The existence of PearPC in general brings up an interesting thought...if it's possible to create a software emulation of a Mac, what's stopping someone from creating a PowerPC-based Mac clone? It would appear that the proprietary "Apple ROM" that prevented cloning in the past is no longer an issue. I'm guessing the barrier here is less technical and more financial...
Criminal law =! contract law. Paypal is making these changes to their master user agreement, which means you contractually agree to pay said fines if you use the service in the ways that Paypal prohibits, whether or not those uses are legal.
This is no different from an ISP's acceptable use policy, which prohibits uses that are legal as well, such as sending CAN-SPAM-compliant commercial email.
Actually, eBay items are the sole exception to Paypal's adult items policy. The policy was primarily aimed at porn sites who took subscription payments via paypal, rather than physical items such as adult movies, toys, etc.
This is due to the extremely high dispute rate for these types of payments, most often due to husbands claiming the charge is fraudulent when the wife discovers it. As you might expect, Paypal does not want to be in the middle of these disputes, and banning said usage is, in their opinion, the best way to avoid being put in that position
I'm curious if anyone's tried to sell memberships to a porn site on eBay, however...that could be an end run around the policy if eBay permits it.
This is true, but the usefulness of the hash function requires that these collisions should not be "discoverable"...they may happen by chance here and there, but deliberately finding one is an entirely different and much more significant story.
I don't think that anyone would argue that sports events don't have a positive economic impact on the areas directly surrounding the stadium. However, the studies' point is that most of the money coming in is money that would have been spent elsewhere in the metro area anyway, and the amount of "new money" that enters the local economy is a pittance compared to the amount of taxpayer's dollars that are put into building the stadiums. That difference amounts to public money that directly subsidizes the team, so that Mayor Bob doesn't get voted out of office for letting the team move to the next town because the local stadium doesn't have enough luxury box seats.
And if that wasn't bad enough, remember that most teams are privately held, which means that there's no opportunity for the general public to benefit from these gains via stock ownership.
The truth is, mayors and governors win and lose elections based on whether they're able to bring in and/or retain a NFL/MLB/NBA franchise. The economic argument is nothing but a smokescreen of legitimacy over the whole stinking process.
I'm extremely dissapointed that the Sync SDK still requires a $100 a year.mac membership in order to sync across a network. To date iDisk is the only "real-time" file sync system available for the MacOS, and there's no such thing as iDisk Server for MacOS.:(
I was online in a hotel recently that had a system where outbound port 25 wasn't blocked, but silently redirected to the provider's server. Worked out pretty well, IMO...although I can hear the steam coming out of the privacy wonks' ears as I type...
Actually, more and more spam is originating from various 0wned Windows boxen sitting on broadband lines right here in the US.
I think what you meant to say is that 90% of the websites advertised in spam emails today are offshore.
However, just because the servers are offshore does not mean that the spammers are foreign. If you follow the money like spamhaus.org does, you'll see that the large majority of the world's largest spammers are, in fact, based in the US. They simply host their servers in China.
In short, most American spammers have already moved their operations abroad. But as long as the spammers themselves are still here, they are very much subject to prosecution. It just takes more work to track them down.:)
IIRC, the CWA has contract language with each of the Baby Bells that effecively prevents outsourcing of call center staff to other states, much less other countries...it makes sense from the union's perspective, but the telcos can't even transfer calls to other call centers if a local center gets overloaded (say, lots of downed lines due to bad weather...).
Actually, most airlines now have low-voltage power ports (much like car cigarette lighter jacks) in the armrests, at least in the First and Business classes. Some have it in coach as well. But you'll need the correct adapter to use them on your laptop...
can't anyone see the appeal of using chips like these in a ultra-quiet desktop model? A/V hobbyists would go nuts over them, providing that the CPU horsepower is sufficient...
One thing to note is that the local cable company represents a far larger chunk of the local TV-viewing public than satellite subscribers in the same locality. Something tells me that DirecTV or Dish doesn't have nearly the bargaining position that your cable company did, particularly with local markets.
Incidentally, I've noticed that for some reason, DBS is far more popular in Europe than it is here...I remember driving past a development that literally had a dish on almost every roof. I wonder what's different in the regulatory and market environment that led to this?
Also, I wonder who they're buying the stock from...I wonder if it's legal for a company to buy back stock from insiders. This could be part of the execs' exit strategy.
Put the crack pipe down. All Apple did was modify the kernel to run as a userspace process on top of a Mach microkernel. I'm presuming those changes were eventually merged into the official kernel.
Dude. He's Eric Farking Raymond. This is the guy who *wrote* "The Cathedral And The Bazaar".
Going off on a tangent...does anyone know offhand if ESR has a walking handicap? I noticed a guy at a concertin Philadelphia a few years ago (Oribtal/Crystal Method, 2000) who strongly resembled the one photo I'd seen of him, wearing a T-shirt that prominently featured Tux. I also noticed that he appeared to have some sort of ambulatory handicap (a club foot, maybe?)
7 BELLSOUTH-TE.gar1.Level3.net (67.72.8.42) 20.3 ms (ttl=247!) 20.4 ms (ttl=247!) 20.5 ms (ttl=247!)
8 axr01asm-1-0-0.bellsouth.net (65.83.236.7) 20.5 ms (ttl=246!) 20.5 ms (ttl=246!) 20.5 ms (ttl=246!)
9 ixc01jan-5-0-1.bellsouth.net (65.83.237.89) 29.4 ms (ttl=246!) 29.4 ms (ttl=246!) 29.5 ms (ttl=246!) 10 205.152.137.134 (205.152.137.134) 40.9 ms 40.9 ms 41.0 ms 11 adsl-81-101-28.jan.bellsouth.net (65.81.101.28) 41.0 ms (ttl=54!) 45.6 ms (ttl=54!) 41.0 ms (ttl=54!) 12 * * * 13 * * * 14 (interrupt)
1. No copier will allow you to print currency - you get the black box the first time you try. If you keep trying, the copier becomes less selective as to what it puts a black box over, up to the shutdown point.
2. While the unlock code could very well be static, it's more likely that it is a challenge/response hash - the copier gives the tech a random code, the tech then calls it into the manufacturer who gives the tech the corresponding unlock code. I do remember the tech calling in to his office during the service call, but I wasn't listening in.
$500/mbps? Are you stuck in a bad contract or something? That was the going price 2-3 years ago, but things have come down substantially since then...
I work installs for a major ISP, and most of the sales orders I see are in the $150 - $200/mbps range...and there are many providers that sell under $100/mpbs.
Is there any mitigating factor to this number (an extra-long local loop, etc)?
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That would go a long way to explain the "disappearing sock" phemonenon...
The existence of PearPC in general brings up an interesting thought...if it's possible to create a software emulation of a Mac, what's stopping someone from creating a PowerPC-based Mac clone? It would appear that the proprietary "Apple ROM" that prevented cloning in the past is no longer an issue. I'm guessing the barrier here is less technical and more financial...
Criminal law =! contract law. Paypal is making these changes to their master user agreement, which means you contractually agree to pay said fines if you use the service in the ways that Paypal prohibits, whether or not those uses are legal.
This is no different from an ISP's acceptable use policy, which prohibits uses that are legal as well, such as sending CAN-SPAM-compliant commercial email.
Actually, eBay items are the sole exception to Paypal's adult items policy. The policy was primarily aimed at porn sites who took subscription payments via paypal, rather than physical items such as adult movies, toys, etc.
This is due to the extremely high dispute rate for these types of payments, most often due to husbands claiming the charge is fraudulent when the wife discovers it. As you might expect, Paypal does not want to be in the middle of these disputes, and banning said usage is, in their opinion, the best way to avoid being put in that position
I'm curious if anyone's tried to sell memberships to a porn site on eBay, however...that could be an end run around the policy if eBay permits it.
This is true, but the usefulness of the hash function requires that these collisions should not be "discoverable"...they may happen by chance here and there, but deliberately finding one is an entirely different and much more significant story.
I don't think that anyone would argue that sports events don't have a positive economic impact on the areas directly surrounding the stadium. However, the studies' point is that most of the money coming in is money that would have been spent elsewhere in the metro area anyway, and the amount of "new money" that enters the local economy is a pittance compared to the amount of taxpayer's dollars that are put into building the stadiums. That difference amounts to public money that directly subsidizes the team, so that Mayor Bob doesn't get voted out of office for letting the team move to the next town because the local stadium doesn't have enough luxury box seats.
And if that wasn't bad enough, remember that most teams are privately held, which means that there's no opportunity for the general public to benefit from these gains via stock ownership.
As someone else said, bread and circuses, indeed.
There are a lot of people who would argue otherwise.
The truth is, mayors and governors win and lose elections based on whether they're able to bring in and/or retain a NFL/MLB/NBA franchise. The economic argument is nothing but a smokescreen of legitimacy over the whole stinking process.
I'm extremely dissapointed that the Sync SDK still requires a $100 a year .mac membership in order to sync across a network. To date iDisk is the only "real-time" file sync system available for the MacOS, and there's no such thing as iDisk Server for MacOS. :(
I was online in a hotel recently that had a system where outbound port 25 wasn't blocked, but silently redirected to the provider's server. Worked out pretty well, IMO...although I can hear the steam coming out of the privacy wonks' ears as I type...
Actually, more and more spam is originating from various 0wned Windows boxen sitting on broadband lines right here in the US.
:)
I think what you meant to say is that 90% of the websites advertised in spam emails today are offshore.
However, just because the servers are offshore does not mean that the spammers are foreign. If you follow the money like spamhaus.org does, you'll see that the large majority of the world's largest spammers are, in fact, based in the US. They simply host their servers in China.
In short, most American spammers have already moved their operations abroad. But as long as the spammers themselves are still here, they are very much subject to prosecution. It just takes more work to track them down.
Nah, that's all automated. :)
IIRC, the CWA has contract language with each of the Baby Bells that effecively prevents outsourcing of call center staff to other states, much less other countries...it makes sense from the union's perspective, but the telcos can't even transfer calls to other call centers if a local center gets overloaded (say, lots of downed lines due to bad weather...).
Actually, most airlines now have low-voltage power ports (much like car cigarette lighter jacks) in the armrests, at least in the First and Business classes. Some have it in coach as well. But you'll need the correct adapter to use them on your laptop...
can't anyone see the appeal of using chips like these in a ultra-quiet desktop model? A/V hobbyists would go nuts over them, providing that the CPU horsepower is sufficient...
Well, a lot of them used to use Paypal, but paypal cut them off a year or so ago.
One thing to note is that the local cable company represents a far larger chunk of the local TV-viewing public than satellite subscribers in the same locality. Something tells me that DirecTV or Dish doesn't have nearly the bargaining position that your cable company did, particularly with local markets.
Incidentally, I've noticed that for some reason, DBS is far more popular in Europe than it is here...I remember driving past a development that literally had a dish on almost every roof. I wonder what's different in the regulatory and market environment that led to this?
Also, I wonder who they're buying the stock from...I wonder if it's legal for a company to buy back stock from insiders. This could be part of the execs' exit strategy.
Subscribing and posting to well-known mailing lists can be a factor; spammers are known to scrape addresses from public archives.
Put the crack pipe down. All Apple did was modify the kernel to run as a userspace process on top of a Mach microkernel. I'm presuming those changes were eventually merged into the official kernel.
Dude. He's Eric Farking Raymond. This is the guy who *wrote* "The Cathedral And The Bazaar".
Going off on a tangent...does anyone know offhand if ESR has a walking handicap? I noticed a guy at a concertin Philadelphia a few years ago (Oribtal/Crystal Method, 2000) who strongly resembled the one photo I'd seen of him, wearing a T-shirt that prominently featured Tux. I also noticed that he appeared to have some sort of ambulatory handicap (a club foot, maybe?)
Easier than that...just set up your wi-fi card to use a different MAC address from the burned-in MAC.
100 days uptime is "incredibly stable"? *snrrk*
traceroute www.over-yonder.net
traceroute to www.dyn.over-yonder.net (68.19.137.116): 1-30 hops, 38 byte packets
7 BELLSOUTH-TE.gar1.Level3.net (67.72.8.42) 20.3 ms (ttl=247!) 20.4 ms (ttl=247!) 20.5 ms (ttl=247!)
8 axr01asm-1-0-0.bellsouth.net (65.83.236.7) 20.5 ms (ttl=246!) 20.5 ms (ttl=246!) 20.5 ms (ttl=246!)
9 ixc01jan-5-0-1.bellsouth.net (65.83.237.89) 29.4 ms (ttl=246!) 29.4 ms (ttl=246!) 29.5 ms (ttl=246!)
10 205.152.137.134 (205.152.137.134) 40.9 ms 40.9 ms 41.0 ms
11 adsl-81-101-28.jan.bellsouth.net (65.81.101.28) 41.0 ms (ttl=54!) 45.6 ms (ttl=54!) 41.0 ms (ttl=54!)
12 * * *
13 * * *
14
(interrupt)
ADSL line, meet Slashdot. Slashdot, melt ADSL line.
1. No copier will allow you to print currency - you get the black box the first time you try. If you keep trying, the copier becomes less selective as to what it puts a black box over, up to the shutdown point.
2. While the unlock code could very well be static, it's more likely that it is a challenge/response hash - the copier gives the tech a random code, the tech then calls it into the manufacturer who gives the tech the corresponding unlock code. I do remember the tech calling in to his office during the service call, but I wasn't listening in.
$500/mbps? Are you stuck in a bad contract or something? That was the going price 2-3 years ago, but things have come down substantially since then...
I work installs for a major ISP, and most of the sales orders I see are in the $150 - $200/mbps range...and there are many providers that sell under $100/mpbs.
Is there any mitigating factor to this number (an extra-long local loop, etc)?