Ok... Consitutional Law 101... (US Constitution that is)
The Bill of Rights does NOTHING to protect citizens from each other. I have EVERY right to say you can't talk about things in my house, restrict the press on my property, even require you to submit to a strip search to enter my home.
None of those things are allowed if the government is doing those... Big difference between what I can do as a citizen and what the government is not allowed to do.
Saying that Microsoft is reducing your rights, well you have the choice to a) Not use computers at all, there for Microsoft is irrelevant b) Not use Microsoft products at all, therefor Microsoft is not relavant c) Use Microsoft and abide by the rules that they set in place d) Sue Microsoft in court and hope the court system grants you some extra rights in contractual law...
Of those a-c are rather cheap, d is going to cost you a bunch of lawyers for quite a bit of time
I don't know, when I looked at the results of the electorial college in December, it looked like George W. Bush had one more vote than Al Gore...
Just because your favorite canidate couldn't carry his homestate, or a majority of the rest of the country, doesn't make the victor unelected.
Just goes to show that Stallman once again shows he is a rabble rouser, and should stick with writing code that he is good at rather than politics...
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Woke up Tuesday morning around 7 PST. My wife told me the computer was broken because she couldn't get stock quotes...
Well I went to fix the broken internet link, then she calls me back in the room to show me CNBC saying trading was stopped (the reason there weren't any quotes) and the WTC was on fire.
I went to all of the usual news haunts, CNN, ZDnet, New.com, etc. Finally in desperation, I hit slashdot.org... It was the only site up.
I know that would not be a problem in Chicago, I mean, they don't call it the Windy City for nothings. Seriously. Wind that normally blows across the plain would, where a city is built, flow along the canyons of skyscrapers we build.
Of course if you knew your Chicago history, the reason it was named the windy city was after a politician from the early 20th century (I believe before Mayor Daily)...
Now it doesn't help that the city is fairly windy as well, but no more so than any normal city with a bunch of tall buildings channelling the wind
The process is simple, pay the fee, read the documents, show up prepared to make comments. The IETF works both online through their mailing lists and Face - Face with their meetings held 3 times a year.
Hmmm... Classic internet pricing here...
I can sell dollar bills for 0.99 cents and if I get enough volume, make a profit...
Things don't work that way, if it costs Richocet $40 dollars a month to provide the service for any number of people (per subscriber costs) + a fixed overhead cost, dropping the price doesn't help.
That is one of the fallacies of the internet is that there are still some pretty high costs per subscriber that each additional subscriber has to pay beyond the fixed costs that are shared among all of the users.
I hate to say this, but did you own the machines that you were running the DNet client on. Did you have permission of the owners to run the DNet client.
0.59 may sound like a lot, but how many machines are we talking about here ? I used to run a distributed program on my laptop, buy my wattage went from 15-30 Watts just by running the client. If enough machines are involved the electricity could easily eat up 0.59/sec. (15 watts X #machines gets large real fast)
Moral of the story. DO NOT play with computers that you do not own, DO NOT play with computers that you are responsible, but do not own, DO NOT play with computers that pass in front of you in an open lab... I imagine the state is asking for a large sum, but will settle out of court for much less, now will that article get/. ? I doubt it
Forget just technology things... How do you buy airline tickets... Why you go to priceline/expedia/sabre and type in where you want to go and take the cheapest airfare...
Then you wonder why the food/service/reliability sucks, where did you sort on those categories in your descision making process
Being a resident of the state of Oregon, I contacted Senator Wyden on this topic. I have challenged him to let me provide two e-mail addresses in my domain that he and his staff can monitor and use. One of these domains I want him to use every opt-out that is offered, the other I want him to ignore all spam.
I am hoping to show that after a small period of time the mailbox that uses opt-out will contain significantly more e-mail than the box that spam is just ignored. A couple of questions: 1st what is the shortest way to get an e-mail address noticed so it gets onto a spam list (I was thinking two posts to USENET from each account), and how long should this experiment run.
I will be calling Senator Wydens local office next week to start pursuing this topic further. Wish me luck, I am going in without a net
Bill
Lets see... They are producing massive ammounts of energy to start a fusion reaction... Sounds like standard Thermo nueclear reactions to me (the fision bombs that everyone got in the late 50's)
All your weapons all ready belong to us
Ok, I was drivning down the road one day at lunch with a co-worker. We saw this store and did a U-Turn (probabally illegal) and walked in. It is a store that retrofits all of the old 80's games, they had them all...
Doing a search I found www.twitchgames.com... however the DNS does not seem to be resolving now YMMV.
VAT/RAT for audio
SDR For session directories
Now all you need is a multicast tunnel into your networks and it all just works. Now lets see These tools were old 5 years ago, so I guess nothing new here, but they work great on any Unix that I have ever used
Ok, as a college project I was tasked with pointing a radio telescope (basically so they could watch shomaker-levy crash into Jupiter a year or so later).
Used the parallel port to send the commands to turn antenna up/down/left/right and get feedback from the antenna on where it was pointed... From there is was just a bunch of math to figure out where to point the antenna when I was done
First off, anyone can post an internet draft... Want proof just meet the requirements of http://www.ietf.org/ID-nits.html
Now what does it mean to be a member of the IETF ??? Well self select yourself, join a few mailing lists and guess what, you are a memeber.
Oh and by the way, last time that I checked (it has been a year or so now so my memory is dim) I believe that the IETF is actually the technical branch of ICANN...
So don't make one persons political agenda into a fight between ICANN and IETF, I do not believe that can be held up... Now that isn't to say that A LOT of people in the IETF don't agree with what is going on, but that is just their personal opinions, not a formal statement from the IETF
Don't go the class action lawsuit route... Why do you want to share your winnings with other webmasters that aren't smart enough to do it on their own.
What you do is quietly get a lawyer, draw up an lawsuit suing them for millions, then settle for 3-4x what they owe you... This way you end up with a check in the amount that UGO owes you, and everyone else gets nothing (because there is no money left)
Now if you go the class action route, lawyer gets 1/2, and the rest of you split a pool of diminishing money.
I also would pay the lawyer upfront rather than on contengency, you get better work, and you get to keep your winnings
I was sitting in a CPU Architecture class my senior year in college (circa late 80's) Needless to say the prof asked "Who knows what ATM is?"
The whole class raised their hands, the prof calls on someone who says Automatic Teller Machine. The prof says, nope who knows. I was the only one with my hand still up. Very sad.
(The joke about misapplying tomorrows technology today should have tipped you off, maybe I should make a joke about 53 next)
I don't know about you but the ATM boxes that I have developed tend to run on Custom ASICs that are needed to handle the 150+ Mb/sec data transfer rates. I am actually looking at what it will take to handle 10 Gbit Ethernet next...
Talk about dead technology... ATM Misapplying tomorrows technology today.
Hate to tell you, but both of these stories were covered in my morning Wall Street Journal...
A great paper (my father started me on it in college to teach me about money... I've been a subscriber for 10 years) It is interesting to see stories and editorials in the WSJ make it into other media across the next couple of days.
I should put a link to the online journal, but since it is a pay site, and I don't subscribe because I read the paper (then put it under my wifes birds) I don't have one...
I always want my manager, his manager and as high up the management chain using the software... Nothing like having a VP of the company come down and saying, Hey this doesn't work... What they hell is going on to get a few more bugs fixed.
I have seen managers use the excuse, it isn't ready for them to use it. Well if it isn't ready for our own company to use for free, then why are we trying to sell it to others. Nothing like a little EOOD (Eat our own Dogfood) to fix quality problems.
Not only that but I know that I would write my licence in such a way that said. This product has been tested on a Pentium III machine with an ATI video card, a western digital hard drive (20 GB), 128 MB of memory, standard windows ME installation, with these features installed, and nothing else. If you do not have this EXACT configuration, it is your problem, we are not responsible.
This solves my open liability problem (Well the product crashes because of the buggy company foo driver), it resolves the software environment problem (I would NEVER release Unix software under an open liability licence, too many variables), and still doesn't get you anything
The other thing that it will add is MASSIVE cost. You want to know why medical costs are so high in the United States, see your local bar association. Thousands of dollars are spent on insurance to cover medical practitioners. These policies require massive number of tests to rule out small percentage chance problems, then when the doctor has a problem that falls outside of "standard" care, they are sued for making a "mistake".
Not a system I want to see repeated in the software world
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Lets see if we can get a slash interview with Dr. Hellman to see what his reaction to the interview is.
Sure sounds like something a Microsoft employee would do...
The Bill of Rights does NOTHING to protect citizens from each other. I have EVERY right to say you can't talk about things in my house, restrict the press on my property, even require you to submit to a strip search to enter my home.
None of those things are allowed if the government is doing those... Big difference between what I can do as a citizen and what the government is not allowed to do.
Saying that Microsoft is reducing your rights, well you have the choice to a) Not use computers at all, there for Microsoft is irrelevant b) Not use Microsoft products at all, therefor Microsoft is not relavant c) Use Microsoft and abide by the rules that they set in place d) Sue Microsoft in court and hope the court system grants you some extra rights in contractual law...
Of those a-c are rather cheap, d is going to cost you a bunch of lawyers for quite a bit of time
Just because your favorite canidate couldn't carry his homestate, or a majority of the rest of the country, doesn't make the victor unelected.
Just goes to show that Stallman once again shows he is a rabble rouser, and should stick with writing code that he is good at rather than politics...
Well I went to fix the broken internet link, then she calls me back in the room to show me CNBC saying trading was stopped (the reason there weren't any quotes) and the WTC was on fire.
I went to all of the usual news haunts, CNN, ZDnet, New.com, etc. Finally in desperation, I hit slashdot.org... It was the only site up.
Thanks for the great service
Of course if you knew your Chicago history, the reason it was named the windy city was after a politician from the early 20th century (I believe before Mayor Daily)...
Now it doesn't help that the city is fairly windy as well, but no more so than any normal city with a bunch of tall buildings channelling the wind
Merlyn
"Boy do you have a crappy server"
IETF Meetings
The process is simple, pay the fee, read the documents, show up prepared to make comments. The IETF works both online through their mailing lists and Face - Face with their meetings held 3 times a year.
Hmmm... Classic internet pricing here... I can sell dollar bills for 0.99 cents and if I get enough volume, make a profit... Things don't work that way, if it costs Richocet $40 dollars a month to provide the service for any number of people (per subscriber costs) + a fixed overhead cost, dropping the price doesn't help. That is one of the fallacies of the internet is that there are still some pretty high costs per subscriber that each additional subscriber has to pay beyond the fixed costs that are shared among all of the users.
Too late... The fax machine dates back to around the 1860's using the telegraph to transmit pixels... It is fun looking into the history of technology
0.59 may sound like a lot, but how many machines are we talking about here ? I used to run a distributed program on my laptop, buy my wattage went from 15-30 Watts just by running the client. If enough machines are involved the electricity could easily eat up 0.59/sec. (15 watts X #machines gets large real fast)
Moral of the story. DO NOT play with computers that you do not own, DO NOT play with computers that you are responsible, but do not own, DO NOT play with computers that pass in front of you in an open lab... I imagine the state is asking for a large sum, but will settle out of court for much less, now will that article get /. ? I doubt it
Forget just technology things... How do you buy airline tickets... Why you go to priceline/expedia/sabre and type in where you want to go and take the cheapest airfare... Then you wonder why the food/service/reliability sucks, where did you sort on those categories in your descision making process
MPLampS - Electricity over IP (with MPLS Control Plane)
This will let us send the electricity you need over the existing IP network...
Bill
Being a resident of the state of Oregon, I contacted Senator Wyden on this topic. I have challenged him to let me provide two e-mail addresses in my domain that he and his staff can monitor and use. One of these domains I want him to use every opt-out that is offered, the other I want him to ignore all spam. I am hoping to show that after a small period of time the mailbox that uses opt-out will contain significantly more e-mail than the box that spam is just ignored. A couple of questions: 1st what is the shortest way to get an e-mail address noticed so it gets onto a spam list (I was thinking two posts to USENET from each account), and how long should this experiment run. I will be calling Senator Wydens local office next week to start pursuing this topic further. Wish me luck, I am going in without a net Bill
Lets see... They are producing massive ammounts of energy to start a fusion reaction... Sounds like standard Thermo nueclear reactions to me (the fision bombs that everyone got in the late 50's) All your weapons all ready belong to us
Ok, I was drivning down the road one day at lunch with a co-worker. We saw this store and did a U-Turn (probabally illegal) and walked in. It is a store that retrofits all of the old 80's games, they had them all... Doing a search I found www.twitchgames.com... however the DNS does not seem to be resolving now YMMV.
VAT/RAT for audio SDR For session directories Now all you need is a multicast tunnel into your networks and it all just works. Now lets see These tools were old 5 years ago, so I guess nothing new here, but they work great on any Unix that I have ever used
Ok, as a college project I was tasked with pointing a radio telescope (basically so they could watch shomaker-levy crash into Jupiter a year or so later). Used the parallel port to send the commands to turn antenna up/down/left/right and get feedback from the antenna on where it was pointed... From there is was just a bunch of math to figure out where to point the antenna when I was done
First off, anyone can post an internet draft... Want proof just meet the requirements of http://www.ietf.org/ID-nits.html Now what does it mean to be a member of the IETF ??? Well self select yourself, join a few mailing lists and guess what, you are a memeber. Oh and by the way, last time that I checked (it has been a year or so now so my memory is dim) I believe that the IETF is actually the technical branch of ICANN... So don't make one persons political agenda into a fight between ICANN and IETF, I do not believe that can be held up... Now that isn't to say that A LOT of people in the IETF don't agree with what is going on, but that is just their personal opinions, not a formal statement from the IETF
Don't go the class action lawsuit route... Why do you want to share your winnings with other webmasters that aren't smart enough to do it on their own. What you do is quietly get a lawyer, draw up an lawsuit suing them for millions, then settle for 3-4x what they owe you... This way you end up with a check in the amount that UGO owes you, and everyone else gets nothing (because there is no money left) Now if you go the class action route, lawyer gets 1/2, and the rest of you split a pool of diminishing money. I also would pay the lawyer upfront rather than on contengency, you get better work, and you get to keep your winnings
I was sitting in a CPU Architecture class my senior year in college (circa late 80's) Needless to say the prof asked "Who knows what ATM is?" The whole class raised their hands, the prof calls on someone who says Automatic Teller Machine. The prof says, nope who knows. I was the only one with my hand still up. Very sad. (The joke about misapplying tomorrows technology today should have tipped you off, maybe I should make a joke about 53 next)
I don't know about you but the ATM boxes that I have developed tend to run on Custom ASICs that are needed to handle the 150+ Mb/sec data transfer rates. I am actually looking at what it will take to handle 10 Gbit Ethernet next... Talk about dead technology... ATM Misapplying tomorrows technology today.
Hate to tell you, but both of these stories were covered in my morning Wall Street Journal... A great paper (my father started me on it in college to teach me about money... I've been a subscriber for 10 years) It is interesting to see stories and editorials in the WSJ make it into other media across the next couple of days. I should put a link to the online journal, but since it is a pay site, and I don't subscribe because I read the paper (then put it under my wifes birds) I don't have one...
I always want my manager, his manager and as high up the management chain using the software... Nothing like having a VP of the company come down and saying, Hey this doesn't work... What they hell is going on to get a few more bugs fixed. I have seen managers use the excuse, it isn't ready for them to use it. Well if it isn't ready for our own company to use for free, then why are we trying to sell it to others. Nothing like a little EOOD (Eat our own Dogfood) to fix quality problems.
Not only that but I know that I would write my licence in such a way that said. This product has been tested on a Pentium III machine with an ATI video card, a western digital hard drive (20 GB), 128 MB of memory, standard windows ME installation, with these features installed, and nothing else. If you do not have this EXACT configuration, it is your problem, we are not responsible. This solves my open liability problem (Well the product crashes because of the buggy company foo driver), it resolves the software environment problem (I would NEVER release Unix software under an open liability licence, too many variables), and still doesn't get you anything The other thing that it will add is MASSIVE cost. You want to know why medical costs are so high in the United States, see your local bar association. Thousands of dollars are spent on insurance to cover medical practitioners. These policies require massive number of tests to rule out small percentage chance problems, then when the doctor has a problem that falls outside of "standard" care, they are sued for making a "mistake". Not a system I want to see repeated in the software world