Hopefully p2p customers bring in more revenue than it costs to service the RIAA.
Bwahahahahahahaha!
What does the average cable/DSL user pay? $50/month. If they're leaving Kazaa running all the time, or running their own DirectConnect hub, or whatnot, I'll guarantee you that they are consuming more than $50/month in bandwidth (especially on the upload end).
If I were to start an ISP, I'd actually address this head-on. $50/month ($5 extra for static IP) gets you:
No blocked ports
No restrictions on what servers you can run
Upon signing up for the service, you pay $500 as a bond in the event that we discover you are spamming, running an open relay, being used as a zombie for a DDoS, or otherwise harassing other users (including unauthorized portscans, or getting infected with a worm). In such an event, your service will be terminated (after investigation) without refund of the $500. If your service is "honorably" (ie for a reason other than those enumerated above), the $500, plus a reasonable interest rate, will be returned to you.
A mirror for security updates for all requested operating system versions and email notification of new updates as they come out.
No cap on downstream bandwidth use.
No cap on bandwidth within the ISP's network
1 GB/month of uploads (with warning emails if you are in danger of exceeding the cap) to hosts outside the network. Additional uploads are available at $5/100 MB (or any portion thereof) uploaded.
Am I the only one to see a whole generation being wasted by such games like CS? I know ppl who play it 12 hours a day, god damn it! If someone would compare the degeneration of health/brain etc from CS vs. Grass, I bet CS would win.
It's interesting to note that, back in his (I think Cambridge, but he may have gone to Oxford) college days, he had a bust of Lenin in his room and he and his drinking buddies would salute it every night.
Rupert, his children, ex-wives, and his current wife Wendi Deng (IIRC, a former newsreader for his Star TV channel in Hong Kong half his age) control somewhere between 30 and 60% of the News Corporation. Rupert is widely quoted as believing that it's impossible for an effective media empire to be run without one person or family having a controlling stake (the problems of Time Warner (which were around long before AOL bought them) and other media conglomerates bear this out). It's still somewhat up in the air who will succeed Rupert; the favorites are currently his two sons, Lachlan (who has not had colossal failures but may lack the attitude and risk-taking Rupert wants to see) and James (who has a checkered record of success, but seems to be more of a risk-taker) are the favorites, but his daughter is a possibility, as is his current wife (who is reportedly a major behind-the-scenes player in the operations of News Corp.).
You obviously wouldn't write an OS in COBOL (where do I imply that?). However, business logic type software that IBM or Univac would sell you would, most likely, be written in COBOL.
The RIAA doesn't give a shit... with exceptions (such as "official" live releases, think Metallica's S&M album from 1999), they do not hold the copyrights to the concerts.
The only way the RIAA is connected with this is that, in many cases, publishing companies (such as Warner-Chappell, Sony-ATV) are largely owned by RIAA members. These publishing companies, by owning the copyright to the sheet music, could, in theory, demand royalties from the sale of the CDs (it would depend on the terms under which the performers licensed the sheet music).
And the source code was often as not written in whatever Assembler the manufacturer used (ie difficult to port) or written in that manufacturer's dialect of something like COBOL or FORTRAN...
I made a proposal that Mandrake make support of legacy distros a sort of "street-performer" system. Vincent Danen, Mandrake's security guy, who would have to oversee the update process, has indicated that he's not opposed to this idea, though he's not legally able to promise anything. Others at MandrakeSoft have indicated that this appeals to them.
My plan is quite simple: if $30,000 (or some similar number... I started with $50,000 but have further reviewed the numbers) per year (per legacy version) can be raised from interested parties, security updates and so forth will continue to be released for that legacy version for an additional year. Unlike the Mandrake Club, this money would be used exclusively to hire an additional member of the security team who would build and test updates for the legacy version(s), as well as provide fast-response tech support to those who paid. The security updates would be available to all (with a possible 24-hour exclusive window for the contributors).
Some have commented on how $30K may be too much money, but I don't see it that way. It's a question of how many organizations (especially businesses) are using old Mandrake versions. If 500 such businesses contribute $60 each, they ensure security updates continue. Considering how much it would cost to do an upgrade (in labor costs, especially) and even a couple of hundred dollars is not out of the question.
NOTE: the above is not necessarily an official position of MandrakeSoft. However, if they get commitments from people (more than just posting on Slashdot or sending an email) to pay, I cannot see them refusing. I have no connection with Mandrake, short of being an occasional contributor to their development process.
I remember when they ADDED the new-fangled 3 1/4 inch floppy drive to machines.
Must not have lasted long... I remember 5.25" and 3.5" floppies (and I've heard about the 8" drives of yore), but I've never heard of a 3.25" floppy.;o)
It's true that Fox tends to have more talking-heads with their opinions. But Fox also tends to have a higher density of actual facts in their coverage. Also, since their biases tend to be so absurd (when they're present), it's pretty easy to filter the noise from the signal...
CNN is a joke... there's more substance at Fox News (and whenever Rupert Murdoch's property is the "substance" property in a market, that's a fucking bad sign!). Hell, MSNBC has more substance than CNN.
Actually, cable TV's subscription rates are declining. In most markets where satellite is competitive (that is to say, markets where the satellites have local TV), the cable cos are hemorraging customers. Admittedly, cable internet may continue to grow, as greater proportions of TV subscribers sign up.
For instance, I live in Sweden, where the township of Mönsterås [monsteras.se] has to use the
URL "monsteras", which happens to mean "monster-carcass"..
Well, I think it's fucking suspicious that a news organization that parrots everything the Bush administration says did not have anything on air about an administration Official saying that's its "highly unlikely that the accident is due to terrorism."
Funny you should say that. At this moment, the ticker is in the shuttle run. Fox keeps about 100-200 headlines for the crawl, grouped by subject. The shuttle is now the lead on the crawl. In addition, the "FOX NEWS ALERT" is "WHITE HOUSE: NO INDICATION OF TERRORISM" (stronger words than "highly unlikely").
I wonder...can you take your mind off the fucking war for even an hour or two to mourn this tradgedy???
I am mourning this tragedy... I have been since I heard about the lost contact on the Weather Channel. Your value system is fucked up if you think that seven deaths is more important than orders of magnitude more deaths in a coming war.
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Was a V4 ever made? Every 4-cylinder engine I've seen is an inline-4 (to reduce function-call overhead, apparently ;o))
Bwahahahahahahaha!
What does the average cable/DSL user pay? $50/month. If they're leaving Kazaa running all the time, or running their own DirectConnect hub, or whatnot, I'll guarantee you that they are consuming more than $50/month in bandwidth (especially on the upload end).
If I were to start an ISP, I'd actually address this head-on. $50/month ($5 extra for static IP) gets you:
I wonder how KDE fans who like Star Wars will respond to the screenshots which indicate that ILM prefers GNOME!
;o)
When you play CS, you're supporting terrorists!
It's interesting to note that, back in his (I think Cambridge, but he may have gone to Oxford) college days, he had a bust of Lenin in his room and he and his drinking buddies would salute it every night.
Rupert, his children, ex-wives, and his current wife Wendi Deng (IIRC, a former newsreader for his Star TV channel in Hong Kong half his age) control somewhere between 30 and 60% of the News Corporation. Rupert is widely quoted as believing that it's impossible for an effective media empire to be run without one person or family having a controlling stake (the problems of Time Warner (which were around long before AOL bought them) and other media conglomerates bear this out). It's still somewhat up in the air who will succeed Rupert; the favorites are currently his two sons, Lachlan (who has not had colossal failures but may lack the attitude and risk-taking Rupert wants to see) and James (who has a checkered record of success, but seems to be more of a risk-taker) are the favorites, but his daughter is a possibility, as is his current wife (who is reportedly a major behind-the-scenes player in the operations of News Corp.).
You obviously wouldn't write an OS in COBOL (where do I imply that?). However, business logic type software that IBM or Univac would sell you would, most likely, be written in COBOL.
The RIAA doesn't give a shit... with exceptions (such as "official" live releases, think Metallica's S&M album from 1999), they do not hold the copyrights to the concerts.
The only way the RIAA is connected with this is that, in many cases, publishing companies (such as Warner-Chappell, Sony-ATV) are largely owned by RIAA members. These publishing companies, by owning the copyright to the sheet music, could, in theory, demand royalties from the sale of the CDs (it would depend on the terms under which the performers licensed the sheet music).
And the source code was often as not written in whatever Assembler the manufacturer used (ie difficult to port) or written in that manufacturer's dialect of something like COBOL or FORTRAN...
The least they could do is make the TiVOs record Coupling. If the BBC wants to force me to watch Kate Isitt for hours on end, who am I to complain?
...on the Mandrake mailing lists.
I made a proposal that Mandrake make support of legacy distros a sort of "street-performer" system. Vincent Danen, Mandrake's security guy, who would have to oversee the update process, has indicated that he's not opposed to this idea, though he's not legally able to promise anything. Others at MandrakeSoft have indicated that this appeals to them.
My plan is quite simple: if $30,000 (or some similar number... I started with $50,000 but have further reviewed the numbers) per year (per legacy version) can be raised from interested parties, security updates and so forth will continue to be released for that legacy version for an additional year. Unlike the Mandrake Club, this money would be used exclusively to hire an additional member of the security team who would build and test updates for the legacy version(s), as well as provide fast-response tech support to those who paid. The security updates would be available to all (with a possible 24-hour exclusive window for the contributors).
Some have commented on how $30K may be too much money, but I don't see it that way. It's a question of how many organizations (especially businesses) are using old Mandrake versions. If 500 such businesses contribute $60 each, they ensure security updates continue. Considering how much it would cost to do an upgrade (in labor costs, especially) and even a couple of hundred dollars is not out of the question.
NOTE: the above is not necessarily an official position of MandrakeSoft. However, if they get commitments from people (more than just posting on Slashdot or sending an email) to pay, I cannot see them refusing. I have no connection with Mandrake, short of being an occasional contributor to their development process.
One of the grsecurity patches for the kernel already gives Linux the random IPid field.
Once I come up with a suitable replacement .sig... I'm thinking of quoting the BBC show Coupling....
Must not have lasted long... I remember 5.25" and 3.5" floppies (and I've heard about the 8" drives of yore), but I've never heard of a 3.25" floppy. ;o)
It's true that Fox tends to have more talking-heads with their opinions. But Fox also tends to have a higher density of actual facts in their coverage. Also, since their biases tend to be so absurd (when they're present), it's pretty easy to filter the noise from the signal...
It's just old friend tps12 (look at the posting style...).
CNN is a joke... there's more substance at Fox News (and whenever Rupert Murdoch's property is the "substance" property in a market, that's a fucking bad sign!). Hell, MSNBC has more substance than CNN.
Don't blame me... I liked the "cats and dogs" post....
C'mon now:
I love football on TV,
Shots of Gena Lee,
Hangin' with my friends,
And twins.
I love burritos at 4 am,
Parties that never end,
Dogs who love cats,
And, and, twins.
And I love you too!
Presidents Bush, Chirac, and Hussein were found making out in a hot tub.
"CNN Doesn't Like Being Spo0fed", considering the domain name of the site in question?
At least someone out here is doing something important!
Actually, cable TV's subscription rates are declining. In most markets where satellite is competitive (that is to say, markets where the satellites have local TV), the cable cos are hemorraging customers. Admittedly, cable internet may continue to grow, as greater proportions of TV subscribers sign up.
Swedish monster ass? ;o)
Funny you should say that. At this moment, the ticker is in the shuttle run. Fox keeps about 100-200 headlines for the crawl, grouped by subject. The shuttle is now the lead on the crawl. In addition, the "FOX NEWS ALERT" is "WHITE HOUSE: NO INDICATION OF TERRORISM" (stronger words than "highly unlikely").
I am mourning this tragedy... I have been since I heard about the lost contact on the Weather Channel. Your value system is fucked up if you think that seven deaths is more important than orders of magnitude more deaths in a coming war.