Your gas station analogy is only relevant if there is ONE gas company in town.
I max out my cable connection all the time, and I'm pretty sure there isn't anyone else who is a "power user" on my local loop, since I can max it out at any time. I'll gladly pay for additional bandwidth, but as other have pointed out the cable company doesn't care for savvy consumers.
Too bad for them. They are a utility, like the phone and power companies, and with the privileges of being a utility (right of way, subsidies, tax breaks, etc.) come responsibilities. It isn't a matter of being selfish, it is a matter of getting the service we are entitled to.
Or even past the dedicated ones... Remember the fiasco with a Senator's aide adding a line of text to crucial legislation that made musical performances work-for-hire?
And the masses will do what the rest of us have been doing for years. They'll become criminals like the rest of us, telling their friends to write around the edge of their CD. The horror!
Good server hardware, like the IBM systems tested, have mechanisms to report hardware failures. In the case of memory, you would hopefully be using ECC or parity RAM in your server, so if the memory was flaky you'd know. My only experience with this level of kit is Suns, but I know they have dianostics built into their firmware.
I believe the OP you were responding to envisions the RIAA as an effective monopoly. That is, there may be 5 Big Record Companies, but because they collude to drive up prices/lobby for outrageous laws/sue downloaders they should be treated as a single entity.
I agree, of course, but I don't suffer from the delusion the government will do anything about it. Then again, I don't think the music buying populace will actually stop buying RIAA member stuff. Even I find it difficult sometimes...
The margins on PCs and much of the expensive kit in CompUSA are very small, so those $60 SCSI cables are their bread and butter.
Granted, Apple has a pretty tight reign on the retail price of their machines, but I'm sure a large part of the markup in the aforementioned audio cable is CompUSAs...
No, I want to know why our security failed on 9-11. It is an insult to those who lost their lives then, and who have lost their lives in the fight since, to not dig to the bottom of this.
And until the truth comes out, any wacky conspiracy theory is just as plausible as anything out of the Bush administration.
As a lefty who thinks its fucking crazy that anyone takes offense at the Confederate flag - same thing with Germany and Nazism, I find that ludicrous - I never saw the problem with Dean's statement. The "Southern Strategy" has been good to the Republican party for a number of years, and Dean hopes to capitalize on that.
The fact that he capitulated is what makes me angry.
Give up any information about his briefings leading up to 9/11 to the commission appointed to investigate it, maybe we would know it is an "urban legand".
I've never used AppleScript myself, so I can't compare. From what I've seen, though, it is just as easy (if not more so), but I can't comment on the security of it.
While the problem has been somewhat resolved (and any enterprise should filter vbs anyways), the main issue is that vbs scripts were run automatically when viewing email in Outlook. And due to the lack of a proper security/permissions model in consumer Windows (not NT, or 2K, or XP), these scripts ran effectively as root.
OS X is UNIX-based, and derives much of its security from that.
While the widespread use of Windows is a major factor in its security problems, I believe much of it stems from the large base of legacy code present in Windows. That, and just poor design.
RoadRunner won't even answer my emails asking them to stop blocking incoming HTTP. I'm supposed to trust those asshats with some procedure to allow me to send email from my server?
Not trying to blast you, but ISPs blocking ports really pisses me off. I'm paying for internet access dammit, so stop breaking Internet Protocol!
The FBI isn't going to investigate someone hacking your home server. You need to show something along the lines of $250K damage before they'll even listen.
Not a good reason at all, but unavoidable I imagine. If only we could link spam to illegal music downloads! Let the RIAA subpoena them all!
Does anyone have links to anything refuting the DBT issues that Greg Palast cites? I'd really like to know, but of course, only ACs are claiming that it didn't happen.
Not that it is in the mainstream news much, but the PATRIOT Act has already been used for cases not related to terrorism in the slightest. On of the worst provisions of the Act is that it allows searchs without informing those being searched, and wiretaps without warrants.
Heh, I have a bargain basement PCI Firewire card that provides power, and the port on a Sony desktop I use is powered as well.
That aside, how is a powered port even an issue? I had a first gen iPod and used it successfully with Windows for quite a while, until the bug this article mentions hit me. I simply had to manually put the iPod in hard drive mode (hold down menu and play till it resets, then hold down back and forward).
Either way, Firewire in Windows sucks =). When I'm using a Firewire drive for storage it would be nice to know that my data is getting there.
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Your gas station analogy is only relevant if there is ONE gas company in town.
I max out my cable connection all the time, and I'm pretty sure there isn't anyone else who is a "power user" on my local loop, since I can max it out at any time. I'll gladly pay for additional bandwidth, but as other have pointed out the cable company doesn't care for savvy consumers.
Too bad for them. They are a utility, like the phone and power companies, and with the privileges of being a utility (right of way, subsidies, tax breaks, etc.) come responsibilities. It isn't a matter of being selfish, it is a matter of getting the service we are entitled to.
Where does that leave me?
Or even past the dedicated ones... Remember the fiasco with a Senator's aide adding a line of text to crucial legislation that made musical performances work-for-hire?
And the masses will do what the rest of us have been doing for years. They'll become criminals like the rest of us, telling their friends to write around the edge of their CD. The horror!
Good server hardware, like the IBM systems tested, have mechanisms to report hardware failures. In the case of memory, you would hopefully be using ECC or parity RAM in your server, so if the memory was flaky you'd know. My only experience with this level of kit is Suns, but I know they have dianostics built into their firmware.
And that mobo is probably an Intel reference design. Same for the RAM and PSU, outsourced to some big manufacturer.
These aren't mid 90s Packard Hells we're talking about.. =D
I believe the OP you were responding to envisions the RIAA as an effective monopoly. That is, there may be 5 Big Record Companies, but because they collude to drive up prices/lobby for outrageous laws/sue downloaders they should be treated as a single entity.
I agree, of course, but I don't suffer from the delusion the government will do anything about it. Then again, I don't think the music buying populace will actually stop buying RIAA member stuff. Even I find it difficult sometimes...
The margins on PCs and much of the expensive kit in CompUSA are very small, so those $60 SCSI cables are their bread and butter.
Granted, Apple has a pretty tight reign on the retail price of their machines, but I'm sure a large part of the markup in the aforementioned audio cable is CompUSAs...
And glassware and other "drug paraphenalia" is a multibillion dollar industry. Your point?
And the thought of lost tax revenue certainly doesn't stop the government letting corporations dodge taxes...
Very true. A friend of a friend just returned from Iraq, and based on what he said it looked like things were only getting worse there.
As much as Bush and Co. disgust me though, I can only hope this takes the wind out of the any Baathist resistance.
And if we can find Saddam in his own country, maybe this gives hope to finding Osama some day?
Right, thank god kids are dying so Dick Cheney is free to recieve his xmas bonus check from Halliburton!
Thank god our soldiers are dying so at least Iraq can have a democratic election!
The sanctions ONLY hurt the Iraqi people, and despite pleas from our former friends in the UN and around the world, we by and large ignored them.
And keep in mind, much of this ignoring was under Clinton... This isn't a GOP/Democrat issue, it is an issue of fucked up foriegn policy.
One needs only to look to Cuba for an example of what sanctions do.
No, I want to know why our security failed on 9-11. It is an insult to those who lost their lives then, and who have lost their lives in the fight since, to not dig to the bottom of this.
And until the truth comes out, any wacky conspiracy theory is just as plausible as anything out of the Bush administration.
As a lefty who thinks its fucking crazy that anyone takes offense at the Confederate flag - same thing with Germany and Nazism, I find that ludicrous - I never saw the problem with Dean's statement. The "Southern Strategy" has been good to the Republican party for a number of years, and Dean hopes to capitalize on that.
The fact that he capitulated is what makes me angry.
Give up any information about his briefings leading up to 9/11 to the commission appointed to investigate it, maybe we would know it is an "urban legand".
I've never used AppleScript myself, so I can't compare. From what I've seen, though, it is just as easy (if not more so), but I can't comment on the security of it.
While the problem has been somewhat resolved (and any enterprise should filter vbs anyways), the main issue is that vbs scripts were run automatically when viewing email in Outlook. And due to the lack of a proper security/permissions model in consumer Windows (not NT, or 2K, or XP), these scripts ran effectively as root.
OS X is UNIX-based, and derives much of its security from that.
While the widespread use of Windows is a major factor in its security problems, I believe much of it stems from the large base of legacy code present in Windows. That, and just poor design.
No VBS.
(Granted, I haven't played with Office v.X enough to know if MS ported over that lovely bit of software)
It is the EXACT same technology. Most laptop drives these days support this feature, from what I understand.
Hmm... I wonder if swapping the controller board on the drive would workaround this "security" feature?
Right on! And my friends wonder why I never want to go to the movies...
Only RotK could get me to put up with that shit.
RoadRunner won't even answer my emails asking them to stop blocking incoming HTTP. I'm supposed to trust those asshats with some procedure to allow me to send email from my server?
Not trying to blast you, but ISPs blocking ports really pisses me off. I'm paying for internet access dammit, so stop breaking Internet Protocol!
The FBI isn't going to investigate someone hacking your home server. You need to show something along the lines of $250K damage before they'll even listen.
Not a good reason at all, but unavoidable I imagine. If only we could link spam to illegal music downloads! Let the RIAA subpoena them all!
Does anyone have links to anything refuting the DBT issues that Greg Palast cites? I'd really like to know, but of course, only ACs are claiming that it didn't happen.
Not that it is in the mainstream news much, but the PATRIOT Act has already been used for cases not related to terrorism in the slightest. On of the worst provisions of the Act is that it allows searchs without informing those being searched, and wiretaps without warrants.
Still feel better about saving tax dollars?
Heh, I have a bargain basement PCI Firewire card that provides power, and the port on a Sony desktop I use is powered as well.
That aside, how is a powered port even an issue? I had a first gen iPod and used it successfully with Windows for quite a while, until the bug this article mentions hit me. I simply had to manually put the iPod in hard drive mode (hold down menu and play till it resets, then hold down back and forward).
Either way, Firewire in Windows sucks =). When I'm using a Firewire drive for storage it would be nice to know that my data is getting there.