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  1. It's coming ... QoS on High-Speed Greed · · Score: 1

    But it is on it's way . Remember that QoS is , in fact , an integral part of IPv6 and it should be .

    There are many real needs that QoS addresses --- the need to forward ( more quickly ) packets carrying streaming content , realtime information , etc ...

    It will inevitably be used to discriminate between higher paying customers and lower service consumers .
    Consumers WILL be charged on both ends of the transactions as innovators will pass on 'customer delivery' costs to the consumers . Now that the internet has been completely comercialized ( few exceptions ) the good , cooperative , nettiquette that current protocols enforce WILL be slowly degraded ...

    Until people begin asking pointed and informed questions about why their service is being reduced .
    With the number of people who are apparently cozy with locking themselves into 3 year subscriptions for internet access , my optimism that we will revolt is in the toilet .

    What do you think might happen .
    Your Squire
    Squireson

  2. What's with Taco's warpath on RH lately ? on Red Hat Claims They Started The Open Source Revolution · · Score: 1

    Turned out that the report on all those bugs was mostly bogus tracing back to one post that ( not even a bug report ) bashing RH7 that A Cox responded to .

    <br><br>
    Now a seven word statement without any context in the article gets top light ? Well thanks for passing it on . I don't think that I am going to lose faith in a company that has consistenly reinvested in the community and open source until people like Alan Cox start jumping ship .
    <br><br>Let's start taking a little less of a kneejerk at success .<br><br>
    How about popping off for a formal response form someone at redhat before YOU post anything more about them . Might do you both some good <br><br>
    Your Squire<br>
    Squireson

  3. Taco ? What's with the warpath on RH lately ? on Red Hat Claims They Started The Open Source Revolution · · Score: 1

    First the article on RH bugs ( which turned out to be mostly bogus ) and this report on seven words with no context ? You know , even the Debian folks have given RedHat some more room than this . Look I am going to start losing faith in RH when people like Alan Cox starting jumping ship . They have consistently reinvested in the community and people need to take another look at that before they start screaming foul . Your Squire Squireson

  4. But NOT SOFTWARE !! on Extending UCITA To Printed Books? · · Score: 1

    Next time that you are at the local public library just try and check out a copy of MS Office or any other piece of evenly remotely expensive software .

    Their EULAs prevent it but unlike many 'static' digital media ( non executable informtaion ) distributors , software companies do go out of their way to prevent libraries and other information outlets from lending their materials out . Remeber You don't own MSOffice after the purchase , you merely have a license to use THEIR copy of the software .

    Your Squire
    Squireson

  5. THey Already HAVE a 3 meter scope in Australia !!! on UK Publishes Asteroid Armageddon Report · · Score: 1

    They already have a 3 meter scope avaliable in Australia ... it was shutdown the same day that it was to come online . It was shut down by the british government --- the same govt. that funded it initially .
    This was detailed in the Discovery show that was on last night ( three minutes to impact ) as well as a number of other convincing arguements on what these odds might mean and what we can do about it .<br>
    Among these comments some struck me as particularly important :
    <br><br>
    The greatest threat is represented not by planet killer's but by that class of asteroid that would more or less cripple a continents economy . The damage created to Japan by a tsunami causing asteroid that struck west of the Hawaiian islands would be greater than 10 years of their GNP .
    They would esentially be flattened . These asteroids are estimated to strike earth once every thousand years ( on average -- even though the last may have been 3000 years ago ) .
    <br><br>
    NASA was commanded by Congress to search out and find earth crossing asteroids and has to this day allotted only $1,000,000 per year to do this .

    Your Squire

    squireson

  6. plug-in for XMMS and an encoder already ... on Copying A DVD To A CD? · · Score: 1

    Both the decoding and encoding software have been written for Linux already . See the reply of links above or head straight on over to the website .

  7. No it does NOT !! on FCC to Rule on Request to Limit Recording From TV · · Score: 2

    "..., this statement charges Congress with the duty of enacting Copyright and Patent laws..."

    No it does not charge Congress with the responsibilty of enacting IP Laws at all ! It gives them the ability to do so but does in no way require them to do so . This is principle to the interpretation that Author's rights are artificial ( that is that they are not constitutionally protected rights but rather enacted by congress ) . Consumer rights ( read citizen's rights ) are protected and are superior to artificial rights as far as the courts are concerned .


    Your Squire Squireson

  8. Congress , open source and consumer rights ... on FCC to Rule on Request to Limit Recording From TV · · Score: 1

    There is nothing unconstitutional at all about congress passing laws that secure " for a limited time " rights to reproduction of "useful arts" . The Supreme court has made rulings that establish fair use as a protected right of consumers . Congress has no real incentive to protect consumers on these points at all . They receive money from those interested in shifting importance from consumer's rights to authors rights . Congressman listen to them because no one else is talking to them about the same issues or has access to their ears . People do not list these consumer rights high on their priority lists as so few individuals ever get prosecuted . This is very much an issue for open source as we encounter the same economic model abuses . The MPAA would like nothing more than to have us pay for each instance of viewing ... as though their product were being performed each time like a theatre troop . The MPAA would very much like to push tha older econmomic model into a newer ( since the days of radio ) distribution model as it promises to give them the same magnitude of income enjoyed by software companies like M$ . What do you think ? Your Squire Squireson

  9. Conspiracy my arse ! use some sense ... on Kursk Destroyed By Cavitation Missles? · · Score: 1

    Ever worked in a project that went bad ?
    Some of the engineering troubles we had eventually got straightened out and talked intellegently about but that didn't keep those 'higher ups' from saying things <b>before they knew</b> what was giong on . Hence disinformation ... through stupidity and ignorance . <br><br>

    As to the cavitation torpedo , horse-puckey !
    Use some sense . When something like this happens it is most likely some glitch . All it takes is a hatch to not really be opened when the cold gas ejector tries to fire a torpedo and ...
    Bang ! No explosives have to detonate but consider the froce necessary to eject a 1/2 ton torpedo from a 35 ft tube , at depth ! <br><br>
    I am not pretending to know what caused this but for this russian journalistic site to portray it as a cavitation mishap is ludicrous --- and journalistically irresponsible . This sounds more like the Enquirer than a real news outlet . <br>
    Your Squire
    Squireson
    <br><br>Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence .

  10. THIS IS THE PROBLEM !!! on Finding the Right Online Credit Card Merchant? · · Score: 1

    This is the problem I have rammed my head against ! None of the smaller ecommerce outsource offerings have any reasonable way of dealing with foreign currency and not even some of the expensive ones can give me a clear answer on what they can do for us here . I guess I shouldn't be surprised that American businesses are dollar centric . Your Squire Squrieson

  11. Ya see , that is the problem .... on Why Develop On Linux? · · Score: 1

    That is the problem with most CS programs now , they fail to register a basic truth about programming : Once you learn to program ( really OOP ) then it's easy to tack on any additional language later . Programming is a skill , a way of thinking and creating that is ( mostly )independent of indiviual language syntax . My father ( like many father's do ) had a great thing to say on this subject . He has forgotten 75% of the details that he learned in Vet school ( they dont' come up often enough ) but he recognizes that there is a detail he needs to chase down and he remembers where to look when he needs them . What Vet school was invaluable at was drilling into him the methods and practices that he uses every day without thinking about it . The 'understanding' and familiarity with medicine/phisiology is what sets him above technicians . Similarly there is a big difference in the understanding of programming from someone who is allowed to peruse the libraries that are being used and someone who just let's a developement tool create binaries for them . Note: there is a big difference in the way I thought when I did F77 and the way I think while programming OOP . But once inside of Object oriented thinking differences between languages are just so many details . I have the refernce manuals and they speed me up .

  12. constitutional clause ? on Examples Of Questionable EULAs? · · Score: 1

    US Copyright law does not change this in the least. It does not confer ownership of information. It never has, the copyright clause in the Constitution forbids it twice . Where in the constitution is this written ? I wasn't even aware that there was such a clause . Please help , Your squire Squireson squireson@bigfoot.com

  13. It's a joke guys ... on Wormhole Generator (Kinda) Patented · · Score: 1

    This is not a serious patent . Somebody is playing with the language to see what they can put over on the patent department . Look at what they are saying in detail and get into a Freshman year Physics textbook (college) . You will be able to decipher what they are saying from that and see why we can expect to wait for years ( if ever )
    before some method of FTL is possible .

    There is still no theoretical way that information can travel FTL . Don't talk to me about the "spooky action at a distance " either . The instantaneous effects of that can't be used to transmit usable information without a conventional communications route added to it .

    Your Squire
    Squireson

  14. Titan AE is an excellent story . on Review: "Mission To Mars" · · Score: 1

    Tiatn AE is an excellent story and it must be a sign of recent movies that the upcoming motion picture makes me nervous .
    I truly do hope that the movie doesn't bum me out like some really have . On the other hand I have been particularly impressed with Pitch Black and Fight Club . I guess someone has to get things right from time to time .

  15. Why do you need a monitor ? on Security Expert Dave Dittrich on DDoS Attacks · · Score: 1

    Why would you need to have amonitor hooked up ? I used my video card once to get my headless server running and all it is now is a pair of ethernet cards , memory and processor . $25 computer $50 for ethernet cards $0 download from linuxrouter.org & trinity OS firewall ruleset ( to start )

  16. Ok Teg ... on Sci-Fi Channel Making Dune Miniseries · · Score: 1

    Yes , I remember Brussar and Miles Teg being Bashars . Heretics and Chapterhouse . Your Squire Squireson

  17. Book 7 is out ... followed by DUNE7 on Sci-Fi Channel Making Dune Miniseries · · Score: 2

    The seventh book in the Dune series is out in case anyone hadn't heard .

    It is called 'House Atreides' and is written by Brian Herbert ( Franks son ) and *mumblemumble* Anderson .

    It is a lighter read and is wonderful in that it shows some of the more prominent 'races' in their less developed stages . Bene Gesserit are still more or less Human in this prequel etc ...

    Highly recomended . Also there is a note in side the book that Dune7 will follow ( that is the title that Frank Herbert held for the sequel to Chapterhouse )
    Your Squire
    sqruireson

  18. Science Fiction is News For Nerds ... on Sci-Fi Channel Making Dune Miniseries · · Score: 1

    Important Science fiction ( such as anything written by Herbert or Penrose ) that focuses on sociology and how people's interactions are modified by technology or the lack of it is very important to a large number of nerds .

    How can we discount ( as unworthy of discussion ) the effects our working medium has on other people?

    Your Squire
    squireson

  19. HEY !!!! on Sci-Fi Channel Making Dune Miniseries · · Score: 1

    HEY !! no hold on here a minute .
    DUNE , the movie was a fine film .
    It was ( in my opinion ) very true to the story and the feel of Herberts universe .

    Bash it again and feel my Gom Jabbar , buddy .
    (The four hour was better for people that hadn't read the book )
    Your Squire
    squireson

  20. That's more obnoxious than "First Post" on IBM, DOE, and VA Linux Building Open Cluster Center · · Score: 1

    What the hell does that have to do with
    Chiba City ?
    Just curious ,
    Your Squire
    Squireson

  21. It'll be fun to crack your f. records ... on Username/Password - Is It Still Secure? · · Score: 1

    Once financial records are stored in insecure ways it will become fun to crack them . Trust me . Or more to the point ... Don't trust me . Your Suqire squireson

  22. 90% !? Who are they kidding ? on Communicator Is Losing The War..... · · Score: 1

    Who are they kidding ? 90% of the people that I know who have computers don't use IE .
    about 30 - 35% use Netscape .
    Heck , I know people who are using Netscape 3.0
    and get pretty hacked when they encounter a website that doesn't look right .
    They do not go through the trouble of downloading
    a new browser . The five million downloads for IE 5 were mainly disgruntled IE users .

    Your ?Squire
    suqireson

  23. Create features that IE doesn't have . on Communicator Is Losing The War..... · · Score: 1

    Create new features where they make sense , I say .
    If Netscape couldn't win the browser war then maybe the open source community is the only developement environment that can wage that kind of campaign successfully .

    We need ot beat them at their own game , me thinks .
    Your Squire
    squireson

  24. ASP PAGES !!! You should have warned me !! on Quickie Fu · · Score: 1

    The notjenni.com site is in ASP .
    Man , next time warn me when I get directed to a set of Active Server Pages ...

    I can feel the evil eminate , the licensing just shines through !!
    Your Suqire
    Suqireson

  25. probable cause on Software to Predict "Troubled Youths" · · Score: 1

    Probable cause is the scariest threat here . It seems like such a natural outgrowth of this program . If you have ever taken a 'drug risk assesment' you know what I am talking about . Let me give you a piece of advice : Lie .