The site you cite is nothing but a ripoff site designed to lure people into displaying its ads. The site is YEARS out of date, has never done anything to forward LInux on the iPAQ, and merely links to those of us who did the heavy lifting.
Please don't link to ipaqlinux.com. The proper place to find Linux for handhelds is handhelds.org. -russ
Similar idea to the Public Software Fund, only we allow for different size donations and multiple bidders for the same job. I have plans to modify the system so it allows for dominant assurance contracts.
In some town on Long Island, they copyrighted their GIS data and tried to refuse to supply it under NYS's FOIL (Freedom Of Information Law). They were sued and lost, but.... were allowed to keep their copyright. So now the people who receive the data can only republish it if they don't violate the town's copyright. Blah. -russ
Yes. The technical term is 'human shield'. Yahoo knows that the spammer is on that IP address. To protect their revenue, they put other non-spammers websites on the same IP address.
John Levine has written up a description of the problem on his blog, Taugh Networks. -russ
Actually.... since the one thing you can count on in spam is a working URL pointing to the spammer's advertising, some people are now parsing email, and checking the IP of all URLs. If any one of them is listed on a blacklist, then the email is rejected. Works pretty well, actually. -russ
Remember the old bus mouse that Microsoft sold? It was their very first mouse, and it needed a hardware interface on an ISA card. I reverse-engineered that driver, and made my own hardware interface for the S-100 bus which could talk to that mouse. Along the way, I noticed a secret string in the driver that said "Chris Peters rules OK!". That was back in 1984 or thereabouts. I'm glad to see that Chris has done well for himself. -russ
A lot of SMBs have no in-house sysadmin. They rely on Microsoft for their IT solution. No reason why they couldn't rely on Red Hat or Novell; they just don't. Now. They'll figure it out in time. -russ
Delorme's BlueLogger is a nifty Bluetooth GPS receiver. And if they can make Linux run on it, we can also make GPE run on it, which means Python can run on it, which means pygps will run on it. No, it doesn't do navigation, but it will give you aerial photos and topo maps, which nothing else will do. -russ
Or, in another reality, BPL has been tested in other areas.... where no hams complained.... and nobody noticed because it worked just fine. -russ p.s. THIS reality.
important stuff such as 911 call handling, lack of which already resulted in lost lives.
Ask around for 911 horror stories. There are PLENTY of times when 911 service doesn't work. Example: when my friend down the road from me nearly cut his thumb off with a chop saw, he ran into the house and called 911. No answer! So he called his secretary, whom he knew would be available to call the hospital for him.
And this has nothing to do with VOIP.
its apparent state of equilibrium being an all-poweful oligarchy.
Honestly, where do you people get this idea from? Companies have a natural size. Sometimes it's big. Sometimes it's small. Parroting the standard leftist line about "corporate oligarchies" just makes you look gullible and foolish.
At least the bureaucrats have some minor modicum of accountability to the voters.
Corporations have to be profitable. Those which cannot convince customers to buy their product will go out of business. If a company has a track record of pleasing people, it will take a while for them to run out of money. That is exactly what you want to happen and in order to make that happen.... you have to do nothing. If you try to regulate corporations (besides respecting property and the truth), you screw up this mechanism and make the world a worse place.
So, yes, I'm suggesting that immediate deregulation of the telecom market would be an improvement, even if the regulators had a clue and regulated better. -russ
The whole point of the regulation is to prevent what is known in other industries as "dumping", i.e. using size and profitability in other (usually monopolized) markets to outlast a smaller, specialized competitor in a niche market by writing off the losses in this small market which the competitor cannot afford to.
Back in reality, it turns out that companies that try to maintain a monopoly in this manner (predatory pricing) usually never make money on this tactic. It costs them more to maintain their monopoly than they can ever recoup through higher prices. Let's say that they lower their prices by ten cents for a year, and drive somebody out of the business. In order to make back that money, they need to raise their prices by ten cents over their original monopoly price. But the party that they put out of business went into business precisely because they saw a way to suck off excess profits by competing with the monopoly. Now the market price is ten cents higher, and the profits are even more attractive to a new entrant. So somebody else goes into the business, and the monopoly can't even go back to their old price. They have to go back to the old "lose ten cents per" price, because that's what's necessary to drive the competition out of business.
Do you see? You have been taught something which is not true. Predatory pricing doesn't work the way you've been taught. Oh, I'm not saying that companies never do it. I'm just saying that it's not profitable for them to do so. -russ
Then the "unfair" price will be adjusted downwards.
You are very optimistic concerning the operation of government. If I told you that companies don't work very well and are terribly inefficient, would you believe me? For all the same reasons, governments don't work very well either. -russ
you've got an instant monopoly unbreakable by competition (simply because there is no physical possibility of competition).
Interesting that you believe something so not true. Did you know that you can rent space on poles? FiberGarden.net is going to do exactly that in San Francisco, and sell gigabit Ethernet for $3K/month in certain neighborhoods. Resale will be allowed.
Are you going to let random people like me string up our own cables on public roads across the state?
The answer right now is "yes". Don't believe me; ask around. -russ
I'm saying that there aren't many market monopolies compared to government monopolies. Yes, you can argue that regulation keeps away market monopolies, but you can also argue that whistling Dixie keeps away elephants. Try it! it works!
The reason you had a giant oil monopoly (Standard Oil) is because prior to SO, oil was not standardized. SO brought efficiency to the oil market by being the dominant provider. Because they dominated, they set the standard. Because the standard created huge amounts of value, SO was able to make lots of money. But they also greatly reduced the price of oil. Would they have been able to sustain their monopoly without also creating value? It's not obvious to me. Question the standard wisdom you have been taught in government schools about how the government is needed to protect you from horrible companies. If private schools taught you how awful government regulation was, everybody would be up in arms about how biased they were. But when government schools teach you how awful corporations are, everybody nods their heads andd suspends disbelief. -russ
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Guiding is what the government should be doing.
No. A government should keep the peace. Everything else should be done through voluntary organizations.
-russ
Yep. Snape killed him, too.
The site you cite is nothing but a ripoff site designed to lure people into displaying its ads. The site is YEARS out of date, has never done anything to forward LInux on the iPAQ, and merely links to those of us who did the heavy lifting.
Please don't link to ipaqlinux.com. The proper place to find Linux for handhelds is handhelds.org.
-russ
(some time later)
Yahoo! and Cisco: Merging DomainKeys and IIM to create DKIM!
Microsoft:: SenderID! It's still broken and we still haven't fixed it!
Similar idea to the Public Software Fund, only we allow for different size donations and multiple bidders for the same job. I have plans to modify the system so it allows for dominant assurance contracts.
In some town on Long Island, they copyrighted their GIS data and tried to refuse to supply it under NYS's FOIL (Freedom Of Information Law). They were sued and lost, but .... were allowed to keep their copyright. So now the people who receive the data can only republish it if they don't violate the town's copyright. Blah.
-russ
I've heard that the handhelds guys are trying to port Linux to the Nokia 770.
-russ
Yes. The technical term is 'human shield'. Yahoo knows that the spammer is on that IP address. To protect their revenue, they put other non-spammers websites on the same IP address.
John Levine has written up a description of the problem on his blog, Taugh Networks.
-russ
No, no, this is a blacklist containing the IP address of webservers advertised via spam.
-russ
DNSBLs block IP address ranges, not URLs.
.... since the one thing you can count on in spam is a working URL pointing to the spammer's advertising, some people are now parsing email, and checking the IP of all URLs. If any one of them is listed on a blacklist, then the email is rejected. Works pretty well, actually.
Actually
-russ
Theo is just a bit off his rocker. Truth-telling is not his strong point.
-russ
Remember the old bus mouse that Microsoft sold? It was their very first mouse, and it needed a hardware interface on an ISA card. I reverse-engineered that driver, and made my own hardware interface for the S-100 bus which could talk to that mouse. Along the way, I noticed a secret string in the driver that said "Chris Peters rules OK!". That was back in 1984 or thereabouts. I'm glad to see that Chris has done well for himself.
-russ
Nearly your entire energy deficit is met from Canada and Venezuela.
So why does anybody think we care what the Saudis do? And why does anybody think we're fighting a War for Oil in Iraq? Where is the rationality?
-russ
A lot of SMBs have no in-house sysadmin. They rely on Microsoft for their IT solution. No reason why they couldn't rely on Red Hat or Novell; they just don't. Now. They'll figure it out in time.
-russ
How much oil is the US getting from Canada?
-russ
Delorme's BlueLogger is a nifty Bluetooth GPS receiver. And if they can make Linux run on it, we can also make GPE run on it, which means Python can run on it, which means pygps will run on it. No, it doesn't do navigation, but it will give you aerial photos and topo maps, which nothing else will do.
-russ
You're not accusing him of self-interested argumentation, are you?
-russ
Or, in another reality, BPL has been tested in other areas .... where no hams complained .... and nobody noticed because it worked just fine.
-russ
p.s. THIS reality.
Stop bringing facts into a perfectly fine flame war!
-russ
No, this will not work, for a variety of reasons which are obvious once you think about it for a little while.
-russ
important stuff such as 911 call handling, lack of which already resulted in lost lives.
.... you have to do nothing. If you try to regulate corporations (besides respecting property and the truth), you screw up this mechanism and make the world a worse place.
Ask around for 911 horror stories. There are PLENTY of times when 911 service doesn't work. Example: when my friend down the road from me nearly cut his thumb off with a chop saw, he ran into the house and called 911. No answer! So he called his secretary, whom he knew would be available to call the hospital for him.
And this has nothing to do with VOIP.
its apparent state of equilibrium being an all-poweful oligarchy.
Honestly, where do you people get this idea from? Companies have a natural size. Sometimes it's big. Sometimes it's small. Parroting the standard leftist line about "corporate oligarchies" just makes you look gullible and foolish.
At least the bureaucrats have some minor modicum of accountability to the voters.
Corporations have to be profitable. Those which cannot convince customers to buy their product will go out of business. If a company has a track record of pleasing people, it will take a while for them to run out of money. That is exactly what you want to happen and in order to make that happen
So, yes, I'm suggesting that immediate deregulation of the telecom market would be an improvement, even if the regulators had a clue and regulated better.
-russ
The whole point of the regulation is to prevent what is known in other industries as "dumping", i.e. using size and profitability in other (usually monopolized) markets to outlast a smaller, specialized competitor in a niche market by writing off the losses in this small market which the competitor cannot afford to.
Back in reality, it turns out that companies that try to maintain a monopoly in this manner (predatory pricing) usually never make money on this tactic. It costs them more to maintain their monopoly than they can ever recoup through higher prices. Let's say that they lower their prices by ten cents for a year, and drive somebody out of the business. In order to make back that money, they need to raise their prices by ten cents over their original monopoly price. But the party that they put out of business went into business precisely because they saw a way to suck off excess profits by competing with the monopoly. Now the market price is ten cents higher, and the profits are even more attractive to a new entrant. So somebody else goes into the business, and the monopoly can't even go back to their old price. They have to go back to the old "lose ten cents per" price, because that's what's necessary to drive the competition out of business.
Do you see? You have been taught something which is not true. Predatory pricing doesn't work the way you've been taught. Oh, I'm not saying that companies never do it. I'm just saying that it's not profitable for them to do so.
-russ
Then the "unfair" price will be adjusted downwards.
You are very optimistic concerning the operation of government. If I told you that companies don't work very well and are terribly inefficient, would you believe me? For all the same reasons, governments don't work very well either.
-russ
you've got an instant monopoly unbreakable by competition (simply because there is no physical possibility of competition).
Interesting that you believe something so not true. Did you know that you can rent space on poles? FiberGarden.net is going to do exactly that in San Francisco, and sell gigabit Ethernet for $3K/month in certain neighborhoods. Resale will be allowed.
Are you going to let random people like me string up our own cables on public roads across the state?
The answer right now is "yes". Don't believe me; ask around.
-russ
I'm saying that there aren't many market monopolies compared to government monopolies. Yes, you can argue that regulation keeps away market monopolies, but you can also argue that whistling Dixie keeps away elephants. Try it! it works!
The reason you had a giant oil monopoly (Standard Oil) is because prior to SO, oil was not standardized. SO brought efficiency to the oil market by being the dominant provider. Because they dominated, they set the standard. Because the standard created huge amounts of value, SO was able to make lots of money. But they also greatly reduced the price of oil. Would they have been able to sustain their monopoly without also creating value? It's not obvious to me. Question the standard wisdom you have been taught in government schools about how the government is needed to protect you from horrible companies. If private schools taught you how awful government regulation was, everybody would be up in arms about how biased they were. But when government schools teach you how awful corporations are, everybody nods their heads andd suspends disbelief.
-russ