Sorry to say this to all, but if you buy a Playstation your buying it for games not for PC use to run anything other than games.
Sounds like a nice concept to be able to use Playstation as a cheap alternative to a PC, but this is more of a novelty as opposed to late breaking news of some sort. So lets trump up a scenario for/.'ers to have them conceptualize the true non geekish news here: Little Timmy saves his chore money to go out and buy Playstation so he could play Zelda or some other games. Little Timmy is an avid game afficionado who will spend some thousands of dollars throughout his life on games.
Along come the techies with some new over the counter remedy for Timmy to be able to use his Playstation for something other than games. Does Timmy go out and get this new over the counter remedy? NO! Timmy continues playing GAMES.
With a bombarding of what Linux or BSD will now run on popping up left and right, factorize the completeness of the story with true life experience, do you think one of the distros such as Redhat, or Slackware, will start coding installment ports taking a gamble on the notion that it can be done? How big of a market is it in reality? Just because it may make our mouths salivate at the thought, doesn't mean it will live to see the light of day.
Members of the underclass -- especially minorities -- continue to lag behind when it comes to access to computing.
Which minority would this be, according to statistics, Latins outnumber whites, and blacks are just slightly under whites as well. I guess you meant the Chinese, or something.
Anyways just think about what the snippet posted said and look from another angle, so poorer classes are online now (or Wired). This does not mean they will be purchasing anything online at any time soon, in fact the way I took this article, I'm thinking too poor to have a credit card, so bye bye e-commerce.
Now on a downside to having a slew of newer users, yuo have higher bandwidth, so it'll cost you more, more people in these lower classes will likely look along the lines of, "Where can I get this for free", which means they still won't be spending. Incidents such as cybercrimes will likely go up as more and more people who've watched movies like The Net, Enemy of the State, The Matrix, will be attempting to act out some of these things, which could at some point force the government to propose strict rules as there are in China, and recently Australia's new non forwarding mail rule.
Well IMHO I would go with Oracle on a Sun machine before I'd spend money configuring an i386 based machine to run SQL. Some of the issues that should come to mind are simple, cost, effectiveness, easy of use, scalability, etc.
Costs: Oracle programmers almost always earn more than other DBA's but Oracle is a bit more stabler and easier to maintain than the SQL's. Sun machines are more expensive than i386's but some of the neccessary upgrades to get a stable machine would likely equalize those costs. Oracle offers great support, while SQL offers mailing list questions you have to hope get responded to.
Scalability:
Sun clusters using Oracle are good for scaling when thinking about 100's of thousands into the millions. At a company I worked for recently we had about 4 million users on an SQL based DB which would choke, distort tables, you name it. At yet another company I worked for, we had a cluster of Sun e450's running Oracle without issues.
Ease of use:
Well I've touched on MS's products lightly and I was not impressed and was quite pissed off at their "issues", which are too many to name. Being familiar with Nix based systems seem to fit my criteria, and although I am not a DBA, I have found troubleshooting Oracle based DB's easier than SQL based DB's, SELECT FROM FOO WHERE NAME LIKE HUH?
The service itself isn't designed for cars; it's targeted to home offices and small businesses where broadband via cable modem isn't available, and where DSL either isn't an option or people are fed up with the companies that provide it
Of course someone would take the article out of context, shame on Slashdot.
Out here in New York (Long Island to be exact) they've banned cell phone use unless you have the whole wireless attachment setup, and I'm usre there are other places across the US that have the same laws. Now just think about how neat the idea sounds, then think about your sister, friend, or other dying because someone decided to post something on Slashdot, wouldn't be so great now would it.
Anyways, on to the technology portion of this, wireless isn't all that in fact its sort of a sham. The connection isn't reliable as fog, snow, shit even a pigeon could screw up your connection. So for you hi paid geeks who think your just about to deposit smoe money in your bank account via your PT Cruiser, well that pigeon that flew by could screw your connection up thus screw something else up along the way, leaving you in debt. (ok so its an outrageous scenario)
Wireless is also not a secure method of sending information anywhere lest we forget:
"In the Internet space, time to market is much more important than it was ten years ago. What we end up doing is, we start to ratchet down," Prabhu said. "'How low can I go and still get away with it?'"
In some cases, vendors don't even need to ratchet down. The protocols being implemented in the wireless world simply don't lend themselves to high security.
WAP (Wireless Application Protocol), set to become the default standard for getting Internet data to cell phones, has a known security hole: the point where the data goes from the wires to the air for wireless transmission.
Might as well get rid of that whole pesky fair use provision of copyright law, right?
Not neccessarily so, see most corporations will always want a scapegoat to fall back unto should their corporation lose funds somewhere down the line (overpaid exec's, bad artists, etc.), which is where claiming the loss of millions is stemming from others pirating music.
Now, according to that press release there isn't much said on what steps the program takes to ensure nothing is used, so who's to say this even works for one, and who's to say someone won't circumvent it down the line. Personally I feel those in the industry could, and can create an industry standard which wouldn't allow this to happen, but won't, because once again, they can't come back later and cry losses, thereby creating stinkers (legal mumbo jumbo) in order to create disinformation abroad to hide the fact that sometimes their losses aren't always those pirating, etc. (e.g. Record execs vs. Napster)
The complete press release once again seems to focus on a product and all its greatness with no real detail other than supporting paragraphs referencing how great this product is. How does it work though, is it an encryption based program, steganographic based product? What about some of these CD's with enhanced videos on them, these cannot be copied, and yet they didn't need any special program such as Safecopy to make them, why not use these schemes? Well more power to Macrovision for blindly capitalizing on an idea.
The illegality stems from breaching the copyright held by the person who originally wrote the e-mail.
So does this pertain to someone who has included a copyright clause in their email or will the Australian government just conclude on their own the thoughts of the people whose email is in question.
"It's quite possible that the forwarding of an
e-mail could be a technical infringement of
copyright," Mr Williams' legal adviser told The Sunday Telegraph.
Again, this seems to be a broad law created possibly in hopes of deterring people from forwarding an email and delves into perhaps placing a link on a website. The people of Australia should do something against their politicias who seem to want to take away their right to free speech. Suppose your a reporter and have some very good information regarding an article, will you get sued or thrown in jail for quoting something, or linking to a site to prove a point, or make a statement?
The new measures cover material which already has copyright protection -- such as excerpts from
books or song lyrics -- as well as personal messages.
I guess I can no longer email my friends down under with any links or quotes to something I've seen or read, or heard, since they can face time for looking at it should they innocently reply back with the copy of the message I originally sent them.
This means a simple message about office gossip, holiday plans or a new romance carries personal copyright and the recipient has no right to forward it without permission.
Bill Clinton would have liked this law;)
Internet Industry Association executive director Peter Coroneos said forwarding e-mail had probably always involved a technical breach of copyright, adding: "It's a matter of whether the authors themselves are likely to be concerned.
He urged people sending e-mail to spell out whether they gave permission for the content to be
forwarded to others.
Well, someone shed some light on this, it is of a concern of the author not government in this matter, however a law is a law is a law.
(c) 2001 ANY DIRECT QUOTES, LINKS, ASSUMPTIONS, THOUGHTS, FANTASIES, MISCONTRUCTION OF THIS POST IS PUNISHABLE BY UP TO FIVE YEARS IN JAIL DOWN UNDER
If anyone cares to remember the Chinese government passed a law stating "Pornographic images of any kind are illegal and punishable", this is a variation of sorts from another country.
With all the attacks on the Internet coming from all different places (hacks on Microsoft, script kiddies defacements, script kiddie DoS attacks), officials are not technologically savvy enough to differentiate any underlying factors when assessing laws to create to assess the bad stuff from the good, hence the UK's law making hacking a crime.
By creating such vague laws officials may feel these methods do not describe any specifics, but an entire slew of incidents which can occur which would make it easier to prosecute crimes. Sure it sounds scary, but the prospect of someone taking you to court because you forward a mail in my opinion is slim.
We have some pretty odd laws over here in the United States which can fall into that category as is seen with some of these companies fighting over patents, and copyright laws, some are as outrageous and nondescript as possible, certainly untested in courts, so there easier to use and reflect upon when making charges against a criminal.
My two cents on this issue, my two hot chicks posing on my site.
never meant to make Rob Malda cry
posted on Slashdot a trillion times
I'm sorry Mrs. Malda
I am for real
never meant to make Rob Malda cry
posted on Slashdot a trillion times
Some poster's trauma drama, ain't like me
I'm doing things like trolling around on slashdot
so all you critics can just bite me
We need to get a story on Microsoft and take a bite out
cause on slashdot org I turn into a troll and post till the light's out
and now I got another server there goes my Redhat
Cryptography, kernels, microsoft, man I'll flame that
I love you Rob and everything, see I ain't the one to play clown
I read slashdot all day from work while my servers stay down
so just hear my side of the story don't try to fight it
moderate me up yo and don't you dare try to fight it
despite it, show slashdotters respect when I fall through
all you - do is troll me down when I post through
Me and Rob Malda Got a special thang goin on
You say it's trollin I say it's full grown
Hope that I feel this -- Feel this way forever
You can moderate me -- but you can't post anything better
Mrs. Malda
Ten times out of nine, most of my postings are fine
post a quickie on Microsoft you know I won't decline
King meets queen, post a trollific thing, together dream
about the story with that NASA thing
my postings zing, I hope I post on slashdot forever Forever, forever, ever, forever, ever?
Forever never seems that long until you're grown
And notice that all my posts are all misread wrong
Mrs. Malda my intentions were good I wish I could
become a magician to abacadabra off the sadder
thoughts of me, thoughts of we, thoughts of he
askin what happened to all the postings Rob and me had
I pray so much about it need some knee pads
it happened for a reason one can't be mad
so know just know that everything is cool
I'm posting on a story while I read this from school with constipation
I'm sorry Mrs. Malda
I am for real
never meant to make Rob Malda cry
posted on Slashdot a trillion times
I'm sorry Mrs. Malda
I am for real
never meant to make Rob Malda cry
posted on Slashdot a trillion times
Uh, uh, yeah
"Look at the way they treat me," shit, look at the way you cheat me
see your lil nosey ass moderator got they ass up in the creek G
without a paddle, you left the straddle and ride this thing on out
and moderators won't speak cuz my posting's raising doubts
know what I'm talkin about, jealousy, and fidelity, envy
cheating to beating, envy and to the G they don't mean a damn thing
so who can we place the blame on moderators flamebait the posts wrong
let bygones be bygones we can go on pretend that nothing went on
Me and my trolldotting mama
I'm sorry Mrs. Malda
I am for real
never meant to make Rob Malda cry
posted on Slashdot a trillion times
I'm sorry Mrs. Malda
I am for real
never meant to make Rob Malda cry
posted on Slashdot a trillion times
"The monopoly power of cable companies will be further unleashed. It will send shivers through broadcasting and independent content producers."
Many are forgetting it is we the people, who subscribe and pay for cable and there are alternatives to use instead of Time Warner, or any other cable company. e.g., A satellite dish will cost over time less than cable. Anyways, everyone is ranting over AOL and TimeWarner, while a smaller fish can cause just as much damage, AT7T and MediaOne. Where are the screams and outrage for this?
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry to say this to all, but if you buy a Playstation your buying it for games not for PC use to run anything other than games.
Sounds like a nice concept to be able to use Playstation as a cheap alternative to a PC, but this is more of a novelty as opposed to late breaking news of some sort. So lets trump up a scenario for
Along come the techies with some new over the counter remedy for Timmy to be able to use his Playstation for something other than games. Does Timmy go out and get this new over the counter remedy? NO! Timmy continues playing GAMES.
With a bombarding of what Linux or BSD will now run on popping up left and right, factorize the completeness of the story with true life experience, do you think one of the distros such as Redhat, or Slackware, will start coding installment ports taking a gamble on the notion that it can be done? How big of a market is it in reality? Just because it may make our mouths salivate at the thought, doesn't mean it will live to see the light of day.
American Concentration Camps?!?! you be the judge.
Members of the underclass -- especially minorities -- continue to lag behind when it comes to access to computing.
Which minority would this be, according to statistics, Latins outnumber whites, and blacks are just slightly under whites as well. I guess you meant the Chinese, or something.
Anyways just think about what the snippet posted said and look from another angle, so poorer classes are online now (or Wired). This does not mean they will be purchasing anything online at any time soon, in fact the way I took this article, I'm thinking too poor to have a credit card, so bye bye e-commerce.
Now on a downside to having a slew of newer users, yuo have higher bandwidth, so it'll cost you more, more people in these lower classes will likely look along the lines of, "Where can I get this for free", which means they still won't be spending. Incidents such as cybercrimes will likely go up as more and more people who've watched movies like The Net, Enemy of the State, The Matrix, will be attempting to act out some of these things, which could at some point force the government to propose strict rules as there are in China, and recently Australia's new non forwarding mail rule.
EOF
Framing Private Ryan
Well IMHO I would go with Oracle on a Sun machine before I'd spend money configuring an i386 based machine to run SQL. Some of the issues that should come to mind are simple, cost, effectiveness, easy of use, scalability, etc.
Costs:
Oracle programmers almost always earn more than other DBA's but Oracle is a bit more stabler and easier to maintain than the SQL's. Sun machines are more expensive than i386's but some of the neccessary upgrades to get a stable machine would likely equalize those costs. Oracle offers great support, while SQL offers mailing list questions you have to hope get responded to.
Scalability:
Sun clusters using Oracle are good for scaling when thinking about 100's of thousands into the millions. At a company I worked for recently we had about 4 million users on an SQL based DB which would choke, distort tables, you name it. At yet another company I worked for, we had a cluster of Sun e450's running Oracle without issues.
Ease of use:
Well I've touched on MS's products lightly and I was not impressed and was quite pissed off at their "issues", which are too many to name. Being familiar with Nix based systems seem to fit my criteria, and although I am not a DBA, I have found troubleshooting Oracle based DB's easier than SQL based DB's, SELECT FROM FOO WHERE NAME LIKE HUH?
my two sek's
AO's DB of chicks
The service itself isn't designed for cars; it's targeted to home offices and small businesses where broadband via cable modem isn't available, and where DSL either isn't an option or people are fed up with the companies that provide it
Of course someone would take the article out of context, shame on Slashdot.
Out here in New York (Long Island to be exact) they've banned cell phone use unless you have the whole wireless attachment setup, and I'm usre there are other places across the US that have the same laws. Now just think about how neat the idea sounds, then think about your sister, friend, or other dying because someone decided to post something on Slashdot, wouldn't be so great now would it.
Anyways, on to the technology portion of this, wireless isn't all that in fact its sort of a sham. The connection isn't reliable as fog, snow, shit even a pigeon could screw up your connection. So for you hi paid geeks who think your just about to deposit smoe money in your bank account via your PT Cruiser, well that pigeon that flew by could screw your connection up thus screw something else up along the way, leaving you in debt. (ok so its an outrageous scenario)
Wireless is also not a secure method of sending information anywhere lest we forget:
Packet Pigeons Advisory
Might as well get rid of that whole pesky fair use provision of copyright law, right?
Not neccessarily so, see most corporations will always want a scapegoat to fall back unto should their corporation lose funds somewhere down the line (overpaid exec's, bad artists, etc.), which is where claiming the loss of millions is stemming from others pirating music.
Now, according to that press release there isn't much said on what steps the program takes to ensure nothing is used, so who's to say this even works for one, and who's to say someone won't circumvent it down the line. Personally I feel those in the industry could, and can create an industry standard which wouldn't allow this to happen, but won't, because once again, they can't come back later and cry losses, thereby creating stinkers (legal mumbo jumbo) in order to create disinformation abroad to hide the fact that sometimes their losses aren't always those pirating, etc. (e.g. Record execs vs. Napster)
The complete press release once again seems to focus on a product and all its greatness with no real detail other than supporting paragraphs referencing how great this product is. How does it work though, is it an encryption based program, steganographic based product? What about some of these CD's with enhanced videos on them, these cannot be copied, and yet they didn't need any special program such as Safecopy to make them, why not use these schemes? Well more power to Macrovision for blindly capitalizing on an idea.
Fidel Castro -- My kind of hacker
The illegality stems from breaching the copyright held by the person who originally wrote the e-mail.
So does this pertain to someone who has included a copyright clause in their email or will the Australian government just conclude on their own the thoughts of the people whose email is in question.
"It's quite possible that the forwarding of an e-mail could be a technical infringement of copyright," Mr Williams' legal adviser told The Sunday Telegraph.
Again, this seems to be a broad law created possibly in hopes of deterring people from forwarding an email and delves into perhaps placing a link on a website. The people of Australia should do something against their politicias who seem to want to take away their right to free speech. Suppose your a reporter and have some very good information regarding an article, will you get sued or thrown in jail for quoting something, or linking to a site to prove a point, or make a statement?
The new measures cover material which already has copyright protection -- such as excerpts from books or song lyrics -- as well as personal messages.
I guess I can no longer email my friends down under with any links or quotes to something I've seen or read, or heard, since they can face time for looking at it should they innocently reply back with the copy of the message I originally sent them.
This means a simple message about office gossip, holiday plans or a new romance carries personal copyright and the recipient has no right to forward it without permission.
Bill Clinton would have liked this law
Internet Industry Association executive director Peter Coroneos said forwarding e-mail had probably always involved a technical breach of copyright, adding: "It's a matter of whether the authors themselves are likely to be concerned.
He urged people sending e-mail to spell out whether they gave permission for the content to be forwarded to others. Well, someone shed some light on this, it is of a concern of the author not government in this matter, however a law is a law is a law.
(c) 2001 ANY DIRECT QUOTES, LINKS, ASSUMPTIONS, THOUGHTS, FANTASIES, MISCONTRUCTION OF THIS POST IS PUNISHABLE BY UP TO FIVE YEARS IN JAIL DOWN UNDER
down under
If anyone cares to remember the Chinese government passed a law stating "Pornographic images of any kind are illegal and punishable", this is a variation of sorts from another country.
With all the attacks on the Internet coming from all different places (hacks on Microsoft, script kiddies defacements, script kiddie DoS attacks), officials are not technologically savvy enough to differentiate any underlying factors when assessing laws to create to assess the bad stuff from the good, hence the UK's law making hacking a crime.
By creating such vague laws officials may feel these methods do not describe any specifics, but an entire slew of incidents which can occur which would make it easier to prosecute crimes. Sure it sounds scary, but the prospect of someone taking you to court because you forward a mail in my opinion is slim.
We have some pretty odd laws over here in the United States which can fall into that category as is seen with some of these companies fighting over patents, and copyright laws, some are as outrageous and nondescript as possible, certainly untested in courts, so there easier to use and reflect upon when making charges against a criminal.
My two cents on this issue, my two hot chicks posing on my site.
Mrs. Malda -- sung to Outkast's Mrs. Jackson
I'm sorry Mrs. Malda
I am for real
never meant to make Rob Malda cry
posted on Slashdot a trillion times
I'm sorry Mrs. Malda
I am for real
never meant to make Rob Malda cry
posted on Slashdot a trillion times
Some poster's trauma drama, ain't like me
I'm doing things like trolling around on slashdot
so all you critics can just bite me
We need to get a story on Microsoft and take a bite out
cause on slashdot org I turn into a troll and post till the light's out
and now I got another server there goes my Redhat
Cryptography, kernels, microsoft, man I'll flame that
I love you Rob and everything, see I ain't the one to play clown
I read slashdot all day from work while my servers stay down
so just hear my side of the story don't try to fight it
moderate me up yo and don't you dare try to fight it
despite it, show slashdotters respect when I fall through
all you - do is troll me down when I post through
Me and Rob Malda Got a special thang goin on
You say it's trollin I say it's full grown
Hope that I feel this -- Feel this way forever
You can moderate me -- but you can't post anything better
Mrs. Malda
Ten times out of nine, most of my postings are fine
post a quickie on Microsoft you know I won't decline
King meets queen, post a trollific thing, together dream
about the story with that NASA thing
my postings zing, I hope I post on slashdot forever
Forever, forever, ever, forever, ever?
Forever never seems that long until you're grown
And notice that all my posts are all misread wrong
Mrs. Malda my intentions were good I wish I could
become a magician to abacadabra off the sadder
thoughts of me, thoughts of we, thoughts of he
askin what happened to all the postings Rob and me had
I pray so much about it need some knee pads
it happened for a reason one can't be mad
so know just know that everything is cool
I'm posting on a story while I read this from school with constipation
I'm sorry Mrs. Malda
I am for real
never meant to make Rob Malda cry
posted on Slashdot a trillion times
I'm sorry Mrs. Malda
I am for real
never meant to make Rob Malda cry
posted on Slashdot a trillion times
Uh, uh, yeah
"Look at the way they treat me," shit, look at the way you cheat me
see your lil nosey ass moderator got they ass up in the creek G
without a paddle, you left the straddle and ride this thing on out
and moderators won't speak cuz my posting's raising doubts
know what I'm talkin about, jealousy, and fidelity, envy
cheating to beating, envy and to the G they don't mean a damn thing
so who can we place the blame on moderators flamebait the posts wrong
let bygones be bygones we can go on pretend that nothing went on
Me and my trolldotting mama
I'm sorry Mrs. Malda
I am for real
never meant to make Rob Malda cry
posted on Slashdot a trillion times
I'm sorry Mrs. Malda
I am for real
never meant to make Rob Malda cry
posted on Slashdot a trillion times
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"The monopoly power of cable companies will be further unleashed. It will send shivers through broadcasting and independent content producers."
Many are forgetting it is we the people, who subscribe and pay for cable and there are alternatives to use instead of Time Warner, or any other cable company. e.g., A satellite dish will cost over time less than cable. Anyways, everyone is ranting over AOL and TimeWarner, while a smaller fish can cause just as much damage, AT7T and MediaOne. Where are the screams and outrage for this?
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