Okay.. let's quite tossing out the red-herring that is canada's low population density.
YES, most of our population lives in a strip no more than 100 miles from the US border (or so).
But the population density map IN that east to west strip is pretty much identical to the same sized east-west strip in the US.
SO let's not say "Canada has a lower population density, but our broadband is better". Let's say "Canada has a very similar population density, and our broadband is better"
It's not wrong.. but the idealist in all of us would like to see full equal bi-directional speed everywhere. I would rather see everyone on earth have 1M/1M than to see everyone have 4M/256. It lets the internet do what it is good at.. move data between end users. Asymmetric links encourage content to be delivered by servers hosted elsewhere, rather than by end users.
It's partly due to infrastructure, but it's also due to the desire to keep home users from running servers.
Yes, true, but this requires the person to give up their own ability to access the bank online... something people will likely be a bit more serious about.
When it comes to abstract logical ideas like password and whatnot, it's easy to be led astray.. people are much better with physical objects.
Is it really XSS if it's all happening at the same site? Just sayin.....
XMLHTTP has a same-site policy... the problem here is they let users render html & javascript in their own pages on the site. If slashdot allowed executable javascript in the comments, we'd have the same problem.
Most mac users don't want or need a virtual desktop system, and i've seen hardcore unix users who love virtual desktops switch to OSX and just abandon virtual desktops... the UI makes them far less necessary in the first place.
Also, people are free to write free software.. nothing is stopping them, the API is open, the (excellent) development tools are free. The lack of a good freeware virtual desktop system just indicates a lack of demand.
I've used VirtualDesktop, it's nice, but it makes OS X less usable for me.. not more. get used to the os x way of doing things, and things work out better.
I would like to see the TLD's run from a more altruistic point of view. Have sensible registration fees, and a good system, maintained across multiple countries, voluntarily.
DNS should not be a moneymaking scheme, it should be something altruistic.... scholarly. At the top of the internet, we should have a collective of impartial parties providing a global lookup service and nothign more. There should be no lobbying for new TLD's, other than perhaps to reflect the changing geopolitical landscape of the planet. No friggin.museum,.info,.coke,.mydomain.
Dont' mistake dns for "control of the internet". It's not, and were the US to use DNS for polictical gain, the internet would deal with the problem in short, efficient order.
My suggestion? Let ANYONE have access to the root zones. Set up a distribution system whereby anyone can get the complete database the root servers have, and anyone who wants can run a root server. Done deal.
All authority that IANA or ICANN or any other organisation has over IP addresses and DNS is through the strictly VOLUNTARY participation by every ISP and even end user, out there. Their authority comes form the recognition that an authority is needed.. that addresses need to be allocated in an organized way.
IT is ultimately those who provide the infrastructure who will decide what needs to be organized and by whom. This isn't a government issue.. it's an ISP issue.
"You can do a traceroute, a dns lookup, and read public whois data!"
Then this stuff about how IP addresses are broken up into "classes" to ease routing.. err, no, they aren't.. though they used to be many, many years ago.
Also... * * * in a traceroute may indicate ICMP filtering, but more often indicates that rfc1518 private addresses were used on the links, which are then blocked elsewhere. Perfectly normal, and quite common.
Linux may be trademarked, but it has never been enforced. Tons and tons fo people use "Linux" without any kind of permission from the trademark holder.
It was my understanding that the only reason this trademark existed is because it was recovered from some jerk who actually trademarked "Linux" as an operating system for his own nonexistant product name then tried to extort everyone.....
They don't own my website either, but they have the right to copy it. Same deal as with the library.
Your fair-use rights to a work are no different when you check the book out of a library as when you buy it.. when it's in your posession, the same rules apply.
Information may be public, but publishing an article with personal information about a CEO in this manner is kind of rude... so to have Google then refuse to deal withe the news agency in question is no surprise.
If a paper published my name and address and whatnot and I wasn't expecting it, I'd probably not speak to them in the future, either.
they didn't declare that keystroke logging was illegal, they declared that hidden keystroke logging (where the user isn't aware of it) is a privacy violation.
Yes, it's the company's computer, but as with the phone, they can't just record your phone calls without telling you; you do have a certain right to privacy.
If you want to run a high security environment where you tell employees that no personal work is permitted from the computer, and that every keystroke is logged, that's probably just fine, just as you can run a call center and tell your employees that every phone call is recorded.
Why would you want the expense and hassle of running this if you don't have to? The point is, ICANN wants it so they can change things.. what do tehy want to change, and how will it benefit you and me, the average user?
Slashdot Mirror
No, only the 30" requires dual-link DVI. The 23" works fine on a regular DVI card.
Okay.. let's quite tossing out the red-herring that is canada's low population density.
YES, most of our population lives in a strip no more than 100 miles from the US border (or so).
But the population density map IN that east to west strip is pretty much identical to the same sized east-west strip in the US.
SO let's not say "Canada has a lower population density, but our broadband is better". Let's say "Canada has a very similar population density, and our broadband is better"
It's not wrong.. but the idealist in all of us would like to see full equal bi-directional speed everywhere. I would rather see everyone on earth have 1M/1M than to see everyone have 4M/256. It lets the internet do what it is good at.. move data between end users. Asymmetric links encourage content to be delivered by servers hosted elsewhere, rather than by end users.
It's partly due to infrastructure, but it's also due to the desire to keep home users from running servers.
Well, if the affiliate contracts don't cover this kind of thing, then tough titties, that's business.
Did ABC promise them they would never seek alternative distribution methods?
Yes.. and if Apple ends up as a true monopoly, and abuses that position, then we will be looking at antitrust.
But at the moment.. Apple is succeeding not by abusing a monopoly, but by better marketing and product design, regular old business.
There are lots of good mp3 players available.. and apple isn't muscling them out by some shady business practices.
But that's not really phishing.. that's a man in the middle attack, and is already prevented in theory by SSL certificates.
The danger with phishing is people not realizing their information has been stolen, and that information is used at a later date.
Yes, true, but this requires the person to give up their own ability to access the bank online... something people will likely be a bit more serious about.
When it comes to abstract logical ideas like password and whatnot, it's easy to be led astray.. people are much better with physical objects.
Is it really XSS if it's all happening at the same site? Just sayin.....
XMLHTTP has a same-site policy... the problem here is they let users render html & javascript in their own pages on the site. If slashdot allowed executable javascript in the comments, we'd have the same problem.
Just curious.. what size powerbook?
I found my 12" ibook cramped... even with expose.
On the 23" cinema, I've never felt cramped, even with the screen crammed with open windows.
I can see how virtual desktop stuff would be useful on a small screen.
Most mac users don't want or need a virtual desktop system, and i've seen hardcore unix users who love virtual desktops switch to OSX and just abandon virtual desktops... the UI makes them far less necessary in the first place.
Also, people are free to write free software.. nothing is stopping them, the API is open, the (excellent) development tools are free. The lack of a good freeware virtual desktop system just indicates a lack of demand.
I've used VirtualDesktop, it's nice, but it makes OS X less usable for me.. not more. get used to the os x way of doing things, and things work out better.
I would like to see the TLD's run from a more altruistic point of view. Have sensible registration fees, and a good system, maintained across multiple countries, voluntarily.
.museum, .info, .coke, .mydomain.
DNS should not be a moneymaking scheme, it should be something altruistic.... scholarly. At the top of the internet, we should have a collective of impartial parties providing a global lookup service and nothign more. There should be no lobbying for new TLD's, other than perhaps to reflect the changing geopolitical landscape of the planet. No friggin
Dont' mistake dns for "control of the internet". It's not, and were the US to use DNS for polictical gain, the internet would deal with the problem in short, efficient order.
My suggestion? Let ANYONE have access to the root zones. Set up a distribution system whereby anyone can get the complete database the root servers have, and anyone who wants can run a root server. Done deal.
Nobody has "control" of the internet... to suggest so is absurd.
The internet works through the cooperation of thousands (millions?) of private and public netowrks agreeing on certain protocols and standards.
The US Govt or any other group can dicatate address allocation, DNS servers, and so on, but nothing FORCES anyone to use it.
If the major ISP's decide to ignore IANA or any other group, that's their perogative.
Given that global cooperation is necessary to have a globally reachable internet.. we only need two things.
1) Sane address allocation that everyone can agree on.
2) Sane DNS allocation that everyone can agree on.
All authority that IANA or ICANN or any other organisation has over IP addresses and DNS is through the strictly VOLUNTARY participation by every ISP and even end user, out there. Their authority comes form the recognition that an authority is needed.. that addresses need to be allocated in an organized way.
IT is ultimately those who provide the infrastructure who will decide what needs to be organized and by whom. This isn't a government issue.. it's an ISP issue.
Won't hold up, same as the Lexmark case.
Further.. if it does hold up, this is just further evidence that the DMCA is very badly written.
Even if you are a very strong proponent of stricter copyrights, this is outside the intended scope of the DMCA.
The locking mechanism is there to prevent using competing SIM cards on the phone, not to protect access to a work under copyright.
Pivoting on fulcrums... using balancing, one man can do an awful lot of stuff with very little energy.
I can't find the original page, but check out the video on exn....
Backyard Stonehenge
This is junk.
"You can do a traceroute, a dns lookup, and read public whois data!"
Then this stuff about how IP addresses are broken up into "classes" to ease routing.. err, no, they aren't.. though they used to be many, many years ago.
Also... * * * in a traceroute may indicate ICMP filtering, but more often indicates that rfc1518 private addresses were used on the links, which are then blocked elsewhere. Perfectly normal, and quite common.
Many digital cameras have a simple Infrared-blocking filter in front of the CCD..... to prevent IR from washing out the picture.
Even if they don't, it's simple to add them...
I feel he's right.
Linux may be trademarked, but it has never been enforced. Tons and tons fo people use "Linux" without any kind of permission from the trademark holder.
It was my understanding that the only reason this trademark existed is because it was recovered from some jerk who actually trademarked "Linux" as an operating system for his own nonexistant product name then tried to extort everyone.....
What do you think a Buffalo is then?
They don't own my website either, but they have the right to copy it. Same deal as with the library.
Your fair-use rights to a work are no different when you check the book out of a library as when you buy it.. when it's in your posession, the same rules apply.
Information may be public, but publishing an article with personal information about a CEO in this manner is kind of rude... so to have Google then refuse to deal withe the news agency in question is no surprise.
If a paper published my name and address and whatnot and I wasn't expecting it, I'd probably not speak to them in the future, either.
It probably doesn't affect them at all, unless this is done in secret and the computers are used for other general purpose, private functions.
This ruling seems to state that installing a keylogger without the user's knowledge on a general purpose PC is a privacy violation.
It doesn't mean it's illegal to ever log keystrokes for any reason.. only that doing so without the informed consent of the user is wrong.
I'm sure you can log every keystroke if you make the employee aware that every keystroke is being logged.
they didn't declare that keystroke logging was illegal, they declared that hidden keystroke logging (where the user isn't aware of it) is a privacy violation.
Yes, it's the company's computer, but as with the phone, they can't just record your phone calls without telling you; you do have a certain right to privacy.
If you want to run a high security environment where you tell employees that no personal work is permitted from the computer, and that every keystroke is logged, that's probably just fine, just as you can run a call center and tell your employees that every phone call is recorded.
Why would you want the expense and hassle of running this if you don't have to? The point is, ICANN wants it so they can change things.. what do tehy want to change, and how will it benefit you and me, the average user?
I'm not American. I have no personal interest in this staying in America... however.
What's the benefit to turning it over to ICANN? How will this benefit me or the internet at large?
As far as I can tell, all ICANN has done is fuck up DNS with stupid new root zones, and waste millions of dollars on useless meetings.
Why on earth would I want ICANN running the root zone? So they can fuck up DNS even more, with even less resistance?