I can't speak for all ISP's, but (as I am the SysAdmin for a small ISP) I can speak for our company.
We DON'T want metered (pay per hour) billing, because metered billing is a pain in the ass. Keeping track of user's hours, and then going through your records because Joe Blow has disputed the charge ("I couldn't possibly have used that much time") just takes up too much time - as soon as a charge is disputed, someone has to stop what they're doing, and resolve it, so you've lost the $1.50 profit you were making off them in the first place.
At least once a month we get calls from people who want metered service, and we just tell them that we don't do that.
I know that I hear things that my wife and friends never notice, both in music and just ambient noises like monitor squeal and flourescent lights.
Interesting.. I can hear my cat walking across carpet.. I though everyone could, until I got married, and my wife kept asking "how do you know he's there?"
I also don't bump into things in the dark, because I can hear noises (such as my own footfalls, or clothing rustling) reflecting off objects around me.
Back on topic, I'm not a sonar officer or professional audio tester either.. and I too can hear the difference between MP3 (at different bitrates) and the original.
You're telling me that I'm doing something wrong because I didn't list my first job (Circle-K clerk) or my second job (Dishwasher) on my resume when I applied for my job as a Sysadmin? How about my High-School job when I worked for a landscaping company mowing lawns? Or when I delivered newspapers in Jr. High? How about when I was 10, and I shoveled my neighbors driveway for 50 cents?
You're telling me that it's wrong to omit these?
There are things that your prospective employer doesn't need to know about you. Including EVERY job you've ever had is just a great way to tell them that you don't know when to shut up.
Complexity doesn't necessarily make a good narrative.
Point taken, however this is pretty much a generalization.
The point is that Andromeda does have good narratives, and one of the things that makes it good (fun to watch, at least for me - and probably 90% of the rest of the audience) is the complexity.
The science and scientific references are FUN - I get cryptic refeerences to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, even if my wife doesn't - and it doesn't bother her that she doesn't, it's still enjoyable for her.
While in general you're right that complexity and quality are not interrelated, in this case you're wrong, and in this case, "Too complex" for an actor doesn't mean "too complex" for the audience.
Arrest Ted Turner, Valenti, and every other major studio or studio organization head.
Works such as "Porky's", "Last American Virgin", "Embrace of the Vampire", etc. all have various depictions of "minors" engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
Hmm, better go after your local Blockbuster too - they distribute this stuff.
As mentioned previously, Speakup is a screen reader for the Linux
operating system. One of the things which makes Speakup different from
more traditional screen readers is that it is patched into the kernel. To
explain what this means, Speakup is an integral part of the operating
system. This means that when you turn on your computer and Linux starts,
Speakup also starts, meaning you can hear all boot-up messages, and
resolve any problems related to the computer not reaching the login
prompt. In addition, when you shutdown your system you will receive speech
feedback right until the message "Power down" is given, indicating you
should turn off your computer.
It's apparently included in Slackware 8 (Which is where I got this.)
My experience has been that those that configure firewalls are more likely to introduce security issues
Then the firewall admin is incompetant.
A real firewall admin will understand the protocols involved, and will have a hell of a lot better understanding of security issues than a programmer.
Saying you'd trust a developer to make better security decisions than a firewall admin is like saying you think a secretary would be better at fighting crime than a police officer.
the BSA thinks they have the authority to search private property looking for license violations.
I could never see the RIAA or the MPAA doing that.
Maybe not the MPAA (at the moment), but the RIAA has gone further than that - they believe they have the right to write computer viruses and should be immune from prosecution for damages they cause.
With out a definitive way to give a chip a speed classification consumers won't know what is better or worse
That's exactly the problem today - there is no definitive way to to give a chip a speed classification number. MHz doesn't tell you squat about which processors are faster, but the ill-informed think that it does.
Since web content is often hard to define as simply a "page," it would make more sense to charge X amount of money for each bit you download, regardless of what it is.
Yeah, so people will convert to uncompressed TIFFs instead of JPEGs, right?
Why would I bother with HTML, when I can just turn a.pdf into an uncompressed TIFF, you download that, and I get rich? (of course, you wouldn't know it was a TIFF until you clicked, and by then it's too late, muahahaha!)
The problems with this is not that he's using the wrong metric, it's that with any "pay per (insert_metric_here)" scheme is that all content is not created equal, and that the "buyer" doesn't know what he's getting until he's paid for it.
You will be paying a penny for a steak and a penny for Ramen noodles.
Issue #3 How do you know the content is any good before you pay? Not only are you paying the same price for the steak as for the noodles, but you don't know which it is until you get it.
If the question is "Should I send my logs unfiltered to a separate entity?" then the short answer is NO.
The long answer is NO. Information on your private network numbers should be on a need-to-know basis.
By posting your IP addresses to a public database (or a central service you don't control), an attacker could use this information against you, by checking the results of their scans against what you log.
Note that this is NOT obscurity. (Contrary to what a previous poster says.)
There is nothing wrong with sending filtered log reports (remove the IP addresses, and TCP info, like sequence numbers, if your software logs them) to a central DB.
The problem is, quite simply, we don't know how Microsoft's salesmen are pushing Windows.
Interesting... our sales department (we're a MS "certified solutions provider" or some such nonsense) got a recent package from MS with a CD entitled "how to sell MS over Linux".. it was all Word docs and powerpoint stuff on the advantages of Windows2K over Linux, and how to sell Windows into an account that's considering moving to Linux.. I didn't look too closely at it, as I'm not in the sales department, I don't run windows, and I don't really care.
If anyone here is interested, I could take a look and post their key strategies.
XP is an excellent product... the upgrade install doesn't break anything that already existed
Yeah, as long as the stuff that already existed wasn't already installed
My first experience with XP was a customer who installed it on their home machine.
They brought it to us because NOTHING (as in NOTHING) they had already installed would run. Thier USB stopped working, so their printer and scanner wouldn't work, their network card (3Com 3c905b) didn't work, so they couldn't use the internet, and none of their software worked.
That's pretty far from "painless install" as you can get.
Up here in Canada,... there *is* no reliability problem
Umm.. WHAT?!?!?!?!?!
You're LUCKY, that's all.
I'm in Alberta, last month, Telus (the telco for the whole province) had a major fiasco with their DHCP servers, which caused the entire province to be down for three weeks!
If you don't call THAT a "reliability problem" then you must define "reliability" differently than everybody else.
Right now, I am looking at a Big Brother screen that shows one of our links to be down - and it has been for the past half hour.
when will linux itself be come something that non-technical people can use
Last summer, my step-father, fed up with Windows, asked me what I use on my computers - I told him I use Linux (Slackware) and that I'd be happy to come over and install it, and show him how to use it. In August (without my knowledge), he went out and bought Mandrake 8. He wiped windows from the machine, and installed Mandrake.
He uses his computer every day to chat with friends, surf the web, do email, and maintain his journal. He's VERY non-technical, and had no problems using it at all.
When he used windows, I used to receive at least two "support calls" per month from him. When he installed Mandrake, I got a one call about the UI differences (icons in the "k" menu, instead of on the desktop), but since then, he's had no problems, and I have recieved no calls for support.
Judging from this, I'd say that Linux already is something that non-technical people can use - much more so than Windows.
And everybody else hates both of them. Passionately.
Speaking as someone who has to deal with Telus on a daily basis, they are "the suckiest sucks who ever sucked" (to paraphrase Homer Simpson.)
Last month, their DSL network for the entire province of Alberta was down for three weeks because their DHCP servers failed.
Think about that for a minute.. thousands of people were down for almost a month, because Telus couldn't maintain their DHCP servers..
As a note, it takes me about an hour to make a DHCP server (from a PC with a blank HD.) It took a multi-million dollar company THREE WEEKS to do the same.. granted, their servers are more complex than mine, but I have a hard time believing that it could take more than a day or two.
My experiences with Bell aren't much better.. a customer was having problems with their VPN, due to excessive dropped packets.. a traceroute clearly showed that it was a problem in Bell's network (lag increased from 20ms to over 2000ms, once the packets were three hops inside Bell's network.) Emailing the results to them got a response of "traceroute shows round-trip times, so the results don't show it's a problem with us"
The appeals court reversed substantial parts of Jackson's 'findings of fact'.
Umm, link please? You can't drop a bomb like that without some sort of supporting evidence.
Everything (as in EVERYTHING - from every source) said that they upheld the finding of fact, but reversed the penalty. I only glossed over the ruling, but I don't recall anything like what you're imlying.
Please provide some corroborating evidence for your claim.
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Bruce Schneier said it best:
"Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet."
I don't think this is what the companies want
I can't speak for all ISP's, but (as I am the SysAdmin for a small ISP) I can speak for our company.
We DON'T want metered (pay per hour) billing, because metered billing is a pain in the ass. Keeping track of user's hours, and then going through your records because Joe Blow has disputed the charge ("I couldn't possibly have used that much time") just takes up too much time - as soon as a charge is disputed, someone has to stop what they're doing, and resolve it, so you've lost the $1.50 profit you were making off them in the first place.
At least once a month we get calls from people who want metered service, and we just tell them that we don't do that.
I know that I hear things that my wife and friends never notice, both in music and just ambient noises like monitor squeal and flourescent lights.
Interesting.. I can hear my cat walking across carpet.. I though everyone could, until I got married, and my wife kept asking "how do you know he's there?"
I also don't bump into things in the dark, because I can hear noises (such as my own footfalls, or clothing rustling) reflecting off objects around me.
Back on topic, I'm not a sonar officer or professional audio tester either.. and I too can hear the difference between MP3 (at different bitrates) and the original.
I've tried tons of newsreaders (GUI and otherwise), but Tin just "does it" for me.
If you have a shell account in your ISP, it's the ideal choice.
Even if you don't - I use Tin with my cablemodem all the time.
Yes, there is, it's called a "résumé".
Yes, and your point is?
You're telling me that I'm doing something wrong because I didn't list my first job (Circle-K clerk) or my second job (Dishwasher) on my resume when I applied for my job as a Sysadmin? How about my High-School job when I worked for a landscaping company mowing lawns? Or when I delivered newspapers in Jr. High? How about when I was 10, and I shoveled my neighbors driveway for 50 cents?
You're telling me that it's wrong to omit these?
There are things that your prospective employer doesn't need to know about you. Including EVERY job you've ever had is just a great way to tell them that you don't know when to shut up.
Complexity doesn't necessarily make a good narrative.
Point taken, however this is pretty much a generalization.
The point is that Andromeda does have good narratives, and one of the things that makes it good (fun to watch, at least for me - and probably 90% of the rest of the audience) is the complexity.
The science and scientific references are FUN - I get cryptic refeerences to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, even if my wife doesn't - and it doesn't bother her that she doesn't, it's still enjoyable for her.
While in general you're right that complexity and quality are not interrelated, in this case you're wrong, and in this case, "Too complex" for an actor doesn't mean "too complex" for the audience.
Arrest Ted Turner, Valenti, and every other major studio or studio organization head.
Works such as "Porky's", "Last American Virgin", "Embrace of the Vampire", etc. all have various depictions of "minors" engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
Hmm, better go after your local Blockbuster too - they distribute this stuff.
how far should a government go in punishing a monopoly for misbehavior?
The answer is simple: far enough to prevent them from doing it again
Imagine it was a company whose products you liked.
Doesn't matter - if they (blatantly, and repeatedly) broke the law, they should be prevented from doing so again. That's what the law is there for.
From the README:
It's apparently included in Slackware 8 (Which is where I got this.)
You're talking about security.
My experience has been that those that configure firewalls are more likely to introduce security issues
Then the firewall admin is incompetant.
A real firewall admin will understand the protocols involved, and will have a hell of a lot better understanding of security issues than a programmer.
Saying you'd trust a developer to make better security decisions than a firewall admin is like saying you think a secretary would be better at fighting crime than a police officer.
When civil engineering was immature ... I doubt too many people stood around saying "You idiots!"
:o)
Of course not, that wouldn't be civil
Microsoft loses at least $100 for every XBox they sell
True, but you're not looking at the Big Picture.
For every unit that MS produces and sells, they lose $100.
For every unit they produce that they don't sell, they lose $500.
For every unit that MS sells, they add that to the total, and tell developers "look how many potential customers you're losing"
I can hurt them more by NOT buying one.
the BSA thinks they have the authority to search private property looking for license violations.
I could never see the RIAA or the MPAA doing that.
Maybe not the MPAA (at the moment), but the RIAA has gone further than that - they believe they have the right to write computer viruses and should be immune from prosecution for damages they cause.
At least the BSA gets a warrant.
With out a definitive way to give a chip a speed classification consumers won't know what is better or worse
That's exactly the problem today - there is no definitive way to to give a chip a speed classification number. MHz doesn't tell you squat about which processors are faster, but the ill-informed think that it does.
Never underestimate the power of marketing.
Since web content is often hard to define as simply a "page," it would make more sense to charge X amount of money for each bit you download, regardless of what it is.
.pdf into an uncompressed TIFF, you download that, and I get rich? (of course, you wouldn't know it was a TIFF until you clicked, and by then it's too late, muahahaha!)
Yeah, so people will convert to uncompressed TIFFs instead of JPEGs, right?
Why would I bother with HTML, when I can just turn a
The problems with this is not that he's using the wrong metric, it's that with any "pay per (insert_metric_here)" scheme is that all content is not created equal, and that the "buyer" doesn't know what he's getting until he's paid for it.
You will be paying a penny for a steak and a penny for Ramen noodles.
Issue #3
How do you know the content is any good before you pay? Not only are you paying the same price for the steak as for the noodles, but you don't know which it is until you get it.
If the question is "Should I send my logs unfiltered to a separate entity?" then the short answer is NO.
The long answer is NO. Information on your private network numbers should be on a need-to-know basis.
By posting your IP addresses to a public database (or a central service you don't control), an attacker could use this information against you, by checking the results of their scans against what you log.
Note that this is NOT obscurity. (Contrary to what a previous poster says.)
There is nothing wrong with sending filtered log reports (remove the IP addresses, and TCP info, like sequence numbers, if your software logs them) to a central DB.
the sales dweebs have to get a linux tattoo if they lose an account
Yeah, it'll be a "Star of David" on their forehead...
Umm, did I just lose to Godwin?
The problem is, quite simply, we don't know how Microsoft's salesmen are pushing Windows.
Interesting... our sales department (we're a MS "certified solutions provider" or some such nonsense) got a recent package from MS with a CD entitled "how to sell MS over Linux".. it was all Word docs and powerpoint stuff on the advantages of Windows2K over Linux, and how to sell Windows into an account that's considering moving to Linux.. I didn't look too closely at it, as I'm not in the sales department, I don't run windows, and I don't really care.
If anyone here is interested, I could take a look and post their key strategies.
XP is an excellent product ... the upgrade install doesn't break anything that already existed
Yeah, as long as the stuff that already existed wasn't already installed
My first experience with XP was a customer who installed it on their home machine.
They brought it to us because NOTHING (as in NOTHING) they had already installed would run. Thier USB stopped working, so their printer and scanner wouldn't work, their network card (3Com 3c905b) didn't work, so they couldn't use the internet, and none of their software worked.
That's pretty far from "painless install" as you can get.
Up here in Canada, ... there *is* no reliability problem
Umm.. WHAT?!?!?!?!?!
You're LUCKY, that's all.
I'm in Alberta, last month, Telus (the telco for the whole province) had a major fiasco with their DHCP servers, which caused the entire province to be down for three weeks!
If you don't call THAT a "reliability problem" then you must define "reliability" differently than everybody else.
Right now, I am looking at a Big Brother screen that shows one of our links to be down - and it has been for the past half hour.
when will linux itself be come something that non-technical people can use
Last summer, my step-father, fed up with Windows, asked me what I use on my computers - I told him I use Linux (Slackware) and that I'd be happy to come over and install it, and show him how to use it. In August (without my knowledge), he went out and bought Mandrake 8. He wiped windows from the machine, and installed Mandrake.
He uses his computer every day to chat with friends, surf the web, do email, and maintain his journal. He's VERY non-technical, and had no problems using it at all.
When he used windows, I used to receive at least two "support calls" per month from him. When he installed Mandrake, I got a one call about the UI differences (icons in the "k" menu, instead of on the desktop), but since then, he's had no problems, and I have recieved no calls for support.
Judging from this, I'd say that Linux already is something that non-technical people can use - much more so than Windows.
Heh...Stealth Basselope...
Actually, that should be the X15 Cruise Basselope
Telus and Bell hate each other. Passionately.
And everybody else hates both of them. Passionately.
Speaking as someone who has to deal with Telus on a daily basis, they are "the suckiest sucks who ever sucked" (to paraphrase Homer Simpson.)
Last month, their DSL network for the entire province of Alberta was down for three weeks because their DHCP servers failed.
Think about that for a minute.. thousands of people were down for almost a month, because Telus couldn't maintain their DHCP servers..
As a note, it takes me about an hour to make a DHCP server (from a PC with a blank HD.) It took a multi-million dollar company THREE WEEKS to do the same.. granted, their servers are more complex than mine, but I have a hard time believing that it could take more than a day or two.
My experiences with Bell aren't much better.. a customer was having problems with their VPN, due to excessive dropped packets.. a traceroute clearly showed that it was a problem in Bell's network (lag increased from 20ms to over 2000ms, once the packets were three hops inside Bell's network.) Emailing the results to them got a response of "traceroute shows round-trip times, so the results don't show it's a problem with us"
The appeals court reversed substantial parts of Jackson's 'findings of fact'.
Umm, link please? You can't drop a bomb like that without some sort of supporting evidence.
Everything (as in EVERYTHING - from every source) said that they upheld the finding of fact, but reversed the penalty. I only glossed over the ruling, but I don't recall anything like what you're imlying.
Please provide some corroborating evidence for your claim.