And Facebook should really try to partner with Amazon or establish other agreements / arrangements to align the two company's interests.
The consequences for FB could be dire if Amazon decides to back a new social networking venture, and use their patent as leverage against the competition.... or...
Maybe since the social networking sites Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Google buzz, Google Wave, Myspace, Orkut, Yahoo profiles, Frienster, eHarmony, delicious,...., seem to be so popular these days, maybe there is money to be made, if not in pursuing lucrative *cough* extortio^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H licensing arrangements with these social networking websites,..
Then by renting out the patent, or outsourcing 'Intellectual property rights monetization' to another company, preferably one located in the district of East Texas.
I think you missed the part that says if you bought a spam filtering appliance, you can't use it with Spamhaus for free, no matter how many RBL lookups you perform per day, and even if your use is non-commercial.
I don't know what your definition of free service is, but it seems Spamhaus is definitely in the business of selling commercial services to enterprises and ISPs while offering a lite edition for free to some users, in order to increase market penetration and brand name recognition, to improve sales of their commercial services.
I would compare this to Dropbox's practice of allowing users to signup for free for 1GB of storage, to encourage users to signup and pay a monthly fee for 100gb Or.. VMware's practice of giving away ESXi free to small business users, in order to increase brand awareness, so more people will buy Enterprise edition.
It is very common for companies to give away a low-end version of their product suitable for small scale use, while selling higher end editions for large scale use, at a large profit margin, that more than makes up for the costs of giving away some of their services.
If you are using any Spamhaus lookup in any part of a Barracuda or similar spam filter appliance you must ensure you have a current Spamhaus Datafeed subscription from a Spamhaus Authorized Datafeed Vendor.
See, that's even more dangerous than what Spamhaus did, and still protected by law (assuming the person who distributed the list had no actionable reason to believe the guy had an intent to commit a crime, and use that list to facilitate it).
Spamhaus didn't actually distribute the list.
Spamhaus setup a DNSBL server, that people can ask if a particular domain is on the list or not, but they never get to see the full list.
It's like an anti-abortion protestor giving you a device to carry around with you.
You don't get to see the whole list of businesses, but you can enter GPS coordinates at any time, and the device will tell you if that property has a business on the list of abortion supporters to be boycotted or not.
If you are an ISP, or a corporation with a mail server, you must buy a subscription.
Most people fall into that category.
Note;
They have even implemented checks on the Spamhaus DNSBL servers to identify the operating systems of certain spam filtering appliances, such as Barracudas.
If you are using a spam filtering appliance, with the free spamhaus servers, you will get banned, even if your server only processes 10 messages a day.
Anti-abortion protesters must stay back from clinics.
However, if anti-abortion protestors pass out a list of clinics or business that supporters should boycott, because they support/fund abortions, the anti-abortion protestors can't be sued, because of the opt-in nature of the list, and their free speech rights protect them from legal action due to communicating that list.
Anti-abortion protestors also are just as free to pass out a list of people they know who aren't anti-abortion protestors, and members of the protest can choose not to talk with or due business with that person.
Makes sense... it will make it less expensive to manufacture reliable enterprise drives.
New enterprise SSDs can be MLCs using this technology, they may be higher capacity, or provide more profits to the SSD part manufacturers, but will be just as expensive. Enterprises pay for reliability that meets the requirements for their market.
Consumer market has a lower level of reliability... consumers aren't willing to pay as much for reliability, so reliability will be less.
You can't provide greater reliability to a market that's not willing to pay for that extra -- they'll buy the competitor's product instead that's cheaper (and less reliable)
Pass laws ensuring that software and mathematical algorithms are fully patentable
Office XML as the file format to be used by researchers and all federal and local government, for storing their documentation
Extend the durations of patents to 100 years
Pass a constitutional amendment removing 'limited times' from the copyright clause. Add a clause allowing the regulation of ideas, concepts, and facts.
It's to rent the place (for a maximum of 2 4-year lease terms).
And $10 is just a down payment of a small portion of the cash required for the buyer vetting process.
Generally the vetting process requires over 6 months, and requires the owner's special board they like to call the "Electoral College", to approve of you.
All you need is a router that can accept selected directed broadcasts to the subnet broadcast IP address.
Then you just send a broadcast packet to the IP, for example, a ping containing the magic string.
In other words: enable this functionality of your router, but be careful to carefully restrict what type of broadcasts are allowed, and from what source IP addresses..
A majority of routers on the internet used to have this function enabled, but it has been disabled almost universally, because it's extremely useful to script kiddies for DoS attack amplification.
It's one of the rare occasions where Cisco dared change a default setting in a new software release (in order to disable the function by default).
So you might want to stick with router lock-and-key security, to control broadcast access (if it is to be allowed from somewhere offsite)
Er, wait. MAC stands for Message Authentication Code.
Which is the original and first usage of MAC in reference to communications technology (and in this case, cryptography).
Which is what MAC generally refers to, unless you say MAC Protocol or MAC Address.
Those two indeed refer to respectively Media Access Control Protocol and Media Access Control Address.
And when you say 'Mac' instead of MAC, it refers to a brand of computer made by Apple.
I am not a lawyer but I was under the impression that its illegal to lower someone's salary after hiring unless its agreed upon in writing. Even that is very shaky legal grounds.
It may be uncommon for obvious reasons, under normal circumstances where the employee had not decided to play dirty it would normally be considered unfair, but as long as there is not an employment contract involved, an employer is legally empowered to lower their employee's salary, whenever they want, as long as they provide notifications before the work is performed, and they pay an amount that causes the total paid during the pay period to be at least as much as minimum wage.
No consent from the employee is required for an employer legally reduce the rate of pay.
The chance of that happening is basically nil, everyone wants their own custom extensions that require all servers to implement.
IRC Networks are closely knit entities where multiple servers connect together and implement all the same features, rules, and policies, in order to form a common platform.
It makes no sense for servers with incompatible feature sets to be able to link, too much a security risk for the network itself...
A raise is negotiable, and so is determining the value of work he or she provides. However, if its being used at that particular time it certainly is not.
Oh, it is most certainly negotiable at all times.
And at 1 month before launch of something, the work being done is much more valuable, and so the scales are tipped highly in favor of the employee, for any negotiation.
In other words, it is the perfect time.
Whereas, if the employee had waited until a week after the launch, for that negotiation, the scales would be tipped highly against the employee.
So the logical thing for the employee to do is demand the raise a month before launch, and get the raise.
The logical thing for the employer to do is to award them the raise (assuming it costs them less for the near term than it would cost to replace them).
As soon as the launch is done with, the logical thing for the employer to do is demand a meeting with the employee, and re-negotiate their salary, based on the new value of their work, since the launch is no longer imminent.
In other words, they effectively got a raise 1 month before launch, and then get a drop in compensation afterwards, since there's no 'imminent project'
Also, the new salary might be less than the original salary was, to offset the increased amount that was paid to them, during that prior month.
Sure, but that would be almost benign, compared to other possibilities -- bad guys having newly acquired access to the IRC server, could move to link rogue servers in, intercept user traffic, and more effectively generate mass ads for malware-infested websites, while getting users' NickServ passwords all at the same time?
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It may be useful for long term planning, and awareness, however.
And Facebook should really try to partner with Amazon or establish other agreements / arrangements to align the two company's interests.
The consequences for FB could be dire if Amazon decides to back a new social networking venture, and use their patent as leverage against the competition.... or...
Maybe since the social networking sites Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Google buzz, Google Wave, Myspace, Orkut, Yahoo profiles, Frienster, eHarmony, delicious, ...., seem to be so popular these days, maybe there is money to be made, if not in pursuing lucrative *cough* extortio^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H licensing arrangements with these social networking websites, ..
Then by renting out the patent, or outsourcing 'Intellectual property rights monetization' to another company, preferably one located in the district of East Texas.
I think you missed the part that says if you bought a spam filtering appliance, you can't use it with Spamhaus for free, no matter how many RBL lookups you perform per day, and even if your use is non-commercial.
I don't know what your definition of free service is, but it seems Spamhaus is definitely in the business of selling commercial services to enterprises and ISPs while offering a lite edition for free to some users, in order to increase market penetration and brand name recognition, to improve sales of their commercial services.
I would compare this to Dropbox's practice of allowing users to signup for free for 1GB of storage, to encourage users to signup and pay a monthly fee for 100gb Or.. VMware's practice of giving away ESXi free to small business users, in order to increase brand awareness, so more people will buy Enterprise edition.
It is very common for companies to give away a low-end version of their product suitable for small scale use, while selling higher end editions for large scale use, at a large profit margin, that more than makes up for the costs of giving away some of their services.
See, that's even more dangerous than what Spamhaus did, and still protected by law (assuming the person who distributed the list had no actionable reason to believe the guy had an intent to commit a crime, and use that list to facilitate it). Spamhaus didn't actually distribute the list.
Spamhaus setup a DNSBL server, that people can ask if a particular domain is on the list or not, but they never get to see the full list.
It's like an anti-abortion protestor giving you a device to carry around with you.
You don't get to see the whole list of businesses, but you can enter GPS coordinates at any time, and the device will tell you if that property has a business on the list of abortion supporters to be boycotted or not.
Spamhaus is NOT a free service. It is only free for low-volume personal non-commercial use.
If you are an ISP, or a corporation with a mail server, you must buy a subscription.
Most people fall into that category.
Note; They have even implemented checks on the Spamhaus DNSBL servers to identify the operating systems of certain spam filtering appliances, such as Barracudas.
If you are using a spam filtering appliance, with the free spamhaus servers, you will get banned, even if your server only processes 10 messages a day.
Anti-abortion protesters must stay back from clinics.
However, if anti-abortion protestors pass out a list of clinics or business that supporters should boycott, because they support/fund abortions, the anti-abortion protestors can't be sued, because of the opt-in nature of the list, and their free speech rights protect them from legal action due to communicating that list.
Anti-abortion protestors also are just as free to pass out a list of people they know who aren't anti-abortion protestors, and members of the protest can choose not to talk with or due business with that person.
Makes sense... it will make it less expensive to manufacture reliable enterprise drives.
New enterprise SSDs can be MLCs using this technology, they may be higher capacity, or provide more profits to the SSD part manufacturers, but will be just as expensive. Enterprises pay for reliability that meets the requirements for their market.
Consumer market has a lower level of reliability... consumers aren't willing to pay as much for reliability, so reliability will be less.
You can't provide greater reliability to a market that's not willing to pay for that extra -- they'll buy the competitor's product instead that's cheaper (and less reliable)
The company is not revealing pricing yet."
They are competing on reliability, so it makes sense the price would be higher.
The fact they are not advertising the price, strongly suggests they do not intend to compete based on price, and price will be high.
Marketing rule #1 is shove all the positive aspects of your product in the customer's face.
Don't talk about the negatives or the disadvantages, if you can avoid it.
In this case the product's not out yet, so they can avoid talking about the high price it will cost at launch :)
Punch cards
I think you only get it if you find an actual bug in Knuth's software though :)
It's to rent the place (for a maximum of 2 4-year lease terms). And $10 is just a down payment of a small portion of the cash required for the buyer vetting process.
Generally the vetting process requires over 6 months, and requires the owner's special board they like to call the "Electoral College", to approve of you.
They also have to approve you renewing the lease.
It's probably about time to mention the fact that the expansion Machine Access Code is in wide use, even if it is not the expansion you like.
Examples;
All you need is a router that can accept selected directed broadcasts to the subnet broadcast IP address.
Then you just send a broadcast packet to the IP, for example, a ping containing the magic string.
In other words: enable this functionality of your router, but be careful to carefully restrict what type of broadcasts are allowed, and from what source IP addresses..
A majority of routers on the internet used to have this function enabled, but it has been disabled almost universally, because it's extremely useful to script kiddies for DoS attack amplification.
It's one of the rare occasions where Cisco dared change a default setting in a new software release (in order to disable the function by default).
So you might want to stick with router lock-and-key security, to control broadcast access (if it is to be allowed from somewhere offsite)
PCs have had Wake on Magic Packet since at least Windows 98.
Wake on Magic Packet is not an OS feature.
Er, wait. MAC stands for Message Authentication Code. Which is the original and first usage of MAC in reference to communications technology (and in this case, cryptography).
Which is what MAC generally refers to, unless you say MAC Protocol or MAC Address.
Those two indeed refer to respectively Media Access Control Protocol and Media Access Control Address.
And when you say 'Mac' instead of MAC, it refers to a brand of computer made by Apple.
Windows update only pushes out important and critical fixes. Other upgrades, and definitely additional drivers still have to be installed manually.
I am not a lawyer but I was under the impression that its illegal to lower someone's salary after hiring unless its agreed upon in writing. Even that is very shaky legal grounds.
It may be uncommon for obvious reasons, under normal circumstances where the employee had not decided to play dirty it would normally be considered unfair, but as long as there is not an employment contract involved, an employer is legally empowered to lower their employee's salary, whenever they want, as long as they provide notifications before the work is performed, and they pay an amount that causes the total paid during the pay period to be at least as much as minimum wage.
No consent from the employee is required for an employer legally reduce the rate of pay.
The chance of that happening is basically nil, everyone wants their own custom extensions that require all servers to implement.
IRC Networks are closely knit entities where multiple servers connect together and implement all the same features, rules, and policies, in order to form a common platform.
It makes no sense for servers with incompatible feature sets to be able to link, too much a security risk for the network itself...
I see... so it would make sense to make the minimal policy change at just the right time to change the answers they can give, to each inquiry.
That would suggest the inquiry about programming languages is further along, eh?
A raise is negotiable, and so is determining the value of work he or she provides. However, if its being used at that particular time it certainly is not.
Oh, it is most certainly negotiable at all times. And at 1 month before launch of something, the work being done is much more valuable, and so the scales are tipped highly in favor of the employee, for any negotiation. In other words, it is the perfect time.
Whereas, if the employee had waited until a week after the launch, for that negotiation, the scales would be tipped highly against the employee.
So the logical thing for the employee to do is demand the raise a month before launch, and get the raise.
The logical thing for the employer to do is to award them the raise (assuming it costs them less for the near term than it would cost to replace them).
As soon as the launch is done with, the logical thing for the employer to do is demand a meeting with the employee, and re-negotiate their salary, based on the new value of their work, since the launch is no longer imminent.
In other words, they effectively got a raise 1 month before launch, and then get a drop in compensation afterwards, since there's no 'imminent project'
Also, the new salary might be less than the original salary was, to offset the increased amount that was paid to them, during that prior month.
Sure, but that would be almost benign, compared to other possibilities -- bad guys having newly acquired access to the IRC server, could move to link rogue servers in, intercept user traffic, and more effectively generate mass ads for malware-infested websites, while getting users' NickServ passwords all at the same time?
May I remind you that the Windows binaries are unaffected?
The windows provided BINARIES were not effected. If you compiled the windows version from source code, it was also effected.
Just because you have a MD5 signature, does not mean it's any good. Always verify the PGP signature.
According to some reports that were made by people on IRC Security related discussion forums: