Besides if it was piracy then you could go to an unfriendly country and get a letter and become a privateer and legaly pirate assuming you paid your taxes.:) But realy it cant be theft as it's by definition all intangable things belong to the creative commons that everybody has access to in the end. The US constitution knew this but we cant seem to still see that fact that allowing one group to own an intangable thing in perpituity is wrong, the guilds tried to do this hundreds of years ago and killed to keep there coveted information. The only difference with the RAII is there information is much more trivial.
Ah your talking about European lifestyle this is rather different from American. I will preface this with the fact I have traveled to several countries in europe mostly the cities but also come country settings. In general your cities were built to be friendly to pedestrian traffic making biking much easier. People are used to living in much smaller spaces I have been invited into apartments of mid level managers that house 4 people that could fit into my basement. This alters your shopping habbits as there isn't a lot of storage space you also dont seem to have large in bulk discount stores for your shopping. In general european cars seem to be smaller and your cost of fuel is much much higher giving you less utility of the vehical and a lot higher cost of operation. The big thing is the fact that your rural settings are often setup for pedestian traffic generaly as a cluster of houses and buildings with open space around them. In the US we have 3 forms of ID that are accepted Drivers liscence, state or military ID and passport. I think that last percentage shows how much difference there is in the way things are layed out with that few young people able to drive everything needs to be close or within easy reach of good public transportation. In the US it's rare that public transportation is that usefull and generaly not a big requirement when they are siting a new mall or shopping district.
Hrm your referances look like bable from the bike people but I wont let that deter me. Why would a morgage have anything to do with transportation method? Fuel, insurance parking etc all cost me less than a couple hours take home wage weekly, but I am not even close to the average for income for my area. Your referance cites auto generated smog and noise as the reason not to want to live in a city. Persoanly I do not live in the city due to crime, high cost of housing and an over abundance of people; granted some people like city life others do not it's a persoanl preferance issue. While you seem fixed on pulling in health issues that have little to do with this issue (yes excersize is good no you dont get it in a car is this at all germaine to this conversation? try hiking in the woods on the weekend or even doing yard work they would seem to be a lot more pleasuable than riding a bike to work over roads and sucking in car smog while you do it in a city / built up area)
Now lets look at some of the other disadvantages of bike / public transportation:
Shopping, this is somewhat subjective but how much time do you spend shopping since you cant carry any significant ammounts of groceries at any time nor carry them a significant distance you are forced to shop at local higher priced lower selection stores and do so often. A car owner if able to shop at large bulk stores once a month. Persoanly I have a turnaround time of an hour to get all the monthly shopping done plus a 5 minute stop mid month for perishables. What would you say as a cycalist with a standard wife and two kids would be required to move that ammount of food and sundry items to your place of residence in time and money on a monthly basis?
Ancilary costs, Where I live you have to transport you trash to the local transfer station, would you be able to do this on a bike? How often would this be required to be done? Leading up to how much time would be required to perform this basic function? I would think you would need to either do this daily with a normal faily incuring a significant time cost or hire somebody to do it for you as a cost.
Social factors, You included liscences in your referacned cost breakdown, would you realy sugest not having a valid state or governemnt issued ID in the US's current climate of FUD? Would you realy sugest not having in case you need a car for work as in rental on a trip? You cant even fly in the US without a photo ID.
Either way it's still just an expensive whitelist. How long before spammers buy up a random.mail domain use it for a week before the spam cops catch on? Even if it's a day can the spammers make it worth there 2 grand? How many spammers will just use there stolen credit cards they are allready using to snag accounts with anyway?
Why nobody else said the mail had to come from an address with.mail just a server, you forward your email via a smarthost that you ISP should be providing for you. Your server dosent need a.mail address to receive mail. Your ISP could be doing this for you allready it's not hard to do with a router, but few do and arguably more should. I have been using a smarhost for outgoing mail for years several in fact. I've never had an issue with my mail being denied or marked as spam because it all goes though a nice relay with proper reverse DNS and thats not a dynamic IP.
I dont realy agree with making a 2k a year buy in server white list but it's not the worst idea on the table.
Good one less car on the road. Alternate transportation methods are nice but they all fail in the time catagory thats an important one for a lot of people. It's nice if you can combine your excersise and your commute. The only mass transit method that seems realy viable as an alterative to cars is high speed trains I'm talking about 150mph+ they can reduce the commuting time and arent subject to traffic as they use highly regulated and planed routes.
Bikes are nice if your talking a short distance or level ground.
Busses are allways a joke they are allways slower than a car offer no real bonus besides possibly being cheaper than a car.
Low speed trains are good if traffic is normaly bad if your on a well served route.
One of the problems with building new freeways is they are just that another path not an increase in the existing paths capacity. Adding alternate routes is good if you have a management systemt hat can divy things up in the right porportions.
And this is a bad thing how? No offence to some of the better AOL users but for the most part I dont want to email or receive email from people on AOL. For business it just plain looks bad to send mail from an aol address. For personal use not even my relatives use aol.
AOL is it's own little world on purpose thats what they sell. Persoanly I have never had issues with sending mail to AOL it's simply a matter of using smarthosts at home and normal configuration at work.
I beleive 4GB Dimms are as large as they can go do to limitations in the addressing lines (pins) at 32 (havent checked this might be wrong). So untill a new form factor is released thats what we are stuck with. I would differ on the max expandability most MB's I have seen are running 4 DIMM slots per proc. I beleive this is the max they were designed to handle on there embeded memory controler. I am speaking of the Opterons of course. The PIV's currently have chipsets supporting piles and piles of DIMM slots at least 16 last I saw possibly more (64GB is the current max and I think they did that with 2GB sticks). So with these numbers and 4GB dimms thats 32GB in a 2 way Opteron setup and 64GB on an intel. The nice thing is the 8 way Opterons would be running 128GB max though thats a massive motherboard to support that.
Overall I dnt see this tech realy reducing the size of the ram on pin count alone more it will reduce the power consumption and profile of the dimms what increasign the potential density of a new replacement for DIMM's.
If your thinking of DirecTV wait till april or whenever they come out with the HD Tivo's. They will be expensive but as I beleive they are the first HD PVR's that dont involve DIY on a PC it should be worth it.
While just DOSing the poor guy back is just silly I could see some usefull applications mostly with worms. Your site gets hit with tcp based worm lets call its wormE now wormE is a known worm and your running a nice honeypot type setup possibly in side the firewall or proxy. Since we know how wormE propigates you could go and fix the problem with wormE using the same hole. I'm not talking about intentialy doing damage but rather killing the worm process possibly poping up a message box on console with patch instructions and stopping the offending process.
Now since it's tcp and a 2 way connections we can be fairly confident that at the time of the connection reverse routing paths go to the attacker otherwise syn fin ack would have been problematic.
Things liek this have been discussed on NANOG etc before and a lot of people hate it obviously. I think if you could find exploits in the worms themselves and reply back with something to disable the worm inside the same request that would be acceptable as I should have the right to respond to any request from the internet with whatever I desire inside one session, though some would disagree.
Why should they accept incomming mail from dynamic IP's? There is no realy good reason to, people sending legitimate mail generaly use a smarthost at there ISP to forward mail though, spambots do not. By funneling mail though a smarthost the ISP can easily setup rules to keep people from getting accounts and sending millions of emails.
Yea this is probably flame bait for slashdot it happens.
I'm getting a similar volume of email with significantly less spam getting through running spamassasin at 4 with no false positives or whitelisting. What spam filter are you using it dosent sound like good spam filters to me.
OK to as much as this is flame bait. Have you ever considered prioitizing cops into real crime aka no more eating doughnuts running a speed trap. That would mean no busiting drug dealers and pimps and concentrating on the harder to catch but more damaging thieves and killers. It's all debatable becuase everybody has different priorities but if your forced to selectivly enforce the law wich I think most cops are made to do on a regular basis then the population should have to decide. Scary concept to line item the budget and it it dosent get vodet in they dont go out of there way to enforce it. Course that wouldbe the people deciding what they need rather then our elected bad or worse government.
I would differ with you on 2 I cant think of any problem that will take a consistantly long amount of time regardless of the CPU power thrown at it. Without utilizing an outside entity to slow things down I dont beleive it can be done but would love tobe proved wrong.
I dont see how this will fix the bandwith problem at least in the short run. It's not going to be required just a good idea. Meaning it's just going to segrigate mail into he ones that did the math and the ones that didn't folders. Refusing to accept mail from clients that dont utilize this function breaks all compatability. So you still need to whitelist at the client and by the time the client gets it you have allready paid for the bandwith (I will disagree on the bandwith thing but thats a seperate issue) As to whitelisting use PGP signing it's not computationaly intensive for things like mailling lists and a good protection from address spoofing.
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Do you realy thing non routeable address space provides much security? In general to many people think that NAT is a security messure and by itself it's not. Get on the other end of that leased line DSL cable modem what have you and you can make the space routable for you easily enough. Granted this dosent happen often but as somebody that works with that sort of gear techs do get bored and play every now and then.
For your specific example decent security might be no open ports, no incomming ports in it's firewall and running an onboard IDS. Updates would be sourced from a central repository with only the update ports running and ipsec preshared keys in place to encrypt everything without sending keys over the wire. Now baring great gains in factoring or OS level exploits in the networking subsystem this should provided good security for updates. I still woudent want the master copy of my finiancial records on it.
There are a few worms running around that make windows boxes into open relays and such making it easy for spammers to avoid IP based blacklists. It would be easy enough to have those same worms do the math for the postage as they are effectivly free to the spammer.
I think the funny part would be when a spammer gets an EE on the job and comes out with a custom proc to solve said math quickly. Install as a daughter card and your golden. This would be the same aproach they took to cracking DES via brute force years ago and I beleive in under 2 days.
Either way paying for things computationaly is a loosing battle. Paying with real money is a centraly administrated nightmare.
Now granted spamassassin seems to work just fine. There are a few spams that slip though but not that bad, granted thats a constant battle.
I would vote for fight forged from addresses first if we can have near certinty that the sender is the sender then spam laws can work.
Persoanly as a business owner I have had other peoples assests seized, county official or no. Jailing htem is fairly hard you have to show them knowlingly entering into contracts with bad faith. This guy was a moron plain and simple he had no written contract after 3 years. The responcible thing would have been to send a letter stating that he was terminiating the relationish with 30 days notice and they could retreive there property during that time. You dont lock people out of there content with no way to get it. Yes you can turn off web sites but you cant hold there things ransom when you do. He didn't have a contract giving him ownership of there email etc. The content is questionable as it sounds like the sheriff's department are the origional authors of a lot of it and he made derivitive works for them.
Either way jailing the man for taking down the site was rather counter productive it would seem. A court order demanding the content be released to the sherrif's dept could have been gotten. Then if he refused it could have gotten nasty and should have. Either way this guy was dumb he didn't have a clue on how business is handeled and had no business running a business without legal concil and thus stepped on an anthill.
Try the FDIC would have a field day as this could cause a run on that bank and they could be out billions. Just wait till a bank says sorry we cant give you YOUR money SCO went and seized our computers, by the way here is the phone number for your congress critter in case you were interested. People are generaly lazy but get between them and there money and they get pissed. Granted I doubt anybody would ever be doumb enough to let it get that far but it would be funny to watch the congress critters swat SCO. Darl up for contempt of congress would be nice to try getting out of that one:) ok back to reality.
I would check yourself comrade saying that everybody was entitled to a job was there story. I'm saying that people should have a calling for there work whatever it is. This holds especialy true to anything that can be considered artistic and great programming or engineering qualifies as such. It has nothing to do about being upper class etc (BTW I'm a child of a blue collar family) Nothing about IT should stop people from making a good living but dont expect me or anybody else to hire people that are not the best possible canidate comrade and that means people that love there work. I dont advocate people working on the weekends etc but at the same time continuing education is not work so dont require to be paid to learn new things in your field of work.
The problem with the boom is that the textile workers got into IT where they dont belong. I know I should feel sorry for the dot bomb people that lost there jobs but looking back to many of them shouldent have been around a datacenter forget having root / administrator credentials yes they tried hard etc etc etc but a book does not make a good IT person just an ok one. People should have a spark and drive for there job if your not driven to do your job well well I dont feel sorry for you when you get laid off over the 19 year old kid that loves to code / engineer and does it well. Sure there are some things that are book learning but you can tell the difference between the 9-5 people and the ones that do cool things on weekends. Find a job you have passion for and never let it be extinguished otherwise work at dennies or become a corprate drone.
While putting a new PC in an old IBM luggable is a fun hack why not just buy a luggable case designed to fit a modern motherboard. I do this often for work when Laptops just dont have the speed or expansion capabilities (think things like Fiber channel packet sniffer / decoder) when you need to be able to fit a couple PCI-X slots laptops just dont cut it.
Lets see it's as trivial as looping back the SPDIF out to the in at worst. Yes you will have some recompression artifacts but since to many people accept 128kbit mp3 as sounding good enough I doubt you will change that much.
But realy isn't windows 98 still a huge segment of the internet connected PC's Even 2000 is only passing 4 years old now and thats at a time when a lot of people havent been upgrading simply because the PIII 500 running windows 98 is fast enough to run internet and word proccessing.
I'ts been tried to an extent. USB and BlueTooth were supposed to work by providing a few standard interfaces making drivers standard. It seems to work somewhat. Windows has some very broken USB handaling try getting a serial dongle to work and you will find it asks for a disk often enough that disk most often contains the same dll as the system allready had for serial over USB, pretty much so it can say belkin usb to serial cable rather than generic usb to serial cable. IDE seems to be the only reliable usb driver.
Bluetooth has similar issues with things like headsets there are multiple possible drivers and one each end and no automated facility to match up the best capability profile that will work.
This would seem to be going to the way of i2o where you made a framework of half drivers the OS side that just had to get to i2o's middle ground and the card would provide the rest. With this you loosing some performance because you have arbitrary limits by the i2o framework.
I think the big stumbling block is going to be added cost it takes memory to store the driver. People want there devices cheap it would seem a better idea to fix bluetooth and usb as they are nearly there. Realy it's just a question of making devices pick the best match via a autonegotiation.
He did exactly what he said he would he never sold the logs but didn't protect them from the courts either. All those rights you state have been tromped on for years they offer no protection.
You would have to make the records unavalible by law to the courts or anybody else without need to know. The only people that get that seem to be our elected officials and the DOD. Funny as my elected officials are some of the people I trust least to do whats in my best interest. The DOD/CIA they have a job to do that nessicarly cant be open to the public all the time.
Persoanly I would vote for the no automated systems records are admisable in court unless the charges are for an attack on an automated system. You would need some clauses for alarm systems and such but not to hard. To bad I dont think we will ever see that in the US, land of the free untill we strap this monitoring collar around your neck.
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Besides if it was piracy then you could go to an unfriendly country and get a letter and become a privateer and legaly pirate assuming you paid your taxes. :) But realy it cant be theft as it's by definition all intangable things belong to the creative commons that everybody has access to in the end. The US constitution knew this but we cant seem to still see that fact that allowing one group to own an intangable thing in perpituity is wrong, the guilds tried to do this hundreds of years ago and killed to keep there coveted information. The only difference with the RAII is there information is much more trivial.
Ah your talking about European lifestyle this is rather different from American. I will preface this with the fact I have traveled to several countries in europe mostly the cities but also come country settings. In general your cities were built to be friendly to pedestrian traffic making biking much easier. People are used to living in much smaller spaces I have been invited into apartments of mid level managers that house 4 people that could fit into my basement. This alters your shopping habbits as there isn't a lot of storage space you also dont seem to have large in bulk discount stores for your shopping. In general european cars seem to be smaller and your cost of fuel is much much higher giving you less utility of the vehical and a lot higher cost of operation. The big thing is the fact that your rural settings are often setup for pedestian traffic generaly as a cluster of houses and buildings with open space around them. In the US we have 3 forms of ID that are accepted Drivers liscence, state or military ID and passport. I think that last percentage shows how much difference there is in the way things are layed out with that few young people able to drive everything needs to be close or within easy reach of good public transportation. In the US it's rare that public transportation is that usefull and generaly not a big requirement when they are siting a new mall or shopping district.
Hrm your referances look like bable from the bike people but I wont let that deter me. Why would a morgage have anything to do with transportation method? Fuel, insurance parking etc all cost me less than a couple hours take home wage weekly, but I am not even close to the average for income for my area. Your referance cites auto generated smog and noise as the reason not to want to live in a city. Persoanly I do not live in the city due to crime, high cost of housing and an over abundance of people; granted some people like city life others do not it's a persoanl preferance issue. While you seem fixed on pulling in health issues that have little to do with this issue (yes excersize is good no you dont get it in a car is this at all germaine to this conversation? try hiking in the woods on the weekend or even doing yard work they would seem to be a lot more pleasuable than riding a bike to work over roads and sucking in car smog while you do it in a city / built up area)
Now lets look at some of the other disadvantages of bike / public transportation:
Shopping, this is somewhat subjective but how much time do you spend shopping since you cant carry any significant ammounts of groceries at any time nor carry them a significant distance you are forced to shop at local higher priced lower selection stores and do so often. A car owner if able to shop at large bulk stores once a month. Persoanly I have a turnaround time of an hour to get all the monthly shopping done plus a 5 minute stop mid month for perishables. What would you say as a cycalist with a standard wife and two kids would be required to move that ammount of food and sundry items to your place of residence in time and money on a monthly basis?
Ancilary costs, Where I live you have to transport you trash to the local transfer station, would you be able to do this on a bike? How often would this be required to be done? Leading up to how much time would be required to perform this basic function? I would think you would need to either do this daily with a normal faily incuring a significant time cost or hire somebody to do it for you as a cost.
Social factors, You included liscences in your referacned cost breakdown, would you realy sugest not having a valid state or governemnt issued ID in the US's current climate of FUD? Would you realy sugest not having in case you need a car for work as in rental on a trip? You cant even fly in the US without a photo ID.
Either way it's still just an expensive whitelist. How long before spammers buy up a random .mail domain use it for a week before the spam cops catch on? Even if it's a day can the spammers make it worth there 2 grand? How many spammers will just use there stolen credit cards they are allready using to snag accounts with anyway?
Why nobody else said the mail had to come from an address with .mail just a server, you forward your email via a smarthost that you ISP should be providing for you. Your server dosent need a .mail address to receive mail. Your ISP could be doing this for you allready it's not hard to do with a router, but few do and arguably more should. I have been using a smarhost for outgoing mail for years several in fact. I've never had an issue with my mail being denied or marked as spam because it all goes though a nice relay with proper reverse DNS and thats not a dynamic IP.
I dont realy agree with making a 2k a year buy in server white list but it's not the worst idea on the table.
Good one less car on the road. Alternate transportation methods are nice but they all fail in the time catagory thats an important one for a lot of people. It's nice if you can combine your excersise and your commute. The only mass transit method that seems realy viable as an alterative to cars is high speed trains I'm talking about 150mph+ they can reduce the commuting time and arent subject to traffic as they use highly regulated and planed routes.
Bikes are nice if your talking a short distance or level ground.
Busses are allways a joke they are allways slower than a car offer no real bonus besides possibly being cheaper than a car.
Low speed trains are good if traffic is normaly bad if your on a well served route.
One of the problems with building new freeways is they are just that another path not an increase in the existing paths capacity. Adding alternate routes is good if you have a management systemt hat can divy things up in the right porportions.
And this is a bad thing how? No offence to some of the better AOL users but for the most part I dont want to email or receive email from people on AOL. For business it just plain looks bad to send mail from an aol address. For personal use not even my relatives use aol.
AOL is it's own little world on purpose thats what they sell. Persoanly I have never had issues with sending mail to AOL it's simply a matter of using smarthosts at home and normal configuration at work.
I beleive 4GB Dimms are as large as they can go do to limitations in the addressing lines (pins) at 32 (havent checked this might be wrong). So untill a new form factor is released thats what we are stuck with. I would differ on the max expandability most MB's I have seen are running 4 DIMM slots per proc. I beleive this is the max they were designed to handle on there embeded memory controler. I am speaking of the Opterons of course. The PIV's currently have chipsets supporting piles and piles of DIMM slots at least 16 last I saw possibly more (64GB is the current max and I think they did that with 2GB sticks). So with these numbers and 4GB dimms thats 32GB in a 2 way Opteron setup and 64GB on an intel. The nice thing is the 8 way Opterons would be running 128GB max though thats a massive motherboard to support that.
Overall I dnt see this tech realy reducing the size of the ram on pin count alone more it will reduce the power consumption and profile of the dimms what increasign the potential density of a new replacement for DIMM's.
If your thinking of DirecTV wait till april or whenever they come out with the HD Tivo's. They will be expensive but as I beleive they are the first HD PVR's that dont involve DIY on a PC it should be worth it.
While just DOSing the poor guy back is just silly I could see some usefull applications mostly with worms. Your site gets hit with tcp based worm lets call its wormE now wormE is a known worm and your running a nice honeypot type setup possibly in side the firewall or proxy. Since we know how wormE propigates you could go and fix the problem with wormE using the same hole. I'm not talking about intentialy doing damage but rather killing the worm process possibly poping up a message box on console with patch instructions and stopping the offending process.
Now since it's tcp and a 2 way connections we can be fairly confident that at the time of the connection reverse routing paths go to the attacker otherwise syn fin ack would have been problematic.
Things liek this have been discussed on NANOG etc before and a lot of people hate it obviously. I think if you could find exploits in the worms themselves and reply back with something to disable the worm inside the same request that would be acceptable as I should have the right to respond to any request from the internet with whatever I desire inside one session, though some would disagree.
Why should they accept incomming mail from dynamic IP's? There is no realy good reason to, people sending legitimate mail generaly use a smarthost at there ISP to forward mail though, spambots do not. By funneling mail though a smarthost the ISP can easily setup rules to keep people from getting accounts and sending millions of emails.
Yea this is probably flame bait for slashdot it happens.
I'm getting a similar volume of email with significantly less spam getting through running spamassasin at 4 with no false positives or whitelisting. What spam filter are you using it dosent sound like good spam filters to me.
Better yet cut service till a message saying it's fixed I'm sorry, also offer some help in the paid manner to fix it.
OK to as much as this is flame bait. Have you ever considered prioitizing cops into real crime aka no more eating doughnuts running a speed trap. That would mean no busiting drug dealers and pimps and concentrating on the harder to catch but more damaging thieves and killers. It's all debatable becuase everybody has different priorities but if your forced to selectivly enforce the law wich I think most cops are made to do on a regular basis then the population should have to decide. Scary concept to line item the budget and it it dosent get vodet in they dont go out of there way to enforce it. Course that wouldbe the people deciding what they need rather then our elected bad or worse government.
I would differ with you on 2 I cant think of any problem that will take a consistantly long amount of time regardless of the CPU power thrown at it. Without utilizing an outside entity to slow things down I dont beleive it can be done but would love tobe proved wrong.
I dont see how this will fix the bandwith problem at least in the short run. It's not going to be required just a good idea. Meaning it's just going to segrigate mail into he ones that did the math and the ones that didn't folders. Refusing to accept mail from clients that dont utilize this function breaks all compatability. So you still need to whitelist at the client and by the time the client gets it you have allready paid for the bandwith (I will disagree on the bandwith thing but thats a seperate issue) As to whitelisting use PGP signing it's not computationaly intensive for things like mailling lists and a good protection from address spoofing.
Do you realy thing non routeable address space provides much security? In general to many people think that NAT is a security messure and by itself it's not. Get on the other end of that leased line DSL cable modem what have you and you can make the space routable for you easily enough. Granted this dosent happen often but as somebody that works with that sort of gear techs do get bored and play every now and then.
For your specific example decent security might be no open ports, no incomming ports in it's firewall and running an onboard IDS. Updates would be sourced from a central repository with only the update ports running and ipsec preshared keys in place to encrypt everything without sending keys over the wire. Now baring great gains in factoring or OS level exploits in the networking subsystem this should provided good security for updates. I still woudent want the master copy of my finiancial records on it.
There are a few worms running around that make windows boxes into open relays and such making it easy for spammers to avoid IP based blacklists. It would be easy enough to have those same worms do the math for the postage as they are effectivly free to the spammer.
I think the funny part would be when a spammer gets an EE on the job and comes out with a custom proc to solve said math quickly. Install as a daughter card and your golden. This would be the same aproach they took to cracking DES via brute force years ago and I beleive in under 2 days.
Either way paying for things computationaly is a loosing battle.
Paying with real money is a centraly administrated nightmare.
Now granted spamassassin seems to work just fine. There are a few spams that slip though but not that bad, granted thats a constant battle.
I would vote for fight forged from addresses first if we can have near certinty that the sender is the sender then spam laws can work.
Persoanly as a business owner I have had other peoples assests seized, county official or no. Jailing htem is fairly hard you have to show them knowlingly entering into contracts with bad faith. This guy was a moron plain and simple he had no written contract after 3 years. The responcible thing would have been to send a letter stating that he was terminiating the relationish with 30 days notice and they could retreive there property during that time. You dont lock people out of there content with no way to get it. Yes you can turn off web sites but you cant hold there things ransom when you do. He didn't have a contract giving him ownership of there email etc. The content is questionable as it sounds like the sheriff's department are the origional authors of a lot of it and he made derivitive works for them.
Either way jailing the man for taking down the site was rather counter productive it would seem. A court order demanding the content be released to the sherrif's dept could have been gotten. Then if he refused it could have gotten nasty and should have. Either way this guy was dumb he didn't have a clue on how business is handeled and had no business running a business without legal concil and thus stepped on an anthill.
Try the FDIC would have a field day as this could cause a run on that bank and they could be out billions. Just wait till a bank says sorry we cant give you YOUR money SCO went and seized our computers, by the way here is the phone number for your congress critter in case you were interested. People are generaly lazy but get between them and there money and they get pissed. Granted I doubt anybody would ever be doumb enough to let it get that far but it would be funny to watch the congress critters swat SCO. Darl up for contempt of congress would be nice to try getting out of that one :) ok back to reality.
I would check yourself comrade saying that everybody was entitled to a job was there story. I'm saying that people should have a calling for there work whatever it is. This holds especialy true to anything that can be considered artistic and great programming or engineering qualifies as such. It has nothing to do about being upper class etc (BTW I'm a child of a blue collar family) Nothing about IT should stop people from making a good living but dont expect me or anybody else to hire people that are not the best possible canidate comrade and that means people that love there work. I dont advocate people working on the weekends etc but at the same time continuing education is not work so dont require to be paid to learn new things in your field of work.
The problem with the boom is that the textile workers got into IT where they dont belong. I know I should feel sorry for the dot bomb people that lost there jobs but looking back to many of them shouldent have been around a datacenter forget having root / administrator credentials yes they tried hard etc etc etc but a book does not make a good IT person just an ok one. People should have a spark and drive for there job if your not driven to do your job well well I dont feel sorry for you when you get laid off over the 19 year old kid that loves to code / engineer and does it well. Sure there are some things that are book learning but you can tell the difference between the 9-5 people and the ones that do cool things on weekends. Find a job you have passion for and never let it be extinguished otherwise work at dennies or become a corprate drone.
While putting a new PC in an old IBM luggable is a fun hack why not just buy a luggable case designed to fit a modern motherboard. I do this often for work when Laptops just dont have the speed or expansion capabilities (think things like Fiber channel packet sniffer / decoder) when you need to be able to fit a couple PCI-X slots laptops just dont cut it.
I will admit a 21' LCD would be nice though.
Lets see it's as trivial as looping back the SPDIF out to the in at worst. Yes you will have some recompression artifacts but since to many people accept 128kbit mp3 as sounding good enough I doubt you will change that much.
But realy isn't windows 98 still a huge segment of the internet connected PC's Even 2000 is only passing 4 years old now and thats at a time when a lot of people havent been upgrading simply because the PIII 500 running windows 98 is fast enough to run internet and word proccessing.
I'ts been tried to an extent. USB and BlueTooth were supposed to work by providing a few standard interfaces making drivers standard. It seems to work somewhat. Windows has some very broken USB handaling try getting a serial dongle to work and you will find it asks for a disk often enough that disk most often contains the same dll as the system allready had for serial over USB, pretty much so it can say belkin usb to serial cable rather than generic usb to serial cable. IDE seems to be the only reliable usb driver.
Bluetooth has similar issues with things like headsets there are multiple possible drivers and one each end and no automated facility to match up the best capability profile that will work.
This would seem to be going to the way of i2o where you made a framework of half drivers the OS side that just had to get to i2o's middle ground and the card would provide the rest. With this you loosing some performance because you have arbitrary limits by the i2o framework.
I think the big stumbling block is going to be added cost it takes memory to store the driver. People want there devices cheap it would seem a better idea to fix bluetooth and usb as they are nearly there. Realy it's just a question of making devices pick the best match via a autonegotiation.
He did exactly what he said he would he never sold the logs but didn't protect them from the courts either. All those rights you state have been tromped on for years they offer no protection.
You would have to make the records unavalible by law to the courts or anybody else without need to know. The only people that get that seem to be our elected officials and the DOD. Funny as my elected officials are some of the people I trust least to do whats in my best interest. The DOD/CIA they have a job to do that nessicarly cant be open to the public all the time.
Persoanly I would vote for the no automated systems records are admisable in court unless the charges are for an attack on an automated system. You would need some clauses for alarm systems and such but not to hard. To bad I dont think we will ever see that in the US, land of the free untill we strap this monitoring collar around your neck.