Oh I see... and posting as an anonymous coward really helps the cause too?
All you offer is negativism. Where is your contrary solution. If mine is so wrong, what is your?
You call me "bourgeios" in my activism. So? I am a highly paid consultant. Part of the Generation X who worked and did better on his Middle-American upbringing.
You don't know me personally. My donations are just the tip of the ice-burg. I have spent time working with dis-advantage youth, in fact, I have spent time listening to young men ages 12-16 who sell their bodies on the street.
You have made stark generlizations about me, and my life, and offer nothing constructive in return.
I recently joined the ACLU and am now a card carrying member. Strange coming from a middle-class republican backgroun. I am 29 now, and feel that at least a contrary response is needed, so that we don't go off the deep end. I don't agree with everything they say, but at least they are there speaking up and deserve some of my hard earned money.
I also a couple days ago became a card carrying member of EFF which is probablly more palletable to us technologists. I would encourage everyone to at least look at their website. Too often it is easy for us to click and read, instead of taking action. At 29 I have started writing my first letters to my congressman. He is a republican, who doesn't share my views, but still he needs to know as his constituate, that I don't like his voting style. Sure, it is one small drop in the ocean, but enough drops will create a flood.
Whether all the changes going on upset you, or if you like them all, we should all stand up and let our voice be heard. Too many of us, including myself, sit on the sidelines. I was at a concert for Counting Crows recently and Adam the lead singer said "The reason the country is run by a bunch of old people is because us young people don't stand up for our selves."
I think we are so close to all of this right now, that we really won't know the impacts of technology on society and our governments ability to "control" it.
I truly think we are on a verge of some sort of revelution and one side will win. It is hard to tell which one it is. Either it is freedom of information (which inheritatly includes some anarchy) or a Orwellian controlled society that is something out of a sci-fi book.
What I don't think that we realize right now, is that we are on the threshold of that. Will our grandchildren look back at the DCMA and say "that was the start of it all". Who knows. In my gut, I feel that the DCMA, the dawn of the second millenium after Christ, is a defining moment in who we are as a species.
Fear and paranioia feed one side, and the desire to be free and uncontrolled feed the other. Who will win? Will open journalism keep us free, providing a double check on our governments, or will our freedoms be etched away, until we are left with nothing, comfortable in our little cage, none the wiser. Will information and freedom be nothing more than a commodity sold and developed by Microsoft? What does the future hold?
Frustrating isn't it. I really think that the editors need to have meta-moderation of their posting habits. We have dupes of articles in the same day (or I even saw a dupe in Slashback last night). I posted an article and was rejected to only have the next day a very similiar article (with less links) posted.
Selected individuals should moderate incoming articles and once it hits a certain threshold, then it should be put in an editors queue for consideration of posting.
2. To determine and enforce compliance with this Final Judgment, duly authorized representatives of the plaintiff States, on reasonable notice to Microsoft and subject to any lawful privilege, shall be permitted the following:
a. Access during normal office hours to inspect any and all source code, books, ledgers, accounts, correspondence, memoranda and other documents and records in the possession, custody, or control of Microsoft, which may have counsel present, regarding any matters contained in this Final Judgment.
Wow, wouldn't we want to be on a States duly authorized represantative for our state? Call you congressman and then call Microsoft and say "Show me the code!!!!"
rant('This is probablly off-topic, but damn I submitted this exact article, with almost exactly the same text about 24 hours ago and I got rejected. On the other hand, we get things like the glass computer reported twice in less than 24 hours.');
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The would need to know your mobile number, but also, most providers have a registration database that they encourage their pre-paid subscribers to enter.
I had the privilage of working for a mobile company in Ireland, and one day I was be-bopping around the building and accidently came across a room that I hadn't noticed before. I looked in and saw a giant metal cage and in the cage was a comuputer console and a couple of large servers. I asked the network guy later what it was and he told me it was for the Garda (Police in the Republic of Ireland) to be able to track people. Basically, under court order, they could track down anyone. The understanding of the technology has been around for a long time. Simple triangulation of transmission and there you go, got them. The problem is actually getting access to the information.
I found out later I wasn't supposed to know about that and that there were essentially Garda assigned to that room on a 24 hour basis to impliment any court ordered tracking.
Obviously you aren't made aware of these when signing your monthly agreement, are you?
Simply make it bigger and more expensive and that will make it better.
Notice how there is no mention of changing the process for "business process" patents, like the Bezos "One-Click" and now infamous "eBay" patents.
Raising the fees only help big corporations, which of course want to patent everything under the Sun, probablly including the Sun, just like BT's frivilous patent on "links".
There needs to be some sort of improvement in prior art review. How come a couple thousand of us/.ers can find prior art, but the USPTO can't even use Google?????
Patents we devised to be accesible to the small guy and were designed to help increase innovation. Now they are used as ways for big corporation to squash people from even thinking, and the DCMA only adds to that.
I wonder how this will effect adoption. Maybe we will get Ogg Net Players and maybe the BBC will return to encoding. It will be nice to have free (in beer and other ways) music and sound now. Congratulations to the team.
Actually I was referring to the group of folks trying to verify if their calculation can calculate the nth digit of Pi without calculating the previous n digits.
Here is one of the websites of one of the guys listed on the companies website: Steve Smale. Interesting site. Light on details, but there is contact information.
The press release is light on details. A quick search of the US Patent database for BinaryAccelerator and Zero Space Tuner turned up nothing. I thought even pending patents were there. The CEO seems to be a mortgage broker. Interesting line of research.
Anyways, I thought the breaktrough in data compression would be using a mathmatical algorithem to express Pi and in index to the digit that your random string begins and a count of the data. That truly would be random, if those guys can prove there is a mathmatical formula for Pi.
I posted this in my other message, but I thought I would reply directly to your. Try tweaking your IP config.
I am not brilliant enough at Linux to help you, but it seems that AT&T have done something on their network that causes non standard Windows default MTU, MSS, RWIN and TTL settings to be severely dimished in service. I had tweaked mine for @Home speed, but since moving over to AT&T Broadband, I saw a progression to worse and worse service. Once I switched it back to its defaults, I started getting high speed access again.
The Windows settings I currently have are:
MTU is 1500
MSS is set to 0
RWIN is set to 0
TTL is set to 0
. I don't know how that directly applies to Linux or where to change it, but maybe some brilliant hacker can help.
I tried setting it back after reading something on AT&T's site.
Here is what AT&T's official site states about the change. @Home had a 3MB cap, though you could never really get the through-put, about 500Kb/sec is what I could get. It is still the 128Kb upload speed cap that they put on about a year ago.
I have been with AT&T Broadband/@Home for about 3 years in Chicago area. The service transistion wa painless for me. I had to enable DHCP, since they won't give out static IP's anymore. That was a bit annoying, but after a reboot, it seems ok.
A lot of my IP tweaks I had done in my Windows 2000 box caused my service to slow down under AT&T Boadband though, and it wasn't until I set everything back to Windows defaults that I got decent download speed. It was a bit freaky.
I have had some problems with my NAT server, WinRoute Pro. It seems that HTTP requests are getting dropped on the machines not directly connected to the cable modem, so I have had to send everything through a proxy server and the cable modem box. I don't know if it is me, my network cards, cabling or a change in service, but it didn't happen all of a sudden, it is really wierd and seemed to get worse as time progressed. It doesn't effect other TCP traffic (like IRC), but it does seem to effect any HTTP traffic. Really strange.
The big complaint of the article is that Google is searching for new types of files, instead of HTML. If some goofball left some link to a Word document with his passwords in it, he gets what he deserves.
The quote from that article about Google not thinking about this before the put it forward is idiotic. How can Google be responsible for documents that are in the public domain, that anyone can get to by typing a URL into a browser. It isn't insecure software, just dumb people...
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Oh I see... and posting as an anonymous coward really helps the cause too?
All you offer is negativism. Where is your contrary solution. If mine is so wrong, what is your?
You call me "bourgeios" in my activism. So? I am a highly paid consultant. Part of the Generation X who worked and did better on his Middle-American upbringing.
You don't know me personally. My donations are just the tip of the ice-burg. I have spent time working with dis-advantage youth, in fact, I have spent time listening to young men ages 12-16 who sell their bodies on the street.
You have made stark generlizations about me, and my life, and offer nothing constructive in return.
I recently joined the ACLU and am now a card carrying member. Strange coming from a middle-class republican backgroun. I am 29 now, and feel that at least a contrary response is needed, so that we don't go off the deep end. I don't agree with everything they say, but at least they are there speaking up and deserve some of my hard earned money.
I also a couple days ago became a card carrying member of EFF which is probablly more palletable to us technologists. I would encourage everyone to at least look at their website. Too often it is easy for us to click and read, instead of taking action. At 29 I have started writing my first letters to my congressman. He is a republican, who doesn't share my views, but still he needs to know as his constituate, that I don't like his voting style. Sure, it is one small drop in the ocean, but enough drops will create a flood.
Whether all the changes going on upset you, or if you like them all, we should all stand up and let our voice be heard. Too many of us, including myself, sit on the sidelines. I was at a concert for Counting Crows recently and Adam the lead singer said "The reason the country is run by a bunch of old people is because us young people don't stand up for our selves."
I think we are so close to all of this right now, that we really won't know the impacts of technology on society and our governments ability to "control" it.
I truly think we are on a verge of some sort of revelution and one side will win. It is hard to tell which one it is. Either it is freedom of information (which inheritatly includes some anarchy) or a Orwellian controlled society that is something out of a sci-fi book.
What I don't think that we realize right now, is that we are on the threshold of that. Will our grandchildren look back at the DCMA and say "that was the start of it all". Who knows. In my gut, I feel that the DCMA, the dawn of the second millenium after Christ, is a defining moment in who we are as a species.
Fear and paranioia feed one side, and the desire to be free and uncontrolled feed the other. Who will win? Will open journalism keep us free, providing a double check on our governments, or will our freedoms be etched away, until we are left with nothing, comfortable in our little cage, none the wiser. Will information and freedom be nothing more than a commodity sold and developed by Microsoft? What does the future hold?
Opinions and comments welcome...
Didn't Viewsonic already do this? Slashdot Article
Basically an RDP session to the dekstop. Cool for certain applications, and could easily be applied to a X-Windows session too...
Frustrating isn't it. I really think that the editors need to have meta-moderation of their posting habits. We have dupes of articles in the same day (or I even saw a dupe in Slashback last night). I posted an article and was rejected to only have the next day a very similiar article (with less links) posted.
Selected individuals should moderate incoming articles and once it hits a certain threshold, then it should be put in an editors queue for consideration of posting.
representatives of the plaintiff States, on reasonable notice to Microsoft and
subject to any lawful privilege, shall be permitted the following:
Wow, wouldn't we want to be on a States duly authorized represantative for our state? Call you congressman and then call Microsoft and say "Show me the code!!!!"
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What do they do about pre-paid mobile phones?
The would need to know your mobile number, but also, most providers have a registration database that they encourage their pre-paid subscribers to enter.
I had the privilage of working for a mobile company in Ireland, and one day I was be-bopping around the building and accidently came across a room that I hadn't noticed before. I looked in and saw a giant metal cage and in the cage was a comuputer console and a couple of large servers. I asked the network guy later what it was and he told me it was for the Garda (Police in the Republic of Ireland) to be able to track people. Basically, under court order, they could track down anyone. The understanding of the technology has been around for a long time. Simple triangulation of transmission and there you go, got them. The problem is actually getting access to the information.
I found out later I wasn't supposed to know about that and that there were essentially Garda assigned to that room on a 24 hour basis to impliment any court ordered tracking.
Obviously you aren't made aware of these when signing your monthly agreement, are you?
Notice how there is no mention of changing the process for "business process" patents, like the Bezos "One-Click" and now infamous "eBay" patents.
Raising the fees only help big corporations, which of course want to patent everything under the Sun, probablly including the Sun, just like BT's frivilous patent on "links".
There needs to be some sort of improvement in prior art review. How come a couple thousand of us /.ers can find prior art, but the USPTO can't even use Google?????
Patents we devised to be accesible to the small guy and were designed to help increase innovation. Now they are used as ways for big corporation to squash people from even thinking, and the DCMA only adds to that.
I wonder how this will effect adoption. Maybe we will get Ogg Net Players and maybe the BBC will return to encoding. It will be nice to have free (in beer and other ways) music and sound now. Congratulations to the team.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/08/23292
The press release is light on details. A quick search of the US Patent database for BinaryAccelerator and Zero Space Tuner turned up nothing. I thought even pending patents were there. The CEO seems to be a mortgage broker. Interesting line of research.
Anyways, I thought the breaktrough in data compression would be using a mathmatical algorithem to express Pi and in index to the digit that your random string begins and a count of the data. That truly would be random, if those guys can prove there is a mathmatical formula for Pi.
I am not brilliant enough at Linux to help you, but it seems that AT&T have done something on their network that causes non standard Windows default MTU, MSS, RWIN and TTL settings to be severely dimished in service. I had tweaked mine for @Home speed, but since moving over to AT&T Broadband, I saw a progression to worse and worse service. Once I switched it back to its defaults, I started getting high speed access again.
The Windows settings I currently have are:
- MTU is 1500
- MSS is set to 0
- RWIN is set to 0
- TTL is set to 0
. I don't know how that directly applies to Linux or where to change it, but maybe some brilliant hacker can help.I tried setting it back after reading something on AT&T's site.
I have been with AT&T Broadband/@Home for about 3 years in Chicago area. The service transistion wa painless for me. I had to enable DHCP, since they won't give out static IP's anymore. That was a bit annoying, but after a reboot, it seems ok.
A lot of my IP tweaks I had done in my Windows 2000 box caused my service to slow down under AT&T Boadband though, and it wasn't until I set everything back to Windows defaults that I got decent download speed. It was a bit freaky.
I have had some problems with my NAT server, WinRoute Pro. It seems that HTTP requests are getting dropped on the machines not directly connected to the cable modem, so I have had to send everything through a proxy server and the cable modem box. I don't know if it is me, my network cards, cabling or a change in service, but it didn't happen all of a sudden, it is really wierd and seemed to get worse as time progressed. It doesn't effect other TCP traffic (like IRC), but it does seem to effect any HTTP traffic. Really strange.
The quote from that article about Google not thinking about this before the put it forward is idiotic. How can Google be responsible for documents that are in the public domain, that anyone can get to by typing a URL into a browser. It isn't insecure software, just dumb people...
I am sure Radio Shack will now be having Satellite Discount promotions now.