[complain]why cant broadband companies take their profits to build better service or expand service to more remote locations.[/complain]
Question... Why does your town do this? Were residents upset with the service being provided by the local companies? Were the companies dragging their feet with getting service hooked up? etc etc??
most OS's work about the same
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Unzip to a directory - taking the defaults sets you up in c:\jakarta-tomcat-4.0.
Call me crazy, but I dont think my linux box will like that too much:)
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You can still get more out of an encrypted message than just traffic analysis. PGP only encrpyts the body of a message. The subject line and all other headers are still visible to eavesdroppers. This can provide a LOT as to where the sender is located (assuming the headers arent being spoofed or anything, much like spam).
roll back a few months. In July, the Afghani Taliban banned the Internet from their citizens, meaning there are no Afghani websites to go after. The.af domain space is virutally deserted. The government over there said they would monitor communications to make sure their rule is enforced.
Also, in the/. discussion on this banning came up, a lot of people pointed out that Afghanistan has very few people able to afford electricity, at the time meaning not many people were online over there. In this context, it means if someone were to knock off a power grid over there, it wont have much impact on the regular population.
Apple still uses MHz at some levels of their marketing. For example, the top of the box to my Titanium laptop has the very first bullet of the feature list saying "500 MHz PowerPC G4 Processor; 1 MB backside Level 2 cache
it's been discussed MANY times on/. that there's more to a chip than MHz or GHz. Intel's fastest chip may indeed run at 2GHz, but it also has (IIRC) a 20 stage pipeline. Meanwhile, the G4 chips have a 7-stage pipeline. The new G5 has a 10 stage but is also 64 bit, so I dont know how it will compare to the current G4s in performance. I think it will probably be similar at the start, but G5 will eventually pull away and smoke the G4 over time.
I think Apple has already determined that they arent gonna use clock speed in advertising. They're simply using the numbers G3, G4, and now G5. That's pretty much similar to AMD's new campaign of AMD 7000 chips or something like that.
keep hitting reload, it took me a few attempts. The site may be getting slashdotted, but I doubt it given that it's The Register. The site may also be flooded with people looking for the latest on the terror attacks and aftermath and such.
OS X 10.1 will be released sometime this month. I've seen beta versions, and it's kickin'. Look for that smoothness you're so desparately in need of. Look for a faster GUI, faster application boot time, more organized dock (some things have been moved), and other improvements.
i agree with you in some ways. I highly doubt that companies would lie on behalf of their government. Knowing corporate america, if one person were to say "The FBI made us say such-and-such," that would not look good, and the FBI would then be in a LOT of trouble. Knowing what ISPs have carnivore and which dont is something that's probably being guarded. But by having these companies say that "we have declined and FBI request to install wire tapping equipment" that tells us who DOESNT have Carnivore installed. It also leaves speculation that there are ISPs out there that have not been approached by the FBI.
well, angry white trash (or excuse me, angry white guy), maybe if the conversation we had over in the FBI/ISP story had been more positive and thoughtful, perhaps this ban on you (it's actually a "cooling off period") wouldnt happen. I noticed you had several other posts in that same story modded down and many of your past comments have been modded down.
Your karma is low enough that you're posts are a default score of 0, not the normal 1. Keep up the flames and trollin and you'll be at -1 in a jiffy.
My karma's is high up because of thoughtful and positive comments. As for this post, I dont care about losing a few karma points. I know I'll get modded down for this, and I dont care.
If you're that worried about being modded down, may I sugest you be positive in your posts? Sooner or later your positive posts will result in mods going up, along with your karma. Eventually, you'll be given the option (like I have) of making your default score 1 or 2.
Besides, your ban is only for something like 24 hours, you'll get over it.
Have there ever been cases of such? No.
Would we know about cases of confirmed abuse? Yes,/. would have a field day of it.
Have there been cases of it being used legally? Yes, this case of terrorism, intercepting the emails of the NY mob-boss (even though they were encrpyted).
Does the FBI have the time/energy/money to abuse Carnivore? No, the case of Steve Gibson's DDoS showed that the FBI has a HUGE priority list of cases to investigate, and many cases actually go untouched for years.
If it does get abused, it would be BIG news on/. A case of abuse would be found out because a defendant in a case would be entitled to see the search warrant authroizing the use of Carnivore. If that warrant isnt there, then all the evidence collected through Carnivore's abuse would be thrown out by the judge. These kinds of checks-and-balances exist in the US legal system to ensure things happen fairly and justly.
In order for the FBI to use Carnivore (or DCS200 or whatever its called), they are required to have a search warrant in place and have the system installed at various points to obtain their taps.
The past few days have shown that ISPs are refusing to install Carnivore on their networks. This is a sign to me that Carnivore is not as large a network we all think it is. If it was this "email vaccuum" capable of grabbing everything, it would already be in place everywhere, right? The fact that ISPs are making statements that they are refusing FBI install requests suggests that Carnivore is very small in size as it is now, and probably wont grow much larger in the immediate future. On the other hand, down the road.... who knows?
The ISPs have an obligation to allow the FBI to execute the warrants. If they were to refuse, they could be held accountable for obstruction of justice.
I myself am a former AOL member (jumped ship from dial-up over to broadband). In the User Agreements, AOL specified that they would turn over information at the request of law enforcement authorities. I dont recall what information that would be, just that they would. I imagine every major ISP has such stipulations in their user agreements.
Regular people should rest assured they are not being spied on or having their civil rights being violated. This story is the typical knee-jerk-reaction-without-all-the-facts that/. has sadly become familiar with in recent months.
the fbi is going after specific account information associated with specific individuals, not the general public. they are going to ISPs WITH search warrants, not just barging in and asking for arbtrary information.
In essence, they are only moving forward with normal police work and nothing else. They are legal in their use of search warrants, and they are going after specific information.
since the FSF isn't the copyright holder, they can't do much about it
Could Linus Torvalds become involved in this case? I am not familiar with RTLinux, but since Torvalds is the trademark holder of the name "Linux" and provides the license for using and modifying it, would he be the one to push something like this further?
Several months ago/. did a book review on Torvald's own book, Just For Fun. If for whatever reason you can't go to his talk, I recommend the book. I've read it, and it's good.
Bill gates attempted similar arguments that Wigler has. He said that because the computer industry has to keep up with the times or otherwise be left behind (duh). He said that anyone with an innovative idea can take teh market by storm quickly. Hence MS was forced to make sure they're able to compete with the market. As we all know, the argument didn't fly too well.
My post was about the driver being sober. Most cops would be happy to find that a driver is a "designated driver" in a car where everyone else is drunk. They would see it as a group of friends who took the time to be responsible about themselves and safety of others and probably let them go.
The only way what you're talking about could be true is if you're under age. In which case, a cop simply needs to smell alcohol on your breath (no breathalizer req'd) and he can take you in. In many states, that means loss of license for underage drinking, regardless of whether you were behind the wheel when you get caught.
I noticed the complaint letter doesnt list a dollar amount for damages. This is good because the defendants wont be able to offer a cash settlement very easily, like in many other cases. The woman here wants them to fix the problems for the better of the public and doesnt appear to want money in return.
Reminds of a case several years ago when families were suing automakers for problems with airbags killing loved ones. People were suing for tremendoesly large cash settlements, and getting them, but the airbag problems were going unchecked, as newer cars still had the same problem. One man (who himself was a lawyer) lost his wife in an accident because of the airbag in one of those newer vehicles. He sued, but emphasized that settlement would only be reached if the auto makers fixed the airbag problems and refused cash settlements. The judge ruled in his favor and ordered the automaker to repair the problem.
I noticed at the very end of the complaint that a jury trial is requested. This is good because if that request is granted, it will mean that regular Joes and Janes will be the ones deciding this case, and juries have traditionnally tended to lean toward what they personally feel is right, not what is legally right.
Natuarally the defendants will do everything hty can to block a jury and have just the judge.
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but profits go to the city to improve the service
[complain]why cant broadband companies take their profits to build better service or expand service to more remote locations.[/complain]
Question... Why does your town do this? Were residents upset with the service being provided by the local companies? Were the companies dragging their feet with getting service hooked up? etc etc??
most OS's work about the same
:)
...
Unzip to a directory - taking the defaults sets you up in c:\jakarta-tomcat-4.0.
Call me crazy, but I dont think my linux box will like that too much
You can still get more out of an encrypted message than just traffic analysis. PGP only encrpyts the body of a message. The subject line and all other headers are still visible to eavesdroppers. This can provide a LOT as to where the sender is located (assuming the headers arent being spoofed or anything, much like spam).
roll back a few months. In July, the Afghani Taliban banned the Internet from their citizens, meaning there are no Afghani websites to go after. The .af domain space is virutally deserted. The government over there said they would monitor communications to make sure their rule is enforced.
/. discussion on this banning came up, a lot of people pointed out that Afghanistan has very few people able to afford electricity, at the time meaning not many people were online over there. In this context, it means if someone were to knock off a power grid over there, it wont have much impact on the regular population.
Also, in the
Apple still uses MHz at some levels of their marketing. For example, the top of the box to my Titanium laptop has the very first bullet of the feature list saying "500 MHz PowerPC G4 Processor; 1 MB backside Level 2 cache
yeah, you're right. I initially read that post as someone saying "But the intel chips are 900Mhz"
it's been discussed MANY times on /. that there's more to a chip than MHz or GHz. Intel's fastest chip may indeed run at 2GHz, but it also has (IIRC) a 20 stage pipeline. Meanwhile, the G4 chips have a 7-stage pipeline. The new G5 has a 10 stage but is also 64 bit, so I dont know how it will compare to the current G4s in performance. I think it will probably be similar at the start, but G5 will eventually pull away and smoke the G4 over time.
I think Apple has already determined that they arent gonna use clock speed in advertising. They're simply using the numbers G3, G4, and now G5. That's pretty much similar to AMD's new campaign of AMD 7000 chips or something like that.
keep hitting reload, it took me a few attempts. The site may be getting slashdotted, but I doubt it given that it's The Register. The site may also be flooded with people looking for the latest on the terror attacks and aftermath and such.
OS X 10.1 will be released sometime this month. I've seen beta versions, and it's kickin'. Look for that smoothness you're so desparately in need of. Look for a faster GUI, faster application boot time, more organized dock (some things have been moved), and other improvements.
certainly not in bin Laden head.
i agree with you in some ways. I highly doubt that companies would lie on behalf of their government. Knowing corporate america, if one person were to say "The FBI made us say such-and-such," that would not look good, and the FBI would then be in a LOT of trouble. Knowing what ISPs have carnivore and which dont is something that's probably being guarded. But by having these companies say that "we have declined and FBI request to install wire tapping equipment" that tells us who DOESNT have Carnivore installed. It also leaves speculation that there are ISPs out there that have not been approached by the FBI.
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well, angry white trash (or excuse me, angry white guy), maybe if the conversation we had over in the FBI/ISP story had been more positive and thoughtful, perhaps this ban on you (it's actually a "cooling off period") wouldnt happen. I noticed you had several other posts in that same story modded down and many of your past comments have been modded down.
Your karma is low enough that you're posts are a default score of 0, not the normal 1. Keep up the flames and trollin and you'll be at -1 in a jiffy.
My karma's is high up because of thoughtful and positive comments. As for this post, I dont care about losing a few karma points. I know I'll get modded down for this, and I dont care.
If you're that worried about being modded down, may I sugest you be positive in your posts? Sooner or later your positive posts will result in mods going up, along with your karma. Eventually, you'll be given the option (like I have) of making your default score 1 or 2.
Besides, your ban is only for something like 24 hours, you'll get over it.
I highly doubt it gets abused.
/. would have a field day of it.
/. A case of abuse would be found out because a defendant in a case would be entitled to see the search warrant authroizing the use of Carnivore. If that warrant isnt there, then all the evidence collected through Carnivore's abuse would be thrown out by the judge. These kinds of checks-and-balances exist in the US legal system to ensure things happen fairly and justly.
Have there ever been cases of such? No.
Would we know about cases of confirmed abuse? Yes,
Have there been cases of it being used legally? Yes, this case of terrorism, intercepting the emails of the NY mob-boss (even though they were encrpyted).
Does the FBI have the time/energy/money to abuse Carnivore? No, the case of Steve Gibson's DDoS showed that the FBI has a HUGE priority list of cases to investigate, and many cases actually go untouched for years.
If it does get abused, it would be BIG news on
In order for the FBI to use Carnivore (or DCS200 or whatever its called), they are required to have a search warrant in place and have the system installed at various points to obtain their taps.
.... who knows?
The past few days have shown that ISPs are refusing to install Carnivore on their networks. This is a sign to me that Carnivore is not as large a network we all think it is. If it was this "email vaccuum" capable of grabbing everything, it would already be in place everywhere, right? The fact that ISPs are making statements that they are refusing FBI install requests suggests that Carnivore is very small in size as it is now, and probably wont grow much larger in the immediate future. On the other hand, down the road
in addition...
/. has sadly become familiar with in recent months.
The ISPs have an obligation to allow the FBI to execute the warrants. If they were to refuse, they could be held accountable for obstruction of justice.
I myself am a former AOL member (jumped ship from dial-up over to broadband). In the User Agreements, AOL specified that they would turn over information at the request of law enforcement authorities. I dont recall what information that would be, just that they would. I imagine every major ISP has such stipulations in their user agreements.
Regular people should rest assured they are not being spied on or having their civil rights being violated. This story is the typical knee-jerk-reaction-without-all-the-facts that
the fbi is going after specific account information associated with specific individuals, not the general public. they are going to ISPs WITH search warrants, not just barging in and asking for arbtrary information.
In essence, they are only moving forward with normal police work and nothing else. They are legal in their use of search warrants, and they are going after specific information.
since the FSF isn't the copyright holder, they can't do much about it
Could Linus Torvalds become involved in this case? I am not familiar with RTLinux, but since Torvalds is the trademark holder of the name "Linux" and provides the license for using and modifying it, would he be the one to push something like this further?
Several months ago /. did a book review on Torvald's own book, Just For Fun. If for whatever reason you can't go to his talk, I recommend the book. I've read it, and it's good.
Bill gates attempted similar arguments that Wigler has. He said that because the computer industry has to keep up with the times or otherwise be left behind (duh). He said that anyone with an innovative idea can take teh market by storm quickly. Hence MS was forced to make sure they're able to compete with the market. As we all know, the argument didn't fly too well.
do you think C++ would be any better?
Teach 'em Java: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/09/156200
you're talking bullshit.
My post was about the driver being sober. Most cops would be happy to find that a driver is a "designated driver" in a car where everyone else is drunk. They would see it as a group of friends who took the time to be responsible about themselves and safety of others and probably let them go.
The only way what you're talking about could be true is if you're under age. In which case, a cop simply needs to smell alcohol on your breath (no breathalizer req'd) and he can take you in. In many states, that means loss of license for underage drinking, regardless of whether you were behind the wheel when you get caught.
I noticed the complaint letter doesnt list a dollar amount for damages. This is good because the defendants wont be able to offer a cash settlement very easily, like in many other cases. The woman here wants them to fix the problems for the better of the public and doesnt appear to want money in return.
Reminds of a case several years ago when families were suing automakers for problems with airbags killing loved ones. People were suing for tremendoesly large cash settlements, and getting them, but the airbag problems were going unchecked, as newer cars still had the same problem. One man (who himself was a lawyer) lost his wife in an accident because of the airbag in one of those newer vehicles. He sued, but emphasized that settlement would only be reached if the auto makers fixed the airbag problems and refused cash settlements. The judge ruled in his favor and ordered the automaker to repair the problem.
I noticed at the very end of the complaint that a jury trial is requested. This is good because if that request is granted, it will mean that regular Joes and Janes will be the ones deciding this case, and juries have traditionnally tended to lean toward what they personally feel is right, not what is legally right.
Natuarally the defendants will do everything hty can to block a jury and have just the judge.