There are not 4 billion address available, even if they are possible. As the article pointed out, MIT and Stanford each have a block of 16 million. Plus as you go to Class B and Class C networks, and subnet them, you lose large chunks of addresses. Plus many of the ranges are not available at all right now, such as 10.0.0.0, 192.0.0.0, and I think all of 225.0.0.0-255.0.0.0.
So how do developing countries in Africa get IP addresses when most of the available ones are owned and assigned in the US? While I agree that gving the oven an IP address is stupid, I would like to have all the computers in my house connected directly, not thru the Linksys router.
A reward that would definitely make a big impact would be to offer Microsoft the first publicly available Class A block in IPv6. they would switch in about 3 seconds, and drag everyone else kicking and screaming along with. The whole of MSN would be on it, including Hotmail, and the.Net side of MS.
But the Chinese government might not really care about this, since they don't want their people to access the Net anyway, with all the political stuff and all.
Well, I won't name myself, but I fit the bill here. It was at least a month after buying my burner before I did anything illegal with it. For the first month, I hardly used it, just for backing up my data files to see if it worked OK. After that, I made a few copies of copyrighted material, such as MS Office, Windows 95, Norton, etc. Actually, I never sold the copies or gave them away, so maybe that is just fair use backup copying, but my intents weren't pure, let me tell you that. Watch out, I'm a wild man.
But why does that mean I should pay a 'tax' to the music industry for copying Microsoft's software? I have never downloaded, uploaded, or crossloaded music on my computer. Not a single time. I have never made a copy of any of the CDs I own. I have never copied any of the cassettes I own to CD. I don't care to make a compilation disk. If I play a CD, I play the whole damn thing from beginning to end. I don't DJ my own music. I just don't buy CDs that have crappy songs on them, which means anything new out there that the RIAA doesn't want me to copy. Don't worry guys, I wouldn't want to listen to it free on the radio, much less waste a perfectly good 30 cent CD-R to copy it.
So, reading all the other comments too, it looks like there are plenty of people who don't use their burners to illegally copy music. Not my fault if you think everyone does.
"War isn't pretty. War isn't supposed to be pretty. The day war becomes pretty, we've all got problems. "
Remember the Star Trek episode when the Enterprise was "bombed" while in orbit around a planet that was "at war" with another planet in that solar system? It was all a computer simulation of what areas were destroyed, and how many would have been killed. Those people then went to a convenient chamber that killed them. So the politicians and military had the war to keep themselves in power, but didn't have to actually build weapons or repair damaged buildings and roads, or lose irraplaceable artwork. It was a very humane way to kill people that sounds very much like what you are warning against.
"What precisely does "verify your residence" mean? My guess is that it means you will have to have a house, or an apartment, or some other solid place to live. People who are living out of a cardboard box need not apply. So although this is lowing the bar, certain people will still be denied access. "
Just like homeless people get their Social Security checks, welfare, etc., they can list a homeless shelter as their official residence, even if they only go their for soup at dinnertime.
"...when people stop vomiting on the constitution of the United States, and the philosophy and principles it stood for...."
If this was being done by the Federal government, this argument would apply. But local and state governments can spend their tax revenue as they see fit. Just because you libertarians have a valid argument against the Feds funding education, Social Security, and Medicare, doesn't mean the states and cities can't do it on their own. Unless THEIR constitutions and charters say otherwise, they can do as they please.
Also, if the Houston people don't like it, they can vote-in a different bunch next year that will repeal it, which is a lot easier than replacing the House of Reps, much less the US Senate. Or, failing that, those who really don't like it can always leave that city, move to Dallas or something, and still be in their same state, and same country. Can't do that when it's the Federal Government that your pissed at. You'd have to leave the country.
And you wonder why so many people don't get it. Your viewpoint is the problem here. The US Constitution applies to the Federal Government, or is supposed to of course.
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No, some of the slashdotters are women, checking on their non-/. boyfriends. That should push that number back down under 100. As for me, I would have a girlfriend, but my wife would kill me.;^)
You're blaming Bush for stupid legislation enacted while "No tort reform" Clinton and "I didn't know taking foreign contributions was illegal" Gore were in power? Why not blame him for the Hindenburg and Titanic too? Too many people here think the Republicans are the only corrupt party in America. There are just as many racists, crooks, idiots, and bought politicians in the Democrat party, but noone wants to admit it. Did you vote for Brown last year?
Right, you have the freedom to post anonymously, and the owners/administrators of slashdot have the right to keep anonymous trollers on a short leash. As you point out, only one 'dufus' was being an idiot, and 'writing anonymous trolls' until the IP address was banned. Slashdot surely has the right to temporarily ban an IP address if it keeps the volume of messages within reason. Otherwise all we would see would be thousands of trolls from scripts, talking about that goatse.cx site everyone seems to enjoy so much. [insert winking smilie here]
Oh please, there was a tax reduction and rebate because the government has more money than it can spend at the moment, as incredulous as that sounds. Yes I think they should find a way to get that thing into orbit, maybe as one of the few good things that Al Gore did. But don't say it can't be done because they are giving me my money back, there's been a BUDGET SURPLUS for the last two years. It's politics, not money.
"Doesn't surfing improve productivity as a way of taking break?"........Not if the employee spends 7 hours surfing. Of course that 'never happens' in the real world. If the problem wasn't so bad, the companies would have never spent the money to monitor or filter Internet activity. Basically a few losers at a few companies have loused it up for everyone else. Still doesn't mean that public employees have any more freedom from monitoring than you or I do.
If I disabled monitoring software, my boss would have every right to fire me. It's not my computer, bandwidth, electricity, etc. A poster says they simply told their sysadmin to disable it for them. If I nagged and whined at my boss to please turn off the antiporn filters, he'd fire me for that. It's not my choice, because I'm not the boss. Who the hell do these judges think they are. They are employees of the government. They have to follow all the same stupid rules that every other employee has to put up with.
So, just because something is "the law", everyone should blindly follow it without a thought of acting against it, until someone can convince (or bribe) the politicians to make a different law that supercedes the first law. Guess we have to reprint the history books, and make sure they label as criminal Harriet Tubman and the other Underground Railroad persons. Not to mention those traitors George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, etc., who refused to follow the laws enacted by their own country's legislature and king.
But besides that, he was not in the US when he made the program, so as far as that goes, the DMCA issue is moot. No matter how much we Americans think we can legislate the actions of people in foreign countries, our laws have no jurisdiction outside of our borders. If our laws were enforceable in other countries, then laws of those other countries would be enforceable inside the US. Would you like to travel to another country and be arrested because you made a comment in your home town that is unlawful in that country?
So please don't give an asinine reason that "the DMCA is the law of the land." Too many things have been illegal here that are now legal, and the laws of our land don't apply to other lands.
I noticed that too, but my wife didn't.
She's japanese decent, so i thought she would notice, and get righteously indignant, but it went right over her head.
But that's not as bad as the two people I know that thought Episode one was 'stupid' because "why wouldn't luke remember all this happening later during the story of the original Star Wars." Took me a moment to realize they watched the whole movie thinking it was Luke as a child, and Anakin was some nickname for him.
I do hope you mean while she is sitting safely on her couch, watching news reports about SUV-sized things falling from outer space.
The news coverage did make this sound like it has never happened before. I heard them say that scientists were speculating that something called a bolus, I think, fell from space, broke up, and burned as it fell towards Earth. I almost choked at the stupidity of it. We just call those things in space meteors, and if they hit the planet surface they are meteorites. From the news stories, you would expect Mark Walburg to emerge from it, as another post said.
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But the grammer checker might have caught it. Half of my sentences have that damn green line under them.
There are not 4 billion address available, even if they are possible. As the article pointed out, MIT and Stanford each have a block of 16 million. Plus as you go to Class B and Class C networks, and subnet them, you lose large chunks of addresses. Plus many of the ranges are not available at all right now, such as 10.0.0.0, 192.0.0.0, and I think all of 225.0.0.0-255.0.0.0.
So how do developing countries in Africa get IP addresses when most of the available ones are owned and assigned in the US? While I agree that gving the oven an IP address is stupid, I would like to have all the computers in my house connected directly, not thru the Linksys router.
A reward that would definitely make a big impact would be to offer Microsoft the first publicly available Class A block in IPv6. they would switch in about 3 seconds, and drag everyone else kicking and screaming along with. The whole of MSN would be on it, including Hotmail, and the .Net side of MS.
But the Chinese government might not really care about this, since they don't want their people to access the Net anyway, with all the political stuff and all.
Well, I won't name myself, but I fit the bill here. It was at least a month after buying my burner before I did anything illegal with it. For the first month, I hardly used it, just for backing up my data files to see if it worked OK. After that, I made a few copies of copyrighted material, such as MS Office, Windows 95, Norton, etc. Actually, I never sold the copies or gave them away, so maybe that is just fair use backup copying, but my intents weren't pure, let me tell you that. Watch out, I'm a wild man.
But why does that mean I should pay a 'tax' to the music industry for copying Microsoft's software? I have never downloaded, uploaded, or crossloaded music on my computer. Not a single time. I have never made a copy of any of the CDs I own. I have never copied any of the cassettes I own to CD. I don't care to make a compilation disk. If I play a CD, I play the whole damn thing from beginning to end. I don't DJ my own music. I just don't buy CDs that have crappy songs on them, which means anything new out there that the RIAA doesn't want me to copy. Don't worry guys, I wouldn't want to listen to it free on the radio, much less waste a perfectly good 30 cent CD-R to copy it.
So, reading all the other comments too, it looks like there are plenty of people who don't use their burners to illegally copy music. Not my fault if you think everyone does.
"War isn't pretty. War isn't supposed to be pretty. The day war becomes pretty, we've all got problems. "
Remember the Star Trek episode when the Enterprise was "bombed" while in orbit around a planet that was "at war" with another planet in that solar system? It was all a computer simulation of what areas were destroyed, and how many would have been killed. Those people then went to a convenient chamber that killed them. So the politicians and military had the war to keep themselves in power, but didn't have to actually build weapons or repair damaged buildings and roads, or lose irraplaceable artwork. It was a very humane way to kill people that sounds very much like what you are warning against.
"What precisely does "verify your residence" mean? My guess is that it means you will have to have a house, or an apartment, or some other solid place to live. People who are living out of a cardboard box need not apply. So although this is lowing the bar, certain people will still be denied access. "
Just like homeless people get their Social Security checks, welfare, etc., they can list a homeless shelter as their official residence, even if they only go their for soup at dinnertime.
"...when people stop vomiting on the constitution of the United States, and the philosophy and principles it stood for...."
If this was being done by the Federal government, this argument would apply. But local and state governments can spend their tax revenue as they see fit. Just because you libertarians have a valid argument against the Feds funding education, Social Security, and Medicare, doesn't mean the states and cities can't do it on their own. Unless THEIR constitutions and charters say otherwise, they can do as they please.
Also, if the Houston people don't like it, they can vote-in a different bunch next year that will repeal it, which is a lot easier than replacing the House of Reps, much less the US Senate. Or, failing that, those who really don't like it can always leave that city, move to Dallas or something, and still be in their same state, and same country. Can't do that when it's the Federal Government that your pissed at. You'd have to leave the country.
And you wonder why so many people don't get it. Your viewpoint is the problem here. The US Constitution applies to the Federal Government, or is supposed to of course.
No, some of the slashdotters are women, checking on their non-/. boyfriends. That should push that number back down under 100. As for me, I would have a girlfriend, but my wife would kill me. ;^)
You're blaming Bush for stupid legislation enacted while "No tort reform" Clinton and "I didn't know taking foreign contributions was illegal" Gore were in power? Why not blame him for the Hindenburg and Titanic too? Too many people here think the Republicans are the only corrupt party in America. There are just as many racists, crooks, idiots, and bought politicians in the Democrat party, but noone wants to admit it. Did you vote for Brown last year?
Right, you have the freedom to post anonymously, and the owners/administrators of slashdot have the right to keep anonymous trollers on a short leash. As you point out, only one 'dufus' was being an idiot, and 'writing anonymous trolls' until the IP address was banned. Slashdot surely has the right to temporarily ban an IP address if it keeps the volume of messages within reason. Otherwise all we would see would be thousands of trolls from scripts, talking about that goatse.cx site everyone seems to enjoy so much. [insert winking smilie here]
Oh please, there was a tax reduction and rebate because the government has more money than it can spend at the moment, as incredulous as that sounds. Yes I think they should find a way to get that thing into orbit, maybe as one of the few good things that Al Gore did. But don't say it can't be done because they are giving me my money back, there's been a BUDGET SURPLUS for the last two years. It's politics, not money.
"Doesn't surfing improve productivity as a way of taking break?"........Not if the employee spends 7 hours surfing. Of course that 'never happens' in the real world. If the problem wasn't so bad, the companies would have never spent the money to monitor or filter Internet activity. Basically a few losers at a few companies have loused it up for everyone else. Still doesn't mean that public employees have any more freedom from monitoring than you or I do.
If I disabled monitoring software, my boss would have every right to fire me. It's not my computer, bandwidth, electricity, etc. A poster says they simply told their sysadmin to disable it for them. If I nagged and whined at my boss to please turn off the antiporn filters, he'd fire me for that. It's not my choice, because I'm not the boss. Who the hell do these judges think they are. They are employees of the government. They have to follow all the same stupid rules that every other employee has to put up with.
No wonder she had a nervous breakdown.
So, just because something is "the law", everyone should blindly follow it without a thought of acting against it, until someone can convince (or bribe) the politicians to make a different law that supercedes the first law. Guess we have to reprint the history books, and make sure they label as criminal Harriet Tubman and the other Underground Railroad persons. Not to mention those traitors George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, etc., who refused to follow the laws enacted by their own country's legislature and king.
But besides that, he was not in the US when he made the program, so as far as that goes, the DMCA issue is moot. No matter how much we Americans think we can legislate the actions of people in foreign countries, our laws have no jurisdiction outside of our borders. If our laws were enforceable in other countries, then laws of those other countries would be enforceable inside the US. Would you like to travel to another country and be arrested because you made a comment in your home town that is unlawful in that country?
So please don't give an asinine reason that "the DMCA is the law of the land." Too many things have been illegal here that are now legal, and the laws of our land don't apply to other lands.
I noticed that too, but my wife didn't.
She's japanese decent, so i thought she would notice, and get righteously indignant, but it went right over her head.
But that's not as bad as the two people I know that thought Episode one was 'stupid' because "why wouldn't luke remember all this happening later during the story of the original Star Wars." Took me a moment to realize they watched the whole movie thinking it was Luke as a child, and Anakin was some nickname for him.
I do hope you mean while she is sitting safely on her couch, watching news reports about SUV-sized things falling from outer space. The news coverage did make this sound like it has never happened before. I heard them say that scientists were speculating that something called a bolus, I think, fell from space, broke up, and burned as it fell towards Earth. I almost choked at the stupidity of it. We just call those things in space meteors, and if they hit the planet surface they are meteorites. From the news stories, you would expect Mark Walburg to emerge from it, as another post said.