For instance, ICANN very much wants to restrict top level domains (.edu.com etc) because the fat cats who "own" them would see their net worth go dot bust if there were real competition, such as letting anybody who wants to run a root server with their own idea of top level domains.
Don't be silly. Firstly, root servers are natural monopolies, it wouldn't make sense to have namespace competition because email would come crashing down and people would want to crucify the person who thought of the idea, and secondly, alternative root servers are perfectly legal and do exist, but hardly anyone uses them, and this has nothing to do with ICANN and everything to do with the fact that they are a stupid idea for things like email.
Don't want people to be able to reply to your emails? Go ahead, buy a scammy "domain name" from an "alternative registrar". But don't come crying to me when you realise it's all a big fraud.
Once again, rather than do something constructive like setup their own sites, where someone could download past show episodes (possibly with commercials) from an industry site,
One problem with that idea. Some people would just download "Ad Timings" files from Kazaa or other filesharing networks so that they could automatically skip or even cut out the ads. Such files would only have to be a few bytes in length. You could even get opensource downloaders which do it all automatically.
It's NOT possible to run 2 apps that want 100% of your CPU at the same time.
But SETI doesn't need 100% of your CPU. It's not real-time! Ever heard of timeslicing? I have setiathome and foldingathome running just fine on my Linux box, at the same time. You just have to make sure that they have the same nice value (aka "priority").
If I hadn't already dedicated machines to SETI, I'd be doing the cancer thing.
You should be able to do so, unless you have a crap operating system.
And then there's the perception end: there are a whole variety of color blindness syndromes affecting a significant minority of the population - the most common being red-green color blindness.
I hear stock kernel (2.4.x) worst-case latencies are in the 100-300 ms range.
I'm not sure about that. With a highly-loaded system and reiserfs, it's on the order of 3 seconds or so. At least, that what's I deduce from a system completely unresponsive for 3 seconds while doing disk I/O, and when it comes back xosview is up to like load 17.0 or something ridiculous like that, indicating that everything else had been blocked.
Why do you say a bunch of old DOS acronyms are the hallmark of poor design and exposure?
Well, I think he's was talking about things like "DOS FAT was a bad design because it had to be extended about 5 times to keep up with bigger hard drives (remember FAT-12?), and it was too vulnerable to corruption." Things like that.
The only times that humanity has tried to go communist or near anarchist has resulted in pogroms and totalitarian regimes that were the opposite of what they said, resulting in the collectivization and slaugter of millions.
I agree with the rest of your post (despite being a far left socialist), but this part goes too far. What about Cuba, for example? I've never heard of a "slaughter of millions" instigated by Castro.
Of course Communism like all political words is a very slippery word. Some extreme right-wing conspiracy theorists call virtually everyone who doesn't agree with them a commie (even Bush! seriously!), whilst on the other hand communist sects say they are only the true communists.
You are one of those people who is incredibly self-righteous and incredibly stupid at the same time. I suggest you read up on the tragedy of the commons. Without taxation, essential services like the police and the military would fall apart.
Er, could this be because the Kazaa user interface is written in English, and some of those who are using it from Asian countries may not understand all the sharing options properly - simply because they do not have a good grasp of English. Occam's Razor, anyone?
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You can also spend about $30 on Crossover and then install the viewers on top of that - that's what I did. Or even just use Wine instead of Crossover.
I also have VMWare, but this is for times when I don't have windows booted up and ready.:) And for Quicktime without sound skips.:)
It seems that Maurice O'Bannon (if indeed it is the same person) got off last time. I dug a little deeper. I quote from one of the court orders, written by the judge (page 62):
O'Bannon argues that there is an absence of evidence to support the FTC's case. O'Bannon contends that the FTC's evidence shows he only temporarily acted as an officer for MJD, Discreet Bill and TAL, he had no actual authority over these companies, he resigned shortly after each corporation was formed, he did not know the other defendants and did not receive any compensation from the companies. O'Bannon motion at 2. Notably, O'Bannon does not mention the Charter Pacific merchant account agreement that indicates O'Bannon signed a legal contract on behalf of TAL in or about December 1998.
First, contrary to O'Bannon's assertion, the evidence shows that he was not always a "temporary" officer for the companies. In fact, the corporate documents indicate that he was an officer and director of Discreet Bill, at least on paper, for 13 months. [emphasis is in the original court order ] [...] During the interim, O'Bannon, on behalf of Discreet Bill, signed the four fictitious business certificates. Second, it appears that O'Bannon signed the Charter Pacific merchant account agreement on behalf of TAL and he may have done so in or about Dec 1998, after he puportedly resigned from the company. The merchant account agreement enabled TAL to continue the fraudulent scheme, albeit only for about a month before the Receiver took over the company.
Nevertheless, the Court finds that O'Bannon is entitled is entitled to judgement in his favour. The FTC's case against O'Bannon is based solely on O'Bannon's role as an officer of the defendant companies. Therefore, to hold O'Bannon liable for injunctive relief, the FTC must establish that O'Bannon either participated directly in the wrongful practices at issue or had the authority to control the corporation.
In other words, there was not quite enough evidence to find O'Bannon liable, but he was clearly involved in the fraud - and he misrepresented the extent of his involvement to the court.
Again, this all assumes we are talking about the same O'Bannon here.
But who knows? Maybe VX2 is already planning to commit a crime with the information they have surreptiously gathered (that's supposing their information gathering methods aren't already criminal). There may be an opportunity here to haul them (further) into the limelight before they do some serious damage.
The real stupidity is those who think that by blocking all ports except http, ftp, and email, you thereby ensure system security for all time, and you don't have to keep up with new developments like SOAP. Firewalls are better than nothing but they're certainly not enough.
A CEO that would do the same thing??? Why'd you have to bring in CEOs into this?
I don't want to see some money grubbing bastard teaching kids how to be money grubbing bastards like him, I want to see programmers and other computing experts teach kids how tech can be useful and interesting.
Nice'd processes significantly slow down other processes, even at nice 19. Here's how to verify this: try running setiathome, foldingathome, an mp3 player, a big compile job and xosview simultaneously. Time the compiler. Notice the yellow nice band on xosview. Then kill the niced processes. Time an identical compile job. It'll be faster.
Port blocking accross is ultimately not a very effective security mechanism, because - for one thing - bureaucratic administrators refuse to open ports for legitimate services, or take ages to do so, so there is a big market demand for products which bypass port blocking. Even when there is a good reason for blocking a service, users don't care - they will tend to use a product that bypasses the firewall.
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Would you have said the same about a judge commenting on a rape case? It freaks me out that people treat corporations different to people in this way.
Don't be silly. Firstly, root servers are natural monopolies, it wouldn't make sense to have namespace competition because email would come crashing down and people would want to crucify the person who thought of the idea, and secondly, alternative root servers are perfectly legal and do exist, but hardly anyone uses them, and this has nothing to do with ICANN and everything to do with the fact that they are a stupid idea for things like email.
Don't want people to be able to reply to your emails? Go ahead, buy a scammy "domain name" from an "alternative registrar". But don't come crying to me when you realise it's all a big fraud.
One problem with that idea. Some people would just download "Ad Timings" files from Kazaa or other filesharing networks so that they could automatically skip or even cut out the ads. Such files would only have to be a few bytes in length. You could even get opensource downloaders which do it all automatically.
But SETI doesn't need 100% of your CPU. It's not real-time! Ever heard of timeslicing? I have setiathome and foldingathome running just fine on my Linux box, at the same time. You just have to make sure that they have the same nice value (aka "priority").
If I hadn't already dedicated machines to SETI, I'd be doing the cancer thing.
You should be able to do so, unless you have a crap operating system.
[Also, it seems I'm not the only one who has problems distinguishing indigo in a rainbow.]
I'm not sure about that. With a highly-loaded system and reiserfs, it's on the order of 3 seconds or so. At least, that what's I deduce from a system completely unresponsive for 3 seconds while doing disk I/O, and when it comes back xosview is up to like load 17.0 or something ridiculous like that, indicating that everything else had been blocked.
Well, I think he's was talking about things like "DOS FAT was a bad design because it had to be extended about 5 times to keep up with bigger hard drives (remember FAT-12?), and it was too vulnerable to corruption." Things like that.
I agree with the rest of your post (despite being a far left socialist), but this part goes too far. What about Cuba, for example? I've never heard of a "slaughter of millions" instigated by Castro.
Of course Communism like all political words is a very slippery word. Some extreme right-wing conspiracy theorists call virtually everyone who doesn't agree with them a commie (even Bush! seriously!), whilst on the other hand communist sects say they are only the true communists.
Over 30 words per second? I don't think so.
I also have VMWare, but this is for times when I don't have windows booted up and ready. :) And for Quicktime without sound skips. :)
Again, this all assumes we are talking about the same O'Bannon here.
But who knows? Maybe VX2 is already planning to commit a crime with the information they have surreptiously gathered (that's supposing their information gathering methods aren't already criminal). There may be an opportunity here to haul them (further) into the limelight before they do some serious damage.
I don't want to see some money grubbing bastard teaching kids how to be money grubbing bastards like him, I want to see programmers and other computing experts teach kids how tech can be useful and interesting.
Nooooo, the multileveled irony is too confusing for me...
Really? I must be at the wrong university.