All Rio devices released this year mount as a standard FAT32 drive, compatible with any OS that reads and writes FAT32 and has USB mass storage class support.
No, the small run is because this is the "Limited Edition". It's a promotional gimmick. They've already started the run of many thousands of regular edition Carbons that are currently starting to stock stores around the US (Some have already purchased units at a couple of Best Buys).
then just set up your home smtp server to allow relaying for you domain from any ip address if the user has authorized him-/herself using username+password/certificate/...
And if the ISP you're dialed into blocks everything on port 25 except connections to their own server?
What, do you think the case should have gone to a special internet court instead? I'd have a hard time believing that a judge exists anywhere in this country that has as firm a grasp of the complexities of IP routing as some of the principals in the case do. So, it's up to the parties to show the judge what he needs to know.
Yes, it may be better if all jurists were more educated on the topic at hand than everyone bringing cases, but that's just impossible with the amount of knowledge involved....until we perfect the robo-judge, that is.
Apple's mistake, I think, is by charging to license the name and symbol of FireWire, hence Sony's iLink and others just calling it IEEE 1394.
But Apple doesn't charge to license the name and symbol of FireWire. They donated it to the IEEE1394 Trade Association, so basically use of the name and symbol come free with the license to use IEEE1394 technology.
I think he's talking about making his own TV shows so he doesn't have to worry about anyone else wanting to protect their content.
Let's see: He's got a camcorder and a desk. There's a talk show! Take the camcorder outside. An action show! Point the camera at the dog. A nature documentary! Turn on the radio. A music video!
This is a couple of days later, so this probably won't be seen by anybody, but the announcement of the "sweep" is covered here: http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5198047.html?tag=n efd.top. It's a multinational effort going after warez groups.
Note that the FBI quote in the article said that the school was among other sites in Arizona and elsewhere that was being raided. That quote doesn't mention schools at all. I don't know why the writer or editor chose to make the leap in the first paragraph that multiple schools were being raided. Even so, the article gave ne assertion that it was primarily schools that were being raided.
My feeling is that this school district had a warez server on their network, and they got raided. Possibly one or two schools were included elsewhere in the U.S. or other countries, but that's not the same as what people were getting from the headline.
That's the thing: They ARE selling better than crack. The people behind these thing are getting crazy rich (through fraudulent means, of course). Yet still, no one will admit to buying the stuff...
The big change is that they're actually apologizing now
Note that they aren't actually apologizing for what they did. They're just saying that they're sorry that we had to go and get all angry about it, ruining their plan.
Seriously, we should just throw everything out and start over. Or, more practically, implement a whole new system of email that can coexist with the existing SMTP implementation. Call it SMTP Extreme, or something. This should all be done using cryptographic signing. In such a system, every MTA in the chain will be required to have a certificate that they can use to sign their exchange with the link before or after. Once the message has arrived, you are absolutely positive that you know how it got to you, and what path it took. The User Agent should be able to sign its portion as well, but that part should perhaps be optional for privacy issues.
If the user doesn't sign their own mail with their own crypto signature, the email you get wouldn't necessarily tell you who it was from, but it would contain all the information necessary to know for sure how it got to you.
This prevents any problems of forged headers or anything. What to do when you've identified a problem sender is outside the scope of this idea, but presumably would involve strong AUPs or reciprocal billing agreements. Since you would have a way to prove which network the mail came from, billing arrangements like that are more realistic.
Presumably the network that the mail has orginated from knows how to identify their own users to know who to charge/boot. Personally, however, I'm in favor of all mail needing to be signed with a personal certificate, and MTAs only accepting connections from other MTAs or MUAs that have valid certificates.
The whole thing can be built on the X.509 or S/MIME ideas that are already around for personal certification, plus some new certificate that CAs would issue for MUAs and MTAs.
To drive adoption, everyone should be able to get personal certs for free. That would require a lot of work by a handful of trusted CAs, or less work by a whole group of chained CAs (like some SSL certificates, i.e. That company running that server created their own certificate, but they're verified by Company A, who in turn is verified by Company B, who in turn is verified by Thawte, and I trust Thawte, so...). Either way, it's not unrealistic. The individual certs don't necessarily need to very everything about you, just your email address (done by making sure you receive the mail at that address).
If such a system were implemented, there wouldn't be much incentive to convert, but the MUAs could build it into their apps, the MTAs could build it into theirs, and as people started seeing the advantage of it, they'd use it. Or, ISPs would require it to use their mail servers (like some require SPA, or like AT&T makes me connect using a secure POP session if I want to pick up my email outside of their network).
Assuming you're in the US, your local cable company is kind of, well, violating law. The Telecommunications Reform (or Deregulation, or something) Act of, oh, 1993 or so (too lazy to look up the reference) specifically states that the wiring in your house is yours, and what you do with at that point is your business. You can put splitters on those wires to get the signal to as many places as you want.
Now, each splitter drops the signal level, and the cable co is under no obligation to up your signal to accomodate your mess of splitters. Additionally, there's nothing that prohibits a cable company from charging for an extra outlet, and many do that. Some will only charge an installation fee one time, while others will charge a monthly extra outlet fee, which is basically breaking up your extra outlet installation fee into an infinite number of equal monthly installments. Hey, if they installed that outlet for you, they can charge you whatever they like, however they like. But, if you hooked up that outlet yourself, on wires that legally belong to you, they can't charge you any additional money for that.
Of course, the cable company could make sure that they're sending a 0db signal, and charge you to up it if you're splitting it. And, don't forget one of the real reasons why the cable companies love digital cable so much. Since you need a box, it's back to the per television fee. Even if you could buy your own digital cable box, they can still charge an access fee to authorize it on a monthly basis.
Just because I'm too lazy to look up the reference doesn't mean that this is not 100% true. I'm a renowned authority on the subject. If you don't believe me and want to prove me wrong, find a reference and post it here (this is just my way of baiting someone into doing the fact checking for me).
You'll notice that 3Com has nothing to do with Palm (the company that makes palm branded hardware), PalmSource (the Palm OS company), or any Palm OS device and hasn't for a long time now.
This isn't really that relevant to the discussion, but I just wanted to point out that the movie is Kidco, and that I and many of my friends are in that movie, as it was filmed at our Jr. High school.
The best part about having appeared in a movie is that I can now link myself to Kevin Bacon.
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All Rio devices released this year mount as a standard FAT32 drive, compatible with any OS that reads and writes FAT32 and has USB mass storage class support.
-Aaron
No, the small run is because this is the "Limited Edition". It's a promotional gimmick. They've already started the run of many thousands of regular edition Carbons that are currently starting to stock stores around the US (Some have already purchased units at a couple of Best Buys).
What the hell is a flaim war?
then just set up your home smtp server to allow relaying for you domain from any ip address if the user has authorized him-/herself using username+password/certificate/... And if the ISP you're dialed into blocks everything on port 25 except connections to their own server?
Stop it. It was a joke. You didn't get the joke. Now stop it.
What, do you think the case should have gone to a special internet court instead? I'd have a hard time believing that a judge exists anywhere in this country that has as firm a grasp of the complexities of IP routing as some of the principals in the case do. So, it's up to the parties to show the judge what he needs to know.
...until we perfect the robo-judge, that is.
Yes, it may be better if all jurists were more educated on the topic at hand than everyone bringing cases, but that's just impossible with the amount of knowledge involved.
-Aaron
Apple's mistake, I think, is by charging to license the name and symbol of FireWire, hence Sony's iLink and others just calling it IEEE 1394.
But Apple doesn't charge to license the name and symbol of FireWire. They donated it to the IEEE1394 Trade Association, so basically use of the name and symbol come free with the license to use IEEE1394 technology.
-Aaron
I think he's talking about making his own TV shows so he doesn't have to worry about anyone else wanting to protect their content.
Let's see: He's got a camcorder and a desk. There's a talk show! Take the camcorder outside. An action show! Point the camera at the dog. A nature documentary! Turn on the radio. A music video!
That's what he means by rolling his own.
-Aaron
Here's an article that appears to say they're related: http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5198047.html?tag=n efd.top
This is a couple of days later, so this probably won't be seen by anybody, but the announcement of the "sweep" is covered here: http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5198047.html?tag=n efd.top. It's a multinational effort going after warez groups.
Note that the FBI quote in the article said that the school was among other sites in Arizona and elsewhere that was being raided. That quote doesn't mention schools at all. I don't know why the writer or editor chose to make the leap in the first paragraph that multiple schools were being raided. Even so, the article gave ne assertion that it was primarily schools that were being raided.
My feeling is that this school district had a warez server on their network, and they got raided. Possibly one or two schools were included elsewhere in the U.S. or other countries, but that's not the same as what people were getting from the headline.
-Aaron
That's the thing: They ARE selling better than crack. The people behind these thing are getting crazy rich (through fraudulent means, of course). Yet still, no one will admit to buying the stuff...
-Aaron
Wrong.
You've fallen for a very old urban legend. http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/kfc.htm
This is old news, dating back a few months. On top of that, it's already appeared on Slashdot.
-Aaron
The big change is that they're actually apologizing now
Note that they aren't actually apologizing for what they did. They're just saying that they're sorry that we had to go and get all angry about it, ruining their plan.
-Aaron
if you recall your taxonomy
Here's the order of taxonomy:Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
Hard to remember on it's own, right? But if you take the first letter of each [P,C,O,F,G,S], you can make a handy mnemonic to remember it:
Please
Come
Over
For
Gay
Sex
Easy! Mnemonics: Our dear, dear, friend.
Say what yoyu will about CmdrTaco, but at least he's consistent. Every story he posts is a duplicate!
-Aaron
Seriously, we should just throw everything out and start over. Or, more practically, implement a whole new system of email that can coexist with the existing SMTP implementation. Call it SMTP Extreme, or something. This should all be done using cryptographic signing. In such a system, every MTA in the chain will be required to have a certificate that they can use to sign their exchange with the link before or after. Once the message has arrived, you are absolutely positive that you know how it got to you, and what path it took. The User Agent should be able to sign its portion as well, but that part should perhaps be optional for privacy issues.
If the user doesn't sign their own mail with their own crypto signature, the email you get wouldn't necessarily tell you who it was from, but it would contain all the information necessary to know for sure how it got to you.
This prevents any problems of forged headers or anything. What to do when you've identified a problem sender is outside the scope of this idea, but presumably would involve strong AUPs or reciprocal billing agreements. Since you would have a way to prove which network the mail came from, billing arrangements like that are more realistic.
Presumably the network that the mail has orginated from knows how to identify their own users to know who to charge/boot. Personally, however, I'm in favor of all mail needing to be signed with a personal certificate, and MTAs only accepting connections from other MTAs or MUAs that have valid certificates.
The whole thing can be built on the X.509 or S/MIME ideas that are already around for personal certification, plus some new certificate that CAs would issue for MUAs and MTAs.
To drive adoption, everyone should be able to get personal certs for free. That would require a lot of work by a handful of trusted CAs, or less work by a whole group of chained CAs (like some SSL certificates, i.e. That company running that server created their own certificate, but they're verified by Company A, who in turn is verified by Company B, who in turn is verified by Thawte, and I trust Thawte, so...). Either way, it's not unrealistic. The individual certs don't necessarily need to very everything about you, just your email address (done by making sure you receive the mail at that address).
If such a system were implemented, there wouldn't be much incentive to convert, but the MUAs could build it into their apps, the MTAs could build it into theirs, and as people started seeing the advantage of it, they'd use it. Or, ISPs would require it to use their mail servers (like some require SPA, or like AT&T makes me connect using a secure POP session if I want to pick up my email outside of their network).
-Aaron
Assuming you're in the US, your local cable company is kind of, well, violating law. The Telecommunications Reform (or Deregulation, or something) Act of, oh, 1993 or so (too lazy to look up the reference) specifically states that the wiring in your house is yours, and what you do with at that point is your business. You can put splitters on those wires to get the signal to as many places as you want.
Now, each splitter drops the signal level, and the cable co is under no obligation to up your signal to accomodate your mess of splitters. Additionally, there's nothing that prohibits a cable company from charging for an extra outlet, and many do that. Some will only charge an installation fee one time, while others will charge a monthly extra outlet fee, which is basically breaking up your extra outlet installation fee into an infinite number of equal monthly installments. Hey, if they installed that outlet for you, they can charge you whatever they like, however they like. But, if you hooked up that outlet yourself, on wires that legally belong to you, they can't charge you any additional money for that.
Of course, the cable company could make sure that they're sending a 0db signal, and charge you to up it if you're splitting it. And, don't forget one of the real reasons why the cable companies love digital cable so much. Since you need a box, it's back to the per television fee. Even if you could buy your own digital cable box, they can still charge an access fee to authorize it on a monthly basis.
Just because I'm too lazy to look up the reference doesn't mean that this is not 100% true. I'm a renowned authority on the subject. If you don't believe me and want to prove me wrong, find a reference and post it here (this is just my way of baiting someone into doing the fact checking for me).
Wow. Sounds a lot like you just invented emusic.com.
-Aaron
Since the article specifically says the butterflies can be easily removed, I don't know if I'd call this vandalism.
Picture this: I saunter up to your house, drop my pants, and take a shit on your front porch. This too is easily removed. Wouldn't that be vandalism?
-Aaron
Of course, if XM offers Phil Hendrie 24/7 cross-country, I'll be signing up immediately.
As luck would have it, they do. Now, go and get it
MS sold their equity stake in Apple some time ago.
You'll notice that 3Com has nothing to do with Palm (the company that makes palm branded hardware), PalmSource (the Palm OS company), or any Palm OS device and hasn't for a long time now.
-Aaron
Yeah, I submitted this a week ago and it was rejected. Now I guess I know how it feels.
-Aaron
This isn't really that relevant to the discussion, but I just wanted to point out that the movie is Kidco, and that I and many of my friends are in that movie, as it was filmed at our Jr. High school.
The best part about having appeared in a movie is that I can now link myself to Kevin Bacon.
-Aaron