You're asking a mostly American audiance about IPv6 but we're the ones with all the address space and no incentive to switch. I believe that US entities like IBM and MIT have class A addresses, which is obviously more than many countries have. If anyone does IPv6, it will be those with out much ipv4 address space.
It's not the oldest, but I still put Norton Commander for DOS (circa 1989) on boot floppies. A two pane file browser, an editor and lap-link file transfer in under 80K.
If I still had an older version, it did most of the same stuff in about 53k. it was from around 1985.
If you let your kids use the Internet unsupervised, the fault is yours. Because the Internet is international and national values as to what is appropriate for children vary, schemes like this are doomed to failure.
I'm not trying to call the author a bad parrent, but the Internet is not a baby-sitter....
It's like letting your kid run wild in the largest bookstore on the planet, knowing full well that innapropriate material is available.
That said, I'd welcome a.kids TLD and browser settings that lock them into it. That WAY beats censoring the Internet for everyone.
I think this is going to cost Redhat mindshare as newbies (and perhaps CS departments) shy away from their expensive distros. I'm not sure how many they actually sold, but it was nice to see a boxed Redhat at BestBuy for around $50. If you don't have broadband, it's probably worth $50 for the CD's and the printed install guide.
If the free download and the "Enterprise" what-ever are too different, it will have an impact.
I wonder what situation this leaves Cheap Bytes and other CD copiers in?
I've heard (sorry, no source) that shootings by the Police can get lumped into these statistics too. Be wary when you see numbers about total handgun deaths and are shocked.
But look at what law enforcement WILL follow up on.
(insert huge list of petty crimes)
All kinds of less serious crimes will be prosecuted. Ever fail to pay a speeding ticket and have a bench warrant issued? I know people who have. What about jay walking? The message they're sending is that less than $5000 computer crime isn't "real crime." Perhaps they just need to turn it over to local law enforcement (if there aren't jurisdictional problems)?
If you want to talk about wasting tax dollars on low-dollar victimless crimes, lets talk about the war on drugs where in they arrest people for trace amounts of drugs.
I have a friend that hosts a few web sites that had a box rooted (wu-ftp exploit). Ammazingly, he happened to be in the system and noticed. He tracerouted the cracker to his static DSL IP -- basically cought the guy red-handed.
So he contacts the FBI about it. They ask him some questions, like how much money they cost him (basically only a few hours of admin time because he interceeded before any damage took place (the cracked had installed a script to rm -rf / ))
The FBI declines to do ANYTHING about it because it wasn't high-dollar enough to warrent investigation.
We hear all this talk about cyber-crime and the potential threat to our national infastructure, but the FBI won't prosecute unless the case is high-profile enough to get them headlines. I don't think this is the message we ought to be sending, that it's OK to root someone's box and nothing will happen to you if the dammage doesn't exceed a certain dollar amount.
I installed 2k Pro for non-profit on one of their 1.4 athlon's. It came with good driver cd's for M$ products. A bit loud, but working fine.
Guess again, Implied Warranty of Merchantability
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"Every time goods are bought and sold, a sales contract is created: the buyer agrees to pay, and the seller agrees to accept, a certain price in exchange for a certain item or number of items."...
"Implied warranties come in two general types: merchantability and fitness. An implied warranty of merchantability is an unwritten and unspoken guarantee to the buyer that goods purchased conform to ordinary standards of care and that they are of the same average grade, quality, and value as similar goods sold under similar circumstances. In other words, merchantable goods are goods fit for the ordinary purposes for which they are to be used. "
Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to apply to software.
I think I've got an entry for Junkbuster's re_filterfile that will strip the info.netscape.com stuff and just take you directly to google's search results:
s/'http://info.netscape.com/fwd/lksidus_gg/'///i g
I can see where this might be effective if enought people do it, but PLEASE don't do this to the small mom and pop record stores that are struggling to stay open in the wake of (name your favorite box store).
This could allow ISP's to have tiers of service. Basic access could be at the "normal" rate and those wanting access to an "enhanced" packages of what are now pay sites (Like Wall Street Journal) and perhaps a small array of financial sites could pay one low price to one entity to access them all.
Listen to all of the prompts. I hate to say "trick" but at one point it asks you if you wan to be removed for only two years and later in the choices you can opt-out perminately.
Stealing is what happened when the big corporations sucked up all of the spectrum.
IIRC, the original telecommunications act of the 20's OUTLAWED encription of the public airwaves. This was the rule until satalite broadcasters got burned by all of those old, huge home satalite dishes of the 70's. They used their clout and money to get the laws changed in their favor. Just because someone manages to get a law changed does not make the consequences just. There is a growing disparity between law and justice.
The frequency spectrum was a vast public "commons" until it was auctioned off to the highest bidder.
So many of these anti-copy zelots think that every
copied work represents a loss of the purchase price to the producer. This simply isn't so. If it were impossible to copy, for instance, M$ Word, most people would just use notepad or something less expensive, like WordPerfect.
The only time this isn't true is when you have a
monopoly and you are virutally forced into using
a product for compatability reasons.
I bought a pair of webgear cards about a week ago to get a wireless connection to my work (which has a T-1) which is about a block away. I got the things working next to each other ~5 feet (a 10MB FTP transfer took 70 seconds). But when I took one to the office, I can't get them to connect. I paced it off at about 380 feet between buildings, and then through 2 walls on each end. It's clear line of sight between the two buildings. They advertise 300 feet indoors and up to 1000 feet clear line of sight, so I thought I'd be in the ball park, but no luck.
Has anyone taken these webgear cards apart to put an external antanna on them? Any other thoughts?
"We also send our members a copy of a little known Postal Service form that many call `The Ultimate Junk Mail Weapon'."
That form is PS Form 1500, available at any US Post Office. It was actually designed to stop porn, but the Supreme Court ruled that it applies to any mail, or, to put it another way, offensive is in the eye of the beholder.
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You're asking a mostly American audiance about IPv6 but we're the ones with all the address space and no incentive to switch. I believe that US entities like IBM and MIT have class A addresses, which is obviously more than many countries have. If anyone does IPv6, it will be those with out much ipv4 address space.
It's not the oldest, but I still put Norton Commander for DOS (circa 1989) on boot floppies. A two pane file browser, an editor and lap-link file transfer in under 80K.
If I still had an older version, it did most of the same stuff in about 53k. it was from around 1985.
If you let your kids use the Internet unsupervised, the fault is yours. Because the Internet is international and national values as to what is appropriate for children vary, schemes like this are doomed to failure.
.kids TLD and browser settings that lock them into it. That WAY beats censoring the Internet for everyone.
I'm not trying to call the author a bad parrent, but the Internet is not a baby-sitter....
It's like letting your kid run wild in the largest bookstore on the planet, knowing full well that innapropriate material is available.
That said, I'd welcome a
I think this is going to cost Redhat mindshare as newbies (and perhaps CS departments) shy away from their expensive distros. I'm not sure how many they actually sold, but it was nice to see a boxed Redhat at BestBuy for around $50. If you don't have broadband, it's probably worth $50 for the CD's and the printed install guide.
If the free download and the "Enterprise" what-ever are too different, it will have an impact.
I wonder what situation this leaves Cheap Bytes and other CD copiers in?
We're finally winning something!
I've heard (sorry, no source) that shootings by the Police can get lumped into these statistics too. Be wary when you see numbers about total handgun deaths and are shocked.
(insert huge list of petty crimes)
All kinds of less serious crimes will be prosecuted. Ever fail to pay a speeding ticket and have a bench warrant issued? I know people who have. What about jay walking? The message they're sending is that less than $5000 computer crime isn't "real crime." Perhaps they just need to turn it over to local law enforcement (if there aren't jurisdictional problems)?
If you want to talk about wasting tax dollars on low-dollar victimless crimes, lets talk about the war on drugs where in they arrest people for trace amounts of drugs.
So he contacts the FBI about it. They ask him some questions, like how much money they cost him (basically only a few hours of admin time because he interceeded before any damage took place (the cracked had installed a script to rm -rf / ))
The FBI declines to do ANYTHING about it because it wasn't high-dollar enough to warrent investigation.
We hear all this talk about cyber-crime and the potential threat to our national infastructure, but the FBI won't prosecute unless the case is high-profile enough to get them headlines. I don't think this is the message we ought to be sending, that it's OK to root someone's box and nothing will happen to you if the dammage doesn't exceed a certain dollar amount.
If I record a song from the radio and play it back later, that's legal, right? (time shifting)
If I convert if to mp3, that's legal, right? (format shifting)
If I have a mp3 of a song I've heard on the radio, what's the substantial difference?
I installed 2k Pro for non-profit on one of their 1.4 athlon's. It came with good driver cd's for M$ products. A bit loud, but working fine.
"Every time goods are bought and sold, a sales contract is created: the buyer agrees to pay, and the seller agrees to accept, a certain price in exchange for a certain item or number of items." ...
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"Implied warranties come in two general types: merchantability and fitness. An implied warranty of merchantability is an unwritten and unspoken guarantee to the buyer that goods purchased conform to ordinary standards of care and that they are of the same average grade, quality, and value as similar goods sold under similar circumstances. In other words, merchantable goods are goods fit for the ordinary purposes for which they are to be used. "
Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to apply to software.
See:
http://www.wld.com/conbus/weal/wimpwarr.h
I think I've got an entry for Junkbuster's re_filterfile that will strip the info.netscape.com stuff and just take you directly to google's search results:
i g
s/'http://info.netscape.com/fwd/lksidus_gg/'///
Just remember to restart junkbuster.
Don't know what Junkbuster is? See junkbuster.com
I can see where this might be effective if enought people do it, but PLEASE don't do this to the small mom and pop record stores that are struggling to stay open in the wake of (name your favorite box store).
>and they are guaranteed to work with _all_Windows software
There is _no_ guarante that Windows will work for any purpose what so ever (read the EULA) let alone with _all_ Windows software.
This could allow ISP's to have tiers of service. Basic access could be at the "normal" rate and those wanting access to an "enhanced" packages of what are now pay sites (Like Wall Street Journal) and perhaps a small array of financial sites could pay one low price to one entity to access them all.
Listen to all of the prompts. I hate to say "trick" but at one point it asks you if you wan to be removed for only two years and later in the choices you can opt-out perminately.
Exactly, consumers are seldomly in a position to judge the QUALITY of two things that are mostly alike. All they can do is judge it on price.
Stealing is what happened when the big corporations sucked up all of the spectrum.
IIRC, the original telecommunications act of the 20's OUTLAWED encription of the public airwaves. This was the rule until satalite broadcasters got burned by all of those old, huge home satalite dishes of the 70's. They used their clout and money to get the laws changed in their favor. Just because someone manages to get a law changed does not make the consequences just. There is a growing disparity between law and justice.
The frequency spectrum was a vast public "commons" until it was auctioned off to the highest bidder.
Decss was first on Windows and so was Napster.
Try filling out those warranty cards an check or write in Linux. (you might want to give a fake email, though.)
So many of these anti-copy zelots think that every
copied work represents a loss of the purchase price to the producer. This simply isn't so. If it were impossible to copy, for instance, M$ Word, most people would just use notepad or something less expensive, like WordPerfect.
The only time this isn't true is when you have a
monopoly and you are virutally forced into using
a product for compatability reasons.
I just got junk mail yesterday from Applix touting their Linux support with an offer to purchase Applix for Linux ... just before they dump support!
That's life on the bleeding edge. If you don't like it, you can wait until RedHat revs, or some generous soul makes an RPM.
I bought a pair of webgear cards about a week ago to get a wireless connection to my work (which has a T-1) which is about a block away.
I got the things working next to each other ~5 feet (a 10MB FTP transfer took 70 seconds). But when I took one to the office, I can't get them to connect. I paced it off at about 380 feet between buildings, and then through 2 walls on each end. It's clear line of sight between the two buildings. They advertise 300 feet indoors and up to 1000 feet clear line of sight, so I thought I'd be in the ball park, but no luck.
Has anyone taken these webgear cards apart to put an external antanna on them? Any other thoughts?
FYI: On www.privatecitizen.com they talk about:
"We also send our members a copy of a little known Postal Service form that many call `The Ultimate Junk Mail Weapon'."
That form is PS Form 1500, available at any US Post Office. It was actually designed to stop porn, but the Supreme Court ruled that it applies to any mail, or, to put it another way, offensive is in the eye of the beholder.