"I'm very disappointed," Ylonnen said after the meeting. "What will I do next? Consult my lawyers."
He could win. Several months ago (and I don't have time to find the link) a domain name had to be given up by its holder even though the ICANN arbitration held that he didn't. The person who wanted the name just sued in US court for trademark infringement, and won. You see, the IETF decisions are not binding in the courts. So Ylonnen could sue for trademark infringement. If he won, it would not matter what the IETF said.
They just don't want to get sued by France (as yahoo did) if you, or other users, look up sites containing Certain Illegal(in France) Information. Try doing a google search (from the redirect) on that info. Bet it won't allow it.
At least two crashes, of Airbus aircraft, were caused, at least in part, by bad UI design. One was the flight at the Paris Air Show (IIRC) that went to do a go around, but the pilot had pressed the wrong button (or forgot to press one) and it bellied into the trees. Another one flew into a mountain after the pilot set the wrong glide slope. He hit the right button but was, as I recall, on the wrong screen of the glass cockpit display.
Re-reading Secrets and Lies (great read) and Schneier points out, as have others, that legislatures don't move at "internet speed". Which is why the napster problems happened. Hopefully the movie industry HAS learned from napster.
BTW, did you see the 60 Minutes piece on Tivo last night? Nothing new for us, but a good explanation of the technology and some of the legal issues for the layman.
The article said the comment contained a text called "OT III"
If it contained the entire text,or a substantial part of it (several paragraphs), without any other commentary, then it violates copyright law, pure and simple. However, if it contained a small part of the text (a few sentences), with commentary on that text, then it would be criticism, and would "fair use".
Actually, the velocity probably wouldn't be a problem. Just use an Orion. Then you could also put sufficient armor on it and carry plenty of supplies. Orion type ships don't have much problem with mass-ratio.
That last sentence of yours explains why the 'faith-based initiative' of GWB is going down in flames. The ACLU doesn't want gov't funding of religion and the churches don't want the gov't dictating their standards. If both the ACLU and Pat Robertson think it's a bad idea, then it probably is.
I don't know about VA, but Red Hat is actually doing OK. They're on track to make a profit this year. By paying people to develop software, they have the knowledge in house to provide superior support. Their people don't need to grovel over the code because they wrote it. Now, most of the people who post here probably don't need tech support, we do it ourselves. But for the average user, or business, Red Hat is probably the solution for support. That's in the USA. I imagine that it's Mandrake or SuSe in Europe, TurboLinux in Asia.
20 or so years ago Jerry Pournelle, writing in Byte, said that in the future (i.e. now) the money wouldn't be in selling software, it would be in selling support (like Red Hat) and documentation (like O'Reilly). He was right.
Earth, by David Brin, imagines exactly this future. Lots of people carry video cameras which stream live to the web. People who want privacy are regarded as strange, and possibly dangerous. Switzerland has gotten nuked for refusing to reveal the account information of its bank customers. Lots of other stuff in there as well. Good book.
Is inside the organization. The money is in providing portals to an organization. A portal for an organization would have some combo of hotmail for mail, kuro5hin for news, and other apps running on zope. Those portals are a way of putting a front end on the organization's intranet.
Great books to read for the history of computers/hacking in the latter half of the 20th century:
Hackers by Steve Levy
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
Fire in the Valley by Freiberger and Swaine
The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling
Any more?
The Soul of a New Machine chronicles the design and construction of the first 32-bit minicomputer by Data General, and especially about the hardware hackers who did it. Within a few years minis were completely dead, killed by the PC.
The Hacker Crackdown is about the Secret Service and telcos' going after bbs's and phone phreaks. And, of course, Steve Jackson Games. It came out in 94, I think, and the technology described, bbs's, was completely replaced by the internet within a few years. The issues are still important, though.
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He could win. Several months ago (and I don't have time to find the link) a domain name had to be given up by its holder even though the ICANN arbitration held that he didn't. The person who wanted the name just sued in US court for trademark infringement, and won. You see, the IETF decisions are not binding in the courts. So Ylonnen could sue for trademark infringement. If he won, it would not matter what the IETF said.
Such as, perhaps, a 911 call center?
And the Fed doesn't control either of them.
From the washington post
Which is why you hear talk of labor unions.
Terrible acting.
How am I supposed to be paranoid when you people keep throwing reality at me?
They just don't want to get sued by France (as yahoo did) if you, or other users, look up sites containing Certain Illegal(in France) Information. Try doing a google search (from the redirect) on that info. Bet it won't allow it.
Perhaps someone who has the points could mod this up for me? Clinko makes a good point here.
At least two crashes, of Airbus aircraft, were caused, at least in part, by bad UI design. One was the flight at the Paris Air Show (IIRC) that went to do a go around, but the pilot had pressed the wrong button (or forgot to press one) and it bellied into the trees. Another one flew into a mountain after the pilot set the wrong glide slope. He hit the right button but was, as I recall, on the wrong screen of the glass cockpit display.
BTW, did you see the 60 Minutes piece on Tivo last night? Nothing new for us, but a good explanation of the technology and some of the legal issues for the layman.
The article said the comment contained a text called "OT III"
If it contained the entire text,or a substantial part of it (several paragraphs), without any other commentary, then it violates copyright law, pure and simple. However, if it contained a small part of the text (a few sentences), with commentary on that text, then it would be criticism, and would "fair use".
Actually, the velocity probably wouldn't be a problem. Just use an Orion. Then you could also put sufficient armor on it and carry plenty of supplies. Orion type ships don't have much problem with mass-ratio.
Nor is html,apparently.
I'm stealing that! Not sure where/when I'll use it. But it's great.
Public schools are subject to the Federal and State Constitutions. Private schools, being private, are not. See this thread for a full explanation.
That last sentence of yours explains why the 'faith-based initiative' of GWB is going down in flames. The ACLU doesn't want gov't funding of religion and the churches don't want the gov't dictating their standards. If both the ACLU and Pat Robertson think it's a bad idea, then it probably is.
Passing a pointer to Godwins_Law() still works. Godwins_Law() automatically de-references pointers. ;)
Good troll. Starts off sounding reasonable and informative, to draw people in, then goes into the heavy flamage. Well done!
20 or so years ago Jerry Pournelle, writing in Byte, said that in the future (i.e. now) the money wouldn't be in selling software, it would be in selling support (like Red Hat) and documentation (like O'Reilly). He was right.
Earth, by David Brin, imagines exactly this future. Lots of people carry video cameras which stream live to the web. People who want privacy are regarded as strange, and possibly dangerous. Switzerland has gotten nuked for refusing to reveal the account information of its bank customers. Lots of other stuff in there as well. Good book.
Is inside the organization. The money is in providing portals to an organization. A portal for an organization would have some combo of hotmail for mail, kuro5hin for news, and other apps running on zope. Those portals are a way of putting a front end on the organization's intranet.
It's called DNS, and it is fairly diffuse. A few root servers, but most ISPs have their own. And running a caching dns on your own box is dirt easy.
We were taught basically the same thing.
Wonder how many will reply to your post with "wtf was The Kent State Massacre?" Including some from that school, no doubt.
Hackers by Steve Levy
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
Fire in the Valley by Freiberger and Swaine
The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling
Any more?
The Soul of a New Machine chronicles the design and construction of the first 32-bit minicomputer by Data General, and especially about the hardware hackers who did it. Within a few years minis were completely dead, killed by the PC.
The Hacker Crackdown is about the Secret Service and telcos' going after bbs's and phone phreaks. And, of course, Steve Jackson Games. It came out in 94, I think, and the technology described, bbs's, was completely replaced by the internet within a few years. The issues are still important, though.