IronPort is reported as stating that the SpamCop blocklist data will remain freely available to the public.
I'm not holding my breath. This all reminds me of another service which would have been squat without the community supplying massive amounts of data for it initially and making it successful.
Yup, CDDB. Purchase it, privatize it, charge certain "strategic partners" for access to data, then eventually block out all free clients and make it totally commercial.
Did Gracenote originally promise to keep it free when they purchased cddb.org?
Well, that made me ill. The U.S. edition, under U.S, only has stuff that points to Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. Unfortuantely, I followed it. It has a photoshopped pic of Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein together, and has this great line in it.
Yes, the Department of Defense did release a statement calling these news stories "inaccurate," but they don't deny the connection at all.
Redhat is no longer free, in beer or freedom. They get around the GPL through contractual law now. I'm not free to make copies of the software and install on other systems for starters. And you have to contractually obligate your company to allow Redhat to audit for unlicensed copies.
you could create Word documents that could be read only in the next week. In all cases, it would be the user, not Microsoft, who sets these policies.
Outlook 2003 already does this, as long as you have an RMS (Rights Management Server) running, it can be contacted when receipient wants to view the message, and you are using only Outlook or some Microsoft reader program.
... and then....
People fear what they don't understand, but Palladium is about securing the PC and protecting your privacy, plain and simple. Microsoft isn't trying to usurp your PC.
Ah, yeah, right, as long as you're running all Microsoft software on your desktop and Microsoft software on your servers...
Let me add a "me too" post and hope this question gets into the list. I can get Windows 2003 server as an academic license for $95. The CAL issue is already handled by our "Campus Agreement." So 2003 server is now far cheaper than RHEL.
I feel like I've been backed into a corner. We have been paying a few grand a year for RHN and been very happy with it. We don't need tech support, just stability and updates. I'm not looking for free, but a large increase in annual cost is a problem. My budgets have to be forecasted out two years in advance and I have no money allocated to handle licensing every box.
My first mobile phone, purchased c. 1994 had an entire 15 minutes of talk time or 4 hours of standby. I had to have a charging station that took multiple batteries and carry spares with me during the day. It was horrible.
My t610 goes about a week (assuming I don't draw it down running the bluetooth connection for hours using GPRS dialup through it).
Granted, modern phones don't draw the current as the earlier generations do, but I consider the entire package a big gain (plus I get a cheezy camera as well!:)
Thankfully there is a need for vacuum cleaners in buildings. I (and many others) often plug into the rare outlet in an airport waiting lounge near a chair. I just got back from Heathrow Terminal 4 for example, and the only outlet I could find was on that small half floor between the arrivals and departure floors where the arcade and restaurant is. While I was plugged into that single outlet plug, I saw another bloke looking for one. Kinda sucks to draw down your battery before you even get on the plane.
I do wonder when someone is going to say something about whether or not it's all ethical, despite the minimal current being drawn.
However, back to your point, it seems the UK building codes don't demand as many power points as US codes do. Even in people's houses, finding a suitable outlet is often a challenge (the sheer size of their plugs doesn't help either...)
This is going to really hurt us -- a publically funded college. I can get Windows 2003 server from Microsoft for $95. I get no discount for Redhat ES. So the choice here seems pretty simple.:-(
Also, I see absolutely no indication that Fedora will be manageable over RHN -- something we've come to rely on heavily. We have been paying for (formerly called) enterprise entitlements for two years now.
I can't afford the tech time to sit and manually manage all these linux servers under Fedora or some other distribution. RHN was a godsend for us and allowed Redhat Linux to proliferate.
While this is a college, it's also a business. I need stability and affordibility. Right now, thanks to deep educational discounts provided by Microsoft, looks like they are the best bet.
Redhat needs to support the educational market. Lose that, and you lose future customers. Microsoft and other software vendors understand that...
The biggest problem you will encounter is how to use your laptop without getting soaked.
Do you mean money wise, or literally?! The weather for London for the next fortnight looks wonderful!
btw, thanks for the tips. My plane arrives early AM and I'm probably going to hang in central London until later in the day, then take the train up to Kettering where I'll be staying. (I'm only packing a backpack of stuff, no suitcases...)
Oh wow, not too bad. I guess that's come down then since a few years ago? That's the national number rate? Off peak only? I'm staying with friends and I really don't want to stick them with a high phone bill next quarter. Just trying to do the right thing...
I'm heading to UK on Wednesday and worry about net access. I was hoping to leech off of some open (read: hence public) wifi hotspots here and there.
Dial up access sucks in UK since one has to pay per-minute phone rates, even local calls. Worse, it looks like my poor ole trusty ISP that I've had an account on since 1982* (no lie) that I kept around for worldwide access (compuserve classic) is dropping local numbers. In England they now only have a national number (and it ain't toll free of course).
Any hints on where to find hot spots (free or otherwise) in England, specifically London and that boring center bit (Northamptonshire)?
* Ah, the good ole days of Compuserve in the 80s. $6.00/hr for 300 baud, and of course, no connections to anywhere else. Even at just 300 baud, the output often sat there waiting since their box was so busy. Then AOL came around and killed them off.
People enter their passwords into other sites all the time. Basically, enter your email address and password and we'll collect your pop mail for you.
All you have to do is set up a free webmail service and starting collecting the info and seem legit.
Even if the site operators (and their sys admins) are legit and honest, you have to wonder if they encrypt that data and protect it. Even if encrypted, it still has to have a way to decrypt it to send it over the wire (almost always in plain text) to some other site's pop server.
For those musicians who are original and are making what I like to call "real music", it would be nice to have a little extra money to get their music out to the public.
Just curious, how much money have you received from these settlements? How much money have you received from the royalties imposed on blank music CDs (or all CDs in Canada)?
I'm guessing zero.
Have any artists received any payments from these settlements?
Microsoft loves to pre-announce stuff years in advance. Apple goes to great pains to keep things secret until about the last minute so Steve can grandstand in front of the fans.
Maybe that's why there's always so much excitement when something new comes out from Apple and when Microsoft releases something, it's no big deal.
So, the self-declared champion of IP is basically trying to steal the IP of thousands of hard working software authors by declaring GPL void and putting it into the public domain so he can use it in his products without cost or obligations.
I'm just speechless. This gets better every day....
GPL can not supersede a nation's laws. If a law says you can't export software to a certain country, then anyone who tries to do so is breaking the law. Not the software author or the author of the license.
It is not possible for a license to cover ever law and restriction put down by every nation and locale on this planet. To think it should is just plain madness.
Anyone find a fairly painless way to get mail.app to shut up about self-signed certs? There have been various hacks floated around here and there about how to import a self-made CA (certificate authority) cert using openssl, but what if you don't have access to that CA cert from your mail server?
The "official" procedure from Apple in their help file is to click Show Certification button in the warning, then option-drag the icon to the desktop and install from there. But on three different machines I've tried it on, Mail.app hangs soon as you click that icon. This hanging behavior happens with many others too.
Not that the cert warning is the end of the world, but it does get annoying.
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I know of quite a few people who deauthorized a Mac before doing a clean install of Panther this past weekend to be safe, then reactivating it when done.
So what do they mean by "permanent?" If someone wants to wipe and reinstall their OS, what happens?
Shorting a stock means potential unlimited liability. Unlike going long, you can lose a lot more than just the current price of the stock times the current selling price.
This stock appears to be the target of mucho manipulation. Shorting it is not for the weak or one with shallow pocket.
Millions of little children in third world countries huddled around a bucket of water for 14 hours a day carefully separating hydrogen out of water for use by rich uncaring Americans. In fact, perhaps Michael Jordon should be commissioned to do a commercial to improve the public image of hydrogen extraction. We could pay him just slighly less than all of their collective wages for a year.
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I'm not holding my breath. This all reminds me of another service which would have been squat without the community supplying massive amounts of data for it initially and making it successful.
Yup, CDDB. Purchase it, privatize it, charge certain "strategic partners" for access to data, then eventually block out all free clients and make it totally commercial.
Did Gracenote originally promise to keep it free when they purchased cddb.org?
Yes, the Department of Defense did release a statement calling these news stories "inaccurate," but they don't deny the connection at all.
Redhat is no longer free, in beer or freedom. They get around the GPL through contractual law now. I'm not free to make copies of the software and install on other systems for starters. And you have to contractually obligate your company to allow Redhat to audit for unlicensed copies.
Did you mean Fedora in above?
Outlook 2003 already does this, as long as you have an RMS (Rights Management Server) running, it can be contacted when receipient wants to view the message, and you are using only Outlook or some Microsoft reader program.
People fear what they don't understand, but Palladium is about securing the PC and protecting your privacy, plain and simple. Microsoft isn't trying to usurp your PC.
Ah, yeah, right, as long as you're running all Microsoft software on your desktop and Microsoft software on your servers...
I feel like I've been backed into a corner. We have been paying a few grand a year for RHN and been very happy with it. We don't need tech support, just stability and updates. I'm not looking for free, but a large increase in annual cost is a problem. My budgets have to be forecasted out two years in advance and I have no money allocated to handle licensing every box.
My t610 goes about a week (assuming I don't draw it down running the bluetooth connection for hours using GPRS dialup through it).
Granted, modern phones don't draw the current as the earlier generations do, but I consider the entire package a big gain (plus I get a cheezy camera as well! :)
I do wonder when someone is going to say something about whether or not it's all ethical, despite the minimal current being drawn.
However, back to your point, it seems the UK building codes don't demand as many power points as US codes do. Even in people's houses, finding a suitable outlet is often a challenge (the sheer size of their plugs doesn't help either...)
But yeah, generally I agree with you. The case above is pretty rare and even shocked me.
My solution to the entire mess was to buy a Mac! :)
Also, I see absolutely no indication that Fedora will be manageable over RHN -- something we've come to rely on heavily. We have been paying for (formerly called) enterprise entitlements for two years now.
I can't afford the tech time to sit and manually manage all these linux servers under Fedora or some other distribution. RHN was a godsend for us and allowed Redhat Linux to proliferate.
While this is a college, it's also a business. I need stability and affordibility. Right now, thanks to deep educational discounts provided by Microsoft, looks like they are the best bet.
Redhat needs to support the educational market. Lose that, and you lose future customers. Microsoft and other software vendors understand that...
Do you mean money wise, or literally?! The weather for London for the next fortnight looks wonderful!
btw, thanks for the tips. My plane arrives early AM and I'm probably going to hang in central London until later in the day, then take the train up to Kettering where I'll be staying. (I'm only packing a backpack of stuff, no suitcases...)
Woah, nice. Found a few operational nodes listed around Kettering -- Rothwell and Wellingborough. Not too far away. Thanks!
Oh wow, not too bad. I guess that's come down then since a few years ago? That's the national number rate? Off peak only? I'm staying with friends and I really don't want to stick them with a high phone bill next quarter. Just trying to do the right thing...
Dial up access sucks in UK since one has to pay per-minute phone rates, even local calls. Worse, it looks like my poor ole trusty ISP that I've had an account on since 1982* (no lie) that I kept around for worldwide access (compuserve classic) is dropping local numbers. In England they now only have a national number (and it ain't toll free of course).
Any hints on where to find hot spots (free or otherwise) in England, specifically London and that boring center bit (Northamptonshire)?
* Ah, the good ole days of Compuserve in the 80s. $6.00/hr for 300 baud, and of course, no connections to anywhere else. Even at just 300 baud, the output often sat there waiting since their box was so busy. Then AOL came around and killed them off.
It'd be nice if these traffic cops could instead patrol some areas and catch someone in the act or at least prevent crime through high visibility.
The only time a police car cruises through my neighborhood is when it's responding to a call.
All you have to do is set up a free webmail service and starting collecting the info and seem legit.
Even if the site operators (and their sys admins) are legit and honest, you have to wonder if they encrypt that data and protect it. Even if encrypted, it still has to have a way to decrypt it to send it over the wire (almost always in plain text) to some other site's pop server.
Just curious, how much money have you received from these settlements? How much money have you received from the royalties imposed on blank music CDs (or all CDs in Canada)?
I'm guessing zero.
Have any artists received any payments from these settlements?
Maybe that's why there's always so much excitement when something new comes out from Apple and when Microsoft releases something, it's no big deal.
I'm just speechless. This gets better every day....
It is not possible for a license to cover ever law and restriction put down by every nation and locale on this planet. To think it should is just plain madness.
The "official" procedure from Apple in their help file is to click Show Certification button in the warning, then option-drag the icon to the desktop and install from there. But on three different machines I've tried it on, Mail.app hangs soon as you click that icon. This hanging behavior happens with many others too.
Not that the cert warning is the end of the world, but it does get annoying.
Deactivating a PC is permanent and cannot be reversed, ever. Should you decide you no longer wish to play Musicmatch Downloads on a PC because (1) You already have three PCs activated and you wish to activate an alternate PC, or (2) You no longer use a particular PC, see ?Deactivate a Musicmatch Downloads account? from within Musicmatch Jukebox Help to learn more. Remember, deactivating the account will permanently prevent that PC from playing or downloading Musicmatch tracks.
I know of quite a few people who deauthorized a Mac before doing a clean install of Panther this past weekend to be safe, then reactivating it when done.
So what do they mean by "permanent?" If someone wants to wipe and reinstall their OS, what happens?
This stock appears to be the target of mucho manipulation. Shorting it is not for the weak or one with shallow pocket.
Also, the after hour trading that caused it to go down 4% was some guy selling 7 shares allegedly (according to the SCOX yahoo investment board).
If this is to be the test case for the GPL, it's probably the best one you could hope for -- that is if you're hoping the GPL stands up in court.
Millions of little children in third world countries huddled around a bucket of water for 14 hours a day carefully separating hydrogen out of water for use by rich uncaring Americans. In fact, perhaps Michael Jordon should be commissioned to do a commercial to improve the public image of hydrogen extraction. We could pay him just slighly less than all of their collective wages for a year.