Well, I'll not argue that hiring an ASP with a well writen contract is a Good Idea(tm) for a company.
Back in the old days when computer were big and expensive, it was usual for small and medium sized companies to rely on service bureaus to procces their data. At that time data was collected by terminals and proccessed on mainframes.
In the '80s micro and mini-computers became small and cheap enough for small and medium companies to afford, and the proccessing started to take place in the local.
But now the size of files grown significantly, and outsorcing storage and proccessing is a Good Idea(tm) again. But the same thing thing that makes ans ASP good to a business make it a not-so-good idea to a home user: the size of the files.
Have you ever tried to upload/download a 45 megs mpeg file ?
Even with cable modem, downloading from a fast server it can take 1 hour. Now imagine this with dial-up.
A compny (even a small one) has more chances to afford a dedicated high speed frame-relay or T1 to upload/dowload the data to the ASP than a home user.
I would hate to upload a 2 meg Word doc to Hailstorm with a V.90 modem, and this can be.Net's achiles heel...
This statement might seems obvious and redundant, but take a look on what happened to large empires of the past.
Egypt, Romans, Great Britain, Nazist Germany, France...
They all built (or tried too do) large and powerfull empires, some of them endured for thousands of years, some of them for only a few. And I ask: Why did they fall ?
IMHO there's a few key reasons:
- Size: When and empire becomes too large (like the british empire, the largest one ever) it becomes hard to manage and to defend (in a military sense) which exposes it to internal and external atacks.
- Brutality: No one like a ruthless empire. Sooner or later other nations join forces to fight this empire. Even if individually they can't fight the opressor togheter they can. This is what happened with Nazi Germany and Napoleon.
- False sense of security: When you build a large and powerfull empire you might start to think that no one ever will dare to atack you, this can make you relax your defenses, exposing you to atacks. It's what happened with the roman empire.
As katz said "on the Net, a year might as well be a century. ". So give the Net a year, and we may see this "Microsoft Empire" crumbling appart.
What I understand is that the guy who posted the question was looking for a system to stop the government from reading his messages. This means that the message must be encripted only while its traveling between mail exchangers in order to avoid things like Carnivore or sniffing the messages packets between routers.
After the message has been dowloaded and is stored in the receivers computer it can be safelly decripted, even without a passwd, because at this point itll be safe from GOVERNMENT snooping.
What about US states or maybe entire counties where gambling is ilegal ? will Nevada be able to block the network trafic coming from these places ???
Doing this would require a lot of work, because it requires cooperation between all part involved.
Theres the financial issue too. Here in Brazil all kinds of gambling is illegal, and according to the law one doesnt have to honor gambling debts, so if a brazilian looses he/she doesnt have to pay. are they prepared to deal with this kind of situation, or with misuse of credit card numbers ?
Im asking this because I dont feel this idea of biometrics or GPS will ever work. The idea of having a GPS unit or biometric scanner sent to every gamblers house is ridiculous...
Many people predicted the death of dead-tree newspapers and books, because the Internet would be able to deliver news and entertainment to everyone in cheap, convenient handheld devices.
Well, dead-tree media still exists, handhelds are still expensive and wireless connections are still scarce, expensive and doesnt work inside Metro (Subway, Underground, whatever your country calls this kind of train) tunnels. Paper does.
Radio will still be among us in portable units (like Sonys WalkMan) and cars, specially when you consider the lack of bandwith (read previous paragraph) to stream mp3 to portable units.
And theres the price subject. Anyone can aford a $20 AM/FM radio, but $200 for an MP3 player is too much, add to this the cost of broadband wireless connection for streaming, and... well, you get the picture...
Many countries (Like Brazil, where I live) has per-minute telephone charges, which rises the cost of dial-up connections significantly.
A 24x7 dial-up connection can cost up to US$ 500,00 (five hundred american dollars) here. This is twice the cost of a 512 kbps cable modem or DSL access here.
As you can see depending on how fast the connection is broad-band can be cheaper than dial-up if your telephone company has per-minute charges.
Probably because this is an early prototype that needs some optimizations.
Sometimes I read Tom's Hardware for news on processors and stuff, and according to their benchmarks Athlon is faster for somethings (like integers and floating point when using it's internal x87 unit) while P4 is faster for other things (multimedia and floating point when using it's brand new SSE unit).
And yes, clock by clock P3 can be faster than P4 in some benchmarks.
Did a litlle research on XFree 4.0.2 man pages. here's what I found:
"i810 is an XFree86 driver for the Intel i810 family of
graphics chipsets. The driver supports depths 8, 15, 16
and 24. All visual types are supported in depth 8, other
depths only support TrueColor. The driver supports hard
ware accelerated 3D via the Direct Rendering Infrastruc
ture (DRI), but only in depth 16."
Now we just have to find out what sound chip it uses.
Someone please mod this guy "funny". I'm ROFLing my ass off.
Now seriously, we're watching RIAA geting along suing everyone (even 13 year old kids) when in truth THEY are the ones to be sued for MONOPOLIST PRACTICES an FORMATION OF CARTEL.
Microsoft is not the only company in the world that should be broken in several smaller ones.
Oooops ! My mistake. I realy meant 44.2 kHz. Sorry.
Other thing I tought after posting that is that not all albuns use the full capacity of a CD, this means that you can have even more than 41 albuns in a 3 gig drive, depending on how long the riped audio CD are.
Our constitution clearly says that all personal information about an individual belongs to the individual and can not be transfered by any legal means.
So if I fill a form with my data in a M$ site and they sell this to a third party without my writen consent or make any unlawfull use I can:
1) force them to tell me everithing they did with the data. This is called "Abeas Data" by our contitution.
2) Sue them for reparation if I consider myself harmed by the way they used my data.
Since I'm a Brasilian citizen, simply doesn't matter theyr claim that the terms of use are governed by the laws os the state of Washington. If the service is ofered in Brasil it's bound to our laws and our constitution.
At least this is what the law says in my country. A server's log doesn't count as a proof that I agreed with the terms of the contract, so it's invalid an I can sue them for any unauthorised use of my copyrhighted material.
Other thing that I noticed is this paragraph in the "General" section:
"Use of the Passport Web Site and service is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these terms and conditions"
Since Brasilian law doesn't accept these terms, the use of hotmail in Brasil is ILEGAL acording with the term.
But again, the term is INVALID here, so I so want to see M$ trying to enforce it in Brasil...
Following your logic we can assume a x86 server will only serve x86 workstations, a Mac sever will only serve iMacs, a Sparc server will only serve Sparc workstations, etc.
An internet appliance server DOES NOT mean it will serve content for home use internet apps.
Internet appliance server are very simplified servers with a CPU, memory, a NIC, a SCSI contoler and an (optional) internal hard disk. Everything else is external to the unit, attached to it via SCSI bus. They are relativelly cheap (for a server) and if it fails you just have to change the CPU box, attach the external storage units to the new box and you're back online in no time. No need to remove a dozen of internal disks from the dead server to put in the new one. Other advantage of internet appliance servers is the low power comsumption and small heat production, thanks to the reduced number of internal components.
I bought a few Sony CD-Rs a while ago, and when I started recording on them Xcdroast identified the media as being made by another company. This means that sony just buy's OEM disks and put their brand on it. The same happened with Kodak and JVC CD-Rs.
All good ones my foot. Alfredo "WindowMaker" Kojima, AKA Alfredo "apt-get for RPM" Kojima lives in Brazil, thank you very much...
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Check the informations on Brasilian election. No one, and when I say no one I mean it, contested the results of our last election and it was 100% electronic.
The electorial justice suplied enough information about the software used to make all the partys confident that fraud is impossible. The data stored in the electonic booth is strong encripted and saved in three medias: floppy disk, hard drive and flash memory. When the election is finished the booths are removed to the office of the electoral justice by the chief of the electoral with police escort and one or more volunteer of the parties involved, to ensure the booth will remain intact.
At the electoral justice only the floppy disk is removed and loaded into the mainframe for counting. In caso of problems with the disk another one can be created from the data stored in the booth's flash memory.
We've been testing this system for several years now, and no one found a way to fraud it.
What Ironfist.cmg was trying to say is that Amazon's mails may be solicited ones to his WIFE not to HIM.
If he allowed his wife to use his e-mail account and naow he doesn't want this e-mails anymore he is in his rights to be removed from Amazon's mail list.
To do this is very simple and doesn't require any privacy violation. Amazon can place a link in the e-mail message pointing to an URL that will remove him from the list without revealing personal information.
Read the license agreement at M$ download page. They say you have to send back to them any changes you make to the code, and that only them can sell for profit the changes you've made to the code bundled in a comercial product, you can't.
So if you need IPv6 in any product, you better make it GNU GPL'ed and use the code from linux Kernel.
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Well, I'll not argue that hiring an ASP with a well writen contract is a Good Idea(tm) for a company.
.Net's achiles heel...
Back in the old days when computer were big and expensive, it was usual for small and medium sized companies to rely on service bureaus to procces their data. At that time data was collected by terminals and proccessed on mainframes.
In the '80s micro and mini-computers became small and cheap enough for small and medium companies to afford, and the proccessing started to take place in the local.
But now the size of files grown significantly, and outsorcing storage and proccessing is a Good Idea(tm) again. But the same thing thing that makes ans ASP good to a business make it a not-so-good idea to a home user: the size of the files.
Have you ever tried to upload/download a 45 megs mpeg file ?
Even with cable modem, downloading from a fast server it can take 1 hour. Now imagine this with dial-up.
A compny (even a small one) has more chances to afford a dedicated high speed frame-relay or T1 to upload/dowload the data to the ASP than a home user.
I would hate to upload a 2 meg Word doc to Hailstorm with a V.90 modem, and this can be
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For what I read it aplies to anything inside your home.
Anything that 30 years ago would require physically entering your home and that now can be done at distance with hi-tech devices requires a warrant...
In this case, if someone uses RF detection to see what's going on your 'puter screen without a warant, the evidence won't be accepted in a court.
But I may be wrong...
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The bigger the fall.
This statement might seems obvious and redundant, but take a look on what happened to large empires of the past.
Egypt, Romans, Great Britain, Nazist Germany, France...
They all built (or tried too do) large and powerfull empires, some of them endured for thousands of years, some of them for only a few. And I ask: Why did they fall ?
IMHO there's a few key reasons:
- Size: When and empire becomes too large (like the british empire, the largest one ever) it becomes hard to manage and to defend (in a military sense) which exposes it to internal and external atacks.
- Brutality: No one like a ruthless empire. Sooner or later other nations join forces to fight this empire. Even if individually they can't fight the opressor togheter they can. This is what happened with Nazi Germany and Napoleon.
- False sense of security: When you build a large and powerfull empire you might start to think that no one ever will dare to atack you, this can make you relax your defenses, exposing you to atacks. It's what happened with the roman empire.
As katz said "on the Net, a year might as well be a century. ". So give the Net a year, and we may see this "Microsoft Empire" crumbling appart.
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What I understand is that the guy who posted the question was looking for a system to stop the government from reading his messages. This means that the message must be encripted only while its traveling between mail exchangers in order to avoid things like Carnivore or sniffing the messages packets between routers.
After the message has been dowloaded and is stored in the receivers computer it can be safelly decripted, even without a passwd, because at this point itll be safe from GOVERNMENT snooping.
What about US states or maybe entire counties where gambling is ilegal ? will Nevada be able to block the network trafic coming from these places ???
Doing this would require a lot of work, because it requires cooperation between all part involved.
Theres the financial issue too. Here in Brazil all kinds of gambling is illegal, and according to the law one doesnt have to honor gambling debts, so if a brazilian looses he/she doesnt have to pay. are they prepared to deal with this kind of situation, or with misuse of credit card numbers ?
Im asking this because I dont feel this idea of biometrics or GPS will ever work. The idea of having a GPS unit or biometric scanner sent to every gamblers house is ridiculous...
I mean, M$ bashing is quickly becoming a national sport. The more ppl doing it, the better.
Radio is not dead and it wont die anytime soon.
Many people predicted the death of dead-tree newspapers and books, because the Internet would be able to deliver news and entertainment to everyone in cheap, convenient handheld devices.
Well, dead-tree media still exists, handhelds are still expensive and wireless connections are still scarce, expensive and doesnt work inside Metro (Subway, Underground, whatever your country calls this kind of train) tunnels. Paper does.
Radio will still be among us in portable units (like Sonys WalkMan) and cars, specially when you consider the lack of bandwith (read previous paragraph) to stream mp3 to portable units.
And theres the price subject. Anyone can aford a $20 AM/FM radio, but $200 for an MP3 player is too much, add to this the cost of broadband wireless connection for streaming, and... well, you get the picture...
$20 a month where, pale face ?
Many countries (Like Brazil, where I live) has per-minute telephone charges, which rises the cost of dial-up connections significantly.
A 24x7 dial-up connection can cost up to US$ 500,00 (five hundred american dollars) here. This is twice the cost of a 512 kbps cable modem or DSL access here.
As you can see depending on how fast the connection is broad-band can be cheaper than dial-up if your telephone company has per-minute charges.
Probably because this is an early prototype that needs some optimizations.
Sometimes I read Tom's Hardware for news on processors and stuff, and according to their benchmarks Athlon is faster for somethings (like integers and floating point when using it's internal x87 unit) while P4 is faster for other things (multimedia and floating point when using it's brand new SSE unit).
And yes, clock by clock P3 can be faster than P4 in some benchmarks.
when SMP AMD 64-bit motherboards become available.
Did a litlle research on XFree 4.0.2 man pages. here's what I found:
"i810 is an XFree86 driver for the Intel i810 family of
graphics chipsets. The driver supports depths 8, 15, 16
and 24. All visual types are supported in depth 8, other
depths only support TrueColor. The driver supports hard
ware accelerated 3D via the Direct Rendering Infrastruc
ture (DRI), but only in depth 16."
Now we just have to find out what sound chip it uses.
Someone please mod this guy "funny". I'm ROFLing my ass off.
Now seriously, we're watching RIAA geting along suing everyone (even 13 year old kids) when in truth THEY are the ones to be sued for MONOPOLIST PRACTICES an FORMATION OF CARTEL.
Microsoft is not the only company in the world that should be broken in several smaller ones.
Oooops ! My mistake. I realy meant 44.2 kHz. Sorry.
Other thing I tought after posting that is that not all albuns use the full capacity of a CD, this means that you can have even more than 41 albuns in a 3 gig drive, depending on how long the riped audio CD are.
To make this more informational lets do the math:
/. and dont know what the heck a Vorbis file is take a look at this site.
1 minute at 22.100 Hz, 16 bit, stereo = 10 (ten) megabytes.
after this this track is encoded and becomes an MP3 or ogg vorbis file the size shrinks to about 1 (one) megabyte.
this means an album that uses all the capacity of an audio CD (74 minutes) can be stored in 74 megabytes.
3 gigabytes = 3072 megabytes
3073 / 74 = 41.5
Yes. A 3 gb hard disk can store up to 41.5 albuns after processing the songs in an MP3 or Vorbis encoder.
BTW, if youre new to
all government, no business = bad.
all business, no government = bad.
If you have a country ruled by corporations theyll abuse the population, the same in a country where the only thing is the government.
There must be a balance between the two, and thats not whats happening now adays.
before GPU are able to render images that cant be difentiated from real images captured by a video camera ?
Our constitution clearly says that all personal information about an individual belongs to the individual and can not be transfered by any legal means.
So if I fill a form with my data in a M$ site and they sell this to a third party without my writen consent or make any unlawfull use I can:
1) force them to tell me everithing they did with the data. This is called "Abeas Data" by our contitution.
2) Sue them for reparation if I consider myself harmed by the way they used my data.
Since I'm a Brasilian citizen, simply doesn't matter theyr claim that the terms of use are governed by the laws os the state of Washington. If the service is ofered in Brasil it's bound to our laws and our constitution.
At least this is what the law says in my country. A server's log doesn't count as a proof that I agreed with the terms of the contract, so it's invalid an I can sue them for any unauthorised use of my copyrhighted material.
Other thing that I noticed is this paragraph in the "General" section:
"Use of the Passport Web Site and service is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these terms and conditions"
Since Brasilian law doesn't accept these terms, the use of hotmail in Brasil is ILEGAL acording with the term.
But again, the term is INVALID here, so I so want to see M$ trying to enforce it in Brasil...
Following your logic we can assume a x86 server will only serve x86 workstations, a Mac sever will only serve iMacs, a Sparc server will only serve Sparc workstations, etc.
An internet appliance server DOES NOT mean it will serve content for home use internet apps.
Internet appliance server are very simplified servers with a CPU, memory, a NIC, a SCSI contoler and an (optional) internal hard disk. Everything else is external to the unit, attached to it via SCSI bus. They are relativelly cheap (for a server) and if it fails you just have to change the CPU box, attach the external storage units to the new box and you're back online in no time. No need to remove a dozen of internal disks from the dead server to put in the new one. Other advantage of internet appliance servers is the low power comsumption and small heat production, thanks to the reduced number of internal components.
I bought a few Sony CD-Rs a while ago, and when I started recording on them Xcdroast identified the media as being made by another company. This means that sony just buy's OEM disks and put their brand on it. The same happened with Kodak and JVC CD-Rs.
slashdot, the best DoS attack ever...
All good ones my foot. Alfredo "WindowMaker" Kojima, AKA Alfredo "apt-get for RPM" Kojima lives in Brazil, thank you very much...
Check the informations on Brasilian election. No one, and when I say no one I mean it, contested the results of our last election and it was 100% electronic.
The electorial justice suplied enough information about the software used to make all the partys confident that fraud is impossible. The data stored in the electonic booth is strong encripted and saved in three medias: floppy disk, hard drive and flash memory. When the election is finished the booths are removed to the office of the electoral justice by the chief of the electoral with police escort and one or more volunteer of the parties involved, to ensure the booth will remain intact.
At the electoral justice only the floppy disk is removed and loaded into the mainframe for counting. In caso of problems with the disk another one can be created from the data stored in the booth's flash memory.
We've been testing this system for several years now, and no one found a way to fraud it.
What Ironfist.cmg was trying to say is that Amazon's mails may be solicited ones to his WIFE not to HIM.
If he allowed his wife to use his e-mail account and naow he doesn't want this e-mails anymore he is in his rights to be removed from Amazon's mail list.
To do this is very simple and doesn't require any privacy violation. Amazon can place a link in the e-mail message pointing to an URL that will remove him from the list without revealing personal information.
Read the license agreement at M$ download page. They say you have to send back to them any changes you make to the code, and that only them can sell for profit the changes you've made to the code bundled in a comercial product, you can't.
So if you need IPv6 in any product, you better make it GNU GPL'ed and use the code from linux Kernel.