It is amazing to me how many people don't seem to get the point here: The MPAA is operating completely without accountability to anyone. They have deep pockets, so they can certainly intimidate any ISP into rolling over
I disagree. The MPAA didn't cut his access and they can't make AOL/Time Warner/Road Runner roll over. If anything it is the other way around.
The AUP for my service (Road Runner) includes a clause that let's them cut my access if I violate any laws or infringe any copyrights. It doesn't say anything about them showing me the evidence. It allows them to decide, not me. If I don't like the AUP I'm free to find my service elsewhere.
What specific complaint do you have with how this situation was handled???
This guy doesn't sound like the type who reboots a whole lot.
My boyfriend logs all network activity on his machines, and there was no activity at the time we were allegedly dealing in pirated flicks
Anyway, most DHCP implementations will give you the same address if it is available. I'm on a Time Warner cable modem and it's set up to give you the same IP by default.
Based on his girlfriend's story I'd say the guy is probably guilty. A person who logs all network traffic is smart enough to know how to post.
However, at that time, we were out watching fireworks. There is no way we could have been responsible for the infraction
You don't have to be home to have your computer upload stuff. I'm no angel when it comes to copyrights, but if I were silly enough to get busted posting from my home IP I'd own up to it, especially if they were just going to give me a slap on the hand like this guy got.
Using roaming profiles and Terminal Services you get the same effect, although as a former TS admin (old version - Winframe 1.8) I'm not a big fan.
The problems I had with it were too many programs were not designed to run on a multuser system (hardly surprising since NT wasn't designed as one) and so kludgy workarounds were required for even the limited set of apps that we provided via TS.
From what I understand reading about the Largo install on the KDE mailing lists, it seems that KDE2 has some small issues in this area as well, although in this case they aren't showstopping and he's getting immediate attention from the development team. Sure beats buying a Citrix support contract!
I'm pretty sure he was talking about Terminal Services flaking out about 40 users. Of the 3 large TS installation I'm familiar with, all of them limit users to about 50 max per box (running on Win2K/Metaframe).
Since he was running a few hundred simultaneous desktop sessions on the RedHat box, I think the comparison is a fair one, although without knowing more about the admin I can't decide whether he's qualified to make the judement about Windows limits or not.
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My cable company (AOL Time Warner) does promise better picture and sound quality on their digital system.
Fortunately, in my area (Ohio) they weren't lying. Their digital cable rocks. It's expensive as hell and I have to reboot the cable box about every 3 months but it crushes the old analog system in sound, picture, and useable content.
My wife had it even worse. She bought an HP scanner for use with a Win95 system and when she wanted to "upgrade" to Win98, HP charged her $15 for drivers with less functionality.
What Microsoft/Passport is trying to achieve is to create a database of users. Once they achieve that it will give them a great deal of power and profit potential. Anyone who believes otherwise is an utter fool.
It doesn't matter what they say today, what matters is what they'll do with it 5 years down the road. And the problem isn't just Microsoft. Government agencies (driver's licenses) and other business have all demonstrated a lack of restraint in search of the almighty buck when it comes to finding new ways of using a database once it is created.
Today they say they identifying information isn't needed. Tomorrow, they'll be filling in those blank fields by any means possible and selling custom dumps of the data to the highest bidder.
What's needed is a _distributed_ authentication system. Yes it does bring some potential problems but having a single commercial entity be the choke point on internet authentication similar to the way Verisign also has a virtual hold of large parts of internet certs and DNS would be a large mistake.
I saw a contestant not long ago call his lifeline up and have him type a question into some kind of search engine. He spelled everything out and you could hear the guy typing in the background. Unfortunately for him it didn't return any results before the call ended.
The look on the host's face was absolutely priceless.
I'd bet that the service they tried to use was Google.
A portable class C isn't worth the hassle that comes with trying to actually use it. Even if you find an ISP to route it (which shouldn't be hard), the problem is that several large network operators refuse to accept rouutes for networks that small. Verio is the best example of this. So you end up being unreachable from portions of the internet, which sort of defeats the purpose of being on the internet.
The other problem with portable addresses is that is means a mess in the routing tables. Getting a block from your ISP means that they can aggregate your route with the routes of their other customers and then they need only advertise one summary route for a large group of networks.
One of the things they got right when they designed IPv6 was to emphasize that small networks are connected to larger networks, which are connected to very large networks, which in turn interconnect to the other very large networks. The IP addressing scheme should reflect that and emphasize the need for the IP addreses to match the network topology (small IP block fits into a larger block upstream, and son on). This allows for easy summarization of routes.
The only exception to this rule is for people or organizations that need multiple connections to different providers and even then there are ways to mitigate the need to advertise multiple routes (Cisco has an excellent white paper on this issues).
The last company I worked for had a portable/16 range and I thought it was the coolest thing to have a "B" with only 2000 machines. Now I know better.
There is a reason for that. Most open source stuff can be grabbed directly from a Debian mirror using apt-get. This is why you don't see as much stuff on the web in.deb. It's available and usually even easier to get and install than the.rpm or.tgz equivalents, but just not as visible.
Commercial Linux software is a different story - it's pretty clear that.rpm and in particular RedHat are the current standards.
I agree that this issue is clearly beyond the grasp of these judges. One solution might be to have judges that focus on computing (like they do for family law and divorce) instead of geographical areas.
In theory the lawyers are supposed to have the skill to pull out the essence of the case in a way that the court can understand, but it seems in this case the lawyers aren't up to the task as evidenced by the report writer's insightful comments on behalf of the 2600 side on key points in this report.
I'm running an updated Wolverine beta which is pretty close to 7.1 and I haven't had any problems installing "older" RPMS.
Kudo's to NVIDIA for releasing their binary only driver wrapped into a source RPM. Very nifty for people who like to run custom kernels or beta versions.
RedHat has been allowing Wolverine beta users to sync to the rawhide tree for a week or two now using the up2date facility connecting to a beta server.
For Wolverine users who have sync'ed up the beta is pretty much identical to what RH is putting out today.
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I disagree. The MPAA didn't cut his access and they can't make AOL/Time Warner/Road Runner roll over. If anything it is the other way around. The AUP for my service (Road Runner) includes a clause that let's them cut my access if I violate any laws or infringe any copyrights. It doesn't say anything about them showing me the evidence. It allows them to decide, not me. If I don't like the AUP I'm free to find my service elsewhere.
What specific complaint do you have with how this situation was handled???
My boyfriend logs all network activity on his machines, and there was no activity at the time we were allegedly dealing in pirated flicks
Anyway, most DHCP implementations will give you the same address if it is available. I'm on a Time Warner cable modem and it's set up to give you the same IP by default.
Based on his girlfriend's story I'd say the guy is probably guilty. A person who logs all network traffic is smart enough to know how to post.
However, at that time, we were out watching fireworks. There is no way we could have been responsible for the infraction
You don't have to be home to have your computer upload stuff. I'm no angel when it comes to copyrights, but if I were silly enough to get busted posting from my home IP I'd own up to it, especially if they were just going to give me a slap on the hand like this guy got.
Using roaming profiles and Terminal Services you get the same effect, although as a former TS admin (old version - Winframe 1.8) I'm not a big fan.
The problems I had with it were too many programs were not designed to run on a multuser system (hardly surprising since NT wasn't designed as one) and so kludgy workarounds were required for even the limited set of apps that we provided via TS.
From what I understand reading about the Largo install on the KDE mailing lists, it seems that KDE2 has some small issues in this area as well, although in this case they aren't showstopping and he's getting immediate attention from the development team. Sure beats buying a Citrix support contract!
I'm pretty sure he was talking about Terminal Services flaking out about 40 users. Of the 3 large TS installation I'm familiar with, all of them limit users to about 50 max per box (running on Win2K/Metaframe).
Since he was running a few hundred simultaneous desktop sessions on the RedHat box, I think the comparison is a fair one, although without knowing more about the admin I can't decide whether he's qualified to make the judement about Windows limits or not.
My cable company (AOL Time Warner) does promise better picture and sound quality on their digital system.
Fortunately, in my area (Ohio) they weren't lying. Their digital cable rocks. It's expensive as hell and I have to reboot the cable box about every 3 months but it crushes the old analog system in sound, picture, and useable content.
My wife had it even worse. She bought an HP scanner for use with a Win95 system and when she wanted to "upgrade" to Win98, HP charged her $15 for drivers with less functionality.
Needless to say she'll never buy HP again.
What Microsoft/Passport is trying to achieve is to create a database of users. Once they achieve that it will give them a great deal of power and profit potential. Anyone who believes otherwise is an utter fool.
It doesn't matter what they say today, what matters is what they'll do with it 5 years down the road. And the problem isn't just Microsoft. Government agencies (driver's licenses) and other business have all demonstrated a lack of restraint in search of the almighty buck when it comes to finding new ways of using a database once it is created.
Today they say they identifying information isn't needed. Tomorrow, they'll be filling in those blank fields by any means possible and selling custom dumps of the data to the highest bidder.
What's needed is a _distributed_ authentication system. Yes it does bring some potential problems but having a single commercial entity be the choke point on internet authentication similar to the way Verisign also has a virtual hold of large parts of internet certs and DNS would be a large mistake.
Hey Grammar Nazi - slashdot hasn't been around for 5 years yet!
I'm still wondering how they are implementing this competetive access.
Is there anybody using the network in Columbus (trial area) that cares to comment???
Torvalds is just doing everybody a favor.
He's only getting rid of annoying messages, i.e., non-informational crap.
He's not getting rid of all boot messages.
A Crusoe Thinkpad preloaded with Linux?
I've got $3500 sitting in the bank waiting for the day when this product comes to market.
You only get the 1 minute response if you hit the Network Down Emergency option.
I think it already was.
I saw a contestant not long ago call his lifeline up and have him type a question into some kind of search engine. He spelled everything out and you could hear the guy typing in the background. Unfortunately for him it didn't return any results before the call ended.
The look on the host's face was absolutely priceless.
I'd bet that the service they tried to use was Google.
Sounds like the redundant Supervisor on their 6509 didn't work as promised.
I love to see the Cisco ticket on this one! I've never seen one fail either.
We want to finish what we started.
I've got 1198 days invested in RC5. At this point, I think I want to finish the job.
A portable class C isn't worth the hassle that comes with trying to actually use it. Even if you find an ISP to route it (which shouldn't be hard), the problem is that several large network operators refuse to accept rouutes for networks that small. Verio is the best example of this. So you end up being unreachable from portions of the internet, which sort of defeats the purpose of being on the internet.
/16 range and I thought it was the coolest thing to have a "B" with only 2000 machines. Now I know better.
The other problem with portable addresses is that is means a mess in the routing tables. Getting a block from your ISP means that they can aggregate your route with the routes of their other customers and then they need only advertise one summary route for a large group of networks.
One of the things they got right when they designed IPv6 was to emphasize that small networks are connected to larger networks, which are connected to very large networks, which in turn interconnect to the other very large networks. The IP addressing scheme should reflect that and emphasize the need for the IP addreses to match the network topology (small IP block fits into a larger block upstream, and son on). This allows for easy summarization of routes.
The only exception to this rule is for people or organizations that need multiple connections to different providers and even then there are ways to mitigate the need to advertise multiple routes (Cisco has an excellent white paper on this issues).
The last company I worked for had a portable
Slashdotter means "the daughter of slashdot." Get it right :)
9:00am in what time zone? In which conference room? In which building.
That's the problem.
>I have only seen a selection for a .deb file once
.deb. It's available and usually even easier to get and install than the .rpm or .tgz equivalents, but just not as visible.
.rpm and in particular RedHat are the current standards.
There is a reason for that. Most open source stuff can be grabbed directly from a Debian mirror using apt-get. This is why you don't see as much stuff on the web in
Commercial Linux software is a different story - it's pretty clear that
I agree that this issue is clearly beyond the grasp of these judges. One solution might be to have judges that focus on computing (like they do for family law and divorce) instead of geographical areas.
In theory the lawyers are supposed to have the skill to pull out the essence of the case in a way that the court can understand, but it seems in this case the lawyers aren't up to the task as evidenced by the report writer's insightful comments on behalf of the 2600 side on key points in this report.
That's funny. I always thought many German words were long enough to be sentences in other languages.
They are shipping kernel 2.4.2
I'm running an updated Wolverine beta which is pretty close to 7.1 and I haven't had any problems installing "older" RPMS.
Kudo's to NVIDIA for releasing their binary only driver wrapped into a source RPM. Very nifty for people who like to run custom kernels or beta versions.
RedHat has been allowing Wolverine beta users to sync to the rawhide tree for a week or two now using the up2date facility connecting to a beta server.
For Wolverine users who have sync'ed up the beta is pretty much identical to what RH is putting out today.
Linux: My SBLive and Ensoniq 1370, and generic onboard sound card (Chips&Technologies???) are all detected and configured out of the box.
Windows 2000: 2 of these work out of the box
WinME/Win98: None of these work out of the box
Everybody's experience is different but I haven't recompiled a kernel for sound support since 1998.
Finger and talk provided instant messaging functionality a long time ago. IRC is another example that clearly predates the current crop of IM tools.
Napster like functionality was also in place a long time ago in the form of archie/anonymous ftp.
I know - I was using these tools in 1994 when I first got online. I know there were people using this stuff long before I got there.
The spreadsheet was a true innovation. I definitely agree with you on that one.
The real innovation of Napster and IM were in the GUI packaging and ease of use that brought it to the masses.