Every intrusion detect vendor has hawked ways to reduce or eliminate false positives that have met with marginal success. Put that puppy in a live network and see what te fasle postivies are.
Now there are certain behaviors that bots exhibit even when they are quiet waiting for commands. So looking at network traffic alone, if you have a bunch of hosts all talking to the same server for a long, long time (days, weeks, hours), that seem to move in unison, you probably have a botnet. This is differnet than traffic where a bunch of users are hitting a popular site like Youtube or Facebook where the traffic pattern looks more like web traffic (port 80, lots of small packets to teh server, lot of bigger packets coming back, interative behavior, etc).
Don't believe the zero false positives until you see it.
I doubt that it was that fast as you are implying. And what do you mean "some registrar"? Where did they search? At a registrars page? Are you saying that registrar, or some other registrar, registered the name? In either case, it's not likely to happen and means in the former case, the registrar is loosing it's own business (dumb) or is colluding with the competition (also dumb).
Those people probably just got bit by a coincidence.
In the other corner, we have the economic policy that turned $250 billion budget surpluses under Clinton into $300 billion budget deficit in just two years!
While I am not a fan of Bush, the deficit slide can't be blamed entirely on Bushes economic plan. The magnitude, sure, but the slide started long before. The forecasters of the OMB were overly optimistic about the dotcom boom and expected it to last forever. When the bust happened, not only did a lot of money dry up, but the expected capital gains taxes forcast dried up too. That and the balanced budget bill lapsed. Congress started spending. So alot of things happened in the span of a few short years some of which can be blamed on President Bush.
BTW, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan has a pretty good overview of that happened in addition to prividing insight into how the guy got to be so smart. It's good reading.
Thats just false. If you do NOT register a valid work, you must prove it is yours. By providing a federal datestamp, it does provide some basic claim that it was created by X date.
Soooooooo, I cited an authoritative source. Where is yours proving or even intimating otherwise?
When is my work protected?
Your work is under copyright protection the moment it is created and fixed in a tangible form that it is perceptible either directly or with the aid of a machine or device.
Do I have to register with your office to be protected?
No. In general, registration is voluntary. Copyright exists from the moment the work is created. You will have to register, however, if you wish to bring a lawsuit for infringement of a U.S. work. See Circular 1, Copyright Basics, section "Copyright Registration."
Why should I register my work if copyright protection is automatic?
Registration is recommended for a number of reasons. Many choose to register their works because they wish to have the facts of their copyright on the public record and have a certificate of registration. Registered works may be eligible for statutory damages and attorney's fees in successful litigation. Finally, if registration occurs within 5 years of publication, it is considered prima facie evidence in a court of law. See Circular 1, Copyright Basics, section "Copyright Registration" and Circular 38b, Highlights of Copyright Amendments Contained in the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA), on non-U.S. works.
I've heard about a "poor man's copyright." What is it?
The practice of sending a copy of your own work to yourself is sometimes called a "poor man's copyright." There is no provision in the copyright law regarding any such type of protection, and it is not a substitute for registration [ephasis added by me].
so the mailing it to yourself adds no special protection.
There are three dominant OS's out there. Windows is the most dominant desktop, followed by OSX and then Linux. What is Amiga going to bring to the table?
Hell, IBM resurrecting OS/2 would make more sense.
There are hundreds to thousands of scientists writing hundreds to thousands of studies based on several million observations.
And many of those scientists are getting funding for research. I bet there are 100's of millions of dollars in research grants at stake here. It's the great cash cow. When there is that much money involved, I begin to doubt the conclusions, especially since they are making predictions based on less then 200 years of quantified data and all the rest of the obervations are through second sources (geologic inferences, etc).
I am sure there are better models out there, but I was looking into Tivo or DiY with MythTV, I priced out harware for two tuners and a dedicated PC (I have been using laptops exclusively for years) at about $600 or so. That doesn't include time or maintenance.
I bought a Tivo Series two with a 3 year contract for $400 or so. That's a much better deal in my book.
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The biggest problem with Tivo is that the cable guys won't install into it. I just had Time Warner come out and I guess he had some time to kill and we diddled around with the Tivo and got it working for non-digital cable, but when he left, I had nothing above channel 100. I had to go get the manual from Tivo and figure that out. It wasn't hard, just an extra step. I know my wife wouldn't have done it.
Cable companies, phone companies, they only work with thier shit and if you are not even marginally tech savvy, your are screwed. It's simply easier to use the companies gear.
Maybe those bored college students should have gotten off their asses, put down the bongs and and written some bots that they would have been paid for.
That's another way of saying "they had no storyline".
You missed the point of the parent post which is players could complete the games without paying attention to the story-line, which is totally different than saying "There is no story-line."
I have played Deus-Ex, I am working my way through Invisible Wars, I have also played HL and HL-2, episode One, Mech Warrior, and others. The only games in that list that I think have a reasonable story line that is required to understand to have fun in the game is Deus-Ex. I pretty much plowed my way through the others and had a blast. The notion that HL has a story line is laughable to me. But then again, I may not get it and others might.
I used to play flight sims and Falcon 4 is my favorite. That is a somewhat dynamic story line that you participate in by selecting missions. succedding or Failing in a mission alters the game play and the effects are told through news annoucements and debreifings. Is it required to read the story line to enjoy Falcon 4? Probbaly not, flying is just as much fun. but in a campaign that can last weeks, the story does drive things forward.
I think FPS's could be more engaging with a good story line, but it needs to be told through multiple media types.
Inviduals may or may not be concerned with possible legalities, but companies are and the potential for a lawsuit is enough to be a deal killer. That is what drives the BSA tactics, no?
As some one who teaches a grad course in an "IT" program, I can tell you that the best students, the most techincally adept were those that spent time out of class doing things. Sure, the technology is not as deep as in the CS program, but then the CS program is pretty tightly focused on programming and theory whereas IT is practical.
School is what you make of it. If you find the program boring, well, it just might be boring or you might not be in the right program. Guess what, life is 100% excitement. If you want your education to be exciting, you have to make it exciting. You may have to do more of the heavy lifting depending on the program, but any program can be interesting.
The article in this slashdot story seems particularly relevant to your position.
While you claim the information is all there in contracts, most contracts are written in ways that only lawyers, or those trained in legal rhetoric can understand (just an observation). So it's not as clear cut as you think and that is the problem. Too many people view the world only through thier own set of blinders and don't/wont'/can't see beyond them. Training computer scientists to consider the impact of technology and how it affects users wether that is in UI desing, privacy and security, stability, what ever, is certainly a benefit. Unlike any other discipline that I can think of, programmers and designers have a huge impact in how technology is used or not.
While we are all used to the file system structure in Unix and Windows system, does it really make the most sense for an average user who hasn't necessarily been trained to think in heirarchies? Probably not. And if you reply with "Well, users should learn to think that way, damnit" that shows you don't understand the nature of the problem.
There is a visceral response most people have when their privacy is invaded, very much akin to fight or flight. Whether that is nature or nuture is immaterial. The result is still there. If you know that your privacy may be invaded, perhaps the shock is less, but it is still there. Do you really think if I provided you with your personal information like your financiual history, sexual history, book buying habits, you would not have a reaction?
"Open Source" is not a trademark or brand name. It's a philosophy that's free to be interpreted by anyone. Including the user.
His point is that companies are labeling their shit as "open source" when, in fact, it is not. That causes confusion with companies and people as to what "open source" is. Complicates "open source" advocacy, and is generally a detriment to the "open source" market and community.
I don't know if the companies that are mentioned are, or are not, open source, and that isn't *my* point either.
1) Install Stumble Upon
2) Set your topic to FireFox
3) Stumble
Dollars to donuts, the first Stumble you hit is someone elses TopN list of must have extensions, which is pretty much a mirror of FF most popular extensions, so there ya go.
I rememeber on LambdaMOO, when you ignored someone, they disappeared from your view. That was great.
In SecondLife, you can mute someone and they can't contact you, but if they are a greifer, they can still bump and visually harrass. I would love to have Mute remove the offender (and alts) from my total experience.
That is a much more civil response then engaging in a fight.
What I don't understand, though, is when I run into someone who refused to Mute people like they find it offensive or something. I don't get it.
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Every intrusion detect vendor has hawked ways to reduce or eliminate false positives that have met with marginal success. Put that puppy in a live network and see what te fasle postivies are.
Now there are certain behaviors that bots exhibit even when they are quiet waiting for commands. So looking at network traffic alone, if you have a bunch of hosts all talking to the same server for a long, long time (days, weeks, hours), that seem to move in unison, you probably have a botnet. This is differnet than traffic where a bunch of users are hitting a popular site like Youtube or Facebook where the traffic pattern looks more like web traffic (port 80, lots of small packets to teh server, lot of bigger packets coming back, interative behavior, etc).
Don't believe the zero false positives until you see it.
I doubt that it was that fast as you are implying. And what do you mean "some registrar"? Where did they search? At a registrars page? Are you saying that registrar, or some other registrar, registered the name? In either case, it's not likely to happen and means in the former case, the registrar is loosing it's own business (dumb) or is colluding with the competition (also dumb).
Those people probably just got bit by a coincidence.
I guess we'll all have to go back to the command line then.
But would it apply to screen? lol
In the other corner, we have the economic policy that turned $250 billion budget surpluses under Clinton into $300 billion budget deficit in just two years!
While I am not a fan of Bush, the deficit slide can't be blamed entirely on Bushes economic plan. The magnitude, sure, but the slide started long before. The forecasters of the OMB were overly optimistic about the dotcom boom and expected it to last forever. When the bust happened, not only did a lot of money dry up, but the expected capital gains taxes forcast dried up too. That and the balanced budget bill lapsed. Congress started spending. So alot of things happened in the span of a few short years some of which can be blamed on President Bush.
BTW, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan has a pretty good overview of that happened in addition to prividing insight into how the guy got to be so smart. It's good reading.
Thats just false. If you do NOT register a valid work, you must prove it is yours. By providing a federal datestamp, it does provide some basic claim that it was created by X date.
Soooooooo, I cited an authoritative source. Where is yours proving or even intimating otherwise?
From the US Copyright office FAQ on registration http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html#register:
When is my work protected?
Your work is under copyright protection the moment it is created and fixed in a tangible form that it is perceptible either directly or with the aid of a machine or device.
Do I have to register with your office to be protected?
No. In general, registration is voluntary. Copyright exists from the moment the work is created. You will have to register, however, if you wish to bring a lawsuit for infringement of a U.S. work. See Circular 1, Copyright Basics, section "Copyright Registration."
Why should I register my work if copyright protection is automatic?
Registration is recommended for a number of reasons. Many choose to register their works because they wish to have the facts of their copyright on the public record and have a certificate of registration. Registered works may be eligible for statutory damages and attorney's fees in successful litigation. Finally, if registration occurs within 5 years of publication, it is considered prima facie evidence in a court of law. See Circular 1, Copyright Basics, section "Copyright Registration" and Circular 38b, Highlights of Copyright Amendments Contained in the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA), on non-U.S. works.
I've heard about a "poor man's copyright." What is it?
The practice of sending a copy of your own work to yourself is sometimes called a "poor man's copyright." There is no provision in the copyright law regarding any such type of protection, and it is not a substitute for registration [ephasis added by me].
so the mailing it to yourself adds no special protection.
There are three dominant OS's out there. Windows is the most dominant desktop, followed by OSX and then Linux. What is Amiga going to bring to the table?
Hell, IBM resurrecting OS/2 would make more sense.
Becuase hiring someone with expert skills costs more than hiring someone, like a reporter, with some or no skills.
hahahahaha.
:)
Never post a good idea on-line. I will now patent that idea and become rich beyond my wildest dreams.
There are hundreds to thousands of scientists writing hundreds to thousands of studies based on several million observations.
And many of those scientists are getting funding for research. I bet there are 100's of millions of dollars in research grants at stake here. It's the great cash cow. When there is that much money involved, I begin to doubt the conclusions, especially since they are making predictions based on less then 200 years of quantified data and all the rest of the obervations are through second sources (geologic inferences, etc).
So don't forget to look at the whole picture.
I am sure there are better models out there, but I was looking into Tivo or DiY with MythTV, I priced out harware for two tuners and a dedicated PC (I have been using laptops exclusively for years) at about $600 or so. That doesn't include time or maintenance.
I bought a Tivo Series two with a 3 year contract for $400 or so. That's a much better deal in my book.
The biggest problem with Tivo is that the cable guys won't install into it. I just had Time Warner come out and I guess he had some time to kill and we diddled around with the Tivo and got it working for non-digital cable, but when he left, I had nothing above channel 100. I had to go get the manual from Tivo and figure that out. It wasn't hard, just an extra step. I know my wife wouldn't have done it.
Cable companies, phone companies, they only work with thier shit and if you are not even marginally tech savvy, your are screwed. It's simply easier to use the companies gear.
Maybe those bored college students should have gotten off their asses, put down the bongs and and written some bots that they would have been paid for.
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Oh wait, that isn't ethical
That's another way of saying "they had no storyline".
You missed the point of the parent post which is players could complete the games without paying attention to the story-line, which is totally different than saying "There is no story-line."
I have played Deus-Ex, I am working my way through Invisible Wars, I have also played HL and HL-2, episode One, Mech Warrior, and others. The only games in that list that I think have a reasonable story line that is required to understand to have fun in the game is Deus-Ex. I pretty much plowed my way through the others and had a blast. The notion that HL has a story line is laughable to me. But then again, I may not get it and others might.
I used to play flight sims and Falcon 4 is my favorite. That is a somewhat dynamic story line that you participate in by selecting missions. succedding or Failing in a mission alters the game play and the effects are told through news annoucements and debreifings. Is it required to read the story line to enjoy Falcon 4? Probbaly not, flying is just as much fun. but in a campaign that can last weeks, the story does drive things forward.
I think FPS's could be more engaging with a good story line, but it needs to be told through multiple media types.
So before you jump to that conclusion, have you tested this against other browsers?
Not being a developer myself,I don't know have an idea about how to fix it, but this seems like an awful sticky technical problem.
Since when are ad hominem arguments "Insightful"?
Inviduals may or may not be concerned with possible legalities, but companies are and the potential for a lawsuit is enough to be a deal killer. That is what drives the BSA tactics, no?
As some one who teaches a grad course in an "IT" program, I can tell you that the best students, the most techincally adept were those that spent time out of class doing things. Sure, the technology is not as deep as in the CS program, but then the CS program is pretty tightly focused on programming and theory whereas IT is practical.
School is what you make of it. If you find the program boring, well, it just might be boring or you might not be in the right program. Guess what, life is 100% excitement. If you want your education to be exciting, you have to make it exciting. You may have to do more of the heavy lifting depending on the program, but any program can be interesting.
The article in this slashdot story seems particularly relevant to your position.
While you claim the information is all there in contracts, most contracts are written in ways that only lawyers, or those trained in legal rhetoric can understand (just an observation). So it's not as clear cut as you think and that is the problem. Too many people view the world only through thier own set of blinders and don't/wont'/can't see beyond them. Training computer scientists to consider the impact of technology and how it affects users wether that is in UI desing, privacy and security, stability, what ever, is certainly a benefit. Unlike any other discipline that I can think of, programmers and designers have a huge impact in how technology is used or not.
While we are all used to the file system structure in Unix and Windows system, does it really make the most sense for an average user who hasn't necessarily been trained to think in heirarchies? Probably not. And if you reply with "Well, users should learn to think that way, damnit" that shows you don't understand the nature of the problem.
There is a visceral response most people have when their privacy is invaded, very much akin to fight or flight. Whether that is nature or nuture is immaterial. The result is still there. If you know that your privacy may be invaded, perhaps the shock is less, but it is still there. Do you really think if I provided you with your personal information like your financiual history, sexual history, book buying habits, you would not have a reaction?
Awareness it s good thing.
Anyone know which states allow this? I know the credit reporting agencies charge for a privacy service. Is this free?
What can I say, smart chicks do it for me.
"Open Source" is not a trademark or brand name. It's a philosophy that's free to be interpreted by anyone. Including the user.
His point is that companies are labeling their shit as "open source" when, in fact, it is not. That causes confusion with companies and people as to what "open source" is. Complicates "open source" advocacy, and is generally a detriment to the "open source" market and community.
I don't know if the companies that are mentioned are, or are not, open source, and that isn't *my* point either.
1) Install Stumble Upon 2) Set your topic to FireFox 3) Stumble Dollars to donuts, the first Stumble you hit is someone elses TopN list of must have extensions, which is pretty much a mirror of FF most popular extensions, so there ya go.
But so are many commercial and opensource programs.
Much ado about nothing?
Making a mountain out of a mole hill?
Yet another boring post just because it has "google" in there.
I rememeber on LambdaMOO, when you ignored someone, they disappeared from your view. That was great.
In SecondLife, you can mute someone and they can't contact you, but if they are a greifer, they can still bump and visually harrass. I would love to have Mute remove the offender (and alts) from my total experience.
That is a much more civil response then engaging in a fight.
What I don't understand, though, is when I run into someone who refused to Mute people like they find it offensive or something. I don't get it.