It dose not make perfict busness sence... Do you wish to have your account pulled becouse you got DoSed? Or better yet... to much spam...
This isn't good busness sence at all... Now script kiddys know what to do when they want someone removed from the system... They don't even have to provide an effective DoS.. An ineffective attack will do... eather way your eating bandwith... and thats all it takes...
As long as the ISP dose reactivate the account. However the ISP should inform the user of what is going on... In this case eather the ISP is not reactivating the account or the ISP is not telling the user what is going on... Eather is bad...
Who is this mistory ISP... making it public that the ISP has a victom cancle policy would make people think twice before using that ISP. Leaving it with a bad name may have more damage than any lawsute could produce
I want ISPs considering this action to think about this... What actions are you willing to take to prevent a DoS attack? A user posts something on Usenet that is unpopulare.... For that he is targetted for a DoS.. You remove the user? Or do you hunt the DoS attacker? A user posts on usenet... regardless of content... is included in a spam mail bomb that nocks e-mail off-line do you remove the user for posting on usenet? A user sets up a website and his HTML skills (or lack there of) a spelling error.. the inclusion or omition of a technology... draws attack... Do you remove the user? The user uses IRC and refuses to use ICQ.. or visa versa.. makes him the target... What then? Maybe someone dosn't like Unix... or Windows... or MacOs... DoS the servers... Do you let DoS attacks deside your busness plan? Do you let DoS attacks pick your servers? Do you let DoS attacks pick your employees? If you answer no to all of the above you shouldn't let a DoS attack pick your custummers eather... If you say yes to just one of the preveous... then you shouldn't be in busness....
A DoS is an act of terrorisum and you never allow terrorists to run your life... If you do then shortly terrorists will deside your religion... and every aspect of your life... and even that will not be enough...
No ISP should cancle a persons account simply for being the victom of an attack...
An ISP can remove a person for his missconduct on-line. ISPs need not grant any free speech rights. But to remove a person for a violent reaction is unethical.. immortal.. and quite posably a breach of contract... Do you fear lawsutes less than DoS attacks?
Barbie is a girls name. Matels clame to the name should be restricted to Matels action figure type doll.
This dilution would effect Matels ability to create a Barbie first person shoter... Something that isn't likely to happen any time soon.
If Matels doll was named "Lora" then the group might be included to call themselfs "The Loras" or they may stuble accrost the name at random.
Or if Matel had named the doll "Sue" there are a number of soungs they could be suing. "A guy named sue" is one song that comes to mind.
The dilution exists becouse the name predates Matels product as the name of a person. Not in incredably commen name however that may be a matter of parents not wanting there children to be confused with a plastic toy.
Again... Matel should own the names rights compared to the product they allready make.
Also Trademark dose not give them ownership of the name like copyrights and patents. The trademark only grants controll. I can not use the name "Barbie" to produce my own action figures (in the United States, Mexico or the Moon.. it makes no diffrence.. I can not call it Barbie anyplace that recognises the trademark).
But "TheBarbies" are refering to the doll.. This is allowed... or they are refering to the fact that it's a girls name... also allowed due to pre-existing delusion.
Trade Mark dose not grant the right to control the context the name is used. Only what the name refers to. That is allready weak due to the fact that it is a girls name....
It is true they must fight dilution as they can not turn back the clock and undo the damage once it is done. However... the damage was done... and turnning back the clock is exactly what they are trying to do. The use of the name in this way dose not violate the trademark. It may strigthen it..... But the trademark holder would rather build up to a day when they can sue parents for naming there kids Barbie...
The question isn't can it be done but how to do it.
In that reguard you must accept that in some areas Linux will not be welcomed.
Moving from Windows to Linux means trainning every single user in an advanced system and this may not be a good idea. On the other hand it may also be an exelent idea. It depends on the office.
Linux won't give a cooshy move. On the other hand can it be done? Quite simply yes it can... In complexity (and in many cases unwarented complexity) Windows 3.11 at times is more complex than Linux. Unless a program contains it's own install pacage the user is left with installing software by hand.. or just running it by hand.
Yet it was Windows 3.11 not the later (and far easyer) 95 that took over the office. In many cases giving way to Dos and Unix only for Networking. Thus Windows for workgroups closed this problem. Becouse Win 3.11 required significent skill Mac was where Linux is.. feeding the market an alternitive holding ground where Microsoft fails.
A better solution might be a mix of systems rather than just one system....
Linux boxes for the advanced functions and Macs as data entry points. Mac unlike Windows talks to Unix with no effort. Allways has. Linux suports AppleTalk just to make things easyer. Thies two platforms do not present anywhere near the problems issued by trying to make Linux or Mac talk with Windows. Now for the fun part. Mac allready runs Microsoft office and Linux would be in areas where Microsoft compatability isn't an issue.
There should be no reason to use an all Linux system other than fears over mixing platforms. Mac dosn't go out of it's way to create problems. Nither dose Linux. You can also safely thrown in some BSD and Solarus boxes and not be affrade. Each has it's technical issues it's technical ups and technical downs...
Mix and match... There is no real need for a totally Linux solution... It can be done but it's the hard answer...
One of the things that eventually killed Commodore was the lack of apps for Amiga. Commodore pushed the Amiga as a gamming platform (at least in the United States) and pushed game develupers to port games. Word Perfict was one of the few apps that made it and the Amiga user base laffed it off (It wasn't much more than a Dos port and it showed.)
People who look at the age of Linux vs the age of the Amiga and use that as the only mesure of software available are fools.
Amiga software develupment dropped off after Commodore died (for a good reason) whats left was writen by Amiga fanatics. Linux has been around a bit longer than Amiga was "Alive" and the Amiga software base is probably now totally post death software. Dead systems don't attract develupers...
Linux however has a larg base of pre-birth software. Unix software to be exact. Linux addopted much of it's software from it's *nix legacy.
Also Linux attracts develupers much more than most living platforms. The community is coder friendly and if you wish you may code for many *nix systems at once. BSD and Solarus come to mind. Also much work is made to make it posable to write crossplatform code for Windows and MacOs as well... A very attractive prospect... one code base... many kick butt *nix systems a few non-*nix systems and a great deal of community support.
The shear number of Linux apps do in fact eclyps Amiga. This isn't importent... Amiga is a cool system and I suspect the reason many develupers continue to write code for the dead Amiga is simply to code on such a kick butt system. For a dead system Amiga has a pritty alive dev community.
I'm sure the new Amiga company is just drolling over the chance to move the Amiga dev community over to the new Amiga platform. They are also probably looking to the Linux community becouse it also has a very strong dev community and if they can get both Amiga and Linux dev communitys working on code for the new Amiga... The new Amiga could have more apps than even Windows in a very short span of time.... That really would kick....
Like an old girlfriend we'd like to see her come back but she never dose....
Even if we see an Amiga again it won't be the old girl we once knew but a totally new Amiga...
But the technology that made the Amiga soo attractive can be found many places today. The Amigas great selling point was co-processors. The load wasn't on the Amiga CPU. Today 3D rendering is so intense it is now left to a 3D graphics chip not the computer to take the load. The music cards today still don't take the full load for the music but then there isn't much speed lose due to it.
Macs and PCs are more and more including Amiga like technology. The Amiga is a name now...
instead of 2 or 3 I prefer the idea of just fully documenting formats and all system calls (all information needed to write code under Windows)
The programming documentation should be allowable under some liccensing fee... but the formats should be public documented... not gpl or bsd.... Public domain... No excluse for binding liccens that then dictates what one may do with the document...
If Microsoft selects to document it in souce code that will be totally acceptable.. but it must be public domain not under any liccens or restrictions...
GPL and BSD is to protect open source.. Microsoft dosn't have any intrest in protecting open source... there should be no reason to force that on them.
Your avrage 13 year old isn't likely to be a Napster user...
Napster is not any easyer than IRC with DCC or doing a WebSearch...
Napster is basicly a new RealPlayer type system.. It can be abused by people who have the bandwith... Both... What keeps RealPlayers audio from being CD quality is the bandwith... A person can offer CD quality over real player for DSL users... You could also just offer mp3s on your website.. (It would be FAR more effective.. thow up some banner ads to pay for the bandwith... then your making a proffit...)
It's theft but blaming Napster is a kin to calling a magnifying glass a tool made for arson... It'a a populare arson tool for 13 year olds but not anywhere near as effective as other tools..
The same with Napster...
It takes time to download stolen music and the user is likely to leave before your done...
I've done quite a bit of experements in this area reguarding Napster... Initally by mistake... grabbing commertal music by mistake.... eventually with intent to test to see if the conditions are continuous... They are...
I have a humble radio modem..
It appears that for Napster to be of any use you need an ISDN or better... At that point you don't need Napster... You could just download over a website or from an FTP or on IRC...
Napster is just a service for the free stuff...
It's like an MP3 that is on Napster... a commertal... It educates parents and teachers to make sure kids don't pirate software... Thats noble... The solution? Stop the kid form stealing commertal software? No stop the kid fron using ANYTHING free. Copying = Theft... The music industry is going the same way... All music is commertal so anything that makes it available is theft...
I can see the addatude of some free software advocates (NOT RMS sorry people... but he isn't the only free software advocate...) they are a bit off kilter... but not totally wrong...
For them it's like whores proclamming unpaid sex as rape. Now I have no problem with "The oldist profesion" but you know if anyone tryed to call consenual sex between lovers rape they'd be laffed at. (Not to be confused with forced sex between lovers...)
Now lets back it down a notch... Trying to sell software isn't whoring... But the anolog otherwise remains valid..
I knew a music artist whos band never did a single profesional recording in there lifes.... They never make money.. They record in the bathroom (The second one... "Happy otter" don't ask he never explainned) and give tapes away. It's all for fun...
No doput now a days he'd use Napster (if the band is still together)... (I should check)
There was a time when Xmodem and BBSes were for piracy... that the only use of a home computer was to break into busness and government systems. That BBSes were all about pedphiles. And on.. and on.. and on...
Someone sees something they dislike and then the computer world turns into the work of satan...
Someone included the image of a nade girl (woman?) in a software demo... There was a big stink about it being "pornography"... The image quality stunk... The programs greatest achevment.. you could accually tell she was nude...
Byond that.... forget it....
Someone finds out you can pirate music vea Napster and rases a stink... a bunch of people try it...
Hay... You know what... you can steal free music and sell it to the music industry... Is the music industry a system of music theft? A conspericy to repacage hobby artists work?
No... But the logic applyed to Napster would provide a diffrent answer...
Chances are no... Napster could sue but the names would probably not be thrown out. As I understand it this information remains valid no matter how it was obtainned. However Napster can sue anyone who volates it's use policy...
NetPD may not be revealing HOW they gathered this information and that could be holding Napster back. However refusing to reveal the source of the information makes it a paper of random names. In the short I think Napster would rather have random names in Matalicas hands than a lawsute against NetPD.
There remains the issue of purely counting file names.. I recently went on Napster (for the first time) and found the spoofs and "Free from hobbyist" type stuff easy to download... The commertal stuff ripped from CDs can not be downloaded... You can allmost allways tell if your downloading commertal stuff vs non-commertal stuff by the error code... the commertal stuff never dose download.
Napster looks allmost exactly like IRC (excluding from kNapster)... compleate with automatic DCC bots... only IRC has a greatter chance of downloading and dosn't give download statistics while Napster provides search options...
Also I noticed Napster will list files that are NOT being offered up at all. They are there but the user isn't offering them and they won't transmit... I don't know whats up with that or why but that puts a crimp in the whole Napster search..
Napster has certen technical advantages over IRC but in the long run Napster dosn't do well with larg files... AKA IP theft... It wasn't made for it...
Matalica may be in for a big class action if the bulk of those files are spoofs... Such is very likely....
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Slashdot is a conspericy to give Rob Malda power over open source and then he'll not use it.. proff Slashdot he has yet to accually use Slashdot to direct open source in any direction instead he flows with the accepted open source people, Linus, ESR, and RMS.
Once he has total power that he never accually uses it everyone is directed to fear his untrustworthlynes. Becouse Rob Malda can not be trusted.
Then as the world watches Rob Malda in fear and terror... RMS, ESR, Bruce, Mad Dog and Linus plan the total domination of the world.
ESR has allready gathered the wepons and is planning the world domination at the moment. RMS has the open source war lords ready for action. Linus is the backup distraction (disinformation when nessisary) Bruce organises the the effort to use the existing corprate world domination machine (put in place by many corprate overlords over from Ugg the closed source caveman [the arch nemisis of Ogg] to Steve Case of AoL) to the cause.
As we recognise the conspericy Rob Mada takes the brunt of the blame leaving everyone else free to finish the battle plans. Then once it is realised Rob is out of the look Linus takes an attack at that point Linus will be out of the loop and Rob will be stashed away in a secret hidding place.
Then people will realise Linus is out of the loop and attack RMS. At that point Linus will be stashed away at a secret hidding place and RMS will be out of the loop.
Then people will realise RMS is out of the loop and go frenzy on whomever is left to find they are all out of the loop leaving instead a secret agent yet to be named in charg. At that time RMS will be swepped away to a secret hidding place.
Then people will realise a secret overlord is in power the rest of the known open source overlords are sweepped away to a secret hidding place.
The secret overlord will finish his conquest only to have his identity discovered. However by this time he will not be in power. Instead the long forgotten Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda will be in charg from a secret hidden base. As the angry mob attacks the secret overlord they will find he has allready been sweeped away to a secret hidding place and is in safe protection.
There are safeguards in place to make sure each person releases power etc as planned. A secret illuminati who themselfs have no power observe and make sure everyone dose as planned.
Rob CmdrTaco Maldas girlfriend is not part of this plan as far as anyone knows however there is a strong likelyhood she may be the secret overloard who takes power for the last phase of the operation before giving power to Rob. However Hemos is also a likely canidate for the secret overlord.
We know it's someone close to Rob...
And in case your prepairing a counter attack.... Just so you know... Just becouse I am fair....
I am in charg of disinformation and everything above is a lie.....
Egyptians also used paper... it's in pritty bad shape today... We don't have durable information storage like stone... But Microfilm if properly treated should last a long time (acid free... to much microfilm isn't acid free... paper has the same issue... However people making the records usually do not want longevity... like books... think reprints... and I print my stuff on termal paper.. that dosn't last very long at all)
It's not all economics... Think Upgrades...
old Commodore 64s are dying becouse a programmable logic array is going "blank"... On PCs most PCs use eproms.. They last for so many years before going blank... The idea is they want to erase the chip and reprogram it when it comes time to upgrade.
Now... old computers used ROMs.. Some used proms but it comes out the same. Thies don't age. PROMs are burn once... ROMs arn't even burnt they are just constructed with the data image installed. ROMs and PROMs are cheapper and faster than eproms. But they can not be erased or reused.
Thats pritty much what is happening to old PCs.. the eprom bios is erasing itself...
Of course the original PCs used ROMs...
I rember the old trick of burnning your bios to PROMs to get a small bit of speed out of it. Like mirroring bios to ram only with out occupying ram..
I do at times take a step back when I hear how some technology is being used and say "Do they realise that chip isn't durable?" Some technology was created only for prototyping not for final products... Saving game scores in a EEPROM was one that allways bothered me....
Oh well... Companys have learnned the hard way durable = no return costummers.... if it dosn't die they don't buy a new one... the Atari 2600 was durable.... It's very likely the PS2 isn't...
>I don't know about other people's ideas, but I'd rather not have that kind of blood on my hands, you can count me out of this project.
While I agree with most of your premis... If I could crack this code then it's a good bet the person is allready dead. I guess I might be compelled to issue condolences to the famaly...
My guess is.... Each agent has his/her own lead code To make things hard many lead codes may be issued at once... Then wait for padding... then first code.. padding etc etc...
I am agent 31337... I wait for 31337... Now the leader padding is random so after 31337 is 69.. thats my next code... I wait for 69 to be uttered again...
In the mean time he also triggers 5150s code... his trigger is 42
69 Now my padding is 4 digits 42 His padding is 8 digits...
between my code and his code is random numbers selected by dice throws...
The code would be known base codes...
I have a diffrent basecode rule than dose 5150
Once we have our codes I cypher mine he cyphers his and the brodcaster is sending off other codes.. he triggers my code again... only now I've got my message for the day so I know this is a false tigger and ignore it...
Then I read my message.... My heart drops into my stummac...
It's an invalid message... the second trigger was for me... now I'm screwed....
Reason for messed up answers: I'm a tweek not a soldier
First scenario: Request a rescue squad (by name) bomb my position... And hope to hell rescue squads don't start carrying bombs.... Logic: Sence the enemy dosn't know who I'm refering to they think I'm asking to die and get the fuck away from my position. In the mean time the rescue comes.... Most likely result: Orders patched through and I get my bumm bombed to obivion... I never clamed to be a smart man in stressful situations....
>I purhcased OS/2 Warp and my friends thought I was nuts. "It's half an Operating System they said"
Better half an OS (OS/2) Than no os at all (Windows) My retort earnned me an early zelot lable. I was using a SysV system at the time... But I heard of this new hacker Os that got my intrest called Linux....:)
>don't go dissing the Win95 process/thread model. It kicks UNIX's all over the place.
Unix has no single process/thread model. Each system is unique. This allows for some absolutly brilent designs and some increadably horrific systems... For example some Unix systems let a program hijack the system.. The way some do in Win95....
I think to clarify... They want one source to answer questions. They want one company to tell them whats wrong.
Back when companys were plugging 15 diffrent systems into one LAN (And when Microsoft Windows couldn't network so any LAN solution included erasing Windows) they found that created to many problems and it was better to sit on one standard than have obscure conflicts with 15 diffrent systems.
Unless your an expert in all 15 systems you really can not affort to have them. Better to stick to the systems your most knowladgable in.
Thats just the way it is today.. and Microsoft had nothing to do with it...
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To many an ISP account is an identity...
To switch ISPs you must transfer that indentity
if your account is shut down on you.. this may not happen...
I'm ok with this as long as the person losing the account did something...
It dose not make perfict busness sence...
Do you wish to have your account pulled becouse you got DoSed?
Or better yet... to much spam...
This isn't good busness sence at all...
Now script kiddys know what to do when they want someone removed from the system...
They don't even have to provide an effective DoS.. An ineffective attack will do... eather way your eating bandwith... and thats all it takes...
As long as the ISP dose reactivate the account.
However the ISP should inform the user of what is going on...
In this case eather the ISP is not reactivating the account or the ISP is not telling the user what is going on...
Eather is bad...
Who is this mistory ISP...
making it public that the ISP has a victom cancle policy would make people think twice before using that ISP.
Leaving it with a bad name may have more damage than any lawsute could produce
I want ISPs considering this action to think about this...
What actions are you willing to take to prevent a DoS attack?
A user posts something on Usenet that is unpopulare.... For that he is targetted for a DoS.. You remove the user? Or do you hunt the DoS attacker?
A user posts on usenet... regardless of content... is included in a spam mail bomb that nocks e-mail off-line do you remove the user for posting on usenet?
A user sets up a website and his HTML skills (or lack there of) a spelling error.. the inclusion or omition of a technology... draws attack...
Do you remove the user?
The user uses IRC and refuses to use ICQ.. or visa versa.. makes him the target... What then?
Maybe someone dosn't like Unix... or Windows... or MacOs... DoS the servers...
Do you let DoS attacks deside your busness plan? Do you let DoS attacks pick your servers? Do you let DoS attacks pick your employees?
If you answer no to all of the above you shouldn't let a DoS attack pick your custummers eather... If you say yes to just one of the preveous... then you shouldn't be in busness....
A DoS is an act of terrorisum and you never allow terrorists to run your life...
If you do then shortly terrorists will deside your religion... and every aspect of your life... and even that will not be enough...
No ISP should cancle a persons account simply for being the victom of an attack...
An ISP can remove a person for his missconduct on-line. ISPs need not grant any free speech rights.
But to remove a person for a violent reaction is unethical.. immortal.. and quite posably a breach of contract...
Do you fear lawsutes less than DoS attacks?
Barbie is a girls name.
Matels clame to the name should be restricted to Matels action figure type doll.
This dilution would effect Matels ability to create a Barbie first person shoter... Something that isn't likely to happen any time soon.
If Matels doll was named "Lora" then the group might be included to call themselfs "The Loras" or they may stuble accrost the name at random.
Or if Matel had named the doll "Sue" there are a number of soungs they could be suing. "A guy named sue" is one song that comes to mind.
The dilution exists becouse the name predates Matels product as the name of a person. Not in incredably commen name however that may be a matter of parents not wanting there children to be confused with a plastic toy.
Again... Matel should own the names rights compared to the product they allready make.
Also Trademark dose not give them ownership of the name like copyrights and patents.
The trademark only grants controll.
I can not use the name "Barbie" to produce my own action figures (in the United States, Mexico or the Moon.. it makes no diffrence.. I can not call it Barbie anyplace that recognises the trademark).
But "TheBarbies" are refering to the doll.. This is allowed... or they are refering to the fact that it's a girls name... also allowed due to pre-existing delusion.
Trade Mark dose not grant the right to control the context the name is used. Only what the name refers to. That is allready weak due to the fact that it is a girls name....
It is true they must fight dilution as they can not turn back the clock and undo the damage once it is done.
However... the damage was done... and turnning back the clock is exactly what they are trying to do.
The use of the name in this way dose not violate the trademark. It may strigthen it..... But the trademark holder would rather build up to a day when they can sue parents for naming there kids Barbie...
>The average user doesn't know how to use Windows, that's why many tech support jobs exist.
:)
Intresting solution to the difficulty of Linux...
However I suspect most ITs wouldn't like it...
:)
However I'm ammused
The question isn't can it be done but how to do it.
In that reguard you must accept that in some areas Linux will not be welcomed.
Moving from Windows to Linux means trainning every single user in an advanced system and this may not be a good idea. On the other hand it may also be an exelent idea. It depends on the office.
Linux won't give a cooshy move.
On the other hand can it be done? Quite simply yes it can...
In complexity (and in many cases unwarented complexity) Windows 3.11 at times is more complex than Linux. Unless a program contains it's own install pacage the user is left with installing software by hand.. or just running it by hand.
Yet it was Windows 3.11 not the later (and far easyer) 95 that took over the office. In many cases giving way to Dos and Unix only for Networking. Thus Windows for workgroups closed this problem.
Becouse Win 3.11 required significent skill Mac was where Linux is.. feeding the market an alternitive holding ground where Microsoft fails.
A better solution might be a mix of systems rather than just one system....
Linux boxes for the advanced functions and Macs as data entry points. Mac unlike Windows talks to Unix with no effort. Allways has. Linux suports AppleTalk just to make things easyer.
Thies two platforms do not present anywhere near the problems issued by trying to make Linux or Mac talk with Windows.
Now for the fun part. Mac allready runs Microsoft office and Linux would be in areas where Microsoft compatability isn't an issue.
There should be no reason to use an all Linux system other than fears over mixing platforms.
Mac dosn't go out of it's way to create problems. Nither dose Linux.
You can also safely thrown in some BSD and Solarus boxes and not be affrade.
Each has it's technical issues it's technical ups and technical downs...
Mix and match...
There is no real need for a totally Linux solution...
It can be done but it's the hard answer...
One of the things that eventually killed Commodore was the lack of apps for Amiga.
Commodore pushed the Amiga as a gamming platform (at least in the United States) and pushed game develupers to port games.
Word Perfict was one of the few apps that made it and the Amiga user base laffed it off (It wasn't much more than a Dos port and it showed.)
People who look at the age of Linux vs the age of the Amiga and use that as the only mesure of software available are fools.
Amiga software develupment dropped off after Commodore died (for a good reason) whats left was writen by Amiga fanatics.
Linux has been around a bit longer than Amiga was "Alive" and the Amiga software base is probably now totally post death software. Dead systems don't attract develupers...
Linux however has a larg base of pre-birth software. Unix software to be exact. Linux addopted much of it's software from it's *nix legacy.
Also Linux attracts develupers much more than most living platforms. The community is coder friendly and if you wish you may code for many *nix systems at once. BSD and Solarus come to mind.
Also much work is made to make it posable to write crossplatform code for Windows and MacOs as well...
A very attractive prospect... one code base... many kick butt *nix systems a few non-*nix systems and a great deal of community support.
The shear number of Linux apps do in fact eclyps Amiga.
This isn't importent... Amiga is a cool system and I suspect the reason many develupers continue to write code for the dead Amiga is simply to code on such a kick butt system. For a dead system Amiga has a pritty alive dev community.
I'm sure the new Amiga company is just drolling over the chance to move the Amiga dev community over to the new Amiga platform.
They are also probably looking to the Linux community becouse it also has a very strong dev community and if they can get both Amiga and Linux dev communitys working on code for the new Amiga...
The new Amiga could have more apps than even Windows in a very short span of time....
That really would kick....
Amiga means girlfriend in spanish.
Like an old girlfriend we'd like to see her come back but she never dose....
Even if we see an Amiga again it won't be the old girl we once knew but a totally new Amiga...
But the technology that made the Amiga soo attractive can be found many places today.
The Amigas great selling point was co-processors. The load wasn't on the Amiga CPU.
Today 3D rendering is so intense it is now left to a 3D graphics chip not the computer to take the load.
The music cards today still don't take the full load for the music but then there isn't much speed lose due to it.
Macs and PCs are more and more including Amiga like technology.
The Amiga is a name now...
And a word... that means Girlfriend
instead of 2 or 3 I prefer the idea of just fully documenting formats and all system calls (all information needed to write code under Windows)
The programming documentation should be allowable under some liccensing fee...
but the formats should be public documented... not gpl or bsd.... Public domain...
No excluse for binding liccens that then dictates what one may do with the document...
If Microsoft selects to document it in souce code that will be totally acceptable.. but it must be public domain not under any liccens or restrictions...
GPL and BSD is to protect open source.. Microsoft dosn't have any intrest in protecting open source... there should be no reason to force that on them.
Your avrage 13 year old isn't likely to be a Napster user...
Napster is not any easyer than IRC with DCC or doing a WebSearch...
Napster is basicly a new RealPlayer type system.. It can be abused by people who have the bandwith... Both...
What keeps RealPlayers audio from being CD quality is the bandwith... A person can offer CD quality over real player for DSL users...
You could also just offer mp3s on your website..
(It would be FAR more effective.. thow up some banner ads to pay for the bandwith... then your making a proffit...)
It's theft but blaming Napster is a kin to calling a magnifying glass a tool made for arson...
It'a a populare arson tool for 13 year olds but not anywhere near as effective as other tools..
The same with Napster...
It takes time to download stolen music and the user is likely to leave before your done...
I've done quite a bit of experements in this area reguarding Napster... Initally by mistake... grabbing commertal music by mistake.... eventually with intent to test to see if the conditions are continuous...
They are...
I have a humble radio modem..
It appears that for Napster to be of any use you need an ISDN or better...
At that point you don't need Napster...
You could just download over a website or from an FTP or on IRC...
Napster is just a service for the free stuff...
It's like an MP3 that is on Napster... a commertal...
It educates parents and teachers to make sure kids don't pirate software...
Thats noble...
The solution? Stop the kid form stealing commertal software? No stop the kid fron using ANYTHING free. Copying = Theft...
The music industry is going the same way...
All music is commertal so anything that makes it available is theft...
I can see the addatude of some free software advocates (NOT RMS sorry people... but he isn't the only free software advocate...) they are a bit off kilter... but not totally wrong...
For them it's like whores proclamming unpaid sex as rape. Now I have no problem with "The oldist profesion" but you know if anyone tryed to call consenual sex between lovers rape they'd be laffed at. (Not to be confused with forced sex between lovers...)
Now lets back it down a notch... Trying to sell software isn't whoring... But the anolog otherwise remains valid..
I knew a music artist whos band never did a single profesional recording in there lifes....
They never make money.. They record in the bathroom (The second one... "Happy otter" don't ask he never explainned) and give tapes away.
It's all for fun...
No doput now a days he'd use Napster (if the band is still together)...
(I should check)
There was a time when Xmodem and BBSes were for piracy... that the only use of a home computer was to break into busness and government systems. That BBSes were all about pedphiles.
And on.. and on.. and on...
Someone sees something they dislike and then the computer world turns into the work of satan...
Someone included the image of a nade girl (woman?) in a software demo...
There was a big stink about it being "pornography"...
The image quality stunk... The programs greatest achevment.. you could accually tell she was nude...
Byond that.... forget it....
Someone finds out you can pirate music vea Napster and rases a stink... a bunch of people try it...
Hay... You know what... you can steal free music and sell it to the music industry...
Is the music industry a system of music theft?
A conspericy to repacage hobby artists work?
No...
But the logic applyed to Napster would provide a diffrent answer...
Chances are no...
Napster could sue but the names would probably not be thrown out.
As I understand it this information remains valid no matter how it was obtainned.
However Napster can sue anyone who volates it's use policy...
NetPD may not be revealing HOW they gathered this information and that could be holding Napster back. However refusing to reveal the source of the information makes it a paper of random names. In the short I think Napster would rather have random names in Matalicas hands than a lawsute against NetPD.
There remains the issue of purely counting file names..
I recently went on Napster (for the first time) and found the spoofs and "Free from hobbyist" type stuff easy to download...
The commertal stuff ripped from CDs can not be downloaded...
You can allmost allways tell if your downloading commertal stuff vs non-commertal stuff by the error code... the commertal stuff never dose download.
Napster looks allmost exactly like IRC (excluding from kNapster)... compleate with automatic DCC bots... only IRC has a greatter chance of downloading and dosn't give download statistics while Napster provides search options...
Also I noticed Napster will list files that are NOT being offered up at all. They are there but the user isn't offering them and they won't transmit... I don't know whats up with that or why but that puts a crimp in the whole Napster search..
Napster has certen technical advantages over IRC but in the long run Napster dosn't do well with larg files... AKA IP theft...
It wasn't made for it...
Matalica may be in for a big class action if the bulk of those files are spoofs...
Such is very likely....
Rember that Rob CmdrTaco Malda dosn't spell very well.
:)
So let me (The deity of typographical errors) translate... http://cassady.blockstackers.com/pics/navi/
Slashdot is a conspericy to give Rob Malda power over open source and then he'll not use it.. proff Slashdot he has yet to accually use Slashdot to direct open source in any direction instead he flows with the accepted open source people, Linus, ESR, and RMS.
Once he has total power that he never accually uses it everyone is directed to fear his untrustworthlynes. Becouse Rob Malda can not be trusted.
Then as the world watches Rob Malda in fear and terror... RMS, ESR, Bruce, Mad Dog and Linus plan the total domination of the world.
ESR has allready gathered the wepons and is planning the world domination at the moment. RMS has the open source war lords ready for action. Linus is the backup distraction (disinformation when nessisary) Bruce organises the the effort to use the existing corprate world domination machine (put in place by many corprate overlords over from Ugg the closed source caveman [the arch nemisis of Ogg] to Steve Case of AoL) to the cause.
As we recognise the conspericy Rob Mada takes the brunt of the blame leaving everyone else free to finish the battle plans. Then once it is realised Rob is out of the look Linus takes an attack at that point Linus will be out of the loop and Rob will be stashed away in a secret hidding place.
Then people will realise Linus is out of the loop and attack RMS. At that point Linus will be stashed away at a secret hidding place and RMS will be out of the loop.
Then people will realise RMS is out of the loop and go frenzy on whomever is left to find they are all out of the loop leaving instead a secret agent yet to be named in charg. At that time RMS will be swepped away to a secret hidding place.
Then people will realise a secret overlord is in power the rest of the known open source overlords are sweepped away to a secret hidding place.
The secret overlord will finish his conquest only to have his identity discovered. However by this time he will not be in power. Instead the long forgotten Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda will be in charg from a secret hidden base.
As the angry mob attacks the secret overlord they will find he has allready been sweeped away to a secret hidding place and is in safe protection.
There are safeguards in place to make sure each person releases power etc as planned. A secret illuminati who themselfs have no power observe and make sure everyone dose as planned.
Rob CmdrTaco Maldas girlfriend is not part of this plan as far as anyone knows however there is a strong likelyhood she may be the secret overloard who takes power for the last phase of the operation before giving power to Rob. However Hemos is also a likely canidate for the secret overlord.
We know it's someone close to Rob...
And in case your prepairing a counter attack....
Just so you know... Just becouse I am fair....
I am in charg of disinformation and everything above is a lie.....
Thank you for your time....
Egyptians also used paper... it's in pritty bad shape today...
We don't have durable information storage like stone... But Microfilm if properly treated should last a long time (acid free... to much microfilm isn't acid free... paper has the same issue... However people making the records usually do not want longevity... like books... think reprints... and I print my stuff on termal paper.. that dosn't last very long at all)
It's not all economics...
Think Upgrades...
old Commodore 64s are dying becouse a programmable logic array is going "blank"...
On PCs most PCs use eproms.. They last for so many years before going blank...
The idea is they want to erase the chip and reprogram it when it comes time to upgrade.
Now... old computers used ROMs.. Some used proms but it comes out the same. Thies don't age. PROMs are burn once... ROMs arn't even burnt they are just constructed with the data image installed.
ROMs and PROMs are cheapper and faster than eproms. But they can not be erased or reused.
Thats pritty much what is happening to old PCs.. the eprom bios is erasing itself...
Of course the original PCs used ROMs...
I rember the old trick of burnning your bios to PROMs to get a small bit of speed out of it.
Like mirroring bios to ram only with out occupying ram..
I do at times take a step back when I hear how some technology is being used and say "Do they realise that chip isn't durable?" Some technology was created only for prototyping not for final products...
Saving game scores in a EEPROM was one that allways bothered me....
Oh well...
Companys have learnned the hard way durable = no return costummers....
if it dosn't die they don't buy a new one...
the Atari 2600 was durable....
It's very likely the PS2 isn't...
> If you read the interview carefully, you'll find he avoids answering the questions he's asked.
This is a tactic recomended to me to deal with questions I don't have a preparied answer for.
I never took that advice BTW...
But this suggests to me Dickinson dose not understand the patent law issues...
Everyday numbers... Ohh thats soo 31337 and yet 5150.
Oh well... such as 42.... 69 If I know what the code could be
>I don't know about other people's ideas, but I'd rather not have that kind of blood on my hands, you can count me out of this project.
While I agree with most of your premis...
If I could crack this code then it's a good bet the person is allready dead.
I guess I might be compelled to issue condolences to the famaly...
I agree... that prise isn't going anyplace....
My guess is....
Each agent has his/her own lead code
To make things hard many lead codes may be issued at once... Then wait for padding... then first code.. padding etc etc...
I am agent 31337... I wait for 31337...
Now the leader padding is random so after 31337 is 69.. thats my next code... I wait for 69 to be uttered again...
In the mean time he also triggers 5150s code... his trigger is 42
69
Now my padding is 4 digits
42
His padding is 8 digits...
between my code and his code is random numbers selected by dice throws...
The code would be known base codes...
I have a diffrent basecode rule than dose 5150
Once we have our codes I cypher mine he cyphers his and the brodcaster is sending off other codes.. he triggers my code again... only now I've got my message for the day so I know this is a false tigger and ignore it...
Then I read my message....
My heart drops into my stummac...
It's an invalid message... the second trigger was for me... now I'm screwed....
Reason for messed up answers: I'm a tweek not a soldier
First scenario: Request a rescue squad (by name) bomb my position... And hope to hell rescue squads don't start carrying bombs....
Logic: Sence the enemy dosn't know who I'm refering to they think I'm asking to die and get the fuck away from my position. In the mean time the rescue comes....
Most likely result: Orders patched through and I get my bumm bombed to obivion...
I never clamed to be a smart man in stressful situations....
Second: No... Document the process... No...
>I purhcased OS/2 Warp and my friends thought I was nuts. "It's half an Operating System they said"
:)
Better half an OS (OS/2) Than no os at all (Windows)
My retort earnned me an early zelot lable.
I was using a SysV system at the time...
But I heard of this new hacker Os that got my intrest called Linux....
Maybe the coughs and sneases are part of the code?
:)
:)
Or... maybe they are the code...
sorry My brain is over active
sounds intresting...
then years from now we'll find out it's a massive conspericy by a time travler to get a slashdot story about him...
"yes I was Slashdoted before I was born... back in the CmdrTaco days..."
beware time travler I'm on to you
(I admit it... I'm pathetic)
>don't go dissing the Win95 process/thread model. It kicks UNIX's all over the place.
Unix has no single process/thread model.
Each system is unique.
This allows for some absolutly brilent designs and some increadably horrific systems...
For example some Unix systems let a program hijack the system.. The way some do in Win95....
And IBMs OS/2 had threading before 1995
I think to clarify...
They want one source to answer questions.
They want one company to tell them whats wrong.
Back when companys were plugging 15 diffrent systems into one LAN (And when Microsoft Windows couldn't network so any LAN solution included erasing Windows) they found that created to many problems and it was better to sit on one standard than have obscure conflicts with 15 diffrent systems.
Unless your an expert in all 15 systems you really can not affort to have them. Better to stick to the systems your most knowladgable in.
Thats just the way it is today.. and Microsoft had nothing to do with it...