Ipersonating a peace officer is a misdemeanor in most states. In California, see Penal Code section 538d. The crime is punishable by imprisonment in county jail up to a year and/or a fine up up to $2,000.
This might deter many people from attempting such a thing.
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Yeah, except that Python has no support for abstract classes or interfaces. It looks like they're more interested in mixins (which are not the same thing!) instead.
That would leave a hole open for DOS attacks -- and would unfairly penalize people who accidentally put typoes in their addresses from sending SMS messages.
The scheme you describe has merits, but it needs to be a little more fine-tuned, I think.
It is trivially easy for spammers to conduct "dictionary attacks" against mobile phone email-to-SMS gateways -- the namespace for addresses in such domains is reasonably small (10^10 permutations for the entire domain of US phone numbers -- much smaller when you take into account the limited number of area codes and prefixes assigned to the providers).
Other domains: vtext.com, messaging.sprintpcs.com, etc.
Frankly I'm surprised that it isn't a serious problem already.
I'm pretty sure that Apple Records and Apple Computer have ironed out their trademark dispute, because Apple Computer has owned the applemusic.com domain name since 1997:
Domain name: applemusic.com
Registrant Contact:
Apple Computer, Inc.
NOC Apple (Apple-NOC@APPLE.COM)
+1.4089961010
FAX: +1.4089741560
1 Infinite Loop
M/S 60-DR
Cupertino, CA 95014
US
The author has the right idea; it would certainly make building compatible third-party implementations of data-processing software (by that I mean nearly all software) much easier than if the file formats were closed, as they are now.
The trouble is that the distinction between code and data isn't as bright a line as you might think. I don't mean code/data segmenting; if you think about what evals and ELF are, you know what I mean.
Algorithms (not to mention software in the US) are certainly patentable -- and efficient data storage mechanisms are too. Think about what a gold mine in terms of IP value a hash table would have been if it invented at a commercial organization instead of in academia.
So, the conundrum we still face is that there are still valid IP claims WRT data structures, because oftentimes, as much thought is put into them as into the processing software that reads and writes them.
I've had good luck not having my laptop stolen -- I attribute that mostly to the fact that I keep it in an ordinary-looking (but laptop-designed) backpack from Jansport. Keeping it in a pack that doesn't scream "I have a laptop inside" and is indistinguishable from other backpacks surely helps.
...except that ALTQ handles layer 3 of the protocol stack, not layer 7. ALTQ is incapable of recognizing the difference between an HTTP session and an SSH session if such a session were established on an arbitrary port.
ALTQ relies on the fact that well-known services are traditionally bound to assigned ports. The new layer 7 code allows the administrator to eliminate such an assumption.
Like medicine, news is not necessarily best served by a purely capitalist model -- especially since the broadcast spectrum allows for far fewer points of view to be expressed than print media.
Some points of view have more advertiser backing than others. Recall that it's the advertisers who pay for radio stations, not the listeners. Distortions of listener desires occur in the space between the advertisers' customers' money and the advertisers' money.
Therefore, it makes sense that the vast majority of advertiser dollars will support mainstream, majority points of view, flushing out minority concerns. Public funding helps restore the balance caused by these distortions.
This is not "socialist" thinking; it's entirely rational given the rules of the game.
Actually, using mod_php with Apache is an order of magnitude faster than mod_perl, particularly if you're using the Zend Performance Suite (nee' Zend Cache) -- it's a cached byte compilation system using shared memory for blazing speed.
We used it at my company and was able to reduce the number of servers used for the given load by 75%. Amazing stuff.
Linux has been free from most Big Kernel Lock constraints since 2.2 was released. There are very few operations left that don't use fine-grained locks.
The reason Americans buy inefficient products is because energy is so cheap in the USA. However, when energy becomes expensive (as it did in the 1970s during the oil embargo) to the point at which switching to something more efficient is cheaper than continuing to purchase the means to power it, you'll find that Americans will quickly dump the guzzlers.
The answer is easy: USB functionality is built into the south bridge of many chipsets, starting with Intel's back in 1997. Intel is the primary backer of USB.
Firewire is fairly easy to add -- however, because few if any south bridges have it, it requires a separate chip to be added to the motherboard, and the chip adds $5-$10 to the cost of production. This corresponds to a $20-$25 increase to the retail price -- and if your competitors aren't doing it, it's understandably difficult to justify doing it yourself.
Actually, MS-CHAP is a rather interesting protocol, and its origin is best explained by expressing the limitations of CHAP in general.
It's not that Microsoft had any burning desire to supplant CHAP with a fundamentally incompatible protocol for evil, monopoly-furthering reasons.
Instead, they were attempting to deal with a limitation in that CHAP is unusuable if your passwords are stored encrypted on your system (i.e. CHAP can't be used to authenticate yourself when your credentials are in an/etc/passwd file).
Microsoft stores its passwords in much the same way (encrypted on the server) and so they needed to develop a protocol that would send the passwords encrypted across the wire yet be usable to authenticate oneself against a SAM database -- hence the development of MS-CHAP.
They should have to change because they are a monopoly. Monopolies, because they can change greater than the marginal cost of their product (including what economists call a normal profit to compensate for the opportunity cost of pursuing other ventures), should not not subject to the same laissez-faire rules as truly competitive enterprises, else market distortion occur (this is what is happening right now).
Many of the more reputable online credit card-accepting merchants don't merely check the number: They also pass the address and CVV2 number (that number above and to the left of the account number on an AMEX card or in the signature area on the back of a MasterCard or VISA) along to the authorization gateway.
Better gateways can verify both the CVV2 and address before accepting a transaction. This goes a long way towards preventing brute-force attacks, but is only really useful if all authorization gateways start requiring them in order to validate requests.
X is actually capable of very powerful cut and paste functionality; it's just that application developers are generally lazy and refuse to use its facilities properly.
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Ipersonating a peace officer is a misdemeanor in most states. In California, see Penal Code section 538d. The crime is punishable by imprisonment in county jail up to a year and/or a fine up up to $2,000.
This might deter many people from attempting such a thing.
Yeah, except that Python has no support for abstract classes or interfaces. It looks like they're more interested in mixins (which are not the same thing!) instead.
That would leave a hole open for DOS attacks -- and would unfairly penalize people who accidentally put typoes in their addresses from sending SMS messages.
The scheme you describe has merits, but it needs to be a little more fine-tuned, I think.
Please mod parent up.
It is trivially easy for spammers to conduct "dictionary attacks" against mobile phone email-to-SMS gateways -- the namespace for addresses in such domains is reasonably small (10^10 permutations for the entire domain of US phone numbers -- much smaller when you take into account the limited number of area codes and prefixes assigned to the providers).
Other domains: vtext.com, messaging.sprintpcs.com, etc.
Frankly I'm surprised that it isn't a serious problem already.
I'm pretty sure that Apple Records and Apple Computer have ironed out their trademark dispute, because Apple Computer has owned the applemusic.com domain name since 1997:
Domain name: applemusic.com
Registrant Contact:
Apple Computer, Inc.
NOC Apple (Apple-NOC@APPLE.COM)
+1.4089961010
FAX: +1.4089741560
1 Infinite Loop
M/S 60-DR
Cupertino, CA 95014
US
Created: 11/19/97 00:00:00
The author has the right idea; it would certainly make building compatible third-party implementations of data-processing software (by that I mean nearly all software) much easier than if the file formats were closed, as they are now.
The trouble is that the distinction between code and data isn't as bright a line as you might think. I don't mean code/data segmenting; if you think about what evals and ELF are, you know what I mean.
Algorithms (not to mention software in the US) are certainly patentable -- and efficient data storage mechanisms are too. Think about what a gold mine in terms of IP value a hash table would have been if it invented at a commercial organization instead of in academia.
So, the conundrum we still face is that there are still valid IP claims WRT data structures, because oftentimes, as much thought is put into them as into the processing software that reads and writes them.
I've had good luck not having my laptop stolen -- I attribute that mostly to the fact that I keep it in an ordinary-looking (but laptop-designed) backpack from Jansport. Keeping it in a pack that doesn't scream "I have a laptop inside" and is indistinguishable from other backpacks surely helps.
...except that ALTQ handles layer 3 of the protocol stack, not layer 7. ALTQ is incapable of recognizing the difference between an HTTP session and an SSH session if such a session were established on an arbitrary port.
ALTQ relies on the fact that well-known services are traditionally bound to assigned ports. The new layer 7 code allows the administrator to eliminate such an assumption.
This sounds an awful lot like SpeedPass, which is at least 5 years old. Any idea what the difference is?
I highly doubt such a law would survive First Amendment scrutiny by any competent court.
Nice idea, but it would almost certainly lose a First Amendment challenge.
Like medicine, news is not necessarily best served by a purely capitalist model -- especially since the broadcast spectrum allows for far fewer points of view to be expressed than print media.
Some points of view have more advertiser backing than others. Recall that it's the advertisers who pay for radio stations, not the listeners. Distortions of listener desires occur in the space between the advertisers' customers' money and the advertisers' money.
Therefore, it makes sense that the vast majority of advertiser dollars will support mainstream, majority points of view, flushing out minority concerns. Public funding helps restore the balance caused by these distortions.
This is not "socialist" thinking; it's entirely rational given the rules of the game.
Actually, using mod_php with Apache is an order of magnitude faster than mod_perl, particularly if you're using the Zend Performance Suite (nee' Zend Cache) -- it's a cached byte compilation system using shared memory for blazing speed.
We used it at my company and was able to reduce the number of servers used for the given load by 75%. Amazing stuff.
Linux has been free from most Big Kernel Lock constraints since 2.2 was released. There are very few operations left that don't use fine-grained locks.
The reason Americans buy inefficient products is because energy is so cheap in the USA. However, when energy becomes expensive (as it did in the 1970s during the oil embargo) to the point at which switching to something more efficient is cheaper than continuing to purchase the means to power it, you'll find that Americans will quickly dump the guzzlers.
It's really quite simple...
That type of cable is commonly used for Dell laptops as well. You can buy replacements here.
I'm baffled as to why this new type of cable exists in the first place. Why couldn't they use an ordinary cable?
As the other posters noted, you can use a POP3 extension to grab the headers.
But one thing you can do with IMAP4 but not with POP3 (that I'm aware of, anyway) is on-demand transfer of attachments. That is useful.
The answer is easy: USB functionality is built into the south bridge of many chipsets, starting with Intel's back in 1997. Intel is the primary backer of USB.
Firewire is fairly easy to add -- however, because few if any south bridges have it, it requires a separate chip to be added to the motherboard, and the chip adds $5-$10 to the cost of production. This corresponds to a $20-$25 increase to the retail price -- and if your competitors aren't doing it, it's understandably difficult to justify doing it yourself.
The "most favoured nation" term has been deprecated; it's now called "permanent normal trading relations," or just PNTR for short.
Just an FYI.
Actually, MS-CHAP is a rather interesting protocol, and its origin is best explained by expressing the limitations of CHAP in general.
/etc/passwd file).
It's not that Microsoft had any burning desire to supplant CHAP with a fundamentally incompatible protocol for evil, monopoly-furthering reasons.
Instead, they were attempting to deal with a limitation in that CHAP is unusuable if your passwords are stored encrypted on your system (i.e. CHAP can't be used to authenticate yourself when your credentials are in an
Microsoft stores its passwords in much the same way (encrypted on the server) and so they needed to develop a protocol that would send the passwords encrypted across the wire yet be usable to authenticate oneself against a SAM database -- hence the development of MS-CHAP.
They should have to change because they are a monopoly. Monopolies, because they can change greater than the marginal cost of their product (including what economists call a normal profit to compensate for the opportunity cost of pursuing other ventures), should not not subject to the same laissez-faire rules as truly competitive enterprises, else market distortion occur (this is what is happening right now).
Many of the more reputable online credit card-accepting merchants don't merely check the number: They also pass the address and CVV2 number (that number above and to the left of the account number on an AMEX card or in the signature area on the back of a MasterCard or VISA) along to the authorization gateway.
Better gateways can verify both the CVV2 and address before accepting a transaction. This goes a long way towards preventing brute-force attacks, but is only really useful if all authorization gateways start requiring them in order to validate requests.
It must be the eyebrows.
No sense wasting your time; I can all but guarantee you the conversation will go something like this:
Q: "Does Sigma Designs have any comment on the recent accusation from the XVID team that their MPEG-4 codec infringes on XVID's copyright?"
A: "We're not aware of any court filings pertaining to the matter, so no, we have no comment."
X is actually capable of very powerful cut and paste functionality; it's just that application developers are generally lazy and refuse to use its facilities properly.
Read this for details.