Dude. These names that are purely for the convience of the human operator are pure money. Precisely BECUASE they are for human convience. For instance, when I wanted advice on a pet. My first instinct was to go to "www.pets.com". Millions of people do this everyday. This translates to millions of hits, and potentially a Lot Of Money. No wonder Big Business has a huge instrest in this.
On the flip side, I would be sorta annoyed if I went to a "www.somethingorother.com" and all I got was a page saying "I'm holding this domain ransom until someone wants to pay me enough."
There SHOULD be a way to arbitrate. I just don't know if this is a good way.
1. It's not illegal to look at sites about warez. It's illegal to DOWNLOAD or provide warez. AOL or your local ISP may decide to block these sites (it's their perogrative), but there is nothing illegal about these sites that just provide info on them.
2. It's been shown again and again that filtering software of all types are at best grossly inefficient, many times blocking perfectly legitimate sites. This "workaround" would allow you to access these sites. This sounds pretty reasonable, no?
3. It is not/.'s or your ISP's job to look after your kids. It is not the government's job to look after your kids. It is NO ONE'S JOB BUT YOUR JOB. Filtering software may be a helpful aid (issues of effectiveness aside), but do not blame us if your kid looks at porn.
4. As far as I know, the ethics of news reporting require you to report the news. Not just the Happy News. or the Poltically Correct News. Sure, there are times when news should be withheld (for the sake of security or whatnot), but this is hardly of that caliber. There have been news pieces on how bomb making instructions are easy to find on the Internet. Is the media irresponsible for pointing out that this information is available?
I'm going to stop now, before I get really pissed.
In my opinion (and in the opinion of a lot of you out there, I know), Rurouni Kenshin is essential viewing for anyone who wants to watch anime. Or at least the first 60 or so eps. are. There are numerous fansubs out there, but those are going to be sorta hard to come by now that I hear that Sony is doing a dub. (Samurai-X, what type of dumb name is that?)
Everything that you might want in a anime series is there. Cool Good Guys, Cool Bad Guys, Cool Bad Guys that Become Good Guys, Big Swords...what more do you want?
I can just imagine the amazing confusion that will happen when they get around to trying to explain to the average consumer about "this type of 64 bit computer" as opposed to "that type of 64 bit computer". And how much heartache it will cause consumers to try to figure out *which* applications they can run.
It seems to me that AMD, by choosing a non-IA64 architecture to compete with Intel's 64 bit processors, is basically splitting the market for themselves. Average consumers looking for a next-gen processor will most probably not understand the difference, and (maybe) pick one randomly or (maybe) go with the one with the better known name (Intel, right now). Much confusion abounds.
Also, by using an extension of x86, AMD puts software vendors in a bind as well. Instead of allowing all the vendors to just recompile their software IA-64 compatiable, they'll have to keep Sledgehammer and IA64 versions. Much confusion abounds again.
I think that if they could, AMD should have joined the IA-64 alliance, and released a IA-64 compatitable processor.
Most people on the thread so far has been very much on the side of the OpenSSH. However, I don't think that what this other guy is doing is wrong in the very least. He is not trying to make a profit. He is not trying to blackmail or exhort anything from the OpenSSH group. He was there first, and if he wants to keep the name, the more power to him. He doesn't necessarily have to do anything with it. I mean, if he wanted to, he could just put up a html document saying "This is my page."
Just because the OpenSSH group happens to have want the name does not mean that they have a right to that name. I think that it is in very poor taste to boycott the OpenSSH.org. It seems almost arrogant in fact, to presume that just because Mr. Alex de Joode does not wish to deal with them with regards to the domain name, that he has ulterior motives. A simple message warning people that OpenSSH.org is not affilated with the OpenSSH group would have surely sufficed.
You have got to be on crack. Think about this reasonably. The initial investment to have a fab that will create a chip worth selling (or even giving away), is enormous. Truth be told, if you're going to fabricate chips, you have to go big. Really BIG. Otherwise, you're not going to make any profits (or even break even). That's why a lot of hardware companys like SUN don't bother with their own fabs, they sign agreements with companys like TI to do it for them.
I read many of these posts, and many of them are along the lines of "Well, I pay for it, so I should be able to use it however I want". And that is true.
BUT
The guy next door also paid for it, and how fair is it that he can't access his e-mail (for school related purposes), because YOU are serving up mp3's? (not school related)
It would be all fine and dandy if bandwidth were unlimited, but it's not, and it's the university's job to serve the educational needs of it's students and staff. Allowing hundreds of mp3 servers doesn't really faciltate that.
I bet if you took your Technology Fees, and Housing fees elsewhere, you could barely afford a 56k dialup. By combining the collective fees of all the students for a combined purpose, universities are able to provide higher bandwidth for everybody. That "combined purpose" is educational usage (that is why you're at school).
I don't know if this is possible, but since the doctor in the article brought it up, does anyone think that this type of procedure will eventually lead to a type of immortality? I mean, is there really any reason why a brain seperated from the rest of the body COULDN'T (in most cases), live on indefinately? The thought of a roomful of brains, each connected to a virutal "net", is perhaps the scariest of them all.
I was talking about this with a friend just the other day. Why bother correcting your vision with surgery now, if you're just going to screw it up again staring at computers?
Even most script kiddies should be able to type "./configure;make;make install". It's not wether or not you make the tools yourself, it's how you use them.
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Dude. These names that are purely for the convience of the human operator are pure money. Precisely BECUASE they are for human convience. For instance, when I wanted advice on a pet. My first instinct was to go to "www.pets.com". Millions of people do this everyday. This translates to millions of hits, and potentially a Lot Of Money. No wonder Big Business has a huge instrest in this.
On the flip side, I would be sorta annoyed if I went to a "www.somethingorother.com" and all I got was a page saying "I'm holding this domain ransom until someone wants to pay me enough."
There SHOULD be a way to arbitrate. I just don't know if this is a good way.
Uhm. no.
/.'s or your ISP's job to look after your kids. It is not the government's job to look after your kids. It is NO ONE'S JOB BUT YOUR JOB. Filtering software may be a helpful aid (issues of effectiveness aside), but do not blame us if your kid looks at porn.
1. It's not illegal to look at sites about warez. It's illegal to DOWNLOAD or provide warez. AOL or your local ISP may decide to block these sites (it's their perogrative), but there is nothing illegal about these sites that just provide info on them.
2. It's been shown again and again that filtering software of all types are at best grossly inefficient, many times blocking perfectly legitimate sites. This "workaround" would allow you to access these sites. This sounds pretty reasonable, no?
3. It is not
4. As far as I know, the ethics of news reporting require you to report the news. Not just the Happy News. or the Poltically Correct News. Sure, there are times when news should be withheld (for the sake of security or whatnot), but this is hardly of that caliber. There have been news pieces on how bomb making instructions are easy to find on the Internet. Is the media irresponsible for pointing out that this information is available?
I'm going to stop now, before I get really pissed.
In my opinion (and in the opinion of a lot of you out there, I know), Rurouni Kenshin is essential viewing for anyone who wants to watch anime. Or at least the first 60 or so eps. are. There are numerous fansubs out there, but those are going to be sorta hard to come by now that I hear that Sony is doing a dub. (Samurai-X, what type of dumb name is that?)
Everything that you might want in a anime series is there. Cool Good Guys, Cool Bad Guys, Cool Bad Guys that Become Good Guys, Big Swords...what more do you want?
I can just imagine the amazing confusion that will happen when they get around to trying to explain to the average consumer about "this type of 64 bit computer" as opposed to "that type of 64 bit computer". And how much heartache it will cause consumers to try to figure out *which* applications they can run.
It seems to me that AMD, by choosing a non-IA64 architecture to compete with Intel's 64 bit processors, is basically splitting the market for themselves. Average consumers looking for a next-gen processor will most probably not understand the difference, and (maybe) pick one randomly or (maybe) go with the one with the better known name (Intel, right now). Much confusion abounds.
Also, by using an extension of x86, AMD puts software vendors in a bind as well. Instead of allowing all the vendors to just recompile their software IA-64 compatiable, they'll have to keep Sledgehammer and IA64 versions. Much confusion abounds again.
I think that if they could, AMD should have joined the IA-64 alliance, and released a IA-64 compatitable processor.
Most people on the thread so far has been very much on the side of the OpenSSH. However, I don't think that what this other guy is doing is wrong in the very least. He is not trying to make a profit. He is not trying to blackmail or exhort anything from the OpenSSH group. He was there first, and if he wants to keep the name, the more power to him. He doesn't necessarily have to do anything with it. I mean, if he wanted to, he could just put up a html document saying "This is my page."
Just because the OpenSSH group happens to have want the name does not mean that they have a right to that name. I think that it is in very poor taste to boycott the OpenSSH.org. It seems almost arrogant in fact, to presume that just because Mr. Alex de Joode does not wish to deal with them with regards to the domain name, that he has ulterior motives. A simple message warning people that OpenSSH.org is not affilated with the OpenSSH group would have surely sufficed.
They say on their webpage that they need verilog coders as well.
You have got to be on crack. Think about this reasonably. The initial investment to have a fab that will create a chip worth selling (or even giving away), is enormous. Truth be told, if you're going to fabricate chips, you have to go big. Really BIG. Otherwise, you're not going to make any profits (or even break even). That's why a lot of hardware companys like SUN don't bother with their own fabs, they sign agreements with companys like TI to do it for them.
I read many of these posts, and many of them are along the lines of "Well, I pay for it, so I should be able to use it however I want". And that is true.
BUT
The guy next door also paid for it, and how fair is it that he can't access his e-mail (for school related purposes), because YOU are serving up mp3's? (not school related)
It would be all fine and dandy if bandwidth were unlimited, but it's not, and it's the university's job to serve the educational needs of it's students and staff. Allowing hundreds of mp3 servers doesn't really faciltate that.
I bet if you took your Technology Fees, and Housing fees elsewhere, you could barely afford a 56k dialup. By combining the collective fees of all the students for a combined purpose, universities are able to provide higher bandwidth for everybody. That "combined purpose" is educational usage (that is why you're at school).
I don't know if this is possible, but since the doctor in the article brought it up, does anyone think that this type of procedure will eventually lead to a type of immortality? I mean, is there really any reason why a brain seperated from the rest of the body COULDN'T (in most cases), live on indefinately? The thought of a roomful of brains, each connected to a virutal "net", is perhaps the scariest of them all.
I was talking about this with a friend just the other day. Why bother correcting your vision with surgery now, if you're just going to screw it up again staring at computers?
Oh. duh. I'm stupid.
It'd be really neat if there was a page where you could look at what your own Karma was.
Every other "Let's jump on the Linux bandwagon" article that has been posted here lately....
Even most script kiddies should be able to type "./configure;make;make install". It's not wether or not you make the tools yourself, it's how you use them.