It's not a 30 mile trip to your ISP. It's a 1000 meter trip to your PBX. And all the cables leading up to your house are better than the ones inside it.
I had a 50 foot crummy telephone cable running from our one phone jack to our DSL modem. Whenever someone began a phone call, the DSL connection would die for 30 seconds. I was whining about it here, on/., and someone who seemed to know what they were talking about said that could be due to an excessively long telephone cable leading to the DSL modem.
Maybe it'd have been ok if we used a 50 foot coax cable.
If Earthlink did that, they'd be making editorial decisions about the material they were making available. They would no longer be a communications carrier, but rather a publisher. This would open them to huge liability, and Sony would not cover that expense.
There are private places where speech is protected because it could cause civil liability. Weirdly enough.
wtf are you talking about? I'm not sneering at whatsisbucket over his invention. I'm not sneering at him over the regrettable business mistake that left him without compensation for his invention.
I'm sneering at someone who proposes a special tax in this one particular case to benefit this one particular guy. The dude isn't even asking for our money.
sbin is executable by all users. sbin contains stuff like cp, ls, mv, and sh, that are totally necessary for any use of the system. I'm not totally positive what the reasoning is, but it's not root-only.
As Macaulay said in 1841 (the example of Milton's granddaughter):
If, Sir, I wished to find a strong and perfect illustration of the effects which I anticipate from long copyright, I should select,--my honourable and learned friend will be surprised,--I should select the case of Milton's granddaughter. As often as this bill has been under discussion, the fate of Milton's granddaughter has been brought forward by the advocates of monopoly. My honourable and learned friend has repeatedly told the story with great eloquence and effect. He has dilated on the sufferings, on the abject poverty, of this ill-fated woman, the last of an illustrious race. He tells us that, in the extremity of her distress, Garrick gave her a benefit, that Johnson wrote a prologue, and that the public contributed some hundreds of pounds. Was it fit, he asks, that she should receive, in this eleemosynary form, a small portion of what was in truth a debt? Why, he asks, instead of obtaining a pittance from charity, did she not live in comfort and luxury on the proceeds of the sale of her ancestor's works? But, Sir, will my honourable and learned friend tell me that this event, which he has so often and so pathetically described, was caused by the shortness of the term of copyright? Why, at that time, the duration of copyright was longer than even he, at present, proposes to make it. The monopoly lasted, not sixty years, but for ever. At the time at which Milton's granddaughter asked charity, Milton's works were the exclusive property of a bookseller. Within a few months of the day on which the benefit was given at Garrick's theatre, the holder of the copyright of Paradise Lost,--I think it was Tonson,--applied to the Court of Chancery for an injunction against a bookseller who had published a cheap edition of the great epic poem, and obtained the injunction. The representation of Comus was, if I remember rightly, in 1750; the injunction in 1752. Here, then, is a perfect illustration of the effect of long copyright. Milton's works are the property of a single publisher. Everybody who wants them must buy them at Tonson's shop, and at Tonson's price. Whoever attempts to undersell Tonson is harassed with legal proceedings. Thousands who would gladly possess a copy of Paradise Lost, must forego that great enjoyment. And what, in the meantime, is the situation of the only person for whom we can suppose that the author, protected at such a cost to the public, was at all interested? She is reduced to utter destitution. Milton's works are under a monopoly. Milton's granddaughter is starving. The reader is pillaged; but the writer's family is not enriched. Society is taxed doubly. It has to give an exorbitant price for the poems; and it has at the same time to give alms to the only surviving descendant of the poet.
There's no proper change to patent law that would give this guy cash. No matter what, someone would have taken his patent just the same, and left him just as poor.
That said, I didn't rtfa. But I highly doubt there's any legislative way we could have made this guy get real paid.
This post is complete bullshit. Whoever modded it up is an idiot. The supplied link has an article written in 2001. I highly doubt that it has any speculation about results pulled the other day.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. I have naked pictures of a bunch of my friends. If I get model releases, do they want pictures of my friends' junk?
Using NASA's figures (link from the story): impact velocity 12.59 km/s, diameter 0.390 km, mass 7.9e+10 kg
Guestimating volume if it's a sphere is (4 / 3) * pi * (((0.390/2) km)^3) = 31 059 355.8 m^3 (calc)
Guestimating density if it's a sphere is (7.9e+10 kg) / ((4 / 3) * pi * (((0.390/2) km)^3)) ~= 2540 kg / m^3 (calc), which is necessary for the calculator, and looks like a reasonable figure.
Totally guessing impact angle of 45 degrees.
I'm sure they actually have a decent fix on what part of the Earth it would hit. And a pretty decent guess of the angle of impact, too.
The low impact velocity means no fireball, apparently, and very little immediate effect once you get a few hundred miles away. It looks like this calculator doesn't mention the potential for tidal waves, though. Dunno what about that. And dunno if it's ignoring potential climate effects.
2) There are many reasons this tool could be banned, as it could theoretically be used to interfere with or listen in on radio transmissions that are now protected via FCC regulation of devices.
3) The FCC allowing the public to use a few bands relatively freely does not prevent them from regulating other bands very strictly.
4) The last sentence incites a very pertinent discussion, although the "terrorist" statement was unnecessary.
If dude above doesn't get back to you, I'll open you a/. account if you like.
Hit me at dojothemouse@mac.com with your email address, and desired nick (and perhaps a backup or two, in case they're taken). I'll give you a starter password.
Uh, no. It's because the current user tends to be an administrator and for no other reason. If you're properly set up and not running as a local administrator, then none of these IE exploits hose your system.
I don't know why you got modded flamebait. This is exactly the remaining reason that IE is insecure. But my point was that that is due to bugs rather than insecure by design. Firefox has had a few of those too. Between bugs, they're tied.
And approximately as useful as Firefox, with respect to ActiveX-requiring sites. Anything else can probably be rendered equally well by the two of them... Incidentally, how do you plan on running Windows Update without ActiveX?
Glad we're on the same page.
I had to manually lower security settings on a computer to get to a Flash game the other day. I think this comp had SP2 installed, and the installer got a bit overexcited.
Whoops. This security thing starts breaking down when you turn it off.
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I've got 768 MB RAM. I'll still trade you for that tibook.
Then can I please trade you my 600 mHz iBook for whatever computer you are using to run Word on OS X?
It's not a 30 mile trip to your ISP. It's a 1000 meter trip to your PBX. And all the cables leading up to your house are better than the ones inside it.
/., and someone who seemed to know what they were talking about said that could be due to an excessively long telephone cable leading to the DSL modem.
I had a 50 foot crummy telephone cable running from our one phone jack to our DSL modem. Whenever someone began a phone call, the DSL connection would die for 30 seconds. I was whining about it here, on
Maybe it'd have been ok if we used a 50 foot coax cable.
Not gonna go read your essay, friend, but...
If Earthlink did that, they'd be making editorial decisions about the material they were making available. They would no longer be a communications carrier, but rather a publisher. This would open them to huge liability, and Sony would not cover that expense.
There are private places where speech is protected because it could cause civil liability. Weirdly enough.
This one's worse.
Fucking lawyers.
wtf are you talking about? I'm not sneering at whatsisbucket over his invention. I'm not sneering at him over the regrettable business mistake that left him without compensation for his invention.
I'm sneering at someone who proposes a special tax in this one particular case to benefit this one particular guy. The dude isn't even asking for our money.
You've made a bit of a leap.
That's not what I mean. Our MTA is fine. If we would like to receive mail from Lotus Notes users, though, we can't use greylisting.
...
I see about 6 junk messages a month to my account.
And you see about 0 messages from Lotus Notes users. I think we'll roll out greylisting at our company later.
sbin is executable by all users. sbin contains stuff like cp, ls, mv, and sh, that are totally necessary for any use of the system. I'm not totally positive what the reasoning is, but it's not root-only.
And then we'd be paying twice: once for his patent, and twice for alms.
Should we make special laws for everyone who makes business mistakes?
That said, I didn't rtfa. But I highly doubt there's any legislative way we could have made this guy get real paid.
This post is complete bullshit. Whoever modded it up is an idiot. The supplied link has an article written in 2001. I highly doubt that it has any speculation about results pulled the other day.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. I have naked pictures of a bunch of my friends. If I get model releases, do they want pictures of my friends' junk?
At no point were there two options, one being to liberate the Iraqis, and one being to let them suffer.
Wait a second. That couldn't possibly be a false dichotomy.
WHY, YES. YES IT COULD.
Using NASA's figures (link from the story): impact velocity 12.59 km/s, diameter 0.390 km, mass 7.9e+10 kg
Guestimating volume if it's a sphere is (4 / 3) * pi * (((0.390/2) km)^3) = 31 059 355.8 m^3 (calc)
Guestimating density if it's a sphere is (7.9e+10 kg) / ((4 / 3) * pi * (((0.390/2) km)^3)) ~= 2540 kg / m^3 (calc), which is necessary for the calculator, and looks like a reasonable figure.
Totally guessing impact angle of 45 degrees.
I'm sure they actually have a decent fix on what part of the Earth it would hit. And a pretty decent guess of the angle of impact, too.
The low impact velocity means no fireball, apparently, and very little immediate effect once you get a few hundred miles away. It looks like this calculator doesn't mention the potential for tidal waves, though. Dunno what about that. And dunno if it's ignoring potential climate effects.
1) This nothing to do with HAM radio.
2) There are many reasons this tool could be banned, as it could theoretically be used to interfere with or listen in on radio transmissions that are now protected via FCC regulation of devices.
3) The FCC allowing the public to use a few bands relatively freely does not prevent them from regulating other bands very strictly.
4) The last sentence incites a very pertinent discussion, although the "terrorist" statement was unnecessary.
5) You are a jackass.
Wait... there are women who read slashdot?
;)
And gay men too. Assume away, smart guy
Crap.
Thanks.
The G5 is a 970. The 970 is a G5.
The Power5 is not a 970. They scaled down the Power5 to make the 970.
I'm on the correct side. If both those comments were equally horseshit, then it's news to me.
Er, again, logged in:
/. account if you like.
If dude above doesn't get back to you, I'll open you a
Hit me at dojothemouse@mac.com with your email address, and desired nick (and perhaps a backup or two, in case they're taken). I'll give you a starter password.
Hrm. Maybe I'll advertise this in my sig.
Uh, no. It's because the current user tends to be an administrator and for no other reason. If you're properly set up and not running as a local administrator, then none of these IE exploits hose your system.
IE exploits are not kernel exploits.
I don't know why you got modded flamebait. This is exactly the remaining reason that IE is insecure. But my point was that that is due to bugs rather than insecure by design. Firefox has had a few of those too. Between bugs, they're tied.
And approximately as useful as Firefox, with respect to ActiveX-requiring sites. Anything else can probably be rendered equally well by the two of them ... Incidentally, how do you plan on running Windows Update without ActiveX?
Glad we're on the same page.
I had to manually lower security settings on a computer to get to a Flash game the other day. I think this comp had SP2 installed, and the installer got a bit overexcited.
Whoops. This security thing starts breaking down when you turn it off.