There are advantages with a private database. There are laws that require the database owner to correct the error. If not, the database owner is guilty of libel/slander (depending on which would apply, most likly libel). incorrectly identifying someone in a database is closest to a newspaper publishing an inaccurate story about you.
Merchants do have the right to protect themselves from thieves. We all pay the higher prices from losses.
You should also remember that there is no cost for labor. The students are not getting paid or at least not in money;) Same for the professors. All they are paying for is materials and other things they need that they can't do themselves.
What's the estimated labor cost? Well 3 students for 3 years + some professor time, maybe they each can put in an average of 20 hours/week + professor time so maybe the equivalent of 2 full time people. that gives us about 6 man years of effort. 2 aerospace engineers including things like benefits, etc so maybe a man year costs $150K so a commercial effort might end up costing closer to $750K in wages in addition to the $50K equipment cost.
Even assuming the labor cost estimate is hald the extimate, its still $375K for salary and benefits, etc.
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I've heard that in NYS Verizon is automatically putting taps/filters on all the copper. If you want clean copper you have to pay then $5K to remove the taps/filters. This is to prevent any use of copper loops except for alarm circuits.
I'm typing say an ftp, telnet, or rsh type command and accidently mistype the destination. The target system has not been 'secured'. The command works. I've now broken the law even though all I did from my standpoint was mistype an address? Maybe I typed.com instead of.net or.org or I was typing an IP address and mistyped a digit, or maybe I mispelled a sitename, like yaho.com instead of yahoo.com.
This seems ridiculus to me. Its like I forget where my car is parked and find the same make, model, color car and my key works on the lock and ignition. Technically I may have stolen the car, but there was no intent on my part.
Ever been in a parking lot and see someone with one of those remote controls open their trunk and see 2 or 3 others nearby also pop up? Are they guilty of something just because their key/fob worked on several cars including their own?
None of our NT systems were vulnerable as best I could tell checking for things that make your system vulnerable. On the other hand, those nt systems running IIS are running IIS2 or 3 as the newer ones break all the custom software the company has invested in.
But the computer wasn't protected, that's what he was reporting to them. That's what caused his initial confusion. If the site had been protected he would not be in this mess.
Shouldn't MS be a co-defendent as they provided the software used to 'hack' the site? Isn't there something illegal about making tools that are used for 'hacking'?
A place I worked has had MS patches break their NT servers so often they only do patches when absolutly necessary. It's not that they dno't want to keep things secure, but having the corporate NT servers broken for a week by a MS patch causes alot of problems as well.
The last official information I remember seeing was the SR-71 cruise altitude was 80,000ft. I seem to remember hearing rumors of flights at higher altitudes of over 100,000 ft, but they aren't more then rumors from when I worked at an AF base. The official listed cruise speed was 2070mph with or without payload.
Since we have the DMCA and the Berne convention does this mean that the author of the Code Red virii can now report symantec, microsoft, etc for a DMCA violation of their software?
Isn't the government basically the biggest developer of open source software? Can we make President Bush a co-defender as the president of an open-source company?
I thought that the postal inspector SENT them the porn and was there to arrest them with their mailman delivered it. IIRC they had not even opened the package so did not even know the contents, which they had not asked for. They were arrested for RECEIVING obscene material that they had not solicited and did not want.
Yes, I believe I can point to prior art. I've only worked for my employer since late 1999, but I know they have been using web based software installs of their software since around 1995 or 1996. The current version works on netscape and IE on either mac or windows with a linux version due in a couple months.
Since I'm not a lawyer, I'm not sure if this fully qualifies as prior art or not. There are things I can't say due to non-disclosure, but I think my company can prove prior art. (I'd mention the company, but I don't want to overload the T1).
Anyone really interested can email me and I'll provide a link.
They have cost of publication, printing is not free.
They have to cooridinate all the submissions, the reviews, track subscriptions, layout every issue, find advertisers (if the journal has any), pay people for the above, do all the accounting, billing, etc.
Pay postage/shipping.
I remember reading many years ago that for many publications, the subscription price is pretty much the cost of the postage to send you the journals, all the other costs are covered by the advertisers (Popular Science, etc). If you have a scientific journal with little to no ads, then the only source of revenue is subscriptions.
In the electronic world, the cost of servers, maintenance of servers, system administration, web design, bandwidth may replace the physical print costs, but all the others are still there. You still have layout (page design), and equivalents of the other expenses. A college or university may publish a journal and put it on the web at no charge to viewers, but those expenses are being paid by someone. It may come from the endowment, it may be part of the tuition you pay as a student, it may be a government grant (tax money), it may be a grant from a company (consumers who buy the products).
Remember:
TANSTAAFL
It may seem free, but somewhere, someone is paying for it. You may not be able to determine who, but someone is. That dime you found on the sidewalk was lost by someone else.
"Linus Torvalds and other linux community members raid Microsoft Headquarters" The linux community raided Microsoft headquarters early this morning alleging MS has violated the DMCA. Bill Gates was arrested as part of this raid as were other high level executives. continued page 5
So true. I used to help run an ISP and even when we produced an inch and a half of documentation, the name, address and stolen 800 number of the cracker and a witness, it took almost a year for lawenforcement to take any action. Even then, the only reason law enforcement got invovled was because a nearby college applied preassure as he'd been hacking them and others. The phone company did not seem to care that he had hacked them.
If this is personal information that can be used to automagically fill in forms, why can't it be stored on my own system with say an encryption key. when someone wants the info, the system asks me for the decryption key and can also ask what information is allowed to be sent as well as what was asked for. If I want different information for different sites there can be a default and then any site specific overides.
It's my private information, why should I give it to anyone for free?
IIRC CTSS was not really SMP. I think it was more a Master/Slave situation. The original GECOS (GE) later GCOS (Honeywell) was also Master/Slave. One processor did all the I/O, etc. so under heavy I/O load, it would get saturated and slow down the system.
I haven't seen any information about TOPS-10 so I don't know if it was true SMP, Master/Slave, or other. Multics was SMP. From what I remember, it was one of the most efficient SMP systems made as of hte last time I had information, maybe 20 or so years ago.
The difference is so variable and application based that its hard to say which is better. The Multics system, designed from the ground up for SMP achieved the following performance figures for an SMP system (unofficial tests reported in alt.os.multics):
An ISP I ran used a dual P166 system for the news server. The dual P166 was later replaced with a AMD 300 single cpu MB. The 300 was noticably faster then the dual P166. Best guess is the dual P166 was about the same as about a single P250 (about 1.5x a single P166). This was with a linux 1.x kernel. The disk and RAM were the same.
I don't see much new here. In the late 60's and early 70's many languages were used on the Multics system (http://www.multicians.org/). With usually little to no effort most langauges could call routines in other languages.
They seem to have changed the languages from PL/1, fortran, bcpl, etc to C#, perl, html, but they haven't changed the goals, just the implimentation details as they rediscover 20+ years old ideas and technologies.
In the late 70's I worked for Honeywell on a government contract to help develope and support the National Software Works (NSW). NSW ran on multiple systems. You logged into NSW and as you asked for tools (programs), it would open up connections across the arpanet to the appropriate system, TECO on DEC 10's and 20's, IBM FORTRAN on IBM mainframes, ted on Multics. Files were converted and ported as needed to make the different systems happy. The DEC systems used 7 bit ascii, Multics used 9 bit ascii, IBM used 8 bit EBCDIC.
You never specified where to get the tool, just what tool you wanted and the NSW system would connect you to a system that could run that tool for you. When that tool asked for a file, it was transported from whereever it was to where the tool was as well as keeping multiple copies of a file around if it was read, but not changed on multiple systems.
The goal was to make location of a user independent of where the tools they used were located.
I don't know the details in every state, but I believe that service in the US comes in two catagories, Residential and Business. Residential usually has a flat rate option that most people select. Business is always per minute. In NY its something like $.10 for first 3 minutes, then $.03/minute afterwards with Verizon. One of the reasons companies deail with other CLECS is the other CLECS charge less/month for the lines as well as haveing a lower per minute charge and charging in 6 second intervals, no $x for the first 3 mintues even if you only use 10 seconds.
I keep my work and non-work computing separated. I only put work software on computers at work (I'm the network/sysadmin) and I do all my non-work at home including my non-work email, etc.
The state of Georgia is being very stupid. I can't see anyway they are going to ever recover the cost of this case. They are also showing a great amount of ignorance about computers and networking.
All powerplants work on the same general principale, you put some type of energy in one end and get eletricity out the other.
In the case of hydroplants you convert gravity power (falling water) into eletricity.
If the case of coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear you convert heat into electricity.
In the late 60's/early 70's they discovered that the coal ash from some plants was very radioactive. A new worker at a nuclear plant living in a house made from cinder blocks made from coal ash set off the radiation alarms ENTERING the plant. He received so much radiation from his house that he can no longer work in a nuclear plant as he exceeds the radiation levels allowed for nuclear workers.
I worked for the Nuclear Engineering department at RPI (www.rpi.edu) in the mid 70's doing software. One of the articles shown me, IIRC, showed some coal ash with concentrations of radioactive material HIGHER then the enriched uranium fuel rods used in nuclear power plants! That's right, the coal ash was TOO enriched to use as fuel in a nuclear power plant. In general, most coal plants would not pass the radiation standard that a nuclear plant is required to meet.
Breeder reactors are used to reprocess used nuclear fuel. Breeder reactors are more dangerous then regular reactors so are banned in the US. Any spent nuclear fuel from the US that needs to be reprocessed is shipped overseas. I think France has a strong Breeder reactor program.
In general, I think nuclear power plants are safer and more environmentally sound then oil/coal/gas plants. The best way to make them safer is to some up with a very safe design and use it as the heart of all plants. Currently plants are pretty much unique designs. There may be alot of standard internal components, but different plants have them in different combinations.
Someone mentioned costs. The environmental lawsuits are what have really made nuclear power expensive. I seem to remember that the added legal expenses have as much as doubled the cost of the last few plants built and caused others to be cancelled.
The biggest problem is how to handle the nuclear waste. This is where we need to spend more money. Researching ways of making nuclear waste safer. I'm not sure what the current knowledge is on radioactive decay and if anything will affect it. Personally I think the rate of decay can be artificially changed, we just don't know how or haven't tried the right experiment. It might be one of those things where you need a huge facility costing a few billion $, but once built, it can process radioactive waste and make it safer to handle.
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Merchants do have the right to protect themselves from thieves. We all pay the higher prices from losses.
What's the estimated labor cost? Well 3 students for 3 years + some professor time, maybe they each can put in an average of 20 hours/week + professor time so maybe the equivalent of 2 full time people. that gives us about 6 man years of effort. 2 aerospace engineers including things like benefits, etc so maybe a man year costs $150K so a commercial effort might end up costing closer to $750K in wages in addition to the $50K equipment cost.
Even assuming the labor cost estimate is hald the extimate, its still $375K for salary and benefits, etc.
I've heard that in NYS Verizon is automatically putting taps/filters on all the copper. If you want clean copper you have to pay then $5K to remove the taps/filters. This is to prevent any use of copper loops except for alarm circuits.
I'm typing say an ftp, telnet, or rsh type command and accidently mistype the destination. The target system has not been 'secured'. The command works. I've now broken the law even though all I did from my standpoint was mistype an address? Maybe I typed .com instead of .net or .org or I was typing an IP address and mistyped a digit, or maybe I mispelled a sitename, like yaho.com instead of yahoo.com.
This seems ridiculus to me. Its like I forget where my car is parked and find the same make, model, color car and my key works on the lock and ignition. Technically I may have stolen the car, but there was no intent on my part.
Ever been in a parking lot and see someone with one of those remote controls open their trunk and see 2 or 3 others nearby also pop up? Are they guilty of something just because their key/fob worked on several cars including their own?
None of our NT systems were vulnerable as best I could tell checking for things that make your system vulnerable. On the other hand, those nt systems running IIS are running IIS2 or 3 as the newer ones break all the custom software the company has invested in.
But the computer wasn't protected, that's what he was reporting to them. That's what caused his initial confusion. If the site had been protected he would not be in this mess.
Shouldn't MS be a co-defendent as they provided the software used to 'hack' the site? Isn't there something illegal about making tools that are used for 'hacking'?
A place I worked has had MS patches break their NT servers so often they only do patches when absolutly necessary. It's not that they dno't want to keep things secure, but having the corporate NT servers broken for a week by a MS patch causes alot of problems as well.
The last official information I remember seeing was the SR-71 cruise altitude was 80,000ft. I seem to remember hearing rumors of flights at higher altitudes of over 100,000 ft, but they aren't more then rumors from when I worked at an AF base. The official listed cruise speed was 2070mph with or without payload.
Since we have the DMCA and the Berne convention does this mean that the author of the Code Red virii can now report symantec, microsoft, etc for a DMCA violation of their software?
Isn't the government basically the biggest developer of open source software? Can we make President Bush a co-defender as the president of an open-source company?
I thought that the postal inspector SENT them the porn and was there to arrest them with their mailman delivered it. IIRC they had not even opened the package so did not even know the contents, which they had not asked for. They were arrested for RECEIVING obscene material that they had not solicited and did not want.
Since I'm not a lawyer, I'm not sure if this fully qualifies as prior art or not. There are things I can't say due to non-disclosure, but I think my company can prove prior art. (I'd mention the company, but I don't want to overload the T1).
Anyone really interested can email me and I'll provide a link.
They have cost of publication, printing is not free.
They have to cooridinate all the submissions, the reviews, track subscriptions, layout every issue, find advertisers (if the journal has any), pay people for the above, do all the accounting, billing, etc.
Pay postage/shipping.
I remember reading many years ago that for many publications, the subscription price is pretty much the cost of the postage to send you the journals, all the other costs are covered by the advertisers (Popular Science, etc). If you have a scientific journal with little to no ads, then the only source of revenue is subscriptions.
In the electronic world, the cost of servers, maintenance of servers, system administration, web design, bandwidth may replace the physical print costs, but all the others are still there. You still have layout (page design), and equivalents of the other expenses. A college or university may publish a journal and put it on the web at no charge to viewers, but those expenses are being paid by someone. It may come from the endowment, it may be part of the tuition you pay as a student, it may be a government grant (tax money), it may be a grant from a company (consumers who buy the products).
Remember: TANSTAAFL
It may seem free, but somewhere, someone is paying for it. You may not be able to determine who, but someone is. That dime you found on the sidewalk was lost by someone else.
It's not whining. In this case it'e taking an issue and making it into a big enough political hot potato that the politicians can't ignore ;)
You forgot "Are we there yet?"
"Linus Torvalds and other linux community members raid Microsoft Headquarters" The linux community raided Microsoft headquarters early this morning alleging MS has violated the DMCA. Bill Gates was arrested as part of this raid as were other high level executives. continued page 5
So true. I used to help run an ISP and even when we produced an inch and a half of documentation, the name, address and stolen 800 number of the cracker and a witness, it took almost a year for lawenforcement to take any action. Even then, the only reason law enforcement got invovled was because a nearby college applied preassure as he'd been hacking them and others. The phone company did not seem to care that he had hacked them.
It's my private information, why should I give it to anyone for free?
I haven't seen any information about TOPS-10 so I don't know if it was true SMP, Master/Slave, or other. Multics was SMP. From what I remember, it was one of the most efficient SMP systems made as of hte last time I had information, maybe 20 or so years ago.
1 processor 1 figure-of-merit
2 processors 1.8 FOMs
3 processors 2.5 FOMs
4 processors 3.1 FOMs
5 processors 3.6 FOMs
6 processors 4.0 FOMs
An ISP I ran used a dual P166 system for the news server. The dual P166 was later replaced with a AMD 300 single cpu MB. The 300 was noticably faster then the dual P166. Best guess is the dual P166 was about the same as about a single P250 (about 1.5x a single P166). This was with a linux 1.x kernel. The disk and RAM were the same.
They seem to have changed the languages from PL/1, fortran, bcpl, etc to C#, perl, html, but they haven't changed the goals, just the implimentation details as they rediscover 20+ years old ideas and technologies.
In the late 70's I worked for Honeywell on a government contract to help develope and support the National Software Works (NSW). NSW ran on multiple systems. You logged into NSW and as you asked for tools (programs), it would open up connections across the arpanet to the appropriate system, TECO on DEC 10's and 20's, IBM FORTRAN on IBM mainframes, ted on Multics. Files were converted and ported as needed to make the different systems happy. The DEC systems used 7 bit ascii, Multics used 9 bit ascii, IBM used 8 bit EBCDIC.
You never specified where to get the tool, just what tool you wanted and the NSW system would connect you to a system that could run that tool for you. When that tool asked for a file, it was transported from whereever it was to where the tool was as well as keeping multiple copies of a file around if it was read, but not changed on multiple systems.
The goal was to make location of a user independent of where the tools they used were located.
I don't know the details in every state, but I believe that service in the US comes in two catagories, Residential and Business. Residential usually has a flat rate option that most people select. Business is always per minute. In NY its something like $.10 for first 3 minutes, then $.03/minute afterwards with Verizon. One of the reasons companies deail with other CLECS is the other CLECS charge less/month for the lines as well as haveing a lower per minute charge and charging in 6 second intervals, no $x for the first 3 mintues even if you only use 10 seconds.
I keep my work and non-work computing separated. I only put work software on computers at work (I'm the network/sysadmin) and I do all my non-work at home including my non-work email, etc.
The state of Georgia is being very stupid. I can't see anyway they are going to ever recover the cost of this case. They are also showing a great amount of ignorance about computers and networking.
In the case of hydroplants you convert gravity power (falling water) into eletricity.
If the case of coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear you convert heat into electricity.
In the late 60's/early 70's they discovered that the coal ash from some plants was very radioactive. A new worker at a nuclear plant living in a house made from cinder blocks made from coal ash set off the radiation alarms ENTERING the plant. He received so much radiation from his house that he can no longer work in a nuclear plant as he exceeds the radiation levels allowed for nuclear workers.
I worked for the Nuclear Engineering department at RPI (www.rpi.edu) in the mid 70's doing software. One of the articles shown me, IIRC, showed some coal ash with concentrations of radioactive material HIGHER then the enriched uranium fuel rods used in nuclear power plants! That's right, the coal ash was TOO enriched to use as fuel in a nuclear power plant. In general, most coal plants would not pass the radiation standard that a nuclear plant is required to meet.
Breeder reactors are used to reprocess used nuclear fuel. Breeder reactors are more dangerous then regular reactors so are banned in the US. Any spent nuclear fuel from the US that needs to be reprocessed is shipped overseas. I think France has a strong Breeder reactor program.
In general, I think nuclear power plants are safer and more environmentally sound then oil/coal/gas plants. The best way to make them safer is to some up with a very safe design and use it as the heart of all plants. Currently plants are pretty much unique designs. There may be alot of standard internal components, but different plants have them in different combinations.
Someone mentioned costs. The environmental lawsuits are what have really made nuclear power expensive. I seem to remember that the added legal expenses have as much as doubled the cost of the last few plants built and caused others to be cancelled.
The biggest problem is how to handle the nuclear waste. This is where we need to spend more money. Researching ways of making nuclear waste safer. I'm not sure what the current knowledge is on radioactive decay and if anything will affect it. Personally I think the rate of decay can be artificially changed, we just don't know how or haven't tried the right experiment. It might be one of those things where you need a huge facility costing a few billion $, but once built, it can process radioactive waste and make it safer to handle.
anyone know the lifecycle cost of solar cell power vs other types of power?