The problem is that none of the things you asked are sensitive information. In fact, the answer to #3 would probably be different if the answer to #5 was more widely known (#2 could help too).
The information is apparently sensitive enough to cause you to post as an AC. You made the poster's point for him -- those numbers you posted aren't useful, until they have an account and/or name to which to correlate. You apparently realize that.
It's important, when comparing prices, to pick machines in the same class. Don't just compare CPU/RAM/HDD specs. I have a precision workstation and it's built like a tank compared to the dimension line.
Okay, then what's the comparable Apple price for a headless system, with an (preferably upgradable) 8800GT graphics card, 3 PCI-Express slots, 4 DIMM slots, 750GB disk, and a lower-end quad-core (Q6600-level) Intel Core processor?
You could say that a Porsche is cheaper than a Hundai, as long as you restrict the class of automobiles to those in the Porsche's class...
However to protest the ticket would have cost me 75$ in court fees just to protest, a day of lost wages, plus the cost to drive all the way up there and back. In the end, it was cheaper just to take the ticket.
Well, then... frankly, you're part of the problem...
Consider it your civic duty to protest the injustice in court, even if it is inconvenient, even if it costs more. If more people do this, then the operation becomes less lucrative, and they will then have less incentive to do it.
I've protested every one of the speeding tickets that I've gotten in my state -- it's never done much good, except a slight reduction in the fine a time or two. However, I felt slightly vindicated in that I was taking up some precious court time in the process...
A minor point, but communion is no longer believed to be wine; it's believed to be the blood of Christ.
(A minor rebuttal) Only in the Catholic church. Protestants see it as a symbol, while Catholics seem to believe that it changes into the real thing (apparently Christ's blood has a fruity taste...).
Yours, is the incorrect, one. Why, is that comma, there? I thought, that we had editors, to check, for this sort of thing. There, fixed those, for you. James T.
Funny, but even more funny is the "Informative" mod...
Make the TSA ban wristwatches. Or laptop computers. Or polyester. Or zippers over three inches long. You get the idea."
I've been waiting (hoping) for someone to try to smuggle an explosive in their brassiere -- the reaction to that would be interesting...
Re:Got me excited there for a minute.
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That probably just refreshed your pages to bring up the IMAP option. Switching from English(US) to English(UK), saving the changes, and changing back, did absolutely nothing for me ^_^
Interestingly, it did work for me. I didn't have the IMAP option, changed to English-UK, then back to English-US, and the IMAP option was there...
Is there any fund to which one could contribute for the appeal? I don't want to contribute to the fine, but would contribute if it were to go toward the defense of the appeal...
The Suse vouchers that MS handed out had no expiry date and nothing stating which version of Suse they were valid for. GPLv3 states that if you give rights to certain users, you must extend those same rights to ALL users without exception. If a single person uses a Suse/MS voucher to obtain software licensed under GPLv3, ALL users of that software are immune from lawsuits by MS.
I'm always amazed at the technical people who think that the legal system is a computer program that they can hack.
The justice system does attempt (though it may not seem so at times) to apply common sense, rather than just blindly following the laws. As such, I can't believe that there is a judge in the world who would compel Microsoft to comply with a license that wasn't even in existence when the vouchers were created.
The GPLv2 says you can redistribute code released under GPLv2 under GPLv2 or later. Linus can release it under v3 if he wants to. He has chosen not to.
That would be interesting if it were true, but it's not...
Linus modified the Linux license to remove the "or later" clause, and so the entire kernel is GPLv2 only. Parts of the kernel do have the "or later" as part of their license, but most don't. So, to go GPLv3, those parts would either have to be rewritten, or their author tracked down, to give permission...
I see this over and over again here on Slashdot -- "school was so easy and boring for me, that I didn't try, and so got terrible grades". Well, if is was so easy, why did you get bad grades? (Not you personally, but those who say such things...) Truly, I don't understand that. There are a lot of highly-intelligent people here on Slashdot (along with a bunch of idiots, probably), and it's likely that they all had to face this. Just do the boring homework as quickly as possible, then go on to something more interesting...
Though you are different from the parent poster, in that you do seem to see it at least as partially a failing in yourself, while the parent seems content to blame the system.
I'm hesitant to bring "real world" into this... but, I can guarantee that your future employer will ask you to do things that you don't want to do -- that which isn't "interesting" or "fun". (In fact, in engineering, it is likely that that's all that you get for a while.) And, it is how you will do on these assignments that will most likely define your worthiness to the employer.
Anyway, a trick that seemed to help me, at least to an extent, is to try to find anything that might cause the unsavory subject to look more interesting to me. Failing that, I just had to buckle down.
I'm in Portland, OR, and am using the "standard" redirected proxy, "216.155.165.50:8080" (it is on the Wiki page for the phone, and comes up often with Google), and have no trouble browing any HTTP sites, using only the $6 WAP plan.
Unfortunately, Java apps (such as Google Maps) don't work with that, but Google Maps isn't worth the extra $24 a month for me...
But that still doesn't make it an EULA -- i.e. "End User License Agreement". It is a license to copy, not to use.
I.e. if I give you a copy of Linux, it is I who is bound by the GPL (since it is I who is making the copy), not you. With an EULA, it is you who is bound by the license.
Seems like a subtle distinction, but it is actually quite important. If you, now having a legit copy, don't agree to the GPL, you may still use the product -- you may just not distribute it (as you don't have a license to do such). With an EULA (and the current court's interpretation of such), if you don't agree to the EULA, you may then not use the product...
The inner-city black kid, statistically, is far more likely to be involved with drugs.
And the nerdish white guy is more likely to view (and store) kiddy porn. Should that give the police the right to search your computer anytime they desire?
For those saying Tivo costs a fortune...WTF are you talking about? Available right now from Circuit City / Worst Buy starting at $69 a unit. Get the FOOCK outta here with this Tivo cost too much. Echo lost becuase they tried to go around Tivo and violate thier patents. Get over it. Echo is no nice company either just like DTV is not a nice company. That is all
The reason that TiVos are that cheap, is simply because there are alternatives, and TiVo had to be competitive with them. Remove the alternatives, as this ruling may cause to happen, and there is no reason for them to be competitive.
As an aside, I worked for a company (Tektronix) from 1991-1994, who developed a hard disk recorder for professional video. It would even let you play back directly behind what was being recorded (within thirty seconds). I don't know why products such as this aren't considered as valid prior-art. Perhaps because TiVo added "for consumer video" to the patent application?
Of course, they could also argue that you have no rights under the Constitution if you're not a US citizen, so they can do whatever they like. I think this would be one of the more likely responses.
The word citizen appears nowhere in the bill of rights...
People have this idea that the Constitution protects them from search or siezure by police. It does not. It protects you from having those items siezed used against you in court, and allows you to get them back - after the fact, after you have seen a judge.
The fourth amendment states:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Hmm, doesn't seem to fit what you said...
What you stated is what the current interpretation is. And, that's what this story is about... The current interpretation of what is reasonable snooping on communications is changing -- and, within a few years, people will think that their current sad state of civil rights will have always been the case, just like you seem to think that the ability of the police to illegally seize your property would have been allowed by the courts in the past...
People who loose too much get on a do-not-gamble-list in Germany. Every Casino has to check the list, an losses of persons on that list are null (meaning the looser does not have to pay).
2. Client encrypts the session key with the MITM's public key (which it thinks is the server's public key) and transmits the encrypted key to the MITM.
Except that the client will most likely ship with the server's public key installed...
Yeah, they completely forgot about the Apple///, which was the first true failure.
This is especially relevant when you consider that the Apple/// failed at the time when the IBM PC was being introduced. Had Apple had a more viable competitor at the time, then the PC might not have taken off as well as it did.
Imagine if something like the Apple//gs would have been available around 1981...
(I actually quite liked my Apple///, bought for $100 in 1986. Its SOS operating system was actually quite advanced, with a noticably better memory management system and driver model than the IBM PC had at the time. Ran USCD Pascal very well...)
I realize this is not your point, but the fact is that the original Mac did have a screen with enough resolution to show 80 columns of text. Back in '85 I was connecting to BBSs with my Mac and 1200 baud modem and displaying 80-column text just fine. (Just a-settin' the record straight.)
The resolution of the original Mac's screen was 512x384 -- which meant that, if you were showing 80 columns of mono-spaced text (such as when using a terminal emulator, as you mentioned), you had 6.4 horizontal dots with which to make a character. I had the same (okay, it was only similar) 128K Mac that you did, and that text was not fun to read on the Mac's 9" screen! Contrast that to the PC, which had 640x480, for 8 horizontal dots per character for the CGA adapter, and even better on the monochrome adaptor, and the Mac was a pretty poor substitute in this domain.
The Mac, however, made up for it when word processing or anything that could take advantage of the proportional-space fonts, which were much advanced when compared to anything on the PC at the time (proportional fonts being one of those things that. like the mouse, graphics printing, high density and high refresh displays, USB, and a host of other technologies, PC owners claimed wasn't useful, until their platform supported them sometime later...)
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You could say that a Porsche is cheaper than a Hundai, as long as you restrict the class of automobiles to those in the Porsche's class...
Consider it your civic duty to protest the injustice in court, even if it is inconvenient, even if it costs more. If more people do this, then the operation becomes less lucrative, and they will then have less incentive to do it.
I've protested every one of the speeding tickets that I've gotten in my state -- it's never done much good, except a slight reduction in the fine a time or two. However, I felt slightly vindicated in that I was taking up some precious court time in the process...
Interestingly, it did work for me. I didn't have the IMAP option, changed to English-UK, then back to English-US, and the IMAP option was there...
Is there any fund to which one could contribute for the appeal? I don't want to contribute to the fine, but would contribute if it were to go toward the defense of the appeal...
I'm always amazed at the technical people who think that the legal system is a computer program that they can hack.
The justice system does attempt (though it may not seem so at times) to apply common sense, rather than just blindly following the laws. As such, I can't believe that there is a judge in the world who would compel Microsoft to comply with a license that wasn't even in existence when the vouchers were created.
Even as much as we all wish that it were so...
Linus modified the Linux license to remove the "or later" clause, and so the entire kernel is GPLv2 only. Parts of the kernel do have the "or later" as part of their license, but most don't. So, to go GPLv3, those parts would either have to be rewritten, or their author tracked down, to give permission...
I'm kinda hoping for someone to build a HDCP in => analog component, discrete audio out...
More nitpicking
I see this over and over again here on Slashdot -- "school was so easy and boring for me, that I didn't try, and so got terrible grades". Well, if is was so easy, why did you get bad grades? (Not you personally, but those who say such things...) Truly, I don't understand that. There are a lot of highly-intelligent people here on Slashdot (along with a bunch of idiots, probably), and it's likely that they all had to face this. Just do the boring homework as quickly as possible, then go on to something more interesting...
... but, I can guarantee that your future employer will ask you to do things that you don't want to do -- that which isn't "interesting" or "fun". (In fact, in engineering, it is likely that that's all that you get for a while.) And, it is how you will do on these assignments that will most likely define your worthiness to the employer.
Though you are different from the parent poster, in that you do seem to see it at least as partially a failing in yourself, while the parent seems content to blame the system.
I'm hesitant to bring "real world" into this
Anyway, a trick that seemed to help me, at least to an extent, is to try to find anything that might cause the unsavory subject to look more interesting to me. Failing that, I just had to buckle down.
I'm in Portland, OR, and am using the "standard" redirected proxy, "216.155.165.50:8080" (it is on the Wiki page for the phone, and comes up often with Google), and have no trouble browing any HTTP sites, using only the $6 WAP plan.
Unfortunately, Java apps (such as Google Maps) don't work with that, but Google Maps isn't worth the extra $24 a month for me...
But that still doesn't make it an EULA -- i.e. "End User License Agreement". It is a license to copy, not to use.
I.e. if I give you a copy of Linux, it is I who is bound by the GPL (since it is I who is making the copy), not you. With an EULA, it is you who is bound by the license.
Seems like a subtle distinction, but it is actually quite important. If you, now having a legit copy, don't agree to the GPL, you may still use the product -- you may just not distribute it (as you don't have a license to do such). With an EULA (and the current court's interpretation of such), if you don't agree to the EULA, you may then not use the product...
And the nerdish white guy is more likely to view (and store) kiddy porn. Should that give the police the right to search your computer anytime they desire?
The reason that TiVos are that cheap, is simply because there are alternatives, and TiVo had to be competitive with them. Remove the alternatives, as this ruling may cause to happen, and there is no reason for them to be competitive.
As an aside, I worked for a company (Tektronix) from 1991-1994, who developed a hard disk recorder for professional video. It would even let you play back directly behind what was being recorded (within thirty seconds). I don't know why products such as this aren't considered as valid prior-art. Perhaps because TiVo added "for consumer video" to the patent application?
The word citizen appears nowhere in the bill of rights...
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Hmm, doesn't seem to fit what you said...
What you stated is what the current interpretation is. And, that's what this story is about... The current interpretation of what is reasonable snooping on communications is changing -- and, within a few years, people will think that their current sad state of civil rights will have always been the case, just like you seem to think that the ability of the police to illegally seize your property would have been allowed by the courts in the past...
Don't you mean loosses?
Except that the client will most likely ship with the server's public key installed...
This is especially relevant when you consider that the Apple
Imagine if something like the Apple
(I actually quite liked my Apple
The resolution of the original Mac's screen was 512x384 -- which meant that, if you were showing 80 columns of mono-spaced text (such as when using a terminal emulator, as you mentioned), you had 6.4 horizontal dots with which to make a character. I had the same (okay, it was only similar) 128K Mac that you did, and that text was not fun to read on the Mac's 9" screen! Contrast that to the PC, which had 640x480, for 8 horizontal dots per character for the CGA adapter, and even better on the monochrome adaptor, and the Mac was a pretty poor substitute in this domain.
The Mac, however, made up for it when word processing or anything that could take advantage of the proportional-space fonts, which were much advanced when compared to anything on the PC at the time (proportional fonts being one of those things that. like the mouse, graphics printing, high density and high refresh displays, USB, and a host of other technologies, PC owners claimed wasn't useful, until their platform supported them sometime later...)