"The constitution plainly states that the Federal gov't and only the Federal gov't may regulate interstate commerce."
They are not talking about interstate commerce there but rather internet companies in California who don't charge sales taxes for residents in California. In particular, they were talking about companies like Barnes and Noble.
Personally, while I live in California, I think that the taxation should be fair. If the brick and moaters need to collect sales tax then the click and moaters should also. People say that the internet commerce is just in its infancy but it has been around for 5-10 years and in internet time, that is 20-40 years!
I don't know why people keep going to Amazon? If I want computer books, the best place is www.bookpool.com. If I want any other book, I search on www.addall.com. And let me tell you that Amazon is almost never the cheapest on these lists.
"The easy way is, of course, to put an entry in your HOSTS file to change the IP address of patch.everquest.com, but if Verant simply makes the client go to a specific IP address instead of a fqdn, then the only way to connect to the Server Emulator is to modify the client and NOW they've got you. You may be able to get away with putting up a server, but the legalities of modifying their client (which, of course, you are licensed to use but do not own, grrr!) is much easier to convince a court to prohibit."
In that case, you just create a proxy server which translates the hard coded IP address to your own without changing their source.
"We all know that go+rx is not a good idea, but as Kurt says, if you protect the userdirs (chmod go-rwx) the apache user directory behavior (the "go to http://our_server/~yourusername to see your webpage" thing) breaks."
The simple solution is to create a directory structure parallel to/home (say/www) with more open directory permission so the web server can read them. Then reconfigure Apache to read personal home pages from there instead of ~/public_html.
"Apple wants to make an example of this guy so other employees would not make the same mistake"...of working for them?
Seriously speaking, I don't think something like this will help employee morale or make people want to join the company with a witch hunt like this. They could have done it more discritely?
"Because, if something can make money then it's a crime if it doesn't. Basic premise of our(US) society."
No, it is a $%#@ crime because our society paid through our $%#@ taxes for the research and DNS structure and now they want all this money to put a simple name into a database. If they want to make money on it, they can pay back the 'investment' the society put into it first.
How about using the cat scan device to make a password entry system? Instead of typing the password on the keyboard, you place the cat scan on the table and then run by a credit card size card to which you print random UPC with your printer.
The flight gear demo they were doing was only on Matrox G200 card but the performance was still reasonable. I think most any card with reasonable Quake 3 performance would be more than adequate. Also in the Loki booth, some guy was showing of a prototype of a flight simulator chair with 3 degrees of freedom. He had it working with flight gear and descent3. Unfortunately all the pneumatics are very expensive so he wan't sure whether it will ever get into production except maybe in a simplified kit form.
"A useful comparison might be to compare what the majority of Linux servers are used for compared to Solaris and Windows servers. Are the Linux servers running e-commerce sites? Or are they running the standard Apache home page because httpd was in the default init script?"
"Linux is used by many hobbyists - how many of those boxes where just boxes set up for personal use? I dunno how cheap broadband is in Germany, but it's a possibility."
So then should we discount Microsoft Windows market share on the desktop because most of the home users, after buying their computers, have it collecting dust in the corner somewhere after the novelty wears off?
Monterey was supposed to be an Unix for the Itanium. If they get rid of that, what is there left to run on the Itanium besides the Linux and the 64 bit Windows? If there is nothing else then Intel would have to seriously back Linux or else risk giving the upper hand to Microsoft should Windows become the sole OS on the Itanium!
In other news, huge droves of Linux users were noted to have download the new AOL for Linux client and subscribed to AOL. Said AOL spokesman, "We are really alarmed at the blatent disregard these individual have for our intelectual property. We choose only to distribute our software to a small select clientele..."
"IANAL, but I don't believe you have to accept changes to Terms of Service that occur within a contract's time period. I remember reading this in regards to credit cards, but I don't see why it wouldn't apply to this. Any lawyers out there who could verify this?"
And what is the time period of your contract? I'd say month-to-month since you pay on a monthly basis and can discontinue the service on notice. But IANAL
After seeing some of the postings in here (ie. First post; Hot grits; goats.cx, etc.) I wonder if Slashdot was also an experiment in artificial intelligence.
I worked a few years as a design engineer for a major chip equipment manufacturer. Most of the problems in scaling down has been in improving the lithography process as the wavelength of the light is the limiting factor to how fine a detail you can get. The other problem is as you get small widths, you want to etch deeper down to keep the cross section of the channels the same. To do this, you want something that etches straight down instead of spreading sidewards forming a v-channel instead of a square channel. You do this by using highly energized ions. Such technology has been out of development for 2-3 years now.
I don't work in that industry anymore, but generally the technology in development is about 2 'notches' away from the leading edge of production. So.10-.13 micron technology is probably in development right now.
This is not the usual RPM troll but... I installed the RPM and there is only *one* file in there! Something like this could have be distributed as a bare executable.
"@home service divies out the algorithms to people across the land next time they login to their free dialup account Data is crunched and sent back to the @home service at a reasonable rate Everybody wins:)"
I know what will happen... people will use ip-masquarading, put that junk old pentium 100 to do the computation while they browse the net on their speedy 800Mhz system.;-)
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"The only difference is that these use Linus and standard Internet protocols for communication."
Linus is going to get quite tired from doing all this communicating"IMHO, boycott them all (with the exeption of the cool ones like ThinkGeek) and watch them go bankrupt."
I think you will find that many of these e-tailers are pretty good at bankrupting themselves without our help ;-)
"The constitution plainly states that the Federal gov't and only the Federal gov't may regulate interstate commerce."
They are not talking about interstate commerce there but rather internet companies in California who don't charge sales taxes for residents in California. In particular, they were talking about companies like Barnes and Noble.
Personally, while I live in California, I think that the taxation should be fair. If the brick and moaters need to collect sales tax then the click and moaters should also. People say that the internet commerce is just in its infancy but it has been around for 5-10 years and in internet time, that is 20-40 years!
I don't know why people keep going to Amazon? If I want computer books, the best place is www.bookpool.com. If I want any other book, I search on www.addall.com. And let me tell you that Amazon is almost never the cheapest on these lists.
"The easy way is, of course, to put an entry in your HOSTS file to change the IP address of patch.everquest.com, but if Verant simply makes the client go to a specific IP address instead of a fqdn, then the only way to connect to the Server Emulator is to modify the client and NOW they've got you. You may be able to get away with putting up a server, but the legalities of modifying their client (which, of course, you are licensed to use but do not own, grrr!) is much easier to convince a court to prohibit."
In that case, you just create a proxy server which translates the hard coded IP address to your own without changing their source.
"We all know that go+rx is not a good idea, but as Kurt says, if you protect the userdirs (chmod go-rwx) the apache user directory behavior (the "go to http://our_server/~yourusername to see your webpage" thing) breaks." The simple solution is to create a directory structure parallel to /home (say /www) with more open directory permission so the web server can read them. Then reconfigure Apache to read personal home pages from there instead of ~/public_html.
"Apple wants to make an example of this guy so other employees would not make the same mistake" ...of working for them?
Seriously speaking, I don't think something like this will help employee morale or make people want to join the company with a witch hunt like this. They could have done it more discritely?
"Because, if something can make money then it's a crime if it doesn't. Basic premise of our(US) society."
No, it is a $%#@ crime because our society paid through our $%#@ taxes for the research and DNS structure and now they want all this money to put a simple name into a database. If they want to make money on it, they can pay back the 'investment' the society put into it first.
This reminds me of a quote I saw somewhere: "Peace - In international politics, a period of lying and cheating between periods of fighting"
How about using the cat scan device to make a password entry system? Instead of typing the password on the keyboard, you place the cat scan on the table and then run by a credit card size card to which you print random UPC with your printer.
I'll wait for the Gill Bates edition... X11R6.6.6
I don't care what the marketdroid thought as long as I can get a scanner device for free!
Their stockholders will pay for it since MP3.com doesn't make much money yet...
The flight gear demo they were doing was only on Matrox G200 card but the performance was still reasonable. I think most any card with reasonable Quake 3 performance would be more than adequate. Also in the Loki booth, some guy was showing of a prototype of a flight simulator chair with 3 degrees of freedom. He had it working with flight gear and descent3. Unfortunately all the pneumatics are very expensive so he wan't sure whether it will ever get into production except maybe in a simplified kit form.
"A useful comparison might be to compare what the majority of Linux servers are used for compared to Solaris and Windows servers. Are the Linux servers running e-commerce sites? Or are they running the standard Apache home page because httpd was in the default init script?"
"Linux is used by many hobbyists - how many of those boxes where just boxes set up for personal use? I dunno how cheap broadband is in Germany, but it's a possibility."
So then should we discount Microsoft Windows market share on the desktop because most of the home users, after buying their computers, have it collecting dust in the corner somewhere after the novelty wears off?
The M stands for 'mean' as in 'Root Mean Square'. Or was it Richard 'Mean' Stallman
If you are a student, your college can get a free site license for all the Trolltech software.
Monterey was supposed to be an Unix for the Itanium. If they get rid of that, what is there left to run on the Itanium besides the Linux and the 64 bit Windows? If there is nothing else then Intel would have to seriously back Linux or else risk giving the upper hand to Microsoft should Windows become the sole OS on the Itanium!
So what exactly do you have to do to win that Slashdot Cruiser? ;-)"
You just had to swipe you card at the booth I think
In other news, huge droves of Linux users were noted to have download the new AOL for Linux client and subscribed to AOL. Said AOL spokesman, "We are really alarmed at the blatent disregard these individual have for our intelectual property. We choose only to distribute our software to a small select clientele..."
"IANAL, but I don't believe you have to accept changes to Terms of Service that occur within a contract's time period. I remember reading this in regards to credit cards, but I don't see why it wouldn't apply to this. Any lawyers out there who could verify this?"
And what is the time period of your contract? I'd say month-to-month since you pay on a monthly basis and can discontinue the service on notice. But IANAL
After seeing some of the postings in here (ie. First post; Hot grits; goats.cx, etc.) I wonder if Slashdot was also an experiment in artificial intelligence.
I worked a few years as a design engineer for a major chip equipment manufacturer. Most of the problems in scaling down has been in improving the lithography process as the wavelength of the light is the limiting factor to how fine a detail you can get. The other problem is as you get small widths, you want to etch deeper down to keep the cross section of the channels the same. To do this, you want something that etches straight down instead of spreading sidewards forming a v-channel instead of a square channel. You do this by using highly energized ions. Such technology has been out of development for 2-3 years now. I don't work in that industry anymore, but generally the technology in development is about 2 'notches' away from the leading edge of production. So .10-.13 micron technology is probably in development right now.
This is not the usual RPM troll but... I installed the RPM and there is only *one* file in there! Something like this could have be distributed as a bare executable.
"@home service divies out the algorithms to people across the land next time they login to their free dialup account Data is crunched and sent back to the @home service at a reasonable rate Everybody wins :)"
I know what will happen... people will use ip-masquarading, put that junk old pentium 100 to do the computation while they browse the net on their speedy 800Mhz system. ;-)