One thing I hate about most main stream space museums is that they tend to just spraypaint over everything so it all looks freshly painted. Much of the stuff at the A&S in Washington DC has been so "restored" that the pipes have been removed and everything repainted. It looks as bad as paint job from one of thouse places that repaint cars for $200.
The good places will carefully restore what is needed and replace pipes when needed and put them back to where they had been and they leave all the serail number plates on parts so they can be read.
Maybe they need to change their own rules so they can reject a patent "with prejudice" just like the courts and do with stupid cases. That would mean the idea is dead and gone and won't ever come back. Maybe they should publish such things too.
Sun has bought the cliense severaltimes. They bought a full licences from Novell years ago that will cover them. Their aggreement with AT&T when they owned Unix [TM] also gives them full access to the IP and their last purchase may have given them yet another way to access the rights. Add in the early rights to BSD and from what I can tell, Sun owns Unix at least 4 different ways.
When MS sold their part of SCO (remember SCO was a MS company so its ethics should be no supprise to anyone), they got rights to use SCO's IP.
Of course in the UK, if you don't win, you have to pay the other sides leagal costs. You can ask the judge to throw the case out simply because the other side can't afford to pay your legal costs. I'm wondering if the judge would listen to the argument that "if SCO loses in the US, it will be bankrupt and have no money to pay local costs". I suspect a judge might just put the case on hold till the US vs IBM issues are worked out.
Also outside of the US, this type of thing can cross the line between business and extortion. In Australia, if SCO lost, thier company directors might find themselves fighting charges that force the company out of business locally.
This could be quite entertaining since SCO has been showing that their managment isn't too smart about which dragons they choose to poke with a stick.
Ever hear of "Message Submission Agent"? Its smtp on port 587. The idea is you only accpet local mail on that port even if "local" is someone far away but is using your mail server.
Where did you get the 20% figure from? From what I can see, most Aus network maps are based on "25km from any cell unless a real big hill is in the way" added to "50km from any CDMA site". Once I'm out of a city, coverage is very poor compared to what is shown on the maps.
As far as population desnity, Melbourne is now larger than what the US census dept claims is the population of Chicago.
If you get the population data for Australia and the US and remove all areas that have less than 1 person per sq km, it ends up that Australia is much more densly populated than the US in places where its popluated at all. Do the same for Canada and you will find its also more densly if you exclude the areas where no sane busines would ever considering putting a cell tower.
The world doesn't need two sets of free *nix clones. The world needs ONE great *nix clone.
No, the world needs many *nix clones. It helps move things and sometimes things move in the wrong direction (i.e. IBM/DEC's answer to SysV). OpenBSD pushes the security in ways that the bloatware distros can't but the bloatware helps get more people comfortable with the *nix systems.
I would like to see a distory using the Linux kernel and most of the BSD tools just to see how it would evlolve.
I thought we were running out of/20 assignment blocks, not addresses.
Of course if you increase the number of assignment blocks, routers will need more memory and were back to the same reason no one will route a/28 anymore except the IPv6 approach ends up using 4x the memory for each address.
Why can't any modern program be smart enough to figure out you've gone down the maze of menus to select the same option 600 times and then put a button for it some place reasonable or assign an automatic keyboard shortcut?
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What will happen is that according to most of the consumer protection laws around the world, Microsoft must recall their defective win 98 software and issue new CDs that don't install the insecure software by default. They may be able to get away with just selling a $5 "reinstall CD" at computer shops.
How many F16's have been crashed compared to F15's? Remember G limits only matter if you intend to fly the plane again. There have been many military situations where the plane won't fly again but can still get the pilot home.
So how is a cert different than a domain name? Spamers will just add it to the amount they charge the suckers that pay them to send out the ads.
Even if its a public key, then if I can make one, a spamer can make one too. The question is how do you keep the spamer from makeing billions of them.
As far as MX, the MX records for Australia have been messed up at least twice as seen from other parts of the world. If the *NIC's can't do reverse DNS right, how can you trust an ever increasing number of clueless ISPs to do so?
Right now reverse dns will often time out between poorly connected parts of the world and you want to make that an absolute requirement for email? That won't go far.
If I can buy a cert, a spamer can buy a cert too. See x.400 for why this won't work.
Second is that if you can't trust the ISP to do the MX right, then this breaks. How many IPS break their reverse dns lookups? There are too many for me to count.
Remember spamers are good at breaking all the little rules.
ID theft in Europe is about the same rate as in the US, its just that there are nearly 0 prosecutions so unlike in the US where 1 in 7000 get caught, its more like one in a million.
With a check card, your have all the liability while with the credit card its with the bank (-$50 in both cases according to the law but set at $0 by the CC compaines)
If I take $10,000 out of your account and the bank finds you at fault even if you never had more than $100 in the account, they will take all of your next paycheck. With a CC, your stuck with a bad credit report. Don't consider the best case for fraud, always consider the worst case when weighing your options.
If its anything like their TV numbers, they don't seem to reflect any sort of reality I've seen. Nielsen numbers have been used in the advertising game for decades to decide on how much a TV comercial should cost and indirectly of what kinds of shows get air time. The odd thing is that as soon as a technology came around to figure out just how accurete advertising numbers where, it was discounted with some sort of technobabble but the web proved that people just don't pay attention to most ads.
I know a guy who gets paid to do "market research". He leaves his TV on to Jerry Springer while he's at work and his spending habbits are odd since he gets so many free gifts for accounting for all the junk he buys.
However the numbers in the story can be verified very quickly by just about any large ISP sysop.
Years ago someone posted 8 or so pairs of crypt collisions however I don't think any of them where typeable passwords. I haven't been able to find the posting but it might still be in google somewhere and it was about about 87 or so. Whoever posted them never bothered to explain how they came up with them.
If you don't know what was going on inside either Enron or SCO, your clueless and thats all there is to it unless your doing some very low level work such as a janitor. People have an ethical obligation not to work for unethical companies. As for a coder, there is no way I would hire an ex-SCO employee who has been there in the last year and thats just based on "collective ethics" and not any of the other IP issues that make them leagal leppers.
An example of this is that Target (a US chain store like Wal-mart, K-mart, big-w depending on where you are) has typical t week sales in some departments such as baby items or clothing. Targets logo is a red and white circle that looks like a target (see target.com).
In Australia they run an ad for their baby stuff sales that starts out with an animated sperm that is made from their logo with a tail and it finds a egg also from their logo while the voice over talks about 20% off. I can't see that comercial ever being show in most of the US. They also have one for their bra sales that involves many sets of their logos.
I find it interesting that it took the Aussie (Murdock who started Fox) to bring some of the slightly racey concepts to US tv's.
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One thing I hate about most main stream space museums is that they tend to just spraypaint over everything so it all looks freshly painted. Much of the stuff at the A&S in Washington DC has been so "restored" that the pipes have been removed and everything repainted. It looks as bad as paint job from one of thouse places that repaint cars for $200.
The good places will carefully restore what is needed and replace pipes when needed and put them back to where they had been and they leave all the serail number plates on parts so they can be read.
Maybe they need to change their own rules so they can reject a patent "with prejudice" just like the courts and do with stupid cases. That would mean the idea is dead and gone and won't ever come back. Maybe they should publish such things too.
Do you have a couple hundred bucks to spend on patenting...
You misspelled thousand.
Sun has bought the cliense severaltimes. They bought a full licences from Novell years ago that will cover them. Their aggreement with AT&T when they owned Unix [TM] also gives them full access to the IP and their last purchase may have given them yet another way to access the rights. Add in the early rights to BSD and from what I can tell, Sun owns Unix at least 4 different ways.
When MS sold their part of SCO (remember SCO was a MS company so its ethics should be no supprise to anyone), they got rights to use SCO's IP.
Of course in the UK, if you don't win, you have to pay the other sides leagal costs. You can ask the judge to throw the case out simply because the other side can't afford to pay your legal costs. I'm wondering if the judge would listen to the argument that "if SCO loses in the US, it will be bankrupt and have no money to pay local costs". I suspect a judge might just put the case on hold till the US vs IBM issues are worked out.
Also outside of the US, this type of thing can cross the line between business and extortion. In Australia, if SCO lost, thier company directors might find themselves fighting charges that force the company out of business locally.
This could be quite entertaining since SCO has been showing that their managment isn't too smart about which dragons they choose to poke with a stick.
Ever hear of "Message Submission Agent"? Its smtp on port 587. The idea is you only accpet local mail on that port even if "local" is someone far away but is using your mail server.
Where did you get the 20% figure from? From what I can see, most Aus network maps are based on "25km from any cell unless a real big hill is in the way" added to "50km from any CDMA site". Once I'm out of a city, coverage is very poor compared to what is shown on the maps.
As far as population desnity, Melbourne is now larger than what the US census dept claims is the population of Chicago.
If you get the population data for Australia and the US and remove all areas that have less than 1 person per sq km, it ends up that Australia is much more densly populated than the US in places where its popluated at all. Do the same for Canada and you will find its also more densly if you exclude the areas where no sane busines would ever considering putting a cell tower.
The world doesn't need two sets of free *nix clones. The world needs ONE great *nix clone.
No, the world needs many *nix clones. It helps move things and sometimes things move in the wrong direction (i.e. IBM/DEC's answer to SysV). OpenBSD pushes the security in ways that the bloatware distros can't but the bloatware helps get more people comfortable with the *nix systems.
I would like to see a distory using the Linux kernel and most of the BSD tools just to see how it would evlolve.
I thought we were running out of /20 assignment blocks, not addresses.
/28 anymore except the IPv6 approach ends up using 4x the memory for each address.
Of course if you increase the number of assignment blocks, routers will need more memory and were back to the same reason no one will route a
Anyone want to bet when a SCO search at google will only result in bad news for the company? I'm guessing it might just happen in the next few days.
Or your accepting a a cert from 10.0.0.1 which I would assume is on your internal network.
Why can't any modern program be smart enough to figure out you've gone down the maze of menus to select the same option 600 times and then put a button for it some place reasonable or assign an automatic keyboard shortcut?
What will happen is that according to most of the consumer protection laws around the world, Microsoft must recall their defective win 98 software and issue new CDs that don't install the insecure software by default. They may be able to get away with just selling a $5 "reinstall CD" at computer shops.
How many F16's have been crashed compared to F15's? Remember G limits only matter if you intend to fly the plane again. There have been many military situations where the plane won't fly again but can still get the pilot home.
So how is a cert different than a domain name? Spamers will just add it to the amount they charge the suckers that pay them to send out the ads.
Even if its a public key, then if I can make one, a spamer can make one too. The question is how do you keep the spamer from makeing billions of them.
As far as MX, the MX records for Australia have been messed up at least twice as seen from other parts of the world. If the *NIC's can't do reverse DNS right, how can you trust an ever increasing number of clueless ISPs to do so?
Right now reverse dns will often time out between poorly connected parts of the world and you want to make that an absolute requirement for email? That won't go far.
2 major problems
If I can buy a cert, a spamer can buy a cert too.
See x.400 for why this won't work.
Second is that if you can't trust the ISP to do the MX right, then this breaks. How many IPS break their reverse dns lookups? There are too many for me to count.
Remember spamers are good at breaking all the little rules.
ID theft in Europe is about the same rate as in the US, its just that there are nearly 0 prosecutions so unlike in the US where 1 in 7000 get caught, its more like one in a million.
use a check card
How stupid.
With a check card, your have all the liability while with the credit card its with the bank (-$50 in both cases according to the law but set at $0 by the CC compaines)
If I take $10,000 out of your account and the bank finds you at fault even if you never had more than $100 in the account, they will take all of your next paycheck. With a CC, your stuck with a bad credit report. Don't consider the best case for fraud, always consider the worst case when weighing your options.
If its anything like their TV numbers, they don't seem to reflect any sort of reality I've seen. Nielsen numbers have been used in the advertising game for decades to decide on how much a TV comercial should cost and indirectly of what kinds of shows get air time. The odd thing is that as soon as a technology came around to figure out just how accurete advertising numbers where, it was discounted with some sort of technobabble but the web proved that people just don't pay attention to most ads.
I know a guy who gets paid to do "market research". He leaves his TV on to Jerry Springer while he's at work and his spending habbits are odd since he gets so many free gifts for accounting for all the junk he buys.
However the numbers in the story can be verified very quickly by just about any large ISP sysop.
I just read that Tim Berners-Lee just got a knighthood for inventing the internet. CNN said so as did the BBC so its just got to be true!
Was the PCjr a flop? It was the final nail in the coffin of non-pc based home computers.
Years ago someone posted 8 or so pairs of crypt collisions however I don't think any of them where typeable passwords. I haven't been able to find the posting but it might still be in google somewhere and it was about about 87 or so. Whoever posted them never bothered to explain how they came up with them.
If you don't know what was going on inside either Enron or SCO, your clueless and thats all there is to it unless your doing some very low level work such as a janitor. People have an ethical obligation not to work for unethical companies. As for a coder, there is no way I would hire an ex-SCO employee who has been there in the last year and thats just based on "collective ethics" and not any of the other IP issues that make them leagal leppers.
An example of this is that Target (a US chain store like Wal-mart, K-mart, big-w depending on where you are) has typical t week sales in some departments such as baby items or clothing. Targets logo is a red and white circle that looks like a target (see target.com).
In Australia they run an ad for their baby stuff sales that starts out with an animated sperm that is made from their logo with a tail and it finds a egg also from their logo while the voice over talks about 20% off. I can't see that comercial ever being show in most of the US. They also have one for their bra sales that involves many sets of their logos.
I find it interesting that it took the Aussie (Murdock who started Fox) to bring some of the slightly racey concepts to US tv's.