The reason inkjets are popular is the upfront cost. HP and every other manufacturer makes money on 'consumables' - ink/paper. Save a few bucks 1/2 filling cartridges to make it the cheapest at Best Buy? Why not? It's not like the moron in the blue vest will be able to explain the difference.
Laser technology, especially color, is also evolving to the consumable model
If users would bother to read the TCO info (cost per page, etc) that's published, our courts wouldn't be tied up deciding silly half empty/half full non-sense cases for 3 old hags that wanted to save a buck printing Christmas cards...
Didja ever hear of standards? Cable Modem DOCSIS configs are pushed down from the head end no matter the manufacturer - Linksys, Motorola, 3Com, Toshiba, etc. All have SNMP. Hack it, you're out, usually within 24 hours. One is not 'harder' than the other otherwise they wouldn't support it at all.
Uhh... flash the prom? Is that what an exibitionist high school senior does before graduation???
...roughly 162,500 AT&T customers who own......AT&T's 1.63 million customers who own...
okay, she did say rough...
It is interesting after Comcast was @homeless, their price increase was $5 to those who chose to rent their cable modem. Seemed fair - if you didn't want an increase, you could spend $100.
This move by attbi smacks of unfairness... those that were duped into purchasing are now penalized? On what grounds? Higher support costs? bah! They can count on the income because the only out is to sell the cablemodem on eBay to a comcast customer. Jerks.
Should be interesting to see how these pricing differences are reconciled if/when the merger is completed.
I think eventually the predictive dialers will be programmed to avoid them. I did download the SIT tone wav file to a PDA, assigned it to a button and played it into the phone for out of area/unknown caller calls. It did seem effective. Didn't have to pay Verizon for the call blocking service, etc.
The thief or thieves somehow acquired Ford's code to gain access to the credit files maintained by Experian, one of the nation's three major credit reporting agencies. They carefully selected individuals in affluent areas across the country and downloaded their credit files, gaining access to their names, addresses, Social Security numbers, account numbers, and payment histories.
The way I understand it (and I used to do credit checks as a starving salesman), you will need an SSN to obtain credit info. A name/addr/mother's maiden won't cut it. So they already had SSNs for the 'carefully selected affluent individuals' and the big story is - they got the reports on Ford's dime rather than $9.95 on the web. Quite frugal!
1,000 requests/mo was probably well under the radar for Ford Motor Credit to detect as unauthorized - it would have taken a complaint from someone who noticed the report query.
And as for riding the subway, they didn't run checks on FMC's customers, just used Ford's Experian account to get access to the reports - if you live in a nice part of town, you're still vunerable: burn your trash.... or whatever...
Redmond WA (AP) Steve Ballmer announced today that Robert Novak will succeed Rick Belluzzo as president and chief operating officer effective May 1, 2002. Novak, known for his shrewed business savy and wizardry of the law, is best known as proprieter of petswarehouse.com. Novak in a prepared statement said "I'm fortunate I have this opportunity to protect Microsoft from every evil conspiracy. I look forward to mobilizing all the legal forces to sue the pants off of every 2 bit commie coder that even thinks of publishing source code for anything that Microsoft distributes - including Telnet and FTP!" Bill Gates reacted with "Bob's our kinda guy - we got a kick of how he settled with those rabble rousers by making them put banner ads for his company on their lousy webpages. God Bless America!"
A google search tonight (from comcast) turned up these results:
403 Forbidden
Your client does not have permission to get URL/search?sourceid=navclient&querytime=UXvoE&q=a nything from this server. (Client IP address: 68.45.xxx.xxx)
Unfortunately, Google has received a significant amount of abuse from your network. Because some person or people on your network have violated our Terms of Service (http://www.google.com/terms_of_service.html) and sent us numerous automated search queries, we have been forced to shut off access to Google's services from your network.
Note that we are not accusing you personally of having violated our Terms of Service; you are most likely an innocent victim of someone else's bad behavior. We're really sorry to have had to take this action.
We very much want to be able to work this problem out with your sysadmin or your ISP's network and/or abuse department. Unfortunately, so far, we have not been able to do so. Please contact your sysadmin or your ISP's network and/or abuse department and request that they track down who is causing this problem with Google. Please don't complain to Google about this problem (since there's nothing we can do until the problem on your network has been identified and stopped). Instead, please complain to your sysadmin or your ISP's network and/or abuse department. Letting them know that they need to take immediate action so that you can enjoy full access to the Internet (including Google) is the quickest way for you to regain your Google service.
We wholeheartedly apologize for the inconvenience to you, and with your help, we expect that we'll soon be able provide search results to you once more.
Perhaps this is a result of comcast telling all their new customers 'instead of a newsserver, go use google groups'
Ok I'll bite: Many ISP's (comcast) despise wireless access points, and in fact *block* access to their network if you have certain access points hooked into your connection (mac filtering I'm assuming).
Do you have a reference for this claim - a URL or something? I've had WiFi (linksys router right now, other stand alone APs) sitting directly behind my Comcast cable modem for some time now and never heard of this before. Oh and I can change the MAC address of the thing to whatever I like.
Just look at the original press release announcing the merger When you see things like In conjunction with the transaction, Microsoft Corporation has agreed to convert the $5 billion of AT&T subsidiary trust convertible preferred securities into 115 million shares of AT&T Comcast Corporation. and ...AT&T's interests in cable television joint ventures and its 25.5 percent interest in Time Warner Entertainment you know MSN and AOL are going to be included somehow.
As a Comcast customer, they're offering the bare minimum in value added (ISP) services - and and I don't think they have any interest in it. When MSN AOL and the Internet Scientology Provider come aboard, then Comcast can focus on what it believes to be it's strength - infrastructure.
If the overhead of uuencoding is indeed 33% vs yEnc's 2%, this gives metered customers another what 3GB a month on a 10GB account? Not insignificant. Personally, I use a service that's metered per day - with no bandwidth cap and unlimited uploads (teranews) so my savings is even more signicant.
Your quote states that people will of course post more (and download more). This equates to greater bandwidth requirements, larger/faster servers and more disk for the NNTP provider. And of course, this means more value to the customer.
Mr. Nixon's interests are indeed those of his employer. If he has/had a solution, why all the grousing? I think it's more a matter his employer won't allow him. This isn't bogus: Mr. Nixon should put up or shut up.
From this page, Mr. Nixon admits his bias: I am currently employed by one of the below providers, so I do not give recommendations as I would be biased. Fair enough but it seems the whole idea behind yEnc is to maximize bandwidth - which would cut into his employer's profits - more encoded content at the same price. Spread that over thousands of users, the number becomes significant.
So Jürgen Helbing creates a public domain solution which is gaining popularity and Mr. Nixon is being ignored - and why? Implementation nitpicks? Please.
A more useful excercise may be to guess his employer from his list of 'reviews'
On Thursday, we have a slashdot story that we're going to face a bandwith shortage RSN and today we have Lucent to the rescue Put your buy orders in now!
Actally the inclusion of the interstate commerce language gives the federal government enforcement powers that superceed any states' legislation. Not sure what you are setting up shop locally to do... software available on a web site? A hardware device that can only be shipped within a single state?
You may appreciate the Constitution but this language PLUGS loopholes. Fritz may be old but he ain't stupid.
You would think... but with the utter nonsense Fritz Hollings and company would like to see law - to the tune of regulating all hardware and software - including open source, I think you better start looking for heros elsewhere
What is comes down to is the US Congress is nothing but a bunch of lawyers who represent the interest of - lawyers. The government is *encouraging* this behavior (they can't help it - it's in their blood) and would never act to stop it.
Please note the date. Now, please explain how the SecurPC product differ from the patent claim, other than actually being a product? If you poke around their web site (try searching for disk encryption), you'll see the idea has been done to death
Man, I am so sick of lawyers harassing programmers
I agree. It's not the cheapest, but I do find it the most convenient.
We run a standard Win2K build at work - Notes mail... pcAnywhere... Exceed for X to *nix apps (even from my Linux box, which I'm doing right now). VPN and 802.11b or Verizon's express network (Sierra Aircard 555)
I have the laptop ghosted for emergencies but usually hardware problems can be resolved by swapping the harddrive into a spare machine.
I certainly couldn't justify it for myself, but if you are on-call 24/7, it certainly makes it easier
A good point. If all the 'waste' were eliminated - codered attacks, spam, etc. I wonder what the savings would yield. If ISPs are faced with increased bandwidth fees that would be a great motivator.
Looking at the internet 'growth' quoted for last year, I wonder how much of that was non-garbage traffic.
The sad state is ISPs find it easier to cap their user's bandwidth rather than manage and filter their networks.
Interesting. The odd part is that development tools for Windows or the Mac are not exactly free or even cheap. Moreover, I think that expensive development tools create the culture that anything created with them must be charged for. And of course in that culture, 'theft' will exist.
I wrote a few PC utilities in the late 80s (postcardware) with Borland's Turbo C. Was more a learning excercise than anything else. I didn't feel I had to charge anything because the tools were pretty cheap.
Keep in mind Citrix sold the Terminal Server technology to Microsoft. The deal went something like Citrix would maintain the NT side while M$ moved forward with Win2K and beyond. Citrix of course was permitted to produce their own value added product for Win2k.
M$ does have some history screwing those they buy technology from (ask anyone at NetIQ about MOM). But I think the difference here is PCAnywhere and Citrix are commercial closed source products and VNC is Open Source - aka 'potentially viral' to quote Ballmer.
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I really can't see how the Threa will hold up as a phone - and the price of the thing ($800!) - OUCH!
Whew! Glad I work for a company who's policy states clearly that gifts from vendors are disallowed... I'd never get anything done!
The reason inkjets are popular is the upfront cost. HP and every other manufacturer makes money on 'consumables' - ink/paper. Save a few bucks 1/2 filling cartridges to make it the cheapest at Best Buy? Why not? It's not like the moron in the blue vest will be able to explain the difference.
Laser technology, especially color, is also evolving to the consumable model
If users would bother to read the TCO info (cost per page, etc) that's published, our courts wouldn't be tied up deciding silly half empty/half full non-sense cases for 3 old hags that wanted to save a buck printing Christmas cards...
Didja ever hear of standards? Cable Modem DOCSIS configs are pushed down from the head end no matter the manufacturer - Linksys, Motorola, 3Com, Toshiba, etc. All have SNMP. Hack it, you're out, usually within 24 hours. One is not 'harder' than the other otherwise they wouldn't support it at all.
Uhh... flash the prom? Is that what an exibitionist high school senior does before graduation???
okay, she did say rough...
It is interesting after Comcast was @homeless, their price increase was $5 to those who chose to rent their cable modem. Seemed fair - if you didn't want an increase, you could spend $100.
This move by attbi smacks of unfairness... those that were duped into purchasing are now penalized? On what grounds? Higher support costs? bah! They can count on the income because the only out is to sell the cablemodem on eBay to a comcast customer. Jerks.
Should be interesting to see how these pricing differences are reconciled if/when the merger is completed.
I think eventually the predictive dialers will be programmed to avoid them. I did download the SIT tone wav file to a PDA, assigned it to a button and played it into the phone for out of area/unknown caller calls. It did seem effective. Didn't have to pay Verizon for the call blocking service, etc.
Sure it wasn't a screensaver?
The way I understand it (and I used to do credit checks as a starving salesman), you will need an SSN to obtain credit info. A name/addr/mother's maiden won't cut it. So they already had SSNs for the 'carefully selected affluent individuals' and the big story is - they got the reports on Ford's dime rather than $9.95 on the web. Quite frugal!
1,000 requests/mo was probably well under the radar for Ford Motor Credit to detect as unauthorized - it would have taken a complaint from someone who noticed the report query.
And as for riding the subway, they didn't run checks on FMC's customers, just used Ford's Experian account to get access to the reports - if you live in a nice part of town, you're still vunerable: burn your trash.... or whatever...
Redmond WA (AP) Steve Ballmer announced today that Robert Novak will succeed Rick Belluzzo as president and chief operating officer effective May 1, 2002. Novak, known for his shrewed business savy and wizardry of the law, is best known as proprieter of petswarehouse.com. Novak in a prepared statement said "I'm fortunate I have this opportunity to protect Microsoft from every evil conspiracy. I look forward to mobilizing all the legal forces to sue the pants off of every 2 bit commie coder that even thinks of publishing source code for anything that Microsoft distributes - including Telnet and FTP!" Bill Gates reacted with "Bob's our kinda guy - we got a kick of how he settled with those rabble rousers by making them put banner ads for his company on their lousy webpages. God Bless America!"
A google search tonight (from comcast) turned up these results:
/search?sourceid=navclient&querytime=UXvoE&q=a nything from this server. (Client IP address: 68.45.xxx.xxx)
Unfortunately, Google has received a significant amount of abuse from your network. Because some person or people on your network have violated our Terms of Service (http://www.google.com/terms_of_service.html) and sent us numerous automated search queries, we have been forced to shut off access to Google's services from your network.
Note that we are not accusing you personally of having violated our Terms of Service; you are most likely an innocent victim of someone else's bad behavior. We're really sorry to have had to take this action.
We very much want to be able to work this problem out with your sysadmin or your ISP's network and/or abuse department. Unfortunately, so far, we have not been able to do so. Please contact your sysadmin or your ISP's network and/or abuse department and request that they track down who is causing this problem with Google. Please don't complain to Google about this problem (since there's nothing we can do until the problem on your network has been identified and stopped). Instead, please complain to your sysadmin or your ISP's network and/or abuse department. Letting them know that they need to take immediate action so that you can enjoy full access to the Internet (including Google) is the quickest way for you to regain your Google service.
We wholeheartedly apologize for the inconvenience to you, and with your help, we expect that we'll soon be able provide search results to you once more.
403 Forbidden Your client does not have permission to get URL
Perhaps this is a result of comcast telling all their new customers 'instead of a newsserver, go use google groups'
Royal PITA
Many ISP's (comcast) despise wireless access points, and in fact *block* access to their network if you have certain access points hooked into your connection (mac filtering I'm assuming).
Do you have a reference for this claim - a URL or something? I've had WiFi (linksys router right now, other stand alone APs) sitting directly behind my Comcast cable modem for some time now and never heard of this before. Oh and I can change the MAC address of the thing to whatever I like.
Mainstream print media dissembles technology to investigate claim? Whoa - this is Pulitzer material!
Seriously, I'm impressed. Maybe there will be a career path for 'investigative hackers'
Just look at the original press release announcing the merger When you see things like In conjunction with the transaction, Microsoft Corporation has agreed to convert the $5 billion of AT&T subsidiary trust convertible preferred securities into 115 million shares of AT&T Comcast Corporation. and ...AT&T's interests in cable television joint ventures and its 25.5 percent interest in Time Warner Entertainment you know MSN and AOL are going to be included somehow.
As a Comcast customer, they're offering the bare minimum in value added (ISP) services - and and I don't think they have any interest in it. When MSN AOL and the Internet Scientology Provider come aboard, then Comcast can focus on what it believes to be it's strength - infrastructure.
If the overhead of uuencoding is indeed 33% vs yEnc's 2%, this gives metered customers another what 3GB a month on a 10GB account? Not insignificant. Personally, I use a service that's metered per day - with no bandwidth cap and unlimited uploads (teranews) so my savings is even more signicant.
Your quote states that people will of course post more (and download more). This equates to greater bandwidth requirements, larger/faster servers and more disk for the NNTP provider. And of course, this means more value to the customer.
Mr. Nixon's interests are indeed those of his employer. If he has/had a solution, why all the grousing? I think it's more a matter his employer won't allow him. This isn't bogus: Mr. Nixon should put up or shut up.
So Jürgen Helbing creates a public domain solution which is gaining popularity and Mr. Nixon is being ignored - and why? Implementation nitpicks? Please.
A more useful excercise may be to guess his employer from his list of 'reviews'
On Thursday, we have a slashdot story that we're going to face a bandwith shortage RSN and today we have Lucent to the rescue Put your buy orders in now!
Actally the inclusion of the interstate commerce language gives the federal government enforcement powers that superceed any states' legislation. Not sure what you are setting up shop locally to do... software available on a web site? A hardware device that can only be shipped within a single state?
You may appreciate the Constitution but this language PLUGS loopholes. Fritz may be old but he ain't stupid.
You would think... but with the utter nonsense Fritz Hollings and company would like to see law - to the tune of regulating all hardware and software - including open source, I think you better start looking for heros elsewhere
What is comes down to is the US Congress is nothing but a bunch of lawyers who represent the interest of - lawyers. The government is *encouraging* this behavior (they can't help it - it's in their blood) and would never act to stop it.
News flash RSA SecurPC wins award (10/97)
Please note the date. Now, please explain how the SecurPC product differ from the patent claim, other than actually being a product? If you poke around their web site (try searching for disk encryption), you'll see the idea has been done to death
Man, I am so sick of lawyers harassing programmers
ummm... I haven't seen an option to install terminal server on win2k pro... server, yes.
I agree. It's not the cheapest, but I do find it the most convenient.
We run a standard Win2K build at work - Notes mail... pcAnywhere... Exceed for X to *nix apps (even from my Linux box, which I'm doing right now). VPN and 802.11b or Verizon's express network (Sierra Aircard 555)I have the laptop ghosted for emergencies but usually hardware problems can be resolved by swapping the harddrive into a spare machine.
I certainly couldn't justify it for myself, but if you are on-call 24/7, it certainly makes it easier
A good point. If all the 'waste' were eliminated - codered attacks, spam, etc. I wonder what the savings would yield. If ISPs are faced with increased bandwidth fees that would be a great motivator.
Looking at the internet 'growth' quoted for last year, I wonder how much of that was non-garbage traffic.
The sad state is ISPs find it easier to cap their user's bandwidth rather than manage and filter their networks.
idSoftware? doom... quake(s)... wolfenstein3d...
Interesting. The odd part is that development tools for Windows or the Mac are not exactly free or even cheap. Moreover, I think that expensive development tools create the culture that anything created with them must be charged for. And of course in that culture, 'theft' will exist.
I wrote a few PC utilities in the late 80s (postcardware) with Borland's Turbo C. Was more a learning excercise than anything else. I didn't feel I had to charge anything because the tools were pretty cheap.
Keep in mind Citrix sold the Terminal Server technology to Microsoft. The deal went something like Citrix would maintain the NT side while M$ moved forward with Win2K and beyond. Citrix of course was permitted to produce their own value added product for Win2k.
M$ does have some history screwing those they buy technology from (ask anyone at NetIQ about MOM). But I think the difference here is PCAnywhere and Citrix are commercial closed source products and VNC is Open Source - aka 'potentially viral' to quote Ballmer.