I used to be proud to be a Citizen of US. But it seems everyday that the "land of the Free" becomes a little less free. This is beginning to reach insane proportions. Everyday we seem to pass more and more laws that are seemingly(to me anyway) directly in conflict with Our Constitution. Our politicans don't listen to us anymore. I am disgusted...and angry...so much so i can't even think of words to express my rage at what is being done to this great nation. Our laws were ment to protect our citizens, and ensure the right to "life, liberty and the persuit of happiness" I feel as if I have none of these lately.
--"The refuses to bend, he refuses to fall, he's always at home with his back to the wall" --Bill Joel- Angry Young Man.
Its a stupid law that the US Government is giving no way for US Citizens to legitimately discuss, Protest, or a basis for repeal(Every court case either gets tied up or Dismissed so the law can't be challenged)
After many years in the PC Tech Business, I have found there are basically two key players in this field. ATI, and NeomMagic.
The ATI's are actually are not to bad, as the Rage Mobility is actually Nearly on par with the Regular Rage cards just Tuned more or less for the laptop screen. What this means from a user perspective is that the laptop screen looks great, and works great and there are like Zero issues and it gives you pretty much what you need for business on the LCD. 3D games even play well...I have not noticed any large battery power hit for playing them either. The other thing I like is that Driver Updates are frequent and easily available. The Rage Mobility's main issue however is that it IS tuned for the laptop screen so when you hook up an external Monitor, or dock the machine you can't get all you want out of the external Monitor. I am currently sitting at a 21 Inch Sony Flast screen Triniton that I can't run higher than 1024(The resolution of the Laptop LCD), the ATI doesn't offer 1152(The matrox in my desktop machine does), and 1280 gets a little fuzzy for my taste(Its not the Monitor I have tried 3 others and 2 other brands they all have this issue).
Neomagic's Chipsets are more of a functionality Balance, they work OK for the intended purpose of giving you Video on a laptop machine. They have struck a balance between the Internal LCD and the Connected Monitor displays. It will Push to a higher resolution and render it fairly well(My old laptop on the same Monitor I talked about earlier would do 1152, and even 1280 decently(although full refreshes are sometimes painful at 1280, but the display is crisp). I can get Half Life to run and look good on that machine. Newer stuff is no deal it simply doesn't have the graphical Horsepower. Neomagics Driver updates are infrequent and hard to obtain. Some chipsets they don't even provide dribers for directly you have to get them from your laptop hardware Vendor. Hope that Helps.
Sounds like this new "Attack" it is an attack after all could easly be worked around in software. To many hits, or to slow a download, DROP, BLOCK, BAN!
If I DoS attack someone I go to Jail? This is a CyberCrime after all, isn't it? But if the RIAA does this its somehow legal? And their, and MY ISP are ok with this? Somehow I think not? Where do they come up with these schemes, they will never work, because of the Physical separation of the networks, and machines, and the dependancy on things inbetween they don't control.
Now before you go off again, lets take a global view of this. If you add all the pieces together.
This a**hole has attacked the US at least twice outright, why because he sees it as a Holy war...
but, if he is so damned Holy, he should be reading his own damned Holy book...I have spoken to several people here where I work that are sicked by what that Idiot over there is doing...they follow the same teachings and religious background, the first hing they are thought is the sanctity of Human Life, no matter what. They claim infact that all these Radicals, are the ones in the wrong, and where ever they are inconflict they should be living in piece and infact being the piece makers! I have even been told that as long as he is being harbored that they consider the US to be justified, as anyone who would harbor him, or allow their govenment to harbor him is not following their holy teachings, and therefore is looked down upon, and deserves what is happening.
Hacking is terrorism, but Hacking to defend copyrights is legal if you have enough Cash to by a Congressman, and get him to make legislation that says so? Have I got that right?
Well if you play with your local routing table a little you can certainly set things up so "certain
" traffic goes in and out one source, and "other" traffic through the other. How could it be better, if Cable and DSL compnaies would treat our connections as "real" connections, with full routing and so forth.
3 years ago when I had just purchased a small internet company along with two friends, I got an Email offering $50,000 for the domain name of that company(in retrospect we should have taken it). I checking to it, and the company looked real enough, but we were not selling. We had "big plans.com" Well we went out of Business in June and I started looking at selling the domain name we originally had plus two we picked up along the way. Total bids on E-bay for all 3 $350.00. Saying the turn out was disappointing would be an understatement. I had set the reserves much higher so I still hold the names thankfully. One one persons expirence thought it might be useful.
This would seem to be the case at least in my mind strike down the legal challenges, because any rational judge if there is a legal challenge is going to see right through the DMCA and realize that it needs striking down.
The problem here is that With M$ as the primary vendor of the browser that is mandated for use as the accepted standard, "use this or we don't support your problem with a company web site" on every desktop they are going to have the Ultimate control. In other words if things fork you will likely find their browser supports the RAND standards, and it will not support the RF standards created by another body. The compnay I work for as a Web developer will not even consider compatibility with any other browser. I was recently asked to do a web page that captured the site visitors NT Id in the background. This can literially "ONLY" be done via ASP and from within the IE browser. They will not let anyone else have the code that would let another browser read this security information. I would definately see them exerting this same sort of control for RAND.
Charter Cable here in Auburn Worcester Area has "ever changing pings". For sometime now I have never been able to get anything even resembling a consistent ping time or download rate. Somedays the connection flys the next its barely faster than a 56K modem. During the whole "Code Red" thing it was just sad, the light on my linksys router, for activity was just solid didn't blink at all. I called them several times and asked them to look into the reasons why their network was in such a state. I telecomute into my compant from time to time so this period was esspecially annoying. I am still monitoring several Code Red, Nimda, and related virus'es a day knowcking on the door. I guess in the end the moral of this story, the network only as good as those who run it, and even less good if they never listen to the users of the network who try to tell them whats wrong.
I would love to know how we the Public cane gain back or right to have a say in our own govenment when it comes to the issues we believe strongly in. What should we do to convince the govenment, and out law makers that they have gone the wrong way with recent legislation that does not benifit the American people and only seems to benifit the American people. My Question is specifially related to the DMCA, SSSCA, and other such acts that have been passed or are in danger of being passed. How do we convince them to take another look, and do something to reverse these terrible laws? The letter, and spirt of some of this legislation threatens the very community we have formed here, some ways of reading the laws could very well be used to build walls against open source development.
Finally some legal sense and recognition of what we have all always known. Hopefully the will be the beginning of more legal precedents getting set. CyberSpace is different, and should be considered differernt from a physical location. Almost to the point that its considered a different state/province/or even country all together. To this end even the laws governing CyberSpace should be made by those involved in and using cyberspace, and not by those for the most part "disconnected".
Absolutely must be an Opt-IN system, and the default for anything asking if you want to be in or not should be legally mandated to be NO. Such as web sites that ask you if you want to receive such and such, or from time to time we make information available, that checkmark should be off, if I want it I should have to set it.
I have myself run into this, I once upon a time was a stong believer in the Stampede.86,.89 Distrobutiuon but then the developers disappeared in the weeds. The world advanced the distro didn't and so many components started going out of date that attempting to compile anything because nearly impossible. So I decided it was time for an upgrade, Stampede didn't have anything new and stable,.90 couldn't even boot correctly on two test machines, the patch they released didn't help,.91 has ben on the to be released track forever. I started looking for a new distro...I picked one(for reason of not starting the usual my distro rocks flame war, I will not reveal which), and went about installing it. I did this on a clean drive with the old one relocated on the chain so i could reference it for the old configs. This seemed to work out well, about 2 hours after the OS install completed I was back up and running normally. I found that once the mail spools, and home directories were moved, and the users recreated (I had trouble getting the users and groups to move via just copying the passwd and groups files as some documentain suggests, but I only have 5 users so that wasn't bad), things were in pretty good shape. A little cut and paste in the apache configs, samba configs, and sendmail configs and things were truely in the right. I think its certianly possible to build a utility to make the moves in the same way, although some standardization of things like directory structure, and program/library location would definately help.
Boy I guess I didn't convey quite the sarcastic attitude I was trying for. Of course I care even about this. Any copy protected, or limited in anyway recording is one too many even if the act does Suck Goat Balls.
We I guess morally I should feel opposed and be upset by this, but in this case I just can't work up the anger, since I feel that our community will be pretty much unaffected in any direct way.
There really needs to be a citizens rights lobby group that can have people on our side to fight this crap. The industries have them, but the people do not. Our (elected!)Representivites are supposed to speak for us, but as we all know they do not do so at all. This all needs to get struck down, this Crap the DMCA all of it.
They all still Run on my Dual P3-600, these are positively ancient...I wonder if they still run on the Mainframes they spang from. Also Zork 0,1,2 Etc, and Karteka, wierd watching a modern Machine boot from a 5 1/2 Floppy with the OS and the game on the disk!
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I used to be proud to be a Citizen of US. But it seems everyday that the "land of the Free" becomes a little less free. This is beginning to reach insane proportions. Everyday we seem to pass more and more laws that are seemingly(to me anyway) directly in conflict with Our Constitution. Our politicans don't listen to us anymore. I am disgusted...and angry...so much so i can't even think of words to express my rage at what is being done to this great nation. Our laws were ment to protect our citizens, and ensure the right to "life, liberty and the persuit of happiness" I feel as if I have none of these lately.
--"The refuses to bend, he refuses to fall, he's always at home with his back to the wall" --Bill Joel- Angry Young Man.
Its a stupid law that the US Government is giving no way for US Citizens to legitimately discuss, Protest, or a basis for repeal(Every court case either gets tied up or Dismissed so the law can't be challenged)
After many years in the PC Tech Business, I have found there are basically two key players in this field. ATI, and NeomMagic.
The ATI's are actually are not to bad, as the Rage Mobility is actually Nearly on par with the Regular Rage cards just Tuned more or less for the laptop screen. What this means from a user perspective is that the laptop screen looks great, and works great and there are like Zero issues and it gives you pretty much what you need for business on the LCD. 3D games even play well...I have not noticed any large battery power hit for playing them either. The other thing I like is that Driver Updates are frequent and easily available. The Rage Mobility's main issue however is that it IS tuned for the laptop screen so when you hook up an external Monitor, or dock the machine you can't get all you want out of the external Monitor. I am currently sitting at a 21 Inch Sony Flast screen Triniton that I can't run higher than 1024(The resolution of the Laptop LCD), the ATI doesn't offer 1152(The matrox in my desktop machine does), and 1280 gets a little fuzzy for my taste(Its not the Monitor I have tried 3 others and 2 other brands they all have this issue).
Neomagic's Chipsets are more of a functionality Balance, they work OK for the intended purpose of giving you Video on a laptop machine. They have struck a balance between the Internal LCD and the Connected Monitor displays. It will Push to a higher resolution and render it fairly well(My old laptop on the same Monitor I talked about earlier would do 1152, and even 1280 decently(although full refreshes are sometimes painful at 1280, but the display is crisp). I can get Half Life to run and look good on that machine. Newer stuff is no deal it simply doesn't have the graphical Horsepower. Neomagics Driver updates are infrequent and hard to obtain. Some chipsets they don't even provide dribers for directly you have to get them from your laptop hardware Vendor. Hope that Helps.
Sounds like this new "Attack" it is an attack after all could easly be worked around in software. To many hits, or to slow a download, DROP, BLOCK, BAN!
If I DoS attack someone I go to Jail? This is a CyberCrime after all, isn't it? But if the RIAA does this its somehow legal? And their, and MY ISP are ok with this? Somehow I think not? Where do they come up with these schemes, they will never work, because of the Physical separation of the networks, and machines, and the dependancy on things inbetween they don't control.
Now before you go off again, lets take a global view of this. If you add all the pieces together.
This a**hole has attacked the US at least twice outright, why because he sees it as a Holy war...
but, if he is so damned Holy, he should be reading his own damned Holy book...I have spoken to several people here where I work that are sicked by what that Idiot over there is doing...they follow the same teachings and religious background, the first hing they are thought is the sanctity of Human Life, no matter what. They claim infact that all these Radicals, are the ones in the wrong, and where ever they are inconflict they should be living in piece and infact being the piece makers! I have even been told that as long as he is being harbored that they consider the US to be justified, as anyone who would harbor him, or allow their govenment to harbor him is not following their holy teachings, and therefore is looked down upon, and deserves what is happening.
Hacking is terrorism, but Hacking to defend copyrights is legal if you have enough Cash to by a Congressman, and get him to make legislation that says so? Have I got that right?
Well if you play with your local routing table a little you can certainly set things up so "certain
" traffic goes in and out one source, and "other" traffic through the other. How could it be better, if Cable and DSL compnaies would treat our connections as "real" connections, with full routing and so forth.
3 years ago when I had just purchased a small internet company along with two friends, I got an Email offering $50,000 for the domain name of that company(in retrospect we should have taken it). I checking to it, and the company looked real enough, but we were not selling. We had "big plans.com" Well we went out of Business in June and I started looking at selling the domain name we originally had plus two we picked up along the way. Total bids on E-bay for all 3 $350.00. Saying the turn out was disappointing would be an understatement. I had set the reserves much higher so I still hold the names thankfully. One one persons expirence thought it might be useful.
This would seem to be the case at least in my mind strike down the legal challenges, because any rational judge if there is a legal challenge is going to see right through the DMCA and realize that it needs striking down.
I hate to mention it, but everyone you mentioned above "IS" the weirdos.
The problem here is that With M$ as the primary vendor of the browser that is mandated for use as the accepted standard, "use this or we don't support your problem with a company web site" on every desktop they are going to have the Ultimate control. In other words if things fork you will likely find their browser supports the RAND standards, and it will not support the RF standards created by another body. The compnay I work for as a Web developer will not even consider compatibility with any other browser. I was recently asked to do a web page that captured the site visitors NT Id in the background. This can literially "ONLY" be done via ASP and from within the IE browser. They will not let anyone else have the code that would let another browser read this security information. I would definately see them exerting this same sort of control for RAND.
Charter Cable here in Auburn Worcester Area has "ever changing pings". For sometime now I have never been able to get anything even resembling a consistent ping time or download rate. Somedays the connection flys the next its barely faster than a 56K modem. During the whole "Code Red" thing it was just sad, the light on my linksys router, for activity was just solid didn't blink at all. I called them several times and asked them to look into the reasons why their network was in such a state. I telecomute into my compant from time to time so this period was esspecially annoying. I am still monitoring several Code Red, Nimda, and related virus'es a day knowcking on the door. I guess in the end the moral of this story, the network only as good as those who run it, and even less good if they never listen to the users of the network who try to tell them whats wrong.
I would love to know how we the Public cane gain back or right to have a say in our own govenment when it comes to the issues we believe strongly in. What should we do to convince the govenment, and out law makers that they have gone the wrong way with recent legislation that does not benifit the American people and only seems to benifit the American people. My Question is specifially related to the DMCA, SSSCA, and other such acts that have been passed or are in danger of being passed. How do we convince them to take another look, and do something to reverse these terrible laws? The letter, and spirt of some of this legislation threatens the very community we have formed here, some ways of reading the laws could very well be used to build walls against open source development.
Go Further, any machine connected to Cyberspace, is therefore part of Cyberspace, and therefore any content contianed within it is IN cyberspace.
Finally some legal sense and recognition of what we have all always known. Hopefully the will be the beginning of more legal precedents getting set. CyberSpace is different, and should be considered differernt from a physical location. Almost to the point that its considered a different state/province/or even country all together. To this end even the laws governing CyberSpace should be made by those involved in and using cyberspace, and not by those for the most part "disconnected".
Absolutely must be an Opt-IN system, and the default for anything asking if you want to be in or not should be legally mandated to be NO. Such as web sites that ask you if you want to receive such and such, or from time to time we make information available, that checkmark should be off, if I want it I should have to set it.
I have myself run into this, I once upon a time was a stong believer in the Stampede .86,.89 Distrobutiuon but then the developers disappeared in the weeds. The world advanced the distro didn't and so many components started going out of date that attempting to compile anything because nearly impossible. So I decided it was time for an upgrade, Stampede didn't have anything new and stable, .90 couldn't even boot correctly on two test machines, the patch they released didn't help, .91 has ben on the to be released track forever. I started looking for a new distro...I picked one(for reason of not starting the usual my distro rocks flame war, I will not reveal which), and went about installing it. I did this on a clean drive with the old one relocated on the chain so i could reference it for the old configs. This seemed to work out well, about 2 hours after the OS install completed I was back up and running normally. I found that once the mail spools, and home directories were moved, and the users recreated (I had trouble getting the users and groups to move via just copying the passwd and groups files as some documentain suggests, but I only have 5 users so that wasn't bad), things were in pretty good shape. A little cut and paste in the apache configs, samba configs, and sendmail configs and things were truely in the right. I think its certianly possible to build a utility to make the moves in the same way, although some standardization of things like directory structure, and program/library location would definately help.
Boy I guess I didn't convey quite the sarcastic attitude I was trying for. Of course I care even about this. Any copy protected, or limited in anyway recording is one too many even if the act does Suck Goat Balls.
We I guess morally I should feel opposed and be upset by this, but in this case I just can't work up the anger, since I feel that our community will be pretty much unaffected in any direct way.
There really needs to be a citizens rights lobby group that can have people on our side to fight this crap. The industries have them, but the people do not. Our (elected!)Representivites are supposed to speak for us, but as we all know they do not do so at all. This all needs to get struck down, this Crap the DMCA all of it.
I really wanted to hear Scott do the "Space the final fontier bit..."!
They all still Run on my Dual P3-600, these are positively ancient...I wonder if they still run on the Mainframes they spang from. Also Zork 0,1,2 Etc, and Karteka, wierd watching a modern Machine boot from a 5 1/2 Floppy with the OS and the game on the disk!
This has been the policy at my company at sometime.
Practical Code examples lots of 'em. Show a useful example of how to use every single function, and everyone of its options.