You seem to havea double standard. Regardless of the end use of the copied items . . . they are coppied in violation of a contract of some sort. Shouldn't they then be considered both illegal?
But I conceed the point about which is copied for a profit and which is not.
Never the less . . . that is a very fine line to be treading, and it is a moral line, not a legal line. Legally they are both violations.
Some friends and I spenda few hours a week surfing Audio Galaxy looking for the most wacky and wierd ass songs out there. We found oneby Dahlar Mundi (from India) it is a pop music song called "Tunak Tunak" that also hasa music video. We laugh so hard when we watch it. Totally cheeze.
Then there was the "Loch Ness Monster Song" and the "What do Scottsmen wear under their kilts" song.
Not to mention the radio recordings of DJs doing totally hilarious stuff like a fake Winne the Poo story where he finds some heroine, gets high and goes ape shit and kills CR, Piglet, Rue, then himself.
and then there are the several recording of guys using nothing my Arnold Swartz. MP3s from movies to make a call to various tech support lines. Those are great!
To me that makes AG worth while. I don't give a rip about finding songs from artists out now days. I'm a classical music fan and apparently no one rips that stuff to share besides me so I don't use Napster.
I found, early one tuesday morning, that my cable modem could go up to 578kbps. I was fairly astonished to see that transfer rate! But sure enou, those RedHat 7.2 isos didn't take long at all to DL. I was very impressed.
I am dumping my cable modem with CableOne for three reasons...
1) Gaming. I didn't realize how much time I spent playing Tribes2 until the DNSes at Cable one had problems and were down randomly over a few days. I literally had 3-4 hours of spare time a day. That is a bit scary.
2) Price $55/month . . . ouch
3) Hobbies: Now I'll be able to actually sped a bit more time reading my stack of Perl / Java / Linux books I bought this summer. I'll be able to actually get in some physical exercise (if I can force myself to do it that is). And I'll be able to fit in some practice time on the piano, my long forgotten hobby.
4) Realization of Needs vs Wants. I don't need my uber fast connection to: email, shop for PC stuff, use Dreamweaver (the updates will take a lot longer), or to read/. UF & AY2K. I want it so I can get pings near 50 for Tribes2 / Tribes1 / UT.
5) I may start to physically interact more with friends (other than the ones I see when I go to LAN parties).
Things I'll definantly miss (when it is disconnected in a week):
1) Internet Radio. I love this one techo dance station in europe.
2) IOSs. I'll have to go over to friends places with my USB burner if I want to DL any ISOs.
Realization of needs has won the case and the verdict is in. . . dump the cable.
Perhaps a difference in EULs is in store based on the different nature of the content on a DVD; the video vs. installed programs / installed games, installed fonts / etc.
The video is still only accessable by one machine at a time, where as the programs and installed extras may reside on multiple machines even if only accessible by one at a time (which ever machines the DVD was played on). And the installed program / installed extras issue has no bearing upong viewers in the console / stand alone market, where this is a mute point.
So this adds even more complexity (doesn't everything involving licenses?) to an already heated debate!
robi
Re:A plea to the hard core LOTR fans
on
Behind the Scenes
·
· Score: 1
>I really hope the Scoring of the Shire will be
>in the last movie though.
Definantly. That would further illustrate how tough the hobbits are when facing larger more agressive opponents. It would also show how slow to use force, how peacefull hobbits are.
robi
Re:A plea to the hard core LOTR fans
on
Behind the Scenes
·
· Score: 3, Insightful
Geeee glad to see you are not paying attention to anything that is remotely important to the PLOT OF THE STORY. Try to get a perspective. Does your boss expect perfection out of you? Hopefully not, otherwise you would probable fall dismally short, like every other imperfect human on the planet.
Think about the story, and not the insignificant details like relative heights, accents, supporting characters, etc. Just be glad you get to see all three made into major motion pictures! Will that ever happen to other major sci-fi / fantasy story lines? With the exception of Star Wars, Star Trek, Robin Hood (speaking of Robin Hood, why didn't Kevin C. have a British accent), Three Musketeers, and a few other classic tales . . . not many of the great tales have successfully made it to the big screen.
Sit down, grab your pop corn, and get ready for a great ride, as told by Peter J.
So if there is some governing body that can "shut down" the net to prevent the distrobution of a similar virus / trojan / worm that could stop the spread of that bug. However, that wouldn't really solve the problem, and it would happen an awfull lot. Not to mention impacting the very institution that is conducting the halt on traffic (more on that later).
but...
The example seems to do a good job of mirroring the reality:
1) Not all air line passengers were terrorists. Not all interet users are propogators of virii.
2) Stopping all air traffic stopped potential sequential occurances of the bombings. Stopping all net traffic halts the spread of the virii.
3) Business was adversly affected by air flight cancellations. Internet commerce and banking would be halted by a net shutdown (a bit more drastic where as the airline halt only inconvenienced companies like FedEx)
Now the above mentioned side note... Since the government itself (read misc agencies) relies on the public internet to communicate (the military to a lesser extent) it would be inhibiting its own comunication in stopping net traffic. Unless the FED builds its own national GOVNET.
So it seems that until MS is forced by the Powers That Be (TM) to change their liscense to include some liability (fat chance of that happening) then they will never see the need to be more secure on their products...
That is definantly unfortunate. And like another poster, if you are trusting total mission critical systems to Passport /.Net when they are in their 0th - 1st year of release, then you obviously don't know how to run a business (shame on you!).
So that leaves the rest of us to have fake Passport accounts (I wonder if they ever noticed that my name is "Abraham Lincoln" with a birth date of 01/01/00). I sure won't be using any of those services for anything remotely resembling any of my real information.
robi
Re:Keeping /. alive: several thoughts
on
Slashdot Updates
·
· Score: 1
I believe ther already is a level setting in your preferences that only shows "33 below your level" for the number of posts below the level you set. That works great for filting out kiddiez.
I also wouldn't mind a more targeted add space. I don't need adds for super huge mainframes / enterprise level SW due to my college guy budget. But adds for cheap deals on hardware, adds for neat books / sci fi, etc I would welcome.
I was wondering about that porting . . but then I realized that the best games I play are all PC because of the sheer complexity of the control system. You can't control Tribes 1 or 2 with only ~12 buttons. That is just impracticle. There are other games whos names escape me (possbly Rainbow Six type games) that also have the need for a large number of accessible keys.
So for me, all the games I like to play will only released for the PC. Besides that, I don't need a $500 piece of hardware sitting around that I can't use for something besides just playing. I gotta compile my C somewhere and it might as well be my fast gaming system)
There's an Xbox that's broken and it isn't in any living room in America yet. The Xbox demo unit at a nearby Toys R Us store could not give consumers a taste of the new Microsoft console because of severe loading problems. The Xbox unit had no disc inside and displayed a menu screen to access the hard drive and CD player. But customers who tried to navigate through menus could do little else but wait while the machine tried to load the next menu. The audio that accompanied the menu screen transition skipped severely as well. After a three minute wait, the Xbox reached the next screen but continued to have load problems. Multiple resets also failed to resolve the problem. Soon after, a screen appeared that said the Xbox needed customer service repair. The screen provided a list of customer service phone numbers to contact.
Several Toys R Us employees did not know what went wrong with the Xbox demo unit that now carried a "Out of Order" sign. The store received their unit on Tuesday. The in-store demo units are believed to be actual finalized hardware that consumers will see at launch.
GA has received several reports on problems with in-store Xbox units.
An Xbox unit in the Germantown, MD Target store is reported to have "freezing" problems that requires employees to open the kiosk every 75 minutes to reset the console.
An Xbox unit in Software Etc. store in Souix Falls, SD was reported to skip, freeze, and have audio problems.
An Xbox unit at a Babbages store in Mobile, AL was reported to have similar problems.
A Babbages employee at the Dearborn, MI store reports that their Xbox unit does not function.
"Out of five stores that have playable demos within a ten mile area, only two have working units," says the employee.
Microsoft recently delayed the Xbox launch and will ship an unspecified number of units on November 15th. It's unclear whether load problems were a source for delay. A Microsoft representative was contacted for the story but did not reply at press time.
That would be the origional Pentium (I don't remember the batch numbers) that contained a floating point arithmatic error in a hardcoded lookup table of some sorts.
People are standing up and shouting . . . they just are either insensitive to the listeners and end upo offending them, thus making the M$ people look like saints . . . or they are preaching to the choir (aka/.). The trick is to find a new audience with very little pre conceived notions. This can be found in developing nations and in innercities. That is a market where a free OS that doesn't take the latest greatest hard ware to run would be usefull.
Exactly. I have been playing console systems since Atari and I haven't know them to have problems such as this. I know several friends of mine that are hard core console system gamers that would throw a fit if their Final Fantasy VII games "hickuped" in the middle of a cut scene. If the current trend continues, then M$ will fell what it is like to enter the world of actual customers (not just prisoners in their M$ OS land).
hehehe whoever modded this had fun modding down CmdrTaco.
I try to get a few posts above 3 every once and a while, but my smart ass side just has to quip in a few times a week with Score: 1 comments. Oh well. Karma isn't exchangable for US$, soI can spend it freely.
So you would rather there be no communication of any technical / hobby / fun nature until this entire global issue is resolved?
While I think our lives do deserve a bit of a refocusing on what are genuine priorities, I don't think our avocations or vocations should be excluded from our life until such time is reached.
That is what balancing life's activities is all about. Try it. A balanced life is usually more rewarding, and yes . . ..even fun. I plan to follow the news regularly, read & post to/. , write my representatives regarding propossed "anti-terror" legislation, follow my vocation intently, and log online at night and play a few games of Tribes2 to have fun. Has my life changes since 11Sep . . . yes. Will I exclude all other activities . . . no.
=====
So, to me it seems as if which system has better keyboard accessibility probably depends on which you learned first. And how interested you are in learning it.
=====
That is my basic understanding of what seems to be a higher usability for windows. If grade school students had Linux systems in the libraries of the school and in the classroom, then kids would grow up used to it and then windows would have problems (to them).
Example (only applicable to Americans): How much do you weigh in kilos? How tall are you in meters?
If you grew up using these measurements on a daily basis, then you would have no problems with them. But if you didn't, then you would think them clumsy and hard to work with.
SOLUTION: Get Linux PCs into grade schools. Get kids using them. Get kids used to them. (and while you're at it, save the educational institutions of the world millions in licensing costs)
This is mainly what I am interested in (as a college student in a mainly college student town fill with mainly college student apartments). If everybody has their modem for their "WWW" connection, then there should be no legal issues regarding reselling bandwidth.
To address those pesky RIAA people that would probably think this is a perfect circumvention device, people could not share any files with open passwords (shh don't tell "them" that you give out the password to whomever you want). This is comming from a strictly windoz client base.
This solves the ISP problem (no router through someone's ADSL / cable account) the RIAA Nazi problem (there aren't any shared MP3s accessible to anyone besides you because of course you wouldn't want to give away your music).
However it leaves open the annoying 31337 h4x0r kiddie next door problem (how to keep them out of your machine / how to keep them from flooding your NAN with probes). A possible solution is that you simply choose to whom you want to connect. If you know they are a prick, don't let them on your part of the NAN (unfportunately, this is probably learned the hard way, from first hand experience)
But I conceed that this view is an gross simplification and relies on a much better image of your neighbors than is probably the case. Still, as long as we are dreaming here . . .
I have to marvel at the ingenuity . . . er . . . wacko-ness of artists. I wonder what went through his mind when he was taking a leak there . . . and why those thoughts resulted in him taking that picture . . . and why that picture ended up on his album.
I think your desire to fully customize the app is good, but miss directed (possibly). Is Evolution specifically designed for the programmer? It seems to be designed for the Outlook user. That means it closely mirrors the look / feel of Outlook. That it doesn't provide a manager to customize the appearance is probably somethign to fit into later versions (after functionality complete has been reached).
It is (hopefully) going to be the app to drop in place of Outlook on many corporate PCs whos IS team is fed up with M$ pricing. So I don't expect it to differ much from Outlook on the outside (inside is a different world).
Re:This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard of
on
GOVNET In the Works
·
· Score: 1
Think of a network where all UDP packets comming in are killed at the access points (especially those long ones sent from h4x0r3d IRC clients). A network where certain connections originating from the outside are simply not allowed in. Sure the restrictions could be huge (no streaming radio . . . ghasp!) and inconvenient . . . but it is our government network. Just like collosal corporate networks, they have the right . . . no . . . responsibility to keep their info safe.
In fact I demand it! The Fed has enough info on me that I don't want that info getting into anyone elses hands (it is bad enough that they have so much).
Now if they employ rigorous security at the access points where the GOVNET and the rest of the net connect as well as employing a secure network inside, the GOVNET should be relatively safe. Sure it would not be the end all of security systems, but it sure is a better plan than trusting their data to the world wide web, encrypted or not.
Is it a crime to pollute the air? Only if the offending industrial plant is above regulations. If the plant is not . . . then what it does is legal (even if it is awfull and should be illegal).
Until it is illegal, then the only thing you can do is work the pollitical system (no matter how ugly it is . ..it is still our government and how the USA works). When a group resorts to violence or other destructive (to either property not their own, or to persons) then they cross the line.
Slashdot Mirror
You seem to havea double standard. Regardless of the end use of the copied items . . . they are coppied in violation of a contract of some sort. Shouldn't they then be considered both illegal?
But I conceed the point about which is copied for a profit and which is not.
Never the less . . . that is a very fine line to be treading, and it is a moral line, not a legal line. Legally they are both violations.
robi
Some friends and I spenda few hours a week surfing Audio Galaxy looking for the most wacky and wierd ass songs out there. We found oneby Dahlar Mundi (from India) it is a pop music song called "Tunak Tunak" that also hasa music video. We laugh so hard when we watch it. Totally cheeze.
Then there was the "Loch Ness Monster Song" and the "What do Scottsmen wear under their kilts" song.
Not to mention the radio recordings of DJs doing totally hilarious stuff like a fake Winne the Poo story where he finds some heroine, gets high and goes ape shit and kills CR, Piglet, Rue, then himself.
and then there are the several recording of guys using nothing my Arnold Swartz. MP3s from movies to make a call to various tech support lines. Those are great!
To me that makes AG worth while. I don't give a rip about finding songs from artists out now days. I'm a classical music fan and apparently no one rips that stuff to share besides me so I don't use Napster.
robi
hehehehe . . .this seems right out of The Onion.
robi
I found, early one tuesday morning, that my cable modem could go up to 578kbps. I was fairly astonished to see that transfer rate! But sure enou, those RedHat 7.2 isos didn't take long at all to DL. I was very impressed.
robi
I am dumping my cable modem with CableOne for three reasons...
/. UF & AY2K. I want it so I can get pings near 50 for Tribes2 / Tribes1 / UT.
1) Gaming. I didn't realize how much time I spent playing Tribes2 until the DNSes at Cable one had problems and were down randomly over a few days. I literally had 3-4 hours of spare time a day. That is a bit scary.
2) Price $55/month . . . ouch
3) Hobbies: Now I'll be able to actually sped a bit more time reading my stack of Perl / Java / Linux books I bought this summer. I'll be able to actually get in some physical exercise (if I can force myself to do it that is). And I'll be able to fit in some practice time on the piano, my long forgotten hobby.
4) Realization of Needs vs Wants. I don't need my uber fast connection to: email, shop for PC stuff, use Dreamweaver (the updates will take a lot longer), or to read
5) I may start to physically interact more with friends (other than the ones I see when I go to LAN parties).
Things I'll definantly miss (when it is disconnected in a week):
1) Internet Radio. I love this one techo dance station in europe.
2) IOSs. I'll have to go over to friends places with my USB burner if I want to DL any ISOs.
Realization of needs has won the case and the verdict is in. . . dump the cable.
robi
Perhaps a difference in EULs is in store based on the different nature of the content on a DVD; the video vs. installed programs / installed games, installed fonts / etc.
The video is still only accessable by one machine at a time, where as the programs and installed extras may reside on multiple machines even if only accessible by one at a time (which ever machines the DVD was played on). And the installed program / installed extras issue has no bearing upong viewers in the console / stand alone market, where this is a mute point.
So this adds even more complexity (doesn't everything involving licenses?) to an already heated debate!
robi
>I really hope the Scoring of the Shire will be
>in the last movie though.
Definantly. That would further illustrate how tough the hobbits are when facing larger more agressive opponents. It would also show how slow to use force, how peacefull hobbits are.
robi
Geeee glad to see you are not paying attention to anything that is remotely important to the PLOT OF THE STORY. Try to get a perspective. Does your boss expect perfection out of you? Hopefully not, otherwise you would probable fall dismally short, like every other imperfect human on the planet.
Think about the story, and not the insignificant details like relative heights, accents, supporting characters, etc. Just be glad you get to see all three made into major motion pictures! Will that ever happen to other major sci-fi / fantasy story lines? With the exception of Star Wars, Star Trek, Robin Hood (speaking of Robin Hood, why didn't Kevin C. have a British accent), Three Musketeers, and a few other classic tales . . . not many of the great tales have successfully made it to the big screen.
Sit down, grab your pop corn, and get ready for a great ride, as told by Peter J.
robi
So if there is some governing body that can "shut down" the net to prevent the distrobution of a similar virus / trojan / worm that could stop the spread of that bug. However, that wouldn't really solve the problem, and it would happen an awfull lot. Not to mention impacting the very institution that is conducting the halt on traffic (more on that later).
but...
The example seems to do a good job of mirroring the reality:
1) Not all air line passengers were terrorists. Not all interet users are propogators of virii.
2) Stopping all air traffic stopped potential sequential occurances of the bombings. Stopping all net traffic halts the spread of the virii.
3) Business was adversly affected by air flight cancellations. Internet commerce and banking would be halted by a net shutdown (a bit more drastic where as the airline halt only inconvenienced companies like FedEx)
Now the above mentioned side note... Since the government itself (read misc agencies) relies on the public internet to communicate (the military to a lesser extent) it would be inhibiting its own comunication in stopping net traffic. Unless the FED builds its own national GOVNET.
Complicated mess isn't it!
robi
So it seems that until MS is forced by the Powers That Be (TM) to change their liscense to include some liability (fat chance of that happening) then they will never see the need to be more secure on their products...
.Net when they are in their 0th - 1st year of release, then you obviously don't know how to run a business (shame on you!).
That is definantly unfortunate. And like another poster, if you are trusting total mission critical systems to Passport /
So that leaves the rest of us to have fake Passport accounts (I wonder if they ever noticed that my name is "Abraham Lincoln" with a birth date of 01/01/00). I sure won't be using any of those services for anything remotely resembling any of my real information.
robi
I believe ther already is a level setting in your preferences that only shows "33 below your level" for the number of posts below the level you set. That works great for filting out kiddiez.
I also wouldn't mind a more targeted add space. I don't need adds for super huge mainframes / enterprise level SW due to my college guy budget. But adds for cheap deals on hardware, adds for neat books / sci fi, etc I would welcome.
robi
I was wondering about that porting . . but then I realized that the best games I play are all PC because of the sheer complexity of the control system. You can't control Tribes 1 or 2 with only ~12 buttons. That is just impracticle. There are other games whos names escape me (possbly Rainbow Six type games) that also have the need for a large number of accessible keys.
So for me, all the games I like to play will only released for the PC. Besides that, I don't need a $500 piece of hardware sitting around that I can't use for something besides just playing. I gotta compile my C somewhere and it might as well be my fast gaming system)
robi
::yoink::
There's an Xbox that's broken and it isn't in any living room in America yet. The Xbox demo unit at a nearby Toys R Us store could not give consumers a taste of the new Microsoft console because of severe loading problems. The Xbox unit had no disc inside and displayed a menu screen to access the hard drive and CD player. But customers who tried to navigate through menus could do little else but wait while the machine tried to load the next menu. The audio that accompanied the menu screen transition skipped severely as well. After a three minute wait, the Xbox reached the next screen but continued to have load problems. Multiple resets also failed to resolve the problem. Soon after, a screen appeared that said the Xbox needed customer service repair. The screen provided a list of customer service phone numbers to contact.
Several Toys R Us employees did not know what went wrong with the Xbox demo unit that now carried a "Out of Order" sign. The store received their unit on Tuesday. The in-store demo units are believed to be actual finalized hardware that consumers will see at launch.
GA has received several reports on problems with in-store Xbox units.
An Xbox unit in the Germantown, MD Target store is reported to have "freezing" problems that requires employees to open the kiosk every 75 minutes to reset the console.
An Xbox unit in Software Etc. store in Souix Falls, SD was reported to skip, freeze, and have audio problems.
An Xbox unit at a Babbages store in Mobile, AL was reported to have similar problems.
A Babbages employee at the Dearborn, MI store reports that their Xbox unit does not function.
"Out of five stores that have playable demos within a ten mile area, only two have working units," says the employee.
Microsoft recently delayed the Xbox launch and will ship an unspecified number of units on November 15th. It's unclear whether load problems were a source for delay. A Microsoft representative was contacted for the story but did not reply at press time.
We'll have more as it develops, here at GA.
-- Marcus Lai
That would be the origional Pentium (I don't remember the batch numbers) that contained a floating point arithmatic error in a hardcoded lookup table of some sorts.
robi
People are standing up and shouting . . . they just are either insensitive to the listeners and end upo offending them, thus making the M$ people look like saints . . . or they are preaching to the choir (aka /.). The trick is to find a new audience with very little pre conceived notions. This can be found in developing nations and in innercities. That is a market where a free OS that doesn't take the latest greatest hard ware to run would be usefull.
robi
Exactly. I have been playing console systems since Atari and I haven't know them to have problems such as this. I know several friends of mine that are hard core console system gamers that would throw a fit if their Final Fantasy VII games "hickuped" in the middle of a cut scene. If the current trend continues, then M$ will fell what it is like to enter the world of actual customers (not just prisoners in their M$ OS land).
robi
hehehe whoever modded this had fun modding down CmdrTaco.
I try to get a few posts above 3 every once and a while, but my smart ass side just has to quip in a few times a week with Score: 1 comments. Oh well. Karma isn't exchangable for US$, soI can spend it freely.
robi
So you would rather there be no communication of any technical / hobby / fun nature until this entire global issue is resolved?
.even fun. I plan to follow the news regularly, read & post to /. , write my representatives regarding propossed "anti-terror" legislation, follow my vocation intently, and log online at night and play a few games of Tribes2 to have fun. Has my life changes since 11Sep . . . yes. Will I exclude all other activities . . . no.
While I think our lives do deserve a bit of a refocusing on what are genuine priorities, I don't think our avocations or vocations should be excluded from our life until such time is reached.
That is what balancing life's activities is all about. Try it. A balanced life is usually more rewarding, and yes . . .
robi
=====
So, to me it seems as if which system has better keyboard accessibility probably depends on which you learned first. And how interested you are in learning it.
=====
That is my basic understanding of what seems to be a higher usability for windows. If grade school students had Linux systems in the libraries of the school and in the classroom, then kids would grow up used to it and then windows would have problems (to them).
Example (only applicable to Americans): How much do you weigh in kilos? How tall are you in meters?
If you grew up using these measurements on a daily basis, then you would have no problems with them. But if you didn't, then you would think them clumsy and hard to work with.
SOLUTION: Get Linux PCs into grade schools. Get kids using them. Get kids used to them. (and while you're at it, save the educational institutions of the world millions in licensing costs)
robi
This is mainly what I am interested in (as a college student in a mainly college student town fill with mainly college student apartments). If everybody has their modem for their "WWW" connection, then there should be no legal issues regarding reselling bandwidth.
To address those pesky RIAA people that would probably think this is a perfect circumvention device, people could not share any files with open passwords (shh don't tell "them" that you give out the password to whomever you want). This is comming from a strictly windoz client base.
This solves the ISP problem (no router through someone's ADSL / cable account) the RIAA Nazi problem (there aren't any shared MP3s accessible to anyone besides you because of course you wouldn't want to give away your music).
However it leaves open the annoying 31337 h4x0r kiddie next door problem (how to keep them out of your machine / how to keep them from flooding your NAN with probes). A possible solution is that you simply choose to whom you want to connect. If you know they are a prick, don't let them on your part of the NAN (unfportunately, this is probably learned the hard way, from first hand experience)
But I conceed that this view is an gross simplification and relies on a much better image of your neighbors than is probably the case. Still, as long as we are dreaming here . . .
robi
I have to marvel at the ingenuity . . . er . . . wacko-ness of artists. I wonder what went through his mind when he was taking a leak there . . . and why those thoughts resulted in him taking that picture . . . and why that picture ended up on his album.
robi
I think your desire to fully customize the app is good, but miss directed (possibly). Is Evolution specifically designed for the programmer? It seems to be designed for the Outlook user. That means it closely mirrors the look / feel of Outlook. That it doesn't provide a manager to customize the appearance is probably somethign to fit into later versions (after functionality complete has been reached).
It is (hopefully) going to be the app to drop in place of Outlook on many corporate PCs whos IS team is fed up with M$ pricing. So I don't expect it to differ much from Outlook on the outside (inside is a different world).
robi
Mod up parent...
Good summary of hardware importance.
robi
Think of a network where all UDP packets comming in are killed at the access points (especially those long ones sent from h4x0r3d IRC clients). A network where certain connections originating from the outside are simply not allowed in. Sure the restrictions could be huge (no streaming radio . . . ghasp!) and inconvenient . . . but it is our government network. Just like collosal corporate networks, they have the right . . . no . . . responsibility to keep their info safe.
In fact I demand it! The Fed has enough info on me that I don't want that info getting into anyone elses hands (it is bad enough that they have so much).
Now if they employ rigorous security at the access points where the GOVNET and the rest of the net connect as well as employing a secure network inside, the GOVNET should be relatively safe. Sure it would not be the end all of security systems, but it sure is a better plan than trusting their data to the world wide web, encrypted or not.
robi
MY="$0.02"
echo $MY
Is it a crime to pollute the air? Only if the offending industrial plant is above regulations. If the plant is not . . . then what it does is legal (even if it is awfull and should be illegal).
.it is still our government and how the USA works). When a group resorts to violence or other destructive (to either property not their own, or to persons) then they cross the line.
Until it is illegal, then the only thing you can do is work the pollitical system (no matter how ugly it is . .
robi