I second this. In my case the (personal) email address the request was sent from allowed me to find out that it was indeed a valid representative of the company inquiring about the domain.
My tactic was to show that I was aware of the potential value of the domain to them and so was not about to be low-balled. He asked me to name a number, he countered and we finally met in the middle. (Enough to pay off my car.)
We went through a broker for the actual transaction.
They used it as the name of their product for a couple years and have moved on - it now redirects to their home page.
Sadly you're right - US copyright law is messed up.
From: http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/copyright.php "Sound recordings were not eligible for federal copyright protection until 1972 and recordings made prior to this date are only protected by state and common-law copyright. All Edison cylinders are presumed to be in the public domain as the assets of Edison Records were transferred to the National Park Service, a federal agency. Other American sound recordings made prior 1972 may or may not be protected by state laws or common-law copyright. Foreign cylinders are all public domain in the country of production and are also presumed to be in the public domain in the United States.
The nature of the various state laws and differing interpretations of these laws in state courts means that the legal status of many early recordings is unclear. The passage of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 reiterated that all recordings made prior to February 15, 1972 are only eligible for protection under state laws until February 15, 2067, when federal law preempts state law and they enter the public domain. While the Sonny Bono law was intended primarily to extend the copyright protection to the soon-to-expire copyrights of multinational corporations and heirs to songwriters, in effect it meant that all early recordings, no matter what their commercial potential, historical importance, or availability as reissues (with the exception of Edison Recordings) may be protected for well over 150 years after their creation. This is in stark contrast to the original copyright law passed in 1790 which granted a 14-year term of copyright (renewable for another 14 years) or the copyright law in effect for other types of publications when these cylinders were recorded which granted a copyright or 28 years, renewable for another 14 year (28 years after 1909). Not a single person who composed a song recorded on these cylinders or sang into the recording horn is alive today, which suggests that the original intent of copyright to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries" has been completely usurped by the Sonny Bono law."
Every ISP and phone company in the world should have an agreement to provide emergency routing outside the usual patterns. Typically the failover would be at the cable level. This is something they do.
Here's the T&C for SEA-ME-WE4 for example (pricing included): "Use of SMW4 to Restore other Cable Systems" PDF
The next hack came almost immediately, when Russian computers controlling the International Space Station's orientation and supplies of oxygen and water inexplicably failed while the station's three crewmembers were hosting seven visiting shuttle astronauts.
Among the station's network of six Russian computers, only two remained functioning. A system-wide re-boot usually resolved smaller hitches, But this time, the system was unable to re-boot.
"A failure of this type has not occurred before," the BBC reported. [BBC June 14/07]
"This is serious," stated James Oberg, a retired rocket scientist turned author and consultant. "These computers run their life support, so if they can't be restored, the space station could become uninhabitable." Oberg added, "Statistically, this is not random. There is some new environmental factor that must identified and isolated, and neither step is trivial." [TechNewsWorld June 14/07]
Russian flight controllers and onboard engineers traced the problem to "odd readings" in electrical power cables feeding the Russian computers through a corroded junction box labeled BOK 3. [Space.com July 16/07]
The gremlins returned to the Russian machines on February 5, when another ISS computer system crashed in the Zvezda Service Module that routes data between orientation sensors and four positioning gyroscopes. The space station's solar power stopped supplying power, and communications were cut with Earth.
Though power and comms were restored three hours later, New Scientist reports, "The cause of the computer crash remains a mystery. NASA has so far not identified the cause of the crash." [New Scientist Feb 5/02]
But Hank was on it. "They had limited oxygen, a limited time frame," he observed. The astronauts onboard the space station didn't know if the next computer malfunction "would open an airlock." But like an airliner in flight, the station should have smoothly shifted over to backup systems.
It didn't.
"The word 'redundancy' never got into the story," Hank pointed out. Instead, all three backup circuit boards wired into three isolated circuits, "had to blow out in the same way at the exact same time. The fault that occurred in the first board, the second board, and the third board all had to be the same damn thing at the same damn time."
"Impossible," he declared. Especially, since each of the simultaneously faulty microchips had been "stress tested to hell and back. Except for internal stressors."
Except for "Made In China" microchip mischief.
While it is not yet confirmed that the February 5 microchip malfunction was related to the June 14 space station hack, according to Hank's sources, on that earlier date the Chinese pulled the equivalent of Cheney's Singapore diversion--in space. "Nobody got busted for it," he adds. "You always hear about the company at fault."
I personally use an EchoAudio Indigo DJ CardBus audio interface in my laptop connected to my upper-midrange receiver connected to my midrange speakers. Even though I paid $30 for the speakers (used) and the interface and amp were given to me I'd guarantee the setup sounds way better than any of these "desktop" speakers.
But I agree it's subjective. I went from one $400 pair of speakers (which I liked a lot) to another $400 pair of speakers and found it hard to go back. The new ones are so much better in regards to imaging, dynamic range, clarity etc. etc. It really amazed me.
I've just started considering these questions in preparation to handle some online creditcard processing.
I had thought about the "require a password on server startup to decrypt the passwords into RAM" method, but that prevents unattended server restarts and so in the (hopefully rare) case of an unscheduled service/process restart you'd have to get onto the server and enter the password before the application would be available again. Not optimal in my opinion.
Both seem to recommend a multi-level security strategy with numerous barriers between the outside world and your data.
Another thought: If you only need administrative access to the data or don't need to access it from that machine at all, using a public key encryption scheme would probably work well.
That's quite possible. I wasn't recommending a solution, simply talking about my experience.
As another example, I know (first hand) about a large ($8bln) company that owns its own ships and stuff, but outsources its web work. It seems to be one of those things that companies "think" is outside of their core competency and so would rather farm it out like it's "rocket surgery" or something.;)
To another point my observation is that - web designers/developers - esp. good ones - tend to be independent minded folk who wouldn't be caught dead working at a megacorp.
Because that's not how big corps work. They are much more likely to spend $x to hire an outside firm or consultants than the same $x to staff up.
Two cases in point:
1) My company (3 people) was hired to redesign the corporate website (twice) and build the entire employee intranet for a $300m/7,000 employee company. This client had a 60+ person web team in the corporate division alone, yet had to hire out to a tiny team of crack individuals to actually get anything done.
2) I'm working with another client now - smaller but much older - that would much rather have us (as the consulting firm) hire and manage the people we need for the project and pass the cost on to them (plus a markup) than hire internally.
I don't understand the accounting side enough to know what the benefits are there, but from a management perspective, it's very nice to be able to make a single "entity" responsible for the project (as kind of a black box) than to have to think about and deal with an internal "team".
Thank you for listening to.jonah's voice from the trenches for today.
Only speaking from what I know, I'd like to defend ColdFusion. In the past two versions it's become pretty nicely OO.
Saying that you have to mix logic with display is like saying you have to build your VisualC++ program as one huge.exe rather than having it broken out into DLLs and such. It's the way you program, not the limitation of the language.
(Granted, this was not so easily possible in earlier versions of CF, before 6 (7 is now current).)
Heh, saying "'Hello' has some picture oriented... UI" is like saying Thunderbird could be used for reading messages from people.
It's designed specifically for sharing and talking about pictures and definitely worth playing with.
OTOH, yes, unfortunately it does not work with any other networks (it's 1.0 though), but on the PLUS side it does protect your images and chat with 128-bit AES encryption!;)
Hmm, yeah - I've seen his full quote, but the article I found to copy the quote from had the "..." in it.
It was my (maybe faulty) assumption that people would know the complete quote, it's context and surrounding controversy without my having to reiterate the whole brouhaha..j
It seems that in our society these days how many children you have or if you have any at all is not related to the parent's financial ability to support them. You might say "better-off people are more career/work oriented and so don't want to be burden themselves with children who's care would detract from the pursuit of wealth" and you might say "since poor people don't as many opportunities/incentives for financial advancement, they have more time and focus that on their familial relationships."
So, poor people aren't having abortions because the want their children while rich people are having abortions because they don't want their children and having the nanny care for the ones they do have.
While that may be true, I don't think it's a good path to go down. And others have like former education secretary Bill Bennett: "you could... abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down."
The next step is to say kill all the poor people to reduce poverty or all the dumb people to raise test scores. It may work, but it's not the right thing to do.
You're right, but the post you're commenting on is also technically correct.
A GFlop would be one billion floating-point operations. No telling how long they would take though. (i.e. a GFloph machine might take one hour to do a billion floating-point operations.) Much less meaningful, but still valid.
It's like horsepower. "One horsepower is the amount of work necessary to lift 33,000 lbs. one foot in one minute."
My pet mouse could lift 33,000 lbs. one foot with enough gearing on his exercize wheel. Now, it might take him years to do it. OTOH, my horse can lift that same weight the same distance, but will need much less gearing to do so.
I witnessed the first DARPA Grand Challenge. Very eye opening to say the least. The first place entry cost over $1 million to build and went less than 8 miles. One of the close runners-up that went almost as far was built by two guys for around $40k.
Simple things were serious issues like - if you're going slowly and your wheel comes up against a rock and at the current amount of throttle, it can't get over, what do you do - how do you know to just give it a little more gas and drive right over vs. you're up against something a little bigger that you should back up and drive around.
Slashdot Mirror
Great infrastructure, robust, API, good people. I've been using them for around nine years now - http://ultradns.com/ - highly recommended.
I second this. In my case the (personal) email address the request was sent from allowed me to find out that it was indeed a valid representative of the company inquiring about the domain.
My tactic was to show that I was aware of the potential value of the domain to them and so was not about to be low-balled. He asked me to name a number, he countered and we finally met in the middle. (Enough to pay off my car.)
We went through a broker for the actual transaction.
They used it as the name of their product for a couple years and have moved on - it now redirects to their home page.
Sadly you're right - US copyright law is messed up.
From: http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/copyright.php
"Sound recordings were not eligible for federal copyright protection until 1972 and recordings made prior to this date are only protected by state and common-law copyright. All Edison cylinders are presumed to be in the public domain as the assets of Edison Records were transferred to the National Park Service, a federal agency. Other American sound recordings made prior 1972 may or may not be protected by state laws or common-law copyright. Foreign cylinders are all public domain in the country of production and are also presumed to be in the public domain in the United States.
The nature of the various state laws and differing interpretations of these laws in state courts means that the legal status of many early recordings is unclear. The passage of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 reiterated that all recordings made prior to February 15, 1972 are only eligible for protection under state laws until February 15, 2067, when federal law preempts state law and they enter the public domain. While the Sonny Bono law was intended primarily to extend the copyright protection to the soon-to-expire copyrights of multinational corporations and heirs to songwriters, in effect it meant that all early recordings, no matter what their commercial potential, historical importance, or availability as reissues (with the exception of Edison Recordings) may be protected for well over 150 years after their creation. This is in stark contrast to the original copyright law passed in 1790 which granted a 14-year term of copyright (renewable for another 14 years) or the copyright law in effect for other types of publications when these cylinders were recorded which granted a copyright or 28 years, renewable for another 14 year (28 years after 1909). Not a single person who composed a song recorded on these cylinders or sang into the recording horn is alive today, which suggests that the original intent of copyright to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries" has been completely usurped by the Sonny Bono law."
This happens to be another incredible collection of old recordings: http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/
I second that. We had the wall-mount model nailed to a tree outside for many years. Still works. ;)
Actually it was the Chinese!
From Command Override:
LOST IN SPACE
The next hack came almost immediately, when Russian computers controlling the International Space Station's orientation and supplies of oxygen and water inexplicably failed while the station's three crewmembers were hosting seven visiting shuttle astronauts.
Among the station's network of six Russian computers, only two remained functioning. A system-wide re-boot usually resolved smaller hitches, But this time, the system was unable to re-boot.
"A failure of this type has not occurred before," the BBC reported. [BBC June 14/07]
"This is serious," stated James Oberg, a retired rocket scientist turned author and consultant. "These computers run their life support, so if they can't be restored, the space station could become uninhabitable." Oberg added, "Statistically, this is not random. There is some new environmental factor that must identified and isolated, and neither step is trivial." [TechNewsWorld June 14/07]
Russian flight controllers and onboard engineers traced the problem to "odd readings" in electrical power cables feeding the Russian computers through a corroded junction box labeled BOK 3. [Space.com July 16/07]
The gremlins returned to the Russian machines on February 5, when another ISS computer system crashed in the Zvezda Service Module that routes data between orientation sensors and four positioning gyroscopes. The space station's solar power stopped supplying power, and communications were cut with Earth.
Though power and comms were restored three hours later, New Scientist reports, "The cause of the computer crash remains a mystery. NASA has so far not identified the cause of the crash." [New Scientist Feb 5/02]
But Hank was on it. "They had limited oxygen, a limited time frame," he observed. The astronauts onboard the space station didn't know if the next computer malfunction "would open an airlock." But like an airliner in flight, the station should have smoothly shifted over to backup systems.
It didn't.
"The word 'redundancy' never got into the story," Hank pointed out. Instead, all three backup circuit boards wired into three isolated circuits, "had to blow out in the same way at the exact same time. The fault that occurred in the first board, the second board, and the third board all had to be the same damn thing at the same damn time."
"Impossible," he declared. Especially, since each of the simultaneously faulty microchips had been "stress tested to hell and back. Except for internal stressors."
Except for "Made In China" microchip mischief.
While it is not yet confirmed that the February 5 microchip malfunction was related to the June 14 space station hack, according to Hank's sources, on that earlier date the Chinese pulled the equivalent of Cheney's Singapore diversion--in space. "Nobody got busted for it," he adds. "You always hear about the company at fault."
Not this time.
J / K! ;)
I'd second rsync.
I'd also take a look at Microsoft's SyncToy if you're on win***s.
May the two that died rest in peace and a speedy and complete recovery for the five injured.
To all of them and the rest of the Scaled crew: Thank you for continually innovating and pushing the envelope of our human capabilities.
I personally use an EchoAudio Indigo DJ CardBus audio interface in my laptop connected to my upper-midrange receiver connected to my midrange speakers. Even though I paid $30 for the speakers (used) and the interface and amp were given to me I'd guarantee the setup sounds way better than any of these "desktop" speakers.
But I agree it's subjective. I went from one $400 pair of speakers (which I liked a lot) to another $400 pair of speakers and found it hard to go back. The new ones are so much better in regards to imaging, dynamic range, clarity etc. etc. It really amazed me.
I've just started considering these questions in preparation to handle some online creditcard processing.
I had thought about the "require a password on server startup to decrypt the passwords into RAM" method, but that prevents unattended server restarts and so in the (hopefully rare) case of an unscheduled service/process restart you'd have to get onto the server and enter the password before the application would be available again. Not optimal in my opinion.
Regarding best practices I've found The Open Web Application Security Project and the Credit Card industry's PCI Data Security Standard. Visa's implemention is called CISP.
Both seem to recommend a multi-level security strategy with numerous barriers between the outside world and your data.
Another thought: If you only need administrative access to the data or don't need to access it from that machine at all, using a public key encryption scheme would probably work well.
.jonah
That's quite possible. I wasn't recommending a solution, simply talking about my experience.
;)
As another example, I know (first hand) about a large ($8bln) company that owns its own ships and stuff, but outsources its web work. It seems to be one of those things that companies "think" is outside of their core competency and so would rather farm it out like it's "rocket surgery" or something.
To another point my observation is that - web designers/developers - esp. good ones - tend to be independent minded folk who wouldn't be caught dead working at a megacorp.
Because that's not how big corps work. They are much more likely to spend $x to hire an outside firm or consultants than the same $x to staff up.
.jonah's voice from the trenches for today.
Two cases in point:
1) My company (3 people) was hired to redesign the corporate website (twice) and build the entire employee intranet for a $300m/7,000 employee company. This client had a 60+ person web team in the corporate division alone, yet had to hire out to a tiny team of crack individuals to actually get anything done.
2) I'm working with another client now - smaller but much older - that would much rather have us (as the consulting firm) hire and manage the people we need for the project and pass the cost on to them (plus a markup) than hire internally.
I don't understand the accounting side enough to know what the benefits are there, but from a management perspective, it's very nice to be able to make a single "entity" responsible for the project (as kind of a black box) than to have to think about and deal with an internal "team".
Thank you for listening to
Only speaking from what I know, I'd like to defend ColdFusion. In the past two versions it's become pretty nicely OO.
.exe rather than having it broken out into DLLs and such. It's the way you program, not the limitation of the language.
Saying that you have to mix logic with display is like saying you have to build your VisualC++ program as one huge
(Granted, this was not so easily possible in earlier versions of CF, before 6 (7 is now current).)
Not that this is the subject, but I'd recommend Mach-II. It has event-based implicit invocation and loose-coupling. ;) It's been working well for me.
Check their offering out which comes to just under $400 for 300 CDs.
RE: Your Sig
;)
Last week I had dinner with the guy who funded the internet.
(Ex head of DARPA, really cool guy.)
It's designed specifically for sharing and talking about pictures and definitely worth playing with.
OTOH, yes, unfortunately it does not work with any other networks (it's 1.0 though), but on the PLUS side it does protect your images and chat with 128-bit AES encryption! ;)
If you're going to carry that you might as well carry the pleather bag with OSCON embroidered on the side.
OTOH, if you want to minimize your blatant geekyness in public, maybe a bag from these guys: MEDIUM Design Group.
Hmm, yeah - I've seen his full quote, but the article I found to copy the quote from had the "..." in it.
.j
It was my (maybe faulty) assumption that people would know the complete quote, it's context and surrounding controversy without my having to reiterate the whole brouhaha.
Well put.
It seems that in our society these days how many children you have or if you have any at all is not related to the parent's financial ability to support them. You might say "better-off people are more career/work oriented and so don't want to be burden themselves with children who's care would detract from the pursuit of wealth" and you might say "since poor people don't as many opportunities/incentives for financial advancement, they have more time and focus that on their familial relationships."
So, poor people aren't having abortions because the want their children while rich people are having abortions because they don't want their children and having the nanny care for the ones they do have.
Generalizations aside, you get the point.
While that may be true, I don't think it's a good path to go down. And others have like former education secretary Bill Bennett: "you could ... abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down."
The next step is to say kill all the poor people to reduce poverty or all the dumb people to raise test scores. It may work, but it's not the right thing to do.
BUT - who's to decide who gets to have a FAKE real-ID address and who has to have a REAL real-ID.
You're right, but the post you're commenting on is also technically correct.
A GFlop would be one billion floating-point operations. No telling how long they would take though. (i.e. a GFloph machine might take one hour to do a billion floating-point operations.) Much less meaningful, but still valid.
It's like horsepower. "One horsepower is the amount of work necessary to lift 33,000 lbs. one foot in one minute."
My pet mouse could lift 33,000 lbs. one foot with enough gearing on his exercize wheel. Now, it might take him years to do it. OTOH, my horse can lift that same weight the same distance, but will need much less gearing to do so.
It was 100% hands-off - they even had monitoring to detect attempted wireless control!
Simple things were serious issues like - if you're going slowly and your wheel comes up against a rock and at the current amount of throttle, it can't get over, what do you do - how do you know to just give it a little more gas and drive right over vs. you're up against something a little bigger that you should back up and drive around.