I wrote her today too and told her where my vote's *not* going if she doesn't back down. I encourage all geeks who are registered voters in California to do likewise. You owe it to yourselves, posterity and humanity to take a stand.
Now what I want to know is: What do all of the hot heads spouting off on this site know about civil rights and constitutional law that Mr. Dershowitz does not know?
Holy heck, there's a nice hobby. Proactively inviting corporate bribes ("campaign contributions") by proposing dumb bills that will hurt them. Much more efficient than waiting for OmniGlobalHyperMegaCorp to come a-knocking on your door.
Sounds like extorting the electorate, if you ask me.
Depending on who your RBOC/Telco is, you might want to consider frame relay from them. I used to run a small ISP in Oklahoma, and Southwestern Bell has *no mileage charges* on their frame relay service.
We used Intermedia for our primary pipe, but for redundancy, we got a second pipe from Southwestern Bell Internet Services. 1.5mbps, 64 IP addresses, DNS provided by them if we wanted to use it (which we didn't). They used Williams for their upstream backbone, which performed rather decent. All for only about $500/month, again with no mileage or loop charges.
Most likely Pacific Bell and the former Ameritech have similar pricing since DBC has borged them both.
Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last [sysadminmag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
Erm, yeah. Since you're so fond of Netcraft's stats maybe you should take a look at Netcraft's Top 50 Uptimes and see which OS is heavily represented!:P
You know what's *really* weird? After Dmitry was arrested the Russian government actually warned his boss from travelling to the U.S. because he was at risk of being prosecuted.
Now who the hell ever thought we'd see the tables reversed like that in our lifetime? This is just getting freaky.
With all the measures being taken in the name of security, we are starting to erode the frabic of freedom that america stands for. exactly what the terrorists wanted to do. their goal wasn't to put a hole in a tower. it was to put a hole in our freedom. and looks like our congress is helping them get there.
Like the saying goes, we're headed down the slippery slope and the mofos in Congress are passing out Vaseline...
You need to study the actual and perceived needs of the people you are going to represent, and see if they are anywhere near the ideals you follow. You will also have to join a major political party, and learn to navigate the petty and not-so-petty conflicts, personalities, and agendas.
Does anyone on/. live in the Klamath Basin area of Oregon? With the flap over the Dept. of Interior and the irrigation mess there and general resentment of federal government trashing the farm econom,y for sucker fish these days, it would be a good area for the Libertarians to campaign in.
Ditto here. I live in California and Senator Dianne Feinstein, Senator Barbara Boxer, and Representative Lois Capps *all* failed to respond to polite, articulate letters I mailed about this issue through the U.S. mails.
On the bright side, the next big election is coming up in just over a year. If you don't like what's going on, start taking notes. Find out who is up for re-election next year (everyone in the House and roughly one-third of the Senate) and keep track of how they are voting and what they are saying.
I agree, but go even further. We need to dump these corporate-bought boobs and get some new bodies from a different party into power.
It's not like they're going to develop Open Source software.
Odd you say that. Did you know that *BSD was funded with grant money from DARPA? And recently DARPA granted over a million dollars to NAI Labs to develop Trusted BSD.
Where do you think much of the origninal funding for the Internet itself came from in the first place? I do admit I find it ironic that DoD paid for BSD with taxpayer dollars and then ran off and threw their cash to proprietary vendors.
I would think that government agencies have more important criteria for a system than "can we play with the source code?...If they need some new software, they're not going to hop on over to freshmeat.
Maybe they should. Do you have any idea how much government productivity is lost every time a new virus/trojan/worm that exploits IIS or MS-Exchange--two pervasive products in DoD--gets loose?
I've seen clerical workers sent home for the day when the network goes down for stuff like this. Or, they don't get anything done because the network is taken offline until McAfee or Symantec--two more companies that have the gov't by the balls with your tax dollars--spits out a patch. The same productivity losses that corporate America suffers from running Micro$haft products are felt in government, too. Maybe that's why the Army switched from IIS to a Mac OS (not OSX) web server a couple years ago....security thru obscurity.
Why is society better off with full disclosure? There are secrets (military, intelligence, etc.) that need to be kept.
With respect to operating systems and applications, the government can have an extra measure of confidence that they aren't being screwed over by some closed-source product of Microsoft or some other vendor, which might have holes that 1) the vendor knows about but isn't interested in getting off his ass to fix 2) not even the vendor knows about yet.
Now, I admit, with open source products and full disclosure there is some risk that wide knowledge of OS and software weaknesses will result in attempted compromises of unpatched systems, but many eyeballses also bring the problem to the forefront quickly.
I can really see why foreign governments like Germany are taking a hard look at OSS, because aside from licensing fees, they have no idea what the hell Microsoft or some spy agency in cahoots with them has put into proprietary software.
I believe it was a Marine field grade officer in a tactical operations center last week on MSNBC, IIRC. The American and British Marines were training at the mountain warfare center in the Sierras in California, and the TOC personnel had an assortment of laptops running Windoze with their sitmaps and such on them.
So possibly all of you subscribers might want to look for a new distributor.
Does the uncertainty of having a retail publisher for FreeBSD have anything to do with the fact that 4.4 was released as a 4-iso set for download? Heck, as long as you guys keep doing that, who needs a publisher? I'll just donate to The FreeBSD Foundation.
Who needs corporate suits mucking things up? Rock on FreeBSD!
Anything that will prevent the spread of Nsync's terrible 'music' is a good thing.;)
Have you ever thought it might be a conspiracy by the record labels? Think about it, they pick an artist they know the open-source crowd (the people most likely to bitch about CD copy protection) doesn't like and there's no way in hell we'll buy *this* album. Then when nobody complains (because only teenage girls bought it to play in their CD players), the labels run press releases saying, "See it works! The consumers aren't complaining." Then Whan-O! the whole lot of new CDs gets pressed this way and we're fuX0red.
if anything , it's a testament to the crappy way big corporations treat loyal and qualified employees
Exactly. This reminds me of all those Digital techies in the Alpha division jumping ship when Compaq took over because their corporate culture sucked and they weren't treated as valuable, talented people. Where did alot of those dudes end up? AMD. And Compaq's blunder has come home to roost against Wintel in the Athlon, with x86-64 as an encore to *really* rub Wintel's face in the dirt.
Now it's HP's turn to step on their dicks....oh I forgot, Carly doesn't have one;) All these engineers they're laying off will probably end up with IBM, Red Hat or Sun with an axe to grind. Research lab UNIX (tm) types don't leave the scene to flip burgers at McDonald's. This will come back to bite HP in the ass.
If your willing to pay, Zero Knowledge's,a href="http://www.freedom.net">Freedom does exactly what what you want for privacy in Web browsing and email. Or people could start using open http proxies and doing their mail on PINE thru ssh* at a server far, far away.
* BTW If you have ZKS Freedom, you can also use ssh through it, which means you are communicatng simultaneously through 2 encrypted tunnels.
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I wrote her today too and told her where my vote's *not* going if she doesn't back down. I encourage all geeks who are registered voters in California to do likewise. You owe it to yourselves, posterity and humanity to take a stand.
Now what I want to know is: What do all of the hot heads spouting off on this site know about civil rights and constitutional law that Mr. Dershowitz does not know?
I know he represented OJ. 'nuff said.
Holy heck, there's a nice hobby. Proactively inviting corporate bribes ("campaign contributions") by proposing dumb bills that will hurt them. Much more efficient than waiting for OmniGlobalHyperMegaCorp to come a-knocking on your door.
Sounds like extorting the electorate, if you ask me.
....who really gives a shit? Heh.
er, SBC, rather...
Depending on who your RBOC/Telco is, you might want to consider frame relay from them. I used to run a small ISP in Oklahoma, and Southwestern Bell has *no mileage charges* on their frame relay service.
We used Intermedia for our primary pipe, but for redundancy, we got a second pipe from Southwestern Bell Internet Services. 1.5mbps, 64 IP addresses, DNS provided by them if we wanted to use it (which we didn't). They used Williams for their upstream backbone, which performed rather decent. All for only about $500/month, again with no mileage or loop charges.
Most likely Pacific Bell and the former Ameritech have similar pricing since DBC has borged them both.
Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last [sysadminmag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
:P
Erm, yeah. Since you're so fond of Netcraft's stats maybe you should take a look at Netcraft's Top 50 Uptimes and see which OS is heavily represented!
You know what's *really* weird? After Dmitry was arrested the Russian government actually warned his boss from travelling to the U.S. because he was at risk of being prosecuted.
Now who the hell ever thought we'd see the tables reversed like that in our lifetime? This is just getting freaky.
With all the measures being taken in the name of security, we are starting to erode the frabic of freedom that america stands for. exactly what the terrorists wanted to do. their goal wasn't to put a hole in a tower. it was to put a hole in our freedom. and looks like our congress is helping them get there.
Like the saying goes, we're headed down the slippery slope and the mofos in Congress are passing out Vaseline...
You need to study the actual and perceived needs of the people you are going to represent, and see if they are anywhere near the ideals you follow. You will also have to join a major political party, and learn to navigate the petty and not-so-petty conflicts, personalities, and agendas.
/. live in the Klamath Basin area of Oregon? With the flap over the Dept. of Interior and the irrigation mess there and general resentment of federal government trashing the farm econom,y for sucker fish these days, it would be a good area for the Libertarians to campaign in.
Does anyone on
Ditto here. I live in California and Senator Dianne Feinstein, Senator Barbara Boxer, and Representative Lois Capps *all* failed to respond to polite, articulate letters I mailed about this issue through the U.S. mails.
What a crock.
On the bright side, the next big election is coming up in just over a year. If you don't like what's going on, start taking notes. Find out who is up for re-election next year (everyone in the House and roughly one-third of the Senate) and keep track of how they are voting and what they are saying.
I agree, but go even further. We need to dump these corporate-bought boobs and get some new bodies from a different party into power.
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Is NASA Ames still an OpenBSD mirror?
It's not like they're going to develop Open Source software.
Odd you say that. Did you know that *BSD was funded with grant money from DARPA? And recently DARPA granted over a million dollars to NAI Labs to develop Trusted BSD.
Where do you think much of the origninal funding for the Internet itself came from in the first place? I do admit I find it ironic that DoD paid for BSD with taxpayer dollars and then ran off and threw their cash to proprietary vendors.
I would think that government agencies have more important criteria for a system than "can we play with the source code?...If they need some new software, they're not going to hop on over to freshmeat.
Maybe they should. Do you have any idea how much government productivity is lost every time a new virus/trojan/worm that exploits IIS or MS-Exchange--two pervasive products in DoD--gets loose?
I've seen clerical workers sent home for the day when the network goes down for stuff like this. Or, they don't get anything done because the network is taken offline until McAfee or Symantec--two more companies that have the gov't by the balls with your tax dollars--spits out a patch. The same productivity losses that corporate America suffers from running Micro$haft products are felt in government, too. Maybe that's why the Army switched from IIS to a Mac OS (not OSX) web server a couple years ago....security thru obscurity.
Why is society better off with full disclosure? There are secrets (military, intelligence, etc.) that need to be kept.
With respect to operating systems and applications, the government can have an extra measure of confidence that they aren't being screwed over by some closed-source product of Microsoft or some other vendor, which might have holes that 1) the vendor knows about but isn't interested in getting off his ass to fix 2) not even the vendor knows about yet.
Now, I admit, with open source products and full disclosure there is some risk that wide knowledge of OS and software weaknesses will result in attempted compromises of unpatched systems, but many eyeballses also bring the problem to the forefront quickly.
I can really see why foreign governments like Germany are taking a hard look at OSS, because aside from licensing fees, they have no idea what the hell Microsoft or some spy agency in cahoots with them has put into proprietary software.
I believe it was a Marine field grade officer in a tactical operations center last week on MSNBC, IIRC. The American and British Marines were training at the mountain warfare center in the Sierras in California, and the TOC personnel had an assortment of laptops running Windoze with their sitmaps and such on them.
So possibly all of you subscribers might want to look for a new distributor.
Does the uncertainty of having a retail publisher for FreeBSD have anything to do with the fact that 4.4 was released as a 4-iso set for download? Heck, as long as you guys keep doing that, who needs a publisher? I'll just donate to The FreeBSD Foundation.
Who needs corporate suits mucking things up? Rock on FreeBSD!
No. Hotmail. Apparently the terrorists were using free hotmail accounts to exchange info. No indications that they used crypto however.
There's no anonymity with Hotmail already, dude. It puts the IP address of the sender in the header. Hushmail and ZipLip, however, don't log anything.
Anything that will prevent the spread of Nsync's terrible 'music' is a good thing. ;)
Have you ever thought it might be a conspiracy by the record labels? Think about it, they pick an artist they know the open-source crowd (the people most likely to bitch about CD copy protection) doesn't like and there's no way in hell we'll buy *this* album. Then when nobody complains (because only teenage girls bought it to play in their CD players), the labels run press releases saying, "See it works! The consumers aren't complaining." Then Whan-O! the whole lot of new CDs gets pressed this way and we're fuX0red.
The less their excuse for music proliferates, the better!
if anything , it's a testament to the crappy way big corporations treat loyal and qualified employees
;) All these engineers they're laying off will probably end up with IBM, Red Hat or Sun with an axe to grind. Research lab UNIX (tm) types don't leave the scene to flip burgers at McDonald's. This will come back to bite HP in the ass.
Exactly. This reminds me of all those Digital techies in the Alpha division jumping ship when Compaq took over because their corporate culture sucked and they weren't treated as valuable, talented people. Where did alot of those dudes end up? AMD. And Compaq's blunder has come home to roost against Wintel in the Athlon, with x86-64 as an encore to *really* rub Wintel's face in the dirt.
Now it's HP's turn to step on their dicks....oh I forgot, Carly doesn't have one
Software update works BUT, don't try to upgrade your kernel through it!
It will let you if you try, and then you'll be fuX0red
If your willing to pay, Zero Knowledge's ,a href="http://www.freedom.net">Freedom does exactly what what you want for privacy in Web browsing and email. Or people could start using open http proxies and doing their mail on PINE thru ssh* at a server far, far away.
* BTW If you have ZKS Freedom, you can also use ssh through it, which means you are communicatng simultaneously through 2 encrypted tunnels.
I wouldn't necessarily want MS to port Office to Linux, just the specs on file formats.