The ORBS people have always been sitting ducks for a restraint-of-trade lawsuit. Now they've taken on someone who knows very well how to spell "lawyer".
What would be the grounds for the suit? ORBS isn't forcing you to use their list to do anything, let alone block email
Now that I think of it, this might actually be a good thing. If AOL successfully sues ORBS for "restraint-of-trade" or whatever, maybe then the all the XXX Pr0n sites could sue Mattel [and whoever else has net filtering software] for the same thing... since it is really the same thing. ORBS/Mattel has a list of "bad" sites... sysadmins/users decide whether or not to use that list... It'd be rather interesting I think...
The White House made a large order recently to one of those companies. They replaced a large number of their old windows with glass that looks antique.
Great, the white house is spending money to replace perfectly good glass with purposely deformed glass. Just what I want my tax money spent on:(
..is Mars. It seems to be gathering a fine collection of NASA equipment, why not a little more?:)
I agree. Besides, the martians really seem to like our nice crunchy satellites... And maybe if we keep feeding them they'll be nice to us when we finally arrive in person. At the very least they won't be as hungry [g]
The worst thing about my TI, is my Dad bought it a week before it was discontinued. No more suport after that.
A friend of mine used to work for TI. He claims that one of the major screwups that TI had with that machine, was that when it wasn't selling well, and they wanted to get rid of them quick, they started giving $50 rebate coupons [was priced around $100 at the time]... Then the price dropped to $50... but they didn't take out the rebate coupons... oops...
I've also heard [dunno really] that the TI99/4A was better than it let on. That they kept the chip held back just to match what it's competitors had instead of letting it loose to kick butt... That's what I heard anyway [shrug]
I just saw Fantasia 2000 last night at a company part at the Tech Museum... Not JUST an IMAX screen either, but an entire dome. It was ALMOST big enough to take up my entire field of vision. [ie. I had to turn my head to follow the action or focus at times].
Overall I liked it. It was great seeing The Magician's Apprentice in the *big* screen again. The whole Pine's of Rome thing was a little odd though, but but certainly not the strangest thing to come out of the halls of Disney...
There were quite a few people who left, though I'm not sure why. The seats weren't terribly comfortable, and that huge a screen can screw with your mind, but I don't think it was THAT bad..
I guess some don't like the new style of the animation, it's got quite a different flavor from the original but I really enjoyed it...
How many folks with DSL or cable modem connections have a firewall? How many actually look at the connection logs and try to figure out who's trying to gain access?
Well, I do have a firewall, portsentry is running waiting for port scans, and a log checking script, so that any interesting log entries are emailed to me on the hour.
But I have not had even one attempt at a portscan. The only thing I've seen [other than my own test portscans to make sure portsentry and the log checker was working] is a connection attempt from netcraft on port 443... of course, portsentry got a little overzealous and routed them into oblivion...but at least I know it's working:)
Am I 100% secure? Of course not.And so far I count my blessings that I have not had to deal with frequent portscans, but as another reply said, hopefully it's more trouble than it's worth to try to attack my box...that is really the only *reasonable* security goal, no?:)
You bring up some very good points, and for the most part I agree with you. The main problem I have is with:
Second, even assuming that DeCSS runs under Linux, it concededly runs under Windows---a far more widely used operating system---as well. It therefore cannot reasonably be said that DeCSS was developed "for the sole purpose'' of achieving interoperability between Linux and DVDs....
... but the defendants lawyers did apparently admit that DeCSS worked on Windows as well (is this true?) so is not exclusive to Linux (so much for it being just for playing DVDs on Linux), and the reverse engineering
Ok, so this was created in order to play DVD's on Linux, and it just so happens to work for windows as well. What's the problem with that? Are now expected to specifically make programs that refuse to work in Windows? That would be rather hippocritical[sp?] of us, no? If the sole purpose for creating was to watch DVD's in Linux, should anyone be punished because it happens to work in another OS in which there is already a way to watch DVDs?
I certainly hope this is not something that is successfully used against the defense. If so, I will seriously start to worry about how much freedom I really have. I mean gee, how much longer till the gov't decides that the GoKart my kids built could be used for something illegal [say...a getaway car from a candy store robbery:) ] even though it was built for the primary purpose of riding around the neighborhood?
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We just wanna watch DVD's, what's so hard for MPAA and the courts to understand?
Tiome to dig out the one book of his I still have: Don Martin Forges A Head.
Oddly enough, my parents just shipped me all my books from their attic, and in was "Don Martin Cooks Up More Tales" which I forgot I even had. [but loved as a child].
The radio investigators say they are now close to raiding and seizing the equipment of an RDS pirate operation. This will allow them to find out precisely how the pirates operate their listener-stealing trick. They then hope to help broadcasters around the world develop countermeasures.
Great, now listening to the radio is turning into a damned war. I don't mind pirate radio stations, but auto-switching my radio to their station is just un-cool...
And I don't know what body or committee came up with the idea for the RDS, but did they not think if this possibility ahead of time?
"Ok, we're going to make it so car radios can have their channels changed automatically for emergency broadcasts and such"
"Cool, but what aboout people taking advantage of this such as radio pirates and evyl [subliminal]microsoft[/subliminal] corporations?
"Nah...they wouldn't do that..."
"Ok, lets do it..
Guess I'll just have to settle for my cd-changer...until I can score an Empeg player anyway:)
Having read through the 50 or so comments that have already been posted this morning [even though it's only o-god-hundred hours here in California] it's nice to see that the flamers have chosen not to attack this article for any reason. There's just a bunch of nice "Merry Christmas's, Happy holidays etc" and a few funny comments on stuff, and the flamers have kept to themselves...
Maybe there's hope for this planet after all?
Or maybe the flamers are just sleeping in? Hope not..
That is, if you are a man and not a mindless hermaphroditic scavenger of garbage.
Be careful. In these 'politically correct' times, you might get sued by a union of hermaphroditic garbagemen. Or you may have insulted a large number of low IQ, sexually redundant racoons.
Oh, I guess I could clarify. I'm not necessarily suggesting he's got the money overseas illegally. There's got to be legal ways of getting money out of the country. It's just as likely that he did it all legally to keep his nose clean, but got it out of the country 'just in case'
I would think that it's extremely likely that "ol' Billy" keeps his nose extremely clean since he's a very high-profile rich person. Not to say that he doesn't exploit tax law to the hilt with workarounds and loopholes, but I severely doubt that he's doing anything that is out and out illegal. Also keep in mind that most of his money is on paper in Microsoft stock, and no matter what he does, he'll always get nailed with tax when he sells that stuff. The vast majority of his wealth isn't money - it's *potential* money in the form of stock. Besides the fact that he is so high profile, you'd figure that at a certain point, there's just no friggin' point in going to the extra trouble to save yourself a few million. Sure, you can look at it as a total sum of money, $1,000,000 is a lot of money, but as a percentage of net worth, it's really not worth going to the trouble to save, since that effort spent on the phone with your accountant figuring out how to screw the gov't out of that extra $1,000,000 is time that could have been spent making the stock (where your real value is) more valuable. Remember that every time MS stock goes up $1, Bill goes up ~= $90,000,000:)
Good point, but Bill isn't completely stupid. He does have some money that is not in MS stock. He constantly sells off shares. For a long time, he didn't do much with that money. Now he gives it to his own charity [a little suspicious if you ask me, why don't you give it to someone elses charity?]. But he does have some cash and other investments in non-MS stock. He also knows that Microsoft can't and won't last forever [he even admitted as much in the BBC interview]. I'd be willing to bet he's got a damned good plan to come out with a healthy heap of money even if M$ dies. Maybe it's not in OS accounts, but it wouldn't be too far fetched to think he's got some money overseas...
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Then again, maybe the mega-doses of Moutain Dew are making me imagine things...
, there isn't a real difference in lifestyle between somebody who makes $100,000,000/year and somebody who makes $10,000,000/year, so you hide $90,000,000 and report that you make $10,000,000/year and meanwhile become worth billions without taxation difficulties.
Hmm...this makes me think... How much do you figure ole Billy Gates has tucked away in offshore accounts??
it's not just my copy of the Exchange IMS MTA that quietly hides email for a few hours
Only a few hours? you're lucky! I'm not sure what email agent MSN uses, but I sent a test email from my friends MSN account to my personal account. I sent the email in May. I got the email in my account in late September...
Now does not exist. Now is simply something invented by humans, and the definition of now changes for every person. For example: "Right Now, humans use airplanes to fly"....
What the hell am i looking at? When does this happen in the movie?" "Now, your looking at now sir, everything that's happens now, is happening now." "What happened to then?" "We past then." "When?" "Just now." "We're at now, now" "Go back to then." "When?" "Now." "Now?" "Now." "We can't." "Why?" "We missed it." "When?" "Just now." "When will then be now?" "Soon." "How soon?"
The article doesn't go into detail about how much of the actual fuel is replaced by this technology. It does mention a 20 percent reduction in the overall mass of the rocket, but what does that translate into? Anyone know?
Quite simply it just means that it would require approx 20% less fuel [not quite exactly 20% off the fuel itself, since some of that mass savings is in the container/systems for that extra fuel]. So they can use the savings to either make the craft smaller [thereby saving even MORE mass/fuel] or they can use the savings to allow the craft to hold more cargo/passengers with less fuel.
That's how I see it anyway... It's a great idea that is long overdue. We need much more research in makeing launches cheaper/safer if I'm going to be able to live out my dream of going into space.:)
For a while, I could even find it for $.93US a gallon. But then there was a teeny-tiny little oil scare, (thanks Saddam!) and BAM! oil prices sky-rocket. It costs me $1.25US per gallon now, if I'm lucky!
Hell, $1.25 is cheap. It's running $1.69 here now:(
It seems to me, that the other nations who have helped [or will help] build the international space station are going to be a little pissed if NASA sells/gives the station to some US company when it's built. NASA doesn't own the station, nor does any other country. The US may end up being responsible for having manufactured and built most of it, but it's still an international endeavor, and they will have no right to give it away.
Of course, if all the other countries agree to it, then this is a moot point:) Though I suppose it depends on how NASA handles things. If they just allow/sell permission for private company trips/use of the station, and the other countries do the same, it'd be alright.
In general I'd like to see more private use of space...it increases the chance that I'll get to go before I keel over.
A local ISP doesn't do you much good when you're traveling all the time.
I'll probably get shot for saying this, but when I was doing nation-wide field support for my company, I was using MSN [The only reason I stopped using MSN was because I got DSL]. I never had a problem with their service, and once the account is initially set-up with their software [on Windoze 9x of course] it was no problem setting up a normal PPP connection for them on any computer [tested with MacOS, BeOS, Linux, NT].
Of course, their tech-support was clueless when it came to other OS's, even to the point of not knowing that their supposed to say that MSN won't work with non-Windows OS's, but if you generally know what you're doing,and have access to 1 windoze box for setup and account maintenence [and looking up local #'s when you travel], then MSN is nice [or was for me]. I never had problems with busy signals at home [San Jose] and rarely got busy signals when on the road. The only place I ever had busy-signal problems was in Odessa, Tx [middle of nowhere] which uses the same UUNET dialup for AOL, MSN, and any other ISP's that use UUNET POPs.[I'm assuming Earthlink and Mindspring fall into that category]
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What would be the grounds for the suit? ORBS isn't forcing you to use their list to do anything, let alone block email
Now that I think of it, this might actually be a good thing. If AOL successfully sues ORBS for "restraint-of-trade" or whatever, maybe then the all the XXX Pr0n sites could sue Mattel [and whoever else has net filtering software] for the same thing... since it is really the same thing. ORBS/Mattel has a list of "bad" sites... sysadmins/users decide whether or not to use that list...
It'd be rather interesting I think...
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Great, the white house is spending money to replace perfectly good glass with purposely deformed glass. Just what I want my tax money spent on :(
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I agree. Besides, the martians really seem to like our nice crunchy satellites... And maybe if we keep feeding them they'll be nice to us when we finally arrive in person. At the very least they won't be as hungry [g]
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A friend of mine used to work for TI. He claims that one of the major screwups that TI had with that machine, was that when it wasn't selling well, and they wanted to get rid of them quick, they started giving $50 rebate coupons [was priced around $100 at the time]... Then the price dropped to $50... but they didn't take out the rebate coupons... oops...
I've also heard [dunno really] that the TI99/4A was better than it let on. That they kept the chip held back just to match what it's competitors had instead of letting it loose to kick butt... That's what I heard anyway [shrug]
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Overall I liked it. It was great seeing The Magician's Apprentice in the *big* screen again. The whole Pine's of Rome thing was a little odd though, but but certainly not the strangest thing to come out of the halls of Disney...
There were quite a few people who left, though I'm not sure why. The seats weren't terribly comfortable, and that huge a screen can screw with your mind, but I don't think it was THAT bad..
I guess some don't like the new style of the animation, it's got quite a different flavor from the original but I really enjoyed it...
I'd say it's worth the watching...
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Well, I do have a firewall, portsentry is running waiting for port scans, and a log checking script, so that any interesting log entries are emailed to me on the hour.
But I have not had even one attempt at a portscan. The only thing I've seen [other than my own test portscans to make sure portsentry and the log checker was working] is a connection attempt from netcraft on port 443... of course, portsentry got a little overzealous and routed them into oblivion...but at least I know it's working :)
Am I 100% secure? Of course not.And so far I count my blessings that I have not had to deal with frequent portscans, but as another reply said, hopefully it's more trouble than it's worth to try to attack my box...that is really the only *reasonable* security goal, no? :)
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Second, even assuming that DeCSS runs under Linux, it concededly runs under Windows---a far more widely used operating system---as well. It therefore cannot reasonably be said that DeCSS was developed "for the sole purpose'' of achieving interoperability between Linux and DVDs....
Ok, so this was created in order to play DVD's on Linux, and it just so happens to work for windows as well. What's the problem with that? Are now expected to specifically make programs that refuse to work in Windows? That would be rather hippocritical[sp?] of us, no? If the sole purpose for creating was to watch DVD's in Linux, should anyone be punished because it happens to work in another OS in which there is already a way to watch DVDs?
I certainly hope this is not something that is successfully used against the defense. If so, I will seriously start to worry about how much freedom I really have. I mean gee, how much longer till the gov't decides that the GoKart my kids built could be used for something illegal [say...a getaway car from a candy store robbery :) ] even though it was built for the primary purpose of riding around the neighborhood?
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We just wanna watch DVD's, what's so hard for MPAA and the courts to understand?
Oddly enough, my parents just shipped me all my books from their attic, and in was "Don Martin Cooks Up More Tales" which I forgot I even had. [but loved as a child].
Guess I'll have to read it again and reflect....
We'll miss ya Don...
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Great, now listening to the radio is turning into a damned war. I don't mind pirate radio stations, but auto-switching my radio to their station is just un-cool...
And I don't know what body or committee came up with the idea for the RDS, but did they not think if this possibility ahead of time?
"Ok, we're going to make it so car radios can have their channels changed automatically for emergency broadcasts and such"
"Cool, but what aboout people taking advantage of this such as radio pirates and evyl [subliminal]microsoft[/subliminal] corporations?
"Nah...they wouldn't do that..."
"Ok, lets do it..
Guess I'll just have to settle for my cd-changer...until I can score an Empeg player anyway :)
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Maybe there's hope for this planet after all?
Or maybe the flamers are just sleeping in? Hope not..
Merry Christmas all! Make it a good one...
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Gee, all I wanted were some moderator points.
[zapping posts]...zap...zap... Muwahahahaha...
Ok maybe not... Have a good Christmas all!!!! And make the holiday season a great one! It just might be our last :)
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Be careful. In these 'politically correct' times, you might get sued by a union of hermaphroditic garbagemen. Or you may have insulted a large number of low IQ, sexually redundant racoons.
You never know. Stranger stuff has happened.
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Good point, but Bill isn't completely stupid. He does have some money that is not in MS stock. He constantly sells off shares. For a long time, he didn't do much with that money. Now he gives it to his own charity [a little suspicious if you ask me, why don't you give it to someone elses charity?]. But he does have some cash and other investments in non-MS stock. He also knows that Microsoft can't and won't last forever [he even admitted as much in the BBC interview]. I'd be willing to bet he's got a damned good plan to come out with a healthy heap of money even if M$ dies. Maybe it's not in OS accounts, but it wouldn't be too far fetched to think he's got some money overseas...
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Then again, maybe the mega-doses of Moutain Dew are making me imagine things...
Hmm...this makes me think... How much do you figure ole Billy Gates has tucked away in offshore accounts??
Just a thought.
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Only a few hours? you're lucky! I'm not sure what email agent MSN uses, but I sent a test email from my friends MSN account to my personal account. I sent the email in May. I got the email in my account in late September...
And they call the postal mail 'snail mail'
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Han [singing to Limp Bizkit]: 'I did it all for the wookie. The wookie. I paid off his bookie, so stick it up your ..."
[ducking] Sorry, couldn't help myself. I do love the SW series, and while it's sad that a loved character had to die, it's way overdue.
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Gee, and I thought that once upon a time, the job of the media was to inform the public...silly me.
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What the hell am i looking at? When does this happen in the movie?" "Now, your looking at now sir, everything that's happens now, is happening now." "What happened to then?" "We past then." "When?" "Just now." "We're at now, now" "Go back to then." "When?" "Now." "Now?" "Now." "We can't." "Why?" "We missed it." "When?" "Just now." "When will then be now?" "Soon." "How soon?"
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Quite simply it just means that it would require approx 20% less fuel [not quite exactly 20% off the fuel itself, since some of that mass savings is in the container/systems for that extra fuel]. So they can use the savings to either make the craft smaller [thereby saving even MORE mass/fuel] or they can use the savings to allow the craft to hold more cargo/passengers with less fuel.
That's how I see it anyway... It's a great idea that is long overdue. We need much more research in makeing launches cheaper/safer if I'm going to be able to live out my dream of going into space.:)
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I believe it was for speeding in his Porche :)
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Hell, $1.25 is cheap. It's running $1.69 here now :(
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Of course, if all the other countries agree to it, then this is a moot point :) Though I suppose it depends on how NASA handles things. If they just allow/sell permission for private company trips/use of the station, and the other countries do the same, it'd be alright.
In general I'd like to see more private use of space...it increases the chance that I'll get to go before I keel over.
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I'll probably get shot for saying this, but when I was doing nation-wide field support for my company, I was using MSN [The only reason I stopped using MSN was because I got DSL]. I never had a problem with their service, and once the account is initially set-up with their software [on Windoze 9x of course] it was no problem setting up a normal PPP connection for them on any computer [tested with MacOS, BeOS, Linux, NT].
Of course, their tech-support was clueless when it came to other OS's, even to the point of not knowing that their supposed to say that MSN won't work with non-Windows OS's, but if you generally know what you're doing,and have access to 1 windoze box for setup and account maintenence [and looking up local #'s when you travel], then MSN is nice [or was for me]. I never had problems with busy signals at home [San Jose] and rarely got busy signals when on the road. The only place I ever had busy-signal problems was in Odessa, Tx [middle of nowhere] which uses the same UUNET dialup for AOL, MSN, and any other ISP's that use UUNET POPs.[I'm assuming Earthlink and Mindspring fall into that category]
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