Anywho, forget about Enterprise Class ATA Drives, when do I get a tricorder, or at least voice recognition built into my five-button wireless optical mouse?
The reason this is so complex is the fact that we don't have a sales tax system in any state. We tax purchases. It makes as much sense to tax the business as it does to tax the consumer, and it's a lot simpler to administer. With a true sales tax, you would pay a percentage of your business income (sound familiar?), not collect an extra fee from the consumer. Of course, you would factor this percentage into your sales price, but so what? The only downside for businesses is that they can't claim a lower price than you actually pay by blaming the government.
Your contract with BSA companies cannot override your constitutional right (and your organizations) to not provide self-incriminating information. As the answer to their question could possibly involve criminal conduct, you have a right not to respond, as long as the threat of criminal prosecution exists. If the possibility of criminal prosecution is removed (by a court), then you are subject to the contract provisions.
In any event, assuming you post clear rules for your lab users that use of computers is for personal use only, then their agents have no right to inspect your property without a court order. Actually, probably be fun to add some click through contract to your public work stations requiring users to forgo all rights to sue:). About as sound legally as their BSA clauses. All of this is moot, however, for 13 stations, they are not going to bother getting a court order.
I am not a lawyer, but that's probably why I still offer free advice!
I think the Cube makes no sense as a workstation. You just can't blend in the decor with a power cord, rgb cable and 3 usb cables trailing off it. Wireless keyboard and mouse would help, but there's no good fix for the display issue. I think the only hope would be to build in an 802.11b card (ala airport) and remote configuration so it can be a wireless access router/server (an OSX intranet ninja, of sorts). Better Waterproof it though, in case the Starbucks employees mistake it for a coffee warmer!
I think a superior system would be to just streamline the existing option of adding additional name servers. The user just specifies his choice by putting first priority dns info at top of list. I really don't care for there being more than 1 cnn.com, as that's too confusing. I do want to be able to access information about my city, however, by looking at news.local, with local being defined... err well, locally... and by the provider of my choosing. It's not a problem that news.local won't link to same site from 3 states over. That's preferable in fact.
This could be done now. The only real barrier is how to get widespread acceptance. I think the best way to do it is for a browser plugin that adds additional root servers to the list. When you visit a site which subscribes to these alternative dns systems, they have a link offering to install the plugin. The plugins should identify which tld's they serve, and that's where you get your conflict resolving pop-up window, at time of install, not every time you try to use the tld. Unfortunately, the only people that could really make this happen is Microsoft, as they rule the browser standards by sheer mass of adoption.
"During a security panel, reported McCullagh, a Microsoft research scientist demonstrated how the hidden copyright infringement fingerprint is so securely affixed to the audio that it remains intact even if a song is played aloud on speakers in a noisy room, then re-recorded."
What an insidious concept. This is a direct attack on fair use. If this were implemented, all I would have to do to stop free speech would be to play a bit of Metallica in the background at events I disagreed with, so the "free" media player would refuse to play the speech.
It's time to stop asking what we can do, however, and actually start doing something. A check to the EFF is a start, but what would be better is actual involvement in the system. We talk about politics like it's somebody else's problem. We need more people in power that understand these issues. The DMCA isn't the last repressive legislation that's going to be suggested, but it could be the last one passed, if a few of us come out from behind our keyboards and actually run for office and lead the debates at their source.
This isn't a microsoft run site. It does try to appear to be, with all the links into MS, but a quick whois lookup quickly credits somebody else... whomever catalysis is. Just wanted to clear up that whole MS w/ sense of humor nonsense. I suspect MS lawyers are even now scrambling to send out cease and desist letters.
I'm not sure that it's the solution, but my own reservations are more along the lines of economic viability and return on investment. I think something truly novel would have to part of the deal, as well. For instance, using the powerline network as the backbone of a statewide wireless network would be truly impressive! But this idea strays a bit too far off the topic, perhaps.
Anyway, the concerns you raised aren't really issues, as the transmission of data over powerlines would be completely seperate from the transmission of power, just as your phone service isn't compromised by your DSL line.
Quite frankly, I've always had the impression that the telephone companies would rather DSL hadn't come along at all. They would quite prefer that consumers would go back to 56k modems and businesses would invest in safe sensible (and expensive) T-1's. The service is offered to stall the growth of cable modems, which they see as a potential competitor for phone service. They don't like it though, as they have been forced to open up their lines to competing companies, which cable providers have not. As a result, they do very little marketing of the service and devote minimal operational support. It's a deliberate effort to scuttle the technology.
Example 1: Every phone bill I recieve has an invitation to order a bevy of calling services, such as call forwarding, and voice mail. Yet the only invitations I recieve for DSL service are from service providers themselves (Even though the phone ocmpany does offer DSL service directly.)
Example 2: If I call the phone company and order phone service, I'll have a service call the next day, but if I order DSL, it's going to take a few weeks. Yet a DSL installation is not any more complicated than a standard phone installation! They just don't care to devote any resources to it, since they don't own the whole pie.
Ok, final point, is there a solution? I believe the answer is in new forms of competition. In California, for instance, my home state, I believe the state could crack open the market by buying the powerlines from the utilities and opening them up to private firms wishing to provide high speed internet access. Solutions will vary state to state, but ultimately competition is the answer. Without competition, the telcos will be content to strangle their competitors out of the business, with just enough foot in the door to hold the cable companies at bay.
Why do we bother with trying to come up with a single or even a small group of methods ofr administering domain names? Is the idea making every website accessible to every person on earth? What an inanely stupid idea.
Why should I care to look at a cooking website written in mandarin? If I really want to find it, great, what are the odds I'm going to go looking at recipesinmandarin.com?
At this point, we should be much more concerned with making the internet useful. To be useful, it has to have limits, not arbitrary limits imposed from above, but personal preferences that are designated by individuals. How do we do that?
Easy... Why not have unlimited numbers of DNS services. How hard is it to plug a new DNS Server address in your connection settings? No to mention the fact that browsers can easily be adapted to make it second nature.
If you want to use AOL keywords, great, you sign up with AOL as your DNS. If you want the troll web, perhaps you sign up for goatse.cx dns service. If you want local web names, sign up with your local ISP for DNS service, where shoes.com actually points to the corner shoe store.
Feeling stifled by only having local listings? No problem, you specify your secondary dns service as google.
Sure, a lot od domain speculators lose their asses (what a shame that would be.), and companies actually have to THINK about where they market their company, but at last we could truly have a choice about DNS, instead of complaining constantly that some international body is subject to corporate lobbying power. (Well, duh!)
A means to identify and record the exact biochemical signature that a copyrighted work evokes in the brain of a user. Whenever a user accesses this protected work, they can be conveniently charged an automatic micro-payment royalty fee during nightly meter downloads via a common telephone line. This technology will enable hassle-free file sharing and protect the financial interests of content producers and marketers. Also included in this patent are all surgical procedures involved in implanting the thought meter (as well as a 56k modem) into the users brain, and associated technology allowing the thought meter to directly generate convenient and inobtrusive thought advertising to complement existing thoughts.
400+ submarines lost? What were you thinking? That many subs were not lost in all of WWII. No, no, they have not lost 400 subs to accidents. BAD BAD BAD INFO. I'm revoking your library card and sending you to bed without pudding. Wait, did you mean the russians have lost 400+ legos in various accidents? That I might believe.
P.S. (Yes, I know you meant 400+ souls lost, but it's much easier to ridicule you this way, and it's ever so much more fun.)
I love the web. Present a few facts in a reasonable tone and suddenly you're informative. Here's a few points to add to your theories, all from news sources, in case anyone looks me up and is worried;
1) The kursk was not a boomer. It was an attack submarine, normally armed with cruise missiles. There is currently an agreement between the US and Russia, not to deploy nuclear-armed cruise missiles. Besides, only a submarine on patrol would carry nukes, and a submarine on patrol DOES NOT fire weapons, except to kill things. The Kursk was not on patrol, thats a given, so no way would nuclear weapons be involved.
2) Agreed, new ships try new things. That's not enough to guess what weapon was being tested though.
3) There was a live fire exercise, of course the russians were looking for other ships and subs. There's no reason to assume this was a super-secret test based on that. Also, of course there were US assets in the area, how many interesting live fire events do you think the Russians have? We wouldn't miss one.
4) There was nothing half-assed about the effort. National pride dictated the Russians try first, but they failed. Probably didn't matter anyway, by the look of things.
5) In a peacetime accident, no one is going to go blowing up equipment to secure secrets. They knew help was nearby and would have done anything they could to stay alive til help arrived.
6) Sub crews are carefully selected but they still have families and emotions, and are NOT fanatically suicidal. Those are traits you'd never let near dangerous hardware.
Interesting theories, but lacking in some real world sense. Should NOT have been moderated so highly, just based on reasonable tone. If you don't know if information is correct, don't vouch for it!
My opinions are based on 4 years experience as an analyst of the russian navy, and are about 8 years out of date, but things ain't changed THAT much!
I think you may be lost, buddy. The tent revival meeting is 2 blocks down on your left. If you hurry you can still catch the story hour. Tonight's story: Abraham and Isaac: A charming bible story teaching real family values.
Check out this Slashdot Article, it references this CNN Article which gives decent information on the ISS LAN and some associated systems. Hope it helps!
This discussion is all moot. Do you really think in 10 years, we'll all still be typing www.something.com? All this will continue until technology makes it moot, and I can finally sit down on my couch and in my best scottish accent, say "Computer: find me that cranky brazilian soccer team named after some bible verse I don't remember". I will then promptly be rewarded with entirely too much information about a meaningless subject (the true purpose of the web), and an offer to purchase books about them, directly from each individual author. Unless of course, Microsoft is still around, in which case my computer will execute a small child in Brazil, and start making me coffee.
By encouraging the bootlegging of their concerts, it could be argued that they effectively waived their rights to damages for use of this material. Not that I really think they're going to waste their time suing individual napsterites. Sadly, their previous comments plainly showed they were once on the side of their fans, rather than their record company. Now, they just seem upset that they aren't entitled to some of Napster's IPO cash. Napster is plainly playing wink wink nudge nudge on copyright law, but really, who cares? Once Metallica makes less money than I do, then I'll feel guilty about downloading their music for free. P.S. Lars, I don't even like Metallica, and I don't have any of your MP3's, so don't bother suing me.
By restricting the use of the script to his own site, the owner is creating one heck of a big increase in traffic for his advertising supported site. Isn't it at least possible, that the change took that into effect, and not just annoying letters threatening vague future legal consequences? How many of you would have otherwise looked at his main site? The dialectizer is funny, but I could imagine it also being a bit of a strain on his servers. In passing, I'd also like to note that passing your banking records through a proxy seems like a HORRIBLE idea.
The slashdot review mammals did not call the fix a victory for Open Source. In fact, I did, me, namely Patrixmyth, of Patrixmyth writes "blah" fame. I own no stock in Red Hat, don't program for a living. I am a website developer, but then who isn't these days. I have also never criticized Microsoft, and am the first to admit to being nearly clueless about programming effective secure code. I use and enjoy many Microsoft products. I read the article, and considered it a good thing that the problem was found easily, and corrected without major damage. I submitted the article, thinking the/. masses had a right to know, and because I enjoy seeing Patrixmyth writes "blah", much more than I care about/.'s karma system for comments. As evidence of my lack of a clue and utterly unbiased opinion, the last article I submitted involved WinCE based "J.E.D.I." tools, being developed by the U.S. military, which I did not criticize a bit. Five words of opinion, added to a summary of a news article, and for this, over 200 posts! Seriously folks, slow down on the Caffeine!
Now back to your regularly scheduled madness...
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Enterprise, class, eh? I just can't resist.
Kirk: Scotty, give me 10,000 rpm on those ATA drives!
Scotty: Captain, she can't take it!
Kirk: Damn it, Scotty, you.... promised me.... SCSI speeds!
Anywho, forget about Enterprise Class ATA Drives, when do I get a tricorder, or at least voice recognition built into my five-button wireless optical mouse?
Sega + Sammy= SAGGY!
The reason this is so complex is the fact that we don't have a sales tax system in any state. We tax purchases. It makes as much sense to tax the business as it does to tax the consumer, and it's a lot simpler to administer. With a true sales tax, you would pay a percentage of your business income (sound familiar?), not collect an extra fee from the consumer. Of course, you would factor this percentage into your sales price, but so what? The only downside for businesses is that they can't claim a lower price than you actually pay by blaming the government.
Your contract with BSA companies cannot override your constitutional right (and your organizations) to not provide self-incriminating information. As the answer to their question could possibly involve criminal conduct, you have a right not to respond, as long as the threat of criminal prosecution exists. If the possibility of criminal prosecution is removed (by a court), then you are subject to the contract provisions.
:). About as sound legally as their BSA clauses. All of this is moot, however, for 13 stations, they are not going to bother getting a court order.
In any event, assuming you post clear rules for your lab users that use of computers is for personal use only, then their agents have no right to inspect your property without a court order. Actually, probably be fun to add some click through contract to your public work stations requiring users to forgo all rights to sue
I am not a lawyer, but that's probably why I still offer free advice!
from the horrible secret from space?
I think a superior system would be to just streamline the existing option of adding additional name servers. The user just specifies his choice by putting first priority dns info at top of list. I really don't care for there being more than 1 cnn.com, as that's too confusing. I do want to be able to access information about my city, however, by looking at news.local, with local being defined... err well, locally... and by the provider of my choosing. It's not a problem that news.local won't link to same site from 3 states over. That's preferable in fact.
This could be done now. The only real barrier is how to get widespread acceptance. I think the best way to do it is for a browser plugin that adds additional root servers to the list. When you visit a site which subscribes to these alternative dns systems, they have a link offering to install the plugin. The plugins should identify which tld's they serve, and that's where you get your conflict resolving pop-up window, at time of install, not every time you try to use the tld. Unfortunately, the only people that could really make this happen is Microsoft, as they rule the browser standards by sheer mass of adoption.
What an insidious concept. This is a direct attack on fair use. If this were implemented, all I would have to do to stop free speech would be to play a bit of Metallica in the background at events I disagreed with, so the "free" media player would refuse to play the speech.
It's time to stop asking what we can do, however, and actually start doing something. A check to the EFF is a start, but what would be better is actual involvement in the system. We talk about politics like it's somebody else's problem. We need more people in power that understand these issues. The DMCA isn't the last repressive legislation that's going to be suggested, but it could be the last one passed, if a few of us come out from behind our keyboards and actually run for office and lead the debates at their source.
This isn't a microsoft run site. It does try to appear to be, with all the links into MS, but a quick whois lookup quickly credits somebody else... whomever catalysis is. Just wanted to clear up that whole MS w/ sense of humor nonsense. I suspect MS lawyers are even now scrambling to send out cease and desist letters.
I'm not sure that it's the solution, but my own reservations are more along the lines of economic viability and return on investment. I think something truly novel would have to part of the deal, as well. For instance, using the powerline network as the backbone of a statewide wireless network would be truly impressive! But this idea strays a bit too far off the topic, perhaps.
Anyway, the concerns you raised aren't really issues, as the transmission of data over powerlines would be completely seperate from the transmission of power, just as your phone service isn't compromised by your DSL line.
Quite frankly, I've always had the impression that the telephone companies would rather DSL hadn't come along at all. They would quite prefer that consumers would go back to 56k modems and businesses would invest in safe sensible (and expensive) T-1's. The service is offered to stall the growth of cable modems, which they see as a potential competitor for phone service. They don't like it though, as they have been forced to open up their lines to competing companies, which cable providers have not. As a result, they do very little marketing of the service and devote minimal operational support. It's a deliberate effort to scuttle the technology.
Example 1: Every phone bill I recieve has an invitation to order a bevy of calling services, such as call forwarding, and voice mail. Yet the only invitations I recieve for DSL service are from service providers themselves (Even though the phone ocmpany does offer DSL service directly.)
Example 2: If I call the phone company and order phone service, I'll have a service call the next day, but if I order DSL, it's going to take a few weeks. Yet a DSL installation is not any more complicated than a standard phone installation! They just don't care to devote any resources to it, since they don't own the whole pie.
Ok, final point, is there a solution? I believe the answer is in new forms of competition. In California, for instance, my home state, I believe the state could crack open the market by buying the powerlines from the utilities and opening them up to private firms wishing to provide high speed internet access. Solutions will vary state to state, but ultimately competition is the answer. Without competition, the telcos will be content to strangle their competitors out of the business, with just enough foot in the door to hold the cable companies at bay.
Why should I care to look at a cooking website written in mandarin? If I really want to find it, great, what are the odds I'm going to go looking at recipesinmandarin.com?
At this point, we should be much more concerned with making the internet useful. To be useful, it has to have limits, not arbitrary limits imposed from above, but personal preferences that are designated by individuals. How do we do that?
Easy... Why not have unlimited numbers of DNS services. How hard is it to plug a new DNS Server address in your connection settings? No to mention the fact that browsers can easily be adapted to make it second nature.
If you want to use AOL keywords, great, you sign up with AOL as your DNS. If you want the troll web, perhaps you sign up for goatse.cx dns service. If you want local web names, sign up with your local ISP for DNS service, where shoes.com actually points to the corner shoe store.
Feeling stifled by only having local listings? No problem, you specify your secondary dns service as google.
Sure, a lot od domain speculators lose their asses (what a shame that would be.), and companies actually have to THINK about where they market their company, but at last we could truly have a choice about DNS, instead of complaining constantly that some international body is subject to corporate lobbying power. (Well, duh!)
A means to identify and record the exact biochemical signature that a copyrighted work evokes in the brain of a user. Whenever a user accesses this protected work, they can be conveniently charged an automatic micro-payment royalty fee during nightly meter downloads via a common telephone line. This technology will enable hassle-free file sharing and protect the financial interests of content producers and marketers. Also included in this patent are all surgical procedures involved in implanting the thought meter (as well as a 56k modem) into the users brain, and associated technology allowing the thought meter to directly generate convenient and inobtrusive thought advertising to complement existing thoughts.
P.S. (Yes, I know you meant 400+ souls lost, but it's much easier to ridicule you this way, and it's ever so much more fun.)
1) The kursk was not a boomer. It was an attack submarine, normally armed with cruise missiles. There is currently an agreement between the US and Russia, not to deploy nuclear-armed cruise missiles. Besides, only a submarine on patrol would carry nukes, and a submarine on patrol DOES NOT fire weapons, except to kill things. The Kursk was not on patrol, thats a given, so no way would nuclear weapons be involved.
2) Agreed, new ships try new things. That's not enough to guess what weapon was being tested though.
3) There was a live fire exercise, of course the russians were looking for other ships and subs. There's no reason to assume this was a super-secret test based on that. Also, of course there were US assets in the area, how many interesting live fire events do you think the Russians have? We wouldn't miss one.
4) There was nothing half-assed about the effort. National pride dictated the Russians try first, but they failed. Probably didn't matter anyway, by the look of things.
5) In a peacetime accident, no one is going to go blowing up equipment to secure secrets. They knew help was nearby and would have done anything they could to stay alive til help arrived.
6) Sub crews are carefully selected but they still have families and emotions, and are NOT fanatically suicidal. Those are traits you'd never let near dangerous hardware.
Interesting theories, but lacking in some real world sense. Should NOT have been moderated so highly, just based on reasonable tone. If you don't know if information is correct, don't vouch for it!
My opinions are based on 4 years experience as an analyst of the russian navy, and are about 8 years out of date, but things ain't changed THAT much!
I think you may be lost, buddy. The tent revival meeting is 2 blocks down on your left. If you hurry you can still catch the story hour. Tonight's story: Abraham and Isaac: A charming bible story teaching real family values.
Check out this Slashdot Article, it references this CNN Article which gives decent information on the ISS LAN and some associated systems. Hope it helps!
This discussion is all moot. Do you really think in 10 years, we'll all still be typing www.something.com? All this will continue until technology makes it moot, and I can finally sit down on my couch and in my best scottish accent, say "Computer: find me that cranky brazilian soccer team named after some bible verse I don't remember". I will then promptly be rewarded with entirely too much information about a meaningless subject (the true purpose of the web), and an offer to purchase books about them, directly from each individual author. Unless of course, Microsoft is still around, in which case my computer will execute a small child in Brazil, and start making me coffee.
By encouraging the bootlegging of their concerts, it could be argued that they effectively waived their rights to damages for use of this material. Not that I really think they're going to waste their time suing individual napsterites. Sadly, their previous comments plainly showed they were once on the side of their fans, rather than their record company. Now, they just seem upset that they aren't entitled to some of Napster's IPO cash. Napster is plainly playing wink wink nudge nudge on copyright law, but really, who cares? Once Metallica makes less money than I do, then I'll feel guilty about downloading their music for free. P.S. Lars, I don't even like Metallica, and I don't have any of your MP3's, so don't bother suing me.
By restricting the use of the script to his own site, the owner is creating one heck of a big increase in traffic for his advertising supported site. Isn't it at least possible, that the change took that into effect, and not just annoying letters threatening vague future legal consequences? How many of you would have otherwise looked at his main site? The dialectizer is funny, but I could imagine it also being a bit of a strain on his servers. In passing, I'd also like to note that passing your banking records through a proxy seems like a HORRIBLE idea.
The slashdot review mammals did not call the fix a victory for Open Source. In fact, I did, me, namely Patrixmyth, of Patrixmyth writes "blah" fame. I own no stock in Red Hat, don't program for a living. I am a website developer, but then who isn't these days. I have also never criticized Microsoft, and am the first to admit to being nearly clueless about programming effective secure code. I use and enjoy many Microsoft products. I read the article, and considered it a good thing that the problem was found easily, and corrected without major damage. I submitted the article, thinking the /. masses had a right to know, and because I enjoy seeing Patrixmyth writes "blah", much more than I care about /.'s karma system for comments. As evidence of my lack of a clue and utterly unbiased opinion, the last article I submitted involved WinCE based "J.E.D.I." tools, being developed by the U.S. military, which I did not criticize a bit. Five words of opinion, added to a summary of a news article, and for this, over 200 posts! Seriously folks, slow down on the Caffeine!
Now back to your regularly scheduled madness...