I guess these were cahiers checks.... From my understanding they are almost as good as cash really except made out to a person. When you get one drawn up, the money leaves your account instantly as you're tranfering one type of paper to another in effect. Safer than mailing cash as not anyone can cash them. This is my understanding of it but I'm from the UK so this is the uk version of thing, still spelt checks your way though.
Still, you would expect the checks to be cashed before the seller shipped anyway, you aren't going to smell a rat until a week or so after its been cashed and you have no laptop. Credit cards are alway the best way to buy anything online and if the seller doesn't take CC or paypal (or something similar) when dealing through ebay, alram bells should be ringing if its for an expensive item.
I'd certainly not let this Eric bloke anywhere near it either given that this is his second statement on the web page:
"Claimant must sign an agreement surrendering any and all rights to legal action against Eric Krieg or other participating person or agency, so far as may be legally done under present statutes, in regard to injury, accident, or any other damage of a physical or emotional nature or financial or professional loss of any kind. "
$10,000 is not really alot seems that he tries to give himself the right to run off with the invention & market it himself.
Wouldn't work I guess but might be what he's up to.
Its a nice post and please don't take offence but there is one thing that my little brain found really funny:
"Then, these functionary-types sift through all these filtered responses, and place them in about a dozen separate stacks, from vehemently against to completely for, and everything in-between".
Its the in-between bit; someone saw the issue and thought, well fuck I don't actually know, I have no option on this at all, I better write.
I have question here: From an outsiders point of view these German "Abmahnungen" seem like a really bad idea as they can be abused by scum like this lawyer. Why do they still exist? I guess there is a real good reason but if it means that normal people making a tiny mistake in classified ads or hobby coders get fucked by gready selfserving lawyers, the possitive side would have to be large. I'm sorry if this is a simplistic view, I don't have the whole picture by a long way so I have to ask our German readers, what are the possitives and are people in Germany annoyed by the Abmahnungen lawyers picking on the little guy?
What a bunch of arse and it got modded up, *sigh*. Using private address space will stop end systems being reached from outside the network sometimes* but script kiddies generally attack servers anyway. What about systems that need to be reached, ermm lets take/. as an example? If only checkpoint or the ipchains programmers etc had seen your enlightening post before they bothered eh?
*IP contains a method to define a path through a network called source routing, even using private address space it is possible to tell the routers in between how to get to the destination. This method gets around the fact that private address space is not (should not) be held in global routing tables as you tell the router how to get to the destination and not to look it up. Also realise that the fact that a 3rd party, that is *outside* your control, do not carry a route is a not valid security method. Note that turning off source-routing is simple however most admins don't know about it let alone turn it off.
There isn't really a problem with what you are doing, the only thing I don't really like about doing this is the management aspects when the implimentation gets a little large. More on that in a bit but first, technically, the golden rule here is as long as these addresses are of course unique and stay in your own AS you'd be fine, I'd personally go one further and would keep them only in your IGP just to be safe in case someone screws your bgp filters etc.
I'm a CCIE and been networking 11 years now, 6 with Cisco and I'd only do this is if I really had too and here's why: management of address space. I'm sure (hope) your management of all your public address space is organised and clear. Furthermore nobody would dream of adding a box to the network with a public address without asking you or another admin who would assign one, which case you would go to your speadsheet (or QIP / another tool), allocate one and record the details. With private address space people tend to just add boxes and subnets and pick an address from random out of the air. This is where time consuming issues come about with overlapping address space. If your network is going to stay small and you have full control over all the addresses then you shouldn't have much of a problem but if the network is going to grow a larger, think about the extra admin you might have to do and also if you were to be hit by a bus would the next guy understand it.
You have some cisco semi-hacks to help you out also such as unnumbered links and also note/31 subnets are available in newer IOS revisions. At the end of the day I don't know how large you're network and it's exact design, its your choice at the end of the day, just make sure it won't bite you in the ass in the future.
A lot of good points, MP3.com is good for music and the people running it now do a good job the only thing I was trying (not very well I'll admit) to say is that this is being done to get some sucker VCs. MP3.com was never about the music for Robbertson it was looking as something popular to jump on to (he had the doamin as you say before he even knew what it was). Beam-it was really an easy way to pirate music though, yeap you had to own the CD to add it too your locker but there were some mega accounts going around where a load of people shared the password and all "uploaded" their CDs. Login to the acount and you could download everyone elses music, not MP3.coms fault but it was real easy.
I wonder if he knows what he's getting into this time, selling Linux that runs Win software is a real narrow road to walk, one side you've got Microsoft and the other the Linux nutters. I hope he isn't just in this for a quick buck also but I just can't see this being done in the timeframe and the media hype is a bit too much. Certainly going to entertaining to watch
Just a media stunt. Don't fall for this crap.... Its away of getting press, the David Vs Goliath fight always makes news. This guy has had enough legal problems in the past and I'm sure has a legal team close by so WHY would he name his product such that it would be bound to get the back up of one of the worlds richest companies.
"he subtly taunted the big record labels (and they eventually sued as well)."
Any they won and he slid off to something else, he jumped on the mp3 bandwagon (and I'm sure helped to tarnish the use of MP3s as nothing but piracy) and now he's on to Linux's trying to make a quick buck from some VC suckers. This will do nothing but harm to Linux I'm sure of that.
I'll make a prediction here that in a few months nobody on slashdot will commend this guy for anything, he will fuck over a few large open source projects for sure, kick up a dust storm and leave for the next hyped product. I wonder if he flipped a coin between starting up making a Linux product and a two wheeled scooter that balanced its self.
Yes it does, its the first thing I thought about when I saw the site and that thought is getting stronger everytime I something from Lindows. I'm sure if this does ever get released that it will cause a lot of trouble in the community. Just a feeling, lets see what happens.
Hey, check your facts before posting about kmail please. Kmail will *not* go out to the net for anything in a mail message, it does render html (disabled by default) but only html contained within the message and images contained as attachments.
I'm British but live in Holland right now but I still have to go with ostiguy on this one. Moving around in europe is no where near as easy as it is in the states for one simple reason, the language barriers. Yes, people do speak English and this is especially true of most the working population in Holland but a lot of companies still operate mainly in Dutch hence, job advertisiments require Dutch speakers. In comparison, you never see job ads in the states "must have New York accent".
OK, I think this is just made up and not based on seaches at all. I think we all know that if this was based on search engine queries it would look something like this:
January to December: porn & warez.
Yet neither school girl wet slut lesbians or crack whore dick suckers gets a look in for the whole year.
Hmmm... I saw one of these a month or so ago in Amsterdam airport connected to a ps one, can't remember who made it but it looked exactly the same but white and cost the same also. Quality is an issue, I notice on IGN they don't show any good quality stills of the thing in action but just a quick time movie from a distance, there is good reason forn this. Then again its is portable I supose but I recommend you check the thing out in person if you are interested in one and don't just order it from the web without seeeing it in real life.
One other possibility could be to use it for an in car movie/GPS etc dislay when hooked up to a PC in the trunk?
I wonder if there is a way of powering the camera using the balls own inertia? Kinda like the wrist watches that don't use batteries and don't have to be wound? Maybe that technology is behind current battery technology but the ball certainly will do a lot of moving.
I'd never thought I'd see the day when a geek site was arguing if football or rugby players are "harder".
Of course I hope you understand that in order to maintain ballance in the universe there are two prop forwards sitting in a bar drinking Jolt and arguing if the Cube will kick the ass of the Xbox.
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I guess these were cahiers checks.... From my understanding they are almost as good as cash really except made out to a person. When you get one drawn up, the money leaves your account instantly as you're tranfering one type of paper to another in effect. Safer than mailing cash as not anyone can cash them. This is my understanding of it but I'm from the UK so this is the uk version of thing, still spelt checks your way though.
Still, you would expect the checks to be cashed before the seller shipped anyway, you aren't going to smell a rat until a week or so after its been cashed and you have no laptop. Credit cards are alway the best way to buy anything online and if the seller doesn't take CC or paypal (or something similar) when dealing through ebay, alram bells should be ringing if its for an expensive item.
Aren't we forgetting a little concentration camp in Cuba here? If its good enough for dubya, its good enough for people ripped off on ebay isn't it?
I'd certainly not let this Eric bloke anywhere near it either given that this is his second statement on the web page:
"Claimant must sign an agreement surrendering any and all rights to legal action against Eric Krieg or other participating person or agency, so far as may be legally done under present statutes, in regard to injury, accident, or any other damage of a physical or emotional nature or financial or professional loss of any kind. "
$10,000 is not really alot seems that he tries to give himself the right to run off with the invention & market it himself.
Wouldn't work I guess but might be what he's up to.
Its a nice post and please don't take offence but there is one thing that my little brain found really funny:
"Then, these functionary-types sift through all these filtered responses, and place them in about a dozen separate stacks, from vehemently against to completely for, and everything in-between".
Its the in-between bit; someone saw the issue and thought, well fuck I don't actually know, I have no option on this at all, I better write.
"because the economy has bottomed out".
Hahahahahahahaha.... Really Mr. Buffett and what else is in your crystal ball?
Nothing wrong with buying at Frys and selling on ebay. Just the same as playing elite in real life without the Thargon attacks.
"he [Bin Laden] is able to communicate with his organization at will"
Yeah, he just calls the CIA headquarters, I understand he has an 800 number.
Nice site, thanks just read it and certainly some very valid points. Worth taking a look /.ers
Yeah, like shit^Hfman is going to realise.
I have question here: From an outsiders point of view these German "Abmahnungen" seem like a really bad idea as they can be abused by scum like this lawyer. Why do they still exist? I guess there is a real good reason but if it means that normal people making a tiny mistake in classified ads or hobby coders get fucked by gready selfserving lawyers, the possitive side would have to be large. I'm sorry if this is a simplistic view, I don't have the whole picture by a long way so I have to ask our German readers, what are the possitives and are people in Germany annoyed by the Abmahnungen lawyers picking on the little guy?
What a bunch of arse and it got modded up, *sigh*. Using private address space will stop end systems being reached from outside the network sometimes* but script kiddies generally attack servers anyway. What about systems that need to be reached, ermm lets take /. as an example? If only checkpoint or the ipchains programmers etc had seen your enlightening post before they bothered eh?
*IP contains a method to define a path through a network called source routing, even using private address space it is possible to tell the routers in between how to get to the destination. This method gets around the fact that private address space is not (should not) be held in global routing tables as you tell the router how to get to the destination and not to look it up. Also realise that the fact that a 3rd party, that is *outside* your control, do not carry a route is a not valid security method. Note that turning off source-routing is simple however most admins don't know about it let alone turn it off.
There isn't really a problem with what you are doing, the only thing I don't really like about doing this is the management aspects when the implimentation gets a little large. More on that in a bit but first, technically, the golden rule here is as long as these addresses are of course unique and stay in your own AS you'd be fine, I'd personally go one further and would keep them only in your IGP just to be safe in case someone screws your bgp filters etc.
/31 subnets are available in newer IOS revisions. At the end of the day I don't know how large you're network and it's exact design, its your choice at the end of the day, just make sure it won't bite you in the ass in the future.
I'm a CCIE and been networking 11 years now, 6 with Cisco and I'd only do this is if I really had too and here's why: management of address space. I'm sure (hope) your management of all your public address space is organised and clear. Furthermore nobody would dream of adding a box to the network with a public address without asking you or another admin who would assign one, which case you would go to your speadsheet (or QIP / another tool), allocate one and record the details. With private address space people tend to just add boxes and subnets and pick an address from random out of the air. This is where time consuming issues come about with overlapping address space. If your network is going to stay small and you have full control over all the addresses then you shouldn't have much of a problem but if the network is going to grow a larger, think about the extra admin you might have to do and also if you were to be hit by a bus would the next guy understand it.
You have some cisco semi-hacks to help you out also such as unnumbered links and also note
A lot of good points, MP3.com is good for music and the people running it now do a good job the only thing I was trying (not very well I'll admit) to say is that this is being done to get some sucker VCs. MP3.com was never about the music for Robbertson it was looking as something popular to jump on to (he had the doamin as you say before he even knew what it was). Beam-it was really an easy way to pirate music though, yeap you had to own the CD to add it too your locker but there were some mega accounts going around where a load of people shared the password and all "uploaded" their CDs. Login to the acount and you could download everyone elses music, not MP3.coms fault but it was real easy.
I wonder if he knows what he's getting into this time, selling Linux that runs Win software is a real narrow road to walk, one side you've got Microsoft and the other the Linux nutters. I hope he isn't just in this for a quick buck also but I just can't see this being done in the timeframe and the media hype is a bit too much. Certainly going to entertaining to watch
"he subtly taunted the big record labels (and they eventually sued as well)."
Any they won and he slid off to something else, he jumped on the mp3 bandwagon (and I'm sure helped to tarnish the use of MP3s as nothing but piracy) and now he's on to Linux's trying to make a quick buck from some VC suckers. This will do nothing but harm to Linux I'm sure of that.
I'll make a prediction here that in a few months nobody on slashdot will commend this guy for anything, he will fuck over a few large open source projects for sure, kick up a dust storm and leave for the next hyped product. I wonder if he flipped a coin between starting up making a Linux product and a two wheeled scooter that balanced its self.
Yes it does, its the first thing I thought about when I saw the site and that thought is getting stronger everytime I something from Lindows. I'm sure if this does ever get released that it will cause a lot of trouble in the community. Just a feeling, lets see what happens.
Hey, check your facts before posting about kmail please. Kmail will *not* go out to the net for anything in a mail message, it does render html (disabled by default) but only html contained within the message and images contained as attachments.
I'm British but live in Holland right now but I still have to go with ostiguy on this one. Moving around in europe is no where near as easy as it is in the states for one simple reason, the language barriers. Yes, people do speak English and this is especially true of most the working population in Holland but a lot of companies still operate mainly in Dutch hence, job advertisiments require Dutch speakers. In comparison, you never see job ads in the states "must have New York accent".
Or maybe they just don't count my searches :-)
OK, I think this is just made up and not based on seaches at all. I think we all know that if this was based on search engine queries it would look something like this:
January to December: porn & warez.
Yet neither school girl wet slut lesbians or crack whore dick suckers gets a look in for the whole year.
One other possibility could be to use it for an in car movie/GPS etc dislay when hooked up to a PC in the trunk?
Hey Taco, I hope you followed Linus's example and filed a bug report with KDE.
I wonder if there is a way of powering the camera using the balls own inertia? Kinda like the wrist watches that don't use batteries and don't have to be wound? Maybe that technology is behind current battery technology but the ball certainly will do a lot of moving.
Of course I hope you understand that in order to maintain ballance in the universe there are two prop forwards sitting in a bar drinking Jolt and arguing if the Cube will kick the ass of the Xbox.
A router with one interface?
That's odd, I was going to post an R/C Heli also. I have two personally and I love em, check out http://www.rc-cam.com for information on doing the wireless video thing. There was a Video that I saw once of some guy flying his raptor Heli around his neighborhood from his TV using just video but I can't find the link anymore, sorry.