An access point serves as a bridge between your wired LAN and your wirelessed computers. A router will break that functionality as the network address will change. Useless for business.
In 10 years, because of RIAA, MPAA, Trusted Computing, media giants, "content providers", etc we will be forced to use computers that require us to pay at every turn. Every game, every page read, every download, every email.
Its a clear definition. Alter the headers and send over 10,000 emails in day and its illegal.
So, the problems still remain. Send the spam from a throw-away email account. Not forged, just no one pays attention to it. And how in tarnation are you going to prove that the email you got had 10,000 siblings? Particularly if each batch of 9,999 came from a different address?
The story says Office Depot will carry RH9. Office Depot says all software and hardware they carry has to be "Designed for Windows XP". Gee, I didn't know Red Hat and Microsoft were working hand in hand.
OK, they are going to sue on behalf of americans that do not get this marketing opportunity.
They can't have it both ways. This means, if they DO NOT call me, then I can sue me for discrimination in not giving me the opportunity. I am PuertoRican and married to an eskimo, so I can triple sue them. Ha!
I do not believe this is the RIAA; public performances and their licenses are overseen by ASCAP and BMI. American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers....and Broadcast Music Inc. Auditoriums and radio stations deal with them, not RIAA.
A lot of innacurate information has been passed around here.
UHF communication frequencies generally go from
450-470 mHz and were fully populated years ago. What the FCC did is to allocate certain UHF TV channels to communications, in the 470-512 range;
ie TV channels (not cable channels) 14-20 for
communications use in certain areas. The areas in
question are laid out in a plan, so that in some
areas a certain channel is used for TV and and
in some areas that same channel is used for
communications.
This came about because in a given area you cannot
have adjacent TV channels used by TV or they
interfere with each other. Also, UHF TV was never
really popular with broadcasters and many channels were loped off on the upper end (ch 70-88 as I
recall).
Thus it is perfectly in accordance with the FCC
plan to have Channel 20 allocated to TV in Boston
and to communications in Southern New Jersy. Up to now, however, channel 20 was never used in Boston, it was empty and now has been allocated to
digital TV.
Analog TV stations must convert to digital by a
certain date (2006, but keeps slipping....). During the interim period, the station may transmit Analog on its present channel, and digital on the new channel. This is precisely what WCVB is doing. Eventually the station will
be strictly digital on Channel 20 and the Analog
VHF transmission will terminate.
East coast atlantic tropospheric ducting is common and radio hams and others are well aware of it; I am surprised the FCC did not take this into account when they allocated the channels. If I had to speculate, I would say that the FCC will
require WCVB to reduce power, use a directional antenna or change channels - which may be tricky.
This will be fertile ground for hordes of lawyers.
My main offices are located in the main lobby
of the Post Office. My rent is paid to GSA,
the building owners, a federal agency. All GSA
buildings are diversified and can rent excess
space. Not too long ago, FEDEX negotiated to
have package pickup stations in the Post Offices.
I like my office; good location, lots of traffic,
and the rental is comparable to other buildings
in this town.
Just put the RTLinux kernel up for sale. That puts the shoe on the other foot; they would have
to prove that its not GPL and they would be the
ones spending the big bucks on the lawyers. IANAL
The scientists speculate it was an ambush or a hunting accident. Nonsense. The guy was shot in the back as he ran away with a girl or from a fight over a woman. Nothing has changed in 5000 years.
Lets say I take a glass monofilament several
miles or hundreds of miles long. I wind it on
a spool and bring both ends out. I have a fiber transceiver at each end. I have then
created one of these drives but for local use.
Glass strands are cheap, in fact, they are sold
for fiberglass "chopper guns". The strand
should not require any sheathing as the light
should remain confined in the fiber strand.
A spool of this glass can be bought at a
fiberglass supply house....how the inner end
is accessed is a problem which may require you
to unwind it from one spool onto another
without breaking the strand. Or, chop into the
side of the spool and get a strand close to the inner end.
With no moving parts, and encapsulated, this
should be really reliable.
Lots of hacking potential here...how many miles
of cheap plain glass strand can you have for
a cheap fiber transceiver?
There are hard disk controllers with hardware
encryption. That way, even if they take your
hard drive, it still encrypted.
I believe the encryption phrase is in EEPROM,
and a utility is provided to change it. If
you change it, your hard drive is instantly
unreadable. Forever
When the FBI is trying to batter down your
door, you run the utility, change the key and
surely you will do better than Oliver North.
Hardware encryption like this is much faster
than software encryption and has no overhead on
the OS. The controller looks like a regular
IDE or SCSI controller to the OS.
This is not exactly what the man asked....but here
I use a ViewSonic VP150.
It is set up as 1024x768, and uses standard VGA
card and cable. Two years
ago when I started my ISP service, I was spending
8 to 12 hours a day in
front of a tube monitor. My eyes would sting and
tear, and at night I
would lay in bed with my eyes pounding and pulsing. I had no idea what
an LCD would do for me. I had horrible visions of
blurry, faded laptop-type
displays. You know, like you move the mouse and
the pointer dissapears for
a few seconds then you have to look for it. Well,
the VP150 arrived and I hooked
it up. Surprise! No fading, no streaking,
perfect images. No blurring.
And what is better, my eyes immediately got cured
of all the problems I was
experiencing.
This display has been by far the best I ever had.
It may not be the best LCD
in the world, but it beats ANY tube display hands
down. Recommended.
Yes, us ISP's should form an alliance. We could,
for instance, just not route them; or we could
tell them to pay us 1 cent per so many hits or
we do not route them....
A performance really has two essential entities:
the performer and the listener. All else is
actually superfluous. That some companies like
Record Labels or the RIAA have managed to finagle
themselves into the picture should does not
detract from the main principle.
Secondarily, some (but not all) artists want to be
paid for their performances. Again, Record Labels
and the RIAA are actually superfluous to this end.
They are merely ONE WAY that an artist can collect
revenue, but not the only -or even the most
desirable way.
RIAA would like to rewrite the rules so they and
the Recording Labels are assured of a place in
the upcoming scheme. They may succeed, but I hope
that with computers, databases, micropayments and
MP3 that a direct listener-to-artist method can be
found that would satisfy those not wishing to buy,
sell or perform their music via the Record Labels.
As an afterthought, why is RIAA saying that an
MP3 is "copying of music?" An MP3 recording has
much lower quality than a CD. It is "good enough"
in most instances, but I think that basically an
MP3 is something to be used as a preview for a CD
you'd like to get. Making an MP3 of a CD is
analogous to a casette recording of a radio
broadcast.
2600 themselves had the DeCSS code on their site, so they were responsible.
I am an ISP. If one of my users posts the DeCSS code on their home page, I am not responsible nor liable. A Cease and Desist letter from MPAA would not be cause of concern to me. But it would be of concern to the user.
As an ISP, I can tell you how I think it will work and your schemes are not going to do much good. 1. You dial in, and my server records your username and the dynamic assigned IP address. It creates a log of this (which I now keep for about 45 days before dumping it in case you want to know). 2. Your connection is directed to my transparent proxy server; ie, it runs squid. Way this works is that the dialup terminal server uses the squid proxy server as its gateway, so ALL IP traffic is directed via the proxy server. There is nothing for the customer to do; his proxy settings are blank. 3. The proxy server obviously has to keep track of who is asking for what so it can send it back. It creates a log file, and the logfile has this information on it: requesting IP address, type of operation (like HTTP GET) and the object being fetched (the URL in other words or a subelement thereof like a JPG or GIF). These logfiles can grow rather large; I dump them after a while, but only because I want to. NOW, as an ISP, I can associate the two logfiles by timestamp and IP address to the GET requests. This would be where the PRedictive Networks software comes in. The "I.D. Number" spoken about is the result of the username at time of login, which is matched to the dynamic IP. You can use all the proxies in the world you want, but your http requests still come thru my system and I can look at them. I am NOT part of the predictive network, so don't flame me. I am just pointing out how things work now and how PN could tie into this system easily enough.
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An access point serves as a bridge between your wired LAN and your wirelessed computers. A router will break that functionality as the network address will change. Useless for business.
If this works out right, maybe we can all get
Free Beer!
"Linux guru Alan Cox is taking a year off from RedHat and kernel development to get his MBA."
Obviously, RedHat figures they'll own SCO soon and need someone with an MBA to manage it for them. Alan Cox to the rescue!
In 10 years, because of RIAA, MPAA, Trusted Computing, media giants, "content providers", etc we will be forced to use computers that require us to pay at every turn. Every game, every page read, every download, every email.
Its a clear definition. Alter the headers and send over 10,000 emails in day and its illegal.
So, the problems still remain. Send the spam from a throw-away email account. Not forged, just no one pays attention to it. And how in tarnation are you going to prove that the email you got had 10,000 siblings? Particularly if each batch of 9,999 came from a different address?
This law is next to useless.
The story says Office Depot will carry RH9. Office
Depot says all software and hardware they carry has to be "Designed for Windows XP". Gee, I didn't know Red Hat and Microsoft were working hand in hand.
OK, they are going to sue on behalf of americans that do not get this marketing opportunity.
They can't have it both ways. This means, if they DO NOT call me, then I can sue me for discrimination in not giving me the opportunity. I am PuertoRican and married to an eskimo, so I can triple sue them.
Ha!
I do not believe this is the RIAA; public performances and their licenses are overseen by ASCAP and BMI. American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers....and Broadcast Music Inc. Auditoriums and radio stations deal with them, not RIAA.
A lot of innacurate information has been passed around here.
UHF communication frequencies generally go from 450-470 mHz and were fully populated years ago. What the FCC did is to allocate certain UHF TV channels to communications, in the 470-512 range; ie TV channels (not cable channels) 14-20 for communications use in certain areas. The areas in question are laid out in a plan, so that in some areas a certain channel is used for TV and and in some areas that same channel is used for communications.
This came about because in a given area you cannot have adjacent TV channels used by TV or they interfere with each other. Also, UHF TV was never really popular with broadcasters and many channels were loped off on the upper end (ch 70-88 as I recall).
Thus it is perfectly in accordance with the FCC plan to have Channel 20 allocated to TV in Boston and to communications in Southern New Jersy. Up to now, however, channel 20 was never used in Boston, it was empty and now has been allocated to digital TV.
Analog TV stations must convert to digital by a certain date (2006, but keeps slipping....). During the interim period, the station may transmit Analog on its present channel, and digital on the new channel. This is precisely what WCVB is doing. Eventually the station will be strictly digital on Channel 20 and the Analog VHF transmission will terminate.
East coast atlantic tropospheric ducting is common and radio hams and others are well aware of it; I am surprised the FCC did not take this into account when they allocated the channels. If I had to speculate, I would say that the FCC will require WCVB to reduce power, use a directional antenna or change channels - which may be tricky. This will be fertile ground for hordes of lawyers.
My main offices are located in the main lobby
of the Post Office. My rent is paid to GSA,
the building owners, a federal agency. All GSA
buildings are diversified and can rent excess
space. Not too long ago, FEDEX negotiated to
have package pickup stations in the Post Offices.
I like my office; good location, lots of traffic,
and the rental is comparable to other buildings
in this town.
Just put the RTLinux kernel up for sale. That puts the shoe on the other foot; they would have
to prove that its not GPL and they would be the
ones spending the big bucks on the lawyers. IANAL
The scientists speculate it was an ambush or a hunting accident. Nonsense. The guy was shot in the back as he ran away with a girl or from a fight over a woman. Nothing has changed in 5000 years.
Lets say I take a glass monofilament several miles or hundreds of miles long. I wind it on
a spool and bring both ends out. I have a fiber transceiver at each end. I have then
created one of these drives but for local use.
Glass strands are cheap, in fact, they are sold for fiberglass "chopper guns". The strand
should not require any sheathing as the light should remain confined in the fiber strand.
A spool of this glass can be bought at a fiberglass supply house....how the inner end
is accessed is a problem which may require you to unwind it from one spool onto another
without breaking the strand. Or, chop into the side of the spool and get a strand close to
the inner end.
With no moving parts, and encapsulated, this should be really reliable.
Lots of hacking potential here...how many miles of cheap plain glass strand can you have for
a cheap fiber transceiver?
Before ICANN or ICANT rules on it, I am going to have my lawyer copyright my PHONE NUMBER. Be damned if I am going to let some schmuck get it!
I believe the encryption phrase is in EEPROM, and a utility is provided to change it. If you change it, your hard drive is instantly unreadable. Forever
When the FBI is trying to batter down your door, you run the utility, change the key and surely you will do better than Oliver North.
Hardware encryption like this is much faster than software encryption and has no overhead on the OS. The controller looks like a regular IDE or SCSI controller to the OS.
This is not exactly what the man asked....but here I use a ViewSonic VP150.
It is set up as 1024x768, and uses standard VGA card and cable. Two years
ago when I started my ISP service, I was spending 8 to 12 hours a day in
front of a tube monitor. My eyes would sting and tear, and at night I
would lay in bed with my eyes pounding and pulsing. I had no idea what
an LCD would do for me. I had horrible visions of blurry, faded laptop-type
displays. You know, like you move the mouse and the pointer dissapears for
a few seconds then you have to look for it. Well, the VP150 arrived and I hooked
it up. Surprise! No fading, no streaking, perfect images. No blurring.
And what is better, my eyes immediately got cured of all the problems I was
experiencing.
This display has been by far the best I ever had. It may not be the best LCD
in the world, but it beats ANY tube display hands down. Recommended.
Yes, us ISP's should form an alliance. We could, for instance, just not route them; or we could
tell them to pay us 1 cent per so many hits or we do not route them....
Secondarily, some (but not all) artists want to be paid for their performances. Again, Record Labels and the RIAA are actually superfluous to this end. They are merely ONE WAY that an artist can collect revenue, but not the only -or even the most desirable way.
RIAA would like to rewrite the rules so they and the Recording Labels are assured of a place in the upcoming scheme. They may succeed, but I hope that with computers, databases, micropayments and MP3 that a direct listener-to-artist method can be found that would satisfy those not wishing to buy, sell or perform their music via the Record Labels.
As an afterthought, why is RIAA saying that an MP3 is "copying of music?" An MP3 recording has much lower quality than a CD. It is "good enough" in most instances, but I think that basically an MP3 is something to be used as a preview for a CD you'd like to get. Making an MP3 of a CD is analogous to a casette recording of a radio broadcast.
is .wap the new domain for Italy? They must
have run out of the .it names already.
2600 themselves had the DeCSS code on their site, so they were responsible. I am an ISP. If one of my users posts the DeCSS code on their home page, I am not responsible nor liable. A Cease and Desist letter from MPAA would not be cause of concern to me. But it would be of concern to the user.
As an ISP, I can tell you how I think it will work and your schemes are not going to do much good. 1. You dial in, and my server records your username and the dynamic assigned IP address. It creates a log of this (which I now keep for about 45 days before dumping it in case you want to know). 2. Your connection is directed to my transparent proxy server; ie, it runs squid. Way this works is that the dialup terminal server uses the squid proxy server as its gateway, so ALL IP traffic is directed via the proxy server. There is nothing for the customer to do; his proxy settings are blank. 3. The proxy server obviously has to keep track of who is asking for what so it can send it back. It creates a log file, and the logfile has this information on it: requesting IP address, type of operation (like HTTP GET) and the object being fetched (the URL in other words or a subelement thereof like a JPG or GIF). These logfiles can grow rather large; I dump them after a while, but only because I want to. NOW, as an ISP, I can associate the two logfiles by timestamp and IP address to the GET requests. This would be where the PRedictive Networks software comes in. The "I.D. Number" spoken about is the result of the username at time of login, which is matched to the dynamic IP. You can use all the proxies in the world you want, but your http requests still come thru my system and I can look at them. I am NOT part of the predictive network, so don't flame me. I am just pointing out how things work now and how PN could tie into this system easily enough.