Technically, isn't that illegal or something? Not that it makes much difference. Enforcing that law probably wouldn't makemuch money for anyone important.
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana solved a complex math problem with the unauthorized help of computers in North America, Europe and Asia.
I DID read the article. The number of cycles wasted by the sender has absolutely NO effect on how many of my cycles they waste. It's more of an ethical issue than a practical one.
True, BUT there's still the issue of bandwidth. It's not much, but it can add up. Besides, many hosts charge by the ammount of bandwidth used by a site. In such a case, the webmaster would be losing money as a result of the parasites. Granted it's a miniscule ammount, but perhaps enough to make it illegal. Whatever the case, it's still just wrong. (because I said so, that's why)
But that resource is made available for a specific use. I can't think of a suitable analogy, but clearly there's something wrong here. It may not be illegal (depends how much you can spend on a lawyer or how many laws you can afford to buy), but in my view it is definately unethical. It probably shouldn't be legislated, but it at least shouldn't be done out of respect.
Such online piracy does not violate the security of hapless servers, using only areas specifically earmarked for public access, according to the researchers.
But it could slow the machines down by engaging them in mindless conversation while they unwittingly work for their remote master, Barabasi said.
Isn't this theft of resources? The researchers are literally stealing bandwidth and clock cycles. Maybe it's just me, but this seems very ethically wrong. I wonder if an IDS or firewall can be configured to protect against such leeching. Any lawyers or firewall experts in the house?
Just the other day I was wondering about the purpose of the URL following the second colon in Google's cache URLs. You can apparantly change them to anything and it doesn't affect the target. The address is apparently stored in the RxCMn4UmiOU.
EG: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:RxCMn4UmiOU:w ww.slashdot.org doesn't point to slashdot
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A contest like this surely states in the rules that ximian employees and/or anyone who has anything whatsoever to do with the project is excluded from participating (or from receiving prizes - i guess they should still let ximian staff submit bugs;-)
I was comparing to MS's Visual Studio which is also pretty expensive
You mean you're supposed to PAY for Micros~1 software? Hmmm....Um...BRB
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If I am going to pay a 'tax' to the RIAA, because it is assumed that I am copying music music, (and this is in fact the justification for the 'tax') then is copying (pirating) music something I can still be sued for? I'm paying for the privlage to act in this fashion, so how could I then be sued for it?
Not quite. Paying for health insurance doesn't give you the right to commit insurance fraud to get your piece of the pie back. The tax on cd-rs would not be for the priviledge of copying music, it is to cover the cost of revenue supposedly lost due to people copying music. Fair? No. Legal? Could be.
Why did you place Slackware above Debian as being easier? Slackware has more rudimentary package-management and is overall a more hands-on distribution. What was your reasoning?
That depends on the intent of the user. If he wants to become a Linux Admin or anything along those lines, then by all means dive in head first. If, on the other hand, he just wants to use his computer to do typical everyday stuff and chose Linux because of it's stability/price rather than a repulsion from all-things-Microsoft then his best bet would be an easy-to-use distro. He has no need (or shouldn't) to know how to hack the kernal.
I went to K5 for a while, but it just didn't cut it. There seemed to be very little news and a whole lot of ranting about pointless topics that may or may not have anything to do with technology. But maybe that was just my perception. To each his own.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Itanium a CISC-based processor while the sparc is a RISC-based processor. Even at 900MHz, it should outperform most CISC-based processors. Or should I stop posting at 8AM?
Perhaps you're not wasting company resources, but you are using them. They have every right to know exactly how their equipment and resources are being used. You have no right to expect that you can use company property as if it were your own whether you're on a break or not.
If the court decides that there is harm done by the anonymous post including: "breach of employment or confidentiality agreements; breach of a fiduciary duty; misappropriation of trade secrets; interference with a prospective business advantage; defamation; and other causes of action", they may grant the motion that reveals the anonymous posters identity.
How do they know the anonymous poster is an employee or has signed anything? If they get to this point, they may have already lost.
Hey Harry, you know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has two hundred thousand moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good doesn't it?
The only thing about MySQL.org that bothers me is that it looks very much like an official site for MySQL and makes no effort to give credit to the creators/developers of MySQL. The ONLY reference to mysql.com I can find on mysql.org is on their support page. They provide a link (not the first link in the list mind you) to mysql.com's support page, but give no indication who mysql.com is. I think it's great that mysql.org wants to help make MySQL better, but don't be deceptive about it. Give credit where credit is due.
"Our per-product sales were up in 2000 (and are up more in 2001), we've been producing more products, and the distributors have been paying their bills. The cash ought to be there, but it's not"
I don't know anything about the people at this company so I hope I'm not totally off when I wonder if the CFO was pocketing some money. Has anyone heard about an investigation of the CFO? It's mighty suspicious. Then again, it could just be gross incompetence.
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Technically, isn't that illegal or something? Not that it makes much difference. Enforcing that law probably wouldn't makemuch money for anyone important.
Of course you're still at the mercy of the security at the other end and along the wire
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana solved a complex math problem with the unauthorized help of computers in North America, Europe and Asia.
Theoretically, you need to read the article
I DID read the article. The number of cycles wasted by the sender has absolutely NO effect on how many of my cycles they waste. It's more of an ethical issue than a practical one.
True, BUT there's still the issue of bandwidth. It's not much, but it can add up. Besides, many hosts charge by the ammount of bandwidth used by a site. In such a case, the webmaster would be losing money as a result of the parasites. Granted it's a miniscule ammount, but perhaps enough to make it illegal. Whatever the case, it's still just wrong. (because I said so, that's why)
Perhaps you're right (hope not), but wouldn't that in effect make TCP/IP cease to be a reliable protocol? Doesn't seem like a viable solution.
But that resource is made available for a specific use. I can't think of a suitable analogy, but clearly there's something wrong here. It may not be illegal (depends how much you can spend on a lawyer or how many laws you can afford to buy), but in my view it is definately unethical. It probably shouldn't be legislated, but it at least shouldn't be done out of respect.
Such online piracy does not violate the security of hapless servers, using only areas specifically earmarked for public access, according to the researchers.
But it could slow the machines down by engaging them in mindless conversation while they unwittingly work for their remote master, Barabasi said.
Isn't this theft of resources? The researchers are literally stealing bandwidth and clock cycles. Maybe it's just me, but this seems very ethically wrong. I wonder if an IDS or firewall can be configured to protect against such leeching. Any lawyers or firewall experts in the house?
Hehe, the irony is terrible. I have no idea how my link (parent message) got mangled like that though.
Note to self: Familiarize yourself with the preview button
Thank you for illustrating your unique tallent of cutting and pasting. You could have at least fixed your links.
Just the other day I was wondering about the purpose of the URL following the second colon in Google's cache URLs. You can apparantly change them to anything and it doesn't affect the target. The address is apparently stored in the RxCMn4UmiOU.
w ww.slashdot.org doesn't point to slashdot
EG: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:RxCMn4UmiOU:
A contest like this surely states in the rules that ximian employees and/or anyone who has anything whatsoever to do with the project is excluded from participating (or from receiving prizes - i guess they should still let ximian staff submit bugs ;-)
e ligibility.html
Sure enough, you're right: http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/evolution-
It only really has to be able to pull a pull-cord. I've thought about building such a thing. Would be a lot of fun.
I was comparing to MS's Visual Studio which is also pretty expensive
You mean you're supposed to PAY for Micros~1 software? Hmmm....Um...BRB
If I am going to pay a 'tax' to the RIAA, because it is assumed that I am copying music music, (and this is in fact the justification for the 'tax') then is copying (pirating) music something I can still be sued for? I'm paying for the privlage to act in this fashion, so how could I then be sued for it?
Not quite. Paying for health insurance doesn't give you the right to commit insurance fraud to get your piece of the pie back. The tax on cd-rs would not be for the priviledge of copying music, it is to cover the cost of revenue supposedly lost due to people copying music. Fair? No. Legal? Could be.
Why did you place Slackware above Debian as being easier? Slackware has more rudimentary package-management and is overall a more hands-on distribution. What was your reasoning?
That depends on the intent of the user. If he wants to become a Linux Admin or anything along those lines, then by all means dive in head first. If, on the other hand, he just wants to use his computer to do typical everyday stuff and chose Linux because of it's stability/price rather than a repulsion from all-things-Microsoft then his best bet would be an easy-to-use distro. He has no need (or shouldn't) to know how to hack the kernal.
I went to K5 for a while, but it just didn't cut it. There seemed to be very little news and a whole lot of ranting about pointless topics that may or may not have anything to do with technology. But maybe that was just my perception. To each his own.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Itanium a CISC-based processor while the sparc is a RISC-based processor. Even at 900MHz, it should outperform most CISC-based processors. Or should I stop posting at 8AM?
Perhaps you're not wasting company resources, but you are using them. They have every right to know exactly how their equipment and resources are being used. You have no right to expect that you can use company property as if it were your own whether you're on a break or not.
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If the court decides that there is harm done by the anonymous post including: "breach of employment or confidentiality agreements; breach of a fiduciary duty; misappropriation of trade secrets; interference with a prospective business advantage; defamation; and other causes of action", they may grant the motion that reveals the anonymous posters identity.
How do they know the anonymous poster is an employee or has signed anything? If they get to this point, they may have already lost.
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Reminds me of my favorite quote from Armageddon:
Hey Harry, you know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has two hundred thousand moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good doesn't it?
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....Hold on....what was I going to say?
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The only thing about MySQL.org that bothers me is that it looks very much like an official site for MySQL and makes no effort to give credit to the creators/developers of MySQL. The ONLY reference to mysql.com I can find on mysql.org is on their support page. They provide a link (not the first link in the list mind you) to mysql.com's support page, but give no indication who mysql.com is. I think it's great that mysql.org wants to help make MySQL better, but don't be deceptive about it. Give credit where credit is due.
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"Our per-product sales were up in 2000 (and are up more in 2001), we've been producing more products, and the distributors have been paying their bills. The cash ought to be there, but it's not"
I don't know anything about the people at this company so I hope I'm not totally off when I wonder if the CFO was pocketing some money. Has anyone heard about an investigation of the CFO? It's mighty suspicious. Then again, it could just be gross incompetence.
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