In my experience, although "music downloads" sap up a lot of bandwidth on campus networks, I would have to say that more and more the problem is becoming worm/virus/zombie-infested computers coming in from a summer of broadband connections.
I don't know if your experience is from the perspective of a network administrator, but mine is, so I'll elaborate: they both suck.
Yes, you can packet shape music and movie downloads, but they keep downloading, and they don't stop.
Viruses actually have a semblance of restraint and try to go undetected. File sharers don't seem to care. Viruses can be stopped by blocking port 25 egress, almost without trouble at all. File sharers have to be spotted, then throttled, spotted, throttled, etc. If they use non-standard ports or non-standard transfer mechanisms, you can only try to put a cap on their bandwidth; and it can't be too low, or they complain.
I guess I wouldn't be so quick to talk about viruses and worms being a huge bandwidth problem. But what would I know, I'm only someone who handles it on a day-to-day basis.
The whole thing made me want to go trademark the common term 'sneak' as an alternative - after all, if someone (supposedly) let him register stealth, sneak should be just as valid.
I've said this before. When people are going out and getting copyrights and patents in order to PREVENT trademark and copyright infringement, that is when you know that intellectual property rights have went too far.
Not only that, but the biggest opposition to the national sales tax are the "corporate types" who get tax reductions (read: free money, because it's really the other half of your taxes they are reducing) for spending a few thousand and some elbow grease to build an inner-city flower garden.
Bah, you call that charity? I call it worthless.
A national sales tax, applied without prejudice on items other than food, would be nigh impossible for businesses to squirm out of.
Unless, of course, they get to write off some of those taxes for gardening.
Or say nothing at all, because, as everyone here knows, this whole thing is a non-issue. This story is like reporting on which foot I put my sock on first this morning. Since I don't even remember, it'd be news to me, but I still wouldn't care.
Google RSS feeds: Google releases Google Maps Google releases Google Desktop Search Google releases Google Web Accelerator Google releases Google Video
Yahoo RSS feeds: Are Google Maps an invasion of your privacy? Is Google Desktop Search working *too* well? All about your privacy and Google Web Accelerator: The secret agenda. Google Video cracked within 24 hours. And privacy.
Awww, come on... I've made countless little mods to open-source apps in order to get them to behave the way I'd like. I've never gotten news coverage for adding "//" before an 'if(condition)' statment.
That's because when you commented out the "if" line, you had extra "}"'s that prevented you from compiling. Had you also commented out *those*, you'd have been famous by now.:)
1. Was involved in the release of the DeCSS code. 2. Was instrumental in breaking several DVD locking/protection DRMs. 3. Is currently breaking iTunes DRM. 4. Just broke Google Video.
This is the kind of guy that just suddenly one day turns up missing, and conspiracy theories get started.
tough tarts, all amazon has to do is claim prior art and that company can sit and spin. No need to get your own patent on it.
I know a patent lawyer that would disagree, and actually proposes "patent first" on items in order to protect companies from getting burned. In fact, he worked with several mid-size companies when Unisys went nutty. Several of these companies were the first to use the.GIF format on the WWW, and had legitimate reason to argue against Unisys's claim to own the patent due to the doctrine of equivalents applying to essentially everything.
This patent was filed so amazon could prevent competition from using this "technology". It's got nothing to do with protecting itself from lawsuits and everything to do with amazon reserving the right to sue others.
He works for Amazon.;) And Nokia, and Ebay, American Eagle, etc.
While the above poster is mainly negative, and in kind of a mean way, he does have most of his facts straight.
A fast text messager does about 20 wpm. Maybe the best can do 30 wpm.
A fast morse coder does about 50 to 60 wpm. The best can do maybe 75 wpm.
A fast typer regularly does 90 wpm. I can do about 120 wpm on a good day. Mrs. Barbara Blackburn of Salem, Oregon can maintain 150 words per minute (wpm) for 50 minutes (37,500 key strokes) and attain a speed of 170 wpm using the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard (DSK) system.
No, I'm saying they don't even have to compete. As another poster pointed out, Intel's only real shining area is the laptop processor market, where they handedly beat the AMD equivalent.
In pretty much every other area, AMD processors that would normally be in competition with Intel processors, simply aren't, not because they dont' want them to be, but because they are priced at half the cost of the Intel chips.
For example, let's use Pricewatch: $170 - Pentium 4 3.0GHz 800MHz $94 - Athlon XP 3000
170/94 = 1.8
The Pentium 4 equivalent to the XP 3000 is 1.8 times the cost. Now, let's get crazy: $320 - Pentium 4 650 3.4GHz LGA775 $162 - Athlon 64 3400
320/162 = 1.97
The Pentium 4 equivalent to the Athlon 64-bit is 1.97 times the cost.
I mean, sure, an argument can be made regarding speed of these processors actually matching or actually being "comparative", but christ, when you're spending HALF the price, you can go up another notch or two to increase your processor speed on the AMD end and still EASILY be spending less than you would on an Intel processor.
While Intel's shady history is public knowledge, AMD's has to be squeaky clean for them to pull this off without getting slapped by a counter-suit. So we're either seeing the "good-boy next door vs. bully down the street" fight or we're seeing a "Goliath vs. Goliath" fight.
Intel isn't going to budge, either. And that is what is the sad part. AMD executives couldn't have timed this better. Throw down an anti-trust lawsuit at a time when Intel's pride will surely defeat them. Intel has been at a point the last two years or so where they feed off any good press they get, and ignore/neglect the bad. When executives are doing that in a company, it's a sign you need to bail. Investors want executives that address problem issues, and the blind faith only lasts so long.
Looks like everyone will get to look forward to AMD bullying retailers around in the future. Or maybe they'll be benevolent, but I see this more as a killing thrust by AMD, and Intel isn't going to bother trying to dodge it.
Remember, too, though, that while AMD may have superior products in certain, specific areas...
Please state which two comparatively priced chips, one from Intel, one from AMD, are actually considered in competition. I think it's been standard knowledge that most, if not all, of AMD's lineup runs cooler and is far cheaper than anything Intel has put out in the last few years.
I mean, the Xeons might have been something to brag about if they weren't a minimum of double the price of the AMD equivalents.
I keep hearing about seizures and never found out why the original was seized, till today:
The Nantes Dispute On Wednesday, September 22, 2004, the FBI contacted Rackspace regarding some images and material hosted on the Ahimsa servers by the Nantes Independent Media Center. According to Rackspace, the FBI alleged that a particular article on the website nantes.indymedia.org contained personal information and threats regarding two Swiss undercover police officers. Immediately upon receipt of the inquiry through Rackspace, the Ahimsa systems administrator reviewed the article on the Nantes server, and determined that it contained neither threats nor names or address information, finding only photographs of the officers disguised as anti-globalization protesters. Nevertheless, the Swiss request was conveyed to the Nantes IMC webmasters, who then digitally masked the faces of the officers in the photos.
On Friday, October 1, 2004, the FBI followed up with a visit to Devin Theriot-Orr, the registered agent for the Seattle Independent Media Center. The agents again incorrectly alleged that the Nantes article contained personally identifying information about the Swiss officers including their home address and phone numbers. During this meeting, FBI Special Agent Eric Meuller clarified that they were not contending any laws had been broken, and that there was nothing wrong with the photos of the officers, but were rather passing on a request from the Swiss government. Theriot-Orr informed the agents that the Seattle IMC has no authority regarding the Nantes IMC and that they should direct their request directly to the Nantes IMC.
On Tuesday, October 5, 2004, Jennifer O'Connell, the Rackspace Acceptable Use Manager, wrote to say "I have received no further communications from either the FBI or the Swiss authorities, so I feel like we can close this issue." Accordingly, since the faces were obscured, no threats or personal information were in the article, and the FBI seemed to have forgotten about it, Indymedia considered the matter resolved.
While the FBI inquiry and visit suggested that the Commissioner's Subpoena could be related to Swiss concerns over the Nantes post, there has been no confirmation that the Swiss government invoked the MLAT in this instance. Indeed, Special Agent Eric Mueller, when contacted by EFF on October 12, 2004, denied any knowledge of the seizure, and inquiries with the Swiss General Attorney in Généve, Switzerland have not led to any confirmation from the Swiss.
It was a very weak argument then, and it's still very weak now. I would highly suggest those of you hosting websites on Rackspace leave, it seems pretty clear that they are willing to bend over for basically no reason at all. AFAIK, there is no official statement from them and they've chosen to ignore the situation.
What makes this new case different from the last one, is that it would appear in the last one they just wanted to hide undercover swiss agents, but in this one, they want IP addresses. That is going to be rather hard for them to do since Indymedia never records those. If they parse logs, they might get something to go on. I don't know.
It looks like he read the FAQ or TOS and then pretended to have been approached. Google marketing is not likely to do service calls to anything but Fortune 500s. I'd have to look up the history on the poster to determine if he works for one. Right now I just chaulk it up to unlikely.
And no, I don't think it was verbatim, but I cannot think of any response that would seem to indicate Google actually was trying to get across the "You just should" part.
While I haven't dealt with Google marketing (parts of which I believe are outsourced), most of the sentiment from my dealings with them have been just like the early days of Microsoft. IE, you find a bug and report it, they reply: "Wow, that's cool! Thanks we'll get that fixed." Then three months later they haven't and you have to publish the flaw publicly to get them to respond. Then the guy you sent the flaw to gets fired because he didn't forward it on to them. Whoops.:)
Anyway, the sentiment I've seen is one of, "Hey! Try this out!", and then if you ignore them, they just move on to someone else. They'll take in your advice on how to make it better, but they won't actually do anything, because they want to provide a service to stupid people with money to spend, not a niche market.
Sound like Hungary and Austrailia are full of citizens regretting they ever gave way to the "nanny state". Don't worry, those of us in the US aren't too far behind you. Give it another five years or so.
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Me: Why should I upload content if you can't answer these basic questions? Google: You just should.
I understand the coolness of Google bashing now that it's "hip" to be the first to berate Google for their stances on privacy, but is this really necessary? Do you really think we are gullible enough to believe Google provided a response like this?
In fact, the content of the last question and answer only make me question the validity of the other questions and answers.
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In my experience, although "music downloads" sap up a lot of bandwidth on campus networks, I would have to say that more and more the problem is becoming worm/virus/zombie-infested computers coming in from a summer of broadband connections.
I don't know if your experience is from the perspective of a network administrator, but mine is, so I'll elaborate: they both suck.
Yes, you can packet shape music and movie downloads, but they keep downloading, and they don't stop.
Viruses actually have a semblance of restraint and try to go undetected. File sharers don't seem to care. Viruses can be stopped by blocking port 25 egress, almost without trouble at all. File sharers have to be spotted, then throttled, spotted, throttled, etc. If they use non-standard ports or non-standard transfer mechanisms, you can only try to put a cap on their bandwidth; and it can't be too low, or they complain.
I guess I wouldn't be so quick to talk about viruses and worms being a huge bandwidth problem. But what would I know, I'm only someone who handles it on a day-to-day basis.
...this isn't Xbox modding, this is Xbox infringement.
People who advertise a tool expressly for its illegal purposes were already liable for those eventual uses.
Then why wasn't this a criminal case of aiding and abetting?
Did the slashdot editors have to use the word "probe" in a story about steaming brownish goo?
The whole thing made me want to go trademark the common term 'sneak' as an alternative - after all, if someone (supposedly) let him register stealth, sneak should be just as valid.
I've said this before. When people are going out and getting copyrights and patents in order to PREVENT trademark and copyright infringement, that is when you know that intellectual property rights have went too far.
Not only that, but the biggest opposition to the national sales tax are the "corporate types" who get tax reductions (read: free money, because it's really the other half of your taxes they are reducing) for spending a few thousand and some elbow grease to build an inner-city flower garden.
Bah, you call that charity? I call it worthless.
A national sales tax, applied without prejudice on items other than food, would be nigh impossible for businesses to squirm out of.
Unless, of course, they get to write off some of those taxes for gardening.
Reminds me of a bumper sticker/shirt idea I wanted to try:
"We're the government: we don't make promises, only threats."
Not in Donald Trump.
http://www.ij.org/private_property/atlantic_city/
The Macintosh has a standard, one-button, mechanical-tracking, optical-shaft-encoding mouse (again a departure from industry norms).
21 years later...
Why do standards say "if () {" then?
Or say nothing at all, because, as everyone here knows, this whole thing is a non-issue. This story is like reporting on which foot I put my sock on first this morning. Since I don't even remember, it'd be news to me, but I still wouldn't care.
"Stuff that matters", my ass.
Google RSS feeds:
Google releases Google Maps
Google releases Google Desktop Search
Google releases Google Web Accelerator
Google releases Google Video
Yahoo RSS feeds:
Are Google Maps an invasion of your privacy?
Is Google Desktop Search working *too* well?
All about your privacy and Google Web Accelerator: The secret agenda.
Google Video cracked within 24 hours. And privacy.
Awww, come on... I've made countless little mods to open-source apps in order to get them to behave the way I'd like. I've never gotten news coverage for adding "//" before an 'if(condition)' statment.
:)
That's because when you commented out the "if" line, you had extra "}"'s that prevented you from compiling. Had you also commented out *those*, you'd have been famous by now.
Let's see, he uhh..
1. Was involved in the release of the DeCSS code.
2. Was instrumental in breaking several DVD locking/protection DRMs.
3. Is currently breaking iTunes DRM.
4. Just broke Google Video.
This is the kind of guy that just suddenly one day turns up missing, and conspiracy theories get started.
tough tarts, all amazon has to do is claim prior art and that company can sit and spin. No need to get your own patent on it.
.GIF format on the WWW, and had legitimate reason to argue against Unisys's claim to own the patent due to the doctrine of equivalents applying to essentially everything.
;) And Nokia, and Ebay, American Eagle, etc.
I know a patent lawyer that would disagree, and actually proposes "patent first" on items in order to protect companies from getting burned. In fact, he worked with several mid-size companies when Unisys went nutty. Several of these companies were the first to use the
This patent was filed so amazon could prevent competition from using this "technology". It's got nothing to do with protecting itself from lawsuits and everything to do with amazon reserving the right to sue others.
He works for Amazon.
While the above poster is mainly negative, and in kind of a mean way, he does have most of his facts straight.
A fast text messager does about 20 wpm. Maybe the best can do 30 wpm.
A fast morse coder does about 50 to 60 wpm. The best can do maybe 75 wpm.
A fast typer regularly does 90 wpm. I can do about 120 wpm on a good day. Mrs. Barbara Blackburn of Salem, Oregon can maintain 150 words per minute (wpm) for 50 minutes (37,500 key strokes) and attain a speed of 170 wpm using the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard (DSK) system.
They need to be providing us with keyboards.
No, I'm saying they don't even have to compete. As another poster pointed out, Intel's only real shining area is the laptop processor market, where they handedly beat the AMD equivalent.
In pretty much every other area, AMD processors that would normally be in competition with Intel processors, simply aren't, not because they dont' want them to be, but because they are priced at half the cost of the Intel chips.
For example, let's use Pricewatch:
$170 - Pentium 4 3.0GHz 800MHz
$94 - Athlon XP 3000
170/94 = 1.8
The Pentium 4 equivalent to the XP 3000 is 1.8 times the cost. Now, let's get crazy:
$320 - Pentium 4 650 3.4GHz LGA775
$162 - Athlon 64 3400
320/162 = 1.97
The Pentium 4 equivalent to the Athlon 64-bit is 1.97 times the cost.
I mean, sure, an argument can be made regarding speed of these processors actually matching or actually being "comparative", but christ, when you're spending HALF the price, you can go up another notch or two to increase your processor speed on the AMD end and still EASILY be spending less than you would on an Intel processor.
Fair enough. I wasn't even considering the laptop chipsets, but you're right, the Pentium M is quite the chip when compared to the AMD equivalent.
While Intel's shady history is public knowledge, AMD's has to be squeaky clean for them to pull this off without getting slapped by a counter-suit. So we're either seeing the "good-boy next door vs. bully down the street" fight or we're seeing a "Goliath vs. Goliath" fight.
Intel isn't going to budge, either. And that is what is the sad part. AMD executives couldn't have timed this better. Throw down an anti-trust lawsuit at a time when Intel's pride will surely defeat them. Intel has been at a point the last two years or so where they feed off any good press they get, and ignore/neglect the bad. When executives are doing that in a company, it's a sign you need to bail. Investors want executives that address problem issues, and the blind faith only lasts so long.
Looks like everyone will get to look forward to AMD bullying retailers around in the future. Or maybe they'll be benevolent, but I see this more as a killing thrust by AMD, and Intel isn't going to bother trying to dodge it.
Remember, too, though, that while AMD may have superior products in certain, specific areas...
Please state which two comparatively priced chips, one from Intel, one from AMD, are actually considered in competition. I think it's been standard knowledge that most, if not all, of AMD's lineup runs cooler and is far cheaper than anything Intel has put out in the last few years.
I mean, the Xeons might have been something to brag about if they weren't a minimum of double the price of the AMD equivalents.
It was a very weak argument then, and it's still very weak now. I would highly suggest those of you hosting websites on Rackspace leave, it seems pretty clear that they are willing to bend over for basically no reason at all. AFAIK, there is no official statement from them and they've chosen to ignore the situation.
What makes this new case different from the last one, is that it would appear in the last one they just wanted to hide undercover swiss agents, but in this one, they want IP addresses. That is going to be rather hard for them to do since Indymedia never records those. If they parse logs, they might get something to go on. I don't know.
It looks like he read the FAQ or TOS and then pretended to have been approached. Google marketing is not likely to do service calls to anything but Fortune 500s. I'd have to look up the history on the poster to determine if he works for one. Right now I just chaulk it up to unlikely.
:)
And no, I don't think it was verbatim, but I cannot think of any response that would seem to indicate Google actually was trying to get across the "You just should" part.
While I haven't dealt with Google marketing (parts of which I believe are outsourced), most of the sentiment from my dealings with them have been just like the early days of Microsoft. IE, you find a bug and report it, they reply: "Wow, that's cool! Thanks we'll get that fixed." Then three months later they haven't and you have to publish the flaw publicly to get them to respond. Then the guy you sent the flaw to gets fired because he didn't forward it on to them. Whoops.
Anyway, the sentiment I've seen is one of, "Hey! Try this out!", and then if you ignore them, they just move on to someone else. They'll take in your advice on how to make it better, but they won't actually do anything, because they want to provide a service to stupid people with money to spend, not a niche market.
Sound like Hungary and Austrailia are full of citizens regretting they ever gave way to the "nanny state". Don't worry, those of us in the US aren't too far behind you. Give it another five years or so.
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Me: Why should I upload content if you can't answer these basic questions?
Google: You just should.
I understand the coolness of Google bashing now that it's "hip" to be the first to berate Google for their stances on privacy, but is this really necessary? Do you really think we are gullible enough to believe Google provided a response like this?
In fact, the content of the last question and answer only make me question the validity of the other questions and answers.