Ok, so this is technically from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, but it's rather interesting, it's called 'Falling Through the Net: Toward Digital Inclusion' and examines the statistics of internet and computer use among various groups (income, geography, education, and so on) which includes those with some sort of disability.
Anyways, this link (it's a large page, be patient) is the start of the section on people with disabilities. Scroll down a bit and you'll come to the section labeled 'Definitions' which states that an estimated 45 million (21.8% of the estimated population 16 and over) had some sort of disability.
Ok... so big numbers... You truly don't know that many blind people or people in wheel chairs? Right? Well, scroll down a bit more to Box III-2 (or use this link as it's a GIF) and you'll see that disabilities isn't all that you think.
Ok, so some are going a bit far (I'd personally say the second last item about stress should apply to me:) but as you can see, they aren't necessarily readilly apparent.
However, I haven't seen anyone point out Linux AccessX, which was a project at the University of Illinois, and as should be obvious, is for Linux only. It however, hasn't been updated for 2 years, so I don't think there's much hope there...
Pity... accessibility is the topic of my honours thesis, and from the looks of it, it's probably going to concentrate on Windows... (Not that I really expected anything else though)
Well, I'm getting me a PowerPC to tinker with (I bought it a few days ago, and I'm waiting for it to ship here) and have been trying to decide ona distro..
Yellow Dog is the most commonly mentioned, Debian seems promising, but there's also MkLinux... Does anyone know anything about this? It's Linux based on a mach kernel, and was the original linux for Mac's. Now, I found it, thought it looked interesting (mmm... get to play around with mach... mmmm...) but according to TuxPPC the distro is Believed to be obsolete and unmaintained.
Now, I can't currently connect to the ftp server to check the date on the files to see how old they are, but the news is out of date, so that isn't looking too promising. The web page however, has been updated recently (21/11/2001 to be exact)
So, my questions are: Does anyone know anythign about MkLinux? when was the source last updated? Is it any good? Anything at all?
Actually, if you check some previous posts (including some of mine) you'll see that this guy definately has a pattern of this behaviour.
The ones I can remember being mentioned off the top of my head are: Moneyopolis.org, rafaelhotels.com, and an educational site owned by an New Zealand (or Austrailian, I forget) governement department (actually a typo site in this case.)
Do a search on google for more info on this guy, and I'll bet you'll find a lot more people who have had this happen to them. And don't let his Armenian address scare you, if you look at his area code, it looks like he may actually be from Idaho.
Ok, if you check out this comment you'll find out that the domain is owned by a company called Buy This Domain. And that they're listed as being in Armenia, but have an Idaho area code.
Now, I was browsing around google, and I came up with this WIPO doc, dated August 14, 2001.
It deals with a case sort of like the one mentioned here, where the complaintant (sp?) let the domain lapse for some reason, and another company bought it up. Ok, so I can hear you saying "What does this have to do with this case?" Simple, the defendent was Buy This Domain (then using a different street name, but otherwise the address is the same), seems after being given the notice that the domain was going to be disputed, they offered to give it back to the original owner. That's right, they gave it back.
So, although IANAL, I'd say just begin the proper actions against them, and see if they cave again.
Yah... I've got the strange feeling that the 'company' which owns this domain isn't from Armenia, but rather put that there to make it seem harder to get a hold of him.
"And what makes me say that?" you ask. Well, I did a little search on google and came up with this discussion about someone else who had (roughly) the same problem. Now... if you move through the responses, you'll find this response which lists the contact information about the guy who owned this other domain name. Now the name of the company is different, but if we scroll down, we'll see this:
Administrative Contact:
Master, Web admin@segod.com
NameRegister.com
5 Tpagrichnery St.
#33
Yerevan, AM 375010
AM
208.978.3555
208.978.3555
and this:
Domain Auctions
5 Tpagrichnery., # 33
Yerevan, ARMENIA 335010
AM
Same address, same number, different company name... but if you keep going down, you'll find this:
Administrative Contact:
Web Master admin@segod.com
http://x.segod.com
5 Pechatnikova St., #33
Yerevan, 375010
AM
Phone- 208.978.3555
Fax- 208.978.3555
Same phone number, same zip/postal code, same street number & apt number, but different street name. Now, I'm no statistician, but I seem to think that the odds of this happening are very low to be almost non-existent. That, and the area code for Armenia is (374-2) according to a 1998 web page with contact info for a company that is located on Tpagrichnery St. Oh, and the fact that Pechatnikova St. only pulls up matches involving domains being bought after they lapsed.
So, not only does a low-life, porn displaying, domain auctioner have your domain, but he seems to be a low-life, porn displaying, lying domain-auctioner.
Tried typing in the URL that's listed in the article? It takes you to Euro Teen Sluts. FSeeing as it used to belong to a not-for-profit community organization, I'd say that's bad faith. That is of course, if the person who registered it knew the organization that used to own it, and registered it in full knowledge that people would still go to it looking for their former page. Now, if the person didn't know much about the organization, but just knew that a domain name had been allowed to lapse and then grabbed in hopes of getting the people who were planning on going to it, again, I'd call it bad faith, but well... usual disclaimer applies (IANAL)
On the other hand, if they just happened to register the doomain and had no idea it was taken before and didn't know about the organization, well, it could point to just about anything, and wouldn't be in bad faith.
Yah, I agree fully... I've got a 6 gig Samsung that I bought in mid 1998, nothing but good news on that one, and I would have added it to the database (not everyone buys their stuff new you know) but of course, since it was actually first manufactured before 1998, it isn't in there... Hell, I know friends who use older drives than that one (why the hell not, they're still good)
Imagine my disapointment... Of course, I did get to find out that my 45 gig Desktar75GXP has a 38.9 % failure rate... not that good, but it's still below 50%, which is more than I can say for the 60 & 75 gig versions
I don't doubt his point at all... Aside from that error, it's perfectly valid, and more than likely at least partially correct. I'm just a little picky when it comes to these types of things.
What is often missing in these formulations is the investment in legacy software. This is why Microsoft won and Apple lost in the late 80's. Sure the Mac was better... but it didn't run all of the custom developed DOS software that Windows did.
Late 80's huh? How late is late for you? 1987? In which case we have the tail end of Windows 1 and the beginning of Windows 2. Those were HUGE successes, weren't they... 1988? 89? Well, in that case you may have a few Windows 1 users, but chances are it would be Windows 2. Late (i believe) 1990 (I know I'm right on the year anyways) was when Windows 3.0 came out, which in reality was the first successful Windows.
Windows 1.0? Sure it's ok, if you don't mind the horrible colour scheme, the non-overlapping, non-resizable windows and a file manager that's less useful than typing "dir", not to mention the lack of software available for it.
Windows 2.0? Ok, it's getting slightly better, colour scheme still needs work, you can overlap/resize the windows now too... But the file manager (Windows Executive I believe, hmmm... I think it's a disgrace to Alto Executive to call it that) is still horrible, and there's still a lack of applications for it.
I think what would be more accurate would be "Sure the Mac was better... but it didn't run all the custom developed DOS software that DOS did," which doesn't make much sense. You see, in the late 80's Windows support for DOS apps would hardly have been the reason not to use a Mac, as Windows wasn't the reason people were using PC's.
Oooooh! Goody! Bomb it till there's nothing left... In case you haven't figured it out, following the war with the USSR and civil war, there's very little left right now anyways, the high ranking people probably are going to go into hiding if they feel there's a threat, and no one knows for sure if Afghanistan is responsible. (at least, no one has said anything that states this)
You attack, all you're going to do is add more innocents to the death toll and make the rubble bounce.
Is it possible that if you'd installed Mandrake, SuSE, or RedHat, that it would have been done automatically? I know that SuSE tends to set things up (like X) with minimal user intervention.
uuuuh..... no.....
From the sounds of it (no pun intended) he has an ISA AWE64, aka 'the pain in the ass from hell to configure properly' card... I have one too, I'm getting pretty good at sertting it up, as I've had to do it in every single distro I tried.... that's right, Mandrake 7.2, Red Hat 6.something, Caldera 2.4, Slackware 7.1, none of them detected it, while I can't say anything about SuSE I doubt that it too (at least pre 7.1) detected it properly, after all, the utilities I use to properly load the required soundbank files were originally written for SuSE.
Well, the thing is actually bigger than the Game Boy Color (if laid in the same orientation, the Game Boy Advance would be both longer, and wider, but thinner), and although the screen size for the GBC isn't given on the stats page, 41mmx61mm seems to be about how large I remember my old Game Boy to be.... Anyone care to measure one for me?
Haven't seen the movie, but I doubt they show the good propaganda... The really interesting stuff was what the Germans and Russians sent back and forth at each other over the radio waves.
Every 8 seconds a German solider dies in Stalingrad.......Stalingrad, mass graves.......Stalingrad, mass graves......Stalingrad, mass graves......
My god... I'm using Lynx right now as I currently don't havea graphical text browser. Guess that means I'm even worse than Satan's spawn as I don't even have the ability to turn banner ads on.
At that price, almost any OS starts looking pretty damn good... Oh wait, starts, sorry, wrong word... it should be "already are looking pretty damn good"...
How can he accomplish this? Well, for me what this reminds me of is helped slightly by one word in the link to the previous article that's listed, mainly "Has Hong Kong Technology Transformed China"... can anyone say (or ever heard of) the Great Firewall?
While I personally don't think it will ever go quite that far... still.. makes you think...
now now, that's not a very proactive idea is it? i'm sure if you networked with some people and let the synnergy flow you could come up with a much better solution that that....
There, stupid buzzwords, can I do I go to jail now? or is it punishable by death instead?
I also think it's false to say that the list "puts doctors in clear and present danger." This is because it gives nothing that a telephone book doesn't
At issue is a Web site called "The Nuremberg Files" that listed hundreds of abortion doctors accused of committing "crimes against humanity" and invited readers to send in doctors' addresses, license plate numbers and even the names of their children. " (4th paragraph of the AP article)
I don't know about you, but last time I checked a telephone book I couldn't find out my license plate numbers, nor when I checked my parent's listing in the phone book could I find out my name, hell, sometimes I can't even find an address for a phone number.
As much as I believe in free speech I just can't seem to find a way to justify this. If they had merely posted a list of the doctors who performed abortions I would have no problem, but to me posting the names along with the addresses & phone numbers (both home and clinic), children's names, license plate numbers, etc of these people does present a "clear and present danger" both to them and their family, especially since its presented with the (implied) message that "someone should kill these guys", while knowing full well that some people are perfectly willing to kill people who provide abortions.
IANAL but to me that is not free speech, to me that is closer to conspiracy to commit murder. Or perhaps it would be better to compare it to handing out a listing of the addresses of blacks, asians,and other minorities to someone you know is a white supremisict (sp?), you know that it'`s quite likely he/she will do something, does that mean you should not take any responsability for it?
On a related note, the games are still around, Activision (not so recently) released the first 3 zorks as freeware, Douglas Adam's web site has Hitchhiker's running (a java version, you may have to do some searching for it, I can't remember where it is) and the IF (interactive fiction) archive at ftp.gmd.de has plenty of new ones written by people who love the genre... Ahhh... ain't nostalgia great? No, seriously, ain't it great?
Here's an novel idea: if creating a driver for a piece of hardware (ie. the CueCat) so it works in a different OS is stealing (as implied by your post's subject) then someone better go after almost everyone who worked on the linux kernel. If creating away to view media which you legally paid for on a different OS than the oginization which controls them supports then (ie. there is no official DVD player for Linux) then I have no right to make atape player out of scratch if I want to (Ok, so that's not a good example, but I think you get my point)
Just because the powers that be want to try and demonize something doesn't mean it's illegal or stealing
</FLAME>
"The FBI cannot and does not 'snoop," said Donald Kerr, FBI assistant director. (from the MSNBC article)
Maybe it's just my distrust of government agencies (especially alphabet ones) after the entire information gathering thing up here in Canada, but does anyone else find this just a little hard to believe? (The 'does not' may be true, but I bet you the 'cannot' isn't)
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Ok, so this is technically from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, but it's rather interesting, it's called 'Falling Through the Net: Toward Digital Inclusion' and examines the statistics of internet and computer use among various groups (income, geography, education, and so on) which includes those with some sort of disability.
:) but as you can see, they aren't necessarily readilly apparent.
Anyways, this link (it's a large page, be patient) is the start of the section on people with disabilities. Scroll down a bit and you'll come to the section labeled 'Definitions' which states that an estimated 45 million (21.8% of the estimated population 16 and over) had some sort of disability.
Ok... so big numbers... You truly don't know that many blind people or people in wheel chairs? Right? Well, scroll down a bit more to Box III-2 (or use this link as it's a GIF) and you'll see that disabilities isn't all that you think.
Ok, so some are going a bit far (I'd personally say the second last item about stress should apply to me
...there really doesn't seem to be that much (at least in the research I've done, I haven't found much)
There is, as others have pointed out, the GNOME Accessibility Project
However, I haven't seen anyone point out Linux AccessX, which was a project at the University of Illinois, and as should be obvious, is for Linux only. It however, hasn't been updated for 2 years, so I don't think there's much hope there...
Pity... accessibility is the topic of my honours thesis, and from the looks of it, it's probably going to concentrate on Windows... (Not that I really expected anything else though)
Well, I'm getting me a PowerPC to tinker with (I bought it a few days ago, and I'm waiting for it to ship here) and have been trying to decide ona distro..
Yellow Dog is the most commonly mentioned, Debian seems promising, but there's also MkLinux... Does anyone know anything about this? It's Linux based on a mach kernel, and was the original linux for Mac's. Now, I found it, thought it looked interesting (mmm... get to play around with mach... mmmm...) but according to TuxPPC the distro is Believed to be obsolete and unmaintained.
Now, I can't currently connect to the ftp server to check the date on the files to see how old they are, but the news is out of date, so that isn't looking too promising. The web page however, has been updated recently (21/11/2001 to be exact)
So, my questions are: Does anyone know anythign about MkLinux? when was the source last updated? Is it any good? Anything at all?
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Actually, if you check some previous posts (including some of mine) you'll see that this guy definately has a pattern of this behaviour.
The ones I can remember being mentioned off the top of my head are: Moneyopolis.org, rafaelhotels.com, and an educational site owned by an New Zealand (or Austrailian, I forget) governement department (actually a typo site in this case.)
Do a search on google for more info on this guy, and I'll bet you'll find a lot more people who have had this happen to them. And don't let his Armenian address scare you, if you look at his area code, it looks like he may actually be from Idaho.
Ok, if you check out this comment you'll find out that the domain is owned by a company called Buy This Domain. And that they're listed as being in Armenia, but have an Idaho area code.
Now, I was browsing around google, and I came up with this WIPO doc, dated August 14, 2001.
It deals with a case sort of like the one mentioned here, where the complaintant (sp?) let the domain lapse for some reason, and another company bought it up. Ok, so I can hear you saying "What does this have to do with this case?" Simple, the defendent was Buy This Domain (then using a different street name, but otherwise the address is the same), seems after being given the notice that the domain was going to be disputed, they offered to give it back to the original owner. That's right, they gave it back.
So, although IANAL, I'd say just begin the proper actions against them, and see if they cave again.
Yah... I've got the strange feeling that the 'company' which owns this domain isn't from Armenia, but rather put that there to make it seem harder to get a hold of him.
"And what makes me say that?" you ask. Well, I did a little search on google and came up with this discussion about someone else who had (roughly) the same problem. Now... if you move through the responses, you'll find this response which lists the contact information about the guy who owned this other domain name. Now the name of the company is different, but if we scroll down, we'll see this:
Administrative Contact:
Master, Web admin@segod.com
NameRegister.com
5 Tpagrichnery St.
#33
Yerevan, AM 375010
AM
208.978.3555
208.978.3555
and this:
Domain Auctions
5 Tpagrichnery., # 33
Yerevan, ARMENIA 335010
AM
Same address, same number, different company name... but if you keep going down, you'll find this:
Administrative Contact:
Web Master admin@segod.com
http://x.segod.com
5 Pechatnikova St., #33
Yerevan, 375010
AM
Phone- 208.978.3555
Fax- 208.978.3555
Same phone number, same zip/postal code, same street number & apt number, but different street name. Now, I'm no statistician, but I seem to think that the odds of this happening are very low to be almost non-existent. That, and the area code for Armenia is (374-2) according to a 1998 web page with contact info for a company that is located on Tpagrichnery St. Oh, and the fact that Pechatnikova St. only pulls up matches involving domains being bought after they lapsed.
So, not only does a low-life, porn displaying, domain auctioner have your domain, but he seems to be a low-life, porn displaying, lying domain-auctioner.
Tried typing in the URL that's listed in the article? It takes you to Euro Teen Sluts. FSeeing as it used to belong to a not-for-profit community organization, I'd say that's bad faith. That is of course, if the person who registered it knew the organization that used to own it, and registered it in full knowledge that people would still go to it looking for their former page. Now, if the person didn't know much about the organization, but just knew that a domain name had been allowed to lapse and then grabbed in hopes of getting the people who were planning on going to it, again, I'd call it bad faith, but well... usual disclaimer applies (IANAL)
On the other hand, if they just happened to register the doomain and had no idea it was taken before and didn't know about the organization, well, it could point to just about anything, and wouldn't be in bad faith.
Yah, I agree fully... I've got a 6 gig Samsung that I bought in mid 1998, nothing but good news on that one, and I would have added it to the database (not everyone buys their stuff new you know) but of course, since it was actually first manufactured before 1998, it isn't in there... Hell, I know friends who use older drives than that one (why the hell not, they're still good)
Imagine my disapointment... Of course, I did get to find out that my 45 gig Desktar75GXP has a 38.9 % failure rate... not that good, but it's still below 50%, which is more than I can say for the 60 & 75 gig versions
I don't doubt his point at all... Aside from that error, it's perfectly valid, and more than likely at least partially correct. I'm just a little picky when it comes to these types of things.
#begin incorrect facts flame
What is often missing in these formulations is the investment in legacy software. This is why Microsoft won and Apple lost in the late 80's. Sure the Mac was better... but it didn't run all of the custom developed DOS software that Windows did.
Late 80's huh? How late is late for you? 1987? In which case we have the tail end of Windows 1 and the beginning of Windows 2. Those were HUGE successes, weren't they... 1988? 89? Well, in that case you may have a few Windows 1 users, but chances are it would be Windows 2. Late (i believe) 1990 (I know I'm right on the year anyways) was when Windows 3.0 came out, which in reality was the first successful Windows.
Windows 1.0? Sure it's ok, if you don't mind the horrible colour scheme, the non-overlapping, non-resizable windows and a file manager that's less useful than typing "dir", not to mention the lack of software available for it.
Windows 2.0? Ok, it's getting slightly better, colour scheme still needs work, you can overlap/resize the windows now too... But the file manager (Windows Executive I believe, hmmm... I think it's a disgrace to Alto Executive to call it that) is still horrible, and there's still a lack of applications for it.
I think what would be more accurate would be "Sure the Mac was better... but it didn't run all the custom developed DOS software that DOS did," which doesn't make much sense. You see, in the late 80's Windows support for DOS apps would hardly have been the reason not to use a Mac, as Windows wasn't the reason people were using PC's.
#end incorrect facts flame
Oooooh! Goody! Bomb it till there's nothing left... In case you haven't figured it out, following the war with the USSR and civil war, there's very little left right now anyways, the high ranking people probably are going to go into hiding if they feel there's a threat, and no one knows for sure if Afghanistan is responsible. (at least, no one has said anything that states this)
You attack, all you're going to do is add more innocents to the death toll and make the rubble bounce.
Is it possible that if you'd installed Mandrake, SuSE, or RedHat, that it would have been done automatically? I know that SuSE tends to set things up (like X) with minimal user intervention.
uuuuh..... no.....
From the sounds of it (no pun intended) he has an ISA AWE64, aka 'the pain in the ass from hell to configure properly' card... I have one too, I'm getting pretty good at sertting it up, as I've had to do it in every single distro I tried.... that's right, Mandrake 7.2, Red Hat 6.something, Caldera 2.4, Slackware 7.1, none of them detected it, while I can't say anything about SuSE I doubt that it too (at least pre 7.1) detected it properly, after all, the utilities I use to properly load the required soundbank files were originally written for SuSE.
Well, the thing is actually bigger than the Game Boy Color (if laid in the same orientation, the Game Boy Advance would be both longer, and wider, but thinner), and although the screen size for the GBC isn't given on the stats page, 41mmx61mm seems to be about how large I remember my old Game Boy to be.... Anyone care to measure one for me?
Haven't seen the movie, but I doubt they show the good propaganda... The really interesting stuff was what the Germans and Russians sent back and forth at each other over the radio waves.
Every 8 seconds a German solider dies in Stalingrad.......Stalingrad, mass graves.......Stalingrad, mass graves......Stalingrad, mass graves......
My god... I'm using Lynx right now as I currently don't havea graphical text browser.
Guess that means I'm even worse than Satan's spawn as I don't even have the ability to turn banner ads on.
I feel so....evil....now.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=beos&d=1y&c=rhat
Strange... By your logic, I wonder when Red Hat is going to be delisted?
At that price, almost any OS starts looking pretty damn good... Oh wait, starts, sorry, wrong word... it should be "already are looking pretty damn good"...
-Green"Karma whoring? God damn right"Hell
How can he accomplish this? Well, for me what this reminds me of is helped slightly by one word in the link to the previous article that's listed, mainly "Has Hong Kong Technology Transformed China"... can anyone say (or ever heard of) the Great Firewall?
While I personally don't think it will ever go quite that far... still.. makes you think...
-GreenHell
now now, that's not a very proactive idea is it? i'm sure if you networked with some people and let the synnergy flow you could come up with a much better solution that that....
There, stupid buzzwords, can I do I go to jail now? or is it punishable by death instead?
-GreenHell
But of course, all mp3's are illegal, or at least, that's what they'd like us to believe...
-GreenHell
I also think it's false to say that the list "puts doctors in clear and present danger." This is because it gives nothing that a telephone book doesn't
At issue is a Web site called "The Nuremberg Files" that listed hundreds of abortion doctors accused of committing "crimes against humanity" and invited readers to send in doctors' addresses, license plate numbers and even the names of their children. " (4th paragraph of the AP article)
I don't know about you, but last time I checked a telephone book I couldn't find out my license plate numbers, nor when I checked my parent's listing in the phone book could I find out my name, hell, sometimes I can't even find an address for a phone number.
As much as I believe in free speech I just can't seem to find a way to justify this. If they had merely posted a list of the doctors who performed abortions I would have no problem, but to me posting the names along with the addresses & phone numbers (both home and clinic), children's names, license plate numbers, etc of these people does present a "clear and present danger" both to them and their family, especially since its presented with the (implied) message that "someone should kill these guys", while knowing full well that some people are perfectly willing to kill people who provide abortions.
IANAL but to me that is not free speech, to me that is closer to conspiracy to commit murder. Or perhaps it would be better to compare it to handing out a listing of the addresses of blacks, asians,and other minorities to someone you know is a white supremisict (sp?), you know that it'`s quite likely he/she will do something, does that mean you should not take any responsability for it?
-GreenHell
You have: No Tea
On a related note, the games are still around, Activision (not so recently) released the first 3 zorks as freeware, Douglas Adam's web site has Hitchhiker's running (a java version, you may have to do some searching for it, I can't remember where it is) and the IF (interactive fiction) archive at ftp.gmd.de has plenty of new ones written by people who love the genre... Ahhh... ain't nostalgia great? No, seriously, ain't it great?
-GreenHell
Here's an novel idea: if creating a driver for a piece of hardware (ie. the CueCat) so it works in a different OS is stealing (as implied by your post's subject) then someone better go after almost everyone who worked on the linux kernel. If creating away to view media which you legally paid for on a different OS than the oginization which controls them supports then (ie. there is no official DVD player for Linux) then I have no right to make atape player out of scratch if I want to (Ok, so that's not a good example, but I think you get my point)
Just because the powers that be want to try and demonize something doesn't mean it's illegal or stealing
</FLAME>
-GreenHell
"The FBI cannot and does not 'snoop," said Donald Kerr, FBI assistant director. (from the MSNBC article)
Maybe it's just my distrust of government agencies (especially alphabet ones) after the entire information gathering thing up here in Canada, but does anyone else find this just a little hard to believe? (The 'does not' may be true, but I bet you the 'cannot' isn't)
-GreenHell