The notes accompanying the bill make it appear that GSM IMEIs are the concern. HOWEVER read the text of the bill itself (PDF only) because this definitely would prevent you from using ipconfig to reset your MAC address on a wireless LAN card.
Well I don't know.... the same argument could equally apply to Sun instead of Microsoft. Java is not Sun's bread and butter revenue earner, that position is held by their hardware and Solaris OS combo. And Linux is a massive threat to that.
Most of my home computers have cases adapted from obsolete stuff we throw away at work. These have the advantage of being very well made, free (as in beer), and also more interesting to look at than the usual beige minitower. However these old cases usually need metalwork mods to take standard ATX parts, which means energetic work with a hacksaw first, which means plenty of sharp edges.
Last month I scraped a floppy drive power cable over a sharp and didn't notice before switching on, trust me a 350W ATX PSU makes a HELL of a bang if you do that...
Economical with the truth on their website?
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You have to work quite hard to discover:
(a) Only works in USA or Guyana
(b) "Unlimited Anywhere Anytime" on front page means nothing of the kind, apparently international is extra.
MS patch for this already released March 29 2001??
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I tried the various POC HTML pieces in this thread and they all trigger my antivirus (F-secure) which sends me off to get Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-20
This bulletin does not seem to me to have any relevance to the scripting problem we're talking about. However, the exploit does not work on my version of IE6, even if I tell F-secure to ignore the alert.
If your servers (W2K in my case) do not physically have monitors connected then VNC client will fail to start a session. Plug the monitor back in, everything's fine again.
I have several servers located in my garage which is a fairly dusty and hostile environment. Cheapest and best way I found to keep dirt out is to install kitchen pan scourers (I mean small flat pads made of a kind of rough plastic mesh) as air filters over the cooling input holes.
These things are very cheap at hardware shops and whilst not impeding the airflow they really do keep dirt out and uptimes up.
You can't predict the future. What seems great now might seem terrible later. Let's say you now have a socially useful record of X about an individual, what happens when a future occupying army decides X-people are evil and must be terminated.
I believe Nazi forces loved to discover medical records when they occupied Denmark, since the records for some reason recorded individuals' religious associations therefore were an easy way to detect Jews.
Education, education, education... most of my non-geek friends are nevertheless pretty much hooked on surfing, mail, IM. But even though they already have all the infrastructure in place for their digital cable TV and cable voice phone lines none of them are interested in broadband.
The reason is purely that internet==dialup for them, they have absolutely no conception of a home internet connection that does not use analog voice lines. I've explained to them time and again but they just don't get it. In fact one of them told me right out I must be mistaken, everyone knows that you NEED a phone line to access the internet, that's just how it's done:-/
So the broadband companies should forget all the hype about streaming video and all that stuff, just tell people "here, this is now your internet thing" and watch them line up. Or bundle a viciously bandwidth-capped version with their TV packages then unslug them to the real deal when they figure it out.
In the early days of GSM the operators saw their core business as voice telephony - they saw SMS as little more than a nuisance that had somehow crept into the spec and had little enthusiasm for it. But now thanks to the efforts of Locust and others who helped popularise SMS the networks are making a fortune on billions of 160-byte data chunks at ~15 cents per.
So in this case they could at least grandfather Locust's original tariff IMO.
I always get annoyed when people say "Why does'nt america have cool cellular networks like europe etc." because america is a big place and it costs money!
By "cool cellular networks" you probably mean GSM, which is used by 150 or so countries worldwide. You really think the US is bigger than all those countries added together? Some are quite big even on their own, like say Australia...
A guy I know has a glazing business in Reading, UK. What I mean is 24 x 7 emergency glass repair, like if some drunken piece of scrot kicks in your shop window you can call to get instant fix or at least get it covered by a slab of marine ply.
Anyhow, he says the CCTV cameras are wrecking his business!
Amen, take that to +6, it's the always-onness of the connection not the speed in itself. (Although I guess we do like the speed too:)
NTL cable here in UK rocks, unlike BT ADSL which suffers from every single provider problem already described (random availability, rancid copper, clueless salesdroids, etc.)
I would NEVER go back to using a dialup unless I had to, and I have plenty of friends who are desperate for a broadband connection but can't get one. So how the industry can say it's a hard sell is beyond me I'm afraid.
"They can have my broadband connection when they prise it from my cold dead router..."
Recently I was helping to empty stuff out of one of our offices, in a pile of old junk I found the purchase orders for two modems circa 1985.
These were Racal Milgo 2400 baud units, with the (then) leading edge MNP4 error correction... looks like we paid more than 700 GBP per modem! (1000 dollars or so each!)
Hmm this guy *sounds* as though he knows what he's talking about.
But then again in this other one (written 1991) he says the following:)
"Other obvious sucker bets today include the NeXT computer, the UNIX operating system, that TrueType absurdiosity, DVI video, and Teletext services."
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The puncturing and depressurisation is not that important anyway. The real danger is that the bullet will hit something vital such as a piece of wiring loom or hydraulic line.
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The notes accompanying the bill make it appear that GSM IMEIs are the concern. HOWEVER read the text of the bill itself (PDF only) because this definitely would prevent you from using ipconfig to reset your MAC address on a wireless LAN card.
Well I don't know.... the same argument could equally apply to Sun instead of Microsoft. Java is not Sun's bread and butter revenue earner, that position is held by their hardware and Solaris OS combo. And Linux is a massive threat to that.
Why? Perhaps it's not just pure technical issues.
Java : proprietary to a large foreign corporation, you currently get to use it for no charge if you agree to their licensing terms. Free, as in beer.
C# : Open standard (ECMA 334 and 335.) Free, as in beer AND also Free, as in speech.
Does this count for anything?
But here actually is an EULA with a morality clause! The (very nice) time sync program "AboutTime" is distributed under a "CareWare" license model.
Most of my home computers have cases adapted from obsolete stuff we throw away at work. These have the advantage of being very well made, free (as in beer), and also more interesting to look at than the usual beige minitower. However these old cases usually need metalwork mods to take standard ATX parts, which means energetic work with a hacksaw first, which means plenty of sharp edges.
Last month I scraped a floppy drive power cable over a sharp and didn't notice before switching on, trust me a 350W ATX PSU makes a HELL of a bang if you do that...
Not quite sure what you mean but I've had great success using AboutTime, acts as both a client and a server. Windows product, novel license :)
AboutTime
In Windows 2000 you can open a command prompt window and type
/SETSNTP:blah.blah.com
NET TIME
I don't have XP but likely it works on that too
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You have to work quite hard to discover:
(a) Only works in USA or Guyana
(b) "Unlimited Anywhere Anytime" on front page means nothing of the kind, apparently international is extra.
I tried the various POC HTML pieces in this thread and they all trigger my antivirus (F-secure) which sends me off to get Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-20
This bulletin does not seem to me to have any relevance to the scripting problem we're talking about. However, the exploit does not work on my version of IE6, even if I tell F-secure to ignore the alert.
In Part III of his speech... "To make a copy of a program you type 'copy', and the same copy command will copy any program."
:)
Hmm, but wouldn't you have thought someone like him would use "cp"
If your servers (W2K in my case) do not physically have monitors connected then VNC client will fail to start a session. Plug the monitor back in, everything's fine again.
I have several servers located in my garage which is a fairly dusty and hostile environment. Cheapest and best way I found to keep dirt out is to install kitchen pan scourers (I mean small flat pads made of a kind of rough plastic mesh) as air filters over the cooling input holes.
These things are very cheap at hardware shops and whilst not impeding the airflow they really do keep dirt out and uptimes up.
You can't predict the future. What seems great now might seem terrible later. Let's say you now have a socially useful record of X about an individual, what happens when a future occupying army decides X-people are evil and must be terminated.
I believe Nazi forces loved to discover medical records when they occupied Denmark, since the records for some reason recorded individuals' religious associations therefore were an easy way to detect Jews.
Extremely funny mod it up now!
Education, education, education... most of my non-geek friends are nevertheless pretty much hooked on surfing, mail, IM. But even though they already have all the infrastructure in place for their digital cable TV and cable voice phone lines none of them are interested in broadband.
:-/
The reason is purely that internet==dialup for them, they have absolutely no conception of a home internet connection that does not use analog voice lines. I've explained to them time and again but they just don't get it. In fact one of them told me right out I must be mistaken, everyone knows that you NEED a phone line to access the internet, that's just how it's done
So the broadband companies should forget all the hype about streaming video and all that stuff, just tell people "here, this is now your internet thing" and watch them line up. Or bundle a viciously bandwidth-capped version with their TV packages then unslug them to the real deal when they figure it out.
In the early days of GSM the operators saw their core business as voice telephony - they saw SMS as little more than a nuisance that had somehow crept into the spec and had little enthusiasm for it. But now thanks to the efforts of Locust and others who helped popularise SMS the networks are making a fortune on billions of 160-byte data chunks at ~15 cents per.
So in this case they could at least grandfather Locust's original tariff IMO.
I always get annoyed when people say "Why does'nt america have cool cellular networks like europe etc."
because america is a big place and it costs money!
By "cool cellular networks" you probably mean GSM, which is used by 150 or so countries worldwide. You really think the US is bigger than all those countries added together? Some are quite big even on their own, like say Australia...
A guy I know has a glazing business in Reading, UK. What I mean is 24 x 7 emergency glass repair, like if some drunken piece of scrot kicks in your shop window you can call to get instant fix or at least get it covered by a slab of marine ply.
Anyhow, he says the CCTV cameras are wrecking his business!
And of course there's always Free SSL for free one-year signed server certs. (That's http://www.freessl.com for all you non-clickers.)
Java "not very proprietary?" Are you sure?
.NET or anything else from MS is any way different but why try to present Java as some kind of open platform when it actually isn't?
I installed the Sun JDK quite recently and trust me there was a helluva click-thru license agreement telling me what I could and could not do with it.
I'm not saying
Amen, take that to +6, it's the always-onness of the connection not the speed in itself. (Although I guess we do like the speed too :)
NTL cable here in UK rocks, unlike BT ADSL which suffers from every single provider problem already described (random availability, rancid copper, clueless salesdroids, etc.)
I would NEVER go back to using a dialup unless I had to, and I have plenty of friends who are desperate for a broadband connection but can't get one. So how the industry can say it's a hard sell is beyond me I'm afraid.
"They can have my broadband connection when they prise it from my cold dead router..."
Recently I was helping to empty stuff out of one of our offices, in a pile of old junk I found the purchase orders for two modems circa 1985.
These were Racal Milgo 2400 baud units, with the (then) leading edge MNP4 error correction... looks like we paid more than 700 GBP per modem! (1000 dollars or so each!)
Hmm this guy *sounds* as though he knows what he's talking about.
:)
But then again in this other one (written 1991) he says the following
"Other obvious sucker bets today include the NeXT computer, the UNIX operating system, that TrueType absurdiosity, DVI video, and Teletext services."
The puncturing and depressurisation is not that important anyway. The real danger is that the bullet will hit something vital such as a piece of wiring loom or hydraulic line.