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56K isnt even bad, when I left NJ, I could get either ISDN (total rip off, love mah bell), a T-1 or frac to the house (I love mah bell, they can run a t-1 (which is a circuit that has been around for 30 years) in 90 days (much, much less if you pay much much more, and give you 1.5 up down flawlessly), pray for DSL or cable to come around, they never did, and now probably never will, OR use my two trusty couriers to aggregate bandwidth and 26400 x 2. (Note, this kind of dialup account no longer exists anymore, RIP netcom =( ].
Anyways, 56K in that town was like 10 ft from the CO or less. Forget 56K at 10,000 ft.
I'm very upset that web pages are inline image laden, its very hard to navigate the web with all this super bandwidth sucking stuff lying around. sure its optional, but as unix admins know that in a pinch without X its VERY hard to use links/lynx and get anywhere usefule without the images! ITS terrible!
This is probably why usenet is still very popular around the world.
AFAIK, only 5% of the people in this country have broadband.
And in case you havn't noticed all "internet" companies having a hard time, thank you AT&T, Verizon, GTE, (Insert Bell here). They love it when the internet does bad because it threatens to deprecate thier sources of income! If 768/768 SDSL was $100 a month - and it was available everywhere, everyone everywhere would have it, and no one would use the phone (things like dialpad would replace it.) Remember, these idiots at PacBell charge me $30 a month just to have a phone number. Give me a break. I'm all for paying for bandwidth - but the DSL you may never get was destroyed by the Bells to protect their territory...
I'm hoping that "lite" versions of sites pop up so that when my broadband goes dark I can enjoy the net just the same.
- NOTE TO SUN, IBM, COMPAQ ET AL. FIX YOUR BROKEN NON-ECN AWARE FIREWALLS PLEASE.
It isn't just another dot-bomb or hot-dot. There is a real method behind mitigating DDOS attacks. This methodology certainly isn't suggested by this article, and therefore is fairly senseless chatter about nothing in particular. The companies, Arbor, Asta and Mazu and McAfee talk a lot about Zombie detection, and use an array of industry buzzwords and marketing hype surrounded by code-red to carve a niche in the market for themselves. They want to offer their services and fail to come up with a distributed scheme and proper good traffic bad traffic differentiation.
I saw a demonstration of the product that reactive networks had. It is certainly a meritorious endeavor that deserves a closer look. It is also interesting because this is far beyond theory and academia; this is laden with applicative value. It is a Linux based detector/actuator distributed schema. It is interesting because it does a few things that could really, really make NSP's lives much better. The first step is to recognize the good traffic from the bad. It tends to learn what network traffic is normal. It knows when a DDOS attack is coming in and mitigates the attack while letting the good traffic come through. What is amazing I have seen this work in a LAN at GigE speeds! I can mitigate a randomly spoofed source address attack while letting "normal" web traffic through. And this product isn't beta, prerelease, etc, its at version 1.0.
The next time ZD's editors start babbling about something that got into the news or on CNN that had to do with technology, they should look for the real gems of technology, not sift through a pile of marketing hype and whitepapers without seeing some action. You can talk about doing something, or you can do it. AFAIK, reactive is the only company to prove to me whitepaper or not that AT&T, UUNet, Sprint/MCI/WorldCom Verizon, Savvio and others should pick up software like Reactive Network's and not worry about finding and punishing script kiddies and killing zombies. There are too many zombies to count, there are too many IP's to worry about. You have to let the good traffic through and block the evil traffic. The best way of doing this is to have a distributed triggering scheme and to identify good traffic, and to make holes for the typical good traffic and let the customers of a web site through, its not about launching a holy crusade against script kiddies, its fruitless.
Always look at a problem that addresses a problem. HAS a product that fixes it. And find a company that isn't about marketing buzz but about engineering a new solution that big players would be able to use to nullify the ill effects of script-kiddies.
As an ex-Dell tech, can you tell me why Dell lies about and doesn't provide new BIOSes and firmware for even thier servers? (Sorry this is offtopic to the parent thread, but it is a reply opportunity to a Dell tech)
Read on and tell me why I have such a bad time with Dell and the Default install?
Dell default installs are horrific. I also remove Linux from their servers, and reinstall.
I used to get Dell machines - ranging from Win9X to NT4 and beyond. I always do a fresh Install with windows because the apparently know nothing about Windows.
Now, for the Linux machines, they know nothing about it either. We have 31 Dell/Linux boxes (1550, 2450 and 2550), and after about 3 machines, we decided fresh RedHat would be far better. Its too bad they have the best deals on 1U servers,/.-ers, if you know of any other vendors for 'good' (good used loosely when referring to x86 servers) 1,2 and 3-4U servers in that price range, let me know. IBM and Compaq are pricey, Linux Vendors, like the former VA-Linux and current Penguin Computing sell garbage that you can build yourself (better). I think I'll switch to IBM as soon as I can convince the brass.
AND NOW FOR THE DELL SCAM.
Brothers of/., I must have you read the following: Dell "hides" the truth, and won't update BIOS of relabeled Intel board!
When I bought a Dell Dimension XPS Pro 200N, I got a Dell BIOS, A00. It was really a masked BIOS for an Intel VS440FX motherboard. I begged Dell at version A06 (Intel version 11) to give me the latest Intel version, 18. They claimed ignorance. After some hacking, I got the Intel BIOS to install and I was able to put more memory and a larger hard drive in. The moral. Dell withholds firmware updates to force obsolescence.
Another story. Dell Won't provide firmware updates again even on Servers!
We have OC12/ATM/POS cards from Intel. Fairly rare. They are called GigaBlade. They have two PCBs, a few Xylinx asics on them, nice silver flush mount jobs, and HP/Agilent optical framers. Cutting edge crap. Well, I wanted to put this card in a Dell box. It appears the AIC-7899 BIOS 2.X series doesn't like to behave well, and the 3.X BIOS for the Adaptec lineup fixes the problem, especially on RCC/Serverworks chipsets. Needless to say Dell has done NOTHING to help me, I have submitted about 10 requests through various channels and Adaptec has confirmed they gave Dell and all OEMS the 3.X code.
Finally, Dell has told me NO - they will not do it. The Intel GigaBlade cards are too rare to be worth their time.
I personally see why IBM charges more for their stuff - I have never been told to go screw in that manner by IBM. (MHO here is that IBM > Dell)
I link to kgcc on all redhats I use. Yes, egcs/gcc 2.9.1/112. or whatever kgcc is.
The first reason is the linux kernel is recommended to be compiled with that release and the second is that 2.96 was an experimental 3.0alpha fork. It is broken, deprecated and gcc and stallman were so pissed redhat had used it in a wide release product.
I have redhat 7.1 with gcc 3.0 in/usr/local, and I use it with great frequency. I have had no problems with its binaries. I dont pass binaries from system to system so unless you make RPMS i dont think anyone really cares, particularly when it comes to workstation machines, we all hack our own the way we like, and no one hacks up stuff around 2.96 - at least i wouldnt.
I like Slackware 8.0 for workstation use, at work we stuck with redhat 7.0 (with all the updates of course). I recommend that for server use (7.1 did some weird stuff around java). I also use kgcc -> gcc/cc sym links as the binaries produced by that compiler are "real," that 2.96 is a horror show.
The 3.0 gcc is also better at ansi/posix/whatever else, i currently have 2.4.7 running perfectly compiled from that, as well as xfree 4.1.0. I think KDE is a nice UI, but it has "dirty closed roots" and do not consider it a valid project (YET:0)
CHeers to redhat for trying, but i vote NO one the lame 2.96 fork:0)
Fortunately, I have a lot of friends - both online and in off, and many co-workers. You seem to have an opinion that no one agrees with. You probably represent a large company in some way, or feel the need to protect yourself. I believe your response is a troll - nothing more.
I do not represent the wolf. Life liberty and property, property in that case being tangible assets, e.g., guns, real estate, houses, possessions. He never said life, liberty and monopoly. In fact, life liberty and property was rephrased as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
In my ethos I strive to achieve a more star-trek like existence, where you can serve yourself (with notoriety, money, etc) and mankind at the same time. There is no need to "milk" technologies - look what happened to TUCKER in Detroit. Fucked out of businesses by the monopolists. I want to protect against that. Milking is what petrol and car companies do, prevent fuel cells, ceramic engines, higher fuel efficiencies in motors, etc. We won't see next generation technology in cars for some time because the current has to be milked.
I am upset with you. I never said ban. Copyright. I said freedom from burdensome copyright, not freedom from all copyright.. You don't know how to read and understand this is moderate position.
Elcomsoft had stopped charging for the Ebook software before he entered the company. He had done so at Adobe's request. He is an employee of Elcomsoft and cannot be charged for what that business entity had done. We have similar laws here where companies are formed to financially and legally shield people from faults.
Of government. Your attention to picayune details is annoying. You misinterpret his words, in my opinion. Are you referring to all the monopolistic and tax payer wasting exclusive government contracts?
As far as monopoly and sacrifice. Yes, monopolies are a sacrifice. I don't shun copyright or patent, I just want them used more carefully and for fair use to be protected. You can still make a product, if it so damn good then you don't even need to patent it. People need to focus on being a better company and product and not thinking about sitting on and licensing your IP for all eternity, e.g., RAMBUS. Again, you misread, malign and come up with shoddy arguments.
I'm going to stop responding to you because you have been a troll, this is clearly someone who sits and reads and has his heart set on disagreeing with me for no apparent reason other than the sake of argument. There is always one of you in a discussion thread, so I guess you can say "YHBTYHLHAND." If you weren't trolling me, then you are very un-American in your thinking - I can't think of anyone, conservative or not, that thinks any of Jefferson's reasoning wasn't intelligent and well thought out.
For those of you with "The Law is the Law" attitude, I believe this law undermines our fundamental laws here which are regarded as inalienable. Thomas Jefferson and others should clear this up.
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I feel the need with all the horrible rights violations going recently to highlight Thomas Jefferson's views on copyright. In the writing to ensue, there will be much opinion and conjecture surrounded by a more valued and respected sets of opinions by none other than Thomas Jefferson. Without a doubt, Thomas Jefferson has already covered most of what gets rehashed, particularly when it comes to fair use and the DMCA.
I feel it is important to this case, especially from the American prospective, to point out that one of the most ingenious, prolific and outspoken forefathers of the USA, where the DMCA and other vile laws live, believe firmly that the bill of rights should have included and explicit reference to freedom from burdensome and unfair copyrights and legislation thereof.
Thomas Jefferson was concerned about you and me. The people that read periodicals. He was concerned with everyone as a singular entity. You yourself may not know what's best for you if you belong to something bigger. Our [United States] laws are supposed to protect the little people.
While I'm not suggesting an armed standoff against federal agents necessary in this case, something must be done. We are railroading an expatriate to whom our laws do not bind. Furthermore, our own forefathers, particularly Jefferson, BELIEVE me he is YOUR friend (not the big monopolies like Energy/Petroleum Companies, Microsoft, etc.)
I'm going to excerpt his beliefs below. Realize that even 200 years ago, the pitfalls of burdensome copyright and the legislation that ensues would erode our freedoms.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), in his correspondence with James Madison (1751-1836) was initially hostile to the provision for copyright and patent law in the United States Constitution. On Dec. 20, 1787, Jefferson wrote to Madison from France concerning the recently-drafted Constitution:
"I do not like... the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land..."
Note, here IMHO, Thomas Jefferson wants to, along with our other inalienable rights, establish a freedom from Monopoly. These rights, not excluding freedom from monopoly, were to him as core as the rest of our bill of rights. He repeated this view in his letter to Madison dated July 31, 1788:
"I sincerely rejoice at the acceptance of our new constitution by nine states. It is a good canvas, on which some strokes only want re-touching. What these are, I think are sufficiently manifested by the general voice from North to South, which calls for a bill of rights. It seems pretty generally understood that this should go to juries, habeas corpus, standing armies, printing, religion and monopolies. I conceive there may be difficulty in finding general modification of these suited to the habits of all the states. But if such cannot be found then it is better to establish trials by jury, the right of Habeas corpus, freedom of the press and freedom of religion in all cases, and to abolish standing armies in time of peace, and monopolies, in all cases, than not to do it in any... The saying there shall be no monopolies lessens the incitements to ingenuity, which is spurred on by the hope of a monopoly for a limited time, as of 14 years; but the benefit even of limited monopolies is too doubtful to be opposed to that of their general suppression."
Madison, in a letter dated October 17, 1788, responded,
"With regard to monopolies they are justly classed among the greatest nuisances in government. But is it clear that as encouragements to literary works and ingenious discoveries, they are not too valuable to be wholly renounced? Would it not suffice to reserve in all cases a right to the public to abolish the privilege at a price to be specified in the grant of it? Is there not also infinitely less danger of this abuse in our governments than in most others? Monopolies are sacrifices of the many to the few. Where the power is in the few it is natural for them to sacrifice the many to their own partialities and corruptions. Where the power, as with us, is in the many not in the few, the danger can not be very great that the few will be thus favored. It is much more to be dreaded that the few will be unnecessarily sacrificed to the many.
I hold the recent copyright extension as an example of what Madison thought there was little danger of. There it was said, even by Madison, the proponent of the said directives, that there would likely be no "a sacrifice of the many to the "partialities and corruptions" of a powerful few."
I firmly believe the DMCA is both a corruption and a partiality. Anyone with Macrovision stock will try and convince you otherwise.
Jefferson probably saw that there is some purpose in having intellectual property be protected in some fashion or more likely, IMHO, probably decided that he would rather be a part of creating the ground rules for this countries operations and decided to cut bait at this point. He subsequently said to Madison in a letter on August 28, 1789:
"I like the declaration of rights as far as it goes, but I should have been for going further. For instance, the following alterations and additions would have pleased me... Article 9. Monopolies may be allowed to persons for their own productions in literature, and their own inventions in the arts, for a term not exceeding ___ years, but for no longer term, and for no other purpose."
The blank was to be filled in at some future date, obviously. The law is written with the sense that this right would be the right of the people to protect themselves against intellectual fraudulence by companies, e.g., the theft of the 'little man's' ideas. In addition to which, there is always the stance that the people of the fledgling USA would be safeguarded in the Bill of Rights against unduly long copyrights.
Jefferson's preference for the term of copyright was submitted to Madison a few days afterward, in a letter of September 6, 1789. The proposed term was that of 19 years, based on actuarial calculations:
"The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another seems never to have been started on this [i.e., the European side -- Jefferson was writing from France] or our [American] side of the water... that no such obligation can be so transmitted I think very capable of proof. -- I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living; that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it... A generation coming in and going out entire... would have a right on the first year of their self-dominion to contract a debt for 33 years, in the 10th for 24, in the 20th for 14, in the 30th for 4, whereas generations, changing daily by daily deaths and births, have one constant term, beginning at the date of their contract, and ending when a majority of those of full age at that date shall be dead. The length of that term may be estimated from the tables of mortality. Take, for instance, the tables of M. de Buffon... [according to which] half of those of 21 years [of age] and upwards living at any one instant of time will be dead in 18 years 8 months, or say 19 years as the nearest integral number. Then 19 years is the term beyond which neither the representatives of a nation, nor even the whole nation itself assembled, can validly extend a debt... This principle that the earth belongs to the living, and not to the dead, is of very extensive application... Turn this subject in your mind, my dear Sir... Your station in the councils of our country gives you an opportunity for producing it to public consideration... Establish the principle... in the new law to be passed for protecting copyrights and new inventions, by securing the exclusive right for 19 instead of 14 years."
A Jeffersonian computation using life tables from 1992 gives a Jeffersonian copyright term of 30-35 years. (Vital Statistics of the United States 1992, Volume II--Mortality, Part A, Public Health Service, Hyattsville, 1996, Section 6, Table 6-1.) Note, however, that at least one edition of Jefferson's works has a much abridged version of this letter, in which the 19-year computation and the proposal for the term of copyright do not occur.
One of Jefferson's most famous statements on patent law was in his often-quoted letter of August 13, 1813 to Isaac McPherson, in which he wrote that, since there is no natural right to property in land, how much less is there a natural right to a property in ideas. I think Jefferson's words apply equally well to copyrights as to patents; to "expression" as well as to "ideas": "he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me."
A random set of impressions of these laws with which I agree:
"The scary thing about the DMCA is that it affects everyone, but only a subset of the country realizes it exists, of which a subset understands what it means, of which a subset understands why its so wrong. " quote, kstumpf (ken@stumpf.com).
"Is there a "voice" amongst this subset that has any power to inflict any change here? Kind of spooky. It makes you wonder where things are headed." quote, kstumpf (ken@stumpf.com).
As someone pointed out in a discussion, be sure to realize that copyright is referred to at this point as monopoly in Jefferson's letters.
Its fairly clear that Jefferson uses Monopoly in reference to copyright, which is what it is, you can monopolize on your intellectual property for a set period of time. He was willing to give IP of the day 19 years, but he was very much verbal about fair use, and that public fair use was of the utmost importance.
Even cursory inspection of Jefferson's views shows his distrust of allowing monopolies run rampant.
Even Madison has said:
"With regard to monopolies they are justly classed among the greatest nuisances in government."
They both realized that in order for Monopolies of any sort to be protected by the government, that undue amounts of arbitration would be necessary.
Jefferson also affords a Monopoly to the Individual, not a corporate entity:
"Monopolies may be allowed to persons for their own productions in literature, and their own inventions in the arts, for a term not exceeding ___ years, but for no longer term, and for no other purpose."
Surely he isn't suggesting that one person could create a monopoly on, lets say, corn. He was referring to copyright. He certainly isn't suggesting that corn could only be sold by one person for 19 years.
Another thing, imagine if the copyrights were in fact awarded to the people who invented them, not the companies who subsidized them. It would be interesting to see a world where companies like DuPont and Merck (and every other chemical and drug exploitation companies, because that's what they are, the money is in the treatments, not the cure) are made to treat their patent holding scientists with the utmost respect and regard, even more so than the greedy shareholders, because if they left for another company, so leaves their patents!
The most important of all the Jefferson arguments is this: If IP is so unique, so wonderful and so great, why does it need protection? I don't believe I had quoted this particular argument above, I will work to find it, but the statement is true. If something is obvious, then it really isn't IP. Would you like Bob Metcalfe, the Linux is a piece of crap Windows 2000 rules moron who founded 3COM to hold the patent on 'ethernet'?
Link: http://iwsun4.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/06/ 21/990621opmetcalfe.xml
Don't you think its nice that other companies compete with 3COM for the ethernet space, such as Intel, CISCO, et al? Doesn't the standard referred to as "ethernet" get better and better because these companies compete for your business in the same segment?
"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation."
Thomas Jefferson, in Writings of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 6, H.A. Washington, Ed.,1854, pp. 180-181. Link: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/copyright/
The message in this passage is clear: an idea is not matter but energy; it cannot be owned, and it isn't diminished by being shared. In any discussion of copyright, it is useful to begin by reminding ourselves that ideas can't be copyrighted and can't be owned--only expression can. Furthermore, even when expression is copyrighted, academics ought to bear in mind their right to Fair Use, a crucial exception to copyright that exists in order to enable teaching, research, and news reporting.
A few more quotes to muse upon:
"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their choice, if the laws are so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they... undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow "
-- James Madison
And finally:
"The people are the only censors of their governors: and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution. To punish these errors too severely would be to suppress the only safeguard of the public liberty. The way to prevent these irregular interpositions of the people is to give them full information of their affairs thro' the channel of the public papers, & to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers & be capable of reading them. I am convinced that those societies (as the Indians) which live without government enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments. Among the former, public opinion is in the place of law, & restrains morals as powerfully as laws ever did anywhere. Among the latter, under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves & sheep. I do not exaggerate. This is a true picture of Europe. Cherish therefore the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you & I, & Congress & Assemblies, judges & governors shall all become wolves. "
Thomas Jefferson To Edward Carrington
Paris, Jan. 16, 1787
I agree. Dell default installs are horrific. I also remove Linux from their servers, and reinstall.
I used to get Dell machines - ranging from Win9X to NT4 and beyond. I always do a fresh Install with windows because the apparently know nothing about Windows.
Now, for the Linux machines, they know nothing about it either. We have 31 Dell/Linux boxes (1550, 2450 and 2550), and after about 3 machines, we decided fresh RedHat would be far better. Its too bad they have the best deals on 1U servers,/.-ers, if you know of any other vendors for 'good' (good used loosely when referring to x86 servers) 1,2 and 3-4U servers in that price range, let me know. IBM and Compaq are pricey, Linux Vendors, like the former VA-Linux and current Penguin Computing sell garbage that you can build yourself (better). I think I'll switch to IBM as soon as I can convince the brass.
AND NOW FOR THE DELL SCAM.
Brothers of/., I must have you read the following: Dell "hides" the truth, and won't update BIOS of relabeled Intel board!
When I bought a Dell Dimension XPS Pro 200N, I got a Dell BIOS, A00. It was really a masked BIOS for an Intel VS440FX motherboard. I begged Dell at version A06 (Intel version 11) to give me the latest Intel version, 18. They claimed ignorance. After some hacking, I got the Intel BIOS to install and I was able to put more memory and a larger hard drive in. The moral. Dell withholds firmware updates to force obsolescence.
Another story. Dell Won't provide firmware updates again even on Servers!
We have OC12/ATM/POS cards from Intel. Fairly rare. They are called GigaBlade. They have two PCBs, a few Xylinx asics on them, nice silver flush mount jobs, and HP/Agilent optical framers. Cutting edge crap. Well, I wanted to put this card in a Dell box. It appears the AIC-7899 BIOS 2.X series doesn't like to behave well, and the 3.X BIOS for the Adaptec lineup fixes the problem, especially on RCC/Serverworks chipsets. Needless to say Dell has done NOTHING to help me, I have submitted about 10 requests through various channels and Adaptec has confirmed they gave Dell and all OEMS the 3.X code.
Finally, Dell has told me NO - they will not do it. The Intel GigaBlade cards are too rare to be worth their time.
I personally see why IBM charges more for their stuff - I have never been told to go screw in that manner by IBM. (MHO here is that IBM > Dell)
I think Dell is a bad company now, and I hope they go out of business.
Another story is: Dell is Scrooge McDuck, yet worse.
.... one of the charities I worked for had Michael Dell over for a thank-you dinner. Dell had given this charity some land in the middle of nowhere that is essentially worthless. He did it to get a tax write off, and the charity couldn't sell the land for much (even though it was "valued" at some arbitrary number). When confronted at the dinner, he was asked to give the $50,000 in fees that would have to be paid to close a real-estate deal, something of this nature, I forget the details.
Well, needless to say, Michael stormed out of the dinner, upset that the people he gave this "gift" to "spit in his face."
Too cowardly to discuss without going AC. Typical. BTW, I use RS/6000s and I owned a MAC. Your actions speak for your community, which is, essentially, Microsoft's lackey given that JObs as let Claris be ovverun by MS Office and does't even produce its own browser and coattails IE. Apple needs an overhaul. Maybe some competition on the same platform will do them some good.
Like I said, I'm opinionated, I base this on experience I have had. Certainly your profanity would lead me to believe you are a feeb.
(Note to some people in this thread, when posting in HTML, dont forget the
But, back to the PPC,in general, I find Apple's hardware interestingly substandard for the price. Lots of IDE, usually pretty low end video cards and minimal RAM. The price/performance of, let say, Athlon/Geforce2/3 (doesn't matter) makes Apple/PPC look fairly bad. I just want another PPC vendor to drive the prices down, hopefully, and make PPC more accessible than somthing like an RS/6000.
One of the best things about being a B.S. in chemistry was fooling around with chemicals, and Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream rules...
This was excerpted from a popular liquid N2 site:
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If you are anything like me, then you love ice cream. There is nothing like making your own, but the problem is, it just takes too long to freeze and some things just don't like to freeze.
A while ago Scientific American [April, 1994 pgs. 66-71] had an article call Cooking with Chemistry or something along those lines. One of the recipes was one for using Liquid Nitrogen to make Ice Cream.
Great!
Now as you all know, Nitrogen is about 78% of the volume of the atmosphere and has a boiling temperature of one hundred and ninety five point eight degrees below zero Celsius.
In plain simple English, it's cold.
The price is about two cents to $2.75 per 100 cubic feet depending on purity, which isn't anything important here, so get the two cent stuff. You will also probably need a container, which you can rent/borrow from the people that you are buying the Nitrogen from. Don't use a cooler, as it will not survive the trip.
Simple rules for handling Liquid Nitrogen:
I could say DO NOT LET IT TOUCH SKIN but someone will be a bone head and do it anyway. The truth of the matter is that the human body is so hot to the Liquid Nitrogen that it will boil in your hand with out any harm to you. However, the instant you contain the liquid Nitrogen, like in a fist, you increase the pressure of the gas trying to escape. The pressure builds up enough to give you a very bad freezer burn. Enough to need medical attention, so take my word for it and don't.
Ingredients needed to make simple Vanilla Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream:
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Milk
Heavy Cream (Half and Half will do nicely)
Real Vanilla not that fake junk that's sold!
Sugar
Liquid Nitrogen
Equipment needed:
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Stainless Steel mixing bowl
Wooden mixing spoon
gloves
a big sink or a level place out side.
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First figure out how much you want to make. Multiply the total amount of ice cream by five to get the amount of Liquid Nitrogen needed to freeze the ice cream. A gallon of ice cream will thus need five gallons of Liquid Nitrogen.
Mix the Milk, Cream, Vanilla and sugar in the mixing bowl. The ratios should be twice as much cream as milk and about 8 tbsp of vanilla for every gallon of liquid. Sugar should be about 1 cup dry measure per gallon. If that's too sweet then half it. I do not know how artificial sweeteners react to the cold, so I don't recommend the usage of them.
Mix the ingredients until the sugar has dissolved into the milk and cream. Add in any fixings (candy, coffee, other flavors). Move to the sink if you haven't already. Pour in the Liquid Nitrogen slowly and mix with the wooden spoon until completely frozen, which should be about 10 minutes. Wear the gloves, because it's going to be cold.
For a better freeze, prepare the icecream in a pressure cooker, and after adding the Liquid Nitrogen, clamp shut for 5 minutes.
Eat!
If you want, you can add cookie dough or just about anything else to the mixture. Don't worry, it will freeze (trust me, it has no choice but too!).
Other flavors can be made by replacing or adding with the Vanilla with your choice of:
Coffee (hot, strong and fresh is the best) - with a few whole beans - yum!
Cookie dough - either homemade or store bought will do.
Candy - A Milky Way is good in bits, as is Heath Bar.
Liquors - Don't worry about the low freezing point, Liquid Nitrogen is much lower!
I'm greatly looking forward to a better PPC vendor personally. I think the competition would do Apple well.
I wish the IBM POWER-3 workstations and the RS/6000 are cheap.
Frankly, Apple's ROM stinks, it isn't open, and I hope we can get a source of PPC hardware from a company that needs to please its customers to survive.
Everytime I get a live chat person, particularly from places like AT@Home, they are total retards and say my question is too complicated and I should call.
I can't blame the real techs for wanting to be sequestered and not harassed, but companies continuously pad themselves full of total idiots. I say I'd rather wait on IRC or on teh phone a long time to get to a knowledgable person, than get to some idiot right away.
Mylex had good support whenever I called them, just to tip a hat to someone in bed with Lady-Good-Customer-Service.
HP just laid of 6000 people. I just mentioned that because its funny. Down with Carly.
Somehow no matter how much they are dying to screw us over, we just won't cave in. They whine about reliability, what a crock. TCP has its flaws, but I always marvel at its robustness. There was a study done on Internet delivery in Serbia/Croatia/Warzones of the time, and it is a military grade protocol.
Companies: Yes we see your shit banner ads. Yes we see your books online. Yes we know how much FedEX really costs and how much you fuck us on S&H. The Internet does't reduce your TCO because we want to TALK to you on the phone, not have some total shit web-help-crap. You cannot can your customers jhere.
With high availibility the world over and several methods of encryption, there is nothing wron besides the fact we don't all get a personal T-1.
Companies: Revelation. You suck, your buiness model sucks, and your product sucks. You hired too many marketing people that know nothing and you pay them. They tell you to "leverage" the Internet, because you have no cash left for R&D, customer support and other important things.
Companies: Fire/outsource your stupid marketing. Let word of mouth help you, if your product rules, places like Tomshardware crop up and sell stuff for you. Ask Asus about stuff like this. Asus probably spend $5 on marketing for every $1000 Intel does. Yet I use Asus, cheaper, faster (in General) and more feature laden than Intel's own boards.
Companies, we will boycott you if you try to undermine us. And I will take the grudge to work - and cancel any collective-monopolist attempt to control us.
Note: I have banned NEC and its technology wherever possible from all companies I have worked for because of a bad service incident. I'll die remembering how the treated me that one time.
Forget about your Voodoo and XP, Microsoft isn't going to support it. (I think NVidia is at fault though - the wont release the driver source to Microsoft for verification.)
XP is far slower than any other Microsoft OS at the time of this writing, AFAICT.
Most of the information was provided in the article, that being that PPC is slower.
Why would such hardware command a premium. I'm not here to engage in warfare, I'm just dying for a way out of the Intel gammit, and Apple isn't paving a golden path. Of all the zealotry in the world, the worst is this AltiVec. Its almost meaningless, I went to all sorts of sites, and the advantages of AltiVec are that is some doofy name to put on a box and market. Its constantly pointed to and said, there it be, the goldne ALTIVEC. Yet it fails to produce much interest. Maybe I have a myopic approach to looking for information, and I want Apple to fail Thats what you think. I happen to have exposure quite frequently to "new" MACS, they are boring and overpriced machines.
You have not convinced me you have tried the alternatives. You have not. You stick by what you know and thats fair. I feel confident in saying that I know what I have tried, this ranges from commercial Unixes, BSDs, Linux, MAC OS/OS X, and the Microsoft junk. After the novelty of "the color computer!" wore off, Apple has in my estimation failed to trailblaze much of anything for our industry. And if Motorola was so great, why did Apple and Motorola have some of the bloodiest corporate fights?
This is just an opinion, and CIO's agree with me, Apple certainly isn't the lesser of two evils. Market share goes to show that.
Apple users make it out like they have some uber workstation, like having and Indy 5 years ago, and there is all this power they have no one else does.
Trust me, Power-III CPU based workstations start at $20,000 for a reason, superior architechture is at the top of the list.
What is with all your emphasis!! In your! Post! You seem to have quite a bit of emotion attached to this discussion, which leads me to believe you make emotional conclusions and not those based on fact or experience.
You would mod me down because I have said what you did not want to hear, not that my arguments were flat out wrong or flaming or trolling.
You would mod me down because I have rendered an opinion with which you disagree. This is a sad revelation to make to our community about your nature - censorial.
Now, as far as getting a perspective, you product something a little more convincing that "AlitVec rules!! I know! I use Photoshop ALL DAY MAN!
Prove me wrong, show me some web site that says, yes, here is a barrage of valid cross platform cross operating systems tests that shows without a doubt that PPC kicks the crap out of any Intel CPU.
I have searched for such evidence and have found none. Only Apple's heavily disclaimed* ** *** claims on thier website say such things.
I suppose telemarketers have a reason to exist... Someone LISTENS to them. They have to make sales/commision and for whatever reason some people just don't hang up. (Like I do)
The same must hold true for internet marketing, I would venture a big - no.
I'm willing to bet that.commish ad firms try to justify thier existence by showing "research" that proves they are in fact useful. I believe they are not. They are being killed by: Junkbuster, The Proximitron, Web Washer, neat javascripts, you name it, and other such useful window cleaning devices. While most users can't handle the concept of running script/proxy, things are being done to blacklist these things.
Sometimes I don't get too offended. Targeted ads, even obscure ones (like the small ones on the side), can be interesting. (One out of every 1000 times - maybe). If one frequents a place like FOSI or cracks sites, then the porn deluge is justified, you are probably an "evil kiddie" and then the porn is well directed.
But just as the guy who wrote the Melissa word macro virus got into trouble, these ads should be limited to static banners - no viral scripting, popping up or other such things. I consider web bugs, evil scripts and other such undesireable things a virus, and these purveyors of such should be held criminally liable, particularly X10. This is my duty as netizen to clean it up, but jesus, if the DMCA can protect ROT13, and Melissa and ILOVEYOU virus authors can get stomped on, then please, someone clean up all this viral ad spam please! I couldn't imagine this one a modem, as I have had broadband for years. I would sure be pissed though.
Best of luck to all of those who are in the faight against this!
PS - My x-gf works for an internet spam house. I'm not wondering why she is an x anymore!;-)
Thanks for the review. Anyone who produces information is a good thing...
I think it should be pointed out wherever possible that Motorola Bastardizes the PPC, and that IBM's Power III and upcoming Power IV are the salvation of PPC. Apple is an tower of hubris, they lost market share and are 15% owned by Gill Bates because of one thing: overpriced garbage.
We must look to IBM to provide us with decent PPC hardware! The PPC is a thing of raw power and beauty, and it really does shine on IBM's power workstations and whatnot. With the Intellificastion of the Alpha [(I know someone on the Alpha design team - here is the scoop, Intel can use Alpha MA, EV7 will be finished at Compaq - Compaq will offer 4 to 256 CPU based servers, the EV8 design team will work for Intel in one year, Intel believes VLIW/Merced/McKinley was a mistake and will charge the EV8 design team to come up with a new CPU with the only requisite: it must be IA-64 compatible)], and the deathly low margins of Athlon CPUs, we really need PPC to stop being bastardized by Motorola. Screw Apple and Motorola.
For the record, OS X is the most useless thing I have ever seen creep out of Apple. I am an ardent fan of BeOS, and Apple would have done much better to have embraced BeOS, offered Intel based "IMACS" for the cheap stuff, and hardcore POWER-3 powered high BeOS Macs.
The error that they made will live in the annuls of history at this point.
I call upon the PPC community to dethrone that pompous ass referred to as Steve Slobs and his vile Microsoft's bitch company, Crapple.
By the way, Intel may not be as badass, but its CHEEP.
His link goes to a story which literally scares me. Law should never be copyrighted. In fact, most of the freedom in this country is in part due to the ideals of Thomas Jefferson, a man who needs to be alive today...
http://www.msnbc.com/news/594462.asp
Copyright is a means to exploitation, and just as the death penalty needs to be banned to save the life of the ONE innocent on death row (especially retarded people now that G.W. Bush is in office), the copyright must allow for the INCENTIVE to innovate, but not STIFLE innovations by HIDING the TRUTH from all of US!!!
I wrote to X10, once anonymously, once with my real name.
The first time I wrote them, anonymously, I told them that everyone wanted them to die of cancer, "we the people" hate them, and to stop the ads...
Then I wrote them in a more 'P.C.' way.
I said that even if I was dying to commit voyeurism, as most of their ads suggest, that I would NEVER buy their product, EVER. And all my friends and everyone, Linux and windows users alike, can unite behind me on this one. We would shudder to think to solicit a vile organization that spams us with this abusive, exploitive sub-par guerilla crap marketing.
I actually have strayed from hating KDE, because the newer stuff is so much better than it was in the past. Konqerer is a very nice browser and KDE is an excellent windowing environment.
I call upon the designers of moz, IE, Nutscrape and Opera to disable this horrible pop-up abuse!
1) I don't buy US cars, they are inferior. I tend to buy Japanese cars due to better long term reliability, fit an finish. They also seem to care about polluting less with hybrid offerings from Honda and Toyota, not fake offerings like the EV1 from GM (not purchaseable, overpriced, underproduced). Also, If you need an SUV, try the Pathfinder, at least it has front and read limited slip differentials (thus not being a dressed up RWD pickup).
2) So you finance the "future" of uber technologies that save the environment (many of which have already been invented, but the patents bought and kiboshed or the purveyors told to go take a hike, gyroscopes, fuel cells, ceramic engines, list a mile long) by soliciting something that pollutes more?
3) So by admitting they share parts, and a drastically high number of them, you acknowledge the SUV is in fact a dressed up pickup truck and you make GM/Ford/Chrysler shareholders rich. Believe me, the fat cats pad thier pockets before R&D.
4) I did not bitch about anything, bitching implies argument with little or no validity. As this thread indicates, I have garnered a bit of support for my viewpoints.
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56K isnt even bad, when I left NJ, I could get either ISDN (total rip off, love mah bell), a T-1 or frac to the house (I love mah bell, they can run a t-1 (which is a circuit that has been around for 30 years) in 90 days (much, much less if you pay much much more, and give you 1.5 up down flawlessly), pray for DSL or cable to come around, they never did, and now probably never will, OR use my two trusty couriers to aggregate bandwidth and 26400 x 2. (Note, this kind of dialup account no longer exists anymore, RIP netcom =( ].
Anyways, 56K in that town was like 10 ft from the CO or less. Forget 56K at 10,000 ft.
I'm very upset that web pages are inline image laden, its very hard to navigate the web with all this super bandwidth sucking stuff lying around. sure its optional, but as unix admins know that in a pinch without X its VERY hard to use links/lynx and get anywhere usefule without the images! ITS terrible!
This is probably why usenet is still very popular around the world.
AFAIK, only 5% of the people in this country have broadband.
And in case you havn't noticed all "internet" companies having a hard time, thank you AT&T, Verizon, GTE, (Insert Bell here). They love it when the internet does bad because it threatens to deprecate thier sources of income! If 768/768 SDSL was $100 a month - and it was available everywhere, everyone everywhere would have it, and no one would use the phone (things like dialpad would replace it.) Remember, these idiots at PacBell charge me $30 a month just to have a phone number. Give me a break. I'm all for paying for bandwidth - but the DSL you may never get was destroyed by the Bells to protect their territory...
I'm hoping that "lite" versions of sites pop up so that when my broadband goes dark I can enjoy the net just the same.
- NOTE TO SUN, IBM, COMPAQ ET AL. FIX YOUR BROKEN NON-ECN AWARE FIREWALLS PLEASE.
Two more cents =)
I happened to find an interesting company at reactivenetwork.com.
It isn't just another dot-bomb or hot-dot. There is a real method behind mitigating DDOS attacks. This methodology certainly isn't suggested by this article, and therefore is fairly senseless chatter about nothing in particular. The companies, Arbor, Asta and Mazu and McAfee talk a lot about Zombie detection, and use an array of industry buzzwords and marketing hype surrounded by code-red to carve a niche in the market for themselves. They want to offer their services and fail to come up with a distributed scheme and proper good traffic bad traffic differentiation.
I saw a demonstration of the product that reactive networks had. It is certainly a meritorious endeavor that deserves a closer look. It is also interesting because this is far beyond theory and academia; this is laden with applicative value. It is a Linux based detector/actuator distributed schema. It is interesting because it does a few things that could really, really make NSP's lives much better. The first step is to recognize the good traffic from the bad. It tends to learn what network traffic is normal. It knows when a DDOS attack is coming in and mitigates the attack while letting the good traffic come through. What is amazing I have seen this work in a LAN at GigE speeds! I can mitigate a randomly spoofed source address attack while letting "normal" web traffic through. And this product isn't beta, prerelease, etc, its at version 1.0.
The next time ZD's editors start babbling about something that got into the news or on CNN that had to do with technology, they should look for the real gems of technology, not sift through a pile of marketing hype and whitepapers without seeing some action. You can talk about doing something, or you can do it. AFAIK, reactive is the only company to prove to me whitepaper or not that AT&T, UUNet, Sprint/MCI/WorldCom Verizon, Savvio and others should pick up software like Reactive Network's and not worry about finding and punishing script kiddies and killing zombies. There are too many zombies to count, there are too many IP's to worry about. You have to let the good traffic through and block the evil traffic. The best way of doing this is to have a distributed triggering scheme and to identify good traffic, and to make holes for the typical good traffic and let the customers of a web site through, its not about launching a holy crusade against script kiddies, its fruitless.
Always look at a problem that addresses a problem. HAS a product that fixes it. And find a company that isn't about marketing buzz but about engineering a new solution that big players would be able to use to nullify the ill effects of script-kiddies.
Just my two cents
I know, its sad for them. THe marketing slobs like Dell here, so I think I'm stuck.
Sorry about the HTML problems there, I got trigger happy and didn't preview.
As an ex-Dell tech, can you tell me why Dell lies about and doesn't provide new BIOSes and firmware for even thier servers? (Sorry this is offtopic to the parent thread, but it is a reply opportunity to a Dell tech) Read on and tell me why I have such a bad time with Dell and the Default install? Dell default installs are horrific. I also remove Linux from their servers, and reinstall. I used to get Dell machines - ranging from Win9X to NT4 and beyond. I always do a fresh Install with windows because the apparently know nothing about Windows. Now, for the Linux machines, they know nothing about it either. We have 31 Dell/Linux boxes (1550, 2450 and 2550), and after about 3 machines, we decided fresh RedHat would be far better. Its too bad they have the best deals on 1U servers, /.-ers, if you know of any other vendors for 'good' (good used loosely when referring to x86 servers) 1,2 and 3-4U servers in that price range, let me know. IBM and Compaq are pricey, Linux Vendors, like the former VA-Linux and current Penguin Computing sell garbage that you can build yourself (better). I think I'll switch to IBM as soon as I can convince the brass.
AND NOW FOR THE DELL SCAM.
Brothers of /., I must have you read the following: Dell "hides" the truth, and won't update BIOS of relabeled Intel board!
When I bought a Dell Dimension XPS Pro 200N, I got a Dell BIOS, A00. It was really a masked BIOS for an Intel VS440FX motherboard. I begged Dell at version A06 (Intel version 11) to give me the latest Intel version, 18. They claimed ignorance. After some hacking, I got the Intel BIOS to install and I was able to put more memory and a larger hard drive in. The moral. Dell withholds firmware updates to force obsolescence.
Another story. Dell Won't provide firmware updates again even on Servers!
We have OC12/ATM/POS cards from Intel. Fairly rare. They are called GigaBlade. They have two PCBs, a few Xylinx asics on them, nice silver flush mount jobs, and HP/Agilent optical framers. Cutting edge crap. Well, I wanted to put this card in a Dell box. It appears the AIC-7899 BIOS 2.X series doesn't like to behave well, and the 3.X BIOS for the Adaptec lineup fixes the problem, especially on RCC/Serverworks chipsets. Needless to say Dell has done NOTHING to help me, I have submitted about 10 requests through various channels and Adaptec has confirmed they gave Dell and all OEMS the 3.X code.
Finally, Dell has told me NO - they will not do it. The Intel GigaBlade cards are too rare to be worth their time.
I personally see why IBM charges more for their stuff - I have never been told to go screw in that manner by IBM. (MHO here is that IBM > Dell)
I have to disagree with redhat...
/usr/local, and I use it with great frequency. I have had no problems with its binaries. I dont pass binaries from system to system so unless you make RPMS i dont think anyone really cares, particularly when it comes to workstation machines, we all hack our own the way we like, and no one hacks up stuff around 2.96 - at least i wouldnt.
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I link to kgcc on all redhats I use. Yes, egcs/gcc 2.9.1/112. or whatever kgcc is.
The first reason is the linux kernel is recommended to be compiled with that release and the second is that 2.96 was an experimental 3.0alpha fork. It is broken, deprecated and gcc and stallman were so pissed redhat had used it in a wide release product.
I have redhat 7.1 with gcc 3.0 in
I like Slackware 8.0 for workstation use, at work we stuck with redhat 7.0 (with all the updates of course). I recommend that for server use (7.1 did some weird stuff around java). I also use kgcc -> gcc/cc sym links as the binaries produced by that compiler are "real," that 2.96 is a horror show.
The 3.0 gcc is also better at ansi/posix/whatever else, i currently have 2.4.7 running perfectly compiled from that, as well as xfree 4.1.0. I think KDE is a nice UI, but it has "dirty closed roots" and do not consider it a valid project (YET
CHeers to redhat for trying, but i vote NO one the lame 2.96 fork
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Fortunately, I have a lot of friends - both online and in off, and many co-workers. You seem to have an opinion that no one agrees with. You probably represent a large company in some way, or feel the need to protect yourself. I believe your response is a troll - nothing more.
I do not represent the wolf. Life liberty and property, property in that case being tangible assets, e.g., guns, real estate, houses, possessions. He never said life, liberty and monopoly. In fact, life liberty and property was rephrased as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
In my ethos I strive to achieve a more star-trek like existence, where you can serve yourself (with notoriety, money, etc) and mankind at the same time. There is no need to "milk" technologies - look what happened to TUCKER in Detroit. Fucked out of businesses by the monopolists. I want to protect against that. Milking is what petrol and car companies do, prevent fuel cells, ceramic engines, higher fuel efficiencies in motors, etc. We won't see next generation technology in cars for some time because the current has to be milked.
I am upset with you. I never said ban. Copyright. I said freedom from burdensome copyright, not freedom from all copyright.. You don't know how to read and understand this is moderate position.
Elcomsoft had stopped charging for the Ebook software before he entered the company. He had done so at Adobe's request. He is an employee of Elcomsoft and cannot be charged for what that business entity had done. We have similar laws here where companies are formed to financially and legally shield people from faults.
Of government. Your attention to picayune details is annoying. You misinterpret his words, in my opinion. Are you referring to all the monopolistic and tax payer wasting exclusive government contracts?
As far as monopoly and sacrifice. Yes, monopolies are a sacrifice. I don't shun copyright or patent, I just want them used more carefully and for fair use to be protected. You can still make a product, if it so damn good then you don't even need to patent it. People need to focus on being a better company and product and not thinking about sitting on and licensing your IP for all eternity, e.g., RAMBUS. Again, you misread, malign and come up with shoddy arguments.
I'm going to stop responding to you because you have been a troll, this is clearly someone who sits and reads and has his heart set on disagreeing with me for no apparent reason other than the sake of argument. There is always one of you in a discussion thread, so I guess you can say "YHBTYHLHAND." If you weren't trolling me, then you are very un-American in your thinking - I can't think of anyone, conservative or not, that thinks any of Jefferson's reasoning wasn't intelligent and well thought out.
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I agree. The point of this post of mine was to point out "the law" attitude is not only un-american, but inhuman.
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For those of you with "The Law is the Law" attitude, I believe this law undermines our fundamental laws here which are regarded as inalienable. Thomas Jefferson and others should clear this up.
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I feel the need with all the horrible rights violations going recently to highlight Thomas Jefferson's views on copyright. In the writing to ensue, there will be much opinion and conjecture surrounded by a more valued and respected sets of opinions by none other than Thomas Jefferson. Without a doubt, Thomas Jefferson has already covered most of what gets rehashed, particularly when it comes to fair use and the DMCA.
I feel it is important to this case, especially from the American prospective, to point out that one of the most ingenious, prolific and outspoken forefathers of the USA, where the DMCA and other vile laws live, believe firmly that the bill of rights should have included and explicit reference to freedom from burdensome and unfair copyrights and legislation thereof.
Thomas Jefferson was concerned about you and me. The people that read periodicals. He was concerned with everyone as a singular entity. You yourself may not know what's best for you if you belong to something bigger. Our [United States] laws are supposed to protect the little people.
While I'm not suggesting an armed standoff against federal agents necessary in this case, something must be done. We are railroading an expatriate to whom our laws do not bind. Furthermore, our own forefathers, particularly Jefferson, BELIEVE me he is YOUR friend (not the big monopolies like Energy/Petroleum Companies, Microsoft, etc.)
I'm going to excerpt his beliefs below. Realize that even 200 years ago, the pitfalls of burdensome copyright and the legislation that ensues would erode our freedoms.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), in his correspondence with James Madison (1751-1836) was initially hostile to the provision for copyright and patent law in the United States Constitution. On Dec. 20, 1787, Jefferson wrote to Madison from France concerning the recently-drafted Constitution:
"I do not like... the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land..."
Note, here IMHO, Thomas Jefferson wants to, along with our other inalienable rights, establish a freedom from Monopoly. These rights, not excluding freedom from monopoly, were to him as core as the rest of our bill of rights. He repeated this view in his letter to Madison dated July 31, 1788:
"I sincerely rejoice at the acceptance of our new constitution by nine states. It is a good canvas, on which some strokes only want re-touching. What these are, I think are sufficiently manifested by the general voice from North to South, which calls for a bill of rights. It seems pretty generally understood that this should go to juries, habeas corpus, standing armies, printing, religion and monopolies. I conceive there may be difficulty in finding general modification of these suited to the habits of all the states. But if such cannot be found then it is better to establish trials by jury, the right of Habeas corpus, freedom of the press and freedom of religion in all cases, and to abolish standing armies in time of peace, and monopolies, in all cases, than not to do it in any... The saying there shall be no monopolies lessens the incitements to ingenuity, which is spurred on by the hope of a monopoly for a limited time, as of 14 years; but the benefit even of limited monopolies is too doubtful to be opposed to that of their general suppression."
Madison, in a letter dated October 17, 1788, responded,
"With regard to monopolies they are justly classed among the greatest nuisances in government. But is it clear that as encouragements to literary works and ingenious discoveries, they are not too valuable to be wholly renounced? Would it not suffice to reserve in all cases a right to the public to abolish the privilege at a price to be specified in the grant of it? Is there not also infinitely less danger of this abuse in our governments than in most others? Monopolies are sacrifices of the many to the few. Where the power is in the few it is natural for them to sacrifice the many to their own partialities and corruptions. Where the power, as with us, is in the many not in the few, the danger can not be very great that the few will be thus favored. It is much more to be dreaded that the few will be unnecessarily sacrificed to the many.
I hold the recent copyright extension as an example of what Madison thought there was little danger of. There it was said, even by Madison, the proponent of the said directives, that there would likely be no "a sacrifice of the many to the "partialities and corruptions" of a powerful few."
I firmly believe the DMCA is both a corruption and a partiality. Anyone with Macrovision stock will try and convince you otherwise.
Jefferson probably saw that there is some purpose in having intellectual property be protected in some fashion or more likely, IMHO, probably decided that he would rather be a part of creating the ground rules for this countries operations and decided to cut bait at this point. He subsequently said to Madison in a letter on August 28, 1789:
"I like the declaration of rights as far as it goes, but I should have been for going further. For instance, the following alterations and additions would have pleased me... Article 9. Monopolies may be allowed to persons for their own productions in literature, and their own inventions in the arts, for a term not exceeding ___ years, but for no longer term, and for no other purpose."
The blank was to be filled in at some future date, obviously. The law is written with the sense that this right would be the right of the people to protect themselves against intellectual fraudulence by companies, e.g., the theft of the 'little man's' ideas. In addition to which, there is always the stance that the people of the fledgling USA would be safeguarded in the Bill of Rights against unduly long copyrights.
Jefferson's preference for the term of copyright was submitted to Madison a few days afterward, in a letter of September 6, 1789. The proposed term was that of 19 years, based on actuarial calculations:
"The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another seems never to have been started on this [i.e., the European side -- Jefferson was writing from France] or our [American] side of the water... that no such obligation can be so transmitted I think very capable of proof. -- I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living; that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it... A generation coming in and going out entire... would have a right on the first year of their self-dominion to contract a debt for 33 years, in the 10th for 24, in the 20th for 14, in the 30th for 4, whereas generations, changing daily by daily deaths and births, have one constant term, beginning at the date of their contract, and ending when a majority of those of full age at that date shall be dead. The length of that term may be estimated from the tables of mortality. Take, for instance, the tables of M. de Buffon... [according to which] half of those of 21 years [of age] and upwards living at any one instant of time will be dead in 18 years 8 months, or say 19 years as the nearest integral number. Then 19 years is the term beyond which neither the representatives of a nation, nor even the whole nation itself assembled, can validly extend a debt... This principle that the earth belongs to the living, and not to the dead, is of very extensive application... Turn this subject in your mind, my dear Sir... Your station in the councils of our country gives you an opportunity for producing it to public consideration... Establish the principle... in the new law to be passed for protecting copyrights and new inventions, by securing the exclusive right for 19 instead of 14 years."
A Jeffersonian computation using life tables from 1992 gives a Jeffersonian copyright term of 30-35 years. (Vital Statistics of the United States 1992, Volume II--Mortality, Part A, Public Health Service, Hyattsville, 1996, Section 6, Table 6-1.) Note, however, that at least one edition of Jefferson's works has a much abridged version of this letter, in which the 19-year computation and the proposal for the term of copyright do not occur.
One of Jefferson's most famous statements on patent law was in his often-quoted letter of August 13, 1813 to Isaac McPherson, in which he wrote that, since there is no natural right to property in land, how much less is there a natural right to a property in ideas. I think Jefferson's words apply equally well to copyrights as to patents; to "expression" as well as to "ideas": "he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me."
A random set of impressions of these laws with which I agree:
"The scary thing about the DMCA is that it affects everyone, but only a subset of the country realizes it exists, of which a subset understands what it means, of which a subset understands why its so wrong. " quote, kstumpf (ken@stumpf.com).
"Is there a "voice" amongst this subset that has any power to inflict any change here? Kind of spooky. It makes you wonder where things are headed." quote, kstumpf (ken@stumpf.com).
As someone pointed out in a discussion, be sure to realize that copyright is referred to at this point as monopoly in Jefferson's letters.
Its fairly clear that Jefferson uses Monopoly in reference to copyright, which is what it is, you can monopolize on your intellectual property for a set period of time. He was willing to give IP of the day 19 years, but he was very much verbal about fair use, and that public fair use was of the utmost importance.
Even cursory inspection of Jefferson's views shows his distrust of allowing monopolies run rampant.
Even Madison has said:
"With regard to monopolies they are justly classed among the greatest nuisances in government."
They both realized that in order for Monopolies of any sort to be protected by the government, that undue amounts of arbitration would be necessary.
Jefferson also affords a Monopoly to the Individual, not a corporate entity:
"Monopolies may be allowed to persons for their own productions in literature, and their own inventions in the arts, for a term not exceeding ___ years, but for no longer term, and for no other purpose."
Surely he isn't suggesting that one person could create a monopoly on, lets say, corn. He was referring to copyright. He certainly isn't suggesting that corn could only be sold by one person for 19 years.
Another thing, imagine if the copyrights were in fact awarded to the people who invented them, not the companies who subsidized them. It would be interesting to see a world where companies like DuPont and Merck (and every other chemical and drug exploitation companies, because that's what they are, the money is in the treatments, not the cure) are made to treat their patent holding scientists with the utmost respect and regard, even more so than the greedy shareholders, because if they left for another company, so leaves their patents!
The most important of all the Jefferson arguments is this: If IP is so unique, so wonderful and so great, why does it need protection? I don't believe I had quoted this particular argument above, I will work to find it, but the statement is true. If something is obvious, then it really isn't IP. Would you like Bob Metcalfe, the Linux is a piece of crap Windows 2000 rules moron who founded 3COM to hold the patent on 'ethernet'?
Link: http://iwsun4.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/06
Don't you think its nice that other companies compete with 3COM for the ethernet space, such as Intel, CISCO, et al? Doesn't the standard referred to as "ethernet" get better and better because these companies compete for your business in the same segment?
"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation."
Thomas Jefferson, in Writings of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 6, H.A. Washington, Ed.,1854, pp. 180-181. Link: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/copyright/
The message in this passage is clear: an idea is not matter but energy; it cannot be owned, and it isn't diminished by being shared. In any discussion of copyright, it is useful to begin by reminding ourselves that ideas can't be copyrighted and can't be owned--only expression can. Furthermore, even when expression is copyrighted, academics ought to bear in mind their right to Fair Use, a crucial exception to copyright that exists in order to enable teaching, research, and news reporting.
A few more quotes to muse upon:
"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their choice, if the laws are so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they... undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow "
-- James Madison
And finally:
"The people are the only censors of their governors: and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution. To punish these errors too severely would be to suppress the only safeguard of the public liberty. The way to prevent these irregular interpositions of the people is to give them full information of their affairs thro' the channel of the public papers, & to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers & be capable of reading them. I am convinced that those societies (as the Indians) which live without government enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments. Among the former, public opinion is in the place of law, & restrains morals as powerfully as laws ever did anywhere. Among the latter, under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves & sheep. I do not exaggerate. This is a true picture of Europe. Cherish therefore the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you & I, & Congress & Assemblies, judges & governors shall all become wolves. "
Thomas Jefferson To Edward Carrington
Paris, Jan. 16, 1787
- B. Howes, 2001, California "Amerika"
I agree. Dell default installs are horrific. I also remove Linux from their servers, and reinstall.
/.-ers, if you know of any other vendors for 'good' (good used loosely when referring to x86 servers) 1,2 and 3-4U servers in that price range, let me know. IBM and Compaq are pricey, Linux Vendors, like the former VA-Linux and current Penguin Computing sell garbage that you can build yourself (better). I think I'll switch to IBM as soon as I can convince the brass.
/., I must have you read the following: Dell "hides" the truth, and won't update BIOS of relabeled Intel board!
I used to get Dell machines - ranging from Win9X to NT4 and beyond. I always do a fresh Install with windows because the apparently know nothing about Windows.
Now, for the Linux machines, they know nothing about it either. We have 31 Dell/Linux boxes (1550, 2450 and 2550), and after about 3 machines, we decided fresh RedHat would be far better. Its too bad they have the best deals on 1U servers,
AND NOW FOR THE DELL SCAM.
Brothers of
When I bought a Dell Dimension XPS Pro 200N, I got a Dell BIOS, A00. It was really a masked BIOS for an Intel VS440FX motherboard. I begged Dell at version A06 (Intel version 11) to give me the latest Intel version, 18. They claimed ignorance. After some hacking, I got the Intel BIOS to install and I was able to put more memory and a larger hard drive in. The moral. Dell withholds firmware updates to force obsolescence.
Another story. Dell Won't provide firmware updates again even on Servers!
We have OC12/ATM/POS cards from Intel. Fairly rare. They are called GigaBlade. They have two PCBs, a few Xylinx asics on them, nice silver flush mount jobs, and HP/Agilent optical framers. Cutting edge crap. Well, I wanted to put this card in a Dell box. It appears the AIC-7899 BIOS 2.X series doesn't like to behave well, and the 3.X BIOS for the Adaptec lineup fixes the problem, especially on RCC/Serverworks chipsets. Needless to say Dell has done NOTHING to help me, I have submitted about 10 requests through various channels and Adaptec has confirmed they gave Dell and all OEMS the 3.X code.
Finally, Dell has told me NO - they will not do it. The Intel GigaBlade cards are too rare to be worth their time.
I personally see why IBM charges more for their stuff - I have never been told to go screw in that manner by IBM. (MHO here is that IBM > Dell)
I think Dell is a bad company now, and I hope they go out of business.
Another story is: Dell is Scrooge McDuck, yet worse.
.... one of the charities I worked for had Michael Dell over for a thank-you dinner. Dell had given this charity some land in the middle of nowhere that is essentially worthless. He did it to get a tax write off, and the charity couldn't sell the land for much (even though it was "valued" at some arbitrary number). When confronted at the dinner, he was asked to give the $50,000 in fees that would have to be paid to close a real-estate deal, something of this nature, I forget the details.
Well, needless to say, Michael stormed out of the dinner, upset that the people he gave this "gift" to "spit in his face."
Like I said, I'm opinionated, I base this on experience I have had. Certainly your profanity would lead me to believe you are a feeb.
(Note to some people in this thread, when posting in HTML, dont forget the
please.)
Needless to say the POWER CPU is of a higher caliber, particularly when it comes to memory performance.
The ROM/BIOS whatever you want to call it, I am complaining about the lack of an SRM-like firmware OS 'loader.'
Sorry to spark a discussion that leads to Mac zealotry.
Check out the wholly overpriced IBM workstations here.
But, back to the PPC,in general, I find Apple's hardware interestingly substandard for the price. Lots of IDE, usually pretty low end video cards and minimal RAM. The price/performance of, let say, Athlon/Geforce2/3 (doesn't matter) makes Apple/PPC look fairly bad. I just want another PPC vendor to drive the prices down, hopefully, and make PPC more accessible than somthing like an RS/6000.
I just miss the days of great Macs like the 9600.
One of the best things about being a B.S. in chemistry was fooling around with chemicals, and Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream rules...
This was excerpted from a popular liquid N2 site:
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If you are anything like me, then you love ice cream. There is nothing like making your own, but the problem is, it just takes too long to freeze and some things just don't like to freeze.
A while ago Scientific American [April, 1994 pgs. 66-71] had an article call Cooking with Chemistry or something along those lines. One of the recipes was one for using Liquid Nitrogen to make Ice Cream.
Great!
Now as you all know, Nitrogen is about 78% of the volume of the atmosphere and has a boiling temperature of one hundred and ninety five point eight degrees below zero Celsius.
In plain simple English, it's cold.
The price is about two cents to $2.75 per 100 cubic feet depending on purity, which isn't anything important here, so get the two cent stuff. You will also probably need a container, which you can rent/borrow from the people that you are buying the Nitrogen from. Don't use a cooler, as it will not survive the trip.
Simple rules for handling Liquid Nitrogen:
I could say DO NOT LET IT TOUCH SKIN but someone will be a bone head and do it anyway. The truth of the matter is that the human body is so hot to the Liquid Nitrogen that it will boil in your hand with out any harm to you. However, the instant you contain the liquid Nitrogen, like in a fist, you increase the pressure of the gas trying to escape. The pressure builds up enough to give you a very bad freezer burn. Enough to need medical attention, so take my word for it and don't.
Ingredients needed to make simple Vanilla Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream:
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Milk
Heavy Cream (Half and Half will do nicely)
Real Vanilla not that fake junk that's sold!
Sugar
Liquid Nitrogen
Equipment needed:
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Stainless Steel mixing bowl
Wooden mixing spoon
gloves
a big sink or a level place out side.
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First figure out how much you want to make. Multiply the total amount of ice cream by five to get the amount of Liquid Nitrogen needed to freeze the ice cream. A gallon of ice cream will thus need five gallons of Liquid Nitrogen.
Mix the Milk, Cream, Vanilla and sugar in the mixing bowl. The ratios should be twice as much cream as milk and about 8 tbsp of vanilla for every gallon of liquid. Sugar should be about 1 cup dry measure per gallon. If that's too sweet then half it. I do not know how artificial sweeteners react to the cold, so I don't recommend the usage of them.
Mix the ingredients until the sugar has dissolved into the milk and cream. Add in any fixings (candy, coffee, other flavors). Move to the sink if you haven't already. Pour in the Liquid Nitrogen slowly and mix with the wooden spoon until completely frozen, which should be about 10 minutes. Wear the gloves, because it's going to be cold.
For a better freeze, prepare the icecream in a pressure cooker, and after adding the Liquid Nitrogen, clamp shut for 5 minutes.
Eat!
If you want, you can add cookie dough or just about anything else to the mixture. Don't worry, it will freeze (trust me, it has no choice but too!).
Other flavors can be made by replacing or adding with the Vanilla with your choice of:
Coffee (hot, strong and fresh is the best) - with a few whole beans - yum!
Cookie dough - either homemade or store bought will do.
Candy - A Milky Way is good in bits, as is Heath Bar.
Liquors - Don't worry about the low freezing point, Liquid Nitrogen is much lower!
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Let me tell you, this stuff is excellent.
he didnt get modded up pooplicker. he posts at +2 because more karma than your penisless self.
I'm greatly looking forward to a better PPC vendor personally. I think the competition would do Apple well.
I wish the IBM POWER-3 workstations and the RS/6000 are cheap.
Frankly, Apple's ROM stinks, it isn't open, and I hope we can get a source of PPC hardware from a company that needs to please its customers to survive.
I'll wish them the best.
As a citizen of the United States, we have such things as citizen's arrest. Well, I'm going to start a new precedent, Citizen's apology.
I speak for most of my countrymen, at least those with a functioning cerebral cortex,
WORLD: I AM SORRY ON BEHALF OF THE USA. We are blatantly denying the "inalienable" rights OUT constitution gives us to an EXPATRIATE.
WE the people have a government which is denying HABEOUS CORPUS, and is acting illegally without our accord.
We have only one discourse short of killing key people who turn a blind eye to everything our country was built on, that is PROTEST.
Sorry Dmitry, I will try and get the offending people to resign!
- Angry "Amerikan"
I agree with what you say. But...
Everytime I get a live chat person, particularly from places like AT@Home, they are total retards and say my question is too complicated and I should call.
I can't blame the real techs for wanting to be sequestered and not harassed, but companies continuously pad themselves full of total idiots. I say I'd rather wait on IRC or on teh phone a long time to get to a knowledgable person, than get to some idiot right away.
Mylex had good support whenever I called them, just to tip a hat to someone in bed with Lady-Good-Customer-Service.
HP just laid of 6000 people. I just mentioned that because its funny. Down with Carly.
Somehow no matter how much they are dying to screw us over, we just won't cave in. They whine about reliability, what a crock. TCP has its flaws, but I always marvel at its robustness. There was a study done on Internet delivery in Serbia/Croatia/Warzones of the time, and it is a military grade protocol.
Companies: Yes we see your shit banner ads. Yes we see your books online. Yes we know how much FedEX really costs and how much you fuck us on S&H. The Internet does't reduce your TCO because we want to TALK to you on the phone, not have some total shit web-help-crap. You cannot can your customers jhere.
With high availibility the world over and several methods of encryption, there is nothing wron besides the fact we don't all get a personal T-1.
Companies: Revelation. You suck, your buiness model sucks, and your product sucks. You hired too many marketing people that know nothing and you pay them. They tell you to "leverage" the Internet, because you have no cash left for R&D, customer support and other important things.
Companies: Fire/outsource your stupid marketing. Let word of mouth help you, if your product rules, places like Tomshardware crop up and sell stuff for you. Ask Asus about stuff like this. Asus probably spend $5 on marketing for every $1000 Intel does. Yet I use Asus, cheaper, faster (in General) and more feature laden than Intel's own boards.
Companies, we will boycott you if you try to undermine us. And I will take the grudge to work - and cancel any collective-monopolist attempt to control us.
Note: I have banned NEC and its technology wherever possible from all companies I have worked for because of a bad service incident. I'll die remembering how the treated me that one time.
We won't turn a blind eye and we wont forget.
Forget about your Voodoo and XP, Microsoft isn't going to support it. (I think NVidia is at fault though - the wont release the driver source to Microsoft for verification.)
XP is far slower than any other Microsoft OS at the time of this writing, AFAICT.
Most of the information was provided in the article, that being that PPC is slower.
Why would such hardware command a premium. I'm not here to engage in warfare, I'm just dying for a way out of the Intel gammit, and Apple isn't paving a golden path. Of all the zealotry in the world, the worst is this AltiVec. Its almost meaningless, I went to all sorts of sites, and the advantages of AltiVec are that is some doofy name to put on a box and market. Its constantly pointed to and said, there it be, the goldne ALTIVEC. Yet it fails to produce much interest. Maybe I have a myopic approach to looking for information, and I want Apple to fail Thats what you think. I happen to have exposure quite frequently to "new" MACS, they are boring and overpriced machines.
You have not convinced me you have tried the alternatives. You have not. You stick by what you know and thats fair. I feel confident in saying that I know what I have tried, this ranges from commercial Unixes, BSDs, Linux, MAC OS/OS X, and the Microsoft junk. After the novelty of "the color computer!" wore off, Apple has in my estimation failed to trailblaze much of anything for our industry. And if Motorola was so great, why did Apple and Motorola have some of the bloodiest corporate fights?
This is just an opinion, and CIO's agree with me, Apple certainly isn't the lesser of two evils. Market share goes to show that.
Apple users make it out like they have some uber workstation, like having and Indy 5 years ago, and there is all this power they have no one else does.
Trust me, Power-III CPU based workstations start at $20,000 for a reason, superior architechture is at the top of the list.
What is with all your emphasis!! In your! Post! You seem to have quite a bit of emotion attached to this discussion, which leads me to believe you make emotional conclusions and not those based on fact or experience.
You would mod me down because I have said what you did not want to hear, not that my arguments were flat out wrong or flaming or trolling.
You would mod me down because I have rendered an opinion with which you disagree. This is a sad revelation to make to our community about your nature - censorial.
Now, as far as getting a perspective, you product something a little more convincing that "AlitVec rules!! I know! I use Photoshop ALL DAY MAN!
Prove me wrong, show me some web site that says, yes, here is a barrage of valid cross platform cross operating systems tests that shows without a doubt that PPC kicks the crap out of any Intel CPU.
I have searched for such evidence and have found none. Only Apple's heavily disclaimed* ** *** claims on thier website say such things.
I suppose telemarketers have a reason to exist... Someone LISTENS to them. They have to make sales/commision and for whatever reason some people just don't hang up. (Like I do)
.commish ad firms try to justify thier existence by showing "research" that proves they are in fact useful. I believe they are not. They are being killed by: Junkbuster, The Proximitron, Web Washer, neat javascripts, you name it, and other such useful window cleaning devices. While most users can't handle the concept of running script/proxy, things are being done to blacklist these things.
;-)
The same must hold true for internet marketing, I would venture a big - no.
I'm willing to bet that
Sometimes I don't get too offended. Targeted ads, even obscure ones (like the small ones on the side), can be interesting. (One out of every 1000 times - maybe). If one frequents a place like FOSI or cracks sites, then the porn deluge is justified, you are probably an "evil kiddie" and then the porn is well directed.
But just as the guy who wrote the Melissa word macro virus got into trouble, these ads should be limited to static banners - no viral scripting, popping up or other such things. I consider web bugs, evil scripts and other such undesireable things a virus, and these purveyors of such should be held criminally liable, particularly X10. This is my duty as netizen to clean it up, but jesus, if the DMCA can protect ROT13, and Melissa and ILOVEYOU virus authors can get stomped on, then please, someone clean up all this viral ad spam please! I couldn't imagine this one a modem, as I have had broadband for years. I would sure be pissed though.
Best of luck to all of those who are in the faight against this!
PS - My x-gf works for an internet spam house. I'm not wondering why she is an x anymore!
Thanks for the review. Anyone who produces information is a good thing...
I think it should be pointed out wherever possible that Motorola Bastardizes the PPC, and that IBM's Power III and upcoming Power IV are the salvation of PPC. Apple is an tower of hubris, they lost market share and are 15% owned by Gill Bates because of one thing: overpriced garbage.
We must look to IBM to provide us with decent PPC hardware! The PPC is a thing of raw power and beauty, and it really does shine on IBM's power workstations and whatnot. With the Intellificastion of the Alpha [(I know someone on the Alpha design team - here is the scoop, Intel can use Alpha MA, EV7 will be finished at Compaq - Compaq will offer 4 to 256 CPU based servers, the EV8 design team will work for Intel in one year, Intel believes VLIW/Merced/McKinley was a mistake and will charge the EV8 design team to come up with a new CPU with the only requisite: it must be IA-64 compatible)], and the deathly low margins of Athlon CPUs, we really need PPC to stop being bastardized by Motorola. Screw Apple and Motorola.
For the record, OS X is the most useless thing I have ever seen creep out of Apple. I am an ardent fan of BeOS, and Apple would have done much better to have embraced BeOS, offered Intel based "IMACS" for the cheap stuff, and hardcore POWER-3 powered high BeOS Macs.
The error that they made will live in the annuls of history at this point.
I call upon the PPC community to dethrone that pompous ass referred to as Steve Slobs and his vile Microsoft's bitch company, Crapple.
By the way, Intel may not be as badass, but its CHEEP.
PS. CON TE PARTIRO, Crapple CUBE.
His link goes to a story which literally scares me. Law should never be copyrighted. In fact, most of the freedom in this country is in part due to the ideals of Thomas Jefferson, a man who needs to be alive today...
http://www.msnbc.com/news/594462.asp
Copyright is a means to exploitation, and just as the death penalty needs to be banned to save the life of the ONE innocent on death row (especially retarded people now that G.W. Bush is in office), the copyright must allow for the INCENTIVE to innovate, but not STIFLE innovations by HIDING the TRUTH from all of US!!!
Its sad to see a company like SGI go...
Especially when XFS is such a nice filesystems, I currently am using it on a few Linux boxen.
Its also interesting to note that Nvidia was originally made up almost entirely of ex-SGI employees.
It seems that the masters of graphics took a back seat when they lost the talent to Nvidia and starting reselling Microsoft based products...
I wrote to X10, once anonymously, once with my real name.
The first time I wrote them, anonymously, I told them that everyone wanted them to die of cancer, "we the people" hate them, and to stop the ads...
Then I wrote them in a more 'P.C.' way.
I said that even if I was dying to commit voyeurism, as most of their ads suggest, that I would NEVER buy their product, EVER. And all my friends and everyone, Linux and windows users alike, can unite behind me on this one. We would shudder to think to solicit a vile organization that spams us with this abusive, exploitive sub-par guerilla crap marketing.
I actually have strayed from hating KDE, because the newer stuff is so much better than it was in the past. Konqerer is a very nice browser and KDE is an excellent windowing environment.
I call upon the designers of moz, IE, Nutscrape and Opera to disable this horrible pop-up abuse!
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1) I don't buy US cars, they are inferior. I tend to buy Japanese cars due to better long term reliability, fit an finish. They also seem to care about polluting less with hybrid offerings from Honda and Toyota, not fake offerings like the EV1 from GM (not purchaseable, overpriced, underproduced). Also, If you need an SUV, try the Pathfinder, at least it has front and read limited slip differentials (thus not being a dressed up RWD pickup).
2) So you finance the "future" of uber technologies that save the environment (many of which have already been invented, but the patents bought and kiboshed or the purveyors told to go take a hike, gyroscopes, fuel cells, ceramic engines, list a mile long) by soliciting something that pollutes more?
3) So by admitting they share parts, and a drastically high number of them, you acknowledge the SUV is in fact a dressed up pickup truck and you make GM/Ford/Chrysler shareholders rich. Believe me, the fat cats pad thier pockets before R&D.
4) I did not bitch about anything, bitching implies argument with little or no validity. As this thread indicates, I have garnered a bit of support for my viewpoints.