Sorry, but myself and friends here in Scotland have been talking about this a lot with regards to the Visa situation, etc. and it's plain and simple: we don't plan on visiting anymore, or at least until this current wave of paranoid nonsense stops
It's you guys I feel sorry for - your entire country is being branded as insane because of your government. In some ways we are suffering it in the UK as well, but in only a fraction of the extremety.
This would be just great if companies like SCO get to have this power. The average politition may not realise what their new 'core business' consists of, and give them the keys to the IP city. In 16 months time will it be a common sight to see 'SCOrm Troopers' busting through windows of offices and razing them?
Sorry, you're well off the mark - the "Late ammendments" phrase meant it limited who the copyright owners could take action against, not allow them to take any action they want.
BBC is notorious for highly biased coverage, which gave it the title 'Bagdad Broadcas Corporation'
I think you'll find the vast majority of the UK public applaud the BBC for reporting the human costs of war over the political chest-thumping.
Thank god we have the BBC and not something like CNN or Fox in this country.
To everyone who is shouting "it's wrong!" read the article again - he doesn't blame everyone in the Linux community and I'd say it's fair indeed to say that a virus which attacks the SCO website may well have been written by someone with a grudge against SCO, ie. 100% of Linux users.
This is the most blinkered thread I've ever read on Slashdot - you should be ashamed of yourselves.
How much of the population of China is in one of the major cities?
A very small part - the bulk of the population is poor, poor peasants who either tend fields or work in sweat-shops making Louis Vitton bags for the West.
It's going to be a long, long while before China stops becoming a poor nation and >20% have mobile phones!
Don't think a few pretty skyscrapers in Shanghai heralds a turnaround in the entire country yet!
It's a fair point to assume the more access to high-capacity connections then the easier it is to download large-volume copyrighted material.
From this viewpoint I would argue the report is at least far-sighted.... but I agree broadband in the UK has more pressing issues at the moment, like when are we all going to get access to it?
I'm sure the Airlines couldn't care less that their passengers are screwing up the Telco systems - they are far more concerned about the effect on their planes!
Hence the biggest problem is the interference with the avionics, NOT the telco problems it creates!
Offering the same product to them at a sizeable price tag (it looks like the OS itself is $99, whereas the maintenance add-on is $500 more) gives the illusion of value, or addition, or more importantly, accountability.
I'm sorry, but +5 for that?
There's no illusion of value here - it's about selling maintenance and support of the product, which business demands.
A case in point - I encouraged my current client to use Putty on Windows for SSH. Corporate policy dictates that all software must be supported, hence they bought F-Secure SSH instead.
Software purchase costs are small beer in corporate finances - it's the support contracts which normally outweigh the purchase price by far, but which are vital to any business.
If VOIP needs 90Kbps bandwidth then IP must be a *huge* overhead on the voice signal.
When I worked for BT the scientists could compress "normal" voice data into around 6Kbps for normal landline quality speech.
This was when the first telco-based answering services were being written, ie. your messages are stored by the Telco on a central storage platform and streamed to your phone when you need to access them.
Electrolux are a huge mainstream consumer goods company so that they have the balls to develop and market this is fantastic and it will spur others on, which will reduce costs and expand the market.
I'm 31 - when I was a child they promised us a life cast free from housework with more time for leisure.
While it's always been tantalisingly close, most products have been out of the reach of the general consumer, or produced by esoteric manufacturers that are not household names.
Now they are actually starting to deliver. I salut you, Electrolux!
.... to both the people of the middle East and your own Armed Forces by not misusing a piece of military terminology before people have even stopped dying, on both sides.
Don't be arrogant - that's why the Arab world hates the US (and probably now the UK as well) so much.
Unisys mainframes created long before Tron, but still in use today powering banks and airline booking systems have an MCP component of the basic OS (not sure if it was OS/1100 or the A-Series from the Sperry machines).
They are batch-controlled systems and you submit jobs to the MCP for processing.
"the reason for difference in price" - testing cost.
Think on how ridiculous this is:
No-one in their right minds deploys business-critical storage with anything less than some sort of RAID protection, where the failure of a single drive is no big deal.
Customers purchasing IDE drives, i.e. home users, small biz, are much more likely to have no protection, and as such lose everything if the drive breaks!
Try using a mobile phone in a country where everyone doesn't drive, like the Far East.
Or even here in the UK. Enough of us spend enough god-foresaken hours on trains and in brain-dead jobs, so the simple pleasure of a whizzy mobile phone is immeasurable.
It's this attitude (well, along with geographical spread) which makes the US the least-developed for mobile services.
It will allow you to e-mail your doctor, so he's waiting at the other end to treat the DVT (Deep Vein Thrombosis) you just developed from sitting looking at your laptop for 12 hours!
I don't think this guys topic is especially off-topic.
They have failed miserably to promote the names introduced in 2000. How many web addresses have you seen with.biz or.info... seriously?
I've seen a few small companies here in Scotland with the newest suffixes and I get angry at the marketing company who set them up, before the names have "bedded in".
As a result, these.biz etc websites will be getting very little traffic outside of google's spiders.
I've actually missed a few firms because I was looking for a.com /.co.uk address and never thought of.biz, and I'm a clued up slashdot-using internet professional, so what chance does the rest of userland have?
His novels based in "The Culture" cut it best for me.
A huge universe, one faction of which is "The Culture" - an evolved human race who have no need for money (they can make anything they want) and which is ran by "Minds", machine intelligence.
When they need a new spaceship, they build one and install a Mind, who becomes the ship, hence the entire thing is sentient (and usually hilarious).
I always thought Arthur C Clarke could describe vast tracts of space thoughtfully, but banks is on an even higher scale.
I'm not biased because he grew up a few miles from where I'm typing this... honest;-)
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I for one welcome our new Atlantian overlords back to reclaim their place as Masters of the World!
Sorry, but myself and friends here in Scotland have been talking about this a lot with regards to the Visa situation, etc. and it's plain and simple: we don't plan on visiting anymore, or at least until this current wave of paranoid nonsense stops
It's you guys I feel sorry for - your entire country is being branded as insane because of your government. In some ways we are suffering it in the UK as well, but in only a fraction of the extremety.
This would be just great if companies like SCO get to have this power. The average politition may not realise what their new 'core business' consists of, and give them the keys to the IP city. In 16 months time will it be a common sight to see 'SCOrm Troopers' busting through windows of offices and razing them?
Sorry, you're well off the mark - the "Late ammendments" phrase meant it limited who the copyright owners could take action against, not allow them to take any action they want.
BBC is notorious for highly biased coverage, which gave it the title 'Bagdad Broadcas Corporation'
I think you'll find the vast majority of the UK public applaud the BBC for reporting the human costs of war over the political chest-thumping.
Thank god we have the BBC and not something like CNN or Fox in this country.
To everyone who is shouting "it's wrong!" read the article again - he doesn't blame everyone in the Linux community and I'd say it's fair indeed to say that a virus which attacks the SCO website may well have been written by someone with a grudge against SCO, ie. 100% of Linux users.
This is the most blinkered thread I've ever read on Slashdot - you should be ashamed of yourselves.
Security Consultant my arse - ISPs are NOT talking about limiting any ports.
You've confused your bedroom with the real world of B2B, VPNs and everything else - Port Numbers don't cause insecurity either.
Rubbish!
How much of the population of China is in one of the major cities?
A very small part - the bulk of the population is poor, poor peasants who either tend fields or work in sweat-shops making Louis Vitton bags for the West.
It's going to be a long, long while before China stops becoming a poor nation and >20% have mobile phones!
Don't think a few pretty skyscrapers in Shanghai heralds a turnaround in the entire country yet!
That as may be the case, but it was sold to "the public" as a way of viewing movie trailers, good-quality video feeds, etc.
This is reflected in BT, AOL advertising, etc.
Not as a "kazaa" pipe sticking out the back of your PC!
It's a fair point to assume the more access to high-capacity connections then the easier it is to download large-volume copyrighted material.
... but I agree broadband in the UK has more pressing issues at the moment, like when are we all going to get access to it?
From this viewpoint I would argue the report is at least far-sighted.
Eh Hullo?
I'm sure the Airlines couldn't care less that their passengers are screwing up the Telco systems - they are far more concerned about the effect on their planes!
Hence the biggest problem is the interference with the avionics, NOT the telco problems it creates!
Offering the same product to them at a sizeable price tag (it looks like the OS itself is $99, whereas the maintenance add-on is $500 more) gives the illusion of value, or addition, or more importantly, accountability.
I'm sorry, but +5 for that?
There's no illusion of value here - it's about selling maintenance and support of the product, which business demands.
A case in point - I encouraged my current client to use Putty on Windows for SSH. Corporate policy dictates that all software must be supported, hence they bought F-Secure SSH instead.
Software purchase costs are small beer in corporate finances - it's the support contracts which normally outweigh the purchase price by far, but which are vital to any business.
If VOIP needs 90Kbps bandwidth then IP must be a *huge* overhead on the voice signal.
When I worked for BT the scientists could compress "normal" voice data into around 6Kbps for normal landline quality speech.
This was when the first telco-based answering services were being written, ie. your messages are stored by the Telco on a central storage platform and streamed to your phone when you need to access them.
Seriously ... this is cool!
Electrolux are a huge mainstream consumer goods company so that they have the balls to develop and market this is fantastic and it will spur others on, which will reduce costs and expand the market.
I'm 31 - when I was a child they promised us a life cast free from housework with more time for leisure.
While it's always been tantalisingly close, most products have been out of the reach of the general consumer, or produced by esoteric manufacturers that are not household names.
Now they are actually starting to deliver. I salut you, Electrolux!
.... to both the people of the middle East and your own Armed Forces by not misusing a piece of military terminology before people have even stopped dying, on both sides.
Don't be arrogant - that's why the Arab world hates the US (and probably now the UK as well) so much.
Yes, this [i]is[/i] on topic.
You've missed an important point - ISPs don't always have a clear business need to stop spam either being generated from, or entering, their networks.
This is the real world, not Noddyland. Abuse departments cost money.
Unisys mainframes created long before Tron, but still in use today powering banks and airline booking systems have an MCP component of the basic OS (not sure if it was OS/1100 or the A-Series from the Sperry machines).
They are batch-controlled systems and you submit jobs to the MCP for processing.
I *loved* it when I saw it!
If you check the BSA e-mail, they logged into the anonymous FTP resource with the address "guest@nowhere.com", which is obviously fake.
... they have lied when asked for their e-mail address!
In the UK this could be construed as attempting to access a system un-lawfully
... but, what's $504 Million in Libraries of Congress?
Doh!
"the reason for difference in price" - testing cost.
;-)
Think on how ridiculous this is:
No-one in their right minds deploys business-critical storage with anything less than some sort of RAID protection, where the failure of a single drive is no big deal.
Customers purchasing IDE drives, i.e. home users, small biz, are much more likely to have no protection, and as such lose everything if the drive breaks!
Think about it
i don't wanna deal with an engine with a 3:1 bore:stroke ration, pneumatic valves, and piston speeds approaching Mach 1
.... Go Honda ;-)
I drive a 1998 Honda Integra Type-R.
It's an oversquare 1.8 engine (stroke bigger than bore) which redlines at 8400rpm and hits the limiter at 8900rpm.
When it came out in 1996 it had a HIGHER vertical piston speed than the Formula-1 cars of the day (as they have very large bores)!
I'm sure the current 17K rpm F-1 cars are very different, but still
If one of their clien'ts systems get hosed do they just let them know and say sorry or do they have some kind of insurance?
... how can they?
The SLA will state they make best endevours but will give no guarantees
Thats a very US-centric view.
Try using a mobile phone in a country where everyone doesn't drive, like the Far East.
Or even here in the UK. Enough of us spend enough god-foresaken hours on trains and in brain-dead jobs, so the simple pleasure of a whizzy mobile phone is immeasurable.
It's this attitude (well, along with geographical spread) which makes the US the least-developed for mobile services.
... no can can hear you ping!
It will allow you to e-mail your doctor, so he's waiting at the other end to treat the DVT (Deep Vein Thrombosis) you just developed from sitting looking at your laptop for 12 hours!
I don't think this guys topic is especially off-topic.
.biz or .info ... seriously?
.biz etc websites will be getting very little traffic outside of google's spiders.
.com / .co.uk address and never thought of .biz, and I'm a clued up slashdot-using internet professional, so what chance does the rest of userland have?
They have failed miserably to promote the names introduced in 2000. How many web addresses have you seen with
I've seen a few small companies here in Scotland with the newest suffixes and I get angry at the marketing company who set them up, before the names have "bedded in".
As a result, these
I've actually missed a few firms because I was looking for a
His novels based in "The Culture" cut it best for me.
... honest ;-)
A huge universe, one faction of which is "The Culture" - an evolved human race who have no need for money (they can make anything they want) and which is ran by "Minds", machine intelligence.
When they need a new spaceship, they build one and install a Mind, who becomes the ship, hence the entire thing is sentient (and usually hilarious).
I always thought Arthur C Clarke could describe vast tracts of space thoughtfully, but banks is on an even higher scale.
I'm not biased because he grew up a few miles from where I'm typing this