It is kind of strange that M$ found out what they were up to. Maybe they suckered M$ into suing them so they can turn around and sue M$ for lost salaries.
They weren't bitching about abuse@eli.net either. Of course you can be even more effective with complaints if you look up the contacts in the NSI database. For example, christian.andersen@VERIZON.COM or opsmgr@BELLATLANTIC.COM or accounting@IDNAMES.COM. of course, the ones that know what they are doing use roles, like hostmaster@ELI.NET, instead of a real person's e-mail address.
You obviously haven't lived in one place for very long or you wouldn't mention the Post Office as being a good regulator of junk mail. I get about twice as much junk paper as stuff I asked for (and I've asked form more than I can read completely). The Post Office ENCOURAGES junk mail: They make money on it!
It is usually very illegal. The headers are almost always forged in some way or another (at least the return address). Also, about 50% of it is done by bouncing through open SMTP servers (which is unauthorized use no matter how easy it is to do). The problem is most of the serious spammers either open accounts with stolen credit cards and/or run trojan horse scams to harvest account passwords from real users. In other words, it takes a serious amount of time and money to actually catch up with them (and of course the FBI is too busy prosecuting people for harmless pranks to take on real criminals who cause serious damage).
IA64 is a PA-RISC Descendent. AFIK, It isn't really intended to replace the x86 any time soon. It is eventually supposed to replace the PA-RISC and provide new high end markets for Intel.
1. Bands don't pay royalties. The venues they perform in do.
2. Either all the other reporters were wrong or he didn't undertand the mp3.com case: The only thing ruled as copyright infringement was MP3.com's initial loading of the database. If they had uploaded the MP3's as the user's registered then, it would have been fair use.
It's their network; so, they are probably legal running port scans. If they found an FTP port open and tried to pull some data off, then you would have them.
If you really want them to stop, play dumb, pretend you don't know it was coming from their machines and report it to their abuse department. If enough people do that, they'll decide it isn't cost effective and stop doing it.
I was once asked to sign an NDA after the fact (my employer was bought out by another company). The new company asked for rights to everything (the old one had only asked for rights to what I was employed to work on). I responded by sending them a letter saying I would be glad to sign the agreement if they gave me an exemption for poetry and musical compositions (I am a published songwriter, now, but then it was strictly wanna-be). Of course, I knew that the exemption would have to be appoved by a VP (they told me that to try and discourage me from asking for an exemption) and that the legal department would look like absolute idiots asking a VP to sign such a thing... I never signed the NDA and I never heard another thing about it.
Ever since then, I make sure I read those things before accepting a job. Most places will accomodate independent work (open source or otherwise) as long as you are up front about it when you are hired and you make sure they can tell you are producing what they are paying you to produce. The personnel people get brownie points based on how many people they hire, not how many they scare away, after all. If they aren't willing to talk about this, I would drop them like a hot potato because this demonstrates that the organization is inflexible. They probably won't last long and you don't want to be dragged down with them.
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I habitually call them up late at night and play my stereo onto their answering machines... For an hour or so. It's not a harrassing call, because they asked you to call them... OTOH, very few of them use 800 numbers any more:-))
"Fortunately for us, Dennis Richie and Ken Thompson decided to pare down some of the features and create a version of "Multics without the balls." Thus Unix was born (the name being a pun on "Multics")."
And fortunately for us, an army of people have put every one of those features BACK [into Unix]... I don't think anybody would be wanting to run a process swapping OS with a16 bit address space these days... The list of features Richie and Thompson removed include demand paging, dynamic linking, shared memory, memory mapped files,... need I go on?
The big problem with Multics was that is was 20 years ahead of the hardware.
In addition to Unix, I know a significant portion of the Multics staff was instrumental in developing the proprietary OS run by Stratus Computer (www.stratus.com) and I believe Multicians also had a major hand in VMS and later in NT development.
I think it'll be a classic. It reminded me of "Dark Star" with better special effects. Of course, it'll never replace "Dark Star", but it was a valiant attempt.
This information is already available in the ARIN database. And truthfully, I can't think of any reason they shouldn't sell it. Even in the ARIN database, it's not very accurate (but probably is good enough for the stated purposes -- things like defaulting languages).
So..., how in the world does this company expect to make money with a less accurate version of information that can obviously be provided cheaply from another source:-))
RCN and Mediaone (aka ATT) are providing that around Boston, too, but they don't run fiber to the house. The leaves of the network are done with Coax. Hmm.. They are running the cables on the telephone poles. Fiber would probably break too easy there. If you are burying the cable all the way, Fiber would be the cheapest thing to do.
They "borrow" ideas from everyboby else. There probably isn't anything original in the stuff. From the articles, I would say the hacker agreed (they claimed the hacker spent all of two minutes looking at source code....).
Much more fun stuff would be business documents. Things documenting stuff like, oh... monopolistic business practices...
The Bush Parody Site (http://www.gwbush.com/) isn't quite on the level, but it has links to a lot of info. I especially liked the Unauthorized Biography. It's a long read, but a real eye opener.
Given that the Fed law doesn't provide any money to buy this software, it looks like a perfect opportunity for the free software community to provide a needed service.
Perhaps it should ship by default with all Republican Party web sites blocked...
You could alter MP3 files to destroy speakers. Just add a 21KHz sin wave at about -6dB. Most people won't be able to hear it, but it will fry the tweeters.
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It is kind of strange that M$ found out what they were up to. Maybe they suckered M$ into suing them so they can turn around and sue M$ for lost salaries.
The last two times I tried to install flash, the intaller crashed. It may not be in anywhere near as many browswers as MM thinks it is!
There are 3 companies making them, now: Royer (as mentioned), Beyer and Coles. That's more than there ever were.
Just remember that the exabyte format has so much error correction that the data is near double redundancy. Don't know the details.
You do have to pay for disposing junk snail mail...
They weren't bitching about abuse@eli.net either. Of course you can be even more effective with complaints if you look up the contacts in the NSI database. For example, christian.andersen@VERIZON.COM or opsmgr@BELLATLANTIC.COM or accounting@IDNAMES.COM. of course, the ones that know what they are doing use roles, like hostmaster@ELI.NET, instead of a real person's e-mail address.
You obviously haven't lived in one place for very long or you wouldn't mention the Post Office as being a good regulator of junk mail. I get about twice as much junk paper as stuff I asked for (and I've asked form more than I can read completely). The Post Office ENCOURAGES junk mail: They make money on it!
It is usually very illegal. The headers are almost always forged in some way or another (at least the return address). Also, about 50% of it is done by bouncing through open SMTP servers (which is unauthorized use no matter how easy it is to do). The problem is most of the serious spammers either open accounts with stolen credit cards and/or run trojan horse scams to harvest account passwords from real users. In other words, it takes a serious amount of time and money to actually catch up with them (and of course the FBI is too busy prosecuting people for harmless pranks to take on real criminals who cause serious damage).
IA64 is a PA-RISC Descendent. AFIK, It isn't really intended to replace the x86 any time soon. It is eventually supposed to replace the PA-RISC and provide new high end markets for Intel.
1. Bands don't pay royalties. The venues they perform in do.
2. Either all the other reporters were wrong or he didn't undertand the mp3.com case: The only thing ruled as copyright infringement was MP3.com's initial loading of the database. If they had uploaded the MP3's as the user's registered then, it would have been fair use.
It's their network; so, they are probably legal running port scans. If they found an FTP port open and tried to pull some data off, then you would have them.
If you really want them to stop, play dumb, pretend you don't know it was coming from their machines and report it to their abuse department. If enough people do that, they'll decide it isn't cost effective and stop doing it.
I was once asked to sign an NDA after the fact (my employer was bought out by another company). The new company asked for rights to everything (the old one had only asked for rights to what I was employed to work on). I responded by sending them a letter saying I would be glad to sign the agreement if they gave me an exemption for poetry and musical compositions (I am a published songwriter, now, but then it was strictly wanna-be). Of course, I knew that the exemption would have to be appoved by a VP (they told me that to try and discourage me from asking for an exemption) and that the legal department would look like absolute idiots asking a VP to sign such a thing... I never signed the NDA and I never heard another thing about it.
Ever since then, I make sure I read those things before accepting a job. Most places will accomodate independent work (open source or otherwise) as long as you are up front about it when you are hired and you make sure they can tell you are producing what they are paying you to produce. The personnel people get brownie points based on how many people they hire, not how many they scare away, after all. If they aren't willing to talk about this, I would drop them like a hot potato because this demonstrates that the organization is inflexible. They probably won't last long and you don't want to be dragged down with them.
I habitually call them up late at night and play my stereo onto their answering machines... For an hour or so. It's not a harrassing call, because they asked you to call them... OTOH, very few of them use 800 numbers any more :-))
"Fortunately for us, Dennis Richie and Ken Thompson decided to pare down some of the features and create a version of "Multics without the balls." Thus Unix was born (the name being a pun on "Multics")."
... need I go on?
And fortunately for us, an army of people have put every one of those features BACK [into Unix]... I don't think anybody would be wanting to run a process swapping OS with a16 bit address space these days... The list of features Richie and Thompson removed include demand paging, dynamic linking, shared memory, memory mapped files,
The big problem with Multics was that is was 20 years ahead of the hardware.
In addition to Unix, I know a significant portion of the Multics staff was instrumental in developing the proprietary OS run by Stratus Computer (www.stratus.com) and I believe Multicians also had a major hand in VMS and later in NT development.
Boston HAD a computer museum... See http://www.tcm.org/html/history/index.html
I think it'll be a classic. It reminded me of "Dark Star" with better special effects. Of course, it'll never replace "Dark Star", but it was a valiant attempt.
This information is already available in the ARIN database. And truthfully, I can't think of any reason they shouldn't sell it. Even in the ARIN database, it's not very accurate (but probably is good enough for the stated purposes -- things like defaulting languages).
:-))
So..., how in the world does this company expect to make money with a less accurate version of information that can obviously be provided cheaply from another source
RCN and Mediaone (aka ATT) are providing that around Boston, too, but they don't run fiber to the house. The leaves of the network are done with Coax. Hmm.. They are running the cables on the telephone poles. Fiber would probably break too easy there. If you are burying the cable all the way, Fiber would be the cheapest thing to do.
They "borrow" ideas from everyboby else. There probably isn't anything original in the stuff. From the articles, I would say the hacker agreed (they claimed the hacker spent all of two minutes looking at source code....).
Much more fun stuff would be business documents. Things documenting stuff like, oh... monopolistic business practices...
The Bush Parody Site (http://www.gwbush.com/) isn't quite on the level, but it has links to a lot of info. I especially liked the Unauthorized Biography. It's a long read, but a real eye opener.
Given that the Fed law doesn't provide any money to buy this software, it looks like a perfect opportunity for the free software community to provide a needed service.
Perhaps it should ship by default with all Republican Party web sites blocked...
You could alter MP3 files to destroy speakers. Just add a 21KHz sin wave at about -6dB. Most people won't be able to hear it, but it will fry the tweeters.
This ought to be fun. They'll have to pay her something or they just committed perjury.
I believe you are correct. The DMCA has no provisions for research excpetions; so, this contest is illegal.
Are you volunteering to run the database?