I think profit is the wrong word... Not being able to send files to my client from my home office had a direct monetary impact on me; profit != livelihood.
I'm not an AT&T customer. But my experience with Shaw is a good example of how bad decisions yield bad implemenetations that mess people up.
I am a small business user that hosted all email etc on site out of my home office. Mail started bouncing outbound. I still received mail, but I couldn't send it. After talking with various target sites, and man you wouldn't believe how hard it is to get to talk to a person on the inside of i.e. Yahoo!, I went through the stages of ensuring I had RDNS set up right, my DNS MX records were right, and I had valid SPF records. But none of it worked... I should have figured it out sooner, but it wasn't a connection refused as the error from my mail server said, no connection was being made. My ISP had starting blocking all outbound port 25 traffic on all residential routers without notifying them. But I was a business user... behind a residential router. So the had me go in, get a new modem, and they forced me to swap my static IP to a new one...
Then the fun really started. The new IP was in a range that the ISP had published as dynamic! So all the RBL lists and spam blockers had me black and/or grey listed. It took 3 weeks of systematically contacting each of them, AND hassling my ISP to follow RDNS convention for static IP on their block, and again getting my ISP to pass through to me (as I did my own DNS) for RDNS.
I still get bounced from a bunch of mail servers.
Anyway, arbitrarily block ports is bad. They SHOULD monitor traffic...
The trouble is MS doesn't play fair. They, as I understand it, do not indemnify nor release against future action. So, having such an agreement hand is effectively an admission of guilt if MS were to ever charge a partner with infraction, that they have done in the past.
Have been doing this as long as there has been networking... and there are quite a few that have "really deep pockets" and tons of "prior art" to squish this - perhaps the legal folks at Ma Bell will go on a rampage.
Mix a few words around and you have locating a computer in a building based on its network address, corporate yellow pages, and a floor map...
Which is what we did in colledge 30 years ago to see what cute chick was sitting at that terminal.
Reading between the lines of your post is something that I think a lot of people aren't aware of.
This is Walt's event. Everything Digital is all about Walt. You might as well call this Walt Expo. And that truly shows not only the power of media, but the complete lack of integrity in events such as this.
It's not that I don't like Walt. I think he is irrelevant. I disagree with most everything he writes - but most of all I disagree with a presentation he puts forward that He represents specific technical camps. Anyone who repeatedly claims to know what consumers, the average users, or business wants, is a prophetic charlatan.
Every company I've worked in over the last 20 years has had a Microsoft cult; those same cults clamour for the homogeneous platform, certification, tools, ad nauseum. I've fought with so many of these cults to the detriment of projects its made me loose my passion for technology.
You're right. Its almost exactly the direction Sun's taken with Java, and this is why Microsoft is doing it. Its a marketting/mindshare thing, not a utility thing.
Cookie is sent on request to a web server. Its sent back to a client on response. Disabling javascript doesn't do much with a cookie except obliterate the capability to create a cookie client side via javascript. A lot of apps don't do this. They send you your cookie which you return on subsequent requests.
You don't do splits like that. You attempt to reverse to match the "real" value of the company or destroy position via a 100/1 1000/1 type split. Trying to get the value to a buck doesn't help you in the long run (as there will be a dip in price after a split so you give a big buffer.)
C'mon. Anyone who misuses root access and a position of authority such as sysadmin to delete a term paper of someone who disagress with them and is subsequently fired by the university who needs to send the police after him to retrieve server room keys MUST be an authority on authority.
This story demonstrates the strength of science and the evolution theory. Science is obligated to examine and correct itself based on evidence and this evidence doesn't shake evolution one bit.
And creationism demands blind faith to discount fact, history, and science. Who is to say that the creationists are wrong, because by their definition you cannot argue with them:-)
Microsoft bought Fox to kill FoxPro as it was one of two solid database solutions for MacOS, and it was competition to Access. Within a year of the acquisition, all the Fox developers were on the bench or gone. I remember, 1997?, no one was actively on the project.
You can't because its much deeper than that. For the most part, the IT work force is a contract work force. The people who manage it are "lifers" with big companies that find a home on a broken promotion path. That's why you get so many people from finance, or engineering, or whatever in positions of management. They're employees. I've known engineers that didn't want to get promoted... but usually take the job anyway because they become too expensive for whatever they do, but the company doesn't want to loose whatever mythical expertise or knowledge they have.
So... fixing it means the corporate mind set needs to change from IT being a disposal work force to indisposable...
I'm a real person. I was also an avid Apple/Mac type, and a developer for almost 10 years. I also had a NeXT, Rhapsody, 10 through.3... and I don't use MacOS on a daily basis. I rarely if every power on my Macs anymore. Most of my machines run 2k or xp. But I also have linux and solaris going... not my desktop machines.
FTA "[Prevents company from] lay claim to basic computing procedures that in the final analysis are trivial."
And, FAT is a trivial format, (as are Apple DOS 16, ProDOS, CODOS, and other ancient formats) but FAT has the caveat it is commonly used today in devices such as digital cameras (So pfffft on the person who said its not used.)
I completely agree with the german PO that a patent has to be on something innovative and inventive. Every time I see a patent for a double-linked list or radix sort I get the shivers.
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I think profit is the wrong word... Not being able to send files to my client from my home office had a direct monetary impact on me; profit != livelihood.
...who get impacted by arbitrary port filtering.
I'm not an AT&T customer. But my experience with Shaw is a good example of how bad decisions yield bad implemenetations that mess people up.
I am a small business user that hosted all email etc on site out of my home office. Mail started bouncing outbound. I still received mail, but I couldn't send it. After talking with various target sites, and man you wouldn't believe how hard it is to get to talk to a person on the inside of i.e. Yahoo!, I went through the stages of ensuring I had RDNS set up right, my DNS MX records were right, and I had valid SPF records. But none of it worked... I should have figured it out sooner, but it wasn't a connection refused as the error from my mail server said, no connection was being made. My ISP had starting blocking all outbound port 25 traffic on all residential routers without notifying them. But I was a business user... behind a residential router. So the had me go in, get a new modem, and they forced me to swap my static IP to a new one...
Then the fun really started. The new IP was in a range that the ISP had published as dynamic! So all the RBL lists and spam blockers had me black and/or grey listed. It took 3 weeks of systematically contacting each of them, AND hassling my ISP to follow RDNS convention for static IP on their block, and again getting my ISP to pass through to me (as I did my own DNS) for RDNS.
I still get bounced from a bunch of mail servers.
Anyway, arbitrarily block ports is bad. They SHOULD monitor traffic...
The trouble is MS doesn't play fair. They, as I understand it, do not indemnify nor release against future action. So, having such an agreement hand is effectively an admission of guilt if MS were to ever charge a partner with infraction, that they have done in the past.
... its effectively an admission of guilt. Would anyone sign an agreement saying "I'm guilty of unspecified crimes"?
Have been doing this as long as there has been networking... and there are quite a few that have "really deep pockets" and tons of "prior art" to squish this - perhaps the legal folks at Ma Bell will go on a rampage.
Mix a few words around and you have locating a computer in a building based on its network address, corporate yellow pages, and a floor map...
Which is what we did in colledge 30 years ago to see what cute chick was sitting at that terminal.
Guess they don't check for typos.
...that Hollywood movies these days suck? Has there been anything worth the bother?
Reading between the lines of your post is something that I think a lot of people aren't aware of.
This is Walt's event. Everything Digital is all about Walt. You might as well call this Walt Expo. And that truly shows not only the power of media, but the complete lack of integrity in events such as this.
It's not that I don't like Walt. I think he is irrelevant. I disagree with most everything he writes - but most of all I disagree with a presentation he puts forward that He represents specific technical camps. Anyone who repeatedly claims to know what consumers, the average users, or business wants, is a prophetic charlatan.
And the weak minded attack the individual as opposed to the argument. What level of government are you in?
Every company I've worked in over the last 20 years has had a Microsoft cult; those same cults clamour for the homogeneous platform, certification, tools, ad nauseum. I've fought with so many of these cults to the detriment of projects its made me loose my passion for technology.
You're right. Its almost exactly the direction Sun's taken with Java, and this is why Microsoft is doing it. Its a marketting/mindshare thing, not a utility thing.
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javascript != cookies
Cookie is sent on request to a web server. Its sent back to a client on response. Disabling javascript doesn't do much with a cookie except obliterate the capability to create a cookie client side via javascript. A lot of apps don't do this. They send you your cookie which you return on subsequent requests.
You don't do splits like that. You attempt to reverse to match the "real" value of the company or destroy position via a 100/1 1000/1 type split. Trying to get the value to a buck doesn't help you in the long run (as there will be a dip in price after a split so you give a big buffer.)
C'mon. Anyone who misuses root access and a position of authority such as sysadmin to delete a term paper of someone who disagress with them and is subsequently fired by the university who needs to send the police after him to retrieve server room keys MUST be an authority on authority.
Subpixel rendering was covered by Apple][ patents decades before. Why SuSE would bother disabling ClearType is beyond me.
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'nuff said.
It doesn't matter, because as in other spheres, the Steak and Lobster Dinners will start as companies lobby to have their patents realized.
This story demonstrates the strength of science and the evolution theory. Science is obligated to examine and correct itself based on evidence and this evidence doesn't shake evolution one bit.
:-)
And creationism demands blind faith to discount fact, history, and science. Who is to say that the creationists are wrong, because by their definition you cannot argue with them
crazy Nasa pilot[tes] can fit into my space suit? And is there a back door?
I disagree. A local politican and his wife here got Hr. degrees from our university, and now they get around calling themselves Dr.
Honarary degrees are abhorent and marginalize anyone who actually Earned their degree.
Microsoft bought Fox to kill FoxPro as it was one of two solid database solutions for MacOS, and it was competition to Access. Within a year of the acquisition, all the Fox developers were on the bench or gone. I remember, 1997?, no one was actively on the project.
You can't because its much deeper than that. For the most part, the IT work force is a contract work force. The people who manage it are "lifers" with big companies that find a home on a broken promotion path. That's why you get so many people from finance, or engineering, or whatever in positions of management. They're employees. I've known engineers that didn't want to get promoted... but usually take the job anyway because they become too expensive for whatever they do, but the company doesn't want to loose whatever mythical expertise or knowledge they have.
So... fixing it means the corporate mind set needs to change from IT being a disposal work force to indisposable...
I'm a real person. I was also an avid Apple/Mac type, and a developer for almost 10 years. I also had a NeXT, Rhapsody, 10 through .3... and I don't use MacOS on a daily basis. I rarely if every power on my Macs anymore. Most of my machines run 2k or xp. But I also have linux and solaris going... not my desktop machines.
FTA "[Prevents company from] lay claim to basic computing procedures that in the final analysis are trivial."
And, FAT is a trivial format, (as are Apple DOS 16, ProDOS, CODOS, and other ancient formats) but FAT has the caveat it is commonly used today in devices such as digital cameras (So pfffft on the person who said its not used.)
I completely agree with the german PO that a patent has to be on something innovative and inventive. Every time I see a patent for a double-linked list or radix sort I get the shivers.
Consider when Bill had billions and it puts it in perspective. Bill didn't start active philanthropy until a couple years after his mother died from cancer. And she was big UnitedWay board member. (So... '96, Bill became a Billionaire in '87.)