I'm in the process of purchasing printers and a company acting responsibly, with respect to the GPL or any license, would seem to be a company I'd be happy doing business with. Realistically, this is the best method to encourage hardware manufacturers to support the FSF and it's goals.
This certainly gets around the rescrictions of campaigning not allowed within 100 feet (or whatever it is) of the polls. Just wait until the SMS messages start flooding the phone system on election day. How will the FEC react when voters are bombarded with SMS spam in the ballot booth.
those who have the influence and/or money and one set of laws for those who don't. Yet another example of legal inequality for corporations.
Would this make it possible for me to legally dDos CNN, NY Times, or even Google if they distribute something copyrighted by me?
That "smoke" you see with dry ice or liquid nitrogen is the water vapor in the air condensing. That would not be a good thing to have on your motherboard.
There is such a thing as liquid carbon dioxide, but only at pressures above 5 atmospheres.
Not just the topic and it's coverage, but as a whole. While online documentation is good, it is completely insufficient for me when I want to just read.
My favorite technical books of all time (despite the subject matter) are Starting Forth and Thinking Forth. They have a good mix of information and humor. This keeps the topic from being dry and boring.
Now if someone would just do this for SNMP and RMON I'd be happy.
It's unlikely that any of these spammed resumes will make it beyond the trash, unlike Bernie Schiffman. The community's attitude toward spam in any form will deny these fool's employment in the community. It's not the survival of the most fit; however, it is a community holding ot it's own standard.
The message automatically disappears when I leave the proximity of the tagged object, I'd support this. Just like any advertising, I'd avoid obnoxious areas. Conversely, I'd be more likely to visit locations that I got free stuff. Simple consumerism.
I'd love not to need to open the case, move all the cables around, and try not to slice my fingers on the case when changing or adding a card. I'd like to see the PCI and AGP internal slots replaced with cPCI cards that slide in on rails from the outside.
What the the limitations that you have found with respect to Open Source software when you have been able to incorporate it in to your product portfolio? Where is it a success and where has it been a failure?
The problem with this attitude is that the BSA will still require you to pay for a software audit. It's important to understand this fact. You could have a completely sanitized site (i.e., no commercial software) and the BSA would require you to prove it. Too many companies have found themselves hit hard by the audit cost. It didn't matter if the site was completely up-to-date on all software licenses or it was a site that utilized only free software, they still had to pay for an audit.
The BSA is high tech's version of the IRS. The operate on rumors, suspicions, and the word of disgruntled employees.
From my experience over the years (too many to think about most of the time), CS degrees and certifications are vastly overrated. They provide a method for HR personnel to separate resume stacks, but that's it. The best system administrators I've ever known spent years in the trenchs doing the admin work because no one else was able to. When they made the formal transition to a sys admin position it was on merit and knowledge rather than a degree or cert. The typical CS degree does very little to aide you in system administration.
Also, get a lot of experience with networking. Understand the protocols, how to configure the services, security, etc. A sys admin who only knows how to think about one box at a time rather that the network as a whole, has no future.
As long as you understand the technology and can think your way through any problems, the rest is easy.
Problem is they aren't just locking out the infected machines. XO blocked port 80 for about 24 hours in order to find the infected machines. The only way to see any announcement was to go to their support web page, but you couldn't because they were blocking port 80.
The day prior to this, a security consultant firm went through and port scanned all of XO's network. It's amazing what looking at your firewall logs daily and a simple whois query does for you. My network is all Linux and *BSD. The only external access to my servers is through a firewall via https from very specific IP addresses. Their port scan would have reported a presence at two IP addresses but no services were accessible. Why should I need to be denied service?
For 24 hours my SLA was not maintained. There needs to be some recompense. Personally, I prefer the propagators of this worm to suffer. I'd like to see the ISP's throttle a site's bandwidth down everytime it propagates a worm or virus. By the time the site's bandwidth is below a 56kbit/sec, maybe the site will either manage their servers better or find another ISP.
This could be as important as the Scopes Monkey trial was. In terms of legal and public exposure to an issue that much of the general public doesn't think is. It could make them confront the impact on 'fair-use' that the DCMA has. Only the technology early-adopters and the digeratti are aware of the DCMA's true scope. Let Bubba Joe know that the MPAA, RIAA, etc. really owns what's in his house and opinions will change.
Let's hope it turns out better than that Scopes trial did initially.
One of feature of X that is invaluable is the ability to pump an application's display to any arbitrary location (given the authentication). When will the Atheos windowing system be capable of doing this?
But once the paper is published the journal owns the copyright to the paper not the author(s). IANAL, but would that mean the RIAA would need to go after the publishing house? They have lots of lawyers.
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I agree with these statements; however, it ignores an obvious issue. Should the NSA provide a more secure OS than is currently available through Open Source, it will make their job (SIGINT) and that of other Intelligence agencies more difficult. There is nothing preventing targets of observation from obtaining it. This would argue that the OS could be penetrated. Despite any interagency rivalries, why would the NSA make the CIA's or FBI's job more difficult?
Makes you wonder if they have something like the compiler-login trick up their collective sleeve.:-)
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I'm in the process of purchasing printers and a company acting responsibly, with respect to the GPL or any license, would seem to be a company I'd be happy doing business with. Realistically, this is the best method to encourage hardware manufacturers to support the FSF and it's goals.
This certainly gets around the rescrictions of campaigning not allowed within 100 feet (or whatever it is) of the polls. Just wait until the SMS messages start flooding the phone system on election day. How will the FEC react when voters are bombarded with SMS spam in the ballot booth.
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those who have the influence and/or money and one set of laws for those who don't. Yet another example of legal inequality for corporations. Would this make it possible for me to legally dDos CNN, NY Times, or even Google if they distribute something copyrighted by me?
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That "smoke" you see with dry ice or liquid nitrogen is the water vapor in the air condensing. That would not be a good thing to have on your motherboard.
There is such a thing as liquid carbon dioxide, but only at pressures above 5 atmospheres.
Not just the topic and it's coverage, but as a whole. While online documentation is good, it is completely insufficient for me when I want to just read.
My favorite technical books of all time (despite the subject matter) are Starting Forth and Thinking Forth. They have a good mix of information and humor. This keeps the topic from being dry and boring.
Now if someone would just do this for SNMP and RMON I'd be happy.
It's unlikely that any of these spammed resumes will make it beyond the trash, unlike Bernie Schiffman. The community's attitude toward spam in any form will deny these fool's employment in the community. It's not the survival of the most fit; however, it is a community holding ot it's own standard.
The message automatically disappears when I leave the proximity of the tagged object, I'd support this. Just like any advertising, I'd avoid obnoxious areas. Conversely, I'd be more likely to visit locations that I got free stuff. Simple consumerism.
Isn't it a sad commentary on the userbase that the PalmOS is more difficult to understand than WinCE?
Give me a lobotomy now, and I'll fit right in.
I think hello_world.c might be safe.
I'd love not to need to open the case, move all the cables around, and try not to slice my fingers on the case when changing or adding a card. I'd like to see the PCI and AGP internal slots replaced with cPCI cards that slide in on rails from the outside.
What the the limitations that you have found with respect to Open Source software when you have been able to incorporate it in to your product portfolio? Where is it a success and where has it been a failure?
The problem with this attitude is that the BSA will still require you to pay for a software audit. It's important to understand this fact. You could have a completely sanitized site (i.e., no commercial software) and the BSA would require you to prove it. Too many companies have found themselves hit hard by the audit cost. It didn't matter if the site was completely up-to-date on all software licenses or it was a site that utilized only free software, they still had to pay for an audit.
The BSA is high tech's version of the IRS. The operate on rumors, suspicions, and the word of disgruntled employees.
Don't like a series?? DDOS the media server. I can think of a few series that would be worth the jail time to deny their access to the world.
What makes you think that ISPs won't start blocking all encrypted packets?? Some companies already do this on their intranets.
Wonder if the RIAA member corporations have any pirated software on their internal networks?
Argh, matey!!
From my experience over the years (too many to think about most of the time), CS degrees and certifications are vastly overrated. They provide a method for HR personnel to separate resume stacks, but that's it. The best system administrators I've ever known spent years in the trenchs doing the admin work because no one else was able to. When they made the formal transition to a sys admin position it was on merit and knowledge rather than a degree or cert. The typical CS degree does very little to aide you in system administration.
Also, get a lot of experience with networking. Understand the protocols, how to configure the services, security, etc. A sys admin who only knows how to think about one box at a time rather that the network as a whole, has no future.
As long as you understand the technology and can think your way through any problems, the rest is easy.
Problem is they aren't just locking out the infected machines. XO blocked port 80 for about 24 hours in order to find the infected machines. The only way to see any announcement was to go to their support web page, but you couldn't because they were blocking port 80.
The day prior to this, a security consultant firm went through and port scanned all of XO's network. It's amazing what looking at your firewall logs daily and a simple whois query does for you. My network is all Linux and *BSD. The only external access to my servers is through a firewall via https from very specific IP addresses. Their port scan would have reported a presence at two IP addresses but no services were accessible. Why should I need to be denied service?
For 24 hours my SLA was not maintained. There needs to be some recompense. Personally, I prefer the propagators of this worm to suffer. I'd like to see the ISP's throttle a site's bandwidth down everytime it propagates a worm or virus. By the time the site's bandwidth is below a 56kbit/sec, maybe the site will either manage their servers better or find another ISP.
This could be as important as the Scopes Monkey trial was. In terms of legal and public exposure to an issue that much of the general public doesn't think is. It could make them confront the impact on 'fair-use' that the DCMA has. Only the technology early-adopters and the digeratti are aware of the DCMA's true scope. Let Bubba Joe know that the MPAA, RIAA, etc. really owns what's in his house and opinions will change.
Let's hope it turns out better than that Scopes trial did initially.
One of feature of X that is invaluable is the ability to pump an application's display to any arbitrary location (given the authentication). When will the Atheos windowing system be capable of doing this?
Material Safety Data Sheet == MSDS. Not Material Date Safety Sheet. A real chemist would know that.
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Prior art!! Patent it!!
But once the paper is published the journal owns the copyright to the paper not the author(s). IANAL, but would that mean the RIAA would need to go after the publishing house? They have lots of lawyers.
I agree with these statements; however, it ignores an obvious issue. Should the NSA provide a more secure OS than is currently available through Open Source, it will make their job (SIGINT) and that of other Intelligence agencies more difficult. There is nothing preventing targets of observation from obtaining it. This would argue that the OS could be penetrated. Despite any interagency rivalries, why would the NSA make the CIA's or FBI's job more difficult?
:-)
Makes you wonder if they have something like the compiler-login trick up their collective sleeve.