{Waring, serious rant mode set}
Idiots, children, and other low brow non-cognitive slime:
Here's a guy that's worked long and hard to make his little slice of the pie. He isn't taking, he's making. Yet most of these posts are along the lines of He's wrong, we are right, and we are not going to comply with a simple, civilly worded request to do the right thing.
That's wrong.
First, Tatu Ylonen has very little choice in this. If he wants to keep his own trademarks, he must defend that mark when confusion arises. If you adolescent punks would read what he wrote, you would see something rare these days: Politeness from an intellectual property owner. Can you see how this would be written if it was from AOL/Time/Warner? First, it would have been hand delivered by the FBI, two SWAT teams, and maybe a division of Rangers if they thought you might have something as deadly as a fingernail file.
There is no question as to where SSH came from. There is no question what the right thing to do is.
OK, I have about 12,000 nodes this year (add 4,000 by the end of the year), at an average cost of $4 per pc for Anti-virus, about 200 servers at a cost of $50 per server, plus the OT to have the techs go fix the virus scan software they installed incorrectly at estimated $15,000.00,
plus 1 full time sys admin type (It's actually 3 people 1/3 time per day)at 51,000.00 per year,
for a total of... 42. Yep, that's the cost of Virii at where I work. Of course, I used a Microsoft Calculator to add it all up.
(Using my RED HAT calculator, it's more like $124,000.00 per year).
Now, let's add in the cost of the time it took to re-enter the data lost to those virii that got through, by virtue of being too new or on systems whose users turned off anti-virus because it took too long to boot.... and now, lets add in the cost of waiting for those 12,000 nodes to boot up with anti-virus vs. no anti-virus, the time to replicate 12,000 files to each workstation (we actually do it in a script/batch), blah blah blah.
As a guess I'd say the total cost to us is around $200,000 to $250,000 per year lost/spent due to virii.
e-mail back customers that complain that the problem is on the other end, and will get solved as soon as the other end bestirs themselves to fix it. CC the upstream of the ISP if possible
Be polite, yet firm.
Mega ISP's have several PFY to take calls and deflect load. This is the function of minions and woe unto those that fail in this mission. My PFY's (pimpley faced youths) mostly can tell when a problem needs to be deflected, what they can fix, and what needs to be passed up. This is in no small part because they are good people and train hard.
One thing I never want to hear about is unprofessional calls from folks. Angry, yes. Steamed, yes. Foul language, NO. They are not paid enough to take that.
Kaplans' ruling gave the big seven exactly what they wanted, time to find a better encryption, time to get a HDTV standard they wanted, time to get a new administration in office - One that they can make dance to the MPAA tune, AND pay the piper.
No better combination for the MPAA members than what we have now: Lick boot pols that will do anything to keep the cash cow giving down that milk, FCC approved standards that implement severe restrictions on equipment, and time to tool up production lines that play by thier rules.
Having the "right" to do something is one thing. Being able to execute that right is quite another. What good is fair use if everything sold has to be modified in order to copy? The average joe can't do the modifications. The right becomes moot if not outright non-exsistant.
Full marks to EFF for the action, but it should have followed much sooner after the ruling. And yes, I'm sending in another $100.00.
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I would have said terror.
Actually, a good sysadmin is almost always bored. That's a good thing. Means everything is working correctly.
True. I browse at +3, so that DOES tend to cut out the lunatic fringe.
Not really a hack when it's something you just put in as any other form of input field.
I know, picky, picky.
One thing that seems to cut down quite a bit of spam for me it so scan for my first name in the e-mail body. Not there and it gets sent to a HOLD area.
I've been able to get from about 50+ spams a day down to about 3 by vicious persual of the spammer. I once was able to track one back by looking at my firewall logs after a ping storm. Good thing too, because I had lost his trail until he got stupid and sent another e-mail saying he was going to do a "take down" on my line. HA!
They still are, and are supported by property taxes in most states. In Texas, it's part of the county and city tax. I think that's a fine idea.
Listen, no one here says that all IP should be free; don't be an ass. What I am saying is that copyright in this country is limited. First sale means the IP owner can't dictate terms of sale (or use) of the IP after the first purchaser. (For instance, the IP owner can't demand you only use Brand X light bulbs to read the work), Fair use means all sorts of things, like you can make a copy for archive as long as you own the original, you can media shift (copy a book from bound to xerographic copy, for instance, or use VHS to record a laser disk), you can quote it, you can make a joke of it, you can cretique it, use small portions in your own work. The home recording act means you can record programs and *give* them away (not sell), and many other things.
Traditionally, IP owners were not able to collect a fee after the first sale, EG, you didn't have to pay for each time you read the book, only for the purchase of it.
Times change. What needs to be determined is how access to IP is going to change, what's going to be free after first sale, and what isn't.
There is a move on to change text books from paper to DVD/CD-ROM. Fine and dandy. However, the IP owners are using encrypted text and time limited software. I still have many of my electronics engineering books from the 80's and 90's. If I took a course now, and my books were on DVD or CD, I couldn't use them past the year I purchased them. Not only does that kill my use of them after school, but others now cannot sell used books. Some of the books I needed were US$ 600 new. I don't know about you, but I couldn't have purchased them new, and didn't. By the bye, the books that are released on computer media haven't been reduced in cost.
Contrast that with www.baen.com, who sells 4 or 5 electronic book versions for $10.00. Purchased seperately, they would cost abount US$25.00 - $30.00 for paper back, over US$100.00 in hardbound. Yet everyone is happy! Why? Because the publisher and author make a ton more money on the electronic version vs. the paper version. (It's on the web site somewhere, but I'm too lazy to go find it.)
My biggest irk in the whole deal is that the people that scream the loudest about IP theft are the least creative. They are the distribution channel, the printers, and the conglomerate. They didn't create the work, frequently don't pay for it (Yep, they don't f'en PAY the guy that created the work in the first place.), and they don't even respect those that buy it, even as only a customer if nothing else.
Don't bother to flame my spelling, I don't give a rats ass anyway.
FAIR.
Some one correct me here, because IANAL. I thought findings of fact could not be vacated, even by the Supremeos?
In any case, I read about 2 weeks ago that 65%-80% of the appeals courts were Regan/Bush appointees. Thus giving the lie to the right wing nuts "LIBRAL COURTS! LIBRAL COURTS!" chant. I think that Jackson was a consertive appointee, too.
IMHO, I think the 'pubs are doing the "big lie / Bloody shirt / big lie" school of public relations. Seems like every time they have something they want to do it turns out to do the exact oppsite of what they say it will do.
I don't know. I do know that as of now, I'm not better off than I was six months ago, and I don't see that improving in six months.
DON'T BLAME ME, MY VOTE DIDN'T COUNT.
And I'll say it again. We need to start a Linux anti-defamation fund. Sue the bastard when he lies or slandars.
We need better control over the MDF's and IDF's, and we arn't likely to get it.
Many people get the idea that "their" pc is theirs, and thus are allowed to do anything they wish. MP3's? No problem. Lotto results in e-mail, SURE! p0rno? Why the heck not? Need to make sure you don't waste all that down load time? Go ahead and copy 10 gig of MP3's to the server. Not enough space on VOL1? Heck, map over to SYS and drop it there. Server crash? Not your problem! The lazy nazi sysadmins will take care of it! Hey, those ass holes don't do anything but tell us not to do stuff. (OK, I am bitter.)
At my employment, we have 9,000+ desktops with another 4,000 or so on the way. With this many pc's in to deal with and 14 full time techs, we have to have some ground rules. Part of those rules are what software is suppored and allowed, what is allowed, and what we will delete if we see it.
For example, we had one site (we have a total of 78 sites) that 80+% of the desktops had virii from marker to backoriface to hybris to you-name-it. One PC had 11 different virii.
Now, we have anti-virus software on the servers, on our smtp, and on the desk top. So how did this happen? It all started with public free web based e-mail, a verion of anti-virus that had a problem with auto-updates, and herd stupidity. (When it did find a virus, people thought that it just HAD to be wrong. So they turned off the anti-virus.)
We had to spend a great deal of time and effort, not to mention overtime rates, to deal with this problem.
Now, tell me again why you simply must be able to load what ever the hell it is you want to load from what ever depths of slime you get it?
Now, please, use your brain now and again. You can be the best power user since the woz. The problem is that the next guy/gal in line may be my grandmother, and I'm here to tell you that she can't deal with swapped mouse buttons, persistant tails, and a Degas/Seurot looking desk top. So leave it alone, ok? And no, I am NOT going to deal with unmanaged user accounts on a desk top, so don't even bring it up.
Bottom line: When you have a lot of people and a few techs, you must give up some flexability to be able to manage that many resources. It's a case of too many eggs, not enough basket, and some joker setting fire to your foot. It can be done, but only if they don't stick an exploding cigar in your face at the same time the throw rotten fruit at you.
However, I'd like to point to General Electric HomeGen. Published reports and stats on this show a very extremely low emmissions rate. How [sic] do that happen? I have to admit that I'm not up to the technology involved (my EE is twenty years out of date) but the specs on pollution show very low CO output.
I was going to put some stats here about the FC, but I just browsed the site and I don't see them anymore. (They were there about five months ago.) As I recall, the thing does 7KW full bore and costs about US$12,000, but I can't re-check those stats.
This is a re-badged device. I forget who the OEM is, but I'm sure a search would turn them up.
I'm actually looking at these generators to
extend operation of our computer center during power failure
reduce battery maintenence costs (we spent US$12K last year on new batteries, and will again this year
reduce our battery count to gain space. (With the generators, we will only need 1 hour of run time on batteries, vs. the 72 we have now.)
On 2001/02/08, he testified before the House committee on Energy and Commerce subcommittee of Telecommunications. He said:
I appreciate the opportunity to appear before this Committee to describe the efforts of ICANN to introduce additional competition into the Internet name space, while at the same time prudently protecting against possible disruption of this extremely important global resource for communications and commerce.
Just how is it introducing additional competition by giving Verisign a 10 year monopoly on .com .net I just don't know. Just how does he plan to protect against possible disruption of the internet by introducing a confilcting TLD (.biz) I don't know. He said further:
The basic message I would like to leave with you today is that ICANN is functioning well, especially for such a young organization with such a difficult job.
It functions so well, in fact, that the second largest ccTLD just left in disgust. Going a bit deeper:
The recent action to introduce seven new Top Level Domains (TLDs) into the DNS will double the number of global TLDs and at the same time will not, we believe, create serious risks of destabilizing the Internet -- something I know none of us wants to see. The fact that ICANN, in just over a year, has been able to generate global consensus on this issue -- which has been fiercely debated for most of the last decade -- is a testament to ICANN's potential to effectively administer the limited but important aspects of the DNS that are its only responsibility.
On destablize the DNS system by introducing a conflicting TLD? I want what he's smoking! As for creating a global consensus, another opium pipe dream. Do you seriously think that the people with .biz names agreeded to have them taken away? If you do, I want what YOU are smoking. As for the "effective administer" et seq. remark, only if you ignore those that disagree with you, Dr. Cerf.
To give him some of his due, Dr. Cerf's job isn't an easy one. Perhaps this IS the best that can be done in a very complex and contensious business. I can't help but feel that it COULD be better, and possibly WOULD be better with someone else at the helm. However, that isn't likely to happen.
Actually, I think the qoute is "The only secure computer is one unplugged from the internet, power, monitor, keyboard & mouse, shoved into a crate, pour cement into the crate, nail it shut, wrap it in chains, place in a larger crate, pour more cement into that, then bury it 50' underground."
Personally, I think that's optimistic if you are running windows.
OK, you really do have a valid point, but the fact the /. doesn't have a great deal of money to do this sort of stuff. I guess it would be possible to break up the submission process. Say, one person filters out the goat sex crap, passes up what's left to a team of others, they filter out the crap and pass it to someone to do source checking.
Taco could ask the community to pitch in, were he so inclined. Personally, I take every thing I read with a grain of salt. If a story impacts my work directly, I will source check as much as I'm able, be it the New York Times, The Register, SlashDot, Live 5 News, or NEWS 4 U. (gag).
So why innovate if you can just evoloute (get a patent, evoloute, get a patent...)? Lots less money to come up with a better way to hyperlink than to come up with the next thing to surpass hyperlinking at all.
Someone invented sex, or had it, or did it or what ever you want to call it. The Karma Sutra extened it. I want to meet the guy working on what's better than sex.
Now, I *like* spam. I revel in it. I love tracing back to the open relay, getting that puppy shut down tight. I love it when I find those pink pushers, and get their lovely little T1 or frac T3 pulled. Or get them blacklisted (and yes, you can get someone blacklisted if you try hard enough) and they can't find ANYONE to give them dataline service, and have to go to throw away dial up.
I find it so relaxing to score a "kill". It's almost as good as sex, or loading Linux over a windows boxen.
I think that software rental is pretty much a pipe dream anyway. Anyone who has managed large (5,000+ workstation) networks knows that it is simply impossable to manage that many desktops effectivly. When things start breaking because of no support available, or when IT budgets get so far out of hand because of the people required, rented software will find a niche in smaller, easier to manage workplaces. When that happens, profit margins for the software renter's will fall, and it will just fade away.
On the other hand, it is such a lovely looking possibility for continued revinue stream, no doubt there just won't be any other choice.
It turned out well, though, as I signed with another company for (just slightly) more than company A, and $$$ more than company B that I had just quit.
No, I didn't sue him, I did better. I lived well. He didn't, going out of business just six weeks later.
If you have the time and are willing to spend the effort, see if you can't schedule an appointment with the senator or congressmen (no more than 10 mins.) to give them your say in person. Take two or three others with if possible. That way they know you may be lunitic, but not fringe.
The point, I think, isn't children contaminated by their uncle or aunt, but the fact that after paying for the right to copy, we arn't allowed to copy. Forget the fact that the Home Recording Act allows it, the copyright act allows it, and so forth.
Corporations are forgetting one very important fact: We are citizens, and they are legal fictions. At any point, with enough people, their "rights" could suddenly change for the worse. Orrin Hatch very pointedly told them "Remember fair use, or we (congress) will be forced to remind you".
Corporate profits are great. Just how much of our freedoms are we expected to give to their profits?
DON'T get me started.
I mean to say that when MS starts spouting off about "EVIL OPEN SOURCE IP DESTROYING HACKERS", we as a group need to respond.
When MS has thier silly little ad about a server that hasen't been visited in eons, it needs to get challanged. When they say they run better, we need to get in thier face and ask "Better How?" When they say .NET is the future, ask future of what, your bank account?
How about a not-for-profit (non-profit would be better, but they are pretty closely regulated by the states and subject to MS pressure on our "elected/appointed" officials to close them) that is dedicated to fighing this crap with our point of view? That is to say, take MS to task over this kind of shit.
As long as the OS and Linux horse lies there for the whipping, expect to get whipped. It's only when we fight back with our own law suits for libel or slander that we can stymie MS. What do you say? Too stupid to work?
Here's a guy that's worked long and hard to make his little slice of the pie. He isn't taking, he's making. Yet most of these posts are along the lines of He's wrong, we are right, and we are not going to comply with a simple, civilly worded request to do the right thing.
That's wrong.
First, Tatu Ylonen has very little choice in this. If he wants to keep his own trademarks, he must defend that mark when confusion arises. If you adolescent punks would read what he wrote, you would see something rare these days: Politeness from an intellectual property owner. Can you see how this would be written if it was from AOL/Time/Warner? First, it would have been hand delivered by the FBI, two SWAT teams, and maybe a division of Rangers if they thought you might have something as deadly as a fingernail file.
There is no question as to where SSH came from. There is no question what the right thing to do is.
Another thing to put on your agenda: GROW UP.
Now, let's add in the cost of the time it took to re-enter the data lost to those virii that got through, by virtue of being too new or on systems whose users turned off anti-virus because it took too long to boot.... and now, lets add in the cost of waiting for those 12,000 nodes to boot up with anti-virus vs. no anti-virus, the time to replicate 12,000 files to each workstation (we actually do it in a script/batch), blah blah blah. As a guess I'd say the total cost to us is around $200,000 to $250,000 per year lost/spent due to virii.
Fax the log to the NOC of the ISP in question.
e-mail back customers that complain that the problem is on the other end, and will get solved as soon as the other end bestirs themselves to fix it. CC the upstream of the ISP if possible
Be polite, yet firm.
Mega ISP's have several PFY to take calls and deflect load. This is the function of minions and woe unto those that fail in this mission. My PFY's (pimpley faced youths) mostly can tell when a problem needs to be deflected, what they can fix, and what needs to be passed up. This is in no small part because they are good people and train hard.
One thing I never want to hear about is unprofessional calls from folks. Angry, yes. Steamed, yes. Foul language, NO. They are not paid enough to take that.
No better combination for the MPAA members than what we have now: Lick boot pols that will do anything to keep the cash cow giving down that milk, FCC approved standards that implement severe restrictions on equipment, and time to tool up production lines that play by thier rules.
Having the "right" to do something is one thing. Being able to execute that right is quite another. What good is fair use if everything sold has to be modified in order to copy? The average joe can't do the modifications. The right becomes moot if not outright non-exsistant.
Full marks to EFF for the action, but it should have followed much sooner after the ruling. And yes, I'm sending in another $100.00.